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Welcome into the show. Welcome back to episode 36 of season

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four of the Justin Tomsports podcast. I am your owner, host,

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and proprietor, Justin Jackson. And one of the only places to

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correctly predict the college football playoff before it came

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out. If you need help, go to my timeline on Twitter, Instagram,

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Facebook. I believe I did it on threads as well. We're pretty

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much the only show to call the decision as it happened before

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it happened and we're pretty much the only people not shot.

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And so let's just back it up for those of you who don't know,

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which if you don't know about not even living under a rock,

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Florida State was bumped out of the college football playoff.

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They were number three going into the weekend, undefeated.

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They looking to be the undefeated conference champion.

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That is an automatic bid. Or what was thought to be rather an

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automatic bid into the playoff. No if answer, but about it.

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No questions asked. 13 and 0 conference power fire champion.

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You're in the playoff. There was another team, H2UCF, of

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course claims a national title in the year. They went undefeated

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as well. They went 13-0 through the American conference and

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then they went and won their bowl again. They beat somebody

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in the fiesta bowl. Now in the next year's playoff in the 12

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team UCF would have gotten in because UCF was ranked like

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number eight or nine and they were easily the highest ranked

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group of five champion. They would have gotten in and then

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they would have had a chance on the field to play it. That team

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had a few. They had Shaquem Griffin, the one with Guy with

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the one hand on that team. It was a couple of other NFL players

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and people that went to NFL rosters on that team. So it wasn't

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an awful team. It wasn't like a out of nowhere team. That team

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was pretty good, but they would have had a chance in next year's

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playoff in the 12 team playoff to prove it because they would

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have been easily the highest group of five champion. However,

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they didn't make the playoff. They end up going win their fiesta

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bowl. They claim that title, whatever. So anyway, Florida State

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would be undefeated, power five conference champion ACC.

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And actually I don't have a time stamp on Facebook. I may have

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to look on Twitter. I'm a little more active on Twitter. I

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have my time stamps. So during the conference championship

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games, I began tweeting. Okay. I began tweeting. So the first

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tweet I sent out is all Central time was December 2nd, 458. I

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tweeted, it's kind of a long about reading and I quote the

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console ball playoff committee is making an almost impossible

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decision. If the SEC championship game score of 17

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and seven and a half time holds and I put a little, you know,

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dash Washington's undefeated there. Michigan is currently

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undefeated. They will be in. Florida State is currently

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undefeated. They would be in and I put in parentheses in

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theory. What do you do with the four spot of Alabama wins?

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Bama is a one loss AC champion. Georgia has one loss three

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years. Texas is a one loss big 12 champion. Iowa State has

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one loss total. That's to Michigan. That's the undefeated

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big team champion. That's for deserving teams for one spot

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drama city. Okay. Now that tweet was sent at 458 local time.

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This is Central time at 626 about an hour and a half later.

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I tweet the beginning of the drama has started for the first

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time in nearly three seasons. Georgia has lost 2724 to

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Alabama to win the extra championship game and throw their

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name fully into the console playoff discussion. Okay. So by

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this point, I'm thinking bam is in but in the back of my

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brain, I keep saying to myself, they're going to move Florida

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State out because there's two precedents that were fighting

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each other. There's never been a zero loss conference champion

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to not make it but the SEC has also never not made it. The

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SEC is going to ESPN next year in the new expanded conference

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Texas, Oklahoma is coming in the SEC's leaving CBS and going

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to ESPN full time. The SEC's never made it. The console

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playoff is in ESPN production. Okay, that wasn't on the ESPN

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part was on the floor for my brain, but I knew I had read

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that the committee had the right to factor in the loss of

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a key player in the decision making. Jordan Travis is

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probably the fourth person in New York. Of course, it's

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Jayden Daniels, it's Michael Panix, it's Marvin Harris

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Jr. and it's Bo Nicks. Marvin Harris Jr. probably doesn't

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make it. Jordan Travis is probably in New York. He

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doesn't win anything. Dave Nair is going to win the Heisman

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but Jordan Travis is the Heisman finalist if he never

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gets hurt. That's about as key of a player as it can be.

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Right. So that was 628. I sent out the 628. I sent out the

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tweet about Bamron Wetz. About three hours later, about

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three and a half hours later, I tweet about Michigan is

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one quarter away from the console playoff and Florida State

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is nursing a 10-3 lead into the fourth quarter in the fluid

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ball. And I quote from me, there was a growing concern

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that Florida State needed stop points to make the playoff.

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Currently, their stop points are zero. Okay. An hour later

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at 10-45. So that's what you have with 948. This one's

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at 10-45. Again, all local centers up. It is and I quote

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again, Michigan wins 26-0 in the domination of Iowa in the

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big team championship and Florida State's defeat Louisville

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16-6 in the AC Championship confirming the ultimate chaos

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for the 14th playoff. The unquestionable teams are

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Washington and Michigan. Right. That leaves Florida State,

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Texas, Alabama and Georgia for the last two spots. Voters

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are not going to have fun with this decision in the slightest.

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My top four is Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama.

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They will make matchups of Michigan versus Alabama,

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Washington versus Texas. Right. That sparked some stuff on

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Facebook. Not really much, you know, but that sparked some

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dialogue on Facebook. People say, I know I was talking about

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I got asked if I watched sports. That was interesting.

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It created some discord on Facebook for sure. Created some

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discord on social media in general. It was, you know, as

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127 comments on it, a lot of reactions on it, some laughs

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at it. You know what I'm saying? It was pretty interesting

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what people had to say. You know, AC didn't deserve a spot.

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People wanting Georgia to stay in somehow. People say Michigan

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should buy that completely, but some weird stuff. But anyway,

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that was discourse regarding my use and regarding my playoff.

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And people were wondering why did I come to this decision?

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And I'm actually keep going through discourse. So then a

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little while later, actually the following morning, AP poll

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comes out, Texas jumps to Florida, Florida State, Texas is

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third, but Florida State holds on the fourth. Then the old BCS

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system does a poll. Florida State, and I'm talking about

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barely is fourth over Alabama. I mean like less than a point,

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less than a half a point there in front with the old BCS.

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And I'm thinking, all right, that was the problem with the

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BCS. The computers would make it close enough where the humans

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could mess it up. Quote unquote. That was the issue with the

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BCS. The human, the computer would get it close enough where

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the humans can mess it up. Okay. And then one hour after the

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AP, when I thought about the AP poll, bam, it comes out.

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The Coswell playoff is set. Michigan versus Alabama,

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Washington versus Texas. Florida State becomes the first

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undefeated Power 5 Conference champions to not make the

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Coswell playoff as they finish fifth. Heartbreak rejoicing the

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ACC as they get their champion in. This led to 30 minutes

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later, the ACC commissioner putting out a statement calling

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it unfathomable that a Power 5 Conference champion was left

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out of the playoff. Their exclusions called to question

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the entire process. If the committee's guidelines are

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followed, yada, yada, yada, whatever. Jordan Travis, who's

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the reason why this is happening, tweeted out his saying

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he's devastated, heartbroken and so much disbelief. He

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wished he had broke his leg earliest. You can see that he

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was much more than a quarterback. He apologized to the fans.

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Okay. So how do we got through the timeline of how I was

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right? And that's the whole reason why I kind of wanted to

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see how like fast stuff was happening. That's the reason I wanted

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to highlight the timeline. Florida State's season was over

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the minute Jordan Travis broke his leg. That was it. And it's

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not a situation where, oh man, Florida State's high powered

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offense, they're blowing people out left and right, whatever.

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That was the case. If they were a team that was punching people

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in the face over and over and over again, you get no complaint

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out of me. I don't bring it up. But they weren't. And I put

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something else on Facebook. I guess I didn't put it on Twitter.

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That when Florida State was it was embroiled in their battle

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and they were trying to hold on or whatever.

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Oh, no, I put it in the sports debate. I didn't put it on my

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sports. I put it on the sports debate group. And I said that

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Florida State when Jordan Travis got hurt was no longer playing

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and I'm going to say this in general. I didn't put it in the sports debate group.

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I'm going to say this to you all. The minute Jordan Travis got hurt,

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Florida State was no longer playing their opponent. They were.

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They were not. In matter of fact, they were playing the ghost

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of what they used to be. They were playing something they probably

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had no chance of beating, which was the mental expectations

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of what the committee thought they should be. It was they were

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playing expectations. They were playing the ghost of what they

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should be and they were playing something far worse and far more

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sinister. They were playing doubt because now there's a reason

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to not put them in and the AC Commissioner put out the statement

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about following the committee's guidelines, factoring in the loss

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of the key players and the committee's guidelines. To me, the

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four best teams in the country that I've seen, I've watched all

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the top teams is the four that's in. Now you can make an argument

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for Georgia. I probably reordered them a little bit just from

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what I've seen. Michigan is the best team in the country. Then

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Texas over Alabama because Texas beat them and then Georgia

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was actually my fourth best team that I've seen. Again, personally,

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I've watched them all. Georgia just barely because I think if

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Georgia doesn't have an injury to Brock Bowers and the other,

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the receiver number 84 I think is his number. I think Georgia

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beats Alabama and Florida State still out, but they're out for

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Texas. Texas is fourth. They're going to be Georgia, Michigan,

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Washington, Texas. I think that'd be the situation. Regardless,

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I think an ACC champion deserves to be in. It's ironic. I'm going

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to cut more points on this on this topic. It's ironic the fact

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that the ACC got screwed. It's ironic because there is this thing

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or correction. There used to be this thing called the Alliance

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and it was the agreement for a few, specifically there was an

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agreement for the ACC, the Big Ten, and the Pac-12 to come

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together and form what they call the Alliance. What this Alliance

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was built and designed to do was to help in college for

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all playoff voting. It was to help each other in scheduling

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and pretty much screw over the big bad ACC. The ACC gets

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whatever they want all the time. You know, it just means more

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and all this other stuff. We're going to come together. We're

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going to fight back in the ACC effectively because the Big

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12 is not in the Alliance. The Pac-12 is struggling and everybody

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kind of knew it. The Big Ten is probably going to bolster the

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Pac-12 and the ACC got no respect for the most part. But everybody

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feared the Big Bad ACC. The Alliance ends up being the reason

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why there's not a 12-team playoff this season. Is there a 12-team

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playoff this season? None of this matters. Florida State

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possibly falls. Probably not. There's no reason to make them fall.

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Or the buys because in the 12-team playoff the top four have

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to buy. So in that case being third or fifth matters because

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instead of having to play a first round game against the Liberty,

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more than likely because Tulane lost. So yeah, against the Liberty

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because they got the Fiesta Bowl bid, you would be resting

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that week. So potato, potato in terms of, you know, preference

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and what it means. But regardless you'd be it. Now you can

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about the buy but you'd be in the tournament. Well, the Alliance

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came together and said no, the 12-team playoff the earliest

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could be activated for the 2024-2025 season. Next year. So all

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season when the playoff record come out people would do hypothetical

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if there was a 12-team playoff this how it would look. And then the

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ACC got screwed up. Allegedly screwed up. I think it's the right

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decision for a variety of reasons. I think it's the right

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decision because the four best teams in the country got in. I

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mean you could debate Georgia, Alabama, but or you could debate

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Georgia, Washington, but the four best teams in the country

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has proven on the field got in. In the current state. Okay.

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There's reportedly a hundred and fifty million dollar difference

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between Alabama getting in and Florida State. There's a

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reported a hundred and fifty million dollar difference. I

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said this to friends. I said this to coworkers. This is a

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business and a TV show at the end of the day. This is a

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football game. There's college pride on the line. There's

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millions of dollars on the line as far as incentives. There's

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probably NIO deals all kind of stuff on the line. The

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committee at the end of the day had to prove a TV product. They

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mentally went against three unquestionable teams. What is

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the problem with Florida State? They don't have a quarterback.

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As we've seen in their last three games by Jordan Travis,

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their offense is a joke. They're going to get railroaded

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by anybody they played. Washington would hit them for

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a foot. Washington would shut them down. Michigan would shut

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them down. Texas would shut them down. They can't score. So

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Florida State's great defense aside, they'd lose 20 to 3 in a

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snooze fest. You know what I'm saying? And their ratings would

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be terrible. There's PTSD of TCU. There's PTSD of Oklahoma.

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wasn't that good and ran into a juggernaut and the game was a

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disaster. Oklahoma playing Alabama that year and then that

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game, the first shadow game. There's certain things we kind

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of knew. The committee had a chance and a legitimate case to

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stop it. So they did. It's just plain and simple as that. And

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then another thing is karma. Because you pretty much are going

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to make an alliance to keep the SEC down only for the Pac-12

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SEC to get in and year out. So in the last year, the Pac-12,

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they have Washington in. In the new SEC, they have two of the

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members in, Texas and Alabama. The new Big Ten has two

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members, Washington and Oregon. The ACC gets kicked out of

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there. The Pac-12 in this last year gets a representative.

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Like everybody seemed to have one here besides the ACC, which

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again, is horribly ironic because they tried to make an

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alliance to screw the SEC to begin with. Kind of deserved

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this Florida State. Just going to be honest. The committee

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needed a reason to not put Florida State in. They had to

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play against, they were playing style points game at that

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point, long about wins and losses by style points. They

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never had the style points. They don't have the playoff spot.

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Just that simple. But up next, we're going to shift to the

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NFL Week 13.

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Welcome back into the show. Boy, I have missed you all. All of

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my friends all around the world, all of my fans all around the

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world. I have missed all of you. Last week wasn't feeling too

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great. Just wasn't in it. My personal note, I just couldn't

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deliver the best product to you guys. So I took a step back,

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took a week off. Stayed busy on the socials of course, but just

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took a week off from the podcast. And for the first time

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in a couple of weeks, I get to talk about NBA. Sorry, I was

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sorry. Just reading something about the NCAA tournament,

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which is about a blast. I get to discuss the NFL. So last week

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had some big games going on. The biggest one of course, big

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Niners versus Philly. The Niners absolutely destroyed the

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Eagles. That was the kind of game where you look back and go,

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tune it's a class of great teams. It's almost like the Hall

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of Fame and the Hall of Very Good. Like there are certain

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people I'm never going to forget playing football. Like I'll

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probably never forget Reggie Bush. I'll probably never

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forget Philip Rivers. I'll probably never forget, pretty

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much it. But it's the kind of play I'm thinking of. I'll never

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forget those two gentlemen. If they get anywhere near my Hall

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of Fame, I'm going to school. Right? And so it was the Hall

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of Fame and the Hall of Very Good, the Hall of Memorable. In

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the regular season, there is the Super Bowl contenders. And

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then there's really good playoff teams. Right? And oftentimes

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it's hard to tell the difference until you see them

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side by side. For instance, Crysis 300 looks like a Phantom.

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In the words of Cat Williams, until a Phantom pull up. That

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beautiful woman in your town looks like she could be Miss

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America until Miss America walks up. You see what I'm

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saying? Like the Eagles looked like a contender until a

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contender pulled up. San Fran took that game personally.

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They had to hear all offseason, how great the Eagles were.

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The Eagles in their credit tried to fight back and say, no,

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the end of championship game wasn't a fluke. You know, they

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won an issue, whatever, you know, try to do their best to

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validate what we all do wasn't the truth. They tried to

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validate the fact that they won that game. Even though

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Brock Purdy blew his elbow out, they had another quarterback

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injury. At one point Christian McCaffrey was playing quarterback

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and at one point when he busted right elbow, Brock Purdy was

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handing the ball off to Christian McCaffrey. And the Eagles, you

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know, won the game and talked their noise, whatever. And you

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could tell the 49ers took that personally. They basically

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dominated the Philadelphia Eagles from the time the ball was

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kicked off to the time the game ended. It was just a punishment.

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It was like retribution of the highest order. It felt like if

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the Eagles owed them money and they came to collect it, it was

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just brutal. Schematically, it was a mismatch. Purdy hitting all

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those all-pulls all over the place. Debo, Joann, Jennings

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making great plays, especially runs after the catch. The defense

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was suffocating. It felt like Jalen Hurts couldn't find an open

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target all night. I mean, it was rough for the Philadelphia

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Eagles. It was one of those games where it's like, man, do

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they even like belong on the same field as the Niners? It was,

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even if you're an Eagles fan, that had to hurt to watch. That

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had to be shell-shocking if you were an Eagles fan because it's

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just one of those moments where it's like, my God, we're not

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even close. We're not even in the area of close. We thought we

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were somewhere. We're just not there. It's like, oh, yeah, yeah,

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I'm a really tall person until a giant walks up. It was brutal,

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man. From a schematic standpoint, it was laughably different. From

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a physicality standpoint, I mean, it's a short yardage situation.

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Niners are running the ball left because Trent Williams over

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there, he's on the ball hood in front of him. And they did it on

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repeat. They were throwing Eagles off. It was just two different

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classes of teams. Shaw of the 49ers were just being different

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and dominating that game. And the Eagles have to go regroup.

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They immediately signed Shaquille Leonard. So they're going to

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need all the help they can get to try and beat that 49er

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football team. The Green Bay Packers stunned the Chiefs in a

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game where the offense for the Chiefs looked more disjointed

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than normal. The Green Bay Packers took advantage of early

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momentum and they stunned the Chiefs. Simone Bowes, his husband

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takes down Taylor Swift's boyfriend. And the Chiefs did not

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deserve to win that game. They played sloppy. They were on

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discipline. They looked like they didn't know what they wanted

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to do or could do. They didn't deserve to win that game and

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they still almost won it. So that tells you how good the

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Chiefs are as a team. But the Packers were a huge win. That's

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the kind of win in Jordan Love's debut starting season that

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instills confidence throughout the offseason. And even if he

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looks a little rough towards down the stretch and, you know,

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mini camp isn't great, you kind of point back to that cheese game

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and go, that's what he could be. And you kind of hinge on that

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for as long as you can. Great win by the Packers. That's a

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Matt LeFleur defining win. You're at home, you know, it's

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Monday Night Football or Sunday Night. It's a prime time game.

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The whole country is watching. It's a game where you're trying

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to, you know, defeat, I think it's Sunday Night, whatever. But

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it's a game where you're trying to defeat one of the greatest

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quarterbacks ever, one of the greatest coaches ever. You're

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going in with your young gun and you're 50-50 on yourself. And

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you go in there and you come into your building and you beat

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them. And congratulations to the Packers. They had Lil Wayne,

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Sunday Night, they had Lil Wayne doing the intros. He's a big

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Packer fan, he's from New Orleans. They had Lil Wayne

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doing the intros. They had everything raring to go. They

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were giving out goat hats to Simone Biles. Everything was

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raring to go for that night. Oh, and the Packers beat them.

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And joy and love. I'll play Patrick Mahomes. And that defense

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of that cheese that was so highly touted was outplayed by

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the Packers defense. In every aspect of the game, the Packers

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were the better football team. They deserved to win it, which

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is, again, a little shell-shocking to the Chiefs. If you're in a

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position that they're in, they're trying to look to continue

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a dynasty and they're taking the hills like that. So if you're

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the Chiefs, that's definitely a little shell-shocking, but I'm

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sure they're going to go back in and try and regroup.

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The Cincinnati Bengals, the Joe Burrow led Cincinnati Bengals,

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the Jake Browning led Cincinnati Bengals, defeated the

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Jacksonville Jaguars in a game that could have major

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ramifications in the AFC on a modular front. So first, Jake

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Browning with all-time production and efficiency in his night.

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Kudos to him. And then, of course, the Jaguars had a couple

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injuries. Christian Kirk's basically out for the year with

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core muscle surgery. Trevor Long has an ankle sprain. He's going

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to try to play on this week. If he doesn't play on this week,

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more than likely he'll play on it next week. But the Bengals,

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like I said, without Joe Burrow riding the back of Joe Mixon,

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get a huge win. It brings Jacksonville only with one game

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away in the AFC South with Indianapolis and Houston just one

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game back of Jacksonville for the AFC South. It pretty much

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takes Jacksonville out of the number one seed contention. It

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also keeps the Bengals in playoff contention. I even thought,

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myself included, when Joe Burrow went down, that was pretty much

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the end of football in Cincinnati. The Bengals have said,

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not so fast, my friend. And they're going to continue to try

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and push in power behind Jake Browning. Like I say, we just

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came off an all-time production and efficiency day. So kudos

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to the Bengals. Shout out Kyle O'Murray for saving his job.

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Kyle O'Murray is playing this season to save his job. Kyle O'Murray

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is playing this season in an effort to make sure that the

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Cardinals go into the offseason going. We have our franchise

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quarterback. Let's try and get things to help him. Because right

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now he's in a perfect spot. Right now, third overall pick

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and playing well, he's in a great spot because you can't get

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Kayla Williams and you probably won't get Drake May. So then

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that means you've got Jay Dangles and Kyle O'Murray. You

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probably go to Kyle O'Murray. He's running in your system and

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in your building. You can use that third pick on Marvin

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Harrison Jr. So that is the benefit Kyle O'Murray is doing

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right now. He may be playing his way into Marvin Harrison Jr.

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which would be absolutely amazing for him and his development.

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That's a true noble receiver even as a rookie. And so that's

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going to be huge for Kyle O'Murray because as I say, he's

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currently playing and currently saving his job from his play

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on the field. And in New England, my Patriots, it's over.

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It's over. Look, I fought and I still, my heart of hearts,

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want Belichick to come back this offseason. But if they

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promoted Gerard Mayo and let Belichick out the side door, I

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wouldn't be mad. The New England Patriots is something that

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has not been done since like 1938 which was a Lauer team,

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which was a Lauer less than 10 points in three consecutive

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games and lose all three games. The offense is a disaster.

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Mac Jones is awful. Bailey Zapp is worse. These guys are just

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not bearing the quarterbacks at all in the slightest. And I

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think it's making Bill O'Brien look horrible because he's

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in the head, but he's got no quarterbacks. He's really got

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no personnel with Bill O'Brien. He's in over his head even though

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he's not. It's absolutely disastrous in New England. They

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need to get ready for it. They are getting ready for the

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offseason. If I was in there, I would do my best to have

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Carolina win a couple of games and get them the number one

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overall pick. So a lot of great pop fans got Wenday Yammer,

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Bill Belichick, Caleb Williams. It is just a mess in New England.

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All right, some quick, hidden news. A.N. Rogers was reported

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to come back right around Christmas Eve. He started

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practicing. However, his return is officially unlikely. The

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Jets' playoff chances apparently is a big factor. Although I

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believe he has said that when lose or draw in terms of close

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to the playoffs, that he wants to get on the field pretty much

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to prove he could. But he wants to get on the field. However,

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his return to play is officially unlikely. Eric Bieneme has

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reportedly guarded interest from the Chicago Bears about taking

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over their head coaching position. The Bears currently still

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have their coach, but they interviewed Bieneme before hiring

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their new coach, the coach they have currently. Now they're

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looking to look into Eric Bieneme again as he has been

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officially coordinating calling his own plays in Washington.

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Tim Boyle, Tom Brady's best friend, the pick intercession

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turnover machine himself has been waived by the New York Jets

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following two games of starting. And other Jets related quarterback

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news, Zach Wilson is officially the starter against the Texans.

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Reportedly, he went and asked for the ball. Robert Salah

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granted that wish and Zach Wilson is going to be the starter

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00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:55,300
for the New York Jets. And last but not least, Ramon J.

459
00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:58,300
Stevenson, the New England Patriots, has a high ankle sprain

460
00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,300
and is expected to finish several weeks due to that high

461
00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:05,300
ankle sprain. So an offense that was already pretty putrid,

462
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:08,300
one of the bright spots gets taken out with a high ankle

463
00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:22,300
sprain. Up next we're going to look into NFL week 14.

464
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:53,300
Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to do some

465
00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:59,300
quick hits on NFL week 14. And of course, if it is in

466
00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:03,300
Jax Pack, which we haven't done in a couple of weeks, I will

467
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:08,300
not pick it. I'm picking now. I'll pick it in Jax Pack.

468
00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:11,300
It was NFL week 14, Patriots at the Steelers Thursday night

469
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,300
football. Unless you're a fan of these two teams, I wouldn't

470
00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:18,300
watch it. It's kind of going to be a snooze fest. I'll never

471
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,300
say I don't watch football. I wouldn't be excited for this

472
00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:25,300
game. It's kind of going to be a snooze fest. The Patriots

473
00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:29,300
offense is something to be desired. And the Steelers

474
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:34,300
offense, same. The Steelers have a great defense. The Patriots

475
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,300
defense has been on fire the past month. It's not going to be

476
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,300
the world's best offensive game. If you're in the defensive

477
00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:42,300
scheme, if you're in the defensive hitting, if you're into

478
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:45,300
the punts and punt return as special teams, you're going to

479
00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:49,300
gain. If you're looking for an aerial assault, maybe not the

480
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:53,300
game for you. I'd watch it, but maybe not the game for you.

481
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:55,300
It's going to be between two legendary coaches, of course,

482
00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:59,300
Bill Belichick and Mike Tomlin have had epic wars in the

483
00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,300
playoffs and the regular season. Especially when both their

484
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:08,300
teams are really good. You're talking Big Ben, Antonio Brown,

485
00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:13,300
Le'Veon Bell versus Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Wes Welker.

486
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,300
You're talking some epic Amandola gets involved in there.

487
00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,300
You're talking some epic battles between these two legendary

488
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:23,300
Hall of Fame first-ballot coaches. Both of them are

489
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,300
actually, despite their record differences, doing amazing

490
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,300
coaching jobs. Belichick's got this defense rolling, which

491
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,300
means the culture is right. It's hard to get a really good

492
00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:35,300
defense to play really good all the time when the offense is

493
00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,300
horrible. They're rolling on these, which means the culture

494
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,300
is right. Of course, Mike Tomlin, what he's doing right

495
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:44,300
now is a minor miracle. In Pittsburgh, they have no reason

496
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:50,300
to have a record that they have. It's purely Coach Tomlin.

497
00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:53,300
So, absolute kudos to those gentlemen. Of course, again,

498
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:58,300
we'll pick the game in Jax Pack. But the game I will pick

499
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:04,300
now, it is not in Jax Pack. Jax at Browns. This is a game

500
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:09,300
that depends on the injuries. I think, it's a hard thing,

501
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:15,300
I think Jacksonville can win the game without Trevor Lawrence.

502
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:17,300
I think 85% of Trevor Lawrence is better than whoever the

503
00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:22,300
back of it is, which I don't even know who that is. However,

504
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:27,300
if there's a situation where Lawrence can't move and there's

505
00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:30,300
somebody named Miles Geary peeling off the edge, he'll

506
00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:37,300
get a little dicey. And so, I think the Jacksonville Jaguars

507
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:41,300
win this game either way. And that's just because I don't

508
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,300
believe in the Cleveland Browns offensively. Jacksonville has

509
00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:45,300
a pretty good defense as well. I just don't believe in the

510
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:49,300
Cleveland Browns offensively. Joe Flacco, Dorian Johnson,

511
00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,300
Robson, it doesn't matter. I just don't believe in them a

512
00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:55,300
lot offensively. And so, therefore, I think Jacksonville

513
00:37:55,300 --> 00:38:00,300
can squeak out enough points even with a backup, although

514
00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,300
they'll be a lot tighter with the backup. Even with the backup,

515
00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:05,300
I believe they can squeeze out enough points and they can

516
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:10,300
eke out enough points to win a game regardless if Trevor

517
00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:18,300
Lawrence is there. So, I'm not betting on it. It's too hard to

518
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:20,300
bet on the game right now. You don't know what Trevor

519
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:23,300
Lawrence is going to be. He could be either in uniform,

520
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:27,300
wearing number 16, or in a headset, in a hoodie. It's just

521
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:31,300
too hard to kind of pick the game if you're betting it. If

522
00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:35,300
you're just picking around with your friends, I would go with

523
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:38,300
the Jacksonville Jaguars right now, because they're

524
00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:42,300
regardless. Now, I confirm Trevor Lawrence out, may sway

525
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:46,300
my opinion. He's one of those picking it caveat-like,

526
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,300
confirmed Trevor Lawrence, especially Trevor Lawrence

527
00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:52,300
being confirmed out, let's say tomorrow, according to some

528
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,300
Wednesday nights. Let's say by Thursday, he's confirmed out,

529
00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:57,300
or Friday, he's confirmed out. And Cleveland has two days to

530
00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,300
prepare for the actual backup. It's not only about splitting

531
00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:05,300
preparation. That may sway my opinion to Cleveland. But

532
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:08,300
right as of right now, I would pick Jacksonville. I'm a close

533
00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:14,300
one, 23 to 20. Bills at Chiefs, another game that's not in

534
00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:18,300
my Jax pack, so we'll pick it right now. I got the Chiefs

535
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:23,300
here. Good teams don't like to get embarrassed. Great teams

536
00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:26,300
hate being embarrassed. The Chiefs were embarrassed on

537
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:29,300
Sunday night. I mean, everything about it was

538
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,300
embarrassing. The offense was a joke. The defense couldn't

539
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:35,300
guard the field immediately. Special teams unit was there.

540
00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,300
Coaching, it looked like Madeline Flores was cooking

541
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:41,300
circles around Hendery and his staff. That was embarrassing

542
00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:47,300
to the Chiefs. They have Subo last braces, dynastic dreams,

543
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:50,300
and they lost to the Packers, who I don't believe play in

544
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:54,300
the playoffs. Again, that's an embarrassing loss. Good teams

545
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:59,300
do not get embarrassed and lose the next week. Subo and

546
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:02,300
Henders definitely do not do that. Do not get embarrassed

547
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,300
and lose the next week. Buffalo Bills, on the other hand,

548
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:12,300
kind of running hot. Joe Brady's come in. Somehow he's

549
00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:17,300
finagling the interceptions out of Josh Allen, or at least

550
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:22,300
the crushing ones. Their offense looking good. Their

551
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:25,300
defense is getting a little bit of a swag back. The

552
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,300
weather's starting to turn, with Buffalo used to play a little

553
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,300
better in the cold weather. They have a different kind of

554
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:34,300
cold in Buffalo. Going to Arch Orchard Park, winds swirling

555
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:37,300
and all that other stuff, it's going to be hard for anybody

556
00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:40,300
to go in there and beat them right now. Unfortunately for

557
00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:43,300
the Bills, they're going in the arrowhead, pissed off arrowhead,

558
00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,300
an embarrassed arrowhead. I've got the Chiefs winning this

559
00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:56,300
game, 27-23. Broncos at Chargers, a game that is in my

560
00:40:56,300 --> 00:41:02,300
Jax pack, so it will not be picked. This is the kind of

561
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:07,300
game where I say when Sean Page took the EFC West job,

562
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:17,300
your division's a B-word. The Chargers suck record-wise.

563
00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:24,300
The Broncos started off 1-3. If I had to name, if I said,

564
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:29,300
okay, outside of the top six records, take the top six

565
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:35,300
records out. Take out your Niners, your Eagles, your

566
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:44,300
Cowboys, your Chiefs. Start naming teams you don't want to

567
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:49,300
play. By the time you get to team two or three, either the

568
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:53,300
Broncos or the Chargers come up, take Baltimore out, but you

569
00:41:53,300 --> 00:42:00,300
get to Miami out. I don't want to play Houston. I don't want

570
00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:08,300
to play the Rams. After that, you start getting into your

571
00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:13,300
Broncos and your Chargers. The Broncos, one of the five of

572
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:17,300
them last, say eight, the Chargers, and one of the more

573
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:20,300
talented roster in the league, their head coach just sucks.

574
00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:23,300
They just let them come together. I think they're the

575
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:26,300
black cat franchise of the NFL. I remember they were one

576
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:28,300
point in one year, they were first in offense, first in

577
00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:32,300
defense, and missed the playoffs. Strange things happen

578
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:40,300
to the Chargers as a franchise. These are two teams that no

579
00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:43,300
one else wants to play. They're playing each other, and they're

580
00:42:43,300 --> 00:42:46,300
in the same division. They're in the AFC West. I say the AFC

581
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,300
West job is a pain in the butt. Every two or three years, the

582
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:51,300
AFC West has a really good team. The Chiefs are the Chiefs.

583
00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:54,300
The Chargers are really good. That's why I was saying, that

584
00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:57,300
might be the world's best job, Christian and Peyton. He's got

585
00:42:57,300 --> 00:42:59,300
a better record than the Chargers and the Raiders right

586
00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:04,300
now. Jokes on me, he knew what he was doing. It's a game

587
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:08,300
between two good quarterbacks, one good offensive head coach,

588
00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:14,300
defensive head coach, talent on both sides, just untapped into

589
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:18,300
and unachieved talent on both sides in the current uniform.

590
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:21,300
Of course, we'll send the Super Bowl champion, Kaleo Mack,

591
00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:25,300
but in their current uniforms, it's a lot of unrealized

592
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:29,300
potential. I think this is going to be an absolute barn

593
00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:32,300
burner, but we'll talk about them a little bit more in the

594
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:35,300
Jax pack. Of course, the game of the week, the game everybody

595
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:38,300
should be watching. Don't care if you're a fan of football,

596
00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:42,300
the Teeqo's at Cowboys. I spoke about a few minutes ago, good

597
00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:45,300
teams don't like to be embarrassed. Championship teams

598
00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:50,300
hate to be embarrassed. The Eagles got embarrassed by the

599
00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:57,300
Niners. It was so bad that Stephen A. Smith delegitimized

600
00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:02,300
the Eagles winning the end of the title match. It was so bad,

601
00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:06,300
people wondered if it was some kind of like joke, like if it

602
00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:09,300
was like a rig situation, where it was like the Niners like

603
00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:13,300
weren't supposed to win and blow out the Eagles. It was so

604
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:17,300
bad, people began to question if people came in the game

605
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:23,300
injured and no one said anything. Like, it was awful, the

606
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:26,300
level of just difference between the Niners and the

607
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:30,300
Eagles. So they got embarrassed. We'll see how they bounce

608
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:33,300
back. And then of course the Cowboys are riding high.

609
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:36,300
They're blowing people out. They're scoring points all over

610
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:44,300
the place. They have little to no, little to no upsetness.

611
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:50,300
Everything's going pretty well in Frisco Park. I mean, they

612
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:57,300
are just, it's gum balls and gum drops and sugar plums. Like,

613
00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:01,300
the Cowboys are riding well. They had a big win against the

614
00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:05,300
Seahawks. I thought the Seahawks were going to be blowing

615
00:45:05,300 --> 00:45:09,300
people out. They're nine and three. They're just sitting

616
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:14,300
there like, man, we're riding nine. The last team to beat the

617
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:18,300
Cowboys was the Eagles. And then it was in Philly, it was at

618
00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:23,300
the link. But they'd be in the 28-23. The last team to beat the

619
00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:26,300
Cowboys about a little, little month ago was the Eagles at

620
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:31,300
28-23 in the link. And this is the very profound score because

621
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:36,300
I think it's going to be 30-24 Cowboys this time around.

622
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:40,300
The Philly, the Eagles' secondary has weak links. Shaq Leonard

623
00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:45,300
is not going to be playing. If he's playing, he's in packages.

624
00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:49,300
And so he's not really a big addition. I have to like factor

625
00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:53,300
into it. It's going to be a very close game, very physical game.

626
00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:57,300
Stay away from it in the point spread. I would take the

627
00:45:57,300 --> 00:46:01,300
Cowboys' money line. Although if one side, the Eagles' side is

628
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:05,300
juiced, then take the Eagles there as far as a bet. But I got

629
00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:11,300
the Cowboys here winning 30-24. But up next, I am shifting to

630
00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:28,300
Jax Pat. High enough obedience segment, Jax Pat.

631
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:51,300
Welcome back into the show. Now we're going to get into our

632
00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:56,300
NFL betting segment, Jax Pat. Up and down year for us this year.

633
00:46:56,300 --> 00:47:00,300
We're a little under 500. I forgot my exact record. I didn't

634
00:47:00,300 --> 00:47:04,300
write it down. So we're a little under 500 this year. We're up

635
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:07,300
and down. But we're going to bounce back. We're going to

636
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:11,300
sprint from here on to the playoffs. Whatever the record is,

637
00:47:11,300 --> 00:47:14,300
kind of get rid of it. So we're going to sprint on from here

638
00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:17,300
into the playoffs. We're going to keep up with it. Some stuff

639
00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:20,300
got lost in the move. I hate moving. But some stuff got lost

640
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:27,300
in the move. So now we're going to get our record back right.

641
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:31,300
We're going to keep track of our record from here on out. You

642
00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:35,300
know, this is kind of stuff we're going to get into. Jax Pat

643
00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:39,300
is a fresh new record, fresh new everything. Mid-season, I don't

644
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:42,300
care. It's my show. I do what I want. And so therefore we're

645
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:45,300
going to start out with a fresh new Jax Pat record. But we're

646
00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:48,300
going to jump right into it. So we discussed this game already.

647
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:53,300
It's Thursday Night Football. Pat's at Steelers. Steelers minus

648
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:56,300
six. Take the Steelers. Look, the Patriots offense. I'm a

649
00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:59,300
Patriots fan. Patriots offense is cool. It's one of the worst

650
00:47:59,300 --> 00:48:03,300
offense I've ever seen in my life. I've seen the 0-17 Lions.

651
00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:06,300
Like, I'm old enough for the 0-17 Lions. I'm old enough for

652
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,300
whatever the hell Carolina was last year. Old enough for

653
00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:12,300
whatever the hell Carolina is this year. The Patriots offense

654
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:15,300
is one of the oldest, worst, sorry, not the oldest, one of the

655
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:19,300
worst offense I've ever seen in my life. Like, it's terrible.

656
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:23,300
It's just the receivers don't separate. Mack Jones is a

657
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:28,300
disgrace. Bill O'Brien's trying. He just ain't working. I

658
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:31,300
don't think Joe Judge should be in the building. He's not in

659
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:36,300
the building. But, I have to say that Joe Judge, who cares?

660
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:40,300
And it's just like, it's awful. Like, there's a legitimate

661
00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:43,300
chance the Steelers win this game ten to three and then

662
00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:47,300
cover the six. Like, that's how bad it is right now in New

663
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:51,300
England. I don't see New England scoring double digits.

664
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:57,300
And so, say the New England gets nine, the Steelers can't get

665
00:48:57,300 --> 00:49:01,300
16 and win the cover, cover the spread. Or get 15 and cover

666
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,300
the spread. I'd tie it. Let's go with the Steelers here, minus

667
00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:08,300
six. It's just one of those sides where it's just too, not

668
00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:11,300
obvious, but pretty obvious if you watch either team play.

669
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:16,300
Which side is the better side here? Steelers minus six.

670
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:20,300
Texans minus five and a half at the Jets take the Texans.

671
00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:25,300
Zach Wilson's back. Yay, if you're betting on the Texans.

672
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:29,300
The Jets offense is slightly above the Patriots offense.

673
00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:31,300
It's a little bit more disgraceful because there's

674
00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:36,300
legitimate talent on the Jets. They're just bad. And so,

675
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:40,300
Zach Wilson's back. Reportedly, he asked for the ball after

676
00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:43,300
the report came out saying he was ducking the ball. Whatever.

677
00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:46,300
But I'm gonna say he was asked for the ball. He wants back in.

678
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:51,300
And so, Robbisola granted his wish and he's back in. Good

679
00:49:51,300 --> 00:50:01,300
for him. But Zach Wilson is back, like I said, which means

680
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:03,300
great things for the Texans. Derrick Singler has four

681
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:07,300
exceptions in his last three games. You've got Will

682
00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:10,300
Anderson balling right now. You know, he's got a lot of

683
00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:13,300
great positive things. They mean short fields for CJ

684
00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:19,300
Stroud. That means he's gonna score 24 points. I don't see

685
00:50:19,300 --> 00:50:22,300
the Jets getting 16 points. Breeze Hall, I need a couple

686
00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:26,300
touches on how to use fantasy purposes. But regardless,

687
00:50:26,300 --> 00:50:31,300
I have the Texans here covering the five and a half.

688
00:50:31,300 --> 00:50:36,300
Rams plus seven at the Ravens take the Rams. This is a

689
00:50:36,300 --> 00:50:42,300
sneaky one. This is one that if it's six and a half, I think

690
00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:48,300
the Ravens. I just think that this game is gonna be a little

691
00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:51,300
closer than the experts think. I think the Ravens ultimately

692
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:54,300
win the game. But the Ravens offensively, it's been kind of

693
00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:57,300
in. Lamar Jackson specifically hasn't really been accounting

694
00:50:57,300 --> 00:50:59,300
for touchdowns all that much lately. Picked it up over the

695
00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:02,300
last couple of contests, but there was a stretch there. He

696
00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:05,300
was struggling. The Rams have a legitimate inside stopper

697
00:51:05,300 --> 00:51:08,300
when they're in the Donald where you can stop the Ravens

698
00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:11,300
and make them bounce. Now, they ultimately want to get them

699
00:51:11,300 --> 00:51:14,300
outside anyway. OBJ, Lamar Jackson, et cetera. Let's see

700
00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:17,300
Flowers. They want to get them outside anyway. But if I don't

701
00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:20,300
have to scheme you to the outside, that makes it a little

702
00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:23,300
bit different. Aaron Donald existing the way he's playing,

703
00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:29,300
the way he playing and not having to scheme inside

704
00:51:29,300 --> 00:51:32,300
presence and bounce automatically. And then Lenz was to

705
00:51:32,300 --> 00:51:35,300
the Rams. Matthew Stafford playing a little bit better.

706
00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:40,300
Now, people have gone into M&T, Bayside and Baltimore and got

707
00:51:40,300 --> 00:51:44,300
destroyed. Ask the Lions. But in the Seahawks, I just think

708
00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:48,300
that the Rams, you know, it is a cross country trip. The

709
00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:52,300
Rams lose the game. They lose it close. They lose it 30 to

710
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:56,300
24. The Ravens defense have been hard hitting. They're

711
00:51:56,300 --> 00:51:58,300
knocking them out of games. They're about as legally the

712
00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:01,300
2000s Ravens as they can be. But I just think the Rams,

713
00:52:01,300 --> 00:52:05,300
they're coming there. Simon Vape gets real clever. They get

714
00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:08,300
a couple of cheap touchdowns. Pooka Nakua and Cooper Cupps

715
00:52:08,300 --> 00:52:11,300
are a hard deal with a guard for anybody. Karen Williams is

716
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:15,300
doing really well running the ball. The Ravens win the game,

717
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:22,300
but it's closer than the experts think 30 to 24. Broncos plus

718
00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:26,300
three at the Chargers and I totally I know I didn't pick this

719
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:30,300
guy. Broncos plus three at the Chargers. Take the Broncos

720
00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:35,300
here. I think the Broncos win this game. All right. The

721
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:37,300
Broncos right now are put together better. Brandon

722
00:52:37,300 --> 00:52:41,300
Staley is Nathaniel Hackett 2.0. Slightly better coach.

723
00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:43,300
Just saying much because of Nathaniel Hackett. But I just

724
00:52:43,300 --> 00:52:46,300
think Brandon Staley is Nathaniel Hackett 2.0. Because of

725
00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:49,300
which the Broncos are putting together an actual program

726
00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:52,300
there. To your one of Sean Payton, they look like a

727
00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:55,300
football team. They didn't just bail at the trade they

728
00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:58,300
thought they were. They look like a football team. And

729
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:00,300
because of which I think they're going to go in there and

730
00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:03,300
beat the Chargers. It's going to be 50-50 home field anyway.

731
00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:06,300
So it's not really a home field advantage. It's not a big

732
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:10,300
travel. Denver to LA is an hour and a half flight maybe two.

733
00:53:10,300 --> 00:53:13,300
It might be an hour. Anyway from an hour, hour and a half

734
00:53:13,300 --> 00:53:17,300
flight. Private jet. You know what I'm saying. Ten to five

735
00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:21,300
minute flight. No real travel at all. We're not having a

736
00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:25,300
time zone switch. We're going into a friendly-ish environment.

737
00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:28,300
Like I think the Broncos are just further along in their

738
00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:30,300
program than the Chargers. What you're saying is that

739
00:53:30,300 --> 00:53:33,300
Staley has been there for years. I think the Broncos are

740
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:36,300
a little further along in their program. They step beside

741
00:53:36,300 --> 00:53:39,300
Ben Joseph and I wanted them fired for that horrible

742
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:42,300
70-point situation against Miami. And they bounce back

743
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:45,300
and they look like a much better football team. So I'm

744
00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:49,300
going to get the Broncos the edge here. Close, closer, close

745
00:53:49,300 --> 00:53:55,300
30 to 27. And then last but certainly not least, Titans

746
00:53:55,300 --> 00:54:00,300
at Dolphins. Dolphins minus 13 take the Dolphins. Not going

747
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:03,300
to spend a lot of time here. I don't see the Titans going

748
00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:07,300
20. I don't see the Dolphins going less than 30. So because

749
00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:11,300
of that, you kind of meet in the middle. I would have loved

750
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:14,300
this number. You could tease this number. If you could

751
00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:21,300
tease maybe this down to 11, 11 and a half and tease, add

752
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:25,300
those points to the Broncos. But that game gets teased down

753
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:29,300
to one and a half. That might be a good teaser. Or you tease

754
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:32,300
the Dolphins maybe down to 11 and a half and you give those

755
00:54:32,300 --> 00:54:34,300
points to the Steelers. Maybe they're at seven and a half

756
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:37,300
now. Excuse me. That also be a pretty good teaser as well.

757
00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:40,300
But again, I'm comfortable at minus 13 here. It's only two

758
00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:45,300
touchdowns. This game got 37-17 written all over it.

759
00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:48,300
Derrick Henry's beat up. Not in the cushion protocol, but

760
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:52,300
he's beat up. Not enough team speed on the Titans in the

761
00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:55,300
back end, which that's the same for everybody. So this got

762
00:54:55,300 --> 00:54:59,300
37-17 written all over it. Take the Dolphins. So to recap,

763
00:54:59,300 --> 00:55:02,300
we have Steelers minus six over the Patriots, Texans minus

764
00:55:02,300 --> 00:55:05,300
five and a half over the Jets, Rams plus seven over the

765
00:55:05,300 --> 00:55:10,300
Ravens, Broncos plus three over the Chargers, Dolphins minus

766
00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:16,300
13 over the Titans. But up next, we have Jax hot take, which

767
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:44,300
is about the transfer portal being a coaching character.

768
00:55:44,300 --> 00:55:52,300
Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to get into

769
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:56,300
Jax hot take. We're just going to go out the transfer portal,

770
00:55:56,300 --> 00:55:59,300
basically being the coaching carousel. And you know, you

771
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:03,300
got a lot of slander from guys I see in the media, especially

772
00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:06,300
social media. These kids get hit hard when they transfer,

773
00:56:06,300 --> 00:56:10,300
especially starters or popular players, high recruits that

774
00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:13,300
may want to perform. Anybody with a name that carries in the

775
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:20,300
team gets slandered for going into the portal. But that's the

776
00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:24,300
coaching carousel. You know, like these kids are looking for

777
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:27,300
an opportunity. Texan, there's a coaching change that happens.

778
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:30,300
The kids jump in the transfer portal. It's just the way it

779
00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:33,300
goes. Because now there's opportunities. Maybe there's a

780
00:56:33,300 --> 00:56:37,300
coach that you're really connected with. Maybe there's

781
00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:40,300
like an OC at one school that you're connected with, you decide

782
00:56:40,300 --> 00:56:43,300
to go with this coach, that coach gets fired or leaves. So

783
00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:45,300
now you jump in the portal, he goes to another coach, a new

784
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:49,300
spot or the same spot, whatever. But are you going home? LSU

785
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:52,300
Brad Kelly has made it a big thing where he wants to get kids

786
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:55,300
to come home. Jordan Gilbert to safety out of Texas A&M,

787
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:59,300
coached against that kid. He's legit. I wanted him at LSU.

788
00:56:59,300 --> 00:57:02,300
He's crystal balled now to come to LSU. And then there's a

789
00:57:02,300 --> 00:57:06,300
returner guy, I can't think of his name. But he's looking at

790
00:57:06,300 --> 00:57:11,300
LSU as well from Louisiana. But these kids go in the portal

791
00:57:11,300 --> 00:57:13,300
and they're looking for you to go home. They're looking for

792
00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:16,300
an opportunity. They're looking to get out of the situation

793
00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:20,300
they're in, whatever. Or if these are the NIO, looking for

794
00:57:20,300 --> 00:57:22,300
more money. Look at the transfer. There's like 10 starting

795
00:57:22,300 --> 00:57:24,300
quarterbacks in the portal. And I'm not saying quarterbacks

796
00:57:24,300 --> 00:57:27,300
that could start. I'm saying starting quarterbacks for a

797
00:57:27,300 --> 00:57:31,300
reason. Cam Ward started at Washington State. DJ Uyagalele

798
00:57:31,300 --> 00:57:36,300
started at Oregon State. Kyle McCoy started at Ohio State.

799
00:57:36,300 --> 00:57:39,300
That's the guy at the top of my head. All these guys started,

800
00:57:39,300 --> 00:57:42,300
they're all in the portal. It's going to cost you a million,

801
00:57:42,300 --> 00:57:47,300
a million and a half dollars for any of them. Like it's just

802
00:57:47,300 --> 00:57:51,300
like, you know what I'm saying? Like, oh, Dante Moore from

803
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:53,300
UCLA. Like he's going to probably, he's going to end up in

804
00:57:53,300 --> 00:57:56,300
Michigan. He's going to probably end up costing Michigan $2

805
00:57:56,300 --> 00:58:00,300
million a year to get them. DJ Uyagalele, I can see it Miami,

806
00:58:00,300 --> 00:58:04,300
he's going to cost $875,000, a million dollars in Miami to get

807
00:58:04,300 --> 00:58:09,300
them in Miami. Like Matt Rule, I think was talking about it.

808
00:58:09,300 --> 00:58:11,300
He was saying a quick quarterback in the portal costs you a

809
00:58:11,300 --> 00:58:15,300
million dollars, $2 million now. That's just it is what it is.

810
00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:18,300
Now you've got Vanderbilt jumping in the NIO saying they're

811
00:58:18,300 --> 00:58:21,300
going to use their collective to get players. Players cost

812
00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:26,300
money. Guess what? That's been coaches forever. ASAP coaches

813
00:58:26,300 --> 00:58:29,300
don't have a coaches carousel. They don't have a coaching

814
00:58:29,300 --> 00:58:32,300
portal. They have this thing called the coaching carousel that

815
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:35,300
they spin around and change jobs, et cetera. And they have

816
00:58:35,300 --> 00:58:40,300
agents. These agents negotiate their leave and their arrival

817
00:58:40,300 --> 00:58:45,300
all behind the scenes. The guy who resigns, Lincoln Riley, in

818
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:48,300
the middle of the night, he's introduced to the new school the

819
00:58:48,300 --> 00:58:53,300
next day. Deion Sanders was flying back and forth between

820
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:57,300
Jackson, Mississippi and Boulder, Colorado. He was in, he

821
00:58:57,300 --> 00:59:02,300
wore Jackson State stuff. That's right. Title game on the plane

822
00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:07,300
with him and his son changed into Colorado. Got off the

823
00:59:07,300 --> 00:59:10,300
plane in Colorado gear, walk around, saw the stadium, saw the

824
00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:13,300
facilities, saw the locker room, et cetera. Got back on the

825
00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:17,300
plane, coach Jackson State in the celebration bowl. Get off

826
00:59:17,300 --> 00:59:21,300
the plane, again, leaves Jackson again, says the team

827
00:59:21,300 --> 00:59:25,300
leaves Jackson again, puts on Colorado stuff. He gets introduced

828
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:29,300
to Colorado head coach the next day. That's the transfer portal.

829
00:59:29,300 --> 00:59:32,300
That's where these kids are entering the portal or where

830
00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:34,300
portal is going to enter the portal the day after bowl games

831
00:59:34,300 --> 00:59:37,300
or the day after the conference championship game, the day after

832
00:59:37,300 --> 00:59:39,300
the last regular season game. They've been negotiating their

833
00:59:39,300 --> 00:59:45,300
exit probably with a staff or a different team for weeks. One of

834
00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:49,300
these top players that like leave, they start somewhere two

835
00:59:49,300 --> 00:59:52,300
years and then they go into the portal and they list it as do

836
00:59:52,300 --> 00:59:56,300
not contact. They know where they're going. Like Haley Van

837
00:59:56,300 --> 00:59:59,300
Liff, she had do not contact in her portal thing when she left

838
00:59:59,300 --> 01:00:01,300
Louisville. Everybody in that grandma knows she's going to

839
01:00:01,300 --> 01:00:05,300
LSU. There's a top corner, I think it's from Clemson, has do

840
01:00:05,300 --> 01:00:09,300
not contact in his thing. Everyone like he knows where he's

841
01:00:09,300 --> 01:00:13,300
going. Those quarterbacks, they're fine being contacted.

842
01:00:13,300 --> 01:00:16,300
They're negotiating their money. That kid knows exactly where

843
01:00:16,300 --> 01:00:20,300
he's going, for what money and what school. Like if the coach

844
01:00:20,300 --> 01:00:23,300
and carousel does the same thing. Dion was negotiating his

845
01:00:23,300 --> 01:00:26,300
contact in Colorado, flying back and forth in Jackson the

846
01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:29,300
Boulder and he was introduced knowing what his contact was

847
01:00:29,300 --> 01:00:33,300
going to be. The coaching carousel and the transfer portal

848
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:37,300
is the exact same thing. But somehow again, we have

849
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:41,300
villainized the people making less money over the people

850
01:00:41,300 --> 01:00:44,300
making more money. It's no different in the NFL,

851
01:00:44,300 --> 01:00:48,300
unprofessional sports, where we villainize our players. We

852
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:51,300
villainize the millionaires for the sake of the billionaires

853
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:54,300
and now we're villainizing the kids who some of them, this is

854
01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:58,300
their time to earn money playing sports. DJ Uyagalila is not

855
01:00:58,300 --> 01:01:02,300
an NFL quarterback. Not legitimately, not for years. He's

856
01:01:02,300 --> 01:01:05,300
going to make most of his money playing sports in college. Kyle

857
01:01:05,300 --> 01:01:08,300
McCord doesn't look like an NFL quarterback right now. He's

858
01:01:08,300 --> 01:01:11,300
going to make most of his money playing college sports. Can

859
01:01:11,300 --> 01:01:14,300
insert Cam Ward here. Like he's going to make most of that

860
01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:17,300
money playing college sports. So now we're going to victimize

861
01:01:17,300 --> 01:01:21,300
the player trying to earn all he can. And we're going to say,

862
01:01:21,300 --> 01:01:24,300
man, you left us underperformed. You did this gay artist money.

863
01:01:24,300 --> 01:01:28,300
You were bad. The NFL does it every year. The NBA does it

864
01:01:28,300 --> 01:01:32,300
every year. The NHL, the MLB, whatever. These establishments

865
01:01:32,300 --> 01:01:35,300
have these same exact players. But again, we've victimized

866
01:01:35,300 --> 01:01:39,300
the people making less for the sake of making more. It's

867
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:42,300
insane logic. I've never understood it, but that's the way

868
01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:47,300
it is. And so the transfer portal is no different than the

869
01:01:47,300 --> 01:01:50,300
coaching carousel. However you feel about the transfer portal,

870
01:01:50,300 --> 01:01:53,300
you should feel the way about coaches changing. Because guess

871
01:01:53,300 --> 01:01:56,300
what? The vast majority of these transfers are coming because

872
01:01:56,300 --> 01:01:59,300
the coach left. Texas A&M is going to lose half their recruiting

873
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:02,300
class and probably a third of their roster minimum. Because

874
01:02:02,300 --> 01:02:05,300
take Jemma Fisher got fired. But what about the coaches who

875
01:02:05,300 --> 01:02:08,300
used to put different jobs? Two lanes in trouble. Willie

876
01:02:08,300 --> 01:02:11,300
Fritz is now in Houston. Half of their recruiting class and a

877
01:02:11,300 --> 01:02:14,300
third of their roster has been leave. Because they were A,

878
01:02:14,300 --> 01:02:17,300
they were probably getting brought from two lanes to

879
01:02:17,300 --> 01:02:21,300
Houston with Willie Fritz. Which if you're a kid, unless you're

880
01:02:21,300 --> 01:02:24,300
from New Orleans and you're dreaming of going to two lanes,

881
01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:29,300
that's an upgrade. I've been to both campuses. It's an upgrade.

882
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:32,300
The University of Houston facility, the indoor facility, is a

883
01:02:32,300 --> 01:02:37,300
city block. Like it's an upgrade. The stadium is beautiful.

884
01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:40,300
The weather is much better. Like you're not in danger of a

885
01:02:40,300 --> 01:02:47,300
hurricane smacking you in the face every year. It's a better

886
01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:51,300
situation in Houston. And your NIO is probably better in Houston

887
01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:59,300
too. It's life, right? And so it's just the way it goes. You

888
01:02:59,300 --> 01:03:03,300
should not slander the kid. I don't call them kids. They're

889
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:05,300
nothing but joking. I mean, but you shouldn't slander the

890
01:03:05,300 --> 01:03:07,300
player, the athlete, for trying to make all the candy in the

891
01:03:07,300 --> 01:03:10,300
NIO, for trying to transfer to a better spot for him, and

892
01:03:10,300 --> 01:03:13,300
applaud the coach for moving up in the ranks. It's the exact

893
01:03:13,300 --> 01:03:20,300
same thing. But that is all I have for you guys today. A

894
01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:24,300
wonderful show. So glad to be back with you guys. And a shout

895
01:03:24,300 --> 01:03:27,300
out to my fans all over the world. Shout out to you guys

896
01:03:27,300 --> 01:03:29,300
especially, it's been right to my social media. Keep hitting

897
01:03:29,300 --> 01:03:33,300
that follow button, man. I love it. It's big. It's helping other

898
01:03:33,300 --> 01:03:36,300
people find out about me as well. Find out about our Just

899
01:03:36,300 --> 01:03:39,300
in Thomas Boys family. So keep growing the family. Keep

900
01:03:39,300 --> 01:03:42,300
growing, telling your friends, etc. But this is your host,

901
01:03:42,300 --> 01:04:07,300
Justin Jackson, signing out.

902
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We'll see you next time.