October 6, 2017 • 40 mins
Clay Travis recaps Thursday Night Football & the ALDS, gives his picks and blood bank guarantee, Cam Newton's apology, and Animal Thunderdome!
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This is the best of out kick the coverage with
Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio, College Football and the NFL.
Two interesting results. N C State gets a double digit
win over Louisville and the Patriots are not dead yet.
They go on the road and they beat the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers just look average. Maybe the most
surprising thing about this game was not that the Patriots one,
because the Patriots are like the horror movie villain that
you can't kill right. This is the first must win
regular season game I can remember from the Patriots in
a very long time, so I anticipated they would find
a way to get it done. But I thought they
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would find a way to get it done by scoring
more points than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I did not
think that their defense would show up, and also didn't
necessarily think that Nick Folk was gonna miss three different
field goals, including a thirty one yard or that I
would imagine an awful lot of people. Really, legitimately, people
can make uh thirty one yard field goal in an
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NFL game. So Cam Newton and the Tampa Bay Bucceteers
have a chance to go to three and one to
serve notice that they are a legitimate threat in the
NFC South to kind of stamp themselves as a team
legitimately on the rise by beating Tom Brady and the Patriots. Instead,
they frankly don't play that well. They missed several field goals,
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which obviously is a dispositive factor, and when you actually
look at the box score, the two teams are relatively even.
The Patriots, while they held uh the Buccaneers to just
fourteen points, still gave up over four hundred yards of offense.
But it's nothing near nowhere near as bad as they
had been prior to this moment. So the Patriots, now
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at three and two, feel pretty good about themselves, And
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at two and two, well, I mean,
you're pretty much aware every decent team is in the NFL,
everybody kind of sitting around two and two. Only one
team is undefeated, and that remains the Kansas City Chiefs,
while there are a lot of teams out there that
have had both impressive and disappointing performances already, even as
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we're just a little bit past a quarter of the
way through the NFL season, The Major League Baseball Playoffs
also officially off and underway, the n ld S and
the a L d S. I'm gonna bring in Danny G.
What happened in these games. I was kind of focused
on football. We also had a big, cool event at
Zany's last night. Thanks to the hundreds of you who
came out last night and UH and saw me perform.
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We're gonna be doing a lot of those events. I'm
gonna be in St. Louis today, UH this afternoon evening,
so if you want to hang out there, you can
check out the out kick v I P message boards
see where it will be. On Monday, we will have
another event in Birmingham, Alabama, So I'm kind of running
all over the place taking care of these events. It
was a lot of fun. I hope you guys who
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are listening to this now that we're there, had a
good time. Let me know what you thought of the event,
UM and look forward to doing more of them. But
let's bring in the crew and Danny G give us
an update on the Major League Baseball postseason. This is
the time of year. October best sports month of the
year when there are a lot of different moving parts
going on all at once, and UH, let's hit it
on the Major League Baseball front. Yeah to a l
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playoff openers yesterday, both home teams were winners. The Indians
were pretty dominant as they shut out the Yankees for
to nothing. Trevor Bauer had a great start. He shut
out the New York Bats and uh, the scary part,
Bauer is the indians number three starter, so this could
only get worse for the Yankees if their bats don't
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come alive. And then the Astros they went ham on
Chris Saleh. Houston second baseman Jose Altuve had he had
three home runs all of September. Clay, he hit three
bombs just yesterday. Amazing for a little short, little second baseman.
And uh, Altuve is a legit ale m v P candidates,
so he showed out yesterday. Verlander also looked great for Houston.
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Astro's clawbered the Red Sox eight to two, and you
have four games to look forward to today, Boston at
Houston for Game two on FS one, New York at Cleveland,
Chicago at Washington for Game one in that NL series,
and Arizona at the l A Dodgers on TBS to
end things off tonight. Lots of people are gonna be
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playing Hookey down in Houston, because that game is a
one o'clock Central, two o'clock Eastern start for the Red
Sox in the Astros, but games going all day long,
in addition to the fact that there are obviously going
to be a lot of great NFL and college football
games that are getting set to t off as we
move into the weekend. So were these outcomes in Major
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League Baseball, the Astros over the Red Sox and the
Indians over the Yankees, to you, Danny g indicative of
the way these series are gonna go? In other words,
do you think those teams should be prohibitive favorites? Yeah, well,
I think the Indians should definitely be a team that
we would expect could get all the way to the
World say areas. But I mean, the thing that surprised
me was that the Yankees. They looked so good against
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the Twins, at least their bats did. But maybe they
celebrated a little too early, because man did they have
fun in the locker room after beating the Twins. But
then when it came to figure out figuring out their
pitching situation, they went through a lot of pictures in
that wild Card game. So so they got to get
their bullpen act together. And then the Astros they're another favorite,
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so it didn't surprise me. But Mookie Bets and company.
The Red Sox, they've they've been up and down their
streaky team, similar to the Dodgers, so we'll see if
they can bounce back as well. But it was pretty
much as expected with both home teams winning. Yesterday, Clayton
Kershaw on the mound in l A for a seven
thirty pm Pacific time ten thirty Eastern. If you're interested
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in watching that game, uh, start this after this evening late,
and the Dodgers are minus two fifty to win that game,
big favorites. What's the vibe in La La Land as
the Dodger chance to win the first title since officially begins.
Everybody wants tickets, and I've been going on the you know,
the ticket apps and everything for the past week. And
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where well to sit lowe, to sit anywhere down uh,
you know, towards the field normally would cost you, you know,
two hundred dollars for good seats. It's double that right now.
So it's before twenty for those same two tickets. So
the nosebleed seats right now are a couple hundred bucks,
so it's a pretty penny to get into the game
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right now. But best believe the Dodger parties in this
city are kind of crazy. There's a bar right down
the street from my house and they've been showing all
the Dodger games all season, and that place is going
to be jumping tonight. The whole city is psyched because
obviously it's been since what a long drought, and this
is the year. It feels like awesome, this is the year. Indeed,
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all right, let's circle back around. I think the biggest
story of the night is and remains the performance by
the Patriots against the Tampa by Buck in the years,
and I think we have a couple of clips of
audio if you somehow been out of touch the pucks.
Bucks are throwing the ball into the end zone trying
to win from the nineteen yard line to end the game.
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But the missed field goals led to the fact that
the Patriots kind of had control of this game throughout.
Let's listen from Jamis Winston talking about the outcome in
that game. This game is behind us. I guess that's
a positive. I wish we could have came up with
a win. But you know, when you're playing the best
for the back in the world and you're playing against
a great defense, you got to be on top of everything,
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and uh today I wasn't. So the dead quarterback played
way better than I did. So they end up winning
a game. Never gave up, kept fighting and uh and
it just shows you about how you know, hungry this
team is and how much the fans helped us out.
You know, being at home, you do do not want to
lose the game at homes battle back. But again, uh,
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it's two seconds on the club. Your quarterback has to
make a play for you. You gotta you gotta do
something that's a quarterback. You gotta make a play. That's
Jamis Winston talking about that game. Now, Tom Brady, we said,
Brady maybe still be Brady. I think I know I
did yesterday, but the Patriots defense is not still the
Patriots defense. Well Brady kind of looked a little bit old.
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And I'm not gonna be the person who is gonna
talk about Tom Brady every week because I've said before
I think he's the most reliable aspect of the Patriot
offensive attack. But without Gronkowski, he had two turnovers, he fumbled,
he threw an interception early in that game. Patriots turn
the ball over twice and overcame it and got a
massive win on the road. I'm gonna bring in the crew,
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will get everybody's opinion. I think until the page again.
Patriots to me are a horror movie villain. You know
how the horror movie villain always comes back right. You
don't just have to kill the Patriots. You have to
burn him to death. You have to like throw him,
barry him alive, like everything in order to keep them
from re emerging as a threat to win the Super Bowl.
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And I fully expected them to find a way to
beat the Bucks on the road and this Thursday night turnaround,
and they did. They lost a tough game on Sunday
to the Panthers. They are now one and two at home.
They were going on the road just a couple of days.
Rest Rob Gronkowski's not playing. It seemed like everything was
set up for us to come on the show Friday
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morning and have a Patriots funeral. And every time that
that's been set up for about the last fifteen years,
it seems like the Patriots ever is into the challenge
and told us not so fast, and that seems to
be to me the story so far. Now, what exactly
are the Patriots gonna be capable of from here? They
gotta get healthy. They've got to get better on the
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defensive side of the ball, there's no doubt about that.
But they have the best coach in football, and they
have a a pretty talented a quarterback, by the way,
maybe the greatest, certainly the greatest I think in the
history of the game itself. They now get the Jets.
You would think the Patriots, even on the road against
the Jets, are not gonna lose that game. With extra days,
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that gets them to four and two. Then they have
a big game against the Falcons, but that game is
in Foxborough. If they win that game as a rematch
of the Super Bowl, everybody will say, hey, look the
Patriots are back. They'll be five and two. Then they
get the Chargers, all right. I think they have a
good chance to win that game given the fact that
the Chargers are oh and four. So in their next
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three probably worst case scenario, the Patriots go two and one,
likely I think to go three and oh. If that happens,
there six and two just in time for them to
roll out to face the Broncos at the midway part
of the season schedule. Not gonna get that easy, But
the next three are very very easy for the Patriots.
And Jason Martin, are you with me that the Patriots
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looked a little bit like their vintage selves last night
and finding a way to win a big game national
television Thursday night. Everything lined up against them, and they
find a way to get it done on the road
against a good, young Bucks team. Look, this team could
be one and one and four easily right now if
it wasn't for some serious heroics from Brandon Cooks a
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couple of weeks ago against the Texans and then certainly
Nick Folk going ridiculously bad last night and missing three
field goals for the Bucks. That's nine points they left
on the board right there. Obviously, you know what I
gotta I already like Jameis Winston in a lot of
respects the way he's comported himself as a pro to
stand up there and put all the onus on himself
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about not being able to make a play at the
end of that football game, not saying anything about his kicker.
There are players in this league that would have thrown
Nick Folk unto the bus, yet they didn't do it,
so you know, they win nineteen to fourteen. I think
that if you want to talk about a forty year
old starting to look old, I don't think he looks
old with full rest. But when you're coming off playing
on Sunday in a tough game and losing that and
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then having to turn around four days later and play, yeah,
I think maybe it takes little bit more time for
a Tom Brady perhaps to be ready to play after
a short turnaround like that. But they did win the game.
They're going to be okay, And I think that that's
the worst case scenario for the rest of the a
f C in particular, because this team really should be
potentially one and four, or certainly should be two and
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three right now if the Bucks were able to do
anything last night. But it is kind of I'm not
gonna give them too much credit. The defense certainly came
around Tampa Bay made it look easy for him at
times because they left some serious points on the board,
But I'm not gonna give them that much credit. When
the Bucks missed three field goals that could have potentially
changed that entire game, good deal. What about you guys
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out in l A. Are you believing that the but
that the Patriots are back or do you think the
Patriots ever left? I mean, I'm still not sold on
on their defense, but I never thought that Tom Brady left.
And when you have Tom Brady, you've always have a
chance to win games. So um, overall, I think that
you know, with with him under center, they've they're always
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gonna be a good team. Overall, it is amazing to
think about how much different our our conversation would be
if Jamis Winston made a play with two seconds left, right.
I mean, I was watching that game live and I
was thinking, my god, what am I rooting for here?
Because I didn't I didn't gamble on this game, so
I wasn't like kind of dialed in on the gambling front.
And I was sitting there thinking, as the Bucks took
this snap, you know, if Jamis Winston makes this throw,
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then everybody's gonna focus on the fact that the Patriots
are two and three. I think it would have been
more about the Patriots being two and three than it
would have been about the Bucks being three and one.
But it would have been amazing to think about how
different the way we would have covered this story would
have been if that would have happened. Be sure to
catch live editions of would Kick the Coverage with Clay
Travis weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific on
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Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hope
you guys are having a fantastic Friday wherever you may
be across the country. It's time for the Getico Play
of the game. And play that's an interesting phrase. It's
time for the Geico Play of the day. It would
be a hell of a different thing. How's Jose Altuvea
had a historic day for the Houston Astros as they
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opened up the Division Series against the Boston Red Sox.
Not one, not too but three home runs? That ball's
got a chance taking three? Are you kidding me? Out?
To three whole runs? That's an m v P. That
audio courtesy of the Houston Astros Radio network. Only eight
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other players have ever hit three home runs in one
playoff game, one of them guy named Babe Ruth also
altba five ft six. No one that short has ever
done it in a playoff game. It's unbelievable that baseball
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car insurance. Yesterday we talked a lot about the Cam
Newton controversy surrounding the way that he spoke to a
reporter from a Charlotte newspaper, and the yesterday evening, Cam
Newton released an official apology. This is that audio. I
have a careful thought. I understand that my word choice
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was extremely degrading and disrespectful to women, and to be honest,
that was not my intentions. And if you are a
person who took offense to what I said, I sincerely
apologize to you. I'm a man who try to be
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a positive role model in my community and tries to
use my platform to inspire others, and I own I
take ownership to everything that comes with that, and what
I did was extremely unacceptable. Um. I'm a father to
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two beautiful daughters, and at their age, I try to
instill in them that they can do and be anything
that they want to be. And the fact that during
this whole process, I've already lost sponsors and countless fans,
I realized that the joke is really on me, and
I've learned a valuable lesson from this. And to the
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young people who see this, I hope that you learned
something from this as well, Um, don't be like me,
be better than me. And to the reporters, to the journalists,
to the mom's super moms, to the daughters, the sisters,
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and the women all around the world, I sincerely apologize
and hope that you can find the kindness in your
heart to forget me. Okay, this story I think has
been really probably way overplayed. I mean in the grand
scheme of things, Uh, it's not that significant of a story.
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Although in typical Internet fashion, the woman that cam Newton
spoke to also evidently had some racist tweets that she
sent like four or five years ago while she was
in college. It's just the typical Internet story, right, somebody's
offended and then that person who was offended has maybe
done worse things in her life. And I'm just ready
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for this story to officially be over right. I mean,
there wasn't much substance to this thing from the get go.
Cam Newton probably just should have avoided commenting in any
way just to answer the questions, um, But it puts
a lot of onus on him now going forward as
as we see whether or not the Panthers are capable
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to build on that three and one record. And still
the big question with Cam Newton is is he ever
going to get back to the m v P caliber
season that he had in was it now twenty twenty fifteen?
Cam Newton seventeen and one in the Super Bowl and
the expectation is that the Panthers are gonna win that game.
Cam Newton is going to become the face of the NFL. Instead,
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his team loses, he gets beaten up, he doesn't perform
very well in the postgame press conference, and then he's
awful all of last year. This year, early in the season,
had not been very impressive, but had a good game
on the road against the Patriots. And we'll see whether
the Panthers can build on that and turn it into
more of a substantially successful season. But for me, I
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am completely over this uh this controversy. I still find
it insane that Cam Newton and his response to a
reporter at a press conference is getting more attention than
Michael Bennett lying about the Las Vegas Police Department and
to me, this is an indictment in some ways, many
ways of the media as a whole that they can
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get trapped in stories like these which aren't that significant
in the grand scheme of things. Now, Cam Newton lost
a few sponsors, it sounds like there was a significant
pressure on him to speak out that statement to me,
and I haven't watched it, I've only heard it that statement.
To me, he seems a little bit like a hostage video,
like he's reading and being told exactly what he needs
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to say in that video to put this story behind him.
But if I were him, I'd be like, Hey, I've
addressed it. I've answered it. There's nothing else to be
said here, and we'll see what happens. As they roll
into the into the weekend of the NFL and college football,
be sure to catch live editions about kick the Coverage
with Clay Travis weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific.
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As we come into the weekend. What do I try
to do? I try to make everybody money, try to
make everybody rich, try to give everybody an opportunity to
be able to cash out. And That's what I'm gonna
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Let's go ahead and hit the music voice who's but
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get your pens ready, pencils. I don't want people to
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be sending me text messages. Text messages are the wrong thing.
Sending me tweets saying hey, can you give me your picks?
I'm giving them out right now. You can go see
him at OutKick dot com as well. I got ten
winners for you, and we start with Penn State at Northwestern.
Lots of people not aware that Pat Fitzgerald is three
no against James Franklin head to head once at Vanderbilt,
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twice at Penn State. Northwestern's coach has come out on top.
And this line I think is a little bit high.
Two touchdowns on the road at Northwestern, I think it
stays close. Penn State's gonna win, but nor Western is
gonna cover. Keep this name in mind, DJ Durkin. Maryland
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has now won two games on the road as a
double digit underdog so far this year. They went on
the road against Texas onety one to start the season,
and they went on the road this past weekend and
one against Minnesota as a double digit underdog. Now they
are around a thirty one point underdog to Ohio State.
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I know Ohio State was great this past weekend against
Rutgers and we lost some money there, but I think
that Maryland is gonna be able to stay within the
number even in the shoe. Thirty one points is a
massive line. Give me the Terrapins and DJ Durkin keeping
this close. Arkansas at South Carolina, the under will must
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champ defense comes to play and they control the overall
scope and magnitude and basic tempo of these games. The
last four South Carolina games have posted totals of forty four,
thirty six, thirty three, and forty one. Arkansas is coming
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to town, and I think South Carolina will slow down
that offensive attack. I believe no idea what's gonna happen
in this game. Arkansas is a small favorite, but the
over under opened at fifty one. I think it's around
forty nine now the under is gonna cash Washington State.
This is a fascinating game Washington State at Oregon because
the line has bumped back and forth a couple of
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different times. Right now, I believe it's Washington State minus
two and a half. Oregon is gonna have to start
a walk on quarterback. Washington State is coming off a
huge win over USC there five and oh. I think
that offense is gonna be able to continue to score.
And I don't believe ultimately that Oregon with a walk
on quarterback is gonna be able to keep up. That's
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why I've got the Cougars. Get Wazoo, take him on
the road against Oregon. Georgia at Vanderbilt. I think Georgia
is gonna blow out Vanderbilt, and I actually think the
over is gonna hit. Georgia is on a roll right now.
Vanderbilt is playing its fourth straight physically draining competition Kansas State, Alabama, Florida.
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Now Georgia, Vanderbilt is beaten up. I don't believe that
they will have enough horses to match what the Bulldogs
can bring to bear physical beating again coming from Vanderbilt
coming for Vanderbilt. I've got the over here and I
have got the Georgia Bulldogs L s U. At Florida.
And by the way, Georgia is one of my blood
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and you get rich on that one. The other blood
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blood bay and guarantee. L s U at Florida. The
Gators are around the two and a half or three
point favorite, and I love the under here, but I
think L. S U is a bad football team coming
off a tough loss Detroit on the road against the Gators.
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I believe what's gonna happen here is pretty simple. The
Gators are gonna win by seven or more. That means
you cover double blood Bank guarantee there and finally a
couple more good ones. Ole Miss at Auburn Auburn minus
twenty one. Last week, Old Miss lost sixty six to three.
Auburn's offense is starting to roll. It started with Miszoo,
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it continued against Mississippi State. I think it continues another
week against Old Miss. Auburn wins by thirty or more.
Bama on the road at Texas A and M. I
gave this pick out to you at minus twenty two.
It's now out to around minus twenty six and a half.
I just think Bama is too much for anybody to
take right now, even on the road against Texas A
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and M. Give me Bama, and I'm gonna tell you
we're gonna get a cut or that's Tennano Tennano boys
and girls, no doubt at all about what is coming there.
I'm gonna make your rich again. If you miss some
of those picks, you can go check them out at
out kick dot com. All right, big story of the day, obviously,
in addition to the fact that I just gave you
ten picks, they're gonna win. The Patriots last night on
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the road managed to get a win over the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers and at least for a moment, kill the
argument that they are not a legitimate contender in the
world of the NFL. After going one and two in
their last three at home in Foxboro, they were going
on the road. Jamis Winston and the Tampa Bay Bucks
the latest NFC South gunslinger to rise up in the
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young quarterback rankings. I've told you before, the NFC South
has the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. And
whether you're talking about Drew Brees, Cam Newton, uh Matt
Ryan or Jamis Winston. Jamis Winston trying to go ahead
and set his stamp that he's the next big time
quarterback in the league based out of the NFC South. Instead,
he's just okay. He had some comments to make after
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the game. I'll play those four you here again, here
momentarily throwing into the end zone with two seconds left.
I mean, really, if that pass is complete for a touchdown,
everything changes everything that we're talking about. With the New
England Patriots, they would be two and three and we
would be asking the question, are the Patriots done? I
will say this, I'm starting to think this is Brady's
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last year. Maybe maybe that's crazy, Maybe that is crazy,
But there's just something about the way Tom Brady looks
that it seems a little bit like he's saying goodbye
to football. Is that a crazy position? Maybe? But maybe
I'm also factoring in Giselle coming out and talking about
his health. He says he wants to play until he's
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forty five years old. But I certainly would imagine that
the only way he wants to play until he's forty
five years old is if the Patriots are contending for
Super Bowls. And I'm starting to wonder whether the Patriots
finally might have had their window pass? And is that
a crazy question to ask? Bringing the crew? Is it
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crazy for me to start be watching Brady and thinking,
you know what, this might be his last go around?
Jason Martin crazy, not crazy. Anybody that's forty years old
that already has the resume that he does. If he's playing,
he's playing because he still loves the game. And I
think that's what you want to watch as you watch
the rest of the season. It's just how much fun
does Tom Brady appeared to be having playing quarterback in
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the National Football League at his age, especially if the
Patriots aren't going to be the football team that everybody suggested.
You gotta remember six a weeks ago, the talk was
whether or not this team would go undefeated. That was
all the rage up in Boston. We talked to Casey
Smith an hour or three. I'm sure you'll ask her
this question about potentially being tom Brady's last year as well.
I don't think it's crazy. I don't think it's his
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last year either. I still think he at least plays
next year. But I wouldn't be stunned, I guess if
it were. So, it's certainly not crazy to ask that
about a four year old player with the resume he
already has. You guys, were you guys with me at
all that that's something you've picked up on in any way?
Danny g And justin watching Tom Brady play this year
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the first quarter, did you notice on that play where
they were about to score and instead he gets sacked
and he just gets up And I could see what
you're saying, Clay, because Jason hit on it with the
word fun. He didn't look like he was having much
fun on the field. And you're right about everything changing
with that ball being caught in the end zone for Jamis,
but it would be it would be unbelievable this show
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if they had completed that pass with two seconds left
and you'd be talking about is Jamis one of the
next studs? You know. Here's the thing with Brady though,
if the Pats win it all, I could see him
maybe walking away, but he's not. He's not gonna go
out with Els. Yeah, I mean, the the the challenges.
It's so rare that you have a Peyton Manning or
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a John Elway right a her back who finishes his
career literally at the absolute apex. And certainly a lot
of people would have hoped or wished that Jordan, for instance,
would have ended his career right after that step back
jumper when he pushed off against Brian Russell, right. I mean,
most people back in ninety eight would have liked to
have seen Michael Jordan right off into the sunset with
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his sixth NBA championship, as opposed to coming back and
playing for the Wizards. And you know, basically, I wouldn't
say he's like in any way really kind of changed
his legacy. But there there's a desire for I think
for fans to be able to have that moment where
someone leaves at the absolute apex of their career. Elway
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wins back to back Super Bowls, rides off into the
sunset now has been a very successful executive UH at
winning championships as well. UH. Peyton Manning last past I
believe of his career was a I I think I'm
correcting this was a two point conversion to to win
his second Super Bowl. Those are real, the rare circumstances
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to have a rise where everything basically goes perfect and
you right off into the sunset. I think it's unlikely
that we're gonna get that moment for Tom Brady. But
five weeks into the season, now we're almost a third
of the way into the season. The Patriots are three
and two. They're not gonna go nineteen and oh, but
they certainly serve notice that it's way too early to
say that they are not still the defending champs. And
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like I said, when you look at their schedule, to
me anyway, next two should be wins and then they
should be five and two with the Atlanta Falcons coming
to town. Because again, the Patriots next couple they get
are very winnable games and we'll see whether or not. Look,
I mean, if the if the Patriots come back and
lose on the road at the Jets this weekend, on
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a long weekend next weekend, I mean, with extra time
to prepare, the questions will be right back and uh,
and then we get the game against the Falcons. So
we'll see whether or not when that Super Bowl rematch happens,
whether the Patriots looked like the same team that came
back from a twenty three deficit against the Falcons. Fox
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com and within the I Heart Radio app. Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm just glad. I was scared, boys and goods. I
thought he thought I was like this enormous piece of
chicken dime times here. I had to my this is
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animal thunder dog, all right, what have we got? Honestly,
I'm still kind of overwhelmed by the story that we
covered the other day about the twenty three ft python
that got the guy got into a fight nearly died
with didn't They killed the python and ate him, So
at least that is a positive in that respect, But
who wants to go first. Who's got a good story.
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There's a couple of interesting ones out there. One out
of Canada, a resident pleaded guilty to violating wildlife regulations
after he was caught trying to smuggle live snakes into
the country in his socks. This man, twenty eight years old,
the Chinese national who resides in Ontario, pleaded guilty to
violating the regulations in the U S. Court. He was
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stopped on a bridge in Queenstown while trying to enter
Canada from New York. They found he was hiding three
albino western hog nos snakes in his socks that he
planned afterwards to mail to China. Prosecutors also said earlier
the same day he had mailed seven live ball pythons
from Amherst to Shanghai through the US Postal Service in
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a package that bore a false name on the return
address and purported to contain belts, candy, and chocolate. Apparently
estimated value of the snakes thirty three dollars. He also
had some court situations with snakes back in as well.
Who is it that smuggling snakes in socks? Clay, I
don't know, but this reminds me of this story we remember,
I think it was California where the guy was smuggling
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cobras in like pringles chip cans, and I just said,
you got to execute this guy. Like I'm generally anti
death penalty, but when I hear somebody is smuggling cobra's
and pringles cans, I'm like, just go ahead and chop
his head off. I mean, I'm not gonna try to
defend this guy anymore. But through the socks and everything else,
I just smuggling snakes in general is a pretty spooky
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thing to me. I I don't agree or appreciate that
in general. I think it's weird. Just just male snakes
in general in a package like this should be a
severe penalty, there's no doubt. Yeah. Another situation is that
bear right there by the way you almost died. Apparently
a twenty three ft python just entered my studio here,
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but a Texas woman. And this is just more bear stories.
There's been like bear epidemics. Connecticut's bear population black bear
population is up ten percent this year. They've been already
two or three in Colorado. I honestly don't know. I
don't know how the word there you know, like the
bear populations up ten percent in Connecticut, Like, how do
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they know that? You got me? I'll look that up
during the break, But I mentioned a couple of trees
in Colorado, but also a Texas woman was visiting Colorado
Liddy breed and woke up Monday morning and found a
mama bear and two of her cubs rummaging through her car.
They opened, actually opened the door. It was a trend
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where the bears just like are literally able to open cars.
I didn't know when bears got the ability. They've been
going into houses and now they're just opening cars. We
had that story the other day where the bear was
in the car and he was just honking the horn
and then he started driving it. Remember that. Yeah, they're
they're literally becoming humans right before our very eyes. There's
also a story and a photo out there of a
bear that was caught in a landfill sitting on a
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couch like a human, just chilling. Yeah, just absolutely sitting
with back against the back of the couch, the whole nine.
But this is why the story intrigued me a little bit.
Liddy's quote, she didn't make a sound at me, meaning
the mother bear, that baby bear though when I opened
the door started hissing at me, and I thought, oh, dear,
now I'm in really big trouble unquote. So you're telling
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me that Lyddy Breeden this a little bit older than
middle aged woman because the bear had actually closed the door.
The mom had closed the door behind so that they
could get to the food or whatever was in this suv.
She went and opened the door to get the bears out,
just by herself. Who sees three bears in their car
and immediately like, well, I need to get them out,
So I'm just gonna walk over and open the door
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and hope that they don't eat my face off. Yeah,
that's a pretty aggressive move by the middle aged woman
to just be like, Hey, my suv is more important
than my life. I've got to go make sure I
saved myself. Uh anything from the l A Crew, Did
you guys find any good animal thunderdome stories? Now, Clay,
I don't know if you've seen this, but the and
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I don't know if you guys played it when when
Robert was here, but at the rugby player that got
bit by a line because he was petting it. No,
I didn't hear anything about this Yes, it's a twenty
nine year old Scott Baldwin. Uh. He is a rugby
player and he took a trip to a South African
wildlife reserve. I guess the employees they're's told him to
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you know that it was okay to pet the lions
through the cage. It didn't end up well. We I
actually have audio. Oh, we need to hear. We need
to hear the audience, so the guy decide. First of all,
if you are at a zoo of some sort and
somebody says it's okay to reach in and pet the
lions through the cage, I think that's probably bad advice.
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I'm not an expert in lion behavior, but I think
if they're telling you, hey, you can reach into the
cave and pet the lions, that's probably bad advice. But
we have audio of this. Yes, here and take a listen.
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Good team. Every animal attack sounds pretty much the same.
There's nothing happening, there's nothing happening, there's nothing happening, everybody's
having everything's happening, and then suddenly the animal just attacks.
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Do you think they set this guy up? It was weird,
like they there's like, let's get him to the first
daid like it was just like it was something that
happens that's unbelievable. Be sure to catch live editions about
kick the Coverage with Clay Travis weekdays at six am
Eastern three am Pacific. Here we go, boys and girls.
Here are the voicemails for the I hate your Clay
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Travis line, which frequently turned into I hate other people
even more than you, Clay. Yeah, I just want I'd
rather have hate than have the jones. My coach, Rocky Top,
You'll always be me, good old Rocky Cop, Rocky Cop.
Tanna see damn large larger up here in Chauce tenn say,
(38:08):
if I'm telling you always in America, can you suck
at your job and make nine and a half million
dollars when you get fired? It's just a damn crime shame.
And I'm telling you right now they meet the fiery
How in the absolute can we lose it noth fille
at Neelan Stadium forty one zero? Forty one zero. It's
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not a joke. That must be a joke. It must
be able. Oh wait, it's not, because we did. We
lost forty one zero in kneeling in our home and
enough fill trash, but soo trash Larry Scott trash, Bob
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Sup trash. Damn it. I came here. I'm a freshman.
Just wanted the good football team, which Jones hated him
since winning him fired after Florida. People said I was ridiculous.
It was only years three, two years later Georgia at
home checker game, basically a sellout, forty one to zero,
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can't even score a point, get his haircut it Walmart.
It's ridiculous. Depressed, All the other students are depressed. It's
probably gonna be mass suicide on campus this week. This
is my suicide. Note fans still kneeling to capacity after
what he did to Florida. Fire his ass. I'm done.
You know I agree, but you should gets fired. But
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why is Clay putting Tennessee on a pedesthial like it's
a top ten program? I mean, Tennessee hasn't been relevant
since Peyton Manning left. And yeah, I know they won
the title after you left, but you know, no one
wants to play for Tennessee. The only people that like
because you're people from Tennessee. Hey, I'll tell you right now,
not win an Orange until But Jones aspired Knoxville. If
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anybody wants to Boston South Carolina tickets for twenty dollars
a piece with a parking pass, let me know, Claire.
I could personally thank that pos but Jones for not
scoring a damn point. Claim will tell you what, Son,
This was one of the best damn performances from a
Tennessee athletic performance standpoint that I've ever damned seen. Butch
Jones needs to get his as on an airplane and
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flast somewhere that ain't here. And I'll tell you what,
I don't even give it. Put a dump trip pull
of money and get John Gruden into this damn program
for I get all drunk and I don't even give
her praise the Lord and the Loud. Clay, Hey, Clay,
I've never watched a Tennessee football game my entire life,
but you gotta fire that. Yeah, I just want to
say I'd rather have a eight than have Jones my coach.
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Oh what an amazing response. You know. I think this
thing's gonna get really interesting, maybe even as early as
this weekend.
This is the best of out kick the coverage with
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Two interesting results. N C State gets a double digit
win over Louisville and the Patriots are not dead yet.
They go on the road and they beat the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers just look average. Maybe the most
surprising thing about this game was not that the Patriots one,
because the Patriots are like the horror movie villain that
you can't kill right. This is the first must win
regular season game I can remember from the Patriots in
a very long time, so I anticipated they would find
a way to get it done. But I thought they
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would find a way to get it done by scoring
more points than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I did not
think that their defense would show up, and also didn't
necessarily think that Nick Folk was gonna miss three different
field goals, including a thirty one yard or that I
would imagine an awful lot of people. Really, legitimately, people
can make uh thirty one yard field goal in an
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NFL game. So Cam Newton and the Tampa Bay Bucceteers
have a chance to go to three and one to
serve notice that they are a legitimate threat in the
NFC South to kind of stamp themselves as a team
legitimately on the rise by beating Tom Brady and the Patriots. Instead,
they frankly don't play that well. They missed several field goals,
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which obviously is a dispositive factor, and when you actually
look at the box score, the two teams are relatively even.
The Patriots, while they held uh the Buccaneers to just
fourteen points, still gave up over four hundred yards of offense.
But it's nothing near nowhere near as bad as they
had been prior to this moment. So the Patriots, now
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at three and two, feel pretty good about themselves, And
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at two and two, well, I mean,
you're pretty much aware every decent team is in the NFL,
everybody kind of sitting around two and two. Only one
team is undefeated, and that remains the Kansas City Chiefs,
while there are a lot of teams out there that
have had both impressive and disappointing performances already, even as
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we're just a little bit past a quarter of the
way through the NFL season, The Major League Baseball Playoffs
also officially off and underway, the n ld S and
the a L d S. I'm gonna bring in Danny G.
What happened in these games. I was kind of focused
on football. We also had a big, cool event at
Zany's last night. Thanks to the hundreds of you who
came out last night and UH and saw me perform.
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We're gonna be doing a lot of those events. I'm
gonna be in St. Louis today, UH this afternoon evening,
so if you want to hang out there, you can
check out the out kick v I P message boards
see where it will be. On Monday, we will have
another event in Birmingham, Alabama, So I'm kind of running
all over the place taking care of these events. It
was a lot of fun. I hope you guys who
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are listening to this now that we're there, had a
good time. Let me know what you thought of the event,
UM and look forward to doing more of them. But
let's bring in the crew and Danny G give us
an update on the Major League Baseball postseason. This is
the time of year. October best sports month of the
year when there are a lot of different moving parts
going on all at once, and UH, let's hit it
on the Major League Baseball front. Yeah to a l
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playoff openers yesterday, both home teams were winners. The Indians
were pretty dominant as they shut out the Yankees for
to nothing. Trevor Bauer had a great start. He shut
out the New York Bats and uh, the scary part,
Bauer is the indians number three starter, so this could
only get worse for the Yankees if their bats don't
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come alive. And then the Astros they went ham on
Chris Saleh. Houston second baseman Jose Altuve had he had
three home runs all of September. Clay, he hit three
bombs just yesterday. Amazing for a little short, little second baseman.
And uh, Altuve is a legit ale m v P candidates,
so he showed out yesterday. Verlander also looked great for Houston.
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Astro's clawbered the Red Sox eight to two, and you
have four games to look forward to today, Boston at
Houston for Game two on FS one, New York at Cleveland,
Chicago at Washington for Game one in that NL series,
and Arizona at the l A Dodgers on TBS to
end things off tonight. Lots of people are gonna be
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playing Hookey down in Houston, because that game is a
one o'clock Central, two o'clock Eastern start for the Red
Sox in the Astros, but games going all day long,
in addition to the fact that there are obviously going
to be a lot of great NFL and college football
games that are getting set to t off as we
move into the weekend. So were these outcomes in Major
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League Baseball, the Astros over the Red Sox and the
Indians over the Yankees, to you, Danny g indicative of
the way these series are gonna go? In other words,
do you think those teams should be prohibitive favorites? Yeah, well,
I think the Indians should definitely be a team that
we would expect could get all the way to the
World say areas. But I mean, the thing that surprised
me was that the Yankees. They looked so good against
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the Twins, at least their bats did. But maybe they
celebrated a little too early, because man did they have
fun in the locker room after beating the Twins. But
then when it came to figure out figuring out their
pitching situation, they went through a lot of pictures in
that wild Card game. So so they got to get
their bullpen act together. And then the Astros they're another favorite,
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so it didn't surprise me. But Mookie Bets and company.
The Red Sox, they've they've been up and down their
streaky team, similar to the Dodgers, so we'll see if
they can bounce back as well. But it was pretty
much as expected with both home teams winning. Yesterday, Clayton
Kershaw on the mound in l A for a seven
thirty pm Pacific time ten thirty Eastern. If you're interested
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in watching that game, uh, start this after this evening late,
and the Dodgers are minus two fifty to win that game,
big favorites. What's the vibe in La La Land as
the Dodger chance to win the first title since officially begins.
Everybody wants tickets, and I've been going on the you know,
the ticket apps and everything for the past week. And
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where well to sit lowe, to sit anywhere down uh,
you know, towards the field normally would cost you, you know,
two hundred dollars for good seats. It's double that right now.
So it's before twenty for those same two tickets. So
the nosebleed seats right now are a couple hundred bucks,
so it's a pretty penny to get into the game
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right now. But best believe the Dodger parties in this
city are kind of crazy. There's a bar right down
the street from my house and they've been showing all
the Dodger games all season, and that place is going
to be jumping tonight. The whole city is psyched because
obviously it's been since what a long drought, and this
is the year. It feels like awesome, this is the year. Indeed,
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all right, let's circle back around. I think the biggest
story of the night is and remains the performance by
the Patriots against the Tampa by Buck in the years,
and I think we have a couple of clips of
audio if you somehow been out of touch the pucks.
Bucks are throwing the ball into the end zone trying
to win from the nineteen yard line to end the game.
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But the missed field goals led to the fact that
the Patriots kind of had control of this game throughout.
Let's listen from Jamis Winston talking about the outcome in
that game. This game is behind us. I guess that's
a positive. I wish we could have came up with
a win. But you know, when you're playing the best
for the back in the world and you're playing against
a great defense, you got to be on top of everything,
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and uh today I wasn't. So the dead quarterback played
way better than I did. So they end up winning
a game. Never gave up, kept fighting and uh and
it just shows you about how you know, hungry this
team is and how much the fans helped us out.
You know, being at home, you do do not want to
lose the game at homes battle back. But again, uh,
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it's two seconds on the club. Your quarterback has to
make a play for you. You gotta you gotta do
something that's a quarterback. You gotta make a play. That's
Jamis Winston talking about that game. Now, Tom Brady, we said,
Brady maybe still be Brady. I think I know I
did yesterday, but the Patriots defense is not still the
Patriots defense. Well Brady kind of looked a little bit old.
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And I'm not gonna be the person who is gonna
talk about Tom Brady every week because I've said before
I think he's the most reliable aspect of the Patriot
offensive attack. But without Gronkowski, he had two turnovers, he fumbled,
he threw an interception early in that game. Patriots turn
the ball over twice and overcame it and got a
massive win on the road. I'm gonna bring in the crew,
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will get everybody's opinion. I think until the page again.
Patriots to me are a horror movie villain. You know
how the horror movie villain always comes back right. You
don't just have to kill the Patriots. You have to
burn him to death. You have to like throw him,
barry him alive, like everything in order to keep them
from re emerging as a threat to win the Super Bowl.
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And I fully expected them to find a way to
beat the Bucks on the road and this Thursday night turnaround,
and they did. They lost a tough game on Sunday
to the Panthers. They are now one and two at home.
They were going on the road just a couple of days.
Rest Rob Gronkowski's not playing. It seemed like everything was
set up for us to come on the show Friday
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morning and have a Patriots funeral. And every time that
that's been set up for about the last fifteen years,
it seems like the Patriots ever is into the challenge
and told us not so fast, and that seems to
be to me the story so far. Now, what exactly
are the Patriots gonna be capable of from here? They
gotta get healthy. They've got to get better on the
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defensive side of the ball, there's no doubt about that.
But they have the best coach in football, and they
have a a pretty talented a quarterback, by the way,
maybe the greatest, certainly the greatest I think in the
history of the game itself. They now get the Jets.
You would think the Patriots, even on the road against
the Jets, are not gonna lose that game. With extra days,
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that gets them to four and two. Then they have
a big game against the Falcons, but that game is
in Foxborough. If they win that game as a rematch
of the Super Bowl, everybody will say, hey, look the
Patriots are back. They'll be five and two. Then they
get the Chargers, all right. I think they have a
good chance to win that game given the fact that
the Chargers are oh and four. So in their next
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three probably worst case scenario, the Patriots go two and one,
likely I think to go three and oh. If that happens,
there six and two just in time for them to
roll out to face the Broncos at the midway part
of the season schedule. Not gonna get that easy, But
the next three are very very easy for the Patriots.
And Jason Martin, are you with me that the Patriots
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looked a little bit like their vintage selves last night
and finding a way to win a big game national
television Thursday night. Everything lined up against them, and they
find a way to get it done on the road
against a good, young Bucks team. Look, this team could
be one and one and four easily right now if
it wasn't for some serious heroics from Brandon Cooks a
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couple of weeks ago against the Texans and then certainly
Nick Folk going ridiculously bad last night and missing three
field goals for the Bucks. That's nine points they left
on the board right there. Obviously, you know what I
gotta I already like Jameis Winston in a lot of
respects the way he's comported himself as a pro to
stand up there and put all the onus on himself
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about not being able to make a play at the
end of that football game, not saying anything about his kicker.
There are players in this league that would have thrown
Nick Folk unto the bus, yet they didn't do it,
so you know, they win nineteen to fourteen. I think
that if you want to talk about a forty year
old starting to look old, I don't think he looks
old with full rest. But when you're coming off playing
on Sunday in a tough game and losing that and
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then having to turn around four days later and play, yeah,
I think maybe it takes little bit more time for
a Tom Brady perhaps to be ready to play after
a short turnaround like that. But they did win the game.
They're going to be okay, And I think that that's
the worst case scenario for the rest of the a
f C in particular, because this team really should be
potentially one and four, or certainly should be two and
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three right now if the Bucks were able to do
anything last night. But it is kind of I'm not
gonna give them too much credit. The defense certainly came
around Tampa Bay made it look easy for him at
times because they left some serious points on the board,
But I'm not gonna give them that much credit. When
the Bucks missed three field goals that could have potentially
changed that entire game, good deal. What about you guys
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out in l A. Are you believing that the but
that the Patriots are back or do you think the
Patriots ever left? I mean, I'm still not sold on
on their defense, but I never thought that Tom Brady left.
And when you have Tom Brady, you've always have a
chance to win games. So um, overall, I think that
you know, with with him under center, they've they're always
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gonna be a good team. Overall, it is amazing to
think about how much different our our conversation would be
if Jamis Winston made a play with two seconds left, right.
I mean, I was watching that game live and I
was thinking, my god, what am I rooting for here?
Because I didn't I didn't gamble on this game, so
I wasn't like kind of dialed in on the gambling front.
And I was sitting there thinking, as the Bucks took
this snap, you know, if Jamis Winston makes this throw,
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then everybody's gonna focus on the fact that the Patriots
are two and three. I think it would have been
more about the Patriots being two and three than it
would have been about the Bucks being three and one.
But it would have been amazing to think about how
different the way we would have covered this story would
have been if that would have happened. Be sure to
catch live editions of would Kick the Coverage with Clay
Travis weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific on
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Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hope
you guys are having a fantastic Friday wherever you may
be across the country. It's time for the Getico Play
of the game. And play that's an interesting phrase. It's
time for the Geico Play of the day. It would
be a hell of a different thing. How's Jose Altuvea
had a historic day for the Houston Astros as they
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opened up the Division Series against the Boston Red Sox.
Not one, not too but three home runs? That ball's
got a chance taking three? Are you kidding me? Out?
To three whole runs? That's an m v P. That
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other players have ever hit three home runs in one
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car insurance. Yesterday we talked a lot about the Cam
Newton controversy surrounding the way that he spoke to a
reporter from a Charlotte newspaper, and the yesterday evening, Cam
Newton released an official apology. This is that audio. I
have a careful thought. I understand that my word choice
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was extremely degrading and disrespectful to women, and to be honest,
that was not my intentions. And if you are a
person who took offense to what I said, I sincerely
apologize to you. I'm a man who try to be
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a positive role model in my community and tries to
use my platform to inspire others, and I own I
take ownership to everything that comes with that, and what
I did was extremely unacceptable. Um. I'm a father to
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two beautiful daughters, and at their age, I try to
instill in them that they can do and be anything
that they want to be. And the fact that during
this whole process, I've already lost sponsors and countless fans,
I realized that the joke is really on me, and
I've learned a valuable lesson from this. And to the
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young people who see this, I hope that you learned
something from this as well, Um, don't be like me,
be better than me. And to the reporters, to the journalists,
to the mom's super moms, to the daughters, the sisters,
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and the women all around the world, I sincerely apologize
and hope that you can find the kindness in your
heart to forget me. Okay, this story I think has
been really probably way overplayed. I mean in the grand
scheme of things, Uh, it's not that significant of a story.
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Although in typical Internet fashion, the woman that cam Newton
spoke to also evidently had some racist tweets that she
sent like four or five years ago while she was
in college. It's just the typical Internet story, right, somebody's
offended and then that person who was offended has maybe
done worse things in her life. And I'm just ready
(17:27):
for this story to officially be over right. I mean,
there wasn't much substance to this thing from the get go.
Cam Newton probably just should have avoided commenting in any
way just to answer the questions, um, But it puts
a lot of onus on him now going forward as
as we see whether or not the Panthers are capable
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to build on that three and one record. And still
the big question with Cam Newton is is he ever
going to get back to the m v P caliber
season that he had in was it now twenty twenty fifteen?
Cam Newton seventeen and one in the Super Bowl and
the expectation is that the Panthers are gonna win that game.
Cam Newton is going to become the face of the NFL. Instead,
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his team loses, he gets beaten up, he doesn't perform
very well in the postgame press conference, and then he's
awful all of last year. This year, early in the season,
had not been very impressive, but had a good game
on the road against the Patriots. And we'll see whether
the Panthers can build on that and turn it into
more of a substantially successful season. But for me, I
(18:32):
am completely over this uh this controversy. I still find
it insane that Cam Newton and his response to a
reporter at a press conference is getting more attention than
Michael Bennett lying about the Las Vegas Police Department and
to me, this is an indictment in some ways, many
ways of the media as a whole that they can
(18:54):
get trapped in stories like these which aren't that significant
in the grand scheme of things. Now, Cam Newton lost
a few sponsors, it sounds like there was a significant
pressure on him to speak out that statement to me,
and I haven't watched it, I've only heard it that statement.
To me, he seems a little bit like a hostage video,
like he's reading and being told exactly what he needs
(19:16):
to say in that video to put this story behind him.
But if I were him, I'd be like, Hey, I've
addressed it. I've answered it. There's nothing else to be
said here, and we'll see what happens. As they roll
into the into the weekend of the NFL and college football,
be sure to catch live editions about kick the Coverage
with Clay Travis weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific.
(19:38):
As we come into the weekend. What do I try
to do? I try to make everybody money, try to
make everybody rich, try to give everybody an opportunity to
be able to cash out. And That's what I'm gonna
do right now. A little bit earlier than normal, but
I think it makes sense. It's the gambling picks from
out kick, and I got a couple of blood bank guarantees.
Let's go ahead and hit the music voice who's but
(20:00):
it's time mc vane on him, move for Clay Travis
to make us rich, including the legendary, famous, well known,
talk of the town, most celebrated. I'd buy that for
a blood thank guaranteed. Now, I want you to all
get your pens ready, pencils. I don't want people to
(20:23):
be sending me text messages. Text messages are the wrong thing.
Sending me tweets saying hey, can you give me your picks?
I'm giving them out right now. You can go see
him at OutKick dot com as well. I got ten
winners for you, and we start with Penn State at Northwestern.
Lots of people not aware that Pat Fitzgerald is three
no against James Franklin head to head once at Vanderbilt,
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twice at Penn State. Northwestern's coach has come out on top.
And this line I think is a little bit high.
Two touchdowns on the road at Northwestern, I think it
stays close. Penn State's gonna win, but nor Western is
gonna cover. Keep this name in mind, DJ Durkin. Maryland
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has now won two games on the road as a
double digit underdog so far this year. They went on
the road against Texas onety one to start the season,
and they went on the road this past weekend and
one against Minnesota as a double digit underdog. Now they
are around a thirty one point underdog to Ohio State.
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I know Ohio State was great this past weekend against
Rutgers and we lost some money there, but I think
that Maryland is gonna be able to stay within the
number even in the shoe. Thirty one points is a
massive line. Give me the Terrapins and DJ Durkin keeping
this close. Arkansas at South Carolina, the under will must
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champ defense comes to play and they control the overall
scope and magnitude and basic tempo of these games. The
last four South Carolina games have posted totals of forty four,
thirty six, thirty three, and forty one. Arkansas is coming
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to town, and I think South Carolina will slow down
that offensive attack. I believe no idea what's gonna happen
in this game. Arkansas is a small favorite, but the
over under opened at fifty one. I think it's around
forty nine now the under is gonna cash Washington State.
This is a fascinating game Washington State at Oregon because
the line has bumped back and forth a couple of
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different times. Right now, I believe it's Washington State minus
two and a half. Oregon is gonna have to start
a walk on quarterback. Washington State is coming off a
huge win over USC there five and oh. I think
that offense is gonna be able to continue to score.
And I don't believe ultimately that Oregon with a walk
on quarterback is gonna be able to keep up. That's
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why I've got the Cougars. Get Wazoo, take him on
the road against Oregon. Georgia at Vanderbilt. I think Georgia
is gonna blow out Vanderbilt, and I actually think the
over is gonna hit. Georgia is on a roll right now.
Vanderbilt is playing its fourth straight physically draining competition Kansas State, Alabama, Florida.
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Now Georgia, Vanderbilt is beaten up. I don't believe that
they will have enough horses to match what the Bulldogs
can bring to bear physical beating again coming from Vanderbilt
coming for Vanderbilt. I've got the over here and I
have got the Georgia Bulldogs L s U. At Florida.
And by the way, Georgia is one of my blood
bank guarantees. If you're not familiar with the blood bank guarantee,
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what does that mean? That means that you can should
go straight to your blood bank. You should tell them, hey,
I've got platelets to sell for you. You extend your arm.
They start taking your platelets. When you get your money
for the platelets, you take it straight to your book.
You just take it straight to your Vegas casino. You
take it straight to your offshore. You make your deposit
(23:54):
and you get rich on that one. The other blood
bank guarantee, it's a special weekend. We've got a double
blood bay and guarantee. L s U at Florida. The
Gators are around the two and a half or three
point favorite, and I love the under here, but I
think L. S U is a bad football team coming
off a tough loss Detroit on the road against the Gators.
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I believe what's gonna happen here is pretty simple. The
Gators are gonna win by seven or more. That means
you cover double blood Bank guarantee there and finally a
couple more good ones. Ole Miss at Auburn Auburn minus
twenty one. Last week, Old Miss lost sixty six to three.
Auburn's offense is starting to roll. It started with Miszoo,
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it continued against Mississippi State. I think it continues another
week against Old Miss. Auburn wins by thirty or more.
Bama on the road at Texas A and M. I
gave this pick out to you at minus twenty two.
It's now out to around minus twenty six and a half.
I just think Bama is too much for anybody to
take right now, even on the road against Texas A
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and M. Give me Bama, and I'm gonna tell you
we're gonna get a cut or that's Tennano Tennano boys
and girls, no doubt at all about what is coming there.
I'm gonna make your rich again. If you miss some
of those picks, you can go check them out at
out kick dot com. All right, big story of the day, obviously,
in addition to the fact that I just gave you
ten picks, they're gonna win. The Patriots last night on
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the road managed to get a win over the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers and at least for a moment, kill the
argument that they are not a legitimate contender in the
world of the NFL. After going one and two in
their last three at home in Foxboro, they were going
on the road. Jamis Winston and the Tampa Bay Bucks
the latest NFC South gunslinger to rise up in the
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young quarterback rankings. I've told you before, the NFC South
has the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. And
whether you're talking about Drew Brees, Cam Newton, uh Matt
Ryan or Jamis Winston. Jamis Winston trying to go ahead
and set his stamp that he's the next big time
quarterback in the league based out of the NFC South. Instead,
he's just okay. He had some comments to make after
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the game. I'll play those four you here again, here
momentarily throwing into the end zone with two seconds left.
I mean, really, if that pass is complete for a touchdown,
everything changes everything that we're talking about. With the New
England Patriots, they would be two and three and we
would be asking the question, are the Patriots done? I
will say this, I'm starting to think this is Brady's
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last year. Maybe maybe that's crazy, Maybe that is crazy,
But there's just something about the way Tom Brady looks
that it seems a little bit like he's saying goodbye
to football. Is that a crazy position? Maybe? But maybe
I'm also factoring in Giselle coming out and talking about
his health. He says he wants to play until he's
(26:47):
forty five years old. But I certainly would imagine that
the only way he wants to play until he's forty
five years old is if the Patriots are contending for
Super Bowls. And I'm starting to wonder whether the Patriots
finally might have had their window pass? And is that
a crazy question to ask? Bringing the crew? Is it
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crazy for me to start be watching Brady and thinking,
you know what, this might be his last go around?
Jason Martin crazy, not crazy. Anybody that's forty years old
that already has the resume that he does. If he's playing,
he's playing because he still loves the game. And I
think that's what you want to watch as you watch
the rest of the season. It's just how much fun
does Tom Brady appeared to be having playing quarterback in
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the National Football League at his age, especially if the
Patriots aren't going to be the football team that everybody suggested.
You gotta remember six a weeks ago, the talk was
whether or not this team would go undefeated. That was
all the rage up in Boston. We talked to Casey
Smith an hour or three. I'm sure you'll ask her
this question about potentially being tom Brady's last year as well.
I don't think it's crazy. I don't think it's his
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last year either. I still think he at least plays
next year. But I wouldn't be stunned, I guess if
it were. So, it's certainly not crazy to ask that
about a four year old player with the resume he
already has. You guys, were you guys with me at
all that that's something you've picked up on in any way?
Danny g And justin watching Tom Brady play this year
(28:12):
the first quarter, did you notice on that play where
they were about to score and instead he gets sacked
and he just gets up And I could see what
you're saying, Clay, because Jason hit on it with the
word fun. He didn't look like he was having much
fun on the field. And you're right about everything changing
with that ball being caught in the end zone for Jamis,
but it would be it would be unbelievable this show
(28:36):
if they had completed that pass with two seconds left
and you'd be talking about is Jamis one of the
next studs? You know. Here's the thing with Brady though,
if the Pats win it all, I could see him
maybe walking away, but he's not. He's not gonna go
out with Els. Yeah, I mean, the the the challenges.
It's so rare that you have a Peyton Manning or
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a John Elway right a her back who finishes his
career literally at the absolute apex. And certainly a lot
of people would have hoped or wished that Jordan, for instance,
would have ended his career right after that step back
jumper when he pushed off against Brian Russell, right. I mean,
most people back in ninety eight would have liked to
have seen Michael Jordan right off into the sunset with
(29:19):
his sixth NBA championship, as opposed to coming back and
playing for the Wizards. And you know, basically, I wouldn't
say he's like in any way really kind of changed
his legacy. But there there's a desire for I think
for fans to be able to have that moment where
someone leaves at the absolute apex of their career. Elway
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wins back to back Super Bowls, rides off into the
sunset now has been a very successful executive UH at
winning championships as well. UH. Peyton Manning last past I
believe of his career was a I I think I'm
correcting this was a two point conversion to to win
his second Super Bowl. Those are real, the rare circumstances
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to have a rise where everything basically goes perfect and
you right off into the sunset. I think it's unlikely
that we're gonna get that moment for Tom Brady. But
five weeks into the season, now we're almost a third
of the way into the season. The Patriots are three
and two. They're not gonna go nineteen and oh, but
they certainly serve notice that it's way too early to
say that they are not still the defending champs. And
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like I said, when you look at their schedule, to
me anyway, next two should be wins and then they
should be five and two with the Atlanta Falcons coming
to town. Because again, the Patriots next couple they get
are very winnable games and we'll see whether or not. Look,
I mean, if the if the Patriots come back and
lose on the road at the Jets this weekend, on
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a long weekend next weekend, I mean, with extra time
to prepare, the questions will be right back and uh,
and then we get the game against the Falcons. So
we'll see whether or not when that Super Bowl rematch happens,
whether the Patriots looked like the same team that came
back from a twenty three deficit against the Falcons. Fox
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(31:08):
com and within the I Heart Radio app. Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm just glad. I was scared, boys and goods. I
thought he thought I was like this enormous piece of
chicken dime times here. I had to my this is
(31:33):
animal thunder dog, all right, what have we got? Honestly,
I'm still kind of overwhelmed by the story that we
covered the other day about the twenty three ft python
that got the guy got into a fight nearly died
with didn't They killed the python and ate him, So
at least that is a positive in that respect, But
who wants to go first. Who's got a good story.
(31:55):
There's a couple of interesting ones out there. One out
of Canada, a resident pleaded guilty to violating wildlife regulations
after he was caught trying to smuggle live snakes into
the country in his socks. This man, twenty eight years old,
the Chinese national who resides in Ontario, pleaded guilty to
violating the regulations in the U S. Court. He was
(32:17):
stopped on a bridge in Queenstown while trying to enter
Canada from New York. They found he was hiding three
albino western hog nos snakes in his socks that he
planned afterwards to mail to China. Prosecutors also said earlier
the same day he had mailed seven live ball pythons
from Amherst to Shanghai through the US Postal Service in
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a package that bore a false name on the return
address and purported to contain belts, candy, and chocolate. Apparently
estimated value of the snakes thirty three dollars. He also
had some court situations with snakes back in as well.
Who is it that smuggling snakes in socks? Clay, I
don't know, but this reminds me of this story we remember,
I think it was California where the guy was smuggling
(33:01):
cobras in like pringles chip cans, and I just said,
you got to execute this guy. Like I'm generally anti
death penalty, but when I hear somebody is smuggling cobra's
and pringles cans, I'm like, just go ahead and chop
his head off. I mean, I'm not gonna try to
defend this guy anymore. But through the socks and everything else,
I just smuggling snakes in general is a pretty spooky
(33:23):
thing to me. I I don't agree or appreciate that
in general. I think it's weird. Just just male snakes
in general in a package like this should be a
severe penalty, there's no doubt. Yeah. Another situation is that
bear right there by the way you almost died. Apparently
a twenty three ft python just entered my studio here,
(33:45):
but a Texas woman. And this is just more bear stories.
There's been like bear epidemics. Connecticut's bear population black bear
population is up ten percent this year. They've been already
two or three in Colorado. I honestly don't know. I
don't know how the word there you know, like the
bear populations up ten percent in Connecticut, Like, how do
(34:05):
they know that? You got me? I'll look that up
during the break, But I mentioned a couple of trees
in Colorado, but also a Texas woman was visiting Colorado
Liddy breed and woke up Monday morning and found a
mama bear and two of her cubs rummaging through her car.
They opened, actually opened the door. It was a trend
(34:26):
where the bears just like are literally able to open cars.
I didn't know when bears got the ability. They've been
going into houses and now they're just opening cars. We
had that story the other day where the bear was
in the car and he was just honking the horn
and then he started driving it. Remember that. Yeah, they're
they're literally becoming humans right before our very eyes. There's
also a story and a photo out there of a
bear that was caught in a landfill sitting on a
(34:47):
couch like a human, just chilling. Yeah, just absolutely sitting
with back against the back of the couch, the whole nine.
But this is why the story intrigued me a little bit.
Liddy's quote, she didn't make a sound at me, meaning
the mother bear, that baby bear though when I opened
the door started hissing at me, and I thought, oh, dear,
now I'm in really big trouble unquote. So you're telling
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me that Lyddy Breeden this a little bit older than
middle aged woman because the bear had actually closed the door.
The mom had closed the door behind so that they
could get to the food or whatever was in this suv.
She went and opened the door to get the bears out,
just by herself. Who sees three bears in their car
and immediately like, well, I need to get them out,
So I'm just gonna walk over and open the door
(35:30):
and hope that they don't eat my face off. Yeah,
that's a pretty aggressive move by the middle aged woman
to just be like, Hey, my suv is more important
than my life. I've got to go make sure I
saved myself. Uh anything from the l A Crew, Did
you guys find any good animal thunderdome stories? Now, Clay,
I don't know if you've seen this, but the and
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I don't know if you guys played it when when
Robert was here, but at the rugby player that got
bit by a line because he was petting it. No,
I didn't hear anything about this Yes, it's a twenty
nine year old Scott Baldwin. Uh. He is a rugby
player and he took a trip to a South African
wildlife reserve. I guess the employees they're's told him to
(36:11):
you know that it was okay to pet the lions
through the cage. It didn't end up well. We I
actually have audio. Oh, we need to hear. We need
to hear the audience, so the guy decide. First of all,
if you are at a zoo of some sort and
somebody says it's okay to reach in and pet the
lions through the cage, I think that's probably bad advice.
(36:32):
I'm not an expert in lion behavior, but I think
if they're telling you, hey, you can reach into the
cave and pet the lions, that's probably bad advice. But
we have audio of this. Yes, here and take a listen.
(36:58):
Good team. Every animal attack sounds pretty much the same.
There's nothing happening, there's nothing happening, there's nothing happening, everybody's
having everything's happening, and then suddenly the animal just attacks.
(37:21):
Do you think they set this guy up? It was weird,
like they there's like, let's get him to the first
daid like it was just like it was something that
happens that's unbelievable. Be sure to catch live editions about
kick the Coverage with Clay Travis weekdays at six am
Eastern three am Pacific. Here we go, boys and girls.
Here are the voicemails for the I hate your Clay
(37:44):
Travis line, which frequently turned into I hate other people
even more than you, Clay. Yeah, I just want I'd
rather have hate than have the jones. My coach, Rocky Top,
You'll always be me, good old Rocky Cop, Rocky Cop.
Tanna see damn large larger up here in Chauce tenn say,
(38:08):
if I'm telling you always in America, can you suck
at your job and make nine and a half million
dollars when you get fired? It's just a damn crime shame.
And I'm telling you right now they meet the fiery
How in the absolute can we lose it noth fille
at Neelan Stadium forty one zero? Forty one zero. It's
(38:34):
not a joke. That must be a joke. It must
be able. Oh wait, it's not, because we did. We
lost forty one zero in kneeling in our home and
enough fill trash, but soo trash Larry Scott trash, Bob
(38:54):
Sup trash. Damn it. I came here. I'm a freshman.
Just wanted the good football team, which Jones hated him
since winning him fired after Florida. People said I was ridiculous.
It was only years three, two years later Georgia at
home checker game, basically a sellout, forty one to zero,
(39:17):
can't even score a point, get his haircut it Walmart.
It's ridiculous. Depressed, All the other students are depressed. It's
probably gonna be mass suicide on campus this week. This
is my suicide. Note fans still kneeling to capacity after
what he did to Florida. Fire his ass. I'm done.
You know I agree, but you should gets fired. But
(39:39):
why is Clay putting Tennessee on a pedesthial like it's
a top ten program? I mean, Tennessee hasn't been relevant
since Peyton Manning left. And yeah, I know they won
the title after you left, but you know, no one
wants to play for Tennessee. The only people that like
because you're people from Tennessee. Hey, I'll tell you right now,
not win an Orange until But Jones aspired Knoxville. If
(40:01):
anybody wants to Boston South Carolina tickets for twenty dollars
a piece with a parking pass, let me know, Claire.
I could personally thank that pos but Jones for not
scoring a damn point. Claim will tell you what, Son,
This was one of the best damn performances from a
Tennessee athletic performance standpoint that I've ever damned seen. Butch
Jones needs to get his as on an airplane and
(40:22):
flast somewhere that ain't here. And I'll tell you what,
I don't even give it. Put a dump trip pull
of money and get John Gruden into this damn program
for I get all drunk and I don't even give
her praise the Lord and the Loud. Clay, Hey, Clay,
I've never watched a Tennessee football game my entire life,
but you gotta fire that. Yeah, I just want to
say I'd rather have a eight than have Jones my coach.
(40:46):
Oh what an amazing response. You know. I think this
thing's gonna get really interesting, maybe even as early as
this weekend.
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