Jason Fitz Reacts to UCLA Stunning Penn State, Previews Week 5 of the NFL Season & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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that are going to be won or lost. It's seasons.
Seasons are on the line for college football playoff contenders
that have found themselves in holes and they are trying
to dig their way out. And yet again we are
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Radio on a Fox Sports Saturday, Buck Rising traveling with
the Tennessee Titans, as he does every weekend. He is
in Arizona. He will join us each hour for a
little bit. I'm Jason Fitz. I'll be holding down for you.
And as we sit right now, if we had started
this show thirty minutes ago, it looked like some things
were clear. It looked thirty minutes ago so like Penn
State was about to take the most unthinkable loss we

(01:04):
could imagine this year in college football, as they have
been just getting stomped by UCLA.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's right, Ucla, the same UCLA team.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
That has fired their head coach that now has an
offense coordinator it's like, nah, I'm good. A defense coordinator.
That's like, nah, I'm good. Everybody is new in that building.
And just when you thought one of the few teams
in college football that has looked absolutely beyond incompetent was
just gonna lay down for dead, they did the opposite.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
They took a twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Seven to seven lead. It looked at the half twenty
seven seven like UCLA was going to be doing the
impossible and taking down Penn State. But not so fast,
my friends. The third store with the third quarter, i
should say, is about to come to it. In only
a few seconds remain this game now thirty four to
twenty one. Penn State closed it. UCLA is trying to

(01:54):
hang on, and hang on is one of the things
that has to happen in these situations. That's not the
only upset. We'll get to some of the others that
are bruined right now, but no pun intended. But trying
to hang on is such a key part of this
because we're used to this. This is what happens like
the lesser of two teams takes a big lead because
a team seems to have just overlooked them, and then

(02:15):
what happens in the second half. Can you get that
burst of energy? Can you find a way to put
them on their backs? Can you find a way if
you were the favorite to land some punches that makes
everything less certain. That's what Penn State has done in
the third quarter. And now you'll get a real test
of this. Niko Yama Liaba, as you just heard Manzi
Blanos tell you brilliantly, is having the game of his

(02:37):
life for UCLA. And he's a quarterback that was left
for dead just a few minutes ago, just left for dead,
and now all of a sudden, here he is having
this sort of a game in this sort of a
landmark moment for this program that absolutely nobody cared about.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right, That is what makes this season beautiful.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
What also makes this season beautiful is we just got
a turnover by Alabama. Vandy has returned it for a touchdown.
We'll see what the ruling is. This is the chaos
Ian Are we ready for this? Like Buck Rising? Not
here for this? For the For the beginning of the show,
they'll begin again joining us throughout. But he's a slacker,
so that I mean, I just, what do we two
for four?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm Buck actually showing up for work two for four?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean, I feel like I feel like maybe maybe
there's a fine coming, Like it just feels.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like there we go like it's it's it's it's inevitable.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
On this show, you're gonna get fined and the Buck's
gonna face a fine, but he's also missing. I think
one of the better endings like this. This morning, when
I woke up and I looked across the college football landscape,
I'll be honest, I said the same thing everybody said.
I mean, Alabama versus Vandy, certainly because of revenge, looks sexy,

(03:44):
But did any of us really think that UCLA was
gonna be a sexy matchup in this In this game, No,
against Penn State. We all thought Penn State would rule.
As much as people tried to tell me that Florida
versus Texas was gonna come down to the wire, I
had a hard time seeing that. I just keep thinking
every week is gonna be the week that Texas figures

(04:04):
it out, and instead they're losing twenty two to fourteen
with Florida have of the ball. Like this entire college
football year is on its head. And usually I'm the
one that you know, Buck has made clear I start
every week by, you know, kind of poop pooing on
everybody's weedies.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like, oh, nothing matters, nothing matters.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, these games matter tremendously because if you look across
all of this, I mean, Alabama can't take a second
loss right here to Vandy. What does that do for
everybody that was in my mentions last week telling me
that Alabama was back? I mean, what does this do?
But Penn State can't take a second loss in the
season and have that loss be unthinkably to UCLA, Like

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there's just there's no wiggle room left for some of
these teams to win in the court of public opinion.
And now tuck a touchdown for Florida on a long
touchdown pass. All of a sudden, Florida has got Texas reeling.
They're gonna take a two touchdown lead, two touch stowns
plus they're twenty eight to fourteen, pending the two point
or pending the point after attempt. I mean, Florida has

(05:06):
the opportunity essentially put a fork in this thing. I
know that we've had to accept that undefeated seasons are
no longer par for the course. But what we're seeing
today could genuinely change the entire college football playoff landscape.
And that's stunning. I don't know what's the most stunning.
I don't know right now if I'm more perplexed that

(05:29):
coming off of what Penn State came off of going
across country against a bad UCLA team that they just
essentially overslept the entire game. I don't know if that's.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
More confusing to me, or if it's more confusing to me.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
That yet again, on another Saturday, I'm watching Arch Manning
miss people that are wide open, Like, y'all, we need
to have a real conversation. Texas is not back Texas is.
I mean, depending on what happens in the fourth quarter,
they could be taking their second loss of the season.
But also, everybody, everybody top to bottom was wrong about

(06:03):
Arch and it's that to me, is just it's jarring
to see guys wide open in a game that you're
now down by two scores, wide open guys that your
starting quarterback is missing by five.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yards, over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I heard them say on the broadcast he's not
processing quickly enough. No, he's also not accurate enough. Like, y'all,
when do we just get to say that Art sucks?
Because right now that's what it looks like, like we're
all seeing it and we.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Are waiting forever to say it.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
And I just I don't know why. I don't know
if it's because of the last name. I don't know
if it's because everybody's just embarrassed about how wrong they were.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Like at this point, Paul, fine baumb you owe everybody
in a pot. Maybe you should go into politics because
your take on Arch was that bad.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
How were you that wrong? How did everybody sit here
and say Arch was gonna be the first pick in
the draft? How did everybody sit here and say that
teams should want to suck for a kid that can't
even make it, can't even find a wide, open wide
receiver that's just cruising down the field. I mean, he
missed a couple of guys today that were open enough.
They could have taken a time. They could have had

(07:11):
a picnic basket, they could have unpacked the picnic basket,
they could have had a snack.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
And Arch didn't get anywhere near him.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is stunning to me to see some of these
results because the.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
More we talk about it, and the more all.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Of us that cover the sport constantly say, well, you know,
college football is unpredictable. What I can't figure out is
how does everybody involved on the field not feel the
same urgency? That's what I can't figure out. If your
Penn State and you took a loss and now you
need to show the world exactly who you are. Penn State,
by the way, just scored a touchdown, so we are

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early in the fourth quarter and we were back to
we are back to what is right now a seven
point game, penning the extra point, So seven point game there.
But if you're Penn State, how'd you even get here?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Like?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
If we're going to see here and say with any
level of genuineness that well, that's what makes college football great.
You just never know what every week's going to be like.
Shouldn't that be the very ammunition that has kids coming
out in major programs fired up to play? I can
buy Vandy Alabama coming down to the wire because Vandy

(08:18):
and Alabama both look like maybe they're actually pretty damn
good football teams, or at least pretty evenly matched football teams,
whether we think they're good or not, they're pretty evenly matched,
and we like that. What I can't buy is how
Penn State or Texas can come out just looking this
incompetent and still be any part of the conversation about

(08:40):
the top ten. Like, what we're learning today is that
Penn State really isn't a national championship contender because you
can't tell me that you trust Penn State if you
can't trust them against UCLA coming off for loss that
they took at home to Oregon. And what we're learning
today is that Texas is not back and that Arch
is not good. But what we're also learning today is

(09:02):
that the entire AP poll is broken. What we're also
learning today is that the entire summer that is spent
speculating about all of this is wasted time, like when
you watch these games actually play out. If we are
going to accept the logic that college football has become
truly the most unpredictable of all sports and every Saturday

(09:24):
is a new Saturday and you genuinely have no idea.
If that's the answer to the question, then I guess
what I'm trying to figure out, is what are we
talking about all summer? Like, what are we talking about
all spring? Because if it comes down to these moments
and we're this wrong, we don't just have to look
at the teams. We don't have to just look at

(09:45):
the players. Man, we got to look at the process.
If everybody is this damn wrong about Texas and Arch
and James Franklin and Penn State, man, to me, that
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(10:27):
on this wildly weird Saturday in college football. I love
it because, as somebody that loves covering the sport with
no favorite team, I don't care who wins or loses.
I just want chaos. I just cannot believe we are
sitting here right now watching possibly let's see how the
last thirteen to fourteen minutes of game time plays out.
We could be watching Penn State literally just throw away

(10:50):
their entire season. We could be watching Texas throw away
their entire season. We are watching Arch tell everybody, hey man,
not this year, maybe not even next year, like this
concept that it's all going to get right for Arch
based on what like if you look across the board.
What we're learning today is that some of the conversations

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I can either confirm nor deny if he's currently at
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Speaker 2 (12:49):
But in my mind he is.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
He's buck rising on Jason Fitzer's Bucking Fits. We're hanging
out with you on Fox Sports Radio. On this fine
filled Saturday because Buck had some technology issues not able
to be here with this for the entire show, so
he's calling in now. So we've decided that there's going
to be a bevy of fines. I'm just saying that
may make a like another fine Buck is here. Yep,

(13:13):
see one fine per segment. You still get one this segment. Buck,
How are we doing, buddy?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
We are you know, a little uncomfy to be honest
with you right now because I am locked in on
this Alabama Vanderbilt game into the fourth quarter now, Vanderbilt
trailing fourteen to twenty in Tuscalousa, with Diego Papy at
midfield driving. I want this so bad, Fitsy, this is incredible.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, it is an incredible game. I will say this.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
If the argument is that I'm just watching the game
and I lost my train of thought, the argument is
that Alabama is a playoff team, then how can you
tell me Vanderbilt isn't? Like this has been blow for blow.
These two teams looked wildly evenly matched throughout it. So
I think one of the more jarring things to me
about this book, you tell me what you think, like,

(14:02):
I think one of the more jarring things has been.
I expected Alabama to come out really be fired up,
and instead it felt like Vandy was ready for every
single punch, and they've been able to CounterPunch every single time.
So even though everybody will tell me they don't have
the Joe's, it certainly looks like they do throughout the
course of this game.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well, and the thing that most impressed me is now
Vanderbilt is inside the red zone after a big completion.
There is the way that oh, diego Papia pick. Oh
that's a good punch. Oh oh no, I.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Was his second red zone turnover, his second red zone.
Seed Buck gets on the phone with us and then bam,
red zone turnover. This is what happens.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh my god, I'm sick. I mean I was. That
was good to say that, the way that Vanderbilt was
able to compete with Alabama and still is competing with
Alabama in the trenches. Fitzy, that's the thing that's insane
about a result like this, that it's a grinded out game.
I believe the over under, depending on which sportsbook you

(15:06):
were looking at, was said it about fifty six and
a half. I believe I bet the over. I expected
Alabama and the talent disparity to kind of allow them
to pull away, even if PAVI and Vanderbilt went down
there and fought and gutted it out and made it
their game. But they have dragged Alabama into the mud.
And you know, save that critical error in the red

(15:27):
zone that we just witnessed, I have been wildly impressed
with the way that they've been able to handle themselves.
But of course you have to play a mistake free game.
Pavia had the fumble early earlier. I thought there could
have been some room for interpretation on the call whether
his forearm was down when the ball came out. Obviously,

(15:47):
Ty Simpson had a similar, more clear situation where he
fumbled but the ball but he was down as the
ball carrier, So obviously that touchdown for Vanderbilt was overturned.
Can you had to play a perfect game be able
to pull off again an incredible upset after last year's
upset of the century and the teams Vanderbilt is gonna

(16:09):
fray here a little bit late.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
There's still thirteen minutes left and it's a one score game.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
We cannot say the same about UCLA, who just scored
a touchdown and Niko Yama Liavo with a great play
for on a two point conversion. Ucla is now beating
Penn State forty two to twenty eight with about six
and a half minutes ago. Can we just stick a
fork in this Penn State season now to me? Because like,
I don't know how you recover. You could take a

(16:35):
second loss, that's fine. I don't think you can take
a second loss to a team as bad as UCLA
and not have everybody pucker it up, like as the
concept is at some point, well, you know, a two
loss Penn State team that doesn't play in the Big
Ten championship game still goes to the playoffs. Man, you
now you're rooting for a lot of other things to
start breaking, because I don't know that a two loss
Penn State team with this loss is going to get

(16:57):
a lot of grace.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well and brings up a conversation about James Franklin and
just generally like where we as pundits got it so
wrong with preseason expectations around Penn State and Texas who
is trailing in the swamp and bleeding out essentially at
this point in time, I know Arch had a thirty

(17:21):
eight yard touchdown pass earlier to keep get them just
to cut into the lead. But Florida is a stinky,
stinky offense and has really done well to handle themselves
against Texas. Texas has been wildly disappointing. Penn State has
been wildly disappointing. Nobody expected them. I mean, I don't

(17:41):
know the Vegas favored them in that game against Oregon.
To your point, to see, and Dan Lanning's team is
the least discussably we talked about this last Saturday, one
of the more underrated or just one of the quieter
success stories of the college football season. But UCLA is
objectively bad. Like I had planned as a you know,

(18:04):
as a Tennessee grifter to on the balls by we
just watch UCLA implode and you know, make jokes about
koeomaliabam because I'm petty on social media and things like that.
That's not I'm not. He's deprived me of that joy
today because they showed up to play Penn State very
clearly as not And to your point, I think this,

(18:25):
if you know, the results continue to continue to hold
this way. No, that team does not deserve to participate
in the College Football Playoff, which is crazy again given
the preseason expectation.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
But I think that comes back to the point, do
we need to re examine our process because we were
so wildly wrong about so many things? Not we, you
and I, but the collective college football media was so
wildly wrong.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Maybe just a little bit we.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh yeah, yeah we too, But I mean not just we,
a lot of a lot of we. Like Look, I
said it earlier, I will say it again, especially after.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yet another stupid, stupid, stupid throw.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Arch Manning not like Arch Manning is not just having
some struggles. Arch Manning sucks like. He doesn't look like
he's a capable college quarterback. If your goal is to
have Arch Manning save your NFL team, that's not just
shot for next year's draft. Like I'm looking at it saying,
somebody show me where the NFL prospect is on this.
He's missing guys wide open, he's laid on throws, he's

(19:20):
throwing high all over the place. He's gonna get his
guys murdered on this had yet another bad throw.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
In this process.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
So like Arch and Texas, Texas is not back arches
arch sucks like. It just feels like we were wrong
about so much with this one.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
I kind of love it, though. I mean, if I'm
being honest with you, like this college football season is insane.
I'm literally watching Vanderbilt again if you have any concept
of the history of college football to talk about Vanderbilt
competing in a game in Tuscaloosa, trailing Yes by six
and having just turned it over in the red zone.
But that's fine, Like this is living up the game

(19:57):
of the week Arch Manning in Texas. I knew that
this Florida Texas game was going to be discussing these
two programs do not meet. I think the broadcast of
the last time they've seen each other was World War Two,
which is again, is an insanity and something that I
rather enjoy about the reformulation of college football, even if
truthers are or you know, the old guard take issue

(20:19):
with the with the way that the sport has been restructured,
I enjoyed. I have never enjoyed being wrong as much
as I have this college football season, because I think
it's been filled with so many different twists and turns.
We're not even to the halfway point yet, obviously we're
coming up on it, but still, like I think by design,

(20:41):
maybe not necessarily all of the different results that we've seen.
But as we talked about a little bit last week,
I feel like the changes to the sport have been
effective in terms of how much more, how much more
gripping it is on a week by week basis, and
how how it should re evaluate or how we should

(21:01):
reevaluate the way that we talk about a lot of
these programs coming into a season. But at Arch, I
I mean it's I want to I want I don't
want to make excuses for him. SITSI right, because to
your point, he is He's just bad. He has been bad.
He has been objectively awful to start his it's not

(21:22):
the start of his collegiate career, but his first full
season as d guy right, as the guy at the
program with national championship expectations.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I don't know if we are if we are
as reactive to Arch because one name on the back
of his jersey to the program that he plays four
and three. It was easy to get caught up in
the in a bit of the preseason manium, maybe not
to the extent that Finebaum did with you think that
that the Arch Manning take was so bad that it's

(21:53):
driving finebaumb into politics. You see that craft this week?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean, look a better senator than he is
a college football guy based on that arts man, I like,
I love.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Paul, but like that's a a terrible, terrible take.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, I just I just think that there's a lot
of things happening with the arch Manning experience. But I mean,
if you just if you took off if his name
was you know, if his name was Adams on the
back of his jersey as opposed to Manning, with the
reaction be this strong and the answer is probably still yes,
because he's just terrible.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I think it'd be even worse. I think I'll answer
this on the other side.

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Speaker 6 (22:49):
Oh my goodness, there's so much going on. So happy
to be hanging out with you, guys.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I agree.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Arch Manning is I don't know, guys, I don't know
what he needs. If it's more reps, if he needs
some you know, Michael Jordan's secret juice. I don't know.
But it's not looking good for number nine Texas right now.
Florida is up twenty nine to fourteen with about eight
minutes to go in the game between number sixteen Vanderbilt
and number ten Alabama. Diego Pavia just through an interception,

(23:16):
giving the ball back to Alabama. It's twenty to fourteen
with the Crimson tide up early in the fourth quarter
when it comes to Boise State and number twenty one
Notre Dame. Notre Dame has extended their lead twenty eight
to seven. Is a score six minutes to go in
that one. Louisville keeping it close against number twenty four Virginia,
who is up twenty four to twenty one with less
than ten minutes to go. Literally haven't mentioned number five

(23:37):
Oklahoma all day because they're just crushing Kent State. It's
forty four zero was still three minutes to go in
the third quarter. But the game of the day number
seven Penn State and UCLA nico Io Maliava. I don't
know what he is doing today, but he is sixteen
of twenty three, one hundred and sixty six yards, two
touchdowns in the air. What is he doing on the ground.

(23:58):
He's got fifteen carries for one hundred and thirty yards
and three touch down. The Bruins are up forty two
to twenty eight, less than five minutes to go in
the game.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
If you did not watch.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
This game, Ucla started a game on their opening drive
with a touchdown, and then they went for an on
sidekick and they got it. That's how it's been all
day for UCLA. One upset. When it comes to college football,
Cincinnati with the thirty eight to thirty upset over number
fourteen Iowa State victory is also for number twelve Georgia,
number twenty Michigan, and number twenty two Illinois. When it

(24:30):
comes to base ball, the Yankees had a golden opportunity.
They missed it. In the sixth inning, bases loaded, Aaron
Judge comes up to the plate, strikes out. Cody Bellinger
comes in gets walked, they get one run. John Carlos
Stan steps up to the plate strikes out. So right now,
the Blue Jays are still up on the Yankees, and
they've extended their lead. It's five to one, bottom of

(24:50):
the seventh inning and the Brewers have a nine. The
Brewers not have a nine. They already beat the Cubs
nine to three in Game one of the NLDS. And
a story that started one way is now different with
more information. As a former NFL quarterback and current Fox
Sports broadcaster Mark Sanchez is hospitalized after being stabbed in
Indianapolis early Saturday morning. In a statement by Fox Sports,

(25:12):
they said he's recovering and stable condition. He's not going
to be part of the broadcast crew for Sunday's game
between the Raiders and the Colts, but now Indianapolis Indianapolis
Police say that they have arrested Sanchez while he was
at the hospital for battery with injury, unlawful entry of
a motor vehicle, and public intoxication.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Back to you, guys, Monci, just amazing work while youre
getting us caught up on all that, and while you
were doing it, Penn State scored so forty two to
thirty five. Now Penn State scores, we are down to
a one touchdown game. For all that Nico Yama Lava
has done in this game, it is down to one
Score's here's the thing Book you said earlier. You know,
how would we be treating the art situation if his

(25:54):
last name wasn't Manny. I think if Archer's last name
was Aler, We'd be killing him. Killing Like if Arch's
last name was Iana Liava, we'd be killing him. So
it's funny because there is this moment where in my
experience in media, I think a lot of times when
people are just drastically wrong, they are slow to change

(26:15):
their opinion because of the egg on the face that
comes with it. And I just think everybody's sitting here
saying it's gonna turn around. It's gonna turn around. Why
because it's.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Arch and has to turn around?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Does it?

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Like?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
What if Arch just isn't good? And I think that's
like the reality we have to face now is like, yes,
he was a high, high recruit coming in one of
the highest stars we've seen, blah blah blah blah blah.
That doesn't matter. Quarterbacks that are high recruits come out
all the time and end up sucking, Like what if
Arch just isn't good? Like congratulations to having a great bloodline,

(26:46):
but that doesn't mean he's gonna be a great quarterback.
And if the presumption is he is good, I would
love for anybody to tell me based on what other
than your concept of what you think should happen for Arch,
what have we actually seen on the field that makes
a single one of us thinks that he's a capable
sec Like right now, Diego Pavia is a better quarterback
to have behind center than Arch Manning is.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I think it's so funny that you bring this up
because Nick Wright had a Fox Sports of course, had
a similar or at least a take that was kind
of parallel to this, but within the context of Lamar Jackson.
I don't know if you saw this clip that was
making the rounds fit see this week, And again, objectively,

(27:29):
I disagreed with Nick Wright because of some of the
things that he was harping on about Lamar and injuries,
and Lamar hasn't really missed that much time due to
injury prior to this hamstring thing that he's dealing with,
but that people have over corrected on Lamar because of
all of the criticism around him or all of the
skepticism around him coming out of the draft process. I

(27:50):
think Bill Polly and should he play wide receiver, this, that,
and the other. And so when Lamar underperforms or you know,
has some kind of issue, people are slow to or
get Nick Ryan is alleging that people are slow to
criticize Lamar because they want to They want to almost
make up for how wrong they could have been on
the front end of his career. And you putting it

(28:10):
within the context of Arch is fascinating because I do
think there's some truth to that, right. I want to
believe that Arch Banding is going to be good some point,
not just because you know, I mean, I'm not the
team that I cover. I'm out here in Arizona for
Titans Cardinals Barnburner that that will be tomorrow at State
Farms Stadium, But I'm not the team that I cover.

(28:31):
Is not going to be in the market for a quarterback.
But if I'm a Saints fan or looking around in
the quarterback draft right now, the draft prospects these quarterbacks
are are really underwhelming as far as what is going
to be available to NFL franchises, and not even just
for the purposes of the next level or the next
step of their career, because I mean, I'd be shocked.

(28:53):
It would have been surprising to see Arch declare for
the draft after this year, even if he had performed
well now it would I mean, it would almost seems negligent.
I don't even know if he doesn't look draftable at
this point, which is such a wild thing to say.
So I do think that to your point, that the
last name buys him a lot more grace or at

(29:13):
least a little bit more benefit of the doubt, because
at some point he's a Manning. For God's sake, this
is going to click even Cooper, whose career ended as
a wide receiver due to injury. Cooper was a high
level player, Like we don't believe that the word manning
or the name Manning and failure can exist in the
same sentence, But my god, does that look like it's

(29:35):
the case right now, especially for as vehemently as Steve
Sarkesian has shot down any questions about injuries to him
earlier in the season.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, and look, if it's injury and related, then I
think they'd actually be doing a benefit to everybody to
let the world know that as he had what would
have been a tough throw right there, but he missed
yet another downfield receiver.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
It would actually be to the benefit of the player
to let him know that. But Buck, what's.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Stunning to me is like, you're right, this is what
we've done. We've taken the last name. Well, Like, look,
your mom book is a brilliant woman, You're not smart,
so like, you know, I mean I had to throw that.
Like my brother is one of the most tone deaf
people I've.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Ever met in my life.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like neither of my parents have an ounce of musical skill. None,
And you know, I'm lucky enough to have a bunch
of Grammy nominations in my lifetime. Right, Like I think
that there's just this moment that it's not fine, it's
not I've just had to give context the case people
didn't know I hear. Look the way I see it
is like just because his last name is Manning, it
doesn't mean he's Peyton, it doesn't mean he's Eli, it

(30:38):
doesn't mean he's any of them. To me, it just
sort of means he's got to prove it on the
field himself to be whatever he's going to be and
what he's like you mentioned, he doesn't look draftable. He
doesn't look like he should be starting right now. Like
to me, why pull the kid, Pull the kid and
help him figure it out because or just let him

(31:00):
run the football, because when he runs out of the pocket,
when he uses his at the leticism, he's really good there.
Just don't let him throw and you'll be fine. And
I can't believe we're saying that about Arch Manning, who
was supposed to be the savior. He was supposed to
be the Heisman winner.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Now that's an interesting question about should they pull it
because he, you know, he appears to be drowning a
little bit right and and there's no there's no real
clear and obvious explanation other than he's not prepared for
the current responsibility. Now I don't want to say prepared.
I'm sure that he studies plenty hard on all I mean,

(31:35):
I guess we don't know that specifically, But I'm going
to assume again benefit of the doubt because the last name, right,
Manning's smart. He's supposed to be a smart kid, right,
He's supposed to have all of the study habits. He's
supposed to fit in the cold tub like Peyton did
with his helmet on watching film. We all remember that
that picture from a couple of years ago when Payton
was on the Broncos for some reason watching film at
the cult tub with his helmet on. Inexplicably, but again

(31:57):
that's the Manning lore. I wonder, though, FITZI, how how
you feel about the idea that, say, okay, say they
lose to Florida by double digits, as they are on
track to do at this point, with Florida being an
underdog in the swamp at home and DJ Lagway you
talk about disappointing quarterback performances to this point in the season,
DJ Lagway has been objectively awful too. Billion Napier is

(32:21):
fighting for his job every every week, it seems, and
is going to at least buy himself a little more
time or a little more grace with a win against
Texas should these results hold. But say Steve Sarkisian pulls
our commanding and puts him on the bench, do you
think and I don't know that sark would do this
as a means of self preservation, but don't you think
that puts a lot more attention on Steve Sarkisian M.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yep, you're right, You're one thousand percent right, and that's
I mean, he's gonna have to face some of this
play Like we all see what arts does well and
that that is not what this offense is running right now.
But speaking of things as a great the iHeartRadio I've
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(33:05):
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gonna have you back next hour, obviously for Bucking Fits.
But when we come back, huge developments in the UCLA
Penn State game. Penn State may not be left for

(33:26):
dead yet. We will tell you about it next. Bucking
Fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're listening to Fox Sports
Radio Radio. It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. Jason
fitz Buck Rising gonna join us again in just a
little bit, hanging out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday,
coming at your life from the Fox Sports radio studios.

(33:49):
We have got absolute chaos happening now in La Ucla,
if you're just tuning in, was up twenty seven to
seven at the half. It looked like it was gonna
be fine. Ucla was up forty two to twenty eight,
which just a few minutes left to go in the game.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Ucla had the.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Opportunity to try and do their best to ice the game,
and they were unable to convert on a fourth and short,
which cave Penn State the ball back, and now with
thirty seven seconds left, Penn State on their own fourth
down trying to score is stuffed. Ucla is going to
take down James Franklin and Penn State. Looks like there's

(34:26):
thirty seven seconds left on the clock. Penn State still
does have three timeouts left, so in theory they may
be able to touch the ball at math. I was
told there'll be no math, so I'll let them do
the math for me. But Drew Aller had a little
bit of a jet sweep option, held the ball and
just got hammered behind the line of scrimmage. Ucla makes
a huge defensive stand in the red zone that keeps

(34:50):
Penn State out of the end zone, and it looks
like as of now again thirty seven seconds left, it
looks like Penn State is going to fall to UCLA.
At the same time, to get you quickly updated, Florida
is up twenty nine to fourteen with under four minutes
to go against Texas. Texas is driving. They are on
the doorstep of the endzone. I'll keep you updated with
what happens there, but there's a lot left and Alabama

(35:13):
is up twenty three to fourteen on Vandy. The funniest
part about this with Penn State is that the Josh
Pate said, and we've said on the show, I think
a couple of times that maybe Penn State is the
most and Josh James Franklin is the most appropriately rated
head coach in college football because he wins the games

(35:33):
he's supposed to win, and he loses the games he's
supposed to lose. So if you don't go in with sweeping,
huge expectations of madness and chaos from him, then you
get about what you expect from You're gonna win ten games,
you're gonna lose two, and you're gonna go to the
college Football Playoff. Most of the time, that is the
space that Penn State fans live in. But that's not
the space anymore. They lose this game, they will have

(35:56):
taken their second loss of the season, and they'll be
taking a second loss by way of a team that
some would say is the worst in college football through
the first month of the season. I don't think that's
an exaggeration. And a team because most of you aren't
paying attention to UCLA, a team that fired their coach,
and when they fired their coach, their offensive coordinators like, nah,
I'm good, they made a change of defensive coordinator, like

(36:18):
everybody on that coaching staff is different. So UCLA, which
came in with some expectations, and Niko Yamiliava, the quarterback
that transferred Tennessee, came in with some expectations, right, and
so there was some thought that, you know what, there'll
be an opportunity to at least have a pretty decent season,
and that went so wildly off the rails in the
first month that it looked like the worst we've ever

(36:40):
seen UCLA football. Think about that. So the worst version
in the history of UCLA football, in the eyes of
many the absolute joke of a program is what they
were considered twenty four hours ago. Now, with thirty seconds
to go, Penn State has one time out left, third
and eleven. They're beating Penn State forty two to thirty five.

(37:04):
That's stunning, That is absolutely stunning for this egg to
be laid by this team because what Penn State is done,
at the very least, at the very least, Penn State
has eliminated any wiggle room for the rest of the year.
If you want to be gloriously hopeful, if you're a
Penn State fan and you're saying, you know what doesn't matter,

(37:26):
we can still get into the college football playoffs, you
got no wiggle room, and I mean none. So now
remembering that you have to go to Ohio State, who's
number one, and you have to take on Indiana, who's
currently a top ten team. So at this point, you
got no wiggle room, You've got no area. You are
now in the playoffs. If you're James Franklin, your playoffs

(37:47):
start tomorrow because you've got to find a way to
get your way into this thing. When man, there's so
little room for error, and I don't even know that
there's room for just winning games. I think you're gonna
have to win with the eye test all over this
thing too. And that's man, that's just suffocating. That is

(38:09):
suffocating for Penn State. It looked like Texas, who, by
the way, scored a touchdown. Texas scores a touchdown and
makes an eight point game. It's twenty nine to twenty one.
I think Florida was expecting and onside kicking instead a
little squid that they almost turn the ball over on.
So now Florida is backed up against it and Texas

(38:29):
is still in this game. Don't sleep now. There's a
little over three minutes to go, and Texas is gonna
try and get this football back if they can. If
they can get this football back, they will still have
a shot at it. So we'll see how that game
plays out. This is such a wild, wild week because
I feel like everything I was certain of last week
when I told you, hey, one game doesn't really matter,

(38:52):
one game isn't really that important, I told you all
of those things, and then we have a week like today,
week like today where suddenly you realize that you just
you can't you can't predict where this is going to go.
And I think one of the biggest surprises to me
is still that college football players can come out in
this modern climate and lay this sort of an egg,

(39:16):
Because if I know it, and you note, and fans note,
and boosters not and coaches know it. Man, I know
they're kids, and that's what everybody has said for generation.
They're kids, right, kids have letdown games. You're right, They're
not kids anymore. They're business people, right. The modern college athlete,
modern college football player, most programs is making a hefty

(39:40):
check of some sort to go out and play football.
So I think with some of that, some of the
grace disappears. And as the grace disappears, man, the ability
to understand how you can come out and lay this
sort of an egg disappears with it. I don't know
what the answer is on trying to lock a team
in and get a team to focus, but for Penn State,
coming off of the low Oregon to be this unfocused

(40:01):
against UCLA is absolutely inexcusable and I'm not sure their
season isn't changed forever because of this one. We'll keep
updating you on the rest of the results, plus the
accident Alabama. Next, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio.
Down goes Penn State could be down goes Texas, and

(40:24):
Alabama keeps rolling. It has been a wild Saturday in
college football. It's bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
Jason fitzbuck Rising, going to join us in just.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
A little bit.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Vanderbilt holding on for dear life, trying to find a
way to convert and keep the football as they are
trailing twenty three to fourteen with a minute eighteen to go.
So this game is basically all butt done for Vanderbilt
at this point, UCLA pulls off the massive upset. It's
just been a stunning, staggering day. It has been a

(40:55):
wild day for college football across the board. We'll get
into more college football a little bit, but college football
is not the only place that has drama. I don't
know if you guys have been paying attention, but the
Eagles are undefeated, and despite the fact that the Philadelphia
Eagles are undefeated, it sounds like there's panic happening everywhere
because Eagles superstar wide receivers aren't happy. What do you

(41:16):
do when you're winning but the way you're winning just
doesn't look right? And this is a tough question to
answer because We've given a lot of grace for the
last three years, at least the last two years to
the Kansas City Chiefs because frankly, it hasn't looked right.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
But they won football games, right, So you turn around
and say.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Hey, I don't really care. I don't really care as
long as they win. And that's the mentality so many
of us have. That's an easy mentality to talk about,
I don't really care as long as we win. That's
an easy mentality to think about for all of us
from the outside. Hey, look, as long as you're four
and zero, does it matter how you got there.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
But imagine being one of the guys on that team.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
It just feels like your offense is sputtering doing things well,
you could be helping and you just don't have that chance.
Because that's I think the most representative truth of what's
going on in Philadelphia right now.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Like we are sitting here talking about the.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Eagles undefeated, like, you know, hey, they're running the football, well,
it doesn't really matter that they're not passing. That's not true.
The Eagles aren't particularly running the football well. The Eagles
had thirty three yards of total offense in the second
half of their last game thirty three yards. They were
over eight throwing the football, but they had thirty three yards.
Saquon hasn't really gotten on track yet. Average is just

(42:32):
over three yards to carry. It has not been the
Saquon that we're used to. Nothing has really looked comfortable
for the Eagles offensively. But you're four and o. So
at what point do we care about the math? Do
we only care about getting the questions right? Or do
we care at all about the process? And I think
we have to care about the process sometimes because the

(42:52):
process educates us for what to.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Better expect throughout the course of the year.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
If we simply look at the results, then there would
never be analysis necessary on anything, right. And we all
remember a few years ago when you what we see
we saw I think it was the Giants that won
ten games, and it was like, oh yeah, but we
knew they weren't good, right. You see this all the time.
You see teams that win games and you know they're
not good. Now, the Eagles aren't that because they have
championship DNA, and we know how good that coaching staff is,
we know how much talent they have. Howie Roseman has

(43:19):
built the best roster in the NFL. So when you
think about it that way, it makes absolutely no sense
for them to be issues.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
But when you have aj Brown and DeVonta Smith, and
according to.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Diana Rassini and others, you have grumbling in the locker
room about the way they're being used, particularly in the
red zone, what you have are guys that are saying, hey,
we watch the film every day like the for the
rest of us that are just sitting there watching it,
we watch a game for three and a half hours.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
It's one of the craziest things about fandom.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
We watch a game for three and a half hours,
and we make every sweeping generalation generalization from that of
what we think. We're not in meetings, we're not in practice.
In fact, even things that we all rely on, like
Pro Football Focus, they're kind of funny because we don't
know the assignments. And whenever somebody says, well, you don't
know the assignments, people laugh at that. All right, Well,

(44:11):
of course we don't know the assignments, you know, but
those are the things that you really can't know. And
so if you're Aja and your Davante, you're looking around
and you're saying, man, we're watching the film every day,
we're practice every day, we're in meetings every day.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
We are working on these things.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Tirelessly all the time, and in the process of working
on it, then none of it translates to Sunday. So
how do you manage it when, frankly, you've gotten to
that point because you have some of the best talent
in the world and they know they're some of the
best talent in the world. The word ego, I think
is gotten the wrong connotation in society over the course

(44:53):
of the last few years.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
People think of ego as a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
I don't. I think if ego can be earned, I
think it's it's okay to be wildly confident in what
you do in a way that some people perceive as ego.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I believe in grace and humility overall, but I think
that the concept that Nick Saban would believe when he
walks onto the sideline that he's a better coach than
you are comes from somewhere. We could see that as ego.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I see that as confidence, but it's talked about like
it's ego.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
If youre aj, if you're DeVante, you walk into every
single week knowing that the team you're facing pulls up
film on you, and they focus on you. My longtime
brother from another mother, Harry Douglas, used to always say
that day one of installations are for game wreckers. So,

(45:43):
no matter what you do and whatever team you're on,
day one of installations of practice is focusing on who
are the guys that can wreck our game plan. Ego
has got a lot of them. They have a ton
of game wreckers, right, not the least of which, not
the least of which are aj Brown and Smith. So
now you have two game wrecords that know that the

(46:06):
team that they're facing spent the first day of installation
focused just on how to try and slow them down,
and then they get into a game and they can't execute.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Imagine whatever you do, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
If you build cars. I don't care if you work
at a widget factory. I don't care if you make spreadsheets.
Imagine if you spent all week getting ready for a presentation,
all week for a presentation, and you know that the
way your entire company is perceived in your job future
relies in some ways on that presentation, and then you
get all week, you get one shot of that presentation.
No screw ups. You get one shot. Imagine if every

(46:39):
week everything that you worked on all week goes to
hell and suddenly the presentation is just awful. Now you
still get the client, you still get the business, you
still got what you wanted out of it. You want
to tell me that on Monday when you go to
the coffee room, when you're sitting around, when you're on
your zoom talking about it afterwards, you wouldn't be like, man,
we worked on that, what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
I think that's the element that sometimes gets lost.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Like we hear aj Brown and Devincea Smith aren't happy,
there's panic, and immediately immediately people come to it's all
the ego of wide receivers. This is what it's all about.
Like they're chirping, they're talking, blah blah, blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
That's what we do.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
I look at it and say, isn't that human to
some degree? When do we forget that athletes are at
their core or just people? So if you are somebody
that genuinely believes you're one of the best in the world,
you are somebody that has seen proof of concept from
your peers that considered you to be one of the

(47:41):
best in the world. You work on something all week
that relies on everybody that works with around you on
your team to come out and execute, and then you
go out and do a game. You go out in
this case, in your presentation and it doesn't go well.
Does it matter if you got the business?

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Does it take care of everything else?

Speaker 3 (48:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:02):
I mean you all know my music background. I talk
about it a lot. I can't imagine sitting in rehearsals
all week and then going in to play the concert
on Sunday and it sucks. And sure, maybe nobody asked
for a refund, maybe the song still goes to number one.
But man, you go to the bus that night You're like, man,
this doesn't feel good. What I do now. I sit
in front of a microphone for a living, and I

(48:25):
take pride in the opportunity to sit in front of
a microphone for a living. It's an honor to get
to do it. I work really hard at it. I
try to watch as much as I can, and I
try to communicate as well as I can. I try
to really work on the craft of all of this.
Imagine if every time Buck and I came in to
do a show, well, the show wasn't very good. The
bosses are fine with it, but the show's not very good.

(48:45):
You think that wouldn't hit us. I just think at
some point it's okay for us to start emitting that
multiple things are true. Two things can be due to
say it all the time.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
The Philadelphia Eagles are undefeated. That is true.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
The Philadelphia Eagles have talent that I trust. That is true.
The Egles have coaches that I trust. That is true.
I believe that the Egos by the end of the
year will look right. I think all of that is true.
And at the same time, I also think it's okay
to say that right now it doesn't look very good,
undefeated or not. It doesn't pass the eye test. So
some things have to get better. Imagine how much easier

(49:19):
it would be to simply break down what we see
if we allowed multiple things to be true and we
stopped using our heart. One thing that is very true.
If you're like me and maybe you had a little
bit of cash on Alabama. With the money, there was
a trash touchdown at the end that helped you very
very much. Drinks around me tonight, Ian, I'm just saying, Nike,
you know we don't usually break it for blowouts, but

(49:41):
it turned into a game that was a three point
game for much of it. Alabama gets a junk touchdown
at the very end that didn't matter to anybody unless
you happen to pay attention to the spread because they
were up twenty three to fourteen at the time. They
were favored by eleven and a half, So that touchdown
helps Alabama. So if you happen to think that the

(50:01):
tide we're gonna roll feeling pretty good right now, We'll
get Bucks Rising, Buck Rising's thought. I'll learn how to
say my co host name. We'll get his thoughts after.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
What you say you I said, no need. He's not
here anyway, so that's fair.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Do I have to Can we? Can we call him
something else? Like he's not listening right now, Mary Mack?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Is there anything that is Should we should we bring
him in in some sort of a weird way just
to see if he catches the reference, because there's no
way in hell he's listening to us right now.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
No, let's just call him by his real first name, Andrew, Andrew.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
You know, I will call him Andrew Rising, and we'll
see if he picks up on this, and if he
doesn't pick up on this, that means that he's such
a bad teammate that he's sitting in his hotel room
and choosing not to listen to his own radio show.
I think that says something.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Buckle'll join us next.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
We'll get his thoughts on the heartbreaking bandy lost and
everything else that's happening right now across the landscape.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
We'll do it next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
It's fucking Fits. He's a man of great style, he's
a man of great port Horton's and he joins us
now on the show It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Jason Fitz. You guys know that already. I've been
hanging out with you. By the way, if you've seen

(51:08):
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Andrew Rising joins us right now on the show. It's
fucking fits.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
How you doing, buddy, There's no faster way to rattle
me than using my government thing.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
My god, Oh, that's amazing, but also a fine because
here's the thing. We asked that in the last segment,
and we decided we were going to bring you in
as such. I knew it would rattle you, and I said,
if it didn't, then that meant that you were listening
to the show like a good co host, even though
you were sitting there. It meant you had us on
in the app and you were just you know, listening
to me wax on about the philadelph Eagles and enjoying

(52:01):
all of that. And instead we find out that you're
over there, probably in a bathroom, probably with slippers on,
and very little attention being paid to the opening segment.
What say you, Buck Rising?

Speaker 3 (52:12):
I'd say that the invention of the app weed maps
has me a bit distracted.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
That's amazing. This is amazing, Yeah, Andrew Rising, Andrew Rising
for the duration of the segment. That is just what's
what's going to happen? By the way, are we eating
popcorn there in air Zona? We like, we got our
feed up? What do we how are feeling now that
Vandy has taken the l we all saw it. As
I mentioned at the end of the last segment, I
may or may not have placed a bet thinking that
Alabama would roll big, so that trash touchdown at the

(52:40):
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Speaker 2 (52:52):
Don't forget that promo code Fox Game. How we feeling?

Speaker 3 (52:56):
I don't feel good because I had the over end game.
I thought that Alabama would pull away, but I thought
it would be by a wider margin. So I lost
my bet and Bandy lost, So I have nothing. My
football team that I cover for a living stinks. Vanderbilt
was the last gasp of hope that the city of
Nashville have. Actually, that's not for Nashville sc for those

(53:17):
of them who are MLS fans in the audience, won
the US Open Cup this week, so that was at
least some level of soothing for a city that has
been honestly in sports hell for basically my entire career.
There going on ten years, so maybe it's maybe it's me.
It's like Taylor Swift not quite the new album, but
I'm the problem, it's me. I don't know. For VANDID

(53:41):
there are no moral victories. They had the opportunity. The
thing is fitty. I think that a loss like that
hurts worse. And I'm sure we're going to talk about
Penn Steak getting upset at some point as well. A
loss like the one that Vanderbilt just experienced hurts worse.
Not because it knocks them out of college football playoff contention,
which to their credit, they still have the opportunity yet,

(54:02):
but because you shot yourself in the foot, you had opportunities,
you turned the ball over. You were competitive in that
game until the very last, and only did the margin
of defeat look greater because at the end of the
game Alabama blows a wide open ty Simpson is not
getting enough discussion as the best quarterback college football quarterback
in the country right now. I mean, to his credit,

(54:24):
he has been excellent, excellent, excellent, and I know the
quality of their competition beyond Georgia has been questionable. As
they worked their way through the early part of their schedule,
but I don't you know, nobody's going to declare Alabama
back or back to what we believe that they their
pedigree at the top of college football deserves, because I

(54:45):
don't know that anybody is going to rule the roofs
that way in the modern game, the way that Nick
Saban's teams did. But damn, just Ty Simpson, Martin Tennessee
product has not looked every bit the part of Heisman
Trophy contender. Now.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
I think that's probably a pretty fair comment to because
we're still waiting for one of these quarterbacks to really
stand out right like. And that's interesting in and of
itself because we talked earlier about the about in the
show about being so wrong about Arch and I think
that's fair.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
I will remind everybody when I was covering the.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Draft for Yahoo this year, the number of people that said, Nope, nope, nope,
skip this draft class because next year's draft class is
going to be great. And that was predicated on the
concept of guys like Garrett nus Meyer, who's been battling
injury and hasn't necessarily separated himself. Drew Aller, who is
fine in a Penn State lost to him, but fine,

(55:39):
so far this year, arch Manning, you know, we all
know that not not particularly playing well.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
To say it nicely, I said earlier, I'll stand by it.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
He sucks. And then you know what, Fernando Mendoza, the
Indiana quarterback who is in an Indiana offense, not a
lot of people pay attention to, Like these were supposed
to be world beating quarterbacks that you know, cover the
Titans feet and there were plenty of people that were saying, no, no, no,
don't take Cam, wait till next year. Well that looks
pretty acidine right now because none of these quarterbacks look
like they're separating in any real way.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Yeah, and that's the you know, I always I hate
the way that we do the quarterback evaluation in college,
or at least the quarterback discussion in college before the
season actually begins, because we have I mean, time after
time FITSI as a collective sports media profession stepped in

(56:31):
it with things like Spencer Rattler preseason consensus number one
overall pick to bench. As we've talked about whether it
be arch Manning and the hype around him, I don't
think anybody was talking about I don't think there was
a single solitary soul talking about cam Ward out of
Miami as the number one overall pick heading into last
seasons college football. In fact, Shador was probably getting more

(56:55):
it's certainly more dialogue around him than cam was. And
I think there was some conversation to be had there
about the chaudor having the talent but maybe not quite
the full complement of skill set to be a higher
drafted player. And we don't have to even I hesitate
to even mention his name for fear that you'll plunge

(57:16):
us into a Shadeur Sanders conversation. Uh, the boy that's
been had all over the Yes, you would. You absolutely
would do that, especially when you know that I'm vulnerable
about it at this point in time. I think that
I think.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
So you're telling me you think Shud should be the
starting quarterback of the Titans.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Somebody cliped that put it out there. We go ton,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
You know, I'll tell you this right now. I wish
the Titans would have traded the number one overall pick
for campboard sake, because they're going to ruin him. But
that's a conversation that we had for another day, probably
probably more a local conversation than national, because I'm sure
the audience on Fox Sports doesn't want to hear about
the oh and four soon to be oh and five
Tennessee Damn Titans at this point. God knows, I don't anymore,

(57:56):
but this is this is a perpetual frustration with quarterback evaluation,
or a least quarterback hyped heading into a college football season.
Just let the games play out before we have to
come after with all of these strong opinions about who
will be what before they played.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
I think that's one of the toughest parts about all
of it is I like to be very very real.
You and I are sitting in front of microphones, and
we get paid to talk about sports.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Around We're very lucky to do that.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
I think that days like today remind me that most
of our June conversations about what we expect in the
football season are meaningless, Like they just are. Like if
you think about how much time we spent this summer
across all TV landscapes and radio stations talking even about
the NFL and everything we were sure of in the NFL, well,
certainly you know you would. If how what's the best

(58:43):
division in the NFL, Well, it's the AFC North because
the Ravens are going to be so good and the
Bengals are going to be so good, and you know,
if the Browns can figure out this quarterback thing, and
then the Steeler and now look at that division.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
It's a bunch of hot garbage. It's trash, it's terrible, right.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
So it's just all this time that we spend just
trying to imagine things in June is just it's completely wasted.
I know that's a deep philosophical thing for considering. People
are driving around to the car and they listen to
us all the time, which is an honor.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
To get to have that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
But these are the moments where it's like, man, you
all nobody wants to hear this, but you kind of
got to let the games play out before we really
know who's any good and who's not.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Ian I assume that at some point before we just
made it to this point in the show that Fitzi
has talked about something that we do for a living
as meaningless or is an hour and a half into
the show, the first time that he has brought up
the subject of something being meaningless.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, Ian will back
me up on this. I actually called myself out for
last week saying that Saturdays have no meaning because the
way the college football game is structured.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
And now I'm today had tremendous meeting right.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Eat right in I'm growing true.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
You almost called me andy there?

Speaker 3 (59:53):
What the.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
It was just a misspeak, like my tongue was at
the top of my mouth. Okay, fine, all right, I
got fine. Well, I showed up to work today and
I got fined. How does that happen? Buck?

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
I showed up. I tried to show up. God, no,
I would spend my time in Mesa, Arizona best by
trying to show up the work. Don't you put this
on me, Ricky, Bobby, I.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Mean Mesa, Arizona getting a shout out to the best
pie there that nobody expected that to nobody expected that
to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
No, it's it's just it's wild to me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
This season has turned out so much different, and I
think this just speaks to what I love more than
ever about the way these are going to go. Like
I do think, and we've talked about this before, Buck,
but I think the coolest thing about college football right
now is nobody has a damn clue.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
That is what's awesome about it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Like I today, I don't know that I can tell
anybody that we won't have a three three lost team
in the playoffs. I don't know that because the way
everybody else is picking up losses. Can we really say
definitively right now that there won't be an at large
team with three losses that everybody looks around and says, yeah,
And that's just the way the college football world works now,

(01:01:05):
and you're still going to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Yeah. Well, I mean at a certain point, I'm sure
we're going to trend the way that the NCAA is
already on the college basketball where we're gonna have seventy
two teams in the college football playoff before long with
what they're trying to how they're trying to mangle my boy,
my beloved March madness. Is college basketball creeps up on
us in the middle of the football season, I'm sure
it will all be watered down before long, and every

(01:01:28):
team we'll get into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
We're always wrong, but you know who's always right.

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Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
All right, let's get going. We're gonna start in baseball
because it is October. So I don't want to mention this,
but show hey O Twani is starting off to a
rough start on the mound for the Dodgers. Phillies seem
to be having their way and they're up right now
three zero against the Dodgers bottom of the third inning.

(01:02:20):
It seems like all the teams with the buy had
no problem there, did not skip a beat. Brewers took
down the Cubs nine to three in Game one of
the NLDS. Blue Jays had no issues with the Yankees.
Ten to one was the final score there. That was
Game one of the Alds and like I said, Dodgers
are right now losing to the Phillies three zero bottom
of the third inning. Still to come will be the
Tigers and the Mariners. First pitch is set for eight

(01:02:43):
thirty eight pm Eastern time, and you can catch all
the auction on FS one. When it comes to college football,
Ucla got their first win Fellas, and it was a
big one against number seven Penn State. Forty two to
thirty seven was the final score there and exciting from
top to bottom. Nico ilmliava for the Bruins seventeen of

(01:03:03):
twenty four one hundred and sixty six yards, two touchdowns.
He also had sixteen carries for one hundred and twenty
eight yards and three touchdowns. Did a little bit of everything.
Arch Manning did not do a little bit of everything,
which is why number nine Texas lost to Florida twenty
nine to twenty one. But DJ Lagway threw for a
season high two hundred and eighty nine yards and two
touchdowns in the win. Number ten Alabama ended up beating

(01:03:27):
number sixteen Vanderbilt thirty to fourteen. In the second half,
Vanderbilt couldn't score and they were tied.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
At the half.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
And Alabama ended up thirty to fourteen. In overtime. Number
twenty four Virginia survived against Louisville thirty to twenty seven.
Number five Oklahoma crushed can State forty four. A zero
was the final score there. Victory's for number twelve Georgia,
number twenty Michigan, number twenty one Notre Dame, and number
twenty two Illinois, while Cincinnati had the other upset of

(01:03:56):
the day over number fourteen Iowa State coming out on
top third eight to thirty. Guys, what a day.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
What a day?

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Back to you, and it's not even over yet.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
No, Like, we've still got Miami Florida State. They're getting
ready for what is supposed to be the biggest matchup
of the day in the eyes of many. Buck Rising
Jason fitz Bucket fits hanging out with you on Fox
Sports Radio. We're obviously getting caught up on everything that
just happened there, Monsie. Great job, great job getting us
caught up on all the scores, and thanks Dodgers just
continuing to trend. Every single baseball bet that I've made

(01:04:28):
today might as well have been crumpled up paper in
my trash can, because they have all just gone to hell.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
So congratulate Buck.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
You're buying dinner next time, because at this point everything
I'm made from Alabama, I've lost on baseball, so I'm
gonna need you to You're gonna have to front the
dinner bill for the team.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
That's fine, I've been carrying you for years. What's an
extra dinner on my tab?

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Uh? Well, we like to eat fancy. By the way,
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Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
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posted right after we get off the air. So who
would you say, then, Buck Rising, As we go through
a weird day in college football at this point, do
you believe that Alabama is a college football playoff team

(01:05:22):
based on what we know today?

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Do I believe Alabama to be a college football playoff
team based on what we know today? Yeah? I mean,
they're certainly one of the best twelve teams in the country.
I know things are muddled, and I understand that there
is reason to doubt them for the way that they
got hit in the mouth early in the season. And
we'll see Florida State, as you mentioned tonight against Miami.
That should be a highly competitive game. I hate I

(01:05:48):
love it for Virginia, the Virginia one last Friday because
just the spectacle that was and that got Squirrel white
is okay. As we talked about this week, the stay
wide receiver who abounding it inbud from Lion King and
a wildeby stampede. That was the crowdstorming at Virginia's field.
But that would that matchup tonight would have had just
a tiny bit more juice, not that it needs. At

(01:06:10):
Florida State been able to survive Virginia. Alabama is absolutely
a college football playoff team, and you know, just to
pull up the rest of their schedule out of curiosity,
I don't know how much more they're going to be
tested in the way that they have already been tested

(01:06:30):
and frankly fit seed the way that I like this
about championship caliber teams. Just looking at their schedule right now,
They're at Missouri next, then they will have Tennessee in Tuscaloosa,
which will be a fun and electric name. God knows
that will come down to the wire at South Carolina,
who has been disappointing LSU, Oklahoma, Eastern Illinois before they

(01:06:51):
finish at Auburn for the Iron Bowl, So Tennessee for
sure is their biggest test remaining Oklahoma. You know, State
is the worst college football program I think going right now,
so I'm not overwhelmingly impressed by it. What was it
monty forty four to nothing final for the Sooners at
this point in time, But I think that when you

(01:07:12):
look at the way that Alabama was tested early, right
smacked in the mouth by Florida State, as we mentioned,
questions about their finish, about their toughness, about their effort,
and things like that being posed not just by pundits
like you and me, but by people around the sport,
people who have played high level, competitive college football who
would be more qualified to question things like effort. I

(01:07:34):
love the way that they've responded since then, And it's
not just because they handled business against Vanderbilt, but that
Georgia game spoke of volumes to me, because Georgia is
a good football team, Gunterstockton is playing quality football right
now as the starter for them at quarterback, and to
go on the road at Georgia and to still be
able to hold that over Georgia. Fans head in the

(01:07:55):
SEC where they are dealing with a little bit of
PTSD post Nick Saban, but they're like, a maybe we'll
get one over this to poor guy. No, not so fast,
my friends, in truly corso fashion. So I don't know
how you could argue anything. But but again that Tennessee game,
both games at home Tennessee and Oklahoma, two ranked opponents
in LSU looking a bit no pun intended like paper

(01:08:17):
tigers right now with some of their flaws. Their inability
to run the football on offenses is mind boggling to me.
That seems to be an issue for Brian Kelly's teams.
Every year he's been at LSU, some part of their
team will just fail catastrophically in ways that you absolutely
do not expect, whether it's the defense in the Jayden
Daniels year or now what you're dealing with as far

(01:08:38):
as the as far as the rushing attack goes or
lack thereof the Tennessee at home Oklahoma at home that
will further their resume. But I don't see why Alabama
wouldn't be decent favorites in both of those games.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Yeah, And I think that's why, you know, as I
posed it, you know, obviously losing the first.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Game of the year creates some issues with this. They've
gotten such significant wins.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
I think, you know, when you talk about Georgia and
then the Committee's going to value Vanderbilt. There's no doubt
about that in my mind. So now all of a
sudden you look at it and say, okay, Missouri, Tennessee,
those are valuable opponents, presuming the wheels don't.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Work well out way quickly, Fincy before before you go
on there, will the committee value Vanderbilt Because I don't
know what the answer to that question is. We we
are all impressed at to start that Vanderbilt has you know,
five and one now after the loss today, But I mean,
this is this is a helmet logo conversation. Almost the
AP is not valuing Vanderbilt sufficiently. That should have been

(01:09:35):
a top ten football team that just went down to
Tuscaloosa and competed the way that you would expect a
top ten football team too. And yet they were ranked
sixteenth coming into this game, so I don't I don't
know that that's a given they will They will carry value,
of course, and you know, should they continue to win
and handle business, that that should remain the same. But
I don't know what the answer to that question is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
So I'll make the argument, did the APE voters.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
I'm gonna say this gently as gently as I can,
because I know some maybe voters. When you are voting
on who the best schools are in the country Sunday
and you are supposed to have watched enough of all
of the best teams in the country to make those
judgments all day Saturday, how the hell do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
So, like I think the APE pole is just flawed
in its construct.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
The voting should be done on Tuesday so that everybody
gets a couple of days to actually watch the games,
because that doesn't happen. I think that the eight people
poll is wildly flawed. The College Football Playoff Committee is
specifically told in their bylaws to consider game control as
a metric. So while we will see this as a
thirty to fourteen game, what they will look at is
the fact that this game was twenty to fourteen with

(01:10:47):
what six minutes ago. So the game control will call
this a much closer game to the committee than our
eyes will say. So that's why I think Vandy gets
some love here, and you know, frankly, I will mention
this guy. Look, Vandy's I don't think Vandy's gonna go
to the College Football Playoff. They gave Alabama everything Alabama
can handle for most of that game. They have an

(01:11:09):
LSU team that I do think you're right is broken,
a Missouri team that I don't think is all that great,
a Texas team that is going to fall down in
the rankings like that, there is still a very real
path to Vandy ending this year with two losses. Like
I think that's kind of real for this Vandy team,
which is which is shocking to say. But the Alabama

(01:11:31):
portion of it is interesting because they've now picked up
back to back significant wins and they have enough left
on the resume. Like I think that's why if you're
a Bama fan that wants to be able to say, hey,
Alabama is back to being the nick Saban Alabama. I
don't know that that will ever happen, but if your
intent is to be viewed as while we are truly
an elite team, Like I think maybe it's time to

(01:11:52):
take a little bit of the gasoline off of everything
that's around Kaitlin d Borr after this win, Like that's
two straight weeks that his team is come out and
just out execute it all the way down to the
wire against teams that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Are very tough.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Well, and this is this is why I bring up
the way that they started their season is because you
have to have a touch point. You you have to
be humbled, right, I think for any good team or
any at least that you know in the lore of
championship caliber teams, whether they Alabama ends up winning a
national championship under Tayln to Bor far too soon to say.
We'll see what the field looks like and there'll be

(01:12:26):
discussions have once we get closer towards the college football
playoffs being set. But that that touch point of the
opener against Florida State and how Taylan de Boor was
going to find ways to rally his team and how
he was going to have to deal with the incredible
amount of scrutiny that comes with that job where people
are being interviewed about the billion dollar powerball in one

(01:12:48):
of the Alabama One of the people in Alabama is
saying that she would use seventy million to pay the
bores buy out, get the hell, get him the hell
out of it, right, And that was like two weeks in.
So this is one of those moments where you can
either fold or respond as a coach, as a program,
as a roster. And to Alabama's credit, You're not to
get too far ahead of ourselves, right because again, they

(01:13:09):
still do have quality opponents remaining on the schedule, and
they will be tested and they will be pushed, and
they will have to show that they are up to
the moment. You don't want to get too far ahead
of ourselves, even though it's tough not to with how
limited the sample sizes are in college football. I am
I'm just I'm just genuinely impressed so far. Continue to

(01:13:30):
prove it, right, That's that's my whole thing with Alabama.
Continue week by week, show us that you belong at
the table this way rather than just Alabama deserves to
be in the playoff conversation every year, year in and
year out because of what they've done. This is, this is,
this is the new era of college football. Everything that
Alabama accomplished prior to the prior basically to the name,

(01:13:52):
image and likeness era. It doesn't matter to Kaylin de
boor nor should it. It shouldn't matter to the Alabama
fan base. This is a new next Jen Alabama Crimson Tide,
and do you belong in this new environment? Can you
hang in this new environment? And can you prove that
you're better across the board in a variety of different
fronts than a lot of these teams who will have

(01:14:12):
leveled the playing field with you, A lot of these
programs who will have leveled the playing field, whether it
be resources, talent acquisition, or otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
All Right, he's Buck rising. I'm Jason Fitzbuck.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
You get to go get companying, your your hotel, Robin slippers,
You get to dive into a bowl of edible as
long before I do. I still have to finish the
show here, my friend, but I appreciate you hanging out.
We will see you next week, you know, live and
in person on the show as we love to every
single week. Enjoy your time in Phoenix and in the
meantime coming up next even without him, We're still gonna
do it. It's time for the single greatest game show

(01:14:44):
in the history of sports talk radio. Would you rather
comes at you next? Welcome back to Bucking Fits on
Fox Sports Radio. Florida State Miami about to get underway.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
What is a wild day? Just has to have a
while ending.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
It just feels like there has to be a wild
ending to the college football day, no matter what if
you're just tuning in. Ucla took down Penn State the
most shocking result of the day. Florida also upset Texas,
So we will see a wildly different ap pole tomorrow.
When we get this thing going. We will see massive
change in and across college football. And then of course

(01:15:21):
in Major League Baseball, Milwaukee took down the Cubs. The
Toronto Blue Jays just absolutely smoked the Yankees in my
bank account, all at once. And the Phillies are up
three nothing on the Dodgers at the end of the fourth.
So so hey not exactly having the beginning of this
series that most of us expected he would have ian
even without Buck. We will still do this because it's

(01:15:43):
just part of what we do. It's time for wold
you rather rather? There we go?

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
We had had to keep it going. It was good,
all right?

Speaker 7 (01:15:52):
Yeah, I mean it wouldn't be a proper bucking Fits
show without improperly timed Would.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
You rather there's delays? Okay, people don't know it's like that,
Like you and I have a little delay because we're
in different cities. Like, it's not our fault, we were
doing our best.

Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
Proposely did the delay there? That's the difference. I'm glad
to keep it anyway. All right, let's go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
And spend the week. Oh god, that's painful, all right? Fits.

Speaker 7 (01:16:16):
Would you rather every handshake you give last two seconds
too long, or every high five miss slightly off target?

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Oh no, no that situation. No okay, so one hundred percent,
this isn't even close. There is nothing worse than a
bad high five, because then I'm wondering if I screwed
it up, like the handshake that lingers too much? Now,
just got a creepy person, right like, so you know,
it's that's fine, You're just you're weird you hold a
handshake too long. I would also rather have a weirdly

(01:16:45):
long handshake than a weirdly like just limp wet handshake.
Those are gross so for me, even though the weirdly
long handed like when if you and I have a
handshake and it's going too long.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
The first thing I'm doing, I'm not letting go. I'm
making eye contact.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Like I'm gonna gaze into your soul right through your
eyes so that you understand it. Hey, I am not
backing down from this extra long handshake.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I will take that all day. If you high five and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
You miss it now all of a sudden, I'm afraid
immediately that you're going to think that I screwed up
the high five, and then you're gonna tell everybody that
I'm an incompetent high fiver. So you know, yes, and
for anyone that doesn't know you, you look at the elbows,
you just lock up the elbows and then you high five.
And that's you know, what you have to do when
you're middle aged and white, not very athletic, Like we
all have to just like make sure that we lock

(01:17:30):
up elbows so that we get the high fives spot on.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
I'm just saying, like, this is this is, this is
the problem my people have.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
I can't help it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Ian had nothing on that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
He just stayed way away from that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
I mean, I was actually gonna let you get away
with the fact that you explained a handshake as loose
and wet, like no, what that means?

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Oh, we all know, like the person that like only
gives you a few fingers and then you're like loose, yeah,
the loose and then the wet part is like it's
it's that weird, Like is it is that sweat? Or
did you just wash your hands? Or even worse, did
you not wash your hands? In your hands are kind
of just goofy, like what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Okay, that's absolutely disgusting.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Loosewat and goofy. There we go, name my next albu
and landed on this?

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
Would you rather be able to teleport but only to
places you've gotten lost in? Or be able to fly
but only as fast as you're able to walk?

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Flying as fast as I can be able to walk.
I kind of like because I can taunt you. I
can taunt you while I'm flying, right, And the whole
time I'd be like I'm flying like Mary Mack and
I would be on the plane flying over Buck and
we would let him know that he doesn't get the seat. Plus,
like do I still get the accouterments and flying?

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Do I get like the snacks, the peanuts and the drinks? Like,
I'm all in on that. Like so the peanuts, Yeah,
I eat the peanuts, peanuts, I eat all of it.
So I mean, look, the minute somebody hands me free food,
like I it's the reason that I tried to go
to Costco on the days that they don't have the
free sample, because I just can't pass on free food.
Like the poor kid in me cannot pass on free food.

(01:19:03):
I would much rather be able to fly. It must
be able to fly. He ain't got Can you just
give me one more? Or no, you think you can
see he's one.

Speaker 7 (01:19:10):
I'll read one right off the wheel here. So every
would you rather every song you hear get stuck in
your head for exactly twenty four hours you have no
choice about it, or have a very uncommonly hard time
memorizing lyrics to songs.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
I could not remember my lyrics to my own songs.
That's true. When I played live, I always screwed up
my own lyrics. So I'm used to that. So I'll
take that. We'll be back next week's take with Fox
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