January 3, 2025 • 59 mins
This episode of the Sharp Action Daily Podcast dives deep into the chaos of college football playoffs and the impending NFL draft while serving up plenty of humor and heated debates. From analyzing the shocking outcomes of bowl games to contemplating the controversial playoff format, the hosts deliver insightful commentary intermixed with playful banter that keeps fans engaged.
• Michigan's unexpected victory over Alabama sparks broader discussions
• Critique on prominent football analysts and their game-day commentary
• Exploration of the 12-team playoff format and its implications
• The impact of bye weeks on team performance in college athletics
• Predictions on upcoming player advancements to the NFL draft
• Weekly picks shared with entertaining discussions on team performances
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Yes, yes, welcome backeverybody to the sharp action
daily podcast.
I got chris and bags here withme tonight on this new year.
Happy New Year, boys.
We're starting 2020.
We are starting 2025, just howwe ended 2024, with Michigan
beating Alabama.
2024, it was in the Rose Bowland the college football
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playoffs, and in 2025, it was inthe Rewire Quest Bowl in Tampa.
Exciting things, the big badSEC, huh, anyway, yeah, and
Michigan was missing.
Quite a few players that aregoing early in the draft.
Alabama was enough.
Yeah, michigan back-to-backgames, 20-point underdogs and
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winning outright.
Neither here nor there, nobodyreally cares about that game.
We are here to discuss thecollege football playoff.
We can talk about those games.
We can talk about why the SECis one, not what it used to be
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and two, not what everyonethinks it is.
Well, I think we'll get to thata little later, but I'm going
to leave the opening statementfor Chris and his ducks, so I
will let him start tonight.
Opening statement for Chris andhis ducks.
I will let him start tonight.
They never got off the bus.
I don't know what to tell you.
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I know you're trying to be atroll, but they never showed up.
I'm not trying to be a troll.
Yeah, you are.
It's fine, it's okay, we get it.
We know your job.
Yeah, completely know your job.
Yeah, completely outplayedWasn't good.
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Am I a bigger troll than KirkHerbstreet or no?
Kirk Herbstreet's an idiot.
You want me to rant on KirkHerbstreet?
I will, because he is the worstannouncer of all time and he
should be smart and understandreading defenses because he
played quarterback.
But when he's telling whoever'swatching the Rose Bowl that, oh
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, oregon's clearly confused andhaving trouble getting a line
when an Ohio State receiver goesin motion and the linebackers
shift which is completely normaland happens every single time a
receiver goes in motion onevery play that they're confused
.
You're an idiot.
I don't know what game you'rewatching or how you got a job
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talking about football, butyou're a moron and then later in
the game begging for holdingcalls against Oregon's O-line.
Are you serious?
They haven't called shit allgame.
I think.
What'd you say?
They called no penalties untilthe middle of the third quarter.
Correct?
It was the most obvious facemask of all time.
Yeah, by the guy who was alsogetting held by the jersey and
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yanked backwards.
You can call the face mask,though, but still it was
ridiculous.
I'm all for refs notinfluencing the game, but you
got to call some penalties.
I mean, if you're going to tellme there were no penalties
occurring in that game, I'mgoing to tell you you don't know
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what you're watching, but notthat it would have changed the
outcome any.
Oregon just never looked insync, that's it.
I also don't understand thepraise of Will Howard's
beautiful passes all the time,when his receivers are making
miraculous catches, catchingeverything thrown at them.
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Yeah, I mean, it was a.
It was a dot, that ball hethrew to.
Uh, like buka that he caughtfor a touchdown.
That hit the db's hand andbounced into buka's hand, caught
it one-handed amazing throw.
He had all the deep space inthe world.
Just lob it up deep.
What are you doing?
And then jeremiah smith thatmight have been the best throw.
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Will howard had, though,jeremiah smith up the sideline
where he got it in between thecorner and safety and jeremiah
went up to get it.
That dude is massive.
He hit the suey in the end zone.
I don't care what he hit, he'smassive.
How you could ever say thatTravis Hunter is the best
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receiver in college football, Idon't at all understand.
He's not even top 10.
He's probably not even top 10in the Big 12.
No, he's not the best receiveron his own team.
But, chris, I have twoquestions for you.
Go ahead.
Do you think will howard andderrick carr use the same
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eyeliner?
Yes, well, he he's got tobecause, you know, in case they
lose, after the game he goescrying to his mom.
He's got to make sure thatshows.
Hey, hey, that's caleb williamthing.
Don't take that from him.
Nah, caleb's Williams Mom's notcanceling flights.
Yeah, If you're a Will Howard,why would you ever let anyone
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tell that story?
Oh, you were laying in the inthe whatever practice room
crying, called your mom, had hercancel her flight to come be
with you.
I was an NFL team locker roomgoing to respect you.
Oh, they're not going to dothat shit.
I don't think he's going toplay a down of NFL football.
I don't think that was ever anissue.
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I don't think so either.
He's not good.
If Dorian Thompson Robinson canstart games, I'm not going to
rule anything out.
Fair point, don't worry, you'llhave Kirk Cousins next year.
Yeah, we'll get to that.
We can talk about that laterwhen we get to NFL Sitting.
James Smith makes no sense tome.
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Second question Do you think theonly reason Kirk Curbstreet
still has a job is because hisdog died this year?
Yes, no, because he has ashield for the ESPN, whatever,
and he'll say anything.
They want Huge sellout.
Yeah, he should probably payattention to games instead of
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playing with his dog or talkingabout how wins shouldn't matter.
Yeah, I think he's a lot betteron the NFL, or at least he fits
it better on a Thursday night.
But I guess when you only havenine points in a Thursday night
football game.
There's not a lot of analysisneeded, but best game of the
weekend, at least in my opinion,had to be Arizona State and
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Texas.
Mr Scataboo, how high did hisdraft stock climb?
Pretty high, I think he'sreally good and tough, better
than Jenty.
I don't think he's as dynamic,he's just big.
You don't want to talk aboutdynamic.
Dude can throw, catch and runthe whole three Triple threat In
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football.
That's not a thing.
I know we always talk about it,but I feel like that's the
first time at least I've seen inrecent history but correct me
if I'm wrong that a losingplayer got the MVP of the bowl
game the first time in the PeachBowl, for sure, I don't think
it's the first time it's everhappened.
The problem is they vote tooearly.
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Yeah, they voted what withseven minutes left to go in the
game or so.
Yeah, he is still the MVP ofthat game, right?
Yeah, he combined from what washis total scrimmage yards Like
400 something.
That was like 280, 290.
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The biggest issue there Was theand it felt very Bears-esque In
the 2010 Playoffs he got him in4th Chris Conte-esque.
I guess you could say he gothim in 4th In Chris Conte-esque,
I guess you could say.
He got him in fourth inwhatever team, fourth in
whatever team, and he turnedover the top.
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That's like the one thing thatcan't happen.
Yeah, it was not good, not goodat all, no.
But it was good to see ArizonaState have, you know, a little
bark in them after they weretalking shit all week because
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they were the only power team toor sorry, the only conference
champion to really put up afight.
But so did the bye weeks hurt,because even Arizona State came
out flat as all hell giving uptwo quick touchdowns.
The bye week hurts because, atleast in my opinion, football is
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all about repetition.
At least in my opinion,football is all about repetition
.
The problem is it's not just abye week, right, because there's
a week or two in between.
It's three weeks they haven'tplayed football.
Yeah, it's almost what a monthsince conference championship
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week.
Yeah, something like that.
At least weeks, yeah, not thatone year is enough sample size
to get rid of 12 teams.
But this was not a good year.
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So what's the fix?
Do you get rid of the bye or doyou just add more teams so they
, those teams, get first roundgames.
I think you cut four teams,then you host your first round
at home and then you have yourbowl games for your final four,
just like you used to, and thenyour championship, or you have
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the second round of games ashome games, which we talked
about last week.
Brad brought up a point of thecollege football stadiums not
holding these games, but still,I think they could find a way.
Yeah, I mean, I hope theyfigure it out.
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It seems like they're gettingon the right track, but I just
hope these semifinal games areat least entertaining, because
we've only had one good game sofar.
What were the games two yearsago?
They were dog shit.
The National Championship gameshould have been the
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Georgia-Ohio State game.
That was a semifinal game.
When Georgia demolished TCU inthe championship yeah, but we've
had some really a semifinalgame.
Georgia demolished TCU in thechampionship yeah, but we've
some really good semifinal gamesGeorgia, oklahoma, ohio State,
alabama yeah, but there's also Imean, there's also been
blowouts.
It's not like there haven'tbeen.
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Yeah, there's been a lot ofblowouts this year.
Yeah, but then we get the great, then we get the classics, like
the Alabama-Georgia one whenTua comes in.
So we've had some yin and someyang NFL too.
That's why I don't think weshould cut from 12 to 8 for next
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year.
You've got to let it play outat least probably two more years
and see what shakes out.
Unfortunately, I'd rather haveit have been 8, but that's
neither here nor there.
Yeah, and I think we saw,especially with this year, with
kind of how things were playingout, that we kind of knew that
the teams that were not going toget the buys were going to have
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a stronger case in advance.
Yeah, I also don't thinkthere's any balance in the
bracket.
There was a conclusion we cameto was well, georgia doesn't
have a quarterback.
They have to rely on solelytheir defense and hope they can
hold them to seven points, whichwas right.
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And then Boise is unfortunatelygetting bounced by Penn State
nine times out of ten.
Boise ran into a good rundefense and that's all they had,
although they didn't play thatbad.
That was a game for a while itwas, I agree, but still they're
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losing that game nine times outof ten.
Yeah, and anyone who's talkingshit about Ashton Gentry after
that game that he couldn't getanything going, he was getting
hit in the backfield and stillbreaking three and four tackles.
I mean he did everything hecould.
No, there's no doubt.
But when you look at it, I meanyour.
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One true team this year thatstood out in the regular season
was the Oregon Ducks, and theyplayed what almost feels like
the national championship in thequarterfinals.
Yeah, I think those were thebest two teams in the country.
Unfortunately, I don't thinkDan Lanning's a listener.
If he was, he would havelistened to me and threw the Big
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Ten championship.
You can't do that year one inthe Big Ten, as much as I wanted
him to do it, you can't.
You have to win the Big Ten.
You've won.
They almost did lose that gamethough.
So we're really going to watchOhio State just slap around Penn
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State in two weeks, probably,yeah, or Notre Dame who?
I mean they won.
They didn't look great though.
So see whatever you want.
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That's why I placed that wagerthis morning, because it was
over.
They don't play anybody else.
That was it.
That was the game they had towin.
Granted, it is really hard tobeat a good college football
team twice.
That's funny.
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Georgia beat Texas twice.
A lot of emphasis on the yeah.
So Texas sucks right.
They're not good.
Who do they play?
Not played anyone except forGeorgia Twice and they got beat
twice.
What's Texas' best win?
At Michigan, maybe that's itVanderbilt.
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At Michigan, maybe, yeah,that's it Vanderbilt.
I don't get it.
And yet you've got all theseidiots like Kirk talking about
how strength of schedule or NickSaban strength of schedule has
to matter.
How did Texas have the 17thranked strength of schedule?
They played no one.
They had supposedly a harderschedule than Ohio State.
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Who played Oregon, indiana andPenn State?
How?
And two of those three were onthe road.
How does that math make anysense?
Is strength of schedule aformula-driven statistic or is
it opinion-based's?
It's fully opinion based.
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It has to be.
The only way you could evermake strength of schedule
legitimate is by the rank ofthat team.
If they were ranked at the timeyou played them.
But that doesn't make senseeither, because fsu was what?
10 at the beginning of the year, right?
So it doesn't matter.
No, it's illegitimate.
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And you have so many teamsplaying unbalanced schedules
because these conferences are sobig, there's no way that you
can put together a real strengthof schedule metric.
And that strength of schedulemetric probably doesn't take
into account how many time zonesthe Big Ten is traveling
Whereas the SEC walks down thestreet and we play eight
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conference games too.
You get to play Mercer week 11.
Here you go, playoff race downto the wire.
No worries, we'll get you inMercer Easy one.
Here's your buy-in.
That is the way.
That's an option.
That's what every school shoulddo.
You get healthy.
It's basically a bye week.
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You can just do what Notre Damedoes and not be in a conference
.
Why have conferences at thispoint?
I agree, I don't get it, butthen you're going to have even
more.
Be the North and the South, orjust hear me out.
Hear me out.
We could go to the SEC, the ACC, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, so
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we have regions.
We've never had one.
No, never had one.
You're right.
That makes no, makes no sense.
No, it makes no sense.
This is so dumb.
Every decision I feel like theymake goes from bad to worse,
and there's no one in control.
I don't want Nick Saban incontrol.
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I don't care what JamesFranklin says.
Could they make a decision,though, that we would agree with
they?
Can they make a decision,though, that we would agree with
?
They can't make a decision thateveryone would agree with,
because college fans are sofanatical and delusional that
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they can't see the big picture.
It's unfortunate, but you're ahundred percent right, so we'll
see what they do.
Hey, uh, we're on collegefootball.
Well, uh, how about the poptart bowl?
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See the strawberry?
Uh, pop tart rose from the dead.
I love the cinnamon roll, orsomething One.
What, what did we do here?
Uh, the cinnamon?
Yeah, like cinnamon sticks orsomething one.
What did we do here?
The cinnamon?
Yeah, like cinnamon sticks orcinnamon bun, yeah, yeah, yeah,
whatever it was.
Yeah, that was the Pop-Tart ofchoice for the edible trophy.
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That's fantastic.
I don't care what anybody says.
That's great.
If you want to make bowl gamesmean something again, just do
more of that crap.
Right, make them enjoyable towatch.
Yeah, it wasn't enjoyable.
It fucking sucked.
The Pop-Tart was fucking aroundwith the ref.
I was highly irritated.
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Just let him run wild.
Who's your mascot in the RelyEquest Bowl, though?
Something doing to suit, Idon't know, probably like a
finance.
What about the Rape Bowl?
Yeah, it's okay.
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Duke's Mayo Bowl coming up, dumpsome mayo on somebody.
Is that in Charlotte?
That's fun.
You want to watch that becauseyou want to see some shit happen
.
It is in Charlotte.
You want to watch that becauseyou want to see some shit happen
.
It is in Charlotte.
You should go, I could go, Ishould go.
It's in Charlotte tomorrow.
Sharp Action Daily will pay foryou to go.
Pay for your tickets.
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Oh yeah, I need a live streamfrom the game.
Yes, you need to throw mayo onthe field.
You just have to sit in thestands with a bottle of Heinz
mayonnaise, just keep eating,just stick my finger in the jar
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and just start eating mayo.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think the most, yeah, but Idon't know.
I think the most important thinghere is I don't hate the
12-team playoff.
It's fun.
I'm happy we get these extragames to watch.
However, there has to be abetter way to do it.
Your bracket needs to be morebalanced.
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Like I can, yeah, I understandmy 4 or my five bouncing the 12
by 20, but your 8-9 game can'tbe an automatic blowout.
Your 7-10 game can't be anautomatic.
Like you can't have a twopoints or 10 plus points spread
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in these games.
I'm worried that that's allwe're going to get.
Going forward, you're going tohave and I'm not going to say
it's teams that spend money, butI don't think things are
getting.
There was no good team, greatteam this year.
Ohio State was probably themost talented by far, but they
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didn't want to play until now,which is interesting, but I mean
, everyone else was kind of upor down.
It wasn't that great.
Yeah, no, you're right Wrappingup our college football talk
for today, chris, i'll'll letyou going back to that pop-tart
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bowl.
I'll let you talk about my uhfavorite quarterback, cam ward.
So my question is and I giveyou my opinion after but do you
think it really matters or doyou care that cam ward left at
halftime after quote unquotebreaking the record for most
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touchdown passes?
No, malik neighbors did thesame thing last year.
Nobody really cared.
I mean does.
Is anybody gonna remember thescore of the 2025 Pop-Tart Bowl?
No, but those offensive linemensit drinking beers at the dive.
They'll remember blocking forthe Miami all-time passing
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leader Records are cool.
If you got a chance to break it, you might as well go for it.
I'm shocked Saquon's not goingfor the rushing record this
weekend.
I agree, I don't care that CamWard left.
There's people and I probablygot to stop reading Twitter
because it's driving me insanebut people tell them that the
NFL will hold that against you.
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The NFL does not care.
They care if you're a goodquarterback and Cam Ward is that
, but also I don't know thatthat's a real record.
I mean mean, half his touchdownpasses came at the incarnate
word.
I don't know that that reallycounts.
Okay, if that doesn't count,then I mean we could go what is
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that kid's name?
Rick nick nash, rick nap.
Whoever the San Jose State widereceiver is, he had a third of
his yards against FCS schoolsand touchdowns, yeah, no problem
, you can only play those onyour schedule.
Everyone put up.
Cam Ward was playing for an FCSschool, which I don't know how.
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That's a huge mess by a lot ofcolleges.
That's a huge mess, yeah, by alot of colleges.
He was a zero.
He was no stars.
Look at Scataboo, fucking nostars FCS school.
So wait, they could come backnext year and play.
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No, fcs schools are not juicos.
By the way, I never got mycongratulations on my now
returned college eligibility.
Congratulations, you can't useit.
I can use it.
You have to use whatever.
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All five years or four yearswithin your first five years of
college.
Yeah, joey's, still got it.
How old are you?
I do not.
I do not still got it.
Why?
When did you play baseball atCOD.
No, I used up all four yearsWithin the first five years.
You can play one more year.
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Let's go.
I'm going back.
Baby, are you going to doschool or just sports?
I'm hopping in the transferportal.
He wants his NIL money.
He's not playing unless he'sgetting paid.
Yeah, I'm getting a degree intelekinesis.
Probably that's what they dodown in Bama, I heard.
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So I'm in Anywho.
Anything else we want to talkabout college?
No, we don't want to talk aboutBuffalo's getting waxed one
more time.
I'm sorry.
We don't want to talk about theBuffalo's getting waxed one
more time.
I'm sorry.
We don't want to talk about theBuffaloes getting waxed in the
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Alamo Bowl.
That was entertaining.
It's the Alamo Bowl.
Who gives a fuck?
I don't care.
The video of Shador Shadorsitting on the bench talking to
Travis Hunter saying I justcan't figure out their defense
was entertaining to me.
I don't mind, shador, he has anarm.
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He can become good.
I don't think he's the topquarterback right now.
He's not your first pick.
Are there any?
Yeah, are there anyquarterbacks?
You come in and you're like,yeah, this guy's gonna be good
in the NFL.
Cam Ward, cam Ward's my onlythought, because it seems like
the game moves so slow for him.
He's like Luka Doncic, justtearing up defenses with minimal
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effort, nonchalant, so relaxedit's almost bad.
It's too relaxed, it'sinfuriating.
At times it's like dude move,can you please try to give a
shit just the one time, come on,especially when you have money
on them.
They don't kill you.
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Yeah, nfl, well, we'lltransition the NFL.
We'll start with the draft.
Uh, the giants winning in themost giants fashion ever.
They give up the one pick thedraft for.
To start, today we have newengland on the clock, followed
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by tennessee.
Than the browns they move backto like what?
Four?
Yeah, by winning that game.
Yep, fucking stupid.
Drew Locke also, just want topoint out, had the sixth best
quarterback performance of alltime, all time, behind Peyton
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Manning twice and Tom Brady once.
The other one was like a 2020Lamar Jackson, the MVP.
We'll get to that now.
I don't understand that, but goahead.
It was by points per play orsomething like that.
He averaged 1.8 points per play.
But just how dysfunctional arethe Giants Like?
Drew Locke's been playingcompetently.
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He was the backup all year.
Then, when they get rid ofDaniel Jones, they let Tommy
Cutlet sling him around for acouple weeks.
What are they doing?
That's because Tommy Cutlet wasyour golden boy last year.
He probably made you more moneyin ticket sales and jersey
sales than Daniel Jones made youin three years.
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Hey, but you know who?
Sorry, go ahead.
I was just going to say youknow who does tanking, right?
No Bears, no, my ClevelandBrowns.
They know how to lose betterthan anybody.
Put DTR in, yeah, put Jameis onthe IR for a non-disclosed
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injury and just lose.
I think the Giants problem ormaybe let's say this differently
Drew Locke's problem is heprobably sucks in practice, so
he just looks like dog shit andno one thinks he's going to be
any good, so they start comingto veto over him.
But when you put Drew Locke inthe game, he can be serviceable.
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Yeah, he should be on a roster.
I think he played himself intoone last week.
Yeah, he'll be a Shador'sbackup.
So is somebody going to tradefor JJ McCarthy then, because
there's no quarterbacks in thedraft?
No, I just think someone'sgoing to pay the Piper for Sam
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Darnold, and it's not theVikings.
I think the Vikings have to payhim.
They do, and it's going to belike a five or six year minimum
contract.
Okay, so here's a question foryou who's going to be like a
five or six year minimumcontract?
Okay?
So here's a question for youwho's gonna get more money, sam
darnold or brock purdy?
Same darn old, same thing.
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Or the consensus in the nfl, Ithink, is that Brock Purdy is
only good for San Francisco.
How is that not the case withDarnold, that he's only good in
this Minnesota system?
That made Kirk Cousins lookgood and now he leaves the
statue.
Kirk Cousins only looked goodin third and fourth quarter
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after they were down 20.
Let's not get carried away.
Yeah, but Brett, it's not wrong.
I mean, sam Darnold was seeingghosts four years ago in New
York.
He was a child.
That was more than four yearsago.
Didn't the Vikings get CaseKeenum 13 wins?
They did.
They revived TeddyBridgewater's career.
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They did.
They revived TeddyBridgewater's career.
Didn't the New England Patriotsget Matt Castle 12 wins.
I just named four Vikingsquarterbacks.
So Was Kevin O'Connell therefor any of them?
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Kirk Cousins, that's it.
And I think Kirk Cousins wasn'tany different in Minnesota than
he was in Washington.
I don't know.
That's why we're not GMs.
I don't know who I'd takebetween those two.
Probably Darnold.
I think he throws a better ball.
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He's bigger, stronger.
But I don't know who I'd takebetween those two.
Probably Donald.
I think he throws a better ball, he's bigger, stronger.
But it'll be interesting to see.
Kirk Cousins, I guess, is goingto the Browns, so I guess we can
pounce on that.
There's interest.
Would you welcome that as aBrowns fan?
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No, no, no, god, I hope not.
So I get to hear the.
We get a preacher in the lockerroom with a masseuse and just
like Miles Garrett, like this isjust, you got two preachers in
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the locker room.
You got Kirk Cousins and JamesWinston.
Oh, that's right, convictedfelon.
So pick one.
You get either DTR, deshaunWatson or Kirk Cousins.
Who do you want?
I'll take Kirk Because Kirkwill start they restructured the
Deshaun deal or Kirk Cousins.
Who do you want?
I'll take Kirk because Kirkwill start.
They restructured the Deshaundeal again, so we're stuck with
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him for two more years.
Unfortunately, they alreadysaid he's coming back next year.
They'll get rid of Jameis andthey'll get rid of DTR.
They'll probably keep Zappy.
So the quarterback room will beZappy, deshaun and Kirk.
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How smart does that Atlanta GMlook now, after probably one of
the worst draft picks ever?
Doesn't look that bad anymore.
Just the signing looks bad.
But it's just money.
Who cares?
Speaking of going back andlooking at drafts, I believe we
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weren't all together at the timebut people were ripping the
Lions for drafting Jameer Gibbsso high.
They look pretty smart nowbecause that dude looks unreal.
Yes, montgomery, going down onlocked him.
Yeah, I agree with you, I thinkhe looks great and he
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definitely fits well with theirsystem.
But at the same time, I alsothink, if you throw me behind
the Lions, no line I can get atleast three yards a run.
Yeah, but he's not gettingthree yards a run.
I understand, but I'm justputting that into perspective.
Fair, I know he's not gettingthree yards per carry, but I'm
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just saying I think that's thenumbers I would put up and,
granted, I'm at least gettinghit in the backfield four times
a game.
So I don't know.
Yes, he looks great, but youhave to remember he also has a
fantastic team around him with areally good pass game and a
really good O-line.
True, it was a good draft.
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There's no doubt.
Joe, you know who the Bearsshould draft.
I'm sorry, you know who theBears should draft.
Who should the Bears draft?
Fred, jente, jente.
This is like the 15th time I'veheard this.
We just saw what happens whenAshton Jente goes up against a
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Power 5 O-line with a non-Power5 O-line or goes against a Power
5 defense with a non-Power 5O-line.
That's what the Bears have.
We need offensive linemen.
The Bears have a legitimatenon-Power 5 O-line.
You could put any of those guyson a Power 5 O-line and they
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would not be the best player.
That's how bad it is, and Ilike Ryan Poles only for the
fact of that Carolina tradewhich almost fell in his lap.
And then Caleb Williams fallsin your lap the next year, which
is great.
It's because he made that tradea good job.
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You can't draft O-linemen, youcan't prospect O-linemen for
shit.
You're scouting.
Whatever team he has around himhas to go.
Oh, he has to be fired.
A hundred percent Correct.
It's either him or he needs tofind new scouts, especially for
O-line, because it's his buddythat he played with in college
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and they both sucked at O-line.
That's why they that he playedwith in college and they both
sucked at O-line.
That's why they never made itin the NFL and that's why
they're GMs now.
It's his assistant GM or viceGM or whatever the fuck you want
to call it, but still they'reboth bad.
They were both bad O-linemenand they think they can draft
guys that were like them becausethey think they were good Guess
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what Weren't fucking good.
It was the same thing he hadwith Eddie he thought he was a
good old lineman and he was inthe NFL for a decent amount of
time.
No, dude, you're a head coachfor a reason.
Dudes your age are stillfucking playing.
You're not good.
You can't draft guys like youbecause they suck.
I don't want 20 locker roomguys, I need like two.
You already got one, mercedesLewis, although he cannot still
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be on the team again.
Why?
He's a captain.
He's 100 years old.
He's like Johnny Evans, alegend of the club.
I will say the one thing aboutCaleb Williams that I have seen
this year that I have liked alot is his attitude.
All right, we're not talkingabout any more people that
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haven't won a game in two months.
Oh, so we can't talk about theBrowns anymore?
Nope.
Does it worry you that theBrowns are $17 million over the
projected 2025 cap?
Nope, I don't care.
There's nothing going on.
Does it worry anybody that theSaints are $65 million over the
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2025 cap?
No, why does this happen everyyear?
Because they just restructureand push it off down the road.
I have bigger issues.
I'm not fucking worried aboutit next year Because they just
restructure and push it off downthe road.
I have bigger issues.
Who the fuck are we worriedabout?
Next year, we're going tochange 52 guys' contracts.
I have a much bigger issue toworry about.
What's that?
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Who the fuck's going to playbaseball for the Chicago White
Sox this year?
Why does it matter?
What do you mean, dude?
Mike Tauchman, starting centerfielder who, yeah, exactly,
welcome to Chicago.
The two was already here.
He was across the town lastyear, but no one knows that.
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Because no one knows who thefuck he is.
Oh God, that's right.
At least they're.
At the rate.
Now they took away the G spotfrom me.
You can't even call it thatanymore.
To uh Wrap up the previous topic, you wanna hear my bold
Prediction for where Sam Darnoldgoes?
Sure, pittsburgh Steelers.
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No, I have a bold prediction.
No, steelers.
No, I have a bold prediction.
No, the Steelers are going toresign.
Russell Wilson, yes, yes, why?
He is the Steeler guy.
That's what he is, but he's MrUnlimited.
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Alright, max, what's your boldprediction?
I think he's going to Tennesseeand they're keeping Will Levis.
Does Tennessee have any money?
When's the last time they'vepaid somebody?
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Exactly Tony Pollard Last year.
The Titans have $65 million incap space for next year.
Yeah, rejected.
Is Darnold getting Baker?
I think we already talked aboutthis.
We did, I told you he talkedabout this.
We did, I told you he's gettinglow 40s.
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Probably the other quarterbackthing I don't understand.
The Cowboys have beeneliminated.
They're done.
Why is Trey Lance not playing?
Because he sucks.
He's that bad.
Yeah, that's another guy that'sjust got to be fucking terrible
in practice.
Right, he's played.
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What if he thinks he was good?
He wasn't good in college.
He's never played, so why wouldwe think he can be an NFL
quarterback?
I understand that, but if yourseason's over with, why not let
the guy go out there and getsome reps?
You've never played quarterback.
Should we let you go out thereand get reps?
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Yeah, the Cowboys drafted thirdoverall, not by the team that
he's on.
Yeah, the 49ers.
Imagine if they didn't getPurdy they would have had such a
bad whiff.
Yep, almost MitchellTrubisky-esque man.
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We don't got to say thatMitchell Trubisky went to a
playoff game at least.
Yeah, he's an MVP.
He's the MVP.
Hang on a minute Withdisrespect.
Mvp of what MVP?
The same thing, the same.
The Nickelodeon valuable personwe may see?
Yeah, what are you talkingabout?
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Mitch, one for one with atouchdown this past weekend.
I don't know what disrespectyou're throwing, my bad.
So what quarterbacks are goingto be on the move?
Kirk Cousins, justin Fields?
Okay, justin Fields is probablygoing to New Orleans.
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No, I can see that they can't.
They can't, they can't get ridof the car.
Atlanta, the backup, pennix runthe same kind of system you run.
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Now throw them on the Raiders.
That's what I was going to say.
Just go to the Raiders.
Maybe they'll draft Skadabooand then they can just run a
read option all day long.
That'd be entertaining.
Just run a college offense.
Shit the commander's doing now.
Fuck it.
Yeah, I think I get it.
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Because there's what?
Two quarterbacks?
What teams are going to draftthe quarterback?
The Giants and the Browns,titans and the Browns?
Because there's what twoquarterbacks?
What teams are going to draftthe quarterback?
The Giants and the Browns,titans and the Browns, giants,
titans, browns.
Yeah, that's trouble.
That Giants win might have setthem back a decade, but do you
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see, maybe, but who would theypick anyway?
Cam Ward, that's it.
Who the Giants?
Yeah, no, they wanted Chidor.
It might have saved them whatit might have saved them.
Who has the first pick rightnow?
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New England, new England.
They're going to trade out ofthat, oh for sure, because they
can get the guy they need orwant at 10.
I hate to say this, but I thinkthe Patriots win this weekend,
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so I don't think they're goingto be picking first.
Who do they play?
Buffalo, buffalo's backups and,I think, gerard Mayo's coaching
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for his job in year one.
Yes, with a rookie quarterback,yes, how has that season
completely flipped?
You went from beating the theBengals week one and looking
like you knew what you weredoing to potentially being on
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the hot seat by the end of theyear.
He's got to be fired, it's just.
Does Robert Kraft have thestones to say he was wrong and
he fucked up?
Because Gerard Mayo is thecoach in waiting?
Yada, yada, yada, but we'll see.
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I think that's where we'regoing.
It's a five-year, $19 milliondeal.
They're not firing him.
Year one, we'll see.
If Mike Brown wasn't so cheap,I think they'd fire Zach Taylor.
They probably should.
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They probably should have threeyears ago.
Speaking of the Bengals, joeBurrow should win MVP, right?
Yes, even when they miss theplayoffs.
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I think you're going to have ahard time giving it to them then
.
But my problem is, if you'recomplaining that they can't give
it to Josh Allen becauseLamar's stats are better, then
you can't give it to Lamar overBurrow, and you'd have to then
explain to me how Lamar won itlast year, because his stats
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weren't better than any guy'slast year.
No, so I don't really get it.
And also this horseshit theyput on X about oh well, josh
Allen's white that's why he'sgetting the votes Holds no water
when Lamar's won two MVPsalready.
The MVP is just the quarterbackwith the best record with the
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most standalone games afterThanksgiving.
That seems ridiculous.
But I don't get a vote, so itdoesn't really matter.
We should get a vote.
We can petition to get one.
We're sports media.
We should get an AP vote.
There you go.
We should get an AP vote.
That'd actually be fun.
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Maybe that's something we cando.
I'm in, let's apply.
Come on, we get to choose apointless college football
rankings that make no sense.
No, ours actually wouldn't makesense.
They'd probably kick us outafter year one for making too
much sense.
They'd hate us.
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We wouldn't put any SEC teamsin our top 10.
Us out after year one formaking too much sense.
They'd hate us.
Furman ranked 25th in thecountry.
Who, furman?
Furman?
Week 18, we got incentives, somake sure you're paying
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attention to those, becausepeople want to get them.
Mike Evans, geno Smith has one.
Tony Pollard, tony Pollard.
Zach Ertz I thought Zach Ertzhit most of his last week in
overtime.
Yeah, he needs another.
I think he needs 90 yards foranother one.
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Doubt he gets it, though.
I need a lot of yards.
Yeah, geno needs 185.
Passing Hopkins one touchdown,six catches and 140 for
three-quarters of a million.
Kyler Murray one rushingtouchdown and 50 yards for
three-quarters of a million.
Kyler Murray one rushingtouchdown and 50 yards for three
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quarters of a million.
Derek Henry one touchdown forhalf a million.
And they're still playing.
Someone, excuse me, stillplaying for something?
Yeah, well, do you think theBengals beat the Steelers this
week?
Yep, well, do you think theBengals beat the Steelers this
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week?
Yep, yeah, yeah, why not?
I don't know.
I feel like it's a little bitof a toss-up.
The issue is the Broncos aregoing to lose to the Chiefs, but
then the fucking Dolphins aregoing to win, so we're going to
watch Snoop Huntley Go ahead.
The Broncos are going to lose.
Snoop Huntley Go ahead.
The Braggers are going to loseto the Chiefs.
Backups yes, oh, okay.
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Mahomes is playing.
He's not playing.
You don't think Carson WentzCarson Wentz, super Bowl
champion, mvp, asterisk MVPcould win?
Yeah, asterisk MVP no, no,carson Wentz is not good.
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He's better than DorianThompson-Robinson.
A lot of people are better thanhim.
How do you feel about KirbyJoseph not making the Pro Bowl?
He didn't make it.
No, because players and coachesapparently didn't vote him in
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Whoa.
Greg Joseph, make it no.
Who's the line?
Safety branch?
Brian branch, yeah, he made itright, I assume.
So, oh, I didn't see him.
I just saw the uproar about theperson who leads the league in
interceptions not making itbecause everyone thinks he's
dirty.
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Well, maybe he is.
By the way, chris, you saidsomething earlier about staying
off Twitter.
I don't know if any of you guyshave been keeping up, but all
he needs to stay on Twitter isRoman Dunzey's father.
I've never seen it.
Oh my God, that dude does nothide his opinions about the
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Bears at all.
Oh God, someone tweeted out.
It was like Roma Dunes wouldhave 1,000 yards on any other
NFC North team.
He quote tweets and goes 1,500.
1,500.
Someone get this dude offTwitter.
If I had to think about afather being an issue on the
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Bears, I thought it would beCaleb's dad, not Roma Dune's dad
.
No, never saw that one coming.
But speaking of Twitter, let'smove into the picks.
Boys were hot last week 7-2,right, 7-2.
Chris, what is everybody forthe year?
We got Bradley at 26 and 25,bags at 23 and 28, and I am at
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24 and 27.
Put this at 73 and 80.
All right, I feel like you'reall regular old White Sox season
.
Hey, we're climbing back to 500.
I'm going to get it started offhot and heavy with the Baltimore
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Ravens minus 20.5.
Okay, against the Browns.
That's a lot of points.
I don't care.
Dorian Thompson-Robinson's aquarterback.
Until he covers the spread orlet alone gets a first down, I
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am going to fade in.
He sucks.
The Browns are going to lose.
The Ravens actually have toplay for something 35-10, exact
score, or your first.
Write that down, too.
Written down.
All right, my first game.
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I'm going to take a team thatneeds to go into Sunday.
Take care of business.
I'm going to take the Bucsminus 13.5 at home against the
Saints.
Darren Rizzi doesn't scare you.
No, I don't even know who thatis.
Who Saints coach?
Spencer Rattler?
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No, definitely doesn't showMichael Thomas.
I can't believe they werefavorites last week against
Oakland.
Alright, for my first pick I'mgoing to take.
I'm going to the kids, I'mgoing to Charlotte.
I'm going to the Mayo Bowl.
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I'm going to take MinnesotaMinus the Mayo Bowl.
I take Minnesota Minus eightand a half against Virginia Tech
.
I don't know that anyone forVirginia Tech is playing in this
game.
Drones and Schley are both out.
I don't know who's playingquarterback.
It looks like most of Minnesotais there.
I think four or five receiversfor Virginia Tech her out.
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I think they're top runningbacks out.
Yeah, minnesota minus 80million.
Are you going to row the boat?
We're going to row the boat allthe way to the bank.
All right, all right, I like it.
I like it.
For my second pick, I'm going tothe hottest team in the country
.
I'm going to take Ohio Stateminus six and a half in the
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Cotton Bowl against Texas.
I think we're going to getanother podcast out before that
happens.
But okay, when is that game?
It's next weekend, not even.
I thought it was like a weekfrom yesterday.
No, it's next weekend.
Not even I thought it was likea week from yesterday.
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No, it's next weekend.
There's 10 days in betweenyesterday and the next game.
So nine days from today wouldbe next Saturday.
My bad, I saw the Orange Bowlwas the ninth.
I just assumed it would be thatday.
I get audible out of that.
While you do that, I'll throwout my second pick here.
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For my number two, I'm going totake the Chiefs plus 10.5
against the Broncos.
I understand their backups, butI don't think the Broncos are
really blowing anybody out andthe Chiefs are still 15-1, and
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those backups have definitelystill been playing.
So I'm going to go with theChiefs.
What's 10.5?
I like it.
For my second pick, I'm going tothe adults.
I'm going to go Washington atDallas over 44 and a half.
Uh, I don't think either teamplays defense and for some
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reason they both score points,even if they pull Jaden Daniels
at some point, because who cares?
I still think Mariotta's yeah,all right.
Going back to my second pick, Iwill take the Bengals Steelers.
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Scratch that.
I'm going to take the Jets plusone and a half at home against
the Dolphins.
I believe we're getting SnoopHuntley Right, chris?
I don't know that one's not onmy radar.
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Yeah, it says Tua's up in theair.
Assuming that's Snoop Huntley,I don't care, jets are at home.
I think Aaron Rodgers is goingto try.
I'll take the Jets plus one anda half on Sunday and then for
my third pick.
So it really threw me for acurveball I will be taking.
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Give me Xavier Moneyline plus105 tomorrow at Georgetown, or,
sorry, tonight at Georgetown.
If Xavier loses this game, Ican't wait for Joey to buy me
dinner.
They win this game.
Vice versa, it all comes downto this game.
Joey, if Xavier wins, I'mbuying you dinner.
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Yeah, remember, we went overthis.
If Xavier finishes six or worse, yeah, I have five or under.
Yeah, you have five or higher,yeah, so if Xavier wins, you're
buying me there.
Yes, that's that.
Inversely Flip-flopped it.
No worries, sorry, apologies.
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Yep, that is Jets and Xavierfor my second and third pick.
Chris, you want to go ahead withyour third pick.
I got my third one for dramatic.
Um, I'm having to change mythird pick because you took my
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bucks minus 13 and a half.
So glad we're on the same pageon that one.
I'm gonna go with the Cardinals, minus 13 and a half.
So glad we're on the same pageon that one.
I'm gonna go with the cardinalsminus four and a half against
san francisco.
Cardinals are at home.
We'll get, uh, the astronautjosh dobbs playing quarterback
for san francisco I'm not surewho else is even playing for san
francisco or if that teamreally gives a shit anymore.
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Uh, kyler murray needs to runaround like an idiot for a
little bit to get someincentives.
Cardinals minus 4.5.
Yeah, I'm going to do somethingthis weekend that I have never
done in my life and I don'tthink I thought I would ever do
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in my life.
You're winning.
Think highlight we are not.
I'm also not going to behitting the ping pong tables
this weekend, or the KBO.
However, there is a game onSunday between the Chicago Bears
and the Green Bay Packers,which is like my Super Bowl
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twice a year, because I don'tget to play in the playoffs, so
relax.
However, I understand that theBears are 4-11 and have lost 9,
10 straight, whatever it is, 10straight, whatever it is.
But you know, to quote afantastic movie, they might win
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this game nine times out of ten.
If anyone knows what movie I'mreferring to, that is Miracle on
Ice where the following line isbut that night is not tonight.
However, that night isdefinitely tonight.
The Packers are going to murderthe Bears.
I'm going to take the Packersminus 10.
Also, you have a funny story.
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No, I have a very funny storyabout the 1980 US Olympics
semifinal game, if anyone wouldbe interested in hearing it.
No, we can save that for nextweek.
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I got chris and bags here withme tonight on this new year.
Happy New Year, boys.
We're starting 2020.
We are starting 2025, just howwe ended 2024, with Michigan
beating Alabama.
2024, it was in the Rose Bowland the college football
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playoffs, and in 2025, it was inthe Rewire Quest Bowl in Tampa.
Exciting things, the big badSEC, huh, anyway, yeah, and
Michigan was missing.
Quite a few players that aregoing early in the draft.
Alabama was enough.
Yeah, michigan back-to-backgames, 20-point underdogs and
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winning outright.
Neither here nor there, nobodyreally cares about that game.
We are here to discuss thecollege football playoff.
We can talk about those games.
We can talk about why the SECis one, not what it used to be
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and two, not what everyonethinks it is.
Well, I think we'll get to thata little later, but I'm going
to leave the opening statementfor Chris and his ducks, so I
will let him start tonight.
Opening statement for Chris andhis ducks.
I will let him start tonight.
They never got off the bus.
I don't know what to tell you.
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I know you're trying to be atroll, but they never showed up.
I'm not trying to be a troll.
Yeah, you are.
It's fine, it's okay, we get it.
We know your job.
Yeah, completely know your job.
Yeah, completely outplayedWasn't good.
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Am I a bigger troll than KirkHerbstreet or no?
Kirk Herbstreet's an idiot.
You want me to rant on KirkHerbstreet?
I will, because he is the worstannouncer of all time and he
should be smart and understandreading defenses because he
played quarterback.
But when he's telling whoever'swatching the Rose Bowl that, oh
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, oregon's clearly confused andhaving trouble getting a line
when an Ohio State receiver goesin motion and the linebackers
shift which is completely normaland happens every single time a
receiver goes in motion onevery play that they're confused
.
You're an idiot.
I don't know what game you'rewatching or how you got a job
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talking about football, butyou're a moron and then later in
the game begging for holdingcalls against Oregon's O-line.
Are you serious?
They haven't called shit allgame.
I think.
What'd you say?
They called no penalties untilthe middle of the third quarter.
Correct?
It was the most obvious facemask of all time.
Yeah, by the guy who was alsogetting held by the jersey and
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yanked backwards.
You can call the face mask,though, but still it was
ridiculous.
I'm all for refs notinfluencing the game, but you
got to call some penalties.
I mean, if you're going to tellme there were no penalties
occurring in that game, I'mgoing to tell you you don't know
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what you're watching, but notthat it would have changed the
outcome any.
Oregon just never looked insync, that's it.
I also don't understand thepraise of Will Howard's
beautiful passes all the time,when his receivers are making
miraculous catches, catchingeverything thrown at them.
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Yeah, I mean, it was a.
It was a dot, that ball hethrew to.
Uh, like buka that he caughtfor a touchdown.
That hit the db's hand andbounced into buka's hand, caught
it one-handed amazing throw.
He had all the deep space inthe world.
Just lob it up deep.
What are you doing?
And then jeremiah smith thatmight have been the best throw.
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Will howard had, though,jeremiah smith up the sideline
where he got it in between thecorner and safety and jeremiah
went up to get it.
That dude is massive.
He hit the suey in the end zone.
I don't care what he hit, he'smassive.
How you could ever say thatTravis Hunter is the best
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receiver in college football, Idon't at all understand.
He's not even top 10.
He's probably not even top 10in the Big 12.
No, he's not the best receiveron his own team.
But, chris, I have twoquestions for you.
Go ahead.
Do you think will howard andderrick carr use the same
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eyeliner?
Yes, well, he he's got tobecause, you know, in case they
lose, after the game he goescrying to his mom.
He's got to make sure thatshows.
Hey, hey, that's caleb williamthing.
Don't take that from him.
Nah, caleb's Williams Mom's notcanceling flights.
Yeah, If you're a Will Howard,why would you ever let anyone
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tell that story?
Oh, you were laying in the inthe whatever practice room
crying, called your mom, had hercancel her flight to come be
with you.
I was an NFL team locker roomgoing to respect you.
Oh, they're not going to dothat shit.
I don't think he's going toplay a down of NFL football.
I don't think that was ever anissue.
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I don't think so either.
He's not good.
If Dorian Thompson Robinson canstart games, I'm not going to
rule anything out.
Fair point, don't worry, you'llhave Kirk Cousins next year.
Yeah, we'll get to that.
We can talk about that laterwhen we get to NFL Sitting.
James Smith makes no sense tome.
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Second question Do you think theonly reason Kirk Curbstreet
still has a job is because hisdog died this year?
Yes, no, because he has ashield for the ESPN, whatever,
and he'll say anything.
They want Huge sellout.
Yeah, he should probably payattention to games instead of
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playing with his dog or talkingabout how wins shouldn't matter.
Yeah, I think he's a lot betteron the NFL, or at least he fits
it better on a Thursday night.
But I guess when you only havenine points in a Thursday night
football game.
There's not a lot of analysisneeded, but best game of the
weekend, at least in my opinion,had to be Arizona State and
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Texas.
Mr Scataboo, how high did hisdraft stock climb?
Pretty high, I think he'sreally good and tough, better
than Jenty.
I don't think he's as dynamic,he's just big.
You don't want to talk aboutdynamic.
Dude can throw, catch and runthe whole three Triple threat In
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football.
That's not a thing.
I know we always talk about it,but I feel like that's the
first time at least I've seen inrecent history but correct me
if I'm wrong that a losingplayer got the MVP of the bowl
game the first time in the PeachBowl, for sure, I don't think
it's the first time it's everhappened.
The problem is they vote tooearly.
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Yeah, they voted what withseven minutes left to go in the
game or so.
Yeah, he is still the MVP ofthat game, right?
Yeah, he combined from what washis total scrimmage yards Like
400 something.
That was like 280, 290.
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The biggest issue there Was theand it felt very Bears-esque In
the 2010 Playoffs he got him in4th Chris Conte-esque.
I guess you could say he gothim in 4th In Chris Conte-esque,
I guess you could say.
He got him in fourth inwhatever team, fourth in
whatever team, and he turnedover the top.
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That's like the one thing thatcan't happen.
Yeah, it was not good, not goodat all, no.
But it was good to see ArizonaState have, you know, a little
bark in them after they weretalking shit all week because
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they were the only power team toor sorry, the only conference
champion to really put up afight.
But so did the bye weeks hurt,because even Arizona State came
out flat as all hell giving uptwo quick touchdowns.
The bye week hurts because, atleast in my opinion, football is
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all about repetition.
At least in my opinion,football is all about repetition
.
The problem is it's not just abye week, right, because there's
a week or two in between.
It's three weeks they haven'tplayed football.
Yeah, it's almost what a monthsince conference championship
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week.
Yeah, something like that.
At least weeks, yeah, not thatone year is enough sample size
to get rid of 12 teams.
But this was not a good year.
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So what's the fix?
Do you get rid of the bye or doyou just add more teams so they
, those teams, get first roundgames.
I think you cut four teams,then you host your first round
at home and then you have yourbowl games for your final four,
just like you used to, and thenyour championship, or you have
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the second round of games ashome games, which we talked
about last week.
Brad brought up a point of thecollege football stadiums not
holding these games, but still,I think they could find a way.
Yeah, I mean, I hope theyfigure it out.
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It seems like they're gettingon the right track, but I just
hope these semifinal games areat least entertaining, because
we've only had one good game sofar.
What were the games two yearsago?
They were dog shit.
The National Championship gameshould have been the
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Georgia-Ohio State game.
That was a semifinal game.
When Georgia demolished TCU inthe championship yeah, but we've
had some really a semifinalgame.
Georgia demolished TCU in thechampionship yeah, but we've
some really good semifinal gamesGeorgia, oklahoma, ohio State,
alabama yeah, but there's also Imean, there's also been
blowouts.
It's not like there haven'tbeen.
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Yeah, there's been a lot ofblowouts this year.
Yeah, but then we get the great, then we get the classics, like
the Alabama-Georgia one whenTua comes in.
So we've had some yin and someyang NFL too.
That's why I don't think weshould cut from 12 to 8 for next
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year.
You've got to let it play outat least probably two more years
and see what shakes out.
Unfortunately, I'd rather haveit have been 8, but that's
neither here nor there.
Yeah, and I think we saw,especially with this year, with
kind of how things were playingout, that we kind of knew that
the teams that were not going toget the buys were going to have
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a stronger case in advance.
Yeah, I also don't thinkthere's any balance in the
bracket.
There was a conclusion we cameto was well, georgia doesn't
have a quarterback.
They have to rely on solelytheir defense and hope they can
hold them to seven points, whichwas right.
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And then Boise is unfortunatelygetting bounced by Penn State
nine times out of ten.
Boise ran into a good rundefense and that's all they had,
although they didn't play thatbad.
That was a game for a while itwas, I agree, but still they're
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losing that game nine times outof ten.
Yeah, and anyone who's talkingshit about Ashton Gentry after
that game that he couldn't getanything going, he was getting
hit in the backfield and stillbreaking three and four tackles.
I mean he did everything hecould.
No, there's no doubt.
But when you look at it, I meanyour.
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One true team this year thatstood out in the regular season
was the Oregon Ducks, and theyplayed what almost feels like
the national championship in thequarterfinals.
Yeah, I think those were thebest two teams in the country.
Unfortunately, I don't thinkDan Lanning's a listener.
If he was, he would havelistened to me and threw the Big
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Ten championship.
You can't do that year one inthe Big Ten, as much as I wanted
him to do it, you can't.
You have to win the Big Ten.
You've won.
They almost did lose that gamethough.
So we're really going to watchOhio State just slap around Penn
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State in two weeks, probably,yeah, or Notre Dame who?
I mean they won.
They didn't look great though.
So see whatever you want.
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That's why I placed that wagerthis morning, because it was
over.
They don't play anybody else.
That was it.
That was the game they had towin.
Granted, it is really hard tobeat a good college football
team twice.
That's funny.
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Georgia beat Texas twice.
A lot of emphasis on the yeah.
So Texas sucks right.
They're not good.
Who do they play?
Not played anyone except forGeorgia Twice and they got beat
twice.
What's Texas' best win?
At Michigan, maybe that's itVanderbilt.
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At Michigan, maybe, yeah,that's it Vanderbilt.
I don't get it.
And yet you've got all theseidiots like Kirk talking about
how strength of schedule or NickSaban strength of schedule has
to matter.
How did Texas have the 17thranked strength of schedule?
They played no one.
They had supposedly a harderschedule than Ohio State.
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Who played Oregon, indiana andPenn State?
How?
And two of those three were onthe road.
How does that math make anysense?
Is strength of schedule aformula-driven statistic or is
it opinion-based's?
It's fully opinion based.
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It has to be.
The only way you could evermake strength of schedule
legitimate is by the rank ofthat team.
If they were ranked at the timeyou played them.
But that doesn't make senseeither, because fsu was what?
10 at the beginning of the year, right?
So it doesn't matter.
No, it's illegitimate.
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And you have so many teamsplaying unbalanced schedules
because these conferences are sobig, there's no way that you
can put together a real strengthof schedule metric.
And that strength of schedulemetric probably doesn't take
into account how many time zonesthe Big Ten is traveling
Whereas the SEC walks down thestreet and we play eight
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conference games too.
You get to play Mercer week 11.
Here you go, playoff race downto the wire.
No worries, we'll get you inMercer Easy one.
Here's your buy-in.
That is the way.
That's an option.
That's what every school shoulddo.
You get healthy.
It's basically a bye week.
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You can just do what Notre Damedoes and not be in a conference
.
Why have conferences at thispoint?
I agree, I don't get it, butthen you're going to have even
more.
Be the North and the South, orjust hear me out.
Hear me out.
We could go to the SEC, the ACC, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, so
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we have regions.
We've never had one.
No, never had one.
You're right.
That makes no, makes no sense.
No, it makes no sense.
This is so dumb.
Every decision I feel like theymake goes from bad to worse,
and there's no one in control.
I don't want Nick Saban incontrol.
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I don't care what JamesFranklin says.
Could they make a decision,though, that we would agree with
they?
Can they make a decision,though, that we would agree with
?
They can't make a decision thateveryone would agree with,
because college fans are sofanatical and delusional that
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they can't see the big picture.
It's unfortunate, but you're ahundred percent right, so we'll
see what they do.
Hey, uh, we're on collegefootball.
Well, uh, how about the poptart bowl?
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See the strawberry?
Uh, pop tart rose from the dead.
I love the cinnamon roll, orsomething One.
What, what did we do here?
Uh, the cinnamon?
Yeah, like cinnamon sticks orsomething one.
What did we do here?
The cinnamon?
Yeah, like cinnamon sticks orcinnamon bun, yeah, yeah, yeah,
whatever it was.
Yeah, that was the Pop-Tart ofchoice for the edible trophy.
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That's fantastic.
I don't care what anybody says.
That's great.
If you want to make bowl gamesmean something again, just do
more of that crap.
Right, make them enjoyable towatch.
Yeah, it wasn't enjoyable.
It fucking sucked.
The Pop-Tart was fucking aroundwith the ref.
I was highly irritated.
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Just let him run wild.
Who's your mascot in the RelyEquest Bowl, though?
Something doing to suit, Idon't know, probably like a
finance.
What about the Rape Bowl?
Yeah, it's okay.
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Duke's Mayo Bowl coming up, dumpsome mayo on somebody.
Is that in Charlotte?
That's fun.
You want to watch that becauseyou want to see some shit happen
.
It is in Charlotte.
You want to watch that becauseyou want to see some shit happen
.
It is in Charlotte.
You should go, I could go, Ishould go.
It's in Charlotte tomorrow.
Sharp Action Daily will pay foryou to go.
Pay for your tickets.
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Oh yeah, I need a live streamfrom the game.
Yes, you need to throw mayo onthe field.
You just have to sit in thestands with a bottle of Heinz
mayonnaise, just keep eating,just stick my finger in the jar
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and just start eating mayo.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think the most, yeah, but Idon't know.
I think the most important thinghere is I don't hate the
12-team playoff.
It's fun.
I'm happy we get these extragames to watch.
However, there has to be abetter way to do it.
Your bracket needs to be morebalanced.
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Like I can, yeah, I understandmy 4 or my five bouncing the 12
by 20, but your 8-9 game can'tbe an automatic blowout.
Your 7-10 game can't be anautomatic.
Like you can't have a twopoints or 10 plus points spread
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in these games.
I'm worried that that's allwe're going to get.
Going forward, you're going tohave and I'm not going to say
it's teams that spend money, butI don't think things are
getting.
There was no good team, greatteam this year.
Ohio State was probably themost talented by far, but they
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didn't want to play until now,which is interesting, but I mean
, everyone else was kind of upor down.
It wasn't that great.
Yeah, no, you're right Wrappingup our college football talk
for today, chris, i'll'll letyou going back to that pop-tart
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bowl.
I'll let you talk about my uhfavorite quarterback, cam ward.
So my question is and I giveyou my opinion after but do you
think it really matters or doyou care that cam ward left at
halftime after quote unquotebreaking the record for most
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touchdown passes?
No, malik neighbors did thesame thing last year.
Nobody really cared.
I mean does.
Is anybody gonna remember thescore of the 2025 Pop-Tart Bowl?
No, but those offensive linemensit drinking beers at the dive.
They'll remember blocking forthe Miami all-time passing
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leader Records are cool.
If you got a chance to break it, you might as well go for it.
I'm shocked Saquon's not goingfor the rushing record this
weekend.
I agree, I don't care that CamWard left.
There's people and I probablygot to stop reading Twitter
because it's driving me insanebut people tell them that the
NFL will hold that against you.
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The NFL does not care.
They care if you're a goodquarterback and Cam Ward is that
, but also I don't know thatthat's a real record.
I mean mean, half his touchdownpasses came at the incarnate
word.
I don't know that that reallycounts.
Okay, if that doesn't count,then I mean we could go what is
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that kid's name?
Rick nick nash, rick nap.
Whoever the San Jose State widereceiver is, he had a third of
his yards against FCS schoolsand touchdowns, yeah, no problem
, you can only play those onyour schedule.
Everyone put up.
Cam Ward was playing for an FCSschool, which I don't know how.
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That's a huge mess by a lot ofcolleges.
That's a huge mess, yeah, by alot of colleges.
He was a zero.
He was no stars.
Look at Scataboo, fucking nostars FCS school.
So wait, they could come backnext year and play.
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No, fcs schools are not juicos.
By the way, I never got mycongratulations on my now
returned college eligibility.
Congratulations, you can't useit.
I can use it.
You have to use whatever.
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All five years or four yearswithin your first five years of
college.
Yeah, joey's, still got it.
How old are you?
I do not.
I do not still got it.
Why?
When did you play baseball atCOD.
No, I used up all four yearsWithin the first five years.
You can play one more year.
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Let's go.
I'm going back.
Baby, are you going to doschool or just sports?
I'm hopping in the transferportal.
He wants his NIL money.
He's not playing unless he'sgetting paid.
Yeah, I'm getting a degree intelekinesis.
Probably that's what they dodown in Bama, I heard.
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So I'm in Anywho.
Anything else we want to talkabout college?
No, we don't want to talk aboutBuffalo's getting waxed one
more time.
I'm sorry.
We don't want to talk about theBuffalo's getting waxed one
more time.
I'm sorry.
We don't want to talk about theBuffaloes getting waxed in the
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Alamo Bowl.
That was entertaining.
It's the Alamo Bowl.
Who gives a fuck?
I don't care.
The video of Shador Shadorsitting on the bench talking to
Travis Hunter saying I justcan't figure out their defense
was entertaining to me.
I don't mind, shador, he has anarm.
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He can become good.
I don't think he's the topquarterback right now.
He's not your first pick.
Are there any?
Yeah, are there anyquarterbacks?
You come in and you're like,yeah, this guy's gonna be good
in the NFL.
Cam Ward, cam Ward's my onlythought, because it seems like
the game moves so slow for him.
He's like Luka Doncic, justtearing up defenses with minimal
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effort, nonchalant, so relaxedit's almost bad.
It's too relaxed, it'sinfuriating.
At times it's like dude move,can you please try to give a
shit just the one time, come on,especially when you have money
on them.
They don't kill you.
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Yeah, nfl, well, we'lltransition the NFL.
We'll start with the draft.
Uh, the giants winning in themost giants fashion ever.
They give up the one pick thedraft for.
To start, today we have newengland on the clock, followed
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by tennessee.
Than the browns they move backto like what?
Four?
Yeah, by winning that game.
Yep, fucking stupid.
Drew Locke also, just want topoint out, had the sixth best
quarterback performance of alltime, all time, behind Peyton
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Manning twice and Tom Brady once.
The other one was like a 2020Lamar Jackson, the MVP.
We'll get to that now.
I don't understand that, but goahead.
It was by points per play orsomething like that.
He averaged 1.8 points per play.
But just how dysfunctional arethe Giants Like?
Drew Locke's been playingcompetently.
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He was the backup all year.
Then, when they get rid ofDaniel Jones, they let Tommy
Cutlet sling him around for acouple weeks.
What are they doing?
That's because Tommy Cutlet wasyour golden boy last year.
He probably made you more moneyin ticket sales and jersey
sales than Daniel Jones made youin three years.
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Hey, but you know who?
Sorry, go ahead.
I was just going to say youknow who does tanking, right?
No Bears, no, my ClevelandBrowns.
They know how to lose betterthan anybody.
Put DTR in, yeah, put Jameis onthe IR for a non-disclosed
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injury and just lose.
I think the Giants problem ormaybe let's say this differently
Drew Locke's problem is heprobably sucks in practice, so
he just looks like dog shit andno one thinks he's going to be
any good, so they start comingto veto over him.
But when you put Drew Locke inthe game, he can be serviceable.
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Yeah, he should be on a roster.
I think he played himself intoone last week.
Yeah, he'll be a Shador'sbackup.
So is somebody going to tradefor JJ McCarthy then, because
there's no quarterbacks in thedraft?
No, I just think someone'sgoing to pay the Piper for Sam
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Darnold, and it's not theVikings.
I think the Vikings have to payhim.
They do, and it's going to belike a five or six year minimum
contract.
Okay, so here's a question foryou who's going to be like a
five or six year minimumcontract?
Okay?
So here's a question for youwho's gonna get more money, sam
darnold or brock purdy?
Same darn old, same thing.
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Or the consensus in the nfl, Ithink, is that Brock Purdy is
only good for San Francisco.
How is that not the case withDarnold, that he's only good in
this Minnesota system?
That made Kirk Cousins lookgood and now he leaves the
statue.
Kirk Cousins only looked goodin third and fourth quarter
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after they were down 20.
Let's not get carried away.
Yeah, but Brett, it's not wrong.
I mean, sam Darnold was seeingghosts four years ago in New
York.
He was a child.
That was more than four yearsago.
Didn't the Vikings get CaseKeenum 13 wins?
They did.
They revived TeddyBridgewater's career.
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They did.
They revived TeddyBridgewater's career.
Didn't the New England Patriotsget Matt Castle 12 wins.
I just named four Vikingsquarterbacks.
So Was Kevin O'Connell therefor any of them?
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Kirk Cousins, that's it.
And I think Kirk Cousins wasn'tany different in Minnesota than
he was in Washington.
I don't know.
That's why we're not GMs.
I don't know who I'd takebetween those two.
Probably Darnold.
I think he throws a better ball.
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He's bigger, stronger.
But I don't know who I'd takebetween those two.
Probably Donald.
I think he throws a better ball, he's bigger, stronger.
But it'll be interesting to see.
Kirk Cousins, I guess, is goingto the Browns, so I guess we can
pounce on that.
There's interest.
Would you welcome that as aBrowns fan?
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No, no, no, god, I hope not.
So I get to hear the.
We get a preacher in the lockerroom with a masseuse and just
like Miles Garrett, like this isjust, you got two preachers in
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the locker room.
You got Kirk Cousins and JamesWinston.
Oh, that's right, convictedfelon.
So pick one.
You get either DTR, deshaunWatson or Kirk Cousins.
Who do you want?
I'll take Kirk Because Kirkwill start they restructured the
Deshaun deal or Kirk Cousins.
Who do you want?
I'll take Kirk because Kirkwill start.
They restructured the Deshaundeal again, so we're stuck with
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him for two more years.
Unfortunately, they alreadysaid he's coming back next year.
They'll get rid of Jameis andthey'll get rid of DTR.
They'll probably keep Zappy.
So the quarterback room will beZappy, deshaun and Kirk.
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How smart does that Atlanta GMlook now, after probably one of
the worst draft picks ever?
Doesn't look that bad anymore.
Just the signing looks bad.
But it's just money.
Who cares?
Speaking of going back andlooking at drafts, I believe we
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weren't all together at the timebut people were ripping the
Lions for drafting Jameer Gibbsso high.
They look pretty smart nowbecause that dude looks unreal.
Yes, montgomery, going down onlocked him.
Yeah, I agree with you, I thinkhe looks great and he
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definitely fits well with theirsystem.
But at the same time, I alsothink, if you throw me behind
the Lions, no line I can get atleast three yards a run.
Yeah, but he's not gettingthree yards a run.
I understand, but I'm justputting that into perspective.
Fair, I know he's not gettingthree yards per carry, but I'm
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just saying I think that's thenumbers I would put up and,
granted, I'm at least gettinghit in the backfield four times
a game.
So I don't know.
Yes, he looks great, but youhave to remember he also has a
fantastic team around him with areally good pass game and a
really good O-line.
True, it was a good draft.
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There's no doubt.
Joe, you know who the Bearsshould draft.
I'm sorry, you know who theBears should draft.
Who should the Bears draft?
Fred, jente, jente.
This is like the 15th time I'veheard this.
We just saw what happens whenAshton Jente goes up against a
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Power 5 O-line with a non-Power5 O-line or goes against a Power
5 defense with a non-Power 5O-line.
That's what the Bears have.
We need offensive linemen.
The Bears have a legitimatenon-Power 5 O-line.
You could put any of those guyson a Power 5 O-line and they
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would not be the best player.
That's how bad it is, and Ilike Ryan Poles only for the
fact of that Carolina tradewhich almost fell in his lap.
And then Caleb Williams fallsin your lap the next year, which
is great.
It's because he made that tradea good job.
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You can't draft O-linemen, youcan't prospect O-linemen for
shit.
You're scouting.
Whatever team he has around himhas to go.
Oh, he has to be fired.
A hundred percent Correct.
It's either him or he needs tofind new scouts, especially for
O-line, because it's his buddythat he played with in college
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and they both sucked at O-line.
That's why they that he playedwith in college and they both
sucked at O-line.
That's why they never made itin the NFL and that's why
they're GMs now.
It's his assistant GM or viceGM or whatever the fuck you want
to call it, but still they'reboth bad.
They were both bad O-linemenand they think they can draft
guys that were like them becausethey think they were good Guess
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what Weren't fucking good.
It was the same thing he hadwith Eddie he thought he was a
good old lineman and he was inthe NFL for a decent amount of
time.
No, dude, you're a head coachfor a reason.
Dudes your age are stillfucking playing.
You're not good.
You can't draft guys like youbecause they suck.
I don't want 20 locker roomguys, I need like two.
You already got one, mercedesLewis, although he cannot still
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be on the team again.
Why?
He's a captain.
He's 100 years old.
He's like Johnny Evans, alegend of the club.
I will say the one thing aboutCaleb Williams that I have seen
this year that I have liked alot is his attitude.
All right, we're not talkingabout any more people that
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haven't won a game in two months.
Oh, so we can't talk about theBrowns anymore?
Nope.
Does it worry you that theBrowns are $17 million over the
projected 2025 cap?
Nope, I don't care.
There's nothing going on.
Does it worry anybody that theSaints are $65 million over the
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2025 cap?
No, why does this happen everyyear?
Because they just restructureand push it off down the road.
I have bigger issues.
I'm not fucking worried aboutit next year Because they just
restructure and push it off downthe road.
I have bigger issues.
Who the fuck are we worriedabout?
Next year, we're going tochange 52 guys' contracts.
I have a much bigger issue toworry about.
What's that?
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Who the fuck's going to playbaseball for the Chicago White
Sox this year?
Why does it matter?
What do you mean, dude?
Mike Tauchman, starting centerfielder who, yeah, exactly,
welcome to Chicago.
The two was already here.
He was across the town lastyear, but no one knows that.
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Because no one knows who thefuck he is.
Oh God, that's right.
At least they're.
At the rate.
Now they took away the G spotfrom me.
You can't even call it thatanymore.
To uh Wrap up the previous topic, you wanna hear my bold
Prediction for where Sam Darnoldgoes?
Sure, pittsburgh Steelers.
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No, I have a bold prediction.
No, steelers.
No, I have a bold prediction.
No, the Steelers are going toresign.
Russell Wilson, yes, yes, why?
He is the Steeler guy.
That's what he is, but he's MrUnlimited.
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Alright, max, what's your boldprediction?
I think he's going to Tennesseeand they're keeping Will Levis.
Does Tennessee have any money?
When's the last time they'vepaid somebody?
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Exactly Tony Pollard Last year.
The Titans have $65 million incap space for next year.
Yeah, rejected.
Is Darnold getting Baker?
I think we already talked aboutthis.
We did, I told you he talkedabout this.
We did, I told you he's gettinglow 40s.
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Probably the other quarterbackthing I don't understand.
The Cowboys have beeneliminated.
They're done.
Why is Trey Lance not playing?
Because he sucks.
He's that bad.
Yeah, that's another guy that'sjust got to be fucking terrible
in practice.
Right, he's played.
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What if he thinks he was good?
He wasn't good in college.
He's never played, so why wouldwe think he can be an NFL
quarterback?
I understand that, but if yourseason's over with, why not let
the guy go out there and getsome reps?
You've never played quarterback.
Should we let you go out thereand get reps?
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Yeah, the Cowboys drafted thirdoverall, not by the team that
he's on.
Yeah, the 49ers.
Imagine if they didn't getPurdy they would have had such a
bad whiff.
Yep, almost MitchellTrubisky-esque man.
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We don't got to say thatMitchell Trubisky went to a
playoff game at least.
Yeah, he's an MVP.
He's the MVP.
Hang on a minute Withdisrespect.
Mvp of what MVP?
The same thing, the same.
The Nickelodeon valuable personwe may see?
Yeah, what are you talkingabout?
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Mitch, one for one with atouchdown this past weekend.
I don't know what disrespectyou're throwing, my bad.
So what quarterbacks are goingto be on the move?
Kirk Cousins, justin Fields?
Okay, justin Fields is probablygoing to New Orleans.
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No, I can see that they can't.
They can't, they can't get ridof the car.
Atlanta, the backup, pennix runthe same kind of system you run.
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Now throw them on the Raiders.
That's what I was going to say.
Just go to the Raiders.
Maybe they'll draft Skadabooand then they can just run a
read option all day long.
That'd be entertaining.
Just run a college offense.
Shit the commander's doing now.
Fuck it.
Yeah, I think I get it.
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Because there's what?
Two quarterbacks?
What teams are going to draftthe quarterback?
The Giants and the Browns,titans and the Browns?
Because there's what twoquarterbacks?
What teams are going to draftthe quarterback?
The Giants and the Browns,titans and the Browns, giants,
titans, browns.
Yeah, that's trouble.
That Giants win might have setthem back a decade, but do you
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see, maybe, but who would theypick anyway?
Cam Ward, that's it.
Who the Giants?
Yeah, no, they wanted Chidor.
It might have saved them whatit might have saved them.
Who has the first pick rightnow?
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New England, new England.
They're going to trade out ofthat, oh for sure, because they
can get the guy they need orwant at 10.
I hate to say this, but I thinkthe Patriots win this weekend,
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so I don't think they're goingto be picking first.
Who do they play?
Buffalo, buffalo's backups and,I think, gerard Mayo's coaching
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for his job in year one.
Yes, with a rookie quarterback,yes, how has that season
completely flipped?
You went from beating the theBengals week one and looking
like you knew what you weredoing to potentially being on
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the hot seat by the end of theyear.
He's got to be fired, it's just.
Does Robert Kraft have thestones to say he was wrong and
he fucked up?
Because Gerard Mayo is thecoach in waiting?
Yada, yada, yada, but we'll see.
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I think that's where we'regoing.
It's a five-year, $19 milliondeal.
They're not firing him.
Year one, we'll see.
If Mike Brown wasn't so cheap,I think they'd fire Zach Taylor.
They probably should.
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They probably should have threeyears ago.
Speaking of the Bengals, joeBurrow should win MVP, right?
Yes, even when they miss theplayoffs.
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I think you're going to have ahard time giving it to them then
.
But my problem is, if you'recomplaining that they can't give
it to Josh Allen becauseLamar's stats are better, then
you can't give it to Lamar overBurrow, and you'd have to then
explain to me how Lamar won itlast year, because his stats
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weren't better than any guy'slast year.
No, so I don't really get it.
And also this horseshit theyput on X about oh well, josh
Allen's white that's why he'sgetting the votes Holds no water
when Lamar's won two MVPsalready.
The MVP is just the quarterbackwith the best record with the
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most standalone games afterThanksgiving.
That seems ridiculous.
But I don't get a vote, so itdoesn't really matter.
We should get a vote.
We can petition to get one.
We're sports media.
We should get an AP vote.
There you go.
We should get an AP vote.
That'd actually be fun.
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Maybe that's something we cando.
I'm in, let's apply.
Come on, we get to choose apointless college football
rankings that make no sense.
No, ours actually wouldn't makesense.
They'd probably kick us outafter year one for making too
much sense.
They'd hate us.
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We wouldn't put any SEC teamsin our top 10.
Us out after year one formaking too much sense.
They'd hate us.
Furman ranked 25th in thecountry.
Who, furman?
Furman?
Week 18, we got incentives, somake sure you're paying
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attention to those, becausepeople want to get them.
Mike Evans, geno Smith has one.
Tony Pollard, tony Pollard.
Zach Ertz I thought Zach Ertzhit most of his last week in
overtime.
Yeah, he needs another.
I think he needs 90 yards foranother one.
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Doubt he gets it, though.
I need a lot of yards.
Yeah, geno needs 185.
Passing Hopkins one touchdown,six catches and 140 for
three-quarters of a million.
Kyler Murray one rushingtouchdown and 50 yards for
three-quarters of a million.
Kyler Murray one rushingtouchdown and 50 yards for three
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quarters of a million.
Derek Henry one touchdown forhalf a million.
And they're still playing.
Someone, excuse me, stillplaying for something?
Yeah, well, do you think theBengals beat the Steelers this
week?
Yep, well, do you think theBengals beat the Steelers this
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week?
Yep, yeah, yeah, why not?
I don't know.
I feel like it's a little bitof a toss-up.
The issue is the Broncos aregoing to lose to the Chiefs, but
then the fucking Dolphins aregoing to win, so we're going to
watch Snoop Huntley Go ahead.
The Broncos are going to lose.
Snoop Huntley Go ahead.
The Braggers are going to loseto the Chiefs.
Backups yes, oh, okay.
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Mahomes is playing.
He's not playing.
You don't think Carson WentzCarson Wentz, super Bowl
champion, mvp, asterisk MVPcould win?
Yeah, asterisk MVP no, no,carson Wentz is not good.
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He's better than DorianThompson-Robinson.
A lot of people are better thanhim.
How do you feel about KirbyJoseph not making the Pro Bowl?
He didn't make it.
No, because players and coachesapparently didn't vote him in
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Whoa.
Greg Joseph, make it no.
Who's the line?
Safety branch?
Brian branch, yeah, he made itright, I assume.
So, oh, I didn't see him.
I just saw the uproar about theperson who leads the league in
interceptions not making itbecause everyone thinks he's
dirty.
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Well, maybe he is.
By the way, chris, you saidsomething earlier about staying
off Twitter.
I don't know if any of you guyshave been keeping up, but all
he needs to stay on Twitter isRoman Dunzey's father.
I've never seen it.
Oh my God, that dude does nothide his opinions about the
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Bears at all.
Oh God, someone tweeted out.
It was like Roma Dunes wouldhave 1,000 yards on any other
NFC North team.
He quote tweets and goes 1,500.
1,500.
Someone get this dude offTwitter.
If I had to think about afather being an issue on the
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Bears, I thought it would beCaleb's dad, not Roma Dune's dad
.
No, never saw that one coming.
But speaking of Twitter, let'smove into the picks.
Boys were hot last week 7-2,right, 7-2.
Chris, what is everybody forthe year?
We got Bradley at 26 and 25,bags at 23 and 28, and I am at
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24 and 27.
Put this at 73 and 80.
All right, I feel like you'reall regular old White Sox season
.
Hey, we're climbing back to 500.
I'm going to get it started offhot and heavy with the Baltimore
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Ravens minus 20.5.
Okay, against the Browns.
That's a lot of points.
I don't care.
Dorian Thompson-Robinson's aquarterback.
Until he covers the spread orlet alone gets a first down, I
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am going to fade in.
He sucks.
The Browns are going to lose.
The Ravens actually have toplay for something 35-10, exact
score, or your first.
Write that down, too.
Written down.
All right, my first game.
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I'm going to take a team thatneeds to go into Sunday.
Take care of business.
I'm going to take the Bucsminus 13.5 at home against the
Saints.
Darren Rizzi doesn't scare you.
No, I don't even know who thatis.
Who Saints coach?
Spencer Rattler?
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No, definitely doesn't showMichael Thomas.
I can't believe they werefavorites last week against
Oakland.
Alright, for my first pick I'mgoing to take.
I'm going to the kids, I'mgoing to Charlotte.
I'm going to the Mayo Bowl.
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I'm going to take MinnesotaMinus the Mayo Bowl.
I take Minnesota Minus eightand a half against Virginia Tech
.
I don't know that anyone forVirginia Tech is playing in this
game.
Drones and Schley are both out.
I don't know who's playingquarterback.
It looks like most of Minnesotais there.
I think four or five receiversfor Virginia Tech her out.
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I think they're top runningbacks out.
Yeah, minnesota minus 80million.
Are you going to row the boat?
We're going to row the boat allthe way to the bank.
All right, all right, I like it.
I like it.
For my second pick, I'm going tothe hottest team in the country
.
I'm going to take Ohio Stateminus six and a half in the
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Cotton Bowl against Texas.
I think we're going to getanother podcast out before that
happens.
But okay, when is that game?
It's next weekend, not even.
I thought it was like a weekfrom yesterday.
No, it's next weekend.
Not even I thought it was likea week from yesterday.
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No, it's next weekend.
There's 10 days in betweenyesterday and the next game.
So nine days from today wouldbe next Saturday.
My bad, I saw the Orange Bowlwas the ninth.
I just assumed it would be thatday.
I get audible out of that.
While you do that, I'll throwout my second pick here.
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For my number two, I'm going totake the Chiefs plus 10.5
against the Broncos.
I understand their backups, butI don't think the Broncos are
really blowing anybody out andthe Chiefs are still 15-1, and
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those backups have definitelystill been playing.
So I'm going to go with theChiefs.
What's 10.5?
I like it.
For my second pick, I'm going tothe adults.
I'm going to go Washington atDallas over 44 and a half.
Uh, I don't think either teamplays defense and for some
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reason they both score points,even if they pull Jaden Daniels
at some point, because who cares?
I still think Mariotta's yeah,all right.
Going back to my second pick, Iwill take the Bengals Steelers.
(55:23):
Scratch that.
I'm going to take the Jets plusone and a half at home against
the Dolphins.
I believe we're getting SnoopHuntley Right, chris?
I don't know that one's not onmy radar.
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Yeah, it says Tua's up in theair.
Assuming that's Snoop Huntley,I don't care, jets are at home.
I think Aaron Rodgers is goingto try.
I'll take the Jets plus one anda half on Sunday and then for
my third pick.
So it really threw me for acurveball I will be taking.
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Give me Xavier Moneyline plus105 tomorrow at Georgetown, or,
sorry, tonight at Georgetown.
If Xavier loses this game, Ican't wait for Joey to buy me
dinner.
They win this game.
Vice versa, it all comes downto this game.
Joey, if Xavier wins, I'mbuying you dinner.
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Yeah, remember, we went overthis.
If Xavier finishes six or worse, yeah, I have five or under.
Yeah, you have five or higher,yeah, so if Xavier wins, you're
buying me there.
Yes, that's that.
Inversely Flip-flopped it.
No worries, sorry, apologies.
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Yep, that is Jets and Xavierfor my second and third pick.
Chris, you want to go ahead withyour third pick.
I got my third one for dramatic.
Um, I'm having to change mythird pick because you took my
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bucks minus 13 and a half.
So glad we're on the same pageon that one.
I'm gonna go with the Cardinals, minus 13 and a half.
So glad we're on the same pageon that one.
I'm gonna go with the cardinalsminus four and a half against
san francisco.
Cardinals are at home.
We'll get, uh, the astronautjosh dobbs playing quarterback
for san francisco I'm not surewho else is even playing for san
francisco or if that teamreally gives a shit anymore.
(57:33):
Uh, kyler murray needs to runaround like an idiot for a
little bit to get someincentives.
Cardinals minus 4.5.
Yeah, I'm going to do somethingthis weekend that I have never
done in my life and I don'tthink I thought I would ever do
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in my life.
You're winning.
Think highlight we are not.
I'm also not going to behitting the ping pong tables
this weekend, or the KBO.
However, there is a game onSunday between the Chicago Bears
and the Green Bay Packers,which is like my Super Bowl
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twice a year, because I don'tget to play in the playoffs, so
relax.
However, I understand that theBears are 4-11 and have lost 9,
10 straight, whatever it is, 10straight, whatever it is.
But you know, to quote afantastic movie, they might win
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this game nine times out of ten.
If anyone knows what movie I'mreferring to, that is Miracle on
Ice where the following line isbut that night is not tonight.
However, that night isdefinitely tonight.
The Packers are going to murderthe Bears.
I'm going to take the Packersminus 10.
Also, you have a funny story.
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No, I have a very funny storyabout the 1980 US Olympics
semifinal game, if anyone wouldbe interested in hearing it.
No, we can save that for nextweek.
That's going to wrap it up forthis week's edition of the Sharp
Action Daily Podcast.
Make sure you follow us on oursocial medias, at
SharpActionDali on Twitter anddaily on Instagram.
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We will see you all next week,cheers.
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