Sports Room 11-17-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, so I'm gonna need all the fake outrage
from Kansas City fan to cease to exist. My goodness,
Stop calling Buffalo fraudulent. Stop saying you could have won
the game. Stop pretending that your football team is not
nine to one. You're acting like they're a five hundred

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football team. Stop pretending that you probably still don't have
the best quarterback in the NFL. Stop pretending that you
haven't won super Bowls. Stop pretending that you don't have
maybe the greatest tight end in the NFL and Travis Kelce.
Stop pretending all of this bs. It's annoying. You are
an extremely spoiled fan base right now and you don't

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even know it, and you don't even hear yourselves. Are
you paying attention? Have you been paying attention all season long?
I have been saying for weeks that the Kansas City
Chiefs have been living on edge games that they clearly
should have lost. But I compared the Kansas City Chiefs

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to what was said about Iceman. You get bored, you
do something stupid, they wear you down. Bam, they got you.
That's how the Kansas City Chiefs have been living, really
for the last couple of years. And it's worked out
for him, and you were bound to lose a game

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at some point this season. Quit fronting like losing one
game is the end of the world. Stop the cap.
You're gonna be okay now. I said at the beginning
of the season, I don't think Kansas City three peats.
There's a million and one reasons for that number. One
because it's obviously the most difficult thing to do in

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the NFL. But the predominant reason is because there's just
so many changes. You're constantly trying to load up your
roster for Patrick Homes. Every time somebody comes available, you
go out and you get them. You've got injuries, So
what do you gotta do. You gotta fill the roster spot.
You gotta go, and you gotta go and get it.
Who's ever available. Look, at the end of the day,

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should they have beat Buffalo. I'm gonna say yes and
no to that. There were opportunities you missed them. I've
said for I don't know how long that Josh Allen
is a turnover nightmare with the Bills. But at the
end of the day, while your defense really didn't play
all that bad, your offense just could not back up

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what your defense was doing. That's all there is to it.
And really I've been saying since Week one this year.
I mean, come on, if you go back to the
Baltimore Ravens game. Who we're gonna talk about here in
a little bit, the Ravens, you understand that you should
have won that game in a blowout. Baltimore should have

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never been in any position in the fourth quarter where
they could have come back. That game should have been
over at halftime. Baltimore was shooting themselves in the foot
and you could not completely capitalize. This is not the
same football team that we've been seeing over the last
few years. I think Patrick Mahomes is still hungry. I

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think Travis Kelsey is still hungry, but they're not starving.
They've been eating good for really long and even though
they're hungry for that plate, they're not starving. And anybody
who's ever played sports, anybody who's ever done anything with athletics,
knows exactly what I'm talking about. There's a difference between

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being hungry and starving. When you're hungry and you've been
eating already, I could eat, but you know, I'll wait
till later when you're starving to death. You're gonna eat
whatever's put in front of you. In Kansas City's still
in a really good position because let's keep it a buck.

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At the beginning of the year, it looked like the
AFC West was going to be maybe the toughest division
in the NFL. It has not turned out that way. Whatsoever.
You slid by, you made some plays, You did what
you had to do. You blocked the field goal against

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the Denver Broncos last weekend, and that was how you
closed out that game. It's been team winning to this point.
Now some of your neptitudes have been exposed, and what
you have to do is go back and figure out
where are we weak and how do we correct it.
And to be honest with you, I want to see

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more run game. Hunt is still a damn good running back,
and I think you need to use him more and
more and more. The play calling has gotten stagnant from
Andy Reid, your missing elements that you didn't think you'd miss.

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The Chiefs are still a damn good football team. Kansas
City fans, stop pretending that you don't have multiple trophies
up in there. Everything is fine, everybody's fine. It's one
damn loss. Really, at the end of the day, all
this really means is the oldies from the seventy two
Dolphins team. They're gonna pop champagne or do whatever the

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hell they're gonna do and celebrate the fact that there's
not gonna be an undefeated super Bowl champion. That's pretty
much what this game amounts to. You were bound to
lose at some point. It's okay to lose a game.
You're nine to one, You're not six and five. Stop
acting like your season is on the brink. You're on

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the fringe. This is not comparable to Philly last year,
although if I really wanted to, I could say it
is winning kind of like are they really that good?
And then finally they get exposed and they lose for real,
So it could be that, But I even then Philly

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won eleven games. Like, what are we discussing here? Think
everybody needs to cool the hell out if I'm keeping
it above all right, Moving on Pittsburgh Baltimore. Look, the
Ravens are a football team that when they lose games,
it is because they have been beating themselves. Again, I

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reiterate the Kansas City Chiefs game. All the penalties in fact,
coming into this weekend. The Baltimore Ravens led the NFL
in penalties. Now, that's just a point of fact. Derrick
Henry has been playing out of his mind football. Not
a single one of us haven't made fun of Jerry
Jones for not going after him. He fumbled it. They

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lost the fumble. You know, Baltimore played really good in
the red zone. I mean, what was Pittsburgh zero out
of four inside of the red zone in that football game.
They relied on their defense, they relied on their running game.
To me, they didn't give Russ enough chances to throw
the football, which, even then, the interception he threw inside

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of the red zone to me, was symptomatic of an offense.
It's frustrated, right, Russ is doing anything he can to
make a play to score a touchdown. We're frustrated, We're
pissed off. We need to score. That was the result
of that. Now, is that an immature decision? Is that
more of a rookie mistake than a veteran mistake? Absolutely,
because we saw Russ last weekend make veteran plays. The

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throws and then of course the drawing off sides at
the end of that football game to seal the deal.
That was veteran football, right. There wasn't that way against Baltimore,
and Baltimore is gonna look back on the game against
Kansas City, on the game against Pittsburgh especially, and they're
gonna go we should have won. But interceptions, fumbles, penalties,

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missfield goals galore. We did not execute in the facets
of the game that Pittsburgh did. Because Pittsburgh was phenomenal
with special teams down inside the red zone, the play
calling wasn't necessarily horrible, but Baltimore's defense was ready for it.
And even when it looked like maybe they're not ready

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for it, they still played up to it. So you
have to give credit to Baltimore's defense for keeping them
in that football game. This is a game that Pittsburgh's
gonna look at to me and they're gonna go, Yo,
we skate it out with that one, and they absolutely did.
Couldn't convert after you scored the touchdown. You know, when

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all is said and done, the Ravens just and honestly,
neither quarterback played great, Right, Russ didn't play great, Lamar
didn't play great. Everybody expected this offensive explosion. What were
you anticipating. These are two teams that are defensive minded
with Mike Tomlin and Harbaugh, and they're going, man, we're

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gonna do everything we can. I mean, come on, everybody's
been talking about the secondary with Baltimore and how it's
not that great. You don't think that they didn't make
special adjustments knowing that they're going against Russell Wilson this weekend.
Come on, man, this is what great coaches do. They
make adjustments. They did what they needed to do. Baltimore's

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defense stepped all the way up. Offensively is where they failed,
and even then defensively with some of the penalties, and
even then Pittsburgh kind of did themselves in. I mean,
there was a drive where they basically gave it to
Baltimore because they weren't doing anything but penalty got them ahead.
You can't make mistakes like that going forward. But that

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was just a tough damn divisional game. When all is
said and done, Pittsburgh was able to come up with
the win, but I'm not sure that I was impressed
by it. I still say, with Russell Wilson as a quarterback,
AFC Championship bare minimum, But you can't survive going oh
to four in the red zone. That's just all there
is to it. You've got to score points. Pittsburgh's gonna

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look at this game going. We should have won it
running away. The turnovers that we forced, everything that we
did defensively set us up offensively, and we failed our defense.
And that's pretty much a bottom line of that scenario.
All right. So John Jones, like I said yesterday, I

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didn't pay to see the fight, but ESPN they posted
the entire third round where Jones was able to put
that thing away. Look, a lot of people are complaining.
They're like, oh, this is just two old guys. Congratulations
a Jones Zones. He beat up, you know, Mio chicch
and he hasn't fought in four years, which, by the way,

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it's been three years. But it is what it is.
He looks slow. Myochies didn't look that great. Stop glorifying
John Jones, et cetera, et cetera. Let's stop pretending that
Jones didn't have a layoff too. Let's stop pretending that
he hasn't been holding up that division. Let's stop pretending

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he hasn't been holding onto that belt for a year
and a half. Don't act as if though John Jones
has been in that cage every three to six months
like clockwork, because it hasn't been happening. What we saw
was a good old fashioned war. That was it. They
just stood total toe for the most part and beat

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the living hell out of each other. And Jones was
able to connect on that footshot right, and that was
the end right there. Now, myochich had already been right
in a couple of other spots, same with Jones, but
what Jones was doing is far more effective. And Jones
was doing great at cutting off the cage, walking him down.

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He dominated that fight, whether anybody likes it or not,
especially in the third round where he put him away. Look,
I saw the parts of that fight I'm okay with
given round number one to Miyochi's two and three definitely
belonged to Jones, that's for sure. He walked him down
and Miochies was letting him. Look, that's one of the

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things I've called. I don't know how many MMA fights
I've called. I don't know how many kickboxing fights I've
done play by a play for, I don't know how
many combat sports events in general. And one of the
things that I always talk about is the killer instinct,
a shark in the water who smells blood, and the
opportunities that Miyochis had he failed. Jones whenever he continued

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to see opening he took it, and then from there
he still remained aggressive. Miyochic was the exact opposite in
those situations, and that's why Jones won the fight. Whether
anybody likes it or not, that is exactly what happened. Seriously,

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that's exactly what happened. And it's look, we're not talking
quantum physics here, man, we are talking MMA. We are
talking the basics of MMA, not even the intricacies. We're
talking the basics of MMA. So there you have it.

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I think it's simple, and I wish people would stop complaining.
It was a hell of a lot better than what
we got on Friday night. And the reason why a
good majority of people watched that damn thing was because
it was for free. Just admit, you just stayed in
on Friday night and you dealt with the lagging and

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the BS and the bandwidth loss from Netflix. And I
mean there was a point because I was at the
Homies crib watching it, he was like, you want to
come over I'm like, yeah, sure, you know, let's do it.
I was just going to stay home, went over to
the homies. I think it was the sixth round of
that Paul Ticson fight, and all of a sudden, the
picture got really clear, and I was just like, yo, bro,

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everybody's quit watching this by now. That's why the picture
looks so good. Like everybody they they just gave up
all right. College football, the polls are out for the
AP that is, Oregon is still number one after they
slid by Wisconsin. You got Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Indiana,

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Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia, Ole, Miss Tennessee drops from six
to ten after the loss to so Georgia. You got
Miami who didn't play. You got Boise State they beat
San Jose State. You got SMU they beat Boston College.

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Real ugly win there, but they were able to get
it done BYU. They lost to KU. They dropped significantly
from seven to fourteen. You got A and m They
pretty much stayed where they are. Colorado they're up a
couple of spots, not many, but they're up. Clemson they
beat Pitt You got Army in They're still they're undefeated.

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South Carolina, Tulane, Arizona State, Iowa State, UNLV, Illinois, and
Washington State rounds it out. So there's that look. I
at this point, I think we know that THEAPO pole

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is pretty much irrelevant to an extent, right, I think
it holds merit with the Committee. The Committee copycats it
and mirrors it for the most part. What I want
to see from the Committee this week is whether or
not they get honest about college football and really more
from them ESPN. I want to reiterate something here, and

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this is very simple. There were only fifteen teams in
the FBS that didn't play against an FCS team. There's
sixteen teams in the SEC. Only one of them didn't
play against an FCS team, and that was Texas. The
big ten led the way in the amount of teams

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who didn't play against an FCS team, and notable names,
especially right now are Ohio State and Penn State. Then
you look at Notre Dame. They didn't play an SCS team.
So while everybody's bickering and moaning about strength of schedule
and how much it needs to matter and this and
that and a third, the reality is those teams I
think are getting the treatment from the committee that they're

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getting because they're going these other teams have had some
soft games in there. Now, I'm not saying that Texas
and Penn State and Ohio State Notre Dame haven't scheduled
some soft teams, but they didn't schedule an SCS opponent.
And by the way, Notre Dame beat Texas A and M.
Everybody keep saying they haven't played anybody, but they have

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that win. I know. They turn around they lost in
Northern Illinois. Pay attention to what the hell I'm saying here,
and that is you can't have it both ways. You
can't say Notre Dame is soft, their schedule ain't jack
they lost in Northern Illinois and then completely dismiss their
win over Texas A and M and then simultaneously tell

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all of us, by the way, the SEC is still
the best conference in the country. And by the way,
Vanderbilt lost to Georgia State, a football team that is
two and eight, but they were able to beat Alabama.
Tell me that shouldn't be significant, because it absolutely should be. Now,
you can make the argument that coaches and you know,

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game planning and all that, they kind of get to
know each other. But calea de boor first year in
the SEC, I understand who's kind of carrying on the
Nick sabn offense, which Nick Saban didn't want to give into.
But it's finally got modernized right over the last few years.
He finally gave into it. Now we have what we have.
What I am telling you is this. You cannot have

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it both ways. You cannot tell us that the SEC
is the krim de la creme and then downplay the
win that Notre Dame has over A and M. You
cannot talk to us about the strength of schedule of
Texas and then say, well, Georgia beat him, but then
down play where Texas is currently at with only one loss.

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You can't have it both ways. And here's another fun fact.
The strength of schedule is determined before the season even begins,
along with preseason polls. So while everybody's hooting and hollering
about this went over a ranked opponent and that went
over a ranked opponent. The strength of schedule takes into
a lot of things, but the primary thing that they

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take into account is how they think a team will
do during the season and how the teams that they
think of. The teams that they are playing will do so.
While people are talking about Georgia's strength of schedule, the
fact of the matter is you have to bring in

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all the other factors. They lost to Alabama, who lost
to Vanderbilt, who lost to Georgia State. That has to
take That has to be something that's taken into account.
Who then beat Tennessee and Tennessee was in one of
those SEC teams that scheduled an SCS opponent in Chattanooga.

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Now somebody's gonna go, well, they beating North Carolina State
and they were ranked again, that was a preseason ranking.
And by the way, if we take what was it
twelve or thirteen teams that I calculated yesterday between LSU,
North Carolina State, KU K State, there were several teams.
The bottom line is their record is fifty one losses

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or fifty one wins and fifty nine losses. That's the
way that it is. You don't have to like it,
but that is a point of fact. So you can
be upset with me all you want to, but I'm
gonna tell you, don't shoot the messenger, kind of like,
don't hate the player, I hate the game. It's just

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the way that it is because I get so sick
of Brody is a no ball bro It's not about
whether or not I know ball. Any journalist on ESPN, CBS,
Fox Sports, anybody who's worth their salt should know this information.
But they have a financial bias, and so what do

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they do. They skew the numbers to mean anything that
they needed to mean because they know damn good and
well that the strength of schedule was determined before the
season even began, so that when that Tennessee has over
North Carolina State is basically bismal. Now that's whether you

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like it or not. It looked good at the beginning,
but it only looked good because the preseason polls sticking
a number in front of somebody's name in order to
draw a rating. But I got news for everybody. Tennessee
versus North Carolina State is going to sell. Georgia versus
Clemson is going to sell Notre Dame versus Texas A

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and M is going to sell. Don't be fooled. Stop
letting them lie to you, stop letting him skin. And
then I get people to do they tell me you're
you're skewing. Everybody's moving the goalpost. So that way it
can fit whatever they needed to fit for an SEC
football team. Just because you're all over there playing each

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other does not make you a great conference. Oh you're
gonna tell me that is a great conference. Stop to bottom. Look, man,
I've said for years that I thought the Pac twelve
and it existed, was overrated. I've said for years that
I think the Big twelve is overrated. In fact, I've
said several times this season, I don't even know how
the hell they're a power conference. I don't think a

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Big twelve team is gonna win the College football Championship.
Hell no. But then again, strength of conference. And I've
also said this because more than one thing can be
true at a time does not necessarily dictate how truly
great a football team is. When Clemson won their initial champion,
everybody talked about how weak the ACC was, they compared

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how many five star recruits Alabama had compared to Clemson,
But it didn't matter because Clemson ended up winning that
football game. There are a million and one other factors
that play in And then what do I get told?
Come on, man, sure the schedule matters. Look what happened
with Georgia and TCU. You know everybody said the Big

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Ten wasn't that great. Everybody said Ohio State wasn't that great.
And I said that there was only one football team
offensively that could hang with Georgia, and that was Ohio State.
Forty two to forty one was the final of that
football game. And I'd also made mentioned that defensively was
their weakness, and I didn't think special teams wise they'd
be able to keep up. And look how that game went,
and I've got the archive if anybody wants to see it.

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I ain't worried about it. What I am telling you
is this, we can't go off of this and this
and this and this and this, and why can't we well,
because I want a true playoff system. And by the way,
these rankings don't matter because when all is said and done,
the highest ranked five conference champions are going to get in,

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and four of those teams are going to get an
automatic buy. So even if they have a lower ranking
than another football team that's not going to get a buy,
that won't matter. These rankings don't even matter anymore, and
they are convincing you and pretending that they do when
they literally don't. There was financial bias all the way

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across the board. What's the bottom line here, Well, it's
very simple three things. Number One, rankings don't matter anymore.
I'm so sick of it. Number Two, I want preseason
strength to schedule, and I want preseason polls to go away.
I said umpteen times that if we are going to
do polls, then we shouldn't have them before the eighth

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week is completed, and then the final thing is here.
Let's stop making it out to be something that it isn't.
We have to be fair and honest about where every
team is in college football, and every team's got a weakness. Oregon,
their weakness is their defense, believe it or not. Penn State,
it's the refusal to run the football the way that

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they should and putting the football in the hands of
Drew Aller when if they didn't feel like they had
something to prove with this kid, they'd be in a
much better place. Right now, Indiana is absolutely a factor
of what's called brand bias all of a sudden thanks
to Joe Klapp, but I've been saying it for weeks
be prior. They are the epitome of that. Right now.

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I know they've got Ohio State coming up this weekend.
Everybody's looking forward to it, but it is what it is.
Notre Dame is the victim of being Notre Dame. It's
a brand name. Same thing with Georgia, same thing with Alabama,
all these teams in the SEC, they're all brand names.

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We need to start making football decisions. I've said it
a million one times, and not business decisions. This isn't ballet,
this isn't figure skating. We're not basing things off of
a points system. We are basing things off of one thing,
and one thing only wins and losses. But because the

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system is designed the way that it is, we have
to put in place all of these other bs factors
that should never exist, because the final bottom line here
is we need a true playoff system. Here's the rules,
here's the way it's set, here's what we're doing with it,
here's how you get in, and that's all there is
to it. We're taking out the objectivity and subjectivity of

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somebody saying, well, this is a really great loss. All right.
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