Hour 2 – Oregon/Indiana Preview, Chris Fowler

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Speaker 2: It's our two on this Friday. Morale is high, and so are we. Come on in and stay awhile Fritzy seat and Marv Paula yours truly in the back room, guys Dylan in the kitchen as we speak, We've got hambone soup, cheeseburger and banadas. We have pork and banadas, and we have chreso and panadas. Who has it better than we do? No stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. Sunday Night. Justin Herbert leads the Chargers against Drake May and the Patriots. I like how they give me the information here on the promotional copy. Only one team will be left standing. Go figure. That would mean it's a must win situation for both of these teams. It feels like okay. Wild Card Weekend Sunday, seven thirty Eastern on NBC and Peacock. Yes, Bo, put a little more sauce on it. Only one team will be left standing. This is wild Card Weekend, Sunday, seven thirty Eastern only on NBC and Peacock. In a world Oh Speaking of movies, I just saw Have you seen the trailer for Primate? It's it's in theaters today.

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Speaker 3: Oh is it?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, so here's the copy. It says, a family's beloved pet chimpanzee, Ben contracts rabies during a tropical vacation and turns into a violent rabid killer, terrorizing his owners in a confined glasshouse, featuring themes of broken trust and survival. Okay, The question I have is the problem is you have a pet chimpanzee to start with there, and then it contracts rabies during that tropical vacation and turns into a violent rabbit killer. Don't get the chimpanzee to begin with.

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Speaker 4: Yes, boy, I'm looking at the reviews and so far seventy seven percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't recognize any of the stars, but I'm not saying they're not big name people.

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Speaker 3: This feels like if what's his name, Liam Neeson was in it, though, we would be possibly the greatest movie of the year, Or if like rape Fines, Oh, if he played the primate or whatever, Yeah, that would be awesome. And he played Yeah, you're right, You're like, Oh, there's certain actors that if they were in this movie, then like if Leonardo DiCaprio was in this one, and be like, man, he's in primate.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Tom, as long as that neighbor the denial, Mike pet Chimp is always so calm and tote. Someone must have taunted it. Did you like put a banana in his face something. It's got to be your fault that has started attacking everybody.

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Speaker 2: We say good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, that's our streaming partner, and download the app if you haven't done so, if you'd like to watch this program unfold right before your very eyes, We say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. Congratulations on the you. Although I will say I don't think anybody on Miami's team, I don't think anybody on Miami's coaching staff was more excited last night than Michael Irvin. I think that that is probably fair to say. Mike was the hype man on the sidelines. Kid gets his bell rung, he's over on the sidelines, Mike is there pumping him up. I don't know if he was involved in play calling, but he was as close as you could possibly get to going into the game. Miami had the ball for forty one minutes. It's the largest time of possession in any college football playoff game in history as part of the BCS. So that goes back to twenty thirteen. Chris Faller was on the call. He'll join us coming up in about twenty minutes from now. Pole question for hour two. We got some phone calls to get what are we going to go with?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got up there right now, the final play of the Fiesta Bowl. Should that have been flagged or should it not have been flagged?

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 3: Man, this one's real close. We're going to keep this one up there for a little bit because it's about fifty to fifty Okay, Yeah, yeah, I really don't know either. I feel like, you know, the whole thing for me with that play was the lead up to it and all of the flags that had been thrown and you could just feel it, especially in the fourth quarter, you knew that there was going to be one play that Man, they're not going to throw the flag on this one. It's going to be like, what the heck? You just threw it on the past five and now on this one you did in and it.

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Speaker 2: Ends up being that play and I think it's a great point because I want to know how you're calling the game, and if you play or you're coaching, you want to know what is going to get called and what's not going to get called. It's like Seattle with the Legion of Boom. They knew you weren't going to call every pass interference, right, so they just interfered with you as much as possible.

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Speaker 3: I mean, is no one being held on that Carson Beck touchdown? I don't know, but the flag wasn't thrown. Well the left tackle did the defensive lineman?

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Speaker 2: Yes, how did he get that? Well?

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Speaker 3: You see all that space they just casually strolled, didn't they How did he get that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there was holding, but the flag wasn't thrown.

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Speaker 2: And then you got the game tonight. Indiana, I think is still a three and a half point favorite against Oregon, and you got storylines here, which is what we love. You got the Heisman Trophy winner, you go against Oregon again. Brady Quinn was on with his last hour and he said, you know, Indiana's physicality probably surprised Oregon, and they won't be surprised, but can they be as physical with Indiana, Indiana. That's a big team, a physical team, and that head coach he wants to run the football. Also, Brady Quinn did talk about the quarterback for Oregon, Dante More, and he said, now I'm paraphrasing here, it felt like he thought Dante Moore, if he does come out, has a chance to be the number one player taken, and he liked him a lot more or not. Once again, I want to make sure that I'm fair to Brady, but it sounded like he liked Dante Moore as a pro prospect better than Fernando Mendoza. I just need to see more games with Dante Moore. And look, it's probably not fair to him, but if I look at the track record here of these guys who have fifteen twenty starts, not necessarily a good track record going into the NFL, I need to see more. Well, no pun intended there, Tom, You see what I did more Dante Moore, d Seymore, Thank you eight seven to seven three DP show operator Tyler sitting by, He'll take your calls. We'll look at what would be the biggest upset this weekend, also the most must win game of the weekend, and who had the best week in sports. Buddha in San Francisco. Hi Buddha, what's on your own buddy?

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Speaker 6: Happy meet Friday Boys, every day the super Bowl, Baby, let's go. Thank you Todd, Dan, real quick, little housekeeping. You guys are trying to reconcile the pies of the Face Bets Sour and Marvin O's for our bett for the World Series. Just wanted to bring that to your attention. And I was bummed about Old Miss going down last night with what was deemed as mutual contact. And but to your point, Dan, when you're opening the show, I think Lane leaving kind of really galvanized the Old Old Miss players and team and inspired their run.

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Speaker 7: So kudos to.

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Speaker 8: Them, man, they should be proud.

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Speaker 6: And lastly, then I'm super excited for the game this weekend. And I mean, Kyl has coached his ass off and he's done a hell of a job. Maybe we can hire the priest that the Steelers hired to bless our ends on and we can get them to bless our defense setting into Philly. And good luck to you Winnie and Kevin tonight, Dan, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I got the h the animal psychic that's tonight. I'm sitting down with Winnie and I'm zooming with animal psychic and uh, and then my daughter comes in with her Maine coon cat, Kevin, and then she gets a half hour with the animal psychic. This is now something weird could come up tonight. Okay, because when I first got Winnie, if you're watching on Peacock, you' see here sleeping. When we first adopted her, we saw our picture on a website and her name was Penny because her coat looks like, you know, the color of a penny. We changed it because the big Germans dog is named Penny. Now, I don't know if this psychic is going to say, hey, Winnie would like to go back to being called Penny, because if she does some recent search here on my dog, she could probably find out that Winnie was Penny when they put her up on the website. So we could have, you know, an identity situation here. But that'll be tonight. I'll talk about this on Monday. But I'm going in open minded that maybe I can learn more about my dog and my daughter is going to learn more about her cat.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, are you going to be asking questions on behalf of your dog?

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Speaker 2: Is that the pot. I don't know if I can do that.

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Speaker 4: I think you have to because the dog is going to be well.

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Speaker 2: Do I say, does does Winnie love me? Is Winnie healthy? Does would Winnie? Would Winnie take a bullet for me?

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Speaker 9: Conservative?

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Speaker 2: Does Winnie love me more than my wife does? Wow?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how deep. You know. I'm really good at asking questions. I don't know if this psychic is ready for this interrogation. All right, but that that's coming up later on tonight. I got a big night ahead of me, animal psychic. And and then I've got college football as well. Fred in South Carolina? Hi, Fred, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 7: Good born?

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Speaker 10: At dan as Dan is?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 7: Who do we feel most sorry for? Oh miss or the referees or college football? I know we want to get it right, but boy, we can take it into basketball.

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Speaker 8: With that last shot.

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Speaker 7: And I, you know, a foul on the arms, it's just a shame. Yeah, it's not a perfect world, but we're trying to get it right.

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Speaker 2: And I don't feel bad for college football. I mean, okay, was it a horrible non call? No? I don't think so, but it's close. And because they were calling this, you know, in prior plays in the game. You know that that's where I would want to know. Okay, were you, you know, calling these real ticki tac fouls? But that's that's not the story of the game. It's not it shouldn't be. I hope it's not. But it was, you know, a play that we got to see the replay and you got to see contact there. Gary and Indiana not to be confused with Gary Indiana.

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Speaker 11: Happy New Year boys. I'm I'm calling because I'm Team Toddler. With this Mendoza thing. It got me thinking back to the movie Ten Cup when Kevin Costner told Rene Russo, I want to tell you about your boyfriend you don't know about. He hates old people, children, and dogs. Then you fast forward later in the movie, Don Johnson's character gets done doing an interview, walking off, and he's smiling and waving and gets back behind the curtain and lights up a heater and his manager comes over and starts talking to him. And this old couple shows up with their grandson and they're holding a dog, and he berates them and he says, do I bother you when you go into work? No, leave me alone, and he's he's walking away. He's like, and you got an ugly dog too. Now I'm not saying Mendoza is like that, but I'm just saying it.

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Speaker 2: You're okay, it sounds like you are, Gary, What do you you know? If this is his personality or the personality that he presents, then I'm fine with it. I just want to know if he can play football. Well, I've seen a lot of athletes over the years, and they're not the person you see when they're on camera, but they live that life. Okay, that's Fernando Mendoza is a great story. We should not take that away from him. If you don't believe in his personality. He's just too nice and Todd see what she started.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe he's some kind of Doctor Jekyll mister Hyde and it's some kind of big act.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's very disney Esque.

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Speaker 5: When you see the super happy employees at Disney when you're walking around disney World at Disneyland, where it's much we know.

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Speaker 2: They're they're asked to do that, what they're paid to be, they get paid to be. Even still, the fact that they can can you imagine if Todd was his stuffed animal at Disney World. Get me out of here. Yeah, oh yeah, it's true. Can't breathe yeah, Pully.

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Speaker 4: Well, the thing about Mendos it's it's unique to have someone to have such a positive mentality at all times, like an early Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 9: But I can remember you.

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Speaker 4: I think when you meet people like that, you're thrown off because most people are more cynical and more calm or whatever you want to say. But I remember the first time we met Tony really in person. I'm like, how can anyone be that energetic and that positive all the time? But every time I've talked to him or met him since, he's always the same guy. Yeah, whatever's behind it. I have no idea, but I love and you're almost like jealous of people like that a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Mike in Washington, Hi Mike, what's on your mind? Hey Mike? How about oh we got Mike here?

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Speaker 8: You got me now?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that'd hey.

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Speaker 12: So for to debate the pie to the faith bets, maybe callers can in Dayton Times when they call in and say, I bet frishday today at seven fourteen my time, that my Seattle Seahawks are going to make it further than his Denver Ponies in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, or maybe Tyler can just write these things down when the callers call in. But yeah, we we have to log this because we got a few stray pies that they're they're coming your way. Yes, Marv, So we take this in March. You said, well, we were looking at three fourteen, which would be Pie three point one four. But I think that's a Saturday time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because March Madness is Sunday, the fifteenth selection Sunday.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll do it Friday, good Friday.

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Speaker 13: Friday to thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it'll be Pie Day the thirteenth.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we did it.

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Speaker 2: Salvage da see what we did?

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Speaker 13: You very much? Salvage that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Fresh in Milwaukee, Hi, Fresh, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 14: What's up?

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Speaker 8: DPN?

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Speaker 13: But the boys?

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Speaker 14: How got doing this Friday?

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Speaker 2: Nobody?

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Speaker 14: Nobody? I got a statement in the question DP. First of all, thank you saying man for the No.

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Speaker 8: Two thousand yards.

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Speaker 14: To get Derrick Henry in the movie this year. And also, can you explain having great stats but not being a great player? And who else is in this category besides Trey Young.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a great question because I did think about that when I heard the show back where I talked about Trey Young. I don't think he's a great player. I think he has great stats. I think, you know, scoring and assist. I just don't there's meaningless. There's more meaningful stats like Bradley Beal put up great numbers. I don't think he was a great player. Now you can say, well, he wasn't on a great team. I grew up and I saw Nate Archibald play. He led the league in scoring an assist, and I thought that he was amazing. But he was the only thing that Cincinnati Royals had. But he led the league in scoring and assist for a last place team, by the way, So I think you can get numbers for a bad team. I don't think that Trey Young is the guy that you go he can be the difference, like he when we're going into a game and he's our advantage over your best guy. And you know, maybe it's semantics here, but I just I think Trey Young is a curiosity.

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Speaker 15: I don't think that he's a great player. Yes, Marv, he might be. He might not be a winning player. I think that's the difference. If you put up that many points in that many assists. You're a really good player. At least you can't just say he's an okay player and you put up twenty seven points in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Well, CJ McCollum, you know, put up big numbers. He wasn't a great player.

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Speaker 13: Never put up big numbers.

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Speaker 15: Not he didn't put up Trey Young numbers.

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Speaker 2: No, but he averages nineteen for his career. I think I don't know why. Well, they were involved in the trade, that blockbuster trade.

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Speaker 11: That can know.

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Speaker 2: We'll revisit this, and I got Chris Faller. You can't let Chris Fowler wait in a busy night last night. We'll take a break. We're back after this.

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Speaker 2: More of your phone calls coming up. Chris Fowler was on the call for last night. It's Fiesta Bowl between Miami and Ole Miss, and he'll be there for the National title game on Monday. That'll be at seven thirty Eastern on the mother Ship and then he heads down Under for the Australian Open on ESPN Networks. You kind of go into a game with all the different scenarios like this could happen or what if this happens? How often are you surprised in a game?

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Speaker 13: Pretty often because college football, dan, as you know, is often messy. It's not neat tidy, it's controversial, it's noisy, it's beautiful, and we had all of that in that game last night. I mean, if you think about the small moments I've been reliving sort of the end of the game situation because that was the most dramatic and memorable, but all the little moments that gets you there. Oh Miss Lucas Carnero is a great kicker, hits the left upright twice, doinks it twice on consecutive field goals. One stays out, one goes in.

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Speaker 9: Because it's this far to the right.

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Speaker 13: All the Miami dropped about four interceptions, but guys kept making amazing plays. And you know, I hate to say this because it's a cliche, but you really did hate to see Trinidan Chambliss and Ole Miss that group of guys that have been through so much walk off defeat it yesterday. Only one team could survive, and Miami deserved it. But man, it was it was I didn't expect a lot of things I saw last night, that's for sure. Carson Beck running the ball for a touchdown was not on my Bengo par for that end of game situation.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the non call with that final play, your thoughts on now. And I'll preface this by saying, I always look at how the game is going to get called. You know, they calling everything or they letting them you know, play, But and they were calling a lot and that's why I I was a little bit surprised that they didn't call something on that play.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll get to that in a second.

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Speaker 13: I mean, the reason why it's it's tough to know what's going to happen in these games is because they're officiated by different conferences.

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Speaker 9: It was the Big Ten last night.

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Speaker 13: You can't have a team involved in the game and then have that conference officials.

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Speaker 9: So it's frequently guys.

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Speaker 13: You don't see those teams all year, and they call pass interference very differently in different leagues. I had a conversation with the officials on the field about that pregame. They don't always agree with me. They like to think there's a national standard. I think it's called differently. Yeah, mind even have a single penalty against them in the Ohio State win last night. They had a lot of costly penalties, a lot of mental mistakes, and Ole miss had less. But at the end of it, you know, maybe it wasn't a true hail Mary. Heave you know where it's six guys and a pile jumping up and down and that almost never gets called, as you know, you have to you have to tackle somebody and step on their neck in the NFL to get a call like that and a hail Mary at the end.

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Speaker 9: Of the game, this wasn't really that.

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Speaker 13: But at the end of the day, mutual combat is what Bill Lemagne are rules expert in the booths. We had to defer to him. He called it that, and you know there was pushing and shoving on both sides. If it's a normal middle of the game situation in the end zone, they probably get a defensive pass interference call.

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Speaker 9: But we can't.

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Speaker 13: We can't complain when the official step in an intervene if we don't understand they're going to call things differently in different situations at the end of the game.

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Speaker 9: Right, don't we kind of want that?

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Speaker 13: Don't you want to let him play in the NBA you want to take exact foul called or something decided at the free throw line.

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Speaker 2: I don't, but it's an advantage for the defense. Then if they know you're not going to call this, and it was kind of an intermediate mary, not a hail Mary, and so because of that, and you're right, hail mary, they're not going to call anything. This to me, you know, you could have called that, and it's not a spot foul. So it's only fifteen yards. It doesn't decide the game. But given that moment and the way they had called the game, I thought maybe you could have They could have called holding on the left tackle on Carson Beck's touchdown run.

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Speaker 13: You you could have called a lot of holding last night. I think when you have the in the attitude in your mind that the CFP officials are going to let him play, which we've heard, we hear a lot, and they have, I think throughout this bracket for the most part, let teams play because they know that. You know, twenty two million don't tune in to watch a holding call. But you're right, you have to. You have to sort of officiate the game with consistency and your best judgment. What Lemage said though, was mutual combat. That's what That's how the officials view it. Yes, there was jersey grabbing, Yes the official was. I mean the receiver shriveling was grabbed there, but he also was pushing off with the arm to create space before that. And you can make a case of they've thrown a flag. You know the history, if Miami had been called for passing the last play. I was on the Devil Stadium. I was there. Maybe you were too, Yeah I was, and and Miami's never won a festa al. They've had their heart broken there. If they had thrown a flag on Miami in that situation, historical context and a'll miss it won the game. I want you could write a movie about whoever wins the game on Monday Night. It's going to be a great movie. It was a movie about Old Missus season anyway, that would have been another movie on Miami's utility in the fiestival if they've thrown a flag there.

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Speaker 2: Mutual combat sounds like a Liam Neeson movie Steven Segal in Mutual Contact.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean he got a mutual combat. I said, I get what you're saying, because they are hand fighting and pushing and shove it. I just want him back up for a second. I'm in Atlanta. I got in at four o'clock. I'm just trying to be professional with you hearing and get the voice right, so pull back the curtain. I have this honey from New Zealand. I have this gel from China, which is an herbal thing. I have lozenges, and I have this device here. I'm not vaping, I assure you, but this is something that you take a hit on to get your voice back. It's called a vocal miss thing that singers use. And I've got my iPad sitting on my wheelie bag, which is on a small table and the ips leading against a trash can. I'm just doing my best year of function at this albidan for you.

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Speaker 2: So are there concerns the voice might not be ready for Monday night?

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Speaker 9: There are no concerns about it.

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Speaker 2: You're not a game time decision, are you.

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Speaker 13: No? I mean Sean mcdonn and Greg McClay are calling the game. I'm just here in Atlanta to watch, okay from the field, and you know, prepare for the championship. I'll be ready. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 2: Are you the understudy in case something happens to Sean McDonough.

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Speaker 9: I hope not. And nothing's gonna happen to Sean mcdonne except till call it. Great game?

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Speaker 2: Uh. The Indiana story and you know, growing up in Ohio, we were aware of Indiana because they were always the team that was usually had zero it was like fifty six to nothing or whatever, losing his friend. You know, a team in NCAA history with football, and then they do this in two years, this turnaround, and you're trying to tell people like you think the Hoosiers movie is, you know great? This to me, Trump's that because I mean, who would have thought Indiana would have a Heisman Trophy winner, be the number one team, be favored to win the national championship, any of the above.

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Speaker 13: It's the greatest turnaround I've seen in the sport. You can make comparisons to other sports. It's not supposed to happen in college football and never has historically. Now with the portal and nil, you can make it happen pretty quickly. But even given that, which Signetti has done is astounding to me. I mean it happened last year when they make the playoff and take another level up to be as dominant as they were in the Rose Bowl. The roster's not built with four and five stars. It's a very different roster construction than the other three teams in the semifinals and most of the other teams in the playoff. But he is a brilliant evaluator of talent. That's what you have to have. A lot of guys can go to the Portland spend money. They spent it beautifully and they had a great eye for talent. And he brought a bunch of key guys from James Madison with him were the core of the team. And he went out and got men Doza, So he made some great choices. But I don't know this is going to happen again in the future either. I think it's yeah, you can, you can win quickly with the modern reality, but still to do it they I don't want to put it now. They got the portal of no, no, you have to make a million smart choices to do what they've done.

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Speaker 2: SEC did not do well in the playoffs one and eight.

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Speaker 9: Or the Bowls for that matter.

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Speaker 2: Is this an anomaly?

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Speaker 13: Well, I mean it's the third straight year that a SEC team is not going to play in the championship game, and a Big Ten would now be favored at this point to win three in a row. So yeah, the Big Ten can say that the championship runs through that conference. The Big Ten also did well head to head in the balls against the SEC. But if you view where the SEC is and where it's going, yeah, all is not doom and gloom. I think that, you know, at the bottom of the conference, the bottom half of it, you know, nine through sixteen, it's still much stronger than the Big Ten. So running the gauntlet in the SEC is still the most challenging thing to do in this sport.

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Speaker 9: The Big tent.

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Speaker 13: At the top is where the power lies, and the SEC used to have great top heavy power and also depth.

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Speaker 9: They don't have that anymore. At the top.

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Speaker 13: You've got three elite teams out of the Big Ten and Ohio State got knocked out and two of her playing here in Atlanta tonight.

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Speaker 9: But I don't think the SEC is gonna fade away.

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Speaker 13: That there's you know, they have too much money and too much passion and too much invested in the sport already, but it makes it interesting. I like the fact that there's balance in the sport. I like the fact that a ten seed in Miami, which many people out there thought, and I know you're watching them out there, didn't belong in Look where they are now. They won three tough games and they're going to play for a championship.

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Speaker 2: I wonder though, that, you know, with college football playoffs maybe going to sixteen next year, the Big Ten and SEC are saying we need to have X number of teams. I don't know if this hurts their argument of saying we would get X number, we should have five teams in and the Big Ten has five teams or four teams because of what's happened this year.

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Speaker 13: I don't love the idea of expanding and then including four automatic bids to the Big Ten in the SEC. And that's the plan of Tony Cid, a Big Ten commissioner, and you know, maybe more conferences, like you know, the ACEC might like to go along with that too, they like to have more teams in I kind of like the structure where it is now. I think the tweak you can make is, you know, tougher restrictions on group of five teams. It was you know, James Madison was a great story, but that was never going to be a competitive game. So you've got eleven playoff games in this format and two involved complete mismatches. And I think people would have liked to see Notre Dame or Texas or Vanderbilt or somebody else in those games. But then you're now excluding entire conferences any chance to get in the bracket.

00:28:55
Speaker 2: You know, can college football be fixed? As a strong word, but it just feels like there are things that make sense that college football should be doing. Simping simple guardrails here of starting the season, maybe ending the season on New Year's Day. Maybe that'll take away the coaches leaving, maybe players leaving transfer portal. I mean, it feels like college football. And I said this yesterday. They're waiting for Congress to clean up their mess. That's not good. No, it's not.

00:29:29
Speaker 13: I mean it's they're waiting for a new sheriff to ride into town. Because we are in the wild West and there's no rules and it's chaos. If people really knew what was going on behind the scenes, I mean, I'll tell you this some anecdotes. There's a long snapper out there from prominent school, a long snapper who's this mine in his own business, very happy where he is, not in the transfer portal at all. Twenty seven phone calls to a long snapper with these are major teams that are trying to get this guy, offering him money. I'm happy where I am. I'm not in the portal, I know. But what's your number? But I'm out in the brook. What's your number? What's a long snapper's number?

00:30:07
Speaker 9: Is what is where we are? And that's going on.

00:30:10
Speaker 13: You got kickers and punters. I think the SEC half the conference got a new kicker yesterday, and that's that's where we are, man, And and it's it's in a way you just want the system to do right by the players, But to have four thousand guys in the portal, the vast majority will not land someplace and play as a starter and win a championship.

00:30:31
Speaker 9: That's that's the one percent.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: Maybe I did bring this up yesterday as well. When's the last time a player was academically ineligible? You know, growing up, it happened all the time. I've never heard of any money.

00:30:47
Speaker 9: It did happen.

00:30:47
Speaker 13: And also they also got away with murder a lot of them. Back in that there were does with zero point zeros who played the Blutarski grade point average. I mean, that's not what we want. I mean, there's a lot of great examples about what's right in the sport, about great students who are doing it doing you know, a lot of the right things.

00:31:06
Speaker 9: But I don't know, that's a good question. I don't see that anymore.

00:31:09
Speaker 13: You know, Jesus was going to play in the playoff, but he didn't pass that final and he's gonna have to sit out.

00:31:14
Speaker 9: And that seems kind of quaint these days, doesn't it.

00:31:17
Speaker 2: Most successful college coaches try the NFL. I mean, some of the biggest names you know in college football history. You know, save and spurry or can you see Signetti trying the NFL?

00:31:33
Speaker 13: I think he wins wherever he goes, right, we know that. I think there'd be a lot of teams intrigue. He he seems to love college football. He would not have stayed at a lower division for as long as he did, you know whether it's I mean even before James Madison, he was in small college football and love being a teacher. And that's okay. I think they're always intrigued because you wonder, how how would your system work at the highest level of football.

00:32:00
Speaker 9: But I wouldn't I wouldn't rule it out. People in college have been trying to hire this guy.

00:32:05
Speaker 13: He signed an extension, a big contract, and they're still coming after him for trying to say I forget the contract.

00:32:11
Speaker 9: What does that mean these days? Yeah?

00:32:13
Speaker 2: I know Penn State was interesting. You know, there are a few of them. And Mike Tannenbond brought it up earlier in the week that could you see a package deal with Mendoza and Signetti to the Raiders? And I at first I said no way, but then I don't. I mean, he makes more money than he would make in the NFL. Chris, He's going to be the highest paid coach in college football.

00:32:36
Speaker 13: I wasn't sure if you meant Mendoza or Signetti there.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: I don't know what Mendoza makes.

00:32:43
Speaker 13: But he's not making NFL top pick money, no, for sure. I mean it's interesting. I have a feel for these guys and I really wish them success. On Sundays and I said there looking at the Raiders or the Jets or it's like wow, I mean to go from where he's gone an Indian in a structure, order, brilliant, organization, togetherness, chemistry, love, you love your brother to go to an NFL locker room like that, where where you got problems if you're drafting first and you do it again and again, you got problems. And for Fernando to walk in there knowing how these guys are. He loves order, an organization and and things to be neat and tighty. He's very unique personality. I think that for him to survive and thrive in the chaos of a of an NFL doormat locker room is seriously challenging. The fit is so important to I mean, we got you know, finally, Rice Young's in the playoff, right in Carolina. It took a few years. It took the NFC South to get him there. But look what he had to go through the first couple of years. You know, they just the chaos, the revolving door of management and coaches and different offensive systems and getting getting knocked around. I mean, that's the reality from top picks. You know, Caleb Williams landing in a good place, and he also endured some tough times and now he's gonna take his seam a cam Ward. I hope he can get there too. But in a Fernando to the Raiders, man to the Jets.

00:34:13
Speaker 9: You know, good luck man.

00:34:16
Speaker 2: All right, rest the voice though, you got to get ready, all right, get a lift in you've got yeah, I don't. I've never used one of those.

00:34:27
Speaker 9: It's very legal. It's just sailing.

00:34:31
Speaker 13: It's just sailing. Solution here vapor.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to make a meme out of that. Chris, just letting you know you're thanks, then sparking you're vaping on my show here. Uh, thanks again, appreciate it, Thanks youbody. Great job, Chris Baller. He'll be He was on the call for the Fiesta Bowl and he's got the national Championship on Monday. Let me take a break. We'll come back. Phone calls and the most must win game weekend and best week in sports, all of that coming up.

00:35:03
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. John and Pennsylvania. John, Welcome to the program.

00:35:19
Speaker 10: Yes, good morning, Dan, as you and I are on the cusp of our sixtieth Super Bowl. I have a little trivia for you. Who was the first player to win Super Bowl rings with two different teams and each team went back to back.

00:35:38
Speaker 2: Okay, so he went back to back Super Bowls on different teams.

00:35:46
Speaker 10: Got his correct sir, And when he did, he got four rings, two back to back with the first team and two rings back to back with the second and he was a tight end. Marv Fleming, you are better than the best friend. Thank you, John, who had the best week in sports? Todd, I'm going to give.

00:36:06
Speaker 5: It to the Carolina Panthers and their fans because they've backed in with an eight and nine record, they get to host the twelve and five rams. So the Carolina Panthers had a pretty good week.

00:36:15
Speaker 2: Seaton Best Week in Sports.

00:36:18
Speaker 3: Tough for me to not say Carson Beck and the Miami Hurricanes, you know, I mean, he was a quarterback that led a quarterback that shouldn't be there, led a team that shouldn't be there to the national championship game. That's about as good as it gets. A lot of doubters though, uh you know, borderline haters, I might say, yeahderline haters. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of people that don't like that kid for some reason.

00:36:40
Speaker 15: Marvin Best Week in Sports Kevin Stefanski. He got to not be the coach of the Browns anymore, and he's a hot commodity for head coaching job elsewhere.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: All right, Paul Best Week in Sports?

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Nailed that one, Marv. I'm going to go even with the loss quarterback from old Miss Trinidad Chambliss. He had a good game. He became the face of the program when Kiffin left. I was watching in the third quarter and there was an injury timeout, and there was a Trinidad Chambliss Verizon commercial that ran on national TV. And he's now a pretty legit pro prospect who could go back next year.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that he's petitioned to go back, but I don't know. You know, once you get that information from scouts and then they might say you can be a first round pick, or you might be a late first round pick or second round whatever it is, you know, that might change, you know, his thought process there all right? The biggest upset of the weekend now, points wise, it would obviously be Carolina beating the Rams, which they've already done. So is there another game that's even close to that that if this team won, it would be considered the biggest upset, Paul.

00:37:48
Speaker 4: I think it should be the forty nine Ers if they beat the Eagles. The Eagles are still the defending champs. They just rested. The forty nine Ers looked terrible.

00:37:55
Speaker 2: You think that the Niners beating the Eagles in Philadelphia would be bigger than the Panthers beating the Rams.

00:38:02
Speaker 4: I think it should be because the Panthers have done this before. They've taken down good teams and then they lose to average teams. The Niners have nobody. I don't know how they got here in the first place. Everyone's injured, and I know they're twelve and five. Even that's a miracle. But for them to take down the Super Bowl champs at home would be something else.

00:38:19
Speaker 2: See, I would be you know, the biggest upset. If the Panthers beat the Rams again, that would be shocking. Now the Niners are getting five and a half, it was four and a half yesterday, the Chargers getting three and a half at the Patriots, Texans giving three at the Steelers. Bill's still favored over the Jags. Packers now favored over the Bears. Todd, do you have an upset that would be a huge upset?

00:38:42
Speaker 5: The obvious one is obviously the Panthers, but I don't think it's a huge upset. But I'm going to say the Chargers beating the Patriots in Foxboro to me would be a pretty big deal because if they're inconsistent and we're waiting for the Charges to be, the Chargers to go into Foxborough and win that game, to me would be a pretty big upset.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, go cross country there, Marvin.

00:39:00
Speaker 15: The Jaguars if they beat the Bills, even at home, because the optics, you lost to the Jaguars, I don't care. If the Jaguars were undefeated this season, Wow, they'd be like, Man, you.

00:39:12
Speaker 2: Lost to the Jaguars.

00:39:14
Speaker 15: John Elway still hasn't shaken off the loss to the Jaguars, and that was twenty five years ago.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: I did finish the Lway documentary. It was good. I don't know if you learn anything from it, but you do revisit a lot of things. Seaton got an upset.

00:39:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna say, just because I think the game is so important to Buffalo that it's going to be the Jaguars if they should upset them. But I think it is grossly premature to say that the Panthers have been here before.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Well, they've been here before beating the Rams. They just haven't been They did beat the Rams earlier this season. However, last year they were eight and nine. Then there were five and twelve, two and fifteen, seven and ten, five and twelve, eleven, five and eleven, seven and nine. They have not been here in a very long time. James in Virginia, Hi, James, what's on your mind today?

00:40:10
Speaker 14: Oh?

00:40:10
Speaker 8: Thanks for taking my call?

00:40:11
Speaker 6: Brother?

00:40:12
Speaker 8: Happy saday DP Dan that man. Salute the commanders big time all the time every time. You know, I know nothing about being positive and happy all the time. Guys, I have no idea what y'all was talking about earlier.

00:40:24
Speaker 2: Is this real, James? Is this who you are?

00:40:28
Speaker 8: No doubt about it? Man? You know what, I take it back to Jerry Maguire, the agent that said I dumped out of bed. I clapped my hands and I say, today is gonna be a great day. And that's how I live life. Man, Love life, love living all day, every day. Man, all the time. I'm calling today those man about the Super Bowl picks. Real quick, shout out to my man GiB and man, shout out to the old Miss coaching staff for keeping them boys ready and in the game to win the game at the end. Man, what I hope that guy gets an opportunity and not Miss an interim coach. But in the NFL, man, I'm taking the Bills and the Charges in the AFC and the Bills to win, and I'm taking the Seahawks over the Rams.

00:41:05
Speaker 14: Man.

00:41:06
Speaker 8: I really want San Francisco. I think they'll beat Solly this weekend, but that's Seattle defense and going to Seattle to play. I think Sam Donald's gonna take him, but.

00:41:15
Speaker 2: Oh he ran out of time, mister positivity. Carson Beck is like the Sam Donold of college football. Isn't he kind of a weird comparison, but coming up most must win game of the weekend final hour in this meet Friday straight Ahead