The Big Suey: The Duke's Peak

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[13] Why are you listening to this show?

[14] The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.

[15] I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

[16] In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

[17] I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

[18] That hasn't happened to you guys?

[19] I've done it.

[20] And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

[21] Aaron Donald's locker is fully intact.

[22] What just happened there, Stugat?

[23] I was watching a story about Adam Schaefter.

[24] I forgot that we started.

[25] Stugat's happened there, but his locker is fully intact.

[26] But the last thing that we told you is that it was a countdown.

[27] I was here.

[28] You were talking first.

[29] Look, he's fried.

[30] My bad.

[31] I don't know what the Grateful Dead have done to him.

[32] Nothing.

[33] I know.

[34] I need to.

[35] I need to tell people what just happened in the eating area with you and me. Commissary.

[36] And apologies to all of you beer elitists who have corrected me on Labots.

[37] That was a weird comp.

[38] Didn't want to have a very soon.

[39] Labats.

[40] And I understand why you think it's stronger just because it's heavier.

[41] It's heavier.

[42] It's creamy.

[43] It sits in your stomach.

[44] But the ABV is nothing really that strong.

[45] I thought, well, it is with Labat.

[46] Labat I don't know why you're comparing Like one's a stout Labat I mean It's a heavier darker beer I thought darker beer I thought They got the The blues and the lights I don't I don't think of Labat I think we're all saying the same thing The only beer worth talking about Is Miller light Yeah Although you're in luck That Labat Has several partnerships Across the DKN network All right Because I watch that All the time I've seen a big sign behind Ross Tucker.

[47] But here, just so we're clear, this is a Miller Light Show.

[48] I know it is.

[49] And, Roy, out of curiosity, when you were winning your barbecue competition, I'm sure debates sprouted everywhere.

[50] What is the best way to barbecue?

[51] Since the dawn of mankind, man has been having this debate.

[52] But one thing that's not up for debate, the undebatable quality of Miller Light.

[53] You tell them.

[54] Oh, as long as slow, by the way.

[55] Over the last couple of years, you know.

[56] One thing that hasn't changed, great taste of Miller Light.

[57] Man, another thing that hasn't changed less filling.

[58] Only 96 cowards for 12 ounces You know, they sparked this debate Way back in the 1970s The original light beer I was in the eating area with Stugat Tomasur And he says to me I've always liked to say That you can lose during the college football season, you just have to lose early.

[59] If you're going to lose lose early, yeah Used to be the case But you can still say that Well you can't really No, I mean Doesn't hit the same Yeah Yeah, just don't lose three times is really.

[60] It doesn't matter when you lose.

[61] If you lose two, lose too early now, you could say, I guess.

[62] Right.

[63] There was a charm with losing the first week game, you know?

[64] It was like your season was over.

[65] I didn't even feel bad for Florida State.

[66] Like, their season is still, they still have plenty to play for.

[67] Oh, but their season is over because their quarterback's not good enough.

[68] Like that, you can't, they're not going to dink and dunk their way to anything.

[69] Like, their season is over.

[70] Time will tell, I mean.

[71] That is, that is, it's not because their season is over.

[72] over because they lost that game.

[73] It's because that game reveals to you that they're not going to be that good.

[74] Their quarterback is why they were undefeated last season.

[75] And the reason they weren't in the national championship game is because their quarterback got hurt.

[76] And they replaced that quarterback with a quarterback who wasn't that good at Clemson when people were hoping he'd be Trevor Lawrence and wasn't, he was okay at Oregon State, but he wasn't great.

[77] Like, we know what that quarterback is and it's not good enough.

[78] Last week, their collective went on the record with a media company that escapes me. But they were asking for their approach when it comes San I. And they said R &L spend is 70 -30.

[79] Why waste all this money on a high school kid if you can just spend it in the portal with more known commodities?

[80] Whether they knew it or not, like that is already getting circulated by all the other coaches and showing that to every high school parent that there can be about how you approach recruiting.

[81] I do think that for two years there was validity to their argument, which is, look at us.

[82] We came all the way back because, we hit the portal, but if you don't back up the portal with a recruiting base and actually have kids develop in your program, you can have a house of card situation, which I think Florida State has, because you're only as good as your ability to close top -level talent in the portal, and that can change year to year.

[83] It wasn't a strong of portal this year as it was previously, and they got really juiced up on a bunch of guys that came from big programs like LSU and Alabama, but weren't actually playing in these programs LSU and Alabama.

[84] They just figure, oh, you weren't getting an opportunity there, you can be the player that you truly are capable of being here, and that's not always the case.

[85] Stugats, you say that it's better to lose early, but Miami in 2000 lost to Washington a week two.

[86] What would you say about that?

[87] No, but Roy, you can no longer say it because 12 teams made the playoff.

[88] So, I mean, it doesn't matter.

[89] It's not four teams anymore.

[90] It's not two teams like it used to be.

[91] It's 12 teams.

[92] I mean, Florida State can very well still make the playoff.

[93] There are also, Stugats kind of touched on it very briefly, and we moved away from it.

[94] there was a great feeling about losing early and knowing your season was done after week one or two, right?

[95] Because then you just knew, you know what, let's just enjoy the rest of this ride.

[96] There's no pressure.

[97] We're not going to make the playoffs.

[98] We're not going to play for the national championship.

[99] Let's just ride this out.

[100] Let's enjoy this.

[101] Let's enjoy the team, the coach.

[102] Let's just all go for this ride together.

[103] And then best case scenario, we went out and then we complain about being shafted at the end of the year because we lost week one and it didn't matter that much anyways.

[104] This happened to me in bowling where I'm trying to get a perfect game, obviously.

[105] I had one game where I opened the first frame, and it took all the pressure off for the perfect game, and I got striked out the rest of the way.

[106] So I had 11 straight strikes.

[107] I ended up with 279, my best game ever.

[108] But it was all because that first game, I got the loss out of the way early.

[109] No pressure.

[110] What'd you get that first frame?

[111] A nine open.

[112] Oh, wow.

[113] That'll kill you.

[114] If I make fun of you, Stugats, for doing what a lot of people did on the opening drive of the college football season and everyone, you should have seen my phone light up with everyone saying, whoa, FSU's going to be good.

[115] Look out.

[116] Like, because they just kept running the ball, 14 yards at a time.

[117] And everyone had that reaction.

[118] And now I've pulled in the other direction after four full quarters of seeing something that didn't look like that.

[119] And I'm like, yeah, they're seasons over.

[120] They're not good enough.

[121] But I don't believe in Georgia Tech.

[122] I believe that Georgia Tech is just another team.

[123] However, I am prone to being wrong.

[124] in a number of different ways because I don't know who's in the ACC.

[125] I don't know anymore.

[126] Like, if we did a quiz right now on where is everybody, like, where's California?

[127] I'm guessing that Stugantz is going to take a lot of guesses before he arrives at where is California playing football this year.

[128] Big Ten?

[129] ACC, Cal, Stanford, ACC, SMU, fought like hell to get in the ACC, get in the ACC, fought like hell to win a game at Nevada.

[130] So nothing on Chris's bowling, huh?

[131] I mean.

[132] I've got nothing on that.

[133] It does take the pressure off.

[134] I'm sure failing to get a strike on the first one is going to make it so that we all.

[135] We just all realize that there's going to be more pressure on the last one than there is on any role you have before that.

[136] But if I bowl seven straight to start, my knees are shaking.

[137] Of course.

[138] Wow, it's crazy how that one pin, a nine open cost you, what, 21 points.

[139] I think Georgia Tech's going to be solid this year.

[140] I think they're going to improve year over year under that head coach.

[141] They're finally starting to recruit.

[142] If you look at the commitments, they've got a five -star commit there.

[143] They're starting to recruit an area that you could argue has the best high school talent in the nation in Georgia.

[144] And they've never run a style that kind of was enticing for the local talent to play in.

[145] And now they are.

[146] And they got a good head coach.

[147] They have a veteran quarterback that is the worst type of quarterback that you can go up against, which is an experienced guy that can also run the ball.

[148] I don't think on defense they're really that good.

[149] Their defensive line looked really good.

[150] But I think they were aggressive.

[151] and then they grew into that game because they realized, oh, Weunga L .A. is not going to actually throw the ball down field.

[152] We can actually be aggressive with our blitzes and get more pressure on this guy.

[153] But that is a secondary that you can make an argument in Georgia Tech was the worst secondary in the ACC last year.

[154] Just to be clear, I do think that Georgia Tech is going to be improved, and I do think Georgia Tech is going to be relevant.

[155] I just don't think they're one of the best 12 teams in the country.

[156] And I think that Florida State struggling that way against them when I've been told that they were going to have an offensive and defensive line size advantage.

[157] And then I'm watching the game and I'm like, no, this is the same team that got exposed at the end when their quarterback got hurt because you need great quarterback play with all of those athletes.

[158] It can't just be athletes and your quarterback wants to throw it four yards every time.

[159] And I do think people touting their defensive line, there was legitimacy to it.

[160] Daryl Jackson was a very good player from Miami.

[161] He didn't play all of last year.

[162] I only played in that bowl game, which was a disaster.

[163] But they were attacking.

[164] Darryl Jackson, and I'm not going to lie to you and say Daryl Jackson's a bad player.

[165] I don't know what happened there.

[166] This is why, though, I'm making the assessment I'm making, which I can be accused of the overreaction.

[167] You can complain about the offense all you want in that game.

[168] That was 3rd and 17 late.

[169] All you got to do is hold them to something that isn't a screen pass for 12 yards.

[170] Like that's 3rd and 7th.

[171] Georgia Tech gave you the game back by going backwards 10 yards.

[172] And all you need to do there is just 3rd and 17?

[173] They're not going to throw the ball down the field.

[174] You need to get them out of field goal rage and keep them out of field goal range.

[175] We are back.

[176] Dan, you're over -thinking this.

[177] You guys pointed out.

[178] This is early and it's just one loss.

[179] Florida State gets right back out there for the second game of week one next week.

[180] Who do they take on?

[181] Boston College, I believe.

[182] Who scheduled this?

[183] Week zero in Dublin and then right back at it, following week, another conference game.

[184] They get a Monday night game, though, I believe.

[185] They have three straight home.

[186] Yeah, Labor Day.

[187] They almost lost last year at Boston College.

[188] Well, this one's at home.

[189] At Boston College, Memphis, Cal, they could be three and one.

[190] Then they head out to SMU.

[191] What are we thinking?

[192] That's probably another W. Four and one.

[193] They're right back in the thick of it.

[194] Remember, you just need to be in the top 12, Dan.

[195] Got to put the town on alert for that Memphis game.

[196] Then you have Clemson.

[197] Wow.

[198] The town on alert.

[199] Memphis can beat them.

[200] Really?

[201] Yeah.

[202] Memphis is quite talented.

[203] Maybe one and two then, but Cal, that's a way.

[204] I know you're dying.

[205] Then they have SMU.

[206] OTS are really good running back.

[207] Like, I'd like to do this dance.

[208] I know, but Cal out of the Big Ten.

[209] Where's that game?

[210] Is that in Talley?

[211] Which one?

[212] Cal is a home game for FSU.

[213] All right.

[214] So, thank you, Billy.

[215] I know you're desperate to do wins and losses.

[216] I know you want to do a schedule.

[217] You can go in another room and do it by yourself if you want.

[218] What?

[219] Look at those odds.

[220] Here's the thing is that we're getting close, Dan.

[221] Like this week and next week are the last weeks that we can do preseason W's and L's and O's and use.

[222] And if we're going to get to them, we've got to get to them soon.

[223] Do them on God bless football.

[224] Oh, I look forward to hearing all of that on God bless some of the good stuff here, yeah.

[225] I prefer you not to do it here, yes.

[226] Don't need it here, thank you.

[227] All right.

[228] Could do without it for the rest of my life.

[229] Appreciate it.

[230] Oh, wow.

[231] The rest of you.

[232] Yes, don't need any of it.

[233] You want to do our pre -season college football playoff teams?

[234] We could do that.

[235] Here's a request.

[236] I haven't asked you guys for anything after my death.

[237] Just one rule.

[238] He's never allowed to do that here.

[239] Just never, ever allowed.

[240] Like, it's the only request I have.

[241] After you die.

[242] After I've died.

[243] Well, and before I've died as well.

[244] I just liked it.

[245] I thought you already died.

[246] So he could never do it.

[247] He can never do it.

[248] Why?

[249] Not when I'm alive, not after I'm alive.

[250] Out of respect for me, after I've passed.

[251] I want, it's a dying wish.

[252] Put it in writing, though.

[253] Well, no, I'm just, I'm doing that now.

[254] You can put it in writing for me. I'm telling everybody.

[255] I'm not going to put it in writing because I need it formally.

[256] I'm telling all of you, these are my wishes.

[257] Is this specific to FSU?

[258] It's everybody.

[259] I would prefer you never to do wins and losses looking at a schedule again here.

[260] But God bless football, all you want.

[261] It's why you're the fifth -ranked international football insider.

[262] I have a bone to pick with who was the Atlantic.

[263] Is that who it was that did it?

[264] Who was it that put that out there?

[265] They moved our guy off of that beat.

[266] So now he's covering soccer or something, Ollie.

[267] So now there's never going to be rankings again.

[268] So I peaked.

[269] That's it?

[270] Yeah.

[271] The Duke finishes ranked.

[272] But the last time it came out, you were on there.

[273] So you can just say forever you're the fourth ring.

[274] Yeah, but I can't keep continuing to work up.

[275] I can't work my way up here.

[276] It smells like football.

[277] It smells like football.

[278] I forgot what they smelled like.

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[315] where I buy some calling cards and I sell them to you and then you get three friends and then you're making money off the ones they sell Amelma Stugats And he's tanked Twitter The more friends, the more you make friends Amelma This is the Dan Lebatar show With the Stugats I am remiss though In not talking about Stugats locally What is approaching Which Mike Ryan has said For the business of Miami football is the biggest game in program history, and I've got an announcement to make because I don't know if all of you saw this.

[316] Paul Feimbaum says, it is time for the U to return to national prominence.

[317] Wow.

[318] It's been said.

[319] It has been said.

[320] What do you mean, Billy?

[321] What does that mean?

[322] It's time for them.

[323] Play along, Billy.

[324] Do the show with me. It's time for the you to return to national.

[325] prominence.

[326] Paul Feinbaum has said it.

[327] A national voice has said that it is now time.

[328] It is time right now.

[329] I don't know if he's predicting.

[330] It's not even an upset if Miami wins at Florida.

[331] It wasn't last year.

[332] It's not next year.

[333] It's right now.

[334] It's right now.

[335] It's right now.

[336] It's time right now.

[337] This minute.

[338] There's been so much rat poison and the media has been very positive with Miami's chances.

[339] Favored by two and a half at the swamp.

[340] Very heavy public money coming in on on Miami there.

[341] But I think I figured it out, like why people like Paul Feinbaum are sharing this sentiment, which is, all right, it's been long enough.

[342] Let's get the U back.

[343] And it has nothing to do with Miami.

[344] It has everything to do with ESPN hating FSU, I think.

[345] Because it's legit.

[346] FSU, they hate you.

[347] You haven't made it easier for yourself, though.

[348] Like you thought there were all these conspiracy theories.

[349] It might have genuinely been Jordan Travis got hurt.

[350] But okay, F it, we're here now.

[351] You're going to go after us?

[352] Yeah, bring Miami back.

[353] Let's take that program out once and for all.

[354] FSU, flash in the pan.

[355] That's what they're probably thinking.

[356] You were talking earlier about Herb Street and FSU and I know that he's been vocal, he's a face of college football and FSU.

[357] Man, Suggots, in my lifetime, there hasn't been a college football fan base that will react reasonably to what happened to FSU last year.

[358] Like that...

[359] Absolutely.

[360] I mean, it's really hard to go unbeaten in that sport and so anyone at FSU who is legitimately bothered by that, you can only offer condolences because any fan base would be rabidly hating anyone who did that to them when they went undefeated and they clearly looked all season like they had fixed the program in a way that it hadn't felt since Bobby Bowden.

[361] So, well, Jim O 'Fisher with James Winston, I guess.

[362] He won a national championship.

[363] Yeah, they lost their quarterback, though.

[364] I mean, they lost their starting quarterback.

[365] One of the main reasons that they got to that point, But you're right, any fan base would react the same way because you have, well, Mike, no, you have an undefeated team not making it to a playoff.

[366] I will say not the same way in that Georgia, and someone made this point on game day, they weren't even allowed to say, hey, we kind of got screwed over by the CFP.

[367] Because if it's about getting the four best teams in there, Georgia is one of the four best teams.

[368] They weren't even allowed to gripe because they had won national championships and FSU was complaining so loudly.

[369] So not every fan base reacts that way because Georgia certainly didn't.

[370] No, no, no, no, no. Wait.

[371] Georgia lost.

[372] Yeah, they lost to Alabama in an ACC championship game.

[373] And the arguments that were holding FSU out, if you held it up as like, all right, if our job is to get the four best teams here, Georgia should have been in it.

[374] I remember many years ago when BYU would go undefeated against nobody and we were just doing asking sports writers who should be champion and remembering their outrage.

[375] UCF ran through this same thing.

[376] If Georgia hadn't lost, Georgia and any other fan base would react with poison to the idea of football randomly happening to their quarterback at a bad time, and it totally nuking a season for reasons that had nothing to do with how good they were.

[377] Just football happened.

[378] And I'm surprised that hasn't happened more often, but it just speaks to how hard it is to go undefeated.

[379] because football happening at the end and ruining FSU season, I totally understand why it is that FSU would feel persecuted in every realm by being wronged because they felt they had rightly earned something.

[380] Furthermore, adding to it, sports is supposed to be a meritocracy.

[381] If you win all your games, you get to play another one that matters.

[382] That's always how it's been.

[383] Yeah, I was in agreement with you, and I'm really looking forward to this here because there are legitimate gripes, and FSU, by the way, in their history, has been the benefactor of very kindly given national titles.

[384] If you look at some of those, they've actually been the bell of the ball and gotten a lot of favor there.

[385] But I'm happy that these debates, TCE was always perpetually, are they or aren't they going to be in the college football playoff.

[386] These were discussions that we were having, Miami, FSU, Washington at the turn of the century.

[387] These were debates that genuinely affected the national title.

[388] I'm really welcoming the fact that we're going to be.

[389] going to have these conversations about the 11th best team in the nation.

[390] Teams that probably don't have a legitimate shot to go through the CFP and win the national title.

[391] And while it'll spark maybe even more debates, they won't be as crucial as getting the best team to win the national title.

[392] Dan, you're right.

[393] I think most fan bases react the way Florida State's reacting.

[394] All of them.

[395] Okay, all of them.

[396] That's fine.

[397] But Florida State did get another game was against Georgia.

[398] They lost 63 to 3.

[399] I mean.

[400] I'm not, I'm not, I'm not here to re -legislate any of that.

[401] I'm just telling you that there isn't a fan base in the history of fanbases that wouldn't poisonously go after any Herb Street who they thought was responsible for what happened there.

[402] And I'm not just making a college football.

[403] Make it throughout all of the history of sports.

[404] If you're going to make it that subjective and some team wins all its games, they get to play another one that matters.

[405] No, you're right.

[406] Fanbases will seek that person, whoever that person is.

[407] Who's the person saying our undefeated team is not deserving of making it to the college football playoff?

[408] They will seek it out.

[409] They will crush that person.

[410] I just thought, though, with that FSU team, they were returning a lot of starters.

[411] It just wasn't transfers from LSU and Alabama.

[412] The problem with that team was their quarterback last year was great, and this one's not.

[413] Like, and we've got enough of a sample now, and it was unfair to him at Clemson.

[414] I'm just going to call him DJU because I don't have the confidence that Mike has to say his last name, even though Mike even got a little scared of it right in the middle, like did a little bit of a hiccup.

[415] Well, no, there's a hiccup in the name.

[416] That's why there's a Uyunga -L -L -L -A.

[417] Put it on.

[418] Put it on the poll, please.

[419] There's an L .E. before the next L .E. At Lebitard Show.

[420] Is there a hiccup in the middle of DJU's name at Lebitard Show?

[421] I feel bad about this part, and this is a C -Change I'm going to lose on.

[422] Stugats, because all of my life on this show, you've never heard me do to a quarterback what I just did to this kid in the last segment where I'm like, he's not good enough.

[423] The professionalization of this sport and the paying of players all of a sudden makes it so that even I feel permission to be more critical of what are now professional players, even though I have never done that to a college quarterback before where I'm like, that's just not good enough.

[424] That's not going to win you anything if you're playing the top 12 teams in football.

[425] Yeah, I'm struggling to find what the rules are.

[426] Do I apply the context of DJUs on his third program?

[427] He's a red shirt senior.

[428] He's presently 23 years old.

[429] He's made money in the NIL era, I think, at three different schools.

[430] And now it's time to have some accountability at that position.

[431] I do think you can criticize a player, just, you know, no personal shots.

[432] And I think everything that you said have been in play.

[433] Well, but I've never even done that before, though.

[434] Like, it's not, I, well, welcome to the party, pal.

[435] Yeah, I mean, I, I, I don't even like it, though.

[436] I feel like, it feels like a rationalization on my part for bad behavior.

[437] We celebrated Roy earlier because he's a champion in barbecue and fishing and knocked out some Key West, some hall, some general hall of famers in Key West with what has to be just a real upset, but one thing we did not celebrate, and I'm glad we get to do it here locally, we've mentioned briefly that the Duke is doing FIU football games this year at the pit at the the cage the pit bull whatever the name of that stadium is going to be it's going to figure that out it's going to eventually be the pit well I don't know it should be we'll see if it's come in here daddy big bucks over here and just change the name of the cage I mean it's called pit bull stadium but it's the cage as far as I'm concerned or as far until I'm told otherwise it will always be the cage right so much history You're on the official broadcast, and he's paying a lot of money for those name and rights.

[438] I saw Goldie.

[439] Are you going to be working with Goldie?

[440] I will not.

[441] But he's part of the team?

[442] There are a lot of broadcasters.

[443] Kim Bo Camper as well.

[444] There's some heft on that.

[445] FIU series about football this year.

[446] Well, they're keeping me away from those names.

[447] What are you doing?

[448] The stadium's named after Pitbull.

[449] What are you doing this season?

[450] I'm going to be on the radio call this season for four of the games this year.

[451] Because as you mentioned, there's a number of people, and there's going to be, you know, rotation going.

[452] I will be doing four of the games, twice as many as the two last year.

[453] So, you know, I don't know if I can tell you the games that I'm doing yet, but I'll tell you I'm going to be doing the first game at Pit Bull Stadium.

[454] You better believe it.

[455] And you're not going to call it the pit because you should do that.

[456] You should be the one who, you're the one who should change the name from the cage to the pit.

[457] Well, I'm conflicted, if I'm going to be honest with you.

[458] And I feel like this is as good a place as any to do some therapy here.

[459] Look, gang, if I'm going to be honest, I feel like I'm being invited to be a bit of a clown on these broadcasts.

[460] No. I'm wondering if that's the case.

[461] Are you the third man?

[462] I will be the third man, yes.

[463] I didn't know if it was two men.

[464] No, it's a three man. It's going to be a three man booth.

[465] Who are the other people?

[466] Well, it's a rotation, yeah.

[467] Yeah, but you said there's three people in the booth.

[468] Is there an actual former football player?

[469] There will be, yeah, in some of the games there'll be a former football player in there.

[470] Former FIU Panther, tight end.

[471] Keep his cards close.

[472] Well, but Billy, before you go, too hard down this path.

[473] I do believe that...

[474] Do you think this is an embargo or Billy doesn't remember?

[475] No. No, I just like, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to step on any toes.

[476] I don't want to put anything at risk here.

[477] Well, you gave us former FIU tight end.

[478] Yeah, but there's a number.

[479] I mean, it could be Johnny Smith.

[480] I'm just picturing Barry Jackson listening right now.

[481] Like, give me more, Bill.

[482] Unlikely.

[483] Give me more.

[484] Billy, you have noticed, we have noticed, everyone has heard us notice that media jobs all over are shrinking, but football remains a monster economy.

[485] And I saw Andrew Marchand wrote in the New York Post that Peter Schrager and Mina Kimes have been so good on preseason games that he's wondering whether we're going to see finally someone other than Tony Kornheiser and an ex -athlet be someone who gets to broadcast games who isn't an ex -athlet.

[486] Billy, you've got a lane here as both the Duke and if you can provide clown to give them something Kim Bo -Camper will not give them.

[487] You could be clown -bow -Camper.

[488] Well, no, I'm okay.

[489] I don't aspire to be clown -Bow -Camper.

[490] Let's bring some humor to it instead of clown.

[491] It's going to be me, Jackson -McDonnell, now that you've twisted my arm, you've got the tight end out of me. You looked it up?

[492] Jackson -McDonald's going to be there, and then, you know, AJ Ricketts and Corey Brooks will be, you know, doing the play -by -play.

[493] It's a rotation.

[494] We're a team.

[495] We're all a team here.

[496] I saw that index finger.

[497] you were trying to hide scrolling and trying to find the name of your teammates.

[498] It's a team game.

[499] Don't tell me, no, I saw you doing it.

[500] It's a big team game.

[501] You don't know the name of your teammates.

[502] Yeah, I do.

[503] Now, Jackson, something.