Doug LaMaurice

And Decorian more at receiver all warmed up, but Decorian more has been involved a little bit, but they certainly clearly are not at full

full throttle at the receiver position, which is something it seems like maybe they will get to before the end of this playoff run, which, I mean, that just changes our evaluation of Oregon, does it not, if they have all their dudes out there at receiver?

that would be great to get the full Oregon.

That has a chance to be one of the best games of the playoff if we get the full Oregon against Texas Tech in that game.

So if we think about how excited are you for Indiana-Alabama?

And I guess I had sort of, you know, I was so, when we had talked about this theoretically, it was like, oh, Kurt Cignetti used to be an assistant to Alabama, but it's like, yeah, all the Alabama guys used to be assistants to Indiana.

It's quite a little switcheroo there.

Yeah.

I can't tell if tied to the natty is... I think it must be fake.

We shouldn't be in the playoffs, but we advanced to the second round.

Make it make sense.

Well, it makes sense because you played another SEC team that was even more mediocre than Alabama is.

It is quite...

It is quite the thing that Alabama lost to Oklahoma in the regular season so that Alabama could get to play Oklahoma in the playoff because if Alabama had beaten Oklahoma in the regular season, Notre Dame would have made the playoff.

And if Alabama had played Notre Dame, there's no way Alabama would have beaten Notre Dame on Friday night, Bill.

Now, I also don't want to play the who would Notre Dame have beaten this weekend game because the answer...

might be every single team that played but i also don't think that's the way to analyze the sport because if you start analyzing the sport that way then all of a sudden you had a you have a team that had a couple injuries and like had a screwy first half of the season you're making a case for a seven and five team who had a good november to make the playoff right like you've gotta you've gotta do it the entire year and notre dame had their opportunities uh and they didn't get it done but there are just uh you know it's to the sec's credit that they kind of

As much as Greg Sankey kind of wanted seven at times, they got the five in a very specific way, Bill, and they didn't hit each lily pad on their way across the pond.

They easily could have been at four, and again, it doesn't look like a league that needed to have five teams out here in this playoff, but that's what we got.

Yeah, so I do think maybe part of this is that I just think people need to have their expectations of the first weekend calibrated correctly because I don't know that people love the NFL, but if you based how much you love the NFL on wildcard weekend, I'm not sure it would live up to your expectations sometimes, Bill, and I don't think that's how we think of the NFL.