1/10: Reaction to Clemson's wild & crazy victory over Alabama in the national championship game
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 10 January 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Live from Tampa at 4:30 in the morning, Bruce and Stew react to one of the wildest national championship games they’ve ever covered, just hours after the stunning conclusion of the game. They discuss Clemson QB Deshaun Watson’s amazing performance (3:00); Alabama’s lacking offense and the defense’s inability to contain Watson (7:00); What this all means for the CFP picture heading into next year (15:00); And was this the craziest ending ever in a title game? (22:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Clemson is your 2016 national champion. |
| 0:06.9 | Clemson dethroned Alabama on Monday night, |
| 0:09.7 | and we are going to talk about it on this brief and special episode of The Audible. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:28.4 | This is the audible, and let us set the scene a little bit. |
| 0:31.2 | It is 4.22 a.m. after the national championship game. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm in Bruce's room. |
| 0:39.0 | He is packing because he's leaving... Don't get the wrong idea, by the way. |
| 0:40.1 | No, he is packing because he's leaving for the airport in like a half hour for a very, very early flight. |
| 0:47.2 | It was an amazing game. |
| 0:49.7 | I think we can agree on that. |
| 0:50.8 | It was also a very long game, which is made for a very long night. |
| 0:53.9 | But we wanted to make sure that we gave our thoughts to you guys before we went our separate ways. |
| 1:00.8 | All right, Bruce, yes or no? |
| 1:04.5 | Best national championship game you've covered? |
| 1:06.6 | No. No. You're going to stick with USC Texas. |
| 1:09.1 | I am sticking with USC Texas, which I thought. |
| 1:11.5 | There was great drama, big plays, crazy plays the whole game. |
| 1:17.2 | I thought there was, you know, it was Matt Leiter and Reggie Bush against Vince Young. |
| 1:22.6 | What I saw today was Deshawn Watson against a great defense. |
| 1:26.5 | I don't, you know, I don't see, you know, I've said this before. |
| 1:30.9 | Alabama was a terrific team. |
| 1:32.9 | To me, Alabama was never in the discussion with Miami of 2001 or a Nebraska team or, you know, |
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