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Welcome to the audible. I'm Stuart Mandel joined by Bruce Feldman late late night edition after the National Championship game here in San Jose. You hate

this podcast, don't you? I actually enjoy this podcast. I think you, my friend,

from the... This is the one time you already gets to hear the like

low grably version of your voice.

Yeah, I hate. Yeah I hate this

I hate this edition just because it's like in the middle of the night and I know I only

get like an hour of sleep coming up or not that not even. But we're on Pacific

time so we're all good. We are, we're okay, you're all good because you don't have to get on a plane. You don't have to go anywhere. I have to be back at my house in like five hours for when my daughter wakes up.

Okay, well.

The disadvantage of a home game.

So we just had the national title game and I think it's the one outcome neither one of us thought was possible.

Which was Clemson would blow Alabama out of the building.

How do you feel about that?

It's surreal.

You know, we've, I think we've covered and watched so many Alabama games that are Nick

Seven and yes we've seen them lose a few of them but we've just never seen them

get destroyed like that this was like an urban Meyer loss when it goes bad like you know.

Like, but it wasn't Purdue. This was, look, I've said all season, these were the two best teams.

I thought Clemson was in Alabama's level.

I didn't really get too caught up in the fact that they were playing mediocre ACC teams

because they're blowing them all out. But I will say within the 48 hours before the game, I kind of talked myself into,

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