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Speaker 1: Cuban. Y'all don't know football.

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Speaker 2: Y'all don't know football. All right, we're about ready to

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Speaker 2: get the gizzard. But get the gizzard in loving fashion.

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Speaker 2: The day before Thanksgiving, he was coming in hot when

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Speaker 2: I called him. When is he not hot? He's Softy

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Speaker 2: in Seattle at Softy KJR V the X machine follow

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Speaker 2: him if you are so inclined. At nine in the morning,

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Speaker 2: he's screaming at Softy k JR. Now Softy in Seattle

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Speaker 2: is on the audio as they're making us say. But

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Speaker 2: on the radio three to seven Pacific ninety three to

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Speaker 2: and Softy is the flame thrower. Hey, Softy, good morning?

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Speaker 2: How are you, Paul?

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Speaker 3: I don't understand how anybody doesn't get fat as the

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Speaker 3: so I can stuff my face like a pig on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: And all I end up doing is eating everything in

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Speaker 3: the house that I'm saving to cook for Thursday. Great,

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Speaker 3: how do people not get through the holidays just putting

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Speaker 3: on massive amounts of weight?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it, well, David, Softy, love it Softy.

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Speaker 2: You're talking to somebody who has not felt his ribs

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Speaker 2: in thirty years. So therefore I'm hey.

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Speaker 1: You know what.

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Speaker 3: Well, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you might want to call you might want to call

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Speaker 3: weight launchers if they're still around. No, I'm kidding. You're

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Speaker 3: a You're a you know, you're a spelt but sexy man.

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Speaker 3: You are a good looking individual, Paul. Don't you think otherwise?

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Speaker 2: Honey? You got to stop that. If somebody like after

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Speaker 2: a Viking's loss or losses, uh, all seven of them.

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Speaker 2: If if they're with me and they sense that I'm

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Speaker 2: a little down, and uh, they'll be like, come on, Paul,

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Speaker 2: pick up your chin. Well my response is which one?

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Speaker 3: Well, the best way to a man's heart is through

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Speaker 3: his mouth, man, there's no question about that. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: let's get to it, dude. I don't know what you

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Speaker 3: and I want to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: So let's go softy. Before we talk about that. Here's

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Speaker 2: a question I've never asked you, and I legitimately have

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Speaker 2: wonderment with it. Now your name is Dave Mahler M

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Speaker 2: A H L E R Right, Yes, sir, okay, So

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Speaker 2: how did you get the nickname Softy?

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Speaker 3: I used to look like you, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Really, because you were ponchy. Somebody actually called you softy.

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Speaker 3: You're the one that's set it up, man, I mean

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Speaker 3: you put it right there on a tee for me.

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Speaker 3: For God's sake, no, man, I used to weigh two

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Speaker 3: hundred and seventy pounds. I used to have bigger boobs

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Speaker 3: than my wife. For crying out loud, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: When my wife would go bra shopping, she would shop

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Speaker 3: for two and not just for one. And then I

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Speaker 3: lost the bunch your way. I went to an organization

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Speaker 3: called thirty ten Weight Loss for Life, which is now

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Speaker 3: and I lost almost eighty pounds about ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: So got it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to be I used to be gigantic. Man.

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Speaker 3: When I go to the DMV to get my license

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Speaker 3: That's how bad I used to be. So that's how

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Speaker 2: Wow, you much know, you gotta be kidding me with

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Speaker 2: that prattle. That was second to none. All Right, we

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Speaker 2: will satisfy your desires. Now, your nickname being softy? Is

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Speaker 2: that what they call Seahawks quarterback Sam Donald when he

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Speaker 3: No, they call Sam Donald eight and three. They called

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Speaker 3: Sam Donald the magic man for what he's been able

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Speaker 3: to do here in Seattle, and they called Sam Donald

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Speaker 3: the mistake in Minnesota because they let him walk for nothing.

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Speaker 3: I don't get what you guys are doing out there, honestly.

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Speaker 3: So really, the question needs to be asked. And I'm

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Speaker 3: it was obvious that Joe Montenna's career was coming to

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Speaker 3: that is a known commodity at fourteen and three, letting

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Speaker 3: him walk for nothing seems like a really, really bad idea.

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Speaker 3: Pall at the most important position in sports. And look,

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Speaker 3: I realized that Sam Donald did not play well, and

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Speaker 3: and the playoff game against the Rams, I understand all that.

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Speaker 3: First of all, a couple of things. Number One, Sam

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Speaker 3: played in a lot of big time games, right, and

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Speaker 3: the two games against Green Bay a year ago? Were

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Speaker 3: you happy with those performances from Sam Donald? Did you

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Speaker 3: not like winning fourteen games and going to the playoffs

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Speaker 3: last season? Was that an issue? Did you think that

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Speaker 3: the Lion Game, he's probably making fifty five million dollars

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Speaker 3: a year. I'm thirty five billion dollars a year. So

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Speaker 3: either way, the Vikings lose by letting him walk. You

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Speaker 3: do not let guys go that win fourteen games. You

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Speaker 3: do not let guys go that are in the MVP

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Speaker 3: conversation for a majority of the year. So the Vikings

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Speaker 3: mistake is the Seahawk gain. Here we are at eight

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Speaker 3: and three, you're four and seven, and by the way,

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Speaker 3: you know who else stakes right now, Geno Smith and

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Speaker 3: example of John Schneider pulling the plug at the exact

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Speaker 2: Okay, look here, hes not no softy. We called you

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Speaker 2: to talk about your team. I recorded with you for

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Speaker 2: twenty five minutes yesterday to talk about my team. Why

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Speaker 2: have we turned the tables? And the day before Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: we're catching all the Hey, we.

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Speaker 3: Can get thirty five minutes if you want. I'm not

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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you that this game has that theme

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Speaker 3: on Sunday. It's not just Sam Darnald against Minnesota. It's

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Speaker 3: Sam Donald against this former football team. And am I

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Speaker 3: answer your question, because you're getting impatient, I can hear you.

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Speaker 3: I can hear you breathe, and I can hear the

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Speaker 3: nostrils opening up in your nose. I can hear your

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Speaker 3: brain starting to twist and gather some steam. You're getting

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Speaker 3: annoyed at me. I don't want to do that, especially

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Speaker 3: Darnald blowing it and playing poorly in big games, sure,

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Speaker 3: I know, but I'm also loving what I'm seeing from

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Speaker 3: Sam Darnald the rest of the way. And here's the thing, man, Really,

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Speaker 3: the poor football that we've seen from Sam Donald, when

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Speaker 3: has it occurred. It's occurred in the last two games

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Speaker 3: against Arizona and against the Rams, and he's got seven

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Speaker 3: combined turnovers in those two games. Yet the Seahawks have

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Speaker 3: also scored sixty three points and they were a sixty

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Speaker 3: one yard field goal from Jason Myers away from actually

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Speaker 3: beating the Rams and going to and zero in those

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Speaker 3: I'd rather have Sam Darnald do this now in mid

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Speaker 3: to late November than in late December early January. So

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Speaker 3: let's hope he's coughing up this hairball right now and

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Speaker 3: he's figuring it out before the games get really big

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Speaker 3: later in the year.

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Speaker 2: That's very very fair analysis. And I caught the tail

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Speaker 2: thought Sam, the man who used to be on the fan,

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Speaker 2: close for Myers to have an opportunity. Very fair. Now

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Speaker 2: your coach Mike McDonald twelve and two on the road,

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Speaker 2: six and eight, allumin, what's the read on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just hasn't been the same place for the Seahawks, man,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I don't know even though, honestly, Paul,

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Speaker 3: if the national media has picked up on it. You know,

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Speaker 3: you go to luman Field, you turn on the broadcast, CBS, Fox, whatever,

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Speaker 3: and you hear people like my buddy Kevin Harlan, you

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Speaker 3: know Kenny Albert, you know Coogler whoever. Oh, this is

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Speaker 3: You gotta look at what they've done in the last

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Speaker 3: Pete Carroll. This is not just Mike McDonald. Part of

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Speaker 3: the issue is the Hawks have been fairly mediocre in

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Speaker 3: stuff's gonna happen. And then number two, it's also been

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Speaker 3: Man Niner fans, Cardinal fan, Buffalo Bill fans. We'll see

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Speaker 3: how many Viking fans show up for this game on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: It has not had the same hometown feel that it's

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Speaker 3: had in the last few seasons. Man, So it's got

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Speaker 3: to stop. I mean, he's twelve and two on the road, McDonald,

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Speaker 3: he's six and eight at luman Field. So they lose

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Speaker 3: this game to you guys on Sunday and they go

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Speaker 3: six and nine and they lose. Is a big favorite

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Speaker 3: favorite at home. We're going to have a real problem

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Speaker 3: because this is kind of a thing right now for McDonald.

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Speaker 3: You lose on Sunday, it's a real thing at for McDonald.

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Speaker 2: Ten and a half point favorites. Would you give it?

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Speaker 2: Would you give it? Take it? Or pass ah?

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Speaker 3: I think this weekend I probably would take it. After

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Speaker 3: what happened with the Seahawks and Tennessee, I think they're

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Speaker 3: pissed off about the fact they let Tennessee back in

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Speaker 3: the game on Sunday. They were heavy favorites on the road,

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Speaker 3: given thirteen and a half. It was the biggest road

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Speaker 3: spread the Hawks have ever had as a favorite, by

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Speaker 3: the way, in franchise history, and I just don't think

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Speaker 3: those come through very often. But at home this weekend

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Speaker 3: against Minnesota and your buddy Broseemur, not Brasmer. They give Brosemer.

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Speaker 3: I would say take the Hawks and give the points.

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Speaker 3: I think I'd probably parlay it with the under to

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Speaker 3: be honest with you on Sunday, but I think this

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Speaker 3: is a game where, just like the Arizona game and

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Speaker 2: Would you make it a three team parlay and include

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Speaker 3: No, but I would take the six and a half

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Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome back nine to noon. Chris Finch, head coach

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Speaker 1: Well, we're head home tonight, so we'll be able to

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Speaker 1: As much as you want enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I didn't really realize they were playing on

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Speaker 1: Friday until somebody said it yesterday. So you know, Friday,

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Speaker 1: we'll have practice in the morning and then be able

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Speaker 1: to enjoy enjoy some football and then got a big

436
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Speaker 1: game Ohio State Michigan on Saturday. So you know, really good,

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Speaker 1: good weekend of sports as it always is.

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Speaker 2: And your your media relations can do it. And dear

439
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Speaker 2: friend Aaron Freeman, big Bears fan, Chris Finch, big Eagles fan,

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Speaker 2: How's how's how's that relationship working out right now?

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Speaker 1: Well, we have a great relationship, but we'll see what

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Speaker 1: ends up on Friday and into Saturday. So but fully

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Speaker 1: expect to bounce back. Win by the Birds, yeah, and

444
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Speaker 1: and also won by the bike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah Winter Winter a free as an Aaron Freeman has

446
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Speaker 2: a little bleep talking to him, and I didn't realize

447
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Speaker 2: that until his Bears beat my Vikings and I had

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Speaker 2: looked at like six texts and then finally was like,

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Speaker 2: holy col Winter a free We got to slow down

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Speaker 2: with this stuff. But his squad's doing great and hopefully

451
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Speaker 2: yours does tonight. Let me let me ask you this.

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Speaker 2: Do Hartenstein and Holme Grin play together a bunch? And

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Speaker 2: like overall, how do they compliment each other?

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Speaker 1: Well, they're a great duol, you know, it's they They're

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Speaker 1: both really skilled, hard and signs an unbelievable pass. There

456
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Speaker 1: is a great feel for the game, can make tricky

457
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Speaker 1: shots around the rim. Excellent defender, you know, as we

458
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Speaker 1: know Check can really he can really protect the rim

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Speaker 1: on defense as well, So they have great interchangeability there

460
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Speaker 1: defensively then offensively, which you know, he's gonna stretch the floor.

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Speaker 1: He's he's a guy who's gonna put traditional centers under

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Speaker 1: pressure with his skill set. And you know, they do

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Speaker 1: a great job of playing together. It gives them unbelievable

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Speaker 1: size at the rim, but also they create problems at

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Speaker 1: the other end of the floor. So it's a it's

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Speaker 1: almost a perfect pairing, uh, in many ways.

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Speaker 2: This tonight, Chris, this is an NBA Cup game.

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Speaker 1: Right it is. It's the final NBA Cup game, So

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Speaker 1: still alive and well in the Cup. With a win tonight,

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Speaker 1: I believe we clinched going through, but I'm not showing that.

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Speaker 1: But I do feel like I haven't done the mathematic

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Speaker 1: on the tiebreakers, but I think it gives us a

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Speaker 1: great chance to go through for that win.

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Speaker 2: I laughed because I tried to this morning, and it's

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Speaker 2: like Minnesota lost Sacramento. This Minnesota win point differential that. So,

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Speaker 2: do you guys need to win tonight to keep the

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Speaker 2: the NBA Cup dream alive?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well the the half what what do the players get

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Speaker 2: if they win the It's a half million?

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Speaker 1: Right? Uh, I'm not sure what the what it is?

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Speaker 1: Uh honestly, I thought it was more towards a million,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that.

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Speaker 2: And that I mean that of course matters to two players.

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Speaker 2: I'm not in locker rooms, and of course you only

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Speaker 2: monitor one locker room. But you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I mean that they they they circle their wagons, you know,

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Speaker 2: around things like this, Right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's been a great product for the league.

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Speaker 1: You know, creates early season interest, it gives you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's another platform for for them to be

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Speaker 1: able to promote the game and and link up with

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Speaker 1: the media partner to do so, you guys have taken

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Speaker 1: taken to it in the league. They understand that they

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Speaker 1: feel that little extra motivation there on sold like do

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Speaker 1: or die games, which you don't play many of those

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Speaker 1: in the league, even though you know at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day they kind of all are or don't

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Speaker 1: they don't all have that feeling.

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Speaker 2: Have you. Have you seen some of the scores in

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Speaker 2: these NBA Cup games, Allly Cow just astronomically high.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, points differential matters, So when you have a

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Speaker 1: chance to pour it on, you're pouring it on. I

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Speaker 1: think that's the one thing that's a little different. You know,

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Speaker 1: havn't touched in Europe for a long time, and you'll

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Speaker 1: play like two leged affairs like a home and away

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Speaker 1: and then points differential matters at the end of it.

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Speaker 1: A those types of different tournament settings that they have overseas.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's just part of the equation. But for

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Speaker 1: here in American sports, we don't really stress that. It's

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Speaker 1: not something that we we kind of build our competition around.

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Speaker 1: So it is an odd dynamic. It feels a little unnatural,

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Speaker 1: unsportsmanlike even at times. But you know, when you're up

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Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty six points and you got to keep

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Speaker 1: going for it because you're just going to you never

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Speaker 1: know when to tie break the situation. What it's going

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Speaker 1: to come down to.

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Speaker 2: Dude, Dude, I mean coaches and players just kind of

519
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Speaker 2: have to handle that, right. I mean, you got a

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Speaker 2: little more than a half million mistake per player. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I shared this example yesterday. It was recently

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Speaker 2: with the Orlando Magic. They're killing somebody. Man, they're by

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Speaker 2: like seventeen nineteen with a minute to go, and Suggs

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Speaker 2: hits a three and then the other team goes the

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Speaker 2: other way and Franz Wagner blocks the shot like up

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Speaker 2: to twenty one. I'm like, are you kidding me with this?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean some in some ways in how you

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Speaker 1: want it to be played all the time, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's professional sports. Like if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to be beat by thirty five, don't don't be

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Speaker 1: beat by thirty five. You know, it's you're not here

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Speaker 1: to protect each other's feelings. So it's never bothered me

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Speaker 1: no matter what the competition is. If you're not if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to, if you don't want to get

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Speaker 1: your butt but whipped like that and then do things

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Speaker 1: to prevent.

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Speaker 2: It all right, lastly too, and then happy Thanksgiving with tonight.

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Speaker 2: What's what's key with go Bear's game this seven name?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was, you know, he's his defense against

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Speaker 1: the two bigs, of course, you know, just they're just

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Speaker 1: countering obviously what they're doing. We'll have to play some

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Speaker 1: on the perimeter, you know, being early in his help

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Speaker 1: to try to bother Shay. Uh, you know, Shay said,

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Speaker 1: one of the best attackers in the league, as we know,

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Speaker 1: and he gets kind of gets wherever he wants to

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Speaker 1: go past the first line of defense pretty seamlessly, so

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Speaker 1: just presenting himself there. And I think, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: smart offense spacing is huge against these guys. They generate

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Speaker 1: a ton of turnovers. They will really, you know, be

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Speaker 1: big at the rim. So Rudy kind of reading space

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Speaker 1: around that was gonna be also big.

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Speaker 2: And lastly, what about Jalen Clark? What what are you

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Speaker 2: thinking of him lately? I noticed I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 2: get a chance to see a lot of the Sacramento game,

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Speaker 2: but but I noticed his minutes were cut a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we got TJ back, so we're trying

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Speaker 1: to work him into the lineup. Jalen's fine is a

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Speaker 1: big part of what we're gonna do. You know, we

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Speaker 1: said from the beginning that these young guys, the situations

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Speaker 1: that they're in this year, their roles will be consistently

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Speaker 1: inconsistent and we're gonna we're in a discovery phase. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you got to go through these periods where you got

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Speaker 1: to figure out what you got, who can do what.

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Speaker 1: You got to give them extended games to do it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes they're gonna play more minutes than others,

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Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes that might be the right decision,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes I might not be the right decision, but

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. And at the end of

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, we're trying to get them

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Speaker 1: all seasoned up so they can help us over a

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Speaker 1: long season into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving, my brother, and I'll call you next.

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Speaker 1: Week you too, PA, have a good one.

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Speaker 4: all the sports things that are boggling our minds, we

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Speaker 4: having perfect days the injuries adding up much to our dismay.

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Speaker 2: But how about Jalen Redman? I mean, what else can

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