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Speaker 2: Skinner's gonna win the visit anytime soon, but I feel

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Speaker 2: better with him having to win a game than I

431
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Speaker 2: ever will a Jari for the reasons you just point out.

432
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Speaker 2: It is a win that he's no longer here more

433
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Speaker 2: than it is anything else. Like, I don't know if

434
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Speaker 2: you saw it. But I I tweeted that viral clip

435
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Speaker 2: of that Minnesota girls high school basketball game with the

436
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Speaker 2: same girl inbounded the ball to the wrong team three

437
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Speaker 2: times in a row, and I said, it looks like

438
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Speaker 2: Tristan Jarry playing basketball. And he not only can he

439
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 2: never shake that image of what he did against the

440
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Speaker 2: Islanders many years ago, but his reputation is now well

441
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Speaker 2: forged and it's on him to change the reputation. And

442
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 2: more than it is about people to keep an open mind.

443
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Speaker 2: And I think we have to be very upfront about

444
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Speaker 2: admitting that we're talking to.

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Speaker 1: Tim Benz from the trip here on the mark Manshow.

446
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: Tim joins us every Friday at three thirty. Let's talk

447
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Speaker 1: with the Steelers signing of Jakwan Brisker. Tim, I think

448
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: that really signals the plan with jalb Ramsey is to

449
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 1: get him in the slot when the team is in Nickel.

450
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Speaker 1: I think when you go in base you probably keep

451
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Speaker 1: Ramsey at that safety position. But once you go to nickel,

452
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: Ramsey bumps into slot and Brisker steps onto the field.

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Speaker 2: I think the more yeah, I'm with you, And I

454
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Speaker 2: think the most interesting debate is, you know when I

455
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Speaker 2: don't think Ramsey's coming off the field unless he proves

456
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 2: that he has to, And if he proves that he

457
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 2: has to, then you can do better at slot corner

458
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 2: than him at this stage of his career. But I

459
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 2: think he's staying. I don't think Ramsey's going anywhere. I

460
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 2: think some of those reports and thoughts are hyperbolic. But

461
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Speaker 2: to be frank, it's a toss up right now in

462
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Speaker 2: my head because I don't know enough about Brisker and

463
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Speaker 2: I don't know how healthy Elliott is. Is just that

464
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 2: first blush based on what I know about the two,

465
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 2: I'm inclined to think that Elliott is a better player,

466
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Speaker 2: but I don't know how healthy he's going to be

467
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Speaker 2: coming back, And I think at Leats is a little

468
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 2: bit more of a virstatile player, although I know the

469
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Speaker 2: Steelers think that he's more than just a box safety

470
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Speaker 2: and that some of the characterizations of him to the

471
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Speaker 2: contrary are inaccurate. That they think that he can play,

472
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Speaker 2: or else they wouldn't have signed it. I don't think

473
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Speaker 2: able to just sign him to be a box safety.

474
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Speaker 2: They think that if they need to and Ramsey is

475
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Speaker 2: playing corner, you can take away the deep middle of

476
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Speaker 2: the field. Between the two of those guys that Brisker

477
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Speaker 2: can do more than just tackle and support to run.

478
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Speaker 2: I don't think they would have brought him in if

479
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Speaker 2: they were thinking otherwise the way Patrick Graham wants to

480
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Speaker 2: run his defense. So the most interesting thing to me

481
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Speaker 2: is that they're going to keep Ramsey on the field

482
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Speaker 2: for most of the time. Who comes off between Elliott

483
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Speaker 2: and Brisker and it is just quote unquote two safeties

484
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Speaker 2: out there that will be very interesting to watch.

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Speaker 1: Where are you leaning, Tim as far as what position

486
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Speaker 1: going to go with at pick number twenty one? If

487
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Speaker 1: indeed they hold on to twenty one and pick there,

488
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Speaker 1: has that changed it all in your mind? Based on

489
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Speaker 1: the free agency signings we've had this past week and

490
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Speaker 1: the acquisitions.

491
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Speaker 2: It hasn't changed because I wasn't one hundred percent sure

492
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 2: it hasn't changed. But I do think that there's a

493
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 2: lot of validity in the notion of they went where

494
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Speaker 2: they went in free agency because of what the combine

495
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Speaker 2: told them. What the combine told them was there and

496
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 2: what the combine told them wasn't. Like I think they

497
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 2: loaded up in the secondary because of one of two things,

498
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 2: and maybe a little bit of both. That they didn't

499
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Speaker 2: think that the draft stock up high was all that

500
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Speaker 2: great for corners and safeties, so they took care of

501
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Speaker 2: that in free agency. Or they loved the draft stock

502
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Speaker 2: of the wide receivers, offensive linemen, and it would rather

503
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Speaker 2: just take care of secondary in the free agent market

504
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: because the pool there is pretty good too, so just

505
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Speaker 2: address it now. But you know, I'm walked. I'm walking

506
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Speaker 2: away thinking they like what there at guard, potentially tackle,

507
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: wide receiver, defensive line. I think they feel like they

508
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: can get players there throughout the first three rounds, and

509
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 2: that's why they threw assets of the secondary largely and

510
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 2: took care of the running back hole in free agency.

511
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Speaker 1: Jammelle Dean. At his introductory press conference today, Tim said

512
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Speaker 1: he chose Pittsburgh because we win here quote, and he

513
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: wants to chase another Super Bowl. He's gonna come up

514
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: a bit short, isn't he.

515
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Tom Brady isn't here like he wasn't Tampa, right.

516
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Aaron Rodgers to think of himself

517
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Speaker 2: as Tom Brady at this stage of his career and

518
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Speaker 2: do what Brady did, But there's no indication to me

519
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Speaker 2: that that's going to be the case. I don't know

520
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Speaker 2: how much whether they are in the discussions with Rogers.

521
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Speaker 2: I've heard nothing to suggest that they've gone south sour

522
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 2: or they're looking other ways. But they're not gonna win,

523
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Speaker 2: like Dean was talking about to the degree that he

524
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: got to with Brady and Tampa with this version of

525
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. Now, Aaron Rodgers probably will be better than

526
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Speaker 2: last year's in so far as he's gonna work in

527
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 2: a better scheme and he's gonna have better targets to

528
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Speaker 2: throw to. But I don't know if he's gonna be better,

529
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Speaker 2: and it might just kind of meet in the middle

530
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Speaker 2: and be what he was last year, because it's gonna

531
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Speaker 2: be another year older, and I also don't know what

532
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Speaker 2: that last side of the offensive line is gonna be,

533
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Speaker 2: So where he does make up ground in terms of

534
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 2: who is being coached by and who he's throwing to,

535
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: he will potentially regress because he's one year older, and

536
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 2: one year at forty three from forty two is a

537
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: hell of a lot more than twenty three and twenty two,

538
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Speaker 2: So you know he's going and even thirty three and

539
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Speaker 2: thirty two, especially at that position, So like it's kind

540
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Speaker 2: of six or one a half a half does in

541
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Speaker 2: the other and when you do the calculus, probably comes

542
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Speaker 2: back to a quarterback that's gonna get you to the ten

543
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Speaker 2: and eight, but probably not a playoff win.

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Speaker 1: With the work that the Steelers have done defensively in

545
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Speaker 1: their secondary, would you look at their roster right now

546
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Speaker 1: and circle that inside linebacker corps probably the weakest link

547
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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's another one. I probably should have

549
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: brought that up too. But then again, like you know,

550
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Speaker 2: Patrick Queen had a bonus that hit today, they're probably

551
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 2: not going to trade him. For all the bluster that's

552
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 2: been out there about Queen maybe getting traded, it makes

553
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 2: even less sense to trade him now because you're not

554
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: getting as much money off the books and free agency

555
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: has gone anyway. So they could do it, but it

556
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: better be a hell of a pick that they're getting

557
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: to do it to make it worth running a two million,

558
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: two point five million dollar check for a player that

559
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: you're not even going to pay this year, you know,

560
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 2: because that's it's less it's less cap relief, it's more retention,

561
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 2: and it's cash, so you better have a real good return.

562
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Speaker 2: If you could do that, that'd be more of a

563
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: player for player thing like Minka was, and or a

564
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 2: really high valuable asset pick at a time in the

565
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 2: draft where you see a guy that you absolutely have

566
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Speaker 2: to snag at that very given moment. But yes, inside line,

567
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: but to your original point, inside linebackery, something else that

568
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: should have included that list of what they want to

569
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Speaker 2: get tim.

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Speaker 1: The debate and the call Basketball World until selection Sunday

571
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: is going to be what do you do with Miami

572
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: of Ohio who went perfect in the regular season and

573
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: then bowed out in their first game of the MAC

574
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: Tournament to UMass. They're thirty one and one. Most of

575
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: the metrics say that they should not be an at

576
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: large bid for this tournament. But thirty one and one

577
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: is thirty one and one. Where do you land? Where

578
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: would you put them?

579
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Speaker 2: I'd put them in. I think this is a real

580
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: nod towards accepting the flaws in the system of scheduling.

581
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: If you leave Miami of Ohio out, if you leave

582
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Speaker 2: them out, then you're saying the way that the bigger

583
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: conference teams go about their business to shun the lesser

584
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 2: teams and kind of make the tournament a two tiered system.

585
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: When it's already becoming more and more of that in

586
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: the nil pay the players era. That's a tacit admission

587
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 2: that you know, you're you're just doing this for the

588
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: handful of you know, the Power five conferences and no

589
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: one else, you know. And I think think part of

590
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Speaker 2: the reason why they might do it is there is

591
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: such a groundswell, There is such a movement from those

592
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 2: up high in the NCAA and most of the coaches

593
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 2: and athletic directors to expand the tournament. It's a lot

594
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Speaker 2: easier to make that pitch if you have a poor,

595
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: lonely abandoned foster child. You know, it's it's a lot

596
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: harder to sell. Let's expand the tournament. So a really

597
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: undeserving twelfth SEC team gets in, or a bloated Big

598
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 2: conference member like you know, a bad Big ten team

599
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 2: or a bad ACC team, no wady feel sorry for that. Well,

600
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 2: then the easier thing to do is, let's expand the tournament.

601
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: So Miami Ohio gets it. So potentially, say like VCU

602
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 2: loses to Saint Louis and they're the team on the

603
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: outside looking at it, or like what if Saint Louis

604
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: had lost in the first round. They put themselves in

605
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 2: the bubble. Like you know, teams that you see these records,

606
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: they recognizable names, they're in the top twenty five earlier.

607
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 2: They don't play in Powell Conference as well. If you

608
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: expand the tournament, those are those spots for those guys. Well, no,

609
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 2: it's not. It's it's still going to be about how

610
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 2: many big conference schools can get in there. But it's

611
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 2: easier to position the argument. And you, like I said before,

612
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: now have the poor lonely needs to be adopted foster

613
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: child that can be the poster child for the argument.

614
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: Tim, you're at the A ten tournament currently, I'm watching

615
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: it right now. Dayton versus Sint Bonaventure looks like it's

616
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: starting to fill out a little bit in PPG paints.

617
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: It was looking a little grim earlier in the A

618
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Speaker 1: ten Tournament. The Duke's with a big win yesterday against

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Speaker 1: Rhode Island. How do you like their chances later on

620
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: today against VCU?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, tenants. Now you've got the two best traveling

622
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: teams for this year anyway, because Saint Louis is such

623
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: a big story and has been nationally and in the conference.

624
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 2: Dayton always travels and always travels here, right, VCU usually travels.

625
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: They're a big enough school, and you know, you're kind

626
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 2: of getting the confluence of a lot of good fan

627
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: bases within the eight ten, so it is starting to

628
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 2: fill out. And then he got the Mark Schmid story

629
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Speaker 2: and it's a fairly easy drive for Saint Bonaventure on

630
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: a Friday, So you're starting to see it makes more

631
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: sense now that it's going to fill out some and

632
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Speaker 2: Ducane I thought I had a pretty good representative local crowd.

633
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: I mean like, I thought their sections were pretty well

634
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: filled out. It was unlikely that Rhode Island was going

635
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: to bring anybody until they made a real, real run,

636
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: so it was spotty. So it depended on where the

637
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: camera was, and I think a lot of the Duke's

638
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: fans were behind the main camera anyway, so it looked

639
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: worse than what it was last night in the building.

640
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: But I would fig you're going to see another good

641
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 2: crowd out there for a larger school with a good

642
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: fan base and PCU and they're just I think the

643
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: way Dukane finished with that crazy game right before the tournament,

644
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: the thirty point comeback, the buzzer beater, it was a

645
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: real easy sell and a real easy thing to remember. Hey,

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Speaker 2: the end to A ten tournaments across the street next

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Speaker 2: week and tickets are eight bucks. So you know like

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Speaker 2: that that got people out here.

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Speaker 1: Well, Tim, enjoy the game tonight and we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you soon on the show.

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Speaker 2: You got it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Tim Bens from the trip Live from the A

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Speaker 1: ten tournament. Ducane taking on VCU tonight at five o'clock

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Speaker 1: at PPG Paints. Good tickets still available if you got

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Speaker 1: nothing else to do on a Friday. It's like the

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Speaker 1: perfect that you hit a fish fry. Go right down

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Speaker 1: at PPG Paints. Watch the Dukes take on VCU, try

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Speaker 1: to pull on upset and make that miracle run back

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Speaker 1: to the NC Double A Tournament we come back. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna play that Jamel Dean SoundBite what he said. Tim

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Speaker 1: and I discussed it a little bit at his press conference. Today.

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Speaker 1: We got Kevin Gorman checking in with the Bucks in Bradenton.

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Speaker 1: That's at four o'clock. Lots to get to today on

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Speaker 1: the show. Seth Warbo is also going to join us

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Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour to talk Penguins. It's Tom

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Speaker 1: Off from an in for Mark one oh five ninety X.

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Speaker 1: This segment brought to us by the Steelers Pro Shop.

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Speaker 1: Get it direct from the team at the Steewers Pro

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Speaker 1: Shop at shop dot Steelers dot com. Rivalry renewed tonight

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Speaker 1: between Team USA and Team Canada, this time on the Diamond.

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Speaker 1: The World Baseball Classic quarter final is underway and Team

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Speaker 1: USA taking on Canada at eight pm. I'm curious to

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Speaker 1: see what the interest is going to be there now

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Speaker 1: that we're in the knockout stage. Team USA almost didn't

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Speaker 1: get through to the knockout stage. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 1: even noticed that though, but curious to see what happens

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Speaker 1: now with the World Baseball Classic. I will say this,

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Speaker 1: Team USA wins at Dominican Republican. The Dominican Republic beats

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Speaker 1: Korea today. It's the Dominican Republican, their loaded lineup versus

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Speaker 1: Paul Skeins on the mound for Team USA on Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: and I think all baseball fans can get into that.

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Speaker 1: We got Kevin Gorman coming up in just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We'll get his thoughts on a bunch of Bucko stuff.

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Speaker 1: Check in with them in Bradenton as we're getting closer

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Speaker 1: to the opening day. And we'll get his thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic as well, But before we get there,

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Speaker 1: today was press conference day for the Pittsburgh Steelers. All

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Speaker 1: of their new acquisitions were at the facility signing their contracts.

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Speaker 1: You heard from Pittman Junior, you heard from Rico Dawdle,

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Speaker 1: you heard from Jamel Dean, and Jamel Dean was asked

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Speaker 1: quite simply the layup question, right that you ask any

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Speaker 1: new acquisition for any team, why do you want to

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Speaker 1: come to Pittsburgh? And this is part of his answer,

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Speaker 1: the most part.

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Speaker 3: It was like, basically, like the coachure that's been built

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Speaker 3: all we basically all we.

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Speaker 1: Do is win here.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm in a point of my career now,

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to chase another Super Bowl and I feel

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Speaker 3: coaching staff, I feel like it's possible.

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Speaker 1: We can get that done. Now, what's he supposed to say? Right,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna obviously say that it's the easy answer for

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Speaker 1: any new acquisition to come in and be like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's the Steelers. All they do is win. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: win the super Bowl here. I want to keep chasing

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Speaker 1: super Bowls at the point I'm at in my career.

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Speaker 1: But it ain't gonna happen for you, Jamal, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: come up a bit short in that department. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: Bucos next. Kevin Gorman from the trip joining us in

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Speaker 1: just thirty seconds. It's time out from an Infra Mark