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Speaker 2: hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday afternoon. It is Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: it's one o'clock. That means Zach Taylor is at the

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Speaker 2: podium for his weekly press conference. We go there now.

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Speaker 3: Stewart to practice today.

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Speaker 4: Short him back, yep, see what he looks.

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Speaker 5: What would you mean to see for him to play

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Speaker 5: on Sunday? A is it just too yeah? Different because

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Speaker 5: he's a rookie, you know, and he's missing time. So

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Speaker 5: we'll just get him back, you know. S I'm on

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Speaker 5: the reha field last week. We'll think he's making really

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Speaker 5: good progress. Now, just to get him out there and

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Speaker 5: see what it looks like today. Today's not full scale,

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Speaker 5: you know like we have on previous Wednesdays. We'll start

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Speaker 5: to lighten it up a little bit more. I probably

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Speaker 5: get a better indication of what he looks feels like.

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Speaker 6: There's at least the chance that he could go Yes, where.

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Speaker 4: Does yeah, protocol, so he'll be limited today. Individual stuff.

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Speaker 4: In the limited individual stuff, that's part of this, Uh,

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Speaker 4: come back from the from the concussion.

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Speaker 3: What happened and coming back and the interesting himself back

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Speaker 3: into the road. Call after the Fils game, do you

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Speaker 3: have to be extra careful? Are you still just leaping

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Speaker 3: into the doctor's hands and whatever they say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we trust them. I mean they've done a great

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Speaker 4: job with all this stuff, and so again we trust them.

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Speaker 4: And getting your guy back to practice is part of

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Speaker 4: a guy coming back and returning from percussion, and it'll

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Speaker 4: be a very limited basis.

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Speaker 7: What's the plan for you know, if you can't play,

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Speaker 7: you know, you go deep in that receiver room.

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Speaker 4: With last time we played him two weeks ago, you know,

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Speaker 4: same same roster, same book, so at least we know

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Speaker 4: what that looks like if he's not able to go,

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Speaker 4: you know, very similar group.

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Speaker 8: How disappointing was it to find out about Hendrickson and

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Speaker 8: not potentially being able to happen for the rest of

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Speaker 8: the year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, nothing new reallyant, I mean that's how it's been

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Speaker 6: How do you, the next four game is going to

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Speaker 6: be for Schmore's development.

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Speaker 9: He's able to play.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think you know, we've got high expectations

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Speaker 4: for him, and he's worked really hard to meet those

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Speaker 4: and done everything he can do, and unfortunately the setback

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Speaker 4: with the injury, there's nothing he can control. So I

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Speaker 4: don't think there's there's a pressure to see anything from

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Speaker 4: him in the next four weeks. We'll just we'll see

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Speaker 4: how he feels his practice goes this week, if he's

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Speaker 4: able to get into a game this week, whatever it is,

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Speaker 4: just keep progressing and keep improving. And that's the biggest thing.

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Speaker 4: Kind of like I've said, with a lot of the

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Speaker 4: other rookies we've got that have gotten to play more

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Speaker 4: and more time, keep getting better every single week, and

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Speaker 4: Shamara falls in the same category.

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Speaker 6: But he's been great.

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Speaker 4: I mean, these last couple of weeks, he's been He

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Speaker 4: sits right in front of me in the team meeting,

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Speaker 4: Key's intented. You can tell he wants to be back,

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Speaker 4: and now it's just a matter of making sure he's healthy.

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Speaker 6: Challenging has this season been for you?

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Speaker 4: They're all challenging. Every situation every season is unique. It's

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Speaker 4: got his own challenges. It's got his own ups and downs.

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Speaker 4: So it's I just take a week the week, you know,

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Speaker 4: and now we're focused on Baltimore and trying to find

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Speaker 4: a win and really want to win this game to

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Speaker 4: get ourselves a little bit of momentum before the next one.

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Speaker 4: But every season is a challenge in so own ways.

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Speaker 4: Even when your your record is flipped from what it

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Speaker 4: is now, there's still challenges and the vers year you're

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Speaker 4: You can feel the energy level is still really good

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Speaker 5: Anytime you're asked about pressure, you say, no one puts

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Speaker 6: When when did you get comfortable? Wasn't right?

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Speaker 5: But when were you able to kind of tune out

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Speaker 4: Lise, Oh yeah, I don't think that's something that just

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Speaker 4: happens now. I mean, that's your whole life gets you

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Speaker 4: Something that scares us or makes us nervous, It's it's

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Speaker 4: And so we work really hard, even when it's tough,

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Speaker 4: when when you face a lot of challenges and you

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Speaker 4: come through it. And so we embrace that. It's not

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Speaker 4: don't win. It's frustrating when you're in close games. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's the amount of work we put in and the

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Speaker 4: expectations we have ourselves. That's that's really hard when it

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Speaker 4: that you've got to wake up Monday morning and the

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Speaker 4: Ravens are coming to town, and so you got to

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Speaker 4: find a way to win. Obviously, try many different things,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure through the course of the season to message

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Speaker 4: your players, get through them, motivate them in any way possible.

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Speaker 6: What has that been like for you this year? How

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Speaker 6: many ways as you tried?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't try to do anything out side of

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Speaker 4: my personality number one, you know, I think that's guys

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Speaker 4: and honest with them. And my message can change week

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Speaker 4: but the bottom line is I'm gonna try to find

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Speaker 4: every way I can to keep the team moving in

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Speaker 4: the right direction and get the best out of everybody.

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Speaker 4: And our coaches do the same thing, and our players

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Speaker 4: have been responsive to that. I think they've taken really

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Speaker 4: well with the feedback. We've had great, honest conversations with

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Speaker 6: You remember, we're just starting this moment with the team.

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Speaker 4: No individually, no, I mean it's it's every week you

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Speaker 4: kind of put in the past a little bit, you know.

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Speaker 4: I obviously take my notes on on things I got

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Speaker 4: things we did well, But my focus is solely on

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Speaker 4: Baltimore right now. That's tough to gain, honey against They're

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Speaker 4: they're really good. I mean, they've got a lot of veterans,

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Speaker 4: dbs are all really smart. And you know, obviously a

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Speaker 4: their communication, with how they're playing all the different defenses,

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Speaker 4: their response to one of your responses, how quickly they

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Speaker 4: get it communicated. It's all really impressive and nothing is

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Speaker 4: takes a lot of work from us over the course

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Speaker 4: of the week. Obviously it's nice for having seven days

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Speaker 4: any less challenging. It's it's they're a tough defense to

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Speaker 5: How important is it to have is building a roster

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Speaker 5: to have that mesh of veteran guys and young guys

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Speaker 4: To where, yeah, you try to find a balance just

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Speaker 5: What makes special.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what position you would you would really

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Speaker 4: say he plays. He's I don't even know if he's

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Speaker 4: listed as a safety. Maybe that's probably the last position

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Speaker 4: he plays right now, but he's he is really an

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Speaker 4: effective defensive end. He's an effective linebacker, he's a effective nickel,

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Speaker 4: he's an effective cover guy. So whatever spot you want

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Speaker 4: to classify that as. He's really intelligent, he's really long,

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Speaker 4: he's really strong. It's it's there's not a lot of

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Speaker 4: and so he's he's somebody you have to be in

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Speaker 4: tune with every single play. No, not really, no, I

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Speaker 4: mean you can maybe put him in a safety category

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Speaker 4: with some some really great I didn't really play. I

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Speaker 4: hate to make some comparisons because some guys I I

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Speaker 3: Owners meetings about the lack of the second contracts that

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Speaker 3: you guys have given to offensive linemen being an indictment

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Speaker 3: of that being an area that you guys wanted to improve.

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Speaker 3: When you look at how well Marius is playing and

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Speaker 3: how well, Dylan is playing right now. Did you and

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Speaker 3: Duke and the personnel group change anything in your process

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Speaker 10: Just as simple as those two.

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Speaker 6: You guys just really hit on those two.

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Speaker 4: Well, starting with Marius, I mean the reason we took

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Speaker 4: him in the first round, our scouts had tremendous conviction

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Speaker 4: great conviction. As you can imagine, anytime a guy has

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Speaker 4: he's been awesome to work with. He's a guy who's

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Speaker 4: eager to be at his best, very coachable, he's got

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Speaker 4: a high level football intelligence. A Marius is really on

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Speaker 4: a tremendous trajectory for us right now, but our scouting

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Speaker 4: veteran guy that some of our coaches have been around

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Speaker 4: before as well, so we knew what we were getting

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Speaker 4: when we added him in training camp from that veteran

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Speaker 4: this and I think he's done an excellent job filling

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Speaker 4: in the room in conjunction with some other veterans we have,

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Speaker 4: but also just play on the field next to Marius

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Speaker 4: has been good too, you know, as a veteran guy next.

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Speaker 6: To a second year player.

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Speaker 4: So really pleased with how those two guys have done

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Speaker 4: a great job for us this year. I think Dylan's

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Speaker 4: on a great trajectory as well. I'm really pleased with him. Again,

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Speaker 4: he's standers between two really veteran players that are helping

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Speaker 4: bring him along. I think Scott and Mike have done

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Speaker 4: been a great combination of a lot of things, and

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Speaker 11: Right now, you're talking about pressure, Do you feel any

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Speaker 11: actually pressure this week because you guys could be eliminated

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Speaker 4: I mean, maybe it sounds silly, but every week for

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Speaker 2: That is Zach Taylor's weekly Wednesday press conference. I believe

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Speaker 12: Here's that hyper talkbacks that microphone and record a message.

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Speaker 6: Oh, bisil Toe.

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Speaker 12: I'd be miss nut keeper this. You better not be naughty.

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Speaker 12: That's that time for talk facts. It's the most what

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Speaker 2: Very christ Thank you, Santa. Appreciate that we do have

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Speaker 2: some updates from winter meetings. Real quick before we get

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Speaker 2: into talkbacks. Austin, you know that Ken Rosenthal quote that

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Speaker 6: Here are your talkbacks. The Orioles got new owners.

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Speaker 10: Oh oh hey, guys, James from Batavia here, James, I

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Speaker 10: we love the Reds.

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Speaker 11: Figure it out.

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Speaker 7: Okay, before I start singing, I'd like to make the

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Speaker 7: following statement. I think It's a travesty that the Great

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Speaker 7: Joe Burrow is saddled with Zach Taylor as his head coach.

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Speaker 7: The Bengals need to move on from this baffoon. They

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Speaker 7: should fire to or soon, preferably Christmas morning.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Tony Pie Carson, Paul Mr Mett lie.

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Speaker 17: A.

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Speaker 6: Jay Brown, say Quon Barkley, Jaen Hurd, Yeah, wow.

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Speaker 17: Hey, Tony Hails And it's the Lord. If you got

446
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Speaker 17: a chance to rude in the cash cab and you

447
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Speaker 17: asked a question about the bangles and you did not

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Speaker 17: know the answer to.

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Speaker 6: It, Charlie Goldsmith, who would you call to get that answer?

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Speaker 17: And you have three candidates and you can only pick one.

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Speaker 17: Would you call James Orpene? No, hell, no, Joe Danoman

452
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Speaker 17: or Charlie Goldsmith And you can only pick one? And

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Speaker 17: this question is worth one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 6: I would pick Charlie. Yeah, it would be Charlie, then Joe,

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Speaker 6: then James.

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Speaker 2: I think I would agree. And if it got down,

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Speaker 2: and I think Danman will tell you that as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think so too.

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Speaker 6: And if it was if Charlie and Joe didn't pick up,

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Speaker 6: then I would just guess I would even call you

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Speaker 6: now James won get a call.

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Speaker 18: I was at the barbershop this morning and the guy

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Speaker 18: waiting was talking about how Joe Burrows, yeah with the

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Speaker 18: S was solely to blame for the Bengals loss and

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Speaker 18: Kyle Schwarber denied the Reds offer. It took so much

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Speaker 18: effort not to chime backed at him. But when I

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Speaker 18: left there, I told him to tune in the ESPN

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Speaker 18: fifteen thirty get a little more sports knowledge.

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Speaker 6: Well, thank you for that. Now he knows what's better

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Speaker 6: though than a good barbershop banter. If he's listening, you know,

471
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Speaker 6: now he knows that you. You kind of outed him,

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Speaker 6: and good luck getting your haircut next time.

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Speaker 15: Hello, this is former President Ronald Rick Andy Well. El,

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Speaker 15: since you two are the number one sports talk duo

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Speaker 15: in the land, I was wondering what Christmas show duo

476
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Speaker 15: are you most like? Rudolph and Herbie or the Heat

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Speaker 15: Miser and Cold Miser, or would it be John McLean

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Speaker 15: and Hans Gruber.

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Speaker 6: I think McCoy's Morning it was Heat Miser or in

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Speaker 6: Cold Mine. Yeah, a lot more lately it's been Heat

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Speaker 6: Miser and Culture. Who does the top sports do? Is

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Speaker 6: that City Beat? Probably not? Probably not the Inquirer. I

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Speaker 6: don't know, I don't I don't know who John mccleanan.

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Speaker 6: Is that die Hard? That's die Hard? Good job, good job,

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Speaker 6: thanks man.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, Jeff and New Richmond. Happy Wednesday two Yet,

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Speaker 9: So I was thinking about the Kyle Schwarber thing yesterday.

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Speaker 9: Sure it sounds like we just missed out by like

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Speaker 9: twenty five million. Boy, it's a shame we had to

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Speaker 9: pay j Mar twenty one million to go away. We

491
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Speaker 9: could use that money, Mar. It just shows the mismanagement

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Speaker 9: of this REDS organization constantly comes back to bite us.

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Speaker 6: Jmar. Yeah, it's Graig.

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Speaker 19: Hey.

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Speaker 20: I saw this morning on a mock draft they had

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Speaker 20: the Bangles at ten taking.

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Speaker 10: Jeremiah Love running back Notre Dame.

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Speaker 6: How do you guys feel about that? And today? Where

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Speaker 6: would each of you be with number ten? Oh Man,

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Speaker 6: If I had any chance to get Caleb Downs, I would,

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Speaker 6: if not, just burn the whole thing down and just

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Speaker 6: get another offensive weapon. I wouldn't be taking a running back,

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Speaker 6: I can tell you that much.

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Speaker 21: I'm glad all these UC fans got Tim during their

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Speaker 21: smoke break at Burger King to send a message about

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Speaker 21: Big brother.

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Speaker 6: Get back on the fryar.

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Speaker 2: My guy, Wow, that's to Maso. I think I saw

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Speaker 2: you just tell Mason to get back on that friar.

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Speaker 6: I think it was the one yesterday that I had

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Speaker 6: to cut off. I saw a tweet from someone today

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Speaker 6: who is a UC fan and they're like one of

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Speaker 6: those trolls, trolls Xavier. Oh, and so their name is

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Speaker 6: Xavier has zero final force. But they spelled Xavier wrong.

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Speaker 6: I just don't know how at this point you control

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Speaker 6: hold on stop Xavier. They said they spelled Xavier wrong.

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Speaker 6: How can you? Did you understand the damage you're doing

518
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Speaker 6: to the rest of the fan base swing you do

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Speaker 6: something like that. Yeah, I mean it's damning. How do

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Speaker 6: you spell Xavier own? It's not hard?

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Speaker 8: Tony and Austin right from cleves Hey. In relation to

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Speaker 8: Jermaine Burton and I think you guys told the story

523
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Speaker 8: that Zach Taylor and Duke Tobin were high five in

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Speaker 8: each other when they got.

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Speaker 6: A story they thought they got a STEALA.

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Speaker 8: Didn't there have to be something out there that said

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Speaker 8: that Jermaine was seriously fundamentally flawed, that Zach and Duke

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Speaker 8: should have seen and by the fact that they didn't

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Speaker 8: doesn't that mean that they're incredibly incompetent evaluators.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I know that there were a lot of people

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Speaker 2: Austin that took Jermaine Burton completely off their draft board,

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Speaker 2: if you were because of those issues.

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Speaker 6: We were talking about Hard Knocks earlier that season. There

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Speaker 6: was the off season version of Hard Knocks with the

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Speaker 6: New York Giants, and at one point they didn't blur

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Speaker 6: out the Giants draft board. And you see certain guys

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Speaker 6: that have a different colored name, and all I believe

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Speaker 6: it was purple. Everybody who was purple is character concerns,

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Speaker 6: doesn't love football, Not on our board. Jermaine Burton's name

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Speaker 6: was purple for the New York Giants, and the New

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Speaker 6: York Giants suck right well.

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Speaker 14: Talking about the O line, quick check shows that the

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Speaker 14: Pro Football Riders vote on the all rookie team. We

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Speaker 14: gotta think Fairchild is going to get some recognition out

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Speaker 14: of that, don't we should?

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Speaker 6: I would think so she should. Tony Austin loved the show.

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Speaker 6: Do have a question though, and this is not sarcasm.

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Speaker 18: I never heard of Asia Wilson until yesterday afternoon, when

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Speaker 18: when Moe talked about her on his show Am I

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Speaker 18: the only one.

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Speaker 6: You're probably not the only only one, but I don't

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Speaker 6: know that I'd be proud of. If you follow along

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Speaker 6: with sports, it's hard to ignore what she's done. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: she's also like one of the biggest Nike athletes in

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Speaker 6: the world.

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Speaker 11: Hey, here's the thought.

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Speaker 22: You know what, Yes, winning ticket, need to get somebody

558
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Speaker 22: that could help us win. REDS front office people know

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Speaker 22: who you are, but who.

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Speaker 6: Who could help us?

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Speaker 21: Wa?

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Speaker 6: Hey, Tony and Austin Austin.

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Speaker 23: I've been playing around with the playoffs simulator on ESPN,

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Speaker 23: and I found out that it is possible for the

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Speaker 23: Bengals to make the playoffs at seven and ten. It's possible,

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Speaker 23: but not probable. And to quote the mom from home alone,

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Speaker 23: this is Christmas, the season of perpetual hope. Yes, so

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Speaker 23: I guess I'll just continue to hope and hold out

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Speaker 23: until they break my miserable little heart again.

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Speaker 6: I assume that that path would be that the Bengals

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Speaker 6: lose to the Dolphins, I think, or maybe lose to

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Speaker 6: the Cardinals but win the other games, and then Baltimore

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Speaker 6: and Pittsburgh tie and lose the rest of their games.

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Speaker 6: Who day loseih? Is that right? I don't know, not

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Speaker 6: even you.

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Speaker 21: Know, Red's attendants went up last year. So the Castellinis

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Speaker 21: and the owner ownership group has been receiving more money

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Speaker 21: year over year. Fans are doing their part, and god forbid,

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Speaker 21: they ask the ownership to do theirs and try to

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Speaker 21: put a better product on the field when there's glaring holes.

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Speaker 12: On the roster.

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Speaker 21: I don't care Carl Schwarver hits a game winning home

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Speaker 21: runner if it's espinall, I'm cheering just the same. Just

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Speaker 21: put a damn winning product on the field.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, it's either really sad or really funny that they'd

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Speaker 24: want to sign them to sell tickets. It's okay to

587
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Speaker 24: win games. They should have signed them whatever it took.

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Speaker 24: It had been a bright light in like a two

589
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Speaker 24: month Nebraska Alaska dark night, I wouldn't have signed Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 24: I would have went after Vinnie Testererverdi, Tony Romo.

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Speaker 6: I saw bad Brad Johnson throwing some passes the other day.

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Speaker 19: What about Kentucky? Now Jermaine Burton's gone. I got a

593
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Speaker 19: feeling he's gonna go somewhere and be a star. Probably

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Speaker 19: they have a good year. So but did we ever

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Speaker 19: figure out why he got evicted, and then where he

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Speaker 19: started living at after that?

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Speaker 6: Did he live with Borough? Did he live with Chase?

598
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Speaker 6: Did he might try to take him under his wing.

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Speaker 19: I just hate to see the guy go like that

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Speaker 19: and Mike in La, I mean take his Dodgers talking

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Speaker 19: stick it somewhere. I'm sorred of him calling in about

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Speaker 19: the Dodgers. We had a beat last year and let

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Speaker 19: him get in our path. Next year, we're gonna whip them.

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Speaker 6: Had a beat. Yeah, Jamaine Burton's gonna be a starring

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Speaker 6: the World Series of Poker. When when did we the

606
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Speaker 6: Dodgers beat awesome Tony? You know what drives ticket sales? Winning?

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Speaker 6: Winning baseball drive chicken sales.

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Speaker 13: They asked us to pack the part for that weekend

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Speaker 13: when we were still in the fight. Yep, they get

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Speaker 13: swept and yet it was near cellof crowds all three nights.

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Speaker 6: Why because of winning baseball?

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Speaker 13: This city is torn on the bearcast and Xavior, This

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Speaker 13: city is in and out on the Browns family, But

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Speaker 13: this city.

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Speaker 6: Loves its res baseball. He hasn't seen the Reds win

616
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Speaker 6: in a long time, and that they'll still come out

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Speaker 6: and do it, hey, guys, Which goes to the point.

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Speaker 6: It is a lifestyle brand, it's not a baseball team.

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Speaker 6: The Reds have brainwashed people enough to think that, Hey.

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Speaker 20: Guys, uh, does Kerry Francona realize that he was hired

621
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Speaker 20: to sell tickets too and not really be concerned about

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Speaker 20: winning games. That may explain some of the managerial decisions.

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Speaker 6: I don't know. Possibly, I'm beginning to join the chorus

624
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Speaker 6: of everyone else. It's just pleased. Is can somebody else

625
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Speaker 6: buy the team that really wants to win? I have

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Speaker 6: a good one, guys. Frustration stress. Shore is off the table.

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Speaker 25: Alonzo's off the table after signing with the Orioles sar

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Speaker 25: As is our guy. He just had forty nine home

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Speaker 25: runs last year. We could make him our time DH.

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Speaker 25: He's insurance to play third base of Hayes is having

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Speaker 25: a bad back day.

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Speaker 18: That to me makes the most sense.

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Speaker 25: Maybe twenty two to twenty three million dollars a year,

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Speaker 25: Maybe a three year deal since he's thirty four, Maybe

635
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Speaker 25: a two year deal.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that makes sense because he would sell tickets,

637
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 6: because he's a beloved figure. Yep, he hasn't a ride

638
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Speaker 6: in the LBA.

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Speaker 20: Boy anyway, I'm done.

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Speaker 12: Donzel Alfinto, who am making a root for.

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Speaker 20: Oh, it's an honor to get an invitation to the

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Speaker 20: historically relevant Liberty Bawl.

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Speaker 13: Are you kidding me?

644
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Speaker 20: Are you canding me?

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Speaker 6: Cudding Ham? What a joke.

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Speaker 16: We get to sit back next year and watch Sores

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Speaker 16: be having significant season somewhere else.

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Speaker 6: I'm done.

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Speaker 20: Oh hey, guys, Ron in Wisconsin looking for a white

650
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Speaker 20: helef and Christmas gift.

651
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 21: Maybe you can help me find a game warn Burton, Jersey.

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Speaker 6: I can't find one anywhere that would be a way.

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Speaker 6: Hi Tony, Hi Audi. I just have a Bearcats football

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Speaker 6: question for you TP.

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Speaker 13: If the Bearcats do move on from Ben and Swardsby

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Speaker 13: or should I say Swardsby moves on, it's Samas Jones.

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Speaker 6: Is he ready to take control? I don't think so.

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Speaker 6: I think they If that's the case, they would have

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Speaker 26: With all the turmoil within the Bengals and with management

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Speaker 26: and everything, do you think it's time for everyone to

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Speaker 26: start picking up backup team to root for. I'm kinda

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Speaker 26: I'm kind of rooting for the Bills at this point.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 6: I'm still rooting for Joe Burrow, but.

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Speaker 17: I like the Bills.

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Speaker 2: My back listen if a horn or something like that

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Speaker 2: goes off in the middle of your talk back, you

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Speaker 2: only he paused and he was going to it almost

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Speaker 2: sound like a clown horn.

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Speaker 6: There's only a few people out there that are gonna

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Speaker 6: get this, but it sounded like he just pulled up

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Speaker 6: to the redeploy station. I have this actually earmarked for

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Speaker 6: a segment later on. Is us picking our team for

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Speaker 2: Always a fun segment. His playoffs come with Cincinnati sports fans.

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Speaker 2: Pick an NCAA tournament team, pick a Major League Baseball team,

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Speaker 2: pick an NFL team you want to adopt for the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: Tail as old as time. Just keep doing that.

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Speaker 6: Chargers put up a stat line for James P.

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Speaker 2: Sullivan Sully what he was able to do Monday night

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Speaker 2: listening to this. He had a sack, Sure, he scored

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Speaker 2: interceptions on Jalen Hurtsrea, good night. Now, anytime something like

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Speaker 6: Random drug tests. We get anything on Solly there was

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Speaker 6: Oh definitely by the National Football League. Sally really bursts

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Speaker 6: onto the scene there. Oh, what a huge game. And uh,

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Speaker 6: you know it's too good to bear out of that balloon.

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Speaker 6: You knew it was too good to be true. Don't

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Speaker 2: Thank you for spending part of your Wednesday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 2: Our number three ahead. Jeff Carr locked on the Reds

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Speaker 2: Podcast to join us. We will take a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: I am going to play part of Jim Valvano's SP's speech,

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Speaker 2: share it with you if you've heard it, if you've

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Speaker 2: hits and more. Before we get to that third hour,

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Speaker 2: Let's grab John's phone call.

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Speaker 6: Hey John, Happy hump.

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Speaker 11: Day, fellas.

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Speaker 6: What's going on?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's cold and snowy here, but that's

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Speaker 11: going to be like that for the next three months

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Speaker 11: here in Boston, so we just got to cope with it.

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Speaker 11: I'm anxious to hear your quarterback tiers. My top tier

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Speaker 11: would be Borrow, Mahomes, Jackson, Allen, and Stafford because they've

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Speaker 11: been around enough, they've accomplished a lot, so I think

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Speaker 11: like Drake Nay could definitely jump into that category. Do

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Speaker 11: it more than just one year, So I'd say those

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Speaker 11: five guys are the two to one quarterbacks. And the

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Speaker 11: narrative you hear so much about Borrow, Jackson and Allen

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Speaker 11: is they're never going.

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Speaker 6: To win anything.

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Speaker 11: Well, Peyton Manning didn't make the playoffs tier was six season.

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Speaker 11: Drew VI's right, Actually, I take that fact. Peyton Manny

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Speaker 11: didn't win a playoff game till the sixth season. Drew

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Speaker 11: Brees didn't make didn't make a playoff appear until the

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Speaker 11: sixth season. We consider them pretty good quarterbacks, right, great quarterbacks. Uh,

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Speaker 11: these three guys have won fifteen playoff games. Borrow of

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Speaker 11: course went to the Super Bowl four years ago, and

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Speaker 11: they played in the last five AFC Championship games against

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Speaker 11: Patrick Mahomes. So and they're all still on the right

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Speaker 11: side of thirty. So I don't think they're going anywhere.

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Speaker 11: It's just what happens. Is is the place I live.

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Speaker 11: You have Tom Brady, you know, went to the Super

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Speaker 11: Bowl nine times, so everybody just wants to compare it

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Speaker 11: with him or Mahomes and it's not fair to the

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Speaker 11: younger guys who still have a lot left. And Austin,

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Speaker 11: I can't agree with you more about Philip Rivers. He

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Speaker 11: makes me nervous watching him. I mean, he's just so jittery,

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Speaker 11: and like the reason I like Borrow so much is

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Speaker 11: how cool and Tom instead of be pleasing, he is

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Speaker 11: to watch. Like Tony, I think you might agree with

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Speaker 11: me on this. If you had like a tenth grader

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Speaker 11: in high school who is a QB prospect, you'd probably

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Speaker 11: say go watch number nine.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's perfectly right, confident.

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Speaker 11: Yes, yeah, everything the footwork is in heckable. Just this

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Speaker 11: is a clinic. This is like Tom Brady. I say

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Speaker 11: it all the time. He's Davey Brady. But Philip Rivers

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Speaker 11: to me is like watching Elaine Bennison dance, you know,

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Speaker 11: in Consaw. This is just very Turkey jerky. And if

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Speaker 11: I was to quit these guys, I always like to

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Speaker 11: compare quarterbacks to pilots. So if I get on an

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Speaker 11: airplane then I see Burrows the captain, I'm like, this

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Speaker 11: thing's gonna go fine, it's gonna land safely. He'll be

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Speaker 11: selling Sevenberger With Philip Rivers, I don't know, he might

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Speaker 11: be Denzel Washington and flight laying anything upside down, a

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Speaker 11: lot of chaos.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 11: So I'm not anxious to really see him play. He

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Speaker 11: just he makes me nervous.

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Speaker 6: Yeah that's fair. I'm one hundred percent with you, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: one percent with you.

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Speaker 18: It is.

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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to watch because again, I Austin, you

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Speaker 2: mentioned yesterday with Rivers that I believe he was running

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Speaker 2: and coaching the same system that India is running right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you're familiar with aj Watt that he was

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Speaker 6: running the Shane stike In offense, and him and Shane

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Speaker 6: Stike and were together when he was in San Diego

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Speaker 6: years ago. And apparently he had been calling Shane Stike

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Speaker 6: in every week and going over film and stuff over

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Speaker 6: the course of their high school season. Because he's coaching

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Speaker 6: is his son, who's a junior in high school. And uh, yeah,

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Speaker 6: so he's pretty familiar with everything that they're trying to run.

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Speaker 11: He's got a loving kids, right, so he's got an

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Speaker 11: offense all ready to go.

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Speaker 6: They can play grandkid, say, they could play pick up

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Speaker 6: basketball five on five.

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Speaker 11: And they can be eleven kids are driving it back

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Speaker 11: to playing in the NFL. I mean, he's probably like,

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Speaker 11: let me go in where I can in Indianapolis is

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Speaker 11: far away from right now. But yeah, I mean, God

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Speaker 11: bless him. I mean, he's a likable guy, but he's

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Speaker 11: just jittery man. And I also think Joe Flapper should

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Speaker 11: be the bigger than the quarterback of the NFL and

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Speaker 11: you need a quarterback just called Joe.

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Speaker 6: I wonder.

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Speaker 2: I wondered that, Like, did Indy at all reach out

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Speaker 2: to the Bengals and and inquire about Joe Flacco. That's

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Speaker 2: that's to be fascinating to me.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they can't trade it, right, and you just

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Speaker 6: have to. I mean I wouldn't give him up.

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Speaker 11: I wouldn't give him up only because if something Joe has,

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Speaker 11: if you needed something to come in, and also I

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Speaker 11: would love to see him back here next year as

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Speaker 11: the backgroup. I don't know if he wants to be

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Speaker 11: a backup going forward, but this would be a perfect

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Speaker 11: spot for him and he can. Again. I think he's

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Speaker 11: seen some changes in Burrow's game the last two games,

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Speaker 11: getting rid of the ball a little quicker, maybe watching

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Speaker 11: Joe Flacco and wants himself to that. So I think

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Speaker 11: that he'd be a great older quarterback mentor that type

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Speaker 11: of thing for.

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Speaker 6: Borrow going forward.

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Speaker 2: Yep, completely agreed, John, Thank you so much, man, have

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Speaker 2: a great day, ye you too.

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Speaker 6: We will break.

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Speaker 2: Our third and final hour is next and it kicks

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Speaker 2: off with Jeff Carr from the Lockdown Reds podcast on

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati sports station,