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Speaker 1: ESPN beat writer covering the Chicago Bears, frequent ESPN Radio

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Speaker 1: and Mothership TV contributor and covered the Bikes for a

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Speaker 1: spell too, and always enjoys this division rivalry between the

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Speaker 1: Bears and the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Cec, It's Paul Allen. How have you been.

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Speaker 3: I'm great.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing excellent?

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for making time and you know

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Speaker 1: the the before we get into this division collision. The

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Speaker 1: last handful of years, beloved Cordney, last handful of years,

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Speaker 1: you've hosted mucho radio shows to compliment the television part

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Speaker 1: that you've done for for I think more years.

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Speaker 2: What do you like more? And why radio or TV?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, put me on the spot here. I think

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Speaker 3: the TV element and like getting a chance to you know,

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Speaker 3: I guess the opportunities that's opened up for me the

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Speaker 3: last couple of years have been really cool because I've

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Speaker 3: gotten to do a multitude of roles, getting to host,

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Speaker 3: getting to be an analyst, getting to be a reporter,

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Speaker 3: getting to do sideline. Like I've enjoyed all of it,

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Speaker 3: and it's it's crazy to think, like how much I've

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Speaker 3: packed into this season alone, Like my roles have expanded

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Speaker 3: quite a bit just beyond the Bears, and I enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: I love I love all of it. But I mean

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Speaker 3: radio is Radio is going to be my bread and

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Speaker 3: butter forever. Like that's the OG in my opinion, because

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Speaker 3: it gave me the ability to learn how to debate,

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Speaker 3: to learn how to make a clear and concise point,

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Speaker 3: and be able to talk about a lot of different things,

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Speaker 3: not just football.

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Speaker 1: That's a spectacular, wonderful answer to the game.

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Speaker 2: So the Bears.

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Speaker 1: So the team is running for one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: five per since the buye is developing the clutch gene

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Speaker 1: off the last two and is winless in the division.

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Speaker 1: What are what are the Minnesota Vikings getting this weekend

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Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: You're getting a resilient team that I think now has

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Speaker 3: the proof of cons since the last time they played

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Speaker 3: the Vikings that they can close out type games, which

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Speaker 3: they've done now. I mean, Caleb Williams has four fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter drives that have led to wins.

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Speaker 1: That's tied it for.

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Speaker 3: The most right now behind Eve Baker, Mayfield and Bonnix.

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Speaker 3: So it's the clutch gene that they're developing, which I'm

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Speaker 3: sure some Viking fans here that and think twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: two all over again. Different team, obviously different circumstances, but

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Speaker 3: wild wins that end in wild games that end in

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Speaker 3: how did they just win that fashion? And you've got

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Speaker 3: a quarterback who's developing like it's taken Caleb Williams ten

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Speaker 3: to eleven weeks now to I think feel fully comfortable

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Speaker 3: using his full skill set, which you saw to beat

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Speaker 3: the Giants, relied on him to use his legs that

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Speaker 3: twenty nine yard scamper to get down to the two

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Speaker 3: yard line to set up Roma Dunze for the touchdown

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Speaker 3: and then the seventeen yard touchdown at the end of

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Speaker 3: the game. Like they're putting it together. It came along slowly.

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Speaker 3: They didn't come out and start beating teams, and obviously

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Speaker 3: those two division games and two division losses, that's brutal.

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Speaker 3: That's a whole that they have they've got to dig

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Speaker 3: out from. But they've beaten the teams that they should beat,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of people are going to look at

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Speaker 3: the defensive performances of the Bengals, of the Giants, of

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Speaker 3: the Commanders, especially that Commander secondary, and certainly the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: are not very good either. And be like, well, they

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Speaker 3: beat up on some bad teams. But if you're a

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Speaker 3: team that's trying to change the culture and do things differently,

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Speaker 3: shouldn't you be I guess, proud and touting the wins

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Speaker 3: that you had, even if they do come against bad teams.

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Speaker 3: But that's the part that I think they're not going

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Speaker 3: to apologize for because it does come at a cost

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Speaker 3: of you know, if you want to beat the good teams,

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Speaker 3: you have to demonstrate you can do it against the

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Speaker 3: teams you're more evenly matched with first. And I feel

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Speaker 3: like that's where they are right now coming into this

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Speaker 1: Right, all right, but with the Bears Courtney, when when

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Speaker 1: they do get into trouble, no matter against home, well,

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Speaker 1: let's say when they get into trouble against non playoff

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean the reason they got in trouble against

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Speaker 3: and if that pick six wasn't called back, and then

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Speaker 3: And the defense had carried this offense for so many

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Speaker 3: to see that his offense, on a day where they

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Speaker 3: pulled out every trick play I think they had in

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Speaker 3: find a rookie tight end who had been underutilized as

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Speaker 3: a whole up until that point, and get Colson Lovelin

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Speaker 3: involved for the game winning touchdown. Like that, to me

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Speaker 3: was the reason the products of the comeback there for

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Speaker 3: like you know, letting it get close and then letting

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Speaker 3: the come happened. But against the Giants, I think it's

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Speaker 3: like twofold. The Giants were the worst sports quarter team

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Speaker 3: in the NFL, as evidenced by what you saw in

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Speaker 3: Denver a couple of weeks ago, and the Bears knew that.

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Speaker 3: But the Bears didn't do themselves any favors by not

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Speaker 3: putting a spy on Jackson Dart and letting him get out, break, contain,

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Speaker 3: and rush for two touchdowns like honestly, pain if I

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Speaker 3: think if he finishes that game, if he doesn't leave

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Speaker 3: with a concussion, I don't know that it's a win

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Speaker 4: They don't.

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Speaker 3: I think that it was a product of circumstance but

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Speaker 3: also timely blitzes what they saw from CJ. Gardner Johnson

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Speaker 3: the offense in better field position. Like that came along

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Speaker 3: later than they probably would have hoped, but at least

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Speaker 3: it was at the right time for their sake to

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Speaker 2: The left tackle.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now I'm assuming the name is pronounced THEO Benedette.

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Speaker 2: Is it Benedett?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Correct?

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Speaker 4: It is?

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Speaker 1: Who is he and why does he play over for Pillow?

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Speaker 1: The second round rookie from Boston College.

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Speaker 3: So THEO Benedette is a former undrafted free agent from

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Speaker 3: the University of British Columbia. So he's Canadian. His nickname

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Speaker 3: and he's on the practice squad all year. He got

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Speaker 3: time of the Buffalo preseason game because being incumbent starter,

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Speaker 3: Braxton Jones was not looking good and Ozzy Trappillo, who

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Speaker 3: they drafted to play like he's a right tackle. Like

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Speaker 3: Ozzy's a right tackle. They drafted him thinking, hmm, maybe

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Speaker 3: we can turn him into a left tackle, because that's

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Speaker 3: worked a bunch of times in the NFL when coaches

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Speaker 3: that they can be the ones to change a player.

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Speaker 4: They're like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, he's actually a right tackle. And Corona Magazi,

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Speaker 3: who is a left tackle, just never really cracked the

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Speaker 3: depth Charty's kind of third. So Ben Johnson didn't like

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Speaker 3: what he was seeing, decided to throw theo Bennett into

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Speaker 3: the mix and he ends up not litting the job then.

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Speaker 3: But when there was a window to make a change,

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Speaker 3: which was the byproduct of an early bye week, it

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Speaker 3: really you know the Raiders game, they make the change

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Speaker 3: And I think with Azzi Turpillo right now, there's no

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Speaker 3: real spot for him outside of the jumbo package when

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Speaker 3: he's the extra ligneman that does that mean that he's

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Speaker 3: a myth? No, Darnott Wright's playing great football. He's a

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Speaker 3: really good right tackle. I don't know where you're going

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Speaker 3: to play this guy if you're trying to spin this

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Speaker 3: already have a really good right tackle. So it's kind

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Speaker 3: they overshot their luck on this right now, unless they

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Speaker 3: can develop into a left tackle. But as it currently stands,

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Speaker 3: that is absolutely not what he is and they've had

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Speaker 3: no qualms in admitting that.

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Speaker 1: sewings line like nine to noon, just a few to

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Speaker 3: Good play on the back end, I guess opportunistic. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this pass rush does leave a lot to be desired,

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Speaker 3: and it has gotten like marginally better. It's not good, though,

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Speaker 3: Like we're not going to sugarcoat it. Montes Weet's not

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Speaker 3: He's playing better, but he's not playing at the level

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Speaker 3: of which you need your star defensive end who makes

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Speaker 3: twenty four and a half million dollars the playout. That's

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Speaker 3: just the facts. I think that the coverage aspect here

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Speaker 3: good moments this year. Nay Sean Wright, who I know

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Speaker 3: the Viking Vikings fans might remember him from like a

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Speaker 3: very brief stint in Minnesota. I think he's really come

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Speaker 3: I think that they've had some really good moments in

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Speaker 3: the He's like leading the league right now or leading

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Speaker 3: the team with four. But you know, there's been some

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Speaker 3: good moments. I think with what Dennis Allen has been

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Speaker 2: Some issues.

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Speaker 3: Too, Like I think that's been pretty helpful for them

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Speaker 3: in the takeaways department, where you've got Spencer Rattler in

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Speaker 3: Week seven who you could throw the book at, and

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Speaker 3: it wasn't that difficult to get him rattled. Other quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: I think in the situation where Joe Flacco threw that

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Speaker 3: of like how that whole thing came to be. Obviously

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Speaker 3: it was wiped off as a pick six because of

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Speaker 3: the penalty, but there's you know, the pass rush has

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Speaker 3: to come alive more in Chicago, and that's something that

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Speaker 3: they've been working at for weeks. They didn't make a

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Speaker 3: big swing at the deadline because they really don't have

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Speaker 3: the draft capital they're willing to part with next year

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Speaker 3: have after Dio Dangbo, their starting defensive end, went out,

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Speaker 3: is hoping that Austin Booker, your fit around pick from

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Speaker 3: a year ago, can can be a solid replacement for him,

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Speaker 3: that you can actually get some pressure up front. But

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Speaker 3: they do blitz a lot, like that's the thing that

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Speaker 3: like I think you watched for on Sunday. This is

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Speaker 1: When you get CJ. Gardner Johnson off the street, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I know that we have a couple more games to play.

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Speaker 3: I get it. The Heisman Trophy is going to Bloomington

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Speaker 2: The best.

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Speaker 1: I'll look forward to seeing you this weekend, especially Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Russo Radio at Russo Hockey via X, Michael Russo covers

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Speaker 1: an OT loss to the Sharks, as a Joe, just

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Speaker 4: the respect that everybody in this league had for him.

436
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Speaker 4: And and again I did that media that that NHL

437
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Speaker 4: player poll, both in the Milan media tour that I

438
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Speaker 4: covered and the Vegas one. It was an anonymous one

439
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Speaker 4: and he absolutely lapped the competition as the next face

440
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Speaker 4: in the National Hockey League. And so he's just a special,

441
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Speaker 4: special player in San Jose. That's that was the They

442
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Speaker 4: certainly got the benefit of getting him and being one

443
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Speaker 4: of the worst teams in the league a couple of

444
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Speaker 4: years ago to be able to draft him.

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Speaker 2: Russo Radio.

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Speaker 1: So with the Wild they've lost six of the last

447
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Speaker 1: eight Bus starts.

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Speaker 2: Gus Bus, What what do you think of that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean last night, I don't blame him for

450
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Speaker 4: really anything, but you're right, I mean he has not

451
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Speaker 4: been nearly as good the team hasn't been great in

452
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Speaker 4: front of him, but but he's got to stop punks

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Speaker 4: and there have been you know, there was there was

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Speaker 4: a stretch of games there of eight or nine games

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Speaker 4: where the Wild had the second best goalie on the

456
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Speaker 4: ice for all about one of them, and so he's

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Speaker 4: got to be better. Valstat you know, he's coming off

458
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Speaker 4: a couple of really good starts in a row, including

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Speaker 4: a shoutout against Calgary obviously was really good on Long Island,

460
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Speaker 4: and the Wild have gotten points at least in all

461
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Speaker 4: five of his starts. It doesn't mean that he's been

462
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Speaker 4: great really up until the first three games. He wasn't

463
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Speaker 4: very good. The last game against San Jose, he was

464
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Speaker 4: definitely the second best goalie on the on the ice

465
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Speaker 4: and gave up six that game. But you know, we're

466
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Speaker 4: coming to that point now where the Wild are going.

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Speaker 4: They definitely need Gustison to play better because they're gonna,

468
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Speaker 4: you know, otherwise it's going to start to give them

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Speaker 4: pause and they're going to start playing fallstat more. I

470
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Speaker 4: don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but they need

471
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Speaker 4: better goaltending without a doubt from gustuson.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, let me get outside of the Covenant. For

473
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Speaker 1: a second look at looking at X and at Russo

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Speaker 1: Hockey and your bio at States X Isles, die Hard

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Speaker 1: Isles being the Islanders.

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Speaker 2: Well, what was that when when you were that die Hard?

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Speaker 1: Was that during the Trodier Pot band Bossy days with

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Speaker 1: Billy Smith between the pipes?

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Speaker 4: Yep, it was. And you know, I was really young

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Speaker 4: at that time. I was what six, seven, eight and

481
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Speaker 4: nine when they won their their cups, But it obviously

482
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Speaker 4: had a huge impression on my life. I was a

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Speaker 4: massive Islanders fan. I used to go to this day

484
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Speaker 4: camp actually and sort of preschool that bordered in Woodbury,

485
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Speaker 4: New York that bordered essentially this community where all the

486
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Speaker 4: Islanders lived, and my friends and I used to actually

487
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Speaker 4: sneak out of our camp and just watch them come

488
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Speaker 4: home from training camp and things like that. And so

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Speaker 4: it's you know, that definitely was the impression that that

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Speaker 4: probably got me to be a hockey writer. The other

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Speaker 4: thing I remember is when I used to you know,

492
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Speaker 4: back and then I remember having a Pathmark shopping cart

493
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Speaker 4: and I used to deliver news days at age like

494
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Speaker 4: twelve years old and come from school and they'd be

495
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Speaker 4: on my driveway and I'd read all the Islanders coverage,

496
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Speaker 4: and you know, you look back now and you wonder

497
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Speaker 4: if that's kind of what really also ingrained itself into me.

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Speaker 4: So you know, but I say X diehard too, because

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Speaker 4: you know, I started I was sports writers starting at

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Speaker 4: age like fourteen fifteen. I really grew up not being

501
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Speaker 4: a fan of anything. You you lose your fandom when

502
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Speaker 4: you're a sports writer. So I am truly not a

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Speaker 4: fan of really any team in any sport. Yeah, I

504
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Speaker 4: haven't been. And sometimes I think that really works out

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Speaker 4: in my favor because I look at some sometimes the

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Speaker 4: fanaticism that I see on Twitter with people just being

507
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Speaker 4: so upset at their teams, and I'm like, I've never

508
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Speaker 4: experienced that, you know, so now, like to me, it's

509
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Speaker 4: actually a benefit, Like I could watch the World Series

510
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Speaker 4: and be super happy no matter if the Blue Jays

511
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Speaker 4: win or the Dodgers win, but other people are just

512
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Speaker 4: losing their minds, and so you know, I've just never

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Speaker 4: I just I just lost all of that. I grew

514
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Speaker 4: up a diehard Expos fan, and really, you know, obviously

515
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Speaker 4: they moved to Washington, but you know, I became a

516
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Speaker 4: sports writer and it just kind of lost that fandom,

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Speaker 4: So it is bizarre that I really don't. I'm not

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Speaker 4: a fan of any team.

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Speaker 1: Does does Radio Joe ever become insufferable with his Eagles?

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Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't say insufferable. He actually keeps it really tame,

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Speaker 4: at least around me.

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Speaker 2: He's a pro.

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Speaker 4: But we know, I know the last year.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: The one thing I will say is I say nice

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Speaker 4: things about the Giants and Mets of times because my

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Speaker 4: brother is a diehard Giants and Mets fan. And at

528
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Speaker 4: one point last season or two seasons, Joe O'Donnell came

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Speaker 4: up to me with this just this like angry looking face,

530
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Speaker 4: and he looks at me, he goes, are you a

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Speaker 4: Giants fan? And that was the first time where I

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Speaker 4: saw like like he like legit was like offended that

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Speaker 4: I was like tweeting nice things about about one of

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Speaker 4: the Eagle's biggest rivals.

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Speaker 1: Uh it it seemed it seemed like reading the stories

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Speaker 1: of the Athletic and the Athletic Dot Com. Uh it

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Speaker 1: seemed like you really enjoyed Cleveland and Buffalo and the

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Speaker 1: rivalry series.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely did you know. I went in there. I

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Speaker 4: went in there with trepidation, like I I you know,

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Speaker 4: I really like, I'll be honest, I get tunnel vision.

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Speaker 4: I just cover the National Hockey League, and I you know,

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Speaker 4: even it's it's sad, you know, with the frost year,

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Speaker 4: I just don't pay as much attention other than saying

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Speaker 4: hi to the players because they they their their locker

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Speaker 4: room is literally right next to the ice at tree

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Speaker 4: or rink, and so that's really.

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Speaker 1: What I know.

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Speaker 4: And and so I went in really nervous, uh And

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Speaker 4: and this was why it was such a good idea

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Speaker 4: for me to cover both these games and the two

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Speaker 4: games in Edmonton next month, because I don't want to

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Speaker 4: just go to the Olympics and and basically wright just

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Speaker 4: game stories that with no substance. I want to know

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Speaker 4: everything about the players and the athletes that I'm covering.

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Speaker 4: And so it was really great to get to know them.

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Speaker 4: I felt like a scout in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 4: And you know, some of these some of these girls

559
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Speaker 4: are just unbelievable hockey players. You look at Abby Murphy

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Speaker 4: and Taylor Heizi and Layla Edwards and and this this

561
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Speaker 4: Caroline Harvey that plays at Wisconsin is just like she's

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Speaker 4: as good as skater as I've ever seen. In my life.

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Speaker 4: Hillary Knight obviously we all know. So I had. I

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Speaker 4: had a blast. I felt like I learned a lot.

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Speaker 4: It was fun writing the stories with Haley Salvianan, who

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Speaker 4: I essentially shadowed, are women's hockey writer at the Athletic.

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Speaker 4: And so I'm really looking forward actually next month. And

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Speaker 4: so I did. I had a blast. Plus it was

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Speaker 4: really my first time spending any time in Cleveland and

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Speaker 4: what a great at an incredible meal at this restaurant

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Speaker 4: called the Marble Room. I went to the Rock and

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Speaker 4: Roll Hall of Fame and uh, you know, and also

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Speaker 4: their coach John Rablueski, I've gotten to know really well

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Speaker 4: over the years just because he's coached. He has his

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Speaker 4: fingerprints both on the men and women's Olympic teams because

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Speaker 4: he coached so many the guys in the Ann Arbor

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Speaker 4: program for a while. He actually got to start working

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Speaker 4: for John Hines's staff for the national team program. And

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Speaker 4: you know, coach the Hughes brothers and Matt Boldie and

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Speaker 4: and and the Chuck brothers and players like that. So

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm really looking forward actually in Edmonton next

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Speaker 4: down sitting down with him next month, and sitting down

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Speaker 4: with him and doing a Q and A with him,

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Speaker 4: but also doing a big feature on him because he's

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Speaker 4: he's a fascinating coach.

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Speaker 1: What what'd you think of Taylor Hesie's game? What impresses?

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Speaker 4: I mean, she's just unreal. First of all, she's got wheels,

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Speaker 4: she's got incredible vision. She she could create empty net

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Speaker 4: goals essentially with her scene passes. But she also has

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Speaker 4: a shot that you have to respect. And we saw

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Speaker 4: that play that she made for scammer Or in her

592
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Speaker 4: hometown and Buffalo, just a selfless, selfless act by Taylor.

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Speaker 4: She fakes the shot and drops it to the home,

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Speaker 4: to the to the you know, western New York native

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Speaker 4: for a goal in front of all her family and

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Speaker 4: friends and girls that she coaches and all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: So so she's also a selfless player. So we know that,

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Speaker 4: I mean we've seen her obviously at the U and

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Speaker 4: and and we know that that, uh, you know with

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Speaker 4: the Frost that she's an absolute superstar. But seeing her

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Speaker 4: on the international stage in person, I think she is

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Speaker 4: going to have an unbelievable Olympics. And the other girl

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Speaker 4: that I just I was incredibly impressed with is Abby Murphy.

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Speaker 4: Like you know, you look at her and you think

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Speaker 4: of her as almost like a Brad mar shand Matthew

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Speaker 4: could Chuck type because she has she does a lot

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Speaker 4: of antics on the ice to really, you know, get

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Speaker 4: under the skin of opponents. But my god, do you

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Speaker 4: have to respect her speed or shot? She's got an

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Speaker 4: elite shot, and uh, she's just she really is like

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Speaker 4: a Matthew could Chuck or a bradburg Marchand because she's

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Speaker 4: a complete player, she's just not a you know, quote

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Speaker 4: unquote shift disturber. You know, she is somebody that is

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Speaker 4: a superstar as well. So you know, it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: really interesting in the PWHL draft coming up next year,

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Speaker 4: and just who goes number one overall because as much

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Speaker 4: as every coach finds Abby Murphy to be a thorn

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Speaker 4: on the side, I think she is going to be

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Speaker 4: a top top draft pick.

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Speaker 2: Dude. Last one.

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Speaker 1: Do you find these USA ladies night and day better

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Speaker 1: than their Canadian counterparts?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to say that. Certainly there they

624
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Speaker 4: were like like, you know, I left there and I

625
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: remember saying to people like, how does this team not

626
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Speaker 4: win gold at the Olympics. But the one thing I'm

627
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Speaker 4: trying to remember too, is we're talking one apparently historically

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Speaker 4: at these rivalry series, you know, the Canadians get off

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Speaker 4: to really tough starts. They did leave you know, two

630
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Speaker 4: or three of their top players at home, so they

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Speaker 4: weren't part of this rivalry series and they should be

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Speaker 4: in Edmonton. But I look at the talent that they have.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you look at the two power play is

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Speaker 4: that the United States have. I mean their number two

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Speaker 4: unit technically has Icy on it and Murphy on it,

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Speaker 4: and then they have go with this all veteran number

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Speaker 4: one unit and so like talk about a luxury of

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Speaker 4: riches on the power play. So I personally like after

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Speaker 4: watching those two games and seeing you know, obviously the

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Speaker 4: second game, even though it was a six to one outcome,

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Speaker 4: that was a one goal game going into the third period,

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Speaker 4: but the way that they I thought the United States

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Speaker 4: dominated Canada in both games. I definitely think that they're

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Speaker 4: the favorite going into Milan. But I'm also well understandingstanding

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Speaker 4: that they left some girls at home, but these are

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Speaker 4: the pooling on the ice, and Pooling is allegedly the

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Speaker 4: best you know, women's hockey player out there right now.

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Speaker 4: But I think, you know, people like Abby Murphy and

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Speaker 4: Taylor Heiseie have something to say about that as well.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you. My brother talks, so yeah, see take care,

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Speaker 2: see you by Brusso Radio.

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Speaker 6: Canterbury Parkcanterburypark dot com. Feeling the felt all year long

654
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655
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Speaker 6: and having SIPs at chips and I mentioned and I'll

656
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 6: mention it again tomorrow. The NFL Pro Pick Them Challenge

657
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Speaker 6: is cool because on Thursdays at Canterbury you just walk

658
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Speaker 6: in there. Hopefully you run it up on the blackjack table,

659
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 6: but you can pick the winners of the NFL Weekend

660
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Speaker 6: each week at Canterbury. They've got a machine for it

661
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Speaker 6: and there's weekly winners and then at the end of

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Speaker 6: the year somebody's gonna win free fuel for a year

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Speaker 6: thanks to Quick Trip.

664
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Speaker 2: But they're also doing this.

665
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Speaker 6: You've heard Pa doing those spots for the ten K giveaway,

666
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 6: the Black Friday Weekend, which will be the twenty eight,

667
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 6: twenty ninth, and thirtieth ten K giveaway. It's super cool

668
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 6: at Canterbury. But they're going to have a track side

669
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Speaker 6: Christmas tree lot. We're starting at nine am on Black Friday,

670
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 6: and go up and pick the Christmas tree. So family, truckster, mother, father,

671
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 6: sons and daughters, everybody pile in, go down to Shakapee,

672
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 6: grab the tree, or maybe go and play some cards

673
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 6: and then grab the tree.

674
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Speaker 2: It's up to you. But Black Friday.

675
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Speaker 6: Check it out Kenterbury Park dot com beautiful for all

676
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 6: the event details. The Minnesota Timberwolves PA are off until

677
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 6: they're on the chill until Friday. I believe they're hosting Sacramento. Yeah,

678
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 6: and Friday night. The Wolves already handled Sacramento out west.

679
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 2: You dig that?

680
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 6: No Kings, Indeed, they're three and eight in their ratty.

681
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 6: And I'm seeing rumors courtesy of NBA Central and those

682
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 6: that follow the Sacramento Kings rumors of a firesale rebuild

683
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 6: PA that includes Zach Levine, that includes DeMar derozen O

684
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 6: like that name. It also includes Parker Fox's favorite player,

685
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 6: demonte Sabonis.

686
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: If it includes Malik Monk, I'm in how good would

687
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: that be?

688
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 4: Yeah?

689
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: Like Monk off the bench, A lot of teams could

690
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: use Malik Monk. I think the Wolves really good and

691
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: I think the Wolves are one of them.

692
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 6: It's interesting though, just ten to eleven games in the year,

693
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 6: whether it was Nico Harrison being hired as general manager

694
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 6: how about that, by the way, And I don't remember

695
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 6: if was he GM because at one point, as we're

696
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 6: watching Luca wearing a different kind of purple and gold

697
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 6: west for the Lakers, at one point they had a

698
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 6: very young Luca and a Jalen Brunson, oh wow, on

699
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 6: the same team, if.

700
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: You have to remember that.

701
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 6: And at one point they decided not to pay him.

702
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 6: I don't know what the circumstances around that were. I

703
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 6: think it was like it was like a four year

704
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 6: let's call it, like an eighty ninety ish kind of

705
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 6: you know, just like a Jaden McDaniels type extension, and

706
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 6: they said no. And now Jalen Brunson is making memories

707
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 6: for the Knicks. They're waiting for Kyrie Irving to return

708
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 6: from the knee, and now rumors are insisting that Anthony

709
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 6: Davis is potentially available.

710
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: So we're just eleven games in the thunder Never Lose.

711
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 6: It appears the GM in Dallas finally sadly having to

712
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 6: own up for one of the tough for trades, combined

713
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 6: with a tough start for the MAVs and the three.

714
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: Warriors got beat so badly last night.

715
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: After the game, Raymond Green said that we have people

716
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: on the team who are not giving full effort.

717
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: So, I mean, that got nasty last night and we're

718
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: less than a month into the season.

719
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Speaker 6: Pa, It's crazy how quickly things can change in this

720
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 6: particular game in the association. When you try to play

721
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 6: fantasy hoops the best you can and you picture big

722
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 6: threes or at least dynamic duos, you put rosters together

723
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 6: and people are looking at Okay, see like, yeah, we

724
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 6: don't got it. I guess we're just going to rebuild

725
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 6: the entire organization. Yea, Dallas and Sacramento in turmoil right now.

726
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: Well with Nico Harrison, the general manager for the MAVs

727
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: former general manager, just think about the last within a

728
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: year contextually whatever the months are, eight, nine, ten to eleven. Yeah,

729
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: since the Luca move from the move, So what has

730
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: he had to endure? Well, it starts where it got

731
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: so loud, so gnarly, so mean and so nasty. He

732
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: couldn't even sit in his seat at Mavericks home games. Okay,

733
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: they had to move him and put him in a swite.

734
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 6: From a human perspective, have you ever seen on social

735
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 6: and I mean it's kind of sad where he's kind

736
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 6: of like peeking his head out of the tunnel in

737
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 6: the arena.

738
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 2: He can't even go out there. It was the off season.

739
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: He was in Miami, maybe with his wife, but he

740
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: was in Miami at a restaurant, and two MAVs fans

741
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: not even wearing game warn Michael Finley's it's an open

742
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,919
Speaker 1: air Miami bit that you can find everywhere. Oh yeah,

743
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: cussed at him in Miami. Caught a stray in the

744
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: off season. Come on, Okay, so it was bad. So

745
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: now you start the season with him and what a

746
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: MAVs fans and Nico Harrison have to watch Luca in

747
00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: shape and he's gonna stay in shape all year and

748
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna win the he might win the MVP.

749
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: He might, So that's what they have to see. What happened.

750
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 2: He's skinny, and he's staying skinny, and he's.

751
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: Spry, and I'm getting cuss dat outside of the Clevelander

752
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: and I can't even sit in my seat at home

753
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: games and I gotta move.

754
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 2: What happens in the Cleveland hey charge, so that I

755
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 2: mean that too.

756
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: Whom much is give him much as expected? And and

757
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: he swung, he swung and and apparently he missed. Okay,

758
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm not I can't completely say he missed until I

759
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 1: see what Cooper flag does. I get Kyrie irving out there.

760
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 2: But that's the that's the roller coaster is.

761
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: They can't have their general manager at home games getting

762
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: cuss dats.

763
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 3: No, they can't.

764
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 6: It's it's not it's that that's that's not acceptable. It

765
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 6: just wouldn't work. There was also some bit I think

766
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 6: like a longtime season ticket holder. Uh, they have like

767
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 6: third row seats behind the owner owner. I think it's

768
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 6: Dumont or something.

769
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: I guess. The kid like flipped him off off.

770
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 6: So then his dad got in touch and he's like, you,

771
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 6: you're never going to another MAVs game until you apologize

772
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 6: to the owner. So there's actually I can't hear any

773
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 6: more of this. There's actually a video on social of

774
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 6: the kid. I can't hear any more of this wearing

775
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 6: a Luca jersey, sitting down court side like pregame talking

776
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 6: to the owner.

777
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 2: It's insane. But they got the first pick.

778
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 6: That was and you remember the fixes in moment, kind

779
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 6: of like somebody's throwing some money to Deloitte and two

780
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 6: share because there's no chance the MAVs after trading Luca

781
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 6: would get the first pick. They get it, they get

782
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 6: flag and the thing is still as tough to go

783
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 6: as it is. I mean, wow, what a melodrama on

784
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 6: Big d Yeah, this in no way is too as

785
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 6: the bonus might be available.

786
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: Out West, myself or Nordo sound perfect in our worlds.

787
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: Only one in the history of the world is perfect,

788
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: and it's not us. Yes, So we're looking and I'm

789
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: looking at it like this. Why I said I can't

790
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: hear this is when it comes to when it comes

791
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: to large scale humanity. There's this text machine over there

792
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: called the six four six eight six, right, Some of

793
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: it you look at and you're like, this isn't a

794
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: bit wow. There actually are minds and hearts that get

795
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: to this conclusion. Yes, and then you attempt to go

796
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: to church, you attempt to go to Burnsville, you attempt

797
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: to go to Egan or whatever, and you hit that

798
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: zipper merge, which is gone.

799
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: The zipper merge is gone. Thank you father.

800
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: You hit that zipper merge. On thirteen thirty five South,

801
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: then thirty five North leaks into it, and that's a humanity.

802
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 2: Check right there. It is just with the you know,

803
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: just what people feel is theirs.

804
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: And why so closing your eyes while you drive a

805
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: zipper Merge is not preferred. But nevertheless, I can't say

806
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. And then you just hear everything you

807
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: just heard about Mavericks fans. I'm just not being able

808
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: to restrain themselves enough. Honestly, there is nothing you can

809
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: do to my favorite pro sports team, my favorite distraction.

810
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that's gonna cause me or Nordo to

811
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: walk downstairs seven rows from the court and tell the

812
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: general manager to have off. There is I mean, there's

813
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: nothing that can happen that's trying to trigger that. It

814
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: happens a lot.

815
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: It does.

816
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: Why because in twenty twenty five, dogs set their dogs

817
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,959
Speaker 1: up with the with the camera rolling in a place

818
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: nobody sees it, that's right. So it's staged, and they

819
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: know it's gonna get to social media, and they know

820
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna do the viral bit. They want

821
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: some and that's their lives. That's so it's just a

822
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: little bit of a humanity check there.

823
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 2: Thank you? I mean yeah, I mean I you say never,

824
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: I'm with you, yes never.

825
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 6: On wise, at forty years old, there there is truly

826
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 6: nothing that my favorite team could do to compel me

827
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 6: to do such things. But there's a part of twenty

828
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 6: two year old Nordo where if like Anthony Edwards goes

829
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 6: it like matist Thaibol comes back like that.

830
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: Well, now you're making me think about when I went

831
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: to games at a young age. Like the craziest thing

832
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: I did well I ran on the court when Michael

833
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: Jordan won his first NBA championship at the Fabulous Forum. Yeah,

834
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: but that's totally valid. And I wasn't a Lakers fan.

835
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: I was a Celtics fan. And and somebody tied into

836
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: horse owner and actor Dick Van Patten had one extra seat.

837
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: They gave it to me when I was working at

838
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: Hollywood Park. So I went, not a Lakers fan, not

839
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: a Bulls fan, high five to Horace Grant, tried to

840
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: get to MJ couldn't get to him. So that was rubelik,

841
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: But it wasn't not out there, you know, telling telling

842
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: Scottie Pippeney looks like Joe cammill or like you're nothing

843
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: without Jordan. So I just I don't envision there's anything

844
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: that possibly could happen, you know what I mean?

845
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 6: Well, now you got me. I mean the old Joe Cammell.

846
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 6: He does kind of look like him, doesn't he? Hang

847
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 6: on here, let's move on. News Denard brought to you

848
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Speaker 6: by Canterbury. What else do I got for you? We

849
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Speaker 6: hit on the Wild with Russo last segment. Come on, step,

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry I lost, I lost my train of thought. No,

851
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Speaker 6: that's fine, Noon to three on it. I was looking

852
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 6: at this unreal geez, holy cow, the uh this this reason.

853
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 6: I'm not compensated at all by unreal. So everything I

854
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 6: buy for myself or my family for Christmas and stuff

855
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 6: is all straight from the Allen Coffer. But this newest,

856
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 6: this newest Vikings dropped thing, this thing is badass. Holy cow,

857
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 6: that happened this morning, I think. So it's sweet.

858
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like drop three. It's a it's a hoodie

859
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 2: that is just an illuminating purple logo. It's just really cool. Anyway. No,

860
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: it's fine. I mean, you're you're looking at unreal.

861
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 6: I'm looking at Scottie Pippen and Joe Cammel pictures side

862
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 6: by side.

863
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: You're looking at me, who's trying to both to trying

864
00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: to get us both onreal comps.

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Speaker 6: Here is correct this new thing, so that so that

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Speaker 6: the con can get a sweatshirt wild Please beat the Sharks,

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Speaker 6: you o t it's ridiculous. Next up the Ducks get

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Speaker 6: a win. Please, That's all I ask. Brian Dable fired

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Speaker 6: from the Giants.

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Speaker 2: We know that news.

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Speaker 6: Jamis Winston starting for the Giants versus the Pack on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Please throw it to your team more than the other.

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Speaker 2: Team, Jamis. I saw this as Sante Samuel.

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Speaker 6: He had that workout last week and he was asked

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Speaker 6: about Brian Flores was asked about a Sante Samuel junior,

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Speaker 6: the final fusion surgery and such, but he had to

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Speaker 6: work out there.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of your cornerback, dep.

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Speaker 4: I mean I feel good.

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Speaker 7: I think you know you know Murph Zay. I think

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Speaker 7: Fabians you will come up and played well. I've had

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Speaker 7: the injury to Okudah, but I think overall you know

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Speaker 7: that that group's no no playing well. I have certainly

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Speaker 7: some plays that you know, not just for that group

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Speaker 7: of for really everyone. You know we can improve on

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Speaker 7: and the places we wish we had back. But I

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Speaker 7: think overall, you know, they've they've been solidly across the board,

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Speaker 7: but you know all always trying to get better each

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Speaker 7: one of those guys.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not like our group.

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, mister Flores.

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Speaker 6: He didn't inspire a ton of confidence in me as

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Speaker 6: you answered that question, but I appreciate the sentiment and

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Speaker 6: the spirit of it the reason I played that audio.

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Speaker 6: He feels confident about the cornerback depth. Sante Samuel Junior

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Speaker 6: has signed with the Steelers practice squad. So for those

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Speaker 6: wondering what's up with the Sante Samuel, he has decided

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Speaker 6: to join the folks in Pittsburgh and won't be an

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Speaker 6: option any longer.

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Speaker 2: To the Purple, what's up with the Chicago Bears?

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Speaker 1: Their Their coach Ben Johnson triggered Yours Truly and nine

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Speaker 1: to Noon to employ Lavelle Neil the Third, the resident

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Speaker 1: Bears fan for some beating the around the corner off

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Speaker 1: a quote he recently had about matchup number two against

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, and the head coach.

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Speaker 2: Said this, and I will have my vengeance in this

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Speaker 2: life for the next Beating dub AARs is next.