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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of things that people complain

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Speaker 2: bit more valuable as the season goes on. We'll get

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Speaker 2: couple of moments from now. Jonas Knox in for Colin

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Speaker 2: As we take you all the way up until three

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Speaker 2: this as we are still in the midst of the

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Speaker 2: college football labored a weekend extravaganza where you've got like

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Speaker 2: disrespectful to Week zero, all right, A lot of respect

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Speaker 2: for Week zero. That still counts. I don't know why

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Speaker 2: it's called week zero. It's kind of odd, but we've

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Speaker 2: about this. Thank God for the expanded College Football Playoff,

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Speaker 2: because man, there's a lot of teams out there that are, like,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we don't get a preseason, kind of

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Speaker 2: least we're going to have some time to sort through

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Speaker 2: these things. And you're looking back at last year and

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Speaker 2: you go, man, Ohio State won a national championship. If

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Speaker 2: you would have told them on the field, as Michigan

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Speaker 2: worry about it. You're gonna win a national championship. People

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Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have believed you. They probably wouldn't have cared.

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Speaker 2: But the expanded College Football Playoff has given teams an

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Speaker 2: and god forbid a loss. When you go into a

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Speaker 2: difficult situation like some of these teams went into this weekend,

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Speaker 2: whether it's Texas going to the Horseshoe and taken on

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Speaker 2: Miami and taken on the Hurricanes. I mean, Brian Kelly,

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Speaker 2: credit to LSU, But do you really think looking at

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Speaker 2: But the point is you've now got the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: make up for your OH that you lose. If you

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Speaker 2: have the balls to take on somebody early in this season,

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Speaker 2: that would be a difficult matchup. This used to happen

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Listen, that's the way this stuff goes. And you now

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Speaker 2: Everybody loved Connor McGregor, a lot of losses, Daniel Cormier losses.

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Speaker 2: But it's like you look at it, you go, yeah,

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Speaker 4: No, it's not. No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's not gonna take away from the entertainment value. Did

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Speaker 2: The quality of games weren't even that great. Ohio State

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Speaker 2: So when you look at college football and you look

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Speaker 2: it's going to save seasons and give teams an opportunity

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Speaker 2: no longer boxing. You're not going to be punished or

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Speaker 2: expanded playoffs is giving these teams an opportunity they would

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Speaker 2: have never have had in years past. At the Jonas

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Speaker 2: Knox on X is where you can find us. By

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Speaker 2: the way, you can follow along on Instagram as well too.

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Speaker 2: find us. All right, So now speaking of the college

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Speaker 2: now we're not talking about Ryan Days nibble piercing. We're

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Speaker 2: not getting into that. Some people have said that's a

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Speaker 2: you know, guys getting after it a little bit. Maybe

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Speaker 2: great Petros Papadakas was the first to point that out.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here to judge. I've got I've made awful decisions,

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Speaker 2: to judge. Ryan Day wants to go get his nipple, Piers,

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Speaker 2: The arch Manning reaction. Now, to be fair, let's give

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Speaker 2: the man an opportunity to talk. Let's listen to arch Manning.

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Speaker 2: Here he was following the difficult performance and difficult game

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't start fast enough.

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Speaker 5: Took a whole half for us to kind of even

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Speaker 5: and go prepare for Santage State. Yeah, ultimately not good enough. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: you don't want to start off the season zero to one.

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Speaker 5: They're a good team, but I thought we beat ourselves

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Speaker 4: All right. That was arch Manning.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who did this. I don't know who's

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Speaker 2: arch Manning, but for a lot of teams in college

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Speaker 2: and I'm seeing like this referendum on arch Manning. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, the Heisman odds have dipped. The Heisman odds

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about some of the other things

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Speaker 2: that you could gamble on throughout the course of time,

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Speaker 2: all right? Anybody else want to talk about You want

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 2: And that got more action than a futures bet on

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Speaker 4: Who said the odds? Who perpetuated this story?

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Speaker 2: Who's the one that was pushing arch Manning out there

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Speaker 4: On two starts? And I got news for you.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he turns things around, maybe against San Jose State

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Speaker 4: He's gonna find his rhythm.

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Speaker 2: He looked a little better in the second half, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: credit to Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator for Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: But this idea that all like all of yep, the

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Speaker 2: book has written on arch Manning really who wrote the

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Speaker 2: first one? We got two pages in and everybody was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is the greatest novel I've ever seen. You're two

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Speaker 2: pages in he started two games. Who pushed that out there?

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Speaker 2: I didn't because it doesn't make sense. We've seen this

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Speaker 2: he kept calling him Johnny Football. I'm like, dude, John Frickey,

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Speaker 2: and I remember him saying, Johnny football, got to watch

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Speaker 2: you knew that this was going to happen, all right, now.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate, you know, people that very successful, people

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Who's pushing the pr for the Dallas Cowboys. I don't

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Speaker 2: handled the Luca trade? All right? Remember that, Remember when

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Speaker 2: that's basically what the Dallas Mavericks are doing. And so

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys. And again I don't know who's doing this,

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Speaker 2: all right, but this according to the Great Albert Breer,

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Speaker 2: a Cup of Joe with myself and LeVar Arrington and

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Speaker 4: But Albert Breer said this.

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Speaker 2: we're very popular in the locker room. That's not the

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Speaker 2: Maybe my Parsons is a bit of a pain in

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Speaker 2: first time Albert Breers reported that. All Right, he's been

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Speaker 2: on that before anybody that you know, Listen, things maybe

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Speaker 2: the idea that Micah Parson's ego is what led to

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Speaker 8: I definitely didn't think he was going to get traded,

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Speaker 2: guys who was like, yeah, this guy's a little bit

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Speaker 2: maybe odd behavior of guys like I don't know Greg

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Speaker 2: creepy behavior, weird behavior, all of that acceptable. Apparently Dion

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Speaker 2: it's a waste of time. It's a terrible move and

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Speaker 2: a terrible trade. It's terrible, and anybody trying to find

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Speaker 2: I've said this before, you can't argue with or fix crazy.

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Speaker 2: From time to time, you just can't do it. Who

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Speaker 9: Right?

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Speaker 4: Not Lee, I'm not this, not.

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Speaker 2: Even I'm not even going there. Okay, But the point is,

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Speaker 4: Nah, you just don't.

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Speaker 2: You know, you don't see what it's like. She just

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Speaker 2: thirty years after you last here at in a conference

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Speaker 2: You can't make sense of the nonsense. It's crazy. It

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Speaker 2: was a crazy decision to trade Micah Parsons. It was

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Speaker 2: All of it was crazy. And so whatever story that's

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Speaker 2: who cares.

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Speaker 4: It's the NFL.

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Speaker 2: If somebody can play, you're willing to overlook whatever issues

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Speaker 4: The field to a certain extent. Look at de Sean Watson.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what sixty one hundred different accusations from massage therapist

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Speaker 2: I don't care. You can play quarterback. They thought, so

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Speaker 2: let's make a move and get it done. Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 2: deal with the suspension, We'll deal with all that. So

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Speaker 2: this idea that Micah Parson's ego was part of the

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of guys that have blown through Dallas.

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Speaker 2: No pun intended, all right, that we're not bringing up

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Speaker 2: the White House and all the other stories from the past,

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Speaker 2: But there's been a lot of guys who played for

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Speaker 2: something far beyond that, and they were willing to overlook that.

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Speaker 2: You can't make sense of any of this. There's a

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Speaker 2: You want to know why, because there's nothing to discuss

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Speaker 2: there's nothing to debate. Oh yeah, he's a great player,

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Speaker 2: maybe the best player at his position. They paid him

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Speaker 2: nobody's having a discussion about it because everybody knows that

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Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers did exactly what they should have done.

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Speaker 4: They wanted to get better, They identified.

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Speaker 2: An opportunity to get better at a position of need.

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Speaker 2: They got aggressive, and they called up the looney in

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Speaker 2: the NFCS and said, hey, are you are you serious

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Speaker 2: about this?

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Speaker 4: You really want to trade him?

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Speaker 2: Cool?

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, we'll take him.

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Speaker 2: Sure, forty seven million a year, whatever the guarantees are, whatever, whatever,

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Speaker 2: that's fine. Send them to Green Bay. Yeah, listen, there's

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Speaker 2: not as much to do there as in Dallas. But

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Speaker 2: you know what, maybe he'll be playing for a super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: which he was never gonna do with the Cowboys. So

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Speaker 2: I don't care about And this is, you know, not

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Speaker 2: a knock on Albert Breer. He's been fantastic through this

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Speaker 2: entire as far as reporting that side of it. But

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Speaker 2: if that really is part of the explanation, then that

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Speaker 2: ought to tell you you can't explain it because you

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Speaker 2: can't explain away crazy. Despite what people are trying to

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Speaker 2: do with the Michael Parsons Trade in Dallas at the

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Speaker 2: Jonas Knox and X at Jonas Knox Show on Instagram

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Speaker 2: is where you can find us here on the Herd

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. And right now it is time

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Speaker 2: for Lee to laugh with the Herd Line news.

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Speaker 6: No no, no, this is the Herd Line News.

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Speaker 3: But up, Lee, No much?

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Speaker 8: Jonas?

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Speaker 4: How you doing, buddy? What she's hanging out?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 4: Tack hanging out? Just you and I are just working.

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Speaker 4: That's working. Happy Labor day, man, I like I like

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Speaker 4: to work on labor Just just just people to work.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: That's what I always thought is you should work on

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Speaker 4: Labor Day. Yeah, that's what I thought too, uh, Jonas.

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Speaker 9: Case you missed this, Public Enemy number one from the weekend,

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Speaker 9: Polish CEO Peoter Cherick has made an apology.

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Speaker 4: Do you know who that is?

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Speaker 9: Peter Keyota Cherick. That's the guy who had the fast hands,

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Speaker 9: that's right, yeah. From the US Open. In case you

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Speaker 9: missed it, he snatched a hat from a Polish tennis

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Speaker 9: player who had was making the autographs after his big win.

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Speaker 9: He'd made a big upset and he was doing autographs

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Speaker 9: for the kids and fans in the stands. He was

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Speaker 9: handing out a hat and a kid was about to

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Speaker 9: grab it, but instead Polish CEO Peter Cherick snagged it

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Speaker 9: in front of him, and he's become public enemy number one,

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Speaker 9: people calling him a jerk and plenty of other names online. Well,

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Speaker 9: he has made his apology saying he has made a

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Speaker 9: grave mistake. I was convinced that the tennis player was

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Speaker 9: passing the cap to me for my sons who had

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Speaker 9: previously asked for autographs. I sincerely apologize to the boy

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Speaker 9: who was harmed, his family as well as all the

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Speaker 9: fans and player himself.

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Speaker 4: So the kids slow on the draw and this guy

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Speaker 4: gets all the heat for it. That's right, what are

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Speaker 4: we talking about here? The kid was did get a

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Speaker 4: hat after all.

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Speaker 9: The tennis player, of course, he did find him and

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Speaker 9: gave him a bunch of gifts, including a new hat.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I got news for you. That was my

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Speaker 2: son who had a hat taken from him. And he

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Speaker 2: looked means says, but can I still get a hat?

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Speaker 2: I'd be like no, And in fact you're grounded for

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Speaker 2: three weeks.

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Speaker 4: Be faster.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Guys handing out valuable items, you got to know

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Speaker 2: every this is in demand. This this is a big

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Speaker 2: story for Poland. Guys handing out hats. Stuff is going

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Speaker 2: to be valuable one day. You got to be faster, Okay.

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Speaker 2: You can't stand around and expecting going to be given

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 4: So I'm with this guy. He shouldn't have apologized. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: a bunch of people agree with you.

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Speaker 9: Some fake lawyers took were fast on the draw too,

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Speaker 9: taken to the internet claiming to be his lawyer, saying,

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Speaker 9: if you were faster, you'd have it.

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Speaker 2: This was a learning lesson though, Yeah, that's right that

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Speaker 2: this is a valuable lesson here. It's also a valuable

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Speaker 2: lesson that, like the whole idea of asking for assigned

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Speaker 2: items is just odd to me. Like I took my

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Speaker 2: wife and I took my son. Loves he loves baseball.

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Speaker 2: He loves baseball, he loves the Cubs, and so we

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Speaker 2: took him to the Cubs Angels game the friday before

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Speaker 2: this past friday, and she was like, you know, did

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Speaker 2: you bring pen pen for what?

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Speaker 3: She goes?

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Speaker 4: You know, maybe we could get somebody to sign something.

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Speaker 4: It's like, no, I gotta have that sharp ready. No, No,

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Speaker 4: we're not We're not doing that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not running around in the heat to try and

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Speaker 2: get Dansby Swanson's autograph on a baseball that my son's

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Speaker 2: just gonna scribble off anyway.

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Speaker 9: So what are we talking about? Oh man, you gotta

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Speaker 9: get it for the kids. The kids is great, but

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Speaker 9: he is a big funder of the Polish Tennis Federation,

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Speaker 9: so I'm sure he wants a little something for his money,

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Speaker 9: you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, it's a lesson. It's a learning lesson,

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Speaker 2: all right. And it's that old, that old quote there

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Speaker 2: is no losing.

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Speaker 4: You win or you learn. And hopefully that kid learned

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Speaker 4: what else we got, Lee Jonas.

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Speaker 9: It's been reported that the forty nine ers will wear

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Speaker 9: their white jerseys for the early season games home games

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Speaker 9: to combat the possible heat factor at Levi Stadium, that

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Speaker 9: will wear their white throwbacks in Week three versus the

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Speaker 9: Cardinals and their primary white uniforms versus the Jaguars in

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Speaker 9: Week four.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that that was such a big deal,

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Speaker 2: and then I think it was. How was it Rex

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Speaker 2: Ryan who made the point? I think it was Rex

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Speaker 2: Ryan who made the point that it was like listen, man,

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Speaker 2: Like a lot of people don't talk about the humidity.

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Speaker 2: Like there's people that talk about, you know, the cold

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Speaker 2: being a factor, but the humidity in Florida, the heat

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Speaker 2: early in the year, like it does have an impact,

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Speaker 2: especially when you haven't played a real game in a

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Speaker 2: long time. So yeah, I mean it makes sense. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know the heat was that much of an issue

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Speaker 2: at Levi's Stadium. Like if you watch a Giants game,

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Speaker 2: if you watch a San Francisco Giants game, people are

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Speaker 2: in turtle next, people are bundled up. But I didn't

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Speaker 2: realize that Levi's Stadium had that much of a heat issue.

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Speaker 9: I've heard it's a huge, huge issue at Levi's Stadium

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Speaker 9: that it's almost unbearable on one side of the stadium.

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Speaker 9: That you really I assume that the ticket prices are

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Speaker 9: much different for the shady side versus the versus the

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Speaker 9: heated side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is Ah, that is a good move. Like

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Speaker 2: if you're going to buy tickets anywhere you got it,

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Speaker 2: you gotta check the shade. Oh, we're going through a

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Speaker 2: heat wave here and the we're doing same thing for

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Speaker 2: Dodgers games. We're always looking to get the shade shady side.

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Speaker 4: Let's go live to our weather man, Chris Popher for

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Speaker 4: the latest.

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Speaker 10: Chris, I think I had a friend one time go

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Speaker 10: down to like Lions Chargers when they were still playing

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Speaker 10: in Qualcomm. It's like week one, and he sat on

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Speaker 10: the shaded side and meanwhile on the field, like, guys,

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Speaker 10: there their cleats, the the you know, the artificial turf,

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Speaker 10: the rubber down there was like melting into the cleats.

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Speaker 4: It was that hot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's And by the way, what a dump Qualcomm stadium? God,

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Speaker 2: whoa no wonder Barrett Robins took off to Tijuana. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't want to play in that game either. Play sucks.

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Speaker 9: That was my first NFL stadium, so I didn't know

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Speaker 9: any different any better. So yeah, yeah, this place is cool.

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Speaker 2: And then and then you went to another one and

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh god, yeah, look, it's it's like moving.

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Speaker 4: Up from a high school stadium to like, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: like Notre Dame.

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Speaker 2: It was that he places just rough man that play

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Speaker 2: and and they had a super Bowl. They had a

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Speaker 2: lot going on there. That place was rough.

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Speaker 9: I thought it was cool because you could just take

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Speaker 9: the train right to the stadium, which is always a

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Speaker 9: good factor for stadiums.

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Speaker 2: Thought, yeah, I mean at that point, just take the

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Speaker 2: train and keep on going, like as far as it

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Speaker 2: takes you.

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Speaker 4: If you end up in release go like that, that's fine.

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Speaker 4: Just take it where you can. What else we got

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Speaker 4: laid Shiloh Sanders.

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Speaker 9: The NFL has decided to find him five thousand dollars

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Speaker 9: after he was ejected from that game versus the Bills

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Speaker 9: in the preseason and subsequently cut from the team from

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Speaker 9: the Buccaneers. Well, he says, if he doesn't land on

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Speaker 9: another team, he's ready to move on and find new

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Speaker 9: ventures in music, acting, and modeling. His dad, Dion mister Prime, says,

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Speaker 9: you guys don't know how versatile and talented my son is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he may not play in the NFL again,

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Speaker 2: and they're still gonna come after him for five grand. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Like the NFL doesn't have enough money. You got to

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Speaker 2: come after Shiloh Sanders for five grand?

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Speaker 3: Like what I mean? Come on?

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Speaker 4: Would it have been more if he had made the

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Speaker 4: team and this was a regular season game?

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Speaker 2: I see, I don't know, because I think it's a

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Speaker 2: percentage of what you make, like whatever your salary is.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a percentage of that you get fined.

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Speaker 4: But listen, he threw a punch.

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Speaker 2: It was a dumb move. He's already been punished, all right,

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Speaker 2: they released him. You know, he wasn't picked up on

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Speaker 2: the practice squad. I don't think now he's gonna try

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Speaker 2: and figure things out somewhere else. But I mean five

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Speaker 2: like they the NFL needs five grands so much that

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Speaker 2: they're going to come after and form I'm sure it

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Speaker 2: goes to a charity, Yeah, Roger Goodell's charity. All By

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Speaker 2: the way, I don't know if that's if that's confirmed.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get in trouble here as we

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Speaker 2: are in for Colin on the herd here. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that's that's actually true. But yeah, it just

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Speaker 2: seems like the NFL going after somebody. It's like when

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Speaker 2: the NFL punishes guys because their socks weren't pulled up, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, Caleb Williams had his socks down.

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Speaker 4: I think the entire preseason. Did he get punished for that?

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Speaker 4: Could you grock that?

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Speaker 2: Could you look up whether or not Caleb Williams got

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Speaker 2: punished for having his socks pulled down, like for some

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Speaker 2: reason he just decided, you know what, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 2: back to painting my nails and not pull my socks up,

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Speaker 2: because last I checked, that's a punishable offense. If you

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Speaker 2: do that during it during an NFL game, you got

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Speaker 2: the wardrobe police who come around to try and find guys.

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Speaker 4: I see criticism, but no official fun. I'll dive deeper

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Speaker 4: for you. That's unfortunate. All right there, it is lead

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Speaker 4: to lap with the herd Line News.

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Speaker 6: Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping buck the

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Speaker 2: It's Jonas knox In for calling here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: And if you ever wondered whether or not certain people

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Speaker 2: in the world of sports weren't carrying their weight, We've

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Speaker 2: got proof and it's yours.

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Speaker 6: weekdays and noon Easter.

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Speaker 2: Jonas knox In for Colin. Coming up top of the

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Speaker 2: next hour, about fifteen minutes from now, we are going

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Speaker 2: to tell you about somebody that is they're feeling the heat.

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Speaker 2: They're feeling the heat and it doesn't feel like this

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Speaker 2: is going to end very well for somebody in the

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Speaker 2: world of football. We'll get into that for you again

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Speaker 2: coming up here fifteen minutes from now. By the way,

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Speaker 2: All right. The ratings came out recently for the NFL's

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Speaker 2: preseason via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, who reports

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Speaker 2: that the NFL enjoyed its most watched preseason since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Games average two point two million viewers across NFL network, Fox, ESPN, NBC,

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Speaker 2: and CBS. That's up seventeen percent from last year. Now

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Speaker 2: as the season is now where it is game week,

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Speaker 2: all right, we're getting ready for the real regular seasons

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Speaker 2: take place.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I've always stood on the side of hey man, watch

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Speaker 2: the preseason. Watch these games. It's fun. I mean, there's

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Speaker 2: heartwarming stories and whatever is going on with you know,

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Speaker 2: Hard Knocks, which by the way, I did not watch

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Speaker 2: one single second of Hard Knocks this year, and I

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Speaker 2: was okay. But you watch the preseason and sometimes the

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Speaker 2: fields aren't painted. Sometimes guys are in there and they're

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Speaker 2: wearing you know, different uniform numbers, and they're gonna wear

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Speaker 2: when the regular season starts because guys are getting cut

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Speaker 2: left and right, et cetera, et cetera. But those numbers

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Speaker 2: tell you that the gap is widening. The gap between

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Speaker 2: the NFL and everybody else is widening because there's an

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Speaker 2: opportunity and there's a lane for potentially other leagues, other people,

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Speaker 2: other sports to pop up, and nobody's able to do it.

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Speaker 2: And the lead the NFL has over everybody else is

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Speaker 2: getting longer and longer and longer, and they're going to

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Speaker 2: continue to figure out ways to take over everything.

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Speaker 4: And you could go back to COVID, which I think.

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Speaker 2: Taught the NFL that, hey man, you can play games

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Speaker 2: on different days of the week.

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Speaker 5: You can do this.

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Speaker 2: You can't adjust if need be. You can't in the

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Speaker 2: NFL realize, oh, you know, we could just go ahead

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Speaker 2: and take Christmas, we could take all these solid We'll

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Speaker 2: just we'll take it all. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: people that wonder, all right, when is when are we

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Speaker 2: going to reach a point where it's just too much,

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Speaker 2: where they've got NFL fatigue, Because starting this week, they've

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Speaker 2: got it covered through mid February. So just think of that,

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Speaker 2: they've got it covered through mid February, and people can't

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Speaker 2: even wait for the regular season to get their fix

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Speaker 2: and to scratch the itch. And whether it's fantasy football,

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Speaker 2: whether it's gambling, which is a form of or fantasy football,

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Speaker 2: which is a form of gambling, whatever, it is, the

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Speaker 2: fact that the NFL in a preseason is seeing its

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Speaker 2: numbers go up when other leagues and other sports are

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Speaker 2: seeing their numbers go down or they're seeing dips and there,

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Speaker 2: that just shows you that they've adjusted, that they've recognized. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what, And if you want to talk about,

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Speaker 2: you know, pushing storylines, if you want to say, oh,

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Speaker 2: what was should or Sanders? Fine, what call should or Sanders?

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Speaker 2: But he started one preseason game, he didn't play in another,

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Speaker 2: and he played late in the third. This isn't just

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Speaker 2: a should or Sanders thing. And the thing about the

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Speaker 2: NFL is it's not it's not so much about the stars.

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Speaker 2: With the NBA, you need, you know, star power, you

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Speaker 2: need you know, it's all about the names. It's Lebron,

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Speaker 2: it's all these names that come along with it. In

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Speaker 2: the NFL, you've got your fan bases, you've got your teams,

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Speaker 2: great quarterbacks, great stars help. All that's I mean, all

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Speaker 2: that's fine and dandy, but ultimately, people love their teams.

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Speaker 2: People are fired up to watch their team, People have

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Speaker 2: hope for their team, and then kickoff starts and you

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Speaker 2: look and you realize, oh god, they're awful, Like yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is the problem. And so I don't see a

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Speaker 2: bubble bursting. I don't like think about think about the

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Speaker 2: discussions that we have about teams that aren't even good

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. The Cowboys, they're not even good, and

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Speaker 2: they take over majority of the discussion. You can argue

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys are talked about more than any other professional

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Speaker 2: team in sports and they're not even good. How many

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Speaker 2: times have you heard a discussion about the Oklahoma City

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Speaker 2: Thunder who are good. You don't, You just don't, but

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Speaker 2: you do it the Cowboys, you do with the Jets,

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Speaker 2: you do with other mediocre teams around the NFL. Because

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Speaker 2: the NFL has proven it's king. We're not even at

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Speaker 2: the regular season and you're seeing the numbers increase, which

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Speaker 2: tells me the numbers are probably going to go up

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Speaker 2: when the regular season starts because people are starved for football,

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Speaker 2: because whatever other sport that they're presented, whatever sport they're watching,

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Speaker 2: when it's not football, it doesn't compar I love baseball.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big baseball fan. Not even in the same stratus,

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Speaker 2: not even close. I think it's gotten better. I think

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Speaker 2: it's improved. I think there's better storylines. I think the

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Speaker 2: product is better, it's gotten more entertaining, but not even

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Speaker 2: in the same stratosphere.

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Speaker 4: I like the NBA.

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Speaker 2: The fact that the NBA, unopposed, can't touch the NFL,

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Speaker 2: even when you did have good games and good story

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Speaker 2: even when you had good finishes and all that. The

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Speaker 2: fact that they can't even touch the NFL when there's

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Speaker 2: no NFL on that people would rather hear discussions about

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Speaker 2: the draft and the fallout from the draft than they

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Speaker 2: would teams fighting for a playoff spot or the playing games.

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Speaker 2: College basketball is a three week sport now it just is.

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Speaker 2: It's all about the NCAA tournament. The NFL has figured

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Speaker 2: it out. And whether you want to credit Roger Goodell

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Speaker 2: or you want to credit whoever it is, the NFL

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Speaker 2: had the foresight to be like, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: could really take this thing over. We could take this

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Speaker 2: thing over. In fact, we could take it over to

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Speaker 2: a point to where we would be doing better ratings

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Speaker 2: in our preseason than other sports are doing in their

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Speaker 2: regular season. And that's what's happening. They're not dependent on stars.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was worried years ago. Man when Brady retires and

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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning retires and all these all these guys retire,

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Speaker 2: what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean? They're a spoke on the wheel.

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Speaker 2: Next person up to revolving door, and whoever it is

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Speaker 2: we will present them, will present, their team will present

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Speaker 2: the product, the fans will get around it, and the

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Speaker 2: numbers will go up. So the fact that you see

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Speaker 2: these numbers from the preseason go out the way they did.

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Speaker 2: Whoever you want to credit, figure that out, on your own.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you the gap is widening. The NFL's

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Speaker 2: got a big lead over everybody else, and it's not

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Speaker 2: changing anytime soon. Up next, here on the Herd, we're

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Speaker 2: going to tell you about somebody who is feeling the

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