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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy E Cup Championship Night, The Jason

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Speaker 1: Speaking of assists, we're getting one tonight in an E

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Speaker 1: Cup Championship night. It's almost like the super Bowl, except

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Speaker 1: we're getting it here in the middle of December. It's

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Speaker 1: that big an event, Mike Harmon, and if the Knicks lose,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to.

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Speaker 3: Be a big event at all. Well, there we go.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of gotten accordion field to it here. No,

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Speaker 1: that's good, except for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: There's a clamoring and a high price secondary market for tickets. Here.

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Speaker 3: They've darkened the Upper Bowl because I don't know that

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Speaker 3: there's nobody in there.

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Speaker 1: It's almost the closest thing you guys are getting to

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Speaker 1: a real E Cup.

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Speaker 3: Well, but that's the other part, right, is that you

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Speaker 3: know it can't be a real championship because Tischer's here.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's true. Yes, it's only a big because usually

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Speaker 3: he's got like some events that that he MCS or

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Speaker 1: When it's all basketball championships at Tyser, I think Tyscher

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Speaker 1: has an anti basketball thing because those are the games

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Speaker 1: the national championship in basketball. You miss NBA Finals nights,

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Speaker 1: but you're here for the E Cup Championship.

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Speaker 3: It's not championship.

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Speaker 1: Oh so that's so it's not in the Alex Tight

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Speaker 1: shirt rankings. Not a championship.

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Speaker 3: It's like a championship means nothing.

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Speaker 1: All Right, you need to call Adam Silver and tell

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Speaker 1: him that because he would love to hear that from you.

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Speaker 3: He'd love to it. Yeah, this doesn't really matter, Jason,

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Speaker 3: That makes no dose. You know, I know this isn't

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Speaker 3: a real championship game. How do I know the Knicks

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: And Ben Stiller didn't bother to come in from why Stiller.

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Speaker 1: Recorded, well, I would as much as I love the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If I a trip to Hawaii, I would, I.

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Speaker 3: Kind of, But this might be the only championship in

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Speaker 3: his lifetime he ever gets this.

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Speaker 1: Guy that sits court side at Knicks games, I think

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Speaker 3: Miss You know when they can actually have pirate Steve

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Speaker 3: would have liked to have been court side here because

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Speaker 3: it was actually a victory. They got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hey, they had a great list of people

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Speaker 3: Look at the guys that were here for this game.

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Speaker 3: now here he is in vague. How about that? Uh

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Speaker 3: early in the third quarter, Chalame is gonna play. I

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Speaker 3: thought he's a real fan. Yeah, you know he's gonna play.

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Speaker 3: He's on his promotional tour from Aready Supreme.

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Speaker 1: Sixty nine sixty one spurs a couple of buckets here

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Speaker 3: I don't even I can't even see as well, have

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Speaker 3: it was completely dark. Yeah, so you had no idea.

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Speaker 1: No where is that even now? It doesn't matter, matter,

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Speaker 3: Still a game, still a game, still a game. They

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Speaker 3: could have gone and sat courtside for free. Has Tracy

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Speaker 3: Morgan thrown up yet? No, not yet, we're saving that.

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Speaker 1: If we get down by ten, Tracy Morgan throws up

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Speaker 1: and then that that's minutes. Yeah, maybe less. It's a

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Speaker 1: another three U. Now, a couple of things about this game, right,

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Speaker 1: the NBA has taken the night. Hey, we've given the

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Speaker 1: night to the NBA shure, And so far the E

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Speaker 1: Cup has been good but not quite what they thought

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Speaker 1: it was. So what do we have here on Positivity Tuesday?

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Speaker 1: A way to make this even a bigger event. Like

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Speaker 1: you've seen at the beginning of the E Cup, everybody

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Speaker 1: sort of bought it. Now the money for everybody at

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Speaker 1: the end is a big deal. I'm sure that always

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Speaker 1: whenever you give out money to people, that helps.

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Speaker 3: We talked about the Ja Brunson response to a reporter yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but you still see, you still see a

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Speaker 1: It's not just hey, it's a it's a bonus game

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Speaker 1: on the schedule. So the e Cup coming in is

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Speaker 1: a great idea because to try to find a way

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Speaker 1: regular season of the NBA is really difficult.

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Speaker 3: Right. So it's good, Right, it's good. It's good, it's good,

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Speaker 1: But but this Vegas thing is a disaster, like this

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Speaker 1: is I mean, you need to have more than if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have an event in Vegas and you have

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Speaker 1: the Final Four, Like when you have the Final Four

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Speaker 1: in a place, Okay, well, Final Four is coming. They

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Speaker 1: play Friday or they play Saturday and Monday. Hear these games?

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Speaker 1: Are you know, play Tuesday night? You gotta come in Friday,

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Speaker 1: stay a all the way through till Tuesday. Like, who's

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Speaker 1: doing that? Right? Like, there's so many things that you

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Speaker 3: It's Vegas.

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Speaker 1: But you have to make it into a vacation. And

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Speaker 1: you're not making that into a vacation in the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the calendar year because you're not planning for. This

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Speaker 1: is something that comes up and oh hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: it's not the super Bowl, it's not quite that event.

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Speaker 1: But there is way to make this bigger. And there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of things that you can continue and look,

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Speaker 1: it is a work in progress, but I would say

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Speaker 1: the three biggest things you can do is this. Number One,

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Speaker 1: this is for the teams. Yes, they get the money

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Speaker 1: at the end, which is great. Number One, you guarantee

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Speaker 1: them a top six playoff spot. You win the e Cup,

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Speaker 1: you're guaranteed a top six playoff spot, no matter.

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Speaker 3: Make it a big deal. Right, You can avoid the

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Speaker 3: play in automatically, you are no worse.

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Speaker 1: Than sixth overall if you win the E Cup right now,

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Speaker 1: that's a fun way to get in.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, these two teams, they're both really good, don't have

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Speaker 1: getting there. But you never know what could happen over

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Speaker 1: the course of regular season, and teams deal with injuries

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Speaker 1: thing for the players, yes, you win, you are guaranteed

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Speaker 1: no lower than the sixth spot in the playoffs. This

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Speaker 1: gets everybody playing their asses off during the E Cup

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Speaker 1: in games, and all of a sudden, all those games

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Speaker 1: the winner knows no matter what, we're a six seed.

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Speaker 1: When if you said to every NBA team at the

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Speaker 1: the top six seed. Yeah, we won't even play the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Give us a sixth seed.

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Speaker 3: We're fine with it. Well, but that becomes the problem

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Speaker 3: is that we already lament the the and I mean

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Speaker 3: guys are gonna take his off teams are gonna have

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Speaker 3: no show efforts whatever. But you're already at a watered

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Speaker 3: down regular season products. So that's at least one of

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Speaker 3: they're not vying for a top spot, right, if they're

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Speaker 3: in the muddled mess that is that five to ten seed.

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Speaker 3: for two weeks. Why because we got that six in

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Speaker 3: of that of down the stretch, little uh Johnny and

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Speaker 3: Zusie in regular season final months don't get to see

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Speaker 1: Now, the second thing for this to make it, to

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Speaker 1: make it bigger, is you have to have it as

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Speaker 1: one encompassing timeline. You can't play games up and down

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Speaker 1: throughout the first month plus of the season. Then this

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Speaker 1: is a cup night. This is not a cup night.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of ridiculous, right because this is borrowing from

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Speaker 1: all of the big European soccer leagues where they take

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Speaker 1: time away. Yeah they play once while, they'll play the

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Speaker 1: FA Cup and but generally, hey we take some time.

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Speaker 1: We're taking a break and we have a tournament that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play. That would be a little bit bigger deal.

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Speaker 1: You still get the attention of the NBA. But it's this.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is in on this event right now for x

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Speaker 1: amount of time. Maybe it's two weeks, maybe it's three weeks,

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Speaker 1: but everybody is in on this event. You're all playing

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Speaker 1: the NBA E Cup. We play the first twenty games

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Speaker 1: of the regular season, then we take a break for

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Speaker 1: three weeks, we play the E Cup, then we come back,

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Speaker 1: we play the rest of the schedule. Now you would

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Speaker 1: still have a bunch of games. You would probably have

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Speaker 1: to cut the regular season by a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: but not many because remember these games will still count

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Speaker 1: in the standings overall. But you make it one encompassing.

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Speaker 1: This is the E Cup. This is the E Cup.

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Speaker 1: We're freezing everything at twenty we're playing the E Cup

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Speaker 1: and then we're moving on. You can put them, you know,

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Speaker 1: Come on, right, that's kind of fun. So get down

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Speaker 3: This is like Steve Martin when he had the wishes

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Speaker 1: That's how to take a great idea that's working, but

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Speaker 1: The Spurs are the six point lead right now, seven

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Speaker 3: Happy Night three, and DJ.

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Speaker 1: tej uh So here we are, Yes Night three? Then

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Speaker 1: next level and the next iteration of this team.

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Speaker 3: Well, the other part is that you also have to

435
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Speaker 3: keep this quarterback healthy, which he has been and he's

436
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 3: been fairly durable. And in last night's game, as we

437
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 3: broke it down, there were a number of unconscionable throws

438
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Speaker 3: of misses. The interception that he threw as a team

439
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 3: they received, and I think rightly so, a lot of

440
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,480
Speaker 3: incoming for the lack of urgency early and then suddenly

441
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 3: trying to close things out in a frenzied state in

442
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 3: their final possessions, the on side kick, calling timeouts, et cetera.

443
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,760
Speaker 3: But we also talked about too. Even when he didn't

444
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Speaker 3: make a throw, he took some unreasonably poor sacks. Right,

445
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 3: it's one thing that you don't you miss the pocket

446
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,000
Speaker 3: collapses quickly, you've stepped up in anticipation of a play

447
00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,119
Speaker 3: and you get caught up in someone gets your legs.

448
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 3: That's fine, but we saw him rolling out to the left,

449
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 3: left handed thrower and instead of putting the ball safely

450
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Speaker 3: out of harm's way, you know, into the third row,

451
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 3: he's absorbing a six seven yard sack. You're not a

452
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Speaker 3: team that lives by the explosive play like he did

453
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Speaker 3: once upon a time. We've talked about it and the shift.

454
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Speaker 3: The defense have been playing better that a four possession

455
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 3: skid would be the nice way to say it against

456
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Speaker 3: this Steeler squad, first time they'd done that since twenty eighteen.

457
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Speaker 3: But overall they'd played pretty well, and you'd move to

458
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Speaker 3: where a chan was option A, B, and C. He

459
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 3: got lessened a bit yesterday, which again McDaniels should have

460
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,360
Speaker 3: taken some more questions about that. But Tua didn't help

461
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 3: things by taking the unreasonable sacks and putting them behind

462
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Speaker 3: the markers and putting them into more disadvantageous situations to

463
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Speaker 3: where his arm isn't cutting through the wind at fifteen

464
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Speaker 3: to twenty miles an hour. That ain't happening. We had

465
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Speaker 3: the discussion about game time temperatures or whatever else, but

466
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Speaker 3: what we do know is he puts the ball in

467
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Speaker 3: harm's way consistently with narrowly above a one to one

468
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Speaker 3: ratio of touchdowns and interceptions. So going forward now with

469
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Speaker 3: this being the end, right, I have two solutions. I

470
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Speaker 3: have a trade that works for everyone. Oh boy, okay,

471
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Speaker 3: we talked about Ay, where could he go? I got

472
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Speaker 3: a trade that works for everyone. And I have one

473
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Speaker 3: solution that maybe people haven't thought about. Okay, let's do it.

474
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Speaker 1: Let's do the solution people haven't thought about. Before you

475
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Speaker 1: get to the trade. Okay, he's got a bad contract.

476
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 1: We know this, right, But bad contracts it doesn't mean

477
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Speaker 1: he's untradeable. It just means it makes it really, really

478
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Speaker 1: difficult the next couple of years. The money he is due,

479
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: it is insane. So when you think about where it's going,

480
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna bench to a he's not coming back

481
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Speaker 1: to start for you, there may be this situation where,

482
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Speaker 1: to a tongue of iloa, is Kirk Cousins for next

483
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: year in which the Dolphins have nothing. He's got to

484
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Speaker 1: come back. But the Dolphins next quarterback is whoever they

485
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Speaker 1: get in the draft, or somebody they go in on

486
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Speaker 1: in free agency, somebody who's a bridge starter, whatever it's

487
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Speaker 1: going to be, but the potential is out there because

488
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Speaker 1: we saw it this year. It hasn't worked at all

489
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta because Atlanta hasn't won, but maybe mainly because

490
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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix wasn't very good. But Cousin's playing well the

491
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. If he finishes strong, guess what

492
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Speaker 1: Cousins is going to get a deal someplace else next year.

493
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Speaker 1: Someone will fork over money. It's only two years left

494
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Speaker 1: on his deal now he could We talked about this

495
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Speaker 1: last week. He has played himself into being a bridge

496
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Speaker 1: quarterback and getting a starting job next year.

497
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Speaker 3: Or Pennick's coming back with another huge injury. Right, Kirk

498
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 3: Cousins may stay right where he is, be your quarter.

499
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Speaker 1: So the possibility exists that he could be Kirk Cousins

500
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Speaker 1: next year where the money's not working, the trade, the

501
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: trade is not he wants to keep all his cash.

502
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: He's not going to say no, and so it winds

503
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: up the two is on the team, but it's somebody

504
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: else is coming in, whether it's in the first round

505
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Speaker 1: of the draft or like I said, free agency, something else.

506
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 1: Somebody else is coming in to take this job. So

507
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 1: that is that is that is definitively an option, especially

508
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Speaker 1: since we've seen the Falcons do it this year, and

509
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 1: while it hasn't worked, it hasn't ripped the team apart. Right,

510
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: It's not like you're hearing stuff where everybody is on

511
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: the side of of of Michael Pennix and Kirk Cousins

512
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Speaker 1: is making noise and he's being Kirk Cousins has always

513
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Speaker 1: been a pretty good pro and and we would have

514
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: heard a lot more stories about how this was this

515
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: year if it was bad. So clearly it was okay.

516
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: Mainly they probably need a new head coach in Atlanta

517
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: because Raheem Morris, with all that all that talent, offensively

518
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: it's not working, but mainly Michael Pennix Junior has not

519
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: been great. So but the off the field stuff didn't

520
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: rip the team apart. We thought that was gonna happen.

521
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of teams are looking at that.

522
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: Miami's gonna look at this and say, hey, you know what,

523
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Speaker 1: if it comes to it, we can still move on

524
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: next year and maybe we maybe Quinn Ewers starts the

525
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 1: last couple of games. He's really good. He's named the

526
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Speaker 1: starter for next year, and two is the backup. Two

527
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,959
Speaker 1: is a pretty good pro. I think two A handles

528
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: this pretty well. He's always handled himself pretty well publicly.

529
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Speaker 1: He's kind of he kind of reminds me of Russell

530
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: Wilson light a little bit the way he approaches things.

531
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a pro because that's part of the equation

532
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 3: as well, Right, is that you Russell Wilson and then

533
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 3: just say, hey, it's a poison pill. We have to swallow,

534
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 3: but we eat all that money against the cap, right,

535
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 3: we just have the huge dead dead cap charge. To

536
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Speaker 3: your point about yours or or Wilson or some combination thereof,

537
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 3: you do have Cincinnati. I mean, Joe Burrow quit this

538
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 3: last week. I don't know if you saw that. And

539
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 3: then week seventeenes against Tampa their past d stinks. Yeah,

540
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 3: so you've got an opportunity either of those quarterbacks to

541
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: at least put up a little bit of an effort

542
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 3: and a show for folks, and from Mike McDaniel to

543
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 3: show that he can work with another quarterback for sure.

544
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,959
Speaker 3: And then you have the season finale against New England

545
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 3: that might not be playing for anything at that point.

546
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: So if that happens, okay, all right, we see. But

547
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: now here's a trade that works for everybody. Okay, taking

548
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: everything into account, here's a quarterback with a bad contract.

549
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 1: Somebody else would need to take on this bad contract,

550
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: but they would trade a bad contract of their own.

551
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: Both these guys need fresh starts to and this other

552
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: quarterback need fresh starts. I don't know anybody who says

553
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: no to this, because while the team trading their quarterback

554
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 1: is trading someone who is a little bit higher value

555
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: and then seen a little bit more of a solution.

556
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: His contract is a little bit longer, right two of

557
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: the big deal for his contracts the next couple of years.

558
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: This contract goes through twenty twenty eight, so there's a

559
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: little bit of ben but don't break now. If he

560
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: was part of the solution, he would stay. But both

561
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: guys need a fresh start. It's not like you have

562
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: to worry about the money because you're still spending money.

563
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: But it's different, right, You're getting a different Maybe Tua

564
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: can work in a different offense. Maybe this guy can

565
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: work in Miami's offense. I think Miami would be excited

566
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: to have him in. I think if you are this team,

567
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: you're excited to get to it. To come in doesn't

568
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: mean you can't go out and get a different quarterback

569
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: as well. But you have seen it. Okay, it's not

570
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: working with this guy. We'll get out of his contract

571
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: a year earlier than this, which means we're not postponing

572
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: the future as much to a tongue of ailoa to

573
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. For Kyler Murray works for everyone, seeks for

574
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: everyone you know who?

575
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 3: It doesn't work for what me? Why does it work

576
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 3: for you? Because Jacoby Brissett is under contract for next year? Okay,

577
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 3: he signed a two year, twelve million dollar deal. Sure

578
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: I can if I and Kyler Murray being gone as

579
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 3: part of the equation. Yeah, but if I can add

580
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 3: my quarterback because Jacoby Brissett's played really well, right he is, sure,

581
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 3: he has been good. Sure, that's a lot of money

582
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: you can spend on other pieces to make this team better.

583
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 3: Bring in Tua in doesn't help me. He's no better

584
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 3: than Kyler Murray is. But here's the no.

585
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: But here's the thing is you're getting out of Kyler

586
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 1: Murray's deal a little bit earlier, and you are able

587
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: to move on from it, because that's the thing.

588
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 3: Ye, But I'm bringing in another contract and I don't

589
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 3: want you to have to. But I don't want to as conchact,

590
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 3: I know. Well, listen, if I'm the Cardinals, but you

591
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 3: can get rid of Kyler the Jets tape.

592
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: But if you're the Cardinals, if you're the Cardinals, Okay, yes,

593
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett's playing really well this year.

594
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 3: But is he all of a sudden a great quarterback?

595
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: Or if you go into next year with Tua and

596
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett they battle it out and can't however you

597
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: want to do it. It's a new team. For two,

598
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: he's got to earn a spot. You feel a lot

599
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 1: better about the quarterback room, then we're really gonna hand

600
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: it over to Kyler Murray and he's gonna be the

601
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: same guy, and he's gonna he's gonna get the same

602
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: kind of production. So you understand that, you know, to

603
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 1: to lose that salary, you gotta take salary back. But

604
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 1: because you're giving away the quote more talented player, you're

605
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: gonna get out from under that contract a little bit

606
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 1: earlier if to it doesn't work out. Look, it's it's

607
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: exchanging problems for problems. And I'm always a big fan of, well,

608
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: if this problem's not working for me and that problem's

609
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: not working for you, let's change problems because maybe it'll

610
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: work for both of us.

611
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 3: It maybe it works for me and not you. It

612
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 3: works for you and not me. But that's a way

613
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 3: to solve this problem. I mean, on the plus side,

614
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 3: he would be playing in Arizona, so all of that

615
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 3: forty degrees no sin would be thrown out of film,

616
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 3: so we can have proof of concept once and for

617
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 3: all that it's not just the cold as to the

618
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: reason that he stinks.

619
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: So I did that trade works for everybody, It works

620
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: for everyone.

621
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen two I'd rather have Kyle.

622
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: You can't just you can't just but yeah, if you

623
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: could just do an I dream of Genie where you

624
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: you cross your arms and blink your eyes and go

625
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: blink it and they disappear.

626
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: Okay, but you can't do that. No, give me an

627
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: do that. Give me someone else at a different position,

628
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 3: bringing in another problem or potential problem at quarterback. When

629
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 3: I got it, I'm making nothing. I'll go draft my

630
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 3: bridge guy, my guy towards twenty seven and let him

631
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: in the room. Jason, how about the trades cancel each

632
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: other and they both go away.

633
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: I say, if you can find a way to make

634
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: that happen, I think both.

635
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 3: They cancel out, just like a flag on each team.

636
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so then by sorry, we're trading you out,

637
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: and now we're balancing equations and we're getting rid of

638
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: Burials Kyler Murray's next franchise quarterback for the Argonauts.

639
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, exactly, Okay.

640
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, We're able to cancel out your contract and

641
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: get rid of you.

642
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 4: Uh.

643
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

644
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: world of sports. But guy, we can't get rid of

645
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: It's Isaac low and Cross.

646
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 5: You keep changing the lots, but I keep finding away

647
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 5: in Yeah, Unfortunately, there's a lot of globle people who

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Speaker 5: will just open the door whenever you knock on it.

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Speaker 3: And that's how it works.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of knocking on the door, Notre Dame junior running

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Speaker 5: back Jeremiah Love knocking on the door of the National

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Speaker 5: Football League.

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Speaker 3: How about that for a segment.

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Speaker 5: By the way, I've announced on Instagram this evening that

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Speaker 5: he is declaring for the NFL Draft. In the NBA

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Speaker 5: Cup Championship game, the San Antonio Spurs led the New

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Speaker 5: York Knicks ninety four to eighty nine after three quarters.

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Speaker 3: What's the Break?

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Speaker 5: Reportedly, Knicks head coach Mike Brown implored his team to

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Speaker 5: win it for Smith, Win it for Smith.

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Speaker 3: Then the Knicks open the.

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Speaker 5: Fourth quarter on an eight to nothing ron So, with

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Speaker 5: ten twenty seven left to play in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 5: the Knicks now lead the Spurs ninety seven to ninety four.

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Speaker 3: Go New York O, New York Coat, Go New York O,

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Speaker 3: New York Coat.

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Speaker 5: You know that song is what how many years A

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Speaker 5: little s.

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Speaker 3: Like thirty years old? Yeah, just as good as it

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Speaker 3: was the first time you heard it.

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Speaker 5: It is a classic, one of the underrated sports anthems

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Speaker 5: in my estimation. Elsewhere the NBA concluded today that officials

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Speaker 5: made three incorrect calls in the final two minutes of

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Speaker 5: Denver's overtime win on Monday against Houston, with all three

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Speaker 5: incorrect calls benefiting Denver, prompting rocketshead coach em Udoka to

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Speaker 5: say of the officials, it's poorly officiated game.

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Speaker 6: I've seen a long time to have no business being

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Speaker 6: out there, and the crew chief of the Second starstruck.

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Speaker 5: Finally, guys. As we mentioned, this year's NBA Cup Championship

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Speaker 5: game being held in Las Vegas. However, before the game,

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Speaker 5: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told Amazon Prime that future NBA

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Speaker 5: Cup Championship games could be held elsewhere.

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Speaker 6: We're talking about whether it makes sense to maybe go

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Speaker 6: to some unique locations for the final game, for example,

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Speaker 6: some like storied college arena. So we're just looking at

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Speaker 6: other ways we could do this.

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Speaker 3: Storied college arenas.

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Speaker 1: Let's go play at Syracuse the jw A Dome, like

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Speaker 1: that's gonna get people at Really.

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Speaker 5: The JMA Wireless Dome isn't Madison Square Garden technically a

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Speaker 5: storied college arena.

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Speaker 1: I saw Saint John's won a lot of big games

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Speaker 1: at MESA. How about trying back in the day. Yeah, hey,

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Speaker 1: didn't they just run it. It's a new one. Basically,

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Speaker 1: it's like a newer.

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Speaker 3: Rad at a new football stadium.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the basketball arena's been You're right near Chicago.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Bob Dylan once played there?

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Speaker 3: Sure? Did you say Jacob Dylan once played there?

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Speaker 4: Though? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I saw Bob as a freshman.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, that's a pretty good deal for a

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Speaker 5: college student to be able to for ten bucks and

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Speaker 5: see Bob Dylan. Right, I paid thirty to hear a

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Speaker 5: boring lecture by Henry Kissinger. Back to you, guys, that's

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Speaker 5: true story.

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Speaker 1: That's a boy. I could just I could just the

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Speaker 1: dusts just came through my microphone when you said that.

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Speaker 5: And you know what, it still would have come out

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Speaker 5: if if that had been said thirty years ago too.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: ILove Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio studios. It's a one hundred and ninety five lead

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Speaker 1: for the Knicks right now, nine and a half to

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Speaker 1: go in the fourth quarter. Knicks on a thirteen to

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Speaker 1: one run in the last three plus minutes. More on

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Speaker 1: this game coming up, but straight ahead, a huge story

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Speaker 1: that will rock the NFL Draft. Is next Jason and Mike,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,

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Speaker 1: where the E Cup Championship is getting tight seven and

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Speaker 1: a half to go in the fourth quarter. The Knicks

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Speaker 1: have a one oh four to ninety seven lead over

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Speaker 1: the Spurs. The winner of this game is basically the

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Speaker 1: NBA champion of this year. As long as it's the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: If it's the Spurs, it doesn't really matter and we're

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Speaker 1: moving on. But that's the stakes of this game right now.

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Speaker 3: Dad has been written into the by laws of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's basically like, if the Knicks win, cancel the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals and and and the Knicks of the champs, well,

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Speaker 1: they are automatically advanced.

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Speaker 3: It's like pulling a card in a board game that

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Speaker 3: you're playing.

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Speaker 1: My idea of allowing the winner of the E Cup

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Speaker 1: to be a top six seed, no worse than a

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Speaker 1: top six seed, I like just putting them in the finals.

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Speaker 3: I like that if the Knicks winners to advance, all

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Speaker 3: so you just take the final three and a half.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's kind of like you're in the bubble. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: going back to although like you get a couple of

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Speaker 3: months off and then you come back play a short schedule.

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Speaker 3: You're self contained. Maybe we'll let you ride the rides

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Speaker 3: of Disneyland World late in the evening, you know that

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Speaker 3: kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I think it would work a little bit better though,

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Speaker 1: if you did if it was like the Thunder who

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Speaker 1: won in the West instead of the Spurs, and you

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Speaker 1: would say, well, we really don't need to play the

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Speaker 1: rest of the Western Conference. That is, come on the

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Speaker 1: Thunder twenty eight and two.

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Speaker 3: Come on. The other is do you run it like

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Speaker 3: Daytona to where it's the kickoff of the season is

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Speaker 3: first three weeks? Oh, I could see it. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: maybe maybe maybe I got that coming in on the

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Speaker 3: instatem Graham from one of our followers. I appreciate you

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Speaker 3: all out there at Swallendo. Man, how about a fresco?

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Speaker 3: You got an idea of how to liven all right?

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Speaker 3: Excuse me living this up? Harmon, Get a drink, Get

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Speaker 3: a drink.

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Speaker 1: Oh, get a time out my garment, Oh, get a

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Speaker 1: time out.

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Speaker 3: Give me some kind of liquid. Well, the problem is

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Speaker 3: it's ninety seven degrees in here, No, Harmon, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We've got like a saun of effect going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well Rob Parker comes in here before us, and

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker likes it a little bit, uh dry form side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah sure.

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Speaker 1: Now Harmon actually getting up right now to go change

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Speaker 1: the trips over his headphones and is getting up to

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Speaker 1: change the temperature on the wall. Now, can't wait five

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Speaker 1: minutes getting up to change the temperature.

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Speaker 3: What's gonna happen in the next five minutes?

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Speaker 2: So damn I have waited.

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Speaker 1: You didn't need to do it. You could have you

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Speaker 1: break You broke your microphone. You you yes, you're breaking

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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. You had to turn your microphone on.

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Speaker 3: I didn't break anything. The entire mind up shide down.

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Speaker 3: It just came out of its housing. Yeah, well it'll

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Speaker 3: go back, see kids, just so you know, it'll go

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Speaker 3: back in the lesson that my mom taught me when

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Speaker 3: I was very young, don't touch the thermostat bad things

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Speaker 3: happened that the US do not trust. Broke the whole

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Speaker 3: bunch of time. Broke nothing. I'll break you. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, this big story out of the NFL draft. If

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Speaker 1: you're picking in the top five, the NFL Draft, you

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Speaker 1: got another absolute superstar at the top as Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: running back and Heisman finalists Jeremiah Love has decided he

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Speaker 1: is heading to the draft. He put out a note

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Speaker 1: tonight thanking Notre Dame for every in the last few years. Look,

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Speaker 1: this year was incredible for him. He ran for thirteen

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Speaker 1: hundred yards before you think, well, thirty hundred yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: didn't even get two hundred touches. So don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about this guy coming out with all kinds three

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Speaker 1: three hundred plus touches the last couple of years, averaging

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Speaker 1: seven yards of carry this year, eighteen touchdowns, twenty five

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Speaker 1: all purpose touchdowns overall. I know he's a running back.

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Speaker 1: He's not getting out of the top five. There is

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Speaker 1: no way, especially now with the getting back in style

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Speaker 1: of the running backs following Saquon Barkley's big year last

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Speaker 1: year running the Eagles to the Super Bowl title. When

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Speaker 1: you get a special running back, yeah, people are gonna

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Speaker 1: take him high. And Jeremiah Love has all the talent

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Speaker 1: in the world there is doing with the elusiveness, the power,

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Speaker 1: the escapability, he is the entire package. He's going in

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Speaker 1: the top five and not only that he's someone that

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00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: you're a top five team. He gives you an identity

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he becomes your best player.

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Speaker 1: A team like the Titans are all of a sudden, you're

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Speaker 1: teaming Jeremiah Love up with with cam Ward the team

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Speaker 1: like the Jets, who are gonna be crying out for

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Speaker 1: a player you can easily move on from Breisee Hall.

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Speaker 1: Hey we got Jeremiah Love here. Like, there's teams in

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Speaker 1: the top five or teams will move in the top

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Speaker 1: five to get him that are gonna say, this guy

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Speaker 1: is not getting past number five.

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Speaker 3: He's not.

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Speaker 1: You have you can go out, you can, you can.

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Speaker 1: The quarterbacks are big question mark, right If you have

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Speaker 1: teams at the top now that have quarterbacks, are they

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Speaker 1: really going to go in for it? And potentially you

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Speaker 1: get down to the three, four five spot, your first

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Speaker 1: quarterback's coming off the board there. But a guy like

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love, as good as he is and the pedigree

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Speaker 1: that he has, yeah, there's no way he gets out

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Speaker 1: of the top five. I don't know he gets out

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Speaker 1: of the top three. Yes, it depends where the Jets

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Speaker 1: and the Titans pick. But it looks like they're picking

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Speaker 1: that hut.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to be glib and just say, does

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Speaker 3: he know that Marcus Freeman's leaving for an NFL job

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Speaker 3: or another college job?

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Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman least the Giants, and the Giants draft number

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Speaker 1: one overall and you have him in skataboo in the

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Speaker 1: back go. Now, that would be something the Giant takes

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Speaker 1: naps if Jackson Dark gets hurt and goes back into

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Speaker 1: the blue tag even seven. No, But legitimately, he's also

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Speaker 1: a good receiver out of the backfield, and as we've

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00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: watched the game evolve, you know, you talk about all

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Speaker 1: purpose touchdowns, the fact that he is that much of

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Speaker 1: the passing game, fifty five receptions the last two years,

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Speaker 1: and what else is there left to prove at the

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Speaker 1: collegiate level, Right, he'll get paid either way, and with

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Speaker 1: running backs the market being what it is, and Saquon

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Speaker 1: Barkley having the drop off that he did this year.

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Speaker 3: May not help things as much. It may off set it.

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Speaker 4: Go.

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00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get that one big year, but then but

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Speaker 3: we're also talking about about a guy who's been in

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Speaker 3: since twenty eighteen, So it's a long long run for

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Speaker 3: a running back. But for love, I mean there's a

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Speaker 3: lot to like seeing a ton of interviews with him.

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Speaker 3: He does. He's got a comic book that he's been

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00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 3: out and promoting and whatever, and like just seems like

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00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 3: a man of the people as well. So you get

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Speaker 3: a franchise guy that you can sell to your community

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Speaker 3: and your fan base as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's whole thing. It's not like, well, we

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Speaker 1: can draft a guy who's really good here. Some teams

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Speaker 1: you need an identity and a team, like like the Jets,

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Speaker 1: who are in search of who's our star going to be?

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00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: You have Garrett Wilson, Right, that's really the one guy

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00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: you're bringing back on your entire team you're starting over. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love would be that guy. He'd be that guy

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Speaker 1: for the Titans. He would, honestly, if you're the Giants

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Speaker 1: on I know everybody loves Camskataboo, I know, but the

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Speaker 1: guy is up is is a part time running back.

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Speaker 1: He is a he's a guy in the red zone.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a a big cult hero. But man,

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Speaker 1: can you imagine you go there Jackson Dart with both

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Speaker 1: those guys in the backfield, and Love.

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Speaker 3: And Neighbors come back and you got Theo Johnson who's

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Speaker 3: been pretty good in spots and tight end position. He's

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Speaker 3: on a nothing.

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Speaker 1: How did how did the how did the Lions build

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Speaker 1: that team?

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Speaker 3: So great?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we have David Montgomery who's pretty good. Go

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Speaker 1: get Jamiir Gibbs who's great. Wow, that's that's kind of

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Speaker 1: working pretty well in the last couple of years. I

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Speaker 1: was the Giants.

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Speaker 3: Why not number one? Yeah, except they didn't get over

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Speaker 3: the top. You Jinkstom. You can't go back to Detroit

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Speaker 3: over the weekend. You talked about them being dead. You

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Speaker 3: can go find that entire podcast wherever you find your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Exit out bout a Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we got more on the top of the NFL Draft

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Speaker 1: coming up next, as well as the weirdest NBA story

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Speaker 1: of the week. I know it's only Tuesday. Ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: get weirder than this. That's next, chasing to Mike Fox