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Speaker 1: of not. Let's start with the first question. Aloha John

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Speaker 1: recent new fan loving it, fellow nor Cal guy, his

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Speaker 1: uh followers, Hawaii Guy, I love Hawaii. With the schedule release,

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Speaker 1: what is the projected win total for the Niners this year?

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Speaker 1: Do we actually see Jimmy g Delt before the season

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Speaker 1: Do you play fantasy football at all? Let's start with

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Speaker 1: like why don't you talk more fantasy football. I don't

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Speaker 1: play it. I'm not against it. I just never really

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Speaker 1: got it into it. I played, I've played a little

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Speaker 1: daily fantasy, but I've never had a fantasy team. It's

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Speaker 1: just not really my jam. So I can't fake it.

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Speaker 1: I gamble. That's why it's very easy for me to

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Speaker 1: talk about gambling. I don't play fantasy football, so I

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Speaker 1: don't talk about it, but I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: just something, you know. It's one of those things in

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Speaker 1: too much other ship going on to devote time. I

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Speaker 1: can do a daily fantasy. I actually like it. Golf

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Speaker 1: born football, because whenever I played daily fantasy football, I

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Speaker 1: never win. I honestly, I don't know on Jimmy g

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Speaker 1: no clue I I was. Kyle said the other day

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Speaker 1: that the plan is to trade him, but you know

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Speaker 1: it takes two to tango, right, You need you need

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Speaker 1: mc be fine. I I don't trust the Joe Judge.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust the offensive line and Patricia obviously their

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Speaker 1: talent around him is not great. Love the hoodie Bill

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Speaker 1: has brought me so much joy. It's just a fan

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Speaker 1: of sports over the years. Uh, just his whole deal.

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Speaker 1: I think it's over man. And I know historically you

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Speaker 1: shorted the Patriots. You look like idiots. But I'm shorten him.

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Speaker 1: And it's not because of Bill, it's because as of

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Speaker 1: those two guys. Uh, explain to me why the Broncos

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Speaker 1: hype train is so much bigger than the Charges right now?

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Speaker 1: Is it the coward effect? My money is on Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert that division I see close to the end prime

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson coming in the third in the a f C. West.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even a Chargers fan. I just don't get

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Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson craziness. Well, you know, historically he's an

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Speaker 1: incredible player. So if you give him a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a pass. Last year he got mallet finger, their

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Speaker 1: team wasn't as good, and you put him on a

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Speaker 1: team that has much more talent than he had in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: you go, they should be pretty good. But I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: To assume that the Broncos are gonna dominate is you're

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Speaker 1: betting on Russell Wilson, because it could easily go the

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Speaker 1: other way, first time head coach, even a lot of

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Speaker 1: their good players on the Broncos have never been a

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Speaker 1: part of winning. Russell has, but like Bradley Chubb hasn't,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Judy in the NFL hasn't. Courtland Sutton hasn't, right,

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Speaker 1: Gared Bowles hasn't. So you get a bunch of guys

452
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Speaker 1: that do they know how to win playoff level games,

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Speaker 1: which the Broncos are just gonna play in a lot

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Speaker 1: during the regular season because every game is gonna matter

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Speaker 1: for him. He'd be like, well, every game matters for everybody, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not not really for the bad teams. It doesn't when

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Speaker 1: you're trying to make the playoffs, like you're playing the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: you're playing the Chargers. Those games are the Chargers roster

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Speaker 1: to me is better, and if I had to choose

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Speaker 1: a quarterback this year, I would take Justin Herbert over

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. But I'm also a Russell Wilson fan. Like

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Speaker 1: I I'm not necessarily in the business of betting against them,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm not anointing them to me. They're

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Speaker 1: a wild card team that'll probably be my pick as

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Speaker 1: we get close to the league the year, But I'm

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Speaker 1: not as bullish. I don't coward loves Russell. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's this guy. You know, you could just be like,

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Speaker 1: who's my guy? Might be Herbert, But the problem is

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Speaker 1: they don't trust his coach, So it's it's hard to

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Speaker 1: root for a player when I'm kind of rooting against

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Speaker 1: the coach. And I'm not even rooting against brance Daley,

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Speaker 1: I just don't trust him. Um, but I hear you

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Speaker 1: recently started listening and I love the pot. Heard your

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Speaker 1: take on DeShawn Watson. My first thought was, what about

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Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty. I understand their allegations and responsibilities

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Speaker 1: for the league, but people can throw out these accusations

477
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Speaker 1: with no consequences, So why should we have consequence for

478
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Speaker 1: possible fake accusations. Well, here's the thing we know he

479
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Speaker 1: was having sex with massage therapist. And having sex is

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Speaker 1: not a crime. I've said that over and over. Where

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Speaker 1: I come from, we celebrate it. Everyone wants to have it,

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Speaker 1: Everyone eventually talks about it. It It literally makes the world

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Speaker 1: go round. The problem for Deshaun Watson is he was

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Speaker 1: known as a super high character guy and he was

485
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Speaker 1: banging every massage therapist in the state of Texas, and

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Speaker 1: some of these women, I think it's fair to say

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Speaker 1: left crying. He admitted that. He said in the deposition,

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Speaker 1: the chick left crying like that happened. Now you don't

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Speaker 1: have to you know, we hel you. Anyone's dated anyone,

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Speaker 1: let alone been married people cry, so that that's not

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Speaker 1: a crime either. But to me, I'm not saying the

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Speaker 1: guy should go to jail or not. I got no clue.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer. No one was there but him

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Speaker 1: in these chicks. But from a leak standpoint, you put

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Speaker 1: your career in the shield in jeopardy when you made

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Speaker 1: this decision to sleep with all these chicks. Like a

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Speaker 1: lot of people get massage, have massage therapist, they're not

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Speaker 1: banging him. That's just a reality. Now, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that it's never happened before, but this guy, it was

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Speaker 1: every single one, as he had a girlfriend. Again not

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Speaker 1: a crime, but like, I have no problem with the

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Speaker 1: NFL suspending him based on the information that we already

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Speaker 1: have for a long time, because it was just dumb.

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Speaker 1: Like part of being a quarterback is decision making and

505
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Speaker 1: putting yourself in in advantageous situations for positive things to happen,

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Speaker 1: and this would be the complete opposite of that, because

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Speaker 1: let's face it, this is a ship sandwich right now

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Speaker 1: for the guy. And again he keeps admitting, like we

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Speaker 1: slept together, she was crying. Things happened. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know one's saying, I'm not, I don't care, pay out whatever,

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Speaker 1: But bottom line, the situation is a situation. Like the

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Speaker 1: facts are the facts. He's admitted to him and it

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Speaker 1: ain't a good look, and being suspended is about being

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Speaker 1: a good look. Going to jail is about something different.

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Speaker 1: But like you get spent it for bad looks in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Thoughts on the U. C. Davis mascot change,

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Speaker 1: look forward to your take on this one. Love the

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Speaker 1: pod can't wait for football. So I think what happened

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Speaker 1: is U C. Davis where I grew up was called

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Speaker 1: the Aggies, and there there mascot forever. No one really

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Speaker 1: cares about. This was a horse. I think they changed

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Speaker 1: into a cow. People used to make fun that Davis

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Speaker 1: a cow town. I don't think it's that crazy. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: bother me. I just call him the U. C. Davis Aggies.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what aggies mean, but you C

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Speaker 1: Davis Aggies, home of my dad went there, Dalton from Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: Question for the bag, love the pod and keep doing

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Speaker 1: your thing. No, you're more of a football guy. But

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Speaker 1: do you see what do you see as the Pelican

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Speaker 1: ceiling next year? If Zion can get healthy, nice core

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Speaker 1: in my eyes and love the young guys, love the

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Speaker 1: pod and keep it up. Man, if that question doesn't

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Speaker 1: fit the pod, if you think the Samet ceiling. If

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Speaker 1: Michael Thomas is right and Jamis Winston plays well well

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Speaker 1: to me Zion, who I loved watching the Duke remember

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Speaker 1: to be His most famous play at Duke was a

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Speaker 1: blocked three point shot were that fucking guy leaped from

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Speaker 1: like the block and ended up out of bounds and

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Speaker 1: blocked it was It's gotta be I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he had some dunks, but to me, that's his favorite

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Speaker 1: college play. What was the knock on him last year

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Speaker 1: when he was having like his All NBA season. He

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00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: doesn't play any defense anymore. He just becomes an offense

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Speaker 1: only guy, like he's James Harden or something. To me,

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Speaker 1: if Zion played defense as well, just tried on defense,

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Speaker 1: he'd be an elite player in your team, would be

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Speaker 1: a dominant squad. What happened to do the Mavericks this year?

548
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Speaker 1: Jason kids like, yeah, we need Luca to try on

549
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Speaker 1: defense a little bit. In the playoffs, Lucas started trying

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and now they're in the Western Conference finals.

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Speaker 1: By the time you listen to this, the Warriors probably

552
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Speaker 1: beat him. But you know what I mean, So you're

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Speaker 1: ceiling's high. You got rid of fraud Van Gundy, who's

554
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: stolen from every team. He's you know, it's employed in

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00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: the last two times. So that's a positive. But it's

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Speaker 1: on Zion, like Zion balloons the three pounds, Like that's

557
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: kind of a problem. You know, does he want to

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Speaker 1: be I mean, maybe he'll just beat Charles Barkley, who's

559
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: an all time great player. But it did feel like

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Speaker 1: Zion ceiling was like he could be one of the

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Speaker 1: great players of all time. But to become one of

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Speaker 1: the great players of all time, whether it's football, basketball, golf,

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Speaker 1: high lie, you know, ping pong, it's on you as

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Speaker 1: much as is on a coach or a manager, like

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Speaker 1: you gotta want it. It's gotta burned. I'd say, to

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Speaker 1: be great at anything, it's gotta burn deep down because

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't, like you'll eventually hit a ceiling, hit

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00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: a cap. So I was a huge Zion is one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite college players of the last twenty years,

570
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Speaker 1: but what he became was kind of disappoint and this

571
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Speaker 1: year was kind of a disaster the Saints. My issue

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Speaker 1: with you guys as the coach, it's hard for me

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Speaker 1: to bet on Dennis Allen. Uh love the pod. I've

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Speaker 1: been listening for a while now, big Tom Brady fan.

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Speaker 1: After seeing the Buck schedule, what is a realistic prediction

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Speaker 1: for them? I could see twelve and five or thirteen

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Speaker 1: and four. Do you think they added enough on defense

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Speaker 1: or will they start? Will they just be okay at

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Speaker 1: the start Without Chris Godwin. I know you're golf and

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Speaker 1: friend is starting a golf app that will soon include

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Speaker 1: betting with friends I love and oh your friend is

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Speaker 1: It's called Putt for dough. Appreciate you if you gave

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Speaker 1: it a shout out. That's a pretty good app named

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Speaker 1: Putt fer Dough. I like that one because you drive

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Speaker 1: for show Putt for dough. Uh, what's your question? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I think twelve and five is

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00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: pretty realistic. I mean, their teams still loaded. If he

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Speaker 1: plays like he did last year, you guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: be I don't know if you're a Bucks fan, but

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Speaker 1: if you're a Tom fan, I think he'll be excellent.

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Speaker 1: It's hard for me to see Tom Brady not playing

592
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Speaker 1: well like Peyton Manning when a half and it was terrible.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady has looked completely normal for all his forties,

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Speaker 1: not just normally. He's looked elite. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the starters playing in the preseason. I personally think

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Speaker 1: they don't need to play. There was no reason to

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Speaker 1: risk them getting injured. Yeah. I mean, at this point

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Speaker 1: in time, I guess I would just do the Sean

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Speaker 1: McVeigh thing. I wouldn't play any of my good players,

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Speaker 1: but I do think the young players, like for the Niners,

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Speaker 1: for example, Trey Lance play in the preseason if he's

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Speaker 1: my starting quarterback when I just start Week one against

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Speaker 1: the Bears. Let's go out there, kid. I know you've

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Speaker 1: only played three games in the last five years or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It is, like, what what's the balance? Matt Stafford, Aaron Donald,

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, Joey Bosa, you know, help, Michael Parsons, I

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Speaker 1: get it, Fletcher Cox, we can go around. We know

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Speaker 1: the guys. But I do think there's a balance with

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Speaker 1: younger players getting them some reps. Uh. But I I

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Speaker 1: would say that I've been converted to Sean McVeigh with

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Speaker 1: any veteran player, to me, that's probably past like a

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Speaker 1: third year guy who's a stud or a good starter.

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Speaker 1: But to me, if I have an open competition, I'm

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Speaker 1: not opposed to it because ultimately football, I can get

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Speaker 1: hurt training, I can get hurt lifting weights. I can

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Speaker 1: get hurt playing foot. You can get hurt doing anything.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, if you're always gonna play that game, now,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, you feel less shitty. Not that you

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Speaker 1: don't feel terrible when a guy gets hurt in practice.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than the guy getting hurt in the

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Speaker 1: preseason game. Guy getting hurt in the preseason game is

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't get any worse. I mean, it's like

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Speaker 1: it'd be like, you know, when someone hands your dinner

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Speaker 1: plate and you just drop it on the ground and

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Speaker 1: then you just have no dinner. It's like you just

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Speaker 1: feel helpless. You don't even know what to do. All

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Speaker 1: the foods on the floor and the floor's dirty. You

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Speaker 1: just lose the guy. You're like, uh, what, I just

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Speaker 1: lost my starting right tackle for the season in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter playing the Texans in the middle of August.

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Speaker 1: But I'd also say, like you, if you do a

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Speaker 1: joint practice, guys get hurt. You know. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: a hard part about football. Can get hurt doing anything,

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Speaker 1: doing squats, training in O T A S. So I

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