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Speaker 2: I have to dive right in without any delay whatsoever

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Speaker 2: and talk about the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Of all the championship teams that I've covered and witnessed

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Speaker 2: as a fan in my life, there is one aspect

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Speaker 2: that will always be first and foremost that will stick

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Speaker 2: out in my mind, and that is when you observe

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Speaker 2: a team and whether they are greater than some of

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Speaker 2: their parts. You look for one thing. Can these individuals

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Speaker 2: vidually and collectively? Can they be great? When the situation

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Speaker 2: the man's greatness ohn't know? You tell me D'Angelo Russell,

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, Dennis shrewder, Lonnie Walker, the fourth who before

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Speaker 2: Game four, in the fourth quarter, I bet you nobody

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Speaker 2: had heard of hold that thought There's an old story

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Speaker 2: about two best friends out in the wilderness hunting and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the bear takes chase after both

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Speaker 2: of them. One of the buddies kneels down to put

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Speaker 2: on his brand new tennis shoes, and his friend starts laughing,

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Speaker 2: and he says, you really think those tennis shoes are

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Speaker 2: gonna help you outrun that bear? And his buddy looks

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Speaker 2: at him and says, no, but I don't have to

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Speaker 2: outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you. At

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Speaker 2: some point, I'll give my amateur psychology on the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: Not going to be tonight. Nobody cares.

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Speaker 2: Because, as the Lakers have done all postseason, they've proven

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Speaker 2: they can come back with a very strong performance on

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Speaker 2: the heels of a disappointing loss. And right out of

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Speaker 2: the gate, the Lakers jump out to a twenty seven

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Speaker 2: to ten lead and give it up to Darbnham, who's

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Speaker 2: done a masterful job this year. It's a team that

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Speaker 2: started out two to ten. Now if they win four

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Speaker 2: more games, they're in the NBA Finals. So he shifts

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Speaker 2: his lineup. Dennis shrewder replaces Jarrett Vanderbilt. That kind of

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Speaker 2: lit a fire and created an offensive joelt before the

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Speaker 2: seats were warm, and obviously Anthony Davis, who they were

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Speaker 2: questions about, left Game five early after the inadvertent shot

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Speaker 2: of the head. He was locked in from the jump,

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Speaker 2: nine of his seventeen points, ten of his twenty rebounds

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Speaker 2: coming again before the seats were even warm. But the

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Speaker 2: Warriors weren't going to go away. Look they're defending Champ.

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry cut it to five by the start of

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Speaker 2: the second quarter, YadA, YadA yah. But by halftime the

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Speaker 2: Lakers led by ten, fifty six forty six, and when

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves hit that half court heave and it went

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Speaker 2: that point this was a fade, a complete by the way,

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, can you be great when it situation demands greatness?

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Speaker 2: Twenty three points, six rebounds, five assists tonight one of

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Speaker 2: after his confrontation with Raymond Green, well, guess what that

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Speaker 2: opened the door for Lonnie Walker, the fourth who comes

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter. That gave the Lakers a fourteen

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Speaker 2: the Warriors, they were game, but they didn't have enough

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Speaker 2: in the tank. They cut it to eleven, and what

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Speaker 2: do the Lakers do? They respond with eleven run and

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Speaker 2: next thing you know, they're up by twenty two. Darvin

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Speaker 2: Ham empties his bench. The Laker crowd went crazy, and

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Speaker 2: you know, we may or may not be seeing history.

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Speaker 3: We'll see. Do I think they're getting past Denver?

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: Denver's averaging one hundred and twenty five points per one

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Speaker 2: But the Lakers are only the second number seven seed

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Speaker 2: to reach the conference finals in the last thirty nine years.

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Speaker 2: The Super Sonics they don't even exist anymore. Seattle did

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Speaker 2: it in nineteen eighty seven. Moreover, the Lakers seven and

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Speaker 2: Ozer went home. Now this postseason, that's big, and that

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Speaker 2: bit against Minnesota. Seems like ancient history now. And what

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Speaker 2: else did the Lakers do tonight? They snapped the Warriors

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Speaker 2: defending champs, they do it by twenty one points, which

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Speaker 2: So we're not to be confused with large march in

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Speaker 2: Peewee's big adventure. Hey, how's that for a poll? That's

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Speaker 2: for you, my buddy, Mike car Man, that's for you.

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Speaker 2: All right, listen, where are we all going with this?

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Speaker 3: Peewee?

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Speaker 2: The Lakers are a franchise of eras and I know this,

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Speaker 2: seventy eight to eighty one. I was I was their

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Speaker 2: courtside for Magic's rookie year. And before that there was

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Speaker 2: the Wilt Chamberlain era, and then there was the you know,

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Speaker 2: then you got into the seventies with you know, Elgin

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Speaker 2: now finally Lebron And what's the legacy going to be?

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Speaker 2: Because the Lakers did win a championship in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: and I've defended them, I've said all that championship. It

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Speaker 2: does not deserve an asterisk. And here's why. Because they

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Speaker 2: were in the same boat as everybody else. And the

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Speaker 2: analogy I've often used is if you compare it to say,

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Speaker 2: for thirty four years. Ruth It hit sixty home runs.

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Speaker 2: But Ruth did it in one hundred and fifty four games.

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Speaker 2: Maris did it in one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 2: He had eight more games. That's not to diminish Maris's performance.

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Speaker 2: What it stands to do is simply this highlight the

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Speaker 2: fact that he had more games, that's all. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: an equal playing field. Well, the bubble was an equal

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Speaker 3: You get to drift, except for this.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers got four months off, as did everybody else,

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Speaker 2: But all time off is not created equally. That Laker

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Speaker 2: team was top heavy, and it was an aging team,

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Speaker 2: and Lebron was no spring chicken. Then he had a

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Speaker 2: lot of miles on that body. Not having to travel mattered,

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Speaker 2: And we're about to validate whether or not my theory

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Speaker 2: that not seeing that championship is tainted because they were

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Speaker 2: in the same boat as everybody else. But had they

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Speaker 2: had to travel and not had that four months off,

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Speaker 2: would they have won that year?

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Speaker 3: We'll never know, And it.

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Speaker 2: Seems that certain circles and around certain water coolers, if

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Speaker 2: that's still an analogy, people want that twenty twenty championship validated,

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Speaker 2: and what would validate it another championship. So now we're

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Speaker 2: about to test that theory because not only did the

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Speaker 2: Lakers have to travel, now they're going to have to

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Speaker 2: go to Denver, and Denver's going to have home court advantage. Fortunately,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers done in fine fashion without having to go

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Speaker 2: to that seventh game. It's my understanding the festivities will

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Speaker 2: start for the Conference finals on Tuesday, so Lakers get

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Speaker 2: to travel, they get to play in altitude, and once

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Speaker 2: it kicks off, tips off whatever cute analogy you want

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Speaker 2: to use. They're going to play every other night. And

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Speaker 2: now we're gonna find out if having to travel and

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Speaker 2: not having four months off is going to make a difference.

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Speaker 2: My bubble theory was that the Lakers benefited more than

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Speaker 2: any other team by not having to engage in a

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Speaker 2: typical NBA Gauntlet playoff. Denver presents major challenges. I've been

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Speaker 2: saying for a month, I think they're the team that's

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Speaker 2: going to advance to the NBA Finals, and based on

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Speaker 2: what I'm seeing now, they're clearly the team to beat.

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Speaker 2: Jokic is playing at a different level. If you haven't,

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Speaker 2: the people that don't have opinions on Jokic with respect

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Speaker 2: to the accolades the app deserves, you haven't watched them.

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Speaker 2: You maybe watched You've watched highlights, maybe, but you haven't

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Speaker 2: watched him play a full game. But you haven't watched

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Speaker 2: him play five games in a row, because if you did,

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Speaker 3: One's got an answer for him.

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Speaker 2: He's got a counter to every counter that you bring

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Speaker 2: find a way around it. By the way, Denver has

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Speaker 2: an outstanding supporting cast. But this is not about Denver.

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Speaker 2: This is about the Lakers. This is a real story

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Speaker 2: in the making, and Dick Shapp always told me to

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Speaker 2: root for the story. I'm not root for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I'm not rooting against him either, I'm rooting for the story.

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Speaker 2: What would be the big story? You imagine a Laker

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Speaker 2: Boston Finals who had that? And later in the later

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Speaker 2: in the show, I'll get to the fact that Philly

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Speaker 2: good luck with that one. You want to hitch your

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Speaker 2: wagon to James Harden and Doc Rivers and Joel Embiid

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Speaker 2: when it matters most, and this is why I really

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Speaker 2: tip my cap to the Lakers, because when it matters most,

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Speaker 2: when the situation demanded greatness, could you be great in

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Speaker 2: those situations? And collectively the Lakers were from their coach down.

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Speaker 2: And I particularly want to tip my cap again to

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Speaker 2: the guys D'Angelo Russell, Dennis Shrewder, Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker

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Speaker 2: the fourth. This has truly been a fun and entertaining

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Speaker 2: NBA Playoffs to watch so far, especially if you're out

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Speaker 3: And I think the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: The NBA is always better when the Lakers are good,

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Speaker 2: just like the NFL's better When the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: Are good, you get the drift.

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Speaker 2: Whether you like or you hate the Yankees, baseball's better

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Speaker 2: when the Yankees are good. Well, the Lakers are good.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. They started out two and ten. They made

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Speaker 2: they made the moves you know before the uh you

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Speaker 2: their roster midway through the year? Give it up? Also,

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Speaker 2: Rob Polinka, they became just a fourth team in league

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Speaker 2: history to be that many games below five hundred to

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Speaker 2: reach the conference finals since conferences were I think they

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Speaker 2: were instituted back in nineteen seventy or seventy one. So again,

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Speaker 2: this is not only a story in the making, it's

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Speaker 2: a historical story in the making, and we are going

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Speaker 2: The NNHL playoffs have been every bit has exciting and

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Speaker 2: unpredictable and gambling. Lou loof and Acaro fan favorite here

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Speaker 2: on the Bernie Fraddle Show is going to join us

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Speaker 2: in a few minutes to handicap the remaining Western Conference

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Speaker 2: matchups and of course the Eastern Conference, and we'll take

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Speaker 2: a look at who he thinks might end up in

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Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup finals. There is people ask me all

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Speaker 2: will tell you this is a the you know, the

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Speaker 2: all the sports. And I'm qualified to say that many

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Speaker 3: Say hello to Gambling Lou Loof and Acaro Lou. How

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Speaker 4: Bernie I'm doing excellent. Thanks so much for having me on.

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Speaker 4: It's been a great tournament so far. Looking forward to

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Speaker 2: But what's got me a little surprised These Florida Panthers,

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Speaker 3: Are these Florida Panthers for real, lou.

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Speaker 4: Bernie, These Florida Panthers are just as real as you

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Speaker 2: I will tell you, Lou after watching Boston come within

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Speaker 4: I hope they can get this series to a seventh game,

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Speaker 4: I concur completely with that thought process, Bernie, Dallas as

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Speaker 4: Hotten Jour needs to kind of tighten his game just

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Speaker 6: I think, so lou.

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Speaker 2: Real quickly gone to your head, who are we going

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Speaker 4: We got Dallas and Florida and what's going to be

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Speaker 3: Some great hockey. Louie got about a minute left.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, hey, everybody. USC fight card starts tomorrow

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Speaker 2: Lou, get you back on during the stand Cup finals.

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Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a doozy. Thanks buddy,

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Speaker 3: That is loofen Acaro gamblin Lou.

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Speaker 7: All right, Bertie Well, Speaking of the NBA, the Lakers

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers got home runs from Rookie Betts and Freddie

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Speaker 2: So as far as the NBA playoffs, we cannot proceed

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Speaker 2: without talking about the Eastern Conference Philly Boston. And if

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Speaker 2: you watched the game Thursday night through three quarters between

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Speaker 2: the Sixers and the Celtics, Jason Tatum probably the best

438
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Speaker 2: player on the floor. Well, I don't know, Jolian Biide

439
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Speaker 2: your MVP. That's what they tell us. He was having

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Speaker 2: one of the worst nights of his career, three points

441
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Speaker 2: one to thirteen. All of a sudden, when it mattered

442
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Speaker 2: most and the situation demanded greatness, Tatum found his stroke,

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Speaker 2: scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Boston ends up.

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Speaker 2: Pulling away to avoid elimination, forcing a game seven at

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Speaker 2: home Sunday. And what's interesting is Boston actually, to me,

447
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 2: showed some championship medal in that game. And if you

448
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Speaker 2: look at you know, the Lakers defense is absolutely for real.

449
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Speaker 2: But perhaps not enough has said about Boston's defense. Now,

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Speaker 2: I think Joe Missoula has done a good job this year,

451
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Speaker 2: but some of his awards have been.

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Speaker 3: Exposed in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: But he's going up against Doc Rivers, who's made you know,

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Speaker 2: he might as well trademark, you know, blowing three to

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Speaker 2: one leads.

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Speaker 3: It's just his stock in trade.

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Speaker 2: But as Tatum, what I noticed about Boston's demeanor and

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Speaker 2: the Celtics and their physical attitude when they were down

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Speaker 2: and out. Tatum kept missing shot after shot, but his

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Speaker 2: teammates picked up the slack. And not only that, they

461
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Speaker 2: were encouraging him. And if you watched in the huddles

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Speaker 2: and during timeouts, Al Horford, Marcus Smart, Malcolm Brogden, they

463
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Speaker 2: all took turns basically saying, hey, man, we got this.

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Speaker 2: Just focus on your defense. Just focus on your defense,

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Speaker 2: focus on your rebounding. Even if you're not scoring, you

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Speaker 2: can impact the game. And even Tatum admitted later he goes,

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Speaker 2: I know it's not all about scoring, but he knows

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Speaker 2: for the Celtics to win and to be the best

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Speaker 2: version of the Celtics they can be, Tatum has to score.

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Speaker 3: And Jalen Brown give him credit. You could read his lips.

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Speaker 3: Keep going, keep going. We believe in you.

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Speaker 2: They really can't guard you. Don't be apprehensive. And even

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Speaker 2: Joe Mizoula, to his credit, pulled the trick out of

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Speaker 2: the bag, just put his arm around Tatum before the

475
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter says, man, I love you. And he's Malcolm Brogden.

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Speaker 2: I mean when Tatum did what he did in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, Malcolm Brogden says, we knew he'd do it.

478
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Speaker 2: He's always gonna bounce back. He's resilient, he's a super are. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Marcus Smart had twenty two points, the most of any

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Speaker 2: game in this series for sure, tie for the second

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Speaker 2: most this postseason. By the way, yes, Al Horford struggled

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Speaker 2: offensively for the second game in a row, but he

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Speaker 2: contributed eleven rebounds and the Celtics. That mattered because the

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Speaker 2: Celtics ended up getting fifty rebounds for the game and

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Speaker 2: out rebounded Philadelphia by twelve. So when you consider that,

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Speaker 2: the contributions from the rest of the team basically allowed

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Speaker 2: Boston to hang around and pull the old Jimmy Valvano quote,

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Speaker 2: just be in position to win. Hang around, hang around.

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Speaker 2: Tatum will figure it out.

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Speaker 3: And he did.

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Speaker 2: And when I watched that game, and you know, the

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Speaker 2: great Nolan Ryan once said, the mark of a Hall

493
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Speaker 2: of Fame pitcher is that you win games you don't

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Speaker 2: have your best off. Boston did not have their best stuff,

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Speaker 2: and they haven't had their best stuff. But now they

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Speaker 2: get to go back home. And if you're the Sixers,

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Speaker 2: you have to if you're being honest, you have to

498
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Speaker 2: look in the mirror and say that was a tremendous

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Speaker 2: missed opportunity. You battle back from a sixteen point deficit

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Speaker 2: in the second quarter, you take a two point lead

501
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Speaker 2: heading into the fourth quarter, you fail. That's an epic fail.

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Speaker 2: Instead of stepping on their neck and crushing the Celtics

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Speaker 2: and getting them and watching Tatum flounder, it's I think

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Speaker 2: the conventional wisdom is that that game cost the Sixers

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Speaker 2: the series. There's no way I'm betting the game Sunday.

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Speaker 2: There certainly cannot back Philadelphia. But again, a seventh game

507
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Speaker 2: you throw out, you throw it out. Look look at

508
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Speaker 2: how you know the Nicks hung in there, and then

509
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Speaker 2: a lot of folks thought Miami would blow them out.

510
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Speaker 2: I heard other shows the double digit win. No I wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you know it's consolation prize. The Knicks actually covered

512
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Speaker 2: the spread that night, they were getting six and a half.

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Speaker 2: So I expect it to be a battle Sunday. But

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Speaker 2: I don't see Philadelphia winning. It doesn't seem to be

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Speaker 2: in their DNA. You're playing the Thursday night in front

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Speaker 2: of a tremendous crowd in Philadelphia, a raucous crowd. You're

517
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Speaker 2: looking at your opponent's best player having the worst night

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Speaker 2: of the playoffs. You're up by sixteen. That should have

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Speaker 2: been a recipe for an easy win. Why in the

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Speaker 2: hell can't Philadelphia had just put things together on a

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Speaker 2: consistent basis. They scored up Measley thirteen points in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. James Harden struggled again again, I mean did

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Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City would have mattered most I don't remember

524
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Speaker 2: in Houston and Brooklyn, where James Harden, being the guy,

525
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: went four from sixteen from the field, missed all six

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Speaker 2: of his three point attempts. Meanwhile, Joe embiid okay, he

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Speaker 2: did have twenty six points and ten boards, But were

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Speaker 2: those Jogi barstats? He had once shot attempt over the

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Speaker 2: final five plus minutes of the game.

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Speaker 3: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Why is that the Sixers had a great chance to

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Speaker 2: advance to their first conference finals in twenty two years

533
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Speaker 2: and they blew it.

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Speaker 3: Now, you got to win Game seven on the road.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, give it up to Yokic and the Denver Nuggets.

536
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Speaker 2: The Suns had no answer. Nuggets breeze past the Sun's

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Speaker 2: Game six. Yokic thirty two points thirteen of eighteen twelve

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Speaker 2: is this ten rebounds Hull home.

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Speaker 3: What do you expect?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? And I think Phoenix is gonna be remembered. I

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Speaker 2: talked about Philadelphia characterizing Game six is a missed opportunity.

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Speaker 2: I think Phoenix's season, he's going to be, you know,

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Speaker 2: characterized as a missed opportunity.

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Speaker 3: We'll never know.

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Speaker 2: You know, if Kevin Durant hadn't turned his ankle in

547
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Speaker 2: warm ups, the team had more time to develop chemistry.

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Speaker 2: What if Chris Paul would have played he had injured

549
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Speaker 2: his groin. What if DeAndre eight and had missed Game six?

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you, Phoenix needed those guys. Phoenix

551
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Speaker 2: really does not have a bench to speak of. But

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Speaker 2: I don't think it would have mattered Yokick and the Nuggets.

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Speaker 2: They look when they play the way they played the

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Speaker 2: other night, they look pretty pretty unbeatable. To me, I

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Speaker 2: don't feel like the Lakers gonna get him. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: follow this. But Yokick, he was just incredible throughout the series,

557
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Speaker 2: again when it mattered most. Can you be great when

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Speaker 2: the situation demands greatness? What did Yokick do in the

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Speaker 2: series against Phoenix? Average thirty seven points a game, average

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Speaker 2: twelve rebounds, and eleven assists, he averaged a triple double,

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Speaker 2: had four triple doubles including remember he had the fifty

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Speaker 2: three point game. So the Lakers, they're gonna have one

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Speaker 2: hell of a time trying to stop him. And make

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Speaker 2: no mistake, member's got a pretty good supporting cast as well.

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Speaker 2: All Right, some unhappy news to report. I know we

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Speaker 2: all enjoy Bernie's bunkyard backyard bunking bets. The contest was

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Speaker 2: entering week seven. I got a text from Ethan about

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Speaker 2: an hour and a half ago.

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Speaker 3: He's sick as a dog.

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Speaker 2: Thank god, Patrick sweek at jumping in tonight. True Champ.

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Speaker 2: This is a game Ethan created. We can't do this

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Speaker 2: game without Ethan in the captain's chair. We could, but

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Speaker 2: we're not going to, So I apologize. Normally, this time

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Speaker 2: i'd be announcing the phone lines are opening in five minutes.

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Speaker 3: We are. We are going to.

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Speaker 2: Increase to six callers. The callers have been tremendous. You've

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Speaker 2: done a great job. We've had callers from Hawaii to

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Speaker 2: Ohio to Utah, from all around the country. And we've

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Speaker 2: still got six weeks left in this game. So it

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Speaker 2: will continue next week, hopefully. Ethan feels better. I apologize.

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Speaker 2: I know folks are looking forward to it, they tweet

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Speaker 2: at us, but it's just one of those situations. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to put it on hold for for one

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Speaker 2: more week and and Ethan will get Ethan will be

585
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: back in good stead next week, and we will we

586
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Speaker 2: will continue coming up. The NFL released their schedule, and

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Speaker 2: later in the show, I've got all kinds of analysis

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Speaker 2: and takeaways who maybe look favorable for and who maybe

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Speaker 2: might find themselves in a bit of an uphill battle,

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Speaker 2: and we'll have some thoughts heading into it. We're like,

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Speaker 2: what one hundred and seventeen days away something like that

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Speaker 2: from kickoff. By the way, my beloved Detroit Lions open

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Speaker 2: up at Kansas City. It's a seven point underdog September seventh,

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Speaker 2: and I know people have ga fought about why would

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Speaker 2: the Lions be there? Hey, why not the Lions? Because

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00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 2: this is a good acid test. Put them on the

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Speaker 2: field against the defending Super Bowl champs. Let's see if

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Speaker 2: the hype holds up. Let's see how they respond. You know,

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Speaker 2: the last time we saw Jared Goff in a primetime

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Speaker 2: game like that, I think he outdueled Patrick Mahomes fifty

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Speaker 2: four to fifty one.

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Speaker 3: Did you forget that already? But I've got some thoughts on.

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Speaker 2: That game from a gambling standpoint. And also a significant

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Speaker 2: trend involving eight games on opening on Opening weekend that.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna want to hear about.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, there's a game in Germany

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Speaker 2: involving Bill Belichick that features a game in a pretty

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Speaker 2: significant trend you're gonna want to hear about. Those are

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Speaker 2: just three quick things that caught my eye having to

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Speaker 2: do with the NFL schedule release on Thursday night. That

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Speaker 2: among a thousand other things, but we'll start with those three.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're coming to you live from the

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Speaker 2: tire Act dot com studio is a Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas, Nevada. Keep it locked right here.

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Speaker 2: They're back on the Bernie Frattle Show for coming you

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Speaker 2: live from the Las Vegas Taract dot Com studios Here

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Las Vegas, And as I mentioned Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: the NFL schedule release, which has become quite a made

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Speaker 2: for TV event. You were we're all watching. Don't act

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Speaker 2: like you're not. We're loving every minute of this and

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Speaker 2: multiple reasons. And at the top of the hour, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to take a deep dive into as far as

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Speaker 2: the takeaways. Which organizations are swiping right and which organizations

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Speaker 2: are swiping left. Not all schedules are created equal, and

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Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see what happens, but there's some obvious takeaways,

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Speaker 2: all right. So it all starts September seventh, Thursday, the

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Speaker 2: defending champion Kansas City Chiefs are letting seven points against

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Speaker 2: my beloved Detroit Lions. You'll know I covered the Lions

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Speaker 2: from ninety eight to eight pre and posts loved every

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Speaker 2: minute of it. Yeah, there were some rough years there.

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Speaker 2: I saw it all, but well, that's story for a

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Speaker 2: different day. Some things to think about the NFL champs

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Speaker 2: who in the kickoff Classic games as it were, are

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Speaker 2: fourteen four since two thousand and four. And oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, Patrick Mahomes and his home openers five and

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Speaker 2: zero straight up, four and one against the spread, thirteen

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Speaker 2: point margin of victory in those games, and his teams

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Speaker 2: have averaged thirty eight points per game. And the Lions,

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Speaker 2: I do think the defense improved Jack Campbell, they got

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Speaker 2: a cornerback. The Lions are gonna be better and this

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Speaker 2: is gonna be fun to watch, But I don't think

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Speaker 2: I'm going to back the Lions that night. However, to

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Speaker 2: buffer that, remember Jared Goff believe it or not, Week one.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty seventeen, he's six and oh against the spread

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Speaker 2: when he starts Week one. Remember though, four of those

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00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: games were with the Rams, but the last two with

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Speaker 2: the Lions. And the Lions you know they're not gonna

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Speaker 2: be getting you know, if this game were played two

654
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Speaker 2: years ago, the Chiefs would have been an eleven twelve

655
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Speaker 2: point favorite. So a touchdown at home. Patrick Mahomes when

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Speaker 2: he's fourteen to four, the Champs are fourteen to four,

657
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: and by the way, Mahomes five and zero home openers

658
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: four and won against the number thirty eight points in game.

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Speaker 2: They're averaging average winning margined thirteen. Still, the Chiefs are

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Speaker 2: the only side I could look to back there, even

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Speaker 2: with Kary Jared record. Here's a major trend I've talked

662
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 2: about this with Jason McIntyre every year on the show.

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Speaker 2: This is going back years since twenty fourteen. Divisional dogs

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Speaker 2: week one are seventy two against the spread, and we've

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Speaker 2: got eight divisional games week one, so most that can

666
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Speaker 2: never remember usually have about five some years four, but

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Speaker 2: this has been hugely profitable. The Broncos. Well, check that

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00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: the Raiders are catching three and a half at Denver.

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Speaker 2: The Falcons or the Panthers are catching three at Atlanta

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00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: the Bengals, but the Browns are at home. They're a

671
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 2: home dog, two and a half point underdog against Cincinnati.

672
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: The Colts are getting four points at home for the

673
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Speaker 2: visiting Jaguars. The Bears, they're actually laying three at home

674
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Speaker 2: against Green Bay, So green bayo by divisional dog. It'san

675
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 2: by the way, it's Jordan Love versus Justin Fields. That

676
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: should be fun to watch. And then the Seahawks laying

677
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Speaker 2: five and a half against visiting Rams. The Giants at

678
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Speaker 2: home catching three against the Cowboys, and then the Jets

679
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Speaker 2: currently at one point home underdog. Aaron Rodgers Monday Night,

680
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, we'll talk about this much later.

681
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Speaker 2: To get close to the beginning of the season. But

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Speaker 2: divisional dogs Week one have been money. Teams are healthy,

683
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 2: they bring a real focus, there's a familiarity, and teams

684
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 2: haven't you know, fallen into that depression yet they don't

685
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 2: know if they're not good. And a little later in

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Speaker 2: the show, By the way, nine times in the last

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Speaker 2: eight years the team's gone from worse to first in

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Speaker 2: their own division, So you got to factor that in

689
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Speaker 2: as well. Now, the other German game, the game in

690
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Speaker 2: Germany I talked about Colts are gonna play the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: is one of five international games. Five international games this year,

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Speaker 2: including two in Germany, including one NFL team that's gonna

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Speaker 2: play back to back weeks in London.

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Speaker 3: Hope they like fish and chips. Look, this is.

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Speaker 2: The game though, I've already bet the Colts are getting

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Speaker 2: five against New England, but I'm laying the number. The

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Speaker 2: game will be played in Germany. We suspect Anthon d

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Speaker 2: Richardson will be starting for the Colts that day. Rookie

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks against Bill Belichick in history six and twenty four

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Speaker 2: straight up, thirteen and seventeen against the spread. Cumulatively, they've

701
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 2: thrown for twenty four touchdowns and forty five interceptions and

702
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 2: only completed fifty four percent of their passes. So and

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Speaker 2: I do think New England will be better. And my god,

704
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Speaker 2: if mac Jones can move the ball at all under

705
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Speaker 2: with Matt Patricia should do much better with Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 2: Don't go to sleep on the Patriots. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: they're going to go to the playoffs or anything, but

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick doesn't mail in seasons. They're going to be

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Speaker 2: competitive and what will be a very competitive AFC East.

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Speaker 2: But as far as the NFL schedule, man, we're just

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Speaker 2: getting started.

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Speaker 3: All kind of.

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Speaker 2: Schedule released takeaways. Who's sweeping right, who's sweeping left? I

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Speaker 2: will tell you coming up? Keep it locked right here.

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Speaker 2: our comprehensive coverage of the NFL schedule release takeaways, and

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Speaker 2: I want to start quickly with the Jacksonville Jaguars because

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Speaker 2: this is going to be their most anticipated season in many, many,

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Speaker 2: many years. They were very good last year under their

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Speaker 2: new coach, Doug Peterson. The Irvinmeyer debacle seems to be

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Speaker 2: well in the distance, and they're a hot young team

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Speaker 2: and they're going to get a big spotlight this year,

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Speaker 2: more so than usual. The Jags have three primetime games

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Speaker 2: this year, and frankly, that should do wonders for Trevor

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Speaker 2: Lawrence and his marketability because he is a premier quarterback

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Speaker 2: and he is on the rise, and he checks every box.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting about the Jaguars, They've got back to back

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Speaker 2: games in London weeks four and five against the Falcons

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Speaker 2: and the Bills, and again that's going to provide a

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Speaker 2: unique opportunity. This is something the NFL's never done where

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Speaker 2: one team would play two games in London in the

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Speaker 2: same season. But Jacksonville does have quite a following there,

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Speaker 2: so I consider this to be an interesting schedule. Takeaway

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Speaker 2: that is beneficial to Jacksonville as they continued to brand

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Speaker 2: themselves as a genuine contender in the AFC. Meanwhile, the Falcons, well,

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Speaker 2: the Falcons already knew in January they would have perhaps

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Speaker 2: the easiest strength to schedule based on their opponents. Their

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Speaker 2: opponents this year I have a collect of four to

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Speaker 2: seventeen winning percentage in twenty twenty two. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Falcons had a pretty busy offseason. There's some optimism there.

751
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: They've got some real offensive talent. Arthur Smith's a very

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Speaker 2: good coach. Not a lot of pressure on the Falcons,

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Speaker 2: but I think there'll be eyeballs in the Falcons. So

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00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: they don't have a difficult schedule. That's relatively speaking in

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Speaker 2: the National Football League. But remember this is a franchise

756
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Speaker 2: hasn't a winning record or a playoff appearance since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna watch them. It's gonna be an interesting division

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Speaker 2: because that division of the NFC South with Tampa Bay

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Speaker 2: in New Orleans and Carolina with Bryce Young, that's a

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Speaker 2: wide open division. So you can't really go to sleep

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Speaker 2: on the Falcons. You don't know what you have really

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Speaker 2: until the scene kicks off. But as I mentioned nine

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Speaker 2: times in the last eight years, a divisional team that's

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Speaker 2: gone from last to first. Last year, Jacksonville did it.

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Speaker 2: They went from three to fourteen to nine and eight.

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Speaker 2: And this year the Falcons are three to one to

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Speaker 2: be that team to go from last to first. By

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Speaker 2: the way, in case you're wondering, the Jets are two

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Speaker 2: to one. I don't know if they can overtake the Bills,

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Speaker 2: but he'd be fun to watch. All right's talk about

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Speaker 2: the Patriots. They've got a tough slate, but I think

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Speaker 2: the Patriots have a chance to make a playoff push

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. They just gonna hang around through

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Speaker 2: If the Patriots are at least five hundred or better

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Speaker 2: through Week eight, they're gonna have a midseason stretch with

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Speaker 2: home games against the Commanders and Colts. Then they got

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Speaker 2: a week eleven. By then they're gonna run into teams

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Speaker 2: like the Giants, Chargers, and Steelers, and they'll have another

779
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Speaker 2: home stretch at the end of the season. The Patriots, thill,

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Speaker 2: are an improving team. You can laugh at them, make

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00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 2: fun of them. I know they're twenty five and twenty

782
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Speaker 2: five since Tom Brady left. As you'r Zieger and Evans

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Speaker 2: reference in the year twenty five to twenty five, and

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Speaker 2: if they hadn't had that goofy whack ass play against

785
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 2: the Raiders last year, they might have made the playoffs

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Speaker 2: where they tried to do the rugby lateral. You have

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Speaker 2: to be just gnashing your teeth if you're a Patriots fan.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots, based on their schedule how it plays out.

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Speaker 2: As long as they don't fall behind and they're at

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Speaker 2: least five hundred heading in a week nine, they're fifty

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Speaker 2: to fifty to make the playoffs. You think I'm joking, Well, well,

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Speaker 2: we'll revisit this in November. How about the Texans. Are

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Speaker 2: the Texans going to get back to the playoffs in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three? Probably not, but should they be an

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Speaker 2: improved team. And one of the reasons that this is

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Speaker 2: an interesting takeaway on their schedule. The Texans don't have

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Speaker 2: back to back road games until Week fourteen, and that's

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Speaker 2: preceded by three consecutive home games. That's a team on

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Speaker 2: their rise. New coach, and I have very high hopes

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Speaker 2: for Demiico Ryans. I think he's going to do great.

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Speaker 2: I love their draft, and I think the leadership and

802
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 2: the culture will change almost immediately. And you know, the

803
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: Texans were pretty competitive last year. Man, they just didn't

804
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 2: win games. They didn't win games, but they gave an effort.

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00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: I think Tamiko Ryans will put his stamp on this team.

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00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 2: So when you consider they don't have to play back

807
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 2: to back road games until you know, the final month

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Speaker 2: of the season, and they got three straight consecutive home

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00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 2: games around that point, It'll be interesting to see what

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Speaker 2: the Texans do. But again, that's the schedule takeaway that

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Speaker 2: if you're a Texans fan, you like how about the Browns? Now,

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Speaker 2: there's always a lot of attention after the schedules released.

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Speaker 3: There's always a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of attention on home road splits. Okay, because that's written

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Speaker 2: in stone. No one knows what happens with the Browns

816
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Speaker 2: this year. What really are their expectations? Will they fall short?

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Speaker 2: They're going to actually have now Deshaun Watson for their

818
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 2: first full season, and they have only one game on

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Speaker 2: the road their first six weeks and it's to Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: and the Browns will host the Bengals, Titans, Ravens, and

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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers before their bye weekend that span so Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Based on all those home games, they could established some

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Speaker 2: early season momentum. And if you get out ahead of

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Speaker 2: that Pack, that's gonna be a brutal division with Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: of course, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. But this is a National

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Speaker 2: Football League and teams have a way of surprising you. Now,

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Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers have a weird opening stretch with

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Speaker 2: road games against the Steelers and the Rams, and that'll

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Speaker 2: be a little tricky until you actually know you're gonna

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Speaker 2: have brock Perty's elbow healthy. But based on recent trends,

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Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers have been a second half team anyway.

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Speaker 2: And they close the season against the Seahawks, Cardinals, Ravens, Commanders,

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Speaker 2: and Rams. They could they should go four and one

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Speaker 2: of those three and two, five and one. I don't

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Speaker 2: know five and zero, but if the Niners are as

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Speaker 2: solid as they've been in recent years, they bring that defense,

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Speaker 2: the Niners could be a hot team heading into the postseason. Now,

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Speaker 2: who else caught my eye? Schedule wise? I think Jordan

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Speaker 2: Love has an awesome lopportunity to show the Packers why

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Speaker 2: they were ready to move on from Aaron Rodgers. The

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Speaker 2: Packers have five primetime games. That's tied for the fifth

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Speaker 2: most in the NFL. And here's a chance for Jordan

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Speaker 2: Love to win over the people with this play on

844
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Speaker 2: the field. Now, if you've heard Jordan Love in interviews,

845
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: he's impressive, he's humble. He never complained once about a situation.

846
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 2: He was dutiful. And now it's been three years. Now,

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Speaker 2: is Jordan Love gonna make it? I have no idea.

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Speaker 2: The sample size is too small, but it's gonna have

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Speaker 2: five primetime.

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Speaker 3: Games to show off his medal this year.

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Speaker 2: Now, before I get to who's swiping left and who's

852
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: got the tough stretch and highlight the teams by the

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Speaker 2: way that the schedule may not have been as kind to,

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Speaker 2: I want to go back to those International Series games

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Speaker 2: I talked about a minute ago. There's five this year.

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Speaker 2: Starting in week four. The Jaguars travel to London. Now

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Speaker 2: that's one of those if you're out here on the

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Speaker 2: Left Coast, which we all love living out here, six

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Speaker 2: thirty am Pacific time on Sunday, October first, at Wimbley

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Speaker 2: Stadium in London, the aforementioned Atlanta Falcons will play the Jaguars. Now,

861
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I love those early games. Then I get

862
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 2: off the air Sunday morning at three am Pacific, I

863
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: get up and watch him. We got six thirty A,

864
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 2: then ten and then one, then this Sunday night game. Yeah,

865
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 2: it's a football coma and we're loving every minute of it.

866
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 2: Don't act like you're not. Then the following week, just

867
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 2: one week later, it's a beautiful day, Ernie, let's play too.

868
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 2: The Jaguars will stay in London for the week and

869
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Speaker 2: they'll host the Buffalo Bills, this time across town at

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00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 2: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, one of the those modern

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00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 2: stadiums in the world. And when they built that stadium,

872
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 2: it was built with football in mind, not English football,

873
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 2: but American football. So the Jaguars will be the first,

874
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 2: you know, participating in the first two International Series games.

875
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 2: Then you flip to October fifteenth, which is six and

876
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 2: the Ravens will be back at to Tottenham Mahtspur Stadium

877
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 2: toill host the Tennessee Titans. Then there's a couple of

878
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: weeks off and then you skipped to November fifth and

879
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 2: we're done with the London portion. You had to Frankfurt, Germany,

880
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 2: where that game last year was a raucous, huge, huge success.

881
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 2: This ought to be a beauty. Dolphins in Chiefs Week

882
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 2: nine again. All of these kickoffs six thirty am Pacific,

883
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 2: nine thirty am Eastern. This is Sunday, November fifth, Week nine.

884
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 2: The Dolphins will play the Chiefs at Frankfort Stadium, and

885
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 2: in the following week the Colts and Patriots November twelfth,

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00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 2: six thirty Pacific, nine to thirty eastern am, Frankfurt, Germany

887
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 2: or Frankfurt Stadium in Germany. And that Colts Patriots game

888
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: is a game I told you about earlier. We expect

889
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,280
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson that'll be Week ten, should be starting.

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00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:54,720
Speaker 3: For the Colts.

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00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 2: He's a rookie, Bill Belichick, what did you do against

892
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 2: rookie quarterbacks? Well, rooky quarterbacks six and twenty four straight up,

893
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 2: thirteen and seventeen against the spread. Cumulatively, they've thrown twenty

894
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 2: four touchdowns, forty five interceptions on the completed fifty four

895
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Speaker 2: percent of their passes. I've alreadylayed to five points. We'll

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Speaker 2: see that week if I am right or I'm wrong.

897
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Speaker 3: Coming up?

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00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 2: Who's swiping left? Who took a look at the schedule

899
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Speaker 2: makers and said, hey, wait a minute. You might not

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Speaker 2: have done us any favors. At least that's the way

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Speaker 2: it looks right now. One hundred and seventeen games, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen days before a game has been played.

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Speaker 3: Who's swiping left?

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Speaker 2: right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on

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Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, coverany live

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Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas tire Ac dot Com. Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio Studios take you up to two am Pacific, five

927
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Speaker 2: am Eastern ton of stuff to get to continue on

928
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Speaker 2: with the NFL schedule release takeaways. This is the part

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Speaker 2: where it gets just a little weird now. Brian Dable

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Speaker 2: and the New York Giants had a great year last year.

931
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Speaker 2: Some people resent that some people still want to be

932
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 2: smirched Daniel Jones, but he did in his first three years,

933
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Speaker 2: where a lot of quarterbacks never do. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to any names. Derek Carr went on the road, won

935
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Speaker 2: a playoff game. But you knew that the sophomore campaign

936
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Speaker 2: for the New York Giants would be under scrutiny and

937
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 2: would come with challenges because they're not gonna sneak up

938
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Speaker 2: on anybody this year. But tell me if you predicted this,

939
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've seen this. The New York

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Speaker 2: Giants are faced with a schedule where seven of their

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Speaker 2: first eleven games.

942
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 3: Are on the road.

943
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Speaker 2: They play the Arizona the forty nine Ers, the Dolphins, Bills, Raiders, Cowboys.

944
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 2: That's all over the country. Maybe, I mean, you're going

945
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Speaker 2: from Arizona to San Francisco to Miami. That's one corner

946
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Speaker 2: to Buffalo, the north corner, stopping back in DC, Washington Commanders,

947
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, and then three of their home games in

948
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Speaker 2: that opening stretch are against the Cowboys and Seahawks, both

949
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Speaker 2: those teams made the playoffs and twenty two, and the

950
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Speaker 2: New York Jets Aaron Rodgers. If the Giants can get

951
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 2: through those eleven games, they can make a hell of

952
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 2: a run. But they're gonna have to be six and five,

953
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be a tough task. Seven of their

954
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 2: first eleven games on the road. I think it's you know,

955
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 2: teams geographically that aren't exactly right around the corner. Meanwhile,

956
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 2: the Eagles are defending NFC champs. They've got the most

957
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Speaker 2: difficult strength to schedule, which we already knew because their

958
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 2: opponents have a cumulative collective five sixty six winning percentage

959
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. And interestingly enough, they open up

960
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 2: in New England. You gotta believe that they'll be rocking

961
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Speaker 2: and rolling at you Let Stadium because they just announced

962
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 2: week one that Tom Brady will be honored.

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00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna get max effort.

964
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 2: And it's never easy for the team that loses the

965
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in Week one, but boy to the Eagles,

966
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 2: you know, load up on defense, so they're gonna be

967
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 2: very good. But that doesn't mean that doesn't mean they're

968
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 2: gonna be you know, ushered into the playoffs without having

969
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: to earn it.

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00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 3: They got the toughest schedule in the NFL. The Jets.

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00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 2: Six of their first eight games are against reigning playoff

972
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Speaker 2: teams and the only two exceptions are thet and Broncos,

973
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 2: and neither one of those teams are gonna be slotches.

974
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Speaker 2: Both of them could make the playoffs this year. You

975
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 2: gotta believe the Broncos are gonna be much improved under

976
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 2: Sean Payton.

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00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 3: No question, there's.

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00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,919
Speaker 2: A lot of deserved hype with the Jets because they

979
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: have a talented defense and if Sauce Gardner.

980
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 3: And Quinn and Williams CJ.

981
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Speaker 2: Moseley can stay healthy and their breest Hawk can come

982
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 2: back one hundred percent you had Aaron Rodgers. I mean

983
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 2: they were five and four with Zach Wilson. They beat Buffalo,

984
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 2: they beat Miami. What can Rogers do well?

985
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 3: Hopefully a lot.

986
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 2: But if they have offensive growing pains early on, the

987
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: Jets might find themselves in a hole. They could happen

988
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 2: because their first eight games are checked that six of

989
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 2: their first eight games are against teams who made the

990
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 2: playoffs last year. And again you just you know these

991
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 2: things in the NFL, they they don't go. I remember

992
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 2: the first what five, six, seven games with Brady and

993
00:54:55,600 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 2: the Patriots back in twenty twenty, and look, people you

994
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 2: know said it wasn't a match and it wasn't gonna work,

995
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 2: and then they rallied when their last seven or on won.

996
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl.

997
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: But the Jets might have a bit of a tough start,

998
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:09,919
Speaker 2: and you know why because you don't jail so fast

999
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 2: so quickly.

1000
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 3: But Aaron Rodgers is putting in the work.

1001
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 2: But again, I know I'm repeating myself, six of their

1002
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 2: first day games against reigning playoff teams. A lot of

1003
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: optimism in Miami too, but there's question marks. Hopefully Tua

1004
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 2: can stay healthy. The Dolphins have a very tough start

1005
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 2: to the season. They open up on the road at

1006
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 2: the Chargers and then you turn around fly across country

1007
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 2: to the Patriots, brutal. That's very tricky for a team

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00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 2: that's unproven. Plus the Dolphins, they don't host an AFC

1009
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 2: East team until around Halloween. So as far as that

1010
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 2: huge you know, home field advantage, when you get that

1011
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 2: Florida heat in September where teams come down there and melt,

1012
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 2: They're not going to have that this year. Well, it'll

1013
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 2: still be probably hot in October, but not like those

1014
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 2: opening I remember many years those Tom Brady teams when

1015
00:55:58,760 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: they were winning Super Bowls.

1016
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 3: They'd go down to.

1017
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: Miami Week one, win two, they melt in the fourth quarter.

1018
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 2: It's real, all right, another team I think swiping left.

1019
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 2: There's real pressure on the Raiders. There's real pressure on

1020
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels, and the schedule makers were not particularly kind

1021
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,439
Speaker 2: to the Raiders. They open up at Denver where they're

1022
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 2: an underdog, and then they go to Buffalo, and then

1023
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 2: that's followed by their home opener against the Steelers, and

1024
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: then they got to play the Chargers again. The Raiders,

1025
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 2: by the way, don't have their buy until week thirteen. Now,

1026
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 2: there are some teams that have a buy very early,

1027
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 2: and that's probably not ideal. You'd rather have it later

1028
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 2: in the season. But Week thirteen is awfully late. You're

1029
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 2: gonna have to play football games for three straight months,

1030
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 2: and then you come out of that buy and you

1031
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 2: finish up the season against the Vikings who made the playoffs, the.

1032
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 3: Chargers and Chiefs.

1033
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 2: I think the Raiders are really going to be up

1034
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: against it this year, and their win total is seven

1035
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 2: and a half and I don't know, man, they could

1036
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 2: be looking at another seven to ten season. Not predicting

1037
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 2: it as vehemently as I was last year, but this

1038
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 2: is tough duty. If you look at their schedule. The

1039
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings give it up. They did win the NFC

1040
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 2: North last year, and they're going to have to finish

1041
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 2: strong if they want to get back to the playoffs.

1042
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 2: Because the Vikings are another team that has a Week

1043
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 2: thirteen by, which is very late in the year. But

1044
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 2: then you come out of that buy. If you're the Vikings,

1045
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 2: you get back to back road games against the Raiders

1046
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 2: and Bengals. Again, not easy when you go on the

1047
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: road against anybody in the National Football League. Maybe the

1048
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 2: Raids are hitting their stride in and Joe Burrow and

1049
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 2: the Bengals, you know they're going to be very good

1050
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 2: again this year. Then the Vikings come home and they

1051
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 2: host the Lions, tough divisional matchup. Lions spanked them big

1052
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 2: time last year, and then the Packers, and then they

1053
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 2: got to go to Detroit. So imagine that you get

1054
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: that late bye and then you come out of it.

1055
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 2: You got to go to you come here to Vegas,

1056
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 2: you got to go to Since then you host the

1057
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 2: Lines and Packers, and you got to go to finish

1058
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 2: the season at Detroit week eighteen. That game may have

1059
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 2: playoff implications.

1060
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 3: You don't know.

1061
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 2: Those Vikings are good enough they should overcome it, but

1062
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: you don't know. It's going to be a tight divisional

1063
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 2: race in the NFC North, more tight than it was

1064
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two.

1065
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 3: You can bank on that.

1066
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 2: Now the Carolina Panthers team were all going to watch

1067
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 2: I think the world of Bryce Young. They're going to

1068
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 2: have a lot going for them. They've had a very

1069
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 2: good offseason. They I thought the last six weeks of

1070
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two season, they were physical, they played tough,

1071
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 2: they beat up a good Seattle team, they beat up

1072
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 2: a good Detroit team. They've changed their coaching staff. Now

1073
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 2: they bring in Frank Wright. They trade it up. They

1074
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 2: got Bryce Young, they get the number one pick, but

1075
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 2: they're you know, let's say, let's say you look up

1076
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 2: at Thanksgiving and the Carolina Panthers have defied the odds

1077
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 2: and they're in contention to win a division. They're really

1078
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 2: going to have their work cutout for them. They'll have

1079
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 2: a target on their back at that point because starting

1080
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 2: week eleven, the Carolina Panthers got to play the Cowboys,

1081
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 2: and they go to Tennessee, go to Tampa Bay, and

1082
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 2: they go to the Saints, all in a row, by

1083
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 2: the way, then you got the Falcons and Packers, the Jaguars.

1084
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 2: It's a very tough way to close out the season,

1085
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 2: especially for a rookie quarterback. And one of the things

1086
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 2: that NFL players know that first year coming out of

1087
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 2: college is so dramatically more physically and mentally taxing that

1088
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 2: it is. And you know when you're playing, you know,

1089
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 2: the eleven twelve game college football season. So the Panthers,

1090
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 2: I think there's reason to have optimism in high hopes.

1091
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 2: But even if they get off to a fast start boy.

1092
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 2: At the end of the season, the schedule makers, they

1093
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 2: didn't exactly, you know, line it up nicely for him. Finally,

1094
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 2: if you are a Texans fan, if you are a

1095
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 2: Falcons fan, if you're an Arizona Cardinals fan, if you're

1096
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 2: an Indianapolis Colts fan, you may not like this news.

1097
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: Those four teams don't have a single primetime game, not one.

1098
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 2: And I guess maybe that shouldn't be too much of

1099
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 2: a surprise. I mean, even Carolina's got some right, but

1100
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 2: regardless of the fact that Texas and the Falcons are

1101
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 2: i think considered teams that are on the rise. And

1102
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 2: we'll see how they do with Desmond ritterd the Falcons,

1103
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,439
Speaker 2: and we'll see how Carolina Panthers do with Bryce Young

1104
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 2: and the Falcons actually have a pretty good offense at

1105
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 2: least on paper, and Arthur they got a good coach

1106
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 2: and Arthur Smith. The thing is, you know, damn well,

1107
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 2: if you're an NFL player, if you're an NFL franchise,

1108
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 2: you don't want to be left out of the spotlight,

1109
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 2: and they are. They're left out of the spotlight. And

1110
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 2: maybe because the NFL is going to be more liberal

1111
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 2: with their flex scheduling. But remember, if you're the Texans

1112
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 2: and your new quarterback c J. Stroud, as it stands

1113
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 2: right now, you wouldn't have a single primetime game to

1114
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 2: showcase c J.

1115
01:00:58,600 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 3: Stroud.

1116
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 2: If you're the coal at this point, you don't have

1117
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 2: a single primetime game to feature Anthony Richardson, although you

1118
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 2: do have that London game against the Patriots, but that's

1119
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 2: not the same thing. It's going to be played six

1120
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 2: thirty am Pacific time. And how about Kyler Murray the

1121
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 2: Cardinals right Arizona kind of went off a cliff. Maybe

1122
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 2: they can come back. But the truth of the matter

1123
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 2: is these teams are more interesting with their new personnel CJ. Strout,

1124
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, etc. And if the Falcons can make that

1125
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 2: jump and be a contender in the NFC South, then

1126
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 2: maybe maybe they have a chance to get flexed in

1127
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 2: and be part of a primetime game. We shall see.

1128
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 2: But those are some early schedule takeaways, and of course

1129
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 2: we'll have more than's too many to cover, believe it

1130
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 2: or not. But one of the things I want to

1131
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 2: talk about. You've got Aaron Rodgers in this new offense

1132
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 2: with the Jets, and again, this is a National Football League,

1133
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 2: which can be very unforgiving. So even Aaron Rodgers, a

1134
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 2: first ballot Hall who takes over at Jets offense, who

1135
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 2: beat the Bills and beat the Dolphins with Zach Wilson,

1136
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 2: and you've got excellent young receivers and Brese Hall, there

1137
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 2: are still four key questions. How good will the jeff

1138
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 2: Jets offense be with Aaron Rodgers. Let's tackle that. We'll

1139
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 2: see what they did there. Let's tackle that coming up,

1140
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 2: But first let's go back to our guy, Kevin Figures

1141
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 2: with the latest.

1142
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 7: All right, Bernie, we're gonna have a rematch of the

1143
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 7: twenty twenty Western Conference Finals in the NBA outside of

1144
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 7: the bubble this time. The Lakers steamrolling Golden State Friday

1145
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 7: Night one, twenty two to one oh one. Lebron James

1146
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 7: thirty points and nine assists, also had nine rebounds. Steph

1147
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 7: Curry scored thirty two to lead the Warriors. Let all

1148
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 7: scorers actually but Klay Thompson three of nineteen shootings, scoring

1149
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 7: just eight points. LA will take on Denver in Game

1150
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 7: one on Tuesday nights. In the Eastern Conference, the Heat

1151
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 7: defeated the Knicks ninety six to ninety two, Jimmy Butler

1152
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 7: and bam Adebayo combining to score forty seven points. They

1153
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 7: lead Miami to the Eastern Conference Finals for the third

1154
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 7: time in the last four seasons May League Baseball. The

1155
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 7: Dodgers get a home run from Rookie Betts. They beat

1156
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 7: the Padres four to two. Oakland scored four runs in

1157
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 7: the bottom of the night. They beat Texas nine to seven.

1158
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 7: Wins from Milwaukee, Houston and the Chicago Cubs. Stanley Cup Playoffs,

1159
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 7: Vegas beat Edmonton to take a three to two series lead,

1160
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 7: Florida over Toronto, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals.

1161
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 3: Back to Bernie Fredo.

1162
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Kevin, So, how good exactly will the Jets

1163
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 2: offense be with Aaron Rodgers? These are four areas that

1164
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 2: you're going to have to watch, right. So I don't

1165
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 2: think there's any question that what the New York Ents

1166
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 2: are going to try to do is create recreate that

1167
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 2: same Green Bay Packers offense that up until last year

1168
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 2: was extremely successful under Matt Lafleur. Why not, you don't

1169
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 2: need to reinvent the wheel. And even though the Packers

1170
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 2: had a relatively down season last year, the only team

1171
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen with better EPA, which is a term

1172
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 2: referred to as expected points added on a per snap

1173
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 2: average on offense, or the Kansas City Chiefs.

1174
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good company.

1175
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 2: So that Packers offense under Matt Laflour the last four

1176
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 2: years has been very prolific, So why wouldn't the Jets

1177
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 2: try to copy that? Well, they would if you don't

1178
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 2: believe me. Why did they hire Nathaniel Hackett? He was

1179
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 2: He did't hire Nathaniel Hackett. He was Rogers offensive coordinator

1180
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 2: in Green Bay from for three of those four years.

1181
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 2: And then they've added receivers. You may have heard these names,

1182
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: Alan Lazard he was with Green Bay, Randall Cobb, and

1183
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 2: even a tackle by the name of Billy Turner, all

1184
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 2: former Packers. And then there's Rogers, the most important part

1185
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 2: of this project where they're trying to imitate you know,

1186
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:54,479
Speaker 2: life imitates art or something like that. So there are

1187
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 2: familiar faces that Aaron Rodgers will be surrounded with in

1188
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 2: New York, but there's still questions because you're just not

1189
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 2: going to step on the field day one and produce

1190
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 2: at the similar levels to what you saw in Green Bay,

1191
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 2: where Rogers had been there for.

1192
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 3: A couple decades. So here's the first question.

1193
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 2: Howell Nathaniel Hackett performed as Aaron Rodgers play caller right now,

1194
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 2: Even though Hackett had that offensive coordinator title in Green Bay,

1195
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 2: Lafleur was really the.

1196
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 3: Primary play caller. That's a fact.

1197
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 2: And before last season when Nathaniel Hackett was fired with

1198
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 2: two games to go in Denver, his last din as

1199
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 2: a play caller really came six seven, eight years ago

1200
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 2: with the Jaguars and in his loan year when he

1201
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,440
Speaker 2: had the keys to the car. In terms of running

1202
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 2: the offense, Jacksonville finished fifteenth offensive DVA. Now get it,

1203
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 2: I get it. They had Blake Bortles and he did

1204
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 2: pretty well. He remember they took they scared New England

1205
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. But he flamed out the following season.

1206
01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 2: And you know when Hackett got to Denver, he he

1207
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 2: surrounded his he gave up his play calling duties. Remember

1208
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 2: that after nine games and when he gave up those duties.

1209
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 2: At that point, under Russell Wilson, who was supposed to

1210
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 2: be the X factor, Denver's offense ranked thirtieth.

1211
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 3: Now I get it that Russell Wilson's.

1212
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,959
Speaker 2: Decline was a factor, But the reality is is show

1213
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 2: me where, whether it's Jacksonville or Denver, where Nathaniel Hackett

1214
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 2: has had success as a play caller. It's an art form,

1215
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 2: it's also part science. But you're going to have Aaron

1216
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 2: Rodgers and Rogers' success came primarily with Lafleur calling plays,

1217
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 2: but Rogers was even critical of a system before the

1218
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two season. If I recall, Rogers was on

1219
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 2: a podcast saying there were flaws in the system. He

1220
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 2: wanted to use less motion, more tempo, and he liked

1221
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 2: the fact that Matt Lafleur, like misdirection on runs a

1222
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 2: lot of play acts. But the question is can Hackett

1223
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 2: replicate what Lafleur did, and if not, will Rogers get impatient?

1224
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 2: You know they're in the honeymoon stage right now. You

1225
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 2: really think that's gonna last, especially in New York if

1226
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 2: you don't win. And the only the one thing that

1227
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 2: leads me to believe Green Bay might be okay, but

1228
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 2: it's no guarant or check that to Jets with Rogers

1229
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 2: is the offense in their language and the concepts are

1230
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 2: going to be familiar. But the other thing, too, is

1231
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 2: is I question and maybe he will. I'm assuming that

1232
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 2: Hackett is going to have to acquiesce to Aaron Rodgers

1233
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 2: and give him a lot of input on the offense

1234
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 2: more so than Green Bay.

1235
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 3: Rogers is a Hall of Fame quarterback.

1236
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 2: He prides himself on being a step out of the defense,

1237
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 2: and he typically is. His input is invaluable. But his

1238
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 2: career resurgence after Jordan Love was drafted. That all happened

1239
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 2: under Matt Lafleur system. I don't think Nathaniel Hackett is

1240
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,479
Speaker 2: anywhere near the offensive mind that the floor is, and

1241
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 2: the Floor had reasons for doing certain things he did

1242
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 2: with Rogers. He wanted Rogers to do less pre snap

1243
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 2: stuff and make things simpler. And you know, I talked

1244
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 2: about play action, talked about motion, that kind of stuff.

1245
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 2: But Rogers is always going to be, you know, bucking

1246
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 2: to be part of this quarterback centric offense. And I

1247
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 2: would say this that if there is a disagreement between

1248
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Hackett on concept and offensive.

1249
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 3: Philosophies, that could be an issue.

1250
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 2: Just saying these are things to watch because the Jets

1251
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 2: right out of the eight, you open up at Buffalo

1252
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 2: first Monday night game.

1253
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 3: Can't wait. One of the questions has come up, but.

1254
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 2: Again we're in the honeymoon period, so you're not going

1255
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 2: to hear much of it. Why did Rogers really struggle

1256
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 2: last season? And yes, he did have a down year,

1257
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 2: you saw it. Can he rebound turn it around? Well,

1258
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 2: the fact of the matters Roger did have a lingering

1259
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 2: thumb injury and that that really did affect his accuracy

1260
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 2: and he lost DeVante Adams probably a fairly substantial reason

1261
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 2: why his production did. But Adams wasn't exactly a savior

1262
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 2: for the Raiders either. The truth of the matter is

1263
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 2: Green Bay didn't have real great options. He had Romeo

1264
01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 2: Dubs and Christian Watson, a couple rookies. They struggled to

1265
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 2: find their stride. They struggle with consistency. One of the

1266
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 2: first plays of the season, Watson ran a straight fly.

1267
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 2: He's faster than all get out. Rogers puts the ball

1268
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 2: in the money and he drops it.

1269
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 3: That seemed to be a.

1270
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 2: Metaphor for the Packer season. Let's also not forget the

1271
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 2: offensive line dealt with multiple injuries. They really struggled to

1272
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 2: pass protect for a lot of the season. But then

1273
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 2: finally when Week ten and Christian Watson started to figure

1274
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 2: it out, they had kind of a breakout game, and

1275
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 2: between Week ten and the end of the year, the

1276
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 2: Packers ranked fifteen points overall. Now, Rogers is thirty nine

1277
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 2: years old, but I still think he's mobile. I still

1278
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 2: think his arm is elite, and if his home, his

1279
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 2: thumb heels, and you know, he doesn't get old overnight,

1280
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 2: and his athleticism doesn't just you know, exit him his body.

1281
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 2: I think there's a very good chance that Rogers does

1282
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 2: rebound significantly this year. And you know he's motivated now,

1283
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:21,760
Speaker 2: by the way, I just mentioned an offensive line, which

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Speaker 2: is a third thing you have to ask yourself, if

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01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 2: you're being honest. Can the Jets offensive line stay healthy?

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01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 2: Last season, three of the Jets Week one starting offensive

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01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 2: lineman eventually landed an injured reserve. Now that doesn't include

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01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,679
Speaker 2: Mackay Beckton, who had a season ending injury in training camp.

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Speaker 2: But when they're healthy, the Jets have a pretty talented

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Speaker 2: group up front. They got you know, they have a

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Speaker 2: rookie center, but Joe Tipman, but he's highly regarded and

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Speaker 2: he's got a chance to start.

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Speaker 3: And Robert Salas said.

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Speaker 2: You know that he's got two or three guys that

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Speaker 2: left tackle that will compete and regardless of how the

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Speaker 2: offensive line competition plays out, the Jets actually have some depth.

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Speaker 2: This year offensive line was a question mark and it

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01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 2: was an issue in Green Bay. But Robert Salah has

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01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 2: opened up the competition and he said he's going to

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 2: play their best five offensive linemen. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: that looks like, who they are, what their names are,

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01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 2: whether their rookies or not. And the truth of the

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01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 2: matter is they have enough names on paper to be

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01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 2: able to open up holes for Breeshaull and protect Rogers.

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01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 2: And with breesall healthy, that alone should keep defensive lineman honest.

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01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 2: And that kind of offensive line protection, which is the

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01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 2: third of four questions, well, if they can fix that

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01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 2: and be consistent again, I think it's a very good

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01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 2: chance that Jets have an outstanding offense this year. Finally,

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01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 2: how fast can Rogers establish your port with Garrett Wilson. Now,

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01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 2: Rogers greatly missed DeVante Adams last season, and if you're

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01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 2: going to have an elite offense, you really have to

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01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 2: have that bona fide number one target, that number one

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01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 2: option who can routinely beat man coverage, who can maybe

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Speaker 2: even draw a double team. Now Rogers isn't getting DeVante

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01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 2: Adams in New York. However, Garrett Wilson's a star. He

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01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 2: caught eighty three balls last year for almost twelve hundredards

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01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 2: as a rookie, So he's already an elite receiver who

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01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:15,600
Speaker 2: was thrown on.

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01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 3: The ball Mike White. You know Zach Wilson.

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01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 2: So now if he could build chemistry with Aaron Rodgers,

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01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 2: that could be the most critical factor on whether the

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01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 2: Jets offense lives up to its potential, because they're fairly

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01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 2: well stacked at every position except their pass catching group.

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01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 2: But I think Allen Lazard is a number is a

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01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 2: good number two option, and they have history Randall Cobb.

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01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 2: He can play in the slot. He'll be thirty three

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01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 2: years old. Yeah, he might have lost his step, but

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01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 2: he's a pro. And you got a tight end in

1330
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 2: Tyler Conklin who's got good hands. He's not a game breaker,

1331
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 2: he's not a game changer, but there's four targets right there.

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01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 2: But the key has got to be Garrett Wilson. He's

1333
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 2: got to be the top tier guy and he if

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01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 2: he can set that tone in him and Roger, Garrett

1335
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,560
Speaker 2: Wilson and Rodgers established chemistry, then I would say basically,

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01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 2: you have a chance to perhaps recreate that connection that

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01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 2: Rogers and Devant the Adams had, even though the two

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01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 2: never never won. They didn't win anything. They won a

1339
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, but they could sort of like ad lib

1340
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:21,800
Speaker 2: routes and be on the same page. Now, I can't

1341
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 2: expect Garrett Wilson and Rodgers they have the same kind

1342
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 2: of chemistry, at least not right away. But you know,

1343
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:30,559
Speaker 2: and Wilson's not a rookie. But Rodgers does not have

1344
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 2: a great history of having patients with young receivers. So again,

1345
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,520
Speaker 2: a lot of it will come down to communication, chemistry.

1346
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 3: All that kind of stuff.

1347
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 2: But you add all that up and combine the Jets

1348
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 2: and their talent defense and finished fifth in DVA last season.

1349
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 2: The offense has a little bit more margin of error

1350
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 2: as Rogers settles in, But the minute he landed in

1351
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 2: New York winning the Super Bowl, it's super Bowl or bust.

1352
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 3: That's just the way it is.

1353
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 2: But you want it to be that way, and to

1354
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 2: win one in the AFC, you're gonna have to go

1355
01:13:57,040 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 2: with toe to toe with Patrick Mahomes at some point,

1356
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 2: and Josh Allen and all the other great quarterbacks and

1357
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:05,639
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow thoos of the ingredients for Rogers to replicate

1358
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: his success in Green Bay. That's a fact. If they

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01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 2: can do it, we're in for a fun season. If

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01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 2: they don't, well, we're still in for a fun season,

1361
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 2: but it might be at Rogers' expense. We'll see how

1362
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 2: the New York media treats him, and we'll see how

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01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 2: a response. That's also part of the mix. This is

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01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 2: New York, it's not Green Bay coming up. Talked about

1365
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 2: all those international games in London and Germany. Hey, major

1366
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,560
Speaker 2: League baseball's getting into the act too. We'll tell you

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Speaker 2: what's coming up. I'm Bernie fraddlew or Conedy live from

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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tirach dot Com studios.

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Speaker 3: Stick and stay her. Listen to the Bernie Fradles Show

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01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio.

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01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 2: They're back on The Bernie Fratles Show comedy live from

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Speaker 2: the tarrac dot Com studios here in Las Vegas, Fox

1373
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. We will take you up until two am Pacific,

1374
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,480
Speaker 2: five am Eastern. A lot of stuff to get to

1375
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,879
Speaker 2: top of the hour, to talk about the Oakland A's

1376
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 2: to Vegas is actually heating up a little bit. Saturday Night,

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01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 2: My show I'll have Alan Snow from LV Sports place,

1378
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 2: but I'll give you a tease as to what's happening

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01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 2: top of the hour. All right, we've talked about all

1380
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 2: these NFL international games. Will Major League Baseball says me too, Hey, London, Paris,

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01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 2: And did you know, by the way, that there are

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01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 2: plans right now that they're currently working on some logistical hurdles.

1383
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 2: But the plan is to open the twenty twenty fourth

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01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 2: season with a game in Seoul, South Korea, and then

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01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. I think the Dodgers have been

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01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 2: mentioned as one of the combatants in that game, I'm

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01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 2: not sure. And Major League Baseball is also committed to

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01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,679
Speaker 2: playing games in Paris, France in twenty twenty five. Now,

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01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:53,719
Speaker 2: the Yankees and Red Sox, they are among the teams

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01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 2: they've expressed a very strong interest in desire to play

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01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 2: in Paris, which will host the very first ever Major

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01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 2: League games in continental Europe. However, remember there was a

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01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,560
Speaker 2: game played Yankees played London a couple of years ago,

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01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 2: and there are more. You know, there are multiple teams

1395
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 2: actually interested. Right now, here's the thing. It's unlikely that

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01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:18,559
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball would schedule the Yankees Red Sox Series

1397
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 2: because those two teams played the first London Series back

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01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.

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01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,640
Speaker 2: And as of now, no side has been selected for

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01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 2: the games in Paris because there aren't exactly a hell

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 2: of a lot of major league quality baseball stadiums in France.

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01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 2: Off there any major League baseball stadiums at all that

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01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 2: I would know of Major League Baseball, they're actually looking

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01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 2: at soccer venues and those aren't exactly easily converted to

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01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball specifications. For instance, when they finally decided

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01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 2: on the London Stadium for the London Series five years ago,

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01:16:55,600 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 2: major League Baseball considered Wembley Stadium, but the maximum disin

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01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 2: for the right field wall was two hundred and eighty

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01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 2: feet from home plate, and Major League Baseball rules require

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01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 2: parks that are constructed since nineteen fifty eight, they have

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01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 2: a minimum distance to the three hundred and twenty five

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01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,560
Speaker 2: feet to Needless to say, they didn't play in Wenbley Stadium,

1414
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 2: but it's part of the Collective Barbering Agreement that was

1415
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 2: signed last year. Well MLB and the Players Association agreed

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01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 2: they want to play some regular season games at multiple

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01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 2: international sites every year. Through twenty twenty six. South Korea.

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01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see opening weekend twenty twenty four.

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01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:31,719
Speaker 3: France.

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01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 2: You're going to see twenty twenty five, and believe it

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 2: or not, this is nothing new. There have been Major

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Speaker 2: League regular season games played in Mexico, Japan, Australia, and

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01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 2: including in Canada and Puerto Rico. So the tentative plan

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01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 2: I think next year twenty twenty four is to open

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01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 2: the season with the Dodgers and Padres playing in Seoul,

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01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 2: South Korea. This was actually first reported by esp in

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01:17:57,000 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 2: a while back. The problem is this series is not

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01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 2: been finalized yet because there are quote logistical issues. I'm

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01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 2: not sure one hundred percent what that means. There could

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01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 2: be a lot of things. There's also plans for a

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01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball All Store Tour in Korea because they

1432
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 2: were gonna do one last summer and it fell through.

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01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,640
Speaker 2: So if the Dodgers Pondres series and Soul can't be finalized,

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01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball will consider opening the season in Tokyo.

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01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 2: Now They've done that five times starting in two thousand.

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01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 2: The teams that are picked to play in Japan could

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01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 2: be different from the ones playing in South Korea. So

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 2: there you have a Paris, Mexico City, Japan, possibly Puerto Rico, London, Soul,

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01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 2: South Korea. And by the way, in twenty twenty six,

1440
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 2: there are a game schedule for Mexico City. The World

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01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 2: Baseball Classic returns in twenties twenty six, and the sites

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01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 2: are going to be determined then. And let's not forget

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Speaker 2: the Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa is on

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01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,559
Speaker 2: hiatus because they're renovating it, but that'll also be back

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01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 2: in two years as well.

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Speaker 3: So Major League Baseball spread against Wings, keep it locked.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: followed this Oakland age to Vegas story, well you're better

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Speaker 2: than me, because it's very difficult to follow. Less than

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01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 2: a month ago, Athletics president Dave caval said that the

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01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 2: A's had entered into a forty nine acre site on

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Speaker 2: the west side of the fifteen Freeway near Tropicana and

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01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 2: Dean Martin.

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Speaker 3: And what the plan.

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Speaker 2: Was to build the stadium, a nice, cozy, thirty three

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Speaker 2: thousand seed stadium that would include a baseball village and

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01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 2: auxiliary entertainment and restaurants and sports pubs and businesses. And see,

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Speaker 2: the idea was that the that the open A's wanted

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01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 2: to have a situation where they moved to Vegas, and

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01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 2: Vegas comes up with five hundred million dollars in public

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01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 2: money to help this become a reality. And nobody's stopping

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01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 2: the A's from building a ballpark in Vegas. But five

1473
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 2: hundred million in free money toward the construction, that's a

1474
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 2: little bit different matter. And the A's want to move aggressively.

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01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 3: They want to submit.

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01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 2: A request to move to the MLB owners in the fall,

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01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 2: and you know, they think they can have a stadium

1478
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:55,160
Speaker 2: funding plan and a public private agreement in place quick.

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01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 2: You don't even have a stadium rendering, you don't have

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Speaker 2: a stadium design architect.

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01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 3: They bought land. That's basically it, right.

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01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 2: But things are starting to pick up a little steam,

1483
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 2: even though I still think this is I've always said,

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01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 2: I believe this is a fifty to fifty deal.

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01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 3: Maybe it's sixty forty deal.

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01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. All of a sudden things have pivoted

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01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 2: now because the original report was that the a's we're

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01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 2: going to you know, they'd entered this binding agreement to

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01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 2: buy this land on this forty nine acre site that's

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01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 2: just west of the Strip, Okay that I just talked about.

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Speaker 3: It's very confined area.

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Speaker 2: If you have any idea what I'm talking about Dean

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01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 2: Martin in Tropicana, just to the west side of the

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01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 2: fifteen freeway. There's not a hell of a lot of

1495
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 2: room over there. I don't know where people would park.

1496
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 2: But that the story for a different day. But not

1497
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 2: the plot thickens because now all of a sudden, they're

1498
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 2: looking back toward prior land areas that you know, we're

1499
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,720
Speaker 2: going to be considered in the last year or two,

1500
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 2: including the site over on the strip next to the Tropicana.

1501
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:08,799
Speaker 2: This all of a sudden appears to be the new target,

1502
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 2: and so that doesn't change anything except that the state

1503
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,479
Speaker 2: is now looking for lawmakers to come up with a

1504
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety five million dollar package which would

1505
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 2: include tax credits and again the creation of this special

1506
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 2: taxation district which would help fund the stadium construction.

1507
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 3: What do I mean by that? So how do.

1508
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 2: You make up that five hundred million Where the county

1509
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 2: would issue bonds and based on the tax is derived

1510
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:40,640
Speaker 2: from this entertainment district, you'd have a situation where the

1511
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 2: property taxes and the sales taxes.

1512
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 3: You know, from the.

1513
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 2: Commerce as a result of the A's playing eighty one

1514
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 2: home dates there would generate this kind of income, so

1515
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:56,879
Speaker 2: that would service the bond debt.

1516
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 3: So can it happen?

1517
01:22:58,120 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 8: Well?

1518
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 2: Starting last Monday, there were sources that indicated that there

1519
01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:05,120
Speaker 2: would be bill language that would be available by the

1520
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:09,520
Speaker 2: end of the week. And they understand there's a tremendous

1521
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 2: there's a tremendous sense of urgency to get this done.

1522
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 2: As you know, sessions in June fifth and now the

1523
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 2: attention is at this thirty four acre site at the

1524
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 2: tropic Cana, Las Vegas, and that was one of the

1525
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 2: early targets last year's all of a sudden, they've pivoted.

1526
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 2: The aids have pivoted from this forty nine acre site

1527
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:32,960
Speaker 2: on Dean Martin and Tropicana now to this Tropicana site.

1528
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 2: It's at the corner of the strip in Tropicana, and

1529
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 2: of course what sits there the legendary Tropicana Hotel. And

1530
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 2: if my sources are right, if the stadium ends up there,

1531
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:49,439
Speaker 2: if this actually does come to fruition, they would raise

1532
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 2: the Tropican It would be no longer.

1533
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 3: They would build a new hotel.

1534
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 2: And that land is owned by our real estate investment

1535
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 2: trust called Gaming and Leisure Properties and the operations of

1536
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 2: the Tropicana. They're managed to release agreement by Ballet's Corps,

1537
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,640
Speaker 2: which is looking to remodel a trop even though they

1538
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 2: just did it like ten twelve years ago, but it

1539
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,600
Speaker 2: wasn't a focus until twenty twenty four. So all of

1540
01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:15,520
Speaker 2: a sudden, a real estate source has said the Tropicana

1541
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 2: would be a little bit more complicated because you'd have

1542
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 2: to reach agreements with other representatives and that might not

1543
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 2: just be so simple. But if this word happen all

1544
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 2: of a sudden, now you'd have a different area where

1545
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 2: there a state he would be near the strip. And look,

1546
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 2: this is a complicated, interesting situation that just gets a

1547
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 2: little bit more confusing by the day. Now I understand

1548
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 2: that a bill has been drafted and will be presented

1549
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 2: to the legislators sooner rather than later, perhaps as soon

1550
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 2: as this week. I don't know what's going to happen.

1551
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 2: I just don't. The new proposed ballpark site they are

1552
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 2: telling us is expected to draw more tourists than the

1553
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 2: original Wild Wild West site. And the reason they call

1554
01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 2: it that there used to be a Wilds casino over

1555
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 2: on Tropicana over on Dean Martin and Tropicana.

1556
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 3: And that's no longer.

1557
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 2: But now Valleys, which owns Tropicana City, they would build

1558
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:18,640
Speaker 2: this new hotel.

1559
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 3: Across the street.

1560
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 2: MGM Resorts, you know they owned ex Caliber New York,

1561
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 2: New York. They occupy the other three corners of those intersections,

1562
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you'd have thousands of hotel

1563
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 2: rooms that are just you could walk to.

1564
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 3: The ballpark on the strip.

1565
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:36,559
Speaker 2: Now, look, there have been a lot of independent journalists

1566
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 2: who've weighed in on this one. Of the things the

1567
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 2: A's have said is that this will bring four hundred

1568
01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 2: thousand tourists to the valley every year, and those people

1569
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 2: stay in hotel rooms. You break that down divided by

1570
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 2: eighty one games, it's additional five thousand fans per game.

1571
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 2: They would stay in hotels, they would eat in restaurants,

1572
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 2: they would spend money. That's been debunked though by some people.

1573
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:01,640
Speaker 2: I don't know who who could predict the future, you know,

1574
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 2: like Yogi Bear said, it's always hard to predict something,

1575
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 2: especially especially if it's the future.

1576
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 3: But this, this new.

1577
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 2: Bill is proposed bill being negotiated by the A's and

1578
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 2: lawmakers is now apparently there's been language and there's been

1579
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 2: you know, there are words on paper now to to

1580
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 2: deliberate over. And you got to keep in mind that

1581
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:27,640
Speaker 2: the franchise left.

1582
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 3: You know, Oakland.

1583
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 2: They left three hundred and seventy five million infrastructure grants

1584
01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 2: that were acquired by the City of Oakland. They left

1585
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 2: those on the table, and that you know, that Howard.

1586
01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 3: Terminal negotiation from a while back.

1587
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 2: What's interesting is how vocal Oakland A's fans have become.

1588
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:49,600
Speaker 2: And you know, I feel bad because Oakland A's have

1589
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 2: been there since sixty eight, and you know, Mark Davis,

1590
01:26:53,640 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 2: they they really opened the door for him here for

1591
01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:58,080
Speaker 2: the Raiders, because only ever wanted was a stadium. And

1592
01:26:58,120 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 2: I think he truly believes in his heart the A's

1593
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 2: block that. And so you know there's contentionent, there's a

1594
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:07,400
Speaker 2: contentious relationship there. But now Locland A's fans have warned

1595
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 2: us about John Fisher, and he's a billionaire, he's the owner,

1596
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 2: he's the heir of the Gap fortune. He doesn't make

1597
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 2: a whole hell of a lot of public appearances from

1598
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 2: what I understand, So how much of an appetite is

1599
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 2: there to give a billionaire? What was five hundred million,

1600
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:23,719
Speaker 2: That might be three hundred and ninety five million, right,

1601
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 2: And what do you play for three years until it

1602
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 2: opened to twenty twenty seven? I don't know if you

1603
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 2: can play at the Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerland, that's

1604
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 2: the ten thousand seed stadium. They already got a team there.

1605
01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 2: There's just so much missing. There was one positive thing,

1606
01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 2: I want to be fair about this. We have a

1607
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 2: very powerful culinary union in Nevada and they reported Friday

1608
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 2: that they reached agreement with the A's that the union

1609
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:48,520
Speaker 2: in the a's have reached the agreement that would guarantee

1610
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:50,640
Speaker 2: workers that they would have the right to organize and

1611
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 2: negotiate the union contracts. So these would be great jobs

1612
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 2: and they would meet Las Vegas standards. And you see

1613
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 2: what a wonderful job they did on Allegiant Stadium here

1614
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,679
Speaker 2: Team Mobile. So you know, if there's a path forward

1615
01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 2: for stakeholders, they can do this.

1616
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 3: But this is so much different.

1617
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:09,920
Speaker 2: You can't draw any parallels at all to the Raiders

1618
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:14,560
Speaker 2: coming here. The Raiders were welcomed with open arms the stadium.

1619
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 2: This all started, you know, with a gentleman named Shellon

1620
01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 2: Addison who's long since passed. He's a philanthropist who guaranteed

1621
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty million towards that billion dollar stadium,

1622
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 2: and the NFL ended up kicking in money. And once

1623
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 2: Sheldon Addison was on board, he was the CEO of Sands.

1624
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 2: He got MGM on board and Cazars on board. Once

1625
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 2: you get those heavy players on board, now you take

1626
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 2: it forth to the legislature, and our governor at the time,

1627
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 2: Brian Sandoval, was able to take it to the politicians

1628
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:48,759
Speaker 2: and convince everybody that by building the stadium for the Raiders,

1629
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 2: a legiant field. It would further solidify Las Vegas as

1630
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 2: a bona fide international tourist destination because it wasn't just

1631
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 2: going to be the Raiders. You're gonna have Taylor Swift

1632
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:03,559
Speaker 2: concerts and the K pop band from Korea and all

1633
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 2: kinds of events.

1634
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 3: And it's been a massive success. But you really can't

1635
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:08,800
Speaker 3: compare this to that.

1636
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 2: There's another thing that sticks out in my mind. You know,

1637
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 2: Nashville wants baseball, Salt Lake City wants baseball. I think

1638
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 2: Orlando wants baseball. Portland wants baseball. There in those cities

1639
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 2: have been coalitions and organizations that have been formed, right,

1640
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 2: bring baseball to Salt Lake City, bring baseball to Nashville.

1641
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:30,439
Speaker 2: Even Dave Stewart, the former Oaklanday, is great, he's pushing

1642
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:33,719
Speaker 2: for the team Nashville. I don't see you those organizations here.

1643
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:37,839
Speaker 2: Now that's not to imply that the A's wouldn't be supported.

1644
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 2: I for one, would be very excited to have major

1645
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 2: League Baseball my first credential June and ninety four.

1646
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:46,879
Speaker 3: You've talked about it in my book.

1647
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 2: With the A's checked that the Tigers in the in

1648
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 2: the Toronto Blue Jays, the Knight of the OJ Chase.

1649
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball is awesome, and.

1650
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 2: You tell me it wouldn't be cool to see Tigers

1651
01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,680
Speaker 2: come here. It's even the former cronies I worked with

1652
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 2: in Detroit or the Yankees come and see, you know,

1653
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge play, whatever the case may be. Major League

1654
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 2: Baseball would be cool. I just don't know if it's reality.

1655
01:30:07,320 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 2: And I think to report that it's a done deal,

1656
01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:12,920
Speaker 2: which some people have just done, that I think is

1657
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 2: journalistically responsible.

1658
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,560
Speaker 3: Now Saturday night eleven fifteen.

1659
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 2: Pacific would have Alan Snell from LV Sports Biz on

1660
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 2: and we'll sort of set the record straight and give

1661
01:30:21,360 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 2: you the latest. Now, could this happen, Sure, but I'm

1662
01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:28,559
Speaker 2: giving it fifty to fifty sixty forty. Maybe we'll see

1663
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 2: what happens in the next week, because the clock is ticking,

1664
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 2: and it just feels like the chronology of this and

1665
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:39,839
Speaker 2: the way that it is unfolding is so much different

1666
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:43,200
Speaker 2: than what we saw with t Mobile Arena, when we

1667
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,559
Speaker 2: got the Vegas Golden Knights, or Allegiant Stadium, or even

1668
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 2: my tenure in Detroit when Camerica Park was built and

1669
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 2: Ford Field were built.

1670
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 3: There were so many more.

1671
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 2: There was such a linear, clear path that you could

1672
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:58,400
Speaker 2: see and observe and visualize that we don't have here.

1673
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 2: I mean, just last week that kings the area of land.

1674
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 2: They want to buy it just like that. So stay tuned.

1675
01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,879
Speaker 2: We're gonna continue to cover it, and I'm very interested

1676
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 2: to see what happens. For multiple reasons. This is not

1677
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 2: just a local story. This is this is an international story.

1678
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 2: There's no two ways about it. Coming up one of

1679
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 2: the stories that's flowing under the radar, but I think

1680
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 2: you're gonna see get a little bit more. Traction has

1681
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 2: to do with a gentleman by the name of Matta Raza,

1682
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 2: who is the best punter of the nation at San

1683
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 2: Diego State, make no mistake, got a four million dollars contract,

1684
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 2: but due to allegations about a potential alleged rape, he.

1685
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:37,599
Speaker 3: Lost it all.

1686
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:41,559
Speaker 2: Well, the worm has turned and it turns out there

1687
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 2: may have been an unfortunate rush to judgment. We're gonna

1688
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 2: bring in the crew and talk about this. As someone

1689
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 2: once said in Watergate years ago, where do I go

1690
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:51,679
Speaker 2: to get my reputation back? This is a real story here,

1691
01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:54,479
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure how well it's been reported We're

1692
01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:56,680
Speaker 2: gonna take a stab at it here coming up by

1693
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you live from Las Vegas,

1694
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,839
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Tire dot Com Studios.

1695
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 3: Keep it locked. Listen to the Bernie Fraddle Show on

1696
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.

1697
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:09,479
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Frattle Show company live

1698
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 2: for thee Tarac dot com Studios, Fox Sports Radar here

1699
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:19,000
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. And you probably, unless you were paying attention,

1700
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:23,600
Speaker 2: haven't really followed this story that is now back on

1701
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 2: the news.

1702
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 3: So let me set this up.

1703
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:31,480
Speaker 2: Ten months ago, last August, San Diego State punter Mattareza,

1704
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 2: the best punter in college football by a mile.

1705
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:38,040
Speaker 3: He signed with the Buffalo Bills.

1706
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:39,879
Speaker 2: Got a four million dollar contract, but he was released

1707
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:45,760
Speaker 2: fairly quickly before you know, preseason really even got going,

1708
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 2: because he was accused in a lawsuit along with some

1709
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:53,040
Speaker 2: other gentleman of gang rape against seventeen year old female

1710
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 2: while he was in San Diego State and at the

1711
01:32:56,880 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 2: time the GM for the Buffalo Bills. After release, Seham

1712
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 2: said he struggled to get answers about the situation. They're

1713
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 2: piecing it together and he said, quote, it was about

1714
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 2: lettymco handless situation. Well, Matt issued a statement at the

1715
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 2: time that he said the facts of the incident are

1716
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 2: not what they portrayed and to set the record straight,

1717
01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:22,679
Speaker 2: and his lawyer defended him made a lot of interesting

1718
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:27,120
Speaker 2: statements that may turn out to be true because ten

1719
01:33:27,160 --> 01:33:31,519
Speaker 2: months after this, new details have emerged and they've shared

1720
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:37,000
Speaker 2: now why Matt Aresa was never convicted of any charges.

1721
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 2: And turns out that as.

1722
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 3: Part of this process and part of this whole.

1723
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 2: Ordeal in the investigation, that a transcript revealed that the

1724
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 2: District Attorney's office said they had compiled enough video footage

1725
01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 2: to determine that Erasa wasn't even at the scene of

1726
01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 2: the attack when this edge gang rate happened based on

1727
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:06,720
Speaker 2: what the verbiage was quote, physical characteristics of the men

1728
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 2: show in the video, and this encounter allegedly happened between

1729
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 2: the victim and the assailants. There were more than one

1730
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:18,880
Speaker 2: allegedly between twelve fifty five am and one thirty am

1731
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 2: in the day in question, one hour after Arasa apparently

1732
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 2: left the party, and during this during this whole investigation,

1733
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 2: I'm hearing that multiple witness statements were released from guess

1734
01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 2: at the party, and they corroborate essentially that matter.

1735
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:45,799
Speaker 3: RASA was really not involved, so there were no charges.

1736
01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:47,960
Speaker 3: They're also footage from a cell.

1737
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:50,679
Speaker 2: Phone that shows the victim and one of Erasa's former

1738
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:55,439
Speaker 2: teammates engaging in you know what. But the long and

1739
01:34:55,479 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 2: the short of it is is that after a very

1740
01:34:58,600 --> 01:35:02,800
Speaker 2: thorough investigation, Di Strick, attorney, dismissed the charges. And I

1741
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 2: think there may be civil lawsuits. But Erasa was let

1742
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:08,759
Speaker 2: go from the Bills just days after the lawsuit was filed.

1743
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can call it cancel culture.

1744
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 2: You can call a Russian call whatever you want. And

1745
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:15,719
Speaker 2: he's yet to sign a d with another NFL team,

1746
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 2: and he told his agent. His agent told the USA

1747
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:24,000
Speaker 2: today that perhaps he's feeling the teams are being discriminatory

1748
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,400
Speaker 2: and perhaps even ignorant after he was cleared and proved

1749
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,720
Speaker 2: he did nothing wrong. It's like the old it's like

1750
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:32,720
Speaker 2: the old you know Watergate statement. Where do I go

1751
01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:36,000
Speaker 2: back to get my reputation? So this is a story

1752
01:35:36,479 --> 01:35:37,880
Speaker 2: I want to bring in the crew to get their

1753
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 2: thoughts from an independent standpoint. Kevin, Let's start with you've heard,

1754
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:47,679
Speaker 2: You've heard the facts as are recently reported. Does mattter

1755
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 2: Raisa deserve another chance, and with his abilities as the

1756
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:54,479
Speaker 2: best punter in the nation, what is happening here and

1757
01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:55,839
Speaker 2: what should happen in your view.

1758
01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, one hundred and fifty thousand percent, he deserves another

1759
01:35:58,520 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 7: chance after he's been cleared that you mentioned, the prosecutor

1760
01:36:01,240 --> 01:36:04,560
Speaker 7: basically cleared him and all the evidence, and look, it's unfortunate,

1761
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:07,679
Speaker 7: but I do understand why the Bills made the decision

1762
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 7: they made, even though a judgment hadn't been made, he

1763
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:13,439
Speaker 7: hadn't been officially put on trial yet. Just that the

1764
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 7: pr is just bad, especially in a situation involving something

1765
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:20,479
Speaker 7: as serious as sexual assault, because look, I guess the

1766
01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 7: logical way to look at it is if he does

1767
01:36:22,320 --> 01:36:26,040
Speaker 7: end up being innocent, then in theory, the floodgates should

1768
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 7: open up, and if he's talented enough, which obviously he is,

1769
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 7: he'll get another chance at a job in the NFL.

1770
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,560
Speaker 7: That clearly hasn't happened yet. But this decision also just

1771
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 7: came down earlier this week. I do believe that at

1772
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 7: some point in time he'll have his opportunity to re

1773
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 7: enter into the NFL again. It's unfortunate, it's that we

1774
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:45,640
Speaker 7: would rush to make a decision on something where for

1775
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 7: all the facts were sussed out. But I just do

1776
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 7: think of today's day and age when you're dealing with

1777
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:53,439
Speaker 7: allegations that heavy teams would rather be safe than sorry.

1778
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:57,120
Speaker 2: It's well said, and there's a stigma here, and there's

1779
01:36:57,120 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 2: a connotation here, and there are optics here. The problem

1780
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:05,360
Speaker 2: is they appear to be based on a false assumption.

1781
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:10,240
Speaker 2: And I listen, I believe strongly in second and rape

1782
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:12,720
Speaker 2: is as serious as it gets. But if they've got

1783
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,639
Speaker 2: evidence that he wasn't even there, and there have been

1784
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 2: corroborated statements in metadata and videos that and now the

1785
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 2: charges have been dropped, which it maybe never should have

1786
01:37:22,080 --> 01:37:24,960
Speaker 2: been in the first place. I really feel for this kid,

1787
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 2: because look, he's talented. Your thoughts Patrick Sweek on this whole.

1788
01:37:32,200 --> 01:37:36,600
Speaker 8: Deal, Yeah, Bernie, I actually agree as well that he

1789
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:40,200
Speaker 8: should get a second chance in the NFL, just based

1790
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:43,520
Speaker 8: on him, you know, being you know, the case dismissed

1791
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:47,240
Speaker 8: and he's pretty much been you know, discredited with being

1792
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 8: any involved in all that stuff going forward, and not

1793
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 8: just that, but uh, you know, the NFL is such

1794
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 8: a you know, a very second chance giving for giving leagues,

1795
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 8: considering they've given some chances to a bevy of players,

1796
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 8: one notably being like Michael Vick when he did his

1797
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:08,640
Speaker 8: ole uh what was it? Dog fighting scandal, which is

1798
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:11,720
Speaker 8: not does not equate to you know, maybe like you know,

1799
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 8: stuff such as sexual assault. But you know, we give

1800
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:17,760
Speaker 8: second chances here. The NFL will do that as well.

1801
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:19,960
Speaker 8: I do believe he will get a second chance. And

1802
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 8: with you know, within the last week he just you know,

1803
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 8: got you know, dismissing all stuff. I wouldn't be shocked

1804
01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 8: if we started hearing like teams are interested in him

1805
01:38:29,640 --> 01:38:31,599
Speaker 8: within the next what like a month or two.

1806
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 2: And by the way, I was on the air in

1807
01:38:33,360 --> 01:38:36,160
Speaker 2: Detroit in two thousand and nine. I defended Michael vict

1808
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:39,680
Speaker 2: to the hilt. He paid his debt to society, he

1809
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 2: came out, and he still had a lot of talent,

1810
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 2: played seven winners in the league, was all pro a

1811
01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:46,200
Speaker 2: couple of times. Michael Vick's a good guy and I've

1812
01:38:46,200 --> 01:38:48,559
Speaker 2: met him. It's a real good guy. And so he

1813
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 2: had a situation and he put it behind him. You

1814
01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 2: guys want quick last thought on this, but just so

1815
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:57,559
Speaker 2: everybody knows, there there's still a civil suit that is active,

1816
01:38:58,640 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 2: and it's there's a while set for October in San Diego.

1817
01:39:02,040 --> 01:39:04,200
Speaker 2: And I don't know if this spooks NFL teams as well,

1818
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 2: but this needs to be put on the record that

1819
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:12,640
Speaker 2: it turns out that the victim's attorney a gentleman. I

1820
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:16,520
Speaker 2: think his name is Dan somebody. He said that Erasa

1821
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:19,240
Speaker 2: was given the option to settle the civil case for

1822
01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:23,760
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars, but Erasa said no. He says, I'm

1823
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 2: not settling it because that would be admitting guilt. To me,

1824
01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 2: that's powerful, Kevin. Final thoughts. Will he end up on

1825
01:39:30,479 --> 01:39:34,120
Speaker 2: an NFL roster before his days are gone on this earth?

1826
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 7: He will absolutely end up on an NFL roster. Whether

1827
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 7: he'll do it this year, unfortunately, is tough. The draft

1828
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 7: just ended. Rosters for the most part are set. But look,

1829
01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:44,600
Speaker 7: maybe he'll get a training camp invite. He'll have to

1830
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 7: earn his way back on to a roster as opposed

1831
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:51,200
Speaker 7: to getting a solid, ironclad contract. But look, he's talented enough,

1832
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 7: as we mentioned, I definitely believe that at least by

1833
01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:56,120
Speaker 7: next season he'll be on an NFL roster.

1834
01:39:56,920 --> 01:40:00,040
Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, I'm in agreement, and I think I

1835
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 2: think that's what needs to happen. If all of these

1836
01:40:02,240 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 2: accounts legal accounts are correct, Patrick Real quickly will do

1837
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 2: you believe Matt Raza will end up on an NFL

1838
01:40:09,040 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 2: roster again?

1839
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, I believe he will. And maybe, barring any

1840
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 8: punting injuries this season, maybe he appears, you know, as

1841
01:40:18,520 --> 01:40:22,040
Speaker 8: a replacement for someone getting hurt. But definitely, certainly by

1842
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:24,040
Speaker 8: next season he should definitely find a new home.

1843
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:25,759
Speaker 2: All right, this is the story We're going to continue

1844
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:28,759
Speaker 2: to follow, guys, because I think it's worthy of attention

1845
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 2: coming out Chris Perffet's World of Soccer. But first, let's

1846
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:34,040
Speaker 2: go back to our guy, Kevin Figures with the latest.

1847
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:34,320
Speaker 3: All right.

1848
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 7: We had a couple of game sixes in the NBA

1849
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:39,200
Speaker 7: on Friday night and a couple of series clinching victories

1850
01:40:39,280 --> 01:40:42,360
Speaker 7: as well. In Los Angeles, the Lakers dominated Golden State

1851
01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 7: one twenty two to one oh one, thirty points for

1852
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:48,960
Speaker 7: Lebron James, his first thirty points scoring output of this postseason.

1853
01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:52,240
Speaker 7: Lakers held Golden States to just twenty seven percent from

1854
01:40:52,439 --> 01:40:54,960
Speaker 7: three point range. LA will take on Denver in the

1855
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:57,840
Speaker 7: Western Conference Finals, with Game one schedule for Tuesday nights.

1856
01:40:58,120 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 7: The heater back in the Eastern Conference Finals picked up

1857
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:03,200
Speaker 7: a ninety six to ninety two victory over the Knicks

1858
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:07,240
Speaker 7: behind Jimmy Butler's twenty four points. They await the winner

1859
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 7: of the Celtics six Ers Game seven, which will take

1860
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:12,720
Speaker 7: place on Sunday. In the NFL, AT group led by

1861
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,639
Speaker 7: seventy six Ers and New Jersey Devil's owner Josh Harris

1862
01:41:15,680 --> 01:41:19,280
Speaker 7: officially reached agreement to purchase the Washington Commanders for just

1863
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 7: over six billion dollars. The Vikings traded three time Pro

1864
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 7: Bowl linebackers Adarius Smith to Cleveland for draft picks. You

1865
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 7: had victories in Major League Baseball for the Blue Jays, Brewers,

1866
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 7: Phillies and the Dodgers, who beat San Diego four to two.

1867
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 7: Home runs there for Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. And

1868
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 7: hockey Florida advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a

1869
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:40,439
Speaker 7: victory over Toronto, Las Vegas beating Edmonton to take a

1870
01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 7: three to two series lead back to Bernie Fredam.

1871
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 3: Thanks good job, Buddy, all right.

1872
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:51,360
Speaker 2: Big names in the news in soccer, including a footballer

1873
01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:55,160
Speaker 2: who is a prolific goalscorer like a Wayne Gretzky and

1874
01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 2: an ex NFL player who's jumping into the fray investing

1875
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:02,120
Speaker 2: in an English soccer team. So that's why every week

1876
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:05,160
Speaker 2: we bring you at this time Chris purfets world of soccer.

1877
01:42:05,960 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 9: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum.

1878
01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: It's all here in this report from the world of soccer.

1879
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, big names in the news. You last year

1880
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:32,759
Speaker 2: about this time brought us the name of Arling Holland.

1881
01:42:33,160 --> 01:42:36,680
Speaker 2: The guy scores goals like most people drink coffee.

1882
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 3: Take it away.

1883
01:42:39,200 --> 01:42:41,879
Speaker 6: Fifty one goal so far by Erling Holland.

1884
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:42,360
Speaker 3: He is.

1885
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:44,479
Speaker 6: He's not the You have to go back to the

1886
01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:47,519
Speaker 6: nineteen twenties to find the record holder for goals scored

1887
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,600
Speaker 6: in the in the top division for England football, but

1888
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:53,280
Speaker 6: Arling Holland is very close. And yes, this week he

1889
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:56,719
Speaker 6: won the Football Writers Association Footballer of the Year Award,

1890
01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:00,320
Speaker 6: which is for players in England, so that you mean

1891
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:03,719
Speaker 6: the Premier League, the English Football League, et cetera, and

1892
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:06,920
Speaker 6: Earling Holland won. He won it by eighty two percent

1893
01:43:06,960 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 6: of the vote, which is the largest margin ever in

1894
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:14,760
Speaker 6: the awards history. And I don't think there's anyone even

1895
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:16,840
Speaker 6: close to seconds right now. What he has done this

1896
01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:20,160
Speaker 6: season has been nothing short of incredible. The amount of

1897
01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 6: hat tricks he's had, the amount of goals he scored,

1898
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 6: Alky has just sliced through defenses and destroyed goalkeepers through

1899
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 6: this all has a nothing short of phenomenal. There's a

1900
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:33,240
Speaker 6: great piece I was reading in The Athletic the other

1901
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,120
Speaker 6: night about what a weird life he leads as far

1902
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:39,120
Speaker 6: as late night pasta and things of that nature. So

1903
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 6: larger than life, larger life Norwegian and a wonderful, wonderful

1904
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 6: career this year and a couple two three more games

1905
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:50,760
Speaker 6: to go from Manchester City, who by the way, took

1906
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:53,920
Speaker 6: a one point lead and looks to be maybe getting

1907
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 6: a Premier League title along with still being in Champions

1908
01:43:57,520 --> 01:44:00,639
Speaker 6: League play. By the way, the FWA all so their

1909
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:05,519
Speaker 6: women winner. The winner for the Women's Footballer of the

1910
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:07,719
Speaker 6: Year is back to back. That would be Chelsea striker

1911
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 6: Sam Kerr, who is a name to keep a lookout for.

1912
01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:13,839
Speaker 6: In two months time as we go to the Women's

1913
01:44:13,840 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 6: World Cup, she'll be playing for the one of the

1914
01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:18,560
Speaker 6: two host countries, Australia.

1915
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:22,599
Speaker 2: So the minute you brought his name up last year,

1916
01:44:22,640 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 2: I think he had a hat trick the next day

1917
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:28,439
Speaker 2: and it's been Yes, it's just kept going right from there.

1918
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:30,840
Speaker 3: All right, another him and then go ahead.

1919
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just saying, like he's one of those

1920
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 6: names that's right now, Like it's it depends on your

1921
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:38,840
Speaker 6: mileage with soccer in the United States, but he's one

1922
01:44:38,880 --> 01:44:41,720
Speaker 6: of those names that's starting to transcend things. He's not

1923
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,400
Speaker 6: a Lionel Messi yet, but like people are noticing this

1924
01:44:44,439 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 6: season like he's a highlight reel and he can follow

1925
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 6: it up in any which way in any kind of

1926
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:53,919
Speaker 6: international player. Next season, he's gonna it's gonna keep turning.

1927
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:56,240
Speaker 3: Heads absolutely, all right.

1928
01:44:56,280 --> 01:44:58,559
Speaker 2: A guy who turned heads in a national football league

1929
01:44:59,040 --> 01:45:01,919
Speaker 2: is not becoming in yes, along with many other American

1930
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:04,880
Speaker 2: celebrities in English soccer, and you're going to recognize his

1931
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:05,479
Speaker 2: name right.

1932
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,160
Speaker 4: Away, that's right.

1933
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:10,360
Speaker 6: JJ Watts announced this week he and his wife are

1934
01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:15,559
Speaker 6: investing in the English club Burnley and they've got quite

1935
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 6: a nice few pieces about them, just character pieces that

1936
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:22,400
Speaker 6: came out pretty quick about it. But it's kind of this,

1937
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:25,559
Speaker 6: as you say, it's kind of this effect that's really happened,

1938
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 6: and I feel like soccer in this country is becoming

1939
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:32,320
Speaker 6: I don't want to say sexy. I feel like we've

1940
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 6: done that before with some of the premier League stuff,

1941
01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 6: But I don't think there's we can say there's hasn't

1942
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:40,320
Speaker 6: been like an effect from something that's like ted Lasso,

1943
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:44,120
Speaker 6: that the television show on Apple TV that everyone's really

1944
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,799
Speaker 6: bombed onto. But that kind of led to Welcome to Wrexham,

1945
01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:51,799
Speaker 6: where Ryan Reynolds and Rob mclheney went out and actually

1946
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:54,240
Speaker 6: bought a club, and I think other people have kind

1947
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:57,720
Speaker 6: of followed them into that sphere. So JJ Watt has

1948
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:01,919
Speaker 6: decided to follow in those footsteps, and he was apparently

1949
01:46:01,960 --> 01:46:06,320
Speaker 6: out in a pub crawl doing research. Yes, yeah, so

1950
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:10,120
Speaker 6: like he's taking this, he's taking this seriously. I think

1951
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:12,120
Speaker 6: there's a lot of fun to be had and I

1952
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:14,920
Speaker 6: think for a lot of people like it's not ownership,

1953
01:46:15,439 --> 01:46:17,559
Speaker 6: but at the same time to be able to invest

1954
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:20,120
Speaker 6: in these clubs, to show up to the matches, to

1955
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 6: see the atmosphere. It just more and more people are

1956
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 6: getting Americans are getting involved in kind of the top

1957
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 6: flight of Premier League. Did you know the twenty clubs

1958
01:46:29,360 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 6: that we have in the Premier League, seven of them

1959
01:46:31,200 --> 01:46:35,600
Speaker 6: are owned by American American business interest groups, be that

1960
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,760
Speaker 6: Stan Cranky or Fenway Sports Group or just any other

1961
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:41,560
Speaker 6: investors like JJ Watt.

1962
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:44,840
Speaker 2: And JJ Watt went on England's version of like Good

1963
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 2: Morning America, and he talked about what an education it's

1964
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 2: been for him that when you grow up in a village,

1965
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:55,280
Speaker 2: no matter where you are in the UK, that team

1966
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:58,320
Speaker 2: is your team for life and it's not negotiable, right,

1967
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 2: and the fandom is it's so intense and it's hand

1968
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:05,200
Speaker 2: and down, generation and generation. He didn't know that, but

1969
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:07,519
Speaker 2: it was very revealing and it sort of adds to

1970
01:47:07,640 --> 01:47:08,440
Speaker 2: the intrigue.

1971
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 6: It's it's something I've learned in getting through soccer too.

1972
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 6: Like we give a lot of attention in these segments

1973
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 6: over here because we love the big clubs. We love

1974
01:47:16,560 --> 01:47:18,720
Speaker 6: the Manchester's the world, we love the arsenals of the world,

1975
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 6: we love Barcelona. But yes, like some of my British friends,

1976
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 6: I'm very close with a you know, I run my

1977
01:47:24,560 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 6: Lions podcast on the side and I'm very close to

1978
01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 6: some British friends who made their own podcast and it's

1979
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 6: remarkable on how many cling to I think. I was

1980
01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:34,880
Speaker 6: just talked with one of them. His club is Chesterfield,

1981
01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:37,639
Speaker 6: who's in the National League, the fifth tier. They're going

1982
01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 6: in a playoff to try to join Wrexham in promotion

1983
01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:42,920
Speaker 6: but that's Chesterfield. He doesn't have another club. He doesn't

1984
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:45,280
Speaker 6: have a big club. This would be like if you, Bernie,

1985
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 6: whatever town you grew up in, you decided to follow

1986
01:47:47,960 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 6: your Double A or Single A baseball team as your

1987
01:47:51,160 --> 01:47:53,040
Speaker 6: main team. If I had, you know, I grew up

1988
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 6: in Toledo, Ohio. If I if I cared about the

1989
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:57,880
Speaker 6: mud Hens far more than I ever did the Tigers,

1990
01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:01,679
Speaker 6: that'd be kind of the same situation. It's remarkable to watch.

1991
01:48:01,720 --> 01:48:05,599
Speaker 6: The loyalty is very commendable and it's it's really something

1992
01:48:05,680 --> 01:48:09,280
Speaker 6: that is really makes the whole, the whole atmosphere of

1993
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:10,960
Speaker 6: soccer very special well.

1994
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:15,080
Speaker 2: And it makes these rivalries very authentic. They're not imagined.

1995
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 2: There are no bandwagoners. You're literally born into it and

1996
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:24,000
Speaker 2: that's something Finally, man you they finish and in a

1997
01:48:24,000 --> 01:48:27,840
Speaker 2: way that has has really sort of symbolic for menu.

1998
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's been up and down right now here.

1999
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 6: The Manchester United. Manchester United, they lost, They've lost their

2000
01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:39,240
Speaker 6: last two matches and gone from a surefire thing as

2001
01:48:39,280 --> 01:48:42,000
Speaker 6: a top four finish in the Premier League which would

2002
01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 6: qualify them for the Champions League, to trying to hold

2003
01:48:46,040 --> 01:48:49,920
Speaker 6: off trying to hold off Liverpool by a single point

2004
01:48:50,040 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 6: right now that you have a game in hand. But

2005
01:48:52,439 --> 01:48:54,920
Speaker 6: they have not been playing well at all. As I said,

2006
01:48:54,920 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 6: they lost one nil to west Ham United the match

2007
01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 6: prior one nil to right in hon Albion. He isn't

2008
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:03,960
Speaker 6: not matches they should be losing, especially with the new

2009
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 6: look Red Devils. Things to manager Eric ten Hogg and

2010
01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 6: they're gonna be in a bit of a pickle here.

2011
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 6: They've got they've got to They've got to win three

2012
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 6: of their last four matches to notch up a top

2013
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:19,439
Speaker 6: four finish. They're playing the Wolverhampton Wanders here a little

2014
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 6: later today and uh, they're gonna be without their biggest star,

2015
01:49:23,080 --> 01:49:25,960
Speaker 6: Marcus Rashford. Maybe I think I saw him. He is

2016
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 6: scratched as a doubt. It's kind of emblematic, man. You

2017
01:49:29,560 --> 01:49:32,360
Speaker 6: is really wanting to stay on the spotlight. They really.

2018
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:35,479
Speaker 6: It feels like it's been their resurgence, but it's starting

2019
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:38,080
Speaker 6: to get a little tarnished a little bit. Their manager

2020
01:49:38,200 --> 01:49:41,160
Speaker 6: Eric Hog is talking about how you know he really

2021
01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 6: wants to attract new big star name and new big

2022
01:49:43,960 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 6: star name want to come to man. You but if

2023
01:49:46,880 --> 01:49:50,320
Speaker 6: they don't make Champions League here then that's gonna turnish

2024
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:51,800
Speaker 6: that a little bit. That might chase off some of

2025
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:54,559
Speaker 6: the names. If Manchester United is not playing in the

2026
01:49:54,600 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 6: Champions League, they really need this top four.

2027
01:49:56,400 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 3: Finish before we let you go. Is relegation done now

2028
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:02,040
Speaker 3: or as that continue?

2029
01:50:02,680 --> 01:50:05,080
Speaker 6: No, We've still got a few more right now. Your

2030
01:50:05,120 --> 01:50:09,000
Speaker 6: bottom three are Leicester City, Leeds United and Southampton Southampton.

2031
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:11,400
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure at this point, at twenty four points

2032
01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:17,320
Speaker 6: with three matches to play, is basically relegated. Leeds, lester

2033
01:50:17,600 --> 01:50:20,799
Speaker 6: and Everton and Nottingham Forest are all within three points

2034
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 6: of it, and it's going to be a bit of

2035
01:50:23,040 --> 01:50:25,439
Speaker 6: a fight here. But I could see that going up

2036
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 6: to the final day of the Premier League season.

2037
01:50:28,160 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 2: By the way, Barcelona can clinch this weekend Theliga. By

2038
01:50:32,439 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 2: the way, also Messi is back in the lineup. I

2039
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,120
Speaker 2: guess Saturday is e going end up back in Barcelona

2040
01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:37,559
Speaker 2: next year?

2041
01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:37,960
Speaker 3: Yes?

2042
01:50:38,840 --> 01:50:42,840
Speaker 6: So yeah so real quick. PFG did lift their suspension

2043
01:50:42,880 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 6: on Lionel Messi for taking the trip to Saudi Arabia,

2044
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:50,000
Speaker 6: probably because their hold on League One the French League

2045
01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:54,160
Speaker 6: is down to just three points. They are not there

2046
01:50:54,240 --> 01:50:57,479
Speaker 6: is a top final. Top title finish is not a

2047
01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:00,360
Speaker 6: guaranteed for them, and they haven't been playing well. Need

2048
01:51:00,439 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 6: Messi back. As for Barcelona, I kind of expected this point.

2049
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:08,720
Speaker 6: Barcelona has been very resurgent. Real Madrid obviously has won

2050
01:51:08,720 --> 01:51:11,360
Speaker 6: the Copa del Rey and they'll probably be in contention

2051
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 6: for the Champions League. But Barcelona is back, and I

2052
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:18,799
Speaker 6: think Lionel Lionel Messi's hart is still remains in that city,

2053
01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:20,800
Speaker 6: in that club where he has spent nearly all of

2054
01:51:20,840 --> 01:51:21,360
Speaker 6: his career.

2055
01:51:22,280 --> 01:51:23,439
Speaker 3: All right, good stuff, Chris.

2056
01:51:23,479 --> 01:51:25,759
Speaker 2: About twenty four hours, we'll have an update Chris Prefet's

2057
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:26,320
Speaker 2: World of Soccer.

2058
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:27,639
Speaker 3: All right, Chris, get some sleep man.

2059
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:30,160
Speaker 6: Thanks, Bernie, have a good one.

2060
01:51:30,479 --> 01:51:33,479
Speaker 3: Chris Purfett's World of Soccer. Coming up.

2061
01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 2: The Golden State Warriors went down, the Boston Bruins went down,

2062
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:42,720
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia seventy six ers are whistling through the graveyard

2063
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:45,879
Speaker 2: as we speak, and the list goes on. Winning titles

2064
01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:48,840
Speaker 2: are not a given, especially for a number one seed.

2065
01:51:49,439 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 3: Just go back after the last.

2066
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 2: Twenty one seasons and we'll share with you how hard

2067
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:56,479
Speaker 2: it is to win a title in any of the

2068
01:51:56,520 --> 01:52:00,160
Speaker 2: four major sports, even though expectations might have been there,

2069
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:02,679
Speaker 2: and your regular season might have been off the charts.

2070
01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:06,120
Speaker 2: Once again, just look at the NHL. There's very little

2071
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:09,960
Speaker 2: correlation between what happens in the regular season and what

2072
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,760
Speaker 2: happens in the playoffs. Just ask the Boston Bruins and

2073
01:52:13,840 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 2: the Colorado Avalanche. I'm Bernie Fraddlework Comedy Live from Las Vegas,

2074
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:20,080
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio tirect dot com studios.

2075
01:52:20,479 --> 01:52:22,840
Speaker 3: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

2076
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:24,160
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio.

2077
01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:27,320
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2078
01:52:27,320 --> 01:52:30,719
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2079
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2080
01:52:35,040 --> 01:52:35,719
Speaker 1: listen live.

2081
01:52:37,080 --> 01:52:39,760
Speaker 2: All right, wrapping it up on The Bernie Frattle Show

2082
01:52:40,520 --> 01:52:43,519
Speaker 2: comedy live from the tarrect dot com studios, Fox Sports

2083
01:52:43,600 --> 01:52:46,559
Speaker 2: Radio here in Las Vegas, Nevada. For go any further,

2084
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:49,680
Speaker 2: I want to thank my broadcast team. They've been with

2085
01:52:49,720 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 2: me since eleven pm Pacific on on Friday night. Patrick

2086
01:52:55,960 --> 01:52:59,800
Speaker 2: sweeka jumping in last minute, Ethan was sick.

2087
01:53:00,040 --> 01:53:01,000
Speaker 3: Great job by Patrick.

2088
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:03,719
Speaker 2: Will be with me again Saturday night, eleven pm Pacific,

2089
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:08,479
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey turning all the dials keeping us glued together,

2090
01:53:08,520 --> 01:53:12,120
Speaker 2: and of course Kevin Figures on the updates. Great job guys,

2091
01:53:12,160 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 2: and I will be back on these air waves again

2092
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:15,880
Speaker 2: Saturday night, eleven PM.

2093
01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 3: Full slate of things.

2094
01:53:17,120 --> 01:53:19,200
Speaker 2: We'll have a special guest talking about the Oaklan Negs

2095
01:53:19,200 --> 01:53:22,519
Speaker 2: to Vegas. We've got Mark Medina Medina Magic Midnight going

2096
01:53:22,520 --> 01:53:25,479
Speaker 2: over these crazy wacky NBA playoffs, will preview Game seven

2097
01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:28,840
Speaker 2: Boston Philadelphia. We're going to dive more into the A's

2098
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:33,280
Speaker 2: to Vegas, more stuff about the NFL Draft and takeaways

2099
01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:36,679
Speaker 2: and the playoffs raging, and we're going to get into

2100
01:53:38,040 --> 01:53:43,160
Speaker 2: some issues what we know about what people are referring

2101
01:53:43,200 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 2: to as the Alabama baseball betting controversy and some of

2102
01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:51,200
Speaker 2: the things that have been misreported, things of that nature,

2103
01:53:52,040 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 2: but it gives sort of an overall panoramic view. Next week,

2104
01:53:56,080 --> 01:53:58,559
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have a special guest down talking about how

2105
01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 2: the world of betting in better position than it's ever

2106
01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:03,960
Speaker 2: been because there are so many regulations. When you hear

2107
01:54:04,040 --> 01:54:07,479
Speaker 2: these incidents where someone's made a bet from their cell

2108
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 2: phone or there's a situation where someone's talking to a

2109
01:54:09,880 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 2: coach on a cell phone, it shows you that the

2110
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:16,839
Speaker 2: system's working. These are not negative issues, they're positive because

2111
01:54:17,360 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 2: it's come out of the shadows were coming upon the

2112
01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:23,919
Speaker 2: five year anniversary of PASPA when sports betting was legalized

2113
01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:26,360
Speaker 2: and relegated back to states, and now there are thirty

2114
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:29,600
Speaker 2: three states that have come online. All Right, it's not

2115
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:33,680
Speaker 2: a fun day for the you know, Boston Bruins, and

2116
01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:36,720
Speaker 2: it's certainly not a fun day for the Golden State Warriors.

2117
01:54:36,720 --> 01:54:37,640
Speaker 3: It's tough to win a title.

2118
01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:40,040
Speaker 2: It's not a given, even if you've been the number

2119
01:54:40,040 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 2: one team all season or the number one seed. And

2120
01:54:43,160 --> 01:54:46,480
Speaker 2: if you go back in the last twenty seasons, you

2121
01:54:46,520 --> 01:54:49,280
Speaker 2: know you dig deep. The NFL is really the only

2122
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 2: sports league where top seeded teams have reached the championship

2123
01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 2: round about fifty percent of the time in the last

2124
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:58,800
Speaker 2: twenty seasons. And in the NFL, I mean, just go

2125
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 2: back twenty years. You had forty number one seeds, right,

2126
01:55:00,880 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 2: you had the number one seed in the NFC and

2127
01:55:03,240 --> 01:55:05,360
Speaker 2: the end of number one seed in the AFC, but

2128
01:55:05,400 --> 01:55:07,120
Speaker 2: twenty one of them made it to the Super Bowl.

2129
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:10,360
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, fifteen of the last forty you have

2130
01:55:10,720 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 2: actually got to the World Series. The NBA thirteen the

2131
01:55:14,160 --> 01:55:16,120
Speaker 2: last forty you have gotten to the NBA Finals. In

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Speaker 2: the NHL, the only six of the top forty number

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Speaker 2: one seeds have played the Stanley Cup in the last

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Speaker 2: twenty years. So that's still not great percentages, right, that's

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01:55:27,120 --> 01:55:29,200
Speaker 2: fifty five out of potential one hundred and sixty. And

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Speaker 2: this is the number one seed all year. Now, when

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01:55:32,280 --> 01:55:37,280
Speaker 2: you look at this year, the Boston Bruins and the

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks the respective number one seeds in each of

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Speaker 2: their sports hockey and basketball NBA, NHL, they weren't just

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Speaker 2: number one seeds. They had their league's best regular season records.

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Speaker 2: But even then, as it turns out, isn't exactly a

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Speaker 2: recipe for championships. See only three of the past twenty

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Speaker 2: Stanley Cup champions had the best regular season record that year.

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Speaker 2: And again you mentioned the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA.

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01:56:09,360 --> 01:56:12,480
Speaker 2: They've each had six sets teams over the last twenty seasons. Now,

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01:56:12,520 --> 01:56:15,360
Speaker 2: that doubles the NHL tality, but still fewer than you

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Speaker 2: might think. Here's a while stant for you. The Bruins

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Speaker 2: in their early departure means that the best regular season

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Speaker 2: team in the history of each four big league's titles

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01:56:27,680 --> 01:56:31,400
Speaker 2: of all four major sports completely failed to capture and

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01:56:31,440 --> 01:56:32,960
Speaker 2: they got knocked out in the first run by an

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Speaker 2: eight seed, a very good eight seed. By the way,

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Speaker 2: the Florida Panthers, who were actually the President's Club Winner

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01:56:37,680 --> 01:56:41,600
Speaker 2: President's Trophy winners in the year prior. But let's take

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Speaker 2: a little lockdown memory lane. Remember nineteen oh six the Cubs,

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01:56:46,200 --> 01:56:48,680
Speaker 2: Sure he do. He won one hundred and sixteen games

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Speaker 2: and lost thirty six, but they lost in the World Series.

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Speaker 2: You may remember the great Seattle Mariners team with eachro

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighteen games.

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Speaker 3: They didn't even get to the World Series.

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Speaker 2: How about recently the NBA war Warriors seventy three and

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Speaker 2: nine twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen. They lost in the

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Speaker 2: NBA Finals to Lebron and the Cleveland Cavaliers, even though

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Speaker 2: they had them down three games to one.

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Speaker 3: I know you.

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Speaker 2: Remember two thousand and seven Super Bowl forty one. The

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Speaker 2: Patriots were sixteen to zero. They outwaight won both playoff games.

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Speaker 3: They were cruising.

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Speaker 2: They get to the New York Giants and they lose

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Speaker 2: to Eli Manning in the New York Giants in the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. So the Patriots had a chance to go

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01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 2: nineteen and oh lost in the Super Bowl. The Cubs

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Speaker 2: and the Mariners ridiculous records one hundred and eighteen wins,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen wins, the seventy three win Warriors.

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Speaker 2: They lose in the NBA Finals. The NHL this year,

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01:57:43,440 --> 01:57:47,120
Speaker 2: the Boston Bruins sixty five and twelve and then five ties.

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01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 2: They lost twelve games in five months. Then they lose

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Speaker 2: four and ten days. They don't just lose in the

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Speaker 2: first round, they lose to a number eight seed. The

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Speaker 2: bottom line, it's very hard to win a championship. There

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01:57:57,800 --> 01:58:01,480
Speaker 2: are no guarantees. Even if you have the best record

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01:58:01,480 --> 01:58:03,600
Speaker 2: and you're the number one seed for an entire season.

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Speaker 2: It's turning out that the self impost pressure, there's no

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Speaker 2: guarantee that's going to continue on to the postseason. It's

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Speaker 2: going to do it for the Bernie Frattles show back

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Speaker 2: on these airwaves Saturday night, eleven pm.

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Speaker 3: But in the meantime, keep it locked right here.

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Speaker 2: Up next, the Great Anthony Gargano on Fox Sports Radio,