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Speaker 1: Ah. Here we go on to Thursday. A lot more

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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about than I thought we'd have to

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Speaker 1: talk about, but all sorts of things happening, the combustability rating,

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Speaker 1: the combustibility factor. In Pittsburgh, we got a controversy with

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. So nice to have you in today. So

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Speaker 1: I can I can argue over the last you know,

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Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years, the greatest Pittsburgh Steeler is Big Ben

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and James Harris on a short list of the

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Speaker 1: second best player great players. Well, they have podcasts and

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Speaker 1: they've gone on those podcasts over the last year or

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Speaker 1: two and been critical of Mike Tomlin and the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, their message is pretty smart. Their

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Speaker 1: message to me was spot on. But according to Joey

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Speaker 1: Porter Senior, whose son plays for the Steelers, so you

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Speaker 1: know he gets very emotional. Joey Porter Senior says Big Ben,

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Speaker 1: who he calls number seven and James Harrison broke the brotherhood.

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Speaker 1: He used his brotherhood in the Arctic line, reading like

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Speaker 1: seven times. So just remember that word. Here is Joey

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Speaker 1: Porter Senior mad at James Harrison and number seven Big Ben.

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Speaker 3: Seven definitely broke the brotherhood because like.

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Speaker 4: That's the one I don't understand the.

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Speaker 1: Seven dude that did that. We don't talk about it

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Speaker 1: now is crazy.

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Speaker 3: He should never grab a microphone and really talk still

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Speaker 3: a business because if we talk and still a business, yea,

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Speaker 3: his ass is foul of all foul. He's not a

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Speaker 3: good teammate. Won a Super Bowl, would he? But the

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Speaker 3: person he's just not a good teammate, Like he knows that.

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Speaker 3: Anybody in the Steller building knows that. But we protected him.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: If James Harrison and Big Ben don't buy into the

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Speaker 1: brotherhood his word, maybe the brotherhood's not that important. I

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Speaker 1: also know Big Ben and James Harrison hit when you

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Speaker 1: start attacking the messengers and not the message they're onto

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Speaker 1: something that brotherhood couldn't beat Blake Bortles at home in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs or Baker Mayfield that brotherhood in the last

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Speaker 1: eleven games against playoff teams one and ten, averaging fifteen

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Speaker 1: points giving up twenty eight. The Steelers culture forever under

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Speaker 1: Tomlin was talent and toughness. I like those qualities, and

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Speaker 1: I guess brotherhood. But with the Chiefs and the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: and mcvay's rams and Shanahan's forty nine Ers, I get

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Speaker 1: the toughness and the talent too, but I get discipline

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Speaker 1: and schemes like smart football. Have you ever noticed over

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Speaker 1: the last ten years, as football has gotten much smarter,

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Speaker 1: more motion, more deception, more looks. There's so many great

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Speaker 1: coaches out there, Famiko, Ryans, Mike McDonald on the defensive side,

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Speaker 1: mcveiy Shanahan offensive side. Have you noticed during that time

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have become less relevant? That's why I defended

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Speaker 1: old guy Aaron Rodgers this year. Was he part of

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Speaker 1: the brotherhood? No, he was the new guy. But the

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Speaker 1: offense finally like grown ups, Fewer penalties, fewer turnovers. Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: the new guy walked in at forty two, and it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is despite having some limitations at wide receiver, You're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is how an offense should function. That Steeler brotherhood

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Speaker 1: has not beaten a top ten quarterback in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in fifteen years, and Big Ben and James Harrison called

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Speaker 1: it out. You know, Mike Tomlin, bottom ten offense seven years?

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Speaker 1: Why not innovative, not creative? You can win with defense.

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Speaker 1: Seattle did it, but a sophisticated, sophisticated, progressive new approach.

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Speaker 1: New looks not just what the Steelers do. Let's spend

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Speaker 1: more money. The Steelers pass defense this past year twenty

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Speaker 1: Big Ben and James Harrison, and it takes some courage

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Speaker 1: to do this, pushed back on very popular Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: pushed back on this organization which keeps everything in house.

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Speaker 1: I'm not into that. I'm about beating teams in February,

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Speaker 1: in January top quarterbacks. So I mean this whole thing

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Speaker 1: about talent and toughness. Everybody in the NFL is tough.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the NFL has talent. Even called it brotherhood.

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Speaker 1: But if Big Ben and James Harrison are saying things

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Speaker 1: You don't discuss real problems, you don't put them out there,

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Speaker 1: you don't take criticism. Well, you get stubborn and rigid,

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Speaker 1: way we do it. They brought in forty two year

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Speaker 1: old Aaron Rodgers, old guy in one off season. He

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Speaker 1: I'm going to defend Big Ben and James Harrison going

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Speaker 1: out and saying there's some issues here, and some of

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Speaker 1: them are Mike Tomlin. It should be noted Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: the only people that wanted to bring that up. Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees was on the show yesterday and he was great,

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Speaker 1: And I was at the end of the show and

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Speaker 1: I said, Drew, if you look at your career and

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Speaker 1: you look at Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold's career and

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Speaker 1: all the turbulence you both had early, does Sam's career

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Speaker 1: remind you drew a little of your early career.

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Speaker 5: All the lessons that we hope to teach our kids

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Speaker 5: through sports and through team athletics, and that is that

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Speaker 5: you will face adversity, you will face failure and disappointment,

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Speaker 5: and it's how you react to it that matters. And

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Speaker 5: while it didn't work at the first couple of teams

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Speaker 5: that he went to, he continued to work. He continued

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Speaker 5: to recognize where he needed to get better and learn.

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Speaker 5: While it wasn't maybe the road that he would have

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Speaker 5: envisioned when he first got in the league, it was

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Speaker 5: meant to be. And it's what has brought out the

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Speaker 5: best in him and allowed him to play the way

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Speaker 5: that he has, lead the way that he has and

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Speaker 5: also inspire others the way that he has.

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Speaker 1: Drew said, Yeah, when I watched Donald, I thought of

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Speaker 1: my early years. And you know what, Drew Breethe's comments

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Speaker 1: made me think of not Donald arch Manning all these

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Speaker 1: college quarterbacks now. The minute they have a bad week

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Speaker 1: or get bad news, I'm out of here. Gimme a paycheck.

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Speaker 1: I'm out of here. And there are times I think

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Speaker 1: college quarterbacks should transfer. Cam Ward at Washington State, get

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Speaker 1: to Miami. Hurricane offer you take it. Trinidad Chambliss, great

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Speaker 1: quarterback at old miss came from Farris State. You take

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Speaker 1: that offer and go to the SEC. But arch Manning

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Speaker 1: never left. He had to sit for two years at Texas,

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Speaker 1: and then when he finally played, it was rough. He

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Speaker 1: got crushed. He was bad, and he stayed there. He

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Speaker 1: hung in. He was tough. And did you watch his

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Speaker 1: last five or six games in the SEC? Five and

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Speaker 1: one beat A and M and ol miss or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: A and M and Vandy five and one, twenty touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: two picks, three hundred and twenty yards a game. He overcame,

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Speaker 1: he endured, he had to sit. I watched these five

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Speaker 1: freshman year, I'm out of here. The first sign of

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Speaker 1: adversity in the NIL world, I am out of here.

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Speaker 1: You do understand the NFL is adversity. I mean, God,

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Speaker 1: Belichick and Brady never had dinner for twenty years. Like,

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Speaker 1: it can be grumpy, it can be harsh, it can

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Speaker 1: be punitive, it can be tough. You can be injured.

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Speaker 1: Every time we bring on an NFL player who's even

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Speaker 1: thirty years old, he's on his ninth surgery. So when

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Speaker 1: I'm watching Drew Brees talk about Sam Darnold. It makes

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Speaker 1: me think of arch Manning. That is the one five

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Speaker 1: star quarterback that I can think of top of mind,

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Speaker 1: who could have transferred multiple times, who had to sit

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Speaker 1: behind a guy. I'm absolutely convinced he's more talented than God.

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Speaker 1: Beat up when he played, was really bad and just

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Speaker 1: hung in, head down, put in the work, didn't sulk,

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Speaker 1: and at the end of this past year is really good.

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Speaker 1: Too many young quarterbacks see adversity and they scramble. They're

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Speaker 1: just running, and they don't know where they're running. They're

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Speaker 1: just running. And I'm not saying you shouldn't transfer again.

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Speaker 1: If you're at a small school and get an Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: If you're at Farris State and the SEC calls, or

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Speaker 1: you're at cal and Indiana's got money with Kurt Signetty

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Speaker 1: like you do, I get it go. But there's I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you when people are banging on arch Manning and

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Speaker 1: say some article was the biggest bust ever, I'm like

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Speaker 1: about half these five star quarterbacks, if they're not playing

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Speaker 1: through one year, they're out the door. Thanks for flying United,

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Speaker 1: Get me where I can play. We're going to look

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Speaker 1: back in about ten years, fifteen years at how many

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Speaker 1: of those get Me out of here guys did. And

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Speaker 1: my guess is arch Manning will be better than most.

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Speaker 1: All right, j Mac's there's some you know sometimes during

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week a lot of stories get buried. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Jonathan kaminga Steve Kerr Warrior story got buried. It

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Speaker 1: is fascinating what's going on? Then got that thing got ugly.

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Speaker 4: I think that air is over real quick on arch Manning.

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Speaker 6: If the Jets have any clue out of tank, they

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Speaker 6: will tank the entire season and get arch Manning.

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Speaker 4: We've screwed this up before. We had to settle for Zach.

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Speaker 6: Wilson instead of Trevor Lawrence, and this year we're settling

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Speaker 6: for a no quarterback instead of Fernando Mendoza. If the

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Speaker 6: Jets want a quarterback and a future in this league,

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Speaker 6: they got to tank the right way. Even if it's

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Speaker 6: not Art, it's going to be someone else. Would you

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Speaker 6: agree on that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think Aaron Glenn has to try to tank.

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Speaker 4: Come on, you're taking jots at Aaron Glenn every day.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't have an interception as a

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Speaker 1: I think you're tanking without trying, and that's what the

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Speaker 6: Although maybe, hey, maybe there's a chance that the Raiders

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Speaker 6: don't take Mendoza and the Jets get him at two.

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Speaker 6: I mean, based on yesterday's talk, and I ran into

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Speaker 6: He doesn't want Mendoza, Like, what are you talking to him? Yes,

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Speaker 6: they are losing their mind.

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Speaker 1: He's not that Okay. When I watch him, here's what

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think largely the Falcons failed Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 2: This is the herd line news.

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Speaker 6: Let's start at the NBA colin where the San Antonio Spurs,

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Speaker 6: Wemby cooked the Lakers on Tuesday and then basically fillaide

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Speaker 1: Captain guys. Sorry, starting five, they used two or three

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Speaker 1: You know exactly who's playing, how many minutes they're playing.

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Speaker 1: This is what championship teams look like. Okay, seeing the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: the Spurs and OKC. That's how you do it, great GMing,

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Speaker 1: Wemby is now is Wemby moved into best player in

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Speaker 6: Uh, he's in that discussion with Luca yojok Yo kitches

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Speaker 1: Yo Kitsch is the best player in the league. Wemby's

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Speaker 6: All right, so hey, real quick, I know you're big

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Speaker 6: on this is how a championship team looks. You're right,

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Speaker 6: So do you know want to know the last time

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Speaker 6: Twenty seventeen. Okay, they have been garbage for the last

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Speaker 6: That's how you're able to be good now. And you've

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Speaker 1: That's what Adam Silver wants. That is the new CBA.

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Speaker 1: But the Lakers, the Lakers aren't close and the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: So they're not even ready to go to the hotel bar.

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Speaker 1: So is our Los Angeles Laker fans ready move off Lebron,

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Speaker 1: to get back into that OKC. San Antonio mold Well,

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Speaker 1: I think patient you used the right word.

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Speaker 4: That's the word. That's the key word.

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Speaker 6: The Lakers had the young guys, D'Angelo, Russell, Brandon Ingram,

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Speaker 4: We don't have the patients for this.

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Speaker 6: Let's bring in Lebron James, Let's bring in ad but

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Speaker 1: League was less punitive to that that wasn't necessarily bad GMing. No,

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Speaker 4: Now, well, now you're right. It's tough.

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Speaker 6: And that's what's going to make this Luca thing tricky

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Speaker 6: of want to restrict player movement. Colin riddle me this,

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Speaker 6: why did Adam Silver want that? The best this league

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Speaker 1: Well, we talked about the NBA more during Kadie Warriors

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Speaker 1: So Adam Silver is like, h, let's have a league

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Speaker 1: Kobe wanted Gasol and Shack. He didn't want that two

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Speaker 6: And you know who's going to be hurt the most

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Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, let's move on to the NFL and

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Speaker 9: You know, you build a home and then run out

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Speaker 6: You finish the basement, you make additions to it.

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Speaker 6: And I like the foundation of it, and we'll try

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Speaker 1: Yep, attack the offensive line, get another tight end and

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Speaker 1: Burrow and the Chargers lost both their tackles. The problem

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Speaker 1: for New England isn't their roster, it's their competition. The

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Speaker 1: AFC had a down year. This was the year with

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Speaker 1: the Patriot schedule to sneak through. I think there'll be

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Speaker 1: a better roster next year, and yet won't get to

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship with a better roster.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So the schedule, by the way, the first play schedule

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Speaker 6: is going to be brutal colin rude.

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Speaker 4: It's like last year was a joke. I'm looking at

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Speaker 4: the schedule.

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Speaker 6: Jags, Seahawks, Chargers, Chiefs, Lions, Bears. I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 6: These are the away games. I mean the in the division.

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Speaker 6: They'll beat the Jets and the Dolphins. That's fine, they

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Speaker 6: got to go to the Bears, the Lions.

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Speaker 5: I don't think.

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Speaker 6: Let's again, everybody can get excited about Drake May and Rabel.

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Speaker 6: There's a world where this team misses the playoffs next year. Listen,

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Speaker 6: it's not a lock.

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Speaker 1: The biggest advantage the NFL has over college football, and

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Speaker 1: you and I love college football, is that the better

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Speaker 1: you get, the league stacks the rosters against you. You know,

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Speaker 1: in college football, the better Sabans team's got. The more

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Speaker 1: power Nick had with the schedule and the softer out

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Speaker 1: of conference schedule, they wouldn't go on the road out

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Speaker 1: of conference against anybody. Right, it was like neutral field

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Speaker 1: or in Tuscaloosa. The great thing about the NFL where

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Speaker 1: it really separates, you get more high quality games. You

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Speaker 1: get a new England schedule for a year, take advantage

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Speaker 1: of it. The following year you are going to face

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Speaker 1: a gauntlet of great teams. And that is why it

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Speaker 1: creates all these great games. Think about this. We got

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Speaker 1: about fourteen games a weekend in the NFL. Nine are compelling.

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Speaker 1: What's the hit rate in college football? You got seventy

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Speaker 1: games a weekend. There's six good ones. You have so

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Speaker 1: many lopsided games. So I love that the Patriots took

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Speaker 1: advantage of this. But next year's true serum, and then

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Speaker 1: they'll be better. But they won't have as good a record,

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Speaker 1: not even close.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 6: Final story is the Seattle Seahawks wrapping up their Super

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Speaker 6: Bowl win. Ernest Jones, the linebacker, came to the defense

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Speaker 6: of Sam Darnold double yesterday at the bar two days

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Speaker 6: ago at the pre.

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Speaker 9: Shout out to the Madas who.

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Speaker 1: Played this game the right way.

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Speaker 9: Not only do we have the best defense in the world,

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Speaker 9: we got the best team in the world. And quite frankly,

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Speaker 9: if you got anything to say for my quarterback, you

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Speaker 9: got anything to say for my defense, you got anything

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Speaker 9: to say from my hold on, and you got anything

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Speaker 9: to say by the city of Seattle. I got two

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Speaker 9: words for you.

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Speaker 1: That was kind of frank he Ernest is the hammer.

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Speaker 4: I mean, geez, how many drinks of the guys that point?

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Speaker 1: Come on?

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Speaker 4: Goodness gracious?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Sam Darnold won the Super Bowl, he went to

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Speaker 6: Disneyland the.

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Speaker 1: End J Mack within them.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by the

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Speaker 2: herd Line news.

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Speaker 1: So I uh so I just saw this. Uh the

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Speaker 1: Packers Matt Lafleur serious story has landed on the coaching

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Speaker 1: hot seat list. So here, according to this story, the

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Speaker 1: ten coaches on the hot seat Aaron Glenn obviously, uh

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Speaker 1: and you know Brian Schottenheimer, Todd Bowle, Zach Taylor like

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Speaker 1: Summer Predictable. They have Matt Lafleur at number nine, second

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Speaker 1: most wins in the history of the NFL for a

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Speaker 1: coach in his first seven wins seven years. According to

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports dot Com, they got they got Matt Lafleur

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Speaker 1: on the list. Okay, don't agree with that at all.

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Speaker 1: The interesting one, though, is Nick Sirianni Eagles coach at too,

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Speaker 1: because I believe the market is the truth. When Cleveland

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Speaker 1: fired Kevin Stefanski, he interviewed with the top five jobs

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Speaker 1: within a week. I said, when they fired him, he's

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Speaker 1: going to land the first or second best job on

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Speaker 1: the market. Now, Buffalo didn't look like it had any

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Speaker 1: intention of hiring anybody but Joe Brady, so that one

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Speaker 1: was kind of out, and Baltimore really leaning heavily into

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Speaker 1: Jesse Minter. But I don't the market is the truth.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski interviewed immediately for all the top jobs. What's

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Speaker 1: interesting with Siriani is I don't think he getting her

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Speaker 1: job not quickly. So fans are completely swayed by winning,

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of different ways to win. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: a coach inherit's a mess Bill Parcell's care and turns

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Speaker 1: around quickly. And sometimes a coach inherits a really good roster.

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Speaker 1: Nick Siriani, he inherited a great O line and a

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Speaker 1: great owner and a great GM and great team momentum.

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Speaker 1: I mean they got rid of a coach who won

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. So you got to be careful results

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Speaker 1: based analysis, where you base everything on the results is flawed.

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Speaker 1: That's what Miami did, and they paid fifty four million

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Speaker 1: a year for Tua. Well, he made a Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: I mean anyway, he made the playoffs. He had a

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Speaker 1: great offensive coach when he was making the playoffs. He

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Speaker 1: had a running back that led the NFL and touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He had a track team on the sidelines at wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: and the Jets and the Patriots were a mess and rebuilding. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can't just be swayed by results. That's like judging

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Speaker 1: a real estate broker. Only when the interest rates are

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Speaker 1: three to three and a half percent. Anybody can sell

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Speaker 1: a home with that. If you have a real estate

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Speaker 1: broker and the interest rates are seven and a half percent.

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Speaker 1: I have a friend who's a real estate broker down

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Speaker 1: in Florida. Everybody tells me man Florida, that is a

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Speaker 1: buyer's market man a sellers. They can't they can't sell

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Speaker 1: anything that. He's never had better years. He's really good

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Speaker 1: and the interest rates aren't ideal. That's a good real

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Speaker 1: estate broker. Anybody can anybody if you give him a

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Speaker 1: track team on the perimeter. Mike McDaniel eighteen running back

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Speaker 1: touchdowns Weak division where it's Buffalo and team circling the drain,

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Speaker 1: Patriots rebuilding, Jets rebuilding. So that's my take on Nick

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Speaker 1: Siriani is he landed this great, great job, and you

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Speaker 1: all think Nick Sirianni's a better coaching Kevin Stefanski. The

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Speaker 1: market reacted to Stefanski's firing. Everybody interviewed him. Siriani's got

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Speaker 1: a trophy if he lost his job, who's interviewing him? Seriously?

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Speaker 1: Who I mean, who's hiring him? Maybe he could get

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Speaker 1: a job. I don't think you get one of the

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Speaker 1: good ones. It can't just be results based judging winning takes.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different ways to win. We just

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Speaker 1: had two defensive coaches in a Super Bowl after years

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Speaker 1: of offensive coaches. So by all accounts, I mean the

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach for Philadelphia, Jeff Scoutland, considered the best

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach. He's still coaching. He left the Eagles

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Speaker 1: with all that talent in the old line he left it.

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Speaker 1: What does that tell you? So when Green Bay Packer

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Speaker 1: fans get all worked up about Matt Lafleur, you guys

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Speaker 1: don't know how good you have it with Matt Lafleur.

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Speaker 1: You do realize Green Bay doesn't land free agents. How

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Speaker 1: did the Seahawks get Sam Darnold. Big city, good coach

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Speaker 1: convinced him to come there. There were more than one

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Speaker 1: team wanted Sam Darnold, So Green Bay does not attract

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Speaker 1: free agents like other places do. I mean, some players

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Speaker 1: love playing there, but there's not a lot to do.

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Speaker 1: It's a tiny town. That's a huge disadvantage. The Packers

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Speaker 1: have always done a great job drafting and developing, mostly

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Speaker 1: because that's the only way they can build dynasties. Drafting

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Speaker 1: and developing. Seahawks can do it multiple ways. Eagles can

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Speaker 1: do it multiple ways. Rams can do it multiple ways.

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Speaker 1: Rams give up their first round picks and they're great.

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Speaker 1: So when I see coaching hot seat and I see

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Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur on it, I mean they gotta be serious.

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Speaker 1: That's just not serious. Live in Chicago's.

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Speaker 2: Third be sure to catch live editions of The Herd

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Speaker 2: Weekdays and Noone East. They're not a Empacific.

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Speaker 6: Saturday, the ACC and Big Ten collide in primetime for

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Speaker 6: the inaugural Nashville Hoops.

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Speaker 4: Showdown as Number fifteen.

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Speaker 6: Virginia takes on Bruce Thornton and Ohio State it all

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Speaker 6: begins Saturday at eighties Tron on Fox.

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Speaker 1: You've seen the ratings for college basketball this year. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: beating the NBA.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm a college oops guy.

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Speaker 1: Beating the NBA.

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Speaker 6: Yeah no, certainly the college basketball season, Colin. This is

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's like sevent teams that could legitimately win

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Speaker 6: the Natty.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: There's so many good teams this year. It's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a great tournament.

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Speaker 1: It helps outside of Kansas and their star, you know

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Speaker 1: who's playing every night. Oh yeah, it's amazing. Football players

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Speaker 1: tackle each other and yet they're always available on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and basketball players run wind sprints and they're always hurt.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't like when you do that. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's just college basketball.

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Speaker 1: They play fast too. I always get the starters shown up,

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Speaker 1: seems like to me. So it's amazing. I'm reading a

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Speaker 1: story this morning how the Russell will and trade by

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Speaker 1: Seattle really jump started what we're watching now. They got

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Speaker 1: all these picks, Devin Witherspoon, Charles Cross, the left tackle

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Speaker 1: and others, so they started building. But what's interesting is

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Speaker 1: at that time Russell Wilson was good, but he was

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Speaker 1: viewed by John Sneyder, The GM is not good enough,

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Speaker 1: and that's what you can take from the Seahawks Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to duplicate this defense the dark side.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to go eight for eight the next

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Speaker 1: four years on your top two or three picks in

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Speaker 1: the draft. You're not John Snyder. You don't have that.

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Speaker 1: What you can identify as something to emulate is what

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks did. It's the same thing the Niners did

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Speaker 1: with Garoppolo, who got to a Super Bowl, and San

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Speaker 1: Francisco said, we're not going to settle. It's what McVeigh

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Speaker 1: said that Jared Goff who got to a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: We can be better at that position. It's what Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid and the Chiefs said, even though Alex Smith got

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Speaker 1: Kansas City to the playoffs. We're not going to settle

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Speaker 1: for that. The Eagles with Wentz, we found something we

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Speaker 1: think is better. You can laugh at this, but the

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Speaker 1: Bucks had Jamis Winston, who led the NFL in passing yards,

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Speaker 1: was second in passing touchdowns as the league was transitioning

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Speaker 1: to an offensive league, and they said, now we're going

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Speaker 1: to get the old guy, Brady. It's not good enough.

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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston was wildly productive. Pete Carroll, by the way,

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Speaker 1: thought Geno Smith was good enough and he got whacked.

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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald got one year of Geno Smith, got him

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Speaker 1: out of the building. Were upgrading. That's what you can

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Speaker 1: take from the Seattle Seahawks. Don't copy their identity, copied

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Speaker 1: their mindset, which is, don't settle. I'll give you a

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Speaker 1: great example. This works. This is a two way street.

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, who loves Dallas, played with Dallas, wanted to

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Speaker 1: end his career with Dallas, went to Seattle, and he

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Speaker 1: didn't do it for the money. He only got like

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Speaker 1: eighteen million guaranteed money. DeMarcus Lawrence, do you remember when

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Speaker 1: he said this?

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Speaker 2: You know, Dallas is my home.

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Speaker 1: I made my home there.

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Speaker 2: You know my family lives there.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm ever going to be there. But you

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Speaker 1: know I know for sure I'm not going to win

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl there. I'm not going to settle for

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Nonsense. I'm going to go to better structure,

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Speaker 1: a non medaling owner in his eyes, a better coach,

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Speaker 1: a better system, and a better roster. So it works.

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Speaker 1: It works both ways. It's just that's what you can

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Speaker 1: from Seattle and the Rams in Kansas City and the

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Speaker 1: Niners don't settle. Gino's fine. Donald's better, obviously, and it

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Speaker 1: was obvious before the trade or before the free agent signing.

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Speaker 1: So here was Donald this week at the parade, reflecting

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Speaker 1: on his journey.

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Speaker 10: I just want to say, I've talked a lot this

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Speaker 10: last week about belief.

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Speaker 1: A lot of.

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Speaker 10: People, you know it didn't believe in me, but it

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Speaker 10: didn't matter because the ones that are close believed in me,

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Speaker 10: including y'all. I appreciate y'all so much.

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Speaker 1: That short list.

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Speaker 10: Also includes Jody Allen, John Schneider, Mike McDonald man. I

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Speaker 10: appreciate the belief y'all had in me for sonning me

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Speaker 10: last this past year, and last was certainly not least

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Speaker 10: these players man for believing in me. You know, I

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Speaker 10: wouldn't be here without these guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's funny. John Schneider, GM and Mike McDonald,

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Speaker 1: the coach of the Seahawks, both publicly and privately lamented

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Speaker 1: the fact they could not figure out why Donald was

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Speaker 1: so negatively covered by the media. And I think this

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Speaker 1: goes back to something we've discussed that those initial first

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Speaker 1: impressions are really strong, especially if it's like a three

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Speaker 1: year first impression and I'm seeing ghost. People just were

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Speaker 1: not willing to move off that. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: rigidity in sports, which is silly. New information, new opinion.

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Speaker 1: I've always said, if your biggest criticism of me is

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Speaker 1: I move off opinions, Yeah, I'll own that forever. New information,

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Speaker 1: new opinion, Sam Donald, Jets didn't work. Sam Donald end

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Speaker 1: of his Carolina run OH four and two is a starter.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, Minnesota. Seatley's a new player. New information. He's

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Speaker 1: really really good. Is he top ten good? Maybe closer

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Speaker 1: to ten than three, but he's good. There are no

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Speaker 1: question he's good. It was funny having Drew Brees on yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Here's four quarterbacks who have gone through a playoffs without

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Speaker 1: a turnover. Darnold, Breeze, Aikman, Steve Young. All of them

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Speaker 1: had great coaches, all of them had their best roster

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Speaker 1: ever in their career, and they figured out, I'm not

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Speaker 1: taking big risks here. You go back to that Saints

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Speaker 1: team with Breeze we were watching yesterday. The highlights of it.

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Speaker 1: That Saints team was stacked. They had corners and safeties

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Speaker 1: and linebackers and running backs. I mean, yeah, they had guys.

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Speaker 1: They had like bit players on that team that could

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Speaker 1: play special teams, and Drew Brees figured it out. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like there are times as a quarterback it's like

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Speaker 1: I gotta take risks. We play from behind a lot.

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Speaker 1: We've got holes. I mean that's Matt Stafford. Like Matt

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Speaker 1: Stafford knows the Rams corners they should draft two corners

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Speaker 1: this year before the fourth round. Matt Stafford knows we

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Speaker 1: got to be good on offense because you can beat

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Speaker 1: us down. Carolina almost beat them twice. I mean there

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Speaker 1: are holes with most teams. Seattle didn't have a hole.

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Speaker 1: I mean they do not have a hole. They have

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Speaker 1: exceptional special teams, top three special teams. Even their offensive line,

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Speaker 1: which I'd criticized during the year. I think center, right guard,

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Speaker 1: right tackle, it's okay. I think left guard, left tackle

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Speaker 1: very good. I mean, I'm we say this. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure when's the last NFL team, And I guess you

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Speaker 1: could say Philadelphia last year, but you know I was

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia's special teams this good. Jalen Hurts doesn't throw over

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Ringer has an article this

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Speaker 1: week on Jalen Hurts, He like literally doesn't throw over

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field. There were Nick Sirianni's not

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Speaker 1: in Mike McDonald's class as a coach. Like, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to think of a NFL team in the last eight years,

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Speaker 1: nine years, ten years, this good everything, a at everything,

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Speaker 1: and they're all line. Maybe they overachieved, maybe they're better

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Speaker 1: than we give them credit for all. I was pretty

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Speaker 1: good to me in the playoff, pretty good in the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl because New England's defense is good. That wasn't

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Speaker 1: about the Seahawks ole line, our two necks,