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Speaker 2: All Right, We're just minutes away of the tip off

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Speaker 2: of the first of the two men's semi final games.

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Speaker 2: It'll start with Florida and Auburn, and then later Houston

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Speaker 2: and Duke and Carrie. I understand in the brackets that

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Speaker 2: I've been really pointing all the attention at me when

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Speaker 2: I was leading, which is no longer the case. That

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Speaker 2: you actually predicted in your brackets that all four number

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Speaker 2: one seeds for only the second time ever.

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Speaker 3: Remember seating began in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, two thousand and eight, Don in San Antonio,

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Speaker 2: I cover that Final four my UCLA.

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Speaker 1: Bruins losing in Memphis in the semi.

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Speaker 2: But you, you carry Roads correctly predicted in your brackets

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Speaker 2: that Florida.

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Speaker 3: Auburn, Houston doing all four number one seeds would be

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Speaker 3: in the final.

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Speaker 1: Four, that is correct. And that year two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eight when your UCLA Bruins lost to Memphis, they went

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Speaker 1: on to be one of the teams in the final

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Speaker 1: four that year. And this year. The thing about everybody's

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Speaker 1: talking about right now is chalk it doesn't happen. This

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Speaker 1: is the year finally happened. These are the four best

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Speaker 1: teams in the country. They played like it all year,

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, down the stretch run of the season,

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Speaker 1: they proved it. They've all won their conferences and now

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Speaker 1: they're here with a chance to win it. Except for Alburn,

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Speaker 1: Harbyn didn't win the conference.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's interesting about these matchups is you got sort

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Speaker 2: of like who's hot now type right, Florida went on

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Speaker 2: a run at the end of the year and won

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Speaker 2: the SEC championship, and then you have Duke obviously catching fire.

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Speaker 2: They may have looked the best of any of the

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Speaker 2: teams so far in the tournament, But then you lose

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Speaker 2: side of the fact that Houston right now is the

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Speaker 2: longest winning streaking the country.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and you also lose the site.

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Speaker 2: That Auburn was for most of this season the number

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Speaker 2: one team in the country, they have the toughest schedule,

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Speaker 2: they had the most quality wins over the course of

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Speaker 2: the year, and then they had three losses over a

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Speaker 2: So it's sort of like, Okay, do you go with

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Speaker 2: the teams that are hot right now, which would be

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Speaker 2: that actually might be the better teams over the course

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which would be Houston and AUF. That's always a

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Speaker 3: great question.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people tend to think that the hotter

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Speaker 1: That just doesn't happen that way though. I Mean, you

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Speaker 1: have teams that I've known, Duke teams that have won

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Speaker 1: conference and during the tournament, right and so you just

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's a whole thing versus rest

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Speaker 1: many games in the SEC tournament, especially against tough foes,

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Speaker 1: and you're losing those games and winning those games. It

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Speaker 1: can be the rest of the four disaster in the tournament.

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Speaker 3: Well, you also have the matchup of coaches.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that we always agree upon is that,

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Speaker 2: that the coaches are the constant. And in this case,

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Speaker 2: you've got the two younger coaches. You got Todd Golden

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Speaker 3: Much everything over the courts of their careers.

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Speaker 2: They have final fours on the resume prior to this season,

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Speaker 3: Going against the young guys. It's interesting in the matchup

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Speaker 3: And obviously they're also conference rivals, so there's no secrets

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Speaker 3: in this matchup between Florida and Auburn. By the way,

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Speaker 3: I'm still trying to get over last night.

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Speaker 1: So what happened?

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Speaker 2: So I was so psyched up about my UCLA women's

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Speaker 2: dear friend, the great Hall of famer Anni Myers, who

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Speaker 2: led UCLA women to the championship in nineteen seventy eight,

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Speaker 2: was AIAW before they became NCAA, which was four years later,

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Speaker 2: And I say, how does that not count?

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Speaker 3: I mean they won the net it was a final four?

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Speaker 2: So I'm texting her before the game, I'm any, I'm

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Speaker 2: so excited to see how our Bruins is gonna We're

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Speaker 1: So fast, my friend.

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Speaker 2: So the women's Tournament's been going on for forty four years.

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Speaker 2: There have been one hundred and thirty one final four games,

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Speaker 2: semis finals. That was the biggest blowout of any game

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Speaker 2: of Yukon. It was humiliating from a UCLA Bruins. Lauren

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Speaker 1: That was rough. I knew I saw that coming in.

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Speaker 3: I mean they were turning the ball over.

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Speaker 2: and that is a forewarning of what can happen in

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Speaker 2: the games today, where you one of these teams today

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Speaker 1: Well, in my opinion, watching all four teams, I'm an

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Speaker 1: A team can come in and have a perfect performance

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Speaker 1: just it's the nature of the beast. Only I think

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Speaker 1: that it's not even a close game. It's Duke in Florida.

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Speaker 1: I think they're the two most explosive teams. They're the

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Speaker 1: two most connected teams. When I watch Auburn sometimes you

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Speaker 1: If he's hot and he's playing within the construct that

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Speaker 1: but it can also be the reason they lose a game.

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Speaker 1: And then when you watch Houston play, they rely heavily

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Speaker 1: Duke can beat them by fifteen plus as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, then you got Cooper Flag who today won the

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Speaker 2: Wooden Award, just the fourth freshman ever to win the

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Speaker 3: The other guy's a bunch of no names.

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Speaker 2: That would be Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, and Zion Williamson

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Speaker 2: the only other those guys a bunch of nobody.

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Speaker 1: No names.

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Speaker 2: I love when people say, I don't know you think

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag will be good in the NBA. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he'll be good. He's just eighteen. Remember he turned eighteen

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Speaker 2: Flag is sort of hinted, like what's the hurry type

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Speaker 1: Him, here's what the hurry is. What's the hurry saying?

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's assume, let's let's let's play along

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Speaker 2: fantasy land. Like Cooper Flag decides to come back another

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Speaker 2: about to ten million dollars. Let's just say easy, right,

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Speaker 2: all right, so his rookie contract for your rookie deal

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Speaker 2: And if you're just doing the math of war, we're

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Speaker 2: seventy million a year.

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Speaker 3: If not higher by that time. So you put that

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Speaker 3: off for a year, you know. I'll put it this way.

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Speaker 2: It's like my Social Security Like, no, they tried it.

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Speaker 2: So I got my first payment this week coming up.

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Speaker 2: This is Yes, I'm very excited. But I always like

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Speaker 2: till like you're seventy, you know, the payments will be bigger.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like here, I go, Okay, I did the

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Speaker 2: I did the math on this. So the money that

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Speaker 2: I would not have collected from this point until I'm seventy,

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Speaker 2: based on how how much more I would make at seventy,

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Speaker 2: it would take me twelve years to recover the money

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Speaker 2: I didn't collect by immediately collecting. Yeah, when I was

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Speaker 2: fully well, I know they tried to talk into it.

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Speaker 2: I did not fall for that scaff But that's the

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Speaker 2: same thing with Cooper Flag in his contract. I mean,

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Speaker 2: what a start to this game between Auburn and Florida.

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Speaker 2: Both teams on fire right now, Auburn leading Florida sixteen

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Speaker 1: I haven't even seen him as shot my guy, I

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Speaker 3: Unlike my UCLA women yesterday for their Final Four appearance.

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Speaker 1: I can't let it go. Can't let it go? All right?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Jalen Brunson is planning to play tonight against Atlanta.

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Speaker 6: of the ball. But I think, you know, the depth

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Speaker 6: and obviously the experience that the Celtics have had give

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Speaker 6: them the edge a little bit.

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Speaker 3: All Right, I know this.

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Speaker 2: Is off track, but I do this every year because

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Speaker 2: I'm so infuriated by the basketball hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand this.

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Speaker 2: We have a there's a step a Women's Basketball Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame, there is a college basketball Hall of Fame,

445
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Speaker 2: there is a International Basketball Hall of Fame, and you know,

446
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Speaker 2: there's no NBA Hall of Fame. So when I'm reading

447
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Speaker 2: headlines that say Bird more Anthony make basketball hall of Fame,

448
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Speaker 2: no knock on Sue Bird and Mayamor. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's like, how is it that the NBA does not

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Speaker 2: have its own hall of Fame? Because the other levels

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Speaker 2: of basketball do have their own halls of fame, and

452
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Speaker 2: so they doubled down by putting the women and putting

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Speaker 2: you know, collegiate players that normally would not be in

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Speaker 2: the conference. I like Billy Donovan gets in the Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame today, Well, he's not getting in as an

456
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Speaker 2: NBA coach, obviously, he's getting in because he got you know,

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Speaker 2: Florida back to back championships back in the days.

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Speaker 1: What is the deal here?

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Speaker 2: I mean I've even talked about it. I even have

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Speaker 2: a ten person class, like you go really back pioneers.

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Speaker 2: Here would be my first class. You go with the

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Speaker 2: two biggest stars of the early years, George Mike and

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Speaker 2: Bob Coosey. You had Oscar Robertson, you got Jerry Wesh,

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Speaker 2: you got Bill Russell, he got wil Chamberlain, he got

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Speaker 2: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 2: That would be my first class. And that's leaving out

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Speaker 2: a ton of great players. But I don't want to

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Speaker 2: overload that first guys. That's ten and then you start

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Speaker 2: adding to that. But I it just crazy to me, Mark.

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Speaker 6: Well save preach. I mean, I believe I've shared the

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Speaker 6: same views, and I think we're going to get on

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Speaker 6: the soapbox here. But it doesn't make any sense. I

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Speaker 6: don't have any problem with them having a wide basketball

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Speaker 6: Hall of Fame where you're integrating all the parties, but

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Speaker 6: there also has to be its own class of MBA

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Speaker 6: WNBA college because they create just so much confusion. So again,

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Speaker 6: I'm fine when they have the natsmist Memorial Basketball Hall

478
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Speaker 6: of Fame. That gives a lot of you know, opportunities

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Speaker 6: for people who get in as contributors, but it just

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Speaker 6: creates a lot more confusion on why there's not those

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Speaker 6: distinct chapters. I think there's always been also confusion on

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Speaker 6: what the criteria is. I understand to some degree why

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Speaker 6: they want to keep the committee secretive because they want

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Speaker 6: to protect their autonomy. They don't want them getting all

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Speaker 6: this you know, bombardment with political influence or you know,

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Speaker 6: safety influence, et cetera. But there needs to be a criteria.

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Speaker 6: It just themes, like really what happens is obviously it's

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Speaker 6: easy to make the first ballot choices, but when you

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Speaker 6: go down second, third ballot, a lot of times it

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Speaker 6: matters if your contemporaries are still around to advocate for you.

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Speaker 6: And sometimes you know, that's just the way the life works.

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Speaker 6: You don't have those contemporaries around to you know, be

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Speaker 6: a voice in the room. And so it just creates

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Speaker 6: a lot of confusion, and it's very disappointing because the

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Speaker 6: facilities are really great that you know, the tributes that

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Speaker 6: they have, you know in Springfield, Massachusets are out of

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Speaker 6: this world. I just don't understand why they can't make

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Speaker 6: a great thing even greater, because it's just common sense.

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Speaker 6: But you know what, maybe at some point they invite

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Speaker 6: you to be a part of the committee and they

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Speaker 6: solve all these problems.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm convincing there is only one voter. His name

503
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Speaker 2: is Jerry Colangelo. We found that lout on Walter Davis

504
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Speaker 2: passed away a year ago and suddenly Walter Davis was

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Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame, you know, Phoenix Sun.

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Speaker 3: So there's no secret to it.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to reveal to the committee because the committee,

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Speaker 2: it's one person.

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Speaker 1: His name is Jerry Colangelo.

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Speaker 2: He runs the entire show at the Naysmith of Basketball

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. So when I hear people say, well

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Speaker 2: he's an NBA Hall of Famer, there is no such thing.

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Speaker 3: There's no such thing as the NBA Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Tell them. How you feel, Steve, I can go all

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Speaker 1: day on.

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Speaker 2: This Mark great stuff is always well. Check in with

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Speaker 2: you next week.

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Speaker 6: Thanks so much, all right, mate, Steve Carrots appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 3: Sir, there is the great Mark Medina, our NBA insider.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's find out what is trending all right now?

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Speaker 2: And when I started the show by keeping praise on

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Speaker 2: the uh, well he's got all four final teams.

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Speaker 3: Carrie Rhodes.

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Speaker 2: I got a standing ovation for Martin just because I

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Speaker 2: know anything to take the attention away from me well

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Speaker 2: and putting it on somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Here, please think Steve. Yeah, uh oh, here's the thing.

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Speaker 8: Yes, I was here a few short weeks ago when

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Speaker 8: through the round of thirty two you were doing victory.

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Speaker 7: Laps out here.

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was twenty nine and three.

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Speaker 1: Twenty nine and three.

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Speaker 8: Does anybody know at college basketball better than Steve Hartman?

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Speaker 1: Answer is no.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even have to say it because everyone knew

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Speaker 2: the answer too.

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Speaker 1: Oh but God, very.

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Speaker 8: Much like as Carrie you know, probably can can relate

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Speaker 8: to games are not one in the fourth quarter. Yes,

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Speaker 8: bracket challenges are not one in the round of thirty two.

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Speaker 7: It is not till the final four, the national championship game.

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Speaker 8: Whereas if you are in a top three spot then

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Speaker 8: and then well I will I clap for you.

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Speaker 7: So, Carrie Roads, I appolage you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. My brother, I appreciate you. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: that's that's basically happening. Thank you. I appreciate it. So

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Speaker 1: let's said about what happened to me the better.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: Just under eleven minutes left in the first half of

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Speaker 8: the first game of the Final four. Auburn what day,

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Speaker 8: twenty two to twenty one, leading a game in which,

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Speaker 8: you know, teams shooting pretty well from the floor fifty

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Speaker 8: percent from the floor for both sides so far. Elijah

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Speaker 8: Martin leading Florida with ten points, Chad Baker Mazzara leading

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Speaker 8: Auburn with eight again, ten minutes and twenty five seconds

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Speaker 8: left in the first half. There Major League Baseball Scores

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Speaker 8: in action right now. Top of the ninth inning, the

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Speaker 8: Nationals had a four I think lead in this game.

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Speaker 7: It's now four to three.

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Speaker 8: Nationals looking for their second win on the year against

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Speaker 8: the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 7: Here.

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Speaker 8: Top of the ninth inning, the Yankees open it up

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Speaker 8: a bit nine to four over the Pirates. Top of

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Speaker 8: the ninth inning, the Orioles and the Royals Baltimore with.

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Speaker 7: An eight to one lead.

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Speaker 8: Earlier, Tigers beat the White Sox, twins over Astro's. Cubs

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Speaker 8: beat the Padres Pydrie started out seven to oh.

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Speaker 7: Now they've lost their last two. Those have been on

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Speaker 7: the road.

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Speaker 8: Dodgers just took care of the Phillies three to one,

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Speaker 8: and Cardinals and Red Sox game was in a rain delay.

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Speaker 8: For most of the day that now is officially postponed.

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Speaker 8: In the NBA, got a couple games tipping off in

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Speaker 8: a half an hour, but earlier today saw the Nicks

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Speaker 8: beat the Hawks one twenty one to oneh five Carlonton

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Speaker 8: Towns with thirty points and eleven rebounds, and again ten

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Speaker 8: twenty one left in the first half, officials looking at

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Speaker 8: a foul call here.

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Speaker 7: Auburn twenty two, Florida twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Back to you.

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Speaker 2: Guys, all right, thank you very much, Martin. Y know,

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Speaker 2: this is going to be a very entertaining game. I

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Speaker 2: hope you know both games are like this, you know

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Speaker 2: where you go toe to toe once again, we are

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Speaker 2: And one of the newest features in the apposite, you

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Speaker 2: It will always pop up at the top of your

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Speaker 2: screen this matchup between Flora and Auburn. Both teams are

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Speaker 2: playing extremely well and it shouldn't really become a surprise

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Speaker 2: because look, when you're in a playoff situation, especially when

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Speaker 2: you get to the final stages, you know, like the

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Speaker 2: Final four, but you're playing a team you know, I'll

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Speaker 2: go back to your jet stays when you knock out

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Speaker 2: the Patriots, right because you were playing a team. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's okay, it's the playoffs, so the intensity is up.

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Speaker 2: You know you're hyped up, But did it calm you

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Speaker 2: down a little bit? Going against the team that you'd

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Speaker 2: already played twice, you were already familiar with, even if

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Speaker 2: they had great postseason pedigree. Just the fact that, okay,

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Speaker 2: it's a playoff game, but we know this team. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And that's why I think both these teams right now

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Speaker 2: Florida and Auburn are playing pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Right now one hundred percent. I mean, the familiarity part

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Speaker 1: of it is a big deal. It also gives you

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Speaker 1: a confidence and U, I guess like this soothe and

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Speaker 1: nature about the game, where you want to go into

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Speaker 1: a game and be calm and be able to play

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Speaker 1: and actually not be reactive but play, be on your

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Speaker 1: toes and move forward because you know what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: all right. So that's that's the beautiful thing about any sport.

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Speaker 1: The more prepared you are, the more familiar you are

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Speaker 1: with the team, you're going to go into that team,

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Speaker 1: into that game being confident that you can get the

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Speaker 1: job done because you've already seen it, You've already done it,

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Speaker 1: so one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it should not come as surprise right now,

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Speaker 2: Florida with the one point ly twenty three to twenty

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Speaker 2: two over. We're just ten minutes into this game, uh,

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Speaker 2: and both teams are playing extremely well. And of course

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Speaker 2: a little bit later on, UH, we're going to get

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Speaker 2: the Houston Cougars and Kelvin Sampson trying to finally get

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Speaker 2: a championship taken on the Duke Blue deal.

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Speaker 1: And it's crazy because in any other game, if they

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Speaker 1: weren't playing against Duke, I would be rooting for Kelvin

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Speaker 1: Sampton to finally get over the hump and get him one.

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Speaker 1: And also Bruce Pearl as well. I mean, both of

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Speaker 1: those guys have had so much success in his game

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Speaker 1: and to not be able to get that ultimate one.

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Speaker 1: Both of those guys deserve it. But I'm also going

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Speaker 1: to disagree with you on the fact that I don't

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Speaker 1: want the next game to be close. I want to

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Speaker 1: be able to relax.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, people are people are listening right now, like,

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Speaker 2: didn't carry go to Louisville. That's right, So he's a

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Speaker 2: Louisville guy. By the way, nice bounce back season for

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Speaker 2: Louisville this year. The coach they hired when they couldn't

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Speaker 2: get mc croninto away from UCLA did a heck of

660
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Speaker 2: a job this year. I think he just finished third

661
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Speaker 2: in the EIGHTP Coach of the Year voting.

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Speaker 1: It was actually a tie. He won a SEC coaching Yeah,

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Speaker 1: coaching so pack. But people are like, don't get it.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Louisville fan that has that kind of

665
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Speaker 2: basketball pedigree, why in the world would you have.

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Speaker 1: Any allegiance to do well. That's the same thing. My

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Speaker 1: best friend, says Larry O. Ben, who played on the

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Speaker 1: basketball team at lois So we go back and forth

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Speaker 1: on this. He's I was a kid at nine years

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Speaker 1: old and I saw, you know, in Alabama, we didn't

671
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Speaker 1: have Alabama wasn't good at basketball all the time. Alban

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Speaker 1: wasn't either. So I saw this, this little white kid,

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Speaker 1: number eleven, dribbling the ball up and down the court,

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Speaker 1: and he was doing all these moves and looked really

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Speaker 1: really cool. You like liked Bobby heat that was the initial.

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Speaker 1: I'm just seeing him die slicing and dicing up the defense,

677
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Speaker 1: throwing alleys up to Grant Heel. I'm like, I like

678
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Speaker 1: that team. So since I was nine, I've just been

679
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Speaker 1: the dookie man. That's really it.

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Speaker 2: You could not have liked Latner. I mean, grad Hill

681
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Speaker 2: was great. And you know, if you ask coach K

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Speaker 2: today who was the best player you ever coached, he

683
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Speaker 2: doesn't even hesitate. It was Grandill grand Hill, the best

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Speaker 2: player I ever had. But Bobby Hurling, how there must

685
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Speaker 2: have been something in your upbringing. The TOOKI to the

686
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Speaker 2: dark side. I was always rooting for the likes of

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Speaker 2: Christian Lighton and Bobby Hurle.

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Speaker 1: I was always tough when I was out there. I

689
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Speaker 1: was the first born. I had to go get it.

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Speaker 1: Steve that whole team with gold Getters, man, I love

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Speaker 1: it now. It's really hard.

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Speaker 2: I did pick Duke to win it all, and I

693
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Speaker 2: have to root for Duke for me is really hard.

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Speaker 1: I do not like Duke at all, but.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Cooper Flag has proven everybody he is everything that

696
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Speaker 2: he was hyped up to be out of the state

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Speaker 2: of Maine. I mean, they're just like, how many athletes, seriously,

698
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Speaker 2: any great athletes out of the state of Maine.

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Speaker 1: This town is comprised of three thousand people.

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Speaker 2: But they had like an all star lineup in his

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Speaker 2: high school team. Like I think four of them are

702
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Speaker 2: playing Division one basketball right now. It's like, what happened?

703
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Speaker 2: How did they get all these players in one high

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Speaker 2: school in Maine? So all right, by the way, quick

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Speaker 2: note again on the Basketball of fam and put it

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Speaker 2: arrest right now. Okay again, if you're if you're if

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Speaker 2: you were listening to my tirade with Mark Medina and

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Speaker 2: not understanding what I'm talking about. Again, there is no

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Speaker 2: separate NBA Hall of Fame. There has never been an

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Speaker 2: NBA Hall of Fame, and part of the reason is

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Speaker 2: the Basketball Hall of Fame, known as the Naismith Basketball

712
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, started in nineteen fifty nine. At that point,

713
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Speaker 2: the NBA was barely a decade old. So what they

714
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Speaker 2: used to do is they used to qualify originally the

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Speaker 2: inductees and categories of college player, pro player, and then

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Speaker 2: like AAU player, something like that sou aau which was

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Speaker 2: a big force in the early years of basketball, like

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Speaker 2: George Miken, who you know was the first superstar of

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Speaker 2: the NBA. He went in as a college player into

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Speaker 2: the Basketball Hall of Fame based on his time at DePaul.

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Speaker 2: So this is out out of wack it iss Again,

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Speaker 2: I gave you what do you think of my first time?

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Speaker 2: And again you're saying, well, where's Kobe, Where's you know,

724
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Speaker 2: we're all the great stars at today. But I'm like

725
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Speaker 2: doing a pioneer, you know, like Jordan is like pioneer

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Speaker 2: one guy that would be so close if I only

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Speaker 2: if I was limited to ten, those are the ten

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Speaker 2: I would have. Doctor Jay's awfully close because I Rick

729
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Speaker 2: Berry as well. Well, I mean these are Bob at it,

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Speaker 2: I mean l Jim Baylor. I mean, these are a

731
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Speaker 2: lot of great great players from you know, those earlier

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Speaker 2: years in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: But I think my ten is is pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Again Mike, So, Mike and Coozy were the two earliest superstars,

735
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Speaker 2: and then you have Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, You've

736
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Speaker 2: got Will Chamberlain, and Bill Russell.

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Speaker 3: You have Kareem Abdul Jabbar, you have Bird Magic and Jordan.

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Speaker 1: I mean you can't argue any of those.

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Speaker 2: I mean, could you add to that? Yeah, but I

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Speaker 2: don't want to have too many people and all at once.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what. I had him mixed up as well,

742
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Speaker 1: Rick Barry. I met Jerry West as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jerry, so we had Wes West is in on

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Speaker 2: that national class all right? Coming up on the other side,

745
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 2: we've got the game going on, but we also have

746
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Speaker 2: to get into I don't know if you know this, Carrie,

747
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 2: but the NFL Draft is less than three weeks away.

748
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Speaker 1: I've heard about it. Yeah, yeah, you heard about that.

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Speaker 2: Where what's happening with Aaron Rodgers and why is he

750
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Speaker 2: not signed yet? And will he sign with the team

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Speaker 2: before the draft? We got the latest. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Saturday. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Steve Harbin,

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Speaker 2: Carrie Rhodes, Fox Sports Saturday. We are live from the

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Speaker 2: Sports Auburn leading Florida right now, thirty three to twenty

758
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 2: seven inside four minutes to go in the first half.

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00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 3: Florida just scored to cut it to four.

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Speaker 2: Again, both teams playing at a pretty high level here

761
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Speaker 2: in the first half.

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Speaker 3: This one looks like it will.

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Speaker 2: Be very entertaining second Alfnue of course, the Cougars Houston

764
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Speaker 2: taking on the Duke Blue Devils, Carrie's Duke Blue Devils

765
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Speaker 2: coming up in the second game here on this final

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Speaker 2: fourth Saturday.

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Speaker 1: All right, we will.

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Speaker 2: Get into a lot of the NFL news coming up

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Speaker 2: in the next hour as once again our NFL inside

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Speaker 2: Adam Kaplan will be joining us and he'll give us

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Speaker 2: all the latest around the NFL news. But during the break,

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Speaker 2: Carrie looked at me and said, what about Sea Morant.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what about Sean Morant? And then he goes

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Speaker 2: he just looking at me, and I'm like, okay. So

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Speaker 2: we were talking obviously about the Taylor Jenkins firing, which

776
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Speaker 2: came literally out of nowhere. I mean, here was a

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Speaker 2: team bouncing back from an off season because John Morant

778
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Speaker 2: was hurt all but nine games last year and by

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Speaker 2: the way, has missed a third of the games this

780
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Speaker 2: year and Memphis at the time of the firing, not

781
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Speaker 2: only was the five seed, but they were hosting the

782
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Speaker 2: Lakers the next night in a huge matchup for the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 3: And they had no coach and they lost.

784
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Speaker 2: And by the way, they've gone for a five seed

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Speaker 2: to eight ever since the firing the Jenkins. So still

786
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Speaker 2: I've still convinced that was engineered by the league. I

787
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 2: know it's a crazy conspiracy theory, but nothing, there's no person.

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Speaker 2: And we talked to Mark Medina last week. No one

789
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Speaker 2: has a sensible answer. They were talking about, well, they've

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00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: lost four of their previous five nine games ago, you're

791
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: gonna fire your coach with the six years. And I

792
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: know it's not Jean Morant because if anyone had his

793
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Speaker 2: back throwing, all the problems that Jean Moran has face

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00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: had had been Jenkins. So something's up as far as

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Speaker 2: that fire. And I'm still not convinced we're getting the

796
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: right story there. But again, Ja Morant fined for the

797
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Speaker 2: finger gun. And it's sort of like, I mean, I look, Harry,

798
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: you've played against, you've played with, you know, players that

799
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Speaker 2: can't seem to stay out of their own way. Yeah,

800
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 2: like their own worst enemies. And by the way, I've

801
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 2: had the same thing in this business over many years,

802
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Speaker 2: where I've just known very talented people that are their

803
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 2: own worst enemies. They just constantly only screw things up

804
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Speaker 2: for themselves. And you have to wonder with everything that's

805
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Speaker 2: happened with Jean Moran being suspended multiple meetings with Adam

806
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Speaker 2: Silver in the league about you know, behaving in a

807
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Speaker 2: proper manner, because again the idea that you are owed

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00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 2: a job in the NBA, No you're not. It is

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00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: a privilege to play in the NBA. And if you

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Speaker 2: don't understand the role you play, especially as a high

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Speaker 2: profile player in the league, to set an example yep,

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Speaker 2: and to be a positive pr person for the league.

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Speaker 2: If you don't understand that, maybe it's time to find

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Speaker 2: a different line of work.

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Speaker 1: You just said something and I literally wrote down on

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Speaker 1: my paper and underlined it entitlement, right, And also, I

817
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Speaker 1: mean there's so many big words or words we can

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Speaker 1: throw to describe the situation, but entitlement is one. And

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Speaker 1: the just accountability you said it. I mean, he's been

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Speaker 1: in the principal's office for this exact thing and actually

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Speaker 1: own and possessing and showing off a physical gun and situation.

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Speaker 1: So you doing guns hits a little bit different than

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves doing it in LA because I know people

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Speaker 1: are trying to compare it and make it a race thing,

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Speaker 1: which everybody tends to do with everything in this in

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Speaker 1: this world. Now, but John Morent has to be accountable.

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Speaker 1: The League had shown the previous couple of years before

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Speaker 1: the incident that it was trending towards being the John

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Speaker 1: Morn League. They wanted him to be one of the faces.

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Speaker 1: And so now to say it's something based off anything

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Speaker 1: else than him being accountable to his own actions, it

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Speaker 1: is the reason that this world is in such a

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Speaker 1: dumpster fire. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I was just showing video of Marcus Sasser.

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Speaker 2: So he had a shot and he started to do,

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Speaker 2: you know, something along the lines of you know, dagger,

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Speaker 2: but it was like a gun situation. As as soon

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Speaker 2: as he did it, just suddenly Dawnham, No, I didn't

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: The stove was hot. That stove was hot. But that's

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Speaker 1: the whole point.

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Speaker 2: You can't have one set of rules for one guy,

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Speaker 2: right and then say well, yeah, well you're repeat.

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Speaker 1: No, it's it's something that's across the league.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if there's to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's anything that can change Jahn Morant. Yeah,

847
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Speaker 2: it's tough other than the fact that he loses his

848
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Speaker 2: job somewhere. As long as you're a great player, they

849
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Speaker 2: figure out a way to keep you in the league.

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Speaker 1: Man, it sucks. I hope he figures it out.

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Speaker 2: We got a lot of NFL news coming up, plus

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Speaker 2: more on the Final Four.

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Speaker 3: This is Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: has pulled out to a nine point lead over.

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Speaker 3: Florida a minute ago on the first half.

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Speaker 2: Florida did make a free throw there, but Auburn looking

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Speaker 2: really good. And this is again what we were talking

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Speaker 2: about earlier, Carrie. When we look at these teams that

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Speaker 2: are in the final four of these four to one seeds.

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Speaker 3: The hot seeds are Florida and Duke.

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Speaker 2: But you lose sight of the fact that for most

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Speaker 2: of this year Auburn was the number one team in

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00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: the country. And then on the other game, you know,

872
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 2: Houston has the current longest winning streak in the country.

873
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: So it's hard to say that you know, which way

874
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 2: do you go? I mean, you go with a Florida

875
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: team that raced through the SEC Championship the tournament, won

876
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 2: the SEC Championship. You know, for most of the year,

877
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 2: when we talked about the SEC teams, it seemed like

878
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 2: we were talking about Auburn and Alabama, and then Florida just

879
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: sort of came in late and just passed them all up.

880
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: But right now Auburn is looking good.

881
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 2: Although let's see what's forty five thirty eight final seconds

882
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 2: ticking off in the first half of this game.

883
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 3: Both teams have played at a pretty high level.

884
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: But maybe we're under.

885
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: Plane Auburn in the sense that, yeah, this team has

886
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 3: been for the most part, the best team in the

887
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: country this year.

888
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, without a doubt, this team has played

889
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule, They've shown up in big games and

890
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: won a lot of those big games early. They went

891
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: into Duke early and lost on the road, which was

892
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: which is a highly contested, really good game early. But

893
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: I mean for the most part this year it's been

894
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: Auburn and then Florida got hot down the stretch. I mean,

895
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: seeing Florida play right now, they're being a little bit

896
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: out matched down low by Jenni Broom, which obviously is

897
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: not anything the snark at. I mean, he's he's been,

898
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, the second best player in college of basketball

899
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: all year. But it's a lot of games left. Florida

900
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: has a lot of a lot of firepower, so I'm

901
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 1: not I'm not down on this game yet.

902
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 2: You mentioned a guy that transferred from Morehead States's all

903
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: Right to become an All American. He was runner up

904
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: to Cooper Flag for National Player of the are unanimous

905
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: All American.

906
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: How do you see his game at the next level.

907
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't really know how it translated.

908
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: I think he's he's not athletic.

909
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 3: There's a reason he.

910
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: Exactly, I mean, highly skilled obviously, but at the next

911
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: level you're gonna have to be able to be a

912
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: little bit more athletic than he is. I do think

913
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be.

914
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,240
Speaker 3: A Remind me again, how athletic is Nicola Jokich.

915
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not athletic at all. But he's also

916
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: seven to one and a little bit early. Deny Broom

917
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: isn't well.

918
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 3: He also has an extremely high basketball hiking.

919
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 6: Yes.

920
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 3: Here, here's the one thing, and I've said this one.

921
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 2: Zach edy was at Purdue, right, I mean, and I

922
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 2: watched Zach Edie is a rookie season the NBA, and

923
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 2: there are signs. I mean, the thing that impressed me

924
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 2: when he was at Purdue was you could see each

925
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 2: season he was getting better.

926
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, and so even if.

927
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: He moved like a glacier, you know, you can't teach height.

928
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 2: There were parts to his game that say, you know,

929
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: if you put him in a position to succeed, he

930
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: shows that he has the work ethic, the discipline to

931
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 2: improve his game.

932
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: And I mean that's essentially what happened to Jokich.

933
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 2: I mean, he was a second round pick, you know,

934
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 2: I mean basic, he was just another slow, white European guy.

935
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: Like we've seen these guys one hundred times then end

936
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 2: up riding the bench. Maybe they bang out ten years

937
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: in the league. You don't even hear about them. But

938
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: this guy Yokich all of a sudden, So no, no, no,

939
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 2: I got more than that. My basketball IQ's off the map.

940
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: He's one of.

941
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: Those rare players that understands where the other nine players

942
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: are on the court at all times.

943
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: And that's so.

944
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, is he he's a guy

945
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 2: that could I remember when Draymon coming out of Michigan State,

946
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: they were downplaying him. He was unanimous All American second

947
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 2: round pick. And I'm like, I don't know. I saw

948
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 2: this guy at Michigan State look like a really good

949
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 2: player to me, and he's had a Hall of Fame career.

950
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he wasn't the go to guy at Michigan State,

951
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: right where this guy is the go to guy in

952
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: college and you're gonna have to you know, once you

953
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: get to the league that won't be the case. So

954
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: what would be his role in the NBA team? And

955
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is just depends on this

956
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying, right, I mean.

957
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 3: There's there's those rare athletes.

958
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: It didn't matter where they go, and we can talk

959
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 2: about any sport, they're always going to be a star.

960
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,479
Speaker 2: And then there's those other guys that right place, right time,

961
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 2: right system. We see it in football constantly. I always

962
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: think of James Harrison of the Steelers, you know, a

963
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 2: free agent man, you know what a career I mean

964
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 2: just with basically a special teams guy for a couple

965
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: of years. All of a sudden they started gave him

966
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 2: an opportunity next to you know, he's Defensive Player of

967
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: the Year.

968
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: And I know James really well. I mean the guy

969
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: carried that with him the whole time too.

970
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, speaking of the NFL, and we're gonna

971
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 2: have Adam Kaplan Johnny us here shortly. You know, this

972
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: has been the elevant in the room now for several weeks,

973
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 2: is like, okay, when what is going to actually happen

974
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers. I thought, to be honestly that with

975
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers that they were going to force the hand.

976
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 2: You know, we heard suddenly they were sitting down with

977
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: Jalen Milrow, you know, maybe draft him or you know,

978
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: maybe Jackson Dart. You know, I think they're at twenty

979
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: one in the draft. Ye here, here's how I think

980
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 2: this is playing out and why we haven't heard anything.

981
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: I mentioned this a week ago and nothing over the

982
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 2: last week has changed my mind on this. I think

983
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers wants to be a Minnesota Viking in the

984
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 2: worst way. Yeah, I mean, because he understands. Look, if

985
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: I'm going to play again, I can't walk into a

986
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: Jets situation. I need a ready made team with loaded

987
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: talent at the skill positions. But he's got to convince

988
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: the Vikings that JJ McCarthy's not ready, and JJ McCarthy

989
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: will learn from me, and I'll come in and I'll

990
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 2: take your fourteen and three team and be able to

991
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: do things at the end of the year that Sam

992
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: Darnold could not produce. For you win a championship, I'll

993
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: get the Super Bowl, and I'll walk away and then

994
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 2: you can hand it off to JJ McCarthy. I'm sure

995
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 2: that's what he's trying to convince the Vikings right now.

996
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 2: Because if you're Aaron Rodgers looking at the Steelers, I mean,

997
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: when he went to the Jets, on paper, it looked good. Yes,

998
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 2: they had one of the top defenses in the league.

999
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 2: That young skilled guys that you know, certainly showed promise

1000
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 2: with Wilson and Breese all all.

1001
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: These guys it made sense.

1002
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 2: Yes, the Steelers do not make any sense for Aaron

1003
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 2: Rodgers that all. In fact, none of the teams makes

1004
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 2: sense except one, the Minnesota Vikings.

1005
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: So let's start right there.

1006
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're the Vikings, do you say you know

1007
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 2: Aaron honestly, we don't need the headache that is you

1008
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: sure you know we have a botload of confidence on

1009
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: our coach. Yes, that literally turned Sam Darnold from a

1010
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 2: has been to a Pro Bowl level quarterback.

1011
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: In one year.

1012
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 3: So we're confident he could do that with JJ McCarthy.

1013
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 2: Or do you say, well, maybe maybe what do you

1014
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 2: do if you're the I would not be that confident

1015
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: in JJ McCarthy.

1016
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sure they've seen them enough to know

1017
00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: that maybe they are confident. He's been injury Paul already

1018
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: in his career, got hurt this year. He's been hurt

1019
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: before as well, So that's always a up for debate.

1020
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: That's a question. You also saw Sam Darner and what

1021
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: you could do, but you also maximize what that is,

1022
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: and so once you get into real games, into real

1023
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: competition where it really matters, he's not that guy.

1024
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 3: No, that's proven fan out the last year he's proven.

1025
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: So bringing the guy who has won it now, he

1026
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: hasn't had the greatest success in those big games either.

1027
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: He plays well and he played were early on, but

1028
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: his defense filled him early. But later on he has

1029
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: some mishaps himself.

1030
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 3: Those last years in Green Bay in the playoffs.

1031
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: And so that could be part of the part of

1032
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: the reason why they're hesitanting. But also with Aaron on

1033
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: the flip side, of course he wants to go to Minnesota.

1034
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: They're ready, they have a good defense, they have a

1035
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: good defensive coordinator. But the main thing in this they

1036
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: have a play caller that will maximize and get the

1037
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: best out of him.

1038
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, all right, So he

1039
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 2: part of his deal with the Jets was to get Hackett,

1040
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 2: you know, failed miserably with the Broncos, to be part

1041
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 2: of his dynamic because he's comfortable with him. Yes, that

1042
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 2: will not be the case with Kevin O'Connell. Okay, he

1043
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 2: runs the show, he calls the plays. How would you

1044
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 2: see that dynamic work between Kevin O'Connell and Aaron Rodgers.

1045
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: I think of the work. Kevin O'Connell is a quarterback.

1046
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: I know him well, he's a guy that wants to win.

1047
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: He's a guy that is super smart and actually decipher

1048
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: in defense. Is obvious that you can tell as a coordinator.

1049
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: Even when he played. I mean, he wasn't the most

1050
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: talented obviously the quarterback, but a lot of times those

1051
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: make the best coaches, sure, because they're sitting around watching

1052
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: all this happen exactly. So yeah, I see.

1053
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 2: That's why I say it's so hard for superstar players.

1054
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 2: Just a very quick side note here. Ty Depmer got

1055
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: hired as the offense coordinator b YU and I remember

1056
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 2: talking to.

1057
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 3: Norm chow Yes, his offensive coordinator.

1058
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 2: For all those years of b Way, and he always

1059
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: said this when he went to USC and had car

1060
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 2: Some Palmer, he goes, if I could put Ty Depmer's

1061
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 2: brain in Carson Palmer's body, I.

1062
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 3: Would literally have the greatest quarterback they ever lived.

1063
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: You know.

1064
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 2: But he was limited, I mean, and yet he stood

1065
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 2: on the sidelines in the NFL for fourteen years because

1066
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: of his brain, not because of his but when he

1067
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 2: became an offensive coordinator, his level of thinking was not

1068
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: translatable to the players. They're like, why are you not

1069
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 2: seeing this? And it's like, because only you can see that.

1070
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: That's how you became a Heisman Trophy winner. You could

1071
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: see that. I don't see that, and that's that's why

1072
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 2: it's difficult sometimes for star athletes that see the game

1073
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 2: completely different be able to translate as a coach.

1074
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, and I think the thing the merits

1075
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: possibility there. The reason I see it working is because

1076
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell does see the game that way, and rober

1077
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: sees the game that way as well, and he's played

1078
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: enough to if he hasn't seen all the scenarios that

1079
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: are out there, he's seen most of them. So I

1080
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: think it would work pretty well. I just if they're

1081
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: banking and they're putting all their eggs and the JJ

1082
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: McCarthy basket, not even thinking about Aaron Rodgers's kind of

1083
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: bewilders me. It will well.

1084
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 2: Again, the only reason they would do that is they

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Speaker 2: saw what Kevin O'Connell did with Sam Donald. Sure, but

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Speaker 2: that's just I mean, like, well, if you could do

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Speaker 2: that with Sam Donald, he can do that with JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald's also been through so many different situations, so

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Speaker 1: he's seen He didn't play well, no, but he's seen

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Speaker 1: a lot, and so He also came from San Francisco

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Speaker 1: last which, yeah.

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Speaker 2: We're sitting on the bench in San Francisco helped, no question,

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Speaker 2: no question about that.

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Coming out on the other side, what is the latest

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Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers. We are less than three weeks away

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Speaker 2: from the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 3: I know you football fans can't wait.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: So halftime Auburn leading Florida by a score of forty

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Speaker 2: six to thirty eight. We'll get back to that, plus

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Speaker 2: more on the game matching up Houston and Duke a

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Speaker 2: little bit later on.

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Speaker 3: But let's let's talk some NFL football right now. Join

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Speaker 3: us is.

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Speaker 2: Our NFL insiders, simply the best of the best. The

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Speaker 2: great Adam Kaplan is joining us once again. All right,

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Speaker 2: So we are less than three weeks away from the

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Speaker 2: NFL Draft, and we still have quarterback issues that have

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00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 2: yet to be resolved. I mean, are we one hundred

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00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 2: percent certain that some decision on the fate of Aaron

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00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 2: Rodgers will be realized prior to the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 9: It's impossible to one hundred percent certain because no one's

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00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 9: making the call. O the Rogers Steven, to be honest

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Speaker 9: with you, That's the way the clubs are looking at it,

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Speaker 9: particularly the Steelers, the Vikings, have a passing interest. Kevin

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00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 9: O'Connell went on the record, the head coach of the

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Speaker 9: Vikings at the owners of beanting saying it's actually Rogers

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Speaker 9: should call them. They engaged them, you know, they let

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Speaker 9: him know that if things don't work out with Jaj

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00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 9: McCarthy and their off season program, they would revisit. So

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Speaker 9: it's really right now the Steelers for Aaron Rodgers, and

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00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 9: they're leaving it up to him now. They have not

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00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 9: set a deadline, a hard deadline, but I don't see

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Speaker 9: it going pass the draft. If again, as I've been

1147
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 9: telling you along, whether Rogers signs or not, all of

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00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 9: absolutely no impact.

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Speaker 4: Whether they draft a quarterback in the first round.

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Speaker 9: Right because he's gould be able to one your deal

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00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 9: or won your structure. So that doesn't really change any

1152
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 9: the draft. It's always and has always been and will

1153
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 9: be about the future. It's not about one season. So

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Speaker 9: whatever Rogers decides to do will absolutely not impact the

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Speaker 9: rod The Steelers plans a quarterback for down the line.

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Speaker 1: Adam. Let's let's talk about the draft, and we talk

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Speaker 1: about one of the highly touted people coming into this draft,

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00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: and Dravis Hunter. He had a private workout at the

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Speaker 1: school in Colorado for their pro day and the only

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Speaker 1: day of wide receiver jewels. What was that about? We're

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Speaker 1: teams disappointed that he didn't do any defensive back work

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Speaker 1: or was that part of the plan going in?

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Speaker 9: No, But but when you do it, well, he had

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Speaker 9: his pro day. But when when you do a private workout,

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Speaker 9: it's you know, it's really up to the clubs about

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Speaker 9: how they want to work you out, and you could

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Speaker 9: refuse it. But the bottom line is if you talk

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Speaker 9: to thirty two teams, they will tell you that Travis

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Speaker 9: Hunter is arguably the best player for this draft, best

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Speaker 9: player available. Now, everyone has different needs and carry that's

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Speaker 9: the issue right now.

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Speaker 4: So if you're if you're the Browns, now, I know a.

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Speaker 9: Lot of people are pulling towards Abdell Card are going

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Speaker 9: at two now, he's got some injury concerns. Now, the

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Speaker 9: Browns claim that they have no issue with the stress

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Speaker 9: reaction of the foot injury. The shoulder injury is going

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Speaker 9: to clear up. That's not a problem. So they're they're

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Speaker 9: okay with the medicals. So that's fine. But if you

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Speaker 9: really look Carrie at at the Brown situation at cornerback

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Speaker 9: for the future. They have Denzel Ward is terrific, It's

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Speaker 9: been hurt a lot, it's had a concussion history. Greg Newsom,

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Speaker 9: who's one of the other starting corners, he's on the

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Speaker 9: Fani Vers rookie deal. So you could certainly make the

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Speaker 9: case other than Hunter is the best player for this draft,

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Speaker 9: that they should take Hunter here. So I'm not I'm

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Speaker 9: not going with everyone with outdo Carter there, I understand it.

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Speaker 9: I know there have been some indications that they may

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Speaker 9: be going that way, but we're a little bit early here. Then,

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Speaker 9: of course, the big the big question is, by the way,

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Speaker 9: if it goes like this, if it goes Carter, how

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Speaker 9: in the world could the How in the world could

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Speaker 9: at three? The Giants don't necessarily need a corner for

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Speaker 9: the future, but how could they pass up on the

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Speaker 9: best player with Travis Hunter Overshood or Sanders who's gotten

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Speaker 9: much lower rate.

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Speaker 2: So, I mean everyone is always speculating about which teams

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Speaker 2: are moving up come yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean over year, and nothing's happening, And that is

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Speaker 4: my point.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when we talk about the quarterbacks at the

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Speaker 2: top of this draft, gam wore Chador Sanders, and again,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Jackson dart is sneaking into the conversation.

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Speaker 3: He might be moving up on certain boards around the league.

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Speaker 2: But you know, the two teams that everyone's talking about

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Speaker 2: is the Raiders at six and the.

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Speaker 3: Saints at nine trying to move up.

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Speaker 2: Do you think either one of these teams is going

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Speaker 2: to expel the draft capital necessary to move into one

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Speaker 2: of the top two picks in this draft? Is it

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Speaker 2: even worth it based on the talent that you're seeing

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Speaker 2: right now, the evaluation of the top projected players in

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Speaker 2: this draft, or Steve two things.

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Speaker 9: This is the time of year when every single team

1214
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Speaker 9: talks with each other, there's your trade calls. What happens

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Speaker 9: is it's kind of like this. Let's say, Steve, you

1216
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Speaker 9: are holding my team is at ten and you're at six.

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Speaker 9: I say, hey, hey, Steve, listen, it's real simple. We're

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Speaker 9: going to want to if our guy drops at six

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Speaker 9: to six, let's talk about it now. What's it going

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00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 9: to what's the cost going to be? You don't wait

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Speaker 9: till the day of the draft to have an idea

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Speaker 9: of what the team wants.

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Speaker 4: That never happens.

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Speaker 9: These are decided now, ay, these conversations rappen now now

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Speaker 9: Now the next question is on your point, and this

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Speaker 9: is the this is the situation that's clubs you're dealing

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Speaker 9: with right now. This is for blue chip prospects, right

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Speaker 9: it's one of the worst drafts probably in recent years.

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Speaker 4: There's just not a lot of them. That's the problem.

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Speaker 9: We mentioned Travis Henery mentioned out Jill Carter cam Ward

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00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 9: almost certainly will go at one.

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Speaker 4: Ashton Gent would be thought of.

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Speaker 9: Amrion Hampton also would be a blue chip prospect, the

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Speaker 9: other great running back for this draft. So as you

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Speaker 9: go along here, there are not a lot of blue

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00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 9: chip prospects for this draft, and that's the problem. So

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00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 9: that's why you're not hearing a lot of steam of

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00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 9: teams trading up, because it's just not that type of draft.

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Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, what you might see Steve

1240
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 9: on the day of the draft is teams through you're

1241
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 9: twenty two through thirty two trying to trade out of

1242
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 9: the first round because the values clearing out there. And

1243
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 9: by the way, most teams will tell you this, they

1244
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 9: are typically in terms of first round grades given out

1245
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 9: to every draft anywhere from nine to twenty first round grades.

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00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 9: There's never thirty two first round grades ever. Now, the

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00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 9: thirty two picks made, but in terms of players who

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00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 9: are great for the first round, there's never even close

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Speaker 9: to thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Adam, what do you take? What do you take from

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Speaker 1: this Joe Milton to the Cowboys deal. That's intriguing me

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Speaker 1: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I think there's some You mean, they gave up on

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Speaker 3: Trey Lance, who's now a Charger Every.

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Speaker 9: Really game a chance, which is ridiculous. Now, now here's

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Speaker 9: what I'll tell you about Joe Millen because I saw

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00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 9: it up in person. Yeah, unbelievable armstrength, good size, awful, accuracy, awful.

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Speaker 9: I mean, he's just I mean, I know teams wouldn't

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Speaker 9: draft him because they just felt that they couldn't accuracy

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Speaker 9: at quarterback. You talk to any quarterback coach, it's extremely

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00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 9: difficult to correct. Josh Allen did it, which was stunning,

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Speaker 9: and that usually doesn't happen. He was inaccurate in college

1263
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 9: at Wyoming, which is not a good sign. But hey,

1264
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 9: it's worked. He's become a much more accurate quarterback. So

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00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 9: Joe Millons a big guy who has he has ability,

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Speaker 9: but there's a reason why he was not a you know,

1267
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Speaker 9: an early round pick. Look, we're at the point now

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Speaker 9: teams are sort of trying to figure out, Okay, what's

1269
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Speaker 9: what's our roster look like for the draft. The Patriots

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00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 9: had no interest in keeping them. You have a new

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00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 9: coaching staff that was hurting that player. So I think

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Speaker 9: when you look and remember now that you know, the

1273
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 9: Cowboys lost their backup quarterback Cooper rushed to the Ravens.

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Speaker 9: So yeah, right now, unless they draft a quarterback in

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Speaker 9: rounds three through five, Milton will be the backup real

1276
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 9: greer Will Greer is is on the roster, but you

1277
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 9: know he's probably gonna go into coaching when he at

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00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 9: the end of at the end of his career.

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Speaker 4: He's not very good, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: And him is crazy because I actually, you know, I

1281
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: saw Milton play down the stretch last year in New England.

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Speaker 1: Obviously has an explosive game, yep, and looked really looked

1283
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Speaker 1: really well. Is there could could they could there be

1284
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: something there with the dark Prescott situation with Dallas, with

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Speaker 1: the with the bringing. I mean, he may still be

1286
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Speaker 1: a project. But Mike comp when I see him, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he reminds me of like a Ben Roethlisberger or Cam

1288
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: Newton type where both of those guys weren't weren't super accurate,

1289
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Speaker 1: but they could make plays. There were big bodies, and

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Speaker 1: you know, if he got a little better, I think

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Speaker 1: he could be around. I'm not saying he's a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer like being Roethlisberger, but I'm saying the comp

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Speaker 1: and what he looks like to me.

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Speaker 4: When I say there's something there, I'll say carry. I'll

1295
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Speaker 4: agree with you. One thing I saw at the Senior

1296
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Speaker 4: Bowl last year.

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01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 9: You know, you see him, you watch him throw on

1298
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 9: the field, you go, holy smokes.

1299
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 4: Because he's six', five he's two forty. Five but let's

1300
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 4: put it this.

1301
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 9: Way you go To tennessee and you drop to the

1302
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 9: sixth round that they're kind of telling you what the

1303
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 9: lait is telling, you, ready what they.

1304
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 4: Think it's not very. Good he has major accuracy.

1305
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 9: Problems and it just was one of those things you're,

1306
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 9: like you watch them, throw go holy. Smokes he's got

1307
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 9: you since Arm Now i'll say this for. Him Brian

1308
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 9: schottenhamer is a good coach when it comes to developing. Quarterbacks,

1309
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 9: yeah he's really good at. It And i'll tell you.

1310
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 9: What the job that he did With wilson in twenty.

1311
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 9: Twenty If Pete carle didn't micro manage that, Situation Russell

1312
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 9: wilson would have had one of the.

1313
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 4: Best quarterback SEASON'S nfl.

1314
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 9: History But pete carl was not having, it and he

1315
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 9: wasn't having them throwing the. Football that's just the Way

1316
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 9: pete is and they ruined that season for. Them but

1317
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 9: the bottom line, Is Joe milton's. Interesting i'd BE i

1318
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 9: still would be surprised if they don't bring another guy.

1319
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 9: IN i just, guys he's a major. Project and if

1320
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 9: dak got, hurt are you really? Good you have to

1321
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 9: answer yourself this questions we move along. Here if The,

1322
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 9: cowboys are you satisfied With Chie milton as your? STARTER

1323
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 9: i can't believe that they would Be Trey.

1324
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 2: Lance you, know every once in a WHILE i go

1325
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 2: back to his one season At Northcote Dakota.

1326
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 3: STATE i don't know if anyone will ever match the.

1327
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 2: Season so twenty, nineteen he starts all sixteen, games they

1328
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 2: go sixteen and. Oh they were the first college team

1329
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 2: to win sixteen go sixteen and oh since eighteen ninety.

1330
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 2: Four he completed sixty seven percent of his, passes twenty

1331
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 2: eight touch, down zero. Picks he ran for eleven hundred

1332
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:08,439
Speaker 2: yards and fourteen. Touchdowns SO i don't care what level

1333
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 2: of Competition adham you're going. Against these are ridiculous, numbers

1334
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 2: which is why so many teams are absolutely convinced that

1335
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 2: there is something, there even if they're having to be.

1336
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 2: Developed you just mentioned The. Cowboys they gave up draft

1337
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 2: capital and just sat on, him and they had goal

1338
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 2: in opportunity When Dak prescott was out to at least

1339
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 2: give him a. Chance now he's going to go to

1340
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 2: The chargers playing behind a quarterback that is like his.

1341
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 2: Predecessor are he just as a miss? Game SO i

1342
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 2: don't know what opportunity he's going to. Get but, ultimately

1343
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 2: Is Trey lance one of those guys where teams are

1344
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 2: going to, say, yeah Remember Trey, lance like don't do?

1345
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 3: That OR i, mean how is this all going to play?

1346
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 3: Out the?

1347
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 2: Legacy you think of what the forty Nine ers did

1348
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 2: in Taking Trey lance after one, year again one of

1349
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 2: the most phenomenal collegiate years at any level of any.

1350
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 2: Position but the fallout from that, pick it's really.

1351
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 9: Interesting if we had like two, SEGMENTS i could go

1352
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 9: for everything that happened With lance and the forty nine

1353
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 9: ers and that summer.

1354
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 4: With, purdy With Jimmy garoppolo With Trey.

1355
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 9: Lance and you, Know lance gets hurt and he never

1356
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 9: gets his chance, back And party steals the.

1357
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 4: Show which came out of, nowhere but With Trey.

1358
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 9: Lance this is What Bill pauling told me that The

1359
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 9: hall Of fame general, manager if you go back to the,

1360
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 9: sixties the quarterbacks who start one year or, less there's

1361
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 9: an eight percent chance of failure at THE nfl level

1362
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 9: because they just don't have enough. Starts and he only

1363
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 9: started one year in twenty. Nineteen he what Spectaclar, so

1364
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 9: a general manager who was at THAT, proda told, me

1365
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 9: he is so raw and needs so much. Refinement absolutely

1366
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 9: would sit him your. One you wouldn't play.

1367
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 4: Him but you like the.

1368
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 9: Kid he's a really good kid who's willing to be coached.

1369
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 9: Hard but it had less to do with the, competition

1370
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 9: to be honest with, you it's the number of.

1371
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 4: Starts, yeah and That.

1372
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 9: Steve to answer your question as we move along, here

1373
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 9: it's it's when you're when when you're giving up draft.

1374
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 9: Capital the trade up for guy only started one, Year

1375
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 9: it's Like Mitch trubisky's another one in twenty seventeen where

1376
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 9: The bear stun the football world and trade it up

1377
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 9: to Get trubisky at number, two which shocked. ME i

1378
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 9: was at that draft In. Philly couldn't believe it's, soil

1379
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 9: can't believe. It you're asking for. Trouble you're just you

1380
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 9: also have to have a. Start you have to have

1381
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 9: a veteran starter who you know could go in your

1382
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 9: one and play and not worry about the. Kid and That's.

1383
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 9: Steve that's what happened With Trey, lance who was too

1384
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 9: much too. Soon and and you, know Unfortunately Kyle shanahan

1385
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 9: who made kind of made that, call ye gave up on.

1386
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 4: Him and and by the, way pretty it's a much

1387
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 4: better fit for That West coast.

1388
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 3: Offense, yeah and certainly proved out with the last overall.

1389
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 2: Pick all, right great, Stuff, adam still a couple of

1390
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 2: weeks away from the, draft but we anticipated at some

1391
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 2: point The steelers have to make a decision Or Aaron

1392
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 2: rodgers has to make a decision about The.

1393
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: Steelers, yeah and that's got to happen at some.

1394
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 2: Point, adam thanks so. Much that's a Great adam kaplan

1395
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 2: joining us right. There all, right let's find out what

1396
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 2: is trending right. Now man that's getting ready for his

1397
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 2: own show coming up.

1398
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: Today that would Be. Martin that's, Right, steve mister.

1399
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 3: Doubles, shift you know, me, Shift Travis. Hunter this game

1400
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 3: is tightening up a little bit right.

1401
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 8: Now oh, yeah, YEAH i Mean florida coming back now

1402
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 8: eight to three the scoring in the second, half so

1403
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 8: they've now cut the lead to three for The Auburn.

1404
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 8: Tigers right, now forty nine to forty. Six the score,

1405
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 8: HERE j AND I broom with thirteen, Points Chad Backer

1406
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 8: mazzarro with, Ten Miles kelly adding eight so far in

1407
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 8: The Walter Clayton. Jr including HIS i, mean including continuing

1408
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 8: his incredible stretch so far this, tournament seventeen points right

1409
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 8: now again with just over seventeen minutes left in the first,

1410
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 8: half he's three for five from three to six for

1411
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 8: ten from the. Floor Elijah martin also has ten in

1412
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 8: the end In Major League baseball rather not THE. Nba

1413
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 8: hold on the Second all right it right, Here manti

1414
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 8: distracted me trying to get ready for my own show

1415
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 8: in just a.

1416
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 7: Moment here we got SOME nba.

1417
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 8: Scores with just under one minute thirty seconds left in

1418
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 8: the first quarter for both of. These The Memphis grizzlies

1419
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 8: with a twenty seven and twenty one lead over The Detroit.

1420
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 8: PISTONS i make that twenty two for The. Pistons minnesota

1421
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 8: with a twenty seven to twenty three lead over the

1422
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 8: seventy Six ers nearing the end of the first. Quarter

1423
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 8: there In Major League, baseball the middle of the second,

1424
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 8: inning The rangers have a forur to nothing lead over The.

1425
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 8: Rays top of the second, inning tied scoreless between The

1426
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 8: mets and The Blue. Jays top of the Second reds

1427
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 8: with a two to nothing lead over The brewers ON fs.

1428
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 8: One top of the second, Inning marlins lead The braves

1429
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 8: two to. Nothing braves one win on the year thus.

1430
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 8: Far tigers beat The White sox today seven to. Two

1431
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 8: twins Over Astros, PADRES i, Mean cubs give The padres

1432
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 8: their second loss of the season seven to. One nationals

1433
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 8: get their second win of the season three over The.

1434
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 8: Diamondbacks dodgers three to one over The, Phillies yankees ten

1435
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 8: to four over The, pirates and The orioles beat The

1436
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 8: royals eight to. One carry and steve back to you,

1437
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 8: guys tied forty. Nine, YES i rut.

1438
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 3: Is That Elijah martin hit.

1439
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 2: THREE i believe to tie it, up you, know in

1440
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 2: a game like this, Again auburn And florida tied now

1441
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 2: forty nine all with sixteen minutes to go in the second.

1442
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 2: Half Todd golden going crazy on the sideline as well he.

1443
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 2: Should but these are the kind of games, again you're

1444
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 2: All americans have to. Produce and we talk About broom

1445
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 2: and he's, obviously you, know.

1446
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: Had a good first.

1447
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 2: Half he's you, know he's gonna have to make a

1448
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 2: little more noise here in the second. Half But Walter Clayton,

1449
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 2: junior first Team All american has stepped up in a big,

1450
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 2: way certainly in the second half Here he's got seventeen.

1451
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 2: Points and again that's what it all comes down to

1452
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 2: when you you, know the one thing about This final

1453
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:55,840
Speaker 2: four is all of these teams Have All.

1454
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: Americans, yes when.

1455
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 2: You're a one, seed that means you are showing up

1456
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 2: with players on The All american teams and it's you

1457
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 2: guys got to show. Up and right, Now Walter Clayton

1458
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 2: junior is certainly showing up for The.

1459
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: Gators Walter clayton And Walter, Clayton Walter Clayton junior is

1460
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: the best player in this final. Four. Wow, Yes Cooper

1461
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 1: flag obviously is the National player of the, year BUT

1462
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: i mean during this, tournament Run Walter clayton and the

1463
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,639
Speaker 1: stuff that he's pulled out in these games For. Florida

1464
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,600
Speaker 1: florida has been in trouble a couple of times to

1465
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: even get here and for him to step up the

1466
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 1: way he. Has he's had thirty points in a couple

1467
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: of GAMES i think in this tournament and big shot

1468
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 1: off the big. SHOT i, mean IF i was to

1469
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: put my money on one, guy if it was a

1470
01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: closed game and you were giving the shot to one

1471
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: guy on this in the final, four it'll Be Walter Clayton.

1472
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: Junior you, know a.

1473
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 2: Lot has been made Of and by the, way we

1474
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 2: were coming to live from the tire rack Dot com.

1475
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,040
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1476
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,200
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1477
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,639
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1478
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,640
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1479
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:00,840
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1480
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,400
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1481
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,040
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1482
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 2: show posted right after we get off the. Air you,

1483
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 2: know a lot has been, made obviously of the lack

1484
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 2: Of cinderellas.

1485
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: In this year's.

1486
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 2: TOURNAMENT i actually had one, person you, KNOW i don't

1487
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 2: want you want to, watch you, know one shiny. MOMENT

1488
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 2: i think that Was Anita. Mark she told me last.

1489
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 2: WHILE i get so excited about, it but what AM

1490
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 2: i going to? Watch there are no Exciting there were

1491
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 2: no great one shiny moments where at least you had

1492
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 2: some first year on upsets and you Had cinderella's maybe

1493
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 2: one sneak into the sweet six or anything like. That

1494
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 2: we just did not have. That people are saying those

1495
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 2: days are.

1496
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: Over they're not, over.

1497
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 2: Folks we're just two years removed From San Diego state

1498
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 2: And Florida atlantic playing in the final.

1499
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: Four, okay it's the.

1500
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 2: Idea, look if this holds up for like three or

1501
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 2: four more, years you, know we have the number one

1502
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 2: seeds or one two, seeds and Then i'll, say, okay

1503
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 2: maybe MAYBE i think people are overplaying this right, now because,

1504
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 2: again it's still a single elimination. Tournament it only takes one,

1505
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 2: guy and we've seen obscure players year after year after

1506
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 2: year on teams that you, know one guy gets hot

1507
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 2: and knocks out the better team on that one given.

1508
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 2: DAY i don't think that has. Changed who was the

1509
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 2: last day OF? Goki wasn't that game remember that? Guy San?

1510
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 2: Francisco what was That? Oakland, Oh cloakland's, Right oakland? Right,

1511
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 2: yeah that wasn't Even oakland in The. Bay that was

1512
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 2: a completely DIFFERENT i know everyone's, like there's it's not

1513
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 2: even That, oakland, Right but for one, day this guy

1514
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 2: was the talk of the college basketball.

1515
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 3: WORLD i still think those states Are, yeah that's gonna.

1516
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: HAPPEN i, mean the one signing moment isn't just About. Cinderella,

1517
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: no it's about teams. Prevailing it's about some teams that

1518
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: were supposed to prevail losing and the tears and the

1519
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: joy and the excitement and. All it's it's so much

1520
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 1: more than The cinderella. Story So i'm with you on that.

1521
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: Stage stop talking About. Cinderella the basketball has been great

1522
01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: and the games have still been, good.

1523
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 2: And florida has taken in the. Lead So clayton has scored.

1524
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 2: Again he is seven to. Eleven he's got nineteen points

1525
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 2: in this, game so they are.

1526
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 3: On an eleven zero.

1527
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 2: Run right now Against, auburn And auburn just tied it.

1528
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: Up so oh and the plus.

1529
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 3: One, Wow broom just powering his way in for the.

1530
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 3: Score you tell, me how do you pronounce his first?

1531
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 4: Name?

1532
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 3: Jani, So i'm WHEN i first saw the name.

1533
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: Bro it Looks johnny, right it's j O.

1534
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 2: H And i'm, like, well that's an interesting spelling Of.

1535
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 2: Johnny And i'm, like what what's his? Name Jana Jani Janni? Broom,

1536
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 2: Yeah Jeni. Broom, OKAY i BETTER i GOT tv, tonight

1537
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 2: SO i better better get.

1538
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 3: That name right OR i don't want to go embars.

1539
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:46,960
Speaker 2: Myself you, know you don't know how many, times especially in,

1540
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 2: television they'll throw a name up, there And i'll tell

1541
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:51,680
Speaker 2: you what this worst part is when they try to

1542
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 2: spell it out. Phonetically, yeah and then it's like you

1543
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 2: got hyphens on the prompter and it's, like, no don't do.

1544
01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 2: That you, mean don't just tell me how to put

1545
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 2: aunce the guy's Name JANE I broom to, me you

1546
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 2: start saying it like it's you, know it's, like, yeah

1547
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 2: you don't want to do, that all. Right coming up

1548
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 2: on the other, side we're going to talk about not

1549
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 2: just the rest of this, game but the game coming

1550
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 2: up Between houston And. DUKE i GUESS i should label

1551
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:25,639
Speaker 2: Again Carrie's Duke Blue. Doubles this Is Fox Sports, Saturday Steve,

1552
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 2: Hartman Carrie, Rhoads Fox Sports. Saturday we are alive from

1553
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:35,879
Speaker 2: the tyraq dot com. Studios by the, Way moncey And

1554
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 2: martin are getting ready for their show coming up. Here

1555
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 2: we have got a heck of a basketball gaming going

1556
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 2: on right. Now by the, way thank You martin for

1557
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 2: all your brilliant work.

1558
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 3: TODAY a happy belated? Birthday is it a belated?

1559
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: Birthday?

1560
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 4: Right?

1561
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:49,520
Speaker 1: Yes?

1562
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:50,719
Speaker 3: Toorrow Mary?

1563
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 2: Mac it seems LIKE i don't time is really flying,

1564
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 2: Here Mary, Mack, like weren't we literally just celebrating your

1565
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 2: twenty first. Birthday it's like what happened? Here BUT i

1566
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 2: remember my Daughter. Paris her birthday was. Yesterday she turned twenty. Four,

1567
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 2: yesterday my youngest what's her?

1568
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: Name?

1569
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:14,840
Speaker 2: Day, Paris, Paris, Paris happy, Birthday, Paris, Peri, Paris Paris.

1570
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 3: Hartman so twenty, four it just seems mind blowing to.

1571
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 1: Me it's hard to.

1572
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 2: Believe And, ian of, course by the, Way, ian we

1573
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 2: had really two separate bracket.

1574
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:26,600
Speaker 1: Challenges, well there was.

1575
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 2: Three there was the all inclusive with all the listeners out,

1576
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 2: there which is still very much up for. Grabs there

1577
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 2: was the host of, brackets like thirty three, people and

1578
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 2: then there was sort of the support Crew IAN i

1579
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 2: saw for a couple of, Weeks jarry your your name

1580
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 2: was at the top of the.

1581
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: List, OH i.

1582
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 10: Was THE i was the editing staff production staff version

1583
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 10: Of Steve.

1584
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 2: Hartman so we were both sitting there right at the, top,

1585
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 2: right and then he had just and then but your

1586
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 2: key is the next, game, Right so you still Say

1587
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:57,640
Speaker 2: houston is the key for?

1588
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: You?

1589
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 10: Yeah SO i actually am still. Alive is the crazy,

1590
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 10: part because my brackets and absolute. Shambles but Because i'm

1591
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 10: the only remaining person to Have houston, Winning i'm still

1592
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 10: the highest ranked person to have so.

1593
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: You Have houston. Winning. Yeah, Wow, Sorry, yeah a lot

1594
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 1: riding tonight here.

1595
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 10: Today, Yeah i'm gonna text you regardless of what, Happens.

1596
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: Carrie so, well here's the thing.

1597
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 3: About, well good luck with.

1598
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 2: That LIKE i, SAID i was in it all the

1599
01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 2: way Until tennessee And Michigan state lost those the LAD a.

1600
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 2: Games that was like my last gas to finally win

1601
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 2: one of these aubun right, now Leading florida suddenly had

1602
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 2: retaken leave fifty five to fifty. One still an attorney

1603
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,600
Speaker 2: left twelve minutes left in this. Game all, Right so

1604
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 2: let's look ahead to the second matchup between The cougar's

1605
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 2: and Your Duke Blue, devil's Mister. Louisville except when it

1606
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 2: comes to duke. Basketball, Okay so if YOU'RE i, Mean

1607
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 2: duke obviously has played at a very high.

1608
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 3: Level throughout this.

1609
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 2: Tournament you got a, coach by the, way who won

1610
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,560
Speaker 2: a national chanceampionship as a, player won a national championship

1611
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 2: as an assistant. Coach he even was asked about that

1612
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 2: kind of experience going into the final, four and he, said,

1613
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 2: YEAH i mean there's but that doesn't really count for my.

1614
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: PLAYERS i, mean you, KNOW i can.

1615
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 2: Talk, about you, know my own preparation now as a

1616
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 2: head coach for getting my team ready for games like,

1617
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 2: This but how your team's going to respond in the,

1618
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 2: spotlight you just don't know until it actually. Happens but

1619
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 2: if From duke's, standpoint what is your biggest concern about

1620
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 2: The Houston, Cougars the biggest.

1621
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: Concern is just if the refs Allow houston to Maul,

1622
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: duke they are the, bigger, stronger older. Team so if

1623
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: they're able to allow them to play that way and

1624
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: not officiate it like a basketball, game that would be

1625
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: the biggest. Thing that's the only Thing i'm worried.

1626
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 2: About, okay wait A sete, said let's go to YOUR

1627
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 2: nfl playoff. Experience did the officials officiate games differently in

1628
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 2: the playoffs than you saw in the regular? Season, yes

1629
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:02,439
Speaker 2: in what manner they they were more restrictive or less.

1630
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 1: Restrictive they were less, restrictive.

1631
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 2: Right so they allowed teams to get away with a

1632
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 2: little bit. More and he goes most fans by the

1633
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 2: way of say that's the way it should. Be.

1634
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 3: ONE i don't want the officials to decide the.

1635
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 2: Game you, know if you're letting things slide a little

1636
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 2: bit and you're allowing a little as long as you're,

1637
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 2: consistent that's the.

1638
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:25,600
Speaker 1: Part and that's the. Part Because houston is, physical But

1639
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: duke is physical as. Well it's not like there's a mismatch, there,

1640
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: Right but the way that the game is, officiated if

1641
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: they allow ultra like the, older, stronger more aggressive team

1642
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: to be that way and it dictates the, Outcome houston

1643
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: has a strong chance to win if they allowed them

1644
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: to play. Basketball Now i'm not saying not be. Physical

1645
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: duke's not scared of, that but that that's going to

1646
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: be a, big big tail in this.

1647
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 2: Game, well here's the thing About houston THAT i would

1648
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 2: be very nervous about If I'm, duke is that you

1649
01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 2: know they've they've had some close calls. Already here's the

1650
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 2: thing WHEN i remember this so, AGAIN i date myself

1651
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 2: all the. Time so in nineteen ninety Three final four

1652
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 2: was In New orleans and it was it wasn't four

1653
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 2: number one, seeds but they're all one or two. Seeds

1654
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 2: that was the, year the second year of The fab

1655
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 2: five At michigan And Rick. Patino you, remember of course

1656
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 2: the ninety Two christian later hits the shot Against kentucky

1657
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 2: to knock them. Out the next, Year Jamal mashburn is

1658
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:27,719
Speaker 2: still there And kentucky's a much better, team and they

1659
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 2: roll into The final four like they roll. In they

1660
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: had won all four GAMES i think in the turnam

1661
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 2: by twenty plus.

1662
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:35,639
Speaker 1: Points with That, Mischigan North.

1663
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:38,839
Speaker 2: Carolina who else was so The North carolina And, Kansas

1664
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 2: so it was it was heavyweights across the. Board So

1665
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:45,560
Speaker 2: michigan with The fab five is matched up Against, kentucky

1666
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 2: and even with all the hype of the you, know

1667
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 2: The fab, Five kentucky's favor Because patino's got them on

1668
01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 2: a roll and it was a close game and down

1669
01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 2: the Stretch michigan out played. Him and part of the

1670
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 2: and Was kentucky didn't have any close.

1671
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: Games, yeah so it was new to.

1672
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 2: Them in the tournament, Atmosphere michigan, prevailed and of Course

1673
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 2: michigan on the, timeout the fake time out you know

1674
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 2: By Chris, lever.

1675
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: It ends up losing In North.

1676
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 2: Carolina but that would be my concern right now For

1677
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 2: duke because they've been so dominant in this tournament And

1678
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 2: houston's been tested a couple of times in this. Tournament

1679
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 2: they have the longest winning streak in the, country which

1680
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 2: tells you they have learned how to win games even

1681
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 2: if they don't have their a game one hundred.

1682
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: PERCENT i understand, that AND i think the theory That

1683
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: duke hasn't played in any close, GAMES i know you

1684
01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: say it not, lately BUT i guess the resounding sentiment

1685
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 1: around that is they have been playing in a lot

1686
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: of close. Games they played close games, early they Played,

1687
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: kentucky they Played, kansas they lost those games, early but

1688
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:49,280
Speaker 1: they've also grown from that. Point so, yeah we never.

1689
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: Know but this, Team duke is the, best the better

1690
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,040
Speaker 1: team right now and if they, play if both teams,

1691
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 1: play play their eight plus, Games duke's gonna win the.

1692
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 2: GAME i MEAN i thought this in Picking duke to

1693
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 2: in this tournament BECAUSE i felt That Cooper flag was

1694
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 2: the best player in the. Country, sure and you, Know

1695
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 2: i'll never forget the year That syracuse won it With Carmelo.

1696
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 2: Anthony and you, know he wasn't the player of the,

1697
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,600
Speaker 2: year but he was like second Team All american as a.

1698
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 2: Freshman but you got a sense if you had watched

1699
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 2: Any syracuse basketball going into the, tournament by by the

1700
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:23,520
Speaker 2: time the tournament.

1701
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: Started he was the best player in the. Country, yeah

1702
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 1: and he just. Dominated he just.

1703
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 2: DOMINATED i mean then you know it wasn't, easy but

1704
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 2: they had to beat a Good kansas, team but you,

1705
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 2: know they had the best.

1706
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 3: Player and that's that's the WAY.

1707
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 2: I looked at it With Cooper, flag and he seems

1708
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:39,639
Speaker 2: to be just getting better and better and better as

1709
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 2: this tournament.

1710
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: Progresses he, IS i, mean he came, back got a

1711
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:45,679
Speaker 1: couple of days off in the A Secy tournament from hurting. Himself,

1712
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:47,840
Speaker 1: yeah so he came in fresh and ready to go

1713
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 1: when he's looked like, it and he's a he's a

1714
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: heck of a, player. Man all.

1715
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:56,600
Speaker 2: Right so here we. Go auburn fifty, Seven florida fifty,

1716
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 2: six eleven minutes to. Go there is a mis dunk

1717
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 2: By auburn that doesn't. Help as a, coach you hate

1718
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Speaker 2: to see that kind of. Stuff, Uh florida gonna prevail

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Speaker 2: on this.

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Speaker 1: Game, YEAH i Think florida's gonna put. Out they got

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Speaker 1: back in, it made, it made, it made it, contested

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Speaker 1: and Now florida's gonna pull it.

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Speaker 2: Through All, right get Ready martin And monci are coming up.

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