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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: The NCAA tournament hasn't even gotten rolling, and.

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Speaker 1: We already have more chaos than we can handle.

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Speaker 2: We got buzzer beaters, we got upsets, we got one

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Speaker 2: of the best teams in the country without their superstar

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Speaker 2: for god knows how long. We've got the top team

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Speaker 2: in all the land falling, and I'm just looking around saying,

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. It's already difficult enough to fill

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Speaker 2: out your brackets. I can't even tell you today who

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Speaker 2: the number one team in the entire tournament should be.

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Speaker 2: And that's why this is going to be an unprecedented,

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Speaker 2: unbelievable year for March Madness. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 2: It's Bucking fits here on Fox Sports Radio. We're broadcasting

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Speaker 3: Buck.

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Speaker 2: I think, first and foremost, we did this the first time.

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Speaker 2: What a couple of weeks ago, we got to hang out.

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Speaker 2: We've known each other for a decade for anyone that

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Speaker 2: didn't hear us. A few weeks ago we did this

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Speaker 2: for the first time and the boss and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: we should do it again.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it.

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Speaker 2: They put us back together, Like does that mean we

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Speaker 2: did something right? Or does that mean we're just the

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Speaker 2: only ones available?

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Speaker 4: The ladder for sure, the ladder because you came on

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Speaker 4: there and gave this very sweet, very sentimental, very syrupy.

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Speaker 4: Oh we've known each other for a decade. How much

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Speaker 4: fun is this gonna be? This means so much. And

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Speaker 4: my sales pitch at the end of the two hours

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Speaker 4: that we were fortunate enough to do together was yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was great, have me back. So I'm glad to

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Speaker 4: be back.

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Speaker 1: Well come.

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Speaker 2: That's you know, that's the difference between like, look, it's

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Speaker 2: very clear. You spend ten minutes in the room with

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Speaker 2: the two of us, and you realize that I'm a believer,

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Speaker 2: my friend, that everybody has like a hamster wheel in

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Speaker 2: their head.

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Speaker 1: We don't actually have brains.

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Speaker 2: We have a hamster wheel, right, and so like my

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Speaker 2: hamster is constantly running, Like if you just saw my

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Speaker 2: hamster on the street, you would think it probably has

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Speaker 2: a coke problem.

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Speaker 1: It's like way too energetic.

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Speaker 2: Way too much every time you walk into the room,

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Speaker 2: like lifting three different things at once because he's on

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Speaker 2: a fitness journey.

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Speaker 1: That's my hamster.

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Speaker 2: Your hamster is sitting next to the wheel, unimpressed by

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Speaker 2: the entire thing.

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Speaker 1: It's looking at the wheel.

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Speaker 2: And it's like, I know what you want me to do,

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Speaker 2: but I don't know for I'm telling you, like I

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Speaker 2: come in last time we do this, I'm all thankful.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, heay, this was great.

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Speaker 2: I'm like Kermit the Frog running around with my arms

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Speaker 2: flailing around and buck rising.

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Speaker 1: He's just sitting there said, Kah, that was cools. Do

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Speaker 1: it again.

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Speaker 4: I mean, my hamster is telling your hamster to don't

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Speaker 4: be a hero and go make it to Kila Sota.

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Speaker 3: Relaxed a little bit. We're going to have a great time.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: You got me fired up. March is my favorite time

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Speaker 4: of year, fitsie. College basketball is my favorite sport by

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Speaker 4: a mile. We've already had controversial finishes.

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Speaker 3: I mean we are.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure at some point going to talk about Duke

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Speaker 4: handing North Carolina a third straight l this season, seventy

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Speaker 4: four to seventy one. Last night, which set up, of course,

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Speaker 4: a great game between Duke and Louisville later this evening

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Speaker 3: I'm excited for.

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Speaker 4: All the coaches bad decisions that we get to yell

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Speaker 4: love the bloodthirst of the rivalries.

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Speaker 3: I love it all. March is my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Here's the question, did a lane violation cost North Carolina

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Speaker 2: a chance at making it to the NCAA Tournament? Because, like,

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Speaker 2: North Carolina was just absolutely getting thumped, right, they're getting

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Speaker 2: absolutely blown out. Now I'm doing a bracket announcement.

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Speaker 1: Show with Yahoo.

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Speaker 2: So I'm out in LA and you know, texted everybody

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Speaker 2: that's going to be on that show with me.

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Speaker 4: I that feels like a humble brag or a brag.

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Speaker 4: I think you should find him every time he tries.

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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say he's in LA and he didn't

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Speaker 5: say anything to me.

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Speaker 1: What.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, brother, you know what LA is is an

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Speaker 2: expansive place.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, the funny thing is half an hour

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Speaker 3: Too good to Callie and too good to Callie and

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Speaker 3: he's waiting on this is Hollywood fits.

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Speaker 4: Bothering Ian during the previous show, trying to get him

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Speaker 4: that he's focused on at the time, and it can't

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Speaker 1: You know, look, I'm a very busy man.

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Speaker 2: I'm a very busy man, and you know this this

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Speaker 2: what happens when you're trying to be a mogul. So

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm working with everybody on Yahoo and I'm texting,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you get your butt kick like this to

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Speaker 2: Duke without two of their best players.

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Speaker 1: Boy, that's gonna be a resume hit.

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Speaker 2: But North Carolina makes it a game, and at the

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Speaker 2: very end they have the chance and then a lane

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Speaker 2: North Carolina in that process. But now there's this weird

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Speaker 2: Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz by the way, Bucking fits

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. You look at this entire bracket,

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Speaker 2: and I would tell you that the Committee's gonna have

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Speaker 2: a ton of arguments about the bottom because North Carolina

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Speaker 2: certainly has a better record than Texas. Texas is this

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Speaker 2: weird example of a team that has all these quad

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Speaker 2: Because North Carolina beats Duke, they're probably in, I would think,

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Speaker 2: but they didn't, and now I don't know that we

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Speaker 4: And I would argue, I would argue against obviously the

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Speaker 1: Listen, my guy was.

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Speaker 2: Like, my guy sat down in the lane, took a

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Speaker 2: and he's like, I got this whole set up, and

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Speaker 3: Line had time to let it breathe all of it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he definitely got back in time, but come on,

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Speaker 2: like he was doing the whole like macarena in the

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Speaker 1: There was nothing controversial about that. You gotta call it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So you look at the situation and you say, no,

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Speaker 4: that's not why North Carolina's not getting into the tournament.

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Speaker 4: North Carolina's not getting into the tournament because they lost

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Speaker 4: all the quality teams on their schedule this year. That

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Speaker 4: would have put them in a better position to build

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Speaker 4: I get kind of the argument. I get the discussion.

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Speaker 4: I get that it's weird that North Carolina is struggling

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Speaker 3: I know that Hubert Davis has put them in the.

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Speaker 4: Just answer speak for all of the of Tarhel Nation

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Speaker 4: fits yes bad, probably much like my basketball coach. I

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Speaker 4: get to enjoy basketball because Indiana season is done, thank God,

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Speaker 4: and Mike Woodson is going to shuffle off into retirement

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Speaker 4: hopefully and I can get back to enjoying my favorite sport.

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Speaker 4: But for North Carolina, there's a lot of different things

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Speaker 4: that are going to be debated tomorrow. I mean, hell,

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Speaker 4: we've got the SEC Championship here where I am in

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Speaker 4: they do with Auburn, what they do with Duke without

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Speaker 4: Cooper Flagg know Cooper flag. The latest report that came

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Speaker 4: out I think, like I don't know twenty minutes before

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Speaker 4: be available for the NCAA A tournament, which is great news.

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Speaker 2: That's that's interestingly worded, though right expected to be available

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Speaker 2: Like I just thought that was it wasn't expected to play,

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Speaker 2: it was expected to be available. That stood out to me, Buck,

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Speaker 2: I think you mentioned the SEC Championship. You're going to

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Speaker 2: see it tomorrow in Nashville, Florida right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, of course, of course for you.

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Speaker 2: Florida though has got to be looking around saying Hey,

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Speaker 2: but they're number two in the country in kempom right now, right,

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Speaker 2: they are on a roll. They absolutely destroyed Alabama in the.

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Speaker 1: Second half of that game.

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Speaker 2: Today, Florida's got to be looking around saying, hey, why

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Speaker 2: Duke is handicapped down two players. Auburn has not been

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Speaker 2: Florida has been fire.

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Speaker 1: So like, I think Florida actually is still trying to

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Speaker 3: Which is why the state.

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Speaker 4: This is why this is such a fun time of year,

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Speaker 4: because there is this level of debate. We get this

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Speaker 4: in college football too, right, but this this the scale

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Speaker 4: of the conference tournaments and the implications that it has

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Speaker 4: the brackets together tomorrow. It's like, it's why, it's why

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Speaker 4: coach Cali Perry John Calipario at Arkansas pissed me off.

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Speaker 3: And it's not the first time that Calas pissed me

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Speaker 4: And I'm certain that he yeah, I'm sure he's real

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Speaker 4: worried about it. He's doing just fine, but like.

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Speaker 3: You know, he was pooing the conference, the conference tournament.

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Speaker 4: I had it coming down here to Nashville and playing

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Speaker 4: with Arkansas this year. I'm like, cal baby, You're not

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Speaker 4: at Kentucky anymore. What are you talking about Arkansas? The

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Speaker 4: way that they were, that they went through their season,

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Speaker 4: These things have such a huge ripple effect and I

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Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz at Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 4: Paying say, Florida, are Valls fans going to storm the

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Speaker 2: The question is what does it mean, not just for

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Speaker 3: With Zach Wilson. Jet's legend at the time.

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Speaker 4: Listen, I understand your confusion, but they are telling you

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Speaker 4: loud and clear, it's a huge risk to even let

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Speaker 4: Sam Darnold go without knowing what JJ McCarthy is. I

447
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Speaker 4: know he's a first round pick and has lost his

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Speaker 4: entire rookie year to injury, and they're comfortable with the

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Speaker 4: way that he's taking things into the meetings or whatever.

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Speaker 4: He hasn't played an NFL snap. It's a huge risk

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Speaker 4: even just in the JJ McCarthy room, without adding the

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Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers component, volatile volatility that that brings into the mix.

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Speaker 4: But what they're telling you, what they're screaming at you,

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Speaker 4: is that, hey, we know we know Sam Darnold better

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Speaker 4: than a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: We just spent a year with him.

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Speaker 4: We saw him do all of those impressive things that

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Speaker 4: we believe the system and the playmakers that they have

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Speaker 4: put in place in Minnesota helped Sam Darnold to do.

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Speaker 4: I have experienced this with the team that I cover

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Speaker 4: on a day to day basis, the Tennessee Titans, the

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Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill post Dolphins effect, where Ryan Tannehill came in

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Speaker 4: Here is the second best quarterback that they've had the

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Speaker 4: frame in the Titans era twenty seven years since Steve McNair.

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Speaker 4: There has not been a better Titans quarterback than Ryan Tannehill.

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Speaker 4: And he threw three interceptions as the number one overall

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Speaker 4: seat in the AFC against the Cincinnati Bengals team where.

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow got sacked nine times in a game.

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Speaker 4: Because that player has a ceiling, Minnesota is telling you,

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Speaker 4: red flag, red flag all over the place, not just

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Speaker 4: these two games. We see it in the meetings, we

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Speaker 4: see it in practice, we see it in the day

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Speaker 4: to day ability that this player brings to the table,

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Speaker 4: and we are comfortable taking a greater risk to reap

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Speaker 4: a better reward.

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Speaker 3: Now, if that greater risk is Aaron Rodgers that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the coach of the year in Kevin O'Connell

478
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Speaker 4: is hanging his He's hanging his hat on a very

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Speaker 4: very interesting proposition here. But it's not just the Vikings,

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Speaker 4: who are a well run organization we believe to be

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Speaker 4: a well run organization that are kind of held hostage

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Speaker 4: by this Aaron Rodgers situation. Three teams are comfortable turning

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Speaker 4: things over to the forty one year old quarterback who, yes,

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Speaker 4: will be two years removed from the Achilles injury. But

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Speaker 4: that's how desperate, desperate, desperate teams are for even average

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Speaker 4: to slightly above average quarterback play. If there's even remotely

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Speaker 4: a chance that the person that used to be Aaron

488
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Speaker 4: Rodgers is in that graying, hunched, over body, malcontent though

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Speaker 4: he may be, then they are willing to at least

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Speaker 4: explore the option because they know Sam Darnold cannot get

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Speaker 4: them there, which honestly makes Seattle's off season ten times

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Speaker 4: more confusing to me.

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Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason fitzbucking Fits hanging out with you.

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Speaker 2: Buckers told you there are three teams that are all

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Speaker 2: just dangling here waiting for Aaron Rodgers. I'll explain who

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Speaker 2: those three teams are and I'll tell you why the

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Speaker 2: Vikings are different than the other two. We will do that,

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Speaker 2: but first, NCAA actually going on. Steve Disager, give us

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Speaker 2: an update, my friend on Fox TV.

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Speaker 9: Right now is the Big East Final and top seed

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Speaker 9: Saint John's is in the lead, late seventy two to

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Speaker 9: fifty nine over Creighton, just over three minutes to go.

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Speaker 9: We're just a few minutes away from the tip of

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Speaker 9: number one Duke against Louisville in the ACC Tournament final.

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Speaker 9: Cooper Flag of Duke is out again with the sprayed ankle,

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Speaker 9: although the NCAA Tournament committee did say Duke told them

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Speaker 9: Flag will play in the NCAAs selection Sunday is tomorrow

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Speaker 9: to fill out the tournament field. One seed in the

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Speaker 9: Big twelve, Houston has just won that tournament's final over

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Speaker 9: Arizona seventy two to sixty four. There were Big Ten

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Speaker 9: semifinals today. Wisconsin beat the one seed Michigan State seventy

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Speaker 9: seven to seventy four, and then it was Michigan over

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Speaker 9: Maryland eighty one eighty on a fast break layup at

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Speaker 9: the buzzer after Maryland and made a couple of free

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Speaker 9: throws at the other end. SEC Tennessee beat one seed

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Speaker 9: Auburn seventy to sixty five. Florida one oh four eighty

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Speaker 9: two over Alabama, one seed in the American Memphis advanced

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Speaker 9: seventy eight seventy seven against Tulane, among the many many

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Speaker 9: other games. We're halftime right now with the MAC Conference

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Speaker 9: championship first place Akron is losing forty six thirty four

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Speaker 9: to Miami, Ohio. Akron went seventeen to one in conference

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Speaker 9: play this year. Colorado State pretty easily has just won

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Speaker 9: the Mountain West Final sixty nine fifty six over Boise State,

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Speaker 9: which apparently is a bubble team. Villanova fired coach Kyle

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Speaker 9: Neptune after three seasons. He had replaced Hall of Famer

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Speaker 9: Jay Wright, who retired. UNLV fired coach Kevin Krueger after

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Speaker 9: four years. He missed the NCAA tournaments all four years.

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Speaker 9: Our first final tonight in the NBA goes to Boston

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Speaker 9: holding off Brooklyn one fifteen one thirteen. Cam Thomas of

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Speaker 9: the Nets is out for the season with a strain hamstring.

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Speaker 9: He averaged twenty four points per game starting the third quarter.

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Speaker 9: Thunder only leaded Detroit fifty five fifty four twenty points

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Speaker 9: for Shay gilgis Alexander Thunder with a record of fifty

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Speaker 9: four and twelve. The feature matchup Golden State winners of

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Speaker 9: sixth straight, about to host New York. The late game

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Speaker 9: in a half an hour, we'll have Denver hosting a

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Speaker 9: Washing team that's fourteen and fifty one this year. Philadelphia's

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Speaker 9: Tyree s Maxey will be out again Sunday with hand

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Speaker 9: and finger injuries. The Atlanta Falcons cap quarterback Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 9: so his ten million dollars roster bonus for next year

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Speaker 9: is now fully guaranteed. And in the NHL. Among the

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Speaker 9: eleven games, Buffalo in a shootout defeated Vegas four to three.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, he's buck rising on Jason fitz Bucket

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Speaker 2: fits on a Fox Sports Saturday, coming at you from

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Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. We'll keep you updated

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Speaker 2: on NCAA Action. But we were just talking about Aaron

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Speaker 2: Rodgers and watch. To me, it makes no sense for

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Speaker 2: the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Buck.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned there are three teams that are just sitting

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Speaker 2: around all right, so hear me out. Anybody that's ever

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Speaker 2: been single in their life, you go into a bar

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Speaker 2: with your single buddies late at night, and maybe there's

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Speaker 2: a girl at the bar that you know, you squint enough,

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Speaker 2: like maybe.

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Speaker 1: Past it's pass it like not somebody'd really be into.

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Speaker 2: But you look over it's late at night and you're like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I guess this is where the night's going,

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Speaker 2: right like, and then you look at your buddies and

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Speaker 2: you're like, you're just gonna wait this one out, like, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit at the bar as well long as

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Speaker 2: it takes to talk to this one person. That's what

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Speaker 2: three teams are doing right now, the Giants, the Steelers,

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Speaker 2: and the Vikings. The difference here is the Vikings in

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Speaker 2: this situation, are truly a legitimately super Bowl caliber franchise

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Speaker 2: right now, right now, like you won fourteen games last year.

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Speaker 2: You've got two of the better coaches. I think, You've

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Speaker 2: got one of the better defensive coordinators in the league.

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Speaker 2: You've got one of the best offensive minds as a

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Speaker 2: head coach in the league. You are keeping the people

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Speaker 2: in the building that you need to keep in the building.

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Speaker 2: You are structurally sound at every level on both sides

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Speaker 2: of the ball, like you are built to win right now.

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Speaker 2: That's your buddy that's really good looking, that's got a

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Speaker 2: good job, that's going to be driving a Ferrari right

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Speaker 2: he doesn't need.

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Speaker 1: To sit at the bar. He's got plenty options.

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Speaker 2: He can just leave you just leave open up an

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Speaker 2: app STARp swipe been, and he's gonna have a glorious night.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers in the Giants in this situation, they're desperate.

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Speaker 2: They're your friend that's like well past his prime. They're

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Speaker 2: your friend that's like, you know, maybe thirty pounds on

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Speaker 2: the wrong side of where they want to be, and

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Speaker 2: they're trying to overshoot right there. They're just trying to

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Speaker 2: stay in the game. That's the Giants and the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: I understand them being desperate for Aaron Rodgers, even if

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Speaker 2: he's a shell of who he once was book, but

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Speaker 2: the Vikings are in a much different category. Like I

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Speaker 2: understand the Steelers and Giants being stuck, I don't understand

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Speaker 2: the Vikings being stuck.

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Speaker 4: Why are the Steelers not in the same category as

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Speaker 4: the Vikings. All Mike Tomlin does is have wedding seasons

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Speaker 4: that make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I know they lost five straight.

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Speaker 4: I know, and I know every time I do a

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Speaker 4: game in Pittsburgh, I get in a Nuber from the airport,

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Speaker 4: and all the uber drivers want to talk about is

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Speaker 4: how much they hate Mike Tomlin and how much Mike

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Speaker 4: Tomlin underperforms and when are they finally going to fire

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Speaker 4: this bum Tomlin? And all they do is win ten games,

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Speaker 4: ten games, ten games. They've done it with Mason Rudolph

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Speaker 4: and Duck Hodges and Ben Roethlisberger, the shell of Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 4: They've done it with Kenny Pickett and Justin Fields and

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Speaker 4: Russell Wilson and all these other things. You find me

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Speaker 4: a more consistent organization than the Pittsburgh Steelers anywhere in

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Speaker 4: the NFL. I fundamentally disagree with you on that point alone,

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Speaker 4: which makes the Aaron Rodgers conversation even more compelling to me, FITZI,

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Speaker 4: because there are two places that he could go. I

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Speaker 4: think if he plays at even a reasonably high level

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Speaker 4: and be in contention for a Super Bowl. The team that,

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Speaker 4: of course, is in a different category entirely is as

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Speaker 4: you described your overweight, buddy, what.

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Speaker 3: Is thirty pounds out of it?

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Speaker 1: Out of thirty pounds on the wrong side.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, thirty pounds on the wrong side, Bud. You

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Speaker 4: gotta start reevaluating some life. This is and you get

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Speaker 4: thirty pounds on a right.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, see buck, this is like when you're

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Speaker 2: young like you are, you know, thirty pounds sounds like

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Speaker 2: a lot, right, but when you start to get into

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Speaker 2: your forties and fifties, thirty pounds like thirty pounds hits right,

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Speaker 2: Like thirty pounds is just.

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Speaker 10: You look over they things do not swing thirty pounds

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Speaker 10: one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: That's outrageous.

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Speaker 4: Stop it. We are not allowing that to be a

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Speaker 4: thing for people.

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Speaker 2: Okay, as somebody said, the average person puts on like

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Speaker 2: three pounds a year in Christmas. That never takes it off.

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Speaker 2: So over the course of ten years, bam thirty pounds.

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Speaker 2: I actually don't disagree with you with the Steelers. I

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Speaker 2: think if there was any place that Aaron Rodgers should go,

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Speaker 2: it would be Pittsburgh. Yes, Pittsburgh has won in a

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Speaker 2: lot of places. I also don't think Aaron Rodgers has

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Speaker 2: anything left in the tank. I think Aaron Rodgers is done,

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Speaker 2: and I think Aaron Rodgers, we are now trying to

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Speaker 2: find reasons to apologize for why it didn't work in

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Speaker 2: New York when the fact is he had Garrett Wilson,

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Speaker 2: and he got Davante Adams and every single person that

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Speaker 2: he wanted traded there so that he could throw the

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Speaker 2: guys he was comfortable with. They did everything for him,

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Speaker 2: and what did it lead them to it? They led

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Speaker 2: them to the sea of suck. So at some point,

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Speaker 2: like we sit here and we say that the Jets

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Speaker 2: dragged down Aaron Rodgers, I believe Aaron Rodgers is equally

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Speaker 2: culpable in that entire toxicity of dragging down the New

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Speaker 2: York Jets. I think part of the reason the Jets

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Speaker 2: stunk is because Aaron Rodgers never lived up to his

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Speaker 2: end of the bargain, which was to be a competent

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Speaker 2: quarterback week in and week out.

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Speaker 1: He is no longer that.

661
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: So I don't think Aaron Rodgers with the Pittsburgh Steelers

662
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: is any better than Mason Rudolph.

663
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: I just said that, stay off. I'm just gonna stay off.

664
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Speaker 3: I saw you flinched. I saw you run away from

665
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 3: the VIC the phone.

666
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 4: Don't you come for my sweet prince Mason Rudolph, who

667
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 4: got a raw deal here last year in Tennessee, they

668
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 4: offered him another dealer. He said, nah, I'll go back

669
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh. I'm gonna get the hell out of here

670
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 4: this nonsense. Listen to me, all right, I you took

671
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 4: it too far, he took it.

672
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: Just reel it back in. I gave you a mulligan.

673
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: Okay, largely.

674
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 2: Bet he's marginally better than than than Mason Rudolph.

675
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 3: Let me say this, considerably better.

676
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll win.

677
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 3: As a person.

678
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 4: You're gonna make me personally attack or professionally attack Mason Rudolph,

679
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: who I have great professional respect for. He is considerably

680
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 4: better than Mason Rudolph, even if he is a corpse.

681
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: I don't think they win more games with Aaron Rodgers

682
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: than they would with Mason Rudolf. I think that Mike

683
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: Thomas can win nine or ten games with anybody, and

684
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: I think Aaron Rodgers at this point is a liability

685
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 2: at quarterback.

686
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 4: Which which insurance company has that commercial where it's the

687
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 4: old guy in the fishing outfit with a dollar bill

688
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 4: on a string and he's just he's just really just

689
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 4: reeled it back and just yank get it away from people.

690
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 4: That is that is you trying to bait people into

691
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 4: freaking the hell out on Twitter because you just said

692
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 4: that Mason Rudolph would win more games with the Pittsburgh

693
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 4: Steelers than Aaron Rodgers. Ironically enough, he's the only quarterback

694
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 4: on the contract in Pittsburgh nine or ten. No matter what, nobody, nobody,

695
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 4: I haven't heard, You've just made a straw man. I

696
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 4: haven't heard a single person not put some level, if

697
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 4: not the bulk, of the blame on Aaron Rodgers for

698
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 4: how catastrophically bad that thing went in New York last year.

699
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: He's he was when he went to the Jets, the

700
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 4: most powerful player in the NFL. We do not have

701
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 4: player empowerment in the NFL. Look at Miles Garrett all

702
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: they did when he tried to take things into his

703
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 4: own hands. Say, Miles, we're gonna shove your mouth with

704
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 4: as much money as humanly possible until you stop doing

705
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 4: a radio road tour at the Super Bowl saying how

706
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 4: many different teams you'd like to play for.

707
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: No, that's ridiculous.

708
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers deserves the vast majority of blame for why

709
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 4: things went badly in New York. But if anybody is

710
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 4: equipped to get him back on the right track, the

711
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers are an organization that have dealt with Leveon

712
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 4: Bell and Antonio Brown and Ben Roethlisberger and all these

713
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 4: different incredibly high level egos and talents and made it

714
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 4: all work.

715
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 3: Year in and year out.

716
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 10: You're outrageous for saying something you're saying.

717
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You can't have two things at once.

718
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: You can't tell me that everybody accepts Aaron Rodgers blame

719
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 2: in the failures of the Jets. But then I sit

720
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: there and I turn on NFL Network and I turn

721
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 2: on ESPN, and I look across the landscape of everything

722
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: that's going on on Twitter from respected writers, and they're

723
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 2: all coming in and saying, well, if the Vikings get

724
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, well they're a Super Bowl contender, Like really,

725
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 2: So on the one hand, we're going to acknowledge that

726
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: they're the part of the reason the Jets failed is

727
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 2: because Aaron Rodgers sucked.

728
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: But then we're going to turn around and say, oh,

729
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: but that's all going to be fixed.

730
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: It's all going to be roses and sunshine once he

731
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: goes over here, not if it's in part his fault,

732
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: like at some point he's forty one years old coming

733
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 2: off of bad achilles injury that just didn't rehab the

734
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: same way, and he wasn't consistently himself. And I think

735
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 2: it's okay to admit all of those things, like he's

736
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: he's broken down. He's just not the quarterback he used

737
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 2: to be.

738
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: He's mean.

739
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 4: He will talk themselves into it though for the I mean, yeah,

740
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: look at you trying to be elect the kids mid

741
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 4: We're gonna start just calling cap out every time you

742
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 4: think that Aaron Rodgers is lying to somebody about where

743
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 4: he is in the world. He's like Drake, he ran

744
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 4: off to Australia to escaped to the stink of the Jets.

745
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: I think I don't think it's my age, I think, like,

746
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 2: but it is part of it. Like I'm just not

747
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: sure that like, as a middle aged white guy, I

748
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: can say cap at all, Like that just doesn't work.

749
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: Middle white middle aged white guys can't say cap no.

750
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 4: I mean you can, but it's just not going to

751
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 4: it's not going to hit the way that you intended to,

752
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 4: which is what we thoroughly enjoy about middle aged white guys.

753
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 4: But I think that when you are talking about the

754
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: situation for Aaron Rodgers, teams will talk themselves into it

755
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 4: fits because it's not just it's not just people on

756
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 4: media outlets talking in March about Super Bowl contention, right,

757
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 4: Anybody talking about super Bowl contention in March is way

758
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 4: too caught up in the oxygen that is the off.

759
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 3: Season and the sugar rush that.

760
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 4: Is free agency, which I know you have another tinfoil

761
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 4: hat conspiracy theory for us later on in the throughout

762
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 4: the course of the show, which I just can't wait for.

763
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 4: I am looking at this and saying that teams, even

764
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 4: the smartest and most well run teams, will talk themselves

765
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 4: into it if the price is right. And the thing

766
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 4: that we do not know is what kind of money

767
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 4: is out there for Aaron Rodgers at this point. Is

768
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers gonna make more than Sam Darnald next year?

769
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 4: I would be absolutely shocked. And if you tell an

770
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 4: NFL franchise, even one that watched Aaron Rodgers with the

771
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 4: Jets last year, you can have Aaron Rodgers for less

772
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 4: than Sam Darnald cost this year. Somebody is going to

773
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 4: look around and be like, I can fix him. I

774
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: can fix him. Me, it's me, I can do it.

775
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 4: I can fix him. No ayahuasca, no darkness retreat, no

776
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 4: shoulder shrouds and wired headphones wandering forlornly on the beaches

777
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 4: of Australia.

778
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,239
Speaker 3: I can fix him. I got this.

779
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Sam Dodarnold and Aaron Rodgers.

780
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 2: You can stream this show in all of our Fox

781
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven in the

782
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 2: new and improved iHeart app to search Fox Sports Radio

783
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Speaker 2: and the app stream us live. And one of the

784
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: newest features in the app, you can select Fox Sports

785
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: Radio is one of your presets, just like the presets

786
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: on a radio dow so be sure to preset Fox

787
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. It'll always pop up

788
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: at the top of your screen. All right, we'll get

789
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 2: back to some NCAA tournament updates. You you need those,

790
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: we will make sure you get those. Plus, Buck just

791
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: told you he wants to talk about who the biggest

792
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 2: Super Bowl contenders are. That's his favorite. We'll certainly do that. Actually,

793
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 2: Buck's got beef with baseball. You got to hear this.

794
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 2: Nobody else has heard this. There's an absolute there's something

795
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 2: happening in the world of baseball that impacts every fan,

796
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: and you're gonna lose your mind. Buck will tell you

797
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 2: about it when we come back. He's Buck Rising on

798
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 2: Jason Fitzbucking fits on a Fox Sports Saturday on Fox

799
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

800
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

801
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball it just cannot stay out of its

802
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 4: own way, whether it's the league is an entirety, or

803
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 4: whether it's clubs that are playing in minor league ballparks

804
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 4: or getting ready to play in minor league ballparks ahead

805
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty five MLB season, or even clubs

806
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 4: Jason Fitz here with you, Buck Rising, Fox Sports Saturday

807
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio, comingy you Live from the tire

808
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 4: rack dot Com studios. Even fits MLB clubs that don't exist,

809
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 4: but are trying to grift their way into existence. This

810
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 4: thing happening here in the city that I call home,

811
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 4: in the city that I love, in the city that

812
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 4: I broadcast to you from right now, Nashville, Tennessee, where

813
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 4: a group called Music City Baseball has been working I

814
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: think since I moved here in twenty fifteen to bring

815
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 4: an MLB expansion franchise to Nashville. I saw headlines this

816
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 4: week about, well, they've moved one step closer to making

817
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 4: its goal of reality on Wednesday, when the Nashville Stars,

818
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 4: a potential MLB expansion team, revealed a new logo and

819
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 4: cap that they are trying to sell. FITZI it's like

820
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 4: popping up a lemonade stand outside of an active construction

821
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 4: site and saying, here, help us fund a Major League

822
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 4: Baseball team in this city where we have no land

823
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 4: to build it, no money with which to finance it,

824
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 4: and no particular interest given the proximity to the Atlanta Braves.

825
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 4: I've got all kinds of problems with Major League Baseball,

826
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: and I know we're going to get into what's going

827
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 4: on with the Athletics and what's happening with the Tampa

828
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 4: Bay Rays, who people have talked about potentially being moved

829
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 4: from markets, but there has never been something so innocuous

830
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 4: that has made me see the way that these music

831
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 4: City Baseball Nashville Stars logos and hats that just basically

832
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 4: look like a knockoff Yankees hat did to me when

833
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 4: I saw this release two days ago.

834
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's firefest for you know, baseball, like there's

835
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: nothing real to it. And then you got people out

836
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 2: there buying it because they think they're supporting it, and

837
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: all you're really doing is putting more money in the

838
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 2: pockets of people that really have no clear path to

839
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 2: a major League Baseball team. In fact, you know, a

840
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: few years ago, I sat down with Jeff Passon and

841
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: I was asking a buster only in some of my

842
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 2: ESPN buddies at the time.

843
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: Find him again, and find him again if he drops

844
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: more names.

845
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I know a lot of people. I

846
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 2: can't help it, you know, as I was what him

847
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 2: up to five bucks and fives anyway, I was asking

848
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: them future of baseball in Nashville, and the comment I

849
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 2: heard consistently from people that I trust was major League

850
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 2: Baseball loves the idea of a team there, but they

851
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 2: don't love any ownership structure, and they haven't seen the

852
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: money be what the money needs to be to make

853
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: anybody comfortable with that. And so you've got an ownership

854
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 2: group down there that's like, well, we're selling hats, like

855
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: for what I mean? This is the ultimate music Man.

856
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: You're too young? Did you ever see the music Man?

857
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: Like seventy six Trung?

858
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 3: I saw it on Broadway. I'm the oldest young person

859
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 3: you'll ever move.

860
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 1: God, I love that about you. Think about it, like,

861
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: what do you do?

862
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 2: He couldn't teach any instruments, but he went in and

863
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 2: made sure that you bought the uniforms, and you bought

864
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 2: all the stuff to look good. You bought the struments.

865
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: He couldn't teach you how to play anything, but he

866
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 2: was out there being a shyster. That's exactly what's happening.

867
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the Oakland A's for anyone that didn't

868
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 2: see this, the A's have started a season ticket, non

869
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 2: refundable season ticket that you can buy now in Las Vegas.

870
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 2: It's nineteen dollars, like nineteen oh one or whatever. So

871
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 2: it's twenty bucks. You think, okay, well, what's twenty bucks?

872
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 2: It's non refundable. It's twenty bucks to just get on

873
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: the list to eventually buy a season ticket. But let's

874
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 2: remember the actual people in Vegas, not just you know,

875
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: random social media accounts, but people that really follow Vegas

876
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: politics will tell you that nothing has been funded. They

877
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: truly haven't decided where that stadium's going to be. They

878
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: demolished the Tropic Canna, but people around the city are

879
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: telling you that there's not really a scope, and there

880
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: hasn't been the research done, and they're not.

881
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: Really sure they could put the stadium there.

882
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: Nobody's really sure on it, and John Fisher, the owner

883
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 2: of the A's, has done nothing to show how he's

884
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 2: going to come up with his side of the funding.

885
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 2: There's all these questions, yet the A's are still taking

886
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: non refundable twenty bucks from everybody that just wants to

887
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: give them twenty dollars on the if come that baseball is.

888
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: Gonna end up there.

889
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,479
Speaker 2: It's it's so wild to me to see sports fans

890
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: taking advantage of like this. It's it's it's maddening to

891
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 2: me on behalf of all of us, Like we shouldn't

892
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 2: be this stupid.

893
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's suits somewhere sitting around a boardroom being like,

894
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 4: what if we tried They're sitting around there, they're twirling

895
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 4: their mustaches, they're drinking their coffee, and they're saying, what if.

896
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 3: What if we just tried to.

897
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 4: Slide this one by maybe a hat here, maybe a

898
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 4: season ticket deposit there, nobody will be the wiser. Surely

899
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 4: we'll be able to make some money off of it,

900
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 4: and by the time they've figured out what we're trying

901
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 4: to do, it'll be too late.

902
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: Fits. We'll take the money and run.

903
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: You know what, what I just heard you say is

904
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: we're gonna develop Bucking Fits hats and shirts during the

905
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 2: break and then you know, we'll just put them out

906
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 2: there and see if we can get somebody to buy them. Like,

907
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: we'll get get one or two people to buy those

908
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: hats and just but like there's no real show.

909
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: We're just buying. You're buying the hats anyway, and we'll

910
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: see what we can get out of it.

911
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 4: Manifested, baby, that's all we need to do, Like manifesting

912
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag return to the NCAA tournament. You know that

913
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 4: the biggest star in college basketball sustained an injury in

914
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 4: the conference tournament This week. Now, the question becomes should

915
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 4: he stay or should he go? Find out next on

916
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Saturday. On Fox Sports Radio.

917
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

918
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 3: March is when stars are made.

919
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 4: We've got college basketball all over the place. You've got

920
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 4: Saint John's winning the Big East Tournament.

921
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 3: You've got Duke in Louisville duking it out.

922
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 4: No pun intended for the ACC right now, and Duke

923
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 4: doing it without their biggest star, Cooper Flag, suffered an

924
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 4: ankle injury during the ACC tournament opener on Thursday. Jason Fitz,

925
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 4: as you listen to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Saturday

926
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 4: from the tire rack dot Com studios, they're telling us

927
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 4: the Cooper Flag, the star of the show, the star

928
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 4: of the college basketball season, that he is expected to

929
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 4: be available for the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. But, as you

930
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 4: noted in the first hour on this Saturday night, words matter,

931
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 4: and they have given themselves a lot of wiggle room

932
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 4: for when Cooper Flag will actually be available to participate

933
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 4: in the NC DOUBLEA Tournament. We're happy to have you

934
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 4: along for the ride on this Saturday. We are looking

935
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 4: forward to talking hoops. We'll get back into NFL free

936
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 4: agency in the cam Ward situation, who's become the heavy

937
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 4: favorite for the number one overall pick throughout the course

938
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 4: of this hour. But FITZI, I want Cooper Flag back

939
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 4: as soon as he's able to be the best version

940
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 4: of himself, not as soon as humanly possible. And I'm

941
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 4: curious to see which direction the Duke star will take,

942
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 4: given that he's got a lot of money one way

943
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 4: or the other on the line here.

944
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is really interesting book because we've heard Cooper say, hey,

945
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 2: you know, he'd be open to returning, and everybody sort

946
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 2: of jumped on that. And the question is when you

947
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 2: hurt your ankle, and you know, if you didn't see

948
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: the play, he he came down on an ankle there

949
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 2: was already taped, And I keep thinking about the fact

950
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 2: that the ankle was already taped, landed on it. It

951
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: was innocuous. He didn't land on somebody else's foot, There

952
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 2: was none of that, Like he just landed and in

953
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 2: that moment his ankle rolled right. And Allly keep thinking

954
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: about is for all the people that think, well, you know,

955
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: unfinished business, will this be a reason he wants to

956
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 2: come back for another year?

957
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: Duke?

958
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 2: Does he if he doesn't get to play in the tournament,

959
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 2: or isn't himself in the tournament, missus part of the tournament?

960
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: Is that gonna be a reason he wants to come

961
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 2: back the buck, I think is the opposite. Man, if

962
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 2: you were sitting there thinking, well, you know, I love

963
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 2: this duke experience and I want to come back another year,

964
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,720
Speaker 2: and then you just a weird injury happens.

965
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about the zion shoe.

966
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 2: Blowout, right like it's just one play makes such a

967
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 2: difference in the NBA to the rest of your life,

968
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 2: right like tom basketball to the rest of your life.

969
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: I just keep thinking about it.

970
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: If I'm Cooper Flagg, if I was thinking, if I

971
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 2: was on the fence before that injury, now I'm squarely

972
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: off the fence, and I'm not coming back because I'm

973
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: gonna go out there, I'm gonna get paid, and I'm

974
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: gonna make sure that I start that next trajectory towards

975
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 2: being generationally wealthy.

976
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 4: It would be fiscally irresponsible for him to return to

977
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 4: Duke yea. And whether or not, and I'm sure he's

978
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 4: enjoying it and enjoying the adulation, I don't know if

979
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 4: you saw him on the final home game of the

980
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 4: season on Monday Night last Monday Night, where he's signaling

981
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 4: to run it back while he's on the bench. He

982
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 4: got Dukies cheering or chanting.

983
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 3: One more year, one more year.

984
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 4: With the Camon crazies and all these different things, it's

985
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 4: easy to get.

986
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 3: Caught up in the moment.

987
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 4: It's kind of like Travis Kelcey before the Super Bowl,

988
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 4: right He's talking about, Oh, yeah, I'd love to play

989
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 4: for three or four more years. That sounds great as

990
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 4: long as I'm physically able, that's the plan. And then

991
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 4: after the super Bowl, he gets on the podcast after

992
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 4: getting smoked by the Philadelphia Eagles in what was not

993
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,479
Speaker 4: a close game at really any point throughout the course

994
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 4: of this looking around and saying, I don't know what

995
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 4: I want to do with my future at this point

996
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 4: in time on his podcast with his brother, The New

997
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 4: Heights Show. So for Cooper Flag in this moment, there

998
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 4: are going to be a lot of different people tugging

999
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 4: in a lot of different because he is an economy

1000
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 4: right now unto himself, and he will be an even

1001
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 4: bigger economy once he gets to the NBA level. To me,

1002
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 4: there's no even debate in the idea of what he

1003
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 4: should do regardless of what happens and how this ankle

1004
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 4: situation impacts the conference tournament that he is currently not

1005
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 4: participating in, and whenever he appears in the NCAA tournament,

1006
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 4: no matter how it goes, for Duke, who is one

1007
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 4: of the best basketball teams in the country and with

1008
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 4: Cooper flag the best basketball team in the country, he

1009
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 4: should leave for the NBA, no matter how this goes,

1010
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 4: because there is too much money to be made at

1011
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 4: that level, and I know the nil checks are nice,

1012
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 4: and I know he's not hurting for cash right now,

1013
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 4: but you could set yourself up for generations to come

1014
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 4: if you just make the decision to get that process

1015
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 4: started as early as humanly possible. Whether that's in the

1016
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 4: best interest of the player and the development, all these

1017
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 4: things have been debated with the one and done.

1018
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 3: Year after year after year.

1019
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 4: But I mean, if he even if he even gaslights

1020
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 4: people into thinking that he's actually coming back for another

1021
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 4: season at Duke because of whatever happens in the NCAA tournament,

1022
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 4: which is of course a hypothetical, and we got to

1023
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 4: let these things play out, nobody's going to actually believe

1024
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 4: him right, No.

1025
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 2: No, I mean, there's just no way, but he's buck rising.

1026
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: I'm Jason Fits on Fox Sports Radio. And you know,

1027
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 2: it's funny because the one thing we can say now

1028
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 2: that we know that he's healthy, you know, and we

1029
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: can healthy, is he's getting there now that we know

1030
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 2: that he's not seriously like life altering injured with this ankle.

1031
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: You mentioned the Duchies earlier, screaming one more year, one

1032
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 2: more year. Dukie has me thinking, if you look at

1033
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: that wheelchair picture of him being wheeled off the court

1034
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 2: man side by side, it sure looks a lot like

1035
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: Paul Pierce, right like, it looked very similar to Paul

1036
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 2: Pierce being wheel tear it out for non angle reasons.

1037
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing that out, and I will point out too.

1038
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 2: As we started this show, we were trying to answer

1039
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: the very difficult question of who the number one overall

1040
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 2: team is right now in the country, who should be

1041
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 2: the number one seed when they when they put together

1042
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: the rankings tomorrow for the tournament.

1043
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: And as we see here.

1044
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: Right now you just heard the update you mentioned it,

1045
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: Duke is up on Louisville by two, but Duke is

1046
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 2: without two.

1047
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: Of their best players.

1048
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: And if they go out and win their conference tournament

1049
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: without two of their best players in a week where

1050
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 2: Auburn lost again, I think this is a pretty strong

1051
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 2: statement for Duke to be the number one overall seed

1052
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 2: going into the going into the NCAA Tournament.

1053
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 4: It would be the most compelling case that they could make. Look,

1054
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 4: they've take We've got both arms tied behind our back,

1055
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 4: and we're still doing it at a high level. We still

1056
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 4: handed Carolina third straight loss this season. We're still doing

1057
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 4: the thing that we're expected to do. We're still living

1058
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 4: up to expectation. And that's what makes Saturday's results, excuse me,

1059
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 4: Sunday's result between Tennessee and Florida in the SEC Conference

1060
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 4: Championship SEC Tournament Conference Championship here in Nashville tomorrow so

1061
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 4: fascinating because those two teams will be playing for a

1062
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 4: number one seed and the question is going to become

1063
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 4: and the question that only the committee can answer is

1064
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 4: could Duke be dinged for there being even the slightest

1065
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 4: margin for maybe Cooper Cooper flag is not available for

1066
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 4: the first round of the nc DOUBLEA Tournament.

1067
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: Maybe we just slow play this thing a little bit.

1068
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 4: And you're looking around and saying, well, do we really

1069
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 4: want to give Duke the number one overall seat in

1070
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 4: NCUBA tournament if we don't know for certain that the

1071
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 4: biggest star in college basketball and their best player is

1072
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 4: going to be available right away.

1073
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 3: I would hate for that to be the case.

1074
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 4: That would reek to me of recency bias, and again

1075
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 4: ignore what Duke has continued to do in these couple

1076
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 4: of games without Cooper flag.

1077
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 3: But it leaves the door open for that possibility.

1078
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 2: Look, I think that's part of why when you hear

1079
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: well he will be available for the NCAA tournament, Duke

1080
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 2: made sure the NCAA was aware that he will be

1081
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: available for the tournament. They made him aware. They made

1082
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 2: them aware of that. For a reason, they're turning around

1083
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: and make sure all of that information gets right to

1084
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: because the Ken Palm rankings in and look, I have

1085
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 2: no damn clue how they come up with the Kempom numbers.

1086
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: I just tell there are a bunch of numbers on

1087
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,240
Speaker 2: a sheet, and this is what I can tell y'all.

1088
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 2: When it hit sort, it tells me who's at the

1089
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 2: top and who's at the bottom. I don't know how

1090
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 2: that factor it. I don't know how they figure it out,

1091
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 2: but I can't tell you.

1092
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Speaker 1: That's just a minute.

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Speaker 2: You know, number one in the Kenpom, Duke, number two,

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Speaker 2: Florida Auburn is all the way down to number four.

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Speaker 1: And part of the reason is you.

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Speaker 2: Mentioned that matchup tomorrow becomes huge Tennessee and Florida. Well,

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Speaker 2: Florida's number two, Tennessee's number five. I'm genuinely interested to

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Speaker 2: see what the Kenpom looks like when there's a winner

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Speaker 2: of that game, because Duke, if they're able to win

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Speaker 2: the ACC tournament, you could say that they're just.

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Speaker 1: Sliding right into this, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Man, Like this, this gets really interesting because there's certainly,

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Speaker 2: let me take the iron sharpens iron SEC argument of

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00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 2: all of these teams that beat each other up. That

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00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 2: doesn't change the fact that it's really hard to figure

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Speaker 2: out how the SEC should measure up with everybody when

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00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 2: you know they're very good teams, but you also know

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Speaker 2: that a team like Auburn lost a few games that

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00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: they shouldn't have lost over the.

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Speaker 1: Course of the last couple of weeks. Like that's stuck

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Speaker 1: in my head.

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Speaker 2: And the committee used to have the caveat of considering

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Speaker 2: the last ten days.

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Speaker 1: Of the regular season.

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Speaker 2: That used to be a sort of one of the

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Speaker 2: line items that they checked off. It is no longer

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00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 2: something that they're forced to put wade in. But if

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Speaker 2: this committee does weigh the last ten days of the

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Speaker 2: regular season like the committees used to, then Auburn is

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Speaker 2: going to They're gonna get taken.

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Speaker 3: Down a notch, and they should.

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Speaker 4: But I would disagree just slightly with what you're saying

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Speaker 4: about Auburn because Auburn lost a couple of Dames games

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Speaker 4: down the stretch, and I know that they were favored

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Speaker 4: in and so maybe the argument is as simple as well,

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Speaker 4: if you're favored, then you should win these games, given

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Speaker 4: that you've been the number one team in the country

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Speaker 4: the whole way through. But the SEC has been a

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Speaker 4: gauntlet all year long. The conference tournament has been electric

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Speaker 4: from start to finish. The only two teams that did

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Speaker 4: not matter whatsoever were LSU and South Carolina. The SEC

1132
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 4: could get fourteen teams into the day. So the fact

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Speaker 4: that Auburn survived as long as they did without.

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Speaker 3: Taking one of these li that should be expected.

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Speaker 4: Frankly, given the strength of this particular conference, the best

1136
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Speaker 4: conference in college basketball. I'd probably push back on that notion,

1137
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Speaker 4: but just to stick with what we're talking about here

1138
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Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Saturday, Jason Fitz and Buck Rising here

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Speaker 4: with you, Cooper Flag, there's no argument for him to

1140
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Speaker 4: come back to Duke. Are you prepared to say that

1141
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 4: Jason Fitzer argued that Mason Rudolph is better than Aaron

1142
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Speaker 4: Rodgers at this stage of their career.

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Speaker 3: Nonsense.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I said it quite that way. But

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Speaker 1: you know when you.

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Speaker 3: Say it back, No, you said it worse.

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Speaker 4: You said the Steelers would win more games with Mason

1148
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Speaker 4: Rudolph than they were.

1149
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Speaker 1: It's the same number. Look, Cooper Flag's gone.

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Speaker 2: The only caveat to Cooper and this is just just

1151
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Speaker 2: a real life application, right because we want to just

1152
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Speaker 2: throw everybody into the league. I mean, Victor women Yama

1153
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Speaker 2: is the most transcendent talent we've seen coming into the

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Speaker 2: NBA in a very long time. And there is no

1155
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Speaker 2: doubt that Victor has already started to and will continue

1156
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Speaker 2: to live up to his hype in San Antonio.

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Speaker 1: And what does that led the Spurs to a whole

1158
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Speaker 1: lot of nothing?

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Speaker 2: So the one thing that is interesting to me is

1160
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Speaker 2: if he's having a blast and in an nil world,

1161
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 2: he's making good money and he's winning a bunch of games.

1162
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 2: That's a heck of a lot more fun then it

1163
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: will inevitably be. You never know, depending on how the

1164
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Speaker 2: lottery goes, obviously, but when you start talking about the NBA,

1165
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Speaker 2: you go on to a terrible basketball team. Like if

1166
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Speaker 2: Washington ends up with the first pick in the draft,

1167
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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag is not gonna win a lot of games

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Speaker 2: next year.

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Speaker 1: Or the year after, or the year after or the

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Speaker 1: year after.

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Speaker 2: So like there is a part of me that says, hey, buddy,

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Speaker 2: like go out and get your back, go get paid.

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Speaker 2: But the other side of it is just be prepared

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Speaker 2: to just take it on the chin for a long

1175
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Speaker 2: time because you are going to lose.

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Speaker 1: Did I say football? I was reading something at the

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Speaker 2: Paul I bet he would be a spectacular at it.

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Speaker 4: No, no, don't turn this into what position would Lebron

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is amazing.

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Speaker 2: We get you know, you know, coming up next, we're

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Speaker 2: just gonna do Lebron or MJ. Who's better. We're not

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Speaker 2: However, if you have a hot take on who the

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Speaker 2: get back to some NCAA fun. But obviously a lot

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Speaker 2: of eyes are on the NFL draft. Buck Rising, my

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Speaker 2: co host here is in the thick of Nashville, and

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Speaker 2: I keep hearing that it is done. We know who

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Speaker 2: the first overall picking the draft is going to be,

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Speaker 2: and we know why. We'll see what he thinks of

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Speaker 2: for Life out here. We figured it out. I know

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Speaker 2: who's gonna be the first overall pick in the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it when we come back, Buck

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Speaker 2: Rising Jason fitz bucking fits on a Fox Sports Saturday

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. This was really just my way

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Speaker 2: of making sure America finds out that your cat's gonna

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Speaker 2: be honest.

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Speaker 3: I'm all of.

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Speaker 8: Them as if that's what you lobbing it and that

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Speaker 8: I'd be like it's.

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Speaker 4: A slur, not because I know many, because I value

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Speaker 4: my time, because I don't want to take a dumb

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Speaker 4: animal out in the elements.

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Speaker 8: To watch it eat its own poop. Of course, I'm

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Speaker 8: a cat.

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Speaker 1: You scoop poop. Scoop poop.

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Speaker 8: No, the dog is true, but no, I don't scoop it.

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Speaker 8: I have one of these fantastic liter romots that does

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Speaker 8: job for me. Again, My god.

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Speaker 2: Not only does he have a fancy litter robot, he

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Speaker 2: also has a hat that says cat Dad. He's currently

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Speaker 2: wearing it. Can't make that up. He's Buck Rising. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jason fitzbucking Fits on a Fox Sports Saturday, coming at

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Speaker 1: We're lot. Be sure to check out the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: videos on YouTube. I'm surprised we got you out of

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Speaker 2: the house and into the studio long enough to be

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Speaker 2: away from your cats. I mean, I'm just I'm so

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Speaker 2: proud of you, Buck, Like I don't I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you to feel about like the manliest of men

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Speaker 2: that's sitting here with his cats.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm not a cat. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a cat guy.

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Speaker 3: That's your fault. Again.

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Speaker 4: I am contemplating because I travel all NFL season with

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Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans.

1265
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Speaker 3: Is a part of my job here.

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Speaker 4: In Nashville, and I'm contemplating going full Kirk hurb Street

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Speaker 4: and buying one of these bubble backpacks for Francis and

1268
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Speaker 4: taking her around.

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Speaker 3: With me on the road. This year.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to take her to Vegas they play the Raiders.

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00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 4: I'm going to take her to Denver. I'm gonna get

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Speaker 4: one of these harnesses to take her out to the park.

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Speaker 4: Don't hate on the sophistication that is the cat.

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00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 2: Look if if Annabel could still fit in anything that

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00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 2: would let me fly with her, the world would not be.

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Speaker 1: Ready for that. I would fly. And she loves flying.

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Speaker 2: She's the perfect little flyer, like before she got too big.

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Speaker 2: That that would be amazing idea.

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Speaker 4: No way, you know that that dog does not like flying.

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Speaker 4: The dog does not want to go through TSA. The dog,

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Speaker 4: oh my god, I want to sit in an The

1282
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Speaker 4: dog does not want to does not want to turn

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Speaker 4: down the terrible snacks that Southwest lives out.

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Speaker 2: No, No, she I got her during COVID, and so

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Speaker 2: when I was flying back and forth at the time

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Speaker 2: when everything was really limited, it flying from Hartford to

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Speaker 2: Nashville a bunch at the time. She got so comfortable

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Speaker 2: with the route of the airport that like, because you

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Speaker 2: always connect in Baltimore, it was the way only way

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Speaker 2: you could do it at the time. I would get

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Speaker 2: off at the same gate every time. She would walk

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Speaker 2: me to the pet relief area. She would go in,

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Speaker 2: she'd go to the bathroom, she'd come back, she'd lay

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Speaker 2: in the same seat, and then the gate agent would

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Speaker 2: come up and give her her little Southwest treat and

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Speaker 2: we'd get on the plane and she would immediately walk

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Speaker 2: to the third row, go lay under the seat in

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Speaker 2: front of me, not make a peep of a noise.

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Speaker 1: Ah, she's the best little flyer. Like she's killed there.

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Speaker 2: She's a good road for buddy too. She's far more

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Speaker 2: behaved than her dad. Is that, There's no doubt about that. Also,

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Speaker 2: the Raiders play the Raiders play the Titans in Is

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Speaker 2: that a Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Game this year?

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Speaker 3: That is a Vegas game.

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Speaker 4: That's one of the I've got three NFL stadiums, now

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Speaker 4: four NFL stadiums left that I have not covered a

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Speaker 4: game in my career, and the New Vegas Rumba is

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Speaker 4: one of them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, put some respect on Rumba when

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00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 2: you call it that. It's a beautiful stadium. You'll find

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Speaker 2: that out. Secondly, a were going to rage in Vegas?

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Speaker 1: Is that's?

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00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 2: Is that what's happening when that gets announced on the schedule?

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00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 2: Or we having like a vender of a weekend with

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00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 2: Cabana's and bottle service. I think this has happened bucking Fitzgo's.

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00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: Bottles like this is this is Ian?

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00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 2: Would you come out for bucking Fitzgo's boy, like full

1319
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 2: fancy bottle service in cabanas we hanging?

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Speaker 4: Ah wow, Ian, he didn't even call you when he

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00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 4: was in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, is it.

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00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 4: Didn't even call you in the city that you are

1324
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 4: currently helping us produce this radio show for.

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00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm very busy, right, I work multiple jobs.

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00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,439
Speaker 11: Okay, I'm gonna Fits has been to the tirerac dot

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00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 11: com studios, though I haven't met Fits in person.

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00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: Which I've actually gone into the studio before.

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00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 3: Buckler.

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00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: Now I really wasn't, but all right, saved me from

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00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: myself here. Okay, So as we take a look.

1332
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Speaker 2: At what's gonna happen in the NFL Draft, and trust me,

1333
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 2: we'll get back to the NCAA tournament.

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00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: We'll get you updates in just a couple of minutes.

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00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: I want your thoughts on.

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00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 2: This because you are in Nashville, you cover the Titans.

1337
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 2: You know this team better than ninety nine percent of

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00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 2: the people. I tell people all the time, not just

1339
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 2: because we're friends, but because you do quality work, follow

1340
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 2: people that are smart. You are smart about the Titans.

1341
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 2: So on my show last week of for Yahoo Sports

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00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 2: insid coverage, Charles Robinson, NFL insider for Yahoo said very

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00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: clearly to me that the people he's talked to have

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00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 2: made it clear to him the Titans do not and

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00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: have not had any interest in Russ.

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00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: They do not, have not had any interest in Aaron Rodgers.

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00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: And as they look around the quarterback landscape, it becomes

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00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: clearer and clearer to the rest of the league that

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00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: the Titans are zeroing in and they are going to

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00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: select cam Ward with the first overall pick.

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Speaker 4: What do you think if they're picking number one overall,

1352
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 4: they are picking cam Ward, The question is are they

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00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 4: the ones making that number one overall pick? Because of

1354
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 4: the dominoes that you've just mentioned previously, Aaron Rodgers is

1355
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 4: holding three NFL franchises hostage that could be even remotely

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00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 4: interested in his services. One of those teams is the

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00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 4: New York Giants, who currently picks at third. If there

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00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 4: is a scenario where New York misses out on Aaron Rodgers,

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00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 4: are they going to up the annie on the offer

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Speaker 4: for the number one overall pick, Because in this year's draft,

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Speaker 4: if you get an offer and the starting conversation here,

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Speaker 4: because I still do believe Fitzi at the end of

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00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 4: the day that their preference here with a new general

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00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 4: manager and a coach that is coming off the three

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00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 4: and fourteen season that Brian Callahan just had, coming in

1366
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 4: off the hot seat for an ownership group that's fired

1367
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,959
Speaker 4: John Robinson one year, Mike Vrabel the next, Ran Karth

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Speaker 4: On the following and round and round the merry Go

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Speaker 4: round goes, they would still prefer to trade back and

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Speaker 4: get as many assets as possible because this franchise's roster

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00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 4: is rotten. If you can do that, if the offer

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00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 4: is sufficient, then you can consider moving out of the

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00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 4: number one overall pick. But they have needs at quarterback,

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Speaker 4: and all they did this offseason was signed Brandon Allen

1375
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 4: at thirty two years old, who's been a career backup.

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00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 4: He embodies the definition of backup quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And if that is the person that.

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00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 4: I'm covering a quarterback competition between Will Levis and Brandon Allen,

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Speaker 4: and they didn't take cam Ward with the number one

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Speaker 4: overall pick.

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Speaker 3: If there's any deviation from that.

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Speaker 4: Whatsoever, what's left of this fan base for one of

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01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 4: the most irrelevant teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: They will riot.

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Speaker 2: This is where I'm confused. Buck Like, okay, So let's

1386
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 2: play this out. Let's say they trade down. Okay, And

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01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 2: by the way, I'll go on record again, I think

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01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 2: Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter are better prospects than cam Ward.

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 2: If I were an NFLGM, I would take either of

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Speaker 2: them above the quarterback. Having said that, I got to

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01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 2: have a quarterback, right, What is the plan at quarterback?

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Speaker 1: If you trade down and you don't draft.

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01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 4: One, Potentially you pick up picks and explore the opportunity

1394
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Speaker 4: of a Jackson Dart, a Tyler Shuck out of Louisville

1395
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 4: who's gotten some noise coming out of the Senior Bowl.

1396
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 4: They they have options theoretically, but they really don't fit.

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01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 4: It's again, it is a complicated situation that Tennessee is

1398
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 4: dealing with because they have put it's a situation of

1399
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 4: their own making and now they have to figure it out.

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Speaker 4: But again, Cleveland still has a need at quarter New

1401
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 4: York has a need at quarterback, picking second and third,

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Speaker 4: and I think that they could still push them into

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01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 4: a point of desperation. I think that New York is

1404
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 4: clearly I mean with an owner that is publicly expressing

1405
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 4: impatience for a coach and a general manager and Brian

1406
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 4: da Ball and Joe Shane who they're bringing back anyway,

1407
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 4: for reasons that are beyond me.

1408
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 3: It feels like Matt Eberflus and the Bears.

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01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 4: They could still put the Titans in position to take

1410
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 4: Shador later in the first round, depending on how far

1411
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 4: back the Titans were willing to drop, and if they

1412
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 4: were comfortable enough with the player that Shador Sanders is.

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01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 4: There are options on the table. But again here in Tennessee,

1414
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,919
Speaker 4: people would riot if they do not take cam Ward

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01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 4: with the number one overall selection. They've got a new

1416
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 4: stadium opening here in twenty twenty seven. Their football team

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01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 4: has been cheeks for four straight seasons, and they're okay

1418
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 4: for it to continue to stink down the stretch in

1419
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 4: that decrepit site, that is the concrete mess that Nissan Stadium,

1420
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 4: the old Nissan Stadium is before they open this palace

1421
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 4: to whatever on the east bank of the Tennessee River

1422
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 4: or the Cumberland River down here in Nashville. Cam Ward

1423
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 4: has to be the pick here because your fan base

1424
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 4: will freak the hell out.

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01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: Is cheeks a technical term?

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01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 3: Like?

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01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: Is that what we like? Cheeks? The is it?

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01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Ian, If you would like to provide us an urban

1430
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 4: dictionary reading at your convenience, perhaps we could go down

1431
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 4: that road perfect.

1432
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 2: I would love an urban dictionary like if Ian, if

1433
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 2: you could prep this for us, If you could give

1434
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 2: us a very proper urban dictionary reading.

1435
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm on it of the definition of cheeks.

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01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 4: He says, on it now until he sees it, and

1437
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 4: then maybe once he sees it, he'll contemplate rate again.

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Speaker 5: I'll see.

1439
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: We would like to make sure that you keep your

1440
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: job here.

1441
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 2: Ian. You mentioned Shador Sanders. Somebody told me last week

1442
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 2: that Shador Sanders will be the most interesting Draft day

1443
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 2: scenario we've seen in twenty years. Tell you about it

1444
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 2: in just a second, But first, Steve to Sega, got

1445
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 2: to get you caught up on everything that's happening right

1446
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 2: now in the NCAA tournament and more.

1447
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 3: Well, March is madness.

1448
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 9: We'll find out the nc DOUBLEA Tournament field tomorrow on

1449
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,479
Speaker 9: Selection Sunday. But for place, Akron has literally just won

1450
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 9: the matt Conference championship game on a bucket with two

1451
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 9: seconds left. They're storming the courts seventy six seventy four

1452
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 9: over Miami, Ohio. Mount Saint Mary's is leading its Metro

1453
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 9: Atlantic final with under two minutes to go, fifty five

1454
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 9: fifty seven over Iona. We have four other conference finals

1455
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 9: coming up this evening. Colorado State pretty much dominated Boise

1456
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 9: State to win the Mountain West Finals sixty nine to

1457
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 9: fifty six. We've got the ACC championship game going on

1458
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 9: with number one Duke trailing Louisville thirty eight thirty three

1459
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 9: at the half. One seed Saint John's took the Big

1460
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 9: East Crown eighty two sixty six over Creyton Houston one

1461
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 9: seed in the Big twelve wins again, taking that conference

1462
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 9: tournament seventy two to sixty four over Arizona. In the

1463
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 9: Big ten semis, Wisconsin eliminated the number one seed Michigan

1464
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 9: State seventy seven to seventy four, and Michigan on a

1465
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 9: layup essentially at the buzzer beat Maryland eighty one eighty

1466
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 9: SEC Semifinals one seed Auburn out after losing a close

1467
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 9: one to Tennessee seventy to sixty five. Florida put away

1468
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 9: Alabama one oh four to eighty two. Villanova fired coach

1469
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 9: Kyle Neptune after three seasons, UNLV fired coach Kevin Krueger

1470
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 9: after four years in the NBA. Oklahoma City Shay Gilgis

1471
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Speaker 9: Alexander has thirty nine points tonight, four and a half

1472
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Speaker 9: minutes to go. The Thunder lead at Detroit ninety eight

1473
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 9: ninety four. If Oksee gets another win, its record would

1474
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 9: be fifty five and twelve. The Box mid third quarter

1475
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 9: leads seventy seven seventy two against the Pacers Janisan tenecunpo

1476
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 9: twenty eight points. So far, Grizzlies have twenty seven so

1477
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 9: far from Jaron Jackson grizz leading the heat seventy eight

1478
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 9: sixty two about four minutes to go in the third.

1479
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 9: Boston won its game at Brooklyn one fifteen to one thirteen.

1480
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 9: Cam Thomas and the Nets is out for the season

1481
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 9: with a strain hamstring. Jalen Brown of the Celtics left

1482
01:04:56,040 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 9: to night's game with backspasms. Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxi will out

1483
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 9: again Sunday with hand and finger injuries, missing a seventh

1484
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 9: straight game. He averages twenty six points a game. Luka

1485
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 9: Doncic is probable to return Sunday, but Lebron James and

1486
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 9: the Lakers is still out with the string groin. He'll

1487
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 9: miss a fourth straight game. The Atlanta Falcons cap quarterback

1488
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 9: Kirk Cousins, who his ten million dollar roster bonus for

1489
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 9: next year is now fully guaranteed. The forty nine Ers

1490
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 9: re signed fullback Kyle Yuschek, and San Francisco has traded

1491
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 9: running back Jordan Mason to the Vikings. The Chiefs re

1492
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 9: signed wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster. Among the NHL's eleven games,

1493
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 9: Tampa Bay leads late in the contest at Boston five

1494
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 9: to two, Buffalo in a shootout beat Vegas four to three.

1495
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 9: The Dodgers won their first exhibition in Japan early this

1496
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 9: morning our time, five to one over the Tokyo Giants

1497
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 9: and sho Heyo Tani homerd in a five run third inning.

1498
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 9: Tonight our time, the Dodgers also in the Tokyo Dome.

1499
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 9: We'll have an exhibition against the Haunchin Tigers.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, he's Buck Rising.

1501
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitz fucking Fits Sports Saturday, coming at you

1502
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 2: live from the ti iraq dot com studios Buck in Tennessee,

1503
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:08,919
Speaker 2: and we were just talking about the fact that cam

1504
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 2: Ward looks to be the number one pick in the draft,

1505
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 2: and it brings up Shador. Everybody wants to talk about

1506
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 2: Shador and Buck. I thought this was interesting again talking

1507
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 2: to Charles Robinson last week and talking to a couple

1508
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 2: of other draft insiders.

1509
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: That I think do a really good job.

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01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 2: I've been lucky enough in my career to cover the

1511
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 2: draft at this point for eight years. I'll be hosting

1512
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 2: another draft show for Yahoo this year. You know, really

1513
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 2: proud of that work with the draft and I love

1514
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 2: doing it. But if I run through my phone book

1515
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 2: and I just talked to as many people as possible

1516
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 2: about Shador. Sea rob was the one that said to

1517
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 2: me the other day, Charles Robinson said, this has the

1518
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 2: chance to be the most interesting person we've seen selected

1519
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 2: in the draft since Aaron Rodgers. And that is solely

1520
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 2: because there are still a bunch of people that want

1521
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 2: to put Shador to the Raiders at sixth the argument

1522
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 2: being that Gino Smith is going to be a bridge

1523
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 2: gap quarterback, and then they will simply go with, you know,

1524
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 2: he'll mentor Shador and sure we'll get in with they're ready.

1525
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 2: But then there are people that believe that the appropriate

1526
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 2: grade on Shador is a mid second rounder, and so

1527
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 2: you reach the situation. It's tough for me because if

1528
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 2: you look at quarterback needy teams like the Steelers are

1529
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 2: sitting there. Obviously you go up and down the list

1530
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 2: in the middle of the draft. Are the Rams going

1531
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 2: to be looking for the quarterback of the future. You

1532
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 2: can go up and down and find a million holes.

1533
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: But if guys, if teams don't believe that Shador is

1534
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 2: a first round bankable talent, there's a chance that he

1535
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 2: could free fall. And I don't root for that for anybody.

1536
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 2: Buck but I think it becomes really interesting if Shador

1537
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 2: isn't off the board by six or seven, when we've

1538
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 2: gone through a bunch of those quarterback needy teams.

1539
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: I think it'll be interesting to see if that is a.

1540
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 2: Sign that there are more people freaking out about Shador

1541
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 2: than we thought.

1542
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 4: I covered a situation like this because this exact thing

1543
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 4: different players and different drafts, but this exact thing happened

1544
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 4: to Will Levis.

1545
01:07:58,760 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 3: Now.

1546
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 4: Will Levis the Kentucky quarterback at the time who ended

1547
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 4: up getting drafted to the Titans in the second round

1548
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 4: and who the Titans tried to trade back up into

1549
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 4: the first round with the Minnesota Vikings to draft in

1550
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. He was looked at in twenty twenty

1551
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 4: one as a player who, if he's strung it together

1552
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 4: for another good season, he could have been, based on

1553
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 4: trades and ability, the number one overall pick in the draft,

1554
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:21,879
Speaker 4: and he was still being talked about as a potential

1555
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 4: first round quarterback that year, where of course Bryce Young

1556
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 4: and CJ. Stroud Anthony Richardson all went in the first round.

1557
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 4: And Levis is one of these Aaron Rodgers type moments

1558
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 4: where the camera keeps going to the green room, and

1559
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 4: they keep looking at Will Levis and his family and

1560
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 4: his girlfriend at the time, and everybody's trying to figure

1561
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 4: out where the hell is Will Levis going to go

1562
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 4: and is he going to continue to spiral? And it

1563
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 4: becomes this great drama that becomes as interesting as the

1564
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:48,679
Speaker 4: picks that the actual teams are making, because you've got

1565
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 4: the face of this playing out in real time. If

1566
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 4: that were to happen to the son of Dion Sanders

1567
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,640
Speaker 4: on national television. I know that he's not planning on

1568
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 4: attending the draft, and I know that they've talked about

1569
01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:58,600
Speaker 4: how important it is for them to be.

1570
01:08:58,680 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 3: I believe they're going to be in.

1571
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 4: Bolder, Colorado for the draft and to take it in

1572
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 4: with the people who are closest to them, and also

1573
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 4: to protect against something like this, the optics of Shador

1574
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 4: being on camera in a draft room and falling out

1575
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 4: of the first round.

1576
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 3: He might well be a second round pick.

1577
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 4: There's plenty of people, and I know, FITZI, you're talking

1578
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 4: to people throughout the course of this too, doing your

1579
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 4: work for Yahoo and the great NFL shows that you

1580
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 4: guys are able to produce as a part of that.

1581
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 4: There are people who will tell you there are not

1582
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 4: but ten players with a first round grade in this

1583
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 4: draft class entirely, but you got thirty two picks to

1584
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 4: make in the first round anyway. So what happens with

1585
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 4: shador Sanders here is going to be a fascinating situation.

1586
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 3: I don't know though, just because of the.

1587
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 4: Scarcity at the position, that he wouldn't just go in

1588
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 4: the first round by default. Because even a team like

1589
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 4: say the Rams, say Sean McVay with a thirty Matt Stafford,

1590
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:54,520
Speaker 4: what thirty seven.

1591
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 3: Years old at this point in his career.

1592
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 4: If Sean McVay is sitting there later in the draft,

1593
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 4: looking around the first round with a thirty seven year

1594
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 4: old quarterback and trying to prolong a window of meaningful

1595
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 4: competitiveness and one of the toughest divisions in football.

1596
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 3: But Shadoor Sanders wouldn't have to play right away.

1597
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't a team like that take a flyer on

1598
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 4: a quarterback who may just need time to be in

1599
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 4: a better situation.

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01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 3: Hell cam Ward may need time.

1601
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 4: All of these quarterbacks probably need time to be able

1602
01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 4: to compete at a high level in the NFL because

1603
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 4: they're usually going to the worst teams at the top

1604
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,799
Speaker 4: of the draft. I refuse to believe that Shadoor Sanders

1605
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 4: is going to drop out of the first round. If

1606
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,639
Speaker 4: for no other reason, then teams will do what Atlanta

1607
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 4: did last year with Michael Pennix and Kirk Cousins.

1608
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm with you, he's Buck Rising.

1609
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 2: I'm Jason fitz coming at your live from the tyraq

1610
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 2: dot com studios. I'm with you on some of this

1611
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 2: in the sense of, because there aren't a lot of

1612
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 2: surefire talent players in this draft. If you're going to reach,

1613
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 2: why not reach for a quarterback A B I agree

1614
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 2: with you. I keep looking at the rams and think

1615
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 2: whether it's Shade, whether it's Jackson Dark Like I have

1616
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,640
Speaker 2: a hard time bel knowing what their quarterback situation looks like.

1617
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 2: If there's somebody that McVeigh actually likes, I don't think

1618
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 2: he would make it farther than that. Like that all

1619
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 2: makes sense. The one thing that's interesting to me you

1620
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 2: mentioned Will levis when all of the rumors started a

1621
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 2: couple of days before the draft in the year he

1622
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 2: was selected, that he was going to go high. I

1623
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 2: started just working the phones. I think that's one of

1624
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 2: the most important things you can do when you host

1625
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 2: draft content is work the phones. Can you talk to anybody?

1626
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 2: I couldn't find anybody truly plugged in that believed that right.

1627
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 2: So what's interesting to me is in the eight years

1628
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 2: I've covered the draft, there's been one quarterback surprise, and

1629
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 2: that's Michael Penick s Sheer, and that was stunning. Like

1630
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 2: I will never forget. Charles Robinson was sitting two seats

1631
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:40,759
Speaker 2: away from me. We were live doing a live stream,

1632
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:44,440
Speaker 2: and he was because of his contacts, he was getting picks.

1633
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: Three early, two early, all the time.

1634
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 2: And his eyes just blew up and he looked at

1635
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 2: We did our production meeting the day before and he said,

1636
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 2: I think, you know, Pennix is going to be the

1637
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 2: Raiders might have to trade up a little bit to

1638
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,679
Speaker 2: get Pennix if they really like him. And I thought

1639
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 2: that c rob has just lost his damn mind. And

1640
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, you know, he goes to Atlanta.

1641
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 2: Nobody saw that coming. But what's interesting is like the

1642
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson being picked as high as he was. If

1643
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 2: he talks to people around the league, most people saw

1644
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,560
Speaker 2: that coming. Most people saw CJ comming. Most people like

1645
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 2: where they were selected, you know, Like, so for me,

1646
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 2: it's really weird to talk to one person and this

1647
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 2: literally happened. I talked to one person that works with

1648
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 2: quarterbacks and he said, yeah, I can see shit or

1649
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 2: going second overall. And then I talked to somebody else

1650
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 2: that's a former quarterback coach a couple hours later, and

1651
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, mid late second round is kind of

1652
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 2: where i'd have him graded out. And I'm like, how

1653
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 2: how do we have two smart people that have worked

1654
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,599
Speaker 2: around successful quarterbacks that very that much in their opinion

1655
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,679
Speaker 2: on one player, Like that's wild to me. I don't

1656
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 2: remember seeing that.

1657
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 4: I really think it just depends on what these teams

1658
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 4: are looking for, and it's so specific to the clubs,

1659
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 4: and you have so much time to overthink some of

1660
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 4: these picks. I mean, Kyl Shanahan is a great example

1661
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 4: of this here. He's now getting the opportunity to potentially

1662
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 4: use as a reclamation project, the next young quarterback reclamation project,

1663
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 4: Mac Jones, who, if you remember from the twenty twenty

1664
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 4: one draft, there was legitimate conversation as to whether Kyle

1665
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 4: Shanahan would prefer to have Mac Jones as opposed to

1666
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 4: At the time justin fields or Trey Lance, obviously understanding

1667
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 4: that Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson we're going to go

1668
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 4: number one and number two. Overall, we knew that the

1669
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 4: entire way through the draft process. And I know Kyle

1670
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:26,839
Speaker 4: Shanahan has talked about overthinking this publicly and in interviews

1671
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 4: with Mike Silver.

1672
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 3: Of The Athletic. If I'm not mistaken, he did.

1673
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 4: A book on that generation of play callers, and he

1674
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 4: had a really good interview with Shanahan where he talked about, yeah,

1675
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 4: I just I overthought it, and we ended up trading

1676
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 4: multiple first round picks to go up and take Trey

1677
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:42,040
Speaker 4: Lance when we did, and it ended up being one

1678
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 4: of the worst decisions that he's made as a head coach,

1679
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 4: one of the few head coaches who has personnel control. Now,

1680
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 4: sometimes that works into the emotion, and again it depends

1681
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:51,840
Speaker 4: on who's in the draft room, who has the most

1682
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 4: pull in the room, and what they actually think of

1683
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 4: these players. And I don't know, we've seen a lot

1684
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 4: of conversation about Shudor's draftstock and.

1685
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 3: Is it falling and do they just not like him

1686
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 3: in the room.

1687
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 4: Is the fact that he doesn't have an actual you know,

1688
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 4: a conventional agent to kind of serve as the buffer

1689
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 4: between Team Sanders and these teams who are looking at

1690
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 4: him and maybe not in love with the casualness of

1691
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 4: his approach, given that he has been in a lot

1692
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 4: of different situations that were probably just as big, if

1693
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 4: not bigger, than the interviews that he's going through right now,

1694
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 4: So why wouldn't he.

1695
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 3: Treat it with a degree of casualty.

1696
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 4: There's a lot of lying, there's a lot of smoke screen,

1697
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 4: there's a lot of misinformation that has produced around the

1698
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 4: draft time. But I really do think it just depends

1699
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 4: on which team you're talking about.

1700
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 2: Misinformation is the keyword, because what if I told you

1701
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 2: for all the conversation that we have about what to

1702
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 2: do with the number one overall pick and why you

1703
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 2: need to save money on a quarterback, it's the right logic,

1704
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 2: but it's the wrong position.

1705
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 1: Well, explain what we mean next. He's Buck Rising. I'm

1706
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: Jason Fitz.

1707
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,559
Speaker 2: It's Bucking Fits, coming at you on a Fox Sports

1708
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 2: Saturday on Fox Sports Radio.

1709
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz.

1710
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 2: It's Bucking Fits on a Fox It's Saturday on Fox

1711
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, coming to you live from the tirack dot

1712
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 2: com studios. You can hit us up on Twitter at

1713
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 2: Jason fitz buck Is at Buck Rising r E. I

1714
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 2: s I n G get that right?

1715
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 9: Uh?

1716
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: Ian do?

1717
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 2: Like, well, it's it's very close. You should have gone

1718
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,680
Speaker 2: that way. It's just maybe changed it to your sweet like.

1719
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 3: Wine would that.

1720
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 4: I would be more pretentious if it was Reasling instead

1721
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 4: of Rising.

1722
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1723
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 2: The minute you open your mouth and speak with that voice,

1724
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 2: everybody knows exactly where you stand. Okay, Like it's it's sensual.

1725
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 10: Uh.

1726
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 2: By the way, you got to give Ioa Steve a

1727
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 2: shout out doing a great job, great music and ian producer,

1728
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:37,640
Speaker 2: extraordinary doing it?

1729
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 5: Was that Iowa Steve? Is that me and Steve Di

1730
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 5: Saeger combined. I was Sam, Yeah.

1731
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: That's what I did. Yeah.

1732
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 2: I just looked at I looked at my own notes

1733
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 2: and it's funny because I was write everything down and

1734
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 2: I have Iowa as all I wrote, and then I

1735
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 2: wrote Steve Sager, so you are actually Iowa Steve.

1736
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 11: Sega and there we go, there we go.

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01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: It's good.

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Speaker 3: It's like a knockoff Stanford, Steve. What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 2: I mean Iowa Sam and Steve de Seger. Amazing that

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01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 2: I wrote her down like that. You know, Hey, I'm

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01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 2: bat in a thousand here. By the way, speaking of

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01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 2: awkward moments, Ian, you want to give us the proper

1744
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 2: reading of the term cheeks before we get into why

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01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 2: you should draft something other than a quarterback at the

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01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 2: top of the draft.

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01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I can do, can do.

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01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:21,600
Speaker 3: So here we go.

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 11: According to Urban Dictionary, the definition of cheeks adjective a

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01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 11: phrase used to describe places, people's and events that are

1751
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 11: perceived as lame, silly, or downright unsuitable for existence. So

1752
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 11: for the older audience out there, that's what Buck meant

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01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 11: when he said cheeks.

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01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the Tennessee Titans roster.

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01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:45,680
Speaker 4: I've never felt more steadfast than any analysis that I've

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01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 4: ever done in front of a microphone.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Ian, well done.

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Speaker 1: That was well done. Okay, So here's the thing.

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01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 2: Everybody says you have to draft a quarterback and then

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01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,759
Speaker 2: win on the quarterback's rookie deal. Now, as I preface

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01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 2: this every time, I'm not going to go through the

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01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:01,919
Speaker 2: numbers for the million time am I radio career. That's fallacy,

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01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 2: and the numbers actually don't support it. If you look

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01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 2: over the last twenty years, it's about an equal number

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01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks on rookie deals and non rookie deals that

1766
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 2: have gone to the Super Bowl. But whatever, if we

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01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 2: want to believe that you have to win. Also, only

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01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 2: one player in the last twenty years has been the

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01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 2: highest paid to this position and won the Super Bowl.

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01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:21,720
Speaker 2: So really the argument you can't pay anybody. But if

1771
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 2: we just want to nail down the quarterback argument here,

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01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 2: there's something that happened last week that I think has

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01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 2: to factor into this logic. Like when you look at

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01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 2: the deals that Max Crossby got at roughly thirty five

1775
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 2: million dollars and then Miles Garrett gets a deal at

1776
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 2: forty million dollars, the expectation is that Michael Parsons is

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01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 2: probably going to deal get a deal in the range

1778
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 2: of forty five million dollars.

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01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:43,719
Speaker 1: I would not, for a.

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01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 2: Single second fault the Tennessee Titans if they can't trade

1781
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 2: out of one and they're sitting at one and they're

1782
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what to do. I would not

1783
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 2: fault them for a second if they took Abdul Carter,

1784
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 2: because frankly, we are now at a spot where you

1785
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 2: have to if you want to win. We all know

1786
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:00,919
Speaker 2: that you got to be able to get after the quarterback.

1787
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 2: Edge rusher has become the second highest paid position across

1788
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 2: the board with some of these guys, they're getting paid

1789
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 2: like quarterbacks.

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01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 1: Buck.

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01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, there is at least the logic of

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01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 2: if I'm going to pay you like a quarterback, then

1793
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to draft.

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01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: At a competent level at that position.

1795
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 2: And if there's a guy that looks transcendent, maybe you

1796
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 2: just go out and get that guy because it's still

1797
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 2: saving you a ton of money on your future expenditures.

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01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 4: He's not even as transcendent as the player that you're

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01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 4: talking about. Miles Garrett is an actual generational talent of

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 4: an NFL player. Abdul Carter is without question the best

1801
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,719
Speaker 4: prospect in a draft class that's probably weaker than most,

1802
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 4: but it's not even remotely the same comparison.

1803
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 3: I mean, FITZI are then are we then going to.

1804
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 4: Have that conversation around wide receivers because Jamar Chase is

1805
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 4: going to make more.

1806
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 3: Probably forty plus.

1807
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett just became the highest paid non quarterback in

1808
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 4: the league, and Jamar Chase is getting ready.

1809
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 3: To exceed that. I mean, but the answer is you don't.

1810
01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 4: You don't invest any any any percentage of your cap,

1811
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 4: any that substantial percentage of your cap in any one

1812
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 4: player in a team sport like football.

1813
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 3: That's just not feasible to me.

1814
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 4: The Browns are not doing a good thing by paying

1815
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett forty million dollars a year. What about the

1816
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 4: Browns decision making would tell you that they're good at this.

1817
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 2: But here's the thing I would say to that is

1818
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 2: with the number one overall pick, you know what you.

1819
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: Need to do. You need to hit the player. It

1820
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,719
Speaker 1: doesn't like at this point, whether.

1821
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 2: We're talking about a wide receiver, where we're talking about rusher,

1822
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 2: mid range edge rushers. Now we're going to be making

1823
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars. Like the middle class has risen because

1824
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 2: the top of the class has risen. So like, if

1825
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 2: I'm looking around and saying, well, the best player in

1826
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 2: this draft is Abdul Carter, then take him, like you

1827
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 2: need the rookie deal, just take him. Go get yourself

1828
01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:46,679
Speaker 2: a player, because if you miss on that, you're setting

1829
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 2: your franchise back five years.

1830
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 4: Well, certainly we're going to have an interesting discussion about

1831
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 4: pass rushers and a couple of pass rushers, one who

1832
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 4: has been paid and one who's expecting to be expecting

1833
01:19:57,160 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 4: to be paid. A little Cowboys drama on a Fox

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Speaker 4: Sports Saturday. You're listening to Jason Fitz and Buck Rising

1835
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio. All the beef between Micah Parsons

1836
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 4: and DeMarcus Lawrence coming up now.

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01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:15,719
Speaker 1: Cheeks, beef cheeks. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1838
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:21,719
Speaker 4: When it comes to the world of the NFL, all

1839
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 4: things optically feel like they run through the Dallas Cowboys,

1840
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:30,519
Speaker 4: America's team. We hear it time in and time out,

1841
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 4: even though they have not mattered at a championship.

1842
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 3: Level in nearly thirty years.

1843
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday from the tire rack

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01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 4: dot Com studios. He's Jason Fitz, I'm Buck Rising. We

1845
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 4: got Stevenie and holding it down for us in La

1846
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 4: making all things happen. And we're talking Cowboys, which means FITZI,

1847
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 4: we're talking drama because there is nothing that grabs the

1848
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:02,600
Speaker 4: attention of the nation like a couple of Cowboys players.

1849
01:21:02,479 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 3: Having a little bit of a tiff on Twitter. You

1850
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 3: like that, do you?

1851
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 4: I thought about going with Jack del Rio's dust up

1852
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 4: and tiff feels like appropriate.

1853
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:12,599
Speaker 3: It is.

1854
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 4: Micah Parsons, the Marcus Lawrence won a cowboy, still a

1855
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 4: former cowboy in Lawrence now signing with the Seattle Seahawks.

1856
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 3: FITZI.

1857
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 4: He gives an interview to Marcus Lawrence does here recently

1858
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 4: after signing with Seattle, to the effect of saying that

1859
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 4: Dallas is his home and will always be his home.

1860
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:36,799
Speaker 4: And I know he put out a statement on social

1861
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 4: media today and all manner of nice things to say

1862
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 4: about the Cowboys organization and the city of Dallas and

1863
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 4: the fan base and all these wonderful things. Accepted an

1864
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:50,679
Speaker 4: interview with a Seattle blogger. He mentioned that he knew

1865
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 4: he was never going to win a Super Bowl in Dallas,

1866
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,600
Speaker 4: which is why, in part, he took his talents to Seattle.

1867
01:21:57,720 --> 01:22:01,680
Speaker 4: You got Micah Parsons on Twitter fire quote tweeting the

1868
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 4: almighty quote tweet. This is what rejection an envy looks like.

1869
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 4: Michael Parson says on Twitter. This is some clown show

1870
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 4: like that. Yes, you see safe word to use for

1871
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 4: mike Ca Parsons. There you got Lawrence firing back on

1872
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 4: Twitter calling me a clown. Won't change the fact that

1873
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,679
Speaker 4: I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time

1874
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 4: tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn't have left, which

1875
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 4: ignores the simple fact Jason Fitz that DeMarcus Lawrence was

1876
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 4: also on those Cowboys teams not winning while Michael Parsons

1877
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 4: was tweeting. But that's neither here nor there. Let's not

1878
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 4: let that get in the good in the way of

1879
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 4: a good Cowboys story.

1880
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it also ignores the fact that he went

1881
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: to Seattle. Like it's hard for me to buy.

1882
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 2: The argument of like I had to get out of there,

1883
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 2: man can't win a super Bowl, and you went to

1884
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 2: the Seahawks. You didn't go to the Chiefs, you didn't

1885
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 2: go to the Eagles, you didn't even go to the

1886
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 2: Commanders like gonna bolster a team that's on the rise.

1887
01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 2: You didn't go to the Bills. You didn't go to

1888
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 2: a perennial contender. You went to the Seahawks, like you

1889
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 2: went to a mid team that might make the playoffs. Okay, congratulations,

1890
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 2: you've been on a team that's pretty good that likely

1891
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 2: most years make the playoffs. Like this all just feels

1892
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,559
Speaker 2: so stupid to me, and DeMarcus.

1893
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 1: Knows better, Like buck.

1894
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 2: We've all had the moments where microphone is thrown in

1895
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 2: your face, right, Like, look when I got when I

1896
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 2: got laid off by ESPN, Immediately everybody, everybody reached out

1897
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 2: and wanted to try and get me to say something.

1898
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 2: And all I kept saying over and over and over

1899
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:31,679
Speaker 2: again was that place changed my life. They changed my platform,

1900
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 2: They changed everything about my ability to continue to work

1901
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,639
Speaker 2: in sports forever because I was part of them.

1902
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,520
Speaker 1: Like that, that was a calculator.

1903
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,559
Speaker 2: Could I have stood up and been like, Man, I

1904
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 2: didn't like this guy, and this guy was a jerk, and.

1905
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 3: This I wish you would have taken them all out.

1906
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 3: I wish you would have.

1907
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: There's plenty of people that that tried to get me

1908
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:48,880
Speaker 1: to do that, and.

1909
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 2: Then you just all you have to do is think

1910
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:52,320
Speaker 2: for a second and a half and you're like, you

1911
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 2: know what, none of that's worth it?

1912
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: Like right now, the.

1913
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 2: Grand scheme of things, they changed my life. The Dallas

1914
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 2: Cowboys and paid to Marcus Lawrence a ton of money.

1915
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 2: They've give him a ton of opportunity. They put him

1916
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,640
Speaker 2: on the football field where he had the opportunity to

1917
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 2: change the culture that he's now blaming as he walks

1918
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 2: out the door.

1919
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 1: He did none of that.

1920
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 2: He just waited until he got out the door and

1921
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 2: then did what so many people do when they've left,

1922
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 2: Like basically, you got fired, you found another job somewhere

1923
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 2: else because they're not paying you enough, so now you

1924
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 2: go somewhere else.

1925
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: And this is the moment where you're like, I felt

1926
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: like I could never be my self.

1927
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 2: Fare like, what are we doing? Like I've seen this

1928
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 2: from plenty of people that have been laid off from

1929
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 2: other networks. They're coming and saying I never was able

1930
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 2: to use my real voice. I'm sitting there thinking, I

1931
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 2: don't know. I sat there with you in hosted shows.

1932
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 2: Nobody ever told you what you could or couldn't say.

1933
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,639
Speaker 2: But the minute you get out the door, you're like, oh.

1934
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: No, they held me back.

1935
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 2: Like what is the Marcus doing? He knows what he's

1936
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 2: creating when he does all of this.

1937
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 4: He's Jason Fitz on buck Rise that you're listening to

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Speaker 4: you're saying, But when they take to Twitter this way

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Speaker 4: and lay it open, lay open, or kind of remove

1946
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 4: the scales from fans' eyes. Because the thing that the

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01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 4: football players tell us all the time, and I've covered

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Speaker 4: locker rooms, You've been in locker rooms. We've all been

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Speaker 4: in this industry in some former fashion around professional athletes

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Speaker 4: in their most sacred space.

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Speaker 3: Right the locker room, the brotherhood, all these different things.

1952
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Speaker 4: Well, it takes is a stray on Twitter for that

1953
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,799
Speaker 4: all to go to hell and people to start burning

1954
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 4: each other down on social media, and now their teammates

1955
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 4: starting to chime in, and a tortured fan base who

1956
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 4: just wants to win so badly, wants to be relevant,

1957
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 4: actually relevant, not just TMZ relevant, but football relevant. Again,

1958
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:52,040
Speaker 4: you're just showing them all the things that they are

1959
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,360
Speaker 4: constantly accused of and they spend so much time denying,

1960
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 4: which is, oh no, it's not just optics.

1961
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:59,840
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not just drama. Oh no, it's not just.

1962
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 4: The circus that is the Dallas Cowboys. We're a serious

1963
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 4: football organization. I know DeMarcus Lawrence has left and this

1964
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 4: that and the other. But they are embodying a part

1965
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 4: of the problem with Dallas. Whether it's Michaeh Parsons, DeMarcus

1966
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:15,799
Speaker 4: Lawrence or any other player that would take to Twitter

1967
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 4: and air dirty laundry that way, How am I supposed

1968
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 4: to take you seriously about the thing that you tell

1969
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 4: everybody that you regard as most sacred when at a

1970
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:28,880
Speaker 4: moment's notice, you're willing to turn on each other in

1971
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 4: a Twitter tiff.

1972
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you're right about everything you said, But this

1973
01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 2: is also the moment that I yell and scream to

1974
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 2: Cowboys fans you're not special. Like Cowboys fans sit here

1975
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 2: and they bemoan the fact that they haven't been in

1976
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl since what I don't have it.

1977
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: In front of me ninety two, so like thirty years.

1978
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 3: I was not alive.

1979
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 2: Do you know how many teams haven't been in the

1980
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in the last thirty years? A bunch like

1981
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 2: you've been covering the Titans. You've like, when's the last

1982
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 2: time you saw a Super Bowl? And even if you

1983
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 2: want to say, Okay went to a super Bowl, I've

1984
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:05,640
Speaker 2: seen this.

1985
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 1: Now.

1986
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to say, well, nobody in the NFC has

1987
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 2: waited longer to go to an NFC championship game. Who cares, Like,

1988
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 2: of all the arbitrary things to make the line in

1989
01:27:15,479 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 2: the sand of whether or not you're okay. So if

1990
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,280
Speaker 2: you'd lost an AFC or an NFC championship game, then

1991
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have this chip on your shoulder about not

1992
01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:25,080
Speaker 2: winning a super Bowl. Like I just all of this

1993
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 2: crying about what the Cowboys don't do. They haven't won

1994
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:29,639
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl in thirty years. Get in a line

1995
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 2: like the Browns have never won one, right, like my god,

1996
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 2: Like the last time my beloved Raiders won a Super Bowl,

1997
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 2: I was little and I'm old. Like there's just this

1998
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 2: moment where you look around the league and say, there

1999
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:42,759
Speaker 2: are twelve teams that have never won a Super Bowl.

2000
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: It's just Cowboys fans sit here and she just complain

2001
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: all the time about the Super Bowls they don't win.

2002
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: And I just I want to look at you and say, oh,

2003
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.

2004
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 2: Do you think like, just because you like the Cowboys,

2005
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 2: you're supposed to get a Super Bowl every year?

2006
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't work that way. You're just Cowboys fans.

2007
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 1: You're not special. Your franchise isn't special. Nothing about what

2008
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:04,000
Speaker 1: you guys do is special.

2009
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:07,120
Speaker 2: Like you're just a pretty good football team that doesn't

2010
01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 2: usually suck but is not usually great, gives you more

2011
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 2: wins and losses and no championships.

2012
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 12: Congratulations, That franchise valuation is special.

2013
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, they doesn't get much more special than that that.

2014
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:27,120
Speaker 4: Those couple of billion dollars you know, what are they lately?

2015
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 4: Six valuated at No? I think it's closer to twelve fits.

2016
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 4: I think it's twelve billion dollars for the Cowboys.

2017
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: What would that be like, Jerry?

2018
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:38,880
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter once you get past the first be

2019
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 4: it really doesn't matter anymore, one would imagine.

2020
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 3: But it would be nice to have eleven extra.

2021
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 4: I think it's an interesting conversation though, because it speaks

2022
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 4: to fans frustrations. Really not and not to make it

2023
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 4: specifically about Cowboys or the Cowboys fan base or their

2024
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 4: organization or whatever.

2025
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 3: But I think fans are mostly frustrated.

2026
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 4: Cowboys fans should be bothered by this because the thing

2027
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 4: that you try to talk yourself into as a fan

2028
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 4: all the time is those players care as much about

2029
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 4: this franchise as I do. Those players care as much

2030
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,120
Speaker 4: about winning as I do. Those players care as much

2031
01:29:16,120 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 4: about championships as I do, when at the end of

2032
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:21,719
Speaker 4: the day, the answer to all of your questions forever

2033
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 4: and always will always be money.

2034
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:26,600
Speaker 3: Money is the most important.

2035
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,559
Speaker 4: Thing for the vast majority of these dudes, And of

2036
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 4: course they love football to some extent, or maybe football

2037
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 4: they like it enough, but it's a means to better

2038
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 4: their circumstance and make generational wealth.

2039
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 3: But FITZI, you can't. You can't be unserious.

2040
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 4: As a football organization and then have your players constantly

2041
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:47,040
Speaker 4: remind you how unserious of a football organization you are,

2042
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:49,960
Speaker 4: and expect for a fan base that's as proud as

2043
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:52,840
Speaker 4: the Cowboys are and maybe entitled a little bit, but

2044
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 4: that's fine.

2045
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 3: I'm good with entitlement. They earned it for a period

2046
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:56,360
Speaker 3: of their.

2047
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:59,040
Speaker 4: Existence, and it's just been you know, an odd three

2048
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:02,719
Speaker 4: decades since they've been able to really pound their chest

2049
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:05,000
Speaker 4: and say, no, we matter this way, No, We're still

2050
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 4: America's team. I would be totally I would be totally

2051
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 4: pissed if I was a Cowboys fan looking at this

2052
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:15,759
Speaker 4: and say, hey, knuckleheads, get it together. You're not focused

2053
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 4: on the most important thing. Why is this infighting so easy?

2054
01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,240
Speaker 4: So easy for you to do when you've been telling

2055
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 4: everybody at every turn, no, the most important thing is winning,

2056
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 4: The most important thing is brother, the most important thing

2057
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 4: is the product on the field, and then turn around

2058
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:31,320
Speaker 4: and start firing strays.

2059
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:31,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2060
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:37,360
Speaker 2: Well, because in most of life, there's a difference between

2061
01:30:37,400 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 2: being good and being popular, Right Like, the best restaurant,

2062
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 2: the most amazing food you've ever had, may not end up.

2063
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:49,800
Speaker 1: Being the most popular. And what happens, Like you can have.

2064
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:52,840
Speaker 2: The best restaurant anybody's ever eaten at in La and

2065
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 2: it's gonna suffer. We can we out trying to keep

2066
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:57,800
Speaker 2: their doors open half the time because it's like off

2067
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 2: the beaten path and whatever whatever, But then the McDonald

2068
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 2: down the road is gonna make billions and billions of dollars,

2069
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 2: right Like, there's a difference between and I don't want

2070
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 2: to enrage any swifties, so I'll say this, like, there's

2071
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 2: a difference between being the most popular act you've ever

2072
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 2: seen and maybe the most generationally gifted musician, for example,

2073
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 2: that you've ever seen, Like rarely does good and popular

2074
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 2: actually always align, where like, the best of the best

2075
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:22,960
Speaker 2: is also the most of the most popular, And that's

2076
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 2: just that's true in life, that's true in football. And

2077
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,760
Speaker 2: I just I just want us to start covering the

2078
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 2: Cowboys the same way we cover the Bears, like a

2079
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 2: team that has just not had a lot of success,

2080
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:35,560
Speaker 2: not had a lot of Super Bowls, not had a

2081
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:37,640
Speaker 2: lot of any of that. And you're right, there is

2082
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 2: a systemic problem with the culture inside the organization, and

2083
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,120
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Jerry knows how to fix that. I'm

2084
01:31:43,120 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 2: not sure Jerry knows what it actually takes to fix

2085
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 2: what's rotting inside that building.

2086
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:50,360
Speaker 3: Now he's a part of the problem.

2087
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 10: Of course, he's the leader. He's Barnamann Bailey. I I

2088
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 10: would be like, looked it up. You're right, the Cowboys

2089
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:59,320
Speaker 10: are worth ten billion dollars. Let me tell you, if

2090
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 10: I owned any thing, we're ten billion dollars, you wouldn't

2091
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 10: be able to talk to me.

2092
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be able to get through to me.

2093
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:05,439
Speaker 2: I'd be pig headed and I would go out and

2094
01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:07,680
Speaker 2: screw everything up. But if I kept making money.

2095
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:10,160
Speaker 1: I'd keep doing it, Like, oh wow, would be that?

2096
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:10,880
Speaker 1: That is fair?

2097
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 2: He's buck rising on, Jason Fitch. We got to get

2098
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 2: caught up on the NCAA tournament. We will do that.

2099
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 2: And when we come back. But in the meantime, like basketball,

2100
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:22,519
Speaker 2: Tractors Supply knows that a winning season takes practice, teamwork,

2101
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 2: and it can do attitude, which Buck Rising is known for.

2102
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 2: It's Bracket Challenge season. Be sure to complete your bracket

2103
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:30,519
Speaker 2: at Fox Sports radio dot com beginning on Sunday night.

2104
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 2: Visits Foxsports Radio dot com to register and get the rules.

2105
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 2: The winning bracket in the Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge

2106
01:32:37,439 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 2: wins a twenty five one hundred dollars gift card to

2107
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,639
Speaker 2: track our supply can't touch that, and a perfect bracket

2108
01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 2: will win you a million dollars. Buck is offered to

2109
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:48,280
Speaker 2: share his with the entire show staff if he wins

2110
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:51,400
Speaker 2: a million dollars. You can reregister now and then oh

2111
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:53,599
Speaker 2: that's not hell yeah, and then be sure to fill

2112
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:57,080
Speaker 2: out your bracket between Sunday night and Thursday morning before

2113
01:32:57,120 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 2: the games begin at Foxsports radio dot com.

2114
01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 1: It's all sponsored by Tractor Supply for life out here.

2115
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:04,760
Speaker 2: I think we figured out who the number one team

2116
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 2: in the country is. We'll tell you about it after

2117
01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:09,360
Speaker 2: we take a quick break. He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz.

2118
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:13,160
Speaker 2: It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Saturday on Fox Sports Radio.

2119
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: Would you rather be the Yance or Jason isbel Right?

2120
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,080
Speaker 2: Like not that Jason isbel isn't very accomplished, but you know, like.

2121
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather be that guy.

2122
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 2: No, no, No, he's very accomplished, but he's not being

2123
01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:33,560
Speaker 2: honest like Jason isbel doesn't walk into accomplished.

2124
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 4: Jason isbel playing the exit in on a Tuesday night

2125
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:37,479
Speaker 4: for party people.

2126
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:38,280
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?

2127
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:41,240
Speaker 7: But I mean, like Jason, half the people listening to

2128
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:43,840
Speaker 7: this like that, which is half of Scott Shapiro is

2129
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 7: basically said, you're saying, who the hell is Jason Isabel.

2130
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 7: I still stand by It's the ultimate popular versus a

2131
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 7: great argument.

2132
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: See he's buck rising up.

2133
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 2: Jason fitz fucking fits on Fox Sports Saturday, coming at

2134
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 2: You Live from the Tie dot Com Studios, NCAA tournament action.

2135
01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 1: We'll get back to some NFL thoughts in a second.

2136
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: But starting to pull away.

2137
01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 2: My friend Duke is up by ten over Louisville, And

2138
01:34:12,040 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 2: the proper way to say Louisville for anyone that hasn't

2139
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:16,080
Speaker 2: lived near that area is like you've got a bunch

2140
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:18,040
Speaker 2: of popcorner in your mouth there trying and say it's like, well,

2141
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:18,719
Speaker 2: like you're.

2142
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,080
Speaker 1: Swallowing the word while you say Louisville.

2143
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 10: Uh.

2144
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:23,599
Speaker 5: The first time I've ever heard it described that way.

2145
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:26,839
Speaker 1: Is there a better I mean Louisville. I mean that's

2146
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 1: like the less the less clarity you have when you

2147
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:32,400
Speaker 1: say it, the more correct it is.

2148
01:34:32,439 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 2: Like it's got to feel like a Pearl Jam lyric

2149
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 2: where the whole room has no idea what you're saying,

2150
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:37,880
Speaker 2: but they just sort of figure it out. That's the

2151
01:34:37,880 --> 01:34:40,960
Speaker 2: way you say Louisville. So uh, you know, but Louisville

2152
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 2: down by ten right now to Duke. So Duke starting

2153
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 2: to pull away, and man, the more we get into this,

2154
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:48,680
Speaker 2: the more I feel like this is a pretty.

2155
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: Big statement by Duke.

2156
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 2: I know, the ACC's trash, but you're sitting there in

2157
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 2: SEC country, and it's interesting to me, Buck, because we're

2158
01:34:57,479 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 2: in this situation where there could be you know, thirteen

2159
01:35:00,439 --> 01:35:03,200
Speaker 2: fourteen depending on who you read. I mean, the SEC

2160
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:04,760
Speaker 2: is going to set a record this year for most

2161
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 2: teams in the attorney the Big Ten. I would argue,

2162
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 2: you're looking at some while it's top heavy, the top

2163
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:13,679
Speaker 2: of the Big ten is very good. Michigan State loses

2164
01:35:13,720 --> 01:35:16,360
Speaker 2: to Wisconsin, in a game today that really to me

2165
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:19,280
Speaker 2: was a statement I think about how far Wisconsin can go.

2166
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,200
Speaker 2: Michigan needed to come down to the wire against Maryland.

2167
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:23,840
Speaker 2: Maryland a team that I think could go on a

2168
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:26,479
Speaker 2: deep run. There's some really good teams at the top

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Speaker 2: of the Big Ten. The ACC just isn't that for

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Speaker 2: the most part. But what you have now is a

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01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 2: Duke team pulling away from a Louisville team and Duke

2172
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 2: minus two of their best players and importantly Cooper Flag

2173
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 2: Like I do think at some point, whether we're talking

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01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 2: about football or basketball, one truth remains committees are human.

2175
01:35:46,160 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 2: Like this is gonna be seared in the minds of

2176
01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:50,120
Speaker 2: the committee when they're trying to figure out who their

2177
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 2: one seeds are gonna be. But not just who their

2178
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 2: one seeds are gonna be, but how they rank them

2179
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:55,599
Speaker 2: so we know who's going to what region.

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01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 4: It is so cool to see what Duke is doing.

2181
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 4: And I know, you know, plucky underdog Duke. Right, it's

2182
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 4: Tom Brady at the end of his career going to

2183
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:12,479
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay and all of a sudden he drinks avocado taquila.

2184
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:14,759
Speaker 4: He's a likable guy in your root for Tom Brady

2185
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 4: plucky underdog Tom Brady, plucky underdog Duke is the number

2186
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:23,720
Speaker 4: one seed in the ACC tournament. But I do still

2187
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 4: think it's a cool sports story because they are doing

2188
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:29,800
Speaker 4: it definitively. They are leaving no doubt for They're leaving

2189
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 4: no doubt or no opportunity for interpretation. We are good

2190
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Speaker 4: enough without our two best players. We are good enough

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Speaker 4: without the best player in the country. And to your point,

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01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 4: it's Louisville, it's Duke, It's Clemson. That's really what the

2193
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 4: ACC's best offerings are. And you could probably start after Duke,

2194
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,120
Speaker 4: although Louisville has had a really fun run to this

2195
01:36:52,240 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 4: ACC Championship game, if you've been paying attention to that conference,

2196
01:36:56,240 --> 01:36:59,400
Speaker 4: and what's gonna happen between Tennessee and Florida here in

2197
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 4: Nashville tomorrow at Bridgetone Arena where they play the SEC

2198
01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 4: Championship game, has the opportunity to have some impact here.

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01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:10,320
Speaker 4: But Duke is leaving no room for Florida or Tennessee

2200
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 4: to really get into the discussion for the number one

2201
01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 4: overall seed here if there was any real discussion to

2202
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 4: be had, because not only have they survived this stretch

2203
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 4: without their two best.

2204
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 3: Players, as you've noted.

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01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:25,120
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go so far to say as they've thrived,

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01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 4: but they've handled it very competently, and that's a credit

2207
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 4: to the team and the staff that John Shire has

2208
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 4: put together. Even as again, nobody in the world wants

2209
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 4: to give Duke more credit than they already get week

2210
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:40,960
Speaker 4: in week out, year in year out as a perpetual

2211
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:42,479
Speaker 4: college basketball fixture.

2212
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Duke is like your buddy that goes to trivia

2213
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 2: night every single Tuesday, right, and he's way too good

2214
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:51,280
Speaker 2: at Like it's your buddy that's qualified for Jeff Markby,

2215
01:37:51,760 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 2: Like everybody else is just there to have some drinks

2216
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:55,240
Speaker 2: in a good time, and we're not really going to

2217
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 2: know the answers. And then there's one person's like mad

2218
01:37:58,040 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 2: at the end of the night because they missed one question.

2219
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,720
Speaker 1: They always get the gift card. Like that's Duke. At

2220
01:38:01,720 --> 01:38:04,200
Speaker 1: this point, I'm just it's exhausting.

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01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 2: You mentioned Florida Tennessee, and this game is particularly interesting

2222
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,919
Speaker 2: because I think Florida can still make a statement, especially

2223
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 2: given the way they've run through this SEC tournament. In

2224
01:38:15,160 --> 01:38:17,640
Speaker 2: your mind, you said go balls earlier. Everybody should know

2225
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 2: you're in Nashville. I mean, I mean, is this a

2226
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:22,920
Speaker 2: for you, is that you think the.

2227
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:23,720
Speaker 1: Balls win this game?

2228
01:38:23,800 --> 01:38:25,880
Speaker 2: You think Florida look like you're You're sitting there in

2229
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:28,559
Speaker 2: the heart of it, like there's gonna be some element

2230
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:31,680
Speaker 2: of a home court advantage. Obviously for anyone that doesn't know,

2231
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:35,160
Speaker 2: Nashville is actually balls country, and a lot of people

2232
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:38,760
Speaker 2: outside of Tennessee don't really get that Vandy doesn't matter

2233
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 2: all that much in Nashville, but the Tennessee volunteer sure

2234
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:43,240
Speaker 2: as hell do. So it's gonna be a rockous crowd there.

2235
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:45,599
Speaker 2: I feel like that's a lot for Florida overcome.

2236
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:52,240
Speaker 4: Florida absolutely dismantled Alabama today, who was also in the

2237
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:56,679
Speaker 4: conversation for could they play their way into a number

2238
01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 4: one seed in the NCAA Tournament depending on how the

2239
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:02,840
Speaker 4: comference tournament went. Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida were the three

2240
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,559
Speaker 4: teams in question. And then that becomes even more interesting

2241
01:39:05,600 --> 01:39:10,040
Speaker 4: given the Tennessee upset Auburn today and provided more doubt

2242
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:12,760
Speaker 4: as to what their future might hold as they worked

2243
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 4: their way through.

2244
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,400
Speaker 3: And now I know there were some mitigating circumstances as to.

2245
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 4: Why that went Tennessee's way, but still it was a

2246
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 4: closely played game. Auburn rallied back and Tennessee withstood. I

2247
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 4: just how Florida basketball is playing right now. It suggests

2248
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 4: that they're not just a number one seed, but that

2249
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 4: they could be the best team in college basketball.

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01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 3: They showcased, at least here.

2251
01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 4: In Nashville, talent depth efficiency one oh four to eighty

2252
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 4: two is what they beat Alabama by today. Alabama, who

2253
01:39:45,360 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 4: can score basically at will with any of these teams

2254
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:51,120
Speaker 4: anywhere in the NCAA, they ran.

2255
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:51,799
Speaker 3: Them off the floor.

2256
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 4: It wasn't It wasn't really until half where they started

2257
01:39:56,400 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 4: showing signs of life Alabama, and by then Florida basically

2258
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:02,680
Speaker 4: had the game and just couldn't commit silly turnovers or

2259
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,519
Speaker 4: mistakes that would put them in position to blow that

2260
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:07,840
Speaker 4: and they didn't. They handled it the whole way through

2261
01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:10,599
Speaker 4: Todd Golden. And I know there's been some controversy that

2262
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 4: Todd Golden has come out on the other side of,

2263
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 4: and there's been you know, that's kind of been hanging

2264
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:17,680
Speaker 4: over a part of their season. It's become less of

2265
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:22,160
Speaker 4: a talking point obviously, since those those allegations were proven

2266
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:26,280
Speaker 4: or found proven to be unfounded based on what was

2267
01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:31,160
Speaker 4: going on there at the time. But they definitely secured well,

2268
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 4: I don't want to say that they definitely secured. I

2269
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:36,040
Speaker 4: think they think they secured the number one seed. Today

2270
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 4: Florida did well. Regardless of how this plays out in

2271
01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:40,639
Speaker 4: the SEC Championship tomorrow.

2272
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 2: What's interesting to me is, look at the two games

2273
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:44,599
Speaker 2: that these two teams have played.

2274
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:46,160
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this.

2275
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 2: Tennessee at Florida earlier this season, Florida wins by thirty. Yeah,

2276
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:54,720
Speaker 2: all right, Tennessee at home against Florida. What a couple

2277
01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:58,840
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, Tennessee wins by twenty. That's such a

2278
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 2: You're talking about a fifty point swing in two games. Like,

2279
01:41:01,479 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 2: these two teams have played head to head twice. Now again,

2280
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:06,360
Speaker 2: for anyone that doesn't know this, the Committee is trying

2281
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 2: to the Committee is does everything they can to prevent

2282
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 2: interconference matchups in the first two rounds, especially if they've

2283
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:17,759
Speaker 2: already played more than two times. So like these become

2284
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:19,679
Speaker 2: one of the tricks for the Committee as they're putting

2285
01:41:19,680 --> 01:41:22,920
Speaker 2: all these things together tomorrow. But they've played twice with

2286
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:24,599
Speaker 2: two staggeringly different results.

2287
01:41:24,640 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot on the plate here.

2288
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:30,080
Speaker 2: And Ken Palm still matters to me, It matters to

2289
01:41:30,120 --> 01:41:32,720
Speaker 2: the committee if Florida's number two, Duke is number one,

2290
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:36,440
Speaker 2: If Florida gets a win over Tennessee, a convincing win, particularly,

2291
01:41:36,800 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 2: I have no idea what that's going to do to

2292
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:40,800
Speaker 2: their net rating. I'm not smart enough to know how

2293
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:44,000
Speaker 2: that's factored. But I don't think Duke has necessarily left

2294
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 2: the window open.

2295
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:47,240
Speaker 1: But man, I don't know. If Florida plays the way

2296
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:49,240
Speaker 1: that they played and they go out and they just.

2297
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 2: Absolutely ram Tennessee, it's gotta be something that you at

2298
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:53,799
Speaker 2: least step back and consider.

2299
01:41:54,160 --> 01:41:56,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I don't think it'll be a blowout.

2300
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 4: I think it'll be a competitive game. But there's no

2301
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,600
Speaker 4: question that Florida's played incredibly motivated basketball right now, and

2302
01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:03,880
Speaker 4: they made a bit of a run last year. I

2303
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 4: don't know if you saw that that awful injury that

2304
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,719
Speaker 4: their center had, their seven footter had last.

2305
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 3: Year that.

2306
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 4: Really derailed the emotions of it. But it'll be a

2307
01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 4: fun game here in Nashville, no doubt.

2308
01:42:15,080 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna keep getting you updated on the

2309
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:19,720
Speaker 2: tournament as big results happen. You'll be the first to

2310
01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 2: hear it, obviously, but we're still looking at the NFL

2311
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,040
Speaker 2: free agency and we're trying to figure out what the

2312
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:27,599
Speaker 2: football like. Do any of these moves make sense. We'll

2313
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:31,280
Speaker 2: break it down, but first, Iowa Steve to Seger's got

2314
01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:31,599
Speaker 2: to give.

2315
01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 1: Us the updates. Steve, you're just getting new nickname. That's

2316
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:35,080
Speaker 1: what's happening. Now. I'm all over the place.

2317
01:42:35,760 --> 01:42:38,679
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess we have no choice but to accept.

2318
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:40,719
Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, and we'll hit the score.

2319
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 9: Of course, it's selection Sunday tomorrow to fill out the

2320
01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 9: NCAA Tournament field. In the ACC Tourney Final, number one

2321
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 9: Duke is up on Louisville sixty eight fifty five with

2322
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:54,559
Speaker 9: about four minutes to go. In the Big East one seed,

2323
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:57,200
Speaker 9: Saint John's came back to win over Creighton eighty two

2324
01:42:57,200 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 9: to sixty six, and then the Big Twelve Conference final,

2325
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:03,719
Speaker 9: one seed Houston was a winner against Arizona seventy two

2326
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:07,559
Speaker 9: to sixty four. Akron took the MAC Final tonight seventy

2327
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 9: six seventy four over Miami, Ohio on a basket with

2328
01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:13,880
Speaker 9: two seconds left, and Norfolk State won the MIAK on

2329
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,840
Speaker 9: a late free throw sixty six sixty five against South

2330
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 9: Carolina State Conference finals also went to Colorado State, Mount

2331
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,840
Speaker 9: Saint Mary's and Bryant. In the Big Ten semifinals, Wisconsin

2332
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 9: beat the number one seed Michigan State seventy seven to

2333
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:31,000
Speaker 9: seventy four. Michigan over Maryland eighty one eighty on a

2334
01:43:31,080 --> 01:43:34,679
Speaker 9: last second layup. Tennessee took down number one seed Auburn

2335
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:38,479
Speaker 9: in an SEC semifinal seventy to sixty five Florida one

2336
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 9: oh four eighty two over Alabama, one seed in the

2337
01:43:41,560 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 9: American Conference, Memphis edge two lanes seventy eight seventy seven

2338
01:43:45,560 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 9: Tigers against UAB Next, Villanova fired coach Kyle Neptune. UNLV

2339
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 9: fired coach Kevin Krueger to the NBA scoreboard eight minutes

2340
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 9: to go in the game at Golden State tonight, the Warriors,

2341
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 9: who won six in a row, are winning against the

2342
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 9: Knicks eighty four fo or seventy five Steph Curry with

2343
01:44:02,280 --> 01:44:04,760
Speaker 9: twenty three points about eight and a half minutes to go.

2344
01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 9: At San Antonio, Spurs ahead of the Pelicans ninety nine

2345
01:44:08,439 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 9: ninety two pels without Zion Williamson out for personal reasons.

2346
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:15,719
Speaker 9: At Denver, it's not yet mid third quarter. Nikola Jokic

2347
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:19,320
Speaker 9: has twenty nine points. Nuggets lead only seventy six seventy

2348
01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:22,240
Speaker 9: two against the Washington Wizards, who have a record of

2349
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 9: fourteen and fifty one this year. Houston won its six

2350
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 9: straight game etging Chicago tonight, one seventeen, one fourteen at Milwaukee,

2351
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:33,520
Speaker 9: thirty four points for Giannis Antinecumpo in a win over Indiana.

2352
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:37,280
Speaker 9: Victories for Memphis, Boston, and Oklahoma City, which won at

2353
01:44:37,280 --> 01:44:40,960
Speaker 9: Detroit one thirteen, one oh seven. Shay gilgis Alexander with

2354
01:44:41,120 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 9: forty eight points under two minutes left on the ice

2355
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:47,519
Speaker 9: at Minnesota, Saint Louis leads the Wild five to one.

2356
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:50,120
Speaker 9: Tampa Bay was a six to two winner at Boston,

2357
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 9: and Carolina won its seven straight game five nothing at Philadelphia.

2358
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 9: Ne Atlanta Falcons kept quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has ten

2359
01:44:57,080 --> 01:44:59,639
Speaker 9: million dollars roster bonus for next year is now fully

2360
01:44:59,640 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 9: guarant The forty nine Ers resigned fullback Kyle Yustchek, and

2361
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:06,879
Speaker 9: San Francisco traded running back Jordan Mason to the Vikings.

2362
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 3: Tonight.

2363
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:10,960
Speaker 2: Back to you great work by Steve as always shout

2364
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:13,720
Speaker 2: out to Iowa sam and Ian doing God's work on

2365
01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 2: this show.

2366
01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:16,800
Speaker 1: Keeping us on the on track as we go through it.

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01:45:16,800 --> 01:45:17,479
Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising.

2368
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:20,720
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01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:24,120
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2376
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:40,479
Speaker 2: I thought we could get Ian to help us out here.

2377
01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a look at some of the biggest

2378
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:43,880
Speaker 2: moves and free agency some of the different moves. And

2379
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:47,000
Speaker 2: maybe he's head scratchers or maybe clappers. Maybe it's maybe

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01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 2: we're super into it. Maybe ye're clappers.

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01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: You know, like yay clapping.

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01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:52,960
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like that's not what I thought you

2383
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:53,639
Speaker 3: were talking about.

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01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:58,120
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, there we go, Ian, save us from

2385
01:45:58,120 --> 01:45:58,679
Speaker 1: the clap brother.

2386
01:45:58,680 --> 01:46:00,840
Speaker 2: All right, So Ian's gonna come in and he's gonna

2387
01:46:00,880 --> 01:46:05,560
Speaker 2: give us some moves and we'll figure out.

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01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 11: Save Let's start here, guys. So actually I'm a Jets fan,

2389
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:17,240
Speaker 11: so we'll start with the Jets. Here, So Jets are

2390
01:46:17,240 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 11: signing quarterback Justin Fields to a two year, forty million

2391
01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:24,200
Speaker 11: dollar contract with thirty million guaranteed. How much does this

2392
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:25,320
Speaker 11: move the needle for you guys?

2393
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:30,240
Speaker 2: I don't think it makes the Jets staggeringly better. But

2394
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:32,280
Speaker 2: I think this is a pretty solid move. I think

2395
01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:34,600
Speaker 2: we have to just acknowledge the fact that most of

2396
01:46:34,640 --> 01:46:38,680
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks and free agency were they had flaws all

2397
01:46:38,680 --> 01:46:41,000
Speaker 2: over the place, and I, as I've said on record

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01:46:41,040 --> 01:46:42,840
Speaker 2: a million times, I wouldn't draft any of the guys

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01:46:42,840 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 2: at the top of the draft. So you know, I

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01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:47,200
Speaker 2: think this lets you at least buy yourself time and

2401
01:46:47,560 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong when you're year one with the new

2402
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:53,719
Speaker 2: coach buying time bucks. So I does this suddenly change

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01:46:53,720 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 2: the fortunes of the Jets?

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01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,200
Speaker 1: No? Is it a smart move to me? Yeah? From

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01:46:57,240 --> 01:46:58,800
Speaker 1: a football standpoint, I think it's pretty good.

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01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:01,280
Speaker 4: I like it. It moves the needle for me. Because

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01:47:01,360 --> 01:47:03,599
Speaker 4: Justin Fields took a chance on himself. I think Pittsburgh

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01:47:03,600 --> 01:47:05,519
Speaker 4: would have liked to have him back. Arthur Smith really

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01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,600
Speaker 4: liked him. The offensive coordinator there with the Steelers. He

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01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:11,320
Speaker 4: goes to New York, he goes to the unknown. He's again.

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01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:14,639
Speaker 4: We've talked about quarterback reclamation projects. Sam Darnold just got

2412
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 4: paid what thirty six plus thirty six million plus a year.

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01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 4: We don't know what Justin Fields will ultimately amount to,

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01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:24,720
Speaker 4: and there are plenty of questions, as I'm sure Ian

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01:47:24,760 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 4: knows with the New York Jets and their roster right now,

2416
01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:30,080
Speaker 4: but there are enough players there that make you think,

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01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:32,519
Speaker 4: all right, if Fields can put this together and continue

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01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:36,080
Speaker 4: to stack the progress that he's made, this moves the.

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01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 3: Needle, all right.

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01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 5: Next up, Cooper Cup.

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01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 11: After the Rams released him, he's now signing with the

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01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 11: division rival Seattle Seahawks. They agreed to a three year,

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01:47:44,160 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 11: forty five million dollar contract extension. What do you guys

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01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 11: think about this one?

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01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:49,280
Speaker 1: Uh?

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01:47:49,320 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 3: I just could not care less.

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01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 4: We are so far removed from Super Bowl MVP twenty

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01:47:55,479 --> 01:47:58,240
Speaker 4: twenty one Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup. He has gotten

2429
01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 4: progressively worse as his body has continued to fail him.

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01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 3: It perplexes me.

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01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:06,280
Speaker 4: What on earth the Seattle Seahawks plan is heading into

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01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,120
Speaker 4: this year in the NFC West. They got worse at quarterback,

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01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:12,920
Speaker 4: trading Gino and Key and signing Sam Donald. They're adding

2434
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:15,120
Speaker 4: to Marcus Lawrence at the tail end of his career.

2435
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:17,640
Speaker 4: That got one of the league's worst offensive lines, and

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01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,679
Speaker 4: they don't do much to fortify that in that direction.

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01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:24,120
Speaker 4: Especially understanding that again, you're Sam Donald. Sam Darnald is

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01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:26,920
Speaker 4: going to play quarterback for you. He's going to have

2439
01:48:27,120 --> 01:48:29,920
Speaker 4: less weapons than he ever has in Seattle. Cooper Cup

2440
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:31,679
Speaker 4: is not going to be a difference maker there.

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01:48:32,040 --> 01:48:34,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, no quarterback had less time to throw the football

2442
01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:38,160
Speaker 2: last year than Gino Smith. So Sam Donald getting that pressure,

2443
01:48:38,200 --> 01:48:40,160
Speaker 2: if the argument is pressure is what killed him down

2444
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:40,799
Speaker 2: the stretch.

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01:48:40,840 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 1: Now he's got to get it to Cooper Cup.

2446
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:45,800
Speaker 2: Also, this just objectively ask everybody, is Sean McVay bad

2447
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:48,400
Speaker 2: at football, because like I don't think he is. So

2448
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:50,680
Speaker 2: you have one of the most talented offensive minds in

2449
01:48:50,720 --> 01:48:53,439
Speaker 2: the NFL saying now we're good, I'm gonna let him walk.

2450
01:48:54,040 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 2: That to me is a huge flag on this. So

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01:48:56,520 --> 01:48:57,720
Speaker 2: it doesn't move the needle for me.

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01:48:57,760 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: I think.

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01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:00,839
Speaker 2: I think Seattle is sort of trying to stay relevant

2454
01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:02,720
Speaker 2: while they figure out how to rebuild, and I don't

2455
01:49:02,760 --> 01:49:04,600
Speaker 2: know that that works. I don't think you can do

2456
01:49:04,640 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 2: two it once.

2457
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:07,759
Speaker 11: All right, Well, there's lots of eyes on the Bengals

2458
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 11: this offseason, we don't know or are they going to

2459
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 11: pay Chase Higgins or both. Well, it's starting to look

2460
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:13,600
Speaker 11: like they're going to be able to pay both, and

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01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:18,080
Speaker 11: Diana Verssini's reporting that it actually might be over seventy

2462
01:49:18,160 --> 01:49:21,800
Speaker 11: million dollars annually combined for those two. So what do

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01:49:21,800 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 11: we think about the Bengals signing both of their star receivers.

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01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:30,240
Speaker 2: Potentially look fine, but you got to start drafting players

2465
01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:32,800
Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball. Like everybody keeps saying,

2466
01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:35,479
Speaker 2: fix your defense. I don't think there were free agent

2467
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:37,400
Speaker 2: options out here that we're going to fix the defense

2468
01:49:37,400 --> 01:49:39,679
Speaker 2: for the Bengals. So spend the money you got, spend

2469
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:40,240
Speaker 2: it on your own.

2470
01:49:40,280 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 1: I don't care.

2471
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:43,240
Speaker 2: But if you really want to compete, if you really

2472
01:49:43,280 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 2: want to be able to beat the Chiefs, like, what

2473
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:48,559
Speaker 2: is the method to beating the Chiefs absolutely destroying Patrick

2474
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:50,960
Speaker 2: Mahomes over and over and over again. What are that

2475
01:49:51,080 --> 01:49:53,760
Speaker 2: defense other than Trey Hendrickson, who on that defense is

2476
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:56,280
Speaker 2: going to destroy Patrick Mahomes over and over? No, Like,

2477
01:49:56,479 --> 01:49:59,280
Speaker 2: we are seeing the method to how you beat Kansas City,

2478
01:49:59,600 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 2: and it it doesn't feel like the Bengals are paying

2479
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:03,559
Speaker 2: any attention to that, they're gonna score a bunch of points.

2480
01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:05,760
Speaker 2: They'll be the best team to play on Madden if

2481
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:09,519
Speaker 2: you're into that, But does it make them demonstrably better? Like, Nah,

2482
01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:12,320
Speaker 2: they're gonna be exactly who they've been the last few years.

2483
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: Buck.

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01:50:12,920 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 3: I'm into that purely for the entertainment value.

2485
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:18,280
Speaker 4: But like, how many teams have had the accomplishments at

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01:50:18,320 --> 01:50:21,040
Speaker 4: quarterback that Joe Burrow did last year, a triple Crown

2487
01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:23,360
Speaker 4: winner in a wide receiver in Jamar Chase and the

2488
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:27,040
Speaker 4: NFL's leading sack getter, and missed the playoffs the way

2489
01:50:27,080 --> 01:50:28,960
Speaker 4: that last year's Cincinnati Bengals team did.

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01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 3: It's pretty crazy, but.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, I mean, I like their offseason, even

2492
01:50:32,600 --> 01:50:35,879
Speaker 4: though they haven't done anything but keep Trey Hendrickson basically

2493
01:50:35,920 --> 01:50:38,600
Speaker 4: hostage there after he asked out for a trade, and

2494
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:43,080
Speaker 4: are en route to signing the two best weapons at

2495
01:50:43,120 --> 01:50:45,519
Speaker 4: wide receiver, or two of the best weapons at wide

2496
01:50:45,520 --> 01:50:48,040
Speaker 4: receiver that any quarterback could ask for. This is a

2497
01:50:48,080 --> 01:50:50,880
Speaker 4: talented draft class when it comes to edge depth. Smarter

2498
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,479
Speaker 4: people than me will tell you that, and there are

2499
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:57,599
Speaker 4: ways for the Bengals to cost effectively fortify their defense.

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01:50:57,720 --> 01:50:58,200
Speaker 3: I love it.

2501
01:50:58,240 --> 01:51:01,439
Speaker 4: You keep that trio together, looking for a high flying offense.

2502
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:03,839
Speaker 4: Points points points points points.

2503
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:07,439
Speaker 11: All right, how about another let's go Joey Bosa to

2504
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:10,559
Speaker 11: the bill. So they agreed on a one year, twelve

2505
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:12,400
Speaker 11: point six million dollar contract.

2506
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:13,400
Speaker 5: What do we think?

2507
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 4: Uh, My question immediately comes to mind is how many

2508
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,960
Speaker 4: games is he going to play? Yeah, he's been wildly

2509
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:22,639
Speaker 4: unavailable down the stretch, and I know he's had success

2510
01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:25,400
Speaker 4: and he's a he's got a very good pedigree, but

2511
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:27,599
Speaker 4: the way that it ended in Los Angeles for me

2512
01:51:27,800 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 4: was just pretty uninspiring, and I was curious to see

2513
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:32,600
Speaker 4: where he'd land. And this seems to be, you know,

2514
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:35,640
Speaker 4: them getting younger with a von Miller esque type of

2515
01:51:35,720 --> 01:51:38,000
Speaker 4: move the way that they brought him in a situational role,

2516
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 4: and if he ends up being a great situational player

2517
01:51:40,160 --> 01:51:42,280
Speaker 4: on a defensive front.

2518
01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:44,160
Speaker 3: That's pretty talented and was.

2519
01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:47,640
Speaker 4: Very effective against Mahomes, it's just Josh Allen's inability to

2520
01:51:47,640 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 4: convert on the tush push or brotherly chef plays or

2521
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it. I thought that they

2522
01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:55,200
Speaker 4: were well equipped in Buffalo and it's an interesting piece,

2523
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 4: but I want to know how much he's actually going

2524
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:57,519
Speaker 4: to play for them.

2525
01:51:57,680 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they put him in bubble wrap the entire

2526
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:01,720
Speaker 2: year and wait till the playoffs to like unleash him,

2527
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:04,720
Speaker 2: then that's fine. You know, at this point, it's it's

2528
01:52:04,760 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 2: one of those situational things. This is either he's going

2529
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:09,439
Speaker 2: to be completely invisible and we've all forgotten about it,

2530
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 2: or we're gonna be sitting here in the playoffs saying.

2531
01:52:11,160 --> 01:52:12,800
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how did everybody not say this?

2532
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:15,320
Speaker 2: I think this moves the needle, though, I think it

2533
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 2: accomplishes a lot for Buffalo Ian.

2534
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:18,080
Speaker 1: Give us one more real quick.

2535
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:18,920
Speaker 5: All right, one more quick one?

2536
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:19,280
Speaker 1: J C.

2537
01:52:19,479 --> 01:52:22,840
Speaker 11: Horn in the Carolina Panthers agreed on a new four year,

2538
01:52:22,880 --> 01:52:25,679
Speaker 11: one hundred million dollar contract that makes j. C. Horn

2539
01:52:26,120 --> 01:52:29,360
Speaker 11: the highest paid defensive back in NFL history.

2540
01:52:29,479 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 2: What do we think that it moves the needle because

2541
01:52:32,479 --> 01:52:34,800
Speaker 2: it changes a pay grade, but it doesn't move the meeting.

2542
01:52:34,880 --> 01:52:37,479
Speaker 2: I mean, the Carolina Panthers also just made Treyvon Marrying

2543
01:52:37,520 --> 01:52:40,120
Speaker 2: that fifth highest paid safety. They are overpaying to try

2544
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:42,120
Speaker 2: and get defensive help, which is what you do when

2545
01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:44,920
Speaker 2: you're desperate on the defensive side of the ball. In general,

2546
01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:47,000
Speaker 2: I guess you have to do that. But jac Horn

2547
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:49,599
Speaker 2: very good player, j C. Horn one hundred million dollar

2548
01:52:49,680 --> 01:52:52,640
Speaker 2: player like that, Just that number jumped out to me.

2549
01:52:52,760 --> 01:52:55,280
Speaker 2: Book is pretty staggering. So it moves the needle because

2550
01:52:55,280 --> 01:52:57,680
Speaker 2: it changes the market. But I don't think suddenly like

2551
01:52:57,720 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 2: the Panthers are just this world beater because as they

2552
01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:03,080
Speaker 2: you know, rewarded and with a massive contract.

2553
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 4: I cover a bottom feederor franchise myself here in Tennessee.

2554
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:06,639
Speaker 3: That fits.

2555
01:53:06,640 --> 01:53:09,240
Speaker 4: He is what we lovingly have adopted here as the

2556
01:53:09,360 --> 01:53:13,479
Speaker 4: we suck luxury tax you got overpay for the good players.

2557
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:17,000
Speaker 2: Oh that is a that is a level of truth

2558
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:19,559
Speaker 2: and honesty that I feel in my bones as the

2559
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:21,400
Speaker 2: fan of a team that stinks. All right, Ian, great

2560
01:53:21,439 --> 01:53:24,960
Speaker 2: job giving us a little bit of a mindset around

2561
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:27,439
Speaker 2: some of these transactions that have happened in free agency.

2562
01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:30,400
Speaker 1: If you are new to Buck Rising, Jason Fitz and

2563
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:32,439
Speaker 1: what we do here, we like to end every show

2564
01:53:32,479 --> 01:53:34,400
Speaker 1: the same way. Would you rather coming up.

2565
01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:37,760
Speaker 2: Next on Fox Sports Radio on a Fox Sports Saturday,

2566
01:53:40,080 --> 01:53:43,599
Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz, Bucking Fits hanging out

2567
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,200
Speaker 2: with you on a Fox Sports Saturday, Fox Sports Radio

2568
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:48,720
Speaker 2: coming at your live from the TIRAQ dot Com studios.

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01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:52,599
Speaker 2: Got a tradition here, when you've only done a couple

2570
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:54,280
Speaker 2: of shows together, can it be a tradition?

2571
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like this is a tradition

2572
01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:56,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna be.

2573
01:53:56,439 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 4: We haven't done a couple of shows. We've did that,

2574
01:53:58,640 --> 01:54:01,960
Speaker 4: We've done this once and then somebody was foolish enough

2575
01:54:01,960 --> 01:54:05,000
Speaker 4: to say, all right, from seven to ten pm Central time,

2576
01:54:05,040 --> 01:54:05,920
Speaker 4: go ahead, try it again.

2577
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:06,479
Speaker 1: Don't you know what?

2578
01:54:06,520 --> 01:54:08,320
Speaker 2: I don't want to bog you down with semantics here,

2579
01:54:08,320 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 2: but like a couple too, like this is two. So

2580
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:12,720
Speaker 2: now we've got a tradition. All right, this is this

2581
01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:14,800
Speaker 2: is how traditions are born. Alright, one one step, but

2582
01:54:14,880 --> 01:54:16,479
Speaker 2: don't you roll your eyes at me, cat dad?

2583
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:16,880
Speaker 1: All right?

2584
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:19,439
Speaker 2: Uh so the tradition is we like to end the

2585
01:54:19,479 --> 01:54:21,800
Speaker 2: show with would you rather? But we wanted to be

2586
01:54:21,840 --> 01:54:23,760
Speaker 2: like a game show, feel like a big energetic if

2587
01:54:23,840 --> 01:54:24,960
Speaker 2: we're going to ask him would you rather?

2588
01:54:25,040 --> 01:54:25,400
Speaker 1: Questions?

2589
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:28,680
Speaker 2: So this is where producer Ian's gonna come in and

2590
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:30,559
Speaker 2: he's going to ask the questions. But first we're gonna

2591
01:54:30,560 --> 01:54:33,440
Speaker 2: give it this big, grandiose intro where we scream would

2592
01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 2: you rather?

2593
01:54:34,320 --> 01:54:35,880
Speaker 5: Like this game shows?

2594
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:38,200
Speaker 1: Waiting for? Are you ready? Buck? Are you ready for this?

2595
01:54:38,280 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: All right, I'm warmed up. Here we go, Here we go.

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Speaker 1: The game is called would you rather look at that? Actually?

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Speaker 5: That worked really well?

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Speaker 1: That was pretty good. Point. That was pretty good. That

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Speaker 1: was pretty good.

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Speaker 3: It's not good if we actually do it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's the thing is, like it was supposed to

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01:54:55,520 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 11: be terrible and you guys actually just nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: The terrible part.

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Speaker 4: Comes when we start speaking sponsor to questions. We'll cross

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Speaker 4: that bridge when we get through it.

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Speaker 2: Ian give us a give us a would you rather

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Speaker 2: and uh, we'll see how this goes.

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Speaker 11: Okay, all right, let's start with this one. Would you

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Speaker 11: rather have to always sing instead of speaking? Or would

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Speaker 11: you rather have to dance everywhere you go?

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so that one's easy.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather have to always sing because I think like

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Speaker 2: it's more impressive if you, like actually walked in and

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Speaker 2: you had the worst Starbucks order in history and you

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Speaker 2: were dancing while you did it, then you're gonna get

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Speaker 2: punched if you sang it beautifully, like if you sang

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Speaker 2: your triple shot no half calf like all that stuff,

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Speaker 2: people would people would applaud at the end of it.

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Speaker 2: I want to I want to sing everything, not dance everything.

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Speaker 4: Book that assumes that you would sing beautifully. I think

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Speaker 4: if you start bursting out in song in the middle

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Speaker 4: of a Starbucks, somebody is going to throatprunch you thick,

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Speaker 4: because it's probably pretty early in the morning. And the

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Speaker 4: last thing that I want to deal with is somebody

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Speaker 4: sing singing at the coffee shop while I'm waiting in

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Speaker 4: line for my order.

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Speaker 3: No, I would rather dance everywhere that I go, because then.

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Speaker 4: I could just put it on TikTok and then I

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Speaker 4: become super rich and famous off doing silly TikTok dances.

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Speaker 4: And the worst thing in the world is trying to

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Speaker 4: talk myself into you know it's here. You're gonna look

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01:56:05,880 --> 01:56:08,480
Speaker 4: foolish doing the TikTok dance. No, you do this, you

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01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:10,640
Speaker 4: blow up. If it's bad, it's good.

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Speaker 11: Okay, Well this one. Buck sent me this one, so

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Speaker 11: I don't know how to feel about it. It's a

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Speaker 11: little uncomfortable. But would you rather play a game of

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Speaker 11: Airplane with Bill Belichick or getting a pillow fight with

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Speaker 11: Nick Saban?

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Speaker 3: Do you know why I sent you this? Are you

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Speaker 3: not on the internet today?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: Is there something I'm not.

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01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:39,640
Speaker 3: Wait? I don't know what audience, what you're seeing right now?

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Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, well there's a Bill Belichi. No, actually it

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Speaker 11: wasn't him, it was his girlfriend. Jordan posted on Instagram

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Speaker 11: a picture of Bill is laying on his back on

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Speaker 11: the beach and he's he's holding her up with his

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01:56:52,040 --> 01:56:53,920
Speaker 11: she's she's it's so hard to explain this.

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Speaker 1: She's he's on He's on his back with his feet

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Speaker 1: in the ear.

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Speaker 2: She's balanced on his feet like an airplane sing by

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Speaker 2: the lays on the beach.

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Speaker 3: It's not that hard.

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Speaker 2: Did you never play as a child? Also, she had

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Speaker 2: to put that phone up, like somebody took that. Like

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Speaker 2: she had to set the phone over on the time

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Speaker 2: or get that thing right. A lot of work went

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Speaker 2: into that picture. Uh buck Rising. I want desperately to

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Speaker 2: play a game of airplane with you where I am

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Speaker 2: the airplane because I can go wait the whole time

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Speaker 2: that I'm up there, and that's on brand. Like Pillow,

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Speaker 2: fighting with Saban is still gonna be intimidating, because like

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Speaker 2: I feel like, the first few hits and be nice,

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Speaker 2: but then it would go a little bit over the

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Speaker 2: top and get super competitive and before you know it,

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Speaker 2: Nick Saban is Pillow beating the snot out of me, right,

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Speaker 2: So I need I need a airplane with Buck Rising.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go have fun with that.

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Speaker 3: I think I would.

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Speaker 4: I think I think it would delight me to play

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Speaker 4: a game of airplane with Bill Belichick. I would not

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Speaker 4: trust Jason Fitz and his tiny, tiny legs to be

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Speaker 4: able to support me, so we could We could not

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Speaker 4: do that.

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Speaker 3: Vice versa.

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Speaker 1: Just like that.

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Speaker 4: Look at look at Ian by the way, not having

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Speaker 4: any idea what the hell I was talking about, and

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Speaker 4: still read to get into a microphone.

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Speaker 1: Well done.

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Speaker 11: I was more intrigued by the pillow fight with saving.

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01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:02,080
Speaker 11: I don't know where did that come from. I just

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Speaker 11: figured an airplane with some game I hadn't heard of.

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01:58:04,200 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 11: But now I get it. Now I get it. Anyway, Next,

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Speaker 11: would you rather talk like Yoda or breathe like Darth

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Speaker 11: Vader for the rest of your life?

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Speaker 5: That's a lot.

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01:58:15,520 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 3: Would you rather what like Yoda?

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Speaker 12: Talk like Yoda or like Darth Vader? Sent is deconstructed

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Speaker 12: and run backwards? Kind of Yeah, nothing worse than a

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Speaker 12: mouth breather. Darth Vader is a mouth breather. No nobody

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Speaker 12: wants to be around that person. Nobody wants to nobody

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Speaker 12: wants to heavy every time, you.

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Speaker 4: Know that, that's usually somebody who's, you know, maybe a

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Speaker 4: little bit winded coming up the steps, and nobody wants

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Speaker 4: a mouthbreaker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but then even that was a bit breathy.

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Speaker 2: Let me, let me, let me talk into this though,

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Speaker 2: because can you imagine sports bar huge, huge moment. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Indiana wins the national championship on a buzzer beater, right,

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01:58:52,520 --> 01:58:55,440
Speaker 2: like would never happened? Three wins a national championship. You

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Speaker 2: look at your buddy to celebrate. One of them is

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Speaker 2: going whither celebrating or the other one saying when we did, like,

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Speaker 2: you don't want the when we did, guy, like, you

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01:59:04,040 --> 01:59:04,560
Speaker 2: don't want that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because then i'd hold the little grain fell up

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01:59:07,720 --> 01:59:09,440
Speaker 4: and spin him a not actually yoga.

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Speaker 1: He's like a one hundred and fifty pound dude. That

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Speaker 1: sounds like yoga.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm assuming the mouth breather. There is also four

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Speaker 4: hundred different paths. That's factful.

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Speaker 1: Did you get this another one? Quick ian? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, let's do another.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 11: Would you rather go on a pedal tavern during a

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Speaker 11: tornado watch or a party barge during a flash flood?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Man?

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Speaker 2: Okay, pedal taverns are the worst in Nashville, like where

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Speaker 2: you actually have to do the work. So I'm in

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Speaker 2: a party barge. I got put me on a barge like.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand the concept of getting on a pedal

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Speaker 2: tavern and tavern tavern and pedaling myself while I drink

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01:59:43,040 --> 01:59:44,480
Speaker 2: beer that half the time I brought Buck.

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Speaker 4: I don't drink beer on those things. It's tequila o'le

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01:59:47,960 --> 01:59:49,240
Speaker 4: makes it a lot more fun.

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Speaker 1: God that said that says everything.

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01:59:51,720 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 2: Hey, we will say everything just by saying, Hey, we

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Speaker 2: appreciate you guys taking the time to listen and hang

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01:59:56,120 --> 01:59:58,080
Speaker 2: out with this. We couldn't do it about Steve and

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Speaker 2: Iowa Sam. I got that obviously. Ian thanks to the

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Speaker 2: bosses for letting us come back together.

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Speaker 1: Stick around.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Torres and Jason Martin Coming up next, he's Buck

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Speaker 2: Rising Up. Jason Fitz, thanks for hanging out with Bucking Fitz.