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Speaker 1: Welcome inside final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my bass friend Mike Hart. Six seven seven that kind

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Speaker 1: of night positivity Friday mid extra cockfight. That's two six

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Speaker 1: seven six seven six seven on a big football Friday

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Speaker 1: headed into Week ten of the National Football League. Also

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Speaker 1: look NBA Cup Night tonight. Yeah it is. If your

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Speaker 1: team lost tonight, clearly you do not have what it

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Speaker 1: takes to really cut through this year and have a

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Speaker 1: great season. I am rethinking everything I knew about the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls tonight. I thought they were really good, but

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Speaker 1: now clearly they are not because they just face planted

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Speaker 1: on NBA Cup Night. Mike Harmon, I'm embarrassed for you.

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Speaker 4: Very disappointing effort in that fourth quarter against the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 4: On a floor that made no sense. The color really

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Speaker 4: didn't match up with anything, as opposed to some of

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Speaker 4: those neon jobbers where it's like I think their X raying.

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Speaker 4: It's like we were talking about the betting scandal in

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Speaker 4: the NBA where they had those X ray tables. There

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Speaker 4: are a couple of times guys were falling on the

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Speaker 4: rayed and his face is now glowing green. That's not good.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, some doubious decisions in terms of that. Some

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Speaker 4: of the neon greens and fluorescent highlighter yellow colors for quarts.

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Speaker 3: Hurt my eyes, man, hurt my eyes.

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Speaker 4: I was looking to, you know, get bear of those

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Speaker 1: Hey, can I get one of those courts make it

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Speaker 1: look like I'm going inside an MRI machine. That's what

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Speaker 4: It makes the insides glow so we can see the

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Speaker 1: Look like that for me, man, that's what I really

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Speaker 3: I just grew seven inches by falling on the court.

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Speaker 1: Boy, I'll tell you good lord. Uh So, let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at some of the biggest games in the

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Speaker 1: NFL this weekend. Look Big Football Friday preview. We have

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Speaker 1: big stuff in college football coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: But look one of the big topics today we find

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Speaker 1: out it's gonna be another day for Alabama. Mac mac

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Speaker 1: against the Rams, as brock Perty continues to heal, we're

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Speaker 1: getting mac Jones. Now, before we get to the game,

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Speaker 1: let's revisit something we talked about a few weeks ago

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Speaker 1: because it plays into what we talked about earlier a

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Speaker 1: we said on Monday, this is it for Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's played his last game as an Arizona Cardinal

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Speaker 1: because they're going to have to move on from him

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Speaker 1: in the offseason, and you can't bring him back out

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Speaker 1: in the off season. If you're going to trade him,

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Speaker 1: if not better impact from Jacoby Brissett. Not that Jacoby

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Speaker 1: Brissett's the guy, but when your backup quarterback is moving

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Speaker 1: the team better and it's more cohesive than you're starting,

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Speaker 4: To move on the offense with a backup quarterback averaging

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Speaker 4: five more points per game. And Marvin Harrison Junior smiled, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: The good news is it tells you how great a

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Speaker 1: you didn't need to give fifty million dollars to. Right,

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Speaker 1: And we said it from the beginning, you're gonna overpay

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Speaker 1: And now they're finding out we didn't have to because

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones is just as good. He's putting up the

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Speaker 1: brock Purty was great because he had Debo and Ayuk

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Speaker 1: No more Debo, Ricky, Piersol can't get on the field.

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Speaker 1: it's Christian. McCaffrey's making sure you're behind me, Christian, because

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Speaker 1: But there's nobody else out there. Kittle was hurt for

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Speaker 4: The hard part is there was that divide between all, right,

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Speaker 4: how good is brock Party because you get some of

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Speaker 3: Good if these guys are on the field.

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Speaker 4: And look, I've talked to enough and watched enough people

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Speaker 4: This is where we separate the hot take nonsense versus

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Speaker 4: when it came time to get paid, you know, you

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Speaker 4: don't know what's behind door number two. Necessarily, you trust

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Speaker 4: point whether it's from goodwill and underpaid and overcompensating, you know,

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Speaker 4: getting better incrementally to where we don't need all those

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Speaker 4: enough evidence going forward between this circumstance and a couple

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Speaker 4: right Because a couple of years ago there were many arguing, Hey,

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Speaker 4: mean you remember those takes. He's just a guy, Why

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Speaker 4: pay him? Like you know there's there's something else going

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Speaker 4: like I always contended, he got a raw deal in

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Speaker 4: that didn't work out. After that, core with Brady dissipated

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Speaker 4: system for everybody. Theory espoused down the show very vocally

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Speaker 4: So you had that guy, Well, now you got a

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Speaker 3: Right, is my understanding? Is he close?

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's close, and you just say, hey, we can

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Speaker 4: It's a fantasy land in terms of guys happiness and unhappiness.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes people vent. You vent when you have a bad meal,

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Speaker 4: and I mean the collective you not you, Jason Smith.

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Speaker 4: You know you post a picture and say this is

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Speaker 4: not a great burger. It was six to seven, and

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Speaker 4: then you move on.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 4: Here are they explosive? Is the offense necessarily churning? No,

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Speaker 4: but they're also not getting that same level of support

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Speaker 1: Now, so you would think though, Okay, so here you are, Jason.

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Speaker 1: I know you love the Rams. You can't stand the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. You're not believing in them? Yeah, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: all that is true. I said last lie. I expect

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Speaker 1: over the next month the Rams to prove they're the

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Speaker 1: I love them, But these are games that San Francisco

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Speaker 1: No no, no, but clearly, but you never know what

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Speaker 1: I do not believe the odds are ever in Raheem Morris's.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: See you looking for your next head coach? You get fired,

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Speaker 1: Night Group Play all across the board this evening.

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Speaker 3: How great is this? We have hit the big time

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Speaker 3: I mean, sell, sell, sell, I mean, I guess.

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Speaker 1: You look seeing now? This is this is what year

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Speaker 1: All right, here's a Group Cup play, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: It would be and it would start to feel like

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Speaker 1: when teams are winning in soccer, Hey, we want to

433
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Speaker 1: we want to win the trifecta this year. Right, we're

434
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Speaker 1: gonna win the championship. We're gonna English Premier League. We're

435
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: gonna do that, and we're gonna win the FA Cup.

436
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: Like it becomes part of the calendar, and it becomes

437
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Speaker 1: a big event, not just something that is kind of

438
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Speaker 1: stapled together at the end and we're gonna you're gonna

439
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,159
Speaker 1: throw some paint on it and and and cover some

440
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Speaker 1: stuff up and hey, look we had a brand new

441
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Speaker 1: room for you in your house. Oh that's awesome if

442
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: you did that. And you're not cutting games out of

443
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Speaker 1: this people, You're still having games, People are still coming

444
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 1: to the games. There are still games that go on Okay,

445
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: you're not cutting games off the schedule, so owners don't

446
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Speaker 1: have to say, oh, we're gonna have non field arenas. No,

447
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: but you just make it part of it. And if

448
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Speaker 1: the NBA, if the NBA schedule when it comes down

449
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Speaker 1: to the end of the season is the best record

450
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Speaker 1: in seventy games instead of eighty two games because you

451
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Speaker 1: play twelve games for the whatever it is, you know,

452
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Speaker 1: seventy you know, seventy four games, whatever you want to do. Like, okay,

453
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Speaker 1: so you're you're you're building the playoffs on a seventy

454
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Speaker 1: four game regular season and these eight other games that

455
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Speaker 1: you play are outside of it. Like if you did

456
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Speaker 1: that and made it a month, that's revolutionary and it's

457
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Speaker 1: something that that that would that would cut through the

458
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Speaker 1: clutter of all star games and and and and stuff

459
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 1: that's just noise in the NBA, Like it's NBA Cup,

460
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: Like I mean, come on, man, I mean you really

461
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: think everybody's gonna gonna buy in and dive into this now?

462
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Speaker 1: Like the players like winning yeather, like the extra bit

463
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Speaker 1: of money. Okay, that's great, but that's not all of

464
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Speaker 1: a sudden saying hey, look at the ratings for these

465
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Speaker 1: NBA Cup games. You can basically have a playoff month

466
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Speaker 1: in February and it really works. I mean, if you

467
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Speaker 1: really want to do it, hop go full bore on

468
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Speaker 1: it and do it. It'll be great. You would be

469
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Speaker 1: surprised how much the fans love it.

470
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're always just trying to sell extra man. Look,

471
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Speaker 4: Adam Silver is worried about the highlight reel, I mean,

472
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Speaker 4: then come on now. I mean they're gonna get that

473
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Speaker 4: no matter what the court looks like or the games,

474
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Speaker 4: So that rolls through it.

475
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

476
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Speaker 4: Trying to find the different innovations and where it fits

477
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 4: on the schedule is always the fun thing, right is

478
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Speaker 4: you know you take the week here for the All

479
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 4: Star Break, i e. All the business meetings you do that,

480
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 4: you know for the Olympics, when you go to hockey,

481
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Speaker 4: all all of that. You're you're trying to piece it

482
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Speaker 4: together to where there's a natural part to it. You

483
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Speaker 4: mentioned for soccer, oftentimes you're wondering which of the leagues

484
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Speaker 4: is playing When you wake up on a Saturday.

485
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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, we and Champions League.

486
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Speaker 5: We just.

487
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Speaker 1: What's going on? Who are we playing? Where? Where does

488
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Speaker 1: this game fall? What am I rooting for?

489
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 5: You?

490
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

491
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Speaker 3: What are we doing? Are we in the Nation's Cup?

492
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Speaker 4: Like, I don't know, but when we look at the NBA,

493
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Speaker 4: it's like, should you do this just the first month

494
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Speaker 4: of the season, Right, here's our jumping off point, you know,

495
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Speaker 4: on October fifteenth or seventeenth or whatever. We're doing at

496
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Speaker 4: this point because it used to be on Halloween or thereabouts,

497
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Speaker 4: and it just gets earlier to add the extra days

498
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Speaker 4: off so you don't have the back to backs and whatever.

499
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Speaker 4: So you're trying to massage that as best you can.

500
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Speaker 4: Does this mean that you'd get more buy in from

501
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Speaker 4: players early in the season to participate, you know, if

502
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Speaker 4: this time it counts because it's part of a cup

503
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Speaker 4: tournament to start the season. I think the dumbest thing

504
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Speaker 4: they do, and it's part of the Cup experience, is

505
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Speaker 4: the stats for the championship game don't count.

506
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Speaker 3: The rest of them do.

507
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Speaker 4: But if you play that championship game, no, no, not,

508
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Speaker 4: we're not giving you. You know, you might fall short

509
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Speaker 4: of all of these different bonuses in your contract and all,

510
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 4: but you know you're not getting that twenty three points

511
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 4: and eight assists that you had there.

512
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Speaker 1: Nope, not for you.

513
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Speaker 3: But you know you get a nice little paycheck for participating.

514
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Speaker 3: So that's good, But I.

515
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Speaker 4: I grapple with it because you're stunt casting right when

516
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Speaker 4: you're adding these kind of elements. Because in the end

517
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Speaker 4: it's one of eighty two for the fans, they're not

518
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Speaker 4: going to be enamored with it other than their eyes

519
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 4: may hurt from looking at the floor.

520
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Speaker 1: Just make it big, Make it big, man, make it big,

521
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Speaker 1: and you would see how people are gonna do.

522
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Speaker 3: You add a rock and jock element, do you as

523
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Speaker 3: like in Oceans twelve?

524
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Speaker 1: You add the height to the basket depending on how

525
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Speaker 1: many points a team needs the final minute of a game,

526
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Speaker 1: a ten point game, however many points they need, that's

527
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Speaker 1: how many feet you raise the basket. We're down ten,

528
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Speaker 1: raise it ten feet, we're down fifteen, raise it fifteen feet.

529
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Speaker 1: It's a fifteen foot basket. You make it with that.

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Speaker 3: Watch your foot don't step on the line. Why ring

531
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Speaker 3: of fire. The ring of fire for the final minute.

532
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Speaker 4: There will be no accidental on reviews of a two

533
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Speaker 4: or a three point shot here because your toes getting

534
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 4: nowhere near that line.

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Speaker 1: We got more from the NFL now that we figured

536
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Speaker 1: out how to solve the NBA Cup issue coming up

537
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: in ninety ten the money but first special delivery. Steve

538
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Speaker 1: Desager has what's trending in the wide world of sports?

539
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: Are casty all the money he won tonight betting that

540
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: usc would execute a fake punt with their quarterback. He's

541
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Speaker 1: got what's trending, Steve.

542
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Speaker 5: To say, who actually got in the game later as

543
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Speaker 5: a quarterback, and I believe was leading the band at

544
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Speaker 5: the end of this where yeah, we'll get to college

545
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 5: football and Rome and guys you were talking NBA. We

546
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Speaker 5: had eleven games tonight. Not a single one was decided

547
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Speaker 5: by single digits, all by more than ten points each.

548
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 5: The most games played on a single night without any

549
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Speaker 5: of them being decided by single days.

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Speaker 1: It's in fact, I was looking I was looking at

551
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Speaker 1: that tonight when I'm looking at the scores of you know,

552
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Speaker 1: some of the games that I wasn't paying attention to,

553
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what, wows a blowout?

554
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 5: Whether were some of the opponents paying attention?

555
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: It was a blowout? Yeah, I mean Cleveland Washington was

556
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: over in the middle of the first quarter. Who was

557
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: that like one fifty to one ten?

558
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 5: I mean, my goodness, Miami scored fifty three just in

559
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Speaker 5: the first quarter. And be sure AP looked it up.

560
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 5: In NBA history, how many times have they had a

561
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Speaker 5: calendar date with at least ten games played. It's almost

562
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 5: one thousand, seven hundred different days with at least ten

563
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 5: games played. The margin of victory tonight was second highest.

564
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,239
Speaker 5: It was twenty one points per game. The Cleveland win

565
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 5: you mentioned was one forty eight to one fourteen at Washington.

566
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Speaker 5: Wizards are one in eight. The Miami game against Charlotte

567
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Speaker 5: after the first quarter heat up fifty three thirty three.

568
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 5: They beat the Charlotte Hornets one twenty six, one oh eight.

569
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Speaker 5: Orlando over Boston one twenty three, one ten, kind of

570
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 5: a close one. Celtics are only four and six. Jalen

571
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Speaker 5: Brown of the Celtics thirty two points in the loss

572
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 5: San Antonio. Andy Houston's five game winning streak one twenty

573
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Speaker 5: one to one ten. Spurs guard de Aaron Fox will

574
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Speaker 5: reportedly debut Saturday after hamstring surgery. Detroit has won five

575
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Speaker 5: in a row. They're up to seven and two after

576
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Speaker 5: winning at Brooklyn one twenty five one oh eight. Nets

577
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 5: are one and eight. Cam Thomas of the Nets could

578
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 5: miss three to four weeks with a strain hamstring Toronto

579
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Speaker 5: and Memphis with wins Minnesota all over Utah one thirty

580
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 5: seven to ninety seven. Anthony Edwards in only twenty six

581
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Speaker 5: minutes on the court, scored thirty seven points at Milwaukee

582
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Speaker 5: forty one for Janis Santanacoumpo in a victory against the Bulls,

583
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Speaker 5: who had been six and one. Fox took that win

584
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Speaker 5: one twenty six one ten. Jannis not only had forty

585
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 5: one points, he had fifteen rebounds nine assists as well.

586
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Speaker 5: Oklahoma City is nine and one after winning one of

587
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 5: the late games at Sacramento one thirty two one oh one.

588
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Speaker 5: Shay Gilgi Alexander in three quarters scored thirty points en

589
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Speaker 5: Verse six and two now after ripping Golden State one

590
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 5: twenty nine to one oh four. Nikola Jokic in limited

591
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 5: time twenty six points, nine rebounds, nine assist. Steph Curry

592
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 5: of the Warriors was out due to illness. For the Lakers,

593
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Speaker 5: Austin Reeves with a strang groin, will miss another game. Saturday,

594
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 5: college hoops North Carolina beat Kansas. NHL wins for San

595
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 5: Jose and Chicago. Japanese third baseman Munataka Morocami was posted

596
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 5: to start the process of free agency. The American League

597
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 5: Silver Slugger winners for offense include Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez,

598
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 5: also Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, Mariners catcher Cal Raley, and

599
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 5: A's rookie first baseman Nick Kurtz. By the way, the

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Speaker 5: Big MLB Award results come out next week, starting with

601
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 5: Monday's Rookie of the Year announcements. In women's tennis, number one,

602
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 5: Arena Sablenka advanced to the championship at the season ending

603
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 5: WTA finals. The other semi you went to Elena Rebakan,

604
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Speaker 5: who was four and o this week after eliminating American

605
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Speaker 5: Jessica Bagula. And you mentioned the football nineteenth ranke USC

606
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 5: on Fox TV tonight beating Northwestern at the LA Coliseum

607
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 5: thirty eight seventeen. Trojans five and one in conference Houston

608
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 5: eight and two overall, needing two field goals in the

609
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 5: fourth quarter to win at UCF thirty to twenty seven.

610
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 5: Tulane pulled off the upset at Memphis thirty eight thirty two.

611
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 5: Memphis had been eight and one this year. The forty

612
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Speaker 5: nine ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting

613
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 5: the Rams Texans QB C. J. Stroud is out this

614
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Speaker 5: weekend with a concussion. Quarterback for Washington Jaden Daniels will

615
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Speaker 5: not need surgery on his dislocated elbow. Running back for

616
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Speaker 5: the Bucks. Bucky Irving out with foot and shoulder injuries.

617
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 5: Running back for the Patriots, Ramandre Stevenson out again this

618
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Speaker 5: weekend with a toe injury. Aaron Jones Vikings running back,

619
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Speaker 5: questionable with shoulder and toe injuries. The Raiders fired special

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Speaker 5: teams coach Tom McMahon.

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Speaker 1: Bock to you, Yeah, that was that special teams last night?

622
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Speaker 1: Wasn't great? Yeah?

623
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Speaker 5: Again, not that special?

624
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now you gotta have a fall guy.

625
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Speaker 1: Uh Now, I have kind of a backhanded compliment for

626
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: one team here, back at a compliment. Because this week

627
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: being trade deadline in the NFL, we've talked a lot

628
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: about the Sauce Gardner trade, the Quinn Williams trade, look

629
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Speaker 1: the Jets aspect of it, and the Colts and the Cowboys,

630
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: and but one of the I'll tell you the trade

631
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Speaker 1: I really like the most that is going to affect

632
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: a big time contender is I like the Seahawks getting

633
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: Rashid Shiheed from the Saints. I like this move because

634
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, as good as he is, is still kind

635
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: of overrated, all right, Like Sam Darnold has shown that

636
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: he is good when he is throwing to the best

637
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the NFL. Last year it was Justin Jefferson.

638
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: This year it's Jackson Smith and Jigba. Right, these are

639
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: the last two years. These are the two best receivers

640
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: of the NFL. Sam Donald does well when he has

641
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: the best receiver of the NFL throwing to. Now, eventually

642
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: you think, okay, something's gonna come up and teams are

643
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: gonna figure out how to cover JSN. That's why getting

644
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: Shaheed was such a big deal. Right, this guy's fast.

645
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a great number two because look, I

646
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Speaker 1: think what JSN is catching what eighty eight percent of

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00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,479
Speaker 1: every ball that's thrown of all his passes. So they

648
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Speaker 1: absolutely needed to make a move here. And look that

649
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: they're a really solid team, right. I've been stock up

650
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: on Seattle for a while now. They're a better version

651
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Speaker 1: of the Steelers, where they play defense pretty well, they

652
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: run the ball pretty well, they throw the ball pretty well.

653
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: Nothing is overly elite, but they do everything really well.

654
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,239
Speaker 1: And that's good enough, and that's good enough to make

655
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Speaker 1: a deep run and get into the playoffs, but you

656
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: need a little bit more to make sure that offense

657
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Speaker 1: doesn't stall out at some point. And that's why that's

658
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: one of the that's my move that a contender made that.

659
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: I said, that's the biggest move that's gonna help them

660
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: more so than Sauce Gardner the Colts, because I told

661
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: you what, just wait, you think sauce Gardner's great, just wait,

662
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: just wait till you see him. So this is the

663
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Speaker 1: move I really like the most.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting with this one, is there there was

665
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Speaker 4: a report coming out of Pittsburgh that the Steelers made

666
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Speaker 4: a similar offer and that Shahed wanted to go back

667
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Speaker 4: to Kubiak. So that that's kind of a curiosity and

668
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: needs some more more vetting. But certainly that relationship and

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Speaker 4: its history does play into this. We'd seen Shahed was

670
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 4: having a pretty good year despite the inconsistency.

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Speaker 3: I just don't want to say bad football.

672
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 4: I don't want to disrespect Spencer Rattler or Tyler Shuck altogether.

673
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 4: But he'd had a pretty good year in New Orleans.

674
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 4: So now an opportunity to go with Sam Darnold. They

675
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Speaker 4: need a little more in the passing game, because as

676
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 4: you say, it's been a lot of JSN, and then

677
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 4: a little wishing and hoping the run game has sputtered

678
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 4: all year, something we've talked about in the Fantasy realm

679
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: quite a bit when you talk about Walker and he'll

680
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 4: have a couple of big plays and then all of

681
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 4: a sudden he'll be on ice because they start calling

682
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 4: a bunch of pass plays, or suddenly Sharvion A creeps in,

683
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 4: particularly around the goal line situation. So yeah, a little

684
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 4: bit of extra a guy that's gonna stretch the field

685
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 4: can only help to unlock maybe.

686
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 3: Some of these other players.

687
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 4: Maybe Arroyo becomes a bigger part of their offense in

688
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 4: the second half, or someone else sweeping under the over

689
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 4: the middle because you're you're taking the top off with Shaheed.

690
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 3: I like the move. Curious to see Sam Darnold. I

691
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 3: think he got a lot of a lot of bad

692
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 3: I mean, the still had to wash that jets off him.

693
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: I know it's been at spots.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know famously those photos from Carolina. Eventually I need

696
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 4: one of those on my wall of him at Baker

697
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 4: Mayfield signed. Just say remember when, uh, And then all

698
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: of that to say in Minnesota, I think they made

699
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 4: him the fall guy there too. Uh, the love of

700
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy and all notwithstanding, So opportunity here, good defense

701
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 4: and an opportunity to stretch the stretch the field, something

702
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 4: we know Sam can do.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we finish with a flourish on Football Friday.

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Speaker 1: Say that three times fast. I just said it once.

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00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon's either gonna love me or hate me. Plus,

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Speaker 1: the game of the week in the NFL might not

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Speaker 1: be the game you think it is. That's next, Jason

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Speaker 1: and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm

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Speaker 1: standing up in the studio Football Friday, Mike Harmon, I'm

714
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Speaker 1: gonna make you extremely happy right now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, not.

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Speaker 1: Giants Bears this weekend. This is going to be the

717
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: week where we step out of this and everybody comes

718
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: around to the conclusion that we had earlier this year

719
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: when I told you it is the era of good

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00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: feeling in Chicago.

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Speaker 6: Go.

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00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson's the right guy for Caleb Williams. Give it

723
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,479
Speaker 1: a little bit of time, and Ben Johnson clearly needed

724
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to kind of get being a

725
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 1: head coach under his belt. Some of his decisions things happening.

726
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: But everything that's gone on since the Bears are absolutely fine.

727
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: They're kind of like the Lions light with the way

728
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: their weapons are lined up now. Now Colston Lovelin has

729
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: broken out. He's somebody. That's why they drafted him in

730
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: the first round as high as they did. They have

731
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: two running backs can do a lot of damage. You

732
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: got two really good wide receivers. Caleb Williams has done

733
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: everything you hoped he would do this year. He has

734
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: pushed the ball down the field. He has had big games.

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00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: He has brought you from behind. He has directed game

736
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: winning drives late in the fourth quarter. The era of

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00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: good feeling is here for the Bears. They're a good team.

738
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: Are they great?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: Not yet. They're not quite the level of teams like

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Speaker 1: the Lions or the Eagles, but they're getting there. They're young.

742
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: This should be a blowout win over the Giants. Look.

743
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: I like Jackson Dart to put up a lot of points.

744
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: I love him in fantasy this week. But Chicago's becoming

745
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: a complete team, the running game, especially working now it

746
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: is a full service offense. They should win big and

747
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: suddenly you'll hear more of Hey, why I told you

748
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams was great from the beginning. No, no, you

749
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,439
Speaker 1: hated the guy. Oh but I told you was great?

750
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, Caleb willis Now he's gonna

751
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: start getting all the flowers that he should be getting.

752
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is really good. He's on his way up.

753
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: He's been on his way up. He's doing everything you

754
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: possibly expect. It'll happen again this weekend.

755
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 4: Four and a half point favorites at home, forty six

756
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 4: and a half the total. Obviously, No Scatamo, no Molik, neighbors.

757
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 4: So it's Wan del Robinson, Tyron Cruz.

758
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, Hakeem Nicks, Yeah no, it's a tough weekend.

759
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 3: Yeah no, keep on going on down the line.

760
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 4: No Mario Manningham, no Burris no, yeah, sure, yeah no,

761
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 4: all those guys are going. You know, you're looking at

762
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 4: at an opportunity here for the Bears to really make

763
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 4: some noise. Thirty mile an hour wins and snow potentially

764
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 4: on the horizon for you, but they're plus thirteen in

765
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 4: the turnover differential for ahead of Pittsburgh, who's number two

766
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 4: in that category for the year with nineteen takeaways thus far.

767
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 4: The year of living dangerously, Look, there's still some starting

768
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 4: stop herky jerky motion to it. At times, it's not

769
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 4: always clean. I do love the cold de sac hot

770
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 4: take nonsense of folks that it's the greatest or the worst.

771
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 3: I don't know what. You need to kind of mellow

772
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 3: and kind of find some happy medium in your mood.

773
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 4: But you know, hold on cold a sack, just find

774
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 4: a space and park for a minute, opportunity to hear

775
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 4: him and young guy's been fantastic. He's probably gonna be

776
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 4: your lead back once again. DeAndre Swift didn't practice on

777
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 4: They cite some personal stuff going on, so he's probably

778
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 4: not there. But you mentioned Lovelin defending player of the week,

779
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 4: was waiting for him to take a big step forward,

780
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 4: still waiting for Luther Burden to come along with him,

781
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 4: but expecting a big game out of my guy. At

782
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 4: doingsay after the week, he had to reward him for

783
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: that super cut they did of all his blocks and

784
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 4: cheering for his teammates last week as they rolled up

785
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 4: the forty seven points. He should have caught that ball

786
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 4: in the end zone, by the way, he would be

787
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 4: the first to tell you that. But he'll shut his

788
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 4: dad up with a big day here in the Bears role.

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00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: They may need it just to make sure his dad

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00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: does it, okay, if we could throw the ball to him,

791
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: so his dad stays quiet. Great that we appreciate that.

792
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Ben Johnson likes when guys are like that, though.

793
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: He likes when their dad's do no, no, no, it's

794
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: like that.

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00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 4: He's fine the chirp because he knows what's going on

796
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 4: in that room, and he's got a room right now.

797
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 4: That's that's united, right, good, better best, all of that

798
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 4: kind of stuff, and the starting to get the trick

799
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 4: plays tossed in. You saw a few of them very

800
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 4: early last week. So starting to implement that. Keep defenses

801
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 4: on their toes, keep defensive coordinators guessing as to where

802
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 4: and how the ball is gonna come out. Yeah, Caleb

803
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 4: Williams has some opportunities to step forward. Here is another

804
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 4: one on the slate against a middling to less than

805
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 4: effective Giant squad roam.

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Speaker 1: Your dad is texting me. Please tell them to stop

807
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: texting me. Okay, sorry, coach, I'll tell them. I'll tell

808
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 1: him now. Meanwhile, the game of the week. You didn't

809
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: think it was gonna be Patriots Bucks, but here we are.

810
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: Patriots Bucks is a game of the week forty eight

811
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Speaker 1: and a half. Told well, I'll tell you this. It

812
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: is about time they played a good team, and it's

813
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: about time they take a big l and they will

814
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: Tampa coming off the buy. Baker Mayfield's gonna play with

815
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: his hair on fire. It's not been a great last

816
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Their offenses slowed down. They win big

817
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: and beat the Patriots and show you that the Patriot's

818
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: taking advantage of the easiest schedule the last twenty years

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Speaker 1: in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Drake may wins churned in the campus says.

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Speaker 5: You like that.

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Speaker 1: FNA is next on FSR