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Speaker 1: And with that, we are one hundred days out. For

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Speaker 1: the record, the World Cup England, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina

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Speaker 1: hasn't Hasn't soccer always been top heavy? We're not watching

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Speaker 1: the World Cup with all the new teams for the

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Speaker 1: bottom teams. For the record, the United States currently fourteenth

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Speaker 1: best odds in Vegas. Alexi Lawless, the Soccer Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: been to a couple of World Cups, including ones on

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Speaker 1: our soil. Let me start with that, is that I

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Speaker 1: listen to to get out of the group stage. The groups,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're a little because we're adding teams to

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Speaker 1: the World Cup, which I'm okay with. They're going to

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Speaker 1: get out of the World Cup stage. They're fourteenth best odds.

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Speaker 1: And Nick Right and I were talking about this about

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Speaker 1: an hour ago. We said there is something about whether

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Speaker 1: you're a boxer, a tennis player, or a baseball team

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Speaker 3: In the World Cup, you're on home soil.

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Speaker 1: You tell me, experienced it Does it matter a little bit?

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Speaker 3: Is there a sense of pride?

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Speaker 1: I mean Lake Placid's the greatest example of playing over yourself.

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Speaker 1: You tell me Alexi, does it doesn't matter?

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Speaker 4: Well? Greetings Colin. Yeah, I think you hit the nail

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Speaker 4: on the head here. There's nothing better than a World

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Speaker 4: And there is a magic and if you are able

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Speaker 4: people don't believe that you can do when it comes

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Speaker 4: to this, when it comes to this summer, obviously we're

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Speaker 4: hosting with our friends to the North Canada, our friends

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of stuff that's going on this summer,

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Speaker 4: not the least of which is, by the way, the

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Speaker 4: two hundred and fiftieth birthday. What do I feel is

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Speaker 4: the greatest country in the world, So there's an opportunity

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Speaker 4: happen with the hockey team. I think America wants to celebrate,

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Speaker 4: the nineteen ninety four World Cup. It changed my life forever.

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Speaker 4: But I saw what it can do to a country

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Speaker 4: Whether you're into soccer or not, you come into that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the we're one hundred days out.

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Speaker 1: If I said to you, I think we both worry

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Speaker 1: Team USA. If I said to you, though, here is

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Speaker 1: the one thing that I like about this team, and

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Speaker 3: Of the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: You've got to have a foundational piece that every guy

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Speaker 4: Well, to your point about goalkeeping, no goalie, no party,

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Speaker 4: the first I'm not mistaken, first Harvard Man to start

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Speaker 4: He's a quiet type of leader, but you know, he

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Speaker 1: So the final US roster is it may that it's announced.

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Speaker 4: Uh we were handball all the way possibly from going

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Speaker 4: So we should expect more, and I think it's fair

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Speaker 4: our US team. So that team now has matured, and

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Speaker 4: you would expect here on our home soil for that

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Speaker 1: I mean when we played Netherlands, it was very obvious

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Speaker 1: I do worry, and I don't know, I worry a

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Speaker 1: Our ball skills excellent. I think our speed feels as

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Speaker 1: if toughness is the right word. A grittiness. I think

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Speaker 1: of embodied that like you were just you were feisty players.

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Speaker 1: Do we have that component? Do you worry about that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you need look no further than you know,

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Speaker 1: look if it bleeds, it leads in sports and news obviously,

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Speaker 1: but you know, nothing rallies the troops more than blood.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just saw it with you know, broken

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Speaker 4: So I'm not saying that, you know, you have to

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Speaker 4: That has been a hallmark of this team over the years,

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Speaker 4: and that's what's enabled us, even at times where we

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Speaker 4: so now if you marry the two. You hope that

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Speaker 4: if you get those two together, the sky's the limit. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I England, which is they haven't won a World Cup

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Speaker 1: seventy ish Netherlands was great and England was great. Little

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Speaker 4: Oh, Colin, Well, nobody's watching this right or listening to this.

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Speaker 4: So I feel comfortable saying this to you right now,

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Speaker 4: And listen again, on our two hundred and fiftieth birthday, Colin,

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Speaker 4: to quote unquote come home through our shows, I cannot

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Speaker 4: now when it comes to their soccer. Can you imagine

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Speaker 4: the United States. The problem is is that they are really,

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Speaker 4: England and they're right below your France's and your Spains

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Speaker 4: great for England, but not so great for us from

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Speaker 4: a seventeen seventy six perspective.

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Speaker 1: So France has had great success in recent World Cups,

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Speaker 1: elevated them A couple of things. It's a culture thing.

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Speaker 1: In terms of development.

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Speaker 4: At a very young age, they recognize talent and they

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Speaker 4: While it may start in what you would call a

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Speaker 3: This Summer Great Seniors. Oh is Alexi?

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Speaker 4: You look wonderful, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Max Crosby Rumors, Nick Right, Alexi Lawless crushed Today, one

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Speaker 3: Here's Jay Mack with the news.

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Speaker 4: No no turn on the news.

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Speaker 2: This is the Herdline News.

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Speaker 6: Not sure if you saw this, but Giannis returned last night.

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Speaker 5: Colin I had been on a bit of a sabbatical

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Speaker 5: They got blasted by the Celtics by a billion. Celtics

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Speaker 7: I'm just happy that I'm on the court, Like it

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Speaker 5: Nice guy, Hey, the best chance for them to keep

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Speaker 5: Jannis is to miss the playoffs, get in the lottery

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Speaker 5: if you get to Bansa, do you say, Yiannis, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jordan may have gone to the Wizards at

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Speaker 1: the end that Colby was a one team guy. There.

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Speaker 1: We look at basketball players. It's really weird that we

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Speaker 1: look and think less of you that Katie has bounced

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Speaker 1: around or went to the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: I mean he played with Harden and Westbrook. They couldn't

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Speaker 3: get the ball in his hands enough, Like I got it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're in lockstep there. Hey, let's stick in the NBA.

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Speaker 5: This is a fascinating story. Colin the Charlotte Hornets, who

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Speaker 5: we don't talk enough about. Would you believe that they're

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Speaker 5: one of the best teams in the league since January

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Speaker 5: twenty second, fourteen and three, the best record, and they

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Speaker 5: have the second best offensive rating in that time span. Okay,

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Speaker 5: that's over a month. That's a significant sample size. Here's

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Speaker 5: my angle that I love, Colin. We banged on LaMelo

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Speaker 5: Ball for years. He's immature, he takes terrible shots. He's

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Speaker 5: all about goofy one legged threes. Colin quietly LaMelo Ball

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Speaker 5: is growing up. I mean, honestly, he's He's got Konka Nipple,

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Speaker 5: Brandon Miller, and this team is starting to come together.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say that they're gonna throw a

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Speaker 5: scare into someone.

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Speaker 4: In the first round.

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Speaker 3: Howell Ball now has two finishers on his roster.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: So is he growing up?

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Speaker 1: Or the reality is his passes get finished and he

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Speaker 1: gets assists.

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Speaker 5: Well I think it's a little bit of both. But

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Speaker 5: he is now twenty four years old. He came into

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Speaker 5: this league as a young I don't want to say punk,

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Speaker 5: but he was a young guy who was very arrogant.

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Speaker 5: And you talked to culture earlier Colin about basketball culture.

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Speaker 5: Football culture. Sometimes it just takes five years. When you

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Speaker 5: think about a lot of these college guys coming out

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Speaker 5: in football, they're twenty three, twenty four.

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Speaker 1: A little more mature'. That is what's so amazing about

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Speaker 1: the NBA draft. Like Kan Kinepple was a very good

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Speaker 1: college player.

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Speaker 3: I just looked this up.

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Speaker 1: He's one of five players in the whole league averaging

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Speaker 1: eighteen plus and forty percent from three. The others are Jokich,

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Speaker 1: Durant Aunt, Jamal Murray, and then Kan kineple He's now

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Speaker 1: the favorite Dwayne rookie of the year. Because you get

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Speaker 1: drafted so young, I mean, you know, you have kids.

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Speaker 1: The difference between like an eight year old boy and

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Speaker 1: a ten year old boy is two different human beings.

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Speaker 3: The difference between like a nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Year old and a twenty two year old massive is

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Speaker 1: your brain developing and your maturities developing. Like some of

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Speaker 1: these guys in the last two draft classes are like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: they are getting much better, much quicker.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I'll just say this about LaMelo, this kid, he

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Speaker 5: could play. I wanted to trade him if they got

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Speaker 5: Cooper Flag. They obviously kept him. Hornets fans were angry

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Speaker 5: with me. They actually played Dallas tonight. Cooper flag unlikely

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Speaker 5: to play, so we won't get Kinnipple versus Cooper. And

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Speaker 5: you're right, kan Kinipple's gonna win Rooie the year, mostly

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Speaker 5: because the MAVs are tanking right and they want they

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Speaker 5: want to get a higher pick and now Cooper flag

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Speaker 5: is not gonna play. Let's wrap up, Colin with Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 5: the Arizona Cardinals quarterback.

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Speaker 6: This.

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Speaker 5: You know, you get a lot of speculative stories this

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Speaker 5: time of year. Yeah, Colin, this is the craziest one

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Speaker 5: I've heard. Apparently there's a report that maybe the Steelers

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Speaker 5: could trade wait for it, multiple picks for Kyler Murrie.

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Speaker 5: Now not high value picks, not early round picks, but

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Speaker 5: like a two thousan twenty seven six that in twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty six fifth later round picks for Kyler Murray. Okay,

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Speaker 5: do you think there's any chance anyone's trading for Kyler?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 1: I think A he's talented, and B if you don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay a full vote, why not?

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Speaker 5: Okay, would you convince Aaron Rodgers to come back or

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Speaker 5: trade some later round picks for kylamer No?

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Speaker 3: I with Pittsburgh. I'd play Will Howard.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd play Will Howard. They're not comfortable with bottoming.

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Speaker 1: That's not a knock on Aaron Rodgers. If I was Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: I would go get Aaron Rodgers or Mac Jones in

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Speaker 1: that Kevin O'Connell system.

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Speaker 3: I think they'd both be really, really good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I wonder do you think Mike McCarthy got maybe some

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Speaker 5: kind of wink wink assurances before taking the job. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I don't think he went in it was like, get

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Speaker 5: me Will Howard, I'm ready. I wonder if they had

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Speaker 5: like a plan, whether it's Kyler, Kirk, Cousins, whoever. And

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Speaker 5: that's why i'm car Mike.

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Speaker 1: Mccar arthy honestly. I mean, if you ask Mike McCarthy privately,

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Speaker 1: he would never admit this. He wants to play Will Howard.

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Speaker 1: He may go five and twelve, he doesn't care. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh doesn't fire coaches right like he's got. He'll end

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Speaker 1: his career is the Pittsburgh Steelers coach six years. Let's

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Speaker 1: say it gets six seven years. I mean, Mike's still

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Speaker 1: with it. So I think if you asked him he'd

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Speaker 1: rather go with Will Howard and just say, guys, let's

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Speaker 1: give this kid a chance. Let's remember the owner in

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Speaker 1: our running back room, our tight end room. It's fine,

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Speaker 1: Aaron proved this year. Pittsburgh's fine if you get the

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Speaker 1: right leadership.

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Speaker 5: The problem is the owner has said, we don't want

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Speaker 5: to rebuild. We don't do rebuilds here. So there's a

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Speaker 5: bit of headbutting there. Steelers are kind of fascinating Colin.

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Speaker 5: By the way, this Aaron Rodgers stuff to Minnesota is

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Speaker 5: starting to.

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Speaker 4: Pick up again.

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Speaker 5: Remember Kevin O'Connell apparently had liked him. So if Rogers

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Speaker 5: leaves the Steelers from Minnesota, so Aaron in Minnesota, it

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Speaker 5: is back on, well not on on, but there's rumblings that, hey,

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Speaker 5: Kevin O'Connell with the one that liked him, the GM

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Speaker 5: didn't like Rogers, and now Rogers is kind of a

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Speaker 5: free agent. He's been very quiet. Have you noticed not

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Speaker 5: a lot of Aaron Rodgers chatter out there in the ether?

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Speaker 5: Wonder if there's a behind the scenes deal going on somewhere.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting.

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Speaker 5: We hear a lot of Kyler this week, right, a

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Speaker 5: lot of Tua well, a lot of this Guy Rogers.

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Speaker 1: I think we're as of tomorrow, we're a week away

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Speaker 1: from the start of free agency. So I mean, and

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Speaker 1: for the record, you know this the official start of

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Speaker 1: free agency. Deals feel like they're done three days out,

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Speaker 1: so I mean they're talking now. So I mean, it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, all, it's a hill I've died on. I

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Speaker 1: think Kyler's really talented. I think there's some commitment stuff.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay him a ton of money,

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Speaker 1: but I think you can win games with the right protection.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 4: J Mack with a news.

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

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Speaker 3: Line News in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: It's the Herd.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 1: I was saying earlier today, between the draft and free agency,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're hearing Kirk Cousins and Tua and Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: If you told me, I'm I'm you know, I'm a GM.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking around. Who are the five most acquirable quarterbacks?

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Speaker 1: Age cost, health, production, ascension. There's a story today that

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Speaker 1: nobody's interested there's no market on mac Jones, which I

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Speaker 1: find weird to me. The best acquiable quarterbacks this year

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Speaker 1: are Fernando Mendoza. You get the rookie contract for years.

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Speaker 1: He's a big, strong, accurate kid. I love his spirit.

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Speaker 1: I'd probably do mac Jones. He's more seasoned than a

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Speaker 1: lot of the guys like Malik Willis and Ty Simpson

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Speaker 1: out there. He's inexpensive, at least for a year. He's

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Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. He was the second most accurate

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. Now a lot of that's Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: But if you've got a decent o line like Minnesota does,

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Speaker 1: I'm interested. Malik Willis has a scarcity of starts. He's

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Speaker 1: got six career starts, really athletic, got a nice arm,

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Speaker 1: not ideal size. I'd roll the dice on him. If

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Speaker 1: I had to pay twenty eight to thirty million, I'd

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Speaker 1: roll the dice. Somebody rolled the dice on Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: in Tampa. It worked out. Ty Simpson I think is

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Speaker 1: draft of again, this is not as much I love Ty.

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Speaker 1: I think he's something there, but it's a Cousins Tua Kyler.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to go there.

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers. The downside to Aaron he may just

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Speaker 1: play for a year. But I mean to me, these

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Speaker 1: are the five guys that interest me. You know, Tua,

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Speaker 1: I've said my piece Kyler like him more than the market.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of questions. Kirk Cousins, you know,

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Speaker 1: been there, done.

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Speaker 4: That, Well you got you got.

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Speaker 2: Kyler.

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Speaker 5: Murray's gonna be a little disappointed to not make the list.

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Speaker 6: Let me just throw out a curveball and don't freak out.

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Speaker 5: Okay, but there seems to be a market, a small

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Speaker 5: one for Anthony Richardson, who is one of these guys

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Speaker 5: who has not shown anything, but he walks in the

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Speaker 5: room to meet you. He's a big, strapping individual. Who

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Speaker 5: the hell's tackling this guy? If we can just clean

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Speaker 5: up a little bit of his mechanics and he goes

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Speaker 5: from completing fifty percent of his passes to sixty, you

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Speaker 5: might have something?

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Speaker 4: Is there?

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Speaker 6: Any way Anthony Richardson cracks this list.

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Speaker 1: I go back to the Kyle Shanahan theory. When Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan said, yeah, I can't make Trey Lance work. Kind

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Speaker 1: of a warning sign when when Shane Steikin's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean Shane Steichen took Jalen Hurts to an MVP level.

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Speaker 6: Why do you say it like that. I mean, come on,

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Speaker 6: geez well, I mean there's Jalen Hurts like he's some bum.

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Speaker 1: Well he's but no, but he's not an MVP. He's

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Speaker 1: not He should be the most valuable player in the league.

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Speaker 1: Shane Stiken got Justin Herbert out of college, who not

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Speaker 1: everybody was high on. They thought he was kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, stiff, and he broke I mean with an

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Speaker 1: average O line. He shattered rookie quarterback numbers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah that's fair.

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Speaker 1: So if Shane Stykin is telling you and I yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm going to overpay for Daniel Jones, I

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Speaker 1: have a hard time saying I'm going to embrace it

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Speaker 1: and hand that that's I mean, I Kyler Murray is

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Speaker 1: the most talented quarterback on the market.

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Speaker 6: Time out, time out, time out? What do you base

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Speaker 6: it like? The most talented.

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Speaker 1: Elusiveness elusiveness accuracy movement? I think I think Malik Willis

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Speaker 1: and Kyler are really unique. I think Fernando Mendoza is underrated,

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I know what I get with two uh,

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Speaker 1: I kind of know what I get.

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Speaker 3: With Mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: You know, Anthony Richardson's got a lot of talent, but

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Speaker 1: let's not go crazy here. In the NBA, you've got

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Speaker 1: to be able to hit an occasional three or your

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Speaker 1: reliability to your offense. I don't have to guard you.

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Speaker 1: In the NFL, if you're a quarterback, you got to

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Speaker 1: be able to hit the fifteen and under layups. He struggles.

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Speaker 1: He struggles with the layups. So Stichen's like, I'm out. Well,

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Speaker 1: they're desperate for a quarterback in the Y and they're

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Speaker 1: just moving off him. That's a huge red flag.

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Speaker 5: So if Kyler Murray so talented, what does it say

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Speaker 5: about these five guys to be ahead of them.

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Speaker 3: Well, he's expensive and brittle.

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Speaker 5: Well he's about to get cut by the Cardinals, right.

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Speaker 5: Tua is also not sniffing this list. I know, listen,

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Speaker 5: he was health no health issues last year of memory starts.

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Speaker 5: He's just got that against the guy.

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Speaker 1: But Mac Jones is cheap, Fernando Mendoza rookie contract, Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers is cheap, Ty Simpson's cheap, and Malik Willis's team friendly.

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Speaker 1: Every one of those guys on that screen has something

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Speaker 1: I like. Mendoza's size and accuracy, Mac Jones accuracy and inexpense,

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Speaker 1: Malik willis electric athletically, Ty Simpson, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: plan him for a year. He's not going to cost

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Speaker 1: me anything. In Aaron, say what you want about Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers turnovers down, intelligence up when he took the

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Speaker 1: offense over by the way.

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Speaker 6: I had to look this up.

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Speaker 5: So Kyler Murray started at Texas A and M. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: he played, but he didn't start much. Then transfers to Oklahoma.

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Speaker 5: He really only started one season in college and did not.

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Speaker 6: Quite pan out.

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Speaker 5: The other guy that isn't on the list, and again

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Speaker 5: you know, just rein it in here. But Joe Flacco

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Speaker 5: was in Cleveland, has had some success. His coach from

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Speaker 5: Cleveland landed where colin Atlanta. Atlanta has a quarterback.

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Speaker 6: With an injury.

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Speaker 5: Do you think they roll the dice? Flaco a proven

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Speaker 5: commodity for Kevin Stefanski.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Flacco is. You know, his age keeps him

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Speaker 1: off my top five. But I don't have a problem

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Speaker 1: with Flacco.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think you know what's really interesting about this draft.

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Speaker 1: And tomorrow I'm gonna give you my top fifteen picks.

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Speaker 1: What I want to do I do every year I

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Speaker 1: do a who I would draft if I was GM

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Speaker 1: of the team. It's not a prediction, it's not a projection.

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Speaker 1: It is this is who I would draft.

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Speaker 6: Can you give us a tease? Like, what are you

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Speaker 6: doing with the Jets of two? Just kidding, it's got

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Speaker 6: to be Reese.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well about this.

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Speaker 3: If I was the Jets, it too. I would trade

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Speaker 3: down or sell.

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Speaker 5: The team to me, you know, on pennies on the cheap,

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Speaker 5: and then I would you know, make no, nobody's trading

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Speaker 5: up to two though.

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Speaker 4: I would say this.

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Speaker 1: Nussmeyer late second round, Cole Club Nick Drew Aller, the

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Speaker 1: kid in North Dakota State, somebody. We know this to

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Speaker 1: be true. If you go to the last fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: somebody is going to pop in the third, fourth, fifth round,

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Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna be a guy who goes to

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Speaker 1: a really smart offensive coach. Like let's say Cincinnati in

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Speaker 1: the third round, Joe Burrows had some injuries and they

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Speaker 1: go say, we're gonna get NUTSMI from LSU. Joe Burrow's

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Speaker 1: got a connection to it. I'm throwing it out there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Or let's say Kevin O'Connell Minnesota, they draft kde Klubnick

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Speaker 1: in the fourth and fifth round. What's interesting about this

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Speaker 1: draft is, you know, every time we say it's a

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Speaker 1: great quarterback draft, that disappoints us. When we say it's

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Speaker 1: a terrible quarterback draft, we end up finding a Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 1: Somebody's going to hit that they may not be a star,

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Speaker 1: somebody is going to be a starting quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: NFL for years. In the second, third, fourth, or fifth

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Speaker 1: round at quarterback. That to me, that's what's interesting.

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Speaker 6: Hmm interesting. Wow, Okay Smeyer, how many times enough my

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Speaker 6: get bench last season?

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Speaker 3: I well, this situation was so.

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Speaker 1: Distorted and off they went and hired Lane Kiffin and

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Speaker 1: paid a pretty penny for it.

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Speaker 6: So I'm excited for that. Why are you debuting that

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Speaker 6: tomorrow at the top of the shower?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, it's probably the top of the

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Speaker 1: second hour. It's if I was GM. These of the

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Speaker 1: these are I'm taking it home tonight and have it

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Speaker 1: in the morning. This is who I would draft. Okay,

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Speaker 1: first things first, Nick, right around the corner Brussard Kevin Wilde,

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Speaker 1: one hundred

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Speaker 3: Days out from the World Cup, all fired up at

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Speaker 3: Fox