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Speaker 1: com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Here's Brian No, rich Ornberger

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Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, welcome in here. Final four is here.

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Speaker 3: Let's go all number one Seeds and San Antonio and Ken.

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Speaker 3: You're so strange. I don't know how this happens. Something

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Speaker 3: in the water over there. Let me see what's going

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Speaker 3: on here with the rich Ornberger remote studios. Because he

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Speaker 3: was in a car last week by the river. It's right,

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Speaker 3: he was in a van down by the river. Now

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Speaker 3: that was in the FSR studios. Plush background everything, enough

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Speaker 3: of the enough of them four.

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Speaker 4: Huh yeah yeah, yeah, literally, I mean you were so close.

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Speaker 4: I was. I was in the front seat of a

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Speaker 4: fore Runner in the Palm desert, so there was no

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Speaker 4: water in sight, and I was in a Toyota and now,

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, I'm a rambling man. It's like playing

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Speaker 4: Where's Waldough. Yeah, the kids spring break continues, so it

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Speaker 4: was a little bit of escape to La for us.

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Speaker 4: We're up here in La at the FSR Studios. Thrilled

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Speaker 4: to be here though, because we've got a busy sports weekend. Boys,

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, we have a busy, busy Final

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Speaker 4: four Saturday here.

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Speaker 2: I'm real jacked up for this Saturday. This is it.

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Speaker 5: This is one of my favorite Saturdays of the year.

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Speaker 5: I think it's in like the top ten of Saturdays

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Speaker 5: of the entire year for sure. It's definitely in the vicinity.

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Speaker 5: I don't really know what to expect, though, I be honest,

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Speaker 5: and maybe I'll give away the cart before the horse here.

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Speaker 5: But it's been kind of chalky in this tournament. Man

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Speaker 5: kind Tonight the night that we finally get some upsets, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, can you even call them upset? Not really like

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Speaker 4: these are like you.

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Speaker 5: Have the cream of the crop, Like would you really

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Speaker 5: be that shocked if Auburn, who was like the best

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Speaker 5: team all year one, is a two point dog over Florida,

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Speaker 5: But like the consensus is shock, just put him in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the joke this year is it

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Speaker 3: would be the Houston Cougars would be Cinderella, right, five

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Speaker 3: and a half point underdog. But yeah, Cinderella doesn't exist

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Speaker 3: this year. It did the last couple of seasons. It's

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Speaker 3: funny how quickly we forget. Because I was getting all

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Speaker 3: my you know, my player props together, and so I

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Speaker 3: used a template from last year, and I'm like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's right, number eleven seed. NC State was in the

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Speaker 3: final four last year, right, it was the DJ Burns

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Speaker 3: Junior DJ Horn Show. And then the season too prior

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Speaker 3: to that, you know, you had what Miami and Florida

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Speaker 3: Atlantic both make it to the final four. You didn't

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Speaker 3: have a seed higher than four. You had a four

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Speaker 3: in Yukon beat a five in Miami. You had a

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Speaker 3: five in San Diego State beat a nine in Florida Atlantic. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's all chalk. This year, one seed's galore,

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Speaker 3: But the last couple of seasons, it hasn't been in

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Speaker 3: both those years, you know, twenty twenty four to twenty

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Speaker 3: think we're going a little bit too overboard saying, oh,

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Speaker 3: Cechter dead, Cinderella is dead on arrival. I just think

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Speaker 3: it's been this year. I don't know that it's going

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, I do think that we've entered a new phase,

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Speaker 4: be a lot more advantages for the bigger programs, the

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Speaker 4: program with deeper pockets than there will be for mid majors,

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Speaker 4: especially in the sport we're talking about right now, college basketball,

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Speaker 4: which always felt rife with some of that. Anyway, now

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Speaker 4: it's all legal. You know. Now you can spend whatever

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Speaker 4: you want on whatever player you want, and whether it

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Speaker 4: I feel like we're going to have more favorable advantages

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Speaker 4: this isn't a bell Weather. Maybe you're right, Brian, and

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Speaker 4: you've been saying this for weeks, and I've kind of

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Speaker 4: been saying the opposite for weeks, that maybe this is

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Speaker 4: it's a really chalky tournament. It happens every once in

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Speaker 4: the march madness, the randomness that we get to experience

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Speaker 4: that there's gonna be about thirty teams on a revolving basis,

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Speaker 4: if you are a high seed in the tournament going in,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna have an easier time navigating the tournament and

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Speaker 4: you're gonna end up getting to the whittled field of

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's a certain level of me that's like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: we have to just say goodbye to what we remember

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Speaker 5: of the tournament, like the nostalgia of of you know,

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Speaker 5: Steph Curry and Davidson and Bryce Drew and Valpo and

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Speaker 5: like these like really insane runs that these teams had

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Speaker 5: like Steph Curry and Davidson like that that Elite eight

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Speaker 5: we're gonna see those anymore. You're gonna see a random upset.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna see a team lose in the first round,

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Speaker 5: Like that'll happen again. That happens all the time in

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Speaker 2: But it's the multiple days in a row winning.

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Speaker 5: I think that's hard because the gap, like right, like

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Speaker 5: we say this in baseball. That's why baseball, the favorites

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Speaker 5: always win because in one game, anything can happen. That's

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Speaker 5: why football is so exciting in the playoffs especially, But

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Speaker 5: in baseball over the long haul, the favorites tend to

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Speaker 5: the Pirates and the Dodgers. But in basketball, because it's

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Speaker 5: a one game role of the dice, anything could happen. Well,

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Speaker 5: now we're kind of taking that and we're really putting

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Speaker 5: it could happen. You're gonna You're gonna get a random

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Speaker 5: lightning strike. But what are the odds at an eleven seeds? Like,

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Speaker 2: Final four over the next like four tournaments?

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Speaker 5: Like, I'm curious what it would be now, because I

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Speaker 5: think the odds will be significantly longer this year, next year,

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Speaker 3: I hear you, But man, final four is that's like,

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Speaker 3: you know, the peak almost when we're talking double digit

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Speaker 3: you know, if you're double sometimes sweet sixteen, Elite eight

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Speaker 3: for sure, final four is just like like the Gregorian chant, Like.

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Speaker 4: You know that's yeah, that's a great point.

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Speaker 2: Is like it was like fau two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, really, you know what's funny, It's kind of tie

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Speaker 3: to this whole conversation about Chalk this year and Cinderella

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Speaker 3: in years past. But I'll do a couple of radio

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Speaker 3: Nate Brown is awesome. Chad doing my guy in Portland.

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Speaker 3: I did a couple of hits this week, and one

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Speaker 3: of the questions that came up was like, are you

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Speaker 3: the Final Four? This year? It's all chalk, And I'm like,

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Speaker 3: this entire season going against each other. How can you

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Speaker 3: not be fired up for this? These are two tremendous matchups.

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Speaker 3: I sound like I'm wearing one of those CBS jackets,

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Speaker 3: how can you not be fired up for this? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: This is like, uh oh, who was the actor who

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Speaker 2: You know, was it Rob Love it was?

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Speaker 4: So I just picture I picture Brian no wearing wearing

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Speaker 4: his Final four hat, like it's it doesn't have any

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Speaker 4: over exaggerating. But here's the thing I said the same thing.

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Speaker 4: best teams prevailing in the bracket. All I'm hoping for,

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping for is a great game, because I don't

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Speaker 4: a Colorado Rodo State Ram fan? The answer is absolutely

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Speaker 4: not the same way. I'm not you know, a Houston

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Speaker 4: an Auburn fan, Like, I have no allegiances to any

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Speaker 4: the case for the fan experience, for yours mind, anybody

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Speaker 4: else who you know doesn't have it in the fight?

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Speaker 4: Isn't that all you're really hoping for? Anyways?

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Speaker 2: That's what we have. I mean, that's what the Elite

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 5: If you look at Ken Palm's ratings, like there was

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Speaker 5: But now that you spin it forward to the final four,

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Speaker 5: I do have a ticket, multiple tickets on Jeni Broom

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Speaker 4: So I think what you said is one hundred percent correct.

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Speaker 4: I think the reason why Flag got the AP honors

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Speaker 4: He did. But Cooper Flag can do it all. Ask

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Speaker 4: him to put on any one of the hats that

432
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Speaker 4: you need to in baseball. You call him a five

433
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Speaker 4: tool player, right, Like, that's Cooper Flag. His game stands

434
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Speaker 4: out his game, Pops. I have this argument sometimes with

435
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Speaker 4: people about the differences between great players and stars, and

436
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 4: there is a big difference. You know. Yeah, you could

437
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 4: go into the Hall of Fame one day if you're

438
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 4: a great player, but stars are transcendent. And that's what

439
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag feels like. He's young, you know what I mean,

440
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 4: And obviously he's not long for college basketball. His sites

441
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 4: are set for the NBA and commercial success maybe beyond

442
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,479
Speaker 4: anything we've ever seen. For all we know, you know,

443
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 4: maybe he's the next Lebron, maybe he's the next MJ.

444
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 4: We'll see. We don't know yet. All that's yet to

445
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 4: be written. But as it stands right now, his game

446
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 4: more mimics the values of the basketball viewer and watcher

447
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Speaker 4: in today's game than Jenni Broom's game. And that's that's

448
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 4: really I think the big separation. I think the limitations

449
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Speaker 4: of that sounds so ridiculous, by the way, the limitations

450
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Speaker 4: of Jani Broom. He just turned in one of the

451
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Speaker 4: best basketball play seasons we've seen. But those limitations when

452
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Speaker 4: you compare him to Cooper Flag, I think are the

453
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Speaker 4: reason why Flag got the nod.

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Speaker 2: Agreed. Here's the one fly in the ointment.

455
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Speaker 5: I'm going to read you the This is directly from

456
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 5: the Wooden Award website on the components for how the

457
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Speaker 5: award has decided performance, character, academic prowess, and leadership.

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Speaker 3: What Cooper, I'm just telling you how I know, I know,

459
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Speaker 3: I don't, I know, it's just wild. That's the criteria.

460
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Speaker 5: That is the criteria for how the voting is conducted.

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flags a freshman.

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Speaker 5: He's been in the league for been in the you know,

463
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Speaker 5: college basketball for a hot minute, Jenni Broom's in his

464
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Speaker 5: fifth year. Yeah, And I'm not saying that's why Jeni

465
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Speaker 5: Broom deserves to win. I'm saying there is a little

466
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Speaker 5: bit of a curveball with the leadership element here where

467
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Speaker 5: Broom has been doing it for multiple years at the

468
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Speaker 5: highest level, and that is why maybe there's some votes

469
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Speaker 5: out there that if you're in a coin flip.

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Speaker 2: Right, if you're if, but it's truly a coin flip, and.

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Speaker 5: You give Broom the nod for playing in the tougher

472
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 5: conference night in night out, you give Flag the nod

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Speaker 5: for being the better overall player, which I think most

474
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Speaker 5: Knights would give him the award, But then you throw

475
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Speaker 5: this leadership, academic, prowess, character debate into it, and I

476
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Speaker 5: think that's where Jenni Broom might actually have the only

477
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 5: real edge in this race is he has been doing.

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Speaker 2: It now because he's a fifth year senior, been playing

479
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Speaker 2: at the highest level.

480
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 5: He was a transfer for Morehead State, played in the

481
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Speaker 5: tournament with Morehead and then transferred to Auburn and has

482
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Speaker 5: been a rock star for three years in the SEC.

483
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Speaker 5: Maybe that's where, like maybe I'm grasping it straw, it's

484
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Speaker 5: because I have a bet on Jenni Brewm, and I'm

485
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Speaker 5: trying to figure out a way to get him across

486
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Speaker 5: the finish line here. But that's the only real.

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Speaker 2: Edge for Broom that I could see.

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Speaker 5: He's been doing it four more years, he's significantly older,

489
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Speaker 5: and maybe that's gonna get him a few extra votes.

490
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Speaker 5: And maybe that's the difference here, because I do think

491
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Speaker 5: the races is razor thin.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really tight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

494
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Speaker 3: And the last thing is Cooper Flag's ankle injury you know, Yeah,

495
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 3: occurred during the right around the ACC tournament.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

497
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Speaker 3: So Duke barely beat North Carolina and then they smacked Louisville.

498
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Speaker 3: That was without Cooper Flags.

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Speaker 5: That was an impressive win actually without Flag. Honestly, I

500
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Speaker 5: think Duke looked really good with.

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Speaker 2: The fucking it's scary for tonight's gammings.

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Speaker 3: four and all that, but football is always on the brain.

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Speaker 3: We had some rule changes, and we had a couple

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Speaker 3: of potential changes tabled for the next round of owners

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Speaker 3: meetings in May. So a couple here, we'll go fast,

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Speaker 3: yeah or nay? In favor? Do you oppose it? How

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Speaker 3: about touchbacks on kickoffs being spotted at the thirty five

520
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: yard line, right, It used to be the thirty Now

521
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: we're trying to incentivize. Hey, don't just boot it through

522
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 3: the back of the end zone. Your opponent starts at

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Speaker 3: their thirty five yard line.

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Speaker 2: I'm cool with it.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna see more returns. I'm in favor you guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in favor. I mean, let's put it this way.

527
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 4: I didn't like the rule change with the new kickoff lineup,

528
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Speaker 4: I feel like it doesn't look like how a game

529
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 4: should start, you know what I mean? The college game

530
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 4: looks like how a game should start. And it's just

531
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Speaker 4: and and by the way, if I if I was

532
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 4: all of a sudden becoming interested in football and you

533
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 4: have this new weird setup with the return team being

534
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 4: set back, and this is just the football I grow

535
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: up on, maybe I don't have any issue with it,

536
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: so I'm aware of this bias I have. So yeah,

537
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 4: if we're going to stay in this new weird players

538
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 4: are spread all over the field return and they have

539
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 4: to wait until the ball is fielded before they can

540
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 4: move on the return team. Yeah, move it up to

541
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Speaker 4: the thirty five because it's it. Nothing was solved in

542
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 4: my opinion, like you, you changed it, and maybe it

543
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 4: did make it safer. I don't know. Maybe they had

544
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 4: a lower rate of injury using this new form of kickoff,

545
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 4: and and that's enough to justify it. So outside of

546
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 4: injury prevention, if you want to make the game more exciting,

547
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 4: you need to have more returns on that play. And

548
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: they think by moving the touchback up to the thirty

549
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 4: five yard line, that it's gonna increase returns all the

550
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Speaker 4: way up until you know sixty or seventy percent of

551
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 4: kickoffs will be returned, so we'll see.

552
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Speaker 5: Yeah, concussions did drop last year and kickoffs by forty

553
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 5: three percent compared to twenty twenty three. So it was

554
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 5: a healthier rule change to do the dynamic kickoffs. I know,

555
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 5: visually a little clunky. Only thirty three percent returns, so yeah,

556
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 5: about sixty five percent touchbacks. They think it's gonna go now,

557
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 5: they think it'll be fifty percent. Yeah, it's gonna be

558
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 5: like a sixty five seventy percent return rate and only

559
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 5: a twenty five thirty percent touchback rate. Now, I still

560
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 5: think there's gonna be coaches that are gonna say, screw it,

561
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Speaker 5: just take the thirty five yard line, do not because

562
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 5: kickoff returns were higher, like like the the average you know,

563
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 5: yardage on each kickoff return was higher. With this dynamic

564
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 5: kickoff return we saw more kickoff return touchdowns than I

565
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 5: think than than recent And yeah, I guess is you're

566
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 5: gonna have some old school coaches they screw it, give

567
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 5: them the thirty five, don't take any chances.

568
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Speaker 2: But yeah, overall, I expect the turns to go up

569
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 2: next year.

570
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Speaker 3: Okay, over time, we're gonna see both teams possess the

571
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 3: ball in the regular season ten minute overtime, which it's

572
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 3: been for a couple of years. But I'm cool with it,

573
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Speaker 3: You guys cool with that? Yeah?

574
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am. I think both teams should touch the football.

575
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 4: I think it feels anti football to have one team

576
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 4: win a coin toss, go down the field, score touchdown,

577
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Speaker 4: and have the game end. Yeah, it just doesn't seem

578
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 4: like that's even How is that even a possibility that

579
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 4: that's the way a game is decided. But that's the

580
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 4: way it was for a while, and I know it

581
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 4: obviously annoyed many fans, especially when you were on the

582
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Speaker 4: losing end of that deal. I know as a player,

583
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Speaker 4: I would be extremely upset if I'm playing on the

584
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 4: offense and my offense never gets to go on the

585
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 4: field because my defense lets up a quick score or

586
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 4: defensive back falls down on the first play and lets

587
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Speaker 4: up a sixty five yard touchdown. You know, It's like,

588
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 4: how could that determine the outcome? So I'm happy with

589
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 4: this real term rule change.

590
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, we haven't had a tie in two years, not

591
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 5: since twenty twenty two was our last tie. Sixteen overtime

592
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 5: games in the regular season last year, so it's about

593
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 5: five percent of the games. It doesn't impact a ton

594
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 5: of you know the sample, I'm okay with it. I

595
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 5: don't have a strong overtime vibe really until the playoffs.

596
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Speaker 3: You know what's going to be interesting is this might

597
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: be a blast from the past in college football, remember when,

598
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 3: like I remember nineteen eighty eight, Notre Dame in Miami, right,

599
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 3: Notre Dame's at home and Miami goes for two. Jimmy Johnson,

600
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 3: we're going for two. We're not going for the tie. Yeah,

601
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 3: you could see that in the NFL. So it's just

602
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 3: a ten minute overtime. Let's say Team A scores a touchdown,

603
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 3: Team B scores a touchdown. Do they kick the extra

604
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 3: point and just go over.

605
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 5: The tie or do they go for the win and

606
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 5: risk the lupenning on the situation, which coach, which players like?

607
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: Which?

608
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Speaker 5: You know, what's the standings, late in the air, early

609
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 5: in the year. But I'd be more aggressive and overtime,

610
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 5: That's that'd be my vibe.

611
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that door has been opened with teams possessing

612
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 3: the ball. Okay, we'll go quick. The tush push has

613
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 3: been tabled until May. We had about sixteen teams on

614
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 3: board with getting it out of football. Get it out

615
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 3: of the game over here. The more I think about this,

616
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 3: the more I am just fighting the good fight for

617
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 3: the tush push. Yeah, me too, because this this is football.

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Speaker 3: The essence of football is physicality. That's the core, that's

619
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Speaker 3: like a pillar of football is physicality. And we're getting

620
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 3: rid of a play because the Eagles are more physically

621
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Speaker 3: opposing than other teams. It just drives to be crazy that.

622
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 3: Oh and the safety thing is such a weak excuse

623
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 3: that you just can't stop it and you're sick of

624
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 3: dealing with it. That's what it is. I just I

625
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 3: don't think that you should be getting rid of plays

626
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 3: that are hard to stop. If you start playing this game,

627
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 3: where does it end. Remember when Patrick Mahomes said Tyreek

628
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: Hill and it's like, man, they're really good throwing the

629
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 3: deep ball. No more passes, no more date balls, no

630
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 3: more depalls. It's there's a safety element involved that come

631
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Speaker 3: on like it just if you can't stop the tush push,

632
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 3: it just kind of sucks to be you. It doesn't

633
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: mean that we should get rid of it. It's like,

634
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 3: that's the way football is. If you can't stop someone

635
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: physically dominating you, then it tough.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

637
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 3: You don't get any grace. You don't get like a

638
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 3: free gift card or something like that. It's just like,

639
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 3: shrug your shoulders, get tougher, come up with better strategy.

640
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: I don't know what to tell you. Don't get in

641
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: third and one or fourth and one. Don't get in

642
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 3: that situation. But I'm not bailing you out by changing

643
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: the rule here.

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Speaker 4: I completely agree with you. And this is by and

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Speaker 4: large how I feel about, for example, the dynamic kickoff.

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Speaker 4: And I know, like Jared, you cited, hey, you know

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Speaker 4: sin since changing it to the dynamic kickoff, concussions reduced

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Speaker 4: by fort on that play. Well, what was the concussion?

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Speaker 4: The number the raw total of concussions the year before.

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Speaker 4: If it's five, if you have two less concussions, then

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Speaker 4: that's a forty percent drop. Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: So we can get very caught up in numbers when

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Speaker 4: it comes to safety, But if we look at raw numbers,

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Speaker 4: or if we distill it down to what we're actually

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Speaker 4: talking about, football is not a safe game. So using

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Speaker 4: safety or player safety as a reason to change rules

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Speaker 4: so that more teams feel like they have an equal

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Speaker 4: competitive footing is ridiculous and it is. It is cowardice.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of these owners they don't like it

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Speaker 4: that Jalen Hurts won a Super Bowl championship because they're like,

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Speaker 4: my quarterback's better. We have How is Jalen Hurts winning

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Speaker 4: a super Bowl? My quarterback's better? Oh, I know why.

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Speaker 4: It's because of the tush push. It's because those Philadelphia

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Speaker 4: Eagles they have this you know, this this running back

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Speaker 4: who can squat the world. They have this quarterback who's

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Speaker 4: you know, got a six hundred pound squad. And that's

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Speaker 4: the reason. And that's not fair. Well, let me tell

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Speaker 4: you something. What if it was a wide wide receiver

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Speaker 4: bubble screen that was up for debate. What if it

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Speaker 4: was I don't know, a QB draw that was up

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Speaker 4: for debate. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about

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Speaker 4: a play that everybody can run in football. The Philadelphia

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Speaker 4: Eagles just do it better. You know, if the Atlanta

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Speaker 4: Falcons ran the best you know, bubble screen to Jake

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Speaker 4: London and nobody could stop it. Are we gonna talk

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Speaker 4: about banning the bubble screen. If if you know, a

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Speaker 4: mobile quarterback like Josh Allen ran the QB draw better

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Speaker 4: than anybody else, what are we gonna talk about banning

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Speaker 4: the QB draw? Like, get loss. You sound like a

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Speaker 4: bunch of whiners. I can't believe they got sixteen owners

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Speaker 4: to agree that this is a good idea to ban

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Speaker 4: a play. You sound like a bunch of wouses. You

683
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Speaker 4: know what you need to do, draft some four hundred

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Speaker 4: pound beef burgers, set it down in the middle of

685
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Speaker 4: your defensive formation and say, hey, try to push us Philadelphia.

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Speaker 4: That's what I wish they would do instead of going

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Speaker 4: into a meeting room and being like, well the competition committee,

688
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Speaker 4: dig said, this isn't unfair play because nobody gets shut up,

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Speaker 4: shut up, it's football.

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Speaker 2: Orn Berger in the studio needs to be a weekly thing. Uh,

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Speaker 2: this is all I'll say.

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Speaker 5: Imagine in two thousand and eight when the Dolphins on

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Speaker 5: the wildcout formation, if the next year they're like, no,

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Speaker 5: we forget it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you on that. All right, We've got

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Speaker 2: Onton this one.

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Speaker 1: Check this out ar lay letter.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jared the theme man, you come up with

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Speaker 3: a theme for the parlay planner today and I had

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Speaker 3: on That's right, I had it on my parlay for

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Speaker 3: this segment. So I check that box that there would

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Speaker 3: be a theme on this one. So I know, But

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Speaker 3: what's the theme for this one here, Jared? What do

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Speaker 3: we have going on here?

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Speaker 2: It's not byob B yop build your own parlay, No,

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 5: I mean that's listen and where this is the last

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Speaker 5: weekend of college basketball we have.

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Speaker 2: We only have two games today. We do have a

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Speaker 2: game tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: We actually have a couple of Crown games later this

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Speaker 5: afternoon in Vegas, but yeah, push those to the side.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna focus on the three important games, right the

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Speaker 5: Final four tonight and then the Natty.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday for the ladies.

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Speaker 5: I'm going doggy style for the for the men tonight.

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Speaker 5: I know that sounds weird, but I think Auburn.

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Speaker 2: I listen, these two teams in the SEC, Auburn and Flartia.

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Speaker 3: They're coin flip.

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Speaker 2: I think the jan I Broom injury is pushing Florida

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Speaker 2: to be a favorite. I think if Broom's.

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Speaker 5: Healthy, I think these teams should be right blinded to

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Speaker 5: pick them. And so I'm gonna put Auburn in the

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Speaker 5: first leg of my money line parlay.

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Speaker 2: The nightcap Houston and Duke oh Man. This feels like revenge.

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Speaker 5: Game vibes from the Sweet sixteen last year, where everybody's

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Speaker 5: on Duke.

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Speaker 2: It's the most popular wager at bet MGM today.

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Speaker 5: But I think Houston with Tuggler and Roberts in the middle,

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Speaker 5: that's gonna be the best interior defense that Cooper flag

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Speaker 5: is faced all year, and Kelvin Samson with time to prepare.

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Speaker 2: I'll put Houston.

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Speaker 5: As a big ive and a half point dog on

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Speaker 5: the money line. And it's Page Becker's world, people, we're

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Speaker 5: just living in it.

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Speaker 2: Yukon's winning.

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Speaker 5: I was shocked they opened such a big favor against

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Speaker 5: South Carolina. So Auburn Houston Yukon Ladies plus eight eighty

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Speaker 5: seven is my parlay at that MTM.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very nice, right, I'm gonna go college basketball,

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Speaker 4: college basketball baseball. So give me the Dookies. They've got

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Speaker 4: the best player on the court. I think that Houston's

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Speaker 4: overmatched in their matchup today in the Final four, flipping

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Speaker 4: over to Auburn, Florida experience, depth, balance, give me Auburn

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Speaker 4: there on the money line, and then the Padres on

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Speaker 4: the money line against the Cubs today. The Bats are

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Speaker 4: hot to start the season. They gotta keep up to

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Speaker 4: keep pace in the NL West. Give me the San

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Speaker 4: Diego Padres on the money line to complete the parlay.

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Speaker 2: Plus five one to three.

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Speaker 4: Nice beat.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know what, it's been a Chalky tournament. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna stick with Chalk and it's my bracket, right. I've

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Speaker 3: got Lord had taken on the cookies in the championship

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Speaker 3: game and Jani Broom a little bit banged up. Auburn

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Speaker 3: got smacked in the regular season at their own place

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Speaker 3: against Florida, and now Jani's a little bit banged up,

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Speaker 3: and I'm expecting Auburn to win. I'm not sorry. I've

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Speaker 3: got the Gators here and Duke's been arguably the best

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Speaker 3: team in college basketball this year. Super freshman, I'll go

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Speaker 3: with those two. What is that like?

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Speaker 5: Plus they we're in the plus buddy barely.

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Speaker 3: Hey, he says he's one hundred percent. Do you believe him?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 4: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Happy Saturday? Two years? We get you all set for

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Speaker 3: one versus one and one versus one Chalky Final four.

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Speaker 3: of your screen. All right, fellas, we got Florida taking

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Speaker 3: on Auburn. I won't say number one seeds because we

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Speaker 3: all know that by now right, we all know so

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Speaker 3: number one seeds. Jani Broom, that's the big question. Jani

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Speaker 3: Broom has been sensational all season long for Auburn. He

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Speaker 3: got banged up the last game out against Michigan State,

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Speaker 3: just a really weird looking injury. He almost live. It

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Speaker 3: looked like it was gonna be a double whammy, like

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Speaker 3: he hyper extended his knee, hyper extended his elbow. He

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Speaker 3: left the game. I an eagle did the lip reading,

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Speaker 3: did a good job. Where's Jani said to his team?

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Speaker 3: He's like, I'm done? And then he came back. Willis

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Speaker 3: Reid style hit a three, got a rebound and only

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Speaker 3: used his good arm, like didn't use his bad arm

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Speaker 3: at all. He says he's one hundred percent for this

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Speaker 3: game against Florida. I have a hard time believing, what

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Speaker 3: like five days later or whatever it is, that he's

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Speaker 3: he's one hundred percent. So I think he's going to

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Speaker 3: be limited to what degree will find out. But I

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Speaker 3: just cannot assume that this dude is one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Where are you Rich? As far as the injuries plural

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Speaker 3: to Jeni Broom heading into this game.

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Speaker 4: I think, look, he's hurt, and nobody's one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: down the stretch of a season, or certainly when you're

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Speaker 4: embarking on your final potentially two games left on your schedule,

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Speaker 4: the final four matchup, and potentially a national championship bid here.

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Speaker 4: But I do think that Auburn has a flair for

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Speaker 4: the theatrical. I don't know if I one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: believe that an injury is going to slow him down

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Speaker 4: very much. I think that there are certain players who

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Speaker 4: are more aware of the camera uh and the storyline

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Speaker 4: than others. And you know, look, Lebron James has been

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Speaker 4: blamed for that for years now, and I'm not saying

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Speaker 4: that that's exactly what's going on with Broom. But there

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Speaker 4: are times where I'm.

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Speaker 3: Like, is he is he really that hurt?

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? There's moments where I'm I'm

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Speaker 4: questioning it. So with that said, I'll also say this

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Speaker 4: about Auburn. Obviously, their entire offense, their entire team goes

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Speaker 4: through Jeni Broom, and I think when you are shouldering

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Speaker 4: the yoke the weight of your entire team's hopes, it

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Speaker 4: probably helps to think to yourself, well, if it doesn't

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Speaker 4: go our way, it's because I was too beat up,

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Speaker 4: in battle worn to go any further, you know. So

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Speaker 4: I think there's a little bit of a psychological advantage

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Speaker 4: for Broom going into this game a little banged up,

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Speaker 4: a little battered, having to fight something other than just

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Speaker 4: the match up ahead, because it takes some of the

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Speaker 4: pressure off of him mentally.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is I there's no way to know if

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Speaker 5: Broom's one hundred percent. I think odds are he's not,

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Speaker 5: But there's no way to know what percentage hell he is.

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, trying to guess on that is

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Speaker 5: not worthy of your time. I think it's fair to

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Speaker 5: think he's a little banged up, But I think everyone's

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Speaker 5: banged up at this time of year, kind of like

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Speaker 5: the NFL vibes like after you know, these teams are

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Speaker 5: about to play their like fortieth game this year. Auburn's

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Speaker 5: thirty two and five, so game number thirty eight. Florida's

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Speaker 5: played thirty eight games. This is game number thirty nine

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Speaker 5: in the SEC. I think all these guys are feeling something,

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Speaker 5: you know. And I know they've had a few days off.

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Speaker 5: They haven't played, you know, in almost a week, so

861
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 5: that should help. And I think that week off definitely

862
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 5: helped Jenni Broom. But you know, to think he's one

863
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 5: hundred percent is is definitely naive. I have no idea

864
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 5: what his actual percentage is.

865
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 2: Here's what I do know. I think the.

866
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 5: Matchup in the middle does favor Auburn. I think Florida's

867
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 5: biggs are a little softer around the edges.

868
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 2: They're a little more.

869
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 5: Pick and pop kind of bigs, whereas Auburn with Broom

870
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 5: is more of a direct hammer to nail kind of big.

871
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 5: I think the interesting matchup here on the outside is

872
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 5: Denver Jones, who's one of the best defenders in the SEC,

873
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 5: probably going to be matched up and one of the

874
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 5: best defenders of the country period, probably gonna be matched

875
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 5: up against Walter Clayton. I could see Baker Mazar getting

876
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 5: some Clayton matchups as well. But how do you contain

877
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 5: the best scorer that I've seen in this tournament in

878
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 5: the clutch? I mean he him and the big man Hall.

879
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 5: How I forget how those guys hit have hit some

880
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 5: really big threes this year. You know, the Clayton one

881
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 5: against Yukon was huge, and he had the other one

882
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 5: against Tech and then.

883
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 2: Hawk really hit the two threes.

884
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 5: They were down nine late in that game, and how

885
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 5: kit the two threes to make it a three point

886
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 5: game quick six to zero run. How Auburn defends the

887
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 5: perimeter is the whole game. How they switch, how they

888
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 5: defend Clayton, you know, and Bruce Pearl's got time to prepare.

889
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 5: I think that's the matchup with The matchup is Florida's

890
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 5: three point shooting and hal Auburn, which is an elite

891
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 5: defensive team, handles that three point shooting is going to

892
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 5: be how the game plays out.

893
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, one thing I'm looking for is, if you're Florida,

894
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 3: make Jani Broom just guard ball screens all game long.

895
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 3: You know, if he's not one hundred percent, he's got

896
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 3: to fight through all this contact. And I agree with

897
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 3: you that's a good assessment of Jani Broom. If we're

898
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 3: doing a football thing, he's more of that. Like one

899
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 3: cut downhill, he would be a Mike Shanahan running back,

900
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 3: you know, his Jeni Broom. And it's not to say

901
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 3: that Florida's bigs are soft, you know, Condon and how

902
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 3: can They've got some physicality, But when you can stretch

903
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 3: the floor and how like Jared is saying, is banging

904
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 3: threes at the end of that Texas Tech game, I

905
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 3: don't know. For whatever reason, it kind of makes you think,

906
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 3: even subconsciously, that they're less physical. Sure, you know what

907
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 3: I mean, Like if Karl Anthony Towns is hitting threes,

908
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 3: you think of him as less physical than like Rudy Gobert,

909
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 3: who's just strictly a downhill running back. Yeah right, Yeah,

910
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 3: So I think these guys, as soon as you are

911
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 3: a big and start shooting threes, we think you're somehow

912
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 3: less physical.

913
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

914
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 3: And that might not be fair, but I think that

915
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,439
Speaker 3: goes into the into the thought process. I was thinking

916
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 3: about this too. I was talking to one of my buddies, Morosick.

917
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 3: This guy, Jeff Morosick. He's been a gambler forever. It's

918
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 3: from Massachusetts. He sounds like a gambler should sound. Okay,

919
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 3: he's got the Rasby voice, that kind of guy. Yeah,

920
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 3: they're not gonna win it all. I'm telling you right now.

921
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 3: It's kind of like how he sounds. But we were

922
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 3: texting back and forth the other day and he's adamant,

923
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 3: hang with me. This has something to do with the

924
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 3: Florida Auburn matchup, but he's adamant that Duke is not

925
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 3: going to win a championship. They played an inferior conference.

926
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 3: Just look at their path and and the thing that

927
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 3: I sent to him was, you're thinking that a tough

928
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,720
Speaker 3: path is automatically good and an easy path is automatically bad.

929
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 3: And I don't know that that's the case. If you

930
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 3: look at Auburn and the gauntlet they faced this season,

931
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 3: you saw them wear down toward the end of the

932
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 3: regular season. They lost three or four early exit the

933
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 3: SEC tournament, and now you look at them here. They

934
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 3: haven't been fantastic in the tournament and Jeni Broom is

935
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 3: banged up to Do you think that the gauntlet they

936
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 3: faced is good for them?

937
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 2: Now?

938
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 3: I mean, do you think it serves them? Is it

939
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 3: better for them that they face that path or would

940
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 3: they be in a better spot if they had like

941
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 3: dukes schedule right here right now? Which do you think

942
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 3: it did more? Did it do more to take gas

943
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 3: out of their tank or did it do more to

944
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 3: like iron sharpens iron type thing. Do you think this

945
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 3: is a good thing or a challenging thing here?

946
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 4: Rich Well, I would say this, let's relay it to

947
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 4: a different sport, a different champion. You know, the Kansas

948
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 4: City Chiefs, you could argue, had the tougher road to

949
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl than the Philadelphia Eagles. Kansas City Chiefs

950
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 4: played in a tougher conference. Ken City Chiefs played in

951
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 4: a tougher division certainly than the Philadelphia Eagles. They had

952
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 4: a tougher path through the playoffs to get to the

953
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 4: super Bowl in terms of closeness of games they played in.

954
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 4: I mean, did it benefit them in the Super Bowl?

955
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 4: The Eagles beat the Chiefs. So I think when we

956
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 4: have that thought process of like, well, they're battle tested,

957
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 4: they're road warriors, you know, they're the team that's been

958
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 4: through more together. You know this is only going to

959
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 4: benefit them in the final game. I agree with you, Brian.

960
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 4: I mean some don't get me wrong, some of that

961
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 4: can steal your resolves. Some of that can factor into

962
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 4: the psychological benefit in big moments, like knowing we've been

963
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 4: here before, we've fought through these things before. But the

964
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 4: truth is, in those moments, you're really not thinking about

965
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 4: any of that, Like when you're in a big game,

966
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 4: nobody's really concentrating on that whatsoever. All you're concentrating on

967
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 4: is the task. And so the team that is healthier,

968
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 4: the team that is sharper in the moment, that's the

969
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,240
Speaker 4: team that usually prevails.

970
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 2: I agree.

971
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 5: I don't think the path matters as much now after

972
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 5: we've had four games against neutral right, like we've had

973
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 5: four games against random competition for both teams. I think

974
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 5: both teams have been tested pretty thoroughly. You know, if

975
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 5: you're just comparing Duke and Auburn, let's say, I mean,

976
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 5: Duke's had some really tough games in this tournament. You know,

977
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 5: they've really looked good. You know, they've they've played some

978
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 5: really tough teams, Baylor, Arizona, you know, I know they

979
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 5: gave up a bunch of points, but they dropped one

980
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 5: hundred on them like it was nothing, and then they

981
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 5: made Alabama look small on offense. Yeah. I mean that's

982
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 5: a really impressive win. When you talk about the magnitude

983
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 5: of opponents that Duke has faced in this tournament, I

984
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 5: think in the SEC.

985
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 2: Like, I think we have a great like.

986
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 5: I think the tournament played out perfectly in terms of

987
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 5: the bracket and the matchups. There's an SEC team that

988
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 5: deserves to be playing for the National Championship. We are

989
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 5: guaranteed that guaranteed that we like. It would have been

990
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 5: a disappointment if Duke played Houston in the NATTI and

991
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 5: we didn't have an SEC team in the National Championship

992
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 5: game with the conference the season that they had.

993
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 2: I think the Duke Houston matchup.

994
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 5: Though, is a much better x's and o's matchup, because

995
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 5: I think you have too. Frankly, and take nothing away

996
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 5: from Todd Goldman, Bruce Pearl, but Kelvin Sampson is.

997
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: One of the best schemers.

998
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 5: Like, go watch that end of game sequence against Purdue,

999
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 5: how they schemed up that play and get that got

1000
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 5: that bucket, got them across finish line. They have a

1001
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 5: little defication down their leg syndrome at times. We've seen that,

1002
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 5: but I think that's more players than coaches. Kelvin Sampson's

1003
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 5: elite and John Shire is I think this tournament has

1004
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 5: really come into his own. The ACC tournament without Cooper

1005
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 5: Flagg looking as well as they did, and now in

1006
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 5: the NCAA Tournament taking an Alabama.

1007
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 2: Team and making them look like nothing.

1008
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I think John Shire, I think that's the

1009
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:57,760
Speaker 5: better coaching matchup tonight.

1010
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 2: I think it's shier against Sampson. That to me is fascinating.

1011
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 3: X's and o's. Man, I'll tell you this too. With Auburn,

1012
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 3: they got to shoot the three better. And that's the

1013
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 3: thing is maybe that has something to do with the

1014
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 3: gauntlet that they faced for the three point shooting has

1015
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 3: started to decrease as the season's gone on. But since

1016
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 3: the start of the SEC Tournament, Auburn from distance, they're

1017
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 3: only shooting thirty percent. They got to shoot better than

1018
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 3: just thirty percent from three against the Florida team that hey, man,

1019
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 3: they scored ninety on the road against Auburn in the

1020
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 3: earlier matchups, So Auburn's gotta shoot better from three. And

1021
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 3: I'm just so interested to see what Jani Broom looks like.

1022
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 3: Does he look affected? I just can't imagine he looks

1023
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 3: completely unaffected from the injuries tonight. I'll be pleasantly surprised

1024
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 3: if he is. But I have a hard time seeing

1025
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 3: in my head, like Jani Broom looks like it's game one,

1026
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 3: when it's game what thirty eight or whatever it is,

1027
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 3: right Like, I just don't think we're gonna see that

1028
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 3: from Jani Broom. Unfortunately.

1029
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 4: You got to remember with Florida, they have good in

1030
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 4: tier defense and defensive tenacity on their side. I agree

1031
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 4: with the first thing you said about this matchup, Brian.

1032
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 4: If the Gators want to have an opportunity to win

1033
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 4: this game, they need to make this game less about

1034
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 4: Jani Broom and more about what else Auburn has to offer.

1035
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 4: And look, they have depth, they have a pretty well

1036
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 4: balanced team outside of Jani Broome. But let's face it,

1037
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 4: the Tigers are built around that player. So if you

1038
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 4: can find a way to get him in foul trouble,

1039
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 4: if you can find a way to get him in

1040
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 4: a situation where his effectiveness isn't to par with what

1041
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,240
Speaker 4: they're used to in terms of efficiency offensively or even defensively,

1042
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 4: and you could take him out of his game a

1043
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 4: little bit. You've essentially taken Auburn out of their game.

1044
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 4: So that should be the path. That should be the

1045
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 4: rallying cry in the locker room before they take the hardwood.

1046
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 4: It should be the rallying cry in the locker room

1047
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 4: at intermission. This is what the Gators need to do

1048
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 4: to advance, and we'll see if they can. It's it's

1049
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 4: very easy to say all that, it's very difficult to

1050
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 4: do all that when you're playing against a special player

1051
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 4: like Broom.

1052
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to undercut what Florida has done

1053
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 5: this year on the interior because chin le Che Lou

1054
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 5: I can't pronounce.

1055
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 2: I'm terrible with the Florida.

1056
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 5: He's a stud in the middle, like like that's the

1057
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 5: beef I think for Florida in the middle.

1058
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 2: Great rebounding, Yeah, he's fantastic rebounder.

1059
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 5: I mean he's a top one hundred, you know, defensive

1060
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 5: rebounding percentage, top fifty offensive rebounding percentage in Ken Palm

1061
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 5: this year. You know, he's kind of he's kind of

1062
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 5: the muscle on the interior for Florida. But man, oh man,

1063
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 5: I I just if Auburn's got the defensive exterior to

1064
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 5: really guard Clayton and Martin, and they've really got you know,

1065
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 5: they've got some dudes on the outside with Jones and Baker,

1066
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 5: Mazzara and even Pettiford been fantastic in this tournament.

1067
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 2: Young kid freshman, I.

1068
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 5: Think, I think this matchup is obviously the Broom injury

1069
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 5: could really tilt it towards Florida. But I think if

1070
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 5: you put it all in a vacuum, and I know

1071
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 5: Florida went in there and and put up a big

1072
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 5: number earlier this year. That was right after their lost

1073
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Speaker 5: to Tennessee, so they were kind of, you know, a

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00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 5: little more motivated than than than most and Auburn was

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Speaker 5: kind of in the middle of that peak run and

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00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 5: they kind of just had a.

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Speaker 2: Bad game defensively. But if Auburn can defend.

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00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 5: The the three point line and Broom can give you something,

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Speaker 5: I really think this line should be.

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Speaker 2: Closer to a pick them. That's why I'm on Auburn's

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Speaker 2: side here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, war Eagle Egle.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I picked him in my bracket.

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Speaker 5: I picked Auburn over Houston in the bracket for the

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Speaker 2: So I got a chance.

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Speaker 3: Still, you do have a chance. Yeah, I'm helping the

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Speaker 3: opposite because I'm wrong a lot. I've got Florida and

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Speaker 3: on soccer or field hockey or I don't know what

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Speaker 2: I see all the time field hockey. I guess those

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Speaker 3: The top of the morning to you there, Seamus, Let's

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Speaker 3: dive right into the final four matchups. What do you

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00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 3: like most?

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Speaker 4: Huh?

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00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 3: Do you like Florida on Auburn Houston plus the points

1134
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 3: you're laying it with the Duquies. What do you think

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00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 3: in sides wise here with these two matchups today?

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Speaker 6: Hey, I thank for having me back. As always, I

1137
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 6: love this Houston team. I think there is a good

1138
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 6: amount of value on Houston here in this game. I

1139
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 6: think at Houston's they're one of the best defensive teams

1140
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 6: of the country. You get him in a dome in

1141
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 6: San Antonio, there should be plenty of Houston fans. I

1142
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 6: know there's gonna be plenty of Duke fans there as well,

1143
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 6: But I think there's some value with Houston getting five

1144
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 6: points here.

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00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 5: I agree one hundred percent. I actually think that well,

1146
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 5: I don't even think I know this will be the

1147
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 5: best defense Duke is faced all here especially on the interior,

1148
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 5: and I think that's going to be an interesting matchup

1149
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 5: with Flag against Tugler and Roberts.

1150
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 2: The other game is.

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00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 5: The SEC Invitational on the other side of the bracket

1152
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 5: with Auburn and Florida.

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00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 2: I think is this fair to say, Seamus?

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00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 5: If the Jeni Broom injury wasn't a thing, this number

1155
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 5: would be much closer to a pick them. Like, I

1156
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 5: think these teams are very evenly match Obviously, Florida went

1157
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 5: on the road in one earlier this year at Auburn,

1158
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 5: but I still think that this is kind of a

1159
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 5: coin flip, but the Broom injury tilts it towards Florida.

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Speaker 6: I think is exactly what I'd have this at if

1161
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 6: bro Him was confirmed healthy. But there is a lot

1162
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 6: of doubts, So a lot of money's come in on

1163
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 6: Florida sharp and public on the Gators minus two and

1164
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 6: a half. So the book's definitely gonna be rooting for

1165
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 6: Auburn to you know, at the very least cover this

1166
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 6: outright win would be great kill some parlays, and there's

1167
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 6: a small amount of Florida liability on the outright, so

1168
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 6: Auburn is a huge winner on the futures book for us,

1169
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 6: so we definitely like to see Auburn go through.

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00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 4: Relatively close spreads in both of these matchups. Douke either

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00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 4: four and a half or five and a half favorites,

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00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 4: depending on where you look. Auburn pretty much consents is

1173
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 4: two and a half point dogs to Florida. But is

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01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 4: there a team that regardless of matchup, Like, let's just

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01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 4: take all four teams and pit any of these teams

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Speaker 4: against any of these teams. Is there one team, in

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Speaker 4: your opinion, Shamus, that would be favored against all the

1178
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 4: other opponents.

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Speaker 6: Probably Duke. The way they're being bet right now, not

1180
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 6: to say Duke, they're just blowing everyone out. They've looked

1181
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 6: head and shoulders best team in the tournament so far,

1182
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 6: so I'd probably go with Duke.

1183
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 3: How about Jani Broome being banged up against Michigan State

1184
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 3: looked like a double whammy or he hyper extended his knee,

1185
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 3: hyper extended his elbow. Do you factor that into your

1186
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 3: handicap in this this Florida Auburn matchup there, Seamus?

1187
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Speaker 6: I mean you got to. He's he's the best, one

1188
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 6: of the best players in the countries. If not, you know,

1189
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 6: behind Cooper Flag is second best player in the country,

1190
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Speaker 6: and Broom was a player where it feels like he tweaks.

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01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 6: He tweaks something every game. It feels like he's always

1192
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 6: going to the bench thing looked at. So it's it's

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01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 6: a weird ones like, Okay, how bad is it this time?

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01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 6: But the bets that we've taken this week seem to

1195
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 6: dictate this isn't nothing.

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01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 2: You mean you've taken some under bets on his pride.

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01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,439
Speaker 2: Have you posted any props for Room?

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01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 6: The props up, we'll start seeing more action of the

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01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 6: player props more so closeer to tip off. But I

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01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 6: mean number opens at two and a half and it's

1201
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 6: been one way traffic on Florida for us. So it

1202
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 6: feels like everyone seems to believe that this is you know,

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01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 6: it's definitely something.

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01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 5: Here's the follow up question I have is like, can

1205
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 5: can Auburn win this game if Broom is fifty percent healthy?

1206
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 5: Or is that just like asking too much?

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01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 6: I think they can. I mean John Betiford has been

1208
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 6: one of the best players of the tournament, I think so.

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01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 6: I think they definitely have enough firepower there. Bruce Pearl

1210
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 6: is a great coach, so I don't think you're out

1211
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 6: of it. It's only two and a half point spread,

1212
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 6: so of course they got a shot.

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01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 4: Shame is just overall because we know betters are always

1214
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 4: looking for angles. Is it easier or harder for books

1215
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 4: to handicap games when it's really chalky or versus when

1216
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 4: you know you have a double digit seed find their

1217
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 4: way into the final four?

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01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 6: These are the easier ones to book, just because these

1219
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 6: teams have been so heavily bet all year. We kind

1220
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 6: of know where the lines are going to be, where

1221
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 6: they're gonna be set. That's why you really haven't seen

1222
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 6: any movement on this. Auburn Floyd maybe a touch three

1223
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 6: for a low, but everyone's like, Okay, Broom's out, probably

1224
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 6: two and a half. We opened four and a half

1225
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 6: on Duke, got bet up to five and a half

1226
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 6: before kind of settling down at this five number you're

1227
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 6: seeing most books. We're still hanging five and a half

1228
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 6: with the juice on Houston right now. But I'd say

1229
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 6: definitely final fourth like this when it's you know, the

1230
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 6: biggest best teams in the country.

1231
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 3: Okay, Seamus, it is that time. We need we need

1232
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 3: imaging for this, you know, it just dawned on me.

1233
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 3: We need some trumpets, we need some ORNs.

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01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 4: A big voice, guy, We need closer music for Shamus.

1235
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. We need some man or Sandman or

1236
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 3: something going on here. But what's the seam of special

1237
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:09,919
Speaker 3: this week here? For us?

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01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 6: We're going to the twelve thirty Eastern English Premier League game.

1239
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 6: We're taking Aston Villa to win on the three way

1240
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 6: money line against Nottingham Forest. It's a huge game for

1241
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 6: the top four race in the EPL. Nottingham Forest they

1242
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 6: since they struggled, it's been on the road this year,

1243
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 6: so we'll take Villa at home.

1244
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 3: You never let us down, Seamus. I love you for that.

1245
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 5: Anytime we can bet against Nottingham I mean, what is

1246
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 5: like Robin Hood Prince of Thieves here?

1247
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 6: That sounds like a pretty mainstream pick for me.

1248
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 3: All right, you feel kind of funny. You gotta take

1249
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 3: an extra shower today with these mainstream picks. All right,

1250
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,919
Speaker 3: Seamus enjoyed the final four and beyond man, We'll catch

1251
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 3: you soon.

1252
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: Talk to you guys, good good stuff.

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1264
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Speaker 3: the air. Kind of interesting right where at MGM talking

1265
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 3: about taking one way traffic on the Gators against Auburn.

1266
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 3: A lot of skepticism with Jani Broom, but as Seamus said,

1267
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 3: it's still just a two and a half point spread,

1268
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 3: of course Auburn has. It's a good question though, Jared, like,

1269
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 3: if this is fifty percent Jani Broom, Auburn very well

1270
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 3: might have to play their best game of the season

1271
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 3: to win this game, you know, and especially if he's

1272
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 3: fifty percent, they will. But the question is what percentage

1273
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 3: is he gonna be at that you look.

1274
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 5: Question, I can't answer that. I wish I could you

1275
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 5: look at the handicap.

1276
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to get a little bit of a sense.

1277
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 3: So bet MGM. They've got Jeni Broom's points total at

1278
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 3: nineteen and a half. His rebounds total is at ten

1279
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 3: and a half, so they're not expecting him to be,

1280
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 3: you know, a shell of himself. Those are healthy numbers.

1281
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 3: Those are his averages right there, a little bit beyond

1282
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 3: his points average. So take that for what it's worth.

1283
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 4: Rich, Yeah, yeah, you know. Here's here's the reality of

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Speaker 4: Jenni Broom and the Auburn Tigers. And I said this,

1285
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 4: I alluded to this a little bit earlier on. I mean,

1286
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 4: everyone's aware that their best chance of winning is him

1287
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 4: playing a great game. Not just a good game, but

1288
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 4: a great game. And when you get closer and closer

1289
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 4: to the ultimate goal of the season, the pressure mounts.

1290
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 4: And so it's very difficult when you're the guy. Unless

1291
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 4: you have a mentality like Kobe Bryant, unless you have

1292
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 4: a mentality like Michael Jordan or Lebron James or Steph

1293
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 4: Curry even or you know where you're used to that moment,

1294
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 4: you're very comfortable in that moment, it's difficult to have

1295
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 4: all that pressure on you. So it's nice to have

1296
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 4: an excuse. I'm not saying Jani Broom isn't hurt. I'm

1297
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 4: not saying Jani Broom hasn't battled through injuries this season.

1298
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 4: He has. But I see Jani Broom as being a

1299
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 4: little theatrical, a little bit of like, you know, the

1300
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 4: guy's wearing the full leg sleeve, he wears the full

1301
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 4: arm sleeve. He's constantly pointing to his ankle or his elbow.

1302
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 2: You know.

1303
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a little much, you know what

1304
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 4: I mean. It just feels like, you know, it's easier

1305
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 4: to deal with failure when you can limp off the court,

1306
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 4: is essentially my point. And I'm not saying that he's

1307
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 4: not hurt. I'm sure he is. I'm not saying that

1308
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 4: he isn't tough. I know he is. I watch this

1309
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 4: guy play all tournament long. But I will say this,

1310
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think it's as big of

1311
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 4: a factor as everybody thinks it is. I think he's

1312
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 4: gonna be as healthy as he possible can be, and

1313
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 4: I think he's going to play his game, and whether

1314
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 4: he plays well or not, I think is really up

1315
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 4: to Jeni. I don't think he's gonna be all that limited.

1316
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 4: And so I know that we want to get, you know,

1317
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 4: all hot and bothered and have a you know, a

1318
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 4: strong take about this. But the reality of the situation is,

1319
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 4: I don't think the injury is going to factor very

1320
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 4: much into this game at all.

1321
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 5: I tend to agree, I think it might be a

1322
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:30,800
Speaker 5: bigger factor if they win on Monday on the short turnaround. Right,

1323
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 5: he's had six days off, they haven't played since Sunday.

1324
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 4: And by the way, he returned to that game, and

1325
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 4: he's practiced every single game with Auburn for every single

1326
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 4: practice since that game.

1327
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 5: And I well, here's the other thing I think is

1328
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 5: important here. Auburn looked a little weary down the stretch. Yeah,

1329
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 5: then they lost the early game to Tennessee. In the

1330
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 5: I think it was the semifinals, right, they won their

1331
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 5: first game against Olemiss and in the SEC tournament lost

1332
01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 5: the Saturday semi final to Tennessee. Then they had five

1333
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 5: days off, and they looked really good in the tournament, Like,

1334
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 5: let's be honest, they made Creighton look like mince meat.

1335
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 5: And Creighton's got some really big dudes Kulkbrenner in the

1336
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 5: middle that can play.

1337
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 2: And then they took the Michigan Bigs the two.

1338
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 5: Twin towers there, and they sliced and diced them up,

1339
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 5: and then they made Michigan State look a little bit

1340
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 5: a little weary as well. And I think, listen, Auburn's covered.

1341
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 5: I know, the Alabama State game. I think we kind

1342
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 5: of pushed that one on the side. They were just

1343
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 5: kind of cruise control. Auburn's covered in every game of

1344
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:30,639
Speaker 5: the tournament.

1345
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 2: Besides that.

1346
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, like Florida, that Texas Tech game could have gone

1347
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,679
Speaker 5: either way. Oh man, that Yukon game could have gone

1348
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 5: either way.

1349
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 2: They didn't cover either of those.

1350
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 5: So I think I do think if if Auburn's healthy, honestly,

1351
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 5: and Seamus said it, it's the uncertainty with Broom that's

1352
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 5: making this an underdog situation for the Tigers. If Broom's healthy,

1353
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 5: the wrong side is favored here and this game should

1354
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,519
Speaker 5: be a And that's why I'm on the Auburn side tonight.

1355
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna throw some ball at you in

1356
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 3: a second switch gears on you. But this is what's

1357
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 3: so interesting about these matchups is because you can make

1358
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 3: points on both sides that both make sense. You know,

1359
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 3: like Jared made perfect sense with what he just said

1360
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 3: right there. What I would throw at you is think

1361
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:25,600
Speaker 3: of Houston. Houston barely survives against Purdue. It took a

1362
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 3: last second out of bounds play to win the game

1363
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 3: in regulation by two points, you know what I'm saying.

1364
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 3: And then what did you see the next time out?

1365
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,479
Speaker 3: They crushed Tennessee. They smacked Tennessee around.

1366
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 2: That was more Tennessee than anything else. Tennessee absolutely so

1367
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 2: flat that game.

1368
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 3: But sometimes when your tournament life looks like it's over

1369
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 3: and you win, I don't know what it does. It

1370
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 3: just it makes you a claw a little bit more.

1371
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 3: It's like true, it's a reality check where you're like,

1372
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 3: holy cow, we almost lost to Texas Tech. If you're Florida. Now,

1373
01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 3: the difference with Houston is Houston played again just a

1374
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 3: couple days later, like Florida's playing again like six or

1375
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 3: seven days later.

1376
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 6: You know.

1377
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 3: So that's a difference, right.

1378
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:08,639
Speaker 2: The week off actually Florida full week.

1379
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, full week off. But you understand my point where

1380
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 3: I agree with you against Texas Tech down by nine

1381
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 3: with under three minutes to go is not looking good

1382
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 3: at all, and they pulled that out. So sometimes that

1383
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 3: does make you more dangerous going forward. We'll see what

1384
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 3: happens with the Gators here today. Now, are you guys

1385
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:31,919
Speaker 3: fans of interesting theories?

1386
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely always.

1387
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 3: Okay, so we throw Ben Roethlisberger at you. Huh. From

1388
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 3: the Football In podcast, he has some thoughts on Aaron

1389
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 3: Rodgers that I thought were interesting. Here you go check

1390
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 3: this out.

1391
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 7: I really believe that he's going to be a Steeler. Okay,

1392
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 7: I'm saying it. Okay, However, I knew it was coming.

1393
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 7: The reason, in my opinion, my opinion, that he hasn't

1394
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 7: signed yet. I think Aaron is secretly still holding out

1395
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:03,839
Speaker 7: for Minnesota, which is why he hasn't signed with the Steelers.

1396
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 7: Why else would you know, why else would you go

1397
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 7: throw a DK and be working out and put it

1398
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 7: out blast everybody that I'm throwing to these guys, but

1399
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 7: you won't sign.

1400
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 4: But I just think he's holding off from Minnesota.

1401
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 3: Okay, interesting theory right there, right, Like, I see where

1402
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 3: he's coming from. That might be the case if you

1403
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 3: think of why else would Aaron Rodgers not sign with

1404
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 3: the Steelers yet, Well, because he's weird. Aaron Rodgers is

1405
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 3: a weird, a weird guy. No, absolutely, it doesn't mean

1406
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 3: he's holding out, hope, just for the Vikings, it could,

1407
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 3: but not necessarily. And maybe he looks at Pittsburgh like

1408
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 3: it's a Tuesday mercy date. Is that fair? Like maybe

1409
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 3: he looks at It's like, oh gosh.

1410
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 2: I have a date Tuesday. How about that.

1411
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:48,200
Speaker 4: It's not a mercy date.

1412
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 2: Though it might be I don't know, might be on

1413
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:54,719
Speaker 2: one side. Who knows. No, no, no, no, no.

1414
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 4: Can't be that.

1415
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 6: No?

1416
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 3: But right, Rich, right? What do you think about this?

1417
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 3: You agree with Ben Roethlisberger. Is there another reason why

1418
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 3: you think Rogers hasn't signed with Pittsburgh?

1419
01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 4: Just just think about the teams who need a quarterback,

1420
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 4: you know, and I would put the Las Vegas Raiders

1421
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 4: in there, but they've signed Geno Smith to this extension.

1422
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 4: But think about the teams. The Tennessee Titans need a quarterback.

1423
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 4: The Pittsburgh Steelers need a quarterback. The Cleveland Browns need

1424
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 4: a quarterback. The New York Giants need a quarterback. I mean,

1425
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 4: the New Orleans Saints. You could argue you need a quarterback.

1426
01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 4: Would they be really looking at Rogers? The Rams need

1427
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 4: a quarterback at some point because Stafford's getting old, but

1428
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 4: so is Rogers. I mean, you know what I mean?

1429
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 4: Like you start looking at the teams that actually need

1430
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 4: a quarterback, and you start to then think where Rogers

1431
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 4: actually fits. All of these teams have one thing in common.

1432
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 4: Either they don't need an aging veteran quarterback who's on

1433
01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:54,720
Speaker 4: the last year or years of his career, or they

1434
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 4: stink like that's the reality. So either he's factor out

1435
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 4: of the equation already, or these teams stink and he

1436
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 4: doesn't want to play for them. So if it were

1437
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 4: up to me, if I were Aaron Rodgers, You're damn right,

1438
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 4: I'd be waiting it out to see if the Vikings

1439
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 4: actually want to move forward with JJ McCarthy rather than

1440
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 4: bring me in as a free agent. And here's the

1441
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 4: reason why, Because I don't want to play for the

1442
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers, because the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to rely

1443
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 4: too much on me, Whereas I want to join a

1444
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,719
Speaker 4: team like he did when he originally forced the trade

1445
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 4: to the New York Jets, who looked like they were

1446
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 4: ready to go win. The Jets at the time when

1447
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 4: Rogers signed, we forget, but they looked like they were

1448
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 4: a quarterback away from making a real playoff run. Now

1449
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 4: it did not work out. He ruptured his achilles. The

1450
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 4: defense in year two didn't end up being as good.

1451
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 4: The running game in year two with Rogers in New

1452
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 4: York didn't end up being as good, and frankly, Rodgers

1453
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 4: wasn't as good as advertised. So it did not work out.

1454
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 4: But the reason why Rodgers hasn't signed yet is because

1455
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers wants to go play for a winner, and

1456
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,840
Speaker 4: the teams that could potentially win with him aren't looking

1457
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 4: for Rogers, and the teams that want Rodgers don't look

1458
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 4: like they can win.

1459
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the difference between Rogers and Russell Wilson at

1460
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 5: this stage? I mean, we kind of saw what Pittsburgh

1461
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 5: was last year in that situation, and I honestly don't

1462
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 5: know how much of a difference there really is at

1463
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 5: the stage between those two guys. I think they both

1464
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:24,520
Speaker 5: are different in different ways, but I think the overall

1465
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,760
Speaker 5: product is they're not in the elite tier of quarterbacks

1466
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 5: at this stage of their career. So I posted this

1467
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 5: on March twelfth, It's been almost a month. I said,

1468
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:37,719
Speaker 5: whatever is the longest amount of time possible Aaron Rodgers

1469
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 5: can drag out his decision.

1470
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 2: I would still bet the over on that number. That's

1471
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 2: just my vibe.

1472
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 5: And then on March seventeenth, I quote tweeted that and

1473
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 5: I said, do we think Rogers makes his decision before

1474
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,599
Speaker 5: the final four or with the stretch into MLB season.

1475
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 2: That was again three weeks ago, so we have our answer.

1476
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 5: This will not be decided before the Final four, which

1477
01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:00,639
Speaker 5: takes place tonight, and.

1478
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 2: It will stretch into MLLB season.

1479
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 5: I think part of it is, yes, he's waiting for

1480
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:09,600
Speaker 5: the Vikings to give him the final no. But I

1481
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,960
Speaker 5: think another part of it is Aaron loves the spotlight.

1482
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 5: I mean that's I mean, we've already established that, and

1483
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 5: you know, I know he's not listening.

1484
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 2: Maybe he is.

1485
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 5: Aaron, I love you, Bud. I wish you did more

1486
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 5: with the Jets at this stage of your career. Your

1487
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 5: content creator first, quarterback second. That's just how I feel

1488
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 5: about Aaron at this stage. He's very invested in the

1489
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 5: content creation. He had a Netflix documentary that came out

1490
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 5: during the season on his life. He makes weekly appearances

1491
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 5: on some of the more popular platforms we have in

1492
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 5: sports media. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

1493
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 5: I commend him for being open and honest. I think

1494
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,719
Speaker 5: more athletes, and we have seen more athletes on podcasts

1495
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 5: do their own thing, you know, become more open about

1496
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:50,360
Speaker 5: their journeys, and I love that. But also I think

1497
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Speaker 5: there's only so much time in the day and you

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Speaker 5: can only do so much quarterbacking when you're doing a

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Speaker 5: lot of contenting, and I think that's where we're at

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Speaker 5: with Aaron.

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Speaker 2: At this career.

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Speaker 5: I think we'll get a answer, hopefully before the draft,

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Speaker 5: right hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you would hope so be hilarious if he

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01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 3: signed today before the final that would be funny.

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Speaker 2: If you listening right now, I'm gonna go sign up.

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Speaker 3: Shove it up that Jaron, guys, but that would be hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Prop it up player plays.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the prop bets are happening. Jared, we start with you.

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01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 4: What do you like?

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01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:27,559
Speaker 2: We're going dimes today?

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01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 5: So I think the defensive adjustments for Houston on Duke's

1531
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 5: offense is going to be do not allow the easy buckets,

1532
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,639
Speaker 5: do not allow Malo loc and Flag to just go

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01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 5: crazy in the paint. And we do see Houston play

1534
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,879
Speaker 5: a lot of progressive pick and roll strategies on defense.

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01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:47,600
Speaker 2: So what does that mean? I think the ball is

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01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:48,639
Speaker 2: going to be out of the paint.

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01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 5: You're gonna see a lot of open threes, a lot

1538
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 5: of skip passes, and I think the assist prop for

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01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:53,799
Speaker 5: the Duke.

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01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 2: Biggs is what I'm targeting today. So you can get

1541
01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:57,719
Speaker 2: you can get.

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01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 5: Flag at six plus assists at plus one forty, and

1543
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 5: you can get Malawac just for one assist.

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01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 2: All we need is one big fella at plus one thirty. Now,

1545
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 2: Malowac has not had a lot of.

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01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 5: Assists this year, in facts, only had one in the

1547
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 5: entire tournament, but it did come in the last game

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01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 5: against Alabama. Flag has been six plus in thirteen games

1549
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,719
Speaker 5: this year. He had six against Baylor, he had seven

1550
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 5: against Arizona, so he's done it twice already in the tourney.

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01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 2: So dimes today, the Houston defense is.

1552
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 5: Going to take away flag in the interior, kick out

1553
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 5: open shots, make them.

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01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 2: We'll get some assists props.

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01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 4: Okay, I have a Duke Ye prop as well, but

1556
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:34,679
Speaker 4: it's all because of Houston as well. Jared. I think

1557
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 4: the point you made was really good about Houston. I

1558
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 4: think defensively, they're going to try to take away easy

1559
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 4: buckets what Duke wants to do, which is highlight flag,

1560
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 4: and I think that nineteen points for Cooper Flag. I

1561
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:52,679
Speaker 4: think the unders gonna hit in the tournament. He's only

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01:18:52,720 --> 01:18:55,880
Speaker 4: scored over nineteen points once and it was that explosion

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01:18:55,960 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 4: against Arizona where he scored thirty. So the underfields right anyways,

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01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 4: and against a really good Houston defense, and you know

1565
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:05,559
Speaker 4: what Sampson's gonna do from the sideline. He's going to

1566
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,640
Speaker 4: be shouting shut down Flag and so that's what I

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01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 4: think they attempt to do. He'll still get his He's

1568
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 4: gonna have a nice night, There's no question about it.

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01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 4: But give me the under on Cooper Flag point total

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01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 4: nineteen points.

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01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:23,719
Speaker 3: Give me Elijah Martin. Huh, Florida forward. Yeah, he missed

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01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 3: the game in the regular season against Auburn. That was

1573
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 3: a big, big deal and Florida played their best game

1574
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 3: arguably of the entire season, went into War Eagle territory

1575
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:37,679
Speaker 3: and smacked him around. But will Richard thirty six minutes

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01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 3: in their last game against Texas Tech. If he gets

1577
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 3: anywhere close to that, he's going over four and a

1578
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 3: half rebounds, just his like against Auburn. And Jani Broom

1579
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 3: is a little bit banged up, and we always talk

1580
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 3: about Florida's Biggs and they have great rebounders in Hawk

1581
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 3: and how and I can never say that guy's name

1582
01:19:57,280 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 3: he my gosh, how can Condon? But Elijah Martin will

1583
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 3: just he's a physical player. He's built like a Greek god.

1584
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 3: And I see him going over four and a half

1585
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:11,839
Speaker 3: rebounds against Auburn today.

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01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 5: We did the Final four, right, I see the only

1587
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 5: guy on the floor that's actually playing.

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01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 3: Right, How crazy is that? Florida Atlantic Now Florida wild

1589
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:20,720
Speaker 3: stuff right there?

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01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 3: All right, plenty to get to arguably the marquee matchup.

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01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 3: Bring your defense. Oh, welcome in. We are raring to

1593
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:35,719
Speaker 3: freaking go, are we not. Let's go Final four action.

1594
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 3: We are fired up for it. We would like to

1595
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01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 3: bring your freaking defense. I think you have to add

1605
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 3: freaking in this. We've got Houston, We've got Duke. We

1606
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 3: all know Houston's credentials. Here defense fleet number one defense

1607
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 3: in all the college basketball land, going up against the

1608
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 3: number one offense. These teams specialize in efficiency. I can't

1609
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 3: wait to see the matchup when Duke has the basketball.

1610
01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 3: You got number one versus number one, not just in seating,

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01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 3: but number one offense in Duke, number one defense in Houston.

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01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a ton of fun. And I also think,

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01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:39,559
Speaker 3: just because that's the marquee matchup. Within the matchup, Duke's

1614
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:43,600
Speaker 3: defense is legit. What they did against Alabama, Jared, you

1615
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 3: mentioned this earlier in the show, But Alabama, like size wise,

1616
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 3: they look like a team that doesn't have nil money.

1617
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:53,640
Speaker 3: That's what they look like against Duke. Duke is just

1618
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 3: long and they challenge shots. Remember Alabama hit twenty five

1619
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 3: threes in the game before Duke, and they could hit threes.

1620
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 3: Against Duke, it couldn't make shots. And so I'm really

1621
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:10,679
Speaker 3: curious with Houston. They lead the entire country in three

1622
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:14,759
Speaker 3: point shooting percentage, the best three point shooting team this season.

1623
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 3: Three of their starters shoot forty two percent or better

1624
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 3: from three, So I want to see Duke's defense matched

1625
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 3: up against Houston's three point shooting. I can't wait for

1626
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 3: this matchup. It is fantastic on paper. I think it'll

1627
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 3: be fantastic with our eyeballs in live action here too.

1628
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that offense probably wins this one. Houston's

1629
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,639
Speaker 4: a defensive monster, but I don't know if they've seen

1630
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 4: an offense as deep, well balanced and efficient as Dukes. Also,

1631
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 4: they have the best player on the court. Whenever you

1632
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 4: have the best player in the court, especially in a

1633
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 4: sport like basketball, where we know the tides can shift

1634
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 4: on one player having a great night, which we're looking

1635
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,800
Speaker 4: right at Cooper Flag, then you have a great chance

1636
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:01,719
Speaker 4: at winning. And then you know, when you think about

1637
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:06,439
Speaker 4: just the momentum that Duke has coming into this basketball game,

1638
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 4: they have truly played their best basketball at the perfect time,

1639
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 4: tournament time. This team woke up in a big way,

1640
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 4: and so the momentums on their side as well. Duke

1641
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 4: Houston could end up being one of these you know,

1642
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 4: amazing watches, you know what I mean. But I think

1643
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 4: more than likely if this is a close game, it's

1644
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 4: going to be because either a Duke somehow ran into

1645
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 4: a wall and the momentum has shifted or stopped, which

1646
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 4: I don't really think is going to happen because they

1647
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 4: have so many places to go with the basketball, or

1648
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 4: b Houston steps up in a huge way defensively and

1649
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 4: does something to the Dukies that frankly, nobody else has

1650
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 4: been able to do this season.

1651
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:50,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you go back and you look at the

1652
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,720
Speaker 5: losses from Duke and the game that really stands out

1653
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 5: is the one. You know, they only lost one game

1654
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 5: in the ACC, and that was the Clemson You go

1655
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,679
Speaker 5: back and you look at the box score. In that game,

1656
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 5: Duke got really out muscled on the glass, right, And

1657
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 5: you don't see that a lot from this Duke team

1658
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 5: because they're bigger, especially in the ACC. I mean, they

1659
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,680
Speaker 5: only had twenty three rebounds the entire game. Clemson had

1660
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 5: twenty five defensive rebounds in that game. So, you know,

1661
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 5: and Duke shot it pretty well in that game. And

1662
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 5: I shot fifty percent from three, twelve out of twenty

1663
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 5: four and Clempson only made four threes and Clumps had

1664
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 5: still won the game.

1665
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,719
Speaker 2: So I do think, you know, it wasn't an overly

1666
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 2: high turnover game.

1667
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 3: Either.

1668
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 2: Duke only had nine turnovers.

1669
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 5: So again, like that's one game, one box score, But

1670
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 5: there is a recipe to out muscle Duke a little bit.

1671
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 5: And maybe, you know, maybe I'm boiling it down and

1672
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 5: maybe oversimplifying here because I think Houston's got a lot

1673
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 5: of skill too. But I think this is a will

1674
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 5: versus skill game where Duke is obviously the more skilled team.

1675
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 5: I think maybe they're slightly better coach, but I think

1676
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 5: the coaching matchup is pretty even. Obviously, Cooper Flagg's the

1677
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 5: best player on the floor. There's your skill. I think

1678
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 5: Can Nipple is probably the best wing player on the floor,

1679
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 5: more skill, But Houston's got a little revenge narrative and

1680
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 5: maybe that's like the hidden edge in this game. I mean,

1681
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 5: most of the guys that are on this Houston team

1682
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,920
Speaker 5: were there last year when they lost to Duke in

1683
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 5: the Sweet sixteen in a very unfortunate way. They had

1684
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 5: a big lead in that game, Jamal Shed got hurt

1685
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 5: and then Duke came back and won.

1686
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:21,479
Speaker 2: It was a very low scoring game.

1687
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,719
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of guys that will remember

1688
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:27,840
Speaker 5: that and and we'll see if there is just what, right,

1689
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 5: Like if these are two very even the match teams,

1690
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,839
Speaker 5: great defense, great offense, right like immovable force, unstoppable object,

1691
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 5: what's the edge? What's the who digs deeper and finds

1692
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 5: that little extra gear that they didn't have? Like maybe

1693
01:25:42,479 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 5: it's Houston remembering the feeling of losing in the sweet

1694
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 5: sixteen and heartbreaking fashion last year. That gives them just

1695
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,760
Speaker 5: a little extra and that's what gets him over the

1696
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 5: top again. I'm grasping its straws. These are the four

1697
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:58,479
Speaker 5: elite teams in college basketball. There's not a lot separating them.

1698
01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 5: So we have to find those little ledges. And if

1699
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 5: I was on Houston's team tonight and I was on

1700
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 5: that team last year, yeah, I would have a little

1701
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 5: different extra edge to me this week in practice.

1702
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:12,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think doing the dirty work is gonna be

1703
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 3: a lot of fun to watch in this game because

1704
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 3: I mean, you think about doing the dirty work, you

1705
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 3: immediately think of Houston, Right, Houston. It's like a Slayer

1706
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 3: mosh pit over there. That's what they do. They're so physical, right.

1707
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 3: I heard someone talk about them as the Baltimore Ravens

1708
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 3: of college basketball as a great description. I love that.

1709
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 3: But think about this too. Cooper Flag setting screens. He

1710
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 3: is a big dude, physically imposing guy, and he can

1711
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 3: kind of like you Rich as an offensive lineman. He

1712
01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 3: can clear the way and clear a path for some

1713
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 3: of these shooters Proctor like Ca Nipple shooting from distance.

1714
01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 3: So watch his ability to set screens. Cooper Flag is

1715
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 3: very good at that. And when you start talking about

1716
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 3: Cooper Flag, you start thinking, hey, number one pick in

1717
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 3: the draft, Like, you know what he can do offensively

1718
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 3: and the skill set that he brings. But I think

1719
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 3: an overlooked part of his game is doing the dirty

1720
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 3: work and setting screens. And just watch that. Watch that

1721
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 3: in this game, because he can free up his teammates

1722
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 3: for good shots and good opportunities against Houston, and that's

1723
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 3: needed against the physical team like this. Not everybody can

1724
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 3: be playing pretty basketball. Someone's gotta be doing the dirty work,

1725
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 3: and you immediately think Houston. But watch Duke and especially

1726
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 3: Cooper Flagg setting screens and doing some of that dirty work.

1727
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:38,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I think ultimately when you start to

1728
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 4: get the commendations that he already has, he knows that

1729
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:44,639
Speaker 4: he's in the running for the woodend. He's already won

1730
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 4: the AP player of the year. He's just looking to

1731
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 4: win it all now. So whatever that means, if it

1732
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 4: means he has to score less to help others score more,

1733
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:56,679
Speaker 4: because that feather in your cap, that final accomplishment before

1734
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,200
Speaker 4: you do move on to the professional ranks, is something

1735
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 4: that you'll ever look back on and be like, man,

1736
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 4: I wish I scored in the double digits against Houston

1737
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 4: in the Final four, not if you win, you know

1738
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 4: what I mean? Like, you're going to the National Championship Game,

1739
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:15,400
Speaker 4: and by the way, he will. There's almost no question

1740
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 4: there they need him to. But my point being supporting

1741
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:22,599
Speaker 4: what you just said, I think that if you have

1742
01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 4: not a complete change of pace, but if you have

1743
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 4: a plan to take advantage of Houston, if he's going

1744
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:33,719
Speaker 4: to draw attention, well then yeah, that means there's gonna

1745
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 4: be open looks for others, and I think Duke has

1746
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,719
Speaker 4: to do a good job of making sure he sees

1747
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 4: those open looks. He gets those open looks the ball,

1748
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 4: and as a result, they'll be able to attack Houston

1749
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 4: in a spot where they're softer as a result of

1750
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 4: the defense crushing on flag.

1751
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 5: I did a spot yesterday on the odd Couple with

1752
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 5: Robin Kelvin and we were talking about where Cooper kind

1753
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:58,759
Speaker 5: of stands in the best college basketball players of all time,

1754
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 5: which obviously is a tough discussion because you get the

1755
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 5: historical context of you know, the Kareems and the Larry

1756
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 5: Birds and those guys and the Latners, and then you

1757
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 5: get more of the recent like the Zions and those

1758
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 5: types of players. You know, obviously, the game's changed a

1759
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 5: lot over the last forty to fifty years, like the

1760
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 5: Oscar Robertson. Like, I don't know if you can compare

1761
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:17,799
Speaker 5: Cooper flag to that because the game is so different.

1762
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 5: But like, I think he is one of the best

1763
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 5: players that I've watched in college basketball, at least in

1764
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 5: the last decade, other than maybe Zion. Like I'm trying, like,

1765
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 5: like perspective wise, am I off base here to put

1766
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 5: him in that.

1767
01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:31,559
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I don't think so. He's think

1768
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:35,799
Speaker 4: he's like I described him almost like a baseball player earlier.

1769
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:39,880
Speaker 4: He's like a true five tool player. He's very rational. Yeah,

1770
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:41,080
Speaker 4: what do you think?

1771
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1772
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, yeah, no doubt about that. Hopefully he'll play

1773
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:46,360
Speaker 3: more than forty three percent.

1774
01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 2: Of his game.

1775
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:49,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, because NBA with Zion, I don't want to go

1776
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:53,880
Speaker 5: down that road college in college Zion was the was

1777
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 5: the was the deal?

1778
01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely no. Cooper Flag is on that level,

1779
01:29:59,280 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 3: for sure.

1780
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:02,080
Speaker 2: He is.

1781
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 3: He's a magnificent talent. And that's the thing is you

1782
01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:07,640
Speaker 3: hear this a lot leading up to the game, is

1783
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 3: you look at Duke and they're five star freshmen led

1784
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:14,720
Speaker 3: by Cooper Flag, best player in the country. But they're freshmen.

1785
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:16,559
Speaker 3: A lot of these guys are freshmen. They've got some

1786
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 3: transfers that they got some vets as well, but a

1787
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 3: lot of freshman talent. You look at Houston and it

1788
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 3: is veteran city. It's crazy this Juwan Roberts one of

1789
01:30:26,880 --> 01:30:29,720
Speaker 3: their bigs. He's twenty three years old. He's played one

1790
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy career games in college a buck seventy

1791
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 3: compared to some of these guys like Cooper Flag's eighteen,

1792
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 3: Kanka Nipples nineteen, Like, these guys are young guys. And

1793
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 3: that's the thing too, I wonder heading into this game,

1794
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 3: if you look at Duke, they've won a lot of

1795
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 3: games comfortably. That's not to say they can't win a

1796
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:55,800
Speaker 3: close game, but they don't have as much experience doing that.

1797
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 3: They lead the country in thirty point wins this season.

1798
01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:03,479
Speaker 3: They've had a bunch of twenty point wins during the season.

1799
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 3: So if this is a tight game, I think Houston

1800
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 3: is more comfortable in a game like that. Not to

1801
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:12,320
Speaker 3: say that Duke can't again like answer the bell and

1802
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:16,040
Speaker 3: do all that stuff, but Houston when they're winning. It's

1803
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:19,240
Speaker 3: a tight game against Perdue at the end, and you

1804
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 3: could look sideways at Houston like what's that about. But

1805
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 3: they're comfortable executing when the game's on the line and

1806
01:31:25,880 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 3: the game is tight. They remind me a little bit Duke.

1807
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 3: If they're like football, you go back to seven. Remember

1808
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 3: the Patriots are blowing teams out. They're not used to

1809
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:38,080
Speaker 3: those closer games. Houston is more like the New York Giants,

1810
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 3: where they just could not win comfortably often, not as

1811
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 3: much as Duke has. So a tight game I think

1812
01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 3: favors Houston. But we'll see. If it's tight to begin with,

1813
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 3: it might not be.

1814
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I agree with you. If Houston can

1815
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,639
Speaker 4: find a way to drag them out into deep water

1816
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,959
Speaker 4: and take Duke away from what they.

1817
01:31:59,080 --> 01:31:59,559
Speaker 3: Like to do.

1818
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:03,799
Speaker 4: If you remember back to the regular season, all throughout

1819
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 4: the regular season, Houston was so dominant that teams couldn't

1820
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,479
Speaker 4: even reach sixty you know what I mean.

1821
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 3: Like they've had some dominant wins too, You're right about.

1822
01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:15,120
Speaker 4: That, you know, and they have been better offensively. And

1823
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 4: so with the experience the leadership that you were discussing,

1824
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 4: this much older team more fortified in a sense because

1825
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:26,920
Speaker 4: that experience does help. This could be this could be

1826
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 4: a game where it gets closer, or it is a

1827
01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,960
Speaker 4: more even matchup than maybe it looks like on the outset.

1828
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 4: But if Duke does what it does right, Duke, they

1829
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 4: highlight their offensive efficiency with ball movement, finding the open man,

1830
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 4: getting look I want to say, getting the ball into

1831
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 4: the hands of their playmakers. They have a lot of playmakers,

1832
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:53,600
Speaker 4: so that's not a difficulty for them. Perimeter shooting. What

1833
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,759
Speaker 4: is the best way to neutralize a really solid defense

1834
01:32:57,439 --> 01:33:00,479
Speaker 4: just knocking down perimeter shots. Well, Duke does really good

1835
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:03,600
Speaker 4: job of that. And then also fortunately for Duke, and

1836
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 4: I don't want to sit here and say like Houston

1837
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:09,599
Speaker 4: has no chance, because you just outlined perfectly where Houston

1838
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 4: could have a chance. But Duke's also they're really good rebounders,

1839
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 4: and so having that prowess and that checked box in

1840
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 4: your corner. It does add up to this being a long,

1841
01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 4: hard day for Houston. But as we know, you know,

1842
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 4: in March, in the tournament, when it's single elimination, anything

1843
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:32,639
Speaker 4: can happen. You know, somebody can you know, pull up lame.

1844
01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 4: You could have a shooter having a tough night and

1845
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,040
Speaker 4: maybe a little too much of a reliance on a

1846
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:41,719
Speaker 4: guy who's just ice cold. You know, things can happen

1847
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 4: and things can change in moments, and so you got

1848
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:46,600
Speaker 4: to play this game and see who wins. But at

1849
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 4: least on paper, it looks like this is Duke's game

1850
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 4: to lose.

1851
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 2: Houston hasn't lost a game in regulation since November ninth,

1852
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,679
Speaker 2: that's basically the first week of the year.

1853
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:07,519
Speaker 5: Of the season, They've lost three games to Alabama, San

1854
01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:10,960
Speaker 5: Diego State, and Texas Tech, all in overtime. Two of

1855
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 5: those games are on a neutral floor. The game against

1856
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:15,519
Speaker 5: Texas Tech was in you know, smack dab in the

1857
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:18,680
Speaker 5: middle of Big twelve play, you know, in early February.

1858
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 5: But they lost by five to Auburn on November ninth.

1859
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 5: That was their only regulation loss of the year. And listen,

1860
01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 5: it's not like I know the Big twelve's not the SEC.

1861
01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:33,760
Speaker 5: Big twelve's pretty good. Big twelve's pretty darn good. I

1862
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:36,240
Speaker 5: know Kansas ain't, you know, the same as we've seen

1863
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 5: in years past.

1864
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 2: But Texas Tech is really good.

1865
01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:41,400
Speaker 5: Baylor's good BYU was a sweet sixteen team, like I

1866
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:46,880
Speaker 5: think the the gauntlet that that Houston ran this year.

1867
01:34:47,160 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 5: By the way, they also played Alabama, Auburn, and the

1868
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 5: non con like, they have been tested more than Duke

1869
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:57,840
Speaker 5: this year. I don't I feel comfortable saying that. I

1870
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 5: think Duke's the better team. They deserve to be favorite,

1871
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:04,200
Speaker 5: but I think Houston's run the gauntlet. Houston's been through the.

1872
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,879
Speaker 2: Fire a little hotter than Duke has this year.

1873
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 5: And at the end of the day, I think these

1874
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 5: teams are very evenly matched. I think Duke deserves to

1875
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 5: be the favorite, but not a five plus point favorite.

1876
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 5: That number is overbaked. Houston is within a possession of

1877
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 5: this team. I think three is probably the most I'd

1878
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 5: be willing to lay on Duke.

1879
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 2: Five and a half. Get out of here, Come on, come.

1880
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:31,479
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1881
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01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:04,200
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1909
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:04,719
Speaker 4: Oh?

1910
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Speaker 2: Top ten?

1911
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 4: No question?

1912
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:09,479
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1913
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:11,439
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1914
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1915
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1916
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1918
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

1919
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Speaker 3: There's a line from Matt Damon in that movie that's

1920
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Speaker 3: legendary and it's right at the beginning of the movie,

1921
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Speaker 3: and he says, if you can't spot the sucker at

1922
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Speaker 3: your first in your first half hour at the table,

1923
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Speaker 3: then you are the sucker, right, And I think that

1924
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Speaker 3: applies to Jah Morant. Okay, So the story with Job Morant,

1925
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:45,000
Speaker 3: he's been uh, he's been fined seventy five thousand dollars.

1926
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Speaker 3: He's made a finger gun gesture that the NBA does

1927
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 3: not want. He's done that a couple of times. So

1928
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:55,960
Speaker 3: he was warned on Tuesday, like, hey, don't do the

1929
01:37:56,000 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 3: finger gun gesture thing, like sometimes these players will three

1930
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:04,680
Speaker 3: and they'll they'll they'll do some things with their their figures,

1931
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:07,960
Speaker 3: their hands, and the NBA thinks it's mimmicking a gun.

1932
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 3: They don't want that. So Tuesday against the Warriors, the

1933
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:14,599
Speaker 3: league said, hey, buddy, healed and John Morant cut it out.

1934
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 3: Can't do it, can't throw it Mike Singletary style. What

1935
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:20,920
Speaker 3: happens Two nights later, John Morant does it again. He

1936
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:23,880
Speaker 3: does it against the Miami Heat. He gets fined seventy

1937
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:26,599
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars. And to me, it goes back to

1938
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 3: that that line in Rounders where it's like, if you

1939
01:38:30,040 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 3: can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at

1940
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 3: the table, then you are the sucker. It's like John

1941
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 3: Morant is at the poker table looking around like I

1942
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:40,719
Speaker 3: don't know who the sucker is. It's you. You're the sucker.

1943
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 3: Like how how does this keep happening? The backstory with

1944
01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:47,439
Speaker 3: Jah it goes back to March of twenty twenty three.

1945
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:51,840
Speaker 3: That's when the first gun video appeared on IG live

1946
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:54,479
Speaker 3: stream when he was at the Denver night club. He

1947
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:57,680
Speaker 3: suspended indefinitely. Turns out to be an eight game suspension.

1948
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 3: Two months later, May of twenty twenty three, that's what

1949
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:06,680
Speaker 3: another gun video on IG pops up. He's suspended for

1950
01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 3: twenty five games to start the next season. Like if

1951
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 3: the NBA warns you, does you a favor and says, hey, dude,

1952
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:16,880
Speaker 3: just you know, we can't have you doing that. You've

1953
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:18,479
Speaker 3: got to pass, Like, just don't do it.

1954
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:20,120
Speaker 4: Don't do it.

1955
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:22,840
Speaker 3: It's not worth it to get fined and to have

1956
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,400
Speaker 3: this be talked about instead of what he's doing on

1957
01:39:25,439 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 3: the basketball court. We all know his talent. I don't

1958
01:39:28,479 --> 01:39:31,840
Speaker 3: know why you would want the attention to be toward that.

1959
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 3: It makes no sense to me. I don't think there's

1960
01:39:34,479 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 3: any legitimate argument to be like, no, no, no, you're just

1961
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:39,559
Speaker 3: not looking at it from this lens. No, there is

1962
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:43,280
Speaker 3: no lens. It's dumb. Stop doing dumb things. It's just

1963
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 3: he's immature and he's doing something that's stupid. And I

1964
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:49,759
Speaker 3: think he's gonna realize it for quite some time, if ever.

1965
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 3: That's where we're at with.

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Speaker 4: Jah to create like a incredible athlete or you know what,

1967
01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 4: an incredible anything hard stop Like if you're going to

1968
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:04,839
Speaker 4: be the best of the best at anything, any endeavor,

1969
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 4: regardless of whether we're talking athletics or business or music

1970
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:14,120
Speaker 4: or otherwise, you have to so many times when people

1971
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 4: tell you or desire you to do one thing, to

1972
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 4: do the opposite. Like I can't tell you on my

1973
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:24,600
Speaker 4: path becoming a professional football how many times I had

1974
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:28,360
Speaker 4: buddies going, dude, you've spent all day in the gym,

1975
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 4: Like you don't have to go, you know, like you

1976
01:40:30,240 --> 01:40:32,760
Speaker 4: can skip a workout. It's the summertime, like let's go

1977
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:35,360
Speaker 4: to the beach. You know how many times you know

1978
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 4: you have to, you know, tell people that you believe

1979
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:44,680
Speaker 4: in yourself fiercely, whereas they don't, you know what I mean.

1980
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:47,240
Speaker 4: And sometimes you even have to trick yourself into believing

1981
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:50,120
Speaker 4: that there are naysayers out there if you are surrounded

1982
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:54,400
Speaker 4: by support, it almost felt like at times like you're

1983
01:40:54,479 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 4: experiencing mental illness when you are so single minded in

1984
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 4: a pursuit. And so when you're building an athlete like

1985
01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 4: Jaan Morant, who's at the top of the game, he's

1986
01:41:08,439 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 4: so talented. Think about how many times he had to

1987
01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:14,679
Speaker 4: prove naysayers wrong. Think about how many times he had

1988
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 4: to carve his own path away from what everybody else

1989
01:41:17,600 --> 01:41:19,559
Speaker 4: was doing so that he could spend more time in

1990
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 4: the gym, playing basketball, or whatever it may be. You

1991
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 4: have to kind of blaze your own trail. Now, don't

1992
01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 4: get me wrong. Playing a team sport, you also have

1993
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 4: to be a good teammate, You have to be coachable,

1994
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,000
Speaker 4: You have to do all these things. Or you have

1995
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 4: to have such an overwhelming talent that people can ignore

1996
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:37,480
Speaker 4: some of your limitations, whether it be from a maturity

1997
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:41,320
Speaker 4: standpoint or from a teamwork standpoint, and hope to hone

1998
01:41:41,320 --> 01:41:43,760
Speaker 4: those skills over time by working with you. And maybe

1999
01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 4: Jean Moran falls more in that category. I don't know.

2000
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:48,679
Speaker 4: I don't know him personally, but I will say this.

2001
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:54,360
Speaker 4: I feel like these actions are a perfect example of

2002
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 4: what makes certain athletes great. If you tell me I can't,

2003
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:00,880
Speaker 4: if you tell me I won't, well and watch this,

2004
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 4: and that can be positive or it could be negative.

2005
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:08,680
Speaker 4: You know so, I think Jah, like many other great athletes,

2006
01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 4: so many times he's been told no in his life.

2007
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:13,840
Speaker 4: You can't. You won't be able to, and he's proved

2008
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 4: them wrong in really positive facets of his life. He's

2009
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:20,000
Speaker 4: he has to get out of the mentality that when

2010
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 4: he's being given good advice or good direction, that he

2011
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 4: has to push back on it because this is good advice.

2012
01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 4: He should stay away from guns. He should, that's just

2013
01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:35,560
Speaker 4: good advice. Jah. You know, he should probably stop gesturing

2014
01:42:36,200 --> 01:42:41,360
Speaker 4: with guns since he's already had multiple issues and face

2015
01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:45,800
Speaker 4: suspensions as a result of guns. Like he should. But

2016
01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 4: he can't help himself because so many times in his

2017
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 4: life it's worked out for him to push back on,

2018
01:42:53,439 --> 01:42:55,720
Speaker 4: you know, maybe some bad advice that he's getting and

2019
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:58,439
Speaker 4: doing it his way that I think that's stuck in

2020
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 4: his mind and he's stuck in the you know, self

2021
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:03,800
Speaker 4: perpetuating cycle, and it's going to damage him if he

2022
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:04,559
Speaker 4: doesn't fix this.

2023
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.

2024
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:10,240
Speaker 5: Because again, I don't watch a ton of NBA, so

2025
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 5: I don't know what the vibe has been this year

2026
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 5: with him and the Grizzlies. I do know tonight against Detroit,

2027
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 5: after the Pistons just clinched their playoff spot yesterday, might

2028
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 5: be a little hangover spot for Detroit. Betting wise, But

2029
01:43:22,160 --> 01:43:23,200
Speaker 5: that's neither here nor there.

2030
01:43:25,040 --> 01:43:25,720
Speaker 2: I'll just read a.

2031
01:43:25,760 --> 01:43:29,000
Speaker 5: Quote from Job because I can't get inside of his mind.

2032
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:30,880
Speaker 5: But you know, I think he laid it out pretty

2033
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:33,759
Speaker 5: good in this quote. I was pretty much a villain

2034
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 5: for two years now. Every little thing, if somebody can

2035
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:39,800
Speaker 5: say something negative about me, it's gonna be out there.

2036
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't care no more. Yeah, I would

2037
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:45,680
Speaker 5: say that's self defeating, right there. I go through this

2038
01:43:45,800 --> 01:43:49,280
Speaker 5: a lot in my career, in my betting life, where

2039
01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:51,160
Speaker 5: you just feel like you, no matter what you do,

2040
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 5: you're always wrong.

2041
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:53,200
Speaker 2: You're always the villain.

2042
01:43:53,240 --> 01:43:55,519
Speaker 5: You put an opinion out there on social media about

2043
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:57,560
Speaker 5: a game, about something, about a topic, and you just

2044
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:02,479
Speaker 5: get hammered with criticism. When that happens, you tend to

2045
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 5: ignore the positive. In fact, it got to a point

2046
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:08,800
Speaker 5: where when I first started this and I started to

2047
01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:12,680
Speaker 5: really see the negativity come up, I actually created a

2048
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 5: folder on my desktop that said you're doing a great job,

2049
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:19,520
Speaker 5: and I used to screenshot all of the positive comments.

2050
01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 2: I got and put him in that folder.

2051
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 5: So when I was having a bad day and it

2052
01:44:22,520 --> 01:44:24,960
Speaker 5: felt like the entire world was against me, I would

2053
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:26,760
Speaker 5: open up that folder and I would read all of

2054
01:44:26,760 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 5: the positive things that people said about me over the years,

2055
01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:30,320
Speaker 5: and it would make me feel better.

2056
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:32,479
Speaker 2: That's just mental health. One oh one.

2057
01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:34,479
Speaker 5: I think Jaws in a point right now where he

2058
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 5: is very much in his own head with this stuff,

2059
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 5: and he's doing it because he knows he's going to

2060
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 5: get a reaction, and he has painted himself in his

2061
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:45,520
Speaker 5: mind to be the villain. He just said it yesterday,

2062
01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 5: said it in the quote I'm the villain for two years.

2063
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:52,320
Speaker 5: Every little thing. I think that's over the top. I

2064
01:44:52,360 --> 01:44:57,000
Speaker 5: think things get like again, i haven't followed the NBA

2065
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 5: a lot this year, but I'm assuming at some point

2066
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 5: this year Jaw's been positively talked about. Like I'm sure

2067
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 5: it hasn't all been negative, but when you get inside

2068
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:06,000
Speaker 5: your head like this, it's it's hard to get out

2069
01:45:06,040 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 5: of it.

2070
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:12,160
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's it's okay if joh isn't letting

2071
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:15,519
Speaker 3: say the haters get him down right, like it's okay.

2072
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:18,519
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, I'm the villain. Whatever. It's not okay

2073
01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 3: if he doesn't care about making good decisions anymore, you.

2074
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:22,479
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.

2075
01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 3: Like it's like, well, you're gonna hate on me for

2076
01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:26,120
Speaker 3: one reason. Or another, So I might as well just

2077
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 3: have fun and maybe make a crazy decision from time

2078
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,439
Speaker 3: to time like that. No, that's not okay. This might

2079
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 3: be a silly way to look at it, but it's

2080
01:45:33,960 --> 01:45:38,000
Speaker 3: true your past impacts your present. Where if you look

2081
01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:41,240
Speaker 3: at Mike Breen, you know, the great play by play guy,

2082
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:45,639
Speaker 3: what's his famous call, He'll go bang, like if somebody

2083
01:45:45,720 --> 01:45:50,719
Speaker 3: hits a big shot. If Mike Breen had two ig

2084
01:45:51,040 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 3: live videos like holding a gun and he's suspended from

2085
01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:59,640
Speaker 3: the league from broadcasting games, he's no longer allowed to

2086
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:03,679
Speaker 3: have bang as his catchphrase, right, the nba'd be like, dude,

2087
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 3: this makes us think of the whole gun thing. You

2088
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:10,120
Speaker 3: can't do it, like that's where the NBA is. This

2089
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:12,840
Speaker 3: is a common thing in the NBA where guys celebrate

2090
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:16,960
Speaker 3: three pointers that are made, but because of Jaw's past

2091
01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 3: with the gun videos.

2092
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 2: He's not allowed to do it.

2093
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:22,400
Speaker 3: And I think this sometimes it gets twisted, at least

2094
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 3: for me. I can't say for everybody else who's a critic,

2095
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 3: but I think of a former radio partner I had

2096
01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:32,599
Speaker 3: in Fresno, shout out to a guy named Chris Daniel,

2097
01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:35,719
Speaker 3: and it's embedded in my head whatever we were talking about.

2098
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,400
Speaker 3: He would stress this. He's like, you won the game

2099
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 3: of life. He would just stress this point. And that's

2100
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 3: what Jah Morant has done. He's won the game of life.

2101
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:49,160
Speaker 3: His talent, his ability, what he's accomplished so far, He's

2102
01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 3: won the game of life. And it's a thing where

2103
01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:56,560
Speaker 3: sometimes the I don't know, the criticism or the frustration

2104
01:46:57,320 --> 01:47:01,639
Speaker 3: is born from don't throw it away, hey, don't take

2105
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:05,280
Speaker 3: it for granted, dude, what you have in your hand

2106
01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:08,840
Speaker 3: right here, and some of the decisions that he's made,

2107
01:47:08,880 --> 01:47:12,040
Speaker 3: he's threatening to do that and get in his own way,

2108
01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:14,000
Speaker 3: and so I want to see him succeed. I have

2109
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 3: no reason to personally hate on the guy, but if

2110
01:47:16,520 --> 01:47:19,040
Speaker 3: you hear some like venom in my voice, that's where

2111
01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:21,719
Speaker 3: it comes from. Oh yeah, hating on the guy. It's like, dude,

2112
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,559
Speaker 3: don't throw away the gifts that you have by being

2113
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 3: an idiot.

2114
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:30,480
Speaker 4: And sometimes, as a young person, you misread others' frustrations

2115
01:47:30,520 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 4: with your mistakes or your refusal to accept good advice

2116
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:40,879
Speaker 4: with malice or contempt or anger towards you. I remember

2117
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, there were sometimes where it

2118
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:47,280
Speaker 4: be either my parents or a coach or somebody who

2119
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:50,120
Speaker 4: knew better than me at the time. But when you're

2120
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 4: a teenager or you're a young man, you just think

2121
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:54,559
Speaker 4: you know everything, and so you look at them and

2122
01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:57,479
Speaker 4: be like, man, you know what, they're trying to knock

2123
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,519
Speaker 4: me off track, Like they're you know sometimes you know,

2124
01:48:00,560 --> 01:48:03,720
Speaker 4: depending on who you're receiving the advice from, you might

2125
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 4: even assume jealousy. You might say, oh, yeah, yeah, they're

2126
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:11,000
Speaker 4: just trying to knock me down because they could never

2127
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:14,559
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. That is a part of

2128
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 4: the psychology that he's got to get past. He's got

2129
01:48:19,080 --> 01:48:22,519
Speaker 4: to find a way to accept good advice, realize that

2130
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:25,360
Speaker 4: it's not everyone who's out to get him, you know.

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Speaker 4: In fact, sometimes your worst enemy is yourself. And I

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Speaker 4: think that's the problem. The other problem is when you're

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Speaker 4: a superstar, whether this be as an actor actress, whether

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Speaker 4: this be as a musician, whether this be as an athlete,

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Speaker 4: you end up entering a bubble where you are surrounded

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Speaker 4: by a lot of people who need things from you,

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Speaker 4: who tell you yes a lot, or tell you you're great.

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Speaker 4: And the problem with John Moran is he might be

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Speaker 4: in a bubble like that where regardless of where he

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Speaker 4: oversteps or goes wrong. He's going to have people who

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Speaker 4: rely on him want him to like them, so they're

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Speaker 4: gonna tell him exactly what he wants to hear. Tough love. Man,

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Speaker 4: It's hard to deliver tough love to somebody who won't

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Speaker 4: accept it, and John might be that type of guy.

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Speaker 4: And that's a that's unfortunately a level of maturity he's

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Speaker 4: gonna need to reach otherwise he could self destruct. And

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Speaker 4: that's a sad thing to see for a guy that

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Speaker 4: talented for a team who obviously has great hopes this season.

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Speaker 4: This is a playoff contender, obviously, the Memphis Grizzlies. So

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Speaker 4: we'll see where this storyline goes. But unfortunately it hasn't

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Speaker 4: been positive because it doesn't feel like he has an

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Speaker 4: easy time accepting this type of criticism and that that

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Speaker 4: comes with age time maturity, and he might be running

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Speaker 4: out of time to make these these better decisions. We'll

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Speaker 4: see where the storyline goes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, use three words. They're rich, age time, and maturity.

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Speaker 2: Ja Moran's twenty five years old.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, like like try to think. I think about

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Speaker 5: what I was doing at twenty five. It was twenty eleven.

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Speaker 5: I was working at fau. I was making about a

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Speaker 5: grand a month, and I was working like eighty hours

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Speaker 5: a week, and my life was a complete mess. I

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Speaker 5: had no future. You know, you know, your mind's not

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Speaker 5: thinking about, oh, what decisions can I make now to

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Speaker 5: set me up for my future? Like you're just living

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Speaker 5: in the moment. Like you're traveling around to all these

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Speaker 5: random sun Belt college you know, Sun Belt Conference schools

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Speaker 5: in baseball and women's basketball, and you're trying to you know,

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Speaker 5: get your next meal and get your I mean again,

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Speaker 5: I'm not comparing myself to joh at this age, but

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Speaker 5: you also have to consider twenty five is incredibly young

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Speaker 5: in terms of maturity standards. But because he's been in

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Speaker 5: the spotlight for so long, we view him as this

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Speaker 5: old old head.

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Speaker 4: He's not.

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Speaker 5: He's twenty five. He's got a lot of learning left

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Speaker 5: to do, a lot of life left to live. And

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Speaker 5: I'm sure he'll look back on this one day and

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Speaker 5: probably think he was a dummy.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how he responds.

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Speaker 5: I think there's obviously a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 5: changes that need to be made with how he approaches

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Speaker 5: his life. Because that quote that I've just read to

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Speaker 5: you earlier, I was pretty much a villain for two years.

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Speaker 2: Every little thing like that's such a woe as me.

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Speaker 5: Every little thing somebody can say negative about me, it's

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Speaker 5: going to be out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, you're.

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Speaker 5: A multimillionaire playing in one of the most prolific leagues

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Speaker 5: on the planet. Everything you do is going to be scrutinized.

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01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:27,800
Speaker 5: That is what you signed up for. That is the

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Speaker 5: life you lead.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: You have two options.

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Speaker 5: You can either accept that and grow from it, or

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Speaker 5: you can be self defeating about it and say, wow,

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Speaker 5: it doesn't really matter what I do because everything's going

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01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 5: to be spun negative. So here's another gun reference Like

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Speaker 5: that is just not the right way to go about

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Speaker 5: your life. You're going to end up in a very sad,

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Speaker 5: negative place.

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Speaker 2: Again. It is twenty five yep.

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Speaker 3: thinking about this with Duke in their Path because I

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Speaker 3: keep hearing about this, like, look at their path acc

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Speaker 3: is down. Look at who they played, Look, YadA YadA. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it could come into factor here right against a team

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Speaker 3: like Houston could be But I don't know about you, Rich, Like,

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Speaker 3: which do you think is a bigger factor? Is it

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Speaker 3: a lighter schedule or do you think it's the talent

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Speaker 3: that they have?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 3: Like, does it matter that they haven't played a murderer's

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Speaker 3: row like Auburn did or Florida did or playing in

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Speaker 3: the SEC? Does does it matter more in this matchup

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Speaker 3: against Houston that they didn't play the big boys one

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Speaker 3: after another, or does it matter more the talent that

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Speaker 3: they possess heading into this game? Which do you think

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Speaker 3: is a bigger factor.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the talent. Talent wins. You know, if

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Speaker 4: you were a duke team that really scrapped it out

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Speaker 4: against really good opponents all season long and ended up

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Speaker 4: arriving at the same record, but you just didn't have

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Speaker 4: the size, or you didn't have the type of players

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Speaker 4: that project well to the NBA, you know, the type

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Speaker 4: of players that really cause a lot of problems for

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Speaker 4: every team you'll face, you know, and this was more

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Speaker 4: of a strategy that floated them this far. We would

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Speaker 4: be looking at this game through a completely different lens.

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Speaker 4: But they've got it all. They have talent, they have

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Speaker 4: health on their side, they have a multiplicity of ways

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01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:34,479
Speaker 4: that they can defeat you offensively. They're good defenders. This

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Speaker 4: is a well balanced teams that they have some depth.

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01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:41,439
Speaker 4: Like Duke really truly is a very, very complete team.

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Speaker 4: And so I don't look at a week schedule and

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Speaker 4: judge them now as a final four team and say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: they really haven't been tested, because when you've made it

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Speaker 4: to the Final four, yes you have been tested. You

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Speaker 4: know you have. You've made it this far, You've survived

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Speaker 4: this tournament to this point. So I'm not gonna a

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Speaker 4: light schedule or week schedule against an unbelievably talented team.

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Speaker 5: Now agreed schedule is irrelevant at this point. I mean Alabama, Baylor, Arizona,

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01:54:11,760 --> 01:54:14,680
Speaker 5: those are good teams SEC Big twelve, good conferences.

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Speaker 2: Duke made them look like mincemeat.

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Speaker 5: The only thing that matters tonight is how Tugler and

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Speaker 5: Roberts matchup against Flag and can Flag create offense off

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Speaker 2: The hedges like that? Like the who Duke played in

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Speaker 2: January is completely irrelevant tonight.

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Speaker 5: I like it.

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Speaker 3: Look at that, Look at that breakdown here, huh team

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Speaker 3: on three.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jared, we start with you. What do you like?

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Speaker 5: Well, let's start with an appetizer on the diamond. The

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Speaker 5: Rays and Rangers. We're gonna go under four in the

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Speaker 5: first five innings. Jacob de Gram, TAJ Bradley today. Nurfy

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Speaker 5: season will be here soon. We're gonna dip our tone

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Speaker 5: in the water with an under in the first five today.

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Speaker 5: But to Grom's been fantastic six strikeouts of scoreless in

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Speaker 5: his debut and in the season debut. And Bradley's been

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Speaker 5: good too. How about this Rangers offense only eight runs

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Speaker 5: in eight games this year. We'll go under in the

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01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:01,000
Speaker 5: first five for the raising the now the main event,

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Speaker 5: the final four. I'll take five and a half with Houston,

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Speaker 5: so I think they'll have a slight home crowd advantage

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Speaker 5: in San Antonio. But here are the predictions from the

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Speaker 5: top rating services in college basketball. Ken Palm's got at

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Speaker 5: sixty eight, sixty six, Duke Torvik's got at sixty five,

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Speaker 5: sixty four, Duke Haslam's got at sixty six. All where

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Speaker 5: are we getting five and a half here? So I'll

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01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:20,600
Speaker 5: take the five and a half points with Houston tonight

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Speaker 5: against the Dukies.

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Speaker 2: And I'll take the points with Auburn as well.

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Speaker 5: Tigers, with the best team in college basketball pretty much

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Speaker 5: the entire year, I don't see why they're a dog

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01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:30,360
Speaker 5: in this matchup. I will bet on Broom being healthy

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01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 5: and Auburn shouldn't be a dog in this game, all right, give.

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Speaker 4: Me Duke Cooper Flag. I'm taking the over on the

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Speaker 4: six and a half rebound prop against Houston Flag. He's

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Speaker 4: had six or more rebounds in every tournament game. Duke

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01:57:45,440 --> 01:57:48,440
Speaker 4: doesn't get enough love for being a great rebounding team.

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Speaker 4: They are. And staying with Duke, give me Duke minus

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Speaker 4: five and a half. I think they're the best team

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Speaker 4: left in the field. I don't think it's particularly close.

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Speaker 4: They're playing their best basketball right now. And I also

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01:58:00,400 --> 01:58:03,839
Speaker 4: take the points with the Auburn Tigers two and a half. Johnny,

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Speaker 4: excuse me, jan I. Broom is a star, but I

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Speaker 4: think they also have a balanced offense around him and

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Speaker 4: some depth on that bench. So I like the Tigers

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Speaker 4: war Eagle.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna go with this Florida Auburn matchup. Give

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Speaker 3: me under one fifty nine and a half. Okay. I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna be this high flying regular season matchup.

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Speaker 3: I think that Listen, both teams can play some legit

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Speaker 3: defense with the stakes being what they are. I don't

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Speaker 3: think it's high flying running gun. Just you know you're open,

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Speaker 3: let it fly, baby like I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: under one. Fifty nine and a half is the side

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Speaker 3: that I like. I'm gonna go with Elijah Martin. I'm

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Speaker 3: double dipping. Give me over four and a half rebounds again,

2338
01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:55,080
Speaker 3: played thirty six minutes against Texas Tech in the last game.

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01:58:55,120 --> 01:58:58,720
Speaker 3: If he gets anywhere near that workload, he's gonna give

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Speaker 3: us five rebounds here. Uh in this matchup against Auburn,

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Speaker 3: and I'm torn. I'll be honest with you, guys. I

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01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:09,920
Speaker 3: am torn because I would I want to take Page

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01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:14,200
Speaker 3: Beckers under twenty four and a half point South Like

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01:59:14,280 --> 01:59:18,480
Speaker 3: Page Beckers is fantastic, but South Carolina there's such a

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01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:22,440
Speaker 3: deep team and they're just gonna be throwing fresh bodies

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01:59:22,480 --> 01:59:25,160
Speaker 3: at Page Beckers. So under twenty four and a half

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01:59:25,240 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 3: it's a good play, I think. Point total wise, we

2348
01:59:28,640 --> 01:59:32,400
Speaker 3: only have so many opportunities to fade the Philadelphia seventy

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01:59:32,480 --> 01:59:34,880
Speaker 3: six ers here. You know the season, Oh yeah, actually,

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01:59:38,480 --> 01:59:41,840
Speaker 3: I can't forsake this vibe, Jade, you gotta keep going

2351
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:47,000
Speaker 3: with it. The t Wolves, they're trying to win games,

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01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:49,680
Speaker 3: they're trying to get out of the play in stage.

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01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:55,640
Speaker 3: There's sixteen and a half point favorites. They blow the

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01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:58,440
Speaker 3: doors off Philly. Give me the t Wolves minus the

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01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:01,720
Speaker 3: sixteen and a half. There's a countdown show tomorrow. I

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Speaker 3: can take page Beckers under.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the day of the game. Save save

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Speaker 5: your Beckers bet for tomorrow. I think you bet the

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Speaker 5: Grizzlies tonight too, against the Pistons who just clinched yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll work out. Watch the Sixers, you know, lose

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02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:17,400
Speaker 3: by three. You know my bet is screwed up Here

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Speaker 3: everybody enjoyed the Final four