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Speaker 1: welcome back Mike Harmon, who you probably saw. How was

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Speaker 1: the Coldplay concert last night? You look like you're having

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Speaker 1: a good time. I saw you all over the place today.

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Speaker 2: The hell of a run. Yeah, I mean I didn't

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Speaker 2: expect to see you, but.

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Speaker 5: I was the guy before the guy. But yeah, whatever

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Speaker 5: you need to do with that, have had it.

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Speaker 1: Just making sure because it looked like you were having

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Speaker 1: a good time. And then you know, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, apparently it was a thing today.

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Speaker 6: Evidently got of a big deal.

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Speaker 5: It's the first time Coldplay has been relevant other than

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Speaker 5: that that Beatles movie that came out.

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Speaker 1: Now, wait, how long a Viva Levita couldn't have been

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Speaker 1: twenty years ago? No, no, no, no, no, come on,

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Speaker 1: Viva lavin no way, Viva Viva Levita was like maybe

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Speaker 2: I think he might be right.

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Speaker 1: And wow, that was really fast that Alex Tischer had two.

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Speaker 6: Thousand and eight.

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Speaker 2: So was that long ago? Wow? So right in the

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Speaker 2: middle for us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but any way, two eight seventeen. If we're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: Math, wells right there right in the middle.

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Speaker 6: There, right a meeting part of the curve, in the.

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Speaker 2: Media, part of that curve. I can't believe it's been

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Speaker 1: I mean, they bring people together in large drogs. But

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Speaker 1: do they bring people together or do they they? I

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Speaker 1: think you can you can argue both sides of the

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Speaker 5: Well, the fact that he issued a statement now about

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Speaker 5: it blaming cold.

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Speaker 6: Play, and it's cold Plays chuckling at him.

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Speaker 2: And we didn't have to be on the Kiss camp.

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Speaker 2: We didn't have to be on this. It's not my fault.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 5: It's on the back of the ticket or the digital

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Speaker 5: representation thereof that you received from wherever you got your tickets,

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Speaker 5: saying on the back, once you go in, I'll be

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you get it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anything that you can't in other words, basically it

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Speaker 1: should just say hey, by holding this ticket, you can't

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Speaker 1: sue us.

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Speaker 2: Like, that's all we need to say. You don't need

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Speaker 2: any fine.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of disclaimers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could save ink everywhere because people know by

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Speaker 1: this point, just say hey, if you hold this ticket,

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Speaker 2: That's all you need to know. This a everybody knows.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, Yeah, don't give about fine print all this stuff,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah.

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Speaker 6: This indentifies us about a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 2: All it is.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, look, I never got paid for being

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Speaker 5: part of a video game many many years ago. I

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Speaker 5: couldn't even get them to give me a free game.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, what am I gonna do.

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Speaker 2: If you were on the kiss cam? Maybe? Maybe because

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Speaker 6: In the crowd, I was the cheering cam.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, you look at Mike Harmon, he's

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Speaker 1: the guy in purple shorts that's cheering and yelling.

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Speaker 5: Well, a couple of years ago I went to a

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Speaker 5: game with my brothers and ended up on camera for

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Speaker 5: quite a while. It became a thing around here, mocking me.

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Speaker 2: All right, very nice, Okay.

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Speaker 6: I had nothing to do with the incident in question.

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Speaker 2: Your brothers have anything to do with it because I

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Speaker 6: You normally just accuse them of stealing things.

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Speaker 5: I don't think they co opted any camera wells at

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Speaker 5: a cold Play concert. My brothers wouldn't walk across the

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Speaker 5: street to have anything to do with Coldplay shows. Okay,

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Speaker 5: cold Play is. Coldplay is very innocuous.

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Speaker 6: I'm not demigrating them. I'm just telling you that my

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Speaker 1: It's not something where I say, oh I have this

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Speaker 1: inventerate hatred. There's this ingrained hatred of cold Play.

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Speaker 2: No, this is okay. You could like Coldplay, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: I don't like that Coldplay doesn't invoke that kind of

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Speaker 1: the street for it. That's how little cold play is

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Speaker 1: meant in their respective life and was I like some

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Speaker 1: cold play? So I'll just say, hey, would you walk

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Speaker 2: I mean I might do that. I mean I might not,

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Speaker 5: It depends how big the street is. Are we talking

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Speaker 5: Vegas streets all right? Because if Vegas streets, probably not.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna take me. It sent me forty five minutes

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Speaker 2: to walk across the street. Not gonna do it, Not

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Speaker 1: Uh So, yes, you could take your pick tonight again

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Speaker 1: waiting for baseball to start tomorrow night. We got big

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Speaker 1: headlines out of the WNBA, out of the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: out of the NBA, A story that. Look, I admit,

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Speaker 2: Then I got it. But to make a decision this fast.

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard is going back home, and by home, I

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Speaker 1: mean he's going back to Portland. As he rehabs all

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Speaker 1: the blood clot as well, he had the torn achilles.

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Speaker 1: Missed the playoffs this year for the Bucks, and it

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Speaker 1: Here Milwaukee buys him out for over one hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 1: and hey, the narrative was Damian Lillard one of the

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Speaker 1: most exciting players in the NBA who's kind of passed

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Speaker 1: gonna take his time, can rehab on his own back

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Speaker 1: in Portland with his family, and he'll take his time

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Speaker 1: picking his next team. He'll take nothing but time. Dah,

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Speaker 1: this is a decision that could be a year away. Nope,

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Speaker 1: it's already made, as he has decided to go back

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Speaker 1: to Portland for three years and forty two million dollars. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's not a lot of money, but obviously he's someone

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Speaker 1: going to be likely a two year deal. He's also

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Speaker 5: He also also told that money from Milwaukee. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know, so he talked about with Bradley Beal yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I said when I was.

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Speaker 1: Getting that he's getting one hundred and thirteen million dollars.

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Speaker 1: But this contract, this is what the Blazers are on

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm happy for Damian Lillard. And I'm

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Speaker 1: starting to realize that not that I feel guilty, but

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of thoughts in my head. I've had

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Speaker 1: one of the conversations day, yeah, one of the kind

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Speaker 1: was on the air, off the air, is about how

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of NBA players that enjoy the

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Speaker 1: lifestyle of being an NBA star and the winning is

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Speaker 1: not something that they're so obsessed with. And look, this

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Speaker 1: is why players like Kobe and Lebron all cut through

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Speaker 1: if I don't win, it's okay. Like the old Scotti Scheffler, Hey,

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Speaker 1: You I'm sick and tired of talking about how great

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Speaker 1: you could be winning titles. Man, you could be going places.

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Speaker 1: home to play and play the rest of Mike or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is it is, I can still find a joint.

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Speaker 2: I'm still gonna go out and try to win every night.

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Speaker 1: But am I I'm but if I don't make it

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Speaker 1: in Red Sox games, It's on TVs and movies. Teams

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Speaker 1: have co opted it. I never have to work again.

440
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,360
Speaker 1: I just get the royalty from sweet Caroline.

441
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Speaker 6: It's brilliant. Keeps on rolling in the machine, rolls on.

442
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 1: But this game Sweden England was an amazing afternoon watch

443
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Speaker 1: to nil Sweden. League evaporates. And then you have Jennifer Falk.

444
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Speaker 5: These Swedish goalie saves four penalty get saves four? Not hey,

445
00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 5: they missed it over the crossbark like Sweden did. As

446
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,760
Speaker 5: you heard there a couple of times, including Fulk herself

447
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Speaker 5: with a chance to win the game, says four.

448
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Speaker 1: Here's a big deal about this is four players from

449
00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,640
Speaker 1: each team missed. Yeah, well you've never seen that. Usually

450
00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,000
Speaker 1: if there's two misses, that's a lot in the pendal.

451
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Speaker 1: I thought that's a horrible penalty for a team.

452
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Speaker 2: The first four.

453
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Speaker 1: Players on each team missed. It's like, what is happening here?

454
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Speaker 1: We had four misses? Seriously four? And then loose Bronze

455
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,720
Speaker 1: is the one who scores for England and you know

456
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,639
Speaker 1: how Berman would say this, how Burn would call this.

457
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,840
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this all day. And DJ Lucy

458
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Speaker 1: Bronze with the game winner, moving England onto the semi

459
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Speaker 1: finals where they hope to not finish third.

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Speaker 2: DJ I had to it writes itself, doesn't it writes.

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Speaker 1: It's well done, It writes itself. Bronze helping them to

462
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Speaker 1: not finish third.

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Speaker 6: Now it's really really good.

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Speaker 5: Uh fight uh in this match all the way through

465
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Speaker 5: and then the penalty gigs were insane.

466
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Speaker 1: Man, I mean, you go zero for eight the first

467
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 1: think about that in Vegas. I'm gonna bet miss penalty

468
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 1: and I'm rolling over and I'm doubling it every single

469
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Speaker 1: one double and.

470
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Speaker 2: Miss here, miss here, miss here.

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Speaker 1: Miss I'll own the win at the end of this

472
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Speaker 1: penalty thing. I gotta know when to stop, though, I

473
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Speaker 1: got it what it'stopped.

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Speaker 5: But the sweetish goally saved for that's one thing to

475
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Speaker 5: hit your post, sail it whatever, like for saves like yeah,

476
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Speaker 5: you're dominating, yeah, oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's incredible, incredible, But I mean to

478
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Speaker 1: get I mean when I say yeah, I mean when

479
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Speaker 1: I say four, I mean four unsuccessful penalties converted.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's just I mean that that you

481
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Speaker 2: never see.

482
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Speaker 1: You may never see that again, the fret you know,

483
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Speaker 1: out out of first four on each team.

484
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Speaker 2: I really you may never see that again.

485
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Speaker 6: First time in the history of the Women's Euros that

486
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Speaker 6: a team came back from two goals down in a

487
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Speaker 6: knockout match to win.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'll tell you. Uh so, congratulations England is the

489
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Speaker 2: play of the day. Uh So.

490
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in the NFL today, DJ Watt and the Steelers

491
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: agreed to a three year, one hundred and twenty three

492
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Speaker 1: million dollar extension.

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Speaker 2: Right now, this is a story that we knew was

494
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Speaker 2: going to have some sort of head to head solution because.

495
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: Wadd had, you know, put a couple of cryptic things

496
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Speaker 1: up on social media he wanted a new contract. Like

497
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Speaker 1: this is a guy who's been one of the top

498
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Speaker 1: two or three defensive players in the game over the

499
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Speaker 1: course of the past, you know, six or seven years,

500
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 1: coming off a really good year last year at the

501
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,719
Speaker 1: age of thirty, eleven and a half sacks, right, I mean,

502
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: he's still one of the pre eminent defensive players in

503
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Speaker 1: the game and he's still playing at a high level. Right, So, okay,

504
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 1: and I understand that you're paying TJ. Watt because you're

505
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Speaker 1: paying him for the player he is and has been,

506
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 1: and not the guy he's going to be. Right, we

507
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: still see the players like TJ. Watt, Miles Garrett. You know,

508
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: you get to the age of thirty, thirty one, thirty two, Hey,

509
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 1: you can still be dominant, but eventually, you know that

510
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: runs out you get into your mid thirties, into your

511
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: early thirties. So yeah, I think the Steelers know that, Okay,

512
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Speaker 1: we'll get a good year from him this year, maybe

513
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Speaker 1: we get one more. Maybe you know, he's been healthy

514
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: for the most part his entire career, so okay, but

515
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Speaker 1: this is a contract that was for what he's done

516
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Speaker 1: and what he's going to do maybe this year, right,

517
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Speaker 1: which I get. But it's but in the end, and

518
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: you know there's a butt coming here. But this just

519
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: shows you that the Steelers, I don't know that they

520
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 1: are really in tune with what it is to succeed

521
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Speaker 1: in the NFL in twenty twenty five. I really don't

522
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: look at this decision that they made. Okay, here's TJ. Watt,

523
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: we want him to retire a Steeler. That was their

524
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: whole big thing wanted to retire a Steeler. You know what,

525
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 1: first of all that era in sports, that's helen gone. Man,

526
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: you are holding onto something that is thirty years old.

527
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: Oh we want him to have it. You know what happens.

528
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: You don't pay a guy that's thirty thirty one years

529
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 1: old one hundred and twenty million dollars where, boy, it's

530
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: really gonna suck. At a year and a half, this

531
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 1: contract is gonna really suck for us. You don't do that.

532
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: You let the guy go to another team, let somebody

533
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Speaker 1: else pay him, and in the end he comes back.

534
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Speaker 1: You retire his number. He retires a Steeler because he's

535
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Speaker 1: always been a Steeler. He plays the majority's grist. That's

536
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: kind of how it goes. But the Steelers are stuck

537
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: with such an antiquated way of doing things like this

538
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: is something that really matters, and I'm scratching my head, going,

539
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: how do they think this is?

540
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 2: This is gonna go right?

541
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Speaker 1: You decided the Yeah, TJ. Watt terrific defensive players. Still

542
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Speaker 1: we've seen the best of him, though can't argue that

543
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Speaker 1: we've seen the best of him as he's thirty one

544
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Speaker 1: years old. They decided it was more important to them

545
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: to give TJ. Watt a three year contract at thirty

546
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Speaker 1: one instead of going in for the last couple of

547
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: years and going to get a quarterback and paying him

548
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Speaker 1: to come in because it's the most important bleeping position

549
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: on the field. They've decided it's a hey, we want

550
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Speaker 1: to pay a defensive lineman all kinds of money who's

551
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Speaker 1: passed the age of thirty.

552
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: But hey, quarterback, we want to.

553
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Speaker 1: Shop in the bargain bin and try to make it

554
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Speaker 1: work with Russell Wilson all maybe justin fields because the

555
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: Bears kicked them and oh now Aaron Rodgers doesn't have

556
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: a place to go, We're gonna go no, no, forget about

557
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: hey moving up, making a bold move in the draft

558
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Speaker 1: to go get your quarterback of the future, getting into

559
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: free agency, making a trade to go win now. Like

560
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Speaker 1: the Steelers, it's such an antiquated way.

561
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Speaker 2: Of doing it.

562
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Speaker 1: It's almost like they're the Lakers of the NFL, in

563
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: which the Lakers run as a mom and pop store

564
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: for so long. Hey, this is how things used to be.

565
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: And look, I was sad when when the Lakers got

566
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Speaker 1: sold because I liked it. They that was kind of

567
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: what they were. But I also understand that's not a

568
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Speaker 1: way that's feasible to you run a team in twenty

569
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: twenty five. So yeah, when the Lakers got sold, like, okay,

570
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: first thing he said was maybe now it's gonna be better.

571
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: Maybe now they're gonna be run like a like a

572
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Speaker 1: professional NBA twenty twenty five franchise.

573
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 2: I look at the Steelers say the same thing.

574
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Speaker 1: You guys know what it is to run a team, right,

575
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: You guys know that you can't keep going cheap at

576
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: quarterback like it's nineteen eighty five and you're gonna senter

577
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Speaker 1: out and say.

578
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 2: Hey, we can win with a We can win with

579
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: Neil O'Donnell.

580
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Speaker 1: Okay, look I watch video and Neil o'donnald getting the

581
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: Steelers to the super Bowl. We can No, you can't

582
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: do it that way. You don't win unless you have

583
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: you have a great quarterback. And the Steelers are one

584
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Speaker 1: of those teams where the standards are a little bit higher.

585
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: It's not just about hey we're staying competitive, we're winning.

586
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 1: The Steelers have different standards. And I watch this antiquated

587
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: way they're running things, and I just go, someone's gotta

588
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: have some kind of intervention. And tell the Steelers, hey,

589
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: you don't think it's really weird. You don't think that

590
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: that's the It's not the right thing to do to say,

591
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Speaker 1: here's a pass rusher over the age of thirty, here's

592
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty million dollars, and we're gonna sign

593
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks for absolutely next to nothing.

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Speaker 2: What world does that make sense?

595
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Speaker 5: One hundred and eight million of it guaranteed three year

596
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 5: extension back to back years. He did participate in all

597
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 5: seventeen games, nineteen and a half sacks two years ago,

598
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 5: eleven and a half this past year. You've got a

599
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 5: roster that Omar Khan he got his three year extension

600
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 5: that was announced a couple of weeks ago. So you've

601
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 5: got your bases in your quarterback position certainly is not

602
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 5: pushed aside at all, right, because I've got my whole

603
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 5: tap system, the Harmon tap system. I need a thrower,

604
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 5: I need an attacker, and I need a protector. You

605
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 5: can give me whatever else you need out of that.

606
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 5: But if I got those three things, I'm feeling pretty good.

607
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 5: It's like my Big Three. See what I did. I

608
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 5: brought it back after the NBA killed it. But it's

609
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 5: the moving forward.

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Speaker 1: You decided you saw enough on tape with his resume,

611
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: his history, the.

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Speaker 5: First thing being, hey, we want him to retire here.

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Speaker 5: Probably not the best, but that's who they are, right.

614
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Speaker 6: And it's the family.

615
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 5: So they're gonna they're gonna acknowledge that at every turn,

616
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 5: and they did with all of the veterans in the past,

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00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 5: and even in changes in the front office. The Rooney

618
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 5: family remains at the top, so only so much change.

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Speaker 5: We do this with all the owners and every sport

620
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 5: Jason that are that are still their long term that

621
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 5: it's it's hard to what the proverbial teach an old

622
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 5: dog new tricks kind of thing.

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Speaker 6: Right.

624
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 5: We do it with Jerry Jones. We do it in

625
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 5: baseball with my beloved White Sox, Bulls and all those franchises.

626
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 5: Maybe they're finally turning the page with the Bears. But

627
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 5: all of that to say, they decided this is where

628
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 5: they're gonna commit money, which means they're going to be

629
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 5: just good enough to be on the periphery of the playoffs,

630
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 5: maybe get in and then eventually lose fairly quickly thereafter.

631
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Speaker 5: You and I don't know what it's like to have

632
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 5: a franchise that wins fairly consistently.

633
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 6: We just don't Oh no, no, no, right.

634
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: The FoST thing I have is the Mets because we

635
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: were in the NLCS last year and we're in a

636
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: wildcard spot this year.

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00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're in a World series a decade ago.

638
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a big sample size man's.

639
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 5: Year anniversary of a world series that ESPN refuses to acknowledge.

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00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: Okay, So all of that to say, I don't know

641
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: how I would like as a Steeler fan. You're excited.

642
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 6: TJ. Watt stays right.

643
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: It doesn't ultimately get to the tradeing for pennies on

644
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: the dollar and all of those things, But it's just

645
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 1: that curiosity of.

646
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 6: How do you really feel about it?

647
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: Are you okay with being just good enough versus going

648
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: towards greatness? It goes back to what we were talking

649
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: about with Damian Lillard, the rich tapestry we weave. Is

650
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: it good enough to just, hey, the check keeps going,

651
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: I got a thing to go show my wares, I

652
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: get to punch in, I punch.

653
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 5: Out, and we go back to our lives. Or do

654
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 5: you actually want something a little more? That's the question.

655
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 5: And not having won twenty straight years, I have no idea.

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Speaker 5: How the hell that's supposed to feel. I haven't done

657
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Speaker 5: that since a couple of years with the Blackhawks and

658
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Speaker 5: and then the Bulls, all the way back to ninety

659
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Speaker 5: seven to ninety eight, ten years before Coldplay was like wow.

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Speaker 1: And now cold Play catching straight. Yeah, Mike Harmon, Coldplay

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Speaker 1: got me. I mean, look, in no world does what

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Speaker 1: the Steelers do make sense. I mean, just think about

663
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Speaker 1: this for a second. What do we need need a quarterbacks?

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? We're gonna try to get

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Speaker 1: one as cheap as possible. I mean really, I mean

666
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Speaker 1: we were. They were lucky enough to have to be

667
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Speaker 1: sold on Roethlisberger for nearly two decades, and they won

668
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Speaker 1: with him, and they won the Super Bowls. Yeah, they

669
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Speaker 1: won two. What a great time. And now they's like, yeah, no,

670
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: we don't want that anymore. Like whether it's the team

671
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Speaker 1: feels we can win with the quarterback being a necessary evil,

672
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Speaker 1: you can't. It's the NFL in twenty twenty five, or

673
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Speaker 1: however they arrive at these decisions.

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Speaker 2: None of none of this makes sense. Not not even the.

675
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Speaker 1: Jets on their worst day would say, hey, we don't

676
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: need a quarterback. They just always go for the wrong ones.

677
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: The Jets know they need a quarterback. They just can't

678
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Speaker 1: pick it right no matter what, which makes it. You know,

679
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter the little nervous now this year, aren't you.

680
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: They gonna go back and get Tom Brady in his

681
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: prime and they would probably screw it up. Ago Brady

682
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: just can't start stop throwing interceptions. All he does, throw

683
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: it deep, throw it deep like that. At least the

684
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: Jets know, hey, we gotta go. Even the Lions that

685
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: couldn't get things done for a lot, what we gotta

686
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Speaker 1: go get a quarterback.

687
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Speaker 2: Oh, they go get a quarterback. Okay, it works out.

688
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: And the Steelers, hey, we're just gonna try to do

689
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: this with duct tape and gum like they're mcguiver and

690
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: they're trying to jerry rig something together to say, ah,

691
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, I can I can blow up this big

692
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: bomb that's coming in by just using a twig and

693
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Speaker 1: and a sling shot and and and a doctor pepper.

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Speaker 1: How do we do it? Just trust me, Just trust me,

695
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Like That's how the Steelers are trying

696
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Speaker 1: to do it. I mean, in no world does this

697
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: make sense how they're doing things cheap at quarterback. But yeah,

698
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: we want to give a team legend three years and

699
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, to be fair, the Lions always had the quarterback,

701
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Speaker 5: the running back, and wide receiver.

702
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Speaker 6: They didn't have a whole hell of a lot else.

703
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Speaker 5: There were a couple of good players that mix there

704
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Speaker 5: in I don't want to denigrate careers if some of

705
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Speaker 5: those linemen are a few of those defence.

706
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Speaker 6: They're out there and they know who they are.

707
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Speaker 5: But you know, Matthew Stafford was always everybody's favorite, your

708
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 5: favorite quarterback's favorite quarterback, and then he still had to

709
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Speaker 5: go to Los Angeles.

710
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Speaker 2: To win.

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Speaker 1: Exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swollen down The Jason

712
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the Fox Sports

713
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Speaker 1: Radio studios, Time out to find out what's trending in

714
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Speaker 1: the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called

715
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: the Matthew Stafford of Fox Sports Radio, he spent so

716
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Speaker 1: much time in Detroit before he realized, I gotta get

717
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles.

718
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Speaker 2: It's Martin Weiss.

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Speaker 6: And then he immediately started winning championship. About that.

720
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Speaker 9: Nine time NBA All Star Damian Lillard finalizing a three year,

721
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 9: forty two million dollars contract return a contract to return

722
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Speaker 9: to the Portland Trail Blazers after a brief dalliance in Milwaukee.

723
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Speaker 9: The dealers expected to include a player option for twenty

724
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Speaker 9: twenty seven and a no trade clause. More than forty

725
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Speaker 9: w NBA players gathered Thursday for in person meeting with

726
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Speaker 9: the Women's Nation the WNBPA. It was the biggest in

727
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Speaker 9: person player turnout union history. During CBA talks, they met

728
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 9: for a couple hours and ended with no resolution. Caitlin

729
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Speaker 9: Clark will missed a three point contest on All Star

730
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Speaker 9: Game in Indianapolis this weekend after sustaining a groin injury

731
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Speaker 9: versus Sun on Tuesday. Her statement said that she'll be

732
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Speaker 9: present for all the action and I just saw social

733
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Speaker 9: media video of her walking up to I forget where

734
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 9: Courtney Williams plays now, but Courtney Williams is head. I

735
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 9: spent three hours watching your live stream as the WNBA

736
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Speaker 9: is doing their Opening Nights type of thing for their

737
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Speaker 9: All Star So she's locked in.

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Speaker 6: She's locked in.

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Speaker 2: Will not be participating.

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Speaker 9: Speaking of locked in, TJ Watt three years, one hundred

741
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Speaker 9: and twenty three million dollar extension that makes him the

742
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Speaker 9: highest paid none quarterback in NFL history, not for the

743
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Speaker 9: first time, but for the second time in his career

744
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 9: one hundred and eight fully guaranteed at signing forty one

745
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 9: million per year average. First baseman Rowdy tu Les took

746
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Speaker 9: part in the work out with the Texas Rangers Thursday,

747
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 9: with the expectation he'll join the team after the All

748
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 9: Star break ends tomorrow. Coach quarterback Anthony Richardson believed to

749
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Speaker 9: have recovered from his recent right shoulder setback as a

750
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 9: team prepares to report for training camp next week. And

751
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Speaker 9: the only first round pick who's not signed rookie Cincinnati

752
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 9: Bengal or might be. I guess Cincinnati Bigo's on his

753
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 9: draft rights, then they're not paying him yet. Shamar Stewart

754
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 9: Texas A and M. Mike Elko, this is where we're

755
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 9: at with the hit. The tech coach of Texas A

756
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 9: and M squashed any speculation that Shamar Stewart may be

757
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 9: potentially seeking a return to college amid the contract dispute.

758
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Speaker 9: So things went well in Cincinnati, got transison.

759
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Speaker 6: And they still got to pay that guy.

760
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: Joe, You know what are we doing?

761
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Speaker 5: He's still heading flowers to TJ. Watt here's the thing,

762
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, I had a really rough first year

764
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: out of college, like out of out of Syria, like

765
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: your early twenties is a tough age.

766
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Speaker 2: But I had a really rough first year.

767
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Speaker 1: I never thought about, Hey, I could go back to

768
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Speaker 1: colle I could if they let me, I would go back.

769
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,719
Speaker 1: I'd be like, No, I'm too old now I'm twenty two,

770
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Speaker 1: I can't go back there. You got go back to

771
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: college till my friends are going. No, I can't do that.

772
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 5: You could always make new friends, nada. You can run

773
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 5: the collegeine as you walked around campus.

774
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: No, I'd feel like the old guy, like this guy graduated, okay,

775
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: keep by beer for us'd be friends of them. I'd

776
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just like I'm hanging out with a

777
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: like i'd be babysitting kids. Meanwhile, I'm the same age

778
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: as a lot of the I couldn't go back to

779
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: college and they said, yeah, go do it, Like no,

780
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: I did you do it? And you're done and it's hard.

781
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: It's hard to go back.

782
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Speaker 6: You'd go back and do it now?

783
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: Though, Uh, you know, I always thought, honestly, if I

784
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: could come up with something where you know, they do

785
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, fantasy camp for baseball and fantasy camp for

786
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: different sports, Like you go and you learn from legends

787
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: and you play baseball and everything. Like I said, could

788
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: you do college fantasy camp where you would you go

789
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: back to college for a week. You'd live in a

790
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Speaker 1: dorm and you know, with roommates everything, and you would

791
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Speaker 1: go to classes. You go do the classes that you

792
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: want to go to, Like you talk about history or English.

793
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: You know'd be like book club or whatever it was,

794
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: or or history, and those are the classes you go

795
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: to and you eat on campus and you go out

796
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: to happy hour all the time.

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Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, would that be something people would

798
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: go for? I don't know. I always thought would that

799
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 2: be something people say?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go relive, I got my my my back

801
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: to school week here, man would go back to college,

802
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: going back to Tennessee for a week. I got Tennessee

803
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: legends going back, gonna stay in the same dor, I'm

804
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: gonna stay like I wonder if that's something people would do.

805
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, people would pay for that, there's no think about y'all.

806
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 2: Absolutely patent pending.

807
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 5: I really thought you were gonna say, can you go

808
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 5: and and teach people how to be on the radio whatever.

809
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 6: Like I think there's some folks that are trying that.

810
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I just mean to go back

811
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Speaker 1: and live a week like it was a college Yeah, yeah, no,

812
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 1: And there's a market for that. You could blow off

813
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: whatever assignments you wanted to because at the end, you

814
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about it. You're paying for it. Like, hey,

815
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: this assignment's do Friday, and you could choose to do

816
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: it or not do it. See, and that's the best part.

817
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: You just tell everybody you're a current college, pro football

818
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: or basketball player.

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Speaker 2: I think there's something to that. Hang on, you know,

820
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 2: we got to get back, you know, let's put a

821
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: pin in this.

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00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 6: To write back to that. Yeah.

823
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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

824
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Speaker 1: Coming up next to big time wide receivers in the

825
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: news today, two very different stories. That's next. Jason and

826
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: Mike Fox with us now on the hot Line. You

827
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: can follow him at the Steinline on Twitter. It is

828
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Speaker 1: Mark Stein, Mark. What's happening man? Happy summer?

829
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: Nope? Is Mark there? Hey? Mark you there?

830
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 4: I'm here. Hey, I'm here, I'm here. I heard you.

831
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: Okay, we got we got some you know.

832
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Speaker 1: Look, it's it. It's been a crazy show tonight, but

833
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: we're all good. How's your summer so far?

834
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Speaker 4: You guys lost my number?

835
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: Well, Harmon was on vacation. I got vacation. We you know,

836
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: we were taking some time.

837
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: Hey, you know it's it's it's the jet setting lifestyle

838
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: here we have on radio vacation.

839
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's a little thing called NBA Free agency.

840
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 4: If you guys not heard of that, What do you

841
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 4: mean vacation?

842
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: I know, but I can't keep waiting for the trades market.

843
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: Some At some point wife is gonna say, hey, we

844
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: got it. We gotta go at some point. I'm like, okay,

845
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: but the trades are coming any day, any day now.

846
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got July twenty fifth to mid August. What

847
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 4: are you missing? Exhibition football and NFL training camp?

848
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: So are we still going to get that? Are we

849
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: still going to get any big trades coming soon? Or

850
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: is that kind of starting to go away?

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Speaker 4: Well, look, I think you have to in all seriousness.

852
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 4: I mean, there were five six pretty significant trades before

853
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 4: the draft, and I think you guys have heard this

854
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: speech from me before that, Like if it didn't happen yesterday,

855
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: we all say this off season was a dudge. I

856
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 4: mean no, this off season was not a dud. And

857
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Speaker 4: even today like Damian Lillard, Damian Lillard, you know, and

858
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 4: basically announcing that he is going back to the Portland

859
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 4: Trailblazers is a pretty significant mid July curve ball slash surprise.

860
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 4: So even free agency, you know, nobody has cap space,

861
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 4: so free agents aren't moving from team to team. That's

862
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 4: just not the way it happens anymore, because so many

863
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 4: free agents sign extensions. But between trades, the way the

864
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 4: whole Miles Turner thing unfolded, and now Damian Lillard waved

865
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 4: and stretched but going back to the Blazers like I would,

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00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 4: I would stauntily dispute the notion of a dud summer.

867
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Speaker 4: But can I promise you another blockbuster trade on the

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Speaker 4: level of Kevin Durant to Houston Porzingis and Holiday getting

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Speaker 4: moved by the Celtics. I mean, I cannot promise you,

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Speaker 4: but I also wouldn't be shocked.

871
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 2: Well, well, what do you make of the Lillard thing

872
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: like that?

873
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 1: We all thought, Okay, he's going to take a long time,

874
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: He's going to rehab in Portland before he chooses next

875
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: team and not Nope, he's back there three years, forty

876
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:42,720
Speaker 1: two million.

877
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 4: I think you guys know me pretty well by now.

878
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 4: I think you know I am an incurable romantic.

879
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: So I love it.

880
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 4: I love the story. Look, he asked out, he asked

881
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 4: for a trade. That was certainly part of it. Now,

882
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: I think the Blazers helped nudge him to that place.

883
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 4: It was not one hundred percent on him, but you

884
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 4: know it was. He left on his own volition, essentially

885
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 4: asking for a trade. They traded into Milwaukee. It didn't work.

886
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, what the Bucks did was incredibly bold.

887
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: I mean, the Bucks have always been bold in the

888
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 4: yannasen to the Cumpo era, but no, what they gave

889
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 4: up to trade for Drew Holliday was massive, and that

890
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 4: led to a championship and an instant Jana Kumbo contract extension.

891
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 4: Before that, they made the big swing trade for Lillard

892
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 4: that obviously didn't work nearly as well in the playoffs,

893
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 4: but that also led to a Janis and to the

894
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 4: Kumbo contract extension, and then just the pathway they took

895
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 4: to wave and stretch Lillard and create the cap space

896
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 4: to sign Miles Turner. And you know, we still don't

897
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 4: have a super clear indication of how Janna Santetokounpo really

898
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 4: feels about that transaction. Have the Bucks done enough to

899
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 4: placate him and convince him that this team can get

900
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 4: back on a title winning pass. That will will have

901
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 4: to see and we'll see how that plays out. But

902
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 4: Damian Lillard decided to go back to Portland. He's going

903
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 4: to be out for this whole season. But uh, like

904
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 4: I said, I you know, I don't know if they'll

905
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 4: ever win a championship now because the Blazers have a

906
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 4: lot of teams ahead of them in the West. But

907
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 4: I like, I like guys who wanted to stay in

908
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 4: one place, and you know, he did take a two

909
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 4: season d tour, but he is going to be I

910
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 4: mean he lives there in the off season. I mean

911
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 4: that is his home and he is he is back

912
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 4: home now full time.

913
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 2: So I love it. I really do.

914
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: Mark talking about another buyout, you know, stretch kind of situation.

915
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: Clippers add Bradley Beal and finally he's got a new

916
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: home after all of the chaos that we had with Phoenix.

917
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: How much does it move the needle for them?

918
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 4: Well, Bradley Beal on a five million dollar deal. You

919
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 4: would take that in a heartbeat. I mean, there was

920
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 4: a line out the door of teams that wanted Bradley

921
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 4: Beal unrestricted free agents. So you have to say, second

922
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: summer in a row, the Clippers let Paul George walk

923
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 4: for nothing, and that would have never happened under the

924
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 4: previous CBA. But their moves last summer in this summer

925
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 4: since making that decision have been sensational because they are

926
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 4: very competitive in the now and they have financial flexibility

927
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 4: to make a big swing in the relatively near future.

928
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 4: So I think a lot of people around the league

929
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 4: are really impressed by the way the Clippers have handled

930
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 4: their business. You know, they didn't want to sign Norman

931
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 4: power All too a long term deal. They turned him

932
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 4: into John Collins on an expiring deal. Brook Lopez to

933
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 4: join Zubach makes their front line better and again they

934
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 4: have a lot of flexibility going forward. So the Clippers

935
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 4: are a very interesting team. And look, they still have

936
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 4: a veteran minimum available. There is mutual interest between the

937
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,240
Speaker 4: Clippers and Chris Paul. Doesn't mean it is for sure

938
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 4: going to happen. I think both sides are still weighing it.

939
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 4: But Chris Paul's made it pretty clear he wants to

940
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 4: stay close to home. He wants to either play for

941
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 4: the Clippers or go back to Phoenix. You know, he

942
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 4: had interest from Charlotte, his home state Hornets. The Bucks

943
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 4: would have loved to have Chris Paul. You know, he

944
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 4: wants to stay. If he's going to play a twenty

945
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 4: first season, he wants to be close to home. So

946
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 4: the Clippers might not be done. They might still add

947
00:42:50,800 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 4: Chris Paul. So look, Phoenix, I mean they pretty well

948
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 4: this summer to try to get you know, they're they're

949
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 4: out of the they're out of the tax aprons now.

950
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 4: But it's just it's impossible not to think about how

951
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 4: much matt Ishbia, and it was matt Ishbia, the driving force,

952
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 4: gave up to trade for Durant, and then he insisted

953
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 4: on springing in Deal and like what they've had to

954
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 4: give up to extricate themselves from the dire financial position

955
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 4: they were in. You know, they've also made some nice acquisitions,

956
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 4: but I mean they are you know, they've had to

957
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 4: give up a lot of assets to to to move

958
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 4: away from Durant and Deal, and I do think they'll

959
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 4: be interesting. I do think they'll probably be better than

960
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 4: people expect because Jalen Green has a lot to prove.

961
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 4: Ne's to Devin Booker, Dylan Brooks, Springs, the toughness that

962
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 4: Ishbia has been so open about wanting. So I mean,

963
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 4: I think they'll be a reasonably feisty team. But again,

964
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 4: and they just they gave up so much to get

965
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 4: Durant and then there took their payroll to just some

966
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 4: really scary places by trading for Beale and just just

967
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 4: again like Bradley Beal with his buyout still walked away

968
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 4: with ninety seven millions and his free agency ninety seven

969
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 4: mili and his free agency. I'm gonna go out on

970
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 4: a limb and say that was a buyout record.

971
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 2: All right.

972
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: Lastly, Mark, Now we've seen all the stories the last

973
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: few days with the Lakers. They're building towards Luca Lebron

974
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: trade rumors, Lebron buyout rumors, all this craziness. If I

975
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: said to you fill in the blank between now and

976
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: the regular season, the Lakers do blank, what happens as

977
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: far as this whole storyline between now and the regular season.

978
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 4: Look, I don't foresee a Lebron trade. It's just really,

979
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 4: you know, maybe something materializes. I mean, I'm in the

980
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 4: never say never mode after what we witnessed in February

981
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 4: when in the middle of the night on the Saturday

982
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 4: before the trade deadline, we saw Luca Dantage to Lakerland

983
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 4: trade that no one on Earth envision. So there is

984
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 4: never say never, even even Miles Turner. I mean, the

985
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 4: whole league was expecting Miles Turner to stay in Indiana.

986
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 4: The fact that he's now Milwaukee was just a reminder

987
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 4: again that things move and things are fluid. But to

988
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 4: trade Lebron James, you have to, like the Lakers have

989
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 4: to be happy with the long term money they're taking back,

990
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 4: because they don't want to take back any long term money.

991
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 4: Lebron has to be happy with where he lands because

992
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 4: he has the no trade clause, and the team that's

993
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 4: trading for him has to be wary of giving up

994
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 4: too much for even if Lebron plays great for another

995
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 4: year or two, you're not going to get more than

996
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 4: a year or two out of him at this point

997
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 4: most likely. So it's just so hard to make the

998
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 4: trade work. To make that triangle of you know, of

999
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 4: parties involved, all happy to buy out makes zero sense.

1000
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 4: Why Why would the Lakers buy him out whatever the

1001
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 4: number is, to just let Lebron walk to a rival

1002
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 4: and make a rival team stronger. That doesn't make any

1003
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 4: sense for the Lakers. The Lakers want Lebron for the

1004
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 4: rest of the season, unless some amazing trade materializes that

1005
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 4: meets all their future needs. But they're not just going

1006
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 4: to say, Okay, you know what, we're going to buy

1007
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 4: you out. Just just go sign for whoever you want

1008
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 4: for the minimum. I just don't see that happening.

1009
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,240
Speaker 2: He's on Twitter at the Steinline.

1010
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,439
Speaker 1: That is at the Steinline, Mark, as always, thanks so much,

1011
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: appreciate it.

1012
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 2: We will. We'll talk to you next week. Well I will.

1013
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: I'm on vacation, so Harmon will talk to you next week.

1014
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 6: Talk to you next week.

1015
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 4: Mark, somebody there likes me.

1016
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: You be good, brother, got you soon, good as mark'stide

1017
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 1: is the best