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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Bengals beat the Steelers twenty seven seven team.

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Speaker 1: It was less than a month ago we were comparing

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Speaker 1: this year's Steelers to the seven Patriots, wondering that they

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Speaker 1: go undefeated. Now we're wondering will they win a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's dropped three in a row, including last night's shocking

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Speaker 1: the stats and tell me who won that game, you go, well,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh did, because Bengals didn't do much, but neither did

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. This is a Bengal team the Steelers had

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Speaker 1: beaten eleven consecutive times. You got a veteran coach, you

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Speaker 1: got a Hall of Fame quarterback. It's hard to understand

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Speaker 1: what's gone wrong. We can say COVID, we can say

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Speaker 1: injuries on the defensive side of the ball. We can

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Speaker 1: say there is no running game. You're the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: playing the Bengals. Joe Burrow wasn't playing. It was Ryan

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Speaker 1: Finley receivers dropping the ball. No running game. But you

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Speaker 1: know what was more alarming, The Steelers got pushed around

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Speaker 1: physically by Cincinnati you don't expect that with the Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin team, and the Steelers don't get a break in

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Speaker 1: the final two weeks. They got the Colts and I

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Speaker 1: believe they're underdog against the Colts, and then they got

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Speaker 1: the Browns to end the season, so they're gonna go

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Speaker 1: against two playoff teams. They got to rediscover some energy

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Speaker 1: here that they had earlier in the season. We talked

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Speaker 1: about this a while ago where I said, you can't

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Speaker 1: throw the ball forty or fifty times, you just can't.

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Speaker 1: And you know Ben is not capable of doing that

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Speaker 1: weekend in week out. He doesn't look sharp. I know,

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Speaker 1: he said. You know, the timing's not great that he

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Speaker 1: they got to find something here, and they got to

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Speaker 1: find it quickly because they could be headed towards a

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Speaker 1: very very short postseason, and here we are talking about them.

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Speaker 1: Could they go undefeated. I don't think anybody thought they

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Speaker 1: were great, but I think people thought, well, maybe there's

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Speaker 1: some magic here. But you know, they lost two really

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Speaker 1: and the receivers not holding onto the football, you know,

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Speaker 1: Ben needs help to look good. You know, it's like

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Speaker 1: It takes a village here and Ben did not look

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Speaker 1: good last night. They just looked like they were mailing

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Speaker 1: it in. They went through the motions, and I kept thinking,

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Speaker 1: don't let a young team that has no business winning

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Speaker 1: this game almost become emboldened like they You could see

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Speaker 1: the confidence level rising with the Bengals, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the Steelers are then trying to match them,

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Speaker 1: you know, seventeen ten and I go, okay, maybe here

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Speaker 1: they go and they never they never had that extra gear.

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Speaker 1: But give credit to the Bengals. They have nothing to

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Speaker 1: play for and they went out and won that game.

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Speaker 1: Here is Mike Tomlin after last night's loss, talking about

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Speaker 1: sort of where is this team confidence wise? Like what's

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Speaker 1: your sense regarding your team's confidence level? And are you

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Speaker 1: concerned it's getting a little fragile? Should we better not

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Speaker 1: be confident after performance like that? I'm not concerned about

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Speaker 1: our confidence. We just we got work to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you got two weeks to kind of figure this

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Speaker 1: to Tony Dungee coming up like what happened? Because the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were winning games, they may not have

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Speaker 1: looked impressive. I go back to that game against the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: What was that like a Wednesday morning game? I forget,

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Speaker 1: you know, this NFL season's been crazy. Might have been

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, you know, like a seven thirty kickoff, and

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Speaker 1: I'm watching, going the Ravens have no business being in

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Speaker 1: this game. Steelers were dropping the football. They just kind

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Speaker 1: the Steelers got to a certain level and then they

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Speaker 1: leveled off. And you can't let that happen. And they're

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Speaker 1: paying the price right now. All right, mclub, and what

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Speaker 1: kind of poll question you have for me? Okay, off

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Speaker 1: If I gave you these choices, the Bills, the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: I would say Pittsburgh. I know it's recency bias, but

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Speaker 1: You went to the Giants, and that's a Giants team

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Speaker 1: that's played well, played hard, and could still win that division.

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Speaker 1: Winning those games is really important. That's why when you go, well,

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Speaker 1: So I have to use, you know, the same thought process,

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Speaker 1: same formula to go where they're playing the Giants, you're

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Speaker 1: going to be an easy out. And I might be

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Speaker 1: in the minority here. It comes down to Baker May.

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Speaker 1: If Baker plays the way he's played, don't try to

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Speaker 1: do too much. You don't get style points in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You just want points. Run the football, play some good defense,

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Speaker 1: out in my opinion. But if Pittsburgh is one sided,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't mobile, he's really immobile now, and you've got

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Speaker 1: and your defense isn't going to win games for you

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Speaker 1: the way it once did Pittsburg. Pittsburgh got a lot

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Speaker 1: of They got a look in the mirror and go,

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Speaker 1: who are we now? Or can we reclaim what we

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Speaker 1: Through week twelve, the Steelers had a one game lead

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Speaker 1: analyst Tony Dungee, Tony, what happened to the Steelers as

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Speaker 1: if late? Well, I thought it could possibly happen four

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Speaker 1: or five weeks ago. I think they lost their identity

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Speaker 1: But you know, Dan, it really it's so reminiscent to

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Speaker 1: me of our team in Indianapolis in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: We were nine and ozo off to a great start.

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Speaker 1: game to Jackson go forty four to seventeen. Felt from

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Speaker 1: the number one seed all the way to number three,

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Speaker 1: everybody said the season was over. Six weeks later, we're

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Speaker 1: it corrected. But these guys, they're gonna have to start

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Speaker 1: running the football. They're gonna have to get some confidence

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Speaker 1: to run the ball. In December, well, that's what stood

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Speaker 1: Steelers got household names and it didn't matter. Last night.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals were far more the aggressior. Bengals could not

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Speaker 1: defensively the same way. They just Hey, we're gonna rush

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Speaker 1: There's no saviors. What we're gonna do is get back

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Speaker 1: somehow that's been gone. They've lost the confidence that they

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Speaker 1: But you take out basically for your best playmakers and linebacker.

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Speaker 1: did it over the Zoom call. We caught a game,

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Speaker 1: Me and Kevin Burkhardt caught a game over Zoom and

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Speaker 1: I just however, I called a game on there. It

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Speaker 1: was good enough for me to sign a three game

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Speaker 1: deal with Fox Good So you know, uh, if it

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Speaker 1: was good enough to do that, then it was it

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Speaker 1: was good enough to get me a second game, you know.

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Speaker 1: So I only know one way to do it, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Dan, I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to not be myself, and then executive having came

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Speaker 1: in and told me to not be myself and not

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Speaker 1: be honest yet, so I'm only I only know one

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Speaker 1: way to do it. So that's the way I'm doing it.

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Speaker 1: Who's picking up the game day outfits there for you?

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Speaker 1: How I am? I am? I'm doing all the all

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Speaker 1: the wardrobe. I've always been a dresser of myself, you know.

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Speaker 1: But but I have a suit lady. I have a

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Speaker 1: suit lady at the company Elevate, and she always does

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Speaker 1: a great job. I kind of give her to feel

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Speaker 1: what I'm kind of going for and she always do

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Speaker 1: a great job bringing it to life. Who would you

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Speaker 1: rather face? Kyler Murray or Jalen Hurts. Oh, that's a

448
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Speaker 1: tough question. They both so similar. They bring a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff to the table as far as man, when

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Speaker 1: that pass play breakdown, they can turn the running backs

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Speaker 1: and they both throwing the ball super good right now

452
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Speaker 1: as well? Man, that's a tough question. Man, you're gonna

453
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Speaker 1: have your hand for it with either one. Dan, Yeah,

454
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Speaker 1: but you gotta pick though, Okay, come on, you're an animalist. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather play, I'd rather play I'd rather play Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, he just got another year of experience under

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Speaker 1: his belt. I think he had a little further along

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Speaker 1: and in his progression right now. So as of right

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Speaker 1: now today, Yeah, I take Jalen Hurts. What was the

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Speaker 1: play against Jane Hurts. What was the scouting reporter on

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger when you when you played, Uh, that he'll hold

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Speaker 1: the ball, create that extra second. He was in that

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Speaker 1: category with those quarterbacks, the ones that you gotta instead

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Speaker 1: of two and a half seconds, we gotta guard our

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Speaker 1: receiver for three and a half seconds because big being

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Speaker 1: he to shake his eye off and h he'd create

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Speaker 1: the extra second. What else we had on big being, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he had a great deep ball. If a guy covered,

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Speaker 1: he's still trying with a great deep ball. And us

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Speaker 1: as far as big being not Pittsburgh, as far as

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Speaker 1: big being, that was probably the main two things that

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Speaker 1: I had in my notebook. Yeah. Uh. And then you

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Speaker 1: played against and with Brady what definitely? But what is

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Speaker 1: that book still accurate of if you were facing Tom

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Speaker 1: now as opposed to you know, five seven years ago,

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Speaker 1: it's different. It's different, it's changing a different offense. Man.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of quick game a lot of

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Speaker 1: over the middle inside the numbers teams. It was a

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Speaker 1: lot of those kind of passes. Now it's it's the

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Speaker 1: field is definitely stretching with that Bruce arians offense. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's you have some adjustments. It's something. It's something

482
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Speaker 1: still vintage Tom Brady still in that offense, but it's

483
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Speaker 1: definitely a lot more a lot more passes downfield for Tom.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you stay back in March? I think that Brady

485
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Speaker 1: was leaving the pain matrix? Is that right? I'm m love,

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Speaker 1: I mean this, this is what y'all doing. Y'all be

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Speaker 1: able to bring the record and uther, But I definitely

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Speaker 1: I had to. I had to feel the news over.

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Speaker 1: I remember I remember me saying, I think that the

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Speaker 1: marriage is over. Man, It's it's burnt out. I remember

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Speaker 1: saying it's burnt out, I think, and I remember predicting

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Speaker 1: that time was gonna move on. Yeah. And it's a

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Speaker 1: weird thing though, just to see him. You know in Tampa, Um,

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Speaker 1: did you get yelled at by Belichick? Uh? I did?

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Speaker 1: I think just about everybody got yelled Alick. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: practice definitely, definitely in practice a few times in the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bill he's not gonna bite his tongue. So if you're

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Speaker 1: in the mix, if you're in the game, in the mix,

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Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get yelled at from him, and him

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Speaker 1: saying sooner or later he should keep to leave the

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Speaker 1: Fox NFL analysts. Five time pro bowler won the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl with the Broncos Super Bowl fifty. This Friday, the

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Speaker 1: Vikings take on the same special Christmas Day matchup. Coverage

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Speaker 1: begins at three thirty Eastern on Fox NFL Network and

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Speaker 1: streaming on Prime Video. Do you have any beef leftover

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Speaker 1: with somebody that you know that's not going away even

507
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Speaker 1: though you're not playing anymore? Are you still? Are you

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Speaker 1: mad at anybody? Nah? No, I've never really played mad

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00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: at mad at nobody. I mean, somebody do something disrespectful

510
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Speaker 1: in the game. I usually handled it, but no, I

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of leave leave it where it's a

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Speaker 1: I don't know, beef for nobody in the NFL right now. Man,

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Speaker 1: A lot more friends than enemies in Who's the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver that you lined up and you knew this's gonna

515
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Speaker 1: be a long day? Calvin Johnson? Yeah, I followed him

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Speaker 1: around I think three times or two times in my career,

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Speaker 1: and I think I played against him, uh maybe four

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Speaker 1: times in my career, and every time and watching it

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Speaker 1: on tape, I'm like, this guy is the best. Then

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Speaker 1: when we got to the game, it definitely translated and

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Speaker 1: he was definitely the best in the game. Who's the

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Speaker 1: quarterback you loved to face? Quarterback? Who I loved to face? Oh,

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Speaker 1: let me go back, take you Jason Campbell. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go back a little bit. Man. I enjoyed playing against

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Speaker 1: Jason Campbell. Uh, fel like he was on my team

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Speaker 1: some of the time. No, I definitely, I definitely love

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Speaker 1: He threw me three interceptions one game. Man. I've seen

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Speaker 1: him in the lobby. I've seen him in the lobby

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Speaker 1: of the hotel one time in Miami Super Bowl time.

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Speaker 1: Told him he was my favorite quarterback. Definitely, definitely Jason Campbell.

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Speaker 1: Oh that is so good. Wow. Did he think that

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Speaker 1: it was a compliment or did he know? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know it was. It was Super Bowl time,

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Speaker 1: so you know it was a young Leaves Super Bowl time.

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Speaker 1: Man had a couple of guys with me. My brother

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Speaker 1: was with me. Man, who's hanging out? Man into the room,

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Speaker 1: So that is really I think I think coming from me,

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Speaker 1: he probably knew what I was talking about. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think he would remember he threw three picks and uh

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Speaker 1: so if you walk up to him and it's like

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Speaker 1: you're my favorite quarterback man, yeah exactly. Hey, well, good

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Speaker 1: luck with u, you know, the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you got some more games in there. And we

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time and keep appreciate too. Thank you. I'll

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Speaker 1: take care all right, Let's keep to lee. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern

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Speaker 1: six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and you

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00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or

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Speaker 1: stream us live on the Peacock app. I always love

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Speaker 1: listening to Nick Wright, first things first on Fox Sports one,

552
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Speaker 1: and I agree with a lot of things that he says.

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00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: And then Fritzie goes, uh, Nick, Right's got a problem

554
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Speaker 1: with you. I go, oh, okay, So what's the problem. Nick?

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Speaker 1: I hear you don't like the picture we use when

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Speaker 1: we're promoting the fact that you're going to be on

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Speaker 1: our show. Well listen, I mean, I've been on TV

558
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Speaker 1: a few years I've been a semi public person for

559
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Speaker 1: the better part of a decade. You have a lot

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Speaker 1: of pictures to choose from, yet you choose one where

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Speaker 1: I have a shaved head and a double chin, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is intentional. I mean, you have

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Speaker 1: a you have an army of team around you, mountain

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Speaker 1: of resources. There's a lot of images, some flattering, some not,

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Speaker 1: and some the one you chose. So yeah, I do

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Speaker 1: have a bit of a problem with that. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: you think that I went out of my way to

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Speaker 1: make you look bad, Yeah, I think. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: name names here, but there is an all time pantheon

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Speaker 1: great sports radio host who I believe, once upon a

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Speaker 1: time back in the day, used to intentionally choose bad

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Speaker 1: fill in hosts. So when he came back, people were like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, you're the gray I think Dan Patrick

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Speaker 1: chooses ill fitting pictures for his guests. So it's like, man,

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Speaker 1: even in his older years, that Dan Patrick, that's a

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Speaker 1: good looking guy. Nick, you chose baldness. I didn't. You

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Speaker 1: chose in my head to add an edginess to me,

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Speaker 1: and it rose me to the heights I am said,

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Speaker 1: And then I grew my hair I was afraid of

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Speaker 1: bald Nick. I'm not afraid of this. Nick. Yeah I'm soft.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's true. Yeah it's true. Yeah, you are soft.

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Speaker 1: I just would. I got on a rant here. I

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Speaker 1: was wondering. And let's say when Durant is done, Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry's done, like, are they top ten players of old times?

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Speaker 1: And if so, who are we taking out? Because we

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Speaker 1: can't have fifteen guys in a top ten? That is Dan,

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Speaker 1: What a wonderful question. Because I just completed I haven't

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Speaker 1: yet released it a project I'm more going on for

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Speaker 1: a year the fifty best players of the last fifty years,

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Speaker 1: so Kareem to now so Will Russell, Elgin, Oscar, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: Mike and those guys are not being included. And on

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Speaker 1: that list, durant Is twelve step is thirteen, so ahead

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Speaker 1: of them, Doctor Jay, Moses Shack, I'm going kind of

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Speaker 1: in reverse order, twelve to one Shack, Aqeem Bird, Kobe Duncan, Magic, Kareem,

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Speaker 1: Michael Lebron. There might have been one name I left,

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Speaker 1: so I'm doing off the top of my head. But

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Speaker 1: d Durant's twelve step is thirteen according to that, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't And if you include Wilt and Russell and

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Speaker 1: Jerry Weston Oscar. You got to move each of those

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Speaker 1: guys down another four spots. So no, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's likely for either of these those guys have become

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Speaker 1: top ten of all time. And if we're just doing

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Speaker 1: the modern era, I think they could. But like, you

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Speaker 1: got to move past Doctor J and Moses Malone, and

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Speaker 1: then you got to move past Shack or a team

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Speaker 1: just to get to the top ten. At least in

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Speaker 1: my eyes, I think Doctor J is totally underrated, but

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Speaker 1: that's neither here with it. I saw him play against

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Speaker 1: the Kentucky Colonels and ABA. Yeah, and that's why he's underrated.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Like I and I whenever he would

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Speaker 1: play against the Nuggets, I always felt bad for Bobby Jones.

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Speaker 1: Bobby Jones was supposed to be this defensive star and

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Speaker 1: Doctor J left his great game on the playgrounds and

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Speaker 1: in the ABA, and then what we got in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: You got to see glimpses when they lost to the

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Speaker 1: Blazers in the NBA Finals, and Doc was so unbelievable

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Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals. But I'm with you, I just

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know why he doesn't get recognized as

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Speaker 1: one of the top ten fifteen players of all time

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Speaker 1: because because listen, he was in the ABA, and it

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Speaker 1: is off top of my head, I think he won

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Speaker 1: three ABA MVPs. Think he won the They didn't have

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Speaker 1: a ABA Finals MVP Award. They had a playoff MVP Award.

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Speaker 1: He won two or three of those. He won championships there,

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Speaker 1: and when he got to Philly, he did take them

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Speaker 1: two four NBA finals, at least three NBA finals. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't get over the hump, but they were up against

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Speaker 1: awesome teams and then once Moses joins him, that might

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Speaker 1: be the greatest team ever. Eighty three six Ers, eighty

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Speaker 1: six Celtics, oh one Lakers, twenty seventeen Warriors are like,

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Speaker 1: you know, all in the argument and probably I'm probably

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Speaker 1: leaving out one of the showtime Lakers. So yeah, but

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Speaker 1: it's because his careers split ABA the NFL comp I

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Speaker 1: would give not that this is a top ten guy

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Speaker 1: twelve guy of all time. Warren Moon is historically underrated

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Speaker 1: because we just were like, ah, he played in the

637
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: CFL and was great there. It's like, no, he was

638
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: the best player in the league by a mile. When

639
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: he was there. That's what doctor J. Wilk. Yeah, Doctor J.

640
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: It's almost like he got to the NBA. It's like

641
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: Kareem in the seventies. Kareem in the eighties. It was

642
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: a different player. And you don't realize how dominating Kareem

643
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: was when he first got to Milwaukee. A couple of things. Here,

644
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: better chance to reach the NBA Final. I'm gonna bounce

645
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: around here, please, better chance to reach the finals? The

646
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: Nets or the Sixers. Sixers. Here's the thing with the Nets.

647
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: The Nets are going to have the number one offense

648
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: in basketball. I would be I'd be shocked if they

649
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,959
Speaker 1: even have the number two offense. Their offense is going

650
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: to be so dynamic, and Joe Harris is going to

651
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: become a household name because he's gonna hit a million

652
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: open threes. They are going to have a bottom five,

653
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: not ten, not fifteen, a bottom five defense, and I

654
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: don't know how you solve it. I just don't know.

655
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: And you can't win multiple playoff rounds with that type

656
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: of defense. There's no historical precedent for it. The six

657
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: on the other hand, I think are going to be

658
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: good right off the bat, but their plan b is

659
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: acquire James Harden. So it's like they're either going to

660
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: be really good or if they're not, you just go

661
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 1: acquire James Harden because there's not gonna be a package

662
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: for him better than Ben Simmons. So I really and

663
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: Ebid if you look at himbiad statistical profile and remove

664
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: last year, he looks like he's gonna be a thirty

665
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: and fifteen guy. Two years ago, Ebid was twenty eight fourteen,

666
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: two and a half blocks, went to Game seven, you know,

667
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: against Kawahi and the Raptors. They lose on a bucket.

668
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: He could have made the finals a couple of years ago.

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00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: Last year was a down year for him. He is.

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00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Luca is who I would bet on and who I

671
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: did bet on. The NBA won't give me a vote

672
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: for awards, which is really criminals. Should be an investigation,

673
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: but since I don't have one, I can gamble on it.

674
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: So I bet a lot of money on Luca. But

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00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: if Luca doesn't win it, my pick would be Durant

676
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: and then in Bad would be the top three. Yeah,

677
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: I might go Durant as well, And I don't know

678
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:07,479
Speaker 1: if there's Greek freak fatigue. He can't win it no way. Well,

679
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he probably can't because, okay, let's say he

680
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: averages what he averaged or improves a little bit and

681
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: their best record in basketball. We've seen all of these things,

682
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: and it feels like the voters wants something new and like,

683
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: in the last fifty years, the only guy to win

684
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: three in a row was Bird, and Bird was doing

685
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: it in the midst of winning titles. Yeah, and it's like, wow,

686
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: he's really he's just the best player in the league

687
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: on the best team. I think that one of the

688
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: reasons I like Luca Is, I think Jannis is. I

689
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: think Yannis could average thirty four, seventeen and six and

690
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: won't win it. Harden no chance at winning it. He's

691
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: in it every year. But I feel like his nobody's

692
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: gonna reward. How that's going right, Yeah, Lebron is going

693
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: to play fewer games this year than maybe he has

694
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: at any point in his career. Anthony Davis, It's hard

695
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: for me to believe voters at the end of the

696
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: year are going to be like, you know what, the

697
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: most valuable player in the league is a guy I

698
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: know isn't the most valuable player on his own team,

699
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: so that hurts Anthony Davis for step. The Warriors are

700
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: going to be fighting to make it to the playoffs.

701
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: So now who are we talking about? You know what

702
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: I mean, You're like running out of people. I think

703
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: KD is a really good option. But I think Luke

704
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: is going to average thirty ten and nine, and if

705
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: that team's a top four seed, that that'll win the MVP.

706
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: I like to watch bad teams, Nick, but I have

707
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: to invest in a bad player on a bad team

708
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: or a good good player on a bad team, I

709
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: should say. So, LaMelo Ball has come to my rescue.

710
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm all in on LaMelo Ball. I'm all in. I

711
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 1: think he is. He makes them the Hornets not musty TV,

712
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: but must stop to watch a little bit of them,

713
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: which would be a new phrase here. But I don't

714
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: know where you stand on LaMelo Ball, but I'm all in. Well,

715
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: you know you haven't asked me about gambling, so I'll

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00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: bring it up a second time. Not that I have

717
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: an issue. I bet a lot of money because I

718
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: think that I think people are going to consume the

719
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: Hornets just like that. LaMelo's gonna have knights where he's

720
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: three for seventeen. Guess what, no one's gonna know. But

721
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: he's gonna have knights where he shows up all over

722
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: Sports Center and we'll sports Center, that's the thing people

723
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: used to watch First Things first on FS one is

724
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: where they sports information, highlights, um, and he's gonna be

725
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: top of mind. The Warriors want to win, So I

726
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: don't think Weissman is gonna get, you know, necessarily, all

727
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: the minutes, all the touches, and then we I know

728
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: Obie Toppin is like a popular pick with the Knicks,

729
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think LaMelo is gonna have good

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00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: numbers and good highlights, and it's not an overwhelmingly strong

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00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: rookie class. I know that's unfair to say they haven't

732
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: played a game yet, but in my eyes it's not.

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00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: I think LaMelo is a good pick. I think LaMelo

734
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: also is gonna be better than his brother. He's gonna

735
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: be no. I do too. I mean, I think he's

736
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: a legitimate matchup problem. He can get to the hoop

737
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: right hand, left hand his shot, while it's too low

738
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: for me, at least it's you have to at least

739
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: acknowledge it on defense. But I like him now. The

740
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: reason why I was going to have you on, believe

741
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: it or not, was you said something about the Kansas

742
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: City Chiefs where you talked about them this might be

743
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: the best road performance that we've seen. No, I'm paraphrasing

744
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: here because I'm usually combing my hair and putting makeup

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00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: on while i'm you know, listening to first things first,

746
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 1: because I like to see gen and Wolf on there.

747
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are having historically one of the greatest road

748
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: seasons of all time, right, yeah, okay, I mean so

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00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: they're eight No on the road. Eight teams have ever

750
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: done that. And what they've done on the road is

751
00:40:55,160 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: beat preseason Super Bowl co favorite Baltimore at the beginning

752
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: of the year, before Baltimore had shown some weaknesses. Went

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00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: to Miami, scored thirty consecutive points when Miami was playing

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00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: at its best. Went to Tampa when Tampa was playing

755
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: its best, beat them. Went to New Orleans, and I

756
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: understand Breeze was obviously not himself, but controlled that game

757
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: and take away what the Saints offense did. The Saints

758
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: defense had been number one in football for six weeks,

759
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: hung thirty two on them. Went to Oakland when Oakland

760
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: was six and two, or six and three and avenged

761
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: that loss their one loss the year and went to

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00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo and beat them and their other two road games,

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00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: or the divisional games Chargers game very early in the

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00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: year and annihilating Denver. I mean, you've got six road

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00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: victories over playoff caliber teams and three over the five

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl co favorites essentially, or the five or the six.

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00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just I feel like it's hard to

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00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: show me a season where someone had a better road performance.

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Speaker 1: These numbers concern me, though. Nick and Tony Dungey was

770
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: on First Hour and he said, I think the Chiefs

771
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: are bored. They won by two, four, three, six, six

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00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: three in their last six games. They won the games.

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00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: They allow teams to hang around, and that's what's interesting

774
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: come playoff time for me, So allow me. I'm gonna

775
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: glance down because I have this saved on my phone.

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00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: The final margins are not overly impressive. What is impressive

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00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: is they're never in jeopardy. So by that, I mean

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00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: the last time the Saints had the ball with a

779
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: chance to take the lead midway through the third quarter.

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00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: For the Dolphins, it was in the second quarter. For

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00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: the Bucks, it was in the first quarter for the Bills,

782
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: it was in the third quarter. For the Ravens, it

783
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: was in the second quarter. So they certainly take their

784
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: foot off the gas get bored a lot, but they

785
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: they seem to They never There hasn't been a moment

786
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: in the last two months where it's like, man, if

787
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: the Chiefs they have to get this stop or they lose.

788
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: The only game that came close that was Carolina when

789
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: Joey Slide was kicking a sixty seven yard field goal

790
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: to try to beat him, like that wasn't a real thing.

791
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: And I do think Dan, if the Saints game listen,

792
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been as close as it was. And

793
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are just just addicted to letting teams backdoor cover.

794
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean, they've won six in a row and didn't

795
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: cover any of the games that never happens. But I

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00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: the Saints scored that touchdown with two h six left

797
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: and two timeouts. Against every team in all of NFL history,

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00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: you kick off and try to stop him. I do

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00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: wonder if against the Chiefs you have to consider onside

800
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: kick there if it's like, if we give it to Mahomes,

801
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: he needs a first down, he's gonna get it like

802
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: he's just gonna get it. So I just I think

803
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: this is team is not going to lose until next season.

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00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's Nick right Fox Sports one, and you've angered

805
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: the bald community because you can grow hair. You wanted

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00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: an edge, and you shaved your head and now you're

807
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: kind of thumbing your nose at the bald Nick right,

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00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: here's poor Todd fritz Todd. Todd wants look like Mark

809
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: Ruffalo and take the hat off time, like Nick should

810
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: understand that. Like the Dan, somewhere in America, there is

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Speaker 1: a bald man who loves the Los Angeles Clippers and

812
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: lives in Buffalo, New York and roots for the Bills.

813
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 1: And if I ever show up missing, he's the number

814
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: one subject. There's someone who all of my sports commentary

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00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: and my follicle greatness if we will has it just

816
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: it represents everything he hates in the world. I don't

817
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: think that's Todd Friz, but Fritzie's from Brooklyn and he

818
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: roots for the Broncos. Oh I'm sorry, Broncos in Astro. Yeah,

819
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: Extro's fine. It's top to win when you're on cheat,

820
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: but it's fine next time you're on. Yeah, we're gonna

821
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 1: show this right here, this look right there. That's great.

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00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: I hope you're wearing the same sweater. You know what,

823
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: maybe you got a baby picture. Maybe you send in one.

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00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: You know that your wife has one that you you know,

825
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: like little baby Hot Takes. We'll just say Nick Wright's

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Speaker 1: joining us for baby hot takes, Little baby hot Takes.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Thank you, Nick, you two, thank you, Bud,

828
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: thank you Nick. That's Nick right. Fox Sports one. It's

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