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Speaker 1: where we start the show. Mike Harmon and I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not concerned obviously because we're early in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter. But I'm just thinking if the Knicks

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Speaker 1: lose to the Mavericks tonight, like all the all of

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Speaker 1: the good vibes off the good start are like, okay,

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Speaker 1: now suddenly everything is everything is in chaos. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brunt's in his back and we lose to this bach

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Speaker 1: Like I always think of the most disaster scenario there is,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about that right now. No, I think

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Speaker 1: it really always comes back to as Martin gave us

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Speaker 1: in the update. You know, Steve Kurt telling us how

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Speaker 1: long the season is, so he's gonna hold everybody hostage

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Speaker 1: by sitting down Draymond Green and Steph Curry. You want

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Speaker 1: to see these guys again. You're gonna shorten the damn season.

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Speaker 1: So he's saying it's too long. So it's one of

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Speaker 1: eighty two. They need the Mavericks to win a game

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Speaker 1: or two, so Cooper flag becomes relevant. You know, all

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Speaker 1: of those things to play in. Your guys are all

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Speaker 1: playing Herd, It's the Cat Show and all of that

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Speaker 1: fun stuff. So yeah, I mean I would would worry

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Speaker 1: about it too much. I mean, you know, if it

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Speaker 1: was actually on your birthday, Happy belated birthday, hopefully you

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Speaker 1: celebrated brilliantly. We tried to send people your way to

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Speaker 1: send you birthday wishes or cakes. Hopefully some of that worked.

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Speaker 1: But all of that to say we're we're what game fifteen?

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Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay, all right, Just you know,

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Speaker 1: I just one of those things where I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: bit going here. That's that's all I'm saying. I just

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Speaker 1: you know, no, I understand being the fan of my teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a disaster first scenario guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the disaster is here. Well I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 1: but disaster is coming. No ride, the lightning is always

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Speaker 1: playing in your head. There's always a bit of that

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Speaker 1: you know, Highway to the danger Zone and all of

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Speaker 1: that stuff going on because you're expecting the sky to fall. Now,

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Speaker 1: the fact that you guys can't win on the road,

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Speaker 1: I mean this is nothing new. Yeah, no, no, no, the

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Speaker 1: opponent sucks, but you know it's nothing new. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have not won a game away from the Garden. No. No,

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Speaker 1: man like that's I don't know, man, that's yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I should keep saying this. I'm just putting

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Speaker 1: it out there. It's not saying no, I get that.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's ill. You know, you have I mean

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Speaker 1: it what you will. I mean he's already halfway through

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Speaker 1: what would be a collegiate season, uh at this point.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you gotta monitor those things, monitor those

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Speaker 1: things as you go. Now, for the Knicks, I have

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Speaker 1: to ask, is there the innovation whereby they might be

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Speaker 1: able to come out with goggles that allow them to

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Speaker 1: feel like they're playing at MSG, so like they're playing

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Speaker 1: in a virtual reality. They see everything normally except in

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Speaker 1: the crowd, and everything makes them feel like they're at home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're kind of like in Free Guy, Every Guy Was Real? Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: always looking for more marketing and sales opportunities. Certainly the

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Speaker 1: highlight package from all the games every day. Sure, sure,

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Speaker 1: here's three minutes. Here's the best three minutes for you.

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Speaker 1: Just hear these glasses. I don't I think you could

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Speaker 1: And this is where you gotta be careful because you've

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Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for him, bunny. Now, we'll

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. Still four games going on now. Meanwhile, Hey,

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Speaker 1: before the season now officially is three fifths of the

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Speaker 1: way to completion. If you want a burger, you want

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns are gonna start a quarterback this year? Mike Harmon?

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Speaker 1: Five guys, five, one, two, three, four, five and now

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Speaker 1: Like if I had gone six guys, Okay, that's fine,

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Because now here we are Week twelve and officially the

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Speaker 1: Then it was Bailey Zappi, whereas Bailly Zappy gonna fit,

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Speaker 1: and then week seventeen it's gonna be one of those

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Speaker 1: we're there. It is funny, right last night Richio was

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Speaker 1: fraudulent squads, who do you not believe in? In the

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Speaker 1: the board. Ready for this and I'm shocked. This is

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Speaker 4: He was reading odds outside of what happened?

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Speaker 1: What happened odds? He was seeing thirty nine and a half,

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Speaker 1: Nobody wanted me to talk about Atlanta, New Orleans. Oh

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Speaker 1: we don't talk about Atlanta. Oh that's you were about

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about it's a non Michael Pennox junior game.

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Speaker 1: cousins and shuck. No, it's what we'll be curious. I mean,

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Speaker 1: can Shoudur Sanders avoid Max Crosby? Right? That is the

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Speaker 1: one line to all of this. Will he call out

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski that kind of flew in the face of

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Speaker 1: body language experts can go through. But Stefanski talking about

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Speaker 1: how he's worked with Shador after practices and in the

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Speaker 1: this is where he ends up in the fantasy Ninja

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Speaker 1: sleeper world. You know, the dollar play for your daily

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Speaker 1: fantasy is that he and Tillman and and Jerry Judy

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Speaker 1: Crosby gets pretty damn fast. Live to see another down. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he'll take some sacks and some negative plays. But one

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Speaker 1: week because of this, because they swim in con two

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Speaker 1: teams that swim in controversy. This week, boy, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: see one going you boy, this one. This team's a

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Speaker 1: much better swimmer than this team. Cowboys swim great. In controversy,

429
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Speaker 1: this contravery the Eagles. They're doing backstropes. They're like Michael

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Speaker 1: Phelps in the pool right here, and this is the

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Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna say, yeah, we are good. You can

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Speaker 1: you can heat the pool up, you can make a

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Speaker 1: really cold whatever you want. Man. They're gonna beat the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys by thirty this week because Jalen Hurts is gonna

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Speaker 1: be pissed. He's gonna throw for three hundred yards and

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns. AJ Brown will catch a touchdown pass, they'll hug,

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Speaker 1: They'll probably throw a touchdown pass on a play where

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Speaker 1: the offensive line the other players refuse to block for them. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do your own thing. We're not gonna block

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Speaker 1: for you. It doesn't matter. Still gonna throw a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And here is to AJ Brown, who catches his first

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass since he's with the Titans, like, hey, this

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Speaker 1: isn't We're gonna they are going to just absolutely feast

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Speaker 1: that they beat the Cowboys by thirty this week. Watch out.

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Speaker 1: It is kind of funny some of the messaging that

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Speaker 1: has flown flown through about the Eagles this year, usually

447
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Speaker 1: coming from one or two national reporters who really have

448
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Speaker 1: beaten the drum and tried to make this their their living.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bother to name them quote. I'm not

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Speaker 1: surprised by anything. This is the nature of the position.

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Speaker 1: But I put my energy and focus on trying to

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Speaker 1: go out there and do my best, trying to learn,

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Speaker 1: trying to build, trying to take in the things that

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Speaker 1: I can to try and improve. Now from the clicheo

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Speaker 1: meter or say a lot without saying anything, congratulations, Jalen Hurts,

456
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Speaker 1: you have now made it an art form. Philadelphia three

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Speaker 1: and a half point favorites on the road forty seven

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Speaker 1: and a half is your total twenty fifth in total

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Speaker 1: yard twenty eighth and passing yards one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: five per game, third down conversion rate thirty three percent.

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Speaker 1: But they take care of the business in the red

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Speaker 1: zone and they've only given the ball away four times

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Speaker 1: this year. Some of that owing to like we talked

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Speaker 1: about with Shador Sanders a little bit clearly more accomplished

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Speaker 1: in all the great accolades and history that Jalen Hurts has,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't put the ball in harm's way. He's not

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Speaker 1: thrown into tight windows. He's not pushing the ball in

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Speaker 1: that regard between the numbers necessarily the same way. So

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Speaker 1: if you're a top receiver like AJ Brown or DeVante Smith,

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Speaker 1: probably a little less. So yeah, I gotta understand the frustration,

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Speaker 1: but it's winning football at this point. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what what you expect. You know, we talked about it

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Speaker 1: a little on Monday, Jason coming out of the weekend

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Speaker 1: was the idea that you're also looking at a guy

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Speaker 1: who every year it's a new guy and a new

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Speaker 1: philosophy and a new system being put into place. Moderate tweaks,

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Speaker 1: but quarterback, coach and coordinator have changed out pretty much

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Speaker 1: every year going back to his collegiate days at this point.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of that is all right, what are

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Speaker 1: the small permutations that go through your offensive line? Clearly

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Speaker 1: hasn't stayed the same or worked with the same efficiency

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Speaker 1: this year, so you know, it all is a domino effect.

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Speaker 1: Still completing two thirds of his throws, sixteen touchdowns to

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Speaker 1: one interception, I don't know what else you want, right,

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Speaker 1: People live and die by the QB rating. What was

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Speaker 1: he fifth sixth? So I don't know what people anticipate

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Speaker 1: and expect from the guy at this point. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a listen. Right, Let's take a listen. Here's Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: now respond from today, responding to the reports that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: his teammates are upset with him, they don't like him

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Speaker 1: because he goes away from the game plan and does

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Speaker 1: his own thing on game day. Here's Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 3: I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised by anything. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, this is kind of the nature of the position,

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Speaker 3: like I said, But you know, I put my energy

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Speaker 3: and I put my focus on try and go out

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Speaker 3: there and do my best, and go to work every

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Speaker 3: day and continue to go out there and try and

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Speaker 3: do my best.

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Speaker 1: I get Now. Now, here's the thing. Number One. Does

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts sound like he gives a flying blank about

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Speaker 1: what anybody has said about him? Really? Does he sound

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Speaker 1: like he really cares about He's one of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's ever cared about that. He

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Speaker 1: has been very from the beginning in Alabama and then

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Speaker 1: and then moving on and moving on to the NFL,

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Speaker 1: he has always been very brand conscious and very and

508
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Speaker 1: very much I am in charge and I have a

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Speaker 1: great uh focus for what I want my career to

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Speaker 1: be and as a quarterback, you know that winning and

511
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Speaker 1: playing well, that's part of it. They win, and he

512
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Speaker 1: has always had that singular focus of this is me,

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Speaker 1: this is my brand, this is what I can do.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't sound like he gives a crap about anything

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Speaker 1: anybody said. Moreover, did he really did he ever deny it?

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Speaker 1: Did he say? I don't know who's saying that. That's

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Speaker 1: not from this locker room, cause that you get from

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Speaker 1: most quarterbacks. I don't know who said that. No one

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Speaker 1: said that here. That's not here. That's not my teammates.

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Speaker 1: I love my teammates. This is a Yeah, I'm not surprised,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm not surprised, to god out, I'm not surprised. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do my own thing on Sunday. But look, we win,

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Speaker 1: so what doesn't really matter. Like they're they're so dysfunctional

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Speaker 1: and they win and it's amazing. They're really they're like

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys of the nineties are the Lakers of the

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Speaker 1: early two thousands with Kobe and Shaq. That just all

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Speaker 1: they do. They somehow are able to win despite the

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Speaker 1: fact there's controversy that surrounds them at every turn and

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Speaker 1: they embrace it and they invite it and it envelops

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Speaker 1: them and still they're able to win. And that's really

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Speaker 1: something to watch. Hey, you want to get back to

532
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Speaker 1: see what life was like in the nineties with the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Bulls and those teams and the Lakers

534
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Speaker 1: early two thousands. Yeah, this is what it was like,

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Speaker 1: except think about it with in Los Angeles and New York.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even the Dynasty's bigger than the Eagles because

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Speaker 1: these are teams that won three, you know, championships apiece. Right,

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a really big thing. This

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Speaker 1: is what it was like in the nineties with these teams.

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Speaker 1: But I just love that he doesn't seem like he

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Speaker 1: cares and not he didn't seem like he needed to

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Speaker 1: deny it. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah, I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for to say who said was it?

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Speaker 1: Who said it was? And then he starts naming off guys, right,

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Speaker 1: exat was it who said it was? A Saqua? Was

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Speaker 1: it was a game? Well? Was a Gamewell? Who was? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Because you know the protections, I don't know who else?

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Speaker 1: What did Aja say anything? Not that you know, it

549
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter like. That's that's the that's the level of

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Speaker 1: id G a F that Jalen Hurts has about this story. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: still gonna go out and play. Still gonna hang a

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Speaker 1: big l on you guys in Dallas this week, and

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Speaker 1: I'll have a big week. And it's fine. That's that's

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Speaker 1: what Eagles football. What I love about it, right is

555
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Speaker 1: is you also just have that he half expect him

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Speaker 1: to say, all right, which reporter, uh put that out there,

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Speaker 1: and then he starts guessing the player based on the

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Speaker 1: reporter that he talks to. Right, the old Ben Roethlisberger

559
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Speaker 1: ed Bouschetts for Pittsburgh all those years. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you look at Jalen Hurts as a starter, right as

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Speaker 1: a rookie nine and eight, fourteen and three, eleven and six,

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Speaker 1: fourteen and three, eight and two to this point, takes

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Speaker 1: care of the football, winning football time and time again.

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Speaker 1: They say winning cures all ill, But no, I mean

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Speaker 1: people still want their stats. They because it all is

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Speaker 1: about contracts right in the end. You know, we laugh

567
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Speaker 1: about Scott Borris and his binders of stats and advanced metrics.

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Speaker 1: How do I stack up against the rest of the

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Speaker 1: guys at not only disposition. But all infielders, all outfielders, historically,

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Speaker 1: all of those things that roll through there's not a

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Speaker 1: lot of highlight. You know, when you're a pass catcher,

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Speaker 1: the first thing is not Yeah, he blocked really well

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Speaker 1: for Saquon there, that's part of the equation. That's part

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Speaker 1: of the equation. But were you able to get open

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Speaker 1: to where you've got fed downfield? His downfield blocking is

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Speaker 1: really amazing. Let's give him an extra ten million dollars

577
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Speaker 1: a year like downfield Brighton is great, like that might

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Speaker 1: be a you know, worth a few bucks. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: certainly push the kne lip bit, certainly for folks that

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Speaker 1: really love football. Right. That was Brandon Marshall, that was

581
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Speaker 1: heinz Ward. You can go on down the line. There's

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Speaker 1: some of the guys in Chicago right now that's oftentimes

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Speaker 1: what they're being asked to do. Like Luthor Burton, he's

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Speaker 1: a rookie not catching a lot of balls, but guess

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Speaker 1: what you go back and see what he's doing on

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Speaker 1: the blocking. That's great and ain't a bunch of extra money.

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00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: They're smart man. Chicago has been force feeding me what

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00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: a good blocker Luther Burton. It's a wide receiver's number

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Speaker 1: one job as a catch passes doesn't matter. He blocks

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Speaker 1: like that's it, man, You know what I mean? Know

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Speaker 1: how good he blocked? You would think he's like that.

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Speaker 1: You would think he's the Anthony Munos of blocking wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Dub what a great blocker he is, man like they

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Speaker 1: would line up running backs on a sweep and just

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Speaker 1: follow Luther Burton down the field. But think about it, though,

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Speaker 1: Jason right, like, go to the tight end position for

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Speaker 1: a second. Think about the last couple of years and

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Speaker 1: some of the best guys in the game, the fights

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00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: that they've gotten into over people. Got aye, he really

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Speaker 1: doesn't block my ass. I don't block like like might

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Speaker 1: have eighty catches, Like, not at all. There's a pride

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Speaker 1: factor to the other thing. But is that what's ultimately

603
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Speaker 1: getting him the giant contract? No? What's he doing in

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Speaker 1: the red zone? Can he get open kenn? He creates

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Speaker 1: space all of that. So yeah, aj Brown is going

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Speaker 1: to be He's going to bristle as much as he

607
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: can try to downplay it, and I'm sure other guys

608
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Speaker 1: in the locker room are raising their heads. Sakuon Barkley's

609
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: gotta be pissed because you don't have that same element

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Speaker 1: in the downfield passing game, which means he gets bottled

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Speaker 1: up more. Not that we didn't expect to regress, and

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Speaker 1: we talk about the offensive line and whatever else, but

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Speaker 1: it all, you know, plays into one thing to the next,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's suffering from a statistical standpoint. Except they're still

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Speaker 1: eight and two and Big Doms sitting ringside for WWE raw,

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Speaker 1: all is good. I'll tell you many what I think

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Speaker 1: they win by more this week because of this, they

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Speaker 1: win by more? Great? Can't they just have three and

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Speaker 1: a half? Easy? When you say can't they just have

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Speaker 1: a quiet week? It's not the teams fans they're talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's the opponents fans. Can't they not? Now they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be all fired up to come play because the other

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Speaker 1: part to it, Jason is fun is that you get

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Speaker 1: Dallas a lot of great press coming off of this week.

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Speaker 1: Look at all the great moves that Jerry made and

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Speaker 1: for one week, Look, he can only plays on the

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Speaker 1: schedule and it just so happens to be the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: So you got to terrorize old Geno Smith decided to

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Speaker 1: step up in class this time around, so Big home

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Speaker 1: date to come.

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

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: This real quick from the NBA before we get into

635
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Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers story. Uh, Steve Kerr tonight Warriors resting

636
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Speaker 1: both Steph Curry and Draymond Green. You know this on

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Speaker 1: the heels of him saying the NBA season is too long.

638
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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's something needs to be shortened. They

639
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: lose a night to the heat without them, one ten

640
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: to ninety six. And look, we've said it for years,

641
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: the NBA season is too long. It is way too long.

642
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: And now Steve Kerr is sort of not just step

643
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: to the forefront of this. He is now resting guys.

644
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: And I don't I think you can draw a straight

645
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: line between Steve Kerr saying the season is too long

646
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,239
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna rest Stephan and Draymond because i want to.

647
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: It's on the road against the heat, and I'm gonna

648
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: sit them because the season is too long and the

649
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: wear and tear is too much. And he's now stood

650
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: up and made it a thing, and now it's become

651
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: a Steve Kerr NBA situation in which hey, uh, Steve

652
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: or these guys healthy, Ah, they were dinged up. They

653
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: were here because you could see you're gonna wind up

654
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: seeing a big fine come and see he's gonna get

655
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: fine come in the Warriors way. But Steve Kerr doesn't care.

656
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: And I'm glad he stands up and he says, screw it,

657
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll be the guy to really push

658
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: this to the forefront because it is it's been. It's

659
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: ridiculous the last few years that you're seeing players when

660
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: you get you know, you have to put in the

661
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: games played a level to get to to qualify for

662
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: postseason awards, right, but it really doesn't matter. Stars are

663
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: playing less and less. If stars play sixty five out

664
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: of eighty two games, that's a lot, which oh my god,

665
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: you can you're talking about it like it's almost a

666
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: quarter of the season that you're saying, is okay for

667
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: these guys to miss? But this is what's happening, and

668
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: the NBA has to do something right. I know Adam

669
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: Silver doesn't want to do anything, but he wants to

670
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: make sure the players are happy. It's going to be

671
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: messy and it's not an overnight thing. It'll be kind

672
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: of like a college football playoff situation. But in the

673
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: next three to five years, the NBA will cut the

674
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: regular season schedule. They'll cut it from say eighty two

675
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: games to seventy five games. They'll get rid of back

676
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: to backs, and you know, and and and there's gonna

677
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: be kind of a make good from the players that Okay,

678
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: these guys are going to play in these games, and

679
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: they'll find a way to make the money back because

680
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: each team now would lose three regular season games the

681
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: gate from three home games. But they'll figure out a

682
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: way to make the money work. I don't think that

683
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: that's too big a thing because the one league where

684
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: you are seeing there being an atrophying in players playing

685
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: and stars staying healthy has been the NBA. You don't

686
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: want them hurting the postseason, you don't want the wear

687
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: and tear to really get to them. So next three

688
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: to five years they will figure out a way to

689
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: cut the season from say eighty two to seventy five games. Yeah,

690
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: something we hit on you and I last week and

691
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: then Rich and I as Lebron got back on the court.

692
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: A godsend for the NBA yesterday because It helped distract

693
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: from the messaging and all of the news reports of

694
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: all these guys out with injuries from Jiannis and the

695
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: groin injury to the laundry list of guys now sidelined

696
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: for weeks at a time with calf injuries, including the

697
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: biggest star on the rise, your guy, Wen Bin Yama.

698
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't putting a proposal.

699
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: And he only needs to play like thirty games to

700
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: win MVP, right right, right, we can do this, but

701
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: you have three more years before they can opt out

702
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: and re up the Cbah. But I gotta imagine there's

703
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: a lot of phone calls off of this. And for

704
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr, look, he's a guy that has shown time

705
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: and time again he's not afraid to speak his mind

706
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: on any number of issues inside and outside the world

707
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: of basketball, and certainly picking up for his players. The

708
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: l Elder states from in the here Draymond with his

709
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: bit of controversy after responding and going after the guy

710
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: that was calling him Angel Reese the other day, So

711
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: you got that that that in the backdrop to it all.

712
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: He was warned, he got no fine, he didn't get suspended. No, no, no,

713
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: just don't do that, Draymond. Okay, great, regardless of your

714
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: history and how many other issues you've had with the league,

715
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: you know what, it's okay to go in a cost

716
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: A fan like that. I think Draymond. I think Draymond

717
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: eventually is going to act. You know, he's gonna he's

718
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: gonna take this to heart and is gonna start rebounding

719
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: his own misses on purpose and putting them up in

720
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: miss things we can get me bounce my Life's gonna

721
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: start doing that just to troll the fans and think that.

722
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: He goes and has like a twenty five rebound game

723
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: a couple couple of nights in a week and just

724
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: kind of smiles at you, and then he takes the

725
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: next one off for load management because I mean, look,

726
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: I can't get out for all those rebounds. I'm exhausted.

727
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: I just keep reaching up and getting him and putting

728
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: up that my arms are tired. I need to break Steve.

729
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: That's stress on my legs is gonna cause one of

730
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,439
Speaker 1: these calf injuries. So I'm gonna sit down. But yeah,

731
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: for Steve Kurta to post this, you know, to have

732
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: his big talking points Yester, then that immediately on the

733
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: road when you've sucked because the Warriors have been awful. Well,

734
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: I mean, like the Knicks away from home, it just

735
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: doesn't work, doesn't work. I mean, they're all so we

736
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: just call them all Dorothy. That's it. There's no place

737
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: like home. There's no place like home, and you don't

738
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: play him the next night. Yeah, for Adam Silver, he's

739
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: already looking at all the injury reports, going, ah, crap,

740
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: we're coming into holidays and a bunch of these stars

741
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be available for these marquee matchups. Oh and

742
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: now Steve's gonna go do this. That's Steve. Yeah, yeah,

743
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: stay with Steve, Steve, Steve Steve. Uh So, a lot

744
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: more NBA on the way. Uh yeah, we got Rick

745
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: Buker coming up next hour on the show. See what

746
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: he thinks about that. But uh, this is this story

747
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: is way more concerning than it seems. Aaron Rodgers says

748
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to come back to practice tomorrow for

749
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: the Steelers. This after he sidelined with a fracture his

750
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: left wrist. Now he got hurt against the Bengals, obviously

751
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: he missed the end of it. Mason Rudolph played, was

752
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: able to finish off the win. Rogers said today that

753
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: while it feels better than it did Sunday, he's trying

754
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: to get back on the field. See what he can

755
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: do to play against the Bears this Sunday. Well, of course,

756
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: he owns the Bears. I want to play against a

757
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: team I own. Rogers says, he has to be able

758
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: to protect himself. Quote, it's a safety thing. Uh, not

759
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: about playing through pain, but a safety situation. I have

760
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: to be He'll protect myself. Now on the surface, you

761
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 1: see this ago, well, of course, yeah, you know, players

762
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: got to be able to protect himself. But I see this,

763
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 1: and I know the Aaron Rodgers that I have seen

764
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: the last three years, And if protecting himself is at

765
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: the forefront of his mind, well you're better off with

766
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: Mason Rue. You're better off with Maya Rudolph at quarterback

767
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: than than Aaron Rodgers, because what I have seen from

768
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: him the last three years, he is not someone who

769
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: will stand in there and take a hit anymore. He's

770
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: not the same guy. He is very skittish in the pocket,

771
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: and you see his bad plays, a lot of his

772
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: bad throws, and he started to do it now, because

773
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 1: what do we say from the beginning of the season,

774
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: first half of the year will be fine, but then

775
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: the season gets on, more wear and tear, the more

776
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: hits he takes, he's going to suddenly you'll see a

777
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: sharp down tick in his status and is playing and

778
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: is playing levels because he's someone that will throw the

779
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: ball away early rather than risk standing in there and

780
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: getting hit. Right, how many times do you see it,

781
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: you know, the last couple of weeks where he throws

782
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: some kind of back shoulder fade to DK Metcalf, who

783
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: has even turned around yet. It's like, oh, okay, it's

784
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gives away free downs when someone is breaking

785
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: through or he feels the pressure and I'm just gonna

786
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: throw the ball away early, like he does that now,

787
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: he said, I've seen him do it with the Jets

788
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. Now he's starting to

789
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: do it with the Steelers when the hits pile up

790
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: a little bit the season gets longer. He is not

791
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: someone that's gonna stand in that pocket and deliver the football.

792
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: He's not. He's also not gonna throw it down feel

793
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: like he used to, because he can't. He's not the

794
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: same guy. He's just trying to go out on the

795
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: highest note possible. And if already that's Aaron Rodgers and

796
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: you see him throw the football because hey, things are

797
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: getting a little too hectic near the pocket. I'm not

798
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: gonna stand in there. If that's Aaron Rodgers normally, then

799
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: what's Aaron Rodgers gonna be when he's worried about protecting himself? Man,

800
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna take a snap. It's gonna be a one

801
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: step drop and I'm throwing the ball out of bounds.

802
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: What is going on to get rid of it? You

803
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: gotta turn around faster, dude. I gotta run more than

804
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: a step. I can't just turn right around all right.

805
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: Everything is gonna be a wide receiver screen. He plays well,

806
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: so you can just turn around right away. I can

807
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: throw it to you like that's That's really the reality

808
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers is that he's that kind of Hey,

809
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to get hit and I'm skittish, and

810
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the football early now he's thinking about it. Yeah,

811
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: you want Mason Rudolph out there, you want anybody else

812
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: out there, because it's not gonna go well. It is

813
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: not going to be a big day for Aaron Rodgers,

814
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: and you got you gotta wait to get him back

815
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: where he's not thinking about it, and you just get

816
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: the best possible version of him down the stretch. Not

817
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: gonna be a great version, but you want the best

818
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: possible version. You're not getting that this Sunday, No way. Yeah.

819
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: I look at it from the perspective of Aaron Rodgers

820
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: just said what he's been doing for three years. I

821
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: don't think he was addressing the risks specifically. I think

822
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: he's just like, Hey, this is really what I've been

823
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: doing all alonge. You guys can be ascribe it to

824
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: the wrist. That's great, Like I've been doing the two

825
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: point three seconds or less for a long long time,

826
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: Like just in researching a little of how he's operated,

827
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: right and watching as we do. And I and I

828
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: have the luxury on Sunday mornings of going off the

829
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: mind of NFL films in Greg Gosell about how fast

830
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: he gets rid of the ball, which is good and bad. Right,

831
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: get a play in motion, get it moving. But if

832
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: you're trying to maximize what you have in a guy

833
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: like DK Metcalf, guess what that ain't happening. That's not

834
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: his game, right. He wants to work against a corner downfield,

835
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: create separation, all that stuff. Well, you're not allowing that

836
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: to develop. Part of that offensive line. Part of that

837
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: your lack of trust sometimes in your run game. Although

838
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: both those guys have acquitted themselves pretty nicely as receivers,

839
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: but your most effective players are your tight ends. Against

840
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: the Bears, you'll be able to move the football assuming

841
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: he does go. And he had that little kid's gleam

842
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: in his eyes. He was talking about this matchup, so

843
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any chance in hell he's not

844
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 1: on the field. I agree with you that it's portends

845
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: to potential if the Bears can get home. But we'll

846
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: see if he can go sub two seconds, which I

847
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: think would be an NFL record. Dude, I don't think

848
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Speaker 1: you need to get home getting out. You just need

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Speaker 1: to get near him. You need to get near him

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Speaker 1: and yell sack like Max Crosby likes to do, and

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Speaker 1: all the joint practice in the summer when they say

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna touch the quarterback, but Max Crosby yell

853
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Speaker 1: sack when he gets close to feel like he blows

854
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Speaker 1: up the play. You just need guys to get close

855
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodger will throw the football away. Come close,

856
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: yell sack and he would feel thrown. Well, okay, okay, okay,

857
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: that's it. Plays over. How many times do you think

858
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: those guys yell sack just for giggles. I'm just taking

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Speaker 1: credit for it now. You really weren't anywhere near me.

860
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Speaker 1: Pal go go beat it. And when we look at

861
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Speaker 1: the Bears in terms of their pressure rate, they're in

862
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: the lower third of the league. They've got twenty one

863
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: sacks on the year, and we've talked about the opportunistic

864
00:41:53,880 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: nature of the defense, great turnover execution, right Ballhawks getting

865
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: after it with what they've done in the secondary has

866
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: just been absolutely fantastic. But it's you know what Al

867
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: Harris has brought to it. You remember Al Harris who

868
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Speaker 1: is a teammate of Aaron Rodgers all those years ago.

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Speaker 1: But you're looking at the fact that they will allow

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Speaker 1: you to move the football. So for the Steelers, yeah,

871
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Speaker 1: I think Rogers gives you an edge over a good

872
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Speaker 1: old Mason Rudolph, although I don't think it's very very high.

873
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Look, Mason Rudolph is a terrific

874
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback, right, like when you have somebody that, hey,

875
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Speaker 1: he might need to play for a week or two. Yeah,

876
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph has proven I'm pretty good. Now. There's a

877
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Speaker 1: reason why guys are backups, and it's about sustaining things

878
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: over the long haul. And you know, Nick Foles rooted

879
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Speaker 1: for everybody by coming off the bench and winning the

880
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So every oh, you're backup quarterbacks, sho'll be

881
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: able to take it in the Super Bowl. Thanks Nick, appreciate it.

882
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: But I think for Mason Rudolph for a couple of games,

883
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Right. He let him on a big

884
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: drive at the end, know when when he had to

885
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: come in when they needed it. The two drives he

886
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: had on Sunday were both long drives for the for

887
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers. So I think he'll be fine for another week.

888
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: I think you make up, you'll get a much better

889
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: game out of Mason Rudolph than you get out of

890
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers because you start up, you're stuck because you

891
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 1: can't bench Aaron Rodgers. So if you started and he's terrible,

892
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: you're stuck, man. So I think you I think it's

893
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: the I think it's the Mason Rudolph Show. One more

894
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: weeks is much much. Give you one little clip from

895
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin that'll get you excited. Sure, go ahead, quote,

896
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see where the week goes. Will Howard's

897
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: been with us the whole time, and so he's a

898
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: sharp guy. I like the general trajectory of his work.

899
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Speaker 1: He's certainly in the position that he's in doesn't get

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Speaker 1: a lot of Steelers reps, but the reps that he

901
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: does get he's taken advantage of. And I'm sure there

902
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: will be an uptick in those opportunities this week. You know,

903
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Speaker 1: Will Howard, what was my big bold prediction. I'm hot

904
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Speaker 1: on bold predictions, man I said in the preseason Will

905
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: Howard will be starting for the de by December. I'm

906
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: feeling close to that right now, Mike Harmon, I am

907
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: feeling close to that. It's almost December. We're almost a

908
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: Will howurd time. Well as the Great Country Philosophers said,

909
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: if we make it through December, everything's gonna be all right.

910
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Speaker 1: I know a little Merle Haggard for you here on

911
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: a Beutifol Wednesday night. But it is curious because they

912
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: are still in the playoff picture, as awful as it

913
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: may seem week to week, the AFC certainly providing plenty

914
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Speaker 1: of opportunities. And based on all the reports, I think

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Speaker 1: if you put up the wacky Doctors game operation, there's

916
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Speaker 1: a lot of red marks on Labar Jackson right now

917
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Speaker 1: as to what's going on with him physically, Like we

918
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Speaker 1: talk with Jason lockinfora a little bit on Monday, being

919
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: entertained a little bit more in press conferences this week.

920
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: So the door is still open for these Steelers to

921
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Speaker 1: walk through this division which is just maddening. Exit out

922
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Speaker 1: about a Fresca exits Rolling Dome the Jason Smith Show

923
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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harbon.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Now, just to want to throw this out because this

926
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Speaker 1: just happened. I'm sure there's gonna wind up being a

927
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Speaker 1: viral highlight for tomorrow. Uh. The Mavericks lead the Knicks

928
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Speaker 1: fifty nine to fifty eight. Midway through the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: Josh Hart nearly picked off a pass that the Mavericks

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00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: through down court, ball goes out of bounds. Josh Hart

931
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Speaker 1: goes into the crowd and and and you know he

932
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Speaker 1: he gets into a fan like they collide. The camp

933
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Speaker 1: Scannabo No no, not camp Scataboo did no one yell

934
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Speaker 1: go birds uh, so we call. He collides with a

935
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Speaker 1: fan who's standing there and it's a guy, he's probably

936
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Speaker 1: about sixty and he's standing there and he's got this

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00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: this box of peanut eminem's in his hand and say

938
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Speaker 1: so we saved the pea eminem's. Josh Hart asks him

939
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Speaker 1: for one. The guy gives him a couple of peena ms.

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Speaker 1: Josh Hart eats them, walking back up. That's fantastic. There

941
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Speaker 1: you go. That's your fuel for the fourth quarter. He's

942
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Speaker 1: gonna have a massive fourth quarter and get an endorsement.

943
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: Hey man, he's gonna be like, guys literally feed me.

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Speaker 1: Come on.

945
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

946
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's a box of eminems you want to

947
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Speaker 1: put on eBay that Knicks fans, some Nick fan will buy.

948
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Speaker 1: Some Knicks fan will spend one hundred dollars to buy that.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you absolutely, Yeah, that's that's a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, right, and get him to sign the box

951
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Speaker 1: on the way out of the arena.