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Speaker 2: Two am Pacific, five ye Eastern, fresh new sets of

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Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool of you? And what

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Speaker 2: my name is? Much much, much much more. Week two

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Speaker 2: NFL preseason continues. Saturday's games in the books. How is

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Speaker 2: your day? Behind the back pass? Sixty six yard field goal,

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Speaker 2: a Trey Lance sighting? How about a Hawkeye technology first

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Speaker 2: down measurement in the Raiders game? And you know what,

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Speaker 2: they made the decision pretty quickly, didn't take three minutes.

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Speaker 2: Phil Simms didn't have to lose his mind. And then

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Speaker 2: there's Kayleb Williams, the eye test, the confidence, the great vision.

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Speaker 2: He's comfortable in his own skin. Are we on the

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Speaker 2: precipice of greatness? Let's talk about this. I'll do all parallel.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five years ago, nineteen ninety nine, I'm at the

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Speaker 2: TPC Dearborn in Michigan for a tournament and Jack Nicholas played,

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Speaker 2: and lo and behold about eight o'clock at night, sun

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Speaker 2: was the perfect setting. There were only about seven or

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Speaker 2: Jack took questions and I asked him, I said, Jack,

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Speaker 2: is Tiger going to break all your records? Tiger Woods?

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Speaker 2: I remember this is July of nineteen ninety nine. And

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Speaker 2: Jack Nicholas says, yeah, he is, but he's still got

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Speaker 2: to do it. I want to see what his life

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Speaker 2: looks like after he's married, has a couple of kids,

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Speaker 2: and his first major injury surgery. Fast forward ten years later,

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Speaker 2: Jack Nicholas looked like most damis. Tiger Woods, was married,

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Speaker 2: You know what happened, We don't need to relive it.

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Speaker 2: And he had had multiple injuries to his back, on

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Speaker 2: Fast forward to Caleb Williams. The sixty four dollars question

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Speaker 2: going into this season is going to be will Caleb

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Speaker 2: Williams live up to the hype. Any player, any player

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Speaker 2: who comes into the NFL as the number one overall pick,

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Speaker 2: is going to carry a monumental absolute expectation and pre sure,

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Speaker 2: and Caleb Williams somehow enters this season with an even

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Speaker 2: higher bar to hit than usual because of although hyperbole

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Speaker 2: to who much is given, much is expected. With great

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Speaker 2: power comes great responsibility. And there is no denying that

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams is an elite talent. He does have a

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Speaker 2: ceiling as high as Okay, don't hold this against me.

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Speaker 2: We're going back to the eye test the guy in

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Speaker 2: Kansas City, but he's still got to do it, and

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Speaker 2: we're nowhere near that. But he's about a bazillion times

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Speaker 2: better than justin Fields and it's not even close. And

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Speaker 2: please don't make me go there again tonight. I got

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Speaker 2: more facts and figures than Johnny cochran and you're probably

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Speaker 2: tired of hearing it, and I'm tired of talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Justin Fields is not a major league quarterback. Think whatever

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Speaker 2: the hell you want. Caleb Williams is, but he's got

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Speaker 2: tons of pressure on him to deliver. He's got to

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Speaker 2: be the savior for one of the NFL's most storied franchises,

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears, and they always talk about never having a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Shame you wash your mouth. That was so Jim McMahon

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Speaker 2: but he won. Yeah, Okay, Obviously there are plenty of

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Speaker 2: ten years. But a lot of times exterior factors rarely

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Speaker 2: prevent quarterbacks who fall short of their expectations, and ultimately

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Speaker 2: it's unfairly placed upon them that there's a bus label

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Speaker 2: for the rest of their careers if they don't live

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Speaker 2: up to their expectations. So there you have. You heard

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Speaker 2: Quarterbacks are most reliant position in football. It's the thinnest position.

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Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is the hype started

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Speaker 2: A lot of TIMPs are forced to learn on the job,

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Speaker 2: maybe not playing with the best talent around them bryce

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Speaker 2: We've seen guys do it. This is always my beef

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Speaker 2: except he did everything but win, and he could not

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Speaker 2: and he did not do well. And I don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear about it. The twenty fourteen Lions five Pro Bowlers,

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Speaker 2: So sometimes a quarterback has to elevate the team around him,

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Speaker 2: and I think Caleb Williams has to do some of

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Speaker 2: a solid offensive line. That's what they're telling us. The

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Speaker 2: wide receiver rooms in the National Football League. Their word's

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Speaker 2: not mine. This is all new. So what happens Saturday, Well,

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams in Chicago's starting offense, got up a bit

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Speaker 2: of a slow start, took well into the second quarter

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams managed to draw a forty three yard pass interference,

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Speaker 2: which resulted in a field goal, which ultimately is the

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Speaker 2: measure of a quarterback. The red zone, third down, and

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. They don't pay it upunt. They paid

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Speaker 2: the score. Then after Caleb Williams connected with let's see,

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Speaker 2: there was a forty five yard dime that he hit

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Speaker 2: now the Bears had some rhythm. Now had a dunes

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Speaker 2: they kept his feet in bounds, he would have recorded

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Speaker 2: his first NFL touchdown, and it was a beauty of

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Speaker 2: a throw. Williams kept the play alive with his eyes. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he moves around with his feet, but he does it

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Speaker 2: with purpose justin fields. Looks to me like something out

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Speaker 2: of a Monty python cartoon. All right, just cue the music.

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Speaker 2: He's athletic, But so what Caleb Williams does it with purpose?

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Speaker 2: Keeps his eyes downfield, seems to know if the defensive

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Speaker 2: His receivers set at just the routes. That's exactly what

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Speaker 2: Roma dunes the win. It was a pretty play, all

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Speaker 2: or not, but it was a pretty play. Then one

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Speaker 2: play later, Caleb Williams really showed off his ability to

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Speaker 2: scramble and keep his eyes downfield. He ran in a

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Speaker 2: seven yard touchdown, the first of his preseason. It took

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Speaker 2: him twenty three snaps to get on the board in

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Speaker 2: the end zone. The Bears win twenty seven to three. Now, yes,

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Speaker 2: the Bears are playing against Cincinnati's backups, and the truth

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Speaker 2: of the matter is, even on defense, the Bears are

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Speaker 2: hell am I going with this whole darn thing. Here's

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Speaker 2: the reality. As you all know, I covered the Lions

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Speaker 2: and eight. What's the significance because here's the bottom line.

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Speaker 2: You may recall the Lions in the preseason that year.

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Speaker 2: I covered the greatest preseason team in the history of

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Speaker 2: the NFL, even better than Josh McDaniel's preseason team a

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Speaker 2: couple years ago when the Raiders were dancing in the aisles.

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Speaker 2: The Lions went four to zero in the preseason that year.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and eight, they scored eight points and

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Speaker 2: didn't mean a damn thing. The Lions were oh and

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Speaker 2: what's really the moral of the story. Well, Caleb Williams

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Speaker 2: live up to the hype. He should, but he still

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Speaker 2: got to do it. With Tiger break Jack's records. Jack

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Speaker 2: turned out to depression, Yeah, but he still got to

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Speaker 2: do it. Things have a way of happening, The future

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Speaker 2: the preseason means nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. Less

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Speaker 2: twenty two days. Actually, September fifth, Thursday night, we have

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Speaker 2: our first NFL game Ravens Chiefs. But the first full Sunday,

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Speaker 2: when the real fun begins, is Sunday, September eight. It's

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Speaker 2: gonna be glorious. You got four straight Well, let's see.

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Speaker 2: You've got the Packers. That was just in Green Bay

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Speaker 2: and they're really excited to go to sell Paul of Brazil.

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Speaker 2: I met with some of the team folks went to Lambellfield,

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Speaker 2: thanks for staying up, Bud, I appreciate it. Bernie, how

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Speaker 6: We went to dinner tonight? We went to Joe's and

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Speaker 6: Well Saturday? Well we started today. I was on Today

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Speaker 2: Will do the show tomorrow. Okay, thanks for correcting me.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Bud. Congratulations, So let's dive into it. Jared.

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Speaker 2: My opening commentary covered Lions ten years and is this

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Speaker 2: one thing I've learned the the preseason means nothing. I

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's funny. I was just watching the

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Speaker 2: Look, we had a seven point favorite lose out right.

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Speaker 2: and I'm glad you talked about them. I feel strongly

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Speaker 2: If he's seventy five.

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Speaker 2: Win team this year. I agree with. They won seven

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Speaker 2: bring up a lot of good points. Finally, Jared, is

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Speaker 6: what we do here, right. I think I think I

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Speaker 6: don't think we're I don't think there's a rookie quarterback

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Speaker 6: sneak up situation is gonna happen this year. Like Houston,

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Speaker 6: I think the sneak up situations are with the coaches.

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Speaker 6: For example, I think Mike McDonald has a chance to

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Speaker 6: do that in Seattle. Now he doesn't have a rookie quarterback,

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Speaker 6: so it's hard to compare that to what happened last

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Speaker 6: year with c J. Stroud.

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Speaker 2: Gino Smith is still good.

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Speaker 6: I don't call him great. I think he's still good,

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Speaker 6: good enough if the rest of the team is legit.

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Speaker 6: Seattle's biggest issue last year was their defense. Well, now

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Speaker 6: they brought in arguably the best defensive mind that we've

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Speaker 6: seen in the last decade or so that five years

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Speaker 6: with Baltimore. That was a historic defense last year for

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Speaker 6: the Ravens. So I think, you know, everything Baltimore did

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Speaker 6: last year was historic. And if that vibe comes in

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Speaker 6: day one like Deniko Ron was able to bring it

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Speaker 6: in day one, then Seattle has the rest of the

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Speaker 6: team in place. The offense is stacked. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 6: go look at their still positioning guys metcap Lockett, Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Smith and Jigba.

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Speaker 6: That's as good as a one two three as you're

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Speaker 6: gonna find the offensive line's good, not great, and Gino

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Speaker 6: can can carry the mail like he has shown that

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Speaker 6: he can at least still play at an average to

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Speaker 6: slightly above average level. So the fact that Seattle's at

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Speaker 6: seven and a half wins right now. I see them

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Speaker 6: as a playoff team. You know what else I see

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Speaker 6: has a playoff roster. I said to say on the show,

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Speaker 6: if Sam Donald's average for Minnesota, the Vikings are ready

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Speaker 6: to roll. I mean, Ryan Flores and that defense is legit.

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Speaker 7: The rest of the roster.

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Speaker 6: Is at they might have outside of quarterback, which obviously

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Speaker 6: accounts for the most most important position. If you remove

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Speaker 6: the quarterback and how important he is, they might have

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Speaker 6: the best roster in the league. Really, it's really impressive.

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Speaker 6: I think San Francisco's up there. I think Minnesota's probably

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Speaker 6: in the top five. But you put Darnald in there

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Speaker 6: and obviously greatly decreases the value of their roster. But

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Speaker 6: you just go down the line. They bring in Aaron Jones,

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Speaker 6: Jefferson Addison, You've got Darris at left tackle, who's a rockstar.

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Speaker 6: Howkinson's an All.

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Speaker 2: Pro tight end.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if if Darnold is average, I think Minnesota

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Speaker 6: is a playoff team. If Gino Smith is averaged, I

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Speaker 6: think Seattle is a playoff team.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Jared, appreciate your buddy as always in once again,

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Speaker 2: congratulations Countdown to Kickoff? All the best, Thank you, Bern.

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Speaker 2: There's Jared Lee Smith you here on Saturday mornings Countdown

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Speaker 2: to Kickoff on our network. Truly does his homework Finger

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Speaker 2: on the Pulse, and we'll have him on throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: We're just getting started and we have so much to

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Speaker 2: get to. We will get to that MLB rule probably

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Speaker 2: about one point thirty am. I want to bring in

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Speaker 2: the crew on this. The Notre Dame story is Craig Cray.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give an AFC East North preview later

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Speaker 2: in the show, Brand New Fool, What my name are?

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Speaker 2: We're just getting started, but coming up, I want to

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Speaker 2: circle back to the Cowboys. You all know you don't

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Speaker 2: need me to tell you the importance of CD Lamb

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Speaker 2: to the Cowboys offense, even with him in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: I think they're dubious this year. I think they're a

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Speaker 2: nine win team, maybe an eight win team. We'll see.

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Speaker 2: But if they don't get this contract signed, it could

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Speaker 2: be even worse. I think they'll get it signed, and

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Speaker 2: based on what I heard Friday, there's some light at

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Speaker 2: the end of the tumble tonnel. I'll share that coming up,

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Speaker 2: but first let's go to our guy, the chef, Kevin Wyrett,

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Speaker 2: with the latest.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Bernie, we are in the dog days of August,

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Speaker 9: so the Pennant race is really taking shape. In Major

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Speaker 9: League Baseball, the Dodgers lead in the National League West

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Speaker 9: now just two games. They lost to the Cardinals earlier

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Speaker 9: today five to two, while the Padres get back in

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Speaker 9: the win colum against the Rockies, winning at eight to three,

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Speaker 9: so San Diego two games back of Los Angeles for

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Speaker 9: that NL West lead. The Diamondbacks did lose today as

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Speaker 9: Arizona playing the Rays, and they lost a six to

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Speaker 9: one there, so Arizona three games behind the Dodgers for

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Speaker 9: that NL West lead. It's tightening though in the AL Central,

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Speaker 9: as the Twins picking up a game on the Guardians.

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Speaker 9: The Twins beat the Rangers five to two. Cleveland falls

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Speaker 9: to the Brewers two to one, so Cleveland's lead two

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Speaker 9: games in that AL Central. The menace, excuse me, the

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Speaker 9: Seattle Mariners sinking like a stone. There are four games

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Speaker 9: now back of the Houston Astros. They've lost five straight games,

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Speaker 9: including a defeat to the Pirates on Saturday seven to two.

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Speaker 9: The Astros beat the White Sox six to one. The

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Speaker 9: Braves over the Angels eleven to three. In the NFL preseason,

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Speaker 9: Caleb Williams getting his first touchdown of the preseason that

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Speaker 9: was a seven yard scamper. The Bears beat the Bengals

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Speaker 9: twenty seven to three. Daniel Jones really struggling in his

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Speaker 9: return from his ACL injury. He played for the Giants

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Speaker 9: in their preseason game against the Tans Texans and through

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Speaker 9: two interceptions that did not look good at times as

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Speaker 9: a Houston a bloat works.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Houston blows out the New York Giants twenty eight to ten,

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Speaker 9: Lions over the Chiefs twenty four to twenty three, Vikings

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Speaker 9: beat the Browns twenty seven twelve, Titans over the Seahawks

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Speaker 9: sixteen fifteen, Colts beat the Cardinals twenty one thirteen, Dolphins

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Speaker 9: over the Commanders thirteen to six, and the Bills beat

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Speaker 9: the Steelers nine to three. Justin Fields did have ninety

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Speaker 9: two yards, but it was a struggle all day for

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Speaker 9: that Steelers offense. Jets over the Panthers fifteen to twelve.

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Speaker 9: Rams beat the Chargers thirteen to nine, Jaguars over the

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Speaker 9: Buccaneers twenty to seven, and the Cowboys beat the Raiders

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Speaker 9: twenty seven to twelve.

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Speaker 10: Back to you, Bernie, all right, thanks chef.

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Speaker 2: So as I mentioned Ceedee Lamb and their Cowboys contract,

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Speaker 2: he's unhappy. He wants more money. And there appears to

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Speaker 2: be light at the end of the time, and that

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Speaker 2: light might not be a and you know oncoming train

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Speaker 2: just about three weeks until the first NFL Sunday, and

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Speaker 2: you need the Cowboys need Ceedee Lamb on the field

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Speaker 2: if they have any designs on doing anything this year.

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Speaker 2: He is. The Cowboys right out of the gate are

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Speaker 2: going to face a Cleveland Browns defense that surrounded the

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Speaker 2: fuse total yards per game in the last ten years.

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Speaker 2: They were right around the legion of Boom Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 2: defense in terms of stats. Yeah. Fact, so you'd want

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Speaker 2: to have your best offensive playmaker on the field. That

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Speaker 2: would be Cede Lamb. He was All Pro in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three, led the NFL in catches, ranked second in

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Speaker 2: the league in receiving yards, third and receiving touchdowns. Caught

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five balls almost eighteen hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: He broke Michael Irvin's single season Cowboy records. He's twenty

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Speaker 2: five years old and he wants more money. We all

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Speaker 2: know it's been repeated a thousand times that Jerry Jones

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Speaker 2: made the statement a couple of weeks back that he

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Speaker 2: didn't have the sense of urgency to rush to get

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Speaker 2: Lamb's deal done with only just a few weeks until

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Speaker 2: the start of the sea. But maybe Jerry is softening

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Speaker 2: a little bit. We hear that Dallas and their front

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Speaker 2: office in Lamb's representation, they had a little telecon Thursday

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Speaker 2: prior to the team flying to Vegas. Cowboys beat the

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Speaker 2: Raiders Saturday night, twenty seven to twelve. Cowboys basically played

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Speaker 2: played a team that will all be working at App

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Speaker 2: Auto Parts in a month, and they hammered the Raiders.

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Speaker 2: By the way, there's nothing wrong with working at App

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Speaker 2: Auto Parts, great company, good Christian values, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But Dallas played without NFL players tonight did pretty well.

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Speaker 2: And Terry Lance is not an NFL player. He did

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Speaker 2: pretty well. But I digress. You need C. D. Lamb.

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Speaker 2: So we're hearing that. And this is a report from

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Morning News that reportedly the Cowboys have offered

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Speaker 2: Lamb just under thirty three million per season. It's a

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Speaker 2: nice number that would make him the second highest paid

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Speaker 2: receiver in the NFL on an average per year salary basis,

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Speaker 2: just ahead of aj Brown, a boy about half a million dollars,

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Speaker 2: and just behind the number one dude, Justin Jefferson in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Now you've got Micah, You've got a lot of miles

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Speaker 2: defeeding Dallas. You got Michael Parsons, who deserves to be paid.

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Speaker 2: Dak who wants sixty million dollars doesn't deserve it. He

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Speaker 2: hasn't earned it. As Jared Lee Smith said, Yeah, they've

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Speaker 2: been a bully in the regular season, but so what,

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Speaker 2: he's two and five in the playoffs. That's where you

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Speaker 2: make your bones. In the playoffs. That look like a

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Speaker 2: drunk crossing in icy street. I don't want any excuses

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Speaker 2: made for Dak Prescott. All right, good player, not in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. But I don't know that this deal gets

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Speaker 2: done just yet, because I still think, I still think

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Speaker 2: he wants to be paid. I'm talking about Ceedee Lamb

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Speaker 2: more than Justin Jefferson. Now, Justin Jefferson signed a four year,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty million dollars. You've got one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten million guaranteed. He's the second highest paid non

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Speaker 2: quarterback in the league. The highest paid non quarterback is

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Speaker 2: Nick Bosa. Are the forty nine ers. He got a

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Speaker 2: five year, one seventy got one hundred and twenty two

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Speaker 2: million guaranteed. Now we are hearing that Michael Parsons and

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Speaker 2: Ced Lamb both want to be the NFL's highest non

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Speaker 2: quarterback pithe paid non quarterback, So something's got to give.

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Speaker 2: But apparently there seems to be progress right now. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy wade and he says, quote, we miss CD,

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Speaker 2: we love CD. He'll be great once he gets here. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's all wonderful, Mike. It's like, whatever whatever happens in

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Speaker 2: fight club stays in fight club. Very cute, very clever, Mike.

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Speaker 2: Whatever happens is his business. We have all the confidence.

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Speaker 2: Bo Okay, take my back with these gratuitous comments. The

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Speaker 2: bottom line is that Dallas has two choices. Get CD

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Speaker 2: Lamb in camp and maybe have a good season, or

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Speaker 2: don't get CD Lamb in camp. And I think that's

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Speaker 2: the first of a set of dominoes that begin to fall. Look,

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Speaker 2: Jerry likes being a control freak. Have you figured that out?

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Speaker 2: My prediction, CDA get paid, Michael get paid. I don't

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Speaker 2: know about Mike McCarthy. I don't know about him, but

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Speaker 2: I think Dackle end up getting paid. They don't want

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Speaker 2: to go back to the Drew Henson Quincy Carter era,

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Speaker 2: and that's what's going to happen. And all the teeth

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Speaker 2: gnashing and all the fake outrage from people like all that. Jerry,

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Speaker 2: he's a bad guy. You know, he takes too long

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Speaker 2: to pay his players. Well, guess who benefits from that?

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Speaker 2: The players? They end up getting more. That's the way

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Speaker 2: it's been working. So look, the Cowboys, whether you like

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Speaker 2: them or not, they appear to be I say this

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Speaker 2: in a colloquial sense, in America's team. More people watch

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Speaker 2: Cowboys games than any other franchise last year, including the

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. Those are just the facts coming up. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they haven't even played a game yet. We're twenty two

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Speaker 2: days away from our full Sunday, but there are three

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Speaker 2: coaches that are already listed as being on the hot seat. Yep,

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Speaker 2: can't make this, folks. I'm Bernie Friday. We are coming

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Listen Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: the NFL and their hot seat list starts out pretty hot.

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Speaker 2: Yep uh. We know the seasons right around the corner.

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Speaker 2: We've already had two weeks of preseason games or gets

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Speaker 2: more on Sunday, then Week three and then Thursday, September

643
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 2: fifth at all starts and already based on expectations, based

644
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: on the firestorm on these franchises, like it or not.

645
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: There are three coaches that are actually on the proverbial

646
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: hot seat. The first one obviously Mike McCarthy. If you

647
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 2: don't think he's on the hot seat, well, I'm trying

648
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: to remember the last time an NFL coach was coaching

649
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: a season on the last year of his contract without

650
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 2: a renewal. It's pretty tough to do that for multiple reasons.

651
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: But I think Jerry Jones has had enough. He's eighty

652
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 2: two years old and he wants to win a Super Bowl,

653
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 2: wants to prove the world that he can do without

654
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson and the Barry Switzer one doesn't count. Even

655
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 2: Jerry knows that. How does Dallas mentally function this year?

656
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott remains unsigned beyond this season so far as

657
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 2: we sit here Saturday night at eleven forty nine pm

658
00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 2: Pacific time, Dak, in addition to Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb,

659
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: arguably their most productive offensive player, is not getting the

660
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 2: money he wants. He's not in camp. The Cowboys eventually

661
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: got to take care of Michael Parsons. They Let's not

662
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: forget the Cowboys lost defensive coordator Dan Quinn to Washington

663
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: Division rival and let's you know, Dallas's defense was aggressive

664
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 2: and explosive and productive, turning teams over. And what happens

665
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,320
Speaker 2: at the end of last year another embarrassing in, another

666
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 2: embarrassing in for a team that just has too much

667
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: on the field talent to keep choking it out the

668
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 2: season after season, in the postseason when it mattered most matters,

669
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 2: most the pressure is already mounting, and the preseason is

670
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 2: just getting started, and the regular season is going to

671
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 2: start with a bang in Cleveland. So there's no doubt

672
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: by any measure that Mike McCart dorothy is number one

673
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: of all the coaches on the hot seat. Would it

674
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: surprise me if he's gone after this year, Not at all,

675
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 2: even in the light of the fact Jerry He's really

676
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: had a long leash with his coaches. Would it surprise

677
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 2: me if Mike McCarthy doesn't last the season? Not really

678
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: depends what happens. Remember years and years and years ago,

679
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: Jason Garrett took over in midseason and had success right away,

680
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: never really did much after that. We get that, But

681
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: McCarthy has Look he's done it in the regular season.

682
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 2: Twelve wins, three years in a row, and that in

683
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 2: fifty cents will get you a cup of coffee at

684
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: Burger Chefs and knock yourself out. The other coach very

685
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 2: much on the hot seat, Robert Sala, he's a very

686
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: close second to Mike McCarthy. And you've heard Jason Smith

687
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: talk about Robert sal He doesn't believe in him, and

688
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: you know what, the jury's out of I like Robert

689
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: Sala was a Michigan guy, is a dearborn Michigan guy.

690
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 2: I know his roots. He was an outstanding defensive court

691
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: for the forty nine ers, but that doesn't always translate.

692
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: Going from being the head coach of the defense of

693
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 2: the CEO head coach overall is not a transition that

694
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: many people can make. I'm not saying he can't, but

695
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 2: this is the year where Robert Sala has to produce results,

696
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: have to get to the playoffs, win a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: I think clearly he and Aaron Rodgers started out the

698
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 2: offseason poorly. The think was completely mishandled. I think Robert

699
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: Salad displayed a lack of panache when he outed Rogers,

700
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 2: saying that you know, he was on a trip and

701
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: he missed the mandatory camp, and I think he could

702
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: have been more shrewd than that. And I gotta tell

703
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 2: you they're joined at the hit because without Aaron Rodgers

704
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 2: the Jets, you know, you got a better chance of

705
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: Led Zeppelin re recording the Gilligan Zland theme song and

706
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: selling a million copies for the Jets to go to

707
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and Johnson Bull the whole thing up. God forbid,

708
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 2: something happens Aaron Rodgers this year, and remember how bad

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Speaker 2: they were without Aaron Rodgers last year. It's a good roster,

710
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: I believe that. But if your forty year old quarterback

711
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 2: misses significant time this year, then the whole regime is

712
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: in trouble, starting with Robert Salah finally, believe it or not,

713
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 2: Matt Aberfluss. He may not be on the hot s heap,

714
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: but he's on the warm seat, all right. If somehow

715
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 2: they tank another season with a very gifted quarterback. Justin

716
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: Fields was tremendous at Ohio State, tremendous and a tremendous

717
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 2: human being, not a major league quarterback. That's why it

718
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: was ten and twenty eight. Caleb Boilliams is a bazillion

719
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: times better, but he still got to do it. And

720
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: there's a feeling that Williams is surrounded with talent and

721
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 2: the Barris are poised, but she still got to do it.

722
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Speaker 2: And if somehow eber Flues fails again, and I don't

723
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Speaker 2: know what that means, let's say they're under five hundred, eh,

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Speaker 2: I think all bets could be off in Chicago. Am

725
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Speaker 2: I predicting that?

726
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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I like Matt Eberfluss. Finally, a couple of

728
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: honorable mentions. Dennis Allen in New Orleans. He's the definition

729
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: of mediocre since taking over for Sean Payton two years ago,

730
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: and he wasn't exactly great with the Raiders. And finally,

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Speaker 2: I think Philadelphia is gonna have a good season. I

732
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 2: really believe it. But the bar is so high in

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia that if Nick Sirianni doesn't get them to the

734
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: NFC Championship Game or maybe the super Bowl, or maybe

735
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 2: win a championship, I think the lease becomes very short

736
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. And they may not be fair, but that's

737
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: also reality. And I don't really know a lot about

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00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 2: the rift between Sirianni and Jalen Hurts, but if it's

739
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: real and they don't have success, well it'll be a

740
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: lot harder to replace Jalen Hurts. It would be to

741
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Speaker 2: replace Nick Sirianni, and I like Nick Sirianni. So there

742
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Speaker 2: you have it. Yeah, the hot seat, the Proverbia hot

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Speaker 2: Seat coming up, Mark Medina, Medina Magic, We dive into

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Speaker 2: the NBA. There was NBA news this week. Keep it locked.

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Speaker 2: twelve midnight Pacific because fifty two weeks in the year,

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Speaker 2: the NBA finds its finds a way to stay in

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Speaker 2: the news, and this week was no different. Simply said,

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Speaker 2: at midnight, twelve midnight Pacific time. Mark, how are you, buddy?

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Speaker 7: I'm doing well. You know that's the grill every midnight

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Speaker 7: on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: So before I dive into the news of the week,

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Speaker 2: I want to just digress for a second. We both

765
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 2: agreed last week Lebron was deserving to win the MVP

766
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Speaker 2: in the Olympics. But you know, what would Olympics be,

767
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: What would a Lebron's story be without some controversy. And

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Speaker 2: there are people who've actually made a pretty darn good

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00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 2: compelling case that it should have been step But I

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Speaker 2: buried the lead so apparently Brian Windhorst reported that the

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Speaker 2: voting started before the semi final game was even played.

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Speaker 2: So is there some merit here to the fact that

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Speaker 2: if they had not held the voting until after the

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Speaker 2: thing was over, we might have had a different story.

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Speaker 2: What do you know about this situation?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's exactly where you outlined that. Unlike

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Speaker 7: in the NBA finals, when the ballots or you know,

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Speaker 7: are candid out like a minutes before the game ends,

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00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 7: this took place a lot sooner. Now. I think even

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Speaker 7: when you account for the fact that Steph Curry shot

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Speaker 7: whites out both against Serbia and in the final against France,

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Speaker 7: I still would have considered Lebron to be the MVP

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Speaker 7: of the Olympics because he was study from start to finish,

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Speaker 7: And no doubt, if TSA didn't have Lebron's Steph Curry

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Speaker 7: or Kevin Durant on the team, they won have won gold.

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Speaker 7: But I think when you compare and contrast all through

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Speaker 7: those players, Lebron was the most consistent and most available.

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Speaker 7: As you may know, Kevin Durant was out during exhibition

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Speaker 7: play because it was a calf injury, and Lebron at

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Speaker 7: that point was very critical because he was really the

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Speaker 7: lone og on the team that could, you know, kind

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Speaker 7: of establish some sort of presence.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, Mark. I mean, he was

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Speaker 2: a tour de force. He was a force in nature

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Speaker 2: the entire month, and he set a tone for that team.

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Speaker 2: And even when you have the ball in his hands,

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Speaker 2: he set that tone. So it's difficult to disagree with.

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Speaker 2: And onward and upward. But you know, these are what

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Speaker 2: make for good sports talk fodder. Let's talk about Lebron

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Speaker 2: because we're going to give to the NBA schedule. I

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00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 2: think they'd some ingenious things. You probably already know this.

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Speaker 2: Lebron turns forty years old and on Christmas Eve in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Check that New Year's Eve, Lebron will play

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Speaker 2: his first game at forty years old against his former team,

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Speaker 2: the Cavaliers. Make your New Year's Eve plans, your thoughts.

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Speaker 7: It's going to be a great game. No need to

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Speaker 7: make New Year's Years plans except at you know, Crypto

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Speaker 7: dot Com Arena, because it's going to be a good game. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: the connection with him playing against his former team. Now,

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Speaker 7: I think that we can establish that there's no chance

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Speaker 7: of him returning to Cleveland. He just signed that extension

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Speaker 7: with the Lakers. But I think it's going to be

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Speaker 7: a good game because you know, they the Cavaliers, you know,

814
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Speaker 7: had a pretty good offseason with gain extensions, extensions with

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Speaker 7: Donovan Mitchell and making sure that he wasn't going to

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Speaker 7: go anywhere. But yeah, I think it'll bring kind of

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Speaker 7: a nostalgis so to speak, for how everything is. But

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Speaker 7: I think at the same time, it's going to really

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Speaker 7: illustrate whether the Lakers are the real deal or if

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Speaker 7: it's just going to be a team headlined by Lebron

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Speaker 7: ad and no one else, And that kind of remains

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Speaker 7: an open question weave into the twenty four to twenty

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Speaker 7: five season.

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Speaker 2: I just think I want to give the NBA a

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Speaker 2: lot of credit. I don't think that was a coincidence obviously, right,

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Speaker 2: that's clearly planned and the NBA does a lot of

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Speaker 2: very clever things with the schedule, we're going to get

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Speaker 2: to most of them here. Lebron in his twenty second season.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that will mark this season, it's

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Speaker 2: likely that he'll be on the floor with Bronni at

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Speaker 2: some point. When do you expect that to happen.

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Speaker 7: I expect to happen in training camp, and really, to

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Speaker 7: be frank with you, Bernie, I don't think it will

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Speaker 7: happen beyond that. I think that Bronni will spend the majority,

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Speaker 7: if it's not all, his time in the G League,

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Speaker 7: so that father son's story the moment, that'll be a

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Speaker 7: training camp story, and then I don't think that that

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Speaker 7: story will fester the rest of the regular season, because

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Speaker 7: I think the reality is this. He's a fifty fifth pick.

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Speaker 7: He could have gone on drafted, and based off of

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Speaker 7: what we saw in Summer League and also what we

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00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 7: saw at USC, we know that he's not NBA ready

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00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 7: and all he needs to do is get more reps,

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Speaker 7: and the only way to do that is to be

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Speaker 7: in the G League'll see.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you mentioned that, because, in much the

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00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 2: same way, I heard from a very well placed source

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Speaker 2: two months ago that it looked like the Pistons would

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Speaker 2: eat Monty Williams contract, and they did. My source was right.

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Speaker 2: I also heard from a very good, well placed source

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Speaker 2: that Lebron and Broni will get on the floor for

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Speaker 2: a preseason game, and I think that counts in my

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Speaker 2: humble opinion that councer, it's the NBA may not be

854
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Speaker 2: a regular season game, but it's still never happened, so

855
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 2: would it be your assertion. And we don't know that

856
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 2: Bronni does play with Lebron in a preseason game, and

857
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 2: whether or not he ends up on the regular season

858
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 2: floor with him remains to be seen.

859
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, remains to be saying. I think that, you know,

860
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 7: obviously that's going to depend on how quickly he can develop.

861
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 7: Some of them might just be on need on if there,

862
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 7: you know, are a lot of injuries. But I think

863
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 7: that most likely that that storyline, as far as you know,

864
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 7: in fairness to the James family, a really cool moment,

865
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 7: that's a preseason story because they can have that moment.

866
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 7: You know, it's obviously unprecedented, but they're here to win

867
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 7: basketball games. So in preseason you're about, you know, just

868
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 7: trying to get your established players some rhythm going in

869
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 7: the regular season, and then you know, the head coach

870
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 7: is trying to iron out the end of the rotation

871
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 7: and also evaluate with the front office, you know, which

872
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 7: guys are suitable for CHI League invites. So I think

873
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 7: what we're going to see is this, Uh, when they

874
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 7: play the Milwaukee Bucks a team mobile arena, that's the

875
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 7: first or not not to mobile arena when they play.

876
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 7: When they're playing the Springs October fourth, that's when there

877
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 7: that's when the Brownie James moment will happen because that's

878
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 7: the first preseason game and so they'll get it out

879
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 7: of the way.

880
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 2: All right. Good, good to know talking Mark Medina Medina

881
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: Magic every Saturday night here on the Bernie Frattle Show.

882
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, the DNBA is always in the news.

883
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 2: This week's no difference. The into a Dome opens this week.

884
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: One scheduling oddity, the Lakers won't play I say this

885
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: in air quotes, visit the into a Dome to play

886
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: an away game at the Clippers until January nineteenth. Why

887
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: do you think the NBA waited that long? I it

888
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: would have been maybe cool to have the Lakers Clippers

889
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 2: play as a crosstown rival sooner. Just a thought your thoughts.

890
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would have liked for it to be sooner,

891
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 7: but I think that in a way, the Clippers probably

892
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 7: like that because one of the reasons why they went

893
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 7: into it theme is they want to get out of

894
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 7: a Lakers' shadow. They want to establish their identity, and

895
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 7: if you have a Lakers matchup so early in the season,

896
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 7: may be that arena is filled with just Lakers because

897
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 7: it is in Los Angeles. That's a good Yeah, So

898
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 7: I do get it. I'm surprised to wait that long,

899
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 7: but I'm not surprised that they decided, you know what,

900
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 7: opening night, you're not going to have the Lakers Clippers

901
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 7: because the Clippers want to have their identity. And I

902
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 7: think the same thing with the Christmas Day matchups, you know,

903
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 7: for the same reason as well. It's just trying to

904
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 7: you know, spread out the uh, you know, representation around

905
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 7: the league. So it's fitting that the Lakers are going

906
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 7: to be in Golden State Christmas Day because of the

907
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 7: fact that obviously Lebron and Steph have had so much

908
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 7: history together, you know, as opponents, but now they have

909
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 7: recent history as you know, Olympic teammates, So it all

910
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 7: makes sense across the Lord.

911
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 2: Well, they do open up. The Clippers do open up

912
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 2: the endo It Dome against a very formidable opponent October

913
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 2: twenty third, the Phoenix Suns. Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Mark,

914
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 2: we're just learning a lot about the Intuit Dome. What

915
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: can you tell us about the wall having to do

916
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 2: with something to do with curtailing visiting fans? Do do

917
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 2: you know much about that?

918
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I was able to see the Intwit Dome.

919
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously we won't see what it's going to

920
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 7: be like until there's actual games and fans there. But

921
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 7: the whole idea that the in Twip Dome has beyond

922
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 7: you know, they want to have their own identity and

923
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 7: have modern amenities, is that Steve Balmer is really trying

924
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 7: to create an atmosphere that they can get a true

925
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 7: home court advantage with you know, fans being in their seat,

926
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 7: and so there's a lot of incentives for fans to

927
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 7: be in their seat as opposed to wandering around the concourse.

928
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 7: You know, they're they're setting up things where when you

929
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 7: look at the concessions, a lot of it's grab and

930
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 7: go they have. I mean, Steve Balmer, it feels like

931
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 7: this is his prize achievement, that they have so many

932
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 7: urinals in the arena of the idea is that you're

933
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 7: not going to have long bathroom waves, and so the

934
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 7: wall is for the ultimate devoted Clipper fan that can

935
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 7: give them that home court advantage, and that's their hope

936
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 7: that that's one of many things that make that venue unique.

937
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the NBA Cup because that's part

938
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 2: of the schedule as well. It was a resounding success

939
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: last year. It starts November twelfth. The championshi will be

940
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas December seventeenth. Some interesting matchups out

941
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: of the gates next seventy six Ers, Mavericks, Warriors, et cetera, Cavaliers, Celtics.

942
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: Do you believe the NBA Cup continues its popularity this

943
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 2: year or was the newness of it last year part

944
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 2: of the reason it did so well.

945
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 7: I think that there was an intrigue on what it

946
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 7: was going to look like, and frankly, a lot of

947
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,760
Speaker 7: people didn't quite know. I know, talking to different coaches

948
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 7: and executives before the n season tournament started, they didn't

949
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 7: know what the buying would be like. They thought that

950
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 7: teams that were young and up and coming they would

951
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 7: embrace it because this is their chance to sell winning

952
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 7: and hope. And they also thought that, you know, the

953
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 7: players at the end of the rotation would want to

954
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 7: play because look, financial incentives like winning five hundred thousand dollars,

955
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 7: it means a lot to those players. But I think

956
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 7: it's actually going to be better this season because we

957
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 7: saw that it was successful. There was a lion from

958
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 7: top to bottom. It helped that the Lakers want and

959
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 7: it helped that Lebron set the tone. I know everyone

960
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 7: rolls their eyes on what the nd season tournament actually

961
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 7: meant because in the grand scheme of things, it meant nothing.

962
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 7: But I think from a bottom line perspective, it's good

963
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 7: and it was a way to keep you know, both

964
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 7: devoted and casual fans, you know, I think committed to

965
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 7: the NBA regular season when normally they start shunting out

966
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 7: after the initial buzz of opening weeks. So yeah, I

967
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 7: just think it's going to continue to get better. I

968
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 7: don't think that you know, players are going to be

969
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 7: so you know, exuberant with winning it, but I think

970
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 7: that there will be a buy in because the last

971
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 7: time they checked, no matter how much money, professional athletes

972
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 7: make they always like making more listen.

973
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: It's undeniable the buzz that was created in terms of

974
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 2: a tendency to the Arenas, viewership, on TV, engagement by

975
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,760
Speaker 2: players and coaches, and it's pretty clear the Lakers wanted

976
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 2: to win it. Is there? Do the Lakers want to

977
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: win it again this year? Do you think or what

978
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 2: are your thoughts? Are there any teams that say, heck

979
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 2: with it, we want to win this thing? Am I

980
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 2: missing that? Or is it just the money driven thing?

981
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 7: Well, it's definitely money driven, but I think it's really

982
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 7: roster driven on where a team is at. I think that,

983
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 7: you know, again, talking to people before the event started,

984
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 7: they thought that everyone would have a buying at the

985
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 7: beginning and then it would just depend on how difficult

986
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 7: or taxing its and if championship contending teams would figure out,

987
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 7: you know what, we got to prioritize health more than

988
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 7: nothing else, they might start phasing out out of it.

989
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 7: But as soon as they feel like the game's competitive

990
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 7: within reach and it's not going to be overly taxing, every

991
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 7: team is going to buy in. So to ask your

992
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 7: question to the Lakers want to win the championship, I

993
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 7: don't think that they're going so overboard to say we

994
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 7: want to defend it, But I think that they are

995
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 7: trying to set a tone about, you know, making sure

996
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 7: they still are a playoff caliber team with Lebron and

997
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 7: ad on the roster, and obviously JJ Reddick's trying to

998
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 7: lay some roots down as a first year head coach.

999
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 7: So if nothing else, I think they want to set

1000
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 7: a foundation. And but I will say that they might

1001
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 7: draw some learning lessons about the potential downside of winning

1002
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 7: the tournament last year because they weren't, you know, a

1003
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 7: guess again enamored with winning it, but there was I

1004
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 7: feel a little bit of a let down as far

1005
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 7: as their energy level the next few games after it,

1006
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 7: and that was I think the worst stretch that they

1007
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 7: showed all season in their play. So maybe, you know,

1008
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 7: the Lakers and other teams are more mindful of that

1009
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:15,919
Speaker 7: for the second go round.

1010
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 2: We're wrapping it up with Mark Mendina Medina Magic every

1011
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: Saturday night here twelve midnight Pacific time on The Bernie

1012
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 2: Frattle Show. So we know, Mark, we've talked about this

1013
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 2: that the NFL has thrown down the gauntlet on Christmas

1014
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 2: Day and the NBA in the NFL will go head

1015
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: to head and we all talk about Father Time being undefeated.

1016
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 2: The NFL appears to be undefeated, but the NBA is

1017
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 2: not going down without a fight. I am really impressed

1018
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 2: with what the NBA has done with these showdowns. You

1019
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 2: open up San Antonio's at the Knicks. Clearly Victor Wembinyama

1020
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 2: is embracing is a guy that embraces playing on a

1021
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 2: big stage, and it feels like the NBA is going

1022
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 2: to put him on his many big stages as possible

1023
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 2: this year, starting with Christmas Day.

1024
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 7: Your thoughts, Yeah, there's a lot to attack when it

1025
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 7: comes to the NBA Christmas Day games and the NFL component.

1026
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 7: I think that when you're looking at the NBA's schedule

1027
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 7: here this year, they picked all the right games. I

1028
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 7: mean you mentioned Spurs, Knicks, you got Victor one, but Yama,

1029
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 7: the Knicks could be a contender this season. You got Minnesota, Dallas,

1030
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 7: you know they played in the West Finals last year. Philadelphia, Boston,

1031
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 7: you know Philadelphia things are in Eastern Conference contender with

1032
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 7: game Paul George obviously the felizer, defending champs, Lakers Warriors,

1033
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 7: they have a lot of history, Nuggets, Suns, they have

1034
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 7: a lot of history and shipping this, so they chose

1035
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 7: all the right matchups to what you were saying, well,

1036
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 7: how does this fair to the NFL. I know, talking

1037
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 7: to people around the league, you know, last year and

1038
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 7: even previously, they conceded that they're not in competition to

1039
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 7: the NFL because they're going to lose. They're going to

1040
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,800
Speaker 7: get swept and overwhelmingly defeated, and so they'll concede the fact.

1041
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 7: But I think they also feel very strong that they

1042
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 7: can still have a successful Christmas plate because of two reasons. One,

1043
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 7: there are a lot of hardcore NBA fans that don't

1044
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 7: watch the NFL, and two, there's a lot of NFL

1045
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 7: fans that still like the NBA, and so they feel like,

1046
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 7: you know, in a way because there's NFL games on TV,

1047
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 7: that might entice those same viewers to then just to

1048
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 7: keep the TV on for the other NBA games. But

1049
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 7: I think the reality is what most matters is how

1050
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 7: compelling the matchups are, how healthy those players are and

1051
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 7: those games come Christmas Day, and how competitive they are

1052
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 7: if you know, none of the star players are playing,

1053
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 7: and if these are all blowouts, I think those are

1054
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 7: larger factors into the declining ratings than anything because of

1055
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 7: the NFL.

1056
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 2: Now, well said Dick, Chef taught me to root for

1057
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: the story. And one thing that the NBA has done

1058
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 2: Christmas Day is create a storyline behind each game. I

1059
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 2: mean timber Wolves and Mavericks. It's a rematch of last

1060
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 2: season's West Fine six or Celtics, that's going to be

1061
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 2: a war. You gotta indeed, Maxi, Paul George. All of

1062
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 2: a sudden they go into Boston defending champs, Lakers Warriors

1063
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 2: say no more, you got Lebron and Steph and then

1064
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 2: listen the final game of the night, Denver Phoenix. All right,

1065
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 2: that'll be It should be an entertaining game. One last question,

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Speaker 2: I've got to ask it because, with all due respect,

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Speaker 2: Lebron said something in this past week that made my

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00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 2: teeth itch Mark. You're in the building, honestly, how many

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00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 2: more years do you think Lebron will play? Realistically? And

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00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 2: let me just qualify the question by saying this. He

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00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 2: said something during the Olympics when someone said something about

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00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: it and retirement, and Lebron says, no, people don't ask

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00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 2: me about it that much because for some reason to

1074
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 2: think I'm going to play ten more years. No, Lebron,

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00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 2: that's not it. They don't want to ask you the

1076
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: question because you're going to get some long winded words.

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00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 2: Salid in all the BS answer, that's completely inscrutable. Because

1078
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 2: you have the Bobby Knight syndrome. You realize that someday

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00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 2: you're going to miss the spotlight a hell of a

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00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 2: lot more in the spotlight misses you. I wouldn't be

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00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 2: surprised if he plays ten more years, but I'm the

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00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 2: wrong guy to ask what's reality?

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Speaker 7: Mark Well. For a while now, we've always said father

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00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 7: times on the feat of yet Lebron keeps delaying it

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00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 7: the last ten years. Now, I will say this, he's

1086
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 7: still playing at an all star caliber level, but he's

1087
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 7: not the same player as he was before. He's not

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00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 7: He can play defense when he cares to, but he

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00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 7: often takes plays off defensively, and in fairness, that shouldn't

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00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 7: be his MO because that's Anthony Davis's job. But I

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00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 7: think offensively, he still has the complete package as far

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00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 7: as you know, finishing at the rim, having a really good,

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00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 7: versatile scoring and passing game. But even though he finishes

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00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 7: at the rim, he's not as athletic as he was before.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I think at this stage, I mean,

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00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 7: he's playing with house money because it's unprecedented that he's

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00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 7: still playing at this level. Now to your question how

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00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 7: many years is he's still playing, I think that this

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00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 7: is his final contract. So you know, he signed a

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Speaker 7: two year deal, so he'll play two more seasons, call

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00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 7: it a career, and then enjoy the farewell tour. So

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Speaker 7: I think with that, the only finality that we have

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00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 7: right now is that Lebron played his last Olympics. And

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00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 7: now we'll see do the Lakers have what it takes

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00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 7: to try to find, you know, some roster that can

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Speaker 7: give him a fighting chance to win one last championship.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark, good stuff is always buddy, Enjoy your

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Speaker 2: week ahead. We'll see what the news brings us this

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Speaker 2: upcoming week in the NBA. Appreciate you event Mark macdein

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Speaker 2: and Medina Magic every Saturday night, twelve minunight on The

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fratter Show. Coming up fun with numbers Man. Do

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Speaker 2: I hope Russell Wilson is starting Week two for the

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Speaker 2: Steelers at Denver. There's a specific reason why. I'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: I think you'll get a kick out of it. By

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Speaker 2: percent off. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We are coming to you

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Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyrack dot com studios.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Hi, right back on

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up after

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Speaker 2: Kevin's update the chef. Maybe the craziest story I've ever

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Speaker 2: heard coming out of a college campus, certainly maybe the

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Speaker 2: craziest story I've ever heard coming out of the Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame campus, and then includes mantiteo. This is crazier than that.

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what's also crazy. Root for Russell

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Speaker 2: Wilson to be the starter in Pittsburgh and root for

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01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 2: the fact that Russell Wilson is the starter week two

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Speaker 2: when the Steelers visit Denver. Why it would be remarkable

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, if that were the case, is the starting

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Speaker 2: quarterback week two in Denver will become the first player

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Speaker 2: in the history of the National Football League to play

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01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 2: against his former team while the former team is covering

1142
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Speaker 2: almost ninety percent of his salary. Yes, remember the Steelers

1143
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 2: got Russell Wilson on a song. Denver is paying eighty

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Speaker 2: seven percent of his salary essentially to compete against him

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Speaker 2: week two. If that's not a storyline Pittsburgh, Denver, in Denver,

1146
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson's starting quarterback market calendar. Wow, wouldn't that be something?

1147
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 2: If Russell Wilson goes in there beats his former team

1148
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Speaker 2: while Denver is paying eighty seven percent of his salary

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Speaker 2: to compete against their former QB who they couldn't wait

1150
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: to get rid of. Just saying, I like story ankles

1151
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 2: coming up this notre day and thing. You gotta hear

1152
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 2: it to believe it. It's true, and we'll get the

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Speaker 2: crew involved as well. But first go back to a guy,

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Speaker 2: the chef, Kevin Wyre with the latest Yeah Bernie.

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Speaker 9: Major League Baseball. We are in the dog days of August,

1156
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 9: so we're really seeing those pen of races take shape.

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01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 9: The Dodgers, though they were real games, they lost to

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Speaker 9: the Cardinals on Saturday, five to two. The Padres getting

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Speaker 9: back in the win Callum against the Rockies, winning an

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Speaker 9: eight three so San Diego now just two games back

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01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,919
Speaker 9: of La for the top spot in the NL West.

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Speaker 9: The Diamondbacks unable to take advantage of the Dodgers loss,

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Speaker 9: so there's still three games back. They lost the Rays

1164
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 9: six to one. The American League Central is tightening up.

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01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 9: The Brewers beat the Guardians two to one, the Twins

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Speaker 9: picking up a game in the standings as they take

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Speaker 9: down the Rangers five too, so it's a two game

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Speaker 9: lead for Cleveland in the AL Central. I Elsewhere in

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Speaker 9: Major League Baseball, the Mariners sinking like a stone. Five

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Speaker 9: games now they have lost in a row, including a

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Speaker 9: seven to two defeat to the Pirates. The Astros getting

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Speaker 9: a win against the White Sox sixty to one, so

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Speaker 9: Houston now up four games on the Mariners. In that

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Speaker 9: was a tight al Wes It's now starting to widen

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Speaker 9: a little bit as Houston really picking up steam here

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Speaker 9: late in the season. Athletics shut out the Giants to nothing.

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Speaker 9: The Orioles over The Orioles fall to the Red Sox

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Speaker 9: five to one, but the Yankees also losing. The Tigers

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Speaker 9: shut them out for nothing. The Yankees held to just

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Speaker 9: four hits. So the American League. He still has the

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Speaker 9: Yankees on top by one game over Baltimore in the NFL.

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01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 9: Caleb Williams getting his first preseason touchdown. It was a

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01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 9: running one, a seven yard run. He was six for

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01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 9: thirteen for seventy five yards passing overall in the day,

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Speaker 9: just a sixty four point six rating, but the Bears

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01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 9: do beat the Bengals twenty seven to three. It was

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Speaker 9: a struggle for the Steelers passing game on Saturday, just

1188
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Speaker 9: one hundred and thirteen yards passing combined by Justin Fields

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Speaker 9: and Russell Wilson, as the Steelers only muster up three points.

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Speaker 9: The Bills do beat them nine to three. Daniel Jones

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Speaker 9: struggles coming off as torn acl comes in plays with

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Speaker 9: the Giants and throws two interceptions as the Texans do

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Speaker 9: win it twenty eight to ten. Back to you, Bernie.

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Speaker 2: All right, chef, worm up those vocal cords, buddy, all right.

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Speaker 2: I believe this was originally reported by Pat forty one.

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Speaker 2: To give them credit. It turns out that Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: is suspending their men's swimming program for a minimum of

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Speaker 2: one year after an investigation showed that boy a broad

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Speaker 2: based gambling situation that clearly violated NCAA rules and their

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Speaker 2: ad Notre Dame's ad P Pavakua basically issued a statement saying,

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Speaker 2: this is quote a deeply embedded team culture dismissive of

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame standards for student athletes. You're referring to the

1203
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Speaker 2: suspension of the program because apparently the players were gambling.

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01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 2: I'll get to the details on that. They've got a

1205
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 2: mess to clean up. Imagine you're on that swimming team.

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Speaker 2: You are stuck. You want to get your Notre Dame education,

1207
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Speaker 2: but if you want to swim, it won't be this year.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to transfer. Apparently athletes that want

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Speaker 2: to transfer, including incoming freshmen, they have to do so

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Speaker 2: before classes begin in August twenty seventh, which is what

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Speaker 2: just ten days from now. Apparently the women's team is

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Speaker 2: not part of this just the men's team, and apparently

1213
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Speaker 2: the head coach and their staff were not disciplined because

1214
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Speaker 2: the reviews found out they just didn't know about any

1215
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Speaker 2: of this. They were not aware of the scope, they

1216
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 2: were not aware of the extent of what was happening.

1217
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Speaker 2: And what did happen. Well, apparently the Notre Dame men's

1218
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 2: swimming team essentially they they put together their own sports

1219
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 2: book for the purpose of wagering on their own swimmer performances.

1220
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 2: And they, you know, I don't know all the details,

1221
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 2: but apparently more people were involved than not and they based,

1222
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 2: you know, they based they place bets on their own

1223
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 2: performances like for instance, you know, swimmers times or everything.

1224
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 2: You have certain races and you have times, just like

1225
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 2: in track and field, and you could bet over runners.

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01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 2: And apparently it was it was, it was widespread. Now

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Speaker 2: I live in Las Vegas and I've been doing this

1228
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Speaker 2: a long time. I have never seen in any sports

1229
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Speaker 2: book anything on college swimming on the betting board. I've

1230
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 2: never seen a book, a sports book made book on

1231
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 2: college swimming, especially when it has to do with taking

1232
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Speaker 2: wagers on over runners for you know, betting times like

1233
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 2: the one hundred meters, will it be over a minute,

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01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 2: twenty eight or under whatever the case may be. Look,

1235
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Speaker 2: there has apparently been widespread campus gambling issues throughout history,

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01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 2: and the NCAA has modified some of its penalties and

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01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:17,919
Speaker 2: their sanctions, and you know, we don't at this point.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about what the eligibility issues for any

1239
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 2: Notre Dame swimmer who was involved in this. You know,

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01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 2: might that follow them, should they have to go to

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01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 2: other schools. But the nca does have guidelines, and again

1242
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Speaker 2: I don't know the details of the investigation, but if

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01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 2: you wager two hundred dollars or less, you know that's

1244
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 2: a problem. I think what happens is you get read

1245
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 2: the Riot Act and you have to take a bunch

1246
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 2: of classes or something like that, and maybe you kind

1247
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 2: of get off. But if you bet between two hundred

1248
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 2: and five hundred, you are suspended for I think ten

1249
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 2: percent of your season and you lose some eligibility and

1250
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 2: you still have to get to the prevention education. When

1251
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 2: you bet over five hundred, you lose twenty percent of

1252
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 2: your sieging that season, eligibility when you bet over eight hundred.

1253
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 2: I don't know how they came up with these numbers.

1254
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 2: Now you lose thirty percent of your season eligibility. So

1255
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 2: what if you have you know, twelve meets, you miss

1256
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 2: four from whatever the case may be. And if you

1257
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 2: bet more than eight hundred, look you can get you know, permanently,

1258
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 2: you can be made permanently ineligible and all that. Look,

1259
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 2: this is a far reaching oddball story. The story angle

1260
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 2: for me is that aid involves Notre Dame b and

1261
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:34,480
Speaker 2: involves swimming. Okay, we saw the situation with the Alabama

1262
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:36,879
Speaker 2: coach in college baseball. We've seen it in college football.

1263
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 2: Shaye and I went deep into the headache Smith's story,

1264
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 2: the famous point guard for Arizona State that was shaving points.

1265
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 2: I've never seen it in swimming, and I don't think

1266
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 2: I've seen it at Notre Dame. I want to bring

1267
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 2: in the crew because, as you can tell, I'm sort

1268
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 2: of stammering around here. I'm incredulous to hear about this.

1269
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 2: I just am, Shay, have you heard about this story

1270
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 2: and now that you have what you know, what, like,

1271
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 2: what's your need your reaction to this?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:06,680
Speaker 11: I mean honestly, so this reminded me of when the

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Speaker 11: Chinese doping case was exposed. For like, against Team USA

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Speaker 11: and all that, and like I think it was it

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Speaker 11: was swimming. One was like twenty three Chinese swimmers or

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Speaker 11: something like that tested positive for like a man drug

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Speaker 11: at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Speaker 4: So it's like it's something that's not.

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Speaker 11: Unheard of, but within the college realm, it's definitely something

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Speaker 11: that I haven't seen before.

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Speaker 2: Like, think about the shite not to cut you off,

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01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 2: which I just did. They all got together and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: let's create our own little sports book here, and we

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Speaker 2: can bet whether or not we go over under our times.

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Speaker 2: I mean, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I was gonna say it's some. It's some.

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Speaker 11: Obviously we've seen trying like people trying to cheat it,

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Speaker 11: but this is something that's completely different, and it's something

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Speaker 11: that I've never seen in the realm of probably just

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Speaker 11: football and basketball, like that's that's only where you really

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Speaker 11: see it. I mean, that's where we only really talk

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Speaker 11: about it. But the fact that it's opening up to

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Speaker 11: these different sports, I mean, who knows. We could be

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Speaker 11: seeing it in tennis, we could be seeing it in soccer,

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Speaker 11: We could be seeing it in swimming now, So it's

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Speaker 11: like any sport can do it, you know, like That's

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Speaker 11: kind of what I've been thinking. Like everyone thinks, oh,

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Speaker 11: like an NFL player is betting on himself or an

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Speaker 11: NFL player is betting against himself. Of course that's bad,

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Speaker 11: but no one really thinks of these other athletes because anyone, anyone,

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Speaker 11: and everyone can get nil now, and like anyone and

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Speaker 11: everyone can now have the same situations to where a

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Speaker 11: swimmer can make a lot of money doing the same

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Speaker 11: things and at the same school that let's say, not

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Speaker 11: necessarily the same amount that an NFL or a football

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Speaker 11: player would make at that school, but they're making the money.

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Speaker 11: So it's it's what I'm gonna see. What I think

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Speaker 11: will come out of this is a lot more investigations

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Speaker 11: within you.

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Speaker 2: And let's take it a step further. Notre Dame, which

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Speaker 2: is the really kind of the paragon of integrity. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they have a small enrollment, it's very difficult to get

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Speaker 2: into that school. That what it does, it speaks to

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Speaker 2: the fact that what don't we really know what the

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Speaker 2: hell is.

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Speaker 4: Going on out there exactly exactly?

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Speaker 11: And then I think we're going to be seeing a

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Speaker 11: lot more of this, just not from Notre Dame and

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Speaker 11: not just from swimming. I think we're going to be

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Speaker 11: seeing a lot more stories like this. Just expect people

1322
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Speaker 11: getting exposed investigations into things we've never seen before. Because

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Speaker 11: things are getting put on the map, we're able to

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Speaker 11: see things a lot easier. I think with NIO this

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01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 11: like put all of these sports on the map, and

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Speaker 11: now everyone sees what's going on.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's one of the things that not.

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Speaker 11: A lot of people realized would happen. But I definitely

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Speaker 11: think in the next year, two years, three years, we're

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01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 11: going to be seeing a lot of situations like this

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Speaker 11: that we never really did see before.

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Speaker 9: Chef your thoughts, Well, this is not surprising at all.

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Speaker 9: You best believe that this is probably going on at

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Speaker 9: several other schools and several other athletic programs and they

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01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 9: just haven't been caught yet. With the prevalence of sports

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Speaker 9: betting becoming more widespread, I mean it should be expected

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Speaker 9: that more people are going to be tempted, especially since

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Speaker 9: they have the ability to directly out affect the outcomes

1339
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,640
Speaker 9: of certain events and being able to cash out on it.

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Speaker 9: It's something that you are going to see. I agree

1341
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 9: with Shaye one and I think the only way you're

1342
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 9: really gonna put a stop to this is introducing criminal

1343
01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 9: penalties for athletes to directly impact the outcome of a

1344
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 9: performance for the sake of a wager, because you've got

1345
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 9: a lot of people's money on the line, and at

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01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 9: that point it becomes a fraudulent outcome if they do

1347
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 9: something to manipulate it. And short of that, I mean

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01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 9: banning them does a little bit, but you're going to

1349
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 9: keep seeing it happen, and you're really gonna have to

1350
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 9: up the penalties, I think on some of these participants

1351
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,720
Speaker 9: in order to see it slow down, because right now

1352
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 9: it's just too tempting. There's too much money to be

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01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 9: made by participating in schemes like this. So I think

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Speaker 9: that barring anything, barring the increase in penalties, whether they

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01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 9: be criminal, whether they be civil, whether they be punitive

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Speaker 9: at the sports the whatever level the sports governor as.

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Speaker 2: Them there, I think you're onto something. You're not going

1358
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,639
Speaker 2: to make some penalties a hell of a lot more

1359
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 2: severe because there maybe just isn't enough of a deterrent

1360
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 2: factor because according to these NCAA rules, if they were

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01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 2: betting less than two hundred in terms of what the

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01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 2: NCAA is going to do, not necessarily that severe. Now

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Speaker 2: the school itself self discipline. They're the one that checked

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01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 2: on the swimming program. So a lot of these guys

1365
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 2: are kind of a man without a country. Now, we

1366
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 2: saw this in baseball last year with the Alabama situation.

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01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 2: The coach ended up getting fired. You guys know about

1368
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 2: that story. We've seen it in college basketball going back

1369
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 2: sixty years, et cetera, et cetera. Now swimming and Notre Dame,

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01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 2: that's to me that creates the story angle. Mark Ramsey,

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Speaker 2: your thoughts.

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Speaker 12: What I heard about this story on Two Pros and

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01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 12: a Cup of Joe. I just understood it as the

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01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 12: swimmers had competition between themselves, right, and they and one

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01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 12: person just wanted to challenge their other partner, and there

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01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 12: was just between themselves about betting. So I'm thinking that

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01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 12: an idea turned into something bigger because you know, competition

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 12: and winning money against one another. And I guess that

1379
01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 12: got out and so that became something I guess bad

1380
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:19,679
Speaker 12: for them. But the idea of competition between one another,

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01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 12: the teammates, and now you add in betting of all kinds,

1382
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 12: that just makes it a little bit more poisonous because

1383
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 12: now it turns into this big deal.

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01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 13: Now we have to have an.

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Speaker 12: Investigation because teammates wanted to challenge each other and make

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01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 12: bets about it, and now it's become a big problem,

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01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 12: and now it needs to do a band aid to

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01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 12: fix it.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. It may have started out innocuous

1390
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 2: the way you describe, I don't know the backstory, but

1391
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 2: I know where it has ended up. And where has

1392
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 2: ended up is that it's enough of an ordeal that

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01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 2: the school has shut down the entire program for a year.

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01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 2: So this is not something small. And again because it's

1395
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, because it's an off sport like swimming, it

1396
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 2: raises the question what else is going on out there

1397
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 2: that we don't know about? You know what we do

1398
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 2: know about? If you pay your quarterback and making one

1399
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Speaker 2: of the highest paid quarterbacks, that may be a cautionary tale,

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Speaker 2: a word of the lies, dak. If you get paid,

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Speaker 2: the odds are you're not gonna win a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna win win anyway. But I'm going to

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Speaker 2: share I had some fun with numbers on Russell Wilson

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Speaker 2: a minute ago. I'm gonna share with you some more

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Speaker 2: fun with numbers. By the way, coming up top of

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Speaker 2: the hour, we resume our NFL you know, with division previews,

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Speaker 2: so we'll get into the AFC. We completed the NFC

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Speaker 2: last week. I'll give you my thoughts on the AFC

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Speaker 2: get to top of the hour. We're gonna preview the

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Speaker 2: AFC East and the AFC North. Then I want to

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Speaker 2: we'll be taking care of that, by the way, for

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Speaker 2: what it's Worth. This is really going to be the

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Speaker 2: year of the quarterback, not just because of all the

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Speaker 2: new quarterbacks coming into the league and the hype surrounding quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of a sad situation with JJ McCarthy,

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Speaker 2: he really was moving up the ranks. But Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: in New York and Josh Allen in Buffalo and two

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Speaker 2: in Miami. You know, Joe Burrow back in Cincinnati, Deshaun

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Speaker 2: Watson back in Cleveland. What's Lamar Jackson going to do?

1434
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 2: Not to doobt my mind. Russell Wilson will win the

1435
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:23,600
Speaker 2: job in Pittsford. Teams are so relying on the quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: more so than ever. And you know what's insane? What

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Speaker 2: are the seven highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL have

1438
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Speaker 2: in common? The most recent guy to get the bag

1439
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 2: was fifty three point one million a year. He's only

1440
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Speaker 2: behind Trevor Lawrence in fifty five million a year and

1441
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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow at fifty five million a year. Jared goff

1442
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Speaker 2: Well deserved though, fifty three million a year. Justin Herbert

1443
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 2: and I hope his planner fact shatus is okay, he

1444
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 2: didn't play Saturday night, But did you notice he was

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01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 2: not in the walking boot. Not in the Walking Boot.

1446
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 2: Raiders open up against the Chargers Week one. I would

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Speaker 2: hate to see the Chargers and their inaugural season to

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Speaker 2: be navigated, with all due respect, the Eastern Stick without

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Speaker 2: Justin Herbert. I would not like to see that again.

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson the sixty paid quarterback overall fifty two million in.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is fifty one million now. Jalen Hurts has

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Speaker 2: been to a super Bowl. Jored Goff has been to

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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. Joe Burrow has been to a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: You know what the seven highest paid quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 2: NFL have combined, or check that have in common, They've

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Speaker 2: combined for zero Super Bowl rings. So had a caller

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Speaker 2: last night in the mind that hour, a good caller

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Speaker 2: by the way, good duty says, you know, money can

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Speaker 2: buy about anything. No one can't tell that to the

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Speaker 2: Yankees and Dodgers. So that to a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: And you can't buy a quarterback that will guarantee get

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Speaker 2: you into the Super Bowl. Pator Mahomes is thirteenth overall.

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady used to take less. There you have it,

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Speaker 2: be careful what you wish for. You pay your quarterback

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Speaker 2: a lot of money. It guarantees nothing except it's going

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Speaker 2: to eat up a ton of your salary cap. And

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Speaker 2: that's what's going to happen. When you know when the

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Speaker 2: Cowboys paid, he'll eat up sixty million dollars of the

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Speaker 2: got the Eagles winning the East and it's a toss

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Speaker 2: up between the Packers and Lions. Are both going to

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Speaker 2: be very good this year. NFC South. I like the

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Speaker 2: Falcons and I think they'll do it by only going

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Speaker 2: nine to eight. In the NFC West no way, I'm

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01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 2: picking against the forty nine ers, although I think the

1486
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:56,560
Speaker 2: Rams would be very competitive. So let's dive into the

1487
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 2: AFC tonight. We'll do the AFC East and the AFC

1488
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 2: the North. All right, everybody take your spots ready, camera action.

1489
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is in camp. He looks sensational. You heard

1490
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 2: my buddy Doug Anderson last night. Prominent trainer chiropractor, works

1491
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 2: with Olympians, works with college athletes, NFL athletes. He believes

1492
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 2: very strongly that Aaron Rodgers will not only do well,

1493
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 2: he'll be okay during the season. Drew from historical precedent

1494
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 2: if any Testaverdi came back from an ACA or check

1495
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 2: out an Achilles at age thirty eight, played six more years,

1496
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,640
Speaker 2: played Elias forty four. Dan Marino came back from one

1497
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 2: was All Pro the following year. So Rogers is not

1498
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:44,799
Speaker 2: reinventing the wheel. The roster, the Jets roster on paper,

1499
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 2: on paper, is arguably any good as good as any

1500
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 2: in the league. That's a fact. Well maybe it's not

1501
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 2: a fact, but it's it's it's a well informed statement

1502
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 2: based on the talent that's on that roster. The defense

1503
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 2: is a top five unit, the past two seasons, they

1504
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 2: haven't had offensive support. You had that defense had offensive support.

1505
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:14,000
Speaker 2: The Jets are as you heard Jared Smith say, probably

1506
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,679
Speaker 2: a eleven win team. I think that's true. The Jets

1507
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 2: might be the NFL's best defense on paper. All right,

1508
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 2: I think the Jets are going to win the AFC East.

1509
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out on them and say that defense

1510
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 2: is important. If Rogers stays healthy, and the probability is

1511
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 2: he should, things can come together.

1512
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 14: Now.

1513
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 2: They have a tough schedule. There are gonna be some

1514
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,639
Speaker 2: speed bumps, and I know there could be somebody told

1515
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 2: your shows if they're only like four and three after

1516
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 2: the first seven weeks. But I think when the dust

1517
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 2: settles in New Year's they're an eleven to twelve win

1518
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 2: team as long as Rogers stays healthy. Right, the season

1519
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:54,880
Speaker 2: was hyped last year. We know what happened. You got

1520
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 2: to put that behind you. After four snaps, Buffalo has

1521
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 2: been the division champs in twenty twenty two and twenty three.

1522
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 2: You can't tell me they're not diminished by salary cap adjustments.

1523
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 2: They are back to Jets. Given the supporting cast around

1524
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, including a bolstered line, they bring in Mike

1525
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 2: Williams and Malachi Corley. Rogers is gonna have guys to

1526
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,840
Speaker 2: throw the ball to. Could he be an MVP for

1527
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 2: the fifth time? Well, I think the Jets win the division.

1528
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 2: He might it wouldn't it be something. Wouldn't it be

1529
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 2: something if somehow they lock horns against Green Ban and

1530
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 2: he wins. Well, you get the picture. The Jets have

1531
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 2: a tough schedule. They have six prime time dates. They

1532
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 2: got to go to Brazil Week one on a Friday

1533
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,760
Speaker 2: against Philadelphia, so they got some speed bumps. But again,

1534
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 2: they might lose five six games. But in that division,

1535
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 2: eleven wins is gonna do it? Now. I think the

1536
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 2: only other team that can win double digits is Buffalo.

1537
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 2: They won seven in their final nine games last season,

1538
01:22:56,240 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 2: both losses by three points, including their heartbreaker home against

1539
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. That cannot beat the Chiefs. So the old

1540
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 2: Joe Casey Stegel once said, teams lose to the Yankees

1541
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 2: because they get stuck staring at the pinstripes. I don't

1542
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 2: know what it is, man, Chief's got their number, Okay,

1543
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 2: Joe Brady's your offensive coordinator. Stefan Diggs was not a

1544
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 2: major contributor of that hot finish, and he dropped the

1545
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,240
Speaker 2: deep ball in the playoff game. Step Look, you may

1546
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 2: not like hearing this. Stephen Diggs is good written, So

1547
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:27,560
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's not a good player. Come on

1548
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 2: with a pain in the ass. He did it in Minnesota,

1549
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 2: and he did it in Buffalo, and he'll do it

1550
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 2: in his new home too. Prove me wrong, don't tell me.

1551
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 2: Show me not saying he's not a good player. But

1552
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 2: you saw Josh Allen's answer, which was very measured, very political,

1553
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 2: and very shrewd. They don't miss him. He's a good player, though,

1554
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 2: but they're not gonna miss him. They're gonna have to

1555
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 2: carry on without him. You got Gabe Davis and a

1556
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 2: few other key players, but they also have key players

1557
01:23:56,080 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 2: that couldn't afford to keep. And I think, you know,

1558
01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 2: Buffalo might start a little rough. They have a favorable

1559
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 2: schedule the last half. And I would say this, you

1560
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 2: win the division five years in a row with a

1561
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 2: much better roster or four years in a row. Well,

1562
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 2: they win at a fifty ye in a row. No,

1563
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 2: I don't think they are, but I think they'll win

1564
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 2: ten games. I think the Jets are gonna win eleven.

1565
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 2: So those are my thoughts the Miami Dolphins. Look, there's

1566
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:30,559
Speaker 2: a lot to like about Miami. I like Mike McDaniel,

1567
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 2: I like I love Tyreek Hill, I love.

1568
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 8: I like too.

1569
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 2: I've always been a to a fan of going back

1570
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 2: to Alabama. I really believe that. But they I feel

1571
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 2: like the Dolphins are guilty, not to the degree Matt

1572
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 2: Millen was in Detroit of building the team on the periphery.

1573
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 2: You have to build an NFL roster from the inside out.

1574
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,600
Speaker 2: It's all blocking and tackling and everything else's details. I

1575
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 2: don't care what offense you run. So if you are

1576
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 2: if you subscribe to the theory, and I do that,

1577
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 2: if football team should be built from the inside out

1578
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 2: because games are one of the trenches, then the Miami

1579
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 2: Dolphins should raise eyebrows. There should be concerns because you've

1580
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 2: got Christian Wilkins, Robert Hunt, Connor Williams. They were not resigned,

1581
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 2: and remember they faded late in the season. Football is

1582
01:25:28,479 --> 01:25:31,839
Speaker 2: a game of attrition both of Mike McDaniel's seasons, including

1583
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, So you can't be encouraged by the

1584
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:39,759
Speaker 2: fact that starting Thanksgiving for the remainder of the season.

1585
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 2: The Dolphins in their final six games have to play

1586
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 2: four playoff teams and three of them are on the road,

1587
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 2: and you got to play the Jets twice. That might

1588
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 2: be their comeuppance. I feel like the Dolphins maybe a

1589
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 2: nine to eight team. They might even be an eight

1590
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 2: to nineteen. So I got the Jets winning eleven games,

1591
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 2: Buffalo winning ten, Miami winning game nine, which leaves us

1592
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 2: with the New England Patriots. Yes, this is a team

1593
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:11,320
Speaker 2: that will forever be in the shadows of Robert Kraft,

1594
01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 2: Tom Brady, Bill Belichick's just there's been a sea change,

1595
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:17,479
Speaker 2: There's been an ord chart change, There's been a quarterback change.

1596
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 2: You've got a rookie head coach in Gerrod Mao, You've

1597
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,120
Speaker 2: got a rookie quarterback in Drake May. Don't judge them

1598
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 2: on this upcoming season because I think they're on their

1599
01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 2: way to win in three or four games. Just the

1600
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 2: way it is. The roster is not great. They only

1601
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 2: won four games under Bill Belichick's final season and they

1602
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:36,719
Speaker 2: were a playoff team what the year before. So look,

1603
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a bit of time before

1604
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 2: New England breaks back into the win column, even though

1605
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 2: maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel,

1606
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 2: maybe they get another number one pick in the twenty

1607
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,679
Speaker 2: twenty five draft. But there you have it. The AFC East.

1608
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 2: That's the way I see it. It's speculative, and it's

1609
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 2: predicated on Aaron Rodgers staying healthy, but elected juts to

1610
01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:58,719
Speaker 2: win it. I'm gonna go out on that limb. Buffalo

1611
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 2: behind them, Miami behind them, and New England behind them.

1612
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 2: Coming up, we will do the NFC North. And I

1613
01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:10,000
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, this was a really tough sort of

1614
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 2: a homework assignment to navigate because you have proud franchises

1615
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:21,479
Speaker 2: three or four that have a standard of being Super

1616
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:23,919
Speaker 2: Bowl bounder in the Super Bowl. And then there's Cleveland.

1617
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:26,560
Speaker 2: And Cleveland won eleven games and they almost won the

1618
01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 2: division last year, and in spite of the fact they

1619
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 2: had a ton of injuries and they bring a guy

1620
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,639
Speaker 2: off the sofa and Joe Flacco to save them. Different

1621
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 2: story in Cleveland this year and they open up against Dallas.

1622
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I really mean him. This is going

1623
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 2: to be a fun division to break down. I'm talking

1624
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 2: about the AFC North. We'll do that coming up next.

1625
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1641
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1642
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1645
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 2: The dance sensation sweep in the nation. What kind of

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Speaker 2: rousing edition of both. All right, so you heard me.

1648
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:05,920
Speaker 2: The AFC East, I'm gonna go on on a limb.

1649
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 2: The Jets are gonna win it. The win eleven games,

1650
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 2: Buffalo will win ten, Miami maybe eight to nine, nine

1651
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:13,920
Speaker 2: and eight in New England. Bringing up the rear, the

1652
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 2: AFC North Palm for Pound could be the toughest division

1653
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 2: in the National Football League. First of all, I've talked

1654
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 2: about this in previous shows since two thousand and two

1655
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 2: and eighteen to the last twenty. Check that in twenty.

1656
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 2: In the last twenty two years, there have been a

1657
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 2: team that's gone from worse to first. We've even had

1658
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:39,160
Speaker 2: one season more. Two teams did it Cincinnati. The Cincinnati

1659
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 2: Bengals for me, are the by far the most likely

1660
01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 2: worst to first candidate. I think the Bengals are an

1661
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 2: eleven win team. Let's just keep fingers crossed that Joe

1662
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,640
Speaker 2: Burrow can lose this jinx right, I don't know if

1663
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:57,880
Speaker 2: someone put the maloka. I'm the guy keeps getting hurt man.

1664
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 2: He's a star and Cincinnati's not the same without them,

1665
01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 2: still pretty good, but they won the division in twenty

1666
01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 2: one and twenty two with them, And the numbers tell

1667
01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 2: us the Bengals this is this can only help now.

1668
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 2: I know you say these things in the National Football

1669
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:16,200
Speaker 2: League because it's a gauntlet. There are no weeks off

1670
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 2: and not in my opinion, I covered the Lions for

1671
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:20,960
Speaker 2: ten years, and I would just say this every week

1672
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 2: is you earn your victories in the National Football League.

1673
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 2: But by the numbers and the way that they calibrate

1674
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:30,640
Speaker 2: these things and calculate these things. The Bengals have the

1675
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,200
Speaker 2: easiest schedule in their division. The other three teams have

1676
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 2: the three hardest dockets in the league, and they've also

1677
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 2: got hurdles. But the Bengals also got hurdles. They lose

1678
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 2: their offensive coordinator, Brian Callahan. They lose Joe Mixon, they

1679
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 2: lose Tyler Boyd were he was an unhappy camper as

1680
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:53,719
Speaker 2: was a wide receiver, you know, as the second target.

1681
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 2: But but T Higgins, Trey Henderson, Joe Burrow, these are

1682
01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 2: the three cornerstones of the operation. They're back, but they're back,

1683
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 2: you know, and Joe Burrow has an injury to his

1684
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:15,799
Speaker 2: passing risk. Look, I think players like Zach Moss, Gino Stone.

1685
01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 2: They draft a receiver in the third round named Jermaine Burton.

1686
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 2: He's a very talented guy. They could be very underappreciated newcomers.

1687
01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:27,720
Speaker 2: And I think that the Bengals also are going to

1688
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 2: benefit from the proverbial fast start again, assuming Joe Burrow

1689
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 2: is healthy. They open up with the Patriots, they play

1690
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:40,360
Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders, they played the Panthers. Those teams combined

1691
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 2: for the three worst records in twenty twenty three, and

1692
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,800
Speaker 2: Cincinnati gets all of them in September. I think the

1693
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 2: Bengals are an eleven win team. I think they win

1694
01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:53,920
Speaker 2: the AFC North. We'll see again. It's speculative and it's

1695
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:57,799
Speaker 2: predicated on health, which is becoming the theme and the cliche.

1696
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 2: Speaking of health, well, Deshaun Watson has yet to do

1697
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 2: anything to live up to the contract, coming off a

1698
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 2: shoulder injury. But in spite of the fact that Cleveland

1699
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 2: did not have their signal caller that they paid dearly for,

1700
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 2: they still won eleven games. Cleveland won eleven games, nearly

1701
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:22,080
Speaker 2: won the division in twenty twenty three. They had a

1702
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:25,640
Speaker 2: ton of injuries, including again most notably Deshaun Watson. By

1703
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 2: the way, Nick Chubb, he tores acl he missed most

1704
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:31,639
Speaker 2: of the season, and I think that if both those

1705
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:36,719
Speaker 2: guys come back healthy, Cleveland is going to be a bear. However,

1706
01:32:36,880 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 2: it's imperative that Deshaun Watson finds the sea legs in

1707
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:44,680
Speaker 2: this offense, all right, and you know, you bring in

1708
01:32:45,400 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 2: a guy in Jerry Judy, who on paper as all

1709
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:50,799
Speaker 2: talented in the world. He'll be their number two target.

1710
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 2: And again, let's not forget Cleveland had the top ranked

1711
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 2: defense in twenty twenty three when it comes to yards allowed,

1712
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 2: two hundred seventeen yards a game. That's big time. To

1713
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 2: put that in perspective, remember the great Legion of Doom

1714
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:08,160
Speaker 2: defense in Seattle that got to the Super Bowl back

1715
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 2: to back years. They allowed two hundred and fourteen yards

1716
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:13,120
Speaker 2: a game. So Cleveland was in that in that range, right,

1717
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 2: you got the top ranked defense, you got your quarterback back,

1718
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 2: you got Nick Chuck back. However, you know, the Browns

1719
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:29,760
Speaker 2: can't afford a slow start, all right, because if they

1720
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:33,080
Speaker 2: start slow, they're asking for trouble because their final five

1721
01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 2: games of the season they're playing all playoff teams. And

1722
01:33:37,880 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 2: I just mentioned that by the numbers, the Bengals have

1723
01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:45,360
Speaker 2: the easiest schedule, the Browns, by the numbers, have the

1724
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:48,360
Speaker 2: toughest schedule. Well, how do we arrive at that conclusion

1725
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 2: or how do the researchers arrive at that conclusion? Because

1726
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:55,080
Speaker 2: their opponents have accumulative five forty seven winning percentage from

1727
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:59,320
Speaker 2: last year, So these things have a way of rearing

1728
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 2: their head. Still, I think the Browns could be a

1729
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 2: ten win team and a playoff team. I don't think

1730
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 2: they win the division. I think Cincinnati does, but it's

1731
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 2: gonna be hotly contested right behind them. Also, I think

1732
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:14,840
Speaker 2: these guys are a ten win team. So you know,

1733
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 2: you can flip flop whether or not Baltimore finished his

1734
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:21,680
Speaker 2: second or Cleveland finish Wait whatever, all right, I think

1735
01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:23,360
Speaker 2: Baltimore is a ten win team. I don't think they

1736
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 2: win the division. I think Cincinnati does. But there's a

1737
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 2: lot of optimism in Baltimore and they added Derrick Henry

1738
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 2: and look, this is a team that just needed to

1739
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 2: win one more game to get to the Super Bowl.

1740
01:34:37,080 --> 01:34:39,240
Speaker 2: They couldn't beat Kansas City at home. You saw it

1741
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 2: with your own eyes. They had a number one playoff

1742
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 2: seed last season, Baltimore. And look does Derrick Henry and

1743
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 2: his thirty year old body and has taken a lot

1744
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 2: of hits in the last twelve years, how does he

1745
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 2: mention with Lamar Jackson. I'm gonna I'm and by the way,

1746
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 2: look Lamar Jackson, it takes a lot of heat. I'm

1747
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 2: a defender of Lamar Jackson. To me, he's nowhere near

1748
01:35:03,200 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 2: dak Prescott territory. He's got to have a couple more

1749
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 2: stinkers in the playoffs to get in that conversation. But

1750
01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 2: I like Lamar Jackson a lot. I always have. I

1751
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:11,920
Speaker 2: like him at Louisville. I don't think he gets enough

1752
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:14,000
Speaker 2: credit as a pocket passer. I think he's better than

1753
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,840
Speaker 2: people realize. He's also a two time league MVP, right,

1754
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 2: So you add Derrick Henry. That's got to help. It's

1755
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:28,800
Speaker 2: got to I like Derrick Henry. But you also have

1756
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,920
Speaker 2: to juxtapose that with the fact that the Ravens lost

1757
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 2: a lot of players, particularly on defense and the offensive line,

1758
01:35:36,360 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 2: and they lost their offensive coordinator McDonald. Check that their

1759
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator, former Michigan guy Mike McDonald. He's at a

1760
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:47,920
Speaker 2: Seattle he's the head coach now, by the way again,

1761
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 2: back to that schedule conversation. The Ravens they faced four

1762
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three division winners in their first seven games. Okay,

1763
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 2: that's not so easy. So there is a possibility the

1764
01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 2: Ravens could win ten games and miss the postseason field

1765
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 2: because they can lose the strength to victory battle to Cleveland.

1766
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:17,480
Speaker 2: That's just the way these things shake out. So Baltimore

1767
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 2: could win ten games not make the playoffs. Or maybe

1768
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 2: they make a liar out of me and they make

1769
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:25,320
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Maybe they win eleven games. Maybe I'm all

1770
01:36:25,360 --> 01:36:28,240
Speaker 2: wet and they beat Cincinnati. I'm not so sure. I like,

1771
01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 2: I really like the Cincinnati team. I will tell you

1772
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:38,960
Speaker 2: we have a great storyline developing, and it's obviously coming

1773
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:40,799
Speaker 2: out of the AFCU West, and I'm going to preview

1774
01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:44,320
Speaker 2: the AFC West next week. The Kansas City Teafts are

1775
01:36:44,320 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 2: looking to be the first team in the Super Bowl

1776
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 2: era to three peat, and they can do it now

1777
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:54,519
Speaker 2: if you trivia buffs. The Green Bay Packers won the

1778
01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:57,719
Speaker 2: first two Super Bowls, super Bowl one in nineteen sixty

1779
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 2: seven and Super Bowl two in nineteen sixty eight. They

1780
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,439
Speaker 2: beat the Chiefs in Super Bowl one thirty five to ten.

1781
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:05,960
Speaker 2: They beat the Raiders in Super Bowl two thirty three

1782
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:09,599
Speaker 2: to fourteen, but in nineteen sixty six, before the Super

1783
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:15,480
Speaker 2: Bowl era officially launched, the Packers won the NFL Championship

1784
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 2: in sixty six, so they actually did three pat Well,

1785
01:37:18,280 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are bucking to three pete and I gotta

1786
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:24,679
Speaker 2: tell you they're gonna again barring injury. And let's hope

1787
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 2: keep our fingers crossed. We want to see players healthy.

1788
01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:29,720
Speaker 2: I think they got a hell of a chance to

1789
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 2: do it. But you know the team that I think

1790
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:34,360
Speaker 2: can really pee on their parade the Cincinnati Bengals.

1791
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 6: You know it.

1792
01:37:35,840 --> 01:37:38,320
Speaker 2: The Bengals know it, and the Chiefs know it. That's

1793
01:37:38,360 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 2: the one team that just does not fear them. Buffalo

1794
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 2: can't get over the hump. Baltimore wouldn't get over the hump.

1795
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,080
Speaker 2: I don't think Cleveland could could do it. I don't

1796
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:49,120
Speaker 2: think Pittsburgh can do it. I don't know about the Jets.

1797
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 2: They're kind of a wild card right the AFC South

1798
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:59,960
Speaker 2: could the Texans? Could the Colts. I think the team

1799
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 2: that could cause the Chiefs to stumble the Cincinnati. That's

1800
01:38:03,439 --> 01:38:06,320
Speaker 2: why I like them to win the AFT North. Finally,

1801
01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin. Yeah, I believe it or not. Time flies.

1802
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:14,799
Speaker 2: Tomlin is heading into his eighteenth season, and Mike Tomlin

1803
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 2: has never had a losing season. And I think on paper,

1804
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:25,320
Speaker 2: the Steelers are going to be better because I am

1805
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 2: actually a Russell Wilson defender. I know he's a creeper

1806
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 2: and he says these weird things and he seems very disingenuous. Look,

1807
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 2: they ran him out of Seattle, but give the manage

1808
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:38,280
Speaker 2: due you could have won two Super Bowls one to

1809
01:38:38,280 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 2: one through twenty six touchdown passes in Denver against state interceptions.

1810
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:44,400
Speaker 2: I don't think he messed with Sean Payton all that much.

1811
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 2: They just didn't. Tomlin is a shrewd operator, and Russell

1812
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,920
Speaker 2: Wilson is a guy that has gas in the tank.

1813
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:54,320
Speaker 2: If you end up with Justin Fields, all bets are off.

1814
01:38:55,160 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 2: But I think that Pittsburgh with their culture, with Mike Tomlin,

1815
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 2: with Russell Wilson all right, and a bunch of new

1816
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:08,280
Speaker 2: rookies that are very talented. The only question mark is

1817
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:10,840
Speaker 2: you got a new offensive coordinator, Arthur Smith, and he's

1818
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 2: as you can see. And again the preseason, you heard

1819
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 2: my opening monologue means nothing but Listen, the Steelers got

1820
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:23,520
Speaker 2: about twenty two days to get this new offense installed

1821
01:39:24,560 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 2: and get it in a position where you can score

1822
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 2: some points. Because Pittsburgh does play hard nosed football. That

1823
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:33,799
Speaker 2: is their culture, that is their mantra, that is their persona.

1824
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:36,599
Speaker 2: Always has been, always will be. But it doesn't hurt

1825
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:38,240
Speaker 2: if you score points too. And even back in the

1826
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:40,919
Speaker 2: day when Pittsburgh was winning four Super Bowls with Terry Bradshaw,

1827
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:45,720
Speaker 2: you had Lin Swan and John Stalworth. Pittsburgh has had

1828
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:48,479
Speaker 2: offensive skilled guys over the years, even when they won

1829
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:50,840
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl in two thousand and nine beating Arizona.

1830
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:54,400
Speaker 2: So they got to get this new offense straightened out

1831
01:39:54,920 --> 01:40:00,519
Speaker 2: and you know, keep Russell Wilson healthy. And you know,

1832
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:05,080
Speaker 2: I would say the Steelers are another team that has

1833
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 2: to come out of the gate relatively quickly. They have

1834
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:11,400
Speaker 2: a bye week nine, but you know, I don't know

1835
01:40:11,439 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 2: how the schedule makers end up this way. I'm not

1836
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 2: that smart. But after Week nine, in a seven week span,

1837
01:40:17,240 --> 01:40:20,120
Speaker 2: the Steelers have to go on the road five times. Now,

1838
01:40:20,200 --> 01:40:24,080
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh has been finished in last place since two thousand

1839
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 2: and two. Now, uh, there's a first time for everything,

1840
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:37,479
Speaker 2: all right. Actually, let's put it this way. There was

1841
01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:40,000
Speaker 2: a divisional realignment in two thousand and two, and since then,

1842
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh has not finished in last place. Could this be

1843
01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 2: the first year where an entire division finishes above five hundred? Yeah.

1844
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 2: I think Pittsburgh can go nine and eight. I think

1845
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 2: Baltimore can go ten and seven, Cleveland ten and seven.

1846
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 2: I like, since ninety eleven and six, they're gonna play

1847
01:40:57,040 --> 01:40:59,600
Speaker 2: each other twice, they're gonna beat each other up. But

1848
01:41:01,080 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 2: what does that mean? Doesn't mean Pittsburgh gould make the playoffs?

1849
01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 2: So those are my thoughts. I like, I like Cincinnati

1850
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:07,960
Speaker 2: do win the AFC North. I like to just do

1851
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 2: in the AFC East. Next week we'll get into the

1852
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 2: a FC South and the FC West. You do your

1853
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 2: best research, you give your best shot, you see what happens,

1854
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 2: and then reality happens when the season starts. If you

1855
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 2: don't believe me, just ask Aaron Rodgers. So look, let's

1856
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,120
Speaker 2: let it happen. By the way, I I I want

1857
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:31,720
Speaker 2: to read a tweet here coming up, but first let's

1858
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:36,519
Speaker 2: go to our guy, Kevin. Kevin wired the chef yes

1859
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:37,799
Speaker 2: with another performance.

1860
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:39,719
Speaker 10: Sometimes it all.

1861
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 8: In love, man, You take a peel that way, but

1862
01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 8: help you change your life and needn't know your brains.

1863
01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:46,760
Speaker 10: Don't you think you can't get any badtime?

1864
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 2: But then that plods away no matter what it does.

1865
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 1: The state is strong.

1866
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 8: And then you wouldn't I don't call you, didn't your

1867
01:41:55,120 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 8: dumb don't It can't just start like a top rule weird.

1868
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:03,160
Speaker 8: Don't be open and never.

1869
01:42:03,120 --> 01:42:04,720
Speaker 4: Let poon tang come between.

1870
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:13,760
Speaker 2: You and your frame. Chef, you know you once again

1871
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:15,879
Speaker 2: you even added some production in the background.

1872
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,760
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, had to get that full performance in there.

1873
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 8: You know.

1874
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:21,759
Speaker 9: That's my highlight of every week on this show, Bernie.

1875
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 9: So happy to be there and do it again. And

1876
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:28,400
Speaker 9: uh we got some baseball and NFL preseason football on

1877
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 9: this Saturday. And in Major League Baseball, those Pennant races

1878
01:42:31,640 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 9: really tightening up as the Dodgers lead in the nail

1879
01:42:35,680 --> 01:42:38,560
Speaker 9: nl wes now just two games. The Dodgers followed the

1880
01:42:38,600 --> 01:42:42,040
Speaker 9: Cardinals five to two on Saturday, the Padres picking up

1881
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 9: a game by beating the Rockies eight three, so San

1882
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:48,280
Speaker 9: Diego two back of La Arizona. Failing to do that, however,

1883
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:50,320
Speaker 9: they did lose to the Rays six to one, but

1884
01:42:50,400 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 9: the Dimonbacks still red hot coming out of the All

1885
01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 9: Star Break and the AL Central. The Guardians get beaten

1886
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:01,479
Speaker 9: by the Brewers two to he won the Twins taking

1887
01:43:01,680 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 9: advantage with a five to two win against the Rangers,

1888
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 9: so Cleveland's lead in the AL Central now to games.

1889
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 9: Both the Orioles and the Yankees lose on Saturday. The

1890
01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:15,719
Speaker 9: Tigers blake in New York for nothing as the Bronx

1891
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:19,080
Speaker 9: Bombers limited to just four hits, and the Orioles do

1892
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:21,360
Speaker 9: lose to the Red Sox five to one. So the

1893
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:24,840
Speaker 9: Yankees still one game up on Baltimore, a top of

1894
01:43:25,200 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 9: the American League East, and in the American League West,

1895
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 9: it's starting to widen a little bit. It seemed like

1896
01:43:31,520 --> 01:43:33,679
Speaker 9: it was the Mariners division to lose, but the Astros

1897
01:43:33,760 --> 01:43:37,240
Speaker 9: have really come charging forward, and the Mariners have been

1898
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:41,640
Speaker 9: really sputtering of late. They've now lost five games in

1899
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,280
Speaker 9: a row. Pittsburgh beats him on Saturday seven to two,

1900
01:43:44,400 --> 01:43:48,080
Speaker 9: the Astros widening their lead in the AL West with

1901
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:50,320
Speaker 9: a six to one win against the White Sox. Houston's

1902
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 9: lead now at four games. NFL preseason football Bears over

1903
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,880
Speaker 9: the Bengals twenty seven to three, Caleb Williams getting his

1904
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 9: first preseason touchdown was a seven yard scamper as he

1905
01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:05,000
Speaker 9: went six to thirteen for seventy five yards.

1906
01:44:05,120 --> 01:44:05,720
Speaker 10: Overall.

1907
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:10,880
Speaker 9: Passing was not a good day for either Pittsburgh quarterback

1908
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 9: in their nine three loss against the Bills, as justin

1909
01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:18,559
Speaker 9: fields ninety two yards passing Russell Wilson just forty seven

1910
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:21,920
Speaker 9: yards so will combine one hundred and thirteen passing yards

1911
01:44:22,840 --> 01:44:26,800
Speaker 9: for the Pittsburgh Steelers was just not a good day

1912
01:44:26,800 --> 01:44:29,680
Speaker 9: at all offensively for them, and Daniel Jones also struggling

1913
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:33,760
Speaker 9: as he returns from his ACL injury. Giants fall the

1914
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:37,160
Speaker 9: Texans twenty eight to ten, but Jones throwing at two interceptions,

1915
01:44:37,240 --> 01:44:40,519
Speaker 9: one of them being returned for a touchdown as he

1916
01:44:40,640 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 9: really looking rusty there for New York. Elsewhere in the preseason,

1917
01:44:45,320 --> 01:44:47,800
Speaker 9: Ravens over the Falcons thirteen twelve, Lions with the Chiefs

1918
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:50,080
Speaker 9: twenty four to twenty three, Vikings over the Browns twenty

1919
01:44:50,120 --> 01:44:53,160
Speaker 9: seven to twelve, Titans Edge of Sea hot sixteen fifteen,

1920
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:56,599
Speaker 9: coltover the Cardinals twenty one thirteen, Dolphins meet the Commanders

1921
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,800
Speaker 9: thirteen to six, Jets over the Panthers fifteen to twelve.

1922
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:03,760
Speaker 9: Ms beat their crosstown rival the Chargers thirteen to nine,

1923
01:45:03,880 --> 01:45:06,720
Speaker 9: Jaguars over the Buccaneers twenty seven, and the Cowboys beat

1924
01:45:06,760 --> 01:45:07,880
Speaker 9: the Raiders twenty seven.

1925
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:09,560
Speaker 10: It's well, Beck, you Bertie.

1926
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:13,920
Speaker 2: All right, chef good stuff as always, and keep those

1927
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:18,320
Speaker 2: vocal cords warmed up. In twenty six minutes. You know

1928
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 2: we'll all get involved in shay. What kind of brand

1929
01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 2: new food you want to read? A tweet from Joe

1930
01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 2: Bittz love your radio program. I'm not sure where you

1931
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:29,080
Speaker 2: get some of your information from you. So the Jets

1932
01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:30,960
Speaker 2: are going to Brazil to play Philadelphia. That is not

1933
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:33,880
Speaker 2: the case. I did say that. I plead guilty. I

1934
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 2: know better. I know Green Bay is playing I was

1935
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:45,920
Speaker 2: in Green Bay all day Wednesday, had full access to Lambellfield.

1936
01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:49,760
Speaker 2: Somehow I managed to conflate Aaron Rodgers and the Green

1937
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:53,080
Speaker 2: Bay Packers and the Jets thinking I know, damn well,

1938
01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 2: They're not going to Brazil to play the Eagles. The

1939
01:45:55,880 --> 01:45:58,240
Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers are going to play the Eagles, and

1940
01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:00,320
Speaker 2: they're all fired up about it in Green Bay. They're

1941
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:02,400
Speaker 2: really looking forward to the game. First ever NFL game

1942
01:46:02,479 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 2: in Brazil. Appreciate you listening to Joe and I will

1943
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:09,400
Speaker 2: now and then full pa. By the way, Joe, for

1944
01:46:09,479 --> 01:46:11,760
Speaker 2: what it's worth, where you get your information from, never

1945
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:15,599
Speaker 2: in your sentence in a preposition. Couldn't resist that good stuff? Joe,

1946
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:18,479
Speaker 2: appreciate you listening, all right. I want to get the

1947
01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:21,000
Speaker 2: crew involved in this because look, just last year, going

1948
01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:25,599
Speaker 2: to the Butpapa Ball twenty twenty three season, Major League

1949
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 2: Baseball instituted some of the most extreme set of rule

1950
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:32,720
Speaker 2: changes since the inception of the Damn Game. They put

1951
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 2: in a pitch clock, they eliminated the shift, They made

1952
01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 2: the bases bigger, they placed the limit on pickoff throws.

1953
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:42,400
Speaker 2: And the reality is there's been a difference. Games are shorter,

1954
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 2: there's more action on the bass paths. Fans are still

1955
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:47,360
Speaker 2: getting used to some of these adjustments. For the most part.

1956
01:46:48,120 --> 01:46:49,719
Speaker 2: You go to a park now you see the clock

1957
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:54,040
Speaker 2: winding down, you see the game move at a quicker pace. Okay, Okay,

1958
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 2: I think it's had a positive effect. Okay, However, Rob

1959
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:03,280
Speaker 2: Manfred eight done. They're not enamored with pitchers, you know,

1960
01:47:03,439 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 2: pitching three or four innings and being done and pitch counts,

1961
01:47:06,360 --> 01:47:09,360
Speaker 2: and they want more starting pitchers to spend more time

1962
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:11,760
Speaker 2: on them out. They want more starting pitchers going deeper

1963
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 2: into games like it used to be back in the day.

1964
01:47:15,240 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've heard what Randy Johnson

1965
01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:20,600
Speaker 2: said to Paul's schemes this past week, but it was

1966
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,880
Speaker 2: pretty interesting. He's like, you know, Paul, and I will

1967
01:47:23,920 --> 01:47:25,920
Speaker 2: share this maybe later in the show or maybe next

1968
01:47:25,960 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 2: week if I have time to get to it. But

1969
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:29,519
Speaker 2: the gist of it was, Paul, if you want to

1970
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:31,920
Speaker 2: have the career that you really want to have and

1971
01:47:32,040 --> 01:47:36,120
Speaker 2: deserve to have, cut the crap. A lot of these

1972
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 2: times I watch you, I look at your pitch count.

1973
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:39,760
Speaker 2: You were able to go one more inning. All right,

1974
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 2: You're leading the game three nothing in the fifth and

1975
01:47:42,400 --> 01:47:44,519
Speaker 2: they pull you and they put another guy in. He

1976
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:46,720
Speaker 2: gives up four runs and you lose a chance to win.

1977
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:50,840
Speaker 2: And that's not good. So one of the things Rob

1978
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:53,280
Speaker 2: Manfred has talked about, he wants to increase the amount

1979
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:57,560
Speaker 2: of action. He wants to crease the amount of the

1980
01:47:57,680 --> 01:48:02,080
Speaker 2: starting pitchers staying in the game. The question is would

1981
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:05,080
Speaker 2: it lead to more injuries or fewer injuries? Would pictures

1982
01:48:05,120 --> 01:48:08,160
Speaker 2: pitch differently to survive? And would they do this? Can

1983
01:48:08,240 --> 01:48:13,120
Speaker 2: you really can you really institute something like this? I

1984
01:48:13,160 --> 01:48:15,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't call it draconian, but I certainly would call it

1985
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 2: pretty forceful. The primary goal of what this minimum innings

1986
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 2: rule that has been banged about, meaning this new rule, Okay,

1987
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:30,640
Speaker 2: will it be a be all end all, will it

1988
01:48:30,680 --> 01:48:33,920
Speaker 2: be a panasy, We don't know, but it would require

1989
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:36,640
Speaker 2: starting pitchers to go at least six innings every time

1990
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:39,000
Speaker 2: they take to the mound, unless, of course, there were

1991
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:44,400
Speaker 2: injuries or something, or there are provisos. And of course

1992
01:48:44,680 --> 01:48:47,240
Speaker 2: one of the Royal starters Seth Lugo's poke up he said,

1993
01:48:47,280 --> 01:48:49,559
Speaker 2: we all want to go at least six blah blah blah.

1994
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,120
Speaker 2: All right, I don't know if he was I don't

1995
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:55,280
Speaker 2: know if he was joking or what. Probably not so,

1996
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 2: But the primary goal of this minimum innings rule would

1997
01:48:58,200 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 2: be to restore the dignity of the starting pitcher, to

1998
01:49:02,960 --> 01:49:06,840
Speaker 2: restore the prestige of the starting pitcher, And I think

1999
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:10,240
Speaker 2: I think it might increase viewership. Fans would know that

2000
01:49:10,280 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 2: you're tuning into a game knowing that the starter is

2001
01:49:12,120 --> 01:49:14,720
Speaker 2: going to be on the mound for the majority of

2002
01:49:14,760 --> 01:49:22,240
Speaker 2: the game, and in reality, the way it goes, starting

2003
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:28,320
Speaker 2: pitchers typically unlikely to reach that goal. Ten years ago,

2004
01:49:28,920 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 2: just ten years ago, starting pitchers averaged just under six

2005
01:49:34,080 --> 01:49:36,600
Speaker 2: innings to start five point nine to seven. According to

2006
01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 2: ESPN Stats and Information, the figure has dropped down to

2007
01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:46,280
Speaker 2: right at five about and now four in TAA. So look,

2008
01:49:47,400 --> 01:49:49,760
Speaker 2: major League Baseball at least acknowledges that if you put

2009
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,280
Speaker 2: this rule in, it's not going to be so simple

2010
01:49:52,400 --> 01:49:55,080
Speaker 2: forcing every start to pitch at least six innings. You're

2011
01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:58,439
Speaker 2: going to have to have exceptions. All right. Here are

2012
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:00,240
Speaker 2: some of the exceptions. The starter would be a allowed

2013
01:50:00,280 --> 01:50:02,680
Speaker 2: to leave early if he's already thrown hundred pitches, if

2014
01:50:02,720 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 2: you've given up four or more runs, or of course,

2015
01:50:06,040 --> 01:50:10,920
Speaker 2: if you get injured, right, let's bring him the crew.

2016
01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:14,920
Speaker 2: I just there's a weirdness to this to me that

2017
01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:19,639
Speaker 2: feels unnatural. Shay, let's start with you. I'm sure you've

2018
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:23,559
Speaker 2: heard about this minimum innings rule that they're talking about. Okay,

2019
01:50:23,680 --> 01:50:28,080
Speaker 2: there's nowhere near there's proponents of it, there's resistance, it's

2020
01:50:28,120 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 2: not official, but they're talking about it, and I'm telling you,

2021
01:50:31,280 --> 01:50:33,040
Speaker 2: I think it's got a fifty to fifty chance happening.

2022
01:50:33,080 --> 01:50:33,720
Speaker 1: Do you like it or not?

2023
01:50:34,680 --> 01:50:37,160
Speaker 11: I don't think I like it, because, to be honest,

2024
01:50:37,240 --> 01:50:39,840
Speaker 11: I don't I want to see Paul Skeen's playing for

2025
01:50:39,920 --> 01:50:41,840
Speaker 11: the long run. I don't care if he says for

2026
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:43,800
Speaker 11: more than four innings, Like I want to see him

2027
01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:46,560
Speaker 11: playing for ten twelve years, even though I'm a Dodger fan, Like,

2028
01:50:46,880 --> 01:50:48,760
Speaker 11: I just want to see greatness for as long as

2029
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:52,240
Speaker 11: I can. So, for instance, Kershaw has been playing for

2030
01:50:52,360 --> 01:50:54,559
Speaker 11: so long, and he's able to play for so long

2031
01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 11: and still be somewhat competitive because that rule is in effect.

2032
01:50:59,040 --> 01:51:01,280
Speaker 11: If he's not having a good game or he's injury prone,

2033
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 11: we're gonna take him out immediately, you know what I mean.

2034
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,880
Speaker 2: And they made that proviso. So not having a good

2035
01:51:06,880 --> 01:51:08,840
Speaker 2: game is like four innings or four runs or more,

2036
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:10,679
Speaker 2: But go ahead, continue with your point.

2037
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:13,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, well exactly four runs are more. But still it's

2038
01:51:14,040 --> 01:51:16,760
Speaker 11: like I just I don't care to see them for

2039
01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 11: a long Like, for instance, if you're gonna keep him

2040
01:51:20,120 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 11: in the game, he's gonna do good, Like if it's

2041
01:51:22,400 --> 01:51:24,920
Speaker 11: four runs. It just doesn't make sense to me, Like

2042
01:51:25,040 --> 01:51:27,240
Speaker 11: it's just a rule that I feel like shouldn't be there.

2043
01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 2: It's like, well, it's not that it's they're nowhere near

2044
01:51:30,320 --> 01:51:34,040
Speaker 2: enforcing it yet they're at the experimental stage or having conversations,

2045
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:37,280
Speaker 2: they would like to implement this rule, and their belief

2046
01:51:37,400 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 2: is it restores the prestige of the starting pitcher.

2047
01:51:40,560 --> 01:51:43,400
Speaker 11: So I'm looking at the rules right now, it's so, yeah,

2048
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,840
Speaker 11: he gives up four and more earned runs, he throws

2049
01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 11: one hundred pitches, or he gets injured. And I mean

2050
01:51:49,560 --> 01:51:51,920
Speaker 11: in six innings throwing one hundred pitches. I don't know

2051
01:51:51,960 --> 01:51:55,040
Speaker 11: how many times we've seen that. If you're giving up

2052
01:51:55,080 --> 01:51:58,600
Speaker 11: four and more earned runs within six innings most of

2053
01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:00,880
Speaker 11: the time, if you're doing that in the first three innings,

2054
01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 11: you're not going to be in the game.

2055
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 2: True.

2056
01:52:02,760 --> 01:52:05,200
Speaker 11: So it's like it's like this rule doesn't even need

2057
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:06,800
Speaker 11: to be there, Like, of course, if he gets injured,

2058
01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:08,880
Speaker 11: he's gonna get pulled. Like I think it's just something

2059
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 11: that they're just like, there's no point in putting it

2060
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:13,760
Speaker 11: in there. In my opinion, it just doesn't really make sense.

2061
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:16,160
Speaker 2: Well, their point again, this is there in lines of

2062
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:18,120
Speaker 2: discussion exactly where I wanted to bring it up on

2063
01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:23,160
Speaker 2: the air. There is a point. It's just not our point, okay,

2064
01:52:23,360 --> 01:52:27,360
Speaker 2: it's it's there is a rationale based on the powers

2065
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:31,200
Speaker 2: to be in the major leagues. Uh, And they're I

2066
01:52:31,280 --> 01:52:33,880
Speaker 2: think they're feeling saucy, they're feeling their oats a little

2067
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:36,479
Speaker 2: bit because, let's face it, some of these rule changes

2068
01:52:36,479 --> 01:52:37,680
Speaker 2: they put in the last couple of years with the

2069
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:39,800
Speaker 2: pitch clock, would you agree they've worked?

2070
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:43,719
Speaker 11: Yeah, they've sped up games. It's I definitely agree they've worked.

2071
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:45,960
Speaker 11: But again, like I think this is a little different

2072
01:52:46,040 --> 01:52:49,920
Speaker 11: because every pitcher is different. With the pitch clock, it's

2073
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:53,320
Speaker 11: it's it's easy because it doesn't affect it affects everyone

2074
01:52:53,400 --> 01:52:53,880
Speaker 11: the same way.

2075
01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:56,400
Speaker 2: But can I share it one quick thing? Yeah, of course,

2076
01:52:56,439 --> 01:52:58,559
Speaker 2: of course, and we're going to continue this coming up.

2077
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:02,720
Speaker 2: I saw the Dodgers played twice uh in Milwaukee this

2078
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:05,200
Speaker 2: week Tuesday nights. Gavin ston't pitch a hell of a game.

2079
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:09,280
Speaker 2: He was terrific, struck out six, didn't walk anybody along,

2080
01:53:09,360 --> 01:53:13,160
Speaker 2: one urn run, He threw eighty six pitches. He didn't

2081
01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:16,439
Speaker 2: start the sixth inning? Why not? Why couldn't you have

2082
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:19,479
Speaker 2: brought him out? They bring in, they bring in, they

2083
01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:23,200
Speaker 2: bring in this reliever. Uh, oh god, who was it?

2084
01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:26,479
Speaker 2: It was landed neck. Yeah, he evenly gives up three

2085
01:53:26,520 --> 01:53:29,519
Speaker 2: hits in a run. So couldn't he have start? Couldn't

2086
01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:31,720
Speaker 2: he have pitched one more aning I was.

2087
01:53:31,880 --> 01:53:34,160
Speaker 11: I was really yelling at Dave Roberts after that one.

2088
01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 11: That was something I don't I didn't understand either.

2089
01:53:36,280 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 6: But.

2090
01:53:37,920 --> 01:53:41,280
Speaker 11: It's again, it should be the man. It shouldn't be

2091
01:53:41,320 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 11: the MLB that is doing this. It should be the

2092
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,880
Speaker 11: manager that keeps them in. That's it's like I just

2093
01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 11: and I'm not a manager, and I'm nowhere near to

2094
01:53:50,360 --> 01:53:52,240
Speaker 11: being a manager, So I don't know what he was

2095
01:53:52,280 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 11: doing and what Dave Roberts was thinking.

2096
01:53:54,439 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 4: Obviously, that's what they always do.

2097
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 2: It's based it's based out of fear and it's based

2098
01:53:58,160 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 2: out of caution. Ironically, Colin Ray, who's a damn good pitcher,

2099
01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:06,320
Speaker 2: he got lit that night. He actually pitched the full

2100
01:54:06,360 --> 01:54:09,400
Speaker 2: six innings, threw one hundred pitches, gave up ten hits

2101
01:54:09,439 --> 01:54:12,599
Speaker 2: in seven or runs, and I know probably Pat Murphy

2102
01:54:12,760 --> 01:54:14,519
Speaker 2: just said, hell with it, we're not going to burn

2103
01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:16,960
Speaker 2: up innings. We'll go Johnny Holstaff, let's get six out

2104
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:18,680
Speaker 2: of them and we'll move on. And by the way,

2105
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:20,320
Speaker 2: the Brewers won the final two games of the streets.

2106
01:54:20,360 --> 01:54:23,200
Speaker 2: We're going to continue this conversation coming up. I want

2107
01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:25,360
Speaker 2: the crew to talk about this. You bring up a

2108
01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 2: lot of good points, Shay, it feels forced and it

2109
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:31,160
Speaker 2: feels unnatural, and therein lies the issue. I'm Bernie Fraddawer

2110
01:54:31,200 --> 01:54:33,480
Speaker 2: comedy line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio Diirec dot

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Speaker 2: Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Now we're back in

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up ten minutes.

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Speaker 2: The Dan Sensation sweeping the nation? What kind of brand

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Speaker 2: new fool? You followed by what my name? But I

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Speaker 2: want to finish this discussion. Uh, Shay, go finish your

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Speaker 2: point please, And I want to get I want to

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Speaker 2: get Mark and the chef Toway and as well. Final

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Speaker 2: thoughts on this potential rule where starters in Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball have to go six innings.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I just think it's gonna be unfair for the

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Speaker 11: starters that throw a hundred. I mean, Gavin, you said

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Speaker 11: to yourself, Gavin Stone could have gone six last time,

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Speaker 11: but I don't think he has a pitch that goes

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Speaker 11: over one hundred. But with people like Paul Skins, I mean,

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Speaker 11: there's a reason why the Pirates are so safe. It's

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Speaker 11: because he's chucking the ball almost every time. And that's

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Speaker 11: why this is something that's not necessarily I can compare

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Speaker 11: it to the pitch clock because everyone has to deal

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Speaker 11: with the pitchclock the same way, But with this this

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Speaker 11: is completely different, because I mean, is Paul Skin's just

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Speaker 11: gonna throw softer like to be able to reach that

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Speaker 11: six inning?

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Speaker 2: See that. That's a good point. Shake that came up.

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Speaker 2: Do pitchers now alter their approach just to comply with

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Speaker 2: this rule? I want to make sure you get the

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Speaker 2: other guys in, But excellent point, shit, chef, what do

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Speaker 2: you got?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I don't believe in having a hard rule that says

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Speaker 9: they have to go six innings. I do believe that

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Speaker 9: they should incentivize it. Maybe having that DH hook rule

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Speaker 9: where the DH leaves the game where the team loses

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Speaker 9: the DH once they pull their starter or another one

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Speaker 9: would be limiting the amount of pictures on a roster,

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Speaker 9: so teams really really have to think about pulling a

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Speaker 9: pitcher before five or six innings. So those are things

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Speaker 9: I would support, but as Shay mentioned, forcing pictures to

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Speaker 9: go at least six innings when maybe they're not built

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Speaker 9: for going that long to begin with, if they're just

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Speaker 9: fireballers meant to go four or five I mean, what

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Speaker 9: type of effect does that have on them?

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Speaker 10: Is it going to force them to alter their approach?

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Speaker 9: And I think we might see a reckoning with how

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Speaker 9: starting pitchers approach how they pitch on the mound if

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Speaker 9: we do see that, and I think it messes too

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Speaker 9: much with the strategy. I think teams should have the

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Speaker 9: ability to determine who who should pitch for them at

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Speaker 9: what point? I mean, the three out the three batter

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Speaker 9: minimum is pushing it even for me, But anything beyond that,

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Speaker 9: I think it should be up to the teams to

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Speaker 9: determine the best courts of strategy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't disagree, Mark, you got the last word.

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Speaker 1: Power does it be?

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Speaker 12: Have finally figured out that there's not going to be

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Speaker 12: any more twenty game winner pitchers and then that will

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Speaker 12: successfully get a picture into the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 13: There's not going to be that kind of career anymore.

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Speaker 12: So now they figured out all we need to change

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Speaker 12: what we do with the picture because those days are over.

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Speaker 2: Holy Bolgoney, I love that take. That is so good

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Speaker 2: that you remember you have to complete five innings to

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Speaker 2: be the picture of a record. You have to complete,

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Speaker 2: so getting into the six makes it better. We don't

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Speaker 2: have complete games anymore. My god, I will keep an eye.

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Speaker 2: I've been studying this and coming up in what my name.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have a couple of interesting stats you get,

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Speaker 2: you guys, will I will, I guarantee you will raise

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Speaker 2: an eyebrow. I think baseball is feeling it, so it's

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Speaker 2: a little bit as well. They instituted all these changes,

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Speaker 2: the pitch clock, you know, the bases being bigger, the

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Speaker 2: trips to the mound, the pickoff move, and they have work.

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Speaker 2: The game is faster, the pace is, the games are

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Speaker 2: shorter and there's more action, which is what they want.

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Speaker 2: But you know, you guys all bring up good points.

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Speaker 2: You know you got to leave it to the team.

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Speaker 2: Can you really dictate that does a picture alter his

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Speaker 2: approach to comply with the rules? Should the teams be

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Speaker 2: in charged? And last, but not least, Baseball's concerned about

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Speaker 2: the historical numerical perspective, right, and so maybe they're artificially

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Speaker 2: trying to manipulate that for legacies for pictures. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if it's gonna work. I hope they don't pass it.

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Speaker 2: I don't like it. It's just something it doesn't sit

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Speaker 2: right with me. For a multitude of reasons coming up.

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Speaker 2: What kind of brand new fool of you? And what

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Speaker 2: my name? Keep it locked right here? You're listening to

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Yep, that's right,

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Speaker 2: we have come to that juncture, that time of the week,

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Speaker 2: the time of the show. Do you know what? You

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Speaker 2: love it? You can't live without it, you see, because

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Speaker 2: as Yogi Berra once said, you can observe a lot

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Speaker 2: by watching, which is exactly what we do from seed

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Speaker 2: to Oily Sea, all around the globe. Because every day

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Speaker 2: people engage in behaviors that are weird, goofy. They cause

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Speaker 2: you to well raise an eyebrow. Oftentimes they're innocuous, they're stupid,

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Speaker 2: they're silly, they're harmless. But many times they're far more dangerous,

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Speaker 2: oftentimes illegal, sometimes can land you in jail. But anyway

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Speaker 2: you slice it, anyway you characterize it, any way you

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Speaker 2: describe it, these behaviors, they always always leave us scratching

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Speaker 2: our head and asking ourselves, what kind of brand new

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Speaker 2: fool are you?

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Speaker 1: What kind of brand new fool are you?

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Speaker 2: So this one is really an interesting story. I will

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Speaker 2: tell you that this is the first brand new fool

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Speaker 2: I've ever done that actually spans four years, four years

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Speaker 2: work with me. Just this past week, a woman was

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Speaker 2: sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing wait for it,

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Speaker 2: chicken wings. She stole eleven thousand cases of chicken wings

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Speaker 2: that were valued at one point five million dollars. I said,

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Speaker 2: this goes back four years. How did this happen? We'll

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Speaker 2: say hello to Verra Laddell, sixty eight year old Vera Lddell. Now,

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Speaker 2: I debated whether I wanted to use this for my

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Speaker 2: brand new fool this week, but it was so crazy

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Speaker 2: that I had to, And so I don't want to

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Speaker 2: personally attack this individual. But man o, man oh man,

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Speaker 2: this story is just crazy. She pleaded guilty to fly

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Speaker 2: theft this last week for stealing more than eleven thousand

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Speaker 2: cases of chicken wings valued at a million and a half,

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Speaker 2: Which I just said, what the hell happened here? Well,

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Speaker 2: this whole story takes us back during COVID, and it

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Speaker 2: takes us to Illinois, where the Cook County State's Attorney's

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Speaker 2: office started investigating this a couple of years ago. So

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Speaker 2: quote unquote, the massive fraud began at the height of

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Speaker 2: the COVID, during a time where students were not allowed

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Speaker 2: to be physically president school. According to The New York

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Speaker 2: Times given credit for this, even though children were learning remotely,

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Speaker 2: the school district continued to provide meals for the students

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Speaker 2: that families could pick up, but the stolen food was

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Speaker 2: never provided to the students. So the guilty plea was

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Speaker 2: part of a deal the prosecutor's office reached, and of

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Speaker 2: course miss Liddell a great dealer. Remorse, sure, sure, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, but here's the deal. From July twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: through February twenty twenty two, she engaged in quote pervasive

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Speaker 2: and a pervasive embezzlement scheme by placing hundreds of unauthorized

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Speaker 2: orders for food items, particularly chicken wings, with the schools districts.

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Speaker 2: The school districts made provider of food Gordon Food Service.

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Speaker 2: The orders were also placed separately from the district's regular orders,

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Speaker 2: and Gordon Food Services thinking they were legitimate purchases. Will

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Speaker 2: they build the district They didn't know. The district then

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Speaker 2: paid the invoices, but during a mid year audit two

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Speaker 2: years ago, the district's business manager discovered the food service

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Speaker 2: department had already surpassed as annual budget by three hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars and it was only in January. So the

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Speaker 2: investigation continued and there was surveillance video that showed that

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Speaker 2: miss Ladell actually used the district's cargo vans also to

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Speaker 2: pick up the cases of chicken wings, so the food

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Speaker 2: was never brought to the school, never provided to the students,

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Speaker 2: and she was arrested in January twenty twenty three. And

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Speaker 2: now it has come full circle and she's facing eleven

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Speaker 2: years in prison a million and a half in chicken wings. Yes,

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Speaker 2: in an eyeball side note, Chris Jones, the star defensive

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Speaker 2: tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs, allegedly posted on social

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Speaker 2: media he offered to pay a million and a half.

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Speaker 2: He offered to pay back restitution a million and a

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Speaker 2: half dollars so that miss Adell could have a freedom

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Speaker 2: because her attorney said she could not pay any restitution because, oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, she's got a gambling problem. Also, Chris

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Speaker 2: Jones said, hey, I'll pay for the wings she stole.

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Speaker 2: Let's get her free. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 2: If they would all due respect to this sixty eight

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Speaker 2: year old woman, man O man o, man o, man o, man,

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Speaker 2: mister Adell, what kind of brand new fool?

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Speaker 6: Are you.

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Speaker 2: All right? Shay back in the forth, my man, What

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Speaker 2: do you got for us?

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Speaker 11: It's gonna be back Bernie. And we're going to Thailand

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Speaker 11: for this one. I don't think i've been there yet.

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Speaker 11: I know Florida's kind of been away in the summer.

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Speaker 2: Drill go ahead, yeah, but yeah.

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Speaker 11: So a Russian tourist who allegedly tried to have intercourse

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Speaker 11: with a cow was gored by the animals hold on,

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Speaker 11: I just.

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Speaker 2: You're on fire, Go go go, and.

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Speaker 4: Had to be rescued by Thai police.

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Speaker 11: Avengi Kuvshinov twenty six is said to have stripped off

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Speaker 11: and settled over to a male bowl before turning his

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Speaker 11: attention to a female bowl tied to a wooden fence

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Speaker 11: in a field in Surrats Thani. I'm hoping I'm saying

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Speaker 11: that right, which is in southern Thailand.

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Speaker 14: Uh.

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Speaker 11: This past week, the man on holiday allegedly tried to

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Speaker 11: mount the cow, only for her to react violently, obviously

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Speaker 11: pinning him to the ground and goring him.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 11: Concerned locals, who suspected the Russian was up to no

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Speaker 11: good when they saw him prowling naked, had already called police.

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Speaker 11: They also heard his cries for help while being attacked

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Speaker 11: and stood next to him as they waited for officers

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Speaker 11: to arrive. Police of paramedics arrived to the scene and

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Speaker 11: carry the Russian away on a stretcher. He was taken

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Speaker 11: to Banaderum Hospital be treated for wounds on his bottom

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Speaker 11: and abrasions all over his body. Police Lieutenant Thong Chey Chaikit,

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Speaker 11: I'm really hoping I'm saying these names right of bon

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Speaker 11: Na Doin police station said they receive reports of a

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Speaker 11: foreign man with an altercation with a cow.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it was way more than an altercation.

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Speaker 11: Luckily, the rescue team arrived to save him, but he

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Speaker 11: kept walking and speaking Russian without any meaning.

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Speaker 4: He had no spell of alcohol in his book.

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Speaker 11: Car and when he was sent to the hospital because

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Speaker 11: he was injured on his bottom, he went crazy and

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Speaker 11: doctors would not admit him. So now he's detained at

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Speaker 11: the police station. This just leads me to go on,

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Speaker 11: and this is probably one of the craziest ones I've

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02:05:53,480 --> 02:05:56,040
Speaker 11: ever done. Let's go back to his name real quick,

2323
02:05:56,080 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 11: because oh my god, Evgenie Kushinov, what kind of brand

2324
02:06:00,520 --> 02:06:01,160
Speaker 11: new fool are you?

2325
02:06:02,360 --> 02:06:04,400
Speaker 2: And you know that's that's a great one. I mean,

2326
02:06:04,480 --> 02:06:06,600
Speaker 2: it doesn't even matter whether or not you got the

2327
02:06:06,680 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 2: names right. You had me a cow no mata, you

2328
02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:11,240
Speaker 2: come out of the gate.

2329
02:06:11,480 --> 02:06:14,040
Speaker 11: Oh this even I mean, it was a little hard

2330
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:16,240
Speaker 11: to find stories this this week for some reason.

2331
02:06:16,320 --> 02:06:18,720
Speaker 4: But when I found it, oh man, this was definitely

2332
02:06:20,040 --> 02:06:20,640
Speaker 4: it's top ten.

2333
02:06:20,760 --> 02:06:23,080
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you'll have to come back. Well, we'll we'll quote,

2334
02:06:23,320 --> 02:06:24,600
Speaker 2: we'll melk that one for all.

2335
02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:25,760
Speaker 10: Do what I did there?

2336
02:06:27,000 --> 02:06:31,320
Speaker 2: All right? All right, good one, good one. Say, chef,

2337
02:06:32,160 --> 02:06:32,880
Speaker 2: can you top that?

2338
02:06:33,120 --> 02:06:35,000
Speaker 9: I don't think I can. I mean, that's probably one

2339
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:38,520
Speaker 9: of the best ones. I am bird in this segment

2340
02:06:38,640 --> 02:06:41,080
Speaker 9: going back to what since I've been here almost two years,

2341
02:06:41,160 --> 02:06:42,760
Speaker 9: so I think Shay is gonna be hard to be

2342
02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:47,160
Speaker 9: topped here. But we go to otter Tail County, Minnesota,

2343
02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:50,640
Speaker 9: where a woman and her boyfriend on the way to

2344
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:57,360
Speaker 9: couple's therapy and she decided that couple therapy wasn't enough.

2345
02:06:58,480 --> 02:07:01,440
Speaker 9: She ran him over after he decided that on the

2346
02:07:01,520 --> 02:07:05,360
Speaker 9: way to that that they should break up so love.

2347
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:10,200
Speaker 9: Veronica Rolling Gast was arrested for second degree assault, criminal

2348
02:07:10,360 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 9: vehicular operation, bodily harm, gross negligence, and domestic assault according

2349
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 9: to an affidavit, because on the way to couple's therapy,

2350
02:07:19,360 --> 02:07:23,320
Speaker 9: her boyfriend decided that, okay, we should break up and

2351
02:07:24,280 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 9: she got mad told him to get out. He did,

2352
02:07:27,040 --> 02:07:29,160
Speaker 9: and as he was going in front of her car

2353
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:33,200
Speaker 9: to the sidewalk, she decided to step on the gas pedal.

2354
02:07:33,240 --> 02:07:35,960
Speaker 9: He went on all over the hood, broke her windshield,

2355
02:07:36,520 --> 02:07:39,680
Speaker 9: and she insisted that he was the windshield dam which

2356
02:07:39,800 --> 02:07:41,960
Speaker 9: was caused by him punching the glass and not by

2357
02:07:42,000 --> 02:07:46,000
Speaker 9: his body weight. But so far the evidence showed that no,

2358
02:07:46,240 --> 02:07:49,760
Speaker 9: she intentionally stepped on the gas pedal to hit him,

2359
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:53,440
Speaker 9: and she now will find herself facing several charges.

2360
02:07:53,560 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 10: So I can see why he broke up with her

2361
02:07:55,840 --> 02:07:56,440
Speaker 10: at that point.

2362
02:07:57,240 --> 02:08:01,880
Speaker 9: Veronica Rolling Gast of otter Tail Canty, Minnesota. What kind

2363
02:08:01,920 --> 02:08:02,680
Speaker 9: of brand new fool are you?

2364
02:08:03,320 --> 02:08:03,600
Speaker 6: Wow?

2365
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:07,160
Speaker 2: Wow? Minnesota, Thailand and Chicago. Two of the three involved

2366
02:08:07,240 --> 02:08:10,360
Speaker 2: violence and sado masochism. That's what I'm talking about, guys.

2367
02:08:10,920 --> 02:08:13,160
Speaker 2: A little something some for the effort. Nicely done. That'll

2368
02:08:13,200 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 2: conclude another rising condition of what kind of brand new

2369
02:08:15,880 --> 02:08:18,200
Speaker 2: fool are you? Which allows us to now segway into

2370
02:08:18,240 --> 02:08:24,520
Speaker 2: our second favorite bit. What my name? All right? I,

2371
02:08:24,960 --> 02:08:28,120
Speaker 2: as a Major League baseball player, now own the following record.

2372
02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:31,240
Speaker 2: I'm the fastest to three hundred career home runs in

2373
02:08:31,400 --> 02:08:34,560
Speaker 2: terms of the shortest number of games. Shay Moganngar, What

2374
02:08:34,680 --> 02:08:34,960
Speaker 2: my name?

2375
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 4: It's the captain? Judge?

2376
02:08:38,640 --> 02:08:41,680
Speaker 2: You got it, Aaron Judge. Oh, he got it, He

2377
02:08:41,760 --> 02:08:45,480
Speaker 2: got it, Aaron Judge. Nicely done? All right, guys. College

2378
02:08:45,560 --> 02:08:49,800
Speaker 2: football is just around the corner. Week zero starts next week,

2379
02:08:51,440 --> 02:08:54,640
Speaker 2: and so preseason rankings are out. In the history of

2380
02:08:54,680 --> 02:08:59,400
Speaker 2: college football, seven times my teams were listed as the

2381
02:08:59,520 --> 02:09:02,800
Speaker 2: preseason number one, the most of any coach in college

2382
02:09:02,800 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 2: football history. The chef Kevin Wyer, What my name?

2383
02:09:05,920 --> 02:09:08,760
Speaker 10: We'll get the guest Nick Saban, Not Nick.

2384
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:11,600
Speaker 2: Saban, not Nick Saban. But it's an excellent guest. Seven

2385
02:09:11,680 --> 02:09:14,720
Speaker 2: times my college football teams were ranked preseason number one,

2386
02:09:14,760 --> 02:09:17,160
Speaker 2: the most of any coach in history. Mark Ramsey, what

2387
02:09:17,320 --> 02:09:17,800
Speaker 2: my name.

2388
02:09:19,400 --> 02:09:20,160
Speaker 13: Bear Bryant?

2389
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:25,760
Speaker 2: Nicely done? It is, in fact Paul bear Bryant seven times,

2390
02:09:26,640 --> 02:09:31,400
Speaker 2: Saban I think came in at like four. All right,

2391
02:09:32,080 --> 02:09:34,400
Speaker 2: I got a kick out of this one. I just

2392
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:36,840
Speaker 2: found this out the other day, actually, while I was

2393
02:09:36,880 --> 02:09:41,040
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. My initials are MLB. I'm a prominent Major

2394
02:09:41,120 --> 02:09:45,400
Speaker 2: League baseball player, and my mom says, making my initials

2395
02:09:45,600 --> 02:09:49,040
Speaker 2: MLB were intentional. Shaye Mogangar, what my name?

2396
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:55,640
Speaker 4: Okay, so it starts with an M. Nicky, No, it

2397
02:09:55,760 --> 02:09:56,560
Speaker 4: starts with an M.

2398
02:09:58,240 --> 02:10:01,440
Speaker 2: I know it's one of those. It's a tongue twister.

2399
02:10:02,040 --> 02:10:05,160
Speaker 2: My initials are MLB. I'm a prominent Major League baseball player.

2400
02:10:05,240 --> 02:10:08,200
Speaker 2: My mom says, making my initials that way were intentional.

2401
02:10:08,920 --> 02:10:09,920
Speaker 2: The chef, what my name?

2402
02:10:10,000 --> 02:10:15,400
Speaker 10: Give me my boy? Mooky wooky bets Oh, I hate that.

2403
02:10:15,480 --> 02:10:21,000
Speaker 2: I know that. Hey, by the way, chef, your deal

2404
02:10:21,080 --> 02:10:25,320
Speaker 2: from Minnesota or Brian McCarry just tweeted in that relationship

2405
02:10:25,360 --> 02:10:27,960
Speaker 2: here in Minnesota was only a year long, as was

2406
02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:30,960
Speaker 2: reported by the news here. Just brilliant, great show. As always,

2407
02:10:30,960 --> 02:10:32,640
Speaker 2: thanks for listening, Brian. All right, good good stuff, man,

2408
02:10:32,720 --> 02:10:34,680
Speaker 2: Good to see this brand new fool stuff's getting out there.

2409
02:10:34,800 --> 02:10:42,240
Speaker 2: Oh are you guys go three for three one year only? Yeah?

2410
02:10:43,720 --> 02:10:47,280
Speaker 2: All right. As a quarterback in college, I led the

2411
02:10:47,480 --> 02:10:51,000
Speaker 2: SEC in passing last year, Mark Ramsey, what my name

2412
02:10:53,120 --> 02:10:53,280
Speaker 2: is it?

2413
02:10:54,240 --> 02:10:54,720
Speaker 13: Penix?

2414
02:10:55,560 --> 02:10:58,480
Speaker 2: Not Michael Penix of course, not a bad guess, but

2415
02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:02,240
Speaker 2: Panis did play for Washington as a quarterback. I was

2416
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:07,120
Speaker 2: the SEC's leading passer last year. Uh, jam Oggar what

2417
02:11:07,280 --> 02:11:07,560
Speaker 2: my name?

2418
02:11:08,480 --> 02:11:09,920
Speaker 4: It wasn't Jayden?

2419
02:11:10,000 --> 02:11:13,200
Speaker 2: Right, Jane Daniels was not Jayden Daniels. He did not

2420
02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:15,440
Speaker 2: lead the SEC in passing as a quarterback. I led

2421
02:11:15,480 --> 02:11:17,920
Speaker 2: the SEC in passing last season. Chef what my name?

2422
02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:22,640
Speaker 10: Hmmm, gonna have to SEC quarterback?

2423
02:11:22,960 --> 02:11:23,080
Speaker 6: Uh?

2424
02:11:24,360 --> 02:11:25,960
Speaker 10: Was Jake from at Georgia?

2425
02:11:26,840 --> 02:11:28,880
Speaker 2: What it was? I think it was? Back? Well, at

2426
02:11:28,880 --> 02:11:31,440
Speaker 2: one point Jake fromm was at Georgia. It is, in fact,

2427
02:11:31,960 --> 02:11:35,520
Speaker 2: Carson Beck. Yeah, yeah, my bad, Carson Beck.

2428
02:11:38,720 --> 02:11:38,840
Speaker 6: There.

2429
02:11:40,440 --> 02:11:45,200
Speaker 2: All right? Moving on. Uh, I'm very surprised by that

2430
02:11:45,440 --> 02:11:48,080
Speaker 2: the fact that the Texas Rangers have gone completely off

2431
02:11:48,160 --> 02:11:52,360
Speaker 2: a cliff so last season, Bruce Bochie became the second

2432
02:11:52,520 --> 02:11:56,400
Speaker 2: major league manager in history to win World Series in

2433
02:11:56,560 --> 02:11:59,480
Speaker 2: both leagues, but I was the first one to do it.

2434
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:00,640
Speaker 2: Mark ram See what my name?

2435
02:12:04,240 --> 02:12:06,080
Speaker 13: Oh Sparky Anderson.

2436
02:12:06,600 --> 02:12:08,040
Speaker 2: God, you guys are on fire tonight.

2437
02:12:08,640 --> 02:12:10,040
Speaker 4: Mark is on fire right now?

2438
02:12:12,120 --> 02:12:15,360
Speaker 2: All right? You got you got Bear Bryant, you got Sparky.

2439
02:12:15,960 --> 02:12:18,000
Speaker 10: Wait, Squarky won with the Tigers. Who else did he

2440
02:12:18,080 --> 02:12:18,320
Speaker 10: win with?

2441
02:12:19,440 --> 02:12:21,360
Speaker 2: Sparky was Cincinnati Red's big red machine?

2442
02:12:21,360 --> 02:12:23,520
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I didn't even know.

2443
02:12:23,720 --> 02:12:25,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where he really made his bones. He won.

2444
02:12:25,920 --> 02:12:28,640
Speaker 2: And remember they got to the World Series and lost

2445
02:12:28,680 --> 02:12:31,080
Speaker 2: to Baltimore. Then they got and lost to Oakland. So

2446
02:12:31,280 --> 02:12:33,640
Speaker 2: that night, that famous nineteen seventy five series that you

2447
02:12:33,680 --> 02:12:36,640
Speaker 2: see every other damn day on ESPN, Carlton fisket Norman,

2448
02:12:36,880 --> 02:12:39,720
Speaker 2: the Reds won that series. And then the Reds came

2449
02:12:39,760 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 2: back and won. In seventy six, I swept the Yankees.

2450
02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:46,400
Speaker 2: We won twice with the Cincinnati Reds. All right, we've

2451
02:12:46,440 --> 02:12:50,440
Speaker 2: been talking about this. No one throws complete games anymore

2452
02:12:50,760 --> 02:12:54,480
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, but since two thousand, since the

2453
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:58,440
Speaker 2: year two thousand, I still hold the Major League Baseball

2454
02:12:58,600 --> 02:13:03,840
Speaker 2: record most complete games in the season with eleven. Shane

2455
02:13:03,880 --> 02:13:05,000
Speaker 2: Ogngar what my name?

2456
02:13:10,520 --> 02:13:16,240
Speaker 4: Hmmm, James, you got it. Oh my god, wow, I

2457
02:13:16,280 --> 02:13:19,240
Speaker 4: want to shields but.

2458
02:13:21,560 --> 02:13:24,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely and air for it.

2459
02:13:24,080 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 1: Oh, I got that.

2460
02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:26,800
Speaker 4: That would have been I generally have no idea.

2461
02:13:26,880 --> 02:13:28,640
Speaker 9: I could have listened one hundred pictures before I would

2462
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,200
Speaker 9: have guess a guy who gave up a home run

2463
02:13:30,240 --> 02:13:31,200
Speaker 9: to Bartolo Cologne.

2464
02:13:32,600 --> 02:13:34,040
Speaker 2: Big sexy, Yeah, all.

2465
02:13:34,000 --> 02:13:38,000
Speaker 4: Right, big game, James, Dude, he was good, Yeah, he

2466
02:13:38,080 --> 02:13:38,480
Speaker 4: was very.

2467
02:13:38,760 --> 02:13:41,720
Speaker 2: Let's do let's have fun with this one. Since twenty ten,

2468
02:13:43,280 --> 02:13:45,880
Speaker 2: I still hold the Major League Baseball record for starting

2469
02:13:45,920 --> 02:13:48,320
Speaker 2: pitchers of the most complete games in the season with

2470
02:13:48,680 --> 02:13:51,840
Speaker 2: nine The chef, what my name?

2471
02:13:52,000 --> 02:13:56,160
Speaker 9: Since twenty ten to nine ten, I'm gonna guess Clayton Kershaw.

2472
02:13:56,000 --> 02:14:00,560
Speaker 2: Not Clayton Kershaw. Since twenty ten, I still hold the

2473
02:14:00,640 --> 02:14:03,240
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball pitchers record for most complete games in

2474
02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:06,160
Speaker 2: the season with nine, Mark.

2475
02:14:06,040 --> 02:14:12,600
Speaker 4: Ramsey with my name, I can't think of anybody, no problem.

2476
02:14:12,680 --> 02:14:15,000
Speaker 2: Since twenty ten, I still hold the Major League Baseball

2477
02:14:15,040 --> 02:14:18,120
Speaker 2: pitchers record starting pitchers record for most complete games in

2478
02:14:18,160 --> 02:14:21,760
Speaker 2: the season with a total of nine. Okay, yes, heay,

2479
02:14:21,840 --> 02:14:22,360
Speaker 2: what my name?

2480
02:14:22,800 --> 02:14:24,000
Speaker 4: It can't be Royal Holiday?

2481
02:14:25,160 --> 02:14:26,680
Speaker 1: It is, in fact Royal Holidays.

2482
02:14:29,160 --> 02:14:37,960
Speaker 2: Yes cool, yeah, yeah, I'll never forget. I covered the Tigers.

2483
02:14:38,320 --> 02:14:40,640
Speaker 2: I've had a credential with the Tigers since ninety four

2484
02:14:41,440 --> 02:14:45,880
Speaker 2: and pretty much saw every home opener until I might

2485
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:47,120
Speaker 2: have missed one. I don't know.

2486
02:14:47,400 --> 02:14:49,840
Speaker 4: He passed in twenty seventeen, right, he did, and he

2487
02:14:50,080 --> 02:14:51,280
Speaker 4: has that record.

2488
02:14:51,360 --> 02:14:52,960
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, no one pitches complete game.

2489
02:14:53,000 --> 02:14:55,760
Speaker 9: Wait, we had one time tired in why like twenty

2490
02:14:56,080 --> 02:14:58,000
Speaker 9: like fourteen or something like that. I mean he didn't

2491
02:14:58,000 --> 02:14:59,520
Speaker 9: pitching the twenty ten Is that long?

2492
02:14:59,640 --> 02:14:59,840
Speaker 8: Yeah?

2493
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:02,880
Speaker 2: No, no, but yeah, but he Look, he was a

2494
02:15:02,960 --> 02:15:05,480
Speaker 2: gamer man. I remember he would open up every year

2495
02:15:05,520 --> 02:15:07,640
Speaker 2: for Toronto. I saw I think I saw him pitch

2496
02:15:07,680 --> 02:15:10,480
Speaker 2: against attackers on opening day at least twice. He was nasty.

2497
02:15:11,080 --> 02:15:14,400
Speaker 2: He was nasty. He was and remember he came from

2498
02:15:14,400 --> 02:15:17,120
Speaker 2: where he really did, come from a different era. By

2499
02:15:17,200 --> 02:15:18,720
Speaker 2: the time twenty fourteen year old around had been the

2500
02:15:18,760 --> 02:15:24,400
Speaker 2: league probably fifteen years, right at least all right Among

2501
02:15:24,680 --> 02:15:29,720
Speaker 2: active Major League Baseball players. Among active Major League Baseball players,

2502
02:15:29,760 --> 02:15:32,280
Speaker 2: I've played more games in my career than any other player.

2503
02:15:32,320 --> 02:15:33,240
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey with my.

2504
02:15:33,280 --> 02:15:38,040
Speaker 13: Name active players played the most.

2505
02:15:38,120 --> 02:15:38,520
Speaker 4: Games.

2506
02:15:39,840 --> 02:15:46,560
Speaker 2: Among active players, I have played the most. I don't know,

2507
02:15:46,840 --> 02:15:50,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, get no problem. Among active Major League

2508
02:15:50,040 --> 02:15:53,880
Speaker 2: baseball players, I've played more games than anybody else in

2509
02:15:54,080 --> 02:15:57,480
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball for a career. Seane Ogngar what my.

2510
02:15:57,560 --> 02:16:01,440
Speaker 4: Name pirates legend, Andrew McCutchen.

2511
02:16:01,240 --> 02:16:04,160
Speaker 2: You got it, it is, in fact, who's still in

2512
02:16:04,200 --> 02:16:04,560
Speaker 2: the league.

2513
02:16:04,640 --> 02:16:07,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember seeing him once at Tired Stadium.

2514
02:16:07,680 --> 02:16:09,160
Speaker 10: Wow, I always love touch.

2515
02:16:09,360 --> 02:16:09,880
Speaker 4: He's great.

2516
02:16:10,000 --> 02:16:12,520
Speaker 2: Man's he's back with him definitely.

2517
02:16:12,560 --> 02:16:13,440
Speaker 10: We played for the Giants.

2518
02:16:13,480 --> 02:16:15,080
Speaker 4: But is Freeman second.

2519
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:15,480
Speaker 10: In that list?

2520
02:16:15,840 --> 02:16:19,480
Speaker 2: No way, right, I'd have to look it up. I'd

2521
02:16:19,520 --> 02:16:23,720
Speaker 2: have to look it up, but I know he just

2522
02:16:23,800 --> 02:16:28,240
Speaker 2: passed somebody this past week to to to achieve that

2523
02:16:28,440 --> 02:16:30,680
Speaker 2: goal as Oh.

2524
02:16:29,800 --> 02:16:32,120
Speaker 4: But Joey Voto is not in the league anymore, right,

2525
02:16:33,280 --> 02:16:33,560
Speaker 4: he's not.

2526
02:16:34,040 --> 02:16:36,320
Speaker 2: I think Joey No, I think Joey vottal's playing.

2527
02:16:36,360 --> 02:16:37,600
Speaker 4: But Joey Voto is number two?

2528
02:16:38,520 --> 02:16:44,600
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, last one, guys. So, in the history

2529
02:16:44,640 --> 02:16:46,880
Speaker 2: of the National Football League in the Super Bowl era,

2530
02:16:48,720 --> 02:16:51,400
Speaker 2: there have been eight NFL teams at one back to

2531
02:16:51,480 --> 02:16:53,119
Speaker 2: back Super Bowls. Or let's put it this way, that's

2532
02:16:53,160 --> 02:16:57,320
Speaker 2: not the right for terminology. There are eight occasions in

2533
02:16:57,480 --> 02:17:02,920
Speaker 2: which an NFL team has won back to back Super Bowls.

2534
02:17:03,760 --> 02:17:06,440
Speaker 2: But I'm the only head coach to have done it. Twice.

2535
02:17:07,560 --> 02:17:08,600
Speaker 2: The chef what my name?

2536
02:17:09,520 --> 02:17:11,920
Speaker 9: Back to back Super Bowl is the only head coach

2537
02:17:12,120 --> 02:17:18,800
Speaker 9: to do it twice, Bill Belichick.

2538
02:17:19,680 --> 02:17:23,560
Speaker 2: Not Bill Belichick. He did do it once H three

2539
02:17:23,600 --> 02:17:27,120
Speaker 2: and OL four, but not twice. All right. In the

2540
02:17:27,240 --> 02:17:30,280
Speaker 2: history of the National Football League, there have been eight

2541
02:17:30,320 --> 02:17:32,280
Speaker 2: occasions where an NFL team has won back to back

2542
02:17:32,360 --> 02:17:34,800
Speaker 2: Super Bowls. But I'm the coach. I'm the only coach

2543
02:17:35,680 --> 02:17:40,160
Speaker 2: of a franchise that actually did that twice. Mark Ramsey

2544
02:17:40,200 --> 02:17:40,720
Speaker 2: what my name?

2545
02:17:43,480 --> 02:17:46,800
Speaker 13: A coach of a franchise, He's done it twice.

2546
02:17:46,959 --> 02:17:49,199
Speaker 2: Done it twice, back to back twice.

2547
02:17:51,520 --> 02:17:54,240
Speaker 13: I was thinking of the Pittsburgh coach, Well.

2548
02:17:54,160 --> 02:18:00,959
Speaker 2: You're okay, can you give you a names? Oh God,

2549
02:18:01,000 --> 02:18:02,920
Speaker 2: I should, I should give it to you, but I

2550
02:18:02,959 --> 02:18:05,000
Speaker 2: would have, but I think we're almost like to forty

2551
02:18:05,040 --> 02:18:07,400
Speaker 2: five seconds, so you might. Yeah, there you go. All right,

2552
02:18:07,600 --> 02:18:09,680
Speaker 2: but good effort. Mark, you had a huge night tonight.

2553
02:18:10,320 --> 02:18:12,000
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll see if Shay can bring it home.

2554
02:18:12,520 --> 02:18:14,240
Speaker 2: The only coach in the history of the National Football

2555
02:18:14,320 --> 02:18:16,920
Speaker 2: League then not only won back to back Super Bowls,

2556
02:18:17,040 --> 02:18:19,720
Speaker 2: I'm the only coach to do it twice. Morganngar what

2557
02:18:19,920 --> 02:18:20,160
Speaker 2: my name?

2558
02:18:20,240 --> 02:18:22,920
Speaker 11: I was lost until Mark said the Steelers. It's Chuck Nole.

2559
02:18:24,520 --> 02:18:25,600
Speaker 11: I gotta give Mark.

2560
02:18:27,280 --> 02:18:31,240
Speaker 2: Team, team effort, guys, outstanding job tonight. Should we do

2561
02:18:31,320 --> 02:18:32,360
Speaker 2: one more for a point?

2562
02:18:32,840 --> 02:18:33,000
Speaker 11: Why?

2563
02:18:33,360 --> 02:18:35,040
Speaker 2: How you guys are gonna like that? You guys should

2564
02:18:35,080 --> 02:18:37,920
Speaker 2: get this one, okay, because it's a repeat one. But

2565
02:18:38,040 --> 02:18:43,080
Speaker 2: it's so damn distinctive. All right. Everybody's raving about Caleb Williams,

2566
02:18:43,160 --> 02:18:46,760
Speaker 2: and it should be everybody raved about Justin Williams, and

2567
02:18:46,879 --> 02:18:49,160
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be, or they should when he was at

2568
02:18:49,160 --> 02:18:52,240
Speaker 2: Ohio State, but not in the National Football League. However,

2569
02:18:52,640 --> 02:18:55,920
Speaker 2: I still am the only Chicago Bears quarterback in the

2570
02:18:56,000 --> 02:19:00,480
Speaker 2: last thirty five years to be named All Pro moggar

2571
02:19:00,560 --> 02:19:00,840
Speaker 2: what my.

2572
02:19:00,879 --> 02:19:03,800
Speaker 4: Name in the last thirty five years to.

2573
02:19:03,879 --> 02:19:06,520
Speaker 2: Thirty five yearsamed All Pro?

2574
02:19:07,600 --> 02:19:08,360
Speaker 4: Not Jay Cutler?

2575
02:19:08,480 --> 02:19:11,760
Speaker 2: Right, not Jay Cutler. That's a good, good effort, And

2576
02:19:11,840 --> 02:19:13,920
Speaker 2: the only Chicago Bears quarterback in the last thirty five

2577
02:19:14,000 --> 02:19:18,000
Speaker 2: years to be named All Pro chef what my name?

2578
02:19:20,600 --> 02:19:22,840
Speaker 10: Jim Harbaugh played for the Bears. He did, But yeah,

2579
02:19:22,840 --> 02:19:24,560
Speaker 10: it's not the end, not the answer, Okay.

2580
02:19:24,560 --> 02:19:27,240
Speaker 2: Harball was there in eighty seven. I believe they're they're abouts.

2581
02:19:27,280 --> 02:19:30,760
Speaker 2: I don't know. Someone will hold it against me, all right,

2582
02:19:30,879 --> 02:19:31,560
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey, do.

2583
02:19:31,560 --> 02:19:35,640
Speaker 13: You have the answer to the question, is it Rex Grossman?

2584
02:19:36,080 --> 02:19:37,840
Speaker 2: Not Rex Grossman, although he did get him too Super

2585
02:19:37,840 --> 02:19:39,560
Speaker 2: Bowl guys, it's Mitch Trubisky.

2586
02:19:40,360 --> 02:19:41,040
Speaker 10: He was all Pro.

2587
02:19:42,920 --> 02:19:43,080
Speaker 2: Yep?

2588
02:19:44,560 --> 02:19:45,840
Speaker 10: Wait, all Pro or Pro Bowl?

2589
02:19:46,200 --> 02:19:47,760
Speaker 2: That's did I did I screw this up?

2590
02:19:47,800 --> 02:19:48,800
Speaker 10: You may said all Pro?

2591
02:19:49,000 --> 02:19:53,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, then okay, shame on me. Give me a demerit.

2592
02:19:53,400 --> 02:19:57,959
Speaker 2: But but he's still literally to get to the Pro Bowl. Yeah, okay,

2593
02:19:58,200 --> 02:20:03,959
Speaker 2: that that's good enough for me. Coming up, Randy Johnson

2594
02:20:04,120 --> 02:20:08,160
Speaker 2: had some choice words for Paul Skeens in a good way.

2595
02:20:08,600 --> 02:20:10,800
Speaker 2: I'll share it. Coming up, I'm Bernie frattle. We are

2596
02:20:10,959 --> 02:20:13,480
Speaker 2: coming to you live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports

2597
02:20:13,520 --> 02:20:15,840
Speaker 2: Radio Tireck dot Com Studios. Give it lock listening to

2598
02:20:15,840 --> 02:20:18,840
Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. We're back

2599
02:20:18,879 --> 02:20:23,840
Speaker 2: on the Bernie Fratterle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Pitching complete games.

2600
02:20:24,760 --> 02:20:28,760
Speaker 2: Baseball's starting to become a conversation more in the forefront

2601
02:20:28,840 --> 02:20:33,280
Speaker 2: the legend. Randy Johnson had some fox for Paul Skins

2602
02:20:33,400 --> 02:20:36,360
Speaker 2: and I do not take this in the pejorative. I

2603
02:20:36,480 --> 02:20:39,320
Speaker 2: really think Randy Johnson meant, well, here, let's give it

2604
02:20:39,360 --> 02:20:39,720
Speaker 2: a listen.

2605
02:20:40,280 --> 02:20:42,640
Speaker 15: Basically, you just told them that You're a special pitcher.

2606
02:20:42,879 --> 02:20:46,320
Speaker 15: Not too many pitchers come around like you. You're you know,

2607
02:20:46,720 --> 02:20:52,200
Speaker 15: one in every twenty thirty years. And don't put limitations

2608
02:20:52,240 --> 02:20:54,680
Speaker 15: on your soap, And don't let anybody else put limitations

2609
02:20:54,720 --> 02:20:57,000
Speaker 15: on your soap because you'll then if you do, you're

2610
02:20:57,080 --> 02:20:59,119
Speaker 15: never gonna know what kind of picture you could have been.

2611
02:20:59,240 --> 02:21:03,200
Speaker 2: With that good You could do a lot. Don't put

2612
02:21:03,240 --> 02:21:07,879
Speaker 2: limitations on yourself. I don't excellent stuff. Shay, great job

2613
02:21:07,959 --> 02:21:10,000
Speaker 2: pulling that sound down. At the end of the show.

2614
02:21:10,640 --> 02:21:13,800
Speaker 2: I want to add an additional inflection because Randy Johnson

2615
02:21:13,840 --> 02:21:16,840
Speaker 2: drew history into the conversation, and that's the thing I

2616
02:21:16,920 --> 02:21:19,560
Speaker 2: think we need to start to pay attention to. All Right,

2617
02:21:20,040 --> 02:21:22,520
Speaker 2: thirty five percent of the pitcher's got Tommy john surgery

2618
02:21:22,560 --> 02:21:25,120
Speaker 2: that didn't exist fifty years ago. But guys like Nolan Ryan,

2619
02:21:26,160 --> 02:21:28,280
Speaker 2: there's a lot of hard throwers that seem to make

2620
02:21:28,320 --> 02:21:31,360
Speaker 2: it through the human body. Have we deteriorated? I don't think.

2621
02:21:31,440 --> 02:21:33,920
Speaker 2: So We're going to dive into that coming up at

2622
02:21:33,959 --> 02:21:36,640
Speaker 2: the very end of the show with the time we

2623
02:21:36,800 --> 02:21:39,640
Speaker 2: have left. Coming up christ Properfet's World of Soccer.

2624
02:21:39,720 --> 02:21:41,560
Speaker 9: But first back to our guy, the chef, Kevin Wire

2625
02:21:42,879 --> 02:21:45,720
Speaker 9: Major League Baseball. We are in the thick of the

2626
02:21:45,800 --> 02:21:48,640
Speaker 9: Pennant races, and the Dodgers have been in command of

2627
02:21:48,640 --> 02:21:51,360
Speaker 9: the NL West all season, but they're lead now down

2628
02:21:51,440 --> 02:21:55,000
Speaker 9: to just two games, LA losing to the Saint Louis

2629
02:21:55,080 --> 02:21:58,600
Speaker 9: Cardinals on Saturday five to two. The Padres picking up

2630
02:21:58,640 --> 02:22:01,200
Speaker 9: a game with a win against They's eight three, so

2631
02:22:01,360 --> 02:22:05,560
Speaker 9: San Diego two games behind LA. Arizona, however, aren't able

2632
02:22:05,680 --> 02:22:08,200
Speaker 9: to take advantage of the Dodgers loss, the Diamondbacks losing

2633
02:22:08,240 --> 02:22:10,440
Speaker 9: to the race six to one. So the d Backs,

2634
02:22:10,560 --> 02:22:12,040
Speaker 9: as right hot as they are coming out of the

2635
02:22:12,080 --> 02:22:14,640
Speaker 9: All Star Break, find themselves three games back in Los

2636
02:22:14,680 --> 02:22:19,440
Speaker 9: Angeles in that NL West race. In the AL Central,

2637
02:22:19,560 --> 02:22:23,000
Speaker 9: the Cleveland Guardians losing to the Brewers two to one.

2638
02:22:23,120 --> 02:22:26,160
Speaker 9: The Twins able to take advantage as they get a

2639
02:22:26,160 --> 02:22:28,560
Speaker 9: win against the Rangers five to two. Cleveland's lead in

2640
02:22:28,600 --> 02:22:32,920
Speaker 9: the AL Central now too games. In the American League West,

2641
02:22:33,000 --> 02:22:35,040
Speaker 9: it was the Mariners Division to lose. It looked like

2642
02:22:35,160 --> 02:22:37,720
Speaker 9: much of the season, but the Astros have really charged

2643
02:22:37,760 --> 02:22:40,640
Speaker 9: on strong and right now Seattle in a free fall.

2644
02:22:40,680 --> 02:22:43,960
Speaker 9: They've lost five games in a row, including a seven

2645
02:22:43,959 --> 02:22:46,480
Speaker 9: to two defeat too to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.

2646
02:22:46,520 --> 02:22:50,320
Speaker 9: They are four and six in their last ten games,

2647
02:22:50,400 --> 02:22:53,280
Speaker 9: Houston getting the win against the White Sox six to one,

2648
02:22:53,440 --> 02:22:56,879
Speaker 9: so Houston's lead in the American League West now sits

2649
02:22:57,000 --> 02:22:58,120
Speaker 9: at four games.

2650
02:22:58,200 --> 02:22:59,160
Speaker 10: Both the Yankees and.

2651
02:22:59,400 --> 02:23:02,080
Speaker 9: Orioles lose on Saturday, so New York still on top

2652
02:23:02,080 --> 02:23:05,960
Speaker 9: of that division the AL East by one game. NFL

2653
02:23:06,040 --> 02:23:09,640
Speaker 9: preseason football Caleb Williams. His first touchdown was a seven

2654
02:23:09,760 --> 02:23:13,440
Speaker 9: yard run as the Bears beat the Bengals twenty seven

2655
02:23:13,520 --> 02:23:16,520
Speaker 9: to three. Williams six to thirteen for seventy five yards.

2656
02:23:17,120 --> 02:23:21,600
Speaker 9: On the afternoon, the Bills and Steelers. Pittsburgh really struggling

2657
02:23:21,680 --> 02:23:24,879
Speaker 9: in the passing game one hundred and thirteen combined passing

2658
02:23:24,959 --> 02:23:27,640
Speaker 9: yards from Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, as the Bills

2659
02:23:27,840 --> 02:23:31,360
Speaker 9: do win it nine to three. Daniel Jones a struggle

2660
02:23:31,560 --> 02:23:35,400
Speaker 9: as the Giants lose to the Houston Texans twenty eight ten.

2661
02:23:35,520 --> 02:23:38,759
Speaker 9: Jones coming off that acl came in through two interceptions,

2662
02:23:38,840 --> 02:23:42,640
Speaker 9: including a pick six back to you, Bernie.

2663
02:23:43,200 --> 02:23:47,280
Speaker 2: All right, chef, great job tonight. So there is a

2664
02:23:47,320 --> 02:23:48,880
Speaker 2: lot of news this week in the world of soccer,

2665
02:23:48,959 --> 02:23:51,320
Speaker 2: including the fact the United States have pulled the trigger

2666
02:23:51,959 --> 02:23:55,000
Speaker 2: on a coach with a big time resume. That's here,

2667
02:23:55,000 --> 02:23:55,440
Speaker 2: all about it.

2668
02:23:55,560 --> 02:24:05,520
Speaker 16: Chrispophett's World of Soccer, The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes,

2669
02:24:07,320 --> 02:24:10,520
Speaker 16: the international drumo.

2670
02:24:14,000 --> 02:24:17,400
Speaker 14: It's all here in this report from the World of soccer.

2671
02:24:18,040 --> 02:24:20,960
Speaker 14: Welcome back to clubs soccer. We missed you. Wait a minute,

2672
02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:24,040
Speaker 14: didn't we just finish? Didn't this just happen? Did we

2673
02:24:24,160 --> 02:24:27,480
Speaker 14: just finish international soccer? Yes, yes we did. It just

2674
02:24:27,560 --> 02:24:29,880
Speaker 14: felt like yesterday we were at Paris for the twenty

2675
02:24:29,920 --> 02:24:34,000
Speaker 14: twenty four Olympics. Not much for behind that was Copa

2676
02:24:34,040 --> 02:24:37,200
Speaker 14: America and euro Championship twenty twenty four. And yet here

2677
02:24:37,320 --> 02:24:40,640
Speaker 14: we are as Manchester United kicked off the Premier League

2678
02:24:40,920 --> 02:24:45,280
Speaker 14: on Friday, La Liga got kicked off on Thursday, and

2679
02:24:45,640 --> 02:24:48,480
Speaker 14: a whole slate of games on Saturday and Sunday.

2680
02:24:48,200 --> 02:24:50,840
Speaker 10: Including a massive match right out of the gate.

2681
02:24:51,080 --> 02:24:56,240
Speaker 14: Featuring Chelsea and Manchester City on Sunday eleven thirty am

2682
02:24:56,959 --> 02:25:02,199
Speaker 14: Eastern Time. A real great one there. It's a little quick,

2683
02:25:02,720 --> 02:25:07,199
Speaker 14: it's bewildering. It's part of a thing we've talked about, Bernie,

2684
02:25:07,240 --> 02:25:10,120
Speaker 14: and that this is the longest season of soccer ever,

2685
02:25:10,600 --> 02:25:14,000
Speaker 14: and more and more people worry about the burnout Earling Holland.

2686
02:25:14,160 --> 02:25:16,440
Speaker 14: I know he's been kind of on and off with injuries,

2687
02:25:16,600 --> 02:25:20,080
Speaker 14: but if he goes and plays for all of Manchester

2688
02:25:20,160 --> 02:25:22,840
Speaker 14: City this year, his season will be about three hundred

2689
02:25:22,840 --> 02:25:27,960
Speaker 14: and fifty four days long. Or take Julian Alvarez, the

2690
02:25:28,080 --> 02:25:31,879
Speaker 14: man who moved over from City to at Leeddi Coo Madrid,

2691
02:25:32,000 --> 02:25:34,680
Speaker 14: who was just who played not just Copa America but

2692
02:25:34,879 --> 02:25:39,000
Speaker 14: was also on the Argentina Olympic team as well. He

2693
02:25:39,160 --> 02:25:41,840
Speaker 14: had no time off and he's going right in there

2694
02:25:42,200 --> 02:25:44,600
Speaker 14: with a brand new club at at Letiko in a

2695
02:25:44,800 --> 02:25:48,600
Speaker 14: very competitive La Liga. This year it's a lot and

2696
02:25:49,480 --> 02:25:52,480
Speaker 14: more and more issues crop up, and I think that

2697
02:25:52,720 --> 02:25:57,440
Speaker 14: was very illustrated this week where a very big great

2698
02:25:58,080 --> 02:26:02,119
Speaker 14: took Umbridge with one of those players now Luke Shaw.

2699
02:26:02,520 --> 02:26:05,160
Speaker 14: I mentioned Manchester United a little bit ago. They picked

2700
02:26:05,240 --> 02:26:07,160
Speaker 14: up a win over Fulham to get started on the

2701
02:26:07,240 --> 02:26:09,960
Speaker 14: season and it looks like left back Luke Shaw will

2702
02:26:10,040 --> 02:26:13,680
Speaker 14: be missing time. Eric ten Hagg giving the update that

2703
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:16,640
Speaker 14: due to a calf injury, Shaw has been ruled out

2704
02:26:16,800 --> 02:26:20,360
Speaker 14: until September, putting pressure on the club as it really

2705
02:26:20,480 --> 02:26:23,400
Speaker 14: looks to pick up some real big wins and tries

2706
02:26:23,480 --> 02:26:26,600
Speaker 14: to really buy some respect back for itself in the

2707
02:26:26,680 --> 02:26:30,360
Speaker 14: Premier League this season and it's brought in criticism to

2708
02:26:30,400 --> 02:26:33,200
Speaker 14: see Luke Shaw out kind of once again. Really he's

2709
02:26:33,280 --> 02:26:35,480
Speaker 14: kind of on and off injured quite a bit. But

2710
02:26:36,680 --> 02:26:41,560
Speaker 14: longtime Red Devil hero Peter Schmichael took umbradge with all

2711
02:26:41,640 --> 02:26:46,000
Speaker 14: of this and went on BBC five Live and talked,

2712
02:26:46,400 --> 02:26:48,520
Speaker 14: you know about this issue. Luke Shaw hasn't played for

2713
02:26:48,680 --> 02:26:51,920
Speaker 14: United since February and that he played in the Euros

2714
02:26:51,959 --> 02:26:55,640
Speaker 14: and now he's injured again, and Schmichael says, quote, he's

2715
02:26:55,680 --> 02:26:58,800
Speaker 14: so important, he's got experience, he's a top class left back.

2716
02:26:59,320 --> 02:26:59,959
Speaker 10: We pay him.

2717
02:27:00,280 --> 02:27:04,560
Speaker 14: He should be focusing and prioritizing Manchester United and not

2718
02:27:04,840 --> 02:27:09,800
Speaker 14: his country. These are very very concerning words, I think

2719
02:27:09,920 --> 02:27:12,040
Speaker 14: because again we've talked a little bit about this though

2720
02:27:12,120 --> 02:27:16,000
Speaker 14: Bertie about that more and more as this season, as

2721
02:27:16,040 --> 02:27:19,240
Speaker 14: the soccer season continues to expand gets bigger and bigger.

2722
02:27:19,600 --> 02:27:23,760
Speaker 14: The conflict between country playing for your country, which is

2723
02:27:23,800 --> 02:27:27,480
Speaker 14: a big part of soccer, is coming more into conflict

2724
02:27:27,720 --> 02:27:30,560
Speaker 14: with playing for your club, and the clubs who pay

2725
02:27:30,600 --> 02:27:33,360
Speaker 14: a lot of money to these players are taking more

2726
02:27:33,400 --> 02:27:36,080
Speaker 14: and more Umbridge and want more and more say over

2727
02:27:36,200 --> 02:27:38,240
Speaker 14: all of this, it might seem a little quaint to

2728
02:27:38,320 --> 02:27:42,240
Speaker 14: American ears. After all, while we do have Team USA basketball,

2729
02:27:42,520 --> 02:27:46,240
Speaker 14: there's always a understanding that the club comes first. The

2730
02:27:46,320 --> 02:27:49,840
Speaker 14: World Baseball Classic is another great example when Edwin Diaz

2731
02:27:49,920 --> 02:27:52,200
Speaker 14: got injured and it was very much so, not that

2732
02:27:52,680 --> 02:27:56,080
Speaker 14: Edwin Diaz was bad for playing for Puerto Rico, but

2733
02:27:56,160 --> 02:27:59,000
Speaker 14: that the whole World Baseball Classic was a mistake somehow

2734
02:27:59,120 --> 02:28:02,640
Speaker 14: because the closes or for the Mets got hurt. First

2735
02:28:02,680 --> 02:28:05,200
Speaker 14: off to Mets fans, crimea River. But it's still something

2736
02:28:05,320 --> 02:28:09,039
Speaker 14: different to hear it in soccer, especially from Schmichael who

2737
02:28:09,160 --> 02:28:12,840
Speaker 14: played for about fourteen years with Team Denmark one hundred

2738
02:28:12,840 --> 02:28:16,400
Speaker 14: and twenty nine appearances. And I think that more than

2739
02:28:16,480 --> 02:28:20,120
Speaker 14: anything that clubs should learn and understand that your game

2740
02:28:20,240 --> 02:28:23,200
Speaker 14: benefits from and people come to watch the club game

2741
02:28:23,760 --> 02:28:26,120
Speaker 14: partially and a lot of the times because of the

2742
02:28:26,280 --> 02:28:29,600
Speaker 14: international game as well. These are two sides the same

2743
02:28:29,760 --> 02:28:31,760
Speaker 14: coin and they have to be handled hand in hand.

2744
02:28:32,040 --> 02:28:35,880
Speaker 14: I understand injuries happen and you get frustrated by it,

2745
02:28:35,959 --> 02:28:38,720
Speaker 14: and you see guys who weren't playing for many months

2746
02:28:38,920 --> 02:28:41,840
Speaker 14: for Manchester United then going to play for Team England.

2747
02:28:42,080 --> 02:28:44,800
Speaker 14: I find this also kind of galling, and I found

2748
02:28:44,840 --> 02:28:47,920
Speaker 14: the response gawlling. I should say, Bernie, because even though

2749
02:28:48,000 --> 02:28:50,360
Speaker 14: this was directed to an English club, I saw a

2750
02:28:50,440 --> 02:28:54,200
Speaker 14: lot of United fans agreeing with Schmichael. So clearly he's

2751
02:28:54,320 --> 02:28:58,520
Speaker 14: onto something that resonates with fans that this is something

2752
02:28:58,560 --> 02:28:59,959
Speaker 14: where the club should take press.

2753
02:29:00,879 --> 02:29:03,880
Speaker 10: But I think there is something magical to representing your country.

2754
02:29:04,000 --> 02:29:06,960
Speaker 14: I think it is something amazing to represent your country

2755
02:29:07,040 --> 02:29:09,320
Speaker 14: and it is a high honor to do so, and

2756
02:29:09,480 --> 02:29:11,680
Speaker 14: it should never just be dismissed just because as a

2757
02:29:11,760 --> 02:29:14,200
Speaker 14: club says so, because at the end of the day,

2758
02:29:14,280 --> 02:29:16,920
Speaker 14: that club will not be loyal to you if it

2759
02:29:17,040 --> 02:29:20,680
Speaker 14: comes time for you as a player, for the rubber

2760
02:29:20,720 --> 02:29:21,360
Speaker 14: to meet the road.

2761
02:29:22,120 --> 02:29:23,800
Speaker 10: Anyway, the club season's back.

2762
02:29:24,040 --> 02:29:26,760
Speaker 14: Hopefully we won't have a ton more of issues because

2763
02:29:26,800 --> 02:29:29,280
Speaker 14: of how long the season has been, but something to

2764
02:29:29,360 --> 02:29:31,200
Speaker 14: keep an eye on. We've been pounding on the table

2765
02:29:31,240 --> 02:29:32,880
Speaker 14: a little bit here at the world of soccer that

2766
02:29:33,360 --> 02:29:36,280
Speaker 14: the season is way too long. We just finished and

2767
02:29:36,400 --> 02:29:39,360
Speaker 14: we're back here already, and expect this fatigue to be

2768
02:29:39,600 --> 02:29:45,360
Speaker 14: a continuing storyline as we get going in European soccer.

2769
02:29:45,600 --> 02:29:48,040
Speaker 14: Something I'd like to ask myself every year Bernie is

2770
02:29:48,160 --> 02:29:52,960
Speaker 14: which is of the big four leagues of Europe La Liga, Siria,

2771
02:29:53,440 --> 02:29:56,360
Speaker 14: Premier League, Bundesliga, which is the most fun to watch

2772
02:29:56,480 --> 02:29:59,000
Speaker 14: in any given year. And I hate to say it

2773
02:29:59,080 --> 02:30:02,119
Speaker 14: because as much as I that roost has been ruled

2774
02:30:02,560 --> 02:30:06,240
Speaker 14: by Premier League for a very long time, I just

2775
02:30:06,360 --> 02:30:08,000
Speaker 14: have to go with La Liga this year.

2776
02:30:08,680 --> 02:30:10,560
Speaker 10: I think when we look at the Premier.

2777
02:30:10,320 --> 02:30:13,440
Speaker 14: League, we always associate that league with a lot more

2778
02:30:13,520 --> 02:30:16,240
Speaker 14: competition and thus makes it more viable. But it's been

2779
02:30:16,280 --> 02:30:19,160
Speaker 14: really hard with Manchester City kind of running away with

2780
02:30:19,240 --> 02:30:21,680
Speaker 14: the league every year now for quite some time.

2781
02:30:22,000 --> 02:30:23,440
Speaker 10: I know Arsenal's been getting close.

2782
02:30:23,760 --> 02:30:28,160
Speaker 14: Manchester United is really feeling itself and hoping to have

2783
02:30:28,360 --> 02:30:29,600
Speaker 14: some good news this year.

2784
02:30:29,760 --> 02:30:33,720
Speaker 10: But besides that, I mean Liverpool's turning over a new coach.

2785
02:30:34,360 --> 02:30:37,199
Speaker 14: I have to go with Aliga because the talent influx

2786
02:30:37,280 --> 02:30:41,280
Speaker 14: we've just seen, be it Julian Alvarez going to at Lettiico.

2787
02:30:41,400 --> 02:30:45,160
Speaker 14: Madrid always been kind of the third spoke of the

2788
02:30:45,840 --> 02:30:49,279
Speaker 14: top tier echelon of La Liga and sometimes claiming victory

2789
02:30:49,320 --> 02:30:53,160
Speaker 14: for themselves, and I think the rivalry between Barcelona and

2790
02:30:53,280 --> 02:30:57,520
Speaker 14: Real Madrid is kicking into high gear. Especially as Killian

2791
02:30:57,560 --> 02:31:01,920
Speaker 14: and Bape settles in in Madrid with Real, It's going

2792
02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:03,080
Speaker 14: to be fantastic.

2793
02:31:03,360 --> 02:31:03,480
Speaker 9: You know.

2794
02:31:03,640 --> 02:31:07,520
Speaker 14: Girona finished a very respectable third in the Spanish League

2795
02:31:07,560 --> 02:31:09,840
Speaker 14: this year too, so I really am going to keep

2796
02:31:09,840 --> 02:31:12,560
Speaker 14: an eye on Aliga and especially anytime there's an El

2797
02:31:12,600 --> 02:31:15,800
Speaker 14: Classico on. It's just hard to ignore this league right now.

2798
02:31:16,280 --> 02:31:18,560
Speaker 14: But that's not to say nothing about the Premier League.

2799
02:31:18,560 --> 02:31:20,760
Speaker 14: We'll be talking about it plenty. On the world of

2800
02:31:20,800 --> 02:31:24,000
Speaker 14: soccer moving forward, we should also talk about that. As

2801
02:31:24,080 --> 02:31:26,880
Speaker 14: we said last week, we thought that the United States

2802
02:31:26,920 --> 02:31:30,040
Speaker 14: will be moving in on Mauricio Poschettino as their new

2803
02:31:30,120 --> 02:31:34,720
Speaker 14: head coach. Those rumors appear to be true. I give this, Bernie,

2804
02:31:34,800 --> 02:31:36,480
Speaker 14: and you can put out your own grade if you wish.

2805
02:31:36,760 --> 02:31:39,119
Speaker 14: I give this a very good, solid eight. I think

2806
02:31:39,320 --> 02:31:42,200
Speaker 14: Budgettino is everything in the United States needs right now.

2807
02:31:42,320 --> 02:31:45,279
Speaker 14: He is a coach who is renowned for his relationship

2808
02:31:45,360 --> 02:31:49,080
Speaker 14: with players for a team that has had some fractures here,

2809
02:31:49,800 --> 02:31:53,840
Speaker 14: that is absolutely massively important. He's someone very good at

2810
02:31:53,920 --> 02:31:58,280
Speaker 14: developing talent, and once again, his style of coaching, this

2811
02:31:58,480 --> 02:32:02,880
Speaker 14: pressing attack, high flying attack, is exactly what the United

2812
02:32:02,959 --> 02:32:05,960
Speaker 14: States has their personnel for. And they like to play.

2813
02:32:06,080 --> 02:32:08,400
Speaker 14: I really like the hire. He's probably got the best

2814
02:32:08,480 --> 02:32:11,440
Speaker 14: resume out of any US coach higher so far. It's

2815
02:32:11,520 --> 02:32:13,920
Speaker 14: interesting to see what's gonna happen with the Americans as

2816
02:32:14,000 --> 02:32:16,720
Speaker 14: we now turn our attention on the international side towards

2817
02:32:16,760 --> 02:32:19,280
Speaker 14: the twenty twenty six World Cup sometime away.

2818
02:32:19,520 --> 02:32:21,760
Speaker 10: But that's going to do it for US. Bernie, enjoy

2819
02:32:22,440 --> 02:32:23,200
Speaker 10: soccer back.

2820
02:32:23,280 --> 02:32:25,480
Speaker 14: We'll have more previews for a lot of big name

2821
02:32:25,560 --> 02:32:29,119
Speaker 14: clubs as the season goes gets started here and it's

2822
02:32:29,120 --> 02:32:30,040
Speaker 14: gonna be a long one.

2823
02:32:30,240 --> 02:32:31,320
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.

2824
02:32:32,560 --> 02:32:35,520
Speaker 2: So listen. I gave the United States an A for

2825
02:32:35,600 --> 02:32:38,480
Speaker 2: their coaching higher, but it's a midterm grade. We're heading

2826
02:32:38,520 --> 02:32:40,960
Speaker 2: into the World Cup in twenty to twenty six and

2827
02:32:41,080 --> 02:32:43,880
Speaker 2: it'll be played on our soil, and for once it

2828
02:32:43,879 --> 02:32:47,440
Speaker 2: would be nice to see the US be a factor.

2829
02:32:48,160 --> 02:32:50,520
Speaker 2: I think the country would go nuts. The nineteen ninety

2830
02:32:50,520 --> 02:32:54,320
Speaker 2: four World Cup. I was there in Detroit the Silverdome.

2831
02:32:54,360 --> 02:32:56,640
Speaker 2: They opened up against Switzerland with a tie. You'd thought

2832
02:32:56,640 --> 02:32:58,879
Speaker 2: we'dn't won the World Cup. Of course, that was an

2833
02:32:58,920 --> 02:33:03,000
Speaker 2: Alexi Laws team but ended up doing nothing. So we'll

2834
02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:05,120
Speaker 2: give our final grade after twenty twenty six. But This

2835
02:33:05,280 --> 02:33:07,000
Speaker 2: is a big name guy with a big name resume

2836
02:33:07,840 --> 02:33:12,200
Speaker 2: and maybe help Hope Springs eternal for US soccer. Coming up,

2837
02:33:12,240 --> 02:33:14,959
Speaker 2: we wrap up the show, and I want to add

2838
02:33:15,240 --> 02:33:19,600
Speaker 2: some additional inflection to what Randy Johnson told Paul Skeins

2839
02:33:19,640 --> 02:33:23,160
Speaker 2: and what caused him to do that. We'll button that

2840
02:33:23,280 --> 02:33:25,400
Speaker 2: up coming up next. I'm Bernie Fradder. We're company line

2841
02:33:25,400 --> 02:33:27,760
Speaker 2: from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tirack dot Com Studios.

2842
02:33:27,800 --> 02:33:30,000
Speaker 2: Keep it locked you listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

2843
02:33:30,040 --> 02:33:32,640
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we'll wrapping it up

2844
02:33:32,720 --> 02:33:35,080
Speaker 2: on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. We are

2845
02:33:35,120 --> 02:33:38,000
Speaker 2: coming to you live the Tyrack dot Com Studios here

2846
02:33:38,080 --> 02:33:39,959
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Before I go any further, I want

2847
02:33:39,959 --> 02:33:43,600
Speaker 2: to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles. They've

2848
02:33:43,600 --> 02:33:46,960
Speaker 2: been with me since eleven pm Pacific time on Saturday night.

2849
02:33:47,600 --> 02:33:49,800
Speaker 2: Shay Movenguard, good to have you back in the fold.

2850
02:33:49,959 --> 02:33:53,680
Speaker 2: Fine job pitch hitting tonight. Of course, the chef Kevin

2851
02:33:53,760 --> 02:33:56,520
Speaker 2: wired on the updates and his baffel performance at a

2852
02:33:56,560 --> 02:34:01,680
Speaker 2: one thirty Pacific time four Eastern and Mark Ramsey are

2853
02:34:01,760 --> 02:34:05,160
Speaker 2: technical producer, turning all the dials, keeping us together. Great jobs,

2854
02:34:05,200 --> 02:34:08,120
Speaker 2: and I especially great job guys on brand new full

2855
02:34:08,200 --> 02:34:10,840
Speaker 2: and what my name you guys were in Fuego. Good

2856
02:34:10,879 --> 02:34:14,320
Speaker 2: discussions as well on some of the variou subject matter.

2857
02:34:14,360 --> 02:34:16,360
Speaker 2: I'll be back around these araways, by the way, next

2858
02:34:16,680 --> 02:34:24,160
Speaker 2: Friday night, Friday, August twenty third, eleven PM Pacific Heavy, Heavy, heavy, heavy,

2859
02:34:24,240 --> 02:34:28,320
Speaker 2: heavy college football, or in the eve of week zero

2860
02:34:29,120 --> 02:34:31,680
Speaker 2: that will include a handful of games, including tenth rank

2861
02:34:31,760 --> 02:34:36,720
Speaker 2: Florida State and Georgia Tech. Hey, it's college football. It's here,

2862
02:34:37,560 --> 02:34:40,039
Speaker 2: by the way, we're also going to dive into I've

2863
02:34:40,080 --> 02:34:43,440
Speaker 2: analyzed this. I think there are potentially sixteen teams that

2864
02:34:43,520 --> 02:34:46,800
Speaker 2: can win the national championship in this new twelve team

2865
02:34:46,840 --> 02:34:51,200
Speaker 2: playoff next year. And it actually is a formula that's

2866
02:34:51,400 --> 02:34:55,000
Speaker 2: pretty darn good. It predicted Michigan with a fifty four

2867
02:34:55,000 --> 02:34:58,320
Speaker 2: percent probability last year and Georgia with a seventy seven

2868
02:34:58,680 --> 02:35:01,680
Speaker 2: percent probability of the year before having to do with

2869
02:35:02,480 --> 02:35:05,320
Speaker 2: you know, five star recruits and a few other a

2870
02:35:05,400 --> 02:35:09,720
Speaker 2: few other things. Well, fourteen team fall in that category. Secondly,

2871
02:35:09,879 --> 02:35:13,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about the price of college football realignment.

2872
02:35:13,920 --> 02:35:15,840
Speaker 2: What the real I mean, this is gonna be the

2873
02:35:15,920 --> 02:35:19,039
Speaker 2: theme all these new conferences, right they're basically brand new.

2874
02:35:19,080 --> 02:35:22,720
Speaker 2: A lot of realignments. It's not always worked out. I'm

2875
02:35:22,760 --> 02:35:25,520
Speaker 2: not saying it's not. But for individual schools they've borne

2876
02:35:25,560 --> 02:35:29,040
Speaker 2: the brunt. I'm gonna give you some history. You're gonna

2877
02:35:29,520 --> 02:35:32,040
Speaker 2: maybe think twice about some of this. Although I am

2878
02:35:32,160 --> 02:35:35,960
Speaker 2: not listen, I am not, you know, a kill joy

2879
02:35:36,040 --> 02:35:40,080
Speaker 2: when it comes to the advancement and the progression of

2880
02:35:40,120 --> 02:35:41,760
Speaker 2: the college game. Come on, we've come a long way

2881
02:35:41,840 --> 02:35:45,440
Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty. You've got to evolve in this world.

2882
02:35:45,480 --> 02:35:47,360
Speaker 2: We used to fight wars with a single shot rifle.

2883
02:35:47,440 --> 02:35:49,920
Speaker 2: So onward and upboard. It's only gonna get bigger and better,

2884
02:35:50,040 --> 02:35:53,199
Speaker 2: more TV, more stuff. But for some individual schools who've

2885
02:35:53,240 --> 02:35:55,960
Speaker 2: changed conferences in the last thirty years, and I lived

2886
02:35:56,000 --> 02:35:58,240
Speaker 2: and covered Big ten country for a long time, just

2887
02:35:58,320 --> 02:36:01,680
Speaker 2: ask Nebraska, right, But that's the story for next Friday.

2888
02:36:01,720 --> 02:36:04,600
Speaker 2: By the way, not for nothing. How about does UCLA

2889
02:36:04,680 --> 02:36:09,160
Speaker 2: Bruins rack up those frequent flyer miles in twenty twenty four.

2890
02:36:09,720 --> 02:36:11,600
Speaker 2: They're going to rack up twenty two thousand of them.

2891
02:36:11,640 --> 02:36:14,360
Speaker 2: They got to go to Hawaii. That's almost three thousand

2892
02:36:14,400 --> 02:36:17,320
Speaker 2: miles at LSU sixteen hundred, Penn State twenty two hundred

2893
02:36:17,360 --> 02:36:20,600
Speaker 2: Rutgers twenty five and the oh boy, gass it up,

2894
02:36:21,000 --> 02:36:24,440
Speaker 2: gass up the plane, all right? Why did Randy Johnson

2895
02:36:24,520 --> 02:36:27,400
Speaker 2: tell us Paul Skeins what he did? Paul Skeins? He

2896
02:36:27,640 --> 02:36:31,320
Speaker 2: saw Skeens pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks last week. Skens

2897
02:36:31,400 --> 02:36:33,400
Speaker 2: was pulled after one hundred pitches and five in the

2898
02:36:33,520 --> 02:36:36,320
Speaker 2: third innings. Gave up only two earned runs in the

2899
02:36:36,520 --> 02:36:39,000
Speaker 2: entire outing, but he got let down by the Byran's bullpen,

2900
02:36:39,040 --> 02:36:41,560
Speaker 2: which cost him a win. And Randy Johnson said, if

2901
02:36:41,560 --> 02:36:43,119
Speaker 2: you could have gone another inning, he might have gotten

2902
02:36:43,120 --> 02:36:44,720
Speaker 2: that win because as soon as he came out, the

2903
02:36:44,800 --> 02:36:47,360
Speaker 2: next guy gave up three runs. He's not wrong. I

2904
02:36:47,480 --> 02:36:49,879
Speaker 2: saw that with Gavin Stone Tuesday night in Milwaukee when

2905
02:36:49,879 --> 02:36:52,119
Speaker 2: they pulled him. Wasn't his fault. He still got to win.

2906
02:36:53,040 --> 02:36:55,440
Speaker 2: But he said, Paul, the organization, they're gonna dictate what

2907
02:36:55,520 --> 02:36:57,240
Speaker 2: you do. But if you want to have a real career,

2908
02:36:57,760 --> 02:36:59,640
Speaker 2: you want to becoming the pitcher everybody thinks you're gonna be,

2909
02:36:59,640 --> 02:37:01,320
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to have a lot to say what

2910
02:37:01,400 --> 02:37:03,960
Speaker 2: you want to do. A lot of pitchers don't have

2911
02:37:04,040 --> 02:37:06,000
Speaker 2: that to say, but you will if you speak up.

2912
02:37:06,040 --> 02:37:09,400
Speaker 2: Because how special you are. I don't think Randy Johnson

2913
02:37:09,440 --> 02:37:12,040
Speaker 2: wants to see Paul Skeins held back for the rest

2914
02:37:12,080 --> 02:37:14,840
Speaker 2: of this year and even maybe next year, because he

2915
02:37:14,920 --> 02:37:17,880
Speaker 2: wants to see Skeans be the pitcher he's truly capable

2916
02:37:17,959 --> 02:37:20,320
Speaker 2: of being. Randy Johnson went on to say, look, you're

2917
02:37:20,320 --> 02:37:22,360
Speaker 2: gonna have to go seven or eight innings. You're not

2918
02:37:22,400 --> 02:37:25,039
Speaker 2: gonna hurt yourself. The game has gone It's been around

2919
02:37:25,080 --> 02:37:27,520
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty years, and people win seven or

2920
02:37:27,520 --> 02:37:29,680
Speaker 2: eight innings all the time. Through one hundred and fifteen,

2921
02:37:29,720 --> 02:37:32,520
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty pitches survived. You just have to

2922
02:37:32,680 --> 02:37:36,440
Speaker 2: mold your body, and your body needs to become accustomed

2923
02:37:36,440 --> 02:37:38,880
Speaker 2: to that kind of workload. That's all it is. There

2924
02:37:39,040 --> 02:37:42,800
Speaker 2: been lots of hard throwers going back forever. I'm not

2925
02:37:43,000 --> 02:37:47,640
Speaker 2: just talking about Nolan Ryan and Don Gullett in Bob Feller.

2926
02:37:48,120 --> 02:37:51,359
Speaker 2: Do your research. Baseball's taking this too far. The pendulum

2927
02:37:51,400 --> 02:37:54,680
Speaker 2: has swung too far. This conservative approach is gonna put

2928
02:37:54,720 --> 02:37:57,040
Speaker 2: a you know, put the kibosh on Skiing's career. What

2929
02:37:57,120 --> 02:37:59,440
Speaker 2: it could be. There are no twenty game winners anymore.

2930
02:37:59,480 --> 02:38:01,200
Speaker 2: There's never gonna be a three und game winner. Hell

2931
02:38:01,280 --> 02:38:03,160
Speaker 2: we don't have complete games anymore. They don't go past

2932
02:38:03,200 --> 02:38:05,640
Speaker 2: the fifth inning. It's gotta be fixed. It's gonna do

2933
02:38:05,680 --> 02:38:07,360
Speaker 2: it for the Bernie Friday Show. See you next Friday

2934
02:38:07,400 --> 02:38:09,320
Speaker 2: Night at eleven PM. In the meantime, keep it locked

2935
02:38:09,600 --> 02:38:12,360
Speaker 2: up next to the great Andy Furman, Fox Sports Radio.