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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. What up? Good morning to you,

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. We're on Fox Sports Radio. Last show

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Speaker 1: of two thousand and nine, going into your rob Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year, Happy New Year, Doug. What's going on? My man?

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Speaker 1: I just I just I'm kind of laughing and chuckling

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Speaker 1: and maybe crying at the same time, because every day

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Speaker 1: does feel the same, right, and some of it is

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Speaker 1: in fairness, when you're in southern California, that does happen, right,

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Speaker 1: But but just the idea that we're not on complete lockdown,

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Speaker 1: but we're on some form of kind of lockish down whatever,

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Speaker 1: And with everything circling looking like we got a couple

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Speaker 1: more weeks of bad before maybe it turns to good hopefully.

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Speaker 1: What a weird year, Doug. I'm with you. It's just

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Speaker 1: I don't even know. I just want to erase it

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Speaker 1: and move forward. And for me, I'm a guy, you

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Speaker 1: know this dog. I love to travel, I love to

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Speaker 1: be around people. You know, I went to an Arctica

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Speaker 1: last Honestly, like selfishly, I didn't even think of that

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Speaker 1: when I brought it up with you. But now I

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Speaker 1: think of it, I'm like, yeah, that's like your biggest uh,

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Speaker 1: your claim to fame is you've been to every continent

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Speaker 1: on Earth. And I love to travel and stuff and

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Speaker 1: to be you know, basically lockdown where you can't go.

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Speaker 1: The only place I've been really this past year is

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Speaker 1: I go to Las Vegas just for a change of scenery, dog,

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Speaker 1: you know, and have dinner with a couple of friends.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's really all I'm doing. And so you're

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Speaker 1: also really old. You're like sneaky old, you know, Doug.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? January six will be thirty

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Speaker 1: five years I've been in the media. Is that I

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Speaker 1: can't even thirty five years I've been doing this, and

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty proud of it. I love what I do.

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Speaker 1: I still enjoyed every day. But I can't believe I

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Speaker 1: was the kid. When I started working at the Daily

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Speaker 1: News in New York. I was twenty two years old

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Speaker 1: and Bill Gallo, the famous late great cartoonist in the

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Speaker 1: sports department, used to call me the kid. Now thirty

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Speaker 1: five years later, yeah, I mean, it's I'm on. I'm

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Speaker 1: working on I'll be I guess nineteen years in this thing.

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Speaker 1: Um and it is interesting because I still consider myself

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Speaker 1: a young dude, right, but I've been around for a

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Speaker 1: long time, almost two decades, right about that and everywhere, right,

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Speaker 1: And then I remember and I looked back and I

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Speaker 1: see pictures. It's like, man, I was really young. I

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Speaker 1: used to be the youngest guy, right and uh, but

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Speaker 1: but it The erasing of a year is also interesting

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Speaker 1: because there are moments there's really only one. There's one

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Speaker 1: sports year that I don't know much about, and then

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Speaker 1: there's one NCAA tournament that I don't know much about,

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Speaker 1: just because I was over maybe two sports years. I

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Speaker 1: don't like when I when you play overseas once, when

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Speaker 1: you play professional sports, right, you're not really you're not

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Speaker 1: watching sports. You're just not. It's one of the you

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Speaker 1: even your own sport, you know some of it, but

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Speaker 1: it's not like you're sitting down watching a game. You're

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Speaker 1: just not. And you're definitely not watching collegiance sports or

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Speaker 1: another sport. You just don't have the time, the bandwidth,

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Speaker 1: and really the desire doesn't make you any less of

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Speaker 1: because there used to be cut ins if you remember,

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Speaker 1: every Yet Bad at the end of that season with

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Speaker 1: my college friends, like it was. It was the thing, right,

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Speaker 1: it was the thing. But but there were lots of

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Speaker 1: outside of that, there's no real This is a weird year.

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Speaker 1: But it hasn't. And it's been a very cool sports

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Speaker 1: you don't have to give those back. But this has

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Speaker 1: been almost a calendar year of the pandemic, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking went March just about right, just about an entire year, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it gets credit for the whole year, and now

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Speaker 1: it's coming to an end, and it's like you want

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Speaker 1: to erase some of the boredom and being locked down,

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Speaker 1: and obviously all of these deaths are terrible. On the

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Speaker 1: probably the most shocking was how TV viewing of sports

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Speaker 1: doug went down, like like you know, like people were

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Speaker 1: then some of the ratings were got awful and you

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Speaker 1: just said, wait a minute, what happened? Like, shouldn't it

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Speaker 1: still say that Lebron James being a part with winning

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Speaker 1: and for him to be a part of the lowest

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Speaker 1: So what do you think is behind that? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: the whole Black Lives Matter, which a lot of it

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Speaker 1: know that was the the narrative. But the NFL didn't

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I again, I don't be elections over right? No? Well,

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Speaker 1: christ did you? Did you you read The Tipping Point,

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Speaker 1: multitude of factors, um And I don't think it's one thing.

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Speaker 1: think I think there's a little Lebron fatigue, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got it, eighteen years of hearing Lebron, Lebron, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: And it's not just the eighteen years of it. It's

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Speaker 1: when did first take when did for pull Pizza become

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Speaker 1: enough time? Because we've seen some pretty bad games to

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Speaker 1: And um, and and football is a bet continues to

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Speaker 1: be a better watch even now without fans. Football is

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Speaker 1: a better watch. It's weird, and maybe it's Basketball is

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Speaker 1: Fans Fans matter. How about you know? Fans matter? They

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Speaker 1: really do. It enhances your watch and the game. Yep, No,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to put it. Enhances

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Speaker 1: I got a bunch of things to get to. Let me,

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Speaker 1: let me start with this. Okay, So here we are

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen of the NFL and a team who is

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Speaker 1: we have Ryan Fitzpatrick who can come in and give

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Speaker 1: you know why, Doug, people always say this when you

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a slew of players, yet they

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Speaker 1: never win the big game. So Notre Dame to me

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Speaker 1: and Michigan and schools like that, I get the history,

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Speaker 1: I get why people like them and follow them, but

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Speaker 1: they just haven't done it. And and for these decades

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Speaker 1: to go by, Notre Dame nineteen eighty eight, it's like

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. The Dodgers won after thirty two years, right

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, so maybe it's time for a Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame to win. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: little different in terms of the Dodgers, just in that

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Speaker 1: like like they had gotten the game sevens. No, I

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Speaker 1: got it. They've been to the World Series, yes, and

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Speaker 1: the mid World Series. They've been a dominant team. They

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Speaker 1: won the division eight years in a row. I get it, right. Um.

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Speaker 1: I just it's different because the way in which college

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Speaker 1: football works is end of the day, it's it's about reputation, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's about fan base more so, and and Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame is it is. There was a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the Duke thing where people would cheer when Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: would lose their first game or their second game, and

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Speaker 1: and and it would eliminate any of their chances of

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Speaker 1: being discussed because they weren't in a conference, and people

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Speaker 1: people treated Notre Dame like they were football royalty. And

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Speaker 1: there was nothing in terms of wins and losses that

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Speaker 1: that would make you believe that, you know, whereas the

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Speaker 1: other three schools, you know, Clemson had look, Clemson hadn't

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Speaker 1: won it since what was it eighty two and they

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Speaker 1: had been closed. But now Clemson, now they finally won

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Speaker 1: the national championship. But they're you know, they're back. They

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Speaker 1: continue to be competitive. Alabama hadn't won it forever, but

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Speaker 1: then they're back and they were competitive and they're winning

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Speaker 1: multiple national championships. U. You know, I think Oklahoma is

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Speaker 1: much in the same boat in terms of once they

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Speaker 1: haven't won a college football playoff game and they haven't

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Speaker 1: won a national championship for them, you know in what

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Speaker 1: was it twenty almost twenty years now, right when they

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Speaker 1: had Josh Hypel there that that, so I think Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: is in a similar boat. But Oklahoma has uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: they haven't always gotten just eviscerated the way that you know,

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Speaker 1: we remember that Lena Kakua team, uh that got to

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Speaker 1: viscerate in the in the national championship game against Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Like look, you you can if you want to say

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Speaker 1: your football royalty. That's great. Now you get a shot

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Speaker 1: neutral field, good team, veteran quarterback National semifinal against Alabama,

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Speaker 1: who last time you played against them ran you off

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Speaker 1: the football fields where you're like, man, we gotta get

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Speaker 1: this game over with quick because it's bad. So so

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Speaker 1: can notta Dame win? And do they have one percent

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Speaker 1: uh a hail Mary. Uh. Can they win? Okay? I think,

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Speaker 1: of course they could win a game. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they will. I mean, Steve Sarkisi not getting a

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Speaker 1: job I think hurts them because, you know, whatever prep

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Speaker 1: he was doing for job interviews, he's completely locked in,

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Speaker 1: like there are things that can go your way. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 1: let's see, let's let's make sure everybody gets to the

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Speaker 1: football field with you know, with the COVID nineteen tests

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Speaker 1: and whatever. I mean, Clemson's going without their offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: That's that's crazy here before the national semifinal. Not the

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Speaker 1: name can win, but they are a prohibitive, prohibitive underdog.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up next. Thanks for listening to The

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live

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Speaker 1: Dan and the Dan Nets, and this is it's always

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Speaker 1: fun for me to have lights out Sean Merriman on

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Speaker 1: because now he's a great dude. He's got diverse interests.

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Speaker 1: There's only something unique about him right like like like Rob,

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Speaker 1: where are where are you? Where? In the like let's

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Speaker 1: let's give away some inside the beltwayte secrets. Where are

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Speaker 1: you right now? I'm in my living room in West

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Speaker 1: La Okay, I'm in my I'm in my bedroom in

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Speaker 1: Newport Beach. Sean Merriman, Where are you Guadalajara? Why are

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Speaker 1: you in Gladhara? Yeah? Yeah, you know, I thought i'd

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Speaker 1: get out for a little bit. I got some friends

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Speaker 1: in town just uh maybe grabs from dinner didn't hit

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Speaker 1: out to uh can comb right after, so uh wow,

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Speaker 1: enjoying them enjoined this a little bit of free time

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Speaker 1: I have. What what is it? What is it like

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Speaker 1: in Guadalajara right now? Uh? Shut down? No, what, It's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's just uh for me, it's about you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: I get free time, I have to have a change,

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Speaker 1: change in scenery. Read because we've all been locked down

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Speaker 1: and been in Los Angeles for moms and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's the same routine that's wake up, Jim, work home.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's the same we came. So for me

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Speaker 1: and noticed to keep any kind of sanity that I

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Speaker 1: have left, I always go for a change of scenery.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I've been going to Vegas just even

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Speaker 1: for one night, just to get a change of seedy

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Speaker 1: from la And it's not too far you know and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But Sean where So so you a world traveler, where's

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Speaker 1: the best place you've been? Just curious? Uh, you know what,

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Speaker 1: My favorite place in the world is probably south of

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Speaker 1: South of France. Um, I love you know, Sam to

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Speaker 1: pay a whole lot, man. I've been there probably about

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Speaker 1: seven eight times, and I just really enjoyed going out there.

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Speaker 1: I loved it, whether especially when they got big events

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Speaker 1: and um you got the big Formula one racist it's

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Speaker 1: out there and it's you know, the World Music Awards.

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Speaker 1: I've been to, you know, three times, so it's it's

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Speaker 1: always a good time about there. Best place you've ever been,

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker, you know what. I've been there? Well, an

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Speaker 1: article trip was fascinating. But it's Australia. When you get

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Speaker 1: off the plane in Australia, you feel like you're in

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Speaker 1: another world. It is a it's a you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a fourteen hour NonStop flight from Los Angeles and you

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Speaker 1: feel literally you know, they you know, call it down Under.

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Speaker 1: But you feel like you're in another world. You're so

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Speaker 1: far away from everything, and it's fourteen hours over nothing

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Speaker 1: but water to get there. It's incredible. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm planning a trip for next December to go again

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Speaker 1: because the first time I went, which was back in

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Speaker 1: the nineties, I didn't get to go to the West Coast,

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Speaker 1: Perth and that part of Australia. So I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: back and then go to the West Coast and check

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Speaker 1: that out. But by the way, met yeah, off, you

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Speaker 1: gotta do it. Gotta do it as Australia is is okay.

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Speaker 1: So but I guess here's a question and we will

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Speaker 1: get to sports. But this is Willy. This is way

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Speaker 1: more interesting to me. How much time do you take

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Speaker 1: off work? Do that when when I go coming up? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll take off. I'll only go for nine days. I'll

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Speaker 1: just go, you know, with two weekends wrapped around the

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Speaker 1: week off. That's all I'll need to go. I'll just

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Speaker 1: I'll rough it out. I don't need two or three

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Speaker 1: weeks to go. Um to make a trip like that.

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Speaker 1: Even an article was was only like a sixth day

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Speaker 1: trip or something like that. That's what it was or

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Speaker 1: about a week. That's that's all. That's all I need.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to go for three weeks and all

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Speaker 1: that and experience everything. I just want to go and

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Speaker 1: see as much as I can while I'm alive. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's the mode on. I saw so many things

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Speaker 1: in my my twenties playing basketball, and I literally haven't

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Speaker 1: traveled much since. And I gotta like, I think, I

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Speaker 1: think travel is going to explode the second people get

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Speaker 1: the vaccine. Now, don't you guys like this the second

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Speaker 1: Then the second you get a chance to say, go

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Speaker 1: like I'm off, it'll be it'll It'll remind me of

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Speaker 1: I one time in high school. Okay, I my college

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Speaker 1: basketball coach John McLeod's like, you should go run track,

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Speaker 1: keep that speed up. So I went to run track

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Speaker 1: after my high school senior season and I ran the

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Speaker 1: was like, I'm out, I'm going, I'm going, and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I get I get to the

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Speaker 1: home stretch and dude's boat raced me. But the point

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Speaker 1: was that when that gun went off, I took off

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Speaker 1: like a shot. And that's exactly I mean, Sean, that's

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do right the first second, the first

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Speaker 1: chance somebody says you can go to France, You're you're off,

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Speaker 1: aren't you? Oh? Yeah, you know, And I think everybody should, right,

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Speaker 1: because you always take that that stuff for granted until

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Speaker 1: they tell you have to stay at home. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know it's there. It's almost like you

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a beach person, right, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I look, I go to the beach once in a while,

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Speaker 1: y'all stay maybe twenty five or thirty minutes from there

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Speaker 1: I live, and I'll probably go to the beach a

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Speaker 1: couple of times a years. But all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they tell you, hey, by the way, you gotta stay home,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, damn, I wish I could go to

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Speaker 1: the beach right now. Right, So I think that's where

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's gonna happen with everybody. And I know,

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Speaker 1: me for sure, every time I get a chance to

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Speaker 1: go and travel, I'm out. But I think now more

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Speaker 1: than ever now that people were forced to stay home

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Speaker 1: and they can't do certain things. You're right, man, I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna take off and be gone. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's let's get to the other reason we're having on

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Speaker 1: is the NFL. Having played in the league and played

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Speaker 1: at such a high level league, how much should we

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Speaker 1: factor in wins and losses and put on the quarterback shoulders. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know this is the thing. You know, it's such

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Speaker 1: a quarterback driven league. Now. It wasn't always like that

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Speaker 1: in the past. Right, even the time when I played,

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Speaker 1: you did have some great quarterbacks, but they didn't run

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Speaker 1: the whole entire team. Now and the way the game

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Speaker 1: has changed over the last ten years, you really started

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Speaker 1: to got to look at the wins and losses being

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Speaker 1: only on the quarterback shoulders because they control everything and

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Speaker 1: they have so much how within like some of these

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Speaker 1: great quarterbacks, Pastrick to take Pastrick the Home for example,

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Speaker 1: he had so much power within the organization that he

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Speaker 1: controls it, right, I mean, he's the CEO of that organization.

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Speaker 1: So the reason why I say you take the wins

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Speaker 1: and losses on the quarterback shoulders, because if if the

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Speaker 1: wivers he was not playing, well, you dropping balls, he's

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Speaker 1: not running as route writer, he's not doing certain things.

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Speaker 1: You go upstairs, you say, hey, I don't want this

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Speaker 1: guy here or he shouldn't be starting. And guess what,

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Speaker 1: that guy's not gonna be starting. So you have to,

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Speaker 1: you know, take everything with a green a start now

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Speaker 1: and put more more responsibility and more pressure on the

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Speaker 1: quarterback because it really relies on how he plays and

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Speaker 1: what he does. Sean, how surprised are you that, speaking

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Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes, that it appears Aaron Rodgers will win

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Speaker 1: the MVP and the year that he put together, he

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Speaker 1: still has one more game, forty four touchdowns, only five interceptions,

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Speaker 1: and the best quarterback rating. How surprised are you that

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Speaker 1: that he looks like he beat out Mahomes for MVP,

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Speaker 1: not the prize at all. And I think the only

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Speaker 1: people surprised U is a Green Day Packers. You know,

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Speaker 1: like you go out and you draft the quarterback. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers had all the motivation this year to play extremely well.

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Speaker 1: And I love it when when a player has the

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Speaker 1: ball in his court right because you go out you're

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Speaker 1: drafting a guy. You're basically telling Aaron Rodgers like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're planning on moving on from you at some point,

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Speaker 1: and now you go out and have the one of

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Speaker 1: the best years of his career. And I love that

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00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: because now he'd go to organization and say, you know what,

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00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm out or else. So now he calls all the shots.

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Speaker 1: He dictates his own future, if he wants to stay there,

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Speaker 1: if he wants to go however he wants to happen,

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Speaker 1: because that's the message you send when you go out

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Speaker 1: and you draft the quarterback as high as they did

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Speaker 1: um to eventually replace Aaron Rodgers well before he's his

644
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: time is even up. Yeah, I want to I want

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Speaker 1: to just follow up real quick. How crazy is it

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Speaker 1: to both of you guys that they never drafted a

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Speaker 1: skilled player in the first round during Aaron Rodgers' entire

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Speaker 1: career in Green Bay? How how crazy is that? It's

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Speaker 1: it's beyond crazy to me because looking to hear, and

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, to me, I think Devanti Gas

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Speaker 1: is probably top two or three wide receivers in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, so he you know, he came on

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Speaker 1: as doing extraordinary things. But you didn't really give Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers a whole lot early on. I mean he went

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Speaker 1: out got um you know, uh, you know, Mars, Mercedes Lewis.

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Speaker 1: They put a couple other pieces, but you didn't go

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Speaker 1: out and get Antonio Brown. You didn't go out and

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Speaker 1: get a big stud and say, hey, Aaron Rodgers, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna help you out something. Uh, you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: guy who continuously does things himself, and he's been doing

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Speaker 1: it in that organization for so long. And that's why.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to bring it back to the point

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Speaker 1: where I said, that's why, I'm even more baffled that

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Speaker 1: they go out and draft a guy that's behind them.

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Speaker 1: You got all these other positions to feel, and you

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Speaker 1: go out and draft a guy and now he's had

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Speaker 1: his best year, and now they're gonna have a problem

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Speaker 1: on their hands going forward. Regardless of how Aaron Rodgers said.

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Speaker 1: If probably they don't have a problem ball for because

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to make some real decisions. I could

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Speaker 1: not disagree with you, guys. More couldn't disagree with you guys.

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Speaker 1: More Like, Look, Aaron Rodgers is thirty seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Jordan love Is. Everyone knows he's a prospect, he's a project.

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Speaker 1: He's a two years away. And in two years, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's reasonable to think that Aaron Rodgers might not be

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Speaker 1: the same quarterback. And you have to prepare for that. Day,

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Speaker 1: especially if you're drafting in the twenty when you have

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, You're never going to be drafting in the

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Speaker 1: top fifteen. Okay, You're just not okay, so you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get You'd have to move heaven and earth to

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Speaker 1: move up to get a quarterback in the draft. And look,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Love is not what Aaron Rodgers was as a prospect.

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Speaker 1: But this is how it worked where they went from

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Speaker 1: Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers maybe to Jordan Love. And

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, if Jordan Love isn't any good,

686
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Speaker 1: as long as he never plays, nobody's ever gonna know

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00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: he'll retain some of that value. And like we can

688
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: sit here and go, we don't love their wide receivers

689
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Speaker 1: or they needed who they need to add. They won

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Speaker 1: thirteen games last year, they win gonna win thirteen games

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Speaker 1: this year. They're gonna have home field advantage throughout, and

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Speaker 1: they believe in their evaluation, right, Like, look, there's but

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Speaker 1: Doug the other the other I hear that. The only

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Speaker 1: thing is they got to the NFC Championship game last

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Speaker 1: year and got annihilated. So my only point is, yhou,

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Speaker 1: they taking a defense, taking a defensive player because they

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Speaker 1: couldn't stop the run. It's fair, it's fair, absolutely, that's

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Speaker 1: the only thing that could help you. You don't think

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Speaker 1: you don't think they had, and they just picked up

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Speaker 1: I know, it's very late. They just picked up Stops Harrison,

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Speaker 1: you know too, and all he's got it, and it's

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Speaker 1: just can he stop the run in that one game,

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Speaker 1: which by the way, against the Tennessee Titans. The teams

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Speaker 1: that runs the football, they show they can stop the run.

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Speaker 1: This past weekend, Kevi Derek Henry under a hundred yards

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Speaker 1: for the first time in nine road games, right right,

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Speaker 1: And I mean, and look, they drafted aj Dillon in

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Speaker 1: the second round here, like, why are you drafting a

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Speaker 1: running back in the second round? Well, it's because one

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Speaker 1: look at how well he played this weekend too. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones's contract is up. He's signed with Drew Rosenhouse. He

712
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: wants to get paid. And everyone who covers sport, the

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00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: sport knows what you don't want to do is that big,

714
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Speaker 1: long term second running back contract or let somebody else

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Speaker 1: pay that. And if he doesn't want to play ball

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Speaker 1: and take a reasonable salary. So I think the Packers

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Speaker 1: are setting themselves up to be competitive for the next

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Speaker 1: ten years, not just for one year. And well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: by the way, during this one year, they're the best

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Speaker 1: team in the NFC. Yeah, but I think you're speaking

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Speaker 1: from the organization standpoint. But yeah, I understand that part.

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Speaker 1: But I'm also telling you that as a player, Yes,

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Speaker 1: as a player, you know you don't draft a guy

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Speaker 1: that high. Man. They seeing a guy to stip up

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Speaker 1: the six and seventh round, and he got some talent

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Speaker 1: maybe on rob to go down. He can step in

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Speaker 1: for him and do something. That's fine, But you brought

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Speaker 1: him in to say, you know what, we are going

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Speaker 1: to be done with you, so right. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: they want to see the guy you wanted two years

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Speaker 1: and they know he's going to come into be a

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Speaker 1: start in one or two years because you have the

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Speaker 1: talent to do so, and you know your starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: can't get it done. I understand completely from the organization standpoint.

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Speaker 1: But to do what they did and expect Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: to go out there and play miraculous, miraculously every single time.

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Speaker 1: He's going to have a lot of pool and a

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Speaker 1: lot of power here, come out up here shortly, and

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Speaker 1: the organizations are going to have to make a decision

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Speaker 1: because that doesn't sit well with playing And I'm not

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Speaker 1: just playing with anybody. If the one from your position,

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00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: in your job and had just given him a like, look,

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Speaker 1: there's no there's no getting rid of him for the

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Speaker 1: next two years, right like Aaron Rodgers is he has

745
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: two more years where financially it would cripple the franchise.

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00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: They're not getting rid of him. He knows it, right,

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: So I understand that on some level you could sit

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00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: there are going are you gonna sit the guys before

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00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: Who's who drafts him on that high to sit him

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Speaker 1: for four years? No one does it for three years.

751
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: That's exactly what the Greenbay Packer did. That's exactly what

752
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers did with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, but

753
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: they but they didn't they didn't move up like like

754
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: Mountie thing is. They didn't move up to go get

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00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback. At that point, Aaron Rodgers fell in their lap.

756
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Speaker 1: And here's the other part. But you just went to

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Speaker 1: a round pick. But you just went to the NFC

758
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: Championship game. My point is, it's great that you've had

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. It's great that he's gonna have three MVPs.

760
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 1: It's great that you won the NFC North all these times.

761
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: But the Packers when Aaron Rodgers should have won more

762
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: than one super Bowl, Okay, but we didn't listen and

763
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Speaker 1: can't go. We can't go back to what they right.

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Speaker 1: So so I don't care about three years from now

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Speaker 1: they should have been thinking about we have Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: but we still have a chance. You do have a chance,

767
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: and you look a lot of people in crazy. You

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Speaker 1: draft a wide receiver. Okay, the first thing is all

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Speaker 1: the good, All the first round wide receivers were gone

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Speaker 1: at that point time, and by the way, sixteen up

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Speaker 1: until this year, and this year was historically good wide

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Speaker 1: receiver draft. Over the previous four years, the nineteen first

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Speaker 1: round draft picks that were drafted in the first round,

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Speaker 1: sixteen of them were busts. It's a really hard position

775
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: because it's so different in the NFL than the spread offenses. Okay. Secondly,

776
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Speaker 1: if you want to tell me that they were close

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00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: last year, I agree with you, and they had to

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00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: get better. I agree with you. They have gotten better,

779
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: and people go, you should draft a wide receiver. If

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Speaker 1: you draft a wide receiver, that hurts the development of

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00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: Marcus Valdes, Scantling and of some of these other guys

782
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: who have developed, and those guys have gotten better, and

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00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: the team is they're the best team in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what people want, right, the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NFC, and they protected, they protect. Watch the

786
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers this year. Okay, look at Ben Roethlisberger. Look,

787
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: I know he played really well Sunday, But what has

788
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: everybody said? Man, Ben Rothisberger looks shot, looks shot? And

789
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Speaker 1: you know what? The Green Bay Packers don't want to be.

790
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: They don't want to be the Pittsburgh Steelers where at

791
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: some point in time Aaron Rodgers is gonna lose it

792
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Speaker 1: and you want to have a guy there who's been studying,

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Speaker 1: been preparing, who can throw in and there won't be

794
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: this massive drop off. That's what happened in New England

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Speaker 1: when they drafted Garoppolo. And it's something and this is

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00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: to sean to your point where Brady went in and goes, hey,

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00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: man him or me, and they sent Garoppolo packing, which

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Speaker 1: could very well happen with Jordan Love. But again, the

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Speaker 1: plan was smart, and that's what the Packers are executing.

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Speaker 1: But but does one thing, one thing about this who

801
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: can't get better? When Aaron Rodgers did a quarterback, I

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00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: just you're talking about bust and these other which one

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Speaker 1: of these busts a while receives there was drafted had

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers as a quarterback. I just feel like over

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Speaker 1: the last decade or so, you know, they they they've

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Speaker 1: been relying on Aaron Rodgers so much to be Aaron

807
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: Rodgers the gut and do things in his own uh,

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Speaker 1: that they're willing to risk and sacrifice, do anything bigger

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Speaker 1: for the organization because everything is on him. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: they wanted to draft a guy in the fifty six round,

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Speaker 1: a third you know later on and like like Rob

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Speaker 1: just said, developing his laps no problem. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: but you do the things you're doing. You're saying that,

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Speaker 1: hey you fix this planing and mind you to read.

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Speaker 1: One of the main reason why they drafted on Rob

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00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: because you kept getting hurt. He kept having these injuries.

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Speaker 1: They'll back to back. Then you never really said us

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Speaker 1: this season healthy. That's one of the main fact that

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Speaker 1: they did it. So they basically saying, hey, these injuries

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00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: keep power level whatever is going on. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a guy here to replace you and backfired on them.

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Speaker 1: And and I'm not saying to backfire on them in

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00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: a way of them wing. Obviously they're a great team,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna backfire on them at the end of

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Speaker 1: their day. Sean enjoyed Guadalajara. Yea happy New Year, by

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Speaker 1: the way, everybody Happy years. Got Happy New Years to

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Speaker 1: everybody out there. Stay safe, don't drink and drive man

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Speaker 1: be responsible. Yeah, and download the Lights Out podcast. It

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Speaker 1: many people, not just from the MMA world, but from

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Speaker 1: world traveler. It's out invested with that guy. He's in

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Speaker 1: the bare knuckle fighting. Can you imagine that that's the

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Speaker 1: He's always Sorr and I'm hanging out with Sorr. All right,

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Speaker 1: Mercedes benz amg driving performance alongside Rob Parker. I'm Doug Gottlieb.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year. Hopefully twenty

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Speaker 1: one will be better than twenty does not have. That

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Speaker 1: is not a high bar to to climb, right, all right,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say almost any We'll take almost anything.

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Speaker 1: If we can get outside, have a go to a

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Speaker 1: ball game and sit next to your buddies, right, or

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Speaker 1: take the family on vacation, Doug, anything like that will

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Speaker 1: be much better than what we had. Okay, So I

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Speaker 1: guess this is like a legit question to you. When

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Speaker 1: do you think when do you think, uh, what's the

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Speaker 1: first sporting event that's back full stadium? I say the

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Speaker 1: NFL next September. Really, I say baseball will have some

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Speaker 1: this summer. We'll get fans in the stands. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it'll be full, but I think by September

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Speaker 1: we'll have, you know, full we're all in again. Well

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Speaker 1: September for sure, but I think it'll be soon to

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Speaker 1: go the extra Do you think baseball will have like

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Speaker 1: full stadiums? H No, I'm asking that was the That

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Speaker 1: was the Tampa's never was never gonna have a full stadium.

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Speaker 1: That's why they were able to excel last year because

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Speaker 1: they were used to play with no crowd. Dude, there

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Speaker 1: was nothing different for them. Correct, Goro the go the

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, Mercedes benz vans Um. I think the final four.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we put if they put seventy

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Speaker 1: five thousand in the Dome and Indie, but I do

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Speaker 1: think I could because look, journalists, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you know this. We're like in the third tier, the

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Speaker 1: third wave of vaccines that come out right, we'll be

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Speaker 1: able to get Now, there are six six weeks in

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Speaker 1: between when you get the initial shot and when you

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Speaker 1: get the second shot and that's how so it's not

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Speaker 1: truly effective until you get the second shot. But my

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Speaker 1: guests would be that that much like they're doing in

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Speaker 1: buff Hello, they're going to be able to They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to test people more often. People will get

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Speaker 1: the vaccine. People who will be will have immunity because

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Speaker 1: they will have already had it, and there'll be a

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Speaker 1: way in which you can prove, you know, whether you

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Speaker 1: whether you have to prove that you have the what's

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Speaker 1: it called the antibodies, or prove that you had the vaccine.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like April is April is

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Speaker 1: that time that everybody's saying we'll start to come out

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Speaker 1: of it, and that would be the first peak sport event.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm crazy because it's indoors and maybe they'll be

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Speaker 1: the masters, but I think that's that's the time of year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I did cover the World Series this year. I was

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Speaker 1: in Arlington at the New Stadium and you know, they

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Speaker 1: took your temperature when you win in and they only

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Speaker 1: allowed twelve thousand people in and it was controlled and

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Speaker 1: it was fine. You know, I didn't feel awkward at all.

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Speaker 1: People had their mask on and I just think indoors.

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Speaker 1: I think people are going to be And then I wonder,

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Speaker 1: even if they allowed you to come, dog do do

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Speaker 1: people sell out or it's still people say excuse me? Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait a little longer, do you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Like, I don't want to be in a

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Speaker 1: band box with seventy five thousand other people. I want

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Speaker 1: to go, but I'm gonna wait this one out. I

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Speaker 1: think people will will do that. Yes, I do think

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Speaker 1: there will be people that will do that, I absolutely

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Speaker 1: But I also think there's an overwhelming uh majority of

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Speaker 1: people that will Look, there'll be the same number of

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Speaker 1: people who have will have gotten the vaccine or have

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Speaker 1: had it and and have the antibodies, and then there

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Speaker 1: there's just there's a section of people that have been

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say like deniers or anti maskers,

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Speaker 1: but like, look, we're kind of a divided country on

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Speaker 1: all things. And I think that's when is something that's

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Speaker 1: medical and science become you know, I don't know. I've

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Speaker 1: always found that to be when it's science become like no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: what in a global warm No? But I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: what but this is what politicians do? But this is

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Speaker 1: what that's what people do. This is what business people.

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Speaker 1: But how many people have to get sick or die

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Speaker 1: for people to realize like, like it's one thing. Dog.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I get it, everybody's not. But

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Speaker 1: but these aren't fake numbers. These aren't like like people aren't.

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Speaker 1: This isn't being fake. This is happening. Like, yes, what

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Speaker 1: would you have to see to tell you that it

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Speaker 1: isn't real? I just saw reached a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: ago doctor Drew, who I guess said that that he

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Speaker 1: didn't believe that it was fake or something that he's got.

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Speaker 1: He got, he got. He got hit pretty hard too

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Speaker 1: with it. This is what I'm saying, Like these really

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I don't know, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: like scientists have been telling this for years, that that

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Speaker 1: the Earth, the Earth is not happy with us, and

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Speaker 1: you know, like we'll well, we'll well. Now the wording

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Speaker 1: has changed and some of the stances have been softened,

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Speaker 1: but like the science thing's gotta been out there for

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Speaker 1: a long time. So but I would say when there

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Speaker 1: was the time which there was a global pandemic where

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Speaker 1: a portion of the country, led by politicians, denied uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's danger. The answer would be twenty and twenty.

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Speaker 1: There's your there's your answer. What does it happen before?

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I wasn't around during the

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Speaker 1: Spanish flu um, but I think this was a unique

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Speaker 1: year and we had unique leadership. Is probably the best.

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Speaker 1: The best way to leave it that we we we

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Speaker 1: can't all right, let's get to I want to get

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Speaker 1: to this. Um boy, the NBA is I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: have it back. And there's you know, I'm watching last

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Speaker 1: night and Atlanta is playing Brooklyn and no one is

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Speaker 1: playing defense. And Brooklyn it was great though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was good hoop right, there's just so much, so

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Speaker 1: much offensive talent. I do like what Atlanta has done,

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Speaker 1: you know, to bring some veterans in, some guys that

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Speaker 1: we think can play some defense. Trey Young doesn't shoot

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Speaker 1: the ball well from three um. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn's end up surviving the Atlanta Hawks. If you just

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Speaker 1: watch that game, you're like, wow, there's no defense. But

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Speaker 1: if you look at the scores of some of these

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Speaker 1: other games, just blowout after blowout after blowout. Right, the

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Speaker 1: the Heat beat the Bucks, but that's after the Bucks

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Speaker 1: had beaten the Heat the night before by like fifty. Ye.

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Speaker 1: The Celtics beat the Grizzlies, and we should point out

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Speaker 1: that John Morant didn't play because he badly sprained his

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Speaker 1: ankle the night before that that that's a nineteen point game.

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Speaker 1: The Hornets beat the Mavericks, Remember the Mavericks for the

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Speaker 1: team that were up fifty on the Clippers. That's the

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Speaker 1: only game they've won this year. The Hornets win by

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Speaker 1: what nineteen points? The Spurs and Lakers. Of course, that's

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Speaker 1: notable because Becky Hammond became the first even acting female

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Speaker 1: head coach when Greg Popovich got ejected. The Clippers blow

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Speaker 1: out the Blazers, and those were mild blowouts compared to

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Speaker 1: the night before. Why do you think there's so many

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Speaker 1: blowouts in the NBA? It's very interesting. I finally m

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Speaker 1: NBA at current state. I know things will get better,

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Speaker 1: but unwatchable for the most part. And and Doug, you're

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Speaker 1: a basketball guy. You played the game at a high level.

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Speaker 1: I love basketball, been covering the league for a long time,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to watch these games where

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Speaker 1: it seems like I don't know if the players are

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Speaker 1: all the way into it, is this preseason. There was

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Speaker 1: a couple of graphics put up on the Clipper game

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Speaker 1: the other night which showed that twenty five percent of

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Speaker 1: the game so far have been decided by twenty points

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Speaker 1: or more, and then T and T also had a

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Speaker 1: graphic which talked about how many games in NBA history

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Speaker 1: had had been uh, you know, by five foot teams

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Speaker 1: won by fifty or more, and last year there were

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Speaker 1: only two such games in that category. And in the

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Speaker 1: first week we almost had two of those games clips

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Speaker 1: in that or or matching that number when uh Dallas

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Speaker 1: won by fifty one at Milwaukee won by forty seven almost.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. If it's they rushed the guys

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Speaker 1: back too early, the guys aren't really into it and

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Speaker 1: don't really you know, care, and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: month or so before they really feel like they want

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Speaker 1: to play play. I don't know. I would love to

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Speaker 1: hear what you think, because you you watch it, and

1001
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Speaker 1: this is your sport, you're closer to it. Its just

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Speaker 1: I'm not a guy who's gonna watch a twenty five

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Speaker 1: or thirty point blowout. I'm gonna look for a Golden

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Speaker 1: Girls rerun if the game gets out of hand, all right,

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Speaker 1: I would I would stapy at the Golden Girls rerund Lett.

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Speaker 1: I think that is two fold of what took place.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is a player revolt, but the players,

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Speaker 1: especially the ones the Lakers um and and maybe they

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Speaker 1: to a lesser extent the heat like it adds a

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Speaker 1: quick turnaround quick, but you have it on both sides.

1011
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: Some teams hadn't played since March, right, some teams you

1012
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Speaker 1: go to the bubble right right, neither and there. So

1013
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Speaker 1: there is no perfect you know, there is no perfect

1014
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Speaker 1: way to start the NBA light because you had but

1015
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Speaker 1: you had to start it now. And I think that

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Speaker 1: leadership understood you got to start now because you had

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Speaker 1: to get those Christmas Day games in for first well

1018
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Speaker 1: they say five million dollars or something extra or they

1019
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: would have lost out if they didn't. Yes, So this

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Speaker 1: is one of those begrudgingly going to work teams trying

1021
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Speaker 1: to manage it. No one trying to get hurt. But

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Speaker 1: again this is part of it is where the league is,

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Speaker 1: where it's become. It's the pendulum swings right where sometimes

1024
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Speaker 1: you have to the power of the owners or the

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Speaker 1: NBA they call the governors and uh and the front

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Speaker 1: offices is too great. The pendulum has swung back the

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Speaker 1: other way where I, you know, I think it's too

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Speaker 1: much in you know, labor has too much power and

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Speaker 1: it just does or the players, they're just games are like, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't really want to I can't go. You don't

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Speaker 1: know who's gonna play, Like why, it's not just it's

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Speaker 1: not just that, um, the games aren't that aren't that

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Speaker 1: much fun to watch because there's no fans. It's you

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Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna play, right, Like last night Lebron

1035
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis decide to play, but the game before

1036
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis basically no showed and Lebron didn't play right.

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Speaker 1: So I just and that's only a micro you got.

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Speaker 1: You got Katie and Kyrie that Katie hadn't played in

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Speaker 1: a year and a half and his second or third

1040
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Speaker 1: game in he's taken it off. They won the first two.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Kyrie. So you're like, look, if you're

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Speaker 1: not that into it, how can I get that into

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Speaker 1: it as a fan? And I think it's good it

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Speaker 1: no matter how good it ultimately gets. Once we get

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Speaker 1: to March in April, and I think that, and like

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Speaker 1: anybody who's thinks I'm a hater on the league or

1047
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Speaker 1: the players, Dude, these guys are so much more talented

1048
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Speaker 1: than are skilled in many ways, more with the basketball

1049
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Speaker 1: than without than previous generations. The shooting is obscene. The

1050
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Speaker 1: depth of talent on some of these teams. They finally

1051
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Speaker 1: gotten it spread out to where you got. You got

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Speaker 1: two stars on many of these teams. Some aren't as

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Speaker 1: good as as others, but you do the days of

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Speaker 1: the when you get three or four stars in this

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Speaker 1: league where it's all spread out, it's too much, right,

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Speaker 1: so you have some parody there. You got so many

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Speaker 1: good things, but god, it's just it's a hard watch

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Speaker 1: and the games are so non competitive and you don't

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Speaker 1: know who's going to play in a given night. I agree,

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Speaker 1: and that's the other part. I'm against the whole rest

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Speaker 1: thing from a standpoint. Now, people on buying tickets or whatnot,

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Speaker 1: but Doug, I think it's very unfair. I don't have

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Speaker 1: any kids, but if my son wanted to go to

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Speaker 1: a Laker game and see Lebron in person, you know,

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Speaker 1: on Christmas or whatever the day is, you know, I

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Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago, this is where the

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Speaker 1: uproar is that he didn't go to Memphis. And maybe

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Speaker 1: it was three or four days before Christmas, you remember that,

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Speaker 1: and that was Christmas presents were a lot of kids,

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Speaker 1: you know, like that was that coming to town. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna see Lebron in person. And not only did he

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Speaker 1: not play, he didn't even show up. He didn't even

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Speaker 1: travel to Memphis, and a lot of people felt jilted,

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Speaker 1: like like they got cheated. And I don't think that's right.

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Speaker 1: I just don't when people get hurt, Doug, we buy tickets.

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Speaker 1: I understand that if you're telling me he's on a

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Speaker 1: disabled list or the injured list, or whatever you wanna

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Speaker 1: call it. I can accept that. Right things happen, people

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Speaker 1: get hurt. But when I hear, oh, he's resting today,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. I want to be

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Speaker 1: able unless I can get a refund on my tickets.

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Speaker 1: I'm not happy with that. And I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a bad thing. I know Pop kind

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Speaker 1: of started it, and then once Lebron started taking days off,

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Speaker 1: people followed the leader, and then other guys started doing

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Speaker 1: it and it became a problem, and even ESPN and

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Speaker 1: ABC balked at the league. Am I right, Doug for it?

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Speaker 1: Because somebody games. I don't think there's any question that

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Speaker 1: TNTs not not happy about it either. Um, it's bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean like, look, there's a multitude of factors. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: you you've priced out many of your you know, blue

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Speaker 1: collar fans anyway, right, So as much as I agree

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Speaker 1: with you, you know, the kid in Memphis, many of

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Speaker 1: the kids in Memphis were affluent kids, like you know, like,

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Speaker 1: look that kid gets plenty of presents, right, So we've

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Speaker 1: the idea of pricing out your your you know, your

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Speaker 1: lower to middle income fans is a is a problem.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just the player's problem. That's the owner's

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Speaker 1: problems as well as as you know, there's everybody's trying

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Speaker 1: to make a buck anywhere possible, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: get worse, not get better. But yeah, I mean like, look,

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Speaker 1: those are the consumers. And you anyone who's ever been

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Speaker 1: to a game and seen that one magical moment, it's

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Speaker 1: like why why do people why why do we go

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Speaker 1: to baseball games as adults when you know, it's like boy,

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, because when I was a kid, you

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Speaker 1: know Rady Myers from the Mets threw me a ball

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Speaker 1: when I went to a Dodgers Mets game. Right like,

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Speaker 1: I remember that I was in Shaye Stadium. I was working,

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Speaker 1: but I covered Game six of the nineteen eighty six

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Speaker 1: World Series, my first World Series. I have a covered

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Speaker 1: Doug when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. I'll

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Speaker 1: never forget that moment and what it felt inside Shaye Stadium.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like you don't look, you

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Speaker 1: don't let go of those things. I agree with you.

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