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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving the Grid? Episode four forty nine.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What's Driving the Grid has brought to

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Speaker 1: you by our friends at boost Mobile. It is draft day, Demons.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm putting you on the spot. You're Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to say a player, but the position

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Speaker 1: you most want them to address in this draft is

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the options offensive line, help, pass catcher,

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Speaker 1: pass rusher. I think those are the three buckets that

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Speaker 1: you could see them going with the fourteenth pick O line.

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Speaker 1: I listen, I think, I think right, and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: very good, but yes, I think the I also maybe

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Speaker 1: could see Kenyon Sadik the tight end out of Oregon

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Speaker 1: because they also lost Isaiah likely but they still do

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Speaker 1: have Mark andrews Uh. But I think the most popular

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Speaker 1: mak draft pick is Vega, the interior offensive lineman to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore at fourteen and so out of Penn State, the

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Speaker 1: first interior alignement off the board. So I think that

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Speaker 1: is other Well, the most popular mock draft pick is

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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza number one overall to the Raiders, but the

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Speaker 1: next one would be that and so all right, so

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Speaker 1: here's the deal. We got a bunch of great mail

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Speaker 1: bag questions. We'll take more today. However, we will be

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Speaker 1: doing that mail bag next week instead of tomorrow because

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Speaker 1: this morning I was thinking, I was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's pretty dumb to have a podcast drop Friday morning

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Speaker 1: that has zero draft commentary in it. So instead, so

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Speaker 1: instead of doing the mail bag tomorrow, we are going

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Speaker 1: to do that next week and tomorrow I will do

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Speaker 1: a live first round draft reaction show. So that's another

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Speaker 1: So when that drops, you will have it. Before we

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Speaker 1: get to our draft thoughts and our favorite annual game

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Speaker 1: where I prove to the world that I could run

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Speaker 1: an NFL team, in fact, multiple NFL teams where Demons

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Speaker 1: works the phones. We are going to talk some NBA

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Speaker 1: and the playoffs that have happened since we last chatted,

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Speaker 1: including the Lakers huge win on Tuesday night. But first

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Speaker 1: straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. Keldon

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Speaker 1: Johnson wins sixth man of the year a little bit. Listen,

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Speaker 1: he's the guy who I would have voted for, but

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Speaker 1: I thought Haime Hakez was the going to win it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm happy for Keldon. Mike Tomlin's going to NBC,

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Speaker 1: and the Royals are moving to Crown Center, which I

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Speaker 1: think is gonna be awesome. It's not quite downtown, but

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Speaker 1: it's close to downtown. It'll be great for Kansas City. Again, reminder,

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Speaker 1: helps us out. All right, to Monte Before we get

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Speaker 1: to the draft, Let's get to the Lakers, which will

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Speaker 1: be some basketball commentary, some media criticism.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Oh so yeah, who would have saw this coming?

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Speaker 2: The state of the Lakers right now. It seemed like

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Speaker 2: you didn't even believe in that we're talking about, like

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Speaker 2: what if they could just win a game, They could

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Speaker 2: just get a game, Look, can come back. They're up

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Speaker 2: to to zero right now. How did you, of all

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Speaker 2: people not see this coming?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I thought they would split the first two.

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Speaker 1: What I said was I assuming Luca didn't come back.

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Speaker 1: and then Houston puts them away in Houston in Game six.

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Speaker 1: Now KD missing game one changed that, and the other

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Speaker 1: thing that changed that is the Rockets reverting back to

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Speaker 1: A team that is totally disconnected, doesn't seem to like

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Speaker 1: twenty all time great player Kevin Durant can't seem to

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Speaker 1: All of that, combined with Lebron James playing the marionette

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Speaker 1: But set that cap part aside, it was just like, no,

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Speaker 1: he's just you know, he's not worth He's not a

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Speaker 1: Lebron's worth the max, they would be laughed. They would

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Speaker 1: have been laughed at. Now the games matters. He look

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Speaker 1: Lebron's still good. But you know, at forty one and

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Speaker 2: In his career.

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Speaker 1: What are those guys doing right now? Steph's having the

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Speaker 1: time of his life. At Coachella after playing poorly in

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Speaker 1: again followed the exact same script as Game one. The

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Speaker 1: One of them, Jabari Smith Junior got matched up on Lebron,

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Speaker 1: who's somehow still at this point in his career twenty

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Speaker 1: Like I want to make this clear, the Rockets are

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Speaker 1: while the moment Durant was ruled out of Game one,

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Speaker 1: And now they won Game two. Lebron's twenty four and

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Speaker 1: oh in his career went up to nothing in a series.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this thing is you know, a wrap.

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Speaker 1: idea of Lebron pulling this off was far fetched. The

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Speaker 1: Rockets were minus eight hundred favorites. People were correctly discussing

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Speaker 1: it in the terms of if he were to do this,

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Speaker 1: How are they letting this happen? And rather than recognizing, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they have been accomplices in the potential murder of their season,

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Speaker 1: but they're just the getaway car driver. The guy holding

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Speaker 1: the knife is Lebron and this would be one of,

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Speaker 1: by Vegas odds, the biggest upsets in the history of

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Speaker 1: Round one of the playoffs. And at this point the

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Speaker 1: Chris Mannix wrote, I haven't read the column yet, but

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Speaker 1: believe is of this gist. If folks want to argue

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Speaker 1: And I feel so incredibly fortunate to be able to

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other day. The here

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Speaker 1: So Lebron was the O two three draft the Hall

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Speaker 1: your career on the court. Something somebody that can dribble

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Speaker 1: the ball up the court and get you into offense.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm here's my question for Friday Night demonse.

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Speaker 1: Do the Rockets fall like? Are they ready for their

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Speaker 1: season to be over?

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Speaker 2: Kind of seems like it. I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 2: care what we don't point to the Kevin Durant burner

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Speaker 2: as often. I think like that that type of thing,

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Speaker 2: it hasn't to you are the veteran, and those type

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Speaker 2: And this like the sea, the team is playing, the season,

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Speaker 2: the team is playing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing I didn't learn. I didn't know about

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Speaker 1: that until like two days ago. And again, I this part,

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Speaker 1: I guess is fuzzy, but it seems like the people

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Speaker 1: who did the research on it and the you know,

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00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: those were his messages, like that is acknowledged. Did you

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Speaker 1: know that group chat we're not like his close friends.

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Speaker 2: Just like a forum of dudes. It's just NBA fans

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Speaker 2: or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that until two days ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he thought he was.

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Speaker 1: That's that's wild. But yeah, I mean I don't no,

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Speaker 1: and so I don't so Mike, listen, the Rockets are

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00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: nine and a half point favorites. The teams that go

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Speaker 1: up too oh at home, the then the underdog, who

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Speaker 1: the Rockets weren't the underdog, but the road team goes

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Speaker 1: home and almost always wins. Game three and then game

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Speaker 1: four determines if we have a series or not. That's

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Speaker 1: how this should go. But man, if the Rockets get

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Speaker 1: down early, I wonder if they're like, we're ready for

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Speaker 1: the season to be over now here. Let me say

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Speaker 1: one other thing and then we'll get to this other stuff.

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Speaker 1: The worst case scenario demons for the Lakers Friday night

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Speaker 1: is a back and forth, super close loss. Better to

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Speaker 1: lose by forty because they play Friday and then Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And if it's back and forth close, yes, if it's

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Speaker 1: back and forth super close, Lebron will spend a few

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Speaker 1: bullets of the gun to try to end the series.

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Speaker 1: And if you lose that that then like Game four

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Speaker 1: should be a loss almost no matter what it's the

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Speaker 1: And then you have a couple of days off before

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Speaker 1: Game five. So obviously my number one hope is the

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Speaker 2: Wimby was knocked out of Game two with concussion, and

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00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: that Portland stole one and this series is headed back

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Speaker 2: to Portland, so we won't see Wimby for the next game.

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Speaker 2: It seems like, how concerned should Spurs fans be? Isn't

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Speaker 2: it forty eight hours for concussion?

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Speaker 1: Well it's no, it's forty eight hours before you're even

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00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: allowed to be evaluated. Oh so it's forty eight hours minimum.

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00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: Game three is Friday, which would be seventy two hours.

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00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: Game four is Sunday. The average time missed in the NBA,

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00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: de Monsay is eight and a half days. And now

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00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: Sham's reported last night he's already doing cardio. He also

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Speaker 1: reported they play on Wimby traveling to Portland. That stuns me.

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Speaker 1: I thought they're playing would be He's never he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Get on this stay in San Antonio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna miss games three and four and then

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00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: be ready for game five because that was scary. First

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Speaker 1: of all.

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00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, fall like he's just so big.

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Speaker 1: It's like, so, I'm really glad you said that. So

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00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the basketball side of this in

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Speaker 1: a second, and I this is one of those times

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Speaker 1: where I really don't want to be aggregated out of

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Speaker 1: context because this is a delicate situation and I don't

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00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: want anyone to it to appear like I am saying

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00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: anything I'm not saying. But everything about Wimby feels tenuous

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00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: and a little scary. It's why he's so special, like

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00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: the real the the flip side of the coin of

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00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: We've never seen a guy be able to tip dunk

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00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: his own missed three. We've never seen a guy be

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00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 1: able to protect the paint while guarding the three point line.

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00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: Is what goes along with having a body that size

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Speaker 1: is just more more times you're going to say I've

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00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: never seen that, and normally it's amazing, and then the

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00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: other night it was I've never seen an NBA player

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00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: fall quite like that, And this sounds like a ridiculous thing.

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00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: Crashing semi or something like flipping over on its side.

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Speaker 3: Explain you so, like I and I know this, like

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00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 3: I don't know the actual math on this, but just visually,

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00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 3: because I've seen guys fall like that, and I've seen

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00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 3: guys fall like that and hit their face on the ground.

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00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: It felt to me like because of the extra length

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00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: of torso almost that by the time his head hit

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: the ground and it was just going a little faster,

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00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: like it had got gained more velocity. Yeah, that's what

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00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: it That's really what it felt like. And it wasn't

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00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: lost on me that the highlight of game one, the

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Speaker 1: one that they then showed Duncan and Robinson the crowd like,

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00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: oh my god, was when weinby like took the ball

557
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: at half court, did the spin move in the paint

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00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: and then dunked. That was almost the exact thing he

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00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: was trying to do on this play, And like when

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00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: you're it's so it's the size plus style. He's not

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00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: just planting himself in the paint like he's out there.

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Speaker 4: Moving and it is. It's it is the elephant.

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00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: In the room on any of the how many MVPs,

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00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: how many championships? How great? Where is this? It's like, man,

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00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: how nervous are you gonna be every time this giant

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Speaker 1: of a man falls. Now, with that said, I is

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00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: it crazy for me to say it seems a little

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00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: lucky he didn't break his jaw, Like seeing that him

569
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: hit and then bounce and hit again and a broken jaw.

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00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: Your season's over. That's three months. You're just out something.

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Speaker 1: A point Mangenie made I think was off the air

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Speaker 1: was if his tongue was between his teeth, you know

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Speaker 1: yet for real, Yeah, he'd have beat a you know,

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Speaker 1: he would have bit through his tongue, which is something

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00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: that happens like in car accidents.

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Speaker 2: Like it's just that so it doesn't I mean, he

577
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: doesn't really fall too often. He hasn't taken one of

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00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 2: these obviously before, which is which is good.

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Speaker 1: But and he knows how to fall and he's he's

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00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: taking but it's still sports man and the the so

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Speaker 1: here's so that part of it is like, oh maybe

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00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, he got out of this cheaply, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: The other side of it is though he was unconscious.

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00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: Right, oh yeah, like slip for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It looked like that's what Yes, when you first saw it,

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00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 1: Demonse did. So when I first saw it, I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize the impact. And when I saw him just like

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Speaker 1: lay down almost like like did you think he was

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00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: like being a little funny like taking a rest or? Okay?

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00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, I thought he got it cushion, so.

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00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: I did so I didn't Maybe I had looked away

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00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: for a second or whatever. I didn't realize the impact

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Speaker 1: of the fall. And it was such like a again,

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Speaker 1: almost like how you would draw someone like laying down.

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00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: I thought he was, you know, as the bridge would say, yeah, yeah, that.

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00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: He was like, all right, I'm gonna let me take

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00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: a little rest. And then when he didn't get up,

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00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: I was like, and then they showed the ression and

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00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: it's a disaster. So now to the Spurs side of it,

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00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,919
Speaker 1: the basketball side, blowing that lead was awful for them.

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00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: If they're up to Oh, you're worried about Wimby's health

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00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: in Asia, but you're not worried about this series at all.

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00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: You're up too. Oh you were like twelve and seven

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00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: without him this year. You know you should be fine

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00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: one one. Expecting him to make Game three, it's a

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00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,479
Speaker 1: different story, and all of a sudden demands your guy.

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00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: The most important person in this series becomes Luke Cornett.

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00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: Because the Spurs this year have been awful across the

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Speaker 1: full season. In minutes Wimby and Cornett are off the court,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons they've been so good in the

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Speaker 1: non Wimby games is because Cornett has filled in his

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Speaker 1: rim protection. Those defenders defending, and they're great young perimeter defenders,

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Speaker 1: but they one of the reasons, you know, they have

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00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: almost been trained to defend super aggressive, knowing if you

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00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: get beat, you got protection behind you. And if it's

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Speaker 1: not Wimby, it's a good rim protector in Cornette. So

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Speaker 1: when both those guys are off, the Spurs net rating

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Speaker 1: is awful. Well, Cornette's not going to play forty minutes

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Speaker 1: and you just lost game two when Avdia didn't have

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00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: it and Ovdia didn't play that well. So like it

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Speaker 1: is it if Demond s a if Wimby misses games

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00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: three and four, it's absolutely on the board that it's

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Speaker 1: three to one Portland and if you're down three to one,

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Speaker 1: even with Wimby, you can lose that series.

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00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe with a lot more time to prepare

626
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,959
Speaker 2: without them, they kind of got blindsided during the game,

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Speaker 2: sure coming game three.

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Speaker 1: But I mean they didn't play a lot this year

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Speaker 1: without him. Yeah. One other thing, did you see, uh

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Speaker 1: what the Blazers tweeted yesterday with just the eyeball emojis.

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Speaker 1: It's just a one minute video of Dame hitting threes

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Speaker 1: with Justin Okay, I will now also remind people Dame

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00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: tore his achilles before Tatum did. Yeah, by about a month.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it means, but that would be unmol.

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Speaker 2: Exactly what he went back to the Blazers for.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that would be this is the moment, just

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Speaker 1: just ten minutes off the bench from Dame. He won

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Speaker 1: the three point contest this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like.

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00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: He's been ready. Also, you know he's also ready.

641
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 2: Scoot my guy, Scoot thirty like thirty two or something

642
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: like that.

643
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, the top three of that draft career playoff points

644
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: Wimby thirty nine, Brandon Miller zero, Scoot forty nine. My

645
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: take's not dead. My Scoot take not dead yet. All right,

646
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: let's talk okay see okay, see please?

647
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 2: Uh So after okay See took a two zero lead

648
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: to the Sun, Devin Booker and Dylan Brooks had something

649
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 2: to say after the game. First off, Devin Booker said,

650
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 2: it's bad for the sport, bad for the integrity of

651
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: the sport. People are going to start viewing this as

652
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 2: the WWE if they're not held responsible. Dylan Brooks came

653
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 2: out and said he caught out the flopping, saying, leave

654
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 2: that for the regular season. For the fans, don't decide

655
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 2: games on no free throws. You don't normally talk about

656
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 2: reffing in the games, but did you want to talk

657
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 2: about this case in particular.

658
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: Yet Listen because Oka see, fans are don't like me.

659
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: Fine.

660
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: My history with a few teams in the NBA is

661
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: pretty similar. It's my history with the Nuggets and the Celtics,

662
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: the two teams, by the way that this year I'm

663
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: picking to go to the finals. I was pretty consistently

664
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: reviled by their fans as a hater and I doubted them,

665
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: and I was then about their ability to win a

666
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: championship with their corps, with their team. I was then

667
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: proven wrong. They won the championships, and I immediately gave

668
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: them they're just due respect as champions. Never once was like, ah,

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00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: this was a fluke. They shouldn't have won, not the

670
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: best team, and have treated them as the deserved champions

671
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: that they are. My history with OKAC is so interesting

672
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: because I never disliked them. I was never someone people

673
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: are like, ah, he's a hater. And last year, before

674
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: they won a championship, I thought they could win it. Now.

675
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: I thought the Lakers with Luca was a particularly bad

676
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: matchup for him, and I didn't pick them to win

677
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: the title. But I wasn't someone like, ah, this is

678
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: they're a fraud team. Like I believed in them more

679
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: than I believed in the Celtics before they won their title,

680
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: the Nuggets before they won their title, and all year

681
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: long I have called they are the best team, and

682
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: all year long I said Shay was the deserving MVP.

683
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: All of that can be true, while this is also

684
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: true the way they play as a team. Can you

685
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: guys hear that? What's going on? What's going on? I

686
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: almost have to look out the window. We might have

687
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: to sound guys outside the window. I think you just

688
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: walked down the street. I have no idea, all right.

689
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: As I was saying the way, there is universal agreement

690
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: amongst their opponents, their opponent, coaches, and NBA fans as

691
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: a whole that their historyonics go beyond selling calls and

692
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: go all the way to outright acting is beneath the

693
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: defending champions, with the soon to be two time MVP

694
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: favorites to go back to back the shit chat and

695
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: I got no problem the shit Chat was doing yesterday

696
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: was embarrassing. The the fact that the refs don't seem

697
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: to be able. It's like they've cast a spell where

698
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: you have on one end the single most physical defense

699
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: in the league in Okay see, and on the other

700
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:26,439
Speaker 1: end a team that gets the softest whistle of any

701
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: team in the league. And it's the same team in

702
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: the same games. It's it is, it's driving poor Doris

703
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: Burke insane. Yesterday we saw Devin Booker take a regular

704
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: jump shot get called for an unnatural shooting motion. We

705
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: then saw shay No do his rip through things get

706
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,959
Speaker 1: the fouls. We saw Check get a guy in the air,

707
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: then turn one hundred and ten degrees to the left

708
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: where he's facing away from the basket to draw the foul.

709
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: Chet also was getting boxed out and just fell down

710
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,439
Speaker 1: on purpose, like it's just it's not it's not fun

711
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: to watch, and they don't need to do it. And

712
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: so I can't remember another team driving this many of

713
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: its opponents insane like this, and it is. Do you

714
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: know how angry Dylan Brooks has to be for him?

715
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: In his postgame press conference to compliment Lebron, which he

716
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: called himself. He was like, he was like I watched

717
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: the clips of Michael Jordan and then he goes Lebron

718
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: called himself, He's like young Lebron, like he wanted to

719
00:52:52,719 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: make clear, not Lebron now. And it's just that it's frustrating.

720
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 2: It is.

721
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: Now. The biggest news to come out of that game, though,

722
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: is Jalen Williams hamstring. Now. It's not the hamstring that

723
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: he injured that he was dealing with earlier this year.

724
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: But you know, you guys have heard me talking about

725
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: this quite a bit. Seven years in a row the

726
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: defending champion has gotten clipped in round two or earlier.

727
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: When the playoffs started, it looked like the thunder We're

728
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: going to be facing this super flawed Rockets team in

729
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 1: round two, and that streak was destined to come to

730
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: an end. If Jalen Williams is out, a lot of

731
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: ifs here, and if the Lakers cannot only beat the Rockets,

732
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 1: but somehow beat the Rockets relatively quickly and get some rest,

733
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: and if Austin and Luca are back now you might

734
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: have yourself a series.

735
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 2: A very possible ifs.

736
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: They're all very possible ifs. But that's again, like even

737
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: if how many ifs was that? Like, the Lakers win quickly,

738
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 1: if Jadub is out, if Luca comes back, if Austin

739
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: comes back. This is where it's a good you know,

740
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: the old stats class. Let's say all of those ifs

741
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: are eighty percent demons, then what are the odds of

742
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: four eighty percent probability events all happening? Just do the

743
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: math and real time, kids, eighty percent of eighty percent

744
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: is sixty four percent. Eighty percent of sixty four percent

745
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: is fifty percent. Eighty percent of fifty percent is forty percent.

746
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: So if all of so we have about a forty

747
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: percent chance of maybe having a series. Hey, yeah, forty percent.

748
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: We'll take it. But we got it. I don't have

749
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: the news yet, and I don't think anyone has the

750
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: news yet on uh Jada, but we'll keep it. We'll

751
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that obviously. All right, let's just

752
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: quickly do some NBA quick hitters before we go to

753
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: the draft.

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00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 2: Uh So, the Pistons steady the ship against the Magic.

755
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 2: Do you think this holds the crown for biggest first

756
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 2: game overreaction?

757
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,439
Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't gonna just gonna be first game because

758
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: it's tied at halftime, and then the Piston's gone to

759
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: twenty seven to three run to put it away. Listen,

760
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: the magic. This is where the regular season does matter.

761
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: You kind of are who you are in the regular

762
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: season and the magic. We're never gonna be a team

763
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: that was gonna play great basketball for two weeks straight.

764
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: They just weren't going to be. So now here's what's

765
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:50,479
Speaker 1: not an overreaction. I do think it's going to take

766
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: some real hardened playoff magic in a non complimentary way

767
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: for the Pistons to beat the Cabs, because I don't think.

768
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: I do think the Pistons offense is being exposed a

769
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 1: bit as as concerning as we worried it might be

770
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. But they're not gonna be a problem

771
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: getting past the magic. And don't put anything past James Harden,

772
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 1: who hasn't played in the conference finals in fifteen Aaron, sorry,

773
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: in eight years? All right?

774
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 2: Next, is it a must win for Nuggets and Knicks

775
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: who both lost an embarrassing fashion.

776
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: No, I think it's a must win for both of

777
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 1: them if they want to avoid these series going seven.

778
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: But it's a must split for both of them. Like

779
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: that's all that, you just you just have to regain

780
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: home court. So no, I don't think it's a must

781
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 1: win for either one.

782
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 2: Next MAXI and vj Eds comb combined for fifty nine

783
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 2: and that game to win against my Celtics. What do

784
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 2: you think this backcourt ceiling is in the future.

785
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: I think could be. I mean, they could be the

786
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: best backcourt in the NBA. I don't like I think that.

787
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 2: I like J Cam a lot. I also like s MAXI.

788
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, the real quick, your your thoughts on

789
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: your Celtics losing.

790
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 2: All right, not worry dropped the game. It's it's cool, yeah,

791
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 2: I mean, just just come out and win this next one,

792
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 2: and we obviously can't.

793
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: You're just not concerned at all.

794
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 2: No, but if we lose again, it would be concerning

795
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: for the future of the like of the playoffs, just

796
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 2: because are we losing two games of Philly.

797
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: Well, so also listen the tax of playing the style

798
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: they play of that many threes exactly the nights you're

799
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: the Knights, you are cold, You're just gonna lose. So

800
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: Sean Grandy had this great tweet in the last one

801
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty games to Monte playoffs in regular season,

802
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: They're been twelve times the Celtics hit twenty six percent,

803
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: which is what they hit in this game, or less

804
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: from three they're zero to twelve. The they just never

805
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: win that way because they never stop shooting them. Now,

806
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: the ominous note of that is three of those twelve

807
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: are playoff games Games one and two against the Knicks

808
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: last year, which led to losing the series. But I agree,

809
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think they're fine. I think

810
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: that I still think Celtics in five is a likely

811
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: outcome of this series, and I would be stunned if

812
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: it goes more than six. All Right, You ever notice

813
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Speaker 1: All right, Demon's let's do Mendoza.

825
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. Ever since the Natty, everybody knows or has

826
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 2: been saying, Fernando Mendoza is going number one to the Raiders. Yeah,

827
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 2: which means he will be coming over to your AFC,

828
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 2: another great quarterback. It's time to officially plant your your

829
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 2: plant your flag on Mendoza. What are your thoughts.

830
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,919
Speaker 1: I think he's obviously the right pick, and I think

831
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: he'll be good. And I know that's tepid, but I

832
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: think that he And I'm not just saying this because

833
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: this player is now in Vegas with him, but I

834
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: think Kurt Cousins tier of quarterback is where I see

835
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza. And if you can get Kirk Cousins tier

836
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: production with him being a better, you know, big game

837
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: quarterback than Kirk, you got yourself a good player and

838
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,479
Speaker 1: you be the best quarterback the Raiders have had since

839
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: Rich Gannett. They'd be thrilled with that. And so that

840
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: is that, you know, I I don't look at him

841
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: as future MVP candidate. Frand like Frank Star.

842
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 2: I mean, you said Kirk Cousins, so maybe not.

843
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: No, I don't see the Raiders winning a Super Bowl.

844
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 2: I mean no, I don't. I don't.

845
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: But I think, uh, I think that he like like,

846
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: I think he'll be a good, good player and they'll

847
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: be happy they made the pick. I think, you know,

848
01:00:55,280 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: he'll probably you know, in his prime, be you know,

849
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: like the twelfth best quarterback in the NFL, which is

850
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: solid like the you know, the you know, a little

851
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: worse than Dak, a little better than Kirk like out

852
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: there like that's you know, which is good. But and

853
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. But I don't think it's

854
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: as a Chiefs fan, it's a bit of a bummer

855
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: that the that the Raiders won't just be dysfunctional at

856
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: quarterback for the next decade if I'm right. But it's

857
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: not like scary, you know what I mean. It's the

858
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: it's not how I feel like if the I don't

859
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: think he has MVP upside, all right, I do want

860
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: before we play our phones game and talk Chiefs.

861
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 2: I So.

862
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: Some people have asked why I hadn't talked about the

863
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: Varabel Diana Rossini story, and it was multi layered as

864
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: to why I hadn't done it. First one was we

865
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: don't really have a history on this show of being

866
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: you know, what people would call bedroom police, and if

867
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't touch the like, we're not a salacious kind

868
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: of gossipy show. And I didn't know how, if at all,

869
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: this was going to touch the field. And also, I'm

870
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: not going to lie to you guys, full disclosure. I

871
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: know Diana, Diana's you know, has been on shows I've

872
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: been on, and I felt like she was going through,

873
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, a very very tough time and I didn't

874
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: feel a need to pile on to that. And I

875
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: didn't think there was anything in the beginning that made

876
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: it really relevant to the sports version of it.

877
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 2: There.

878
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of you know, alleged or

879
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: potential extramarital affairs in sports all the time that we

880
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: never talk about on this show. That star did to

881
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: change once Vrabel, you know, Ben Strauss wrote a great

882
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: article for ESPN dot com that really gave a lot

883
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: of details that made the initial deniability of this stuff

884
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: very difficult for all parties involved. Then Vrabel went from

885
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: his public acknowledgment was this is ridiculous and doesn't merit

886
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: a response to this has been a very hard time

887
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 1: on the people I love the most with it felt,

888
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: and it felt to me when he did that press

889
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: commence like you skipped a step, buddy, Like is this

890
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: laughable and doesn't merit a response? Or is this something

891
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: that's you know, really really tough on your family and

892
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: loved ones. So once that happened, I was like, all right,

893
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: this might be something that touches the field. And now

894
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: this morning, when it is reported that Mike vrabel is

895
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: going to be stepping away from day three of the

896
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: draft to do some form of counseling, means a lot

897
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: of alarms should be going off. I The fact that

898
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: they're not, you know, it's not like, all right, we're

899
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: going to start the counseling on the day after the draft,

900
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: or the fact that whenever they're going to start it,

901
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: they felt the need to make this publicly known makes

902
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: me wonder if rabel Is does have concerns that more

903
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: information about this or other things could be on their

904
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: way to coming out. And I no longer think it

905
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: is ridiculous to question how will this impact his future

906
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. It is the timing of the fact

907
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: that the day of the Draft. It is being reported

908
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: that Vrabel on Saturday of the draft is going to

909
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: be away from the team. Dealing with this sure makes

910
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: me concerned that either more things are coming or this

911
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: is worse behind the scenes than you know, I had thought.

912
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 2: So I.

913
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: It now becomes a real story that it would be,

914
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, irresponsible of me. I think not to acknowledge

915
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 1: or discuss and if people want to, you know, people

916
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: can judge my coverage of everything however they want. Everyone's

917
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: like I. However people feel about how I do my job,

918
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: you can feel however you you're entitled to. But I

919
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: try to be transparent honest with you guys about kind

920
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:12,200
Speaker 1: of my process on this stuff. But I some alarm

921
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: bells are going off in my head about ooh, is

922
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: there more to come here? What's actually going on? And

923
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: what is drastic enough for Vrabel to be missing day

924
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: three of the draft? And if I'm a Pats fan,

925
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: I I this would have moved from embarrassing, pardon me,

926
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: embarrassing and unfortunate too potentially actually concerning. So there's my

927
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: take there. Before we play our phones game, demons, let's

928
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: do some Chiefs draft stuff.

929
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,439
Speaker 2: So your chiefs have the ninth and twenty ninth picks

930
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 2: in the draft. Wow, if things go according to play

931
01:06:56,720 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 2: and you guys will never be picking this high, how

932
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,120
Speaker 2: badly do you need to on these picks for the

933
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 2: to keep the dynasty alive?

934
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 1: Got to hit on him. You gotta get multiple starters

935
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: out of this draft, and you have to get a

936
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: if not star, true long term impact guy from the

937
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 1: ninth pick.

938
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 2: Just have to.

939
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I there is a weird, you know,

940
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 1: subset of Chiefs fans that are anti Brett Veach, and

941
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 1: I think that's insane. Now, I also like Veach personally.

942
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:38,880
Speaker 1: I you know, again, I'm pretty transparent with you guys.

943
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: I have a good relationship with him. I've never like

944
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,479
Speaker 1: It's not like I've never hung out with the guy.

945
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: We're not dear friends. And I, you know, I call

946
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: it as I see it. But I do like him personally.

947
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 1: But what I like most about Brett Veach is he

948
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 1: has been from an managerial side, one of the biggest

949
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: hands in creating the defining dynasty of this era, and

950
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: the Tyree killtrade took massive courage, and not only did

951
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: he do it, he then nailed the picks. Well, this

952
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 1: is the most important draft since then, and we're going

953
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 1: to do a full mock draft show on the TV

954
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: show and then tomorrow we're we can do it to

955
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:27,719
Speaker 1: kind of date Round one reaction. But I will get

956
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 1: into the chief stuff here with hard rock bet demon's

957
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: a so go ahead.

958
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so our friends are sorry, Our friends are

959
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 2: hard rock bet have the odds for who will be

960
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 2: picked number nine, which was the best value to bet on.

961
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,759
Speaker 2: We got Baine at plus three seventy five, Delayne plus

962
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 2: four hundred, Tyson at plus five hundred, Bano at plus

963
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 2: five hundred, Maui, Noah at plus eight fifty, Downs at

964
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 2: plus eleven hundred. It's a dcat plus twelve hundred, and

965
01:08:57,760 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: Tate at plus twelve hundred.

966
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: All right, so let me go listen. If Carnel Tate

967
01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: is there at nine, I believe they will take him.

968
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: I do not think he will be there at nine.

969
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: A lot of people have mocked the Chiefs taking Fano

970
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: or Mainoa, the two offensive linemen. I do not believe

971
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: they are taking it an offensive lineman at nine. I

972
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: would be very surprised, given the Chiefs history, if they

973
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: use the ninth overall pick on a corner. I think

974
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: they believe they can develop corners. I sneaky, don't hate

975
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: the idea of Sadik, even though it would be a

976
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: total luxury pick. The Chiefs might not have the tight end.

977
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: But I believe the Chiefs are taking either Caleb Downs,

978
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: maybe the best player in college football, the safety out

979
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: of Ohio State, or Rubin Bain Junior despite his short arms.

980
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: I don't you know. Mock Draft four point zero my

981
01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: official mock draft coming out on the TV show today,

982
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:10,759
Speaker 1: but I will reveal this. I believe Ruben Bain Junior

983
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: is going to be there. I think Rubyen Bain Junior

984
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: is going to be the pick plus three seven. So

985
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: he is the favorite on hard Rock bet. He's the

986
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 1: guy that I had the Chiefs taking in the first

987
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: mock draft I did. He is the guy will have

988
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: the Chiefs taking in the final mock draft I do.

989
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: And then I think they feel in the with the

990
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: twenty ninth pick, they can go. You know, they can

991
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: look at wide receiver, corner, or maybe offensive line in there,

992
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:37,839
Speaker 1: but I think it will be wide receiver or corner

993
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: depending on who's available. So I think Rubyen Bain Junior

994
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: is the pick. Oh my goodness, gracious, hold on, so

995
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: let me. I want to check something. Demons talk to

996
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: me for a second, and then the producers tell me

997
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 1: if the sound gets bad, because we're about to play

998
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: this game and my AirPod just died, I see, so

999
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: keep talking to me.

1000
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 2: All right.

1001
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this draft advisor thing, and you guys tell

1002
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,240
Speaker 1: me just hold on, just tell us when you hear Demonse.

1003
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: If the audio is messed up, then I'm gonna have

1004
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: to fix it.

1005
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, we America, we know that you are a

1006
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,799
Speaker 2: great mock drafter. The NFL coaches know it, the gms

1007
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 2: know it. Once again, all thirty two teams will have

1008
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 2: your number on a deck to call you in case

1009
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: they can't make their final decision. So in the extremely

1010
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 2: likely scenario that some of them weigh in on you

1011
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 2: for their pick tonight, need a little bit of practice.

1012
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna play an NFL GM or coach calling you.

1013
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:36,920
Speaker 2: You have to tell me what I do, what I

1014
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 2: should do with my pick in sixty seconds.

1015
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: God, I can't wait for this all right. First of all, guys,

1016
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: put in the dock. Did was Demonse's audio bleeding over

1017
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: into mine? Or are we good to go?

1018
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 2: Okay, We're good, great, all right, all right, hey Nick,

1019
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 2: it's Mani austin front with the Cardinals. We are at

1020
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 2: a pickle. I tell you Reese and Love are still

1021
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 2: on the board. But the Cowboy it's just offered the

1022
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 2: twelfth and the twentieth and a third to move up.

1023
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 2: What should we do? Sixty seconds ago?

1024
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: Listen, MANI, I gotta tell you this is a dream

1025
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:16,679
Speaker 1: come true for you guys. You want an offensive lineman,

1026
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: but there is no offensive lineman worth the twelfth overall

1027
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: or the third overall pick. So here, here's what you're

1028
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:29,640
Speaker 1: gonna do. You are going to take this deal and

1029
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: be thrilled about it. You're gonna move back. You're then

1030
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: gonna watch the board and see if Mali, Noah or

1031
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 1: Fono start if both stay available, as the top ten

1032
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: keeps rolling, Now if one of them goes off the board,

1033
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: be ready. You gotta be ready to call New Orleans.

1034
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 1: You gotta be ready to call Kansas City. You gotta

1035
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: be ready to call Cincinnati to see if you need

1036
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: to flip that twelfth pick plus a little something to

1037
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 1: move up. But you accept this deal from you're happy

1038
01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: and you hope to go get one of those offensive Lineman.

1039
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: Congrats many Jerry Jones just made you a very happy man.

1040
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 2: We'll take it all right, Nick, It's John Harbaugh. I

1041
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 2: had our GM, Shane, go grab some pizzas so I

1042
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 2: can make the pick. We're in luck the top three

1043
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 2: picks when it's expected, and the Titans drafted Carnell Tate.

1044
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 2: We have our pick of all of our top guys

1045
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 2: on offense and defense? What side should we prioritize first?

1046
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 2: And is it too risky to wait for the other

1047
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 2: at ten sixty seconds?

1048
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: Go wow, So Mendoza, Reese, Bailey, and Tate are off

1049
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:38,679
Speaker 1: the board. You're sitting there at five. All right, here's

1050
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: the first thing I want you to do. John. I

1051
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: want you to call Washington and I want you to

1052
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: see if they are willing to way overpay to go

1053
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: from seven to five so they can draft Jeremiah Love

1054
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: if they are willing to do it. If they and

1055
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: make them pay a lot, tell them you want their

1056
01:13:57,120 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 1: second round pick to do it. They'll probably say no.

1057
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: If they say no, then you happily draft Jeremiah Love yourself.

1058
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 1: It's no problem. So that's the move. And then once

1059
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: you draft Love at five, you can at ten Caleb

1060
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: Downs should still be there and all of a sudden

1061
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: you have impact guy on both sides of the ball.

1062
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: You also could consider in that spot going with Jordan

1063
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: Tyson out of Arizona, but Carl Washington, and then figure

1064
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 1: out if they'll make the move. If not, Jeremiah loves

1065
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: your pick.

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Speaker 2: Next, it's your man, Brett Veach. We're at Patton Travis's restaurant.

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Speaker 2: Good news, the stakes are great. Bad news, the Saints

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01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 2: just drafted our Kai Rubin Bain. Caleb Downs and Jordan

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01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 2: Tyson are still available, and Andy Reid is screaming at

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01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 2: me to go o line. But now you know is gone.

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01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,160
Speaker 2: What do we do sixty seconds?

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01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: Well, this is where you're gonna tell Andy. Don't worry

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01:15:06,120 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. We got that cover. But what

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01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: you do need to do is call up Steve Spagna.

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01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: Get Spags in the in the room right now, and

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01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: you need to find out can Caleb Downs be his

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01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton. Now he's a lot shorter, but if Caleb

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01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 1: Downs can be the best player on this defense, can

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01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: take on Nicola.

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01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 2: Who's uh oh, sounds like Jerry Jones is called and

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01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 2: he's listening to Schrager Dallas has offered us the twelfth,

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01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 2: the twentieth, the ninth, or the twelfth and the twentieth

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01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:39,719
Speaker 2: for the ninth and the twenty ninth. What should we do.

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01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: Twelve and twenty for nine and twenty nine. We're debating

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Speaker 1: between Caleb Downs and Jordan Tyson.

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Speaker 2: We got ten seconds.

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Speaker 1: No, I understand what we have Jerry. The answer Jerry

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01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: is no, and we're taking Caleb Downs. Just real quick, cool,

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01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: Oh okay, never mind, don't answer that phone call. I

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01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: want to explain this real quick. The reason I wouldn't

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01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: trade twelve and twenty for nine and twenty nine is

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01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:25,799
Speaker 1: purely because, uh gosh, darn it, hold on, if who's

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01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: drafting number eleven? I have to remind myself real quick

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01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:33,759
Speaker 1: my because I would not want to run at risk

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01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:38,760
Speaker 1: not getting one of the Marquee defensive players. And if

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01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 1: the and if and if I'm not getting the Marquee

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01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 1: defensive player, it's because I want to go receiver. And

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01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,879
Speaker 1: my concern with moving from nine to twelve with Dallas

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01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: is that Dallas is moving up to takedowns and then

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Speaker 1: the Giants or Dolphins, pardon me, the Giants or Dolphins

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01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:08,640
Speaker 1: could end up taking Jordan Tyson. And now then I

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01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: almost have to go with the I almost have to

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01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: go with the offensive line, which I don't want to do.

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01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 1: All right, next.

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Speaker 2: It's Brandon Bean. I know I'm shocked. I still have

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01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,599
Speaker 2: a job. Please help me keep it, mister, right Boston

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01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,200
Speaker 2: and Concepcion is still available as a slew of defenders,

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01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 2: we like, what is our best course of action? They

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01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 2: try to get back to the Arrowhead Invitational.

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Speaker 1: You got to take the best defensive front seven guy available,

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01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: or you know, just the best defender available. Here's the reason.

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Speaker 1: You can't take a receiver. You just spent the sixtieth

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01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: pick on a receiver in Dj Moore. You can't spend

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01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth pick and the sixtieth pick on a receiver.

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01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: So and if you were going to, you don't want

1116
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:57,800
Speaker 1: it to be the fifth receiver taken in the draft. So,

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01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: whether you want to take Cayden McDonald out of Ohio State,

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01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: whether you want to go with one of the top corners,

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01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: which you've had trouble drafting, you have to upgrade the defense,

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Speaker 1: and that's where you need to go. You already spent

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01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,679
Speaker 1: your premium pick on a receiver already so Brandon Bean,

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Speaker 1: that's my advice. And also, don't call me again unless

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01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 1: you're looking for a job, which I probably wouldn't hire.

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Speaker 1: That was great. I love this game. We do this

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Speaker 1: every year, all right. So a few scheduling notes. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: we will have an episode where a Round one draft

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Speaker 1: reaction show. That will be tomorrow today. On first things first,

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Speaker 1: we have at the full my official final mock draft,

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Speaker 1: mock Draft four point zero. That's the one that I

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Speaker 1: will send in to be graded, to be judged against

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Speaker 1: the other mock drafters. And next Friday we will have

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Speaker 1: a mailbag episode. Great job to Blue Duck and Volume.

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Speaker 1: Great job to the audience for dealing with the crazy

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Speaker 1: people on the street. Thank you to hard Rock, Bett

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Speaker 1: and Boost. Enjoy the draft, Enjoy the playoffs. Talk to

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Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow. What's right,