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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bes friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Number four.

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Speaker 1: Might be my last night if I become Syracus' new

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Speaker 1: basketball coach.

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Speaker 3: It isn't out. The opportunity is there.

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Speaker 1: There's an opening? Now, here's an opening.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean you can apply the principles that you

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Speaker 4: used in coaching youth softball and soccer. Sure, the general

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Speaker 4: principles of dealing with the team that we've assembled here

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Speaker 4: at Fox Sports Radio, the different personality and tendencies and

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Speaker 4: truancy and other things that you have to deal with.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I'm sorry, you're truant. I can't

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Speaker 1: have you, can't have you. Uh yeah, no, I think

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Speaker 1: I could do it. I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 3: It's been a rough run.

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Speaker 4: Here over the last what ten fourteen years now, I

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Speaker 4: was going through some.

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Speaker 1: Of the fourteen years. I mean we've been made the

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Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen about six years ago. I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: that lost Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 4: That's not the standard. It's not the standard we're working.

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Speaker 1: To Hereah, boy, just really quick, because here's what happened.

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Speaker 1: So because this shows you how what a mess Syracuse

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Speaker 1: basketball is. So John Wilde hacks the the athletic director.

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Speaker 1: He's retiring in July, okay, and he says, the new

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Speaker 1: AD is going to pick, you know, figure out the coach.

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Speaker 1: So Autrey gets fired today. But and he says, the

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Speaker 1: next AD is going to make the decision, but you're

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Speaker 1: staying on till July. So but and this has to

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Speaker 1: be done soon.

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Speaker 3: So what you got is a shadow that's just kind

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Speaker 3: of hanging around there.

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Speaker 1: But today they went and after they fired Archery, they

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Speaker 1: hired their new AD. This is second NFL team that

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Speaker 1: just hires the coach before the GM and then hires

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Speaker 1: a GM who keeps the coach coming in, and then

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Speaker 1: the next coach comes in, they fire the GM, Like

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Many voicemails on behind probably fifty Jim

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Speaker 1: you're coming back, right, You're coming back. You're coming back, right, Jim,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get back, Jim, Jim, Jim, what did you

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Speaker 1: teach your kids? Can they coach? I'm firing this coach,

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Speaker 1: but the new AD will hire the new head coach.

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Speaker 1: When's the new AD coming in? I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: a few hours later, we have a new a D.

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Speaker 1: So now he the current AD fired the head coach.

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Speaker 1: Now the new a D. I guess there's we have

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Speaker 1: two ads right now? Is gonna hire the next guy?

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Speaker 1: Which is gonna happen sometime in the next what four days.

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Speaker 3: For the day. What if the new AD wants Autry back?

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Speaker 1: What if the new AD is Anthony Davis? I would

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Speaker 1: I would be okay with it. I think he has

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe that accounts for him not being part

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Speaker 4: of the bam Adebayo eighty three point game.

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Speaker 1: And now Ago, I mean, I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: do I don't know how you do this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: now we get the new AD. Sorry you retired, Well

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Speaker 1: let me go to that. That's absolute mess.

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Speaker 4: Well, next level stuff. I mean, it's been a minute.

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Speaker 4: You talk about the sweet sixteen arrival. I mean you

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Speaker 4: did have that one good year, but you were ineligible. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 4: I got that. I mean he's thirty four and thirty

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Speaker 1: That's not good. That's not good. You're on the plus

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Speaker 1: winning percentage up until the last few years, where we've

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Speaker 1: can't remember why. Yeah, it's been a long time. It's

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's who we're getting. Maybe we're geting Buddy

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Speaker 1: the like it what is it case? It was twenty

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Speaker 1: because as time has gone down, there's only a couple

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Speaker 1: So only two teams need quarterbacks, the Vikings and the

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hey, prove it kind of situation because

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Speaker 1: Was let go by the Dolphins, and eight seconds later

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Speaker 1: snapping up their quarterbacks. You're not waiting on a quarterback saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be smart. No, Kyler Murray is the

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Speaker 1: Rodgers be a Steeler because remember, now, go back to

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Speaker 1: McAfee show after his darkness retreat. Does he sound like

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Speaker 1: a guy that's done playing. No, he's a guy that's hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm energized. He had a good year last year, as

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Speaker 1: very insistent to say, I don't have a contract offer

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Speaker 1: But he hasn't gotten it yet. Mike McCarthy also loves

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Speaker 1: If Aaron Rodgers was going to be a Steeler, he'd

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Speaker 1: my guy, Aaron Rodgers. We bring him back in and

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Speaker 1: going on. I guarantee you in Pittsburgh because suddenly, well

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Speaker 1: this offense can get pretty scary. And Mike McCarthy's a

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Speaker 1: this looks like whoa, this might be an offense that

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Speaker 1: ten wins. But let's go do this, right, we can

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Speaker 1: go do this, Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers. You can see

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Speaker 1: where things are going now again. And if I'm Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: I go to the Steelers. If I can get there,

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Speaker 1: as a steelersad coach, as a Steelers quarterback, I can

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Speaker 1: and I can do that. So I'll tell you you

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Speaker 1: know the reports today the vikings. No, No, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you man, if if I had to put my money somewhere,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's gonna be a Steeler I.

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Speaker 4: Do like the flip of it, you know, where all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden, Aaron Rodgers gets to finish the Brett

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Speaker 4: because you have the potential of a future with Kyler Murray, Right, Rogers,

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Congratulations on your Northwestern Wildcats keeping their

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Speaker 4: Maybe all those close losses during the season leads to

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Speaker 1: Well, I think your luck's gonna run out because you

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Speaker 1: you India, those guys never lost, you know, go back

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Speaker 1: I mean, just look before the Indiana team beats Northwestern, go.

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Speaker 1: in Orange wins. Uh. There are no winners year push

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be tough. But if the Clippers had

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Speaker 1: They traded away a couple of their great players, and

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Speaker 4: All you need is more scandal and allusions to Uncle

432
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Speaker 4: Dennis or side show would be no show jobs and

433
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Speaker 4: playing his best basketball.

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Speaker 1: Forty five tonight. He's averaging he's averaging twenty eight a game.

435
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Speaker 1: He's doing it allself, like he if they were and

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Speaker 1: I don't see, I would say, if they had to

437
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Speaker 1: be incredible, if they had between thirty seven and forty wins.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's right right in the thick of it

439
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Speaker 1: in a row like he'd be. He'd be right there,

440
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Speaker 1: like he'd be, he'd be right there at the top

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Speaker 1: with Jalen Brown and a couple other guys. Like but

442
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Speaker 1: because you're five hundred, yeah, it's kind of hard. It's

443
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Speaker 1: kind of hard, and plus you might not get to

444
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Speaker 1: the games as well. You'd have to just get there

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Speaker 1: and I think there's gonna be some sort of stigma

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Speaker 1: against players that just get there, right. I mean, even though, hey,

447
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Speaker 1: all you do is playing eighty five games that makes

448
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Speaker 1: you eligible if you are, hey, where are We're on

449
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Speaker 1: pins and needles just getting you to those games. I

450
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Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna be that. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be looked upon by the voters saying Okay, well

452
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Speaker 1: now I can vote for the guy for MVP. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's how it's gonna go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's It'll be interesting to watch the final analysis

455
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Speaker 4: of it all, because we look at the odds as

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Speaker 4: they currently stand, you've got a ninety percent probability of

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Speaker 4: SGA winning currently minus nine hundred on the board uh

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Speaker 4: Victor Wembnyama at fifteen to one, followed by Jokiccha twenty

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Speaker 4: one thirty to one, Kate Cunningham one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: to one for Jalen Brown. Sorry, Jason Tatum came back.

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Speaker 1: They'll move up, it'll move up. It'll be fine, but.

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Speaker 3: You go all the way down. Everybody else is two

463
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Speaker 3: hundred to one or more in Kawhi.

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Speaker 4: Well, beyond that, again, the game's played being part of

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Speaker 4: the math, the wins part of the math, and then

466
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Speaker 4: while Shay Gildess, Alexander doing remarkable things and he's getting

467
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Speaker 4: to the game limit unless something crazy happens, so he's

468
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Speaker 4: the presumptive winner. But it's been an interesting talking point

469
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Speaker 4: through the year. I mean, we just started later than normal,

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Speaker 4: which is good. I mean we didn't have to do it,

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Speaker 4: and you know, October and early November we waited at

472
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Speaker 4: least a little while to see the field suss out,

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Speaker 4: and unfortunately we saw several would be candidates while their

474
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Speaker 4: teams stunk and then they were felled by injury. Right

475
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Speaker 4: the latest Steph Curry probably ain't coming back at all.

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Speaker 4: We watched Giannis and the Bucks become an afterthought and

477
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Speaker 4: a joke, and then he missed time. So yeah, the

478
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Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard is a is a nice point. I still

479
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 4: need the h Zubach height chart that they gave out.

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Speaker 3: I'm not growing anymore.

481
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Speaker 4: No, maybe maybe I'm around you know, you know kids

482
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Speaker 4: in the neighborhood that that want to measure up to

483
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Speaker 4: one of the great centers of the game. But for

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Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard, it's it's fun to watch them play and

485
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Speaker 4: play meaningful basketball after that beginning that they had to

486
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Speaker 4: the season. They at least are showing some heart in

487
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Speaker 4: a league where many have had it extracted, like the

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Speaker 4: guy in Temple Do.

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Speaker 1: Can't even tank? Right? Oh, we're trading hard and away.

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Speaker 1: We're trading zoobots way. Yeah we're done. Oh wait, now

491
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Speaker 1: we're actually better. Okay again, back to my point, when

492
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Speaker 1: are you a James Harden away from anything? When you

493
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Speaker 1: trade James Harden away? Oh, we were trading James Harden

494
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Speaker 1: away from being good. That was the Clippers. If you're

495
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Speaker 1: building a trip club, you hey, hey, NBA doesn't want

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Speaker 1: any Hey, Monday is wing night. They don't want that.

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Speaker 1: And you can't bring that because you brought attention to it. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: NBA is still gonna be mad at you for it up,

499
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Speaker 1: so we go to cancel me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah whatever, I'm breaking a disco ball and wings ony night.

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Speaker 1: You can't know Monday nights. You're out, man, You're out.

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Speaker 1: Uh now we got more NBA on the way. Monty

503
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Speaker 1: beologians left. What's trending coming up in a few minutes,

504
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: But big quarterback news today, A team negotiating against itself

505
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: brought their guy back, the Colts negotiating against themselves. We'll

506
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Speaker 1: have stuff on GINO in a few minutes. Don't worry.

507
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: There's Gino news today, believe it or not. But the

508
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Speaker 1: Colts now, the two big signings they've had, they have

509
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Speaker 1: basically just bid against themselves for Alec Pierce for four

510
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Speaker 1: years and one hundred and fourteen million. Now Daniel Jones

511
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Speaker 1: two years and eighty eight million. Now, I told you

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Speaker 1: how much I can't stand the Alec Pierce For a

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Speaker 1: guy that caught forty five passes last year, who averaged

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Speaker 1: three catches for sixty three yards a game. You can't

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Speaker 1: give that guy thirty million dollars a year.

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Speaker 4: But you'll draft him in fantasy because now he's gonna

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Speaker 4: have eight to ten targets a game.

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Speaker 1: Get it, He's not Forget it. That's not happening, man,

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Speaker 1: I believe again, he's been in the league for four years. Man,

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Speaker 1: four years. The best he has forty seven k It

521
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: used to be the third year breakthrough. Now maybe he's

522
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Speaker 1: a late bloomer. I'm waiting for the fourteenth year breakthrough

523
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Speaker 1: for Johan Dotson. But well, let's happen. But the Daniel

524
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Speaker 1: Jones thing has gotten a lot of criticism today, but honestly,

525
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's not have fake criticism. This is the

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Speaker 1: cost of doing business for a quarterback in the NFL.

527
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Speaker 1: You may not like it, but this is how it goes.

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Speaker 1: When Malik Willis can put one game on tape and

529
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Speaker 1: get twenty two million dollars a year for three years, yeah,

530
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Speaker 1: when Daniel Jones puts nearly a half a season a

531
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Speaker 1: great play on tape, he's gonna get a couple of

532
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Speaker 1: year deal for forty four million. That's the cost of

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Speaker 1: doing business a quarterback in the NFL. We shouldn't go

534
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Speaker 1: crazy for salaries anymore with quarterbacks. This is how it is.

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Speaker 1: When you have a decent quarterback, you keep them because

536
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Speaker 1: life without a quarterback is miserable. As much as Trevor

537
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Speaker 1: Lawrence getting fifty million dollars a year is insane, he

538
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Speaker 1: finally had a good year last year. This is how

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Speaker 1: it goes, right, This is what it goes. This is

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Speaker 1: whatquarterbacks are. The reason why the quarterbacks get paid the

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Speaker 1: money they do. And Daniel Jones, yeah, we told you

542
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the last offseason when he went to

543
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Speaker 1: the Colts. Watch out. This is the offense that fits,

544
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: he has a lot of weapons, he knows how to

545
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Speaker 1: get the ball of the playmakers. He's kind of a

546
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: little bit better to us as far as that goes,

547
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Speaker 1: because he's always been someone that knows this is where

548
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: I go with the football. I give my guys a

549
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Speaker 1: chance to make plays. And when the offense was really good,

550
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: when the number one receiver was Michael Pittman, in number

551
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Speaker 1: two was Josh Downs and number three was Alec Pierce,

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Speaker 1: and you had Ty Warren and you had a really

553
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Speaker 1: good running back. Okay, that's a pretty good offense. Now

554
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Speaker 1: it's different because Alec Pierce is gone, Michael Pittman's gone.

555
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be the same. Right If you're expecting

556
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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones going with this group and say, hey, you're

557
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: gonna spray the ball all over over the field, Yeah,

558
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: not happening. But getting Daniel Jones I get it. Could

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Speaker 1: they have gotten for a little bit less probably? Could

560
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Speaker 1: they have gotten Alec Pierce a less likely, But this

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Speaker 1: is when you want to bring your talent back. I

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Speaker 1: see it for Daniel Jones way more than I see

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Speaker 1: it for Alec Pierce. I get forty four million for

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, for two years. I honestly look at that

565
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: and say, oh, that's fine because if he stinks, you'll

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Speaker 1: get out of it. Ed, you'll have one tough year

567
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: spending money quarterback, but you're starting over anyway. So okay,

568
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: two years and eighty eight This is where we're at

569
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: now in the NFL. Where two years and eighty eight

570
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: million are Yeah, Okay. When Kirk Cousins signed for three

571
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Speaker 1: years and eighty nine million with the Vikings, it was, oh,

572
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 1: it's all guaranteeda you kidding, that's the worst contract ever. Now,

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00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: just like seven years later, it's oh, two years and

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Speaker 1: eighty eight million for Daniel Jones. Oh that's a bargain. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm good with that. I mean, that's where we are.

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Speaker 1: That's how fast things go in the NFL. Quarterback Oh,

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Speaker 1: but I mean just look at it overall.

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Speaker 4: I mean, how many years ago was it that the

579
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 4: NFL wouldn't do the Fantasy Football Conference with Tony Romo

580
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 4: in Vegas because it was too close to the gambling hubs.

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Speaker 3: Tada, here we are.

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Speaker 4: So for Daniel Jones, look, this average salary puts him

583
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Speaker 4: at the back end of the top ten. It's the

584
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Speaker 4: cost of doing business. Last year, sixty five guys through

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Speaker 4: at least one touchdown pass when you include all your

586
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Speaker 4: tight ends and wide receivers, running backs kind of doing

587
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Speaker 4: the little jump passes and whatever else that you need

588
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 4: your guy and you you found him right. Anthony Richardson

589
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 4: was an experiment that did not go well after you

590
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Speaker 4: tried to rehab and push things along with guys at

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Speaker 4: the end of their careers. Now does he come back

592
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Speaker 4: at the same as the same Daniel Jones off that

593
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Speaker 4: big leg injury. I don't know, because one of the

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Speaker 4: big things he could do was scramble, buy you some

595
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 4: extra time and occasionally make a play with his leg

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Speaker 4: down Piel, Hey, he got broke. He got broke, kind

597
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 4: of like the old Derek Carr clip. So we'll see.

598
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 4: But you know, Alec Pierce slides into the number one

599
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 4: slot leaves you a little less confidence. I mean, Pittman

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00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 4: wasn't a true number one in that scheme, but he

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00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: was good. Tyler Warren, you're expecting more from I think

602
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 4: people were a little disappointed again looking at the Fantasy

603
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 4: Owners more than anybody else as to his production. At

604
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor, I'm always afraid that that wall is coming

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00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 4: at some point here and right soon. So you got

606
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 4: to make the most of it. But you're in a

607
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 4: division that you should be able to go compete. And

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 4: if this pushes you on again, it's a short term deal, right.

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Speaker 4: You didn't tie up money to worry. Now you're gonna

610
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 4: have to do it to Hey, I got a ninety

611
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Speaker 4: nine million dollar tap I gotta figure out or the

612
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray money. No, it's two years and if it works, great,

613
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 4: If not, you clap your hands Vegas blackjack dealer style

614
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 4: and you're back at the roulette table. You know, to

615
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 4: stay in the casino and spin in the wheel for

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Speaker 4: whatever's on the board next.

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

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

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