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Speaker 1: Oh here we go, We are loaded today. An embarrassment

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Speaker 1: We will have all of them. You know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of times you'll hear people say, well, you know, the

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Speaker 1: these teams they I mean, they're just they don't know

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Speaker 1: how to draft quarter Twelve of the fourteen playoff quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: our first round quarterbacks, and the best one left is

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That's why, as I peruse the playoff matchups

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Speaker 1: this weekend, one team cannot lose until maybe they get

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Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl. That's Buffalo. Here's the bad news.

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Speaker 1: Last eight road playoff games, Buffalo is h to eight,

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Speaker 1: not all of those on Sean McDermott all the playoff

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Speaker 1: games this weekend. Only one team is not allowed to

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Speaker 1: lose Buffalo or the Domino effect starts. Kevin Stefanski don't

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Speaker 1: take a job yet, and the excuse for Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: been well, there's Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow neither made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's bad enough that you lost your division

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Speaker 1: to Drake May and Mike Vrabel, and it was Rabel's

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Speaker 1: first year taking over a team that is still in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, in a rebuild, you can't then lose the

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Speaker 1: AFC to potentially Liam Cohen taking over the wobbly Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: Jaguars and Sean McDermott can coach. He has a higher

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Speaker 1: winning percentage, believe it or not, than Belichick and Andy Reid.

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Speaker 3: Sean McDermott can coach.

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Speaker 1: But the downside to having a generational quarterback talent like

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Speaker 1: Allen is the new standard is January. That's the new standard.

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Speaker 1: So there's a saying great power comes with great responsibility

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Great quarterbacks create great responsibility. It is

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott's responsibility to be completely buttoned up and win

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Speaker 1: a road playoff game over a team, frankly Jacksonville that

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Speaker 1: is better than you this year. I was looking this

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Speaker 1: morning at the most consecutive seasons of ten plus wins

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Speaker 1: yards in playoff history. Think about that, most yards in

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Speaker 1: playoff history. It is averaging, not total averaging? Is Josh

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Speaker 3: You can't. It doesn't matter. You can't.

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Speaker 1: Twelve of fourteen playoff teams have first round quarterbacks. You

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Speaker 1: have the best one. Here's Sean McDermott on the Weekend ahead.

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Speaker 4: You don't take them for granted.

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Speaker 5: Let's just start there.

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Speaker 6: But at the same time, the experiences I've been here,

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Speaker 5: Like anything else, you learn from experience.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I had mentioned there's a lot of coaching openings.

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Speaker 1: J MAC will have more of those in twelve to

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. I said this yesterday, and I have a

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Speaker 1: So Cleveland fires Kevin Stefanski, in my opinion, mistake. According

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Speaker 1: Not only should Stefanski be the leading candidate if the

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Speaker 1: teams in a row. The Giants with Kevin Stefanski would

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Speaker 1: the interim guy, but you know, I don't like. I

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Speaker 1: don't like when teams fire a coach. The interim guy

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Speaker 1: It's the substitute teacher. Everybody loves the substitute teacher, right,

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Speaker 1: you thought Pete Carroll was going to work in Las Vegas. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Each of those franchises brought in new head coaches and

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Speaker 5: An ideal world.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be from the people I've talked to,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty to forty fifty percent of first round quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: know what Jackson Dart's going to become, but no reasonable

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Speaker 1: He was kind of encouraging Skataboo neighbors Andrew Thomas, Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Not saying it's a great team. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: And this is such a great time of the year

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a solid hire. Or now you

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Speaker 1: lose your offensive coordinator and here's Jayden Daniels all banged up, going,

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Speaker 1: who's my coach?

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Speaker 8: By way, also fire their defensive coordinator. So both coordinators gone.

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Speaker 8: That usually means hey, head coach, delivered this season or

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Speaker 3: I try.

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Speaker 5: Not good for Jayden Daniels.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's what we've always said, hire an offensive coach.

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Speaker 1: Now there are exceptions. Demiko Ryans came highly touted. Jesse

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Speaker 1: of as the Sean McVay of defense. There are great

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Speaker 1: I mean Dan Campbell did a great job this year.

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Speaker 5: They'll probably be a line out the door for this job, right.

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Speaker 8: You want to get in coaching Jayden Daniels because he's

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Speaker 5: I wonder where does Cliff Kingsbury land? You think he

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Speaker 1: New York Tell I'll tell you I have this as

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Speaker 3: I love Cliff. He's not an NFL head coach.

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Speaker 8: No, No, as EOC If we get Dante Moore in

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Speaker 8: New York as a quarterback. That excite Cliff Kings living

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Speaker 1: For the Jets does not excite anybody. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: right now, it's the worst situation.

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Speaker 3: In the league. It's up there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me say what you want about Tennessee. They

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Speaker 1: have cam Ward.

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Speaker 5: Well, the Raiders are in trouble right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, but they get Mendoza. Yes, yeah, I mean everybody

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Speaker 1: Tennessee has cam Ward. Giants have Jackson Dart. Think what

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Speaker 1: you want. Raiders are getting Mendoza. I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: say what you want about the Falcons. But Kirk played

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Speaker 1: well at the end. They still have Penix. They're going

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Speaker 1: to hire an offensive guy, perhaps Stefanski. Jets are at

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Speaker 1: the bottom right now. Thirty two to thirty two.

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Speaker 2: Ten NFL teams according to College number ten.

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Speaker 3: I would put Chicago.

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Speaker 1: They won the NFC North for the first time since

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. When they win the turnover battle, they win,

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Speaker 2: Number nine.

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Speaker 1: The Niner Listen brock Purty in the last month one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seven passer rating. They're not as good as Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Don't punish them too much for losing to Seattle. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have Trent Williams and Ricky Pearsall. If they have

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Speaker 1: Some of that is on Kyle Shanahan, who to me

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Speaker 1: has always been very tied to his script. He's not

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Speaker 1: But if Pearsall and Trent and Kittle are available, that

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Speaker 1: the Bills are good. I don't think they're Super Bowl good.

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Speaker 1: They are twelve to zero when scoring twenty one plus points.

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Speaker 1: There's a way they win. They lead the NFL in

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Speaker 1: I have them at eight. Number seven the Texans. They're

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Speaker 3: I put them at seven.

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Speaker 1: Number six the weird Philadelphia Eagles, who are three and

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Speaker 3: I mean they're ten.

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Speaker 1: You know, when Jalen Hurts is held under two hundred

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Speaker 1: But their roster is so complete, their defense is so good.

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Speaker 1: That's why I have them at six.

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Speaker 2: Number five.

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Speaker 1: Denver's a great home team, so at least I know

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Speaker 1: good at home. They're thirteen and on since week four.

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Speaker 1: Do they have a ceiling with bow knicks? Maybe, but

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Speaker 1: That tells you that Sean Payton trusts him. It's a

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Speaker 1: They're also four and two against playoff teams, so they've

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Speaker 2: Five number four.

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Speaker 3: The Rams aren't.

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Speaker 1: Playing great right now, three and three over their last

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Speaker 1: the fact they're playing a Carolina team they lost to

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Speaker 3: We got to pay.

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Speaker 1: Attention to Jacksonville Okay, They're eight to no since Week eleven,

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Speaker 3: They lose to the right teams.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're just They have had really good draft

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Speaker 3: I have them at three, number two.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put New England at two because I love Vrabel.

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Speaker 1: They've won thirteen or fourteen games, and they are a

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Speaker 1: great road team that matters. Mike Frabele third coach to

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Speaker 1: love their old line. Their run game is inconsistent. That's

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Speaker 3: How do you do that? I like everything.

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Speaker 1: I think they're GM's the best personnel guy in the league.

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Speaker 1: Go look at their last nine picks in the first

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Speaker 3: They have a rare.

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Speaker 1: Combination of a quarterback who's highly productive on a team

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Speaker 1: stacked roster. It's better than Philadelphia's. Now they're old line

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Speaker 1: that's where we are.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to your Hurricanes in just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We'll circle back because they are in college football is

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Speaker 1: better when Miami's got swag, and man do they. So

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Speaker 3: I didn't think they'd be this good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Rabel and Josh McDaniel are part of it, so

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Speaker 1: When you watch them, do you look and say championship roster.

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Speaker 11: If you would have asked me three weeks ago, I

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Speaker 11: I spent last week really trying to give them like

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Speaker 11: But you know, they don't take the ball away at

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Speaker 4: And then on top of all that, I think.

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Speaker 1: I said, there's fourteen teams that make it in everybody

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Speaker 1: Lamar's out. It's a bunch of bone knicks, right May.

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Speaker 1: It's like Jacksonville, It's like, okay, guys, you gotta win

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Speaker 1: They're a slow starting team that is bad against a

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Speaker 1: They play from behind constantly. I can't figure it out.

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Speaker 11: I think I don't think it's by accident. I think

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Speaker 11: they've made that decision of saying, listen, he can still

438
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Speaker 11: be Superman when we need it. We saw it in

439
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Speaker 11: the snow firsthand. Up in Buffalo when they came back

440
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Speaker 11: to beat Cincy. He made some just ridiculous plays that

441
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Speaker 11: he's probably the only guy in the league that can

442
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Speaker 11: make to win you those games. So it's a little

443
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Speaker 11: bit by design. They're going to need their defense to

444
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Speaker 11: play really well. They're going to need their defense to

445
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Speaker 11: go on the road and keep this thing. Because when

446
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Speaker 11: you become a run heavy team and you want to

447
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Speaker 11: take such a high percentage of your snaps and give

448
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Speaker 11: it to the ground game, that's fine, But your ability

449
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Speaker 11: to operate in that mentality is only lasts as long

450
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Speaker 11: as your defense's ability to keep the score down.

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Speaker 4: So playing from behind is fine.

452
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Speaker 11: Playing too far from behind gets them out of that mode,

453
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Speaker 11: and now it turns into hero ball drop back past,

454
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Speaker 11: which I'm not I don't think that's really what they

455
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Speaker 11: want to be over long periods of time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I think most of us believe it's my

457
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Speaker 1: turn down the sound test. When you turn down the

458
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Speaker 1: volume and just watch Seattle, you're like, man, I remember

459
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Speaker 1: the Carolina team with Cam that got to the Super

460
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Speaker 1: Bowl and there was an energy and a speed. It

461
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Speaker 1: was like, Oh, these guys they're playing with confidence. That's

462
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Speaker 1: over as good as they are and that it happens.

463
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Speaker 1: You've been there, and I think it's Seattle great. Well,

464
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Speaker 1: I don't love their own line Donald in the playoffs.

465
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I what would.

466
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Speaker 3: It worry you at all? That Seattle is.

467
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Speaker 1: Really young, Donald doesn't have a lot of playoff experience.

468
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Speaker 1: Or do you just look at them and go, man,

469
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Speaker 1: they've got dudes everywhere.

470
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Speaker 3: They've hit on every draft pick.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Greg, they I don't think they've missed

472
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Speaker 1: on a top draft pick in four or five years.

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Speaker 3: How do you view Seattle? What worries you or what doesn't?

474
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think johsh Schneider is in the in the

475
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Speaker 11: upper echelon top two or three, him the Howie Roseman's

476
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Speaker 11: I mean, you're talking about elite, elite front office talent

477
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Speaker 11: evaluators draft picks, and obviously that's the foundation of why

478
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Speaker 11: they've had so much success, so they deserve a ton

479
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Speaker 11: of credit there as far as and again, I don't

480
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Speaker 11: want to sound dramatic here, but if you could, if

481
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Speaker 11: you could pick, okay, what style would you like? An

482
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Speaker 11: offense and a defense complimentary on one NFL.

483
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Speaker 4: Team, and you can pick, okay, what plays.

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Speaker 11: In today's modern NFL, it would look very early similar

485
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Speaker 11: to both the offense and the defense of Seattle.

486
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Speaker 4: What I mean by that is offensively, the fad this year.

487
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Speaker 11: You look at the Rams, you look at Seattle, the

488
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Speaker 11: top teams, and you say.

489
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Speaker 4: Okay, who are they?

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Speaker 11: They are big bodies, they're two tight ends, multiple backs,

491
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Speaker 11: not all this eleven spread everyone outside the numbers drop

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Speaker 11: back pass crazy. They are a big body, heavy personnel

493
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Speaker 11: passing team, and they're gonna run with high volume. But

494
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Speaker 11: they're always hot and explosive plays. They're trying to throw

495
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Speaker 11: it over your head.

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Speaker 4: That's what they are.

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Speaker 11: Offensively, I would argue that's the best style to play

498
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Speaker 11: in today's NFL. And then conversely, on the other side,

499
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Speaker 11: the reason offenses are doing this is they want you

500
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Speaker 11: to put a bunch of big bodies on the field.

501
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Speaker 11: They want you to play with linebackers, and defensive linemen

502
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Speaker 11: and not as many debacks. So what does Seattle do

503
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Speaker 11: Mike McDonald had. It's built through personnel and just the

504
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Speaker 11: talent which he has. They play virtually nickel and dime

505
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Speaker 11: the entire time. They do not ever have only four

506
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Speaker 11: defensive backs on the field. First down, second down, third

507
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Speaker 11: down doesn't matter because they understand the value of defending

508
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Speaker 11: the pass and we're going to hold up against the

509
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Speaker 11: run with the least amount of people as possible.

510
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Speaker 4: That is the formula of being really good.

511
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Speaker 11: They happen to have mastered it and have the people

512
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Speaker 11: and the ideology to execute it on both sides. And

513
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Speaker 11: that's why I think if you if you put a

514
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Speaker 11: gun to my head and said right now, pick one team,

515
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Speaker 11: put your life on it, I'm probably between La and Seattle.

516
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Speaker 11: And I think Seattle is as well rounded and as

517
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Speaker 11: good top to bottom as any team in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you played in Chicago, you love Chicago. Part

519
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: of me thinks, listen, everything goes in stages, and the

520
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Speaker 1: stage this year was save Caleb Stop, you know, eliminate sacks.

521
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Speaker 1: He doesn't told a lot of picks, but I thought,

522
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Speaker 1: like Ben Johnson's job, we said before the season. I

523
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Speaker 1: don't really care about the record. He can't get sacks

524
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Speaker 1: sixty times. Cut those in half, well, they cut him

525
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Speaker 1: in a third, and he really hasn't told them. So

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Speaker 1: I almost feel like they kind of overachieve, like they're ahead,

527
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Speaker 1: Like I feel this way with New England and in Chicago,

528
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Speaker 1: like you're a kind of a head of where I

529
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Speaker 1: thought you were. I don't know if they feel that way.

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Speaker 1: But if Chicago lost at home to Green Bay, would

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Speaker 1: you say, hey, big jump, can't wait for next year?

532
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Speaker 3: Or do you view them now at home?

533
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Speaker 1: Quarterback is healthy, better, a line, tremendous weapons. Do you

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Speaker 1: view this as a no, this is disappointing if the

535
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Speaker 1: Bears lose at home, I'll be honest.

536
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Speaker 11: I think in this playoffs AFC, NFC, you know, would

537
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Speaker 11: the Rams probably be disappointing? If the Rams lot again,

538
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Speaker 11: it's the game that we're gonna call the Rams.

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Speaker 4: You know, are they better than Carolina?

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Speaker 11: Now?

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Speaker 4: Carolina just beat them.

542
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Speaker 11: A couple weeks ago, But so you probably could say

543
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Speaker 11: across the board, I'm not sure if there's any game

544
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Speaker 11: that's just a glaring mismatch. I think you can make

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Speaker 11: an argument that Green Bay could win. You can make

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Speaker 11: an argument how Chicago wins home road, same with Philly

547
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Speaker 11: and San Franz. I think we could probably go through

548
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Speaker 11: that exercise and make legitimate arguments either way. But as

549
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Speaker 11: far as Chicago, I said during a preseason game all

550
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Speaker 11: the way back in August, when we called their game,

551
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Speaker 11: I thought it was the best job in the league

552
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Speaker 11: that was available. I thought, hey, they get the best coach,

553
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Speaker 11: But I.

554
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 4: Thought there was more wins built into that roster that.

555
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Speaker 11: A competent coach and a guy like Ben Johnson, between scheme, ideology,

556
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Speaker 11: you know, culture, all the things that he was going

557
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 11: to bring, I thought the roster had a lot of

558
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Speaker 11: wins built in. I feel that way a little bit

559
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 11: right now about the New York Giants going forward, Like

560
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 11: there's the talent at the right spots, there's the depth

561
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Speaker 11: they've lost that previously they had lost games they should

562
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Speaker 11: have won, and a little bit of dysfunction. Now you

563
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Speaker 11: look at this year, you could argue that they've maybe overachieved.

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Speaker 4: Right, there was wins in there.

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Speaker 11: There was an inevitable improvement quarterback play, offensive line, both

566
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Speaker 11: addition of personnel and scheme and coaching and all that

567
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Speaker 11: they're talented at the skill positions. The defense still concerns

568
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Speaker 11: me right now, the defense is completely hanging their hat

569
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Speaker 11: on taking the ball away one of the best in

570
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 11: the league. That's great until that well drives up and

571
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Speaker 11: you actually just have to play on a snap by

572
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Speaker 11: snap basis. That concerns me a little bit. But yeah,

573
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Speaker 11: I think improvement was inevitable. Did we think it was

574
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Speaker 11: going to be this many wins home playoff game? Probably not.

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Speaker 11: Now next year, could there be a little bit of

576
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Speaker 11: a regression? Absolutely, Are they going to lead the league

577
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Speaker 11: or be amongst the best in the league and taking

578
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Speaker 11: the ball away? History tells us that that's not repeatable.

579
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Speaker 11: That's not something that's easily sustainable. So there could be

580
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Speaker 11: a regression. But for right now, I think Chicago, like

581
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Speaker 11: every wildcard team this weekend, has every has every same

582
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Speaker 11: the same argument to win a game as anybody else,

583
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Speaker 11: and I think that's what makes this year's playoffs so intriguing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're going to be at the Miami Hurricane

585
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Speaker 1: Ole miss game. I like Miami in that space. I

586
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Speaker 1: always looked at Miami as a protown with a very small,

587
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: intense a hurricane following, but it was a pro town.

588
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: You know Riley in the heat, d Wade, you know

589
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins shula for years.

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Speaker 3: I was surprised. If you'd have.

591
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Speaker 1: Told me where who's going to spend a lot of money,

592
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Speaker 1: I would have guessed Oregon with Phil Knight, Notre Dame,

593
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Speaker 1: Michigan huge endowments. I would not have guessed Miami would

594
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Speaker 1: step up and just, you know, really go out and

595
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Speaker 1: get aggressive.

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Speaker 3: So we know Miami's good.

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Speaker 1: Mario Crysto Baal has been one of the top two

598
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Speaker 1: or three recruiters for a decade in the sport. I'm

599
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Speaker 1: surprised as an outsider you went there at how committed

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Speaker 1: they have been to it and like functional, like this

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Speaker 1: this nil stuff is. I mean, it's a barnyard musical

602
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: like the big collectives. And I am surprised that Miami

603
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Speaker 1: just jumped up and said we're going to be a

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Speaker 1: ballplayer here, We're going to commit. Are you surprised by

605
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Speaker 1: that because you were around the program for years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not surprised because the culture down there in

607
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Speaker 4: Miami and from the.

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Speaker 11: President and the athletic director all the way down through

609
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Speaker 11: the entire culture there at the athletic department and just

610
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Speaker 11: the faculty in general, like winning matters.

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Speaker 4: Being a good football program.

612
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Speaker 11: At Miami is woven into the identity of the school

613
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Speaker 11: to the student body, and you know, it kind of

614
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Speaker 11: flies under the radar.

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Speaker 4: A little bit because we are a small, little private school.

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Speaker 11: If you drove down US one, you know, A one

617
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Speaker 11: A down in Coral Gables, you might drive right by.

618
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Speaker 4: The entrance to the school and not even though it's there.

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Speaker 11: So it's not one of these huge state schools that

620
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Speaker 11: takes over Tuscaloosa or Athens or you know, Gainesville. So

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Speaker 11: it is a little bit of a different culture, a

622
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Speaker 11: little bit of a different vibe down there in South Florida.

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Speaker 11: But I'll tell you I've known Mario crystal Ball since

624
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 11: I was fifteen years old. He recruited me as a

625
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Speaker 11: freshman in high school. I met him at Miami, and

626
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Speaker 11: then he recruited me at Rutgers and then ended up

627
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Speaker 11: coaching me. He was my ted end coach in college,

628
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Speaker 11: so we're very close. I had dinner with him shortly

629
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Speaker 11: after he got the job years back, and he was

630
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Speaker 11: very clear to the school for him to leave Oregon,

631
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 11: where he pretty much had a blank check to execute

632
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 11: the vision that he wanted to in essence do what

633
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Speaker 11: Dan Lanning has continued to do and kept them to

634
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Speaker 11: this level. The Oregon had given Mario that level of commitment.

635
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Speaker 11: So for him to come to Miami, yes, it was

636
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Speaker 11: as all the matter. Yes, it's where he wanted to be.

637
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 11: He was not going to come to Miami without the

638
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 11: full support top to bottom, comprehensively across the board. And

639
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 11: part of that is the nil and the money. And

640
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 11: he got a lot of that guaranteed to him and

641
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 11: on the table, not just as talk. And it was

642
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Speaker 11: a big reason not only why he took the job,

643
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Speaker 11: but certainly one of the big reasons why they've been

644
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Speaker 11: as successful. But make no mistake about it, before you

645
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 11: could pay guys, and it really just became to the

646
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Speaker 11: highest bidder. Us Nick saban Us from his time at

647
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Speaker 11: FIU like there might not be a better recruiter in

648
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Speaker 11: the country than Mario christabal He just happens to now

649
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Speaker 11: be the head coach. But the same guy that was

650
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Speaker 11: recruiting us as a GA back in the early two thousands,

651
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Speaker 11: it's the same guy now recruit and he'll call me

652
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 11: need you know. He's reaching out to everyone and anyone.

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00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 11: He is relentless. He is a tireless worker, and I

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Speaker 11: couldn't be happier for him.

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Speaker 1: For the record, when you played in thefl forever, but

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Speaker 1: I bet when you if that game was tied twenty

657
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Speaker 1: eight to twenty eight, you would be so nervous.

658
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Speaker 3: Do you when you go watch Miami? Are you a wreck?

659
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 3: Are you an emotional wreck?

660
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Speaker 11: I'm an emotional wreck watching any game that I'm not

661
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Speaker 11: a part of that I have vested interest in the outcome.

662
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Speaker 11: It could be a Miami game, it could be my

663
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Speaker 11: daughter's seventh grade basketball game, my son's like I It's

664
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Speaker 11: just the way I'm wired. Like, if I care about

665
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Speaker 11: the outcome and the people that are involved, I'm when

666
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 11: I'm playing, I'm great, Like not a highly emotional player.

667
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 11: Was never the guy running around and acting like that.

668
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 11: Was never me as a player, as a coach, as

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Speaker 11: a dad, as a parent.

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Speaker 4: I carry my.

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Speaker 11: Emotions a lot more on my sleeve. So, yeah, I'm

672
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Speaker 11: going to be thrilled at the game in Arizona. I'm

673
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Speaker 11: going to be there with a couple buddies and catch

674
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Speaker 11: up with some teammates, and yeah, we're going to be

675
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 11: living and dying with every snap Because my hope is

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Speaker 11: that they make the national title in Miami and get

677
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Speaker 11: to go watch them again.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be great.

679
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Speaker 1: I just I love that we have Indiana, Oregon, Ole,

680
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: miss and Miami and.

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Speaker 4: The four teams you said before the year, right, that's

682
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Speaker 4: the call.

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00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: That's right. I've picked them all. Great. See anybody greg

684
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Speaker 3: Olsen appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Cayl.

686
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've said for years there the three teams are good.

687
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: When they went in college football, Texas, Miami and USC

688
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: feel like not quite college. They're college eighty percent, but

689
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five percent pro football because of the city,

690
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: and Miami just feels big.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Hurricanes, It's great. Can't wait. Jamack with the news. No,

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Speaker 3: no turn on the news.

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Speaker 2: This is the herd Line News.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 8: Speaking of welcome back, Welcome back DK Metcalf. He's going

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Speaker 8: to be back for the Steelers on Monday night against

697
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Speaker 8: the Texans. Huge came back after this incident with a fan.

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Speaker 5: You know, I was gonna call him something.

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Speaker 8: But uh in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: Metcalf is back.

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Speaker 8: He would not speak about the incident, but did say

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Speaker 8: he's excited to return. His team missed him obviously in

703
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 8: the red zone. They cannot get anything right with DK

704
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 8: they averaged twenty four.

705
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 5: Points per game, five point three yards.

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Speaker 3: Now with DK friar Mouth Warren and it's a.

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Speaker 5: Good player by the way.

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Speaker 3: Ohyah, I like it.

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Speaker 1: And fourteen Kenneth Gainwell, gain Well. Okay, now Aaron's got

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Speaker 1: a little bit to work with. So it's when you

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Speaker 1: take dkf out, it's like, okay, now I can kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, I cannot think vertically.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing vertically.

714
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Speaker 1: But now you look see I'm telling you three and

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Speaker 1: a half. Pittsburgh at home, DK Friarmouth, Warren Gainwell, Aaron having.

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Speaker 3: His best half.

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Speaker 1: They're past blocking according to PFF is actually top five

718
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: in the league.

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Speaker 3: They're run blocking. I think if they're pass blocking, he's.

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Speaker 5: Better than against this time.

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Speaker 1: I think my second favorite bet of the weekend is

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to cover ye.

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Speaker 8: So you know, I like playing poker and stuff. My

724
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 8: son is starting to get into poker. I'll see your

725
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 8: DK Metcalf and raise you. Derek Stingley, who's one of

726
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 8: the best cornerbacks in the league. He's gonna be All

727
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 8: Pro this year. Just put Stanley on him. Hey, good luck,

728
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 8: throw your jump balls. I got Stingley and on the

729
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 8: other side, if you want to run away from Stingley,

730
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Speaker 8: we got lass.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a really good defense. Colin great.

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Speaker 8: I think you're the one carrying around these Mike Tomlin

733
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 8: stats in your back pocket about postseason failures. He last

734
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 8: won a playoff game. I don't know if TikTok was

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Speaker 8: invented back it wasn't.

736
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Speaker 5: It's been a minute, so well, you know it's not

737
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Speaker 5: tac toe.

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Speaker 3: It's a long time ago.

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Speaker 8: All right, Let's move on to uh what the La

740
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Speaker 8: Las Vegas Raiders, Colin?

741
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 5: What a dumpster fire?

742
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 8: This organization is back to back one and done's Pete

743
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 8: Carroll now bound. How about this Max Crosby situation. He's

744
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,240
Speaker 8: been frustrated. He was put on IR just bye claiming

745
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 8: he's healthy. He countered by going on Instagram.

746
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 5: And posting a video of him playing basketball.

747
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 8: Anyways, Raiders GM John spy Tech had this to say

748
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 8: when asked if Max Crosby is untouchable.

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Speaker 9: I have a lot of respect for my and how

750
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 9: much he loves to play the game, and I've had

751
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 9: the opportunity in the last several weeks to spend a

752
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 9: lot of time with Max and I think it's been

753
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 9: well documented that he didn't love the idea of not

754
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 9: playing football, and I think you always want that from

755
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 9: your best players. In fact, I think that's why they're

756
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 9: your best players. So I love Max. He embodies what

757
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 9: a Raider is. We've I've been pretty upfront with that

758
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 9: from the day that I sat up here almost a

759
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 9: year ago, and I continue to believe that.

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Speaker 8: So Max Crosby is twenty eight uls or twenty nine

761
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 8: in August. He's not as young as Micah Parsons, Micah

762
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Speaker 8: fetch two first and Kenny Clark.

763
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Speaker 5: What kind of hole can you get for cross first

764
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Speaker 5: round pick?

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Speaker 3: For sure?

766
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would not a high first like in the twenties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you were the Dallas Cowboys, Cowboys

768
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Speaker 1: have a couple of picks.

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Speaker 5: I believe interesting you think Cowboys wild make a move.

770
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Speaker 1: Now. I don't think that was just I think there's

771
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Speaker 1: a lot of people would like Max Crosby. I mean,

772
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Speaker 1: I think maybe you can argue for the Raiders it

773
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Speaker 1: is clean house.

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Speaker 5: So what about a team like the Buffalo Bills. They

775
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 5: need a receiver. I like McKay lemon the USC receiver

776
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 5: to them in the first But if you're the Bills.

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00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 8: Do you give up your twenty fourth pick and say

778
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 8: we'll take Crosby next year? We get both on one side,

779
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 8: Crosby on the other, we get at Oliver, We got

780
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Speaker 8: our defensive front.

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00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 5: Maybe we make a push next year. I don't know.

782
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 5: I'm just looking late first round the Niners. Could they

783
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 5: give up their.

784
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Speaker 8: Pick at twenty six, go after Crosby quickly retool next year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

786
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: They're a little long in the tooth. I would like

787
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: the Niners to get younger, you know, off the top

788
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: of my head, think about a team that's close to

789
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: a championship and just lacks a consistent pass run.

790
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Speaker 8: New England Patriots drafting thirtieth twenty fourth in pressure rate.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense.

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00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, I mean, cause their.

793
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Speaker 5: Roster's pretty good. The defense doesn't have a lot a

794
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:00,800
Speaker 5: game change.

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Speaker 3: They don't have that. They create pressure.

796
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Speaker 1: They're not necessarily a high sack team, but they create pressure.

797
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but that's not gonna We'll see what happens against

798
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Speaker 8: Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 8: I like the Chargers here. I think the Patriots need

801
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 8: to pass rest badly. Rabel defensive guy. We'll see, But

802
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 8: either way, we think there's no point in keeping Crosby, right.

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Speaker 5: Either, Well, I think it's time to start over.

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00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: Mendoza off. I would go Kevin Stefanski. I would go Mendoza.

805
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Speaker 1: There's an argument to trade Max and just get you know,

806
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Speaker 1: there's also an argument that keep Max because with Mendoza

807
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: for four years, you're not paying him anything.

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Speaker 5: You get Mendoza genty bowers.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: I mean Crosby leads the NFL and tackles for losses

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Speaker 1: since he.

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Speaker 5: Entered the league really good.

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Speaker 3: So you're gonna get.

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Speaker 1: A first and a second, a first and a third

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Speaker 1: and a fifth. I mean there's a twenty eight year

816
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: old dude. He is still unblockable in single I mean,

817
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Speaker 1: you put one man on him, you lose the battle.

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Speaker 8: Didn't you say the Cowboys won the trade for Micah

819
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 8: because they didn't have to pay him.

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Speaker 3: No, I said, both teams got what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Cowboys will get more young, inexpensive labor, and the

822
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Speaker 1: and the Packers get a closer because they generally lead

823
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: games in the fourth.

824
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Speaker 3: They need their Mariano Rivera.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, final story, Colin, Let's go back to

826
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Speaker 8: the NBA in this Trey Young situation that's emerging. So

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Speaker 8: it came out, according to shams over at the Other

828
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 8: Place saying Trey and his agents that should be important

829
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 8: are looking for a trade partner. So Atlanta elected to

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Speaker 8: not offer Trey an extension. He has ninety five mil

831
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Speaker 8: left on his deal this year and then next year. Yeah,

832
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 8: somebody really smart on our staff said, well, listen, the

833
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 8: bucks are really flailing right now.

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Speaker 5: Yannas ain't staying.

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Speaker 8: You could easily clean up your books by trading Yannis,

836
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Speaker 8: getting Trey Young, who's going to sell some tickets.

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Speaker 5: They have no backhand.

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00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: Here's the opposite of Yannis. He doesn't defend or rebound.

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Speaker 5: He's an offensive guy.

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Speaker 1: Clear No, I think he's a really fun offensive player,

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00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: I really do. I but he is He's not somebody

842
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: that's going to defend, not going to be loved in

843
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: the locker room because it's kind of his show.

844
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Speaker 5: Well, he might be humbled by this, colin. This is tough.

845
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Speaker 5: I mean, hey, we don't want to extend you, and

846
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 5: now we're trading.

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Speaker 3: Matt Trey Young. I like him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a good player, but he's one of

849
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, the insiders in the NBA are

850
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: like not terribly well liked. He doesn't defend, and the

851
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: knock is always is he a winning player? He's an

852
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: exciting player, but is he a winning player?

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Speaker 8: Okay, so I don't know conference championship appearances Trey Young one,

854
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 8: Joel andbid zero.

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00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 5: I don't know what that means.

856
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: But the Hawks have a better net rating when he's

857
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: off the floor.

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00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 5: That is also true.

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00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 8: That's a big one. And defensively they're way better without him.

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00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 8: Currently they're flailing. How's this colin?

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00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 3: For his career?

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00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 8: Trey Young's averaging twenty five and nine. No, those are

863
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 8: crazy good numbers and there's like no market for it.

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00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 5: That's how the NBA has changed, this new hard cap

865
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 5: third eight Brinn So.

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Speaker 1: Also, the Lakers are a great example. Nobody defends anybody,

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00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: you know, Carmelo Anthony never defended anybody. How do you

868
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: do in the playoffs? James Harden didn't defend anybody. I'm sorry, guys,

869
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: but football and basketball, once the referees swallow their whistle

870
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, physicality wins, and guys like Trey Young

871
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: become much less crucial.

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Speaker 8: His big moment will be taking a bow at MSc

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00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 8: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Remember when he hit that game winning shot. That was

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Speaker 5: pretty awesome. That was the height of Trey Young. That

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Speaker 5: was the postseason. They had a great run and it's

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Speaker 5: all been downhill.

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Speaker 3: Jmck with the news, Well.

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Speaker 2: That's the news, and thanks for stopping by the line.

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Speaker 1: It's just the numbers. When Trey Young doesn't play, the

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00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: defense is better. When he does play, they give up

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00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: nine more points. I mean, he's literally like a touchdown

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Speaker 1: in football. When Trey Young is on the floor, they

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00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: give up nine more points. Because in the NBA the

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Speaker 1: coaching is so good, they just attack you. They attack

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Speaker 1: Trey Young. And so you know all those analytics. Now

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Speaker 1: you don't have to watch games all night. Gms don't

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Speaker 1: have to watch games. You can go and look at

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Speaker 1: the analytics of who's good on the floor. I said

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Speaker 1: this about Lebron James, Lebron no longer defends so and

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Speaker 1: Lebron offensively. Jay McK and I went back and forth

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Speaker 1: on this. When Lebron was hurt to start the season.

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves and Luca are on fire and they bring

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Speaker 1: Lebron back and you're like for a game or two,

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Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I'll be a good teammate, but he's

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Speaker 1: just kind of floating around doing his own thing. JJ

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Speaker 1: Reddick's complained, I think more than once, that we have

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Speaker 1: too many possessions that were just sort of ad libbing. Well,

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Speaker 1: why do you think that is. That wasn't a problem

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Speaker 1: when Luca and Austin Reeves were running the show.

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Speaker 3: It's the hurt