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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: right in. It's a big NBA and now we got

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Speaker 1: tons of NFL to get to. Oh yeah, but the

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Speaker 1: Knicks have broken their four game losing streak beating the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. The Knicks championship medal proving again

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Speaker 1: I don't know why we're still playing basketball. I watched

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Speaker 1: Knicks win the championship at the end of last year.

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Speaker 1: They're just waiting for next November for the ceremony when

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Speaker 1: that's when they hang the banner. I don't know it.

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Speaker 1: But we're still playing, so that's fine. You're an exhibition,

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Speaker 1: that's okay.

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Speaker 3: I mean the Knicks are so talented, they're like the

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Speaker 3: modern day Globetrotters. Oh sure, yeah, bigger stage. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the globe Trotters are still out there, don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 3: They're still getting after it, but it's not quite the

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Speaker 3: same as we knew with Gee Sawsby and Curly Neil

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Speaker 3: in company.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Lakers and the Spurs marquee game of the night

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Speaker 1: right now, early in the first quarter. Spurs lead at

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Speaker 1: sixteen eleven. Right now, the Lakers playing without Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: who is basically out because we'll get to the big

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Speaker 1: trade in a second. Don't worry, but h out because

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Speaker 1: basically he's old. Look I'm more or less said it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he said, listen back to back to me. You

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Speaker 1: know we don't that that doesn't go together. Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't do that kinda left it out way.

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Speaker 3: We'll see grab your popcorn and then uh d MP

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Speaker 3: so away he goes. We got Wemby on a miniature restriction.

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Speaker 3: He's already blocking Luca in the lane. Uh, they've got

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Speaker 3: the Emirates logo on the court though. Yeah, is a

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Speaker 3: Cup game or not?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: Is it Cup part two?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I think I think. You know, they were very upset

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Speaker 1: that they lost the first Cup to the Knicks, so

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Speaker 1: now they're trying to win a second Cup. This is

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Speaker 1: Cup two.

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Speaker 3: They just said we want to rematch, like they lost

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Speaker 3: a title belt in horrible fashion, demanded a rematch immediately.

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Speaker 1: Not to google this, but this is two cups, airful,

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Speaker 1: I did, what, don't go two cups? David Robinson at

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Speaker 1: the game tonight, the Admiral, they just showed he still

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Speaker 1: looks like really, you know, they said that, boy, you know,

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Speaker 1: he does still look like he could play. He still

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Speaker 1: looks like he can play.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I heard an interesting stat listening to

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Speaker 3: a little bit of pregame fun. Wemby is one of

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Speaker 1: The show, Oh, they're going to say in the world

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Speaker 1: there's forty people over seth of that.

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Speaker 3: No, No, but I mean that's interesting, right, And that

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Speaker 3: because you don't think about it because it's always, Hey,

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Speaker 1: He's like, no, there's thirty nine others now, you know.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is what looking at Lebron on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: there's just certain times where I see, you know, you

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Speaker 1: about it. And I just looked at Lebron sitting in

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Speaker 1: and I just said, man, he is miserable. This is

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Speaker 1: it's Luca driven, you know, it's his life last year there,

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Speaker 1: is how Lebron's going out. I got to talk about

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Speaker 1: not how it should end. And the thing is, I'm

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Speaker 1: stirred the drink for two bleeping decades in the NBA. Right,

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Speaker 1: whatever we want to say about all these other great players, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love his talent, I hate how he acts. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: This is not how he should go out, And I

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Speaker 1: right way to get past this. And again, the forty

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Speaker 1: probably his one escape from it, which is you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: we always try to find that as well. No matter

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Speaker 1: you can forget about things that are bothering you for

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Speaker 1: a while. And I gotta think that he's just looking forward,

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Speaker 1: saying in the playoffs, I'm gonna take over and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be my time again, and that's all I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go out. But I see the way this is not

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Speaker 1: how Lebron James should go out here as a as

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Speaker 1: a side show with Luca. It's just I get what

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Speaker 1: the Laker. I'm not saying Lakers aren't doing anything anything wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's just I didn't see this happening for how Lebron

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Speaker 3: Now here's how it comes down. Remember the nineteen eighty

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Speaker 3: nine classic Batman after sitting in a chair with a

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Speaker 3: plastic surgeon that doesn't really know what he's doing. Mirror, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Lebron needs to look in the minor. Okay, he opted

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Speaker 3: in for his fifty two point three. This is what

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Speaker 3: you get and he said everything right yesterday, Right, we're

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Speaker 3: it's Lucas squad.

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Speaker 1: We all gotta fit in.

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Speaker 3: And you can tell that it was like someone stabbing

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Speaker 3: him in the gut rematedly as that's going on, or

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Speaker 3: giving him a little little nudges like hey, you recognize,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: But he looked pained.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's one of those Yeah, we all have to

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Speaker 3: fit in around him. It's Lucas Scott. Can you guys

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Speaker 3: turn the camera off. I really don't want to talk

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Speaker 3: about this anymore. That's where we're at with Lebron James

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Speaker 3: and this. He chose to come back to a situation

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Speaker 3: where he knew he wasn't gonna be the number one guy,

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Speaker 3: and it's made it uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: And there's spots.

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Speaker 3: Even last night's game look fantastic, right, lobs, big breakout dunks,

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Speaker 3: all of those great things, but minute to minute it's

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Speaker 3: parsed out, defensive inadequacies and all of those things. Look

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Speaker 3: at the Lakers have a great record, right, They're off

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Speaker 3: to a great start, But it's the noise that is

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Speaker 3: around it. It is the all right, when they do

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Speaker 3: lose against better teams, it gets magnified of all right

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Speaker 3: here where their deficiencies really are. They can beat up

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Speaker 3: on bums. There's a bunch of teams that are middling. Okay,

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Speaker 3: they can win those games, but then it's the step

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Speaker 3: up in class. Can you give a defensive effort consistently

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Speaker 3: and they close out games pretty well? Right, We've seen that.

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Speaker 3: There's a bunch of metrics to prove that out.

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Speaker 1: But over the long haul. He chose this fate.

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Speaker 3: He could have gone somewhere else and tried to be

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Speaker 3: the missing piece, the hero, the whatever. He decided to

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Speaker 3: you get what you get coming out of that. I

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Speaker 3: don't feel the least bit bad for him.

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Speaker 1: No, you always get to pick most of your career.

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Speaker 1: You don't always get to pick the end, right, And

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Speaker 1: if you get to pick the end, that's very It's

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Speaker 1: a really big thing. Sure, And look for him, I

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Speaker 1: don't feel bad. I think about for the fans and

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Speaker 1: the general and the general content and the sheer moving

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Speaker 1: the needle that he's done for twenty years. This is

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Speaker 1: not how this kind of icon should go out right

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Speaker 1: like it should be. Not that it always needs to

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Speaker 1: be him, you know, hitting the shot over you know,

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Speaker 1: over Brian Russell and walking off the court before he

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Speaker 1: came back again, but it should be something better than hey,

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Speaker 1: on where he needs more rest and he sits, is

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Speaker 1: it likely he's going to try to say, hey, one

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Speaker 1: more year, some play, am I gonna try that, Like,

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Speaker 1: if this is how he goes out, it really feels wrong.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady didn't go out starting half the games for

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Speaker 1: with the Jets. He made hey, okay, man, no no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I want one more year. This is not happening my way.

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Speaker 1: So I get that, you know, as some athletes can

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Speaker 1: overall picture of how icons finish, it's usually one of

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Speaker 1: two ways. I finish on my feet as a star,

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Speaker 1: and maybe my team doesn't win a championship, but I

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Speaker 1: finish I I am the guy, or I finish trying

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Speaker 1: to keep it going when I should have stopped. And

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Speaker 1: the Giants or EMMITTT. Smith with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you want to say, Hey, Russell Wilson got hurt,

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Speaker 3: but he told you he ripped his hamstring.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't performance base, but.

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Speaker 1: Just to see a guy going out on a team

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Speaker 1: that he stirred the drink on for so long, like

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Speaker 1: he was the guy, and now suddenly I'm not the guy,

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Speaker 1: and this is how I wind up getting pushed out,

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Speaker 1: potentially into retirement. If this is it from me? As

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Speaker 1: each day goes on, it seems like this is. He

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Speaker 1: keeps talking about how old he is and everything else.

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Speaker 1: You would think if you were Lebron, you would talk

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Speaker 1: now about ice feel great. I can do X, Y

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Speaker 1: and Z if I really wanted to play again. I

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Speaker 1: got to show teams that I can do it. I

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Speaker 1: got to show Cleveland that, hey, you're having a bad

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Speaker 1: year this year, you had a great year last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm the missing piece. One more year where everybody can

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Speaker 1: throw flowers at my feet and I show up here

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Speaker 1: one more ring for the king. Whatever you want to do,

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Speaker 1: he's not doing it. To do it on a team

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Speaker 1: where you were the guy and now suddenly here comes

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Speaker 1: somebody in and you're not the guy anymore. It's awkward, man,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're saying this is this is how it

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Speaker 1: could be ending my career.

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Speaker 3: But I go back to when the trade happens last

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Speaker 3: year and what he knew, what he didn't know, all

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Speaker 1: maybe Lebron can get that half season of this is

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Speaker 3: Do you have a contract to move him to Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: but a crazy ass NBA trade that I still think

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Speaker 1: No stuff like the editor that says, uh uh man

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Speaker 1: But you know most of us when you saw the

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Speaker 3: Inevitable, no more tormenting the Knicks as a member of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm gonna you know, how much do you

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Speaker 1: we saw today the headline Trey Young's preferred destination was

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Speaker 1: Wizards have not been over five hundred since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I get that, right, you had that, and things are

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00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 1: all right as far as that goes. But man, you

435
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,639
Speaker 1: are sitting here at a team that is, you know,

436
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 1: routinely the last four years is thirty games under five hundred,

437
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 1: and this is where you want to go, Like this

438
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,439
Speaker 1: is a team that's never gonna get it right, unless

439
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 1: they get lucky and get a number one pick in

440
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: the draft can keep them there for years. This is

441
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,680
Speaker 1: your preferred destination. Do you really? Do you really care

442
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 1: about winning? Do you really want to And that's a

443
00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: big thing coming off of this. It's not that, oh,

444
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: Trey Young will go here, probably get a contract extension,

445
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,199
Speaker 1: say get stay and get paid. He could go a

446
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,880
Speaker 1: lot of places, right, but you're gonna go to Washington.

447
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,439
Speaker 1: And this is the first thing that tells me, Okay,

448
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to win. He doesn't care about winning,

449
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 1: because you're not saying I want to go there. I

450
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 1: want to go there and turn it around because I

451
00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,720
Speaker 1: have this really big, deep connection to one. I mean,

452
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,479
Speaker 1: I look at it, and that's the first I goes, Well,

453
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 1: he doesn't care about winning. He doesn't care. I mean,

454
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,879
Speaker 1: I really I thought this was an onion story. He really,

455
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,959
Speaker 1: this is your preferred destiny. Preferred destinations are Miami and

456
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and Chicago. And it's not it's not a

457
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,919
Speaker 1: team that, Hey, we routinely finish at the bottom of

458
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: the pack in the Eastern Conference. Is he a big

459
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,439
Speaker 1: political guy? I don't know. Senator Trey Young had this

460
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 1: to say, following his four for twenty five performance floor.

461
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 3: But legitimately preferred destination ten and twenty six. You're on

462
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 3: a team that's three games under. You got a couple

463
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 3: of nice young pieces in that in that space. The

464
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,120
Speaker 3: other is, I mean what he gets dealt for role

465
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,920
Speaker 3: player at a thirty four year old CJ.

466
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: McCollum. Yeah, I mean, like, what are we doing here? Yeah?

467
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 3: But wanting to go be a wizard and he wants

468
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 3: to wear the jersey that.

469
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan wants.

470
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to find any answer. Does he vacation

471
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,719
Speaker 3: off off season with a bunch of guys that are

472
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 3: already wizards?

473
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 1: I don't know. He wants to wear that wizard's jersey.

474
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: So in the off season then he can go on

475
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: that Netflix card show and say that member Billy show

476
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 1: will say, hey, I got this jersey. You know, Jordan

477
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: wore it, he signed it for me. I wore What

478
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: can I get for it?

479
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 3: I mean we were just joking out the fact that

480
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,199
Speaker 3: there was big news in the hobby today that the

481
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 3: Upper Deck Company signed a deal to make Harry Potter cards.

482
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 3: So technically there's some wizards involved. But wouldn't you come

483
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 3: down to southern California if you want to do that.

484
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: All right, Well, first of all, are the cards going

485
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 1: to be like the moving cards? I want to stay

486
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: working to one of those inserts that I can't expect

487
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: the headmaster to hang around all the time in that picture.

488
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 1: I don't know that'll disappear the same way. But we'll

489
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 1: see what they can do. But like, I mean that

490
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,479
Speaker 1: that's your preferred because you think of Trey Young and

491
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: I think of the guy when he came out of college, right,

492
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, is he small? Yeah? What's his ceiling

493
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 1: if he becomes a great sixth man off the bench,

494
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: instant offense, because that was his game, you know, uh

495
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: in college. If he's that that kind of player, hey,

496
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a great draft pick, right, and still

497
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: take him early because if he's that instant offense guy

498
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: coming in second unit, that's awesome. He's even been even

499
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: better than that. Now he's a volume guy. He needs

500
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: the ball, he needs a lot of shots. But at

501
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: this point is crift of being around seven eight years Yeah,

502
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: there's lots of teams You would think in theory would say, hey,

503
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: we don't have to give up a lot for him.

504
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: I would love to have him come in and come

505
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: off the bench at this point. Orbit but clearly you

506
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: see the value out there. Like, whatever you think about

507
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: your players on your team, the league always tells you

508
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: what the true value of them is. Right, Like I

509
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: thought about this, like when when when the Mets traded

510
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil over the winner break and Mets fans are

511
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: going crazy because we're like, oh, we lost Alonzo, he

512
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: lost Dad, we lost Jeff McNeil was a bad It's

513
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: batting champion four and a half year as a guy.

514
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 6: Yeah.

515
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: Right, But here's the thing is like, Okay, yeah, understand

516
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: that the value of Jeff McNeil was a seventeen year

517
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: old pitcher from the A's. That what's the value the

518
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: Mets would have gotten more from if they could. But

519
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: the league is telling you this is how we value

520
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil. So you would think that Trey Young would

521
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: be a guy that hey, there'd be lots of it.

522
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: We'd love to get instant offense. We'd love to get

523
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: a guy that can put up seventeen eighteen off the bench,

524
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: whatever it's going to be, because really to fit him

525
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: into your system, that's kind of where he would have

526
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: to be where we come off the bench and do

527
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: his own thing. Then you can try to see as

528
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: time goes on, if it's easyough to slip into the

529
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 1: starting lineup competit, you know, a team competing for a championship.

530
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: But like you would think that he would be out

531
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: there and I don't care if his preferred destination was

532
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: that there's a team like the Warriors or the Spurs

533
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,239
Speaker 1: or the Thunder or whoever else is like, hey, no, no, no,

534
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: we need that guy. We'll give you a little bit

535
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: more than CJ. McCollum and a role player, right, Like,

536
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean that you would think that could have happened

537
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: and a forget about that, let's go here. But that

538
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: didn't happen, and you found out the Wizards of his

539
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: preferred destination. Of course, the Hawks saying, oh, fin, I

540
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about tradeing any place where you're

541
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: gonna come back and burn us. So yeah, go ahead,

542
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: we'll trade you lower in the standings. So that, again,

543
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: that really really surprised. I'm still in shock with the

544
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: fact that this is where he goes and this is

545
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: this is the team he wanted to get traded. I

546
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: don't know what's a bigger shock that he actually got

547
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: traded to the Wizards or that he actually wanted to

548
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: go to the Wizards.

549
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's missed a ton of time. He's only played

550
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 3: ten games on the year the last four years, hasn't

551
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 3: shot better than forty three percent to your point on

552
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 3: the volume, to where in the vernacular he would be

553
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 3: called a chucker at this point that you get to

554
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 3: a decent scoring average only by volume, kind of like

555
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 3: you're making change in that old SNL skit. We can

556
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 3: give you five five ten dollars bills and twenty a

557
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 3: bunch of Nichols, you know that kind of thing.

558
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: Uh, it is just bizarre.

559
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 3: And he's not the guy been a couple of years ago, right,

560
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 3: average twenty eight a game. It's a long way since then.

561
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 3: You know, you're talking about Jeff McNeil and players like that.

562
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 3: Trey Young's not that guy anymore. He's missed five games

563
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,479
Speaker 3: because of a thigh contusion.

564
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: Right, which is why, Hey, you come in operation off

565
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: the guy and be that guy. Right, I mean he

566
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: wants to get paid again eventually, right, you want to

567
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: get paid again, Like that's that's where I saw his

568
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: his president. Nowgy where I saw him back and he

569
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of college. But now this is

570
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: kind of where you are, and there's lots of teams

571
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: say we we could use a guy because all you're

572
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: doing when you're coming off the bench playing shooting guard, Okay,

573
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: you get to shoot. Go out there, you know you're

574
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: playing However many minutes a night, instant offense. You're up

575
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: against a team, second unit. Go do your thing man.

576
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: You're a bleeping four time All Star. You're still in

577
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: your twenties. Go do your thing man, Go do your

578
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: thing man. Let him say it, let him cook a

579
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: little bit, like that's what that's what I should see for.

580
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that was such a

581
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: big star when he came in. He was a star

582
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: for a long time. We thought he was going to

583
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: be the next great player to raise the the Atlanta

584
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: Hawks up right, because its been a long time since

585
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers and Dominique Wilkins were playing there, right, John

586
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: concact been a long time at that year. Uh, But

587
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: and it never happened, which was kind of a shock.

588
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: Like so many things with his career have been shocking

589
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: along the way. And and this is really the biggest

590
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, it's got a big deal.

591
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 3: It also shows you, as you said, the marketplace expiring contract,

592
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: you're not gonna give up any discernible assets for a

593
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 3: guy who's been on a four year decline, missed a

594
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 3: ton of time due to injury, uh, and is looking

595
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 3: for that next big deal. So yeah, unless you are

596
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 3: replete with draft picks to just say okay, here's a

597
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 3: bunch of stuff and one veteran like a CJ. McCollum

598
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 3: in the big salary to make it work, you're gonna

599
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 3: be limited in those options and you move forward. But yeah,

600
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: just a head scratcher as you go through one of those.

601
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: All right, here's the dump. You're happy and you get

602
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 3: out of here, your preferred destination Washington. Why because you

603
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 3: go take over like there's nobody gonna impose you.

604
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's gonna be easy for me to be

605
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: the star here. I like being the guy that takes

606
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: all the shots and no one questioning me, and you know,

607
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: feeling like you're lucky to have me, and and well

608
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: that's why I want to go be that. That's why

609
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: I want to go do that, be there, go live

610
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: in Uh, anonymity. There you go. I want to I

611
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: want I don't want pressure winning. I don't like that.

612
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't like any of that stuff. I want to

613
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: just go where I could just play basketball car in

614
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: New York City anymore and jump around? But how much

615
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: do you want to? And I'm just I'm just thinking,

616
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: how much do you think he pursued to an extent? Hey,

617
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: the Knicks don't want me the next I really like

618
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: playing there. I really That's like the only time anybody

619
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: pays attention to anymore is when I play in Madison Square.

620
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: Clearly playing an MSG revs Him up would be okay.

621
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: And Trey again coming off the bench, I'd be okay

622
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: with bringing in Trey Young for that. He loved anybody

623
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: that at MSG.

624
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: Go ahead, man, Yeah, but with your that forty six

625
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 3: million whatever is left of it tag at this point,

626
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 3: you'd have to give up several key role players and

627
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 3: bench players. Yeah, but it's okay, okay, see the sarcasm dripping.

628
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: Ye have to give that up? WHOA, I'm not giving

629
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: up a championship. No, no, no, no, Portray Young, No,

630
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: not giving up a championship for that. No, we already won.

631
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: We want to say again, I don't know why we're

632
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: still playing basketball, but we so. I have to humor

633
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: everybody that's watching because we already won the champions Someone

634
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: yelled run it back, and here we are. It's all right,

635
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dove just that

636
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: everything seems weird with this Trey Young situation. Time now

637
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: to find out what's trending in the wide world of

638
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: sports with a guy who one time in college took

639
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: more shots in a game than Tray Young. Really, it's

640
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: Martin Weiss.

641
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 6: The game was at Skeeps the bar On South University

642
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 6: in Antarvy.

643
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: That was the game. It was Papa shot. Sure, he

644
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: took sixty shots in a minute. You took seventy five.

645
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 6: You talk about the Trey Younge situation. It feels weird.

646
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 6: Looking at the NBA slate right now, this feels weird.

647
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 6: It's overtime, one minute and five seconds left in the game,

648
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Speaker 6: and the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Utah Jazz and

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Speaker 6: a dogfight one co two to one nineteen shake Gilbims.

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Speaker 1: The hell has happened to Oklahoma City?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 5: What has happened to them? I go on vacation suddenly

653
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 5: they can't win. They what happened to you went on vacation?

654
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Speaker 5: They seem like they went on vacation, looking like you

655
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 5: know a team. The Jazz have four road winds.

656
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Speaker 1: Ever this season, since they went to the finals in

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Speaker 1: ninety six and lost to the Bulls, they have four

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Speaker 1: red wins.

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Speaker 6: Lloyd Market has just put in another bucket, ched Holmgren

660
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Speaker 6: with the fouls, So now it's one, twenty one to one,

661
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Speaker 6: twenty two to one, twenty one with forty five seconds

662
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Speaker 6: left in overtime. Four minutes left in this first half

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Speaker 6: for the Spurs and lakersan Antonio with a forty three

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Speaker 6: to thirty nine lead. Luka doncis just three assists away

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Speaker 6: from my first half double double twenty points, seven assists

666
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Speaker 6: so far. Eleven minutes left in the second quarter the

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Speaker 6: Bucks and the Warriors, Milwaukee leads thirty three to thirty one.

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Speaker 6: Steph had ten first quarter points and with one minute

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Speaker 6: twenty seconds left in the first quarter of the Rockets

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Speaker 6: and Blazers, Portland leads twenty one to twenty sorry twenty

671
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Speaker 6: two to twenty one. Danny Avjo with ten points, Kevin

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Speaker 6: Durant also with ten. Other notable games. The Pistons beat

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Speaker 6: the Bucks. I'm sorry Bulls. Pistons beat the Bulls won

674
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Speaker 6: eight to ninety three. Vucevic with a twenty points sixteen

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Speaker 6: rebound night. Isaiah Stewart career I had thirty one. The

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Speaker 6: seventy six beat the Wizards one thirty one to one ten.

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Speaker 6: Joel Embiid with twenty eight point seven rebounds. Don't worry,

678
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Speaker 6: Washington helps on the way. Trey Young again traded to

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Speaker 6: Washington for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert.

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Speaker 2: Atlanta was in action today.

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Speaker 6: Trey Young said goodbye to all his teammates as the

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Speaker 6: Hawks beat the Pelicans won seventeen to one hundred. Rechoche

683
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Speaker 6: with twenty five points in a rebounds. Nuggets beat the

684
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Speaker 6: Celtics one fourteen to one ten. Jamal Murray twenty two

685
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Speaker 6: points seventeen assists. The Buccaneers head coach Tod Bowles said

686
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Speaker 6: he met with ownership Wednesday afternoon. Expects to coach the

687
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Speaker 6: team in twenty twenty six. Trent Williams Ricky Pearsall were

688
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Speaker 6: among those who missed practiced for the forty nine ers

689
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Speaker 6: on Wednesday. Shanahan not sure if Williams will practice Thursday.

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Speaker 6: Lane Johnson did practice for the Eagles that game forty

691
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Speaker 6: nine er Eagles obviously coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Bears defensive back c J.

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Speaker 6: Gardner Johnson did not clear concussion protocol miss the second

694
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Speaker 6: straight practice. Ravens their open head coaching position, requesting interviews

695
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Speaker 6: with the Dolphins defensive coordinat Anthony Weaver, see Hawks offensive

696
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Speaker 6: coordinator Clinton kobiak Ala member quarterback Tye Simpson and defensive

697
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Speaker 6: back for Ohio State Caleb Downs both announced they're leaving

698
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Speaker 6: college early to declare for the NFL Draft. And uh,

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Speaker 6: where are we? Oh, the Chiefs fire the wide receiver

700
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Speaker 6: coach Connor Embry so that I'm sure we'll fix all

701
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Speaker 6: the offensive issues.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's still probably all eric the enemy's faults. It's

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Speaker 1: all one. Thanks so much, Martin. You know, the video

704
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Speaker 1: is hilarious of of uh that's going around on social

705
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Speaker 1: media now of when Trey Young found out he was

706
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Speaker 1: traded during the game immediately because he wasn't playing tonight.

707
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Speaker 1: Just turned and walked off, just walked off, just walk by. No, goodbye,

708
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Speaker 1: hey man, it was great city. I'm gonna go gonna

709
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Speaker 1: go bye bye. Well, it's not about me. Anymore. Walking away,

710
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Speaker 1: I'm walking run. He just turned. It's a it's almost

711
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: like seeing him. It's almost like someone like when you're

712
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: in line at school and you're on a field trip

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Speaker 1: and the teacher calls him and say, Trey, come back.

714
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Speaker 1: Oh sorry, just turn around, walk back.

715
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Speaker 2: It's it.

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Speaker 1: He's out. He got his prefer destination. He's a Washington wizard.

717
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: He's a wizard. I mean, this video is just amazing.

718
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Speaker 1: Well but I.

719
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Speaker 3: Mean, you're so choked up over it over a guy

720
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Speaker 3: who's a four time All Star and was one of

721
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Speaker 3: the great shooters for a minute.

722
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Speaker 1: Gave you some heartburn as a Knicks fan.

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Speaker 3: He'll have to do that as a member of Yeah

724
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Speaker 3: whatever though, whiz now a few movies to him, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: At least Atlanta had hope, dude. Now they have Resuchae

726
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Speaker 1: exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Coming up

727
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Speaker 1: next after big NFL news today, it is very easy

728
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Speaker 1: to tell you which college football team this year was

729
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Speaker 1: easily the most disappointing. That's next right here, Jason and

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Speaker 1: Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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

732
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

733
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Jason Smith's Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: We got a big football debate coming up in about

736
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Speaker 1: ten minutes. But look, the last couple of days has

737
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: been owned in the news cycle of coaches getting fired,

738
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Speaker 1: who could be getting hired, players hitting the transfer portal,

739
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Speaker 1: players declaring for the NFL Draft, and a big double

740
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Speaker 1: barrel of news. Today tells you exactly who the most

741
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Speaker 1: disappointing team in college football is this year. And it's

742
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: not even close. Jets. It was college football. The Jets

743
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: would disappoint in college football. They would I'd say three

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Speaker 1: and fourteen, maybe in a Power five schedule, Yeah, five

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Speaker 1: and six, Yeah, I played it. Maybe Bowl eligible they

746
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Speaker 1: played maybe maybe the go I played it on the computer.

747
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Speaker 3: They were the last in when a couple of teams

748
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: didn't want to play at a ball, So they got

749
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Speaker 3: hit at five and six.

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Speaker 1: If they're playing in a lesser if they're not playing

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Speaker 1: one of the Power four conferences, maybe eight and four.

752
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: Yeah it could be and a dark horse candidate for

753
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: that conference championship game. Yeah, what's out? Do you think that? Yeah?

754
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Speaker 3: They might have been able to fight. Uh you know

755
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Speaker 3: your guy?

756
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Speaker 1: Oh they look they would have beatn Montana State in

757
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: the FCS Championship. Jets would have won that game like

758
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Speaker 1: twenty three to fourteen. Day'd have won by almost double

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00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yah yeah, oh, a lot

760
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Speaker 1: of they would have Well, Breezce Hall would have had

761
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Speaker 1: a big day. He would have had a big day

762
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Speaker 1: running the football. That would have happened. Uh now, double

763
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Speaker 1: barrel news. They were seeing big stars declared for the

764
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and today Caleb Downs and Carnel Tate from

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Speaker 1: Ohio State declared for the NFL Draft. Yeah. Caleb Downs,

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Speaker 1: who look for me, honestly, he's my first non quarterback

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Speaker 1: that I take in the draft. He is just I

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Speaker 1: watched this guy play for a long time. Getting him

769
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Speaker 1: is like getting Rod Woodson. I mean that's how That's

770
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Speaker 1: how I for Jacks, right. He does it all. There's

771
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: no flags for him. Ball skills, tackling skills, intelligence, He

772
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Speaker 1: is as perfect as you can get for a play.

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Speaker 1: There's other great players up there, but Caleb Downs, like me,

774
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Speaker 1: you are gonna be getting an all time great safety

775
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: who can just plug right in and suddenly he's the

776
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Speaker 1: captain he's making all the big player. You are getting

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Speaker 1: a great, great, great player. Again outside you need a quarterback.

778
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Speaker 1: I get it because that happened. But first guy I

779
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Speaker 1: would take outside of quarterbacks is Caleb Downs. Look at

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Speaker 1: you now you also look at Okay. So now going

781
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Speaker 1: to the NFL Draft this year from Ohio State, Downs, Tate,

782
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Speaker 1: Marvel Reese, Sunny Styles. These guys are all projected to

783
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Speaker 1: go in the top fifteen. Three of them will probably

784
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Speaker 1: go into Styles, will probably go a little bit outside

785
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Speaker 1: the top ten. But there's gonna be some There's gonna

786
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Speaker 1: be some some needy teams in his position.

787
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Speaker 3: Oh that's the beauty of it is that this is

788
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Speaker 3: a very defensive Hey, we need to shore things up defensively.

789
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Speaker 3: And you look in the middle of the first round,

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00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of teams that were the the also

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Speaker 3: rans in terms of points allowed. And if he was

792
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Speaker 3: jumping in the draft, but he's not, Jeremiah Smith, that

793
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 3: would be five guys in the top fifteen. You have

794
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: four players that are being taken the top fifteen of

795
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Speaker 3: the NFL Draft, and you lose your first playoff game,

796
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Speaker 3: you lose the last two games of the year coming

797
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: off a National Championship. You have this kind of talent

798
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 3: and you with a buye and you couldn't win one game,

799
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Speaker 3: you go home in the College football Playoff. There is

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Speaker 3: no team more disappointing this season than Ohio State. No

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Speaker 3: team more disappointment.

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Speaker 1: There's teams that I'm not saying they are the worst

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00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: though obviously, look they were great during the regular season,

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Speaker 1: but this should have been we are waltzing to back

805
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: to back championships with this kind of talent, right. I

806
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: told you how Michigan blew it a year ago. All

807
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: the first round talent they had coming out of the draft,

808
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: they blew it because they didn't have a quarterback. They

809
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: couldn't get in the portal and get somebody, and they

810
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: ruined last year coming off the National Championship where potentially

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Speaker 1: could have gotten back to the playoff. That was a

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00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: big fail. This is worse because you had everything if

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00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: you're Ohio State and still this is what I again,

814
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Speaker 1: When you see this many guys being taken this high

815
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Speaker 1: in the draft, man, you go back and go, wow,

816
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: how the blank did we lose? Man? No more disappointing

817
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Speaker 1: team than Ohio.

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Speaker 3: I just remember all year long, it was a lot

819
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Speaker 3: of questions of you know, what is this squad when

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00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: they're actually tested and you go through their schedule, not

821
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Speaker 3: a lot of big heavyweights because even by time they

822
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 3: played Penn State towards the back end, well that's the

823
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 3: end of the James Franklin run. You got Purdue Ucla,

824
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 3: all these also rans the win over Michigan, so it

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00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 3: became the All right, they're top of the chart next

826
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Speaker 3: to Indiana. But how strong are they? How good are they?

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Speaker 3: And I use the word strong very particularly because they

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Speaker 3: got bullied by Miami. Right you're talking about one hundred

829
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 3: yard differential between the rushing yardage and just they got

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Speaker 3: beat up at the line of scrimmage on both sides.

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Speaker 3: And that was they were soft, Like you have all

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Speaker 3: this peripheral talent and as you're talking about, you know,

833
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 3: quarterback safeties, there's only so much they can do, right,

834
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Speaker 3: It's all about your interior lines. Those guys were great.

835
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Speaker 3: They didn't get to make plays because they didn't have

836
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Speaker 3: to because Miami just played Bully Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It is it's a it's any given Saturday, anything happened.

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00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 3: I find you got the bye week, which is really

839
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: starting to come under scrutiny for a million other reasons.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like Miami came in as this high

841
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: powered offensive team and outscored you, or they came in

842
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: as this really one of the great defensive teams of

843
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: all time and shut you down. Ohio State one of

844
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Speaker 1: the great defensives.

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Speaker 3: But we knew it, like Miami's defensive front was was

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00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: you know, highly Harris, this.

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Speaker 1: Is a really and a Miami team that I like,

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00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: I mean like I like them beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: We'll preview that game next hour. But like, this was

850
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: not a Miami team that came in going, oh man,

851
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: it's a bad matchup that they do a lot of things. Okay,

852
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: this is Ohio State and this is an NFL team,

853
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: and they couldn't and they couldn't win. I don't know

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: what's you say, what's more disappointed Ohio State fans the

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: way this year ended, losing to Michigan last year. I

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00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't no more disappointing team. You can't

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00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: change that.

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Speaker 3: You've been talking about how it's liver or die on

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00:39:58,200 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 3: both sides of that thing forever.

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Speaker 1: This was not on what did you lose? Though?

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Speaker 3: You got embarrassed because you got run over. Right, it's

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Speaker 3: one thing to lose. It's a close game. It's a

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Speaker 3: tight game. You watched that game. They weren't in it.

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Speaker 3: They didn't play well at all. No, it was I

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Speaker 3: am so embarrassed for a house and No, and I'm

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Speaker 3: sure maybe another couple of guys will sneak into the

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Speaker 3: first round somewhere, look.

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Speaker 1: Even worse for a lot of state. Sure. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we got that big football debate on the way from

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Speaker 1: the biggest topic the last twenty four hours. Fox