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Speaker 2: If you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: They spend months working on the perfect NFL schedule, they

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Speaker 3: spend weeks hyping it. I want to remind everybody we

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Speaker 3: will know on the very last day of the regular

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Speaker 3: season every single opponent. And despite the fact that we'll

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Speaker 3: know every single opponent home and away for every single team,

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Speaker 3: we will still flock to a wildly unnecessary multi hour

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Speaker 3: special in the middle of spring to tell us the

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Speaker 3: NFL schedule. And one of the biggest days of that schedule,

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Speaker 3: for sure, was bound to be Christmas Day with three

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Speaker 3: games on Netflix. And just when you thought the NFL

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Speaker 3: could do no wrong, they end up with three matchups

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Speaker 3: that look tragically bad. What does it mean for the

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Speaker 3: future of Christmas football? It's bucket rising, bucket rising, good lord,

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Speaker 3: it's fucking fits I've given him ball.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine. There we go, That's there we go.

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Speaker 2: I try that all again.

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Speaker 3: He's Buck Rising, got Jason Fitz We're in for Jason

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Speaker 3: Smith and Mike Harmon all the way up until two

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Speaker 3: am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, you know, Buck, I had my first

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Speaker 2: energy drink in like a month right before we did this.

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Speaker 2: So things could get rude, things could get bubbly.

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Speaker 4: I bubbly, you know what at this at this point

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Speaker 4: in the in the calendar, at this point in the

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Speaker 4: holiday season, as we get ready for all of the

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Speaker 4: fun that is gonna or if you've already started the fun,

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Speaker 4: whether you're celebrating Hanika, whether you're celebrating Christmas, whatever you're celebrating,

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Speaker 4: I think bubbly is the appropriate tone. I could do

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Speaker 4: a little bubbly. Also, you're a hater. You're a hater.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with these games. These games are perfect.

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Speaker 4: These games. These games are beautifully, beautifully disgusting.

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Speaker 5: In what I'm looking forward to.

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Speaker 4: I just watched the Chiefs third string quarterback come to

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Speaker 4: Nashville and lose a game twenty six to nine to

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Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans, who are a three and twelve football team. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I want that for America. I sat through that on

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Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon in week sixteen. I am built for this.

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Speaker 4: Jason Fitz, I cover the Tennessee Titans. I haven't covered

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Speaker 4: a meaningful game and at least three and a half seasons.

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Speaker 4: I am built for this kind of football. I can't

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Speaker 4: wait for the rest of you to have to sink

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Speaker 4: into it with me.

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Speaker 5: On Christmas Day's going to beautiful.

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Speaker 3: You're putting this out to the world like I'm the villain,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm coming in and everything's bad. And if you

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Speaker 3: break down what you just said, what you just said

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Speaker 3: is I have to watch terrible football. So I can't

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Speaker 3: wait for everybody to join me in those same murky waters.

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Speaker 3: Like that's not the hero's mindset. You're not coming in

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Speaker 3: hoping everybody gets great football. You're just hoping everybody is

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Speaker 3: as miserable on Christmas Day as you are every single

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Speaker 3: week covering the Titans. Is I am every single week

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Speaker 3: watching my beloved Raiders. You are hoping for shared misery.

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Speaker 3: That is that that's the most grit. You are the Grench.

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Speaker 3: You are beginning of the special Yeah hours or we're

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Speaker 4: It's actually Nissan Stadium down the road in Nashville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 4: where I'm hanging out this evening or sliding down the hill.

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Speaker 4: You're my You're my reindeer. Will strap Uh, you know

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Speaker 4: mac Antler, You're Max. We're gonna strap an ant ant well,

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Speaker 4: an elk Antler, that's what I'm looking for.

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Speaker 5: Onto your head.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna ride down this mountain and we're gonna just

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Speaker 4: deliver the gift of terrible, terrible football to America.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: Six eight and one Cowboys a tie on that record

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Speaker 4: versus Marcus Mariota and the Washington Commanders at four to eleven.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's a Christmas miracle.

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Speaker 4: It's a feace, a spectacularly fecal feast of football on

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Speaker 5: Congratulations, Netflix, you got what you paid for.

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Speaker 3: A spectacularly fecal feast. Is the best thing you have

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Speaker 2: That is spectaculars.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't get elka Antler out of my mouth fast enough.

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Speaker 3: I do like the thought of little ant Antler, so

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Speaker 3: irony of all of this is I'm calling you the

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Speaker 3: Grinch while I'm literally sitting here in a Grinch hoodie. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you've come in in all black and you're just like

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Speaker 3: I just took off my root off the reindeer hat.

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Speaker 3: The dichotomy of what the two of us are bringing

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Speaker 3: end of the special. I wanted everybody to get Dallas

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Speaker 3: And even the last game to your point, Denver in

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Speaker 3: Until we're sitting around saying, wait, who's the quarterback for Kansas?

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Speaker 3: This is like the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the

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Speaker 4: Don't you talk about Chris so Lodocoon like that. Don't

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Speaker 5: I watched it. I know I was there. It was glorious.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait, I can't wait. I was looking forward

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Speaker 4: to the Gardner Minshew experience and fincy. That might have

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Speaker 4: been the highlight of my year to see Gardner Minshew

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Speaker 5: They've shut him down for the season anyway. But it's the.

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Speaker 4: Third play of the game. The third play of the game,

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Speaker 4: But like, in all seriousness, okay, Netflix once in on

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Speaker 4: the NFL. The NFL wants it on Christmas Day. Everybody

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Speaker 4: I can't remember the exact games that we got on

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Speaker 4: to be in nineteen seventies YouTube, right, the streamers one

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Speaker 4: the pivot that we're all going to make. It just

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Speaker 4: so happens in this year where Netflix has a full

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Speaker 5: So they're reeling even a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And frankly, they don't play a very aesthetically pleasing style

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Speaker 4: and even then you have some questions about them.

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Speaker 5: These games, these.

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Speaker 4: Games were done they did the deals for these games

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Speaker 4: the NFL schedule is distributed, you would have said, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: That is going to be a full day, an actual

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Speaker 4: football feast like Thanksgiving Day is. That's basically what they're creating.

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Speaker 4: They're creating a second version, a second institution of football

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Speaker 5: Right. They can't get enough of it.

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Speaker 4: They can't get enough of us after we've stuffed our

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Speaker 4: It's just everything fell apart. I mean, think about the

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Speaker 2: Honestly, it's the cost is what is the standard?

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Speaker 3: Like Netflix paid according to Google, about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty million bucks for these two games on Christmas Day,

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Speaker 3: So about seventy five million bucks a day a game

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Speaker 5: The problem They've got three games.

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Speaker 3: They've got two. Amazon Prime has the third one. Oh

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Speaker 3: So you're going to quickly get into that that eighty

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Speaker 3: And one of the things that truly makes this portion

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Speaker 2: They're gonna flip through or they're gonna look at it

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Speaker 3: This day because it's three standalone games and they're on

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Speaker 3: just like I'm gonna flip around and see what else

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Speaker 5: Worth it to see him get his job broke. It

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Speaker 3: Is that why everybody thirty three million people just wanted

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Speaker 5: Those people just wanted to see him get his ass kick.

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Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how they calculate what counts his

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio. But it's a Bucking Fitz takeover Buck Rising.

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Speaker 4: That was always my Christmas Day relationship with the NBA.

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Speaker 4: time watching playoffs and stuff like that. I've almost conditioned

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Speaker 4: myself because I don't you know, I'm not doing a

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Speaker 4: national Yahoo show like you are. I'm not talking about

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Speaker 4: the NBA five days a week you and I do.

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously we're on during a weeknight tonight filling

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Speaker 4: in for the boys, But you and I are on

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Speaker 4: a weekends. We're spending most of our time reacting college football.

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Speaker 5: I'm in the Southeast.

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Speaker 4: No big of a damn about the NBA down here

447
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Speaker 4: other than the you know, the screaming yell about Lebron

448
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Speaker 4: James because they don't like Lebron because of what, you know,

449
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Speaker 4: whatever the relationship is with China.

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Speaker 5: Like that's the dialogue.

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Speaker 4: Around the NBA down here, unless Jaw has a gun

452
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Speaker 4: scandal on Instagram and then everybody's paying attention to the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 4: Like that's just kind of what it is in this

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Speaker 4: part of the country. So I'm not spending the I'm

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Speaker 4: not devoting the kind of space that I might otherwise

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Speaker 4: just have casually to the NBA. I think there's a

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Speaker 4: whole part of the country that feels that way about

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Speaker 4: the NBA that has, to your point, been so conditioned

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Speaker 4: from hearing people say, well, the regular season doesn't actually

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Speaker 4: there's too many games. Okay, then I'm just not going

461
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Speaker 4: to spend my time with it. I've got other things,

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Speaker 4: for God's sakes. I'll throw on an episode of Player

463
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Speaker 4: of Us if I want to before before I start

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Speaker 4: in on an NBA regular season game. Just in terms

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Speaker 4: of the pecking order, because I feel like I've been

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Speaker 4: conditioned to think that it doesn't actually matter right now.

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Speaker 3: It's fair it doesn't, and I think the only way

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Speaker 3: it matters is when you see something you've never seen before.

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Speaker 3: So Wemby, I think, starts to become a sensation because

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Speaker 3: we've never seen somebody with his level of athleticism and

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Speaker 3: size shoot from where he shoots from right, So like

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Speaker 3: that's a thing We're all gonna pay attention to.

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Speaker 2: Wemby.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm long since convinced that the best thing

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Speaker 3: that could happen to the NBA right now, not maybe

476
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Speaker 3: long term, but right now is Okay Seeds turning around

477
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Speaker 3: and going on the type of run we've never seen before.

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Speaker 3: Just absolutely crushing Golden State's all time wins record in

479
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Speaker 3: the season, Crush the Red, don't lose a single game

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Speaker 3: in the postseason, go win a championship with a roster

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Speaker 3: that's wildly young, and make everybody turn around and say,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, look at how young these guys are.

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Speaker 2: This gonna be my favorite team.

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Speaker 3: Like I do believe in ten years, fans will walk

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Speaker 3: around wearing Oklahoma City Thunder jerseys. Then the way they

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Speaker 3: walk around with Warriors jerseys. Now, I'm old enough to

487
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Speaker 3: remember when nobody gave a damn about Golden State, right,

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Speaker 3: I think all of these things can happen. I don't

489
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Speaker 3: know how you make it happen like this is where

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Speaker 3: the NFL was just so brilliant, because wildly, if these

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Speaker 3: games that were only okay were put on Fox, NBC,

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Speaker 3: and CBS on Christmas Day, I do think that we

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Speaker 3: would see better ratings for the NBA than we expected,

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Speaker 3: and maybe slightly lower ratings for the NFL. But your

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Speaker 3: point is a valid one for most of the country,

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Speaker 3: particularly right now. Man, nobody gives it damn about basketball

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Speaker 3: like they want to watch a football game.

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Speaker 4: Well, and I just I don't know when that happened

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Speaker 4: like that. And again, I'm just running this through my prism.

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Speaker 4: I know that I probably don't speak for the vast

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Speaker 4: majority of people that are listening to us nationwide on

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: I understand that.

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Speaker 4: I'm just approaching this in the best way that I

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Speaker 4: can to explain why the hell I would put on

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Speaker 4: an eight and seven Lions team against a seven and

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Speaker 4: eight Vikings team instead of watching whatever NBA game is.

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Speaker 5: On at the exact same time. Now.

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Speaker 4: The thing that I will agree with you on absolutely

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Speaker 4: is that Wembin Yama versus the Thunder, an incredible team

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Speaker 4: that plays such a perfect style of team basketball with

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Speaker 4: a superstar in their own with several stars in their

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Speaker 4: own right, versus the kind of player that almost doesn't

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Speaker 4: have a precedent with the way that he plays, the

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Speaker 4: style that he plays, with the physical traits that just

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Speaker 4: he wows you, right, he wows you every time you

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Speaker 4: see him out there, whether it be highlights, whether you're

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Speaker 4: watching actual Spurs games, whatever the case may be. I

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Speaker 4: need something transcendent to refixate me on the NBA, if

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Speaker 4: that makes sense, and when Ben Yama, frankly and the

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Speaker 4: Thunder have the ability to do that, I just don't

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Speaker 4: know if if everybody else has caught up to how

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Speaker 4: spectacular that that.

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Speaker 5: What they're watching is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you and I talked about this with when

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Speaker 4: the Pacers and the Thunder were in the finals and

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Speaker 4: some of the we knew that the ratings were going

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Speaker 4: to be what they were, right, and we understand the

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Speaker 4: kind of market size and all these I mean, there's

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Speaker 4: a million different factors as to why people weren't as

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Speaker 4: dialed in on that. I just think that for example,

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Speaker 4: okay see is just going to have to win at

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Speaker 4: a rate that is so outrageous, which they are currently

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Speaker 4: doing to continue basically to force people's attention in that spot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, all of

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Speaker 3: these are like great Batman movies. You have to have

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Speaker 3: a perfect Batman. You have to have a perfect villain.

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Speaker 3: You need a joker, you need a Batman. You need

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Speaker 3: the good and the bad all to come together at once.

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Speaker 3: Steve Disager, get us updated and on what's going on

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Speaker 3: right now across the landscape of the scoreboard, and then

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Speaker 3: we'll get more into it after the break.

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Speaker 8: All right, we'll start with the NFL. The two game

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Speaker 8: suspension of Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf was upheld. He

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Speaker 8: had appealed. He loses two game checks and reportedly forty

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Speaker 8: five million dollars in future guarantees in his contract. The

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Speaker 8: two game suspension of Chargers linebacker Denzel Paraman was also

548
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Speaker 8: so upheld. The Cardinals signed former Rams kicker Joshua Carty.

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Speaker 8: Buffalo tried out three kickers but did not sign any

550
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Speaker 8: of them. Today, starter Matt Prater still has a quad injury.

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Speaker 8: Bill's quarterback Josh Allen says he will play this weekend

552
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Speaker 8: despite the foot injury. Cleveland running back quin Shawn Jugkins

553
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Speaker 8: had surgery on his broken leg and dislocated ankle. The

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Speaker 8: Browns officially will not activate quarterback to Shaun Watson this year.

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Speaker 8: He had a second achilles surgery last January and has

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Speaker 8: one year left on that guaranteed contract. The Ravens listed

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Speaker 8: quarterback Lamar Jackson with his bruise back as a non

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Speaker 8: participant on today's practice report. The Colts will start quarterback

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Speaker 8: Philip Rivers again, with Riley Leonard as backup. The Jets

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Speaker 8: play quarterback Justin Fields on ir with his knee injury.

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Speaker 8: Quarterback JJ McCarthy of the Vikings will miss the Christmas

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Speaker 8: game against the Lions. He has a hairline fracture in

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Speaker 8: his right hand, fourth injury in his two years there.

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Speaker 8: Rookie quarterback Max Brosmer will start, and quarterback Brett Rippon

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Speaker 8: was claimed off waivers by Minnesota from the Colts. Lions

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Speaker 8: running back David Montgomery did not practice today due to illness.

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Speaker 8: Washington quarterback Marcus Mariota missed another walk through due to

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Speaker 8: hand and quad injuries. The Commander's host Dallas on Christmas.

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Speaker 8: Green Bay starting quarterback Jordan Love was limited at practice.

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Speaker 8: He's still in concussion protocol, and his backup QB Malik

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Speaker 8: Willis was limited with a sore shoulder. Patriots running back

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Speaker 8: Traveon Henderson is in concussion protocol, as is wide receiver

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Speaker 8: Kashawn Woody and running back Kimani Vidella. The Chargers missed

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Speaker 8: practice with a neck injury. The Chargers host the Texans

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Speaker 8: this Saturday. Chargers running back Jared Patterson was activated three

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Speaker 8: college football bowl games, including the late one now at halftime.

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Speaker 8: This is in Frisco, Texas. It's Ohio U six nothing

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Speaker 8: over UNLV Louisville beat Toledo and the Boca Raton Bowl

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Speaker 8: twenty seven to twenty two. Western Kentucky with two touchdowns

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Speaker 8: in the last eight minutes, beat Southern Miss twenty seven

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Speaker 8: sixteen at the New Orleans Bowl. Hawaii hosts the Hawaii

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Speaker 8: Bow on Christmas Eve against Cal Wednesday night. In the NBA,

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Speaker 8: Dallas has beaten Denver one thirty one to one thirty

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Speaker 8: Cooper flag thirty three points. Cleveland got twenty seven from

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Speaker 8: Donovan Mitchell and dominated New Orleans one forty one to

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Speaker 8: one eighteen. New Orleans had won five in a row.

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Speaker 8: Milwaukee sent Indiana to a sixth straight loss, one eleven

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Speaker 8: to ninety four. Among the games just finishing, Minnesota gets

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Speaker 8: a win at home over New York one fifteen to

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Speaker 8: one oh four despite forty points from Karl Anthony Towns,

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Speaker 8: and in Phoenix not even mid third quarter yet, the

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Speaker 8: Suns are ripping the Lakers eighty nine to sixty four

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Speaker 8: for La Luka. Doncicic's out with a bruised calf. Off

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Speaker 8: the bench. Austin Reeves has returned from injury thirteen points

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Speaker 8: in fourteen minutes, four fouls, as well. College hoops wins

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Speaker 8: for Villanova and Saint John's. NHL Detroit in overtime beat

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Speaker 8: Dallas fourth three.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, he's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jason fitz Buckin fitz hanging out with you on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio. Guys, Buck, you cover a bad football team.

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Speaker 3: You get to cover a bad football team every every

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Speaker 3: single day you cover the tennis.

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Speaker 2: Anyone that isn't aware.

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Speaker 3: I was just listening to Steve's update, and one of

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Speaker 3: the things that I think is hysterical is how often

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Speaker 3: you hear media members fans. Everybody talking about guys just

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Speaker 3: sitting at the end of the year and like it's

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Speaker 3: the craziest thing. I made no secrets of the fact

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Speaker 3: that I'm a fan of a terrible football team in

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Speaker 3: the Raiders, right and so I see Twitter right now

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Speaker 3: going absolutely nuts about, well, it's important that.

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Speaker 2: The Raiders lose these games. I get it. For me

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Speaker 2: as a fan, I want the Raiders to have the

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Speaker 2: first overall pick.

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Speaker 3: I understand that there's never going to be a world

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Speaker 3: where anybody inside those halls is sitting around like none

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Speaker 3: of the players on the field. Max Crosby isn't suddenly

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Speaker 3: worried about the Raiders having the first pick. He answered

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Speaker 3: a question pretty aggressively about that. Geno answered the question

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Speaker 3: pretty aggressively. You're in the Titans locker room, like, do

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Speaker 3: you feel like there's a spot here where players are

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Speaker 3: just sitting around saying, you know what, it's probably better

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Speaker 3: for our draft pick next year if we don't play.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just going to take this week off.

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Speaker 4: Never never, I mean, we we've gone through this with

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Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons here locally, who is not quite of I mean, listen,

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Speaker 4: if you if you haven't seen what Jeff Simmons is

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Speaker 4: doing this week.

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Speaker 5: This is so far this season.

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Speaker 4: I understand not a lot of people are watching the

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Speaker 4: three and twelve Titans football team to watch interior defensive

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Speaker 4: line play, but just's been awesome.

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Speaker 5: Like he's He's.

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Speaker 4: Not Miles Garrett, but he is the best interior defensive

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Speaker 4: lineman in the sport this year, and he's doing it

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Speaker 4: for a terrible football team. So many times we have

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Speaker 4: asked him and cam Ward last.

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Speaker 5: Year's number one overall pick. I guess technically still this

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Speaker 5: year's number one overall pick.

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Speaker 4: The question of well the fan base wants one thing,

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Speaker 4: and this was before the Raiders.

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Speaker 5: Were clearly and obviously tracking Fitsy. I mean they your

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Speaker 5: football team.

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Speaker 4: WoT that number one overall pick?

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Speaker 2: Don't be honest with like they got the Giants this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know the Giants are bad too.

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Speaker 3: I want to I've never I'm forty eight years old,

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Speaker 3: I have never rooted for my favorite football team to

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Speaker 3: lose a football game, truly, never shiver. Ever, I've always said, man, like,

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Speaker 3: let's be real, I don't even know if I'm gona

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Speaker 3: be alive next season. I want to see a Raiders win, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: that's just the way the world works. I want to

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Speaker 3: see my favorite football team win. Sunday will be the

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Speaker 3: first time ever that I've sat there and said.

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Speaker 2: You know what, might as well lose this one. I'm in,

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Speaker 2: let's lose. Let's go ahead. I want the first of

657
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Speaker 2: all pick. I guess that doesn't fix it.

658
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Speaker 4: That doesn't fix it. The Patriots picked fourth last year,

659
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Speaker 4: look at them. Well, the Giants pick third. Look how

660
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Speaker 4: much better they are for it. I mean, my god,

661
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Speaker 4: it doesn't fix the things as definitively as fans seem

662
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Speaker 4: to think that it does.

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Speaker 5: It gives you a great chance.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's my thing. If I could know right now,

665
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Speaker 3: this is my caveat. I think you'll understand this from

666
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Speaker 3: my standpoint. If I knew that Dante Moore was also

667
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 3: coming out, Like if Dante Moore had already announced it,

668
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Speaker 3: he's coming out. If we had a real indication that

669
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Speaker 3: there were at least two quarters in this draft coming out,

670
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Speaker 3: then I don't care wherever you pick, You're gonna be fine.

671
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Speaker 2: Like, I really don't believe.

672
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Speaker 3: That there's demonstrable difference between Fernando Mendoza or Dante more

673
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 3: who knows, Like I think it's all crapshoot anyway, in

674
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 3: the draft, I'm just worried that if the Raiders pick second,

675
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: they're just not gonna have a shot at a quarterback.

676
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Speaker 3: And you're right, picking first doesn't fix anything. I just

677
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 3: don't want to sit here and never have a shot

678
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Speaker 3: at a quarterback. And I mean, they rolled the dice

679
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Speaker 3: on Geno and he looks washed, so maybe there's another

680
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Speaker 3: way to do it. But that's where my that's where

681
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Speaker 3: my fear comes from. It's not because I want the

682
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: first overall pick because it fixes anything. I don't want

683
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Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza to come into the draft and then Dante

684
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Speaker 3: More decides he's not, Ty Simpson decides he's not, and

685
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, maybe the next best quarterback is

686
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Speaker 3: Garrett Nesmeyer, like a likely a second or third.

687
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Speaker 2: Round pick, you know what I mean. So I just

688
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Speaker 2: want a quarterback, that's why.

689
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Speaker 4: Sure, But I mean and this, you know, this gets

690
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Speaker 4: into a deeper fundamental roster building discussion, which most people

691
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 4: in America are. I mean, I don't know about half

692
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 4: the teams in the league at this point. We're not

693
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 4: quite to the point where everybody's been eliminated, and we

694
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 4: don't have the postseason definitively set.

695
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Speaker 5: But a lot of people are thinking about draft to

696
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Speaker 5: order as much.

697
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Speaker 4: As they're thinking about postseason football at this point in time.

698
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Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter if you draft Fernando Mendoza and

699
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: you drop him into a situation like, for example, what

700
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 4: I'm covering right now, which is cam Ward and his

701
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 4: offensive line doesn't get it together until Week sixteen. They

702
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 4: haven't looked like a normal NFL football team until basically the.

703
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Speaker 5: Last three weeks.

704
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Speaker 4: FITZI, that's how long it took for them to be

705
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Speaker 4: able to function at an even remotely operable level. And

706
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Speaker 4: I mean, I know what the situation is in Vegas

707
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 4: with that offensive line unit. I don't think that Geno's washed.

708
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 4: I think that they have washed him.

709
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Speaker 2: That's fair in my mind.

710
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: When you have one hundred million dollars to spend, hopefully

711
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: you can find some of those pieces.

712
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Speaker 2: Look, but I will never question.

713
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Speaker 3: Like if you told me that every single pick for

714
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 3: the Raiders in this year's draft was a fat guy.

715
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: That played on either offensive or defensive line, I'm in.

716
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 2: I'm in on that. I'm in on that totally.

717
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Speaker 3: It's just I think the interesting thing is when you

718
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 3: see guys like like Joe Burrow being asked like is

719
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: he gonna play and Bengals fans turning around and say, well,

720
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 3: I don't want to risk his injury.

721
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 2: Questions about whether or not Dak.

722
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Speaker 3: Was gonna play the last couple of games because they

723
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 3: don't matter for the Cowboys. I just I think we

724
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: forget as a society sometimes that this isn't a video game,

725
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: Like these are real people that work their whole lives

726
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: to get this opportunity to play this sport, and at

727
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: the end of the day, they want to play this sport.

728
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 3: That's the thing I think we forget sometimes is that

729
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 3: the draft status, for example, when everybody sits there and says, well,

730
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Speaker 3: it's better for our draft. Well, coaches don't know if

731
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Speaker 3: they're going to be around next year for that version

732
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Speaker 3: of it. Players don't know if they're still gonna be

733
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 3: on the roster, like they do not care what next

734
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 3: year looks like going into Week seventeen. They're paid to

735
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: play football. It's what they do, it's what they want

736
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 3: to do, it's what they love to do. I just

737
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 3: I think we should kill the question of why are

738
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Speaker 3: they playing that player even though it puts guys like

739
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: Burrow at risk for you know, God forbid, there's an

740
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 3: injury that impacts next season. You can't think that way

741
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 3: and run a football organization.

742
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 5: Well beyond that incentives, like, guys have money they want

743
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: to make.

744
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, that's fancy to me.

745
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, honest to god, I'm sure at

746
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 5: a certain.

747
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: Point, I've covered enough bad football teams at this point

748
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 4: in my life that I know a lot of those

749
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 4: guys would rather just be like, yeah, I'm good, just

750
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 4: let's go let's go ahead and uh and have that

751
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 4: hamstring that's been bothering me. Let's go ahead and have

752
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 4: that shut me down for the foreseeable future. But they've

753
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 4: got you know, they've got tackle incentives to it, They've

754
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 4: got rushing, touchdowns, receptions, all these different things. I think

755
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 4: it's a lovely way to look at it. And I'm

756
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 4: sure there is some level of they are football players,

757
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 4: they want to go out there, but I think a

758
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 4: lot of them are like, yeah.

759
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 5: Let me get my money and then we can move

760
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 5: on from this whole thing.

761
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Speaker 3: I do think I think, you know, if you play

762
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 3: for business. There's a reason you want to play. If

763
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 3: you play for love of the game, there's a reason

764
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 3: you want to play. I don't think there are many guys,

765
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 3: and if you're hurt, certainly, then it's like, yeah, let's

766
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: mail it in. Let's just let's just get I'm not

767
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 3: going to push through something I don't need to push through.

768
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 3: I just think if you're healthy and your coach comes

769
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 3: and says, yeah, we're not gonna play you this week

770
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: because we're gonna check out the young guys.

771
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Speaker 2: I think most of the league just sort of rolls

772
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 2: their eyes to that.

773
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: Speaking of rolling their eyes, everybody's rolling their eyes about

774
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 3: news in Kansas City, about the Chiefs in.

775
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: Their future home. We'll tell you about it next.

776
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: He's Buck Rising out Jason Fitz hanging out with you,

777
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 3: Buck and Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

778
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 6: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

779
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 6: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

780
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 6: pm Pacific.

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00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: God, it really is it just is tell me more. Oh,

782
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: he's done, He's done.

783
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: It's the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, although it's

784
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,280
Speaker 3: neither of them. It's Buck Rising, Jason Tip Fits, Bucking Fits,

785
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio on this

786
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 3: Christmas Adam edition. I had a friend for years in

787
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Speaker 3: Nashville whose daughter always called it Christmas Adam because Adam

788
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 3: came before Eve. So Christmas Adam, then Christmas Eve and

789
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 3: then Christmas Day. And it's adorable because it came from

790
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Speaker 3: a child. But I've always kept it Christmas Adam. So

791
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 3: a happy Christmas Adam to you. But feel free to

792
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: steal that and start using that with the friends.

793
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 5: No, I don't think I will.

794
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about it, like. There wasn't even

795
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 2: a thank you so much.

796
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Speaker 5: It was a moment.

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00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I don't want It's perfect, okay, an obscure Adam and

799
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Speaker 4: Eve referee, thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much? All right for the tyrack player of

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Speaker 6: Let's check it out, Davis, he's feeling it with six

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Speaker 6: to shoot.

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Speaker 2: Here comes to.

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Speaker 9: Double from Jokics out to flag three to shoot top

812
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Speaker 9: of the York three, huge three pointer, a season high

813
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 9: four three point shot, his third game of thirty or

814
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 9: more this year.

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Speaker 3: Cooper fag having yet another big moment there for him.

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Speaker 3: So congratulations on that. That's a Tirak play of the

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Speaker 3: day happening for you.

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Speaker 2: Hanging out. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

819
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Speaker 5: We're gotcha, guard.

820
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Speaker 2: I was looking for the see I was talling.

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Speaker 4: For ninety seven point one the Eagle, Mavericks Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: Look at that ninety seven point one the Eagle. There

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Speaker 2: we go.

824
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 3: Look at you that Buck. That's called great teamwork. I

825
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: appreciate that. We've got great teamwork happening right now. Terrible

826
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 3: segue between the State of Kansas, all right and the

827
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Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs.

828
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: Here's yeah, here's a little geography.

829
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Speaker 4: I'm not being a very good teammate to you, to

830
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 4: be honest with you. He came out with the Christmas

831
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 4: Adam thing. I shot you down. I dead fished you,

832
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 4: all right, that's dead fish. I wanted to you know,

833
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 4: I'm giving you a hard time, but I swear, buddy,

834
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 4: I'm here for you for the next Yeah, it's three hours.

835
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Speaker 5: I'm here for you.

836
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: All right.

837
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 3: Look, but we're gonna this show is going to see

838
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 3: Christmas Adam turn it into Christmas Eve.

839
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna need a little bit more.

840
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Speaker 3: Holly and a hell of a lot more jolly out

841
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Speaker 3: of you. All Right, you've already got the fat man

842
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: of the beard. I just need you to bring in

843
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 3: a little bit. Only immediate look on his.

844
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Speaker 2: Face made it worth it. The entire setup was absolutely we.

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Speaker 5: Were in Connecticut.

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00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,959
Speaker 4: I would take this red pen and thank you, stake

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Speaker 4: it somewhere.

848
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: I'm like everybody on Twitter, I'm a keyboard warrior right now.

849
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: Because you can't. You can't do it anything. You can't

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Speaker 2: dek me all.

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Speaker 10: Right, Uh, as I mentioned, uh, the Kansas City Chiefs

852
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 10: are moving to Kansas because Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead is

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00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 10: in Missouri.

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 2: Now. In full disclosure, here I was.

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Speaker 3: I was hosting Yahoo Sports Daily the other day in

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Speaker 3: Carolyn Fenton, my co host is from Saint Louis, and

857
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Speaker 3: she laughed when we were like.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a big deal.

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00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 3: She laughed because she's like, look, the city of Kansas City,

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00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: part of it is in Kansas and part of it

861
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Speaker 3: is in Missouri. Like this, this these are two neighboring places.

862
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: In a level like we hear, oh my god, they're moving,

863
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 3: not really moving. I would remind everybody the Giants and

864
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 3: the Jets play in New Jersey, right, So that's what

865
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 3: we're seeing here. They're they're moving the stadium to a

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Speaker 3: different state for because frankly, the state of Zouri didn't

867
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Speaker 3: want to pay a bunch of money, and the state

868
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Speaker 3: of Kansas has given what people are right now saying

869
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 3: is the friendliest stadium deal in the history of stadium deals,

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Speaker 3: which is saying something to get the Chiefs to move

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Speaker 3: across the state lines. Now this comes on the heels

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Speaker 3: only days removed from the Bears talking about moving to

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Speaker 3: Indiana because Chicago doesn't want to foot a bunch of

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Speaker 3: a huge bill and they're just gonna move to Indiana. Again,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't mean they're going to become the Indiana Bears,

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Speaker 3: but it does mean that they're deciding that, hey, there's

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Speaker 3: a neighboring area, we're gonna put our stadium where we want.

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Speaker 3: It gets really contentious book, because this is that age

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Speaker 3: old argument. Should states be giving tax credits to billionaires?

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Speaker 3: Should they be giving flat out money to billionaires? Basically

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Speaker 3: to build free stadiums.

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Speaker 4: No Ah, But that's just a matter of what the

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Speaker 4: situation is and how good this NFL teams leverage, Like

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Speaker 4: how much does your NFL franchise actually mean to the

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Speaker 4: city and the finances that it plays in. Chicago is

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Speaker 4: a huge place. There are a million different things going on.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that the Chicago that Chicago would be

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Speaker 4: no worse than the state of Illinois would be no

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Speaker 4: worse for letting the Bears go or anything like that.

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Speaker 4: But Nashville, the Titans just got a new stadium, because

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Speaker 4: that would be pretty significant to the economy to get

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Speaker 4: the kind of venue that can host international events, the

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Speaker 4: super Bowl, WrestleMania, you know, college football, playoff games, all

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Speaker 4: these different kinds of things that it didn't previously have.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's very very specific to the situation.

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Speaker 3: It's the hard part on this is that everybody feels

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Speaker 3: like it's cut and dry, and it isn't. I'm a

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Speaker 3: fan of a team that's relocated multiple times. I've seen

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Speaker 3: relocation in sports all over the place. I lived in Nashville,

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Speaker 3: as you do right now. In a place that thought

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Speaker 3: they were going to lose their hockey club at one point.

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Speaker 3: Relocation is a part of sports, but there's a reason why.

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Speaker 3: It's more complicated than you think, and I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: what that reason is.

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Speaker 2: Next, he's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jason fitzwer hanging out with de bucking Fits on

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Speaker 3: a Fox Sports radio takeover.