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Speaker 1: will get into that in a minute, right now, be

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm j Acosta, who is with my prettymore mono

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Speaker 1: will sell the much to unpack? So much happened in

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that as well, because I was at

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Speaker 1: still recovering from all of them.

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Speaker 3: But let's remember though, it's Week one, right, so there's

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Speaker 2: I mean, so you know how this goes. Some of

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Speaker 3: It was just amazing the way Week one ended for

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Speaker 3: various reasons, one of them being Aaron Rodgers. This was

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Speaker 1: Then I was like, oh my god. They brought up

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Speaker 2: I feel for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I feel for him, I really do. And yes this

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Speaker 1: You don't want to see that happen because all we've

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Speaker 3: This is crazy and it's a new era beginning with

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Speaker 3: I'll say about Zach Wilson, because a lot of people

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers was helping him out and now he's the

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Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, it's a whole lot to deal with.

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Speaker 1: I will say adversity builds character, and I think for

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Speaker 1: I mean, he stepped in. You know what I really

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Speaker 3: You saw what Bryce Hall did to that Bill's defense.

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Speaker 1: Like this, this is a lot, but like this is

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Speaker 3: Of excitement, right, and we're always excited to have guests.

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Speaker 3: We have a guest that you and I had spoke

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Speaker 3: And that is how it sounded between the Giants and

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Speaker 2: But it's not just any guests.

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Speaker 3: This was a former official and also senior Vice president

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Speaker 3: There we have Alberto Riveral.

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Speaker 1: What's about as I like to say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the way you roll that on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Al, It is so good to talk to you again.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for carving out the time to talk to us.

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Speaker 3: Want to get into your journey what you're doing now,

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Speaker 5: So, how much time do you have, like a week?

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Speaker 5: Let's just let's just start this. And remember when I

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Speaker 1: Will Will does they drink coffee.

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Speaker 1: Thank you exactly exactly. And by the way, for those

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Speaker 1: It is do that passing out the little shots to everybody.

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Speaker 5: Thanksgivings Giving is a day for football, And when I

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Speaker 2: And for a lot of people that was like a

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Speaker 1: That's just what it is. That is your life, and

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Speaker 1: But I think the evolution not just of like your

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Speaker 1: So now, al as you're watching it from the other side,

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Speaker 1: at least at the NFL level, because collegiately, you're still

434
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Speaker 1: very much in it, and you get to sort of

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Speaker 1: see it from a different perspective. Given all of the

436
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Speaker 1: things that have been added to officiating, the technology, all

437
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Speaker 1: these different cameras, you have angles from everywhere, how do

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Speaker 1: you see officiating evolve even more in the in the

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Speaker 1: coming years.

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Speaker 5: So, MJ, you have to think that coaches, even though

441
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Speaker 5: sometimes they tell you they are that they're perfect, they're

442
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Speaker 5: gonna make mistakes. Yeah, players we know make mistakes. Officials

443
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Speaker 5: are gonna make mistakes. Sure, we know how far replay

444
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Speaker 5: has gotten. We understand that technology is incredible. And I

445
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Speaker 5: heard years ago when I was in the competition committee,

446
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Speaker 5: somebody said, well, maybe we'll tell the networks not to

447
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Speaker 5: replay it in slow motion. Well, how can I ask

448
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Speaker 5: the NFL network or another one of our broadcast partners,

449
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Speaker 5: or in the ACC right now, ESPN or Raycom or

450
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Speaker 5: any of those people not to use a technology that's

451
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Speaker 5: at hand and afford it to them because again, that's

452
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Speaker 5: what brings the fans in, that's what keeps us going

453
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Speaker 5: forward because we're getting better. What is it doing to officiating? Boy?

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Speaker 5: We got to get better. And I will tell you

455
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Speaker 5: at the NFL level and at the collegiate level, our

456
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Speaker 5: gals and guys are good. You tell me another job.

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Speaker 5: If you're a boss where you have an employee, we're

458
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Speaker 5: under those circumstances. They make the right decisions in the

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Speaker 5: high nineties over ninety seven or ninety eight percent of

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Speaker 5: the time. Are you going to retain that employee? The

461
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Speaker 5: answer is no, yes, do you have This is how

462
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Speaker 5: good these people are. They go through a lot of training.

463
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Speaker 5: These gals and guys go through a lot of training,

464
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Speaker 5: and you rarely see, oh, what a great call in

465
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Speaker 5: the field. Now we know that doesn't keep it going.

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Speaker 5: It's we saw it last night. There was conversation on

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Speaker 5: a certain block which was a great note call. By

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Speaker 5: the way, now I'm putting on my other hand.

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Speaker 2: There we go in real time.

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Speaker 5: That was a great note call. The official was right

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Speaker 5: on it. He made a decision and we got to

472
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Speaker 5: play right. It was a great no call. When you

473
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Speaker 5: frame by frame this, and that's why our game is great.

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Speaker 5: If I frame something and it's still shot, I can

475
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Speaker 5: probably make it whatever I want. But the game is

476
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Speaker 5: not played frame by frame. The game is played by

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Speaker 5: the best athletes in the world at that speed, and

478
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Speaker 5: in the high nineties, our officials are making the right

479
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Speaker 5: decisions the whole time. So technology is great, but let's

480
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Speaker 5: remember that it's not played frame by frame. It's played

481
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Speaker 5: at an extremely high speed, and it's not going to

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Speaker 5: be coached, played or officiated right one hundred percent of

483
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Speaker 5: the time. We're up there, all three areas away up there,

484
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Speaker 5: and that's why it's the best game in the world.

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Speaker 3: Al So, you've had to make important, critical decisions that

486
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Speaker 3: have a lot of pressure writing into the process of it.

487
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Speaker 3: Did you ever like just go home and your wife's like,

488
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Speaker 3: what are we gonna have for dinner? And you're like, no,

489
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Speaker 3: I can't you make the decision? Were there ever instances

490
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Speaker 3: were like, honey, I can't, I'm gassed. I've already done

491
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Speaker 3: enough decision making today, you decide what we're gonna eat.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, when I got home and when

493
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Speaker 5: I still come home from my acc venue after thirty

494
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Speaker 5: two years she's always in charge. Okay, happy wife, happy life, baby,

495
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Speaker 5: the people, she was always in charge. And then I

496
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Speaker 5: realized also seriously them being gone when I was officiating

497
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Speaker 5: for when I was in college football twelve thirteen weeks

498
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Speaker 5: a year, and then when I in the NFL for

499
00:27:05,926 --> 00:27:08,446
Speaker 5: thirty weekends a year, and then I moved to New York,

500
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Speaker 5: still kept my family here. I went back and forth

501
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Speaker 5: X amount of time. I mean, you can't come back

502
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Speaker 5: in here and make decisions, and you're right, will I

503
00:27:16,526 --> 00:27:18,926
Speaker 5: didn't want to make any decisions. I didn't want to

504
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Speaker 5: know if we were going someplace, just tell me what

505
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Speaker 5: time I have to shower and shave and be ready, period,

506
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Speaker 5: and tell me what we're going to go eat. I

507
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Speaker 5: didn't want to make any more decisions. The last thing

508
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Speaker 5: I want to do is make another decision. I was

509
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Speaker 5: mentally dreamed I was.

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Speaker 1: It was it's a lot, I can't eat. It's a lot,

511
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Speaker 1: it's too much. Well, we made the best decision. By

512
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Speaker 1: al podcast, we could talk to you forever, one of

513
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Speaker 1: your respectful of your time. Thank you so much as

514
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Speaker 1: always for sharing a little bit more about your history

515
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Speaker 1: and your love of the game that we of course

516
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Speaker 1: love so much as well. We will definitely have you back.

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Speaker 5: You guys need to come to Charlotte and Jay talk

518
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Speaker 5: to him. He needs to have a GOPA seating.

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Speaker 1: Says, Okay, we're going to go to Charlotte and that

520
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Speaker 1: will be his introduction.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: We're going it.

523
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Speaker 2: Thank you all.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh though we're figure out.

527
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Speaker 1: What the translation. I mean, I'm sure there is, but

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Speaker 1: it can't. You know, I still think in English and

529
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Speaker 1: have to translate. So that's interesting. I love those calls.

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Speaker 2: Those are the best calls and started the enthusiasm right. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: That was from the Thursday night game where Patrick Mahomes

532
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Speaker 3: seemed very pedestrian.

533
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Speaker 2: Is he on your fantasy football team or no?

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Speaker 1: No, but the Chiefs defense is. And fun fact, they

535
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Speaker 1: got me more points than my quarterback was not a

536
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Speaker 1: great fantasy Are you going to say yes, Jalen Hurts

537
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Speaker 1: is my quarterback and both amazing. I was like, I'm

538
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Speaker 1: good and he was a.

539
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Speaker 2: Fantasy football darling last year one week.

540
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Speaker 1: But by one in one of my leagues, my opponent

541
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Speaker 1: had the Cowboys defense and she got like forty points

542
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Speaker 1: or something. Saying like that, needless to say, I'm I'm down.

543
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Speaker 1: I'm down this week in fantasy both my leagues. Are

544
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Speaker 1: you kidding? You know what my team once, I'll take it.

545
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Speaker 1: It's a sacrifice.

546
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Speaker 3: My ten year old son, his team won good for him.

547
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Speaker 3: He had Brandon Ayuk so and he was so excited

548
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Speaker 3: about ayuk scoring not once, but twice that he changed

549
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Speaker 3: his fantasy football name to I juked you amazing.

550
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Speaker 1: That's his I'm so bad a team names.

551
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Speaker 2: I know well he he though.

552
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Speaker 3: He comes up with this stuff because he's so excited

553
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Speaker 3: about it. And just the way that he was on

554
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Speaker 3: Sunday morning, like so excited. It was like Christmas is

555
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Speaker 3: so into football, and that just goes to speak to

556
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Speaker 3: to like this generation is so into football and where

557
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Speaker 3: for us we had to find our way to get there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, maybe we should have a mom so we

559
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Speaker 1: can help me with my fantasy team because it's not

560
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Speaker 1: looking well. I love that he had that team name.

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Speaker 7: I did name one of my team's Platino power Plata

562
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Speaker 7: no power, yes, blat no power.

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Speaker 2: Oh how I missed you?

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Speaker 3: Real Briefly, for those people that haven't been listening, maybe

565
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Speaker 3: maybe since day one, describe what blatono power means.

566
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Speaker 1: So you hear the first Blaton. No power a lot

567
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Speaker 1: in MLB in baseball because so many of these standout

568
00:31:04,886 --> 00:31:09,446
Speaker 1: players are Dominican. True, so plantains a big part of

569
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Speaker 1: the diet there. Anytime they hit a crazy home where

570
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Speaker 1: they have crazy stats in a game home run competition,

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Speaker 1: it's because they had a little extra serving of platanos.

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Speaker 1: It's good, it's good iron. So I have decided to

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Speaker 1: translate that into football and look no further for my

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Speaker 1: Plato power players. It's a two fer.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think I know.

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Speaker 1: And Tyreek Hill, are you kidding me? Oh my god,

577
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Speaker 1: I was at the game, whell. I could not calm down.

578
00:31:39,086 --> 00:31:41,046
Speaker 2: There was no I think that might have been the

579
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Speaker 2: game of the weekend.

580
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Speaker 3: I know that Jets and and you know the Bills

581
00:31:47,206 --> 00:31:50,726
Speaker 3: was a biggie and that was exciting, exciting finished, But boy,

582
00:31:50,846 --> 00:31:54,006
Speaker 3: the back and forth between the and the Fins.

583
00:31:53,806 --> 00:31:55,926
Speaker 1: Yeah, a cardiac game, as they sometimes call it, was

584
00:31:56,006 --> 00:31:58,566
Speaker 1: just too much. But I'll let you guys listen to

585
00:31:58,806 --> 00:31:59,886
Speaker 1: why I chose it.

586
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Speaker 2: Gus tiny Kill.

587
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Speaker 1: I have to say it was. It was tough in

588
00:32:19,246 --> 00:32:22,166
Speaker 1: the stadium because there were I would say sixty forty

589
00:32:22,606 --> 00:32:24,646
Speaker 1: Chargers fans to Dolphins. There a lot but there's a

590
00:32:24,726 --> 00:32:27,366
Speaker 1: lot of Dolphins fans there for sure, and you could

591
00:32:27,406 --> 00:32:29,046
Speaker 1: hear it. But it was tough because then there was

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Speaker 1: an equal amount of not a little bit more than

593
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Speaker 1: Chargers fans. So it was just roaring the whole time.

594
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Speaker 1: But four hundred and sixty six pass yards for Tua

595
00:32:37,526 --> 00:32:39,606
Speaker 1: that is the most pass yards in a single game

596
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Speaker 1: against the Chargers in NFL history. Tyreek eleven receptions, two

597
00:32:43,446 --> 00:32:46,446
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards, two tugs in Week one, and

598
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Speaker 1: some of those tugs were just unbelievable.

599
00:32:49,606 --> 00:32:53,046
Speaker 3: Absolutely, he's on a different plane everybody else. He's said,

600
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Speaker 3: with great ball placement. By the way, yes you know

601
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Speaker 3: that touchdown there was like just over the defender's head

602
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Speaker 3: that he dropped in perfectly.

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Speaker 1: I will say there were a couple of times where

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Speaker 1: we were geta a little frustrated. There was a missed

605
00:33:05,926 --> 00:33:09,486
Speaker 1: extra point, a couple of throws that didn't look spectacular,

606
00:33:09,846 --> 00:33:11,566
Speaker 1: and of quite a few drops there. But I'm just

607
00:33:11,646 --> 00:33:14,246
Speaker 1: being hypercritical because I want us to get even better

608
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Speaker 1: every week. But man, was I proud.

609
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Speaker 2: I was so so happy that justin Herbert right.

610
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Speaker 1: Very tough and a Chargers defense that was not easy,

611
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Speaker 1: No again, not easy but Tyreek is almost impossible. He

612
00:33:28,566 --> 00:33:30,166
Speaker 1: is to cover if you don't get hands on him,

613
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Speaker 1: which happened quite a few times throughout the game. It's

614
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Speaker 1: off to the races, I think he said afterwards. I'm

615
00:33:34,606 --> 00:33:40,486
Speaker 1: not a cheetah, I'm a lion. And my gosh, you

616
00:33:40,566 --> 00:33:41,726
Speaker 1: can't tell me nothing this week.

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Speaker 3: No, it is, it is. It is a great day

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Speaker 3: for you as a Dolphins fan. And now another segment

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Speaker 3: that we've done, but we haven't done in a while.

620
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Speaker 3: And I talked about this before that in Nicaragua, they

621
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Speaker 3: would say el perro macho de piedre. That's what it

622
00:34:03,206 --> 00:34:06,046
Speaker 3: was all the time in in Nicaragua. My mom would

623
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Speaker 3: say that it would be yelled out loud and perro macho.

624
00:34:09,006 --> 00:34:11,086
Speaker 3: We always talk about he's got that dog in them?

625
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Speaker 2: You got that dog? Well, they've got that perro macho

626
00:34:14,286 --> 00:34:20,766
Speaker 2: in them, all right.

627
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Speaker 3: So from my perro macho us, My perro macho is

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Speaker 3: himI HEIMI.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jimmy Gee of the last Vegas Raiders. Because of

630
00:34:35,046 --> 00:34:35,566
Speaker 2: the fact that.

631
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Speaker 3: He's in a new environment now he has to go

632
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Speaker 3: on the road divisional opponent, Do we want to hear

633
00:34:41,846 --> 00:34:58,446
Speaker 3: a little taste of HEMI, let's do it right now, Raiders.

634
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Speaker 1: The way he me cal comp populations and complications and

635
00:35:09,726 --> 00:35:12,686
Speaker 1: you gotta scramble. I will say, my heart like drops

636
00:35:12,726 --> 00:35:14,926
Speaker 1: a little bit every time. I know, but he was

637
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Speaker 1: firm in that it was the right decision, good for him.

638
00:35:17,566 --> 00:35:20,606
Speaker 3: Fire yeah, I mean listen, he's got the injury history,

639
00:35:20,686 --> 00:35:23,126
Speaker 3: so there is that concern. And I have to say

640
00:35:23,206 --> 00:35:26,166
Speaker 3: that offensive line for the Raiders did a great job

641
00:35:26,526 --> 00:35:29,566
Speaker 3: of protecting him, so he was able to go back

642
00:35:29,646 --> 00:35:33,846
Speaker 3: there be surgical. Him and Jacoby Myers had this really

643
00:35:34,206 --> 00:35:39,166
Speaker 3: great synergy going right. And we'll see how Jacoby's feeling

644
00:35:39,206 --> 00:35:41,406
Speaker 3: because he got concussed in that in that play.

645
00:35:41,486 --> 00:35:45,286
Speaker 2: But they were just just completing pass after pass.

646
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Speaker 3: And here he is making his debut again on the

647
00:35:48,486 --> 00:35:53,166
Speaker 3: road against Sean Payton and the new look Broncos. So

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Speaker 3: so for me, that's that's a better of Macho right there.

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Speaker 3: Another Betro Machio has to be Christian McCaffrey. Let's go

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Speaker 3: he cmc. You want to hear a little more Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 3: You want to hear the mar Christian. Let's go bas We.

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Speaker 2: Ruberti Portier McCaffrey.

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Speaker 8: When singer hell to sounds right, right, Ale, Patrick Peterson.

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Speaker 1: Christ Christian Water playing five point nine points in Fantasy,

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Speaker 1: the most of any player in either of my leagues.

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Speaker 1: At least that was Kareny and so lost grief.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you gotta we gotta work with the rest

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Speaker 2: of your team. But there.

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Speaker 3: Having Christian McCaffrey go off for that many yards, this

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Speaker 3: offense was really ponent against the team that a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of people thought would be a player of caliber team.

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Speaker 3: And again it's Week one, but the forty looked really

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Speaker 3: dominant there, and then you see Brandon Ayyuk also made

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Speaker 3: that great downfield block along with Ray Ray McLeod.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this team is buying in. They just need

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Speaker 2: to keep them healthy.

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Speaker 3: Because there was a point in time I thought you

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Speaker 3: got to get Christian McCaffrey out of the game, you know,

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Speaker 3: because he's so valuable.

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Speaker 2: Right they ran him and they ran him and they

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Speaker 2: ran him.

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Speaker 3: So I would just say, let's let's yea, let's try

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Speaker 3: to protect Christian McCaffrey as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: But now they go into the Rams House and they're

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Speaker 2: going to face the Rams.

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Speaker 1: It's so Fi Stadiums, who played much better than any

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Speaker 1: body anticipated this one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you might say that's the upset of the weekend.

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Speaker 3: You could make the argument about right right, I mean

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Speaker 3: in considering what right cup, No, I know, and then

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Speaker 3: and then just to have like you know, you know,

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Speaker 3: the different guys that stepped up for them that you

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Speaker 3: didn't expect and you just expected Seattle to roll over them,

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Speaker 3: I mean definitely a lot more, a lot more, a

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Speaker 3: lot more juice because yeah, yeah, they had a little

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Speaker 3: bit more there. So that'll be a fun one to

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Speaker 3: watch as.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, be a good way and that matchup

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Speaker 1: to here at so far is always interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and loud up.

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Speaker 1: Very loud, it's gonna be good.

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Speaker 3: And Rams fans get get mad because they are forty

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Speaker 3: nine er fans that say it's Levi South right, And

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Speaker 3: so just.

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Speaker 1: Thinking of the NFC Championship game a couple of seasons.

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Speaker 2: Ago, Yeah, how great that was wild?

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Speaker 1: I know, wild wild.

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Speaker 2: Don't mention Jakwaski Tarto.

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Speaker 1: Vibes only excellent, excellent choices. I think it's time for

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Speaker 1: and for me is I can't wait to see how

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Speaker 1: certain teams either rebound or continue to build off of

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Speaker 1: Week one. Because to your point, you're right, You're right,

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Speaker 1: it's only one game mad, but man, was it a

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Speaker 1: good week?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, I love this for us.

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Speaker 3: I do too, So that's gonna be my bunto toos.

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Speaker 3: I want to see the the bounce back. I mean

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Speaker 3: we're talking like Joe Burrow did not do well against

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Speaker 3: the Browns.

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Speaker 2: They have his number.

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Speaker 3: That Brown's defense was Garrett out It is ridiculous. Well, well,

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Speaker 3: Miles Garrett was like he was he was playing around

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Speaker 3: with the center where he's like.

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Speaker 2: Doing moves in front of him where Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And just just just bum rushed. So Jalen Hurts, we

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Speaker 3: were mentioning it. He didn't have a clean game and

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Speaker 3: a strong letter, right. And then there's there's a Josh

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Speaker 3: Allen who we mentioned didn't have a clean game. So

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of these these these players and these

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Speaker 3: teams that you want to see. How are they going

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Speaker 3: to bounce back? The Steelers they can't be this bad, right,

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Speaker 3: it's just the ninersicke it to them. How are they

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Speaker 3: going to deal with adversity?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: And even Mike Tomlin said we stunk, So we'll see

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Speaker 3: how they come back, how they rebound.

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Speaker 2: So that's my bunto too. Sorry I had a copy

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Speaker 2: of you there no, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's sort of like the feedback that everybody's seeing.

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Speaker 3: We're often rolling, Yes, we are, love it and guess

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Speaker 3: what we are often rolling here on the l Huddle podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey, if you if you like what you hear, and

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Speaker 2: we hope you do.

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Speaker 3: Download, share, favorite all those good things we want to

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Speaker 3: hear from you. Remember, this is like a familiar right,

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Speaker 3: this is a this is the kind of atmosphere lambiente here, right,

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Speaker 3: this is there's a lot that that Latino voices that

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Speaker 3: are out there that are like us, are fans you exactly.

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Speaker 2: So let's do this next episode of the podcast. Let's

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