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Speaker 2: It's a wild, wild year in the NFL and we're

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Speaker 2: reaching this point in the season and we're still trying

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Speaker 2: to figure out who's great and who's not. Who we

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Speaker 2: can actually manco And you know, there's there's this weird

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Speaker 2: line between what we consider great and he's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jason Fitz on Fox Sports Radio, filling in on

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Speaker 2: Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. We were just

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Speaker 2: talking about the fact that nobody's paying attention to the Jags.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure that right now we have a clear

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Speaker 2: great team that's going to win the Super Bowl. Buck,

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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure right now that most if you

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Speaker 2: put twenty of us in a room, we would get,

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Speaker 2: you know, more than a few people that could agree

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Speaker 2: on any of who are the best teams in the

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Speaker 2: league this year? And the wild thing is that I

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Speaker 2: don't necessarily believe that the NFL has given us this

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Speaker 2: incredible product this year. But much like a game, how

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Speaker 2: often do we say, oh, that was a great game.

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Speaker 2: No it wasn't. It was a terrible game, but a

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Speaker 2: bad a great ending. Right like when we get drama

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Speaker 2: at the end. We perceive it to be great. We're

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Speaker 2: going to get a hell of a lot of drama

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Speaker 2: at the end of this NFL season. So I don't

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Speaker 2: know if football is I don't know if the NFL

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Speaker 2: is necessarily having a great year, but I do know

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Speaker 2: that I find it to be incredibly interesting that we're

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Speaker 2: this far into the season and you've made a compelling

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Speaker 2: case for why the Jags are the best team in

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Speaker 2: the AFC, and I can't really tear it apart, and

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Speaker 2: I can't really build it up either way because it

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Speaker 2: is so unsure. I think this is actually a beautiful

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess that was going to be My

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Speaker 3: follow up is what would you consider to be what

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Speaker 3: would make it a great year.

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Speaker 1: For the NFL.

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Speaker 3: And let's discern here between a great year for the

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Speaker 3: league versus a great year for football fans. What I

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Speaker 3: guess is you're are you talking about what's best for

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Speaker 3: the National Football League, Because it seems as we talked

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Speaker 3: about Charles Barkley and his criticism of the NFL taking

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Speaker 3: over Smiths and doing so successful even though the games.

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Speaker 1: Are terrible and all these different things.

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Speaker 3: It feels like the league is in as good of

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Speaker 3: a spot as it's ever been From a fan perspective,

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Speaker 3: Do you think that there is something about this season

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Speaker 3: because of the lack of clear and obvious favorites even

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Speaker 3: in the NFC. NFC feels wide open at this point

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Speaker 3: in time, because even if you spent most of the

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Speaker 3: season thinking that the Rams are the best team in football,

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Speaker 3: and the Rams probably are the best team in football,

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Speaker 3: You've still got that Seahawks result, both of those Seahawks results,

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Speaker 3: frankly to kind of make you think twice about how

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Speaker 3: out better for it. After just losing the most recent

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Speaker 3: matchup of the Seahawks in and overtime, I mean, what

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Speaker 3: was felt like the game of the year to me.

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Speaker 3: So what would make this a better year for the fans?

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Speaker 3: If you were trying to find the best case scenario?

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Speaker 1: I guess I think.

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily for the fans. I just think that

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Speaker 2: have a team that wins a football game with a

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Speaker 2: So the question is, okay, that is an ugly football game.

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Speaker 2: That is an ugly, ugly football game, Like we are

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Speaker 2: not watching high quality football. You cannot argue that that

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Speaker 2: Lions Vikings game. Like if that was the first time

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Speaker 2: I must see more of this, Like as someone that

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Speaker 2: you could admit that just set the game back to me.

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Speaker 2: This year, there's just not a lot of great football,

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Speaker 2: like when you when you just get the best, like Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'll be the old man for a second. Not that old.

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Speaker 2: But like if you go back to the Manning Brady, you.

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Speaker 3: Are definitively the oldest person on the show by it

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Speaker 2: Okay, by age, yes, but but not by maturity at all.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think we're in a we're in a

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Speaker 2: just an old man.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm forty forty eight. Yeah, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I know married. I have been called a sneaky vampire

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Speaker 2: by many of my friends, and I'm luk at that.

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Speaker 1: I just said that.

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Speaker 2: Damn you know, I'm doing a little too hard book. No,

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Speaker 2: don't be laughing.

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Speaker 1: That's sixteen years difference between us and them.

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Speaker 2: Gray hairs stay different.

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Speaker 1: What do you take it?

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Speaker 3: Put yourself on camera? Mary, you want to play this game? Okay,

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Speaker 3: play this game.

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Speaker 2: I'm young and sorry, I mean buck, I think we

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Speaker 2: both know that if you and I walked into a

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Speaker 3: I, especially with the Mary's right about the beard. I

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Speaker 3: salt and pepper. Salt and pepper, Santa Claus at this point.

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Speaker 1: In time, you know, just keep it up.

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Speaker 3: We got we got two hours left, yeah, the four

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Speaker 3: of us this morning, all right, Mary, keep it up.

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Speaker 2: I mean this is by the way, Mary has to

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Speaker 2: deal with this every Saturday on Bucking Fits. Which if

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Speaker 2: this is the first time you're hanging out with us,

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Speaker 2: you should hang out with us. We'll be back again

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Speaker 2: tomorrow because tomorrow Saturday, I think six to eight pm

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Speaker 2: Eastern time on Fox Sports Radio, that's where you can

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Speaker 2: usually check out Bucking Fits. That's where we are usually

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Speaker 2: hanging out with you, and Mary has to deal with

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Speaker 2: us during that whole time. By the way, while we're Mary, okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: oh I would, I'm just going to change the subject

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Speaker 2: on that you find Mckiita tooles at the home Depo

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Speaker 2: are built with precision, without shortcuts, designed for the toughest jobs.

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Speaker 2: It's the choice for pros when the job calls for

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Speaker 2: the best call. The Maikida built to be the best

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Speaker 2: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason fitzwor In on two pros

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Speaker 2: and a cup of Joe. I just think, Okay, when

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Speaker 2: we had the Patriots and the Colts going through their

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Speaker 2: we had a lot of really good football. So you

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Speaker 2: saw teams that weren't just winning games, they were really

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Speaker 2: they're not sustainably good. Like Bill Barnwell's analytics showed why

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Speaker 2: the Commanders were going to take a step back this

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Speaker 2: year because last year they want to have a lot

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Speaker 2: more games than they probably should have. This year we're

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Speaker 2: watching I think with that same skeptical eye. Are the

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Speaker 2: football teams? I don't know, but certainly there are more

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to buy in on the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 2: then being super Bowl caliber and then I watch them

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Speaker 2: against the Raiders look absolutely dreadful. Dreadful, right, and so

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Speaker 2: great teams don't put those sorts of performances on tape.

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Speaker 2: So I think this year, while there are some interesting storylines.

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Speaker 2: The football is not as great. I'm not sure anybody cares.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody cares about quality versus drama.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just a transitional period for the league.

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Speaker 3: So that's an interesting philosophical question, I think, getting deep,

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Speaker 3: getting meta on an early Friday morning. Here, does the

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Speaker 3: NFL Jason Fitz, in your opinion, want a truly great

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Speaker 3: team or truly great teams plural versus the idea that

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Speaker 3: you look at the Eagles at ten and five. Nobody

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Speaker 3: feels good about Philadelphia right now, but that's indisputably the

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Speaker 3: defending Super Bowl champion with a winning record and a

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Speaker 3: winning twice as many games as they've lost. By the way,

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Speaker 3: They're going to Buffalo this weekend, which is a fascinating game.

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Speaker 3: The Bills are eleven and four, but you have questions

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Speaker 3: are they truly great teams or are they Is it

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Speaker 3: I would maintain that in an honest moment, the NFL

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Speaker 1: You don't want somebody.

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Speaker 3: You don't want the Chiefs or the Patriots to rule

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Speaker 3: because that gives people a reason to pay less attention.

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Speaker 1: To your product.

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Speaker 3: You want the re emergence of Chicago and the Patriots

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Speaker 3: to be a twelve win team again next year, though.

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Speaker 3: You want the Patriots to struggle a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: You want you want the Dolphins of the Jets to

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Speaker 3: would imagine that in a truly honest moment, the NFL

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Speaker 3: would tell you, no, we'd rather just have a bunch

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Speaker 3: the others, but they're not actually that much better.

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Speaker 2: I completely disagree. Actually, So I think the NFL wins

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Speaker 2: both ways here. Number one, this year they get their

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Speaker 2: gateway drug. Like if you're again, if you're the forty

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Speaker 3: What are you freebasing giants and raiders to two and

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Speaker 2: No, but when you're my age, you remember when you

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Speaker 2: for free, right, they give it to you. They're like,

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Speaker 2: all right, if you like this, come back, and then

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Speaker 2: you always come back. That's what this year is gonna

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Speaker 2: be for all of these teams that pop off. This

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Speaker 2: Vikings still beat Detroit, and now Detroit is not gonna

441
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Speaker 2: go to the postseason. Now Detroit is looking around and

442
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Speaker 2: Lions vans everywhere are asking has the windows slam shut?

443
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Speaker 2: Yesterday we watched a lot of bad football, bad football.

454
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 2: It was glorious, glorious you already it's six am and

455
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 2: you're already telling you you're gonna tell me that And

456
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 2: Maxim Prosmer really made you No, no, say yes yes.

457
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 2: There is not a chance that you were eerily You

458
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 2: were really into Vikings line. You watched Vikings lines painfully.

459
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 2: You have to admit this.

460
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 3: No, I was delighted by it. Are you kidding me?

461
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 3: The Vikings defense is unbelievable. It's not gonna be worth

462
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 3: anything because it's not like they're going to the postseason.

463
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 1: Either, But to watch Detroit be put.

464
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 3: In a blender that way, and I'm no active rooting

465
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 3: interest or the one way or the other in that situation.

466
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 1: But FITZI, we.

467
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 3: Talked about this before the Christmas football took place. We

468
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 3: talked about how bad the games were gonna be. We

469
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 3: knew that this was gonna be the case. I told

470
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: you then, I was ready for it. I was built

471
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 3: for this. All I do in my life is cover

472
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 3: bad football. You know what I'm doing on Sunday. I

473
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 3: got the Titans hosting the Saints here in Nashville. That's

474
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 3: gonna be what my life is. So welcome, America. Welcome.

475
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 3: It's that Homer Simpson meme where he's patting the couch

476
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 3: and staring at people with dead eyes, saying, come on

477
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 3: in here and take a seat on the playoff eliminated

478
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 3: football train. It was glorious to be able to have

479
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 3: the rest of the country participate in what I've been

480
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 3: doing for basically four seasons.

481
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 2: I have now figured it out after all of our

482
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 2: years of knowing each other. You are the ghost of Christmas, past, present,

483
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 2: and future all wrapped in one. All right, there's a

484
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,679
Speaker 2: little bit of darkness to what's happened, and there's a

485
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 2: little darkness to where there is and there's a little

486
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Speaker 2: darkness for what's to come.

487
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Speaker 1: Home all in one.

488
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Speaker 2: Okay, you are absolutely personifying all of it. Look, this

489
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 2: is a Vikings team that I just looked it up

490
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: to make sure that I didn't have the number wrong.

491
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Speaker 2: The Vikings had a total of three net passing yards

492
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 2: three net passing yards and they won this game twenty

493
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 2: three to ten. Like you're right, part of it was

494
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 2: in a Blender. Part of it. The Lions just came

495
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: out so flat. You have to admit that that was surprising,

496
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 2: right to see a Lions team look at disjointed. Because

497
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 2: here's my thing. Dan Campbell is supposed to be the

498
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: biiton kneecaps guy, right, So if you're the biiton neecaps guy,

499
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 2: then what you expect is when your team's back against

500
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 2: the wall, that's where you expect the bidon kneecaps guy

501
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: to come out with the thunder of the gods and

502
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 2: have a team that comes out of the tunnel feeling

503
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 2: like they are ready to absolutely destroy the world. And

504
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 2: instead it just it looked disjointed, which is kind of

505
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 2: how the Lions have looked. Oh, you're they're too talented

506
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,719
Speaker 2: to not even be in the playoffs. This is I

507
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: think of all of the fails in the NFL this year,

508
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: this might be the shocking to me.

509
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's an interesting question.

510
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Speaker 3: Of all of the fails in the NFL this year,

511
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 3: what would be the most shocking. I guess Washington would

512
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 3: not be because we felt like that was a regression candidate. Anyway,

513
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 3: we did not have on the on the scorecard that

514
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 3: Jane Daniels would miss I mean, at this point almost

515
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 3: the entire season and dealing with the level of injury

516
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 3: that he's been dealing with. I'm looking at I'm trying

517
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 3: to think of other NFL fails that might surprise me.

518
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 3: Are we surprised that the Raiders are this god awful

519
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 3: for all of the things that we thought might.

520
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Speaker 2: It is early in the morning to throw that level

521
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Speaker 2: of Raiders shade right at me.

522
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Speaker 1: I mean, I no, no, no, no, it's not right at you.

523
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: It's just it's a it's five am here.

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Speaker 3: This is what you get from making me do radio

525
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Speaker 3: this earlier.

526
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Speaker 1: I am I am surprised.

527
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Speaker 3: I mean, I am surprised that the Raiders are as

528
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 3: just miserable as they are. Fitsy, I don't know what

529
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 3: your expectations is for the rest of America that may

530
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 3: not know. Jason Fitz is a Las Vegas Raiders fan,

531
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 3: and he's been in hell for basically twenty years. At

532
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 3: this point in time, they're two and thirteen. I didn't

533
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 3: think that Pete Carroll and Tom Brady and Chip Kelly

534
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: when he was still employed there, and Gino Smith and

535
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 3: Ashton Genty and Max Crosby and all these different things.

536
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 3: I didn't think two and thirteen was in the cards.

537
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 3: If I'm being honest, that's probably the biggest fail in

538
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Speaker 3: the NFL to me.

539
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I wasn't even thinking of the bad teams,

540
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 2: because the bad teams are always bad.

541
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Speaker 3: But they weren't supposed to be that bad, right, that's

542
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 3: your thing? Like they weren't supposed to be the worst.

543
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 3: They are the worst.

544
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: Is this start to feel like it's just a personal attack.

545
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening here, Like this feels like

546
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 2: maybe we're working on a little Christmas aggression here, Like

547
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,120
Speaker 2: feels like maybe you're a little Christmas hanger, Like maybe

548
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: you need a little leg nock this morning, because I

549
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 2: feels like that's a person of that.

550
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: Look here's what No, I just didn't I didn't get to.

551
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Speaker 3: This is the first day all week later yesterday that

552
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 3: I didn't spend in front of a microphone. So I've

553
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 3: just been building up the amount of amount of sports

554
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 3: talk dialogue that we were going to have this morning.

555
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: This is your fault forgive me a day off yesterday.

556
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: You're right somehow back There's no doubt. It's absolutely all me.

557
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people would name the Chiefs

558
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: as the biggest disappointment or the biggest fail of all

559
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 2: of the teams that aren't going to be in the playoffs.

560
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 2: I don't, only because the Chiefs are not that different

561
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: this year than they were last year. It's just last

562
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: year they caught every break. In this year they've lost

563
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: every break. Like the amount of one score games that

564
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: the Chiefs won in weird ways over the last year

565
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 2: and a half, it's just sort of, you know, that

566
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 2: is regressed to the means. So I think Kansas City

567
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: is disappointing, but also Kansas City has been getting away

568
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: with it for a minute. Also, maybe when I say

569
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Speaker 2: biggest fail, I also think about how difficult it is

570
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 2: to rebound from that. Like, do any of us really

571
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: believe that the Chiefs are going to be down and out.

572
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 2: Not really, I don't anyway. I mean, they're still going

573
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 2: to have at some point Patrick Mahomes comes back healthy.

574
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 2: At some point Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes reunited. It's

575
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 2: all gonna be fine. They're gonna get a higher draft

576
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 2: pick somehow this year, and they're gonna figure out a

577
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 2: way to fix some of this. The solution is in

578
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 2: as easy for the Lions. I think part of it

579
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: is when you've gone from being a darling that nobody

580
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: expected to all of a sudden now one of the

581
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 2: more dominant teams, which the Lions have been for the

582
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 2: last few years. At some point you got to seal

583
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: the deal and they didn't. And that's fine until you

584
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 2: look at the future. They are wildly over the cap

585
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: next year, like they have a tough cap situation, and

586
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: they also have a bunch of young guys. They got

587
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: to start figuring out how to pay now. I do

588
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: believe teams can get themselves out of salary cap. He's

589
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: just you change some of the contracts around. But if

590
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 2: it's a how do the Lions fix this, I don't

591
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: think it's easy to fix. If you're looking at things

592
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 2: down and you're like, oh, we're forty or fifty million

593
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 2: dollars over the cap, and by the way, we're gonna

594
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 2: have to figure out how we're about to pay Jamier Gibbs,

595
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have to figure out how we're about

596
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 2: to pay Sam Laporta. Like they got deals they're gonna

597
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: have to get done for young talent that has exceeded

598
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 2: expectation or at least been you know, epic players in

599
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: this league. They got a lot of money to show out.

600
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 2: There's no easy solution for the Lions. So maybe that's

601
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 2: why it feels so drastic to me.

602
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I'm just I'm not wringing my hands

603
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 3: that much. Because if you told me at the start

604
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: of the season that Detroit both of their coordinators on

605
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 3: offense and defense were going to get head coaching jobs

606
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 3: and the team that won, I mean, how many games

607
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 3: the Lions win last year?

608
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: Fifteen? Is that right? Fourteen? Or fifteen last year or fifteen?

609
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: I believe it was fifteen because they got that one

610
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 3: over the Vikings at the end.

611
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Loves or the Vikings went fourteen.

612
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you'd told me that that was going

613
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: to be the case, and that Dan Campbell was going

614
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 3: to take over play calling, you know, halfway through the season,

615
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: and that they would finish eight to nine, assuming that

616
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: they don't beat the Bears this coming in week eighteen,

617
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 3: and assuming the Bears need to continue to win games

618
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 3: to I mean, as they try to make the hell

619
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 3: they can make a push for the one seat if

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00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: they wanted to at this point in time, or if

621
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Speaker 3: things fell in their favor, I would have felt that

622
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: that was right. Like, it's not a bottoming out for

623
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: a team that's not a bottom dweller. But that's a

624
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 3: lot to overcome in a season where basically everything that

625
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: you needed to go right in twenty twenty four went

626
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 3: correctly because yesterday, I mean, the thing that concerns you

627
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: the most is not even about their future fits a year,

628
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 3: although I'm sure fans are wringing their hands and talking

629
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 3: about offseason needs and I'm sure calling for coaches to

630
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 3: be fired and things like that, because Detroit, I mean,

631
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 3: last year was their year, right. I don't know if

632
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: have you been to Detroit recently when the Lions have

633
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 3: been good. I don't know when the last time you

634
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 3: spent time in the city.

635
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: It's been a few years. Since I was in Detroit.

636
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, Titans played up there last year. It was my

637
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: first time in Detroit. The place is buzzing, right. They've

638
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: got this huge banner on the side of a skyscraper

639
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 3: right in the middle of dight downtown Detroit that says,

640
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: this is our year, and it's got all these different

641
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 3: things listing why the Lions are built for this, and

642
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 3: you know how the resurgence is going to bring everybody

643
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 3: you know, every buddy along with it, and how much

644
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: it means to the city and all these different things.

645
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 3: And then you're eight nine. You're looking around and me like,

646
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: whim is our year? Because our year feels like it

647
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 3: might have been twenty twenty four. And at that point

648
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 3: in time, it's to your point. It's kind of slipping

649
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 3: through their fingers. The thing that concerns you the most,

650
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: honestly though, was golf. And golf was terrible yesterday, and

651
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 3: I think in part it's because Taylor Decker, their left tackle,

652
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 3: was ruled out. He was dealing with an illness. They

653
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 3: just couldn't run the ball, they couldn't protect him well enough.

654
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 3: The Vikings defense is good against anybody, no matter who

655
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: they play, on any given night, if you've got your

656
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Speaker 3: starters or your backups out there. They had eight turnovers

657
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Speaker 3: through Week sixteen, FITSI for the fewest in the NFL.

658
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Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions did, and they end with a season

659
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Speaker 3: high six turnovers in Minnesota. Like, I just have to

660
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Speaker 3: think that that's a little bit of an anomaly to

661
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Speaker 3: not put too much stock in moving forward. Now, again,

662
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Speaker 3: what you're saying is accurate, Like they've got a lot

663
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Speaker 3: of different things to work through here, and this is

664
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Speaker 3: why it's difficult to sustain a kind of championship competitive

665
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Speaker 3: window in the NFL. The sport is kind of built

666
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Speaker 3: to not allow you to prolong that window beyond what

667
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Speaker 3: would be the normal cycle. In the normal cycle, I

668
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Speaker 3: don't know, it feels like three years for a team

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Speaker 3: to be competitive at the highest level, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Need that to not be true, Like you're right, but

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Speaker 2: I need that to not Like, think about this, think

672
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Speaker 2: about what you just said. Your window opens and it's

673
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Speaker 2: three or four years. So if you are a Lions.

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Speaker 1: Fan, you have.

675
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Speaker 2: Lived, I should say, through a level of suck that

676
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Speaker 2: is just a gut punch. And you mentioned that you

677
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Speaker 2: cover the Titans. I'm a Raiders fan. We know bad football.

678
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Speaker 2: You spend a generation generations, You spend years with your

679
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Speaker 2: grandparents apologizing for your fandom of a team that sucks.

680
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Speaker 2: Because the window to suck seems like it's I don't know,

681
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Speaker 2: thirty years, but the window to be great it's like

682
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Speaker 2: three or four. Let me think about that. You suffer generationally,

683
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 2: year in, year out, over and over and over again.

684
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Speaker 2: You finally get to the spot that you're good. If

685
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Speaker 2: you're a Lions fan, you're looking around like, finally we

686
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Speaker 2: are not the laughing stuck. We are one of the

687
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Speaker 2: teams that has a legitimate shot in the NFL. And

688
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Speaker 2: then it's like, well, you might have missed your window.

689
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: The window really only lasts three years. What the hell like,

690
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Speaker 2: you went through thirty years and suck to get three

691
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Speaker 2: years good? That seems just holy I know fares where

692
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Speaker 2: a big gets a ribbon, but that just seems wholly

693
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Speaker 2: unfair in the life of any of us as sports fans.

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Speaker 3: Oh sure, no, it's not fair. It's not fair at all.

695
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Speaker 3: It's miserable. It's hell, it's it's it's it's the knife

696
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Speaker 3: in the side that somebody will just keep twisting.

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Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of it. Because that's how the

698
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Speaker 1: NFL keeps you hooked. Baby.

699
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Speaker 3: They don't want you to realize that it's only a

700
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Speaker 3: three year window. They want you to think that you've got,

701
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Speaker 3: you know, ten years of a competitive cycle. They want

702
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Speaker 3: you to think that the franchise quarterback that you drafted

703
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Speaker 3: as somebody who's gonna carry you for fifteen, you know,

704
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Speaker 3: ten to fifteen years. That's not how this works at all.

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Speaker 3: It's once you have the scales removed from your eyes

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Speaker 3: and you actually look at the way that this thing

707
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Speaker 3: is structured to understand, no, no, no, three years is about

708
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Speaker 3: all you get. Like the best stretch of just to

709
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Speaker 3: bring things local for me, the best stretch of Titans

710
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Speaker 3: football that I've covered was Mike Malarkey into Mike Vrabel.

711
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Speaker 3: Six consecutive winning seasons and they went to the postseason

712
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Speaker 3: what four times in that six years?

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Speaker 1: They beat the odds. That's the anomaly. Are you kidding me?

714
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Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans are not supposed to have six consecutive winning

715
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Speaker 3: seasons and make it of the postseason four times in

716
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 3: those six years? Nonsense, But they did it, and it

717
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: gave people unrealistic expectations, and it's going to keep people

718
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Speaker 3: hooked on the hope that they can.

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Speaker 1: Do it again, and cam Ord is going to lead

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Speaker 1: them to the Promised.

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Speaker 3: Land and all these different things, when in reality, you

722
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Speaker 3: look at the percentage of time that a first round

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Speaker 3: quarterback is selected by a franchise that even wins a

724
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Speaker 3: playoff game, a single playoff game for the team that

725
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Speaker 3: drafted him, it happens like forty six percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: The odds are not in your favor when it comes

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Speaker 2: We're in on two pros and a cup of Joe.

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure to get this little nugget in.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't help in the world of buck telling Lions

741
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Speaker 2: fans that your hearts are about to be broken for

742
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Speaker 2: anyone that hasn't looked against Jared Goff's only thirty one

743
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Speaker 2: years old. There's plenty they can do with this contract

744
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Speaker 2: to work things around. Monetarily, it is worth noting he

745
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: has three years left on his deal of money of

746
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Speaker 2: cap number, I should say, only one year left of

747
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Speaker 2: guaranteed salary, so they're gonna rework his deal. His cap

748
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Speaker 2: number next year is almost seventy million dollars, his cap

749
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Speaker 2: number the year after that is forty or fifty five ish,

750
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Speaker 2: and then sixty two ish. They're gonna have to rework

751
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Speaker 2: Jared Goff's deal. Where this gets here, and that's no

752
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: big deal. That's where they're going to create a bunch

753
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Speaker 2: of room and maybe everything's gonna be fine, but eventually

754
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Speaker 2: you kick the can down far enough, eventually they are

755
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: going to have to pay the piper, and that piper

756
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: is going to be Jared Goff. So it is a

757
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Speaker 2: reminder that there's been a couple of times that we've

758
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Speaker 2: seen Jared Goff be no less than what we want

759
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Speaker 2: Jared Goff to be in some of these. He was

760
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Speaker 2: absolutely wretched yesterday and I just kept looking at that saying,

761
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Speaker 2: that's a seventy million dollar quarterback. Texture Again, by the

762
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Speaker 2: time they do the deal, it won't be they'll work

763
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Speaker 2: his money around, but it's just who. It's gonna be

764
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Speaker 2: expensive to be a star for the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely, And that's something that I think

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Speaker 3: that I think a lot of fan bases are having

767
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768
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769
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Speaker 1: And it's why I'm looking forward to the conversation that

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Speaker 1: we're going.

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Speaker 3: To have next FITZI about what Charles Barklay had to

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Speaker 3: say about the NFL, because I think there's a lot

774
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Speaker 3: of interesting elements here that are worth peeling back, a

775
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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I got look you're over here

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782
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795
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Speaker 2: the NFL. Hear me out that right now are trash.

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Speaker 2: They're the trash use of trash. They are the oscar

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Speaker 2: the grouches of the entire football slate. They are trash matchups.

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Speaker 2: But how far are we off from the NFL turning

839
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Speaker 2: these trash matchups into massive marketing opportunities. I know it

840
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Speaker 2: sounds weird, but you have the Saints taking on the Titans,

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Speaker 2: all right, that's a terrible football game. You also have

842
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Speaker 2: the Giants taking on the Raiders. That is right, Giants

843
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: Raiders a game nobody wants to see. The loser of

844
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 2: that game will have the inside track for the first

845
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: overall pick in the NFL draft. There are still it

846
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 2: gets very complicated. The methodology and the strength of schedule

847
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: is going to come into play all these things, but

848
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Speaker 2: the loser of that game has the inside track to

849
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Speaker 2: the point. Then now suddenly what we've seen is, you know,

850
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Speaker 2: the Raiders put Brock Powers on injury reserve and they're

851
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Speaker 2: starting safety Jeremy Chin on an injury reserve. What do

852
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: you know comes out in the practice report? Max Crosby

853
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Speaker 2: hasn't practiced the last few days. Prom we usually he

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Speaker 2: would play in these situations. Who knows. The Giants put

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Speaker 2: out their list of inactives because the injury expected for

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Speaker 2: this game, and it's basically half their roster. You've got

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Speaker 2: two teams, like we in a world book where everybody

858
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Speaker 2: screams constantly about tanking in the NBA, You've got two

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Speaker 2: teams that are outwardly tanking for the first pick in

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Speaker 2: the NFL draft. And as popular as draft content has become,

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Speaker 2: I just think it's amazing that not only are fans

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Speaker 2: buying in, fans are okay with it, Like the same

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Speaker 2: fans that yell about tanking in the NBA, All good

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Speaker 2: with tanking these games in the NFL, and everybody believes

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Speaker 2: that it's going to be this great hope that gets

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Speaker 2: you to the first overall pick and that's kind of

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Speaker 2: fixed everything. When will the NFL start selling this misery

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Speaker 2: as the reason to watch these games?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that's an interesting perspective. I just I don't know

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Speaker 3: that that can ever be a viable marketing plan for them.

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Speaker 1: Like, they can't say the quiet part out loud? Can they?

872
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: In that league more than any other league.

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Speaker 3: I know the NBA is dealing with a variety of

874
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 3: different legal situations right now that you know, beyond just

875
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 3: acknowledging that tanking would be a thing and actively trying

876
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 3: to find ways to keep teams from tanking.

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Speaker 1: I just fitzy, I.

878
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Speaker 3: Don't ever think that they by definition, I don't think

879
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 3: that tanking is real in the NFL, because you will

880
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 3: never get me to believe in a world that we

881
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 3: have professional football players and coaches who don't care about

882
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 3: the draft picks out there playing football games, that the

883
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 3: people on the field actually involved with the games are

884
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Speaker 3: going to give less than full effort.

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Speaker 2: We do agree on that. I don't believe a player

886
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 2: ever tanks that's why these players are left inactive. They

887
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Speaker 2: a player will never tank during the game. I agree

888
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Speaker 2: with you on that.

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Speaker 3: Sure, So in these in these situations, I don't know

890
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Speaker 3: if there is a huge economy around the NFL offseason,

891
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 3: whether it be draft, free agency, coaching carousel, all of

892
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 3: this different things, like we've turned it into economy unto itself,

893
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Speaker 3: into an industry unto itself.

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Speaker 1: Hell I would.

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Speaker 3: I would argue, based on some of the draft stuff

896
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Speaker 3: I see or some of the popularity of it, that

897
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Speaker 3: some people actually like the off season more than they

898
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 3: actually more than they enjoy the actual regular season. I

899
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Speaker 3: don't think that the NFL can, at least outwardly ever

900
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 3: talk about it in the terms that you're talking about it,

901
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 3: even though they understand. There's plenty of executives that understand

902
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 3: the popularity that is the personnel acquisition process.

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Speaker 2: You're probably right, and you know, yes, I think the

904
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Speaker 2: draft has become so wildly huge because it sells hope.

905
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Speaker 2: Every single fan base believes that their team just turned

906
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: a corner, even though the numbers show that your team

907
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: won't turn a corner, especially if they're picking first. Overall,

908
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: they're not going to pick a turn a quick corner

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Speaker 2: for sure. I just wonder how far off we are

910
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Speaker 2: from saying the quiet thing out loud just because the

911
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 2: NFL gets in front of everything. So the NFL gets

912
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 2: away with saying the quiet thing out loud all the time,

913
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Speaker 2: and people buy into it. I am alarmed at how

914
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Speaker 2: accepting everybody is of the fact that great players are

915
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Speaker 2: going to be left on the field, off the field

916
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Speaker 2: just for the purpose of tanking. There is one team

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Speaker 2: we haven't talked enough about that could surprise the entire NFL.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it next Two Pros and a cuple

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