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Speaker 2: No, I'm so excited to be talking with you today

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Speaker 2: because there is so much going on in this weird

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Speaker 2: Oh so yes, this is the the weird week, right,

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Speaker 2: We're all waiting for super Bowl to get here, but

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Speaker 2: that doesn't mean we don't have stuff to talk about. Specifically,

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Speaker 2: We're going to start with Caleb Williams and the drama

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Speaker 2: surrounding the number one overall.

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Speaker 3: Pick with the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: Just when you think it's over and we're gonna wait

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Speaker 2: until April. No, no, no, there's another story coming out that

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Speaker 2: he is very still reluctant to be drafted by the

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears at number one overall, and I am just

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Speaker 2: more confused than ever. I will say, first of all,

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Speaker 2: I am so glad I am not the Bears and that.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to make this decision. Really, yes, I

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Speaker 3: would not like to make this decision, if I'm being

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Speaker 3: honest with you. I look at it and I'm like, okay.

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Speaker 2: So we have Justin Fields, who you know, this year

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Speaker 2: improved in all of his passing and the thing, the

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Speaker 2: one thing I wonder with Justin Fields, obviously he's gonna

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Speaker 2: ask to be paid, right, He's coming up on that.

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Speaker 2: So this year was Field's best year most attempts, most completions,

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Speaker 2: most yards, played, two less games than last year, and

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Speaker 2: still has better numbers. So he's improving. But he's obviously

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Speaker 2: gonna ask for more money. And I think that's the

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Speaker 2: big question. How much money is he going to ask for?

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Speaker 2: Then you have Caleb Williams, which has been described as

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Speaker 2: the best, the best prospect.

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Speaker 3: The NFL has seen in years.

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Speaker 2: And I was reading their you know, the information that

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Speaker 2: they gave out right before the report's coming out of college,

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Speaker 2: right and there was one line in Caleb's report scouting

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Speaker 2: report at the bottom that just has me fixiated on

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Speaker 2: that that he has that this is a franchise altering upside.

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Speaker 2: He has a franch franchise altering upside. And That's where

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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, then is this the answer obvious? And

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Speaker 2: I'm just stupid because I don't find the answer obvious.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I don't have to do this.

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Speaker 4: But I think let me, let me just quick, just

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Speaker 4: dove in. I do think that this is also a

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Speaker 4: victim of we're sitting here on February third, Sure, like

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Speaker 4: the season is still kind of close. Sure, but when

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Speaker 4: you like get into the off season more and more,

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Speaker 4: I think your mind kind of clears out. And there

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Speaker 4: may be some who say, all right, I didn't believe

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Speaker 4: in Justin Fields at all. He's not my quarterback. Maybe

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Speaker 4: his that off season goes they look back and look

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Speaker 4: back at some of the things that he did and

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Speaker 4: say Okay, all right, maybe I like Justin Fields right now.

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Speaker 4: You've got a little time. Now, you don't have all

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Speaker 4: the time in the world of view of the Bears,

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Speaker 4: but you know, this stuff happens when a season ends,

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Speaker 4: you know, three or four weeks ago, like it did.

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Speaker 4: There's still a lot, a lot to digest when it

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Speaker 2: Totally one and next week we might hear a different report.

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Speaker 2: But the latest report once again was that he's hesitant,

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Speaker 2: reluctant to want to go to Chicago.

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Speaker 3: And then that confuses me because I don't what's so

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Speaker 3: bad about Chicago. It's a good market.

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Speaker 2: They have some a great market, right that you'd want

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Speaker 2: is not what you want. But you know, I don't

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Speaker 2: you think Joe Burrow wanted to go to Ohio? Do

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Speaker 3: It just is the way it is. But I think

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Speaker 3: Chicago is a great market.

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Speaker 4: what I'm starting to feel with this Caleb Williams thing.

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Speaker 4: I know that there was a fake tweet sent out

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Speaker 4: but to the point of what we're hearing this week,

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Speaker 4: what we've maybe heard since Caleb Williams stopped playing football

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Speaker 4: for USC, I do think that there is something there,

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Speaker 4: having an opportunity to stop this sort of chatter, and

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Speaker 4: I think we fully know what is going on here.

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Speaker 4: And if he doesn't stop the chatter, he's an idiot.

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Speaker 4: Because of what you started to lay out, what the

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Speaker 4: Bears have and the Bears aren't the Bears of last year.

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Speaker 4: The Bears have more pieces their defense the second half

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Speaker 4: more reason to want to be the first to ultimately succeed.

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Speaker 4: And that is what is crazy. So Caleb Williams, if

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Speaker 4: it ends up being the case that he doesn't want

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Speaker 4: be treated like a god in that city if you

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Speaker 4: have just marginal success. Jim McMahon is still treated as

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Speaker 4: you can be a hero. Look at the Cubs, you know,

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Speaker 4: ending the curse in twenty sixteen. How Chris Bryant and

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Speaker 4: Anthony Rizzo and all those players are looked at like

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Speaker 4: they are gods. No matter where they play in Major

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Speaker 4: League Baseball for the rest of their careers, they're always

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Speaker 4: going to be the one. Caleb Williams has that opportunity,

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Speaker 4: and for him to turn it away from that, if

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Speaker 4: that's the case, completely awful.

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Speaker 3: Look, completely awful.

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Speaker 4: Look.

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Speaker 2: And you're right, he has plenty of time to address it,

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Speaker 2: to say something about it. But other if I'm if

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Speaker 2: I'm another team and I'm seeing this unravel, That's how

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Speaker 3: It's like, how do you not want the challenge?

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Speaker 2: You saw Joe Burrow literally turn the Bengals around, and

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Speaker 2: he doesn't have the greatest O line and he was

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Speaker 2: able to do it. Caleb Williams, like you just said,

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Speaker 2: actually walks into a slightly better situation in a great market.

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Speaker 3: How other teams aren't paying attention to this?

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like you have to know it's affecting

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Speaker 2: everybody else's opinion of you, not just the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 4: I think storry to cuth Off. But I also think

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Speaker 4: that the NIF has changed in since Eli Manning did

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Speaker 4: this twenty years ago in terms of, you know, Eli

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Speaker 4: Manning didn't want to go to San Diego and wanted

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Speaker 4: to go to New York, you know, better market, maybe

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Speaker 4: didn't like how the team was being built, didn't like

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Speaker 4: what they had in San Diego. I get all of that,

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Speaker 4: but you can't say in today's NFL now, that you

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Speaker 4: have a better chance to win, say in one market

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Speaker 4: Bears have pretty good people in that building right now,

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Speaker 4: from what we've seen, at least soon. And if they don't, Monci.

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Speaker 4: If let's say Matt Eberflus is a head coach, is

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Speaker 4: awful next season and things fall apart and you still

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Speaker 4: have Caleb Williams, Guess what, Caleb Williams, you likely get

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Speaker 4: to help hire the next coach because there is so

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Speaker 4: much of an investment in you. Now. I'm not saying

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Speaker 4: Bear and sabotage the head coach, but it is all

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Speaker 4: arrows are all pointing up for any opportunity for him

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Speaker 3: To Chicago, right, So why is he trying to control

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Speaker 3: this so much? Right? It just makes no sense.

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Speaker 2: And again, if I'm the Bears and I decide, okay,

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Speaker 2: maybe we go with Caleb Williams, I would be afraid

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Speaker 2: that like he's gonna dip out the many he can

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Speaker 2: if he truly doesn't want to be there and we

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Speaker 2: draft him anyway, I can't trust that he's gonna want

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Speaker 2: an organization. When you have this other quarterback that seems

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Speaker 2: like he wants to be there now. Granted the whole

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Speaker 2: like he's coming up on his five years where he's

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Speaker 3: I get all of that.

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Speaker 2: That's really the only thing that I sit and wonder

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Speaker 2: whether you stick with Justin Fields or whether you take

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Speaker 2: this chance on this best prospect the NFL has seen

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Speaker 2: in years that can change your franchise.

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Speaker 4: I am a Justin Fields fan. I loved him obviously

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Speaker 4: when he played at Ohio State, and I thought he

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Speaker 4: did great things at Ohio State. I will also say this,

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Speaker 4: it's not that Justin Fields can't improve.

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Speaker 3: More like right, but he hasn't pursed you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but you've given enough time. You've obviously seen

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Speaker 4: the flashes. We've all seen the flashes, the ability to

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Speaker 4: with his legs. There seems to be a little rapport

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Speaker 4: with DJ Moore, but for some reason, the passing game

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Speaker 4: hasn't caught up. I think you've given him enough time.

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Speaker 4: I think now is the opportunity. You don't waste this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: You struck. You hit the lottery when you traded the

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Speaker 4: deal that they made last year for number one overall

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Speaker 4: so bad that they gave you the number one overall

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Speaker 4: pick again the next year. Like that doesn't happen in

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Speaker 4: the National Football League. You cannot continue to bet and

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Speaker 4: have these things move forward. Even if he doesn't want

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Speaker 4: to go. Like you said, Manzi, tough beans, take him anyway,

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Speaker 4: call him on his bluff. You're really gonna have Caleb

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Speaker 4: Williams sit out in an entire season and then, you know,

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Speaker 4: not want to play for the Bears. Not going to happen.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's absurd. The only thing that I could

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Speaker 4: try to say, all right, Chicago, maybe you want to

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Speaker 4: trade this pick, because we haven't heard from Kleb Williams.

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Speaker 4: Who knows if teams are sending these little things out there.

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Speaker 4: If you're New England or you're Washington and you're picking

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Speaker 4: right behind the Bears like you are, and you want

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Speaker 4: Caleb Williams, you want that franchise quarterback, maybe they're the

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Speaker 4: He's got a huge opportunity. And even if he said

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Speaker 4: I don't care bluff, No way call his bluff.

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Speaker 5: There are people in Chicago right now that will post

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Speaker 5: So if Caleb Williams turns that around, like yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: I feel like there's pros and cons to book, But Dan,

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Speaker 4: I think they've given Justin Fields enough time to really decide.

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Speaker 2: Take the franchise quarterback. You're selling it, but I'm still

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Speaker 2: It's kind of something you just do not want to

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. Offered me free pizza anywhere. I would take it.

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Speaker 4: MONTI imagine all the Polish sausage that you could acquire after,

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's Chicago, maybe it's not. But we definitely have

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Speaker 2: And I am dancing because I do love this song

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Speaker 4: coaching experience and finally the Commanders named dan Quinn their

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Speaker 4: head coach. It took him forever, but I even in

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Speaker 4: looking at those three gigs Falcons looking for a quarterback.

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Speaker 4: In dan Quinn's situation, they're looking for a lot trying

440
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Speaker 4: to figure out, you know, what do you do with

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Speaker 4: Sam Howell. Likely he's moving on because of where you

442
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Speaker 4: picking the draft. So you can get Drake May you know,

443
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Speaker 4: or Jayden Daniels, or try to trade up to get

444
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Speaker 4: number one to get Caleb Williams, but to have Justin

445
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Speaker 4: Herbert in place, to have Harbaugh's pedigree. I just think

446
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Speaker 4: that's the obvious. I think that's the obvious number one.

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Speaker 4: I also think that number eight is obvious. Like in

448
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Speaker 4: terms of if I were to rank them, Manzie, I

449
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Speaker 4: think the toughest job is actually Brian Callahan and Tennessee

450
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Speaker 4: because you haven't yet transitioned from the team that you

451
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Speaker 4: had been to the team that you want to become.

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Speaker 4: And one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL

453
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Speaker 4: last season. We don't think Derrek Henry is going to return.

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Speaker 4: We don't know if will Levis is really the long

455
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Speaker 4: term answer there. I think that those two are to me,

456
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Speaker 4: they're obvious Chargers one Titans, if I were to rank them,

457
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Speaker 4: would be would be last. It's the six others that

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Speaker 4: I find intriguing in who you could move where and

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Speaker 4: the pluses and minuses in what those jobs entail.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree that the obvious answer is, you know,

461
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Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers they already have Justin Herbert.

462
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Speaker 2: But after that, I think that Raheem Morris and the

463
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Speaker 2: Falcons have a pretty nice situation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they're looking for a quarterback. I get all that,

465
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Speaker 3: but maybe.

466
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Speaker 2: They gave Russell Wilson, maybe they get Kirk Cousins, maybe

467
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Speaker 2: they get Baker Mayfield. They're in the NFC South, which

468
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Speaker 2: to me is it's wide open. You can one turn

469
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Speaker 2: this around. You also have the eighth overall pick. You

470
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Speaker 2: have Bjeon Robinson. Kyle Pitts turned it around towards the

471
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Speaker 2: end of the season. I feel like Atlanta, and I've

472
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Speaker 2: been saying this, I feel like Atlanta was a very

473
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Speaker 2: you know, desirable place when all of these vacancies became open.

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Speaker 2: I was like, Atlanta seems like to me a place

475
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Speaker 2: that I would want to go and try to make

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Speaker 2: things happen because there are more answered questions, Like you're

477
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Speaker 2: talking about the Titans. The Times is just like you

478
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Speaker 2: don't know, you know what's going to happen. There's so

479
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Speaker 2: many open questions with Derrick Henry. Like you said, Will Levis,

480
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Speaker 2: we don't know. But do you get rid of them

481
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Speaker 2: and just try it again? Who knows? But I feel

482
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Speaker 2: like the Falcons have a much easier route to success.

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Speaker 4: Do you think do you think Bill Belichick only a

484
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Speaker 4: kind of exclumebsolutely talked to them. He did have a

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Speaker 4: conversation with the commanders, but get a second interview with

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Speaker 4: the Falcons. Do you think that he spoke with the

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Speaker 4: Falcons because he thought he could get the power there

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Speaker 4: or because he liked what they had there in place?

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Speaker 3: I think both. I would think it was a little

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Speaker 3: bit of both.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he thought he could keep the power

492
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Speaker 2: there and he was like, but I like the pieces

493
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Speaker 2: already surrounding it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the NFC again, the NFC South is just open,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's a big part of it, because, yeah, listen,

498
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Speaker 2: Jim Harbas says he wants a bunch of championships.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're in a tough division. You're in a hard division,

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Speaker 3: and I hope you as a Chargers fan, I hope

501
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Speaker 3: you can pull it off. I'm all for it.

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Speaker 2: But you're in a tough division, especially with I think

503
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Speaker 2: the Raiders are also in a good position.

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Speaker 3: They're just in a tough division.

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Speaker 2: But yes, you know Antonio Pierce, like we just said

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Speaker 2: in the last segment, you were talking about how you

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Speaker 2: can't just have talent. You need to have people around

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Speaker 2: to kind of create an environment, create a culture. And

509
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Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce did that when he took over. Everybody trusts him.

510
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Speaker 2: They turned it around immediately, and I think that's like

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Speaker 2: a big driving force for the Raiders.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I'll say it quickly about that is

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Speaker 4: I do think it's different when now it's your team. Fully,

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Speaker 4: I think they got a lot of juice exiting the

515
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Speaker 4: McDaniels era and entering the Antonio Pierce era. I think

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Speaker 4: entering now is the full time job. You don't have

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Speaker 4: that heat, you know that the excite day to deal with,

518
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Speaker 4: or just even the like you know, thank goodness he's gone,

519
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Speaker 4: sort of relief of Josh McDaniels. Now it's a full

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Speaker 4: time gig if you're Antonio Pierce. And I think the

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Speaker 4: viber on the Raiders is different. In addition to now

522
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Speaker 4: dealing with the Chiefs and the Chargers in Jim Harbaugh

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Speaker 4: in your division.

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Speaker 2: Fair, but he has to feel good that they wanted

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Speaker 2: him there. Everybody wants to feel wanted. Yes, you know,

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Speaker 2: it helps breath mentally, It just helps you know that

527
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Speaker 2: the team wanted you there.

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Speaker 3: So I think he's also in a good position.

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Speaker 2: All right, Why don't we check in with Brian Finley

530
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Speaker 2: and see what's going on in the world of sports.

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Speaker 11: It's going on, everybody going on, and we do, including

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Speaker 11: what's happening with Cliff Cliff Kingsbury right now, as he

533
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Speaker 11: seems to be a front runner for the Washington Commander's

534
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Speaker 11: offensive coordinator opening that according to the multiple outlets, this

535
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Speaker 11: after he called his own personal audible on the Las

536
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Speaker 11: Vegas Raiders. He said in a verbal agreement, according to reports,

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Speaker 11: that he wanted to be their O see in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 11: and then contract talks didn't go as plan, he said,

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Speaker 11: I'm out of there. And now that he is no

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Speaker 11: longer in the running for that position for Las Vegas,

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Speaker 11: there is some speculation that Chip Kelly might be the

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Speaker 11: guy they reach out to. He's already had two interviews

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Speaker 11: with Las Vegas in the last couple of days in

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Speaker 11: the NBA.

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Speaker 9: Dwell and bid.

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Speaker 11: According to reports, as a displaced flap of the meniscus

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Speaker 11: in his left knee.

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Speaker 9: So there are two options for him. He can either

549
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Speaker 9: rest and rehab or he can have surgery.

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Speaker 11: Big news in the world of soccer killing him, bobwe

551
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Speaker 11: He has decided to join Real Madrid once his contract

552
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Speaker 11: with Paris Saint Germain ends this summer. This all according

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Speaker 11: to ESPN and the world of college basketball. Right now,

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Speaker 11: a couple of teams involved in Top twenty five action

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Speaker 11: that would include number seventeen Utah State. They are trailing

556
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Speaker 11: San Diego State forty two to thirty six, that is

557
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Speaker 11: at the half, and you can watch the game on

558
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Speaker 11: Fox Television. Number eight Kansas at home and they right

559
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Speaker 11: now are sticking it to number four Houston twenty four

560
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Speaker 11: to fifteen hundred nine minutes to play in the first half.

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Speaker 11: There in a battle of two teams in the Big

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Speaker 11: twelve to a final week go and number one in

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Speaker 11: the country Yukon seventy seven to sixty four winners against

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Speaker 11: Saint John's number nine Marquette Thrills and a ninety one

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Speaker 11: to fifty seven of victory against Georgetown. If you've got

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Speaker 11: golf happening right now in Mexico at the Maya Coppo

567
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Speaker 11: Open Live Golf second round action, Jaqe Neeman leads all

568
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Speaker 11: at fourteen utter. He's two hundred today through nine holes.

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Speaker 11: He has a six shot lead. And then as far

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Speaker 11: as the PGA Tour is concerned, Wyndham Clark and Thomas

571
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Speaker 11: Detree are tied atop the leader board PGA Tour Pebble

572
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 11: Beach program. Now it's Wyndham Clark alone by himself in front,

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Speaker 11: sixteen under.

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Speaker 4: Saving the best tour for last, right, Brian, you know

575
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Speaker 4: PGA Tour at the end.

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Speaker 11: You know, Well, I'm looking at this leaderboard, Dan, and

577
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 11: there's a lot of names I've never seen. I mean,

578
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 11: we did have an amateur win that event in Palm Deserts.

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Speaker 9: I mean, Dolf Dad. It's a it's a it's a

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Speaker 9: fun little back and forth we have.

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Speaker 11: But no, I mean Wyndam Clark is leading right now

582
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Speaker 11: in Pristine Pebble Beach sixteen under two shot lead, third round,

583
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Speaker 11: and with that we get it back to Dan Byer

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Speaker 11: and Monty.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Brian, you're listening to Fox Sports Saturday with me,

586
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 3: Monty Belanias and Dan Byer, and I think we have

587
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 3: my guy ready right, our NBA insider Mark Medina, my buddy.

588
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: We use him here all the time. You've heard them.

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00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: We can't get enough of a Mark. Are you there?

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Speaker 12: Manse I am here. I know that you're you've been

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Speaker 12: excited because you're a fan of the best team in

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Speaker 12: the NBA.

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Speaker 3: R that's right.

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00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: That's right, And so is Brian Fanley. So we got

595
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,719
Speaker 2: two Clipper fans right here, right now. But we're actually

596
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: gonna start where the drama is more interesting with the Lakers. Now, Mark,

597
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 2: what are all of these tweets that Lebron is doing?

598
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: I mean, first he did that hourglass that's what it's called, right,

599
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: that emoji, that little hour glass emoji last week. Then

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Speaker 2: he responded to a tweet about Joel, Andbiid responded about

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Speaker 2: mister I'm blinking out on the Hawks player right now

602
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 2: that got snub from the All Star Game, Trey Young,

603
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Speaker 2: thank you, And everybody's like, ooh, this means he's gonna

604
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 2: go to Atlanta. Oh, this means he's gonna team up

605
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: with Joel Embiid.

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Speaker 3: What is all of this about?

607
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 4: Mark?

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Speaker 12: I wish I knew the answer, because Lebron James isn't

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Speaker 12: telling the answer. He was asked after a shoot around

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Speaker 12: this morning what the hour glass emoji meant, and he

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00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 12: declined to give any explanation. So all we can really

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Speaker 12: do is interpret that. You know, either it's time is

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Speaker 12: running out or he's calling for a change with the

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Speaker 12: trade deadline, you know, changing coaching staff.

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00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 12: In fairness, some people around the league, you know, as

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Speaker 12: far as executives, they think it's more about times running out,

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Speaker 12: about you know, his career and he wants to make

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Speaker 12: the best of it. But who knows. It's all for interpretation,

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Speaker 12: and I certainly think that's the intention because that's what

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Speaker 12: Lebron James does on social media.

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Speaker 4: What has gone wrong between the in season tournament in now?

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Speaker 4: I mean I would even date it back to you know,

624
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Speaker 4: their their final conference finals pushed last year. But why

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Speaker 4: why are why are the Lakers in the spot that

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Speaker 4: they are now and two months ago they were lifting

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Speaker 4: an in season trophy.

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Speaker 12: Well, it's the karma and the curse of if you're

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Speaker 12: going to celebrate a banner, you got to live up

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Speaker 12: to the excellence of what that represents, right. I think

631
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Speaker 12: in all seriousness, it's a combination of the overlapping injuries,

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Speaker 12: role players being inconsistent, and we can talk about Darbenham's

633
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Speaker 12: rotations and mismanagement of it. But I think that the

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Speaker 12: thing that I have trouble wrapping my head around is

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Speaker 12: that even if all those things are valid in of itself,

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Speaker 12: the Lakers still should be over be able to overcome

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Speaker 12: it for two reasons. One, Lebron James and Anthy Davis

638
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Speaker 12: have been mostly healthy this season, mostly dominant. That should

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Speaker 12: camouflage any issues that are pervading the team elsewhere. Number Two,

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Speaker 12: this is mostly the same group as far as players

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Speaker 12: coaching staff that got to the Western Conference Finals. So

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Speaker 12: while I wasn't naive to think that automatically thrust them

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Speaker 12: in that contending status this season, I think they would

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Speaker 12: at least be a playoff team and not a team

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Speaker 12: that's fighting for every game just to win, just to

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Speaker 12: have a chance to make in the playing tournament. So

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Speaker 12: as it pertains to this trade deadline, Whi's really challenging

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Speaker 12: is the Lakers are mindful and no they have a

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Speaker 12: lot of positional needs to fulfill, but they don't feel

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Speaker 12: they really have enough assets to make that happen. And

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Speaker 12: they also fear that even if they make trades, it

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Speaker 12: could actually make them worse than what we're seeing this season,

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Speaker 12: So really weird all around. And then the top it all,

654
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Speaker 12: you know, this is a team that's able to beat

655
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Speaker 12: the Boston Celtics of all teams without Lebron James Andy Davis,

656
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 12: but then you know, lose to a team like the

657
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 12: Brooklyn Nets. So they're just very jecky and high as

658
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 12: far as how well they play against good teams and

659
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 12: how poorly they play against bad teams.

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00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: You brought it up that Celtics game.

661
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone expected the Celtics to lose to

662
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: the Lakers.

663
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 3: Without their two stars. That can't be a good sign

664
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: just for the Lakers.

665
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 2: I mean, Lebron is getting older and he's putting in

666
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: so many minutes this season, which was the exact opposite

667
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: of what he wanted to do.

668
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 3: And then there they go, Austin Reeves kicks butt and

669
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 3: they win without them.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and I think the Lakers are obviously encouraged for

671
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 12: the fact that they want and their players played well.

672
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 12: But I don't think it's a stay animal because the

673
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 12: Boston Celtics, even though they're great, they're the best team

674
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 12: in the league, you know, outside of the Clippers. Of course,

675
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 12: right they have a great home record. They were playing

676
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 12: down to the competition and the Lakers had the all

677
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 12: hands on deck approach and you can't really replicate that

678
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 12: long term. The other part is Vanderbilt got hurt in

679
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 12: that game, and while we don't know exact timetables, I'm

680
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 12: sure you guys have seen es chain reports saying that

681
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 12: they're bracing that could be multiple weeks. So it's I

682
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 12: think it encapsulates that perfectly that as soon as there

683
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 12: seems to be a positive development in that direction, there's

684
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 12: also things that suggest they'll just revert back to negative development.

685
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 12: So what it means for the next tonight, I think

686
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 12: they have their hands full of not just because of

687
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 12: what we're talking about with the Lakers, but the Knicks

688
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 12: are one of the hottest teams in the NBA with

689
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Speaker 12: a ninety one instreet.

690
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Speaker 4: Last one for me, Mark, are the Knicks hot or

691
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 4: are they just really good?

692
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Speaker 12: I think they're I think they are really good. They

693
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 12: are very deserving to have Jail Brunt and Enjoys randall

694
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 12: as All Stars. Now technically Joys Randal he's not going

695
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 12: to be on the All Star Game because he's injured.

696
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 12: They'll probably have an injury replacement he's but he's very

697
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 12: deserved in that Jalen Brunt that I thought should have

698
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 12: been a starter because I think he's one of the

699
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 12: best scorers in the league, really good playmaker, his kind

700
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 12: of blue collar mentality really sets the tone with how

701
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 12: the Knicks have been. So I think on paper, if

702
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 12: I had a guess, you know, Eastern Conference depth chart,

703
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 12: I would still choose the Celtics and the Bucks in

704
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Speaker 12: that order. But I think the Knicks are at number

705
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Speaker 12: three and they very well could climb through that window because, look,

706
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 12: the Celtics I think have the best chemistry, but there's

707
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 12: always going to be health questions regarding Christos Berzingis. The Bucks,

708
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 12: they have been good number two, but they also have

709
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 12: struggled defensively. They're still figuring out the dynamic between the

710
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 12: Anna Sante de Kumpo and Damian Lillard that even though

711
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 12: it's really good, it could be even better. So, yeah,

712
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 12: the Knicks are in that conversation, and this isn't a

713
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 12: mirage or one off. They very well could be one

714
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 12: of those teams that gets to the finals of season.

715
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: Last one from me, We've got to talk about the

716
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: Clippers real quick. My Clippers eight and two in the

717
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 2: last ten games. What finally clicked?

718
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Speaker 3: Do you think?

719
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: Because when James Harden got there it wasn't pretty for

720
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 2: a hot second.

721
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 3: What finally clicked?

722
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Speaker 12: I think a lot of things clicked. James Harden decided

723
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 12: to be the guy that he professed he was at

724
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 12: other places. He's going to sacrifice, He's going to buy

725
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 12: into his role. Same thing with Russell Westbrook coming off

726
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 12: the bench, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. They'ven embraced the

727
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 12: lessons more approach him. They don't have to assume ball

728
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 12: handling duties. They can move more off the ball. But

729
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 12: they're gaining a lot more efficient books, easier looks than tylu.

730
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 12: He's been the master of managing personalities, EXAs and those.

731
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Speaker 12: And I think the last key factor here is they

732
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 12: must have heard your grievances over the airwaves all on

733
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 12: the map for their subpar effort, and they said, you

734
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 12: know what, we got to get in line. Mont's calling

735
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 12: us out and shoot, all right, we got to get

736
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Speaker 12: her back together here.

737
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 2: It's true, they definitely look like they're having a good time,

738
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: and that is something I haven't seen in a while

739
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: as a Clippers fan, at least over the course of

740
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 2: many games, not just one game. So I'm excited. They

741
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: look excited. Mark Medina, our NBA insider. You can read

742
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: all his amazing stuff on Sportskita dot com, SPORTSNT dot com, Sporting.

743
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 3: Tribute dot com. You can see mon TV, CBSLA. He's

744
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 3: got to do that today.

745
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 9: Mark.

746
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 3: We appreciate you so much, Go Clippers.

747
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate.

748
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 3: Dan my Clippers.

749
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 4: Do you think you said thanks Monty and Dan you're

750
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 4: both the best? Or do you think you just said

751
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 4: that to me like Daniel.

752
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 3: No, I think he said it to both of us. Daniel, Daniel,

753
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 3: you hear that?

754
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 4: Oh no?

755
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 3: All right, guys, Coming up next on Fox Sports Saturday

756
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 3: with Monty Bellias and Dan Bayer, the dues and don'ts

757
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 3: of the Week. Don't go anywhere.

758
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: It is Fox Sports Saturday with me, Monty Vellanos and

759
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: Dan Bayern. We are coming to you live from the

760
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 2: TIREC dot com studios. Thanks for hanging out with us

761
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 2: on this Saturday. But it's time for the dus in

762
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: don'ts of the week.

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00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: This highlighting the dudes. Oh I love that, putting a

764
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 1: spotlight on the don't. The subject brings me no joy.

765
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 4: Don't do that?

766
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 3: Are you on crack?

767
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

768
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 2: No pressure on Dan because this is his first time

769
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 2: with the dws in don't So we'll see what he

770
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 2: brings to the table.

771
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna start things off with a do and

772
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: a don't together.

773
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 2: Do drop fifty one points as a freshman? USC freshman

774
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 2: Juju Watkins just dropped a fifty one piece as USC

775
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: took down Stanford. I believe it was and it was

776
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: just amazing freshman. The best part of the story was

777
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: that the last game they lost USC I believe this

778
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 2: to Washington, a very close game, and this freshman was

779
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: in the gym and security called the head coach and

780
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: was like, do we take this freshman out of the gym.

781
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 2: She's practicing her shots and they're.

782
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 3: Like, no, no, no, just let her shoot. Let her practice,

783
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 3: And then she dropped a fifty one piece. So do

784
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 3: that what I'm saying, don't do.

785
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: After the game, the broadcaster that she was talking to analysts,

786
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,479
Speaker 2: Mary Murphy, was giving her a lot.

787
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 3: Of credit and then she said, Caitlin Clark, who don't

788
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: do that?

789
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: To her.

790
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: Don't put her in that position to have to address that.

791
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: Let her have this moment freshman dropping fifty one points

792
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 2: for USC.

793
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 3: But she handled it like a champ. She just was

794
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 3: like no, no, no.

795
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: She kind of just dismissed it and was like, no, no, no,

796
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: don't do that. A lot of respect there, I just yes,

797
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 2: don't do that. Why would you put that freshman in

798
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 2: that position?

799
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: So I do an A.

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Speaker 4: Don't imagine the final four that you could have if

801
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 4: jaj Watkins a USC go and then South Carolina's unbeaten,

802
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 4: you have Katelyn Clark, IOWA and LSU.

803
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 3: You know, oh my goodness, wrongs.

804
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 4: Like talk about a star stud of the fair that

805
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 4: you could get. By the way, if I'm the selection

806
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 4: committee in the women's bracket, I'm making sure that all

807
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 4: four of those schools are a separate regions so you

808
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 4: can get that final. Yeah, I gotta do for you.

809
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 4: Do please realize that Tom Brady is more like us

810
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 4: than you think. If you missed it yesterday playing in

811
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 4: the at and T tebble Beach pro am, he completely

812
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 4: topped the t shot and it went about twenty feet

813
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 4: in front of them, like it was that we have

814
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 4: all done it that have played golf, and I think

815
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 4: that we think that Tom Brady is this you know,

816
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 4: you know a guy, yeah, the seven time super Bowl champion,

817
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 4: you know that was married to a supermodel. He is,

818
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 4: but he's also the guy that we saw in his

819
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 4: boxers with the the you know, scrawny figure at the combine.

820
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 4: He's actually more like us than you'd think. So do

821
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 4: realize that in Tom Brady's top t shot yesterday proved

822
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 4: it one other don't don't punch someone in the face, Monzi,

823
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 4: it never ends well. New Mexico State's Robert Carpenter suspended

824
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: indefinitely by the school after he punched a Liberty player

825
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 4: this past week. Listen, I get it. You know you're

826
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: fighting under the basket. You know, somebody kind of gives you,

827
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 4: yet you albow. You don't punch him in.

828
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 3: The face, especially obvious like that.

829
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 4: Yes, and this is coming from a guy who's never

830
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 4: been in a fight in his life. So that is

831
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 4: how you can take it. Don't punch someone in the face.

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00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 4: It never ends well.

833
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 3: It does not end well. I got another du for you.

834
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: Do go back to where it all started.

835
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 2: Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater retiring from the NFL. He's already been

836
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 2: hired to be the head coach at his alma mater,

837
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: Miami Northwestern High School.

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00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 3: I love that. That's how I should go.

839
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 4: I got a quick another do go for. This is

840
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 4: for all the people out there that are going to

841
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 4: be hit with this storm that we're going to get

842
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: hit in California. Yeah, do shut off your sprinklers. I

843
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 4: know it does no good in the up in Michigan

844
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 4: right now because you know there's snow on the ground.

845
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 4: But for those of us that are about to get

846
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 4: hit by the storm, do shut off your sprinklers because

847
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 4: it's going to take care of the rain and in

848
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 4: your lawn for the next week.

849
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 3: But you gotta quick one.

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00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 5: I have a real quick one, hud Do watch women's

851
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 5: basketball because what Juju Watkins is doing is awesome and

852
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 5: also real quick.

853
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: Don't discount Jim.

854
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 5: Harbaugh as just being a crazy rambler, because JJ McCarthy's

855
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 5: gonna go a lot higher than people think in the

856
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 5: NFL Draft. He's not gonna go before other quarterbacks, but

857
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 5: he's gonna go. He's gonna go in the first and

858
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 5: we're gonna be all mad about it.

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00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 3: He loves JJ McCarthy.

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00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope to hope somebody loves me as

861
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: much as Jim Harba loves JJ, because that is true love.

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00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 3: That was the Dudes and don'ts of the week.

863
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: Now we still have our two a lot more to

864
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 2: discuss in the NFL, in the NBA.

865
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:29,959
Speaker 3: You don't want to go anywhere.

866
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: Because Dan still have a lot to say, so make

867
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 2: sure you stay right here Fox Sports Saturday with me

868
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,959
Speaker 2: Mancy Bolanos and Dan Bayer. Our two come in right now.

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00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 2: That's all right, Fox Sports Saturday. Welcome everybody.

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00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 3: I am Monty Bolangos, Dan Bayer in today. Alex Curry

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Speaker 3: out Gallivantina she likes to do. But don't worry.

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Speaker 2: bund should be. Dan, thanks for hanging out with me today.

878
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be with you, especially on you know,

879
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 4: it is a weird weekend. It is there's there I

880
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 4: was never a Pro Bowl pre Super Bowl fan. I

881
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 4: love the game when I grew up, and it was

882
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 4: the week after the Super Bowl, but I had a

883
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 4: tough time even adjusting when they switched it making it

884
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 4: before the Super Bowl. So even though there's not a

885
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 4: real Pro Bowl game, you know, you have their events

886
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 4: and you got the thing tomorrow. That's always been a

887
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 4: weird thing for me, and so yeah, I'm just trying

888
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 4: to get adjusted. You got a lot of hoops to

889
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 4: fill the gap and a lot of golf going on

890
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 4: as well, But yeah, that's weird when there's still one

891
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 4: big football game to go next week, right.

892
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: It's almost like we have to put in a put

893
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: a pin in it because there's other things happening. In fact,

894
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 2: shout out to my coworkers at Dodger Stadium because it's

895
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 2: FanFest today and I'm sure many of them probably need

896
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: a drink right now.

897
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 3: I'm almost positive. FanFest is usually a crazy day.

898
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 2: It's free for there's other things you can do, and

899
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: so I can it's always a crazy day. I can

900
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: only imagine what it's like today with Sho hee O

901
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 2: Tani now being a Dodger, you know, because they bring

902
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: all the players out.

903
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 4: I saw that Tyler Glasnow was there as well, in

904
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 4: his new Dodger uniform. Yeah, there's It's it's also weird

905
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 4: month because you have the start of baseball right on

906
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 4: the horizon. You've got basketball and the NBA All Star

907
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 4: Game obviously happening next week or in two weeks, and

908
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 4: you've got the NHL All Star Game coming up. You know,

909
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 4: you know, the All Star weekend is this weekend. But

910
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 4: it's also with the NFL with all of these coaching

911
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: things and looking ahead to the draft. You're looking ahead

912
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 4: to next season, yet you still have the Super Bowl

913
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 4: to play. That's like keeping you hooked to last season.

914
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 4: So I almost feel like it's a tug of war

915
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 4: of how much do you focus on twenty twenty four

916
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 4: when you still have the biggest game of the season

917
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 4: yet to play.

918
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just to add to the mix, I think

919
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 2: we have breaking news. Dan all right, alrighty, let's.

920
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: Go breaking news from Fox Sports.

921
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 9: What's yes's going on?

922
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 11: It's not good news for bus star Zach Lavine, according

923
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 11: to reports, and actually the team has now made it

924
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 11: official and announced that he is undergoing season ending surgery

925
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 11: on his right foot.

926
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 9: Not good news.

927
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 11: One of the most exciting players in the association not

928
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 11: going to see him the rest of the year.

929
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and a guy that you know was always

930
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 4: thought of as possibly being shopped moved, you know, to

931
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 4: different spots. Uh, Bulls really aren't in the thick of it,

932
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,479
Speaker 4: even though they're in the play in tournament right now.

933
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's stings for them.

934
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 3: That does stink. And I agree, Zach Lyman is just

935
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 3: so fun to watch, so that sucks.

936
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 4: Oh well, but he's on the court.

937
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: Yes, when he's on the court.

938
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: And you know, we can dive more into this a

939
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 2: little bit later because we are going to talk more NBA.

940
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: But today news came out in the NFL that Cliff

941
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 2: Kingsbury has backed out of being the raiders new offensive coordinator.

942
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: Apparently contract talks something happened. He's still now in the

943
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 2: mix to maybe join the Commanders. But we had this

944
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 2: happened what four or five days ago, where Detroit's offensive

945
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 2: coordinator Ben Johnson decided I'm gonna stay in Detroit. Now,

946
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 2: this was a day that the Commanders had sent officials

947
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 2: to fly to Detroit to meet with him for a

948
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 2: second time.

949
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 3: Before they got there, maybe they were in the Air,

950
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 3: he told.

951
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: Them, and I believe it was also the Seahawks that

952
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: he was no longer interested. I am so just flabbergasted

953
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: by the situation with Ben Johnson for me, and flabbergasted

954
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: because I don't think there's going to be always an

955
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 2: opportunity where you can become the head coach of a team.

956
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: And you had that. It seemed like a lot of

957
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 2: people really liked you. I think last year people were

958
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: also interested in you. Now, what if next year the Lions.

959
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Christopher Fett don't kill me.

960
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 3: Let's say the Lions thrown to have a good season

961
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 3: next year, are you still going to be a candidate

962
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: that other teams want to talk to. It's just an

963
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 3: opportunity that I don't know how you turned down. And

964
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 3: obviously there's a lot of.

965
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 2: Information coming out about what happened why he turned it down.

966
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 2: You know, apparently there's a story out there that he

967
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: just didn't interview well. They said that he's, you know,

968
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:25,280
Speaker 2: really smart, very bright, great play caller, but his personality

969
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: is not the most gregarious.

970
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 4: Okay, now what does that mean to you?

971
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 6: Now?

972
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 4: I think the whole situation is as it unfolded, flabbergasted

973
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 4: is I think it is a way to describe it

974
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 4: because I felt like it was a done deal with

975
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson being a head coach. Listen, I know that

976
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 4: you're in a relationship. You and Shad have been together

977
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 4: more than a decade. I've been married six going on

978
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 4: seven years, So we're in relationships. But let's talk about

979
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 4: prior to those relationships. Let's say you go on a

980
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 4: date with someone and they don't call you back for

981
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 4: a second date. What do you say? You know, yeah, yeah,

982
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 4: you know what. You weren't that interesting anyway? You know

983
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 4: at the restaurant you took me to sucked. Yeah it

984
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 4: was not good. Who takes me, you know, to this

985
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 4: park on a first date. I didn't like their hair,

986
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 4: there's the way they dressed was whack. It just didn't

987
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 4: work out. That's what the Washington commanders are doing to

988
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson.

989
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 3: So you think they're just finding something that they don't like.

990
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 4: Oh, he didn't interview? Well what you're the one that

991
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 4: got turned down. Yeah, you're the one that was going

992
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 4: to Detroit and I'm sorry, I know you were talking

993
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 4: to Aaron Glenn, but you were going there to talk

994
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 4: to Ben Johnson. That that is the case. This is

995
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 4: all the commanders trying to save face on why they

996
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 4: ended up with dan Quinn and no offense to dan Quinn.

997
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 4: Is that completely am going to offend him? But it was.

998
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 4: It was not an inspiring hire by Washington. And that's

999
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 4: the stuff that you do, guess. So, Yeah, I didn't

1000
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,240
Speaker 4: like the car they draft, their music they listened to stunk.

1001
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 4: It was lame. They're whack. That's what happens. That's what

1002
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 4: happens when you get when you get denied, you don't

1003
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 4: get that phone call. And that's what the commanders are doing.

1004
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that Ben Johnson isn't at fault

1005
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 4: in any of this, but Manti, it doesn't add up,

1006
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 4: does not that Ben Johnson would notify both teams that

1007
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 4: he was not interested in their vacancies when they were

1008
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 4: on their way to Detroit. And again I know Aaron

1009
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,760
Speaker 4: Glenn was there, and know they were talking to Aaron Glenn,

1010
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 4: but Ben Johnson was way more coveted than Aaron Glenn was.

1011
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 4: And when you're about to draft a quarterback again in

1012
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 4: the draft second overall, like you are with Washington, you're

1013
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 4: going to want to bring in a guy like Ben

1014
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 4: Johnson to work with, and I just think it's the

1015
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 4: commanders trying to save face. And I just don't know

1016
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 4: how anybody.

1017
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 3: So you think the commander's fumbled.

1018
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 4: I don't think that they fumbled, because this is where

1019
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 4: I fault Ben Johnson. And because Ben Johnson did interview

1020
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 4: with the Seahawks for the second time on Monday, and

1021
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 4: he had the second interview scheduled with the commanders on Tuesday,

1022
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 4: I don't think that he necessarily wanted to go to

1023
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 4: the commanders. I think Ben Johnson was being picky, and

1024
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 4: I think that's why you're right. I think your point

1025
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 4: off the top is, yeah, if you keep pushing these

1026
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 4: opportunities away, you may not get one, no matter how

1027
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 4: much you think they're going to be prevalent in your career.

1028
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 4: But if he really didn't want to interview with Seattle,

1029
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 4: why have the second interview on that Monday night? Why

1030
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 4: give Seattle the second interview but not give Washington the

1031
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 4: second interview totally?

1032
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 2: There was also the other story that maybe he was

1033
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 2: asking for too much money.

1034
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: I think that's it, fifteen millions roughly his camp wanted.

1035
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 2: And so I don't see why the commanders would then

1036
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 2: try to say face like, if that's a situation, why

1037
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 2: not just say we can't afford him? But the fact

1038
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 2: that too that he said to two teams he didn't

1039
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 2: want to be the head coach. That's why I'm like,

1040
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: I feel like it is all your decision, Like all

1041
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 2: what you didn't want to Maybe maybe we're looking at

1042
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 2: this wrong, Dan, and maybe he was just like, why

1043
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: would I leave a place that loves me? Why would

1044
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 2: I become the head coach where I get all the criticism,

1045
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: where things go bad?

1046
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 3: What if it's as simple as that that he was like,

1047
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: why would I leave this?

1048
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,280
Speaker 4: I know some have said that, and I just don't

1049
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 4: buy it, because the reason being, when you get into

1050
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 4: this profession, you are on the move. As much as

1051
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,439
Speaker 4: you love a community and love being there and love

1052
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 4: in these places, it comes with the territory.

1053
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1054
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 4: Did Ben Johnson get into coaching and say to himself,

1055
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 4: I'm going to put my roots down in Detroit, that

1056
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 4: is my goal. No, he didn't spend a bunch of

1057
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 4: time with the Dolphins, you know, during his career. Then

1058
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 4: he makes the move to Detroit. Any coaching staff knows

1059
00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 4: that you move on, you go to a different spot.

1060
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 4: I don't think it had anything to do with him

1061
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 4: wanting to come back to the Lions except to say,

1062
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 4: you know what, if I don't have my ideal situation

1063
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 4: and salary, I can go back to the Lions and

1064
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 4: we can try to run it back again and spin

1065
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 4: it in that way where he will be welcomed and

1066
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 4: welcomed with open arms and great enthusiasm, and then label

1067
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 4: it as unfinished business. But what I think happened was

1068
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 4: he spoke with the Seahawks. They probably weren't going to

1069
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 4: give him the fifteen million dollars that he was asking,

1070
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 4: and ended up saying, you know what, I didn't like

1071
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 4: what Washington had. I didn't like their vibe, because that

1072
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 4: was the other report that he felt that it was

1073
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 4: a very basketball ish front office, which is weird considered well,

1074
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 4: it means Magic Johnson and Bob Myers and others are,

1075
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 4: you know, having a decision. But that just seems like

1076
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 4: like a lame excuse just to say, like I didn't

1077
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 4: want to go to Washington because they wouldn't meet my price.

1078
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 4: It's funny because it was both the Commanders and the

1079
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 4: Seahawks that were lost out on this. The Seahawks aren't

1080
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 4: getting any flack because they got Mike McDonald, who was

1081
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 4: another I think hot candidate that people garious. Yes, there

1082
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 4: were three. There were three Harbaugh, Ben Johnson, and Mike McDonald,

1083
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 4: and they got one of them, but the commanders. It

1084
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 4: comes out because of the commanders and because not you know,

1085
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 4: without the second interview, and because they end up settling

1086
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 4: on Dan Quinn. That's why I think you have this

1087
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 4: narrative right now now. Ben Johnson's not completely innocent of

1088
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 4: all of this. However, for the commanders to come out

1089
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 4: and say that he didn't interview, well, you're just trying

1090
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 4: to say face. See.

1091
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if I agree with you.

1092
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 2: I feel that like Ben Johnson just kind of was

1093
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: going through the situation and maybe did realize I don't

1094
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: want to be a head coach. And maybe you're right

1095
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 2: that Washington wasn't appealing or maybe Seattle wasn't appealing, But

1096
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 2: the way he handled it, it seems like he just

1097
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 2: had like an epiphany. I mean people were literally mid

1098
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 2: air to go see you. Yeah, like maybe he had

1099
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 2: an epiphany of like do I really want to do

1100
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 2: this or do I want to stay in this successful team?

1101
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 2: Because nobody's counting out the lines for next year. We

1102
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 2: can only imagine they're at least going to be still successful.

1103
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: Will they make it as far as they did?

1104
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 3: Who knows. But he is in a spot where he

1105
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: is loved and he doesn't get the hate.

1106
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 4: He's turned down essentially a quarter of the league. Okay,

1107
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 4: there's there were eight vacancies. He interviewed with the Panthers

1108
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 4: last year. They had another one this year. It's a

1109
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 4: quarter of the league, one fourth of the league. Manci,

1110
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 4: there's another one fourth of the league that I can

1111
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 4: guarantee will not be making a head coaching change next season.

1112
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 4: I just they're not. Kyle Shanahan is not leaving the

1113
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 4: forty nine ers. It's not you know, it's not going

1114
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:50,479
Speaker 4: to happen. Sorry, just don't see it. Andy Reid gonna

1115
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 4: stay with the Kansas City Chiefs unless there's a retirement

1116
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 4: of some sort. The point being is Jim Harbaugh, you

1117
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 4: know there's not gonna be another opportunity to coach Justin Herbert.

1118
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 4: So now you have sixty teams in the NFL, who

1119
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 4: exactly do you want to go to?

1120
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 9: Right?

1121
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 4: Like, what is the situation? Are you waiting for Nick, Sirianna,

1122
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 4: you to get bounced in Philadelphia, Is that a better

1123
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 4: situation than you would get in any of these other

1124
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 4: eight jobs? Or is it the team that is willing

1125
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 4: to write the fifteen million dollar check? And that's what

1126
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 4: I think Ben Johnson is waiting for.

1127
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't want to believe that that is

1128
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 2: just about the money, because again, you weren't, like you

1129
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 2: just said, you just turned down how many opportunities, and

1130
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 2: these opportunities likely are not going to be there next

1131
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 2: year and then all of this. It's kind of like

1132
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 2: the whole Caleb Williams situation, Like all of these stories.

1133
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: Other teams have to be paying attention to this, like

1134
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 2: you decided just randomly you don't want this anymore, like

1135
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 2: in the middle, where was this decision a week ago?

1136
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 4: I think other teams will look at it as awesome.

1137
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 4: We get the opportunity to get our shot at Ben Johnson,

1138
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 4: and maybe we will be willing to pay him the

1139
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 4: fifteen million dollars that he wants. I don't think that

1140
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 4: if there's any sympathy for it, I just don't know.

1141
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 4: I just don't know what Ben Johnson is waiting for.

1142
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 4: Like you could point Seattle. You could put to say

1143
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 4: that I don't know what their quarterback future is. Their

1144
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 4: salary cap situation is not great in twenty twenty four.

1145
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 4: Maybe it's not right for me. Maybe you go off

1146
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 4: to that second interview and because of the season that

1147
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 4: you just had ended, you know, on Sunday, a day prior,

1148
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 4: the situation just doesn't feel right. Doesn't you know, feel

1149
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 4: right at that time to have another interview. But you

1150
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 4: know how he notified the Washington commanders.

1151
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 3: Now via text?

1152
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 4: No, yes, So that tells you all that you need

1153
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 4: to know about his feelings towards the commanders and how

1154
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 4: how it worked out.

1155
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was right.

1156
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the agent call. I mean, listen, we

1157
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 4: know that you can make a call on a jet.

1158
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 4: They can they can figure it out.

1159
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course absolutely.

1160
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 4: There's there's and it's not a long flight from DC

1161
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 4: to Detroit. So yeah, to the report said that he

1162
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 4: texted the commanders. That's why you're seeing them bounce back

1163
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 4: because they didn't like how it all played out. But

1164
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 4: it's just it is odd. It is just very very strange.

1165
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,240
Speaker 4: And I just think that Ben Johnson wants his cash.

1166
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 3: Maybe that is what it is. I didn't know.

1167
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 2: It was a text that really just puts a lot

1168
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 2: of perspective into how it doesn't seem like you were

1169
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:12,760
Speaker 2: taking them seriously from the beginning.

1170
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 3: It almost seems like you were just going through the motions.

1171
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I have a hard time believing that if

1172
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 2: you meet with the team that you're not telling them

1173
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 2: up front what you want. So if you're going to

1174
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 2: see them again, you have to have already discussed money.

1175
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,240
Speaker 4: There was a relationship with Adam Peters, the new GM there,

1176
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 4: so I think a lot of people tied into that,

1177
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 4: and you're also thinking, ah, new ownership. You know, this

1178
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 4: could be a different thing again. Drafting of the quarterback

1179
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 4: all plays in. But maybe if you just don't don't

1180
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 4: get that great vibe or they're like, hey, there's no

1181
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 4: way that we're going to pay you fifteen million dollars

1182
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,760
Speaker 4: when you've never been a head coach before.

1183
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 12: You know.

1184
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the reason. I'm just starting

1185
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 4: the reason out there, but that could could be a

1186
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 4: reason why. It's just fine, like Ben Johnson isn't innocent

1187
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 4: in all of this, No, but the Washington commanders to

1188
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 4: try to say face and put out what they're putting out.

1189
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: It's just pretty absurd.

1190
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 2: Well, Ben Johnson turns down the opportunity to be a

1191
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 2: head coach, but in the NBA, Doc Rivers was like,

1192
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 2: give me another chance, and he took it. So, coming

1193
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 2: up next from the tarret dot Com studios, Dan and

1194
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 2: I are gonna discuss Doc Rivers and the Bucks and

1195
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 2: how things have started for them.

1196
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere.

1197
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 2: It is Fox Sports Saturday with Me, Monty Bellanos and

1198
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: Dan Bayer So on Air B and B in on Saturday.

1199
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 3: Lucky for you, Dan, Lucky for I was like Dan, Hello, Hello, Daniel.

1200
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,879
Speaker 3: You know if I say Daniel, it's because I am mad.

1201
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 4: No, you're lucky for me to sound it so condescended.

1202
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 4: That's why it was like, lucky for you.

1203
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 3: Oh dear, that's right. No, thank you for hanging out

1204
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 3: with me, Dan and all of you guys hanging out

1205
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: with us.

1206
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 2: We are coming to you live from the tarret dot

1207
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,280
Speaker 2: Com studios, and what we're gonna talk about next is

1208
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 2: is Doc Rivers in the Milwaukee Bucks. So the Bucks

1209
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 2: fired their head coach after about forty ish games when

1210
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 2: the Bucks were doing fine, and then they decided pretty

1211
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 2: quickly to hire Doc Rivers. I came across a TikTok

1212
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: that my brother sent me about. It's an animated TikTok

1213
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 2: about Doc Rivers, and it's two Milwaukee players.

1214
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 3: You can assume who it is, Joannis and whoever. And

1215
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 3: they're like, oh my god, Doc, We're so excited. How

1216
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 3: many championships have you won?

1217
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 2: I've won one, okay, but you have like other accolades, right,

1218
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: Like you've been like a coach of the Year.

1219
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 3: Yes, I won that my rookie.

1220
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 2: Year, okay, but like you have other things going on, right, Oh,

1221
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 2: you've dropped the most three and one games in the playoffs.

1222
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 3: Yes, that is me. And it's just like a like

1223
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 3: a what did we do here?

1224
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 2: Two games under Doc Rivers and both the Milwaukee Bucks lost.

1225
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 3: You're a Bucks fan.

1226
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 4: I am not worried.

1227
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 3: Not worried, Okay.

1228
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 6: No.

1229
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 4: Number one, who are they supposed to hire? Phil Jackson?

1230
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 4: Is that who they're supposed to bring you?

1231
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 3: Why? That's fun?

1232
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, no. And then you know there's just there

1233
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 4: weren't a lot of options out there.

1234
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: There weren't They was also an abrupt firing.

1235
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 4: It was that is that is true, but that is

1236
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 4: also the nature of the NBA. You don't have time

1237
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 4: to waste. You don't have these windows, and they were

1238
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 4: off the mark. And whether Giannis had a hand in

1239
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 4: it or not, with the Adrian Griffin higher of him,

1240
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 4: maybe not wanting Nick Nurse so that well, we'll just

1241
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 4: get the guy who was the assistant to Nick Nurse

1242
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 4: and bring him in. The Bucks didn't need to figure

1243
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 4: out something a change from last year. They had a

1244
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 4: great defensive lineup throughout the regular season and then it

1245
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 4: just completely fell apart in their series against the Heat.

1246
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 4: Now Giannis's injury plays into some of that, but it's

1247
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 4: not all completely on that. It just shouldn't be. They

1248
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 4: put two guys on the All NBA defensive team last year.

1249
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 4: If forty percent of that has made up, you should

1250
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 4: be playing pretty good defense. They weren't doing that this year.

1251
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 4: There was a lot of confusion, and you just don't

1252
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 4: have time to waste with a first your head coach,

1253
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 4: and apparently it seems that tensions were were rising and

1254
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 4: now you've added that superstar in the mix. I think

1255
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 4: Doc was really the only answer. I don't know how

1256
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 4: they would fare better. And honestly, Monsei like there the

1257
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 4: game against Denver you lose on the road at Denver.

1258
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,479
Speaker 3: Sure that happens, you know a lot of tea. Yes, okay,

1259
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 3: we won't count that one. Okay.

1260
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 4: The Portland game is the funky one. It truly is.

1261
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 4: But it also shows of the feeling out sort of system.

1262
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 4: And we've also come to realize in the last twenty

1263
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 4: four you know, to forty eight hours, you know, Damian

1264
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,959
Speaker 4: Lillard kind of opening up on what he's gone through

1265
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 4: getting it. You know, he's in the middle of a

1266
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 4: divorce right now. He changes teams, goes back to Portland.

1267
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 4: I know people didn't love the final possession that Milwaukee

1268
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,919
Speaker 4: had in that Portland game, but where we're just two

1269
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 4: games in. Doc had even said that I'm certain not

1270
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 4: of bounds plays and not the one that they had

1271
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 4: in Portland, but that you he would defer to the

1272
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 4: assistance because he has his own play that he could run.

1273
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 4: But the players no options B, C and D. Right now,

1274
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 4: if he were to put a play that he thinks,

1275
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 4: you know, works, they don't know what BC and D

1276
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 4: are on Doc's inbounds. They don't have a lot of

1277
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 4: time to figure it out. Because I think you have

1278
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 4: to start playing good basketball by the end of February

1279
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 4: after the All Star break to head into the playoffs.

1280
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 4: So they've got just a couple of more weeks to

1281
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 4: kind of sort this out. I just didn't know what

1282
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 4: their options were. But I don't think that they were

1283
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,959
Speaker 4: winning anything with Adrian Griffin as their head coach.

1284
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 2: Fair maybe not a lot of options. And I do

1285
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 2: I said this last week. Obviously players really like Doc Rivers,

1286
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 2: or else it wouldn't have happened. He keeps getting coaching jobs.

1287
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 2: I think players really like Doc Rivers. But this Portland game,

1288
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought it up. They were down by three,

1289
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 2: five seconds ish to go, maybe a little under.

1290
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 3: Why is Damian Lillard inbounding the ball? I don't like.

1291
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 3: I don't Maybe it's not Doc Rivers. All the assistants,

1292
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 3: every single one of you.

1293
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 2: How did you let Damian Lillard inbound the ball to

1294
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 2: Jannis knowing their are going to foul?

1295
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:02,479
Speaker 3: We are down by three?

1296
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 9: Why?

1297
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 2: And so it's like, I if you're if I'm Doc Rivers,

1298
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 2: I get it, like I'm yelling, what are you doing?

1299
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 2: If you're coming into the situation with superstars, there's there's

1300
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 2: little moments where you can actually, you know, yeah, say something.

1301
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 4: I'll say this. This is where I think Doc Rivers,

1302
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 4: being in his second game was put at an extreme disadvantage.

1303
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 4: And here's the reason why. If Adrian Griffin was the

1304
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 4: head coach or anybody was head coach of that team

1305
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 4: for a much longer period than just two games, the

1306
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 4: obvious answer is this, and you know what Portland's gonna do.

1307
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 4: You're up three, Portland's gonna foul, right, But you still

1308
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 4: would say, you know what, Dame, this is yours right.

1309
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 4: This is they didn't have a timeout to advance the ball,

1310
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 4: so they couldn't get it to half court, and so

1311
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 4: you're in a situation where you're in a full court situation.

1312
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 4: If Dame gets the inbounds from whoever, they're likely to

1313
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 4: follow him. Doc Rivers said their thought was that Giannis

1314
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 4: would be able to make a free throw, which by

1315
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 4: the way, is completely exactly yeah not given that is

1316
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 4: not a short thing at all. But if he did,

1317
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 4: they liked the chances of him possibly being able to

1318
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 4: get a rebound on a put back to try to

1319
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 4: tie the game up. That was his reason, right or wrong.

1320
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 4: I think in that situation, you're like and by the way,

1321
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 4: they were down for most of the second half. They

1322
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 4: had to make it a game to be able to

1323
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 4: have that opportunity at the end. They think it pulled

1324
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 4: even at one point, and so you're still jockeying for position.

1325
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 4: But it wasn't like they dominated. They were trailing for

1326
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 4: most of the game. But that's in the spot where

1327
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 4: I would be like, all right, let's just put it

1328
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 4: in Dame's hands, and because this is his old home,

1329
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 4: this would be his opportunity. That's where I thought Doc

1330
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 4: was put It's not so much of Doc for what

1331
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 4: he has been as a coach for the last twenty years.

1332
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 4: It's more of Doc being the coach for the last

1333
01:02:58,720 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 4: two games, right.

1334
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 2: Letting that happen in that moment, because Janni's onto to

1335
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 2: Google's free throw percentage is about sixty percent.

1336
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's no, no on the counting's back.

1337
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, have you seen the video of him next

1338
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 3: to Michael Scott in that episode of The Office, He's

1339
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 3: taking his sweet time, that's yeah.

1340
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 2: So it's this could have been avoided and the criticism

1341
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been there because if Damian Lillard gets fouled,

1342
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 2: makes the first one and then you go for a

1343
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 2: crazy miss try to get the rebound.

1344
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, but you put it in the

1345
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 3: right hands. Is that you inbounded it to Yannest and

1346
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 3: he didn't even look back. I thought he was gonna

1347
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 3: give it hot to Damian Lillard.

1348
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 4: Well you knew, and again you knew that they were

1349
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 4: going to follow. But you're right, he had full steam

1350
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,360
Speaker 4: ahead up court and ended up, you know, drawing the

1351
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 4: foul in the back court. And that I'd be more

1352
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 4: worried with the And again I don't know if everything

1353
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 4: caught up with them, but just to lose a game

1354
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 4: to Portland, yeah, you know, just in itself is something

1355
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 4: that you shouldn't do, and they ended up doing it.

1356
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 4: So it yet hasn't been hasn't been a great start

1357
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 4: for doc rivers in the Bucks by any means.

1358
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,439
Speaker 2: And another thing that I would worry just because when

1359
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard first got there, I thought the chemistry was

1360
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 2: pretty good at the beginning. They looked good for never

1361
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 2: having to having played with each other. And I feel

1362
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 2: like that that's out the window, and I don't know

1363
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 2: what happened.

1364
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 4: I this as a Bucks fan. This is how I

1365
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 4: view it, So I may be completely biased. I am.

1366
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 4: I haven't been as concerned as others have been throughout

1367
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 4: the season because again, I feel that this stretch from

1368
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 4: you know about you know, February twenty five, whenever you

1369
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 4: come back from the All Star break, then towards the

1370
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 4: end of the season, that's where now. I think that's

1371
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 4: where today's NBA is. You have to be playing well.

1372
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 4: It used to be, Oh, let's just take off the

1373
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 4: final months and we'll be able to turn it out

1374
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. I don't believe that you can do that.

1375
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 4: They do lack a lot defensively on the perimeter. That's

1376
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 4: what happens when you bring in Damian Lillard, know, and

1377
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 4: paint off the bench isn't going to help you there either.

1378
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 4: But it's also why you have Giannis and Debt Koopo,

1379
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 4: and it's why you have Brook Lopez there. So you

1380
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 4: have to shore things up defensively in that sort of way.

1381
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 4: They may not be top five in the defense, you

1382
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 4: just can't be completely ripped apart like they did, like

1383
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 4: the Heat did. And you also need to have some

1384
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 4: offense generated, which they couldn't do when Jannis was hurt,

1385
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 4: which is what I think Dame will provide in the playoffs,

1386
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 4: which is why I'm not as worried about it, because

1387
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 4: I do think that puts them at a better spot

1388
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 4: offensively than they were, say last year in the first

1389
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:38,920
Speaker 4: round against Miami.

1390
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 3: See Dan, you're asking who was available, only Doc Rivers?

1391
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 9: You were available?

1392
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're available.

1393
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 4: Yes, my great vast coaching experience.

1394
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could have gotten in there and been like

1395
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 3: Damielle Lillard. You're not in bounding the ball.

1396
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 4: You know who's seen, you know who's not available. Joel

1397
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 4: Embiid of the Sixers.

1398
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 3: Oh good.

1399
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 4: And so this news pops out, and I know Brian's

1400
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 4: going to touch out in the update, But honest question,

1401
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 4: are you surprised?

1402
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 3: No?

1403
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 4: No, exactly, Like every time Joel Embiid gets hurt, we're like,

1404
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:12,439
Speaker 4: oh man, tough blow for the Sixers. At what point

1405
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 4: do you just say, all right, this is what it is, right,

1406
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 4: this is who he is.

1407
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 3: I mean, how do we deal with it?

1408
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 4: This is how he came into the NBA. He would

1409
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 4: have been the number one overall pick in the draft

1410
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 4: if he wasn't always injured or dealing with an injury

1411
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 4: like that. That's the reason, Like it wouldn't have been

1412
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 4: Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker, and then Joel Embiid. Joel

1413
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 4: Embiid would have been number one if he was healthy.

1414
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 4: Joel Embiid not only Manzi as he never played eighty

1415
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 4: games in a season. He's never played seventy games in

1416
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 4: a season. And while I feel bad for him, at

1417
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 4: what point do you just say, yeah, we kind of

1418
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 4: expected it. Like that's where I feel like with the

1419
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 4: Sixers now, yat stinks. He's playing at you know, such

1420
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,439
Speaker 4: an MVP sort of level, thirty five points a game,

1421
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 4: drops seventy points. All of that is great, But you

1422
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 4: knew that this was coming because again, this is Joel Embiid.

1423
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 4: So for anybody to be heartbroken about it, yeah, stinks,

1424
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 4: But you had to see this coming, right.

1425
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 3: The writing was on the wall and it's been there

1426
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 3: for years.

1427
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 2: Let's check in though with Brian Finley, because I think

1428
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 2: there was another big injury in the NBA today.

1429
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 3: Brian, what's going on?

1430
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 11: There was a big injury and it was a former Bruin.

1431
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 11: But I shouldn't be doing that editorializing Dan doesn't.

1432
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 9: Like it, shouldn't be doing that. Hey, let's get right

1433
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 9: to it though. Let's check in with the Live Golf right, Yeah, hey,

1434
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 9: we will.

1435
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: But guess what.

1436
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 11: Somebody in PGA too or Land had a course record

1437
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 11: today at Pebble Beach, so.

1438
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 3: We're gonna challen. I heard he was there golfing.

1439
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was yesterday, got it anyway.

1440
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 11: Bulls superstar Zach Lavine is going to go about season

1441
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 11: ending surgery on his right foot, the team announcing today

1442
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 11: he's estimated to miss four to six weeks. He brought

1443
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 11: up Joel Embiid he has a displaced flap of the

1444
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 11: meniscus and his left knee. This according to medialities, He's

1445
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 11: considering rest rehab, so that's one idea, or.

1446
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 9: He could go the way of surgery.

1447
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 11: In the NFL, Cliff Kingsbury seems to be hot on

1448
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 11: pursuit of that opening as the offensive coordinator for the

1449
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 11: Washington Commanders. This after he withdrew a verbal agreement to

1450
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:23,680
Speaker 11: be the raiders new offensive coordinator that came out yesterday,

1451
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 11: so he said no thanks to Las Vegas, and now

1452
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 11: the Las Vegas is looking for somebody.

1453
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 9: Rumors that Chip Kelly could be one of the.

1454
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 11: Select few that is in consideration, considering that he has

1455
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:38,719
Speaker 11: had two interviews with the Raiders in the last few days.

1456
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 11: In college basketball, we've got top twenty five teams at

1457
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 11: work here, including a win for number one Yukon. They

1458
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 11: get it done seventy seven and sixty four against Saint John's,

1459
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 11: a game that can be seen and was seen on

1460
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:52,639
Speaker 11: Fox Television.

1461
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 9: Yukon has won ten in a row. Games that are

1462
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 9: going on right now.

1463
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 11: We are watching Number four Houston get pummeled by number

1464
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 11: eight Kansas fifty eight to thirty eight twelve twenty six

1465
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 11: to play in regulation there and on Fox Television right now.

1466
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 9: San Diego State using a big second.

1467
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 11: Half comeback at home as they are out pacing number

1468
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 11: seventeen Utah State seventy nine to sixty six hundred minutes

1469
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 11: ago in the second half.

1470
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 9: As far as what's happening in golf.

1471
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 11: We do know that they are in Pebble Beach at

1472
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,600
Speaker 11: the AT and T Pebble Beach pro am watching and

1473
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,560
Speaker 11: just finished watching a sixty a course record from the

1474
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 11: leader through the third round.

1475
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 9: Wyndham Clark is seventeen.

1476
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 11: Under over the course of the first three days, twelve

1477
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 11: under today and he misshooting a fifty nine with a

1478
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 11: right to left putt that missed by maybe Dan like

1479
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 11: a millimeter.

1480
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, he nearly had a fifty nine.

1481
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 11: So they interviewed him afterwards as he has a two

1482
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 11: shallead going into tomorrow's final round and he was still

1483
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 11: dead set on man, I could have had a couple

1484
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 11: more of those putts a sixty, complaining that there were

1485
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 11: some chances where you.

1486
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 4: Get all of us right exactly. I only would one

1487
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 4: on number.

1488
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 9: Six exactly exactly.

1489
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 11: So that is going on in the world of golf,

1490
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 11: and that's not the only thing that is going on

1491
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 11: as well. Down in Mexico at the Maya Copa Live

1492
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 11: Golf invitation that we do have Joaki Neeman with a

1493
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 11: thirteen hundred two day score, a four shot lead for him.

1494
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 11: Second round is complete, So yeah, foreshot lead for Nieman

1495
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 11: at Maya Copa. With that, let's get it back to

1496
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 11: Dan Bayer and Moncy Bolanos.

1497
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,799
Speaker 3: Thanks Brian Finley. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio

1498
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 3: and it's Saturday with Montcy Bolanos here and Dan Bayer.

1499
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:39,960
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1505
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1506
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Speaker 2: off the air. Before we move on from Joel and

1507
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 2: b because I do want to talk a little bit

1508
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 2: about the All Star Game and everything happening there and

1509
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 2: some snubs and an idea I have, well that idea.

1510
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 2: But anyway, Joel embiid, if you're the seventy six ers,

1511
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 2: should he have surgery? He would be missing an extended

1512
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 2: period of time, but I don't think it would be

1513
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season. Should he have surgery,

1514
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 2: get ready for the playoffs? Or are you going to

1515
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 2: really just let him rest and then put him back

1516
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 2: out there. I would be afraid to do that.

1517
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 4: Here's here's the thing that I that I would say,

1518
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 4: if you thought surgery would prevent other injuries from happening,

1519
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 4: you know, further down the line, I would go with surgery,

1520
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 4: take your medicine. Maybe it's not your year, move on

1521
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 4: that way. I don't know how long surgery it would

1522
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,799
Speaker 4: take him out, but it would be pretty significant.

1523
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, an extended period of time.

1524
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. Mancy, if you can,

1525
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 4: again to what we were saying, guarantee that Joel Andbiad's

1526
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 4: not going to get injured again exactly. So in my mind,

1527
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know what, let's just rest and see

1528
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 4: this out, because maybe they do have an opportunity sitting

1529
01:11:59,320 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 4: right now in the you know, the five spot in

1530
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 4: the East. Talked earlier, the Nicks are playing well. I

1531
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:07,679
Speaker 4: just I if it was if it was a player

1532
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 4: who you were like, Okay, they'll have the off season,

1533
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 4: they'll come back full strength, had never had any injury

1534
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 4: history before. We want to make sure that he's good

1535
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 4: for the long run, then go right ahead. But I

1536
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:20,560
Speaker 4: think every season that they get out of Joel and

1537
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 4: b that he's playing like this is one that they

1538
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 4: can't waste. I actually think they're probably going to try

1539
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 4: to rest him and then try to get him to

1540
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 4: come back sooner.

1541
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 2: But because he's so injury prone, I'm just like, is

1542
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know what I would do. I

1543
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 2: don't know what the right answer is, But because of that,

1544
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 2: I would be afraid that like the rest is like

1545
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 2: not going to be enough, and it might not be.

1546
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,719
Speaker 4: But also if he has the surgery again, he gets

1547
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 4: hurt every season. Yeah, So there's going to be something

1548
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 4: else down the line, so this one. So you're basically

1549
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 4: then saying for the season, we're just gonna we're gonna

1550
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 4: scrap this season and move on.

1551
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1552
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 4: And I just don't know with him, especially at the

1553
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 4: level that he was playing at, if you rest it

1554
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 4: and he's able to muster something together. I just you

1555
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 4: have no idea how long he's actually going to be

1556
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 4: available to you. You have no idea on how long

1557
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 4: his career is. So if you don't have that guess,

1558
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 4: and let's just say, if it's even five years, you know,

1559
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 4: you lose this season and you hope for the next four, Well,

1560
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 4: there's no guarantee of the next four that he's going

1561
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:19,759
Speaker 4: to be healthy.

1562
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can only assume it's going to be

1563
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 2: like you said, what it's always been Joel getting hurt.

1564
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 3: Yes, unfortunately that's what it is.

1565
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,680
Speaker 4: And by the way, he's not even thirty yet. Yeah.

1566
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 4: But still, like when you're talking about, you know, a

1567
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 4: seven footer in dealing with this sort of stuff, yeah,

1568
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 4: just it's tough. Tough to deal with it is.

1569
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,040
Speaker 2: The NBA All Star Game is just around the corner

1570
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis, we now know all the All Star reserves.

1571
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 2: There's a couple of snobs out there, as they are

1572
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 2: every year. But what I was telling bo Our producer

1573
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 2: Bo Benson right before the show, I was like, there

1574
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 2: should be one player representing every team. I don't care

1575
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 2: if the Spurs are in last place, Victor win Banyama

1576
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 2: should represent that team in the All Star Game, all right.

1577
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 2: And I know Baseball did this at one point and

1578
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 2: they took it away just because I I just think

1579
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 2: this could. Like, for example, if I'm a Piston and

1580
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 2: I know we suck, we suck, but one of us

1581
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 2: is gonna make it to the All Star Game, I'm

1582
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 2: gonna try to outplay my own teammates and in my

1583
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 2: creey a little bit of you know better.

1584
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 4: All right, So back in the Heydays, only Lebron makes

1585
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 4: it and Dwayne Wade has to sit home. I know

1586
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 4: it's just coming, but Shack's not on the All Star team.

1587
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 4: But you can't.

1588
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 3: How is VIC their one and then other? Fine, a couple.

1589
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 2: Teams can have two, but like I feel like every

1590
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 2: team should have a representative in the All Star Game,

1591
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:45,919
Speaker 2: and this year the Victor one Banyama.

1592
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:47,280
Speaker 3: You know these should be there.

1593
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 4: I will meet you halfway and I'll say this, Okay,

1594
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 4: if you're not in your top six year conference, you

1595
01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 4: should have more than one All Star.

1596
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,479
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I like that too.

1597
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 4: That ties a little into maybe, you know, because a

1598
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 4: lot of people are saying, oh, are Anthony Davis and

1599
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 4: Lebron James all Stars when their team is is what

1600
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 4: it is now? They they mean, Anthony Davis has played

1601
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:11,759
Speaker 4: great for the Lakers and Lebron is Lebron. But maybe

1602
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 4: that is the Maybe that's the halfway. It may not

1603
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 4: be fair, and it wouldn't be fair to someone like

1604
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis or you know, especially if Lebron would get

1605
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 4: voted in. But I just I do not need to

1606
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 4: see Wizards, pistons, and hornets on my screen for an

1607
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 4: All Star game. That's the only thing I would say.

1608
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 4: I think we're going a little too far. And when

1609
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 4: Ben Yama makes it seem like this is great, but

1610
01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 4: if it was last year, what spur you're putting on

1611
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:40,719
Speaker 4: the All Star team? There it is, you answered my question,

1612
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 4: There it is.

1613
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 2: But I still I just feel that it could add

1614
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 2: a little bit of flavor within the team. I feel

1615
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 2: like it could add a little bit of competition within

1616
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 2: the team, and it's not a perfect solution.

1617
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 3: But I do like what you said.

1618
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 4: That's the problem in the NBA. These guys don't play

1619
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 4: as teams. Yeah, you know, like there's these bad teams.

1620
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 4: Everybody's out for themselves.

1621
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 3: Trying to see what drops the next seventy.

1622
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,679
Speaker 4: I think your heart's in the right place. Sorry, Tyrese Maxey.

1623
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 4: It was a great year, but embiid's gonna go.

1624
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 2: I mean, just an idea, all right, everybody. Fox Sports

1625
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 2: Saturday with Monty Belognas and Dian Bayer.

1626
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 3: Coming up next. There's a very attractive actress out there.

1627
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 2: That is a line about our past, and we're gonna

1628
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 2: get into that, So don't go anywhere. Fox Sports Saturday

1629
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 2: with Monte Belagas and Diane Bayer. Thanks for hanging out

1630
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 2: with us today, everybody. As we wrap up our show,

1631
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 2: thank you to the crew. Brian Finley at the update desk,

1632
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 2: we have both Benson our producer and Chris Purfett, our

1633
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 2: technical producer. You know, dan athletes us here working in

1634
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 2: this wonderful world of sports. We've all had jobs prior

1635
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:51,640
Speaker 2: to you know, your dream job or a job that

1636
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 2: you really have been trying to get. I was a

1637
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:57,679
Speaker 2: server for many years. I was also a tour guide

1638
01:16:57,680 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 2: at Universal Studios.

1639
01:16:58,720 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 12: You know J.

1640
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 3: Watt apparently delivered pizzas for Pizza High.

1641
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 4: What did you do so, I gosh, I worked at

1642
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 4: a truck stop gas station right out of college. I

1643
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 4: worked in the in the mall at a Champ sporting

1644
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:15,719
Speaker 4: good store once. Yeah, a lot of a lot of stuff.

1645
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 3: But what did you do before you became a producer here?

1646
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 5: I was a barista box. I worked at the AMC

1647
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 5: Burbank eight.

1648
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, mister p Fat.

1649
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,839
Speaker 10: So before I went back to and got my master's,

1650
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 10: I was working as a carpenter at the time. Like

1651
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 10: I was working just installing cabinets for like about two

1652
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 10: three years. And when I was in high school, I

1653
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 10: was working. I was cleaning up the zoo after after

1654
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 10: everyone stampeded through it.

1655
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 4: I love how pet had to put it. Before I

1656
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 4: got my master I know, right, I know, I did carpentry.

1657
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 3: You know, mister Brian Fed what were you doing but

1658
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 3: for all of your many jobs now?

1659
01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 11: Well, so in high school I used to work at

1660
01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 11: it Tennis club, and I not only was supervising the

1661
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 11: desk or whatever, and checking in the members.

1662
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I also strung rackets nice.

1663
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 11: So people would come to me and you'd use that

1664
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:15,560
Speaker 11: machine and you'd have to spread the tiny little fibers

1665
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 11: through and people'd come and people would come to you

1666
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 11: and say, I wanted at this intensity.

1667
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 9: So yeah, it was pretty interesting. It's like surgery but not.

1668
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1669
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 2: But none of us here would lie about our jobs

1670
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,120
Speaker 2: in the past. I don't know why anyone would. But

1671
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 2: Sidney Sweeney very hot actress. Yes, uh, you may have

1672
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 2: seen her in Euphoria. She's super sexy, super hot. But

1673
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 2: she has come out recently Dan and said that she

1674
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 2: was a tour guide at Universal Studios.

1675
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:48,599
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what. She wasn't a tour guy

1676
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 3: at Universal Studios.

1677
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 4: What do you want to mean?

1678
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 3: She did not work at Universal Studios as a tour guide.

1679
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 2: She claims that she did that as she was trying

1680
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 2: to become an actress before she booked Sharp Objects. Sharp

1681
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 2: came out in twenty eighteen ish. Unless she was a

1682
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 2: tour guid because old is she twenty six years old?

1683
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 2: Unless she was a tour guide when she was ten

1684
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 2: years old.

1685
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 3: And I wasn't there. There's no way there was.

1686
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 2: I was there for seven years, and I don't understand

1687
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 2: why somebody so hot feels.

1688
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:16,599
Speaker 3: The need to lie.

1689
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 4: She wasn't running the Jaws.

1690
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 3: She was not pointing at Jaws at Bruce the Shark

1691
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 3: like I did for seven years.

1692
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 4: No, she was not.

1693
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 3: She wasn't pretending that a flood was coming down in

1694
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,560
Speaker 3: Old Mexico. She wasn't doing that.

1695
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 12: No, she was not there.

1696
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 3: And I don't get why she's saying this to people.

1697
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 3: Because you're so hot, you ain't gotta lie to kick it.

1698
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,400
Speaker 3: You could have just told people you didn't do anything

1699
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 3: and everybody would be like, it's okay, you's a lot.

1700
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 4: I'm lied, so people wouldn't know where I worked. I've

1701
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 4: done that before.

1702
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 2: And the only thing I could think of is that

1703
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 2: she's gonna come out and say that she was a

1704
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,839
Speaker 2: tour guid in Orlando, which is not the same universal

1705
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 2: Orlando does not have a studio, It is not the same.

1706
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 3: You would be just taking people around the theme park.

1707
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 3: Not the same.

1708
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 2: Here in La we're actually in the movie studio, taking

1709
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:04,440
Speaker 2: people on sets into soundstages in the prop warehouse.

1710
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 3: Like, I don't like, there's so many tour guides.

1711
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: Why would you.

1712
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 3: Lie about this.

1713
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, Dan, I don't get it, but thank

1714
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 2: you everybody for joining us on this Fox Sports Saturday.

1715
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 3: Montebelanas and Dan Byer, we'll see you next time.