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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty six and twelve twenty seven off

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Speaker 1: season champion New York Jets. They've already won this coming

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Speaker 1: off season and the next off season banner ceremonies this

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Speaker 1: weekend at MetLife Stadium. We've already won we do what. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we are the Patriots of the off season. When the

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Speaker 1: pesky games come, they give us trouble. But the off season,

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Speaker 1: when there's no games, we are dominant. Man. We are

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Speaker 1: a dynasty. Dude. It's only appropriate that it happens on

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Speaker 1: an election day where all you have to do is sell,

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Speaker 1: hope and change. Yeah, what else is behind the door?

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Speaker 1: I don't know? Oh, change? What about when things actually

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Speaker 1: have to be I know that. No, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We have now. We have now, Yeah, we have been now,

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Speaker 1: and we may look assets. What are they? Giant question marks? Possibility?

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Speaker 1: You know, could be an edge rusher, could be could

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Speaker 1: be a forty five hundred yard throwing quarterback, could be

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Speaker 1: no idea, doesn't matter. The NFL trade deadline belongs to

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Speaker 1: the Jets, as if you had any doubt when it's

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Speaker 1: something off the field that doesn't involve actually winning and

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Speaker 1: losing a game. The Jets were gonna dominate. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: they left one man behind. Well, we'll get to we'll

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Speaker 1: get to Breese Hall. We'll get to stuff for week

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Speaker 1: ten with depression. Sadness, Yeah, sadness take it over. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a make a well I think enough

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Speaker 1: people have seen it now. But like Mash, like the

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Speaker 1: entire run of the of the of the episode of

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Speaker 1: the seasons of Mash, how one of the greatest comedies

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Speaker 1: ever on television. Like Klinger tries to get out of

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Speaker 1: the Army like it's a running gag for like all

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Speaker 1: twelve seasons. Clinger wants out. Make that now, he wants out.

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Speaker 1: He wants out right, He's trying to go Section eight.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to go everything. He's trying to get out,

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Speaker 1: trying to get out, trying to get out. When Mash

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Speaker 1: ends and everybody else gets out, he stays in Korea

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Speaker 1: Like that's breecee Hall. Hey wait a minute, wait it ended,

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Speaker 1: everybody else left. I've wanted to get out for a while.

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Speaker 1: How am I the one staying I'm the best offensive

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Speaker 1: player that was available at the trade deadline? How did

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Speaker 1: no one want a pony up a third round pick

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Speaker 1: for me? Just like uh Clagger, uh glue guy. Although

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know it at the time, he doesn't recognize

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Speaker 1: it and had that bit of introspect. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: uh this trade deadline. This there's a couple of reasons why.

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Speaker 1: Like number one, obviously the two biggest stories of the day.

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Speaker 1: The Jets trade Sauce Garden to the Colts and they

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Speaker 1: trade Quentin Williams of the Dallas Cowboy. Yeah, broke that

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Speaker 1: kid's heart. I told you last night. Yeah, I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you about that. Frostburg, we talked about the deadline.

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Speaker 1: You've out of know what Sauce You just said, Sauce Gardener.

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Speaker 1: So I think either you're like the new Adam Schefter,

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Speaker 1: It was only just going with the one guy that

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Speaker 1: I mean whether he does still or or not. Like

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Speaker 1: internalize every loss and remember every sequence. M Like, I

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Speaker 1: But for quarterbacks, you've always had the ability to just

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Speaker 1: our bag on this stuff. The Sauce Gardener trade. The

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Speaker 1: shocking one. Sauce Garter didn't even know. He just tweeted out,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about every everybody that was any

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Speaker 1: Like I'm thinking right now, did did did something? Did

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Speaker 1: did Jim Harbaugh tell Frostburg something that it's nothing? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you said sauce Gardener and sauce Gardner got traded. All right, Schefty,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you Schefty from now. You're shifty. But see,

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Speaker 1: he gives you nothing on anything else you've asked him

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Speaker 1: I want to find that from last week, almost no information,

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Speaker 1: Garden's not getting traded, Come on, man, And then sauce

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Speaker 1: Gardener got traded. I think anybody was available if the

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Speaker 1: the Jets gave Way talent. The Jets stink. They're one

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Speaker 1: and seven. They're completely starting over. It's new quarterback next year,

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Speaker 1: I was not upset about the sauce Gardener trade. I'm

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Speaker 1: but quite honestly, sauce Gardner, he's not the player he

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Speaker 1: remember how good he's gonna be the next Revus. The

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Speaker 1: Gardner was not the same player, right. You can look

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks rating is on passes. They target sauce Gardener

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Speaker 1: for I seen him get beat a lot this year.

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Speaker 1: But the big deal is that in the last few years,

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Speaker 1: like three pass interference penalties, all holding penalties, all with

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Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna use him the shutdown guy. They'll

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Speaker 1: a more advantage of his of his of his athleticism

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Speaker 1: much that if we trade him, it's an easier thing

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Speaker 1: from not upset to downright excited about it. Now look

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Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner came to the Jets. He was terrific. He

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Speaker 1: many great things off the field. He was just a

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Speaker 1: great person to have on the Jets. But by and large,

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Speaker 1: the Jets want to win football games, and they brought

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Speaker 1: They got Brownlee before the deadline, which is a great trade,

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Speaker 1: which made Michael Carter expendable. They traded him away to

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Speaker 1: every year is worse than the last one. He peaked

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Speaker 1: see him at a reunion like ten years later. It's due.

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Speaker 1: What happened to man? No, what do you mean? What happened? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I put on a few pounds, but I'm still working

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Speaker 1: at the movie theater. Everything is still cool, Still driving

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Speaker 1: the trans am that I drove, you know, eight years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: still great, man, still great. That's kind of you know. Okay, Well, Sauce,

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Speaker 1: Sauce peaked as a rookie. I'm not upset. I am.

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Speaker 1: I went from not being upset to being excited about

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Speaker 1: the trade because clearly, okay, we got to go in

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Speaker 1: on something else for next that whole time, were you

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Speaker 1: envisioning Matt Dillon and beautiful Girls? The Legend's dead, Birdie

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Speaker 1: I have, but the legend can still blank you up? No,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking of actually that. What was that episode

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Speaker 1: from Friends where Monica runs into her crush from high school,

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Speaker 1: Chipper called They called the Chip, the guy with the motorcycle,

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Speaker 1: and they ran into him all those years later and

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Speaker 1: the chipper right, the chip you would call the chip,

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Speaker 1: so that that's kind of what I thought. But I

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Speaker 1: look in the mirror, and it's a very adult thing

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Speaker 1: to do for the Jets in this perspectives, like, we

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Speaker 1: like this guy. Clearly, the city likes him, the fan

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Speaker 1: lifts them a little bit and they're a five hundred team.

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Speaker 1: But when I come back, we're better, and then I

422
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Speaker 1: get a little bit of my Hey, don't remember, it's

423
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Speaker 1: still Lebron's team. Is still Lebron's team, right, But what

424
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Speaker 1: have we seen instead? Luca has been terrific, And when

425
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Speaker 1: Luca's been out, Austin Reeves has won games all by himself.

426
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Speaker 1: And when he's out, Smith Junior, right exactly off the bench,

427
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: is scoring twenty five and twenty five minutes the Lakers.

428
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Speaker 1: For all the hot takes you see, you know the

429
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Speaker 1: Indiana Fever are functioning better without Caitlin Clark than they

430
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Speaker 1: are with her. Uh. You watch the Lakers and see

431
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Speaker 1: how they function They are functioning incredibly well without Lebron James.

432
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Speaker 1: They're functioning well without I mean really, I mean obviously

433
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Speaker 1: not for a long period of time, but nights when

434
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Speaker 1: Luca misses, they've still been okay. Right, You watch Austin

435
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: Reeves forty points, fifty points, thirty in a game winner.

436
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 1: This team is moving the ball around, They're getting more

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Speaker 1: players involved. It is a much more cohesive team with

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves functioning as the one A or the two

439
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Speaker 1: to Luca's one, especially coming out of the backcourt. Reeves

440
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: doesn't need the ball in his hand as much Luca

441
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Speaker 1: can have the ball. It's not auditioned by subtraction. It's just, hey,

442
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 1: this fit right now really really works, whereas last year

443
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Speaker 1: was hey, Luca's got the ball, Lebron's got the ball.

444
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Speaker 1: Does anybody else really get involved in what did you say?

445
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: Did anybody really step up when that happened? Do we

446
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Speaker 1: think all the Lakers are going to be really good?

447
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 1: They're going to figure things out? They figured things out

448
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Speaker 1: without Lebron James. I mean, think about that when he

449
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Speaker 1: comes back. How is he going to fit in? I

450
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Speaker 1: feel like it's the same conversation we had that when

451
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Speaker 1: when Sanity was going on and Mellow was hurt, which

452
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,160
Speaker 1: is why Insanity happened, and the questions were, uh, Mello,

453
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Speaker 1: how are you going to fit into this offense when

454
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Speaker 1: you come back? What do you mean for it's my offense?

455
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,360
Speaker 1: This guy's been around for about a day and a half.

456
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Speaker 1: What do you talk? But that's really where the Lakers are.

457
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Speaker 1: They look better so far without Lebron James. I never

458
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Speaker 1: thought i'd say that, Yet here we are. Well, I

459
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Speaker 1: mean some of it. I think if you went to Carmelo,

460
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Speaker 1: first off and you brought any of that up, he'd

461
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Speaker 1: have flashbacks. Oh well, I mean him and Phil Jackson

462
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Speaker 1: are still fighting now about them. No, that's it Phil

463
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Speaker 1: doing this thing, which is you know, top seventy five book.

464
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Speaker 1: He and Sam Smith, a longtime beat rider for the

465
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Speaker 1: Bulls going through and now a great singer. Oh yeah, none. No,

466
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Speaker 1: they were all with Dan Patrick, and he validated a

467
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Speaker 1: point I've made for a long time. What's that? He said,

468
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Speaker 1: the guy you wished he would have coached was Christian Laytner.

469
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Speaker 1: How about that? They're selling the Christian Laytner thing forever

470
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Speaker 1: that he was just in a terrible uh oh circumstance.

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Speaker 1: He was a t wolf for all those years. But

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Speaker 1: you look at what the have been, and you got

473
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Speaker 1: what six to seven guys averaging six to seven averaging

474
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Speaker 1: double digit figures at this point, including Nick Smith Junior

475
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Speaker 1: in his three games. La Ravia has been fantastic off

476
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Speaker 1: the bench, Reeves average still averaging nine assists per game.

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Speaker 1: So you're moving the ball and guys are finding their roles,

478
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Speaker 1: and you me you know, harken back to last year

479
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 1: where there's a lot of standing around with all right,

480
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Speaker 1: who how's this flowing? I maan, how many possessions did

481
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Speaker 1: each guy take off? Where you can go back and isolate,

482
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Speaker 1: all right, there's Luca. He's not even in frame right,

483
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: hands on the hip as Lebron takes the ball or

484
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Speaker 1: vice versa, and overall it's still played. It played well,

485
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Speaker 1: it's just disjoin it here. For this first part of

486
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Speaker 1: the season, with Lebron on the shelf, they've been able

487
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Speaker 1: to figure it out. When Luca's not there. Everybody's relishing

488
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Speaker 1: the extra minutes, the extra touches, knowing that they might

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Speaker 1: be part of a deal. Like that's the other part,

490
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Speaker 1: Like a lot of these guys are just trying to

491
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Speaker 1: find their mark, to show their value either with JJ

492
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Speaker 1: Reddick and what the Lakers are building or if not,

493
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Speaker 1: auditioning for another team. Because there's no way I don't

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Speaker 1: believe at all that this is where we're at anywhere

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Speaker 1: near the trade deadline in terms of what this Lakers

496
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Speaker 1: roster looks like, whether Lebron's gone or still there or

497
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Speaker 1: whatever the any parts are you making tweaks or are

498
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Speaker 1: you saying we need another big player in but the

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Speaker 1: antelary parts, I don't know. I know we need a

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Speaker 1: big player. Can't get not gonna get Wemby. So but

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is the worst nightmare for

502
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Speaker 1: Lebron James because the one thing Lebron has always never

503
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Speaker 1: had to fight about has been relevant. Right. That's why

504
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: this is a big deal. Lebron has been the straw

505
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Speaker 1: that has stirred the drink in the NBA for twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Still at this point, he is the number one star

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Speaker 1: in the league that everybody talks about, that that that

508
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Speaker 1: moves the needle. Yeah, it's great to talk about. We

509
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Speaker 1: talk a lot about Wemby does. It doesn't do what

510
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Speaker 1: Lebron does. I love talking about the Knicks. Knicks are relevant.

511
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Speaker 1: Nicks are huge, not as big as Lebron years he

512
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Speaker 1: has had them. No matter what he has done, the

513
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Speaker 1: one thing he has never had has been Wait a minute,

514
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Speaker 1: I'm just the I'm the second guy in the Buddy

515
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Speaker 1: Cop movie. I'm I'm the I'm the sidekick, I'm the

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Speaker 1: he's not been that guy. I'm not gonna lie. I've

517
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed these first couple of weeks of the NBA

518
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Speaker 1: season because this is I mean, we we talked about

519
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Speaker 1: it a little bit, but because of this marquee matchup

520
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Speaker 1: against the Spurs, this is the first time that it's

521
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Speaker 1: fully in focus. I'm enjoying just watching the rest of

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Speaker 1: the NBA and seeing these guys getting their shine. Right.

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Speaker 1: You got wem Bin Yama and Castle a nice one

524
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Speaker 1: to two in their own rights right now. That Castle

525
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Speaker 1: is healthy and giving you the minutes he is, uh

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Speaker 1: and you look at some of the other young stars.

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Speaker 1: We talk about your nicks and and laughers like they

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Speaker 1: pulled off today. It was good that that Ann Edwards

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Speaker 1: is back and able to play and all. But and

530
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Speaker 1: Yann is putting up points whether he becomes a nick

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Speaker 1: later on, but that Lebron doesn't have to be the

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Speaker 1: focal point to coverage, right and and that top part

533
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Speaker 1: of a funneling down of NBA stories. There are plenty

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Speaker 1: of other stars taking their shine and and taking up

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Speaker 1: the the oxygen in the room. When he comes back, great,

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Speaker 1: But for now he's over there. He's just in time out.

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Speaker 1: But he's gone. Look, he's still playing, He's still he

538
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: still needs to figure out a way. And maybe this

539
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Speaker 1: is why he's sitting out because I got to figure

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Speaker 1: out a way to to be be the guy again. Right,

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Speaker 1: He's never That's the thing. He's never been that guy.

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Speaker 1: He's never had to be the Oh maybe now I'm

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00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: lower in the pecking order, whether you and and if

544
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Speaker 1: he came into this year and it was him and Luca,

545
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Speaker 1: you could say, Okay, I'm okay with it being Lucas team,

546
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Speaker 1: but still everybody knows it's really my team and when

547
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Speaker 1: the playoffs come, I'm the guy taking the shots because

548
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Speaker 1: he's always been a big playoff performer. So I'm okay

549
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: with that. But now it's he's getting such shunted aside

550
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Speaker 1: to the point where where you really wonder, like, how

551
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Speaker 1: is he gonna handle not being the story again? And

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Speaker 1: I've said this, I can't. I still have a hard

553
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Speaker 1: time envisioning Lebron James suiting up for this Laker team

554
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Speaker 1: with the way the offseason has gone and how they

555
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Speaker 1: have said to him, you are not our guy, we

556
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Speaker 1: would like you to go, and he says I would

557
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Speaker 1: like to go. I still I can't believe he's actually

558
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: gonna play. But that's the most fascinating store in the NBA.

559
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: What kind of role he has when he comes back.

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Speaker 1: Is it the number three guy? How does he adjust

561
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Speaker 1: with not being that big star again? Like? How is

562
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: he just gonna be really sullen and surly the entire time?

563
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be funny and not caring? Is he

564
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: gonna play once and then not come back for the

565
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: three weeks? Like that's fascinating because I don't know how

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Speaker 1: he's gonna handle this. I'll take you back to arriving

567
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Speaker 1: at Northwestern. I went to a competitive high school in

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Speaker 1: the in Chicago and at a lot of smart people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people smarter than me. But then I

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Speaker 1: get to Northwestern and I'm used to that. A lot

571
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Speaker 1: of people that came to Northwestern were not used to that.

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Speaker 1: They were the smartest kid by far, and all of

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Speaker 1: their reaches across the country and globally, and then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they were getting smacked around in those

575
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: classes didn't go so well. Lebron is finally seeing that

576
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Speaker 1: for the first time in his life. He's that little

577
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: kid with the book bag, going, yeah, this ain't so

578
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: easy anymore. I mean, he might be the number three

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Speaker 1: guy in the Lakers. If he ever look at you

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Speaker 1: in promotion Austin Reeves.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: I I this is this is a load of crap

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Speaker 1: right now, what we're watching? It's an appen How the

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00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: hell are the Raiders and Broncos tied at seven? How

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00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: are the Raiders tied in this game? Oh? How is that?

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Speaker 1: I can boil it all down to one word. This

589
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Speaker 1: is so the Broncos stink day stace. This makes absolutely

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Speaker 1: no Hunter stinks. The offense had forty four yards and

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Speaker 1: for one drive made it a tie. And that's the

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00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: other thing. Because the Raiders stink. It's a tie game. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 1: and and I'm not upset because you know the big

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Speaker 1: bull prediction made last night. I said, Gino's gonna throw

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Speaker 1: three picks, including one in the first five throws of

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Speaker 1: the game. The Broncos are gonna score forty points because

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Speaker 1: their offense is better at home. I'm not upset about

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Speaker 1: that because a little bit. I'm not the only way now,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not. The Broncos are gonna win. I mean

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Speaker 1: they were nine and a half point favorites. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: But this is the point now, is that I'm I'm

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00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: just upset that and I'm more embarrassed for the Broncos

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Speaker 1: that I am happy that we have a close game

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night. I mean, I'm excited because it's closet.

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00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: I should be more excited that it's close, but instead,

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Speaker 1: I'm just mad that that the Raiders and Broncos are

607
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: tough like this. This shouldn't be taught. The Raiders are terrible.

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Speaker 1: But that's the thing we've talked about these Broncos. And

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Speaker 1: while the final final stuff looks pretty right, you have

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Speaker 1: a quarter here, a quarter there, and you put up

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00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: some points, the overall sixty minute effort is highly inconsistent.

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00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah right, and and there are parts of this. Look,

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Speaker 1: they may still score forty. You have no idea, what's

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Speaker 1: what's still to come? But then this game because it

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Speaker 1: is after all, yeah the Raiders. Yeah, but they're playing

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Speaker 1: at home on a Thursday night. Theforms look great.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: That's the only passing part now is you can say, boy,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos stink tonight, but boy they look great in

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Speaker 1: those you know, I'm thinking about Craig Borton, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about el Way. Oh, that's like that the Sinful episode

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Speaker 1: when you know George designed the uniforms for the Yankees. Boy,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees losing six to one, but boy, they sure

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Speaker 1: look comfortable in those uniforms. They look around like, hey,

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Speaker 1: they look great in those uniforms. Like that orange like

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Speaker 1: that that really pops like this, These throwback Tom Jackson

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Speaker 1: John Elway early era Broncos unis are great, but good

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Speaker 1: for you. They stink inside them recognizing the greatness that

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Speaker 1: is Tom Jackson. I think people need to go back

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Speaker 1: and look at his career. He had a fantastic tool.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is Game two seventy right now. I

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00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: mean if I'm just like throwing a dart at the

633
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: board of my two seventy two in terms of celebration,

634
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: because this is this has been terrible. There's been three

635
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: plays and misadventures. The punter for for Denver has been awful. Uh.

636
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: And then they keep citing the wind. I'm like, forget

637
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: about the wind. He's hitting it off the side of

638
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: the foot. But the wind doesn't have anything to do

639
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: unless you're telling me it's that powerful. It could be

640
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: that in that two yards he's dropping it onto his

641
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: foot that suddenly there's just that ninety five mile an hour, Gus,

642
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: that's you know, taking him through a wind tunnel. Hey,

643
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: you guys went to the super Bowl and parked because

644
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: Sean Landetta whiffed on a punt in the playoffs. Yeah,

645
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: but those were those were like hurricane gusts. Here. I'm

646
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: looking at everything weather wise talking about it is like,

647
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: I don't see anything stronger than eight miles an hour,

648
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: which is nothing. That's a that's a little breeze. But

649
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: what if the breeze, what if it was all centralized

650
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: and localized to his foots? What if it's Drew Brees,

651
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: what if it's what if the breeze? What if it's

652
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: like a like a dust level and starts the middle

653
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: of the field, Like I like that the dust if

654
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: that happens, not not the vacuum cleaner, no, but the

655
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: actual dirt level. Yeah, no, dirt level you know what

656
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: was one one and never and never got it from

657
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: time out for trivia he won, He won a dirt dove.

658
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: He was supposed to wait, he won a bunch of

659
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: answering trivia questions. We're all sitting around as funny as hell.

660
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: Todd Donahoe's the host going all the way back and

661
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: it was one of the early call in shows. He

662
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: gets on and he wins a metal detector, he wins

663
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: the Dirt Devil and a couple other things. The only

664
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: thing that showed up was the metal detect. Want a

665
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: metal detect? So he was walking around on the beach

666
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: just you know. Eventually they bought a house on a

667
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: river and he would go find some cool stuff. Oh

668
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: that's nice. I found an engagement ring, money clips. You

669
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna find on I never know

670
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: what and actually an adventure. Yeah. So seven to seven,

671
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: middle of the third quarter and Gino Smith. Maybe we

672
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: spurred Gino Smith on because I will he did have

673
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: four touchdowns a week ago. I will take credit for

674
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: last night saying he's gonna throw three picks, one's going

675
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: to be, one's gonna be a pick six, one's gonna

676
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: be within the first five throws. And he's been acceptable

677
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: so far, meaning he hasn't thrown a pick. He hasn't

678
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: been the four touchdown guy a last week, but he's

679
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: been accept Maybe throwing that out there, I got that

680
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: out of Geno Smith now, so you're welcome Raiders Nation. Well,

681
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: one of the things that's been really uh pressing here

682
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: for for Gino Smith and we talked about it a

683
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: bunch last night. While you're down a top notch cover

684
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: corner in certain you do have one of the greatest

685
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: pass rushes going in the game. We're talking record setting

686
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: through this point in the season. Historically, they're already talking

687
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: about eighty four bears. You want to go back that way,

688
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: he's taken five sacks, but that means that's five times

689
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: he did not put the ball in harm's way. Yeah,

690
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: maybe they could have been two or three inc that

691
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: could have happened, but that's just it. And so instead

692
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: he ate it. So he did the right thing, you know.

693
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: And to think that the Bronco look, it doesn't make

694
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: any sense that the Broncos are here, right, it doesn't.

695
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: It really doesn't make any sense that they're struggling tonight

696
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: with the Raiders after some of the performances they have

697
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: put together so far this season. Now we're at the

698
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: midway point of the year now, right, so we're we're

699
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: in week nine and this should have been the moment

700
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: where the great teams, the ones that are showing you

701
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: we are far and away the top of the NFL. Right, yes,

702
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: there's a lot of contenders, but usually get a couple

703
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: of teams in each conference that separate themselves a little bit,

704
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: that show you, hey, these first eight ten weeks, you

705
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: know what, we're really good. We're really good. And yeah,

706
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose a game or two the rest of

707
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: the way because you know, you can't win every week,

708
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a matchup, maybe it's an injury or something.

709
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: But usually you get a couple of teams that are

710
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: separated themselves. That's the unique thing about this NFL season.

711
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: Not one team has separated themselves where you could say

712
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: they are the overwhelming favorite to go to the super Bowl.

713
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: They're one of the top two teams in the conference,

714
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: and boy, I expect to see them in the conference

715
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: title game. Right you go, you go, division by division,

716
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Patriots leading the AFC East. Right,

717
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: the Bills not quite what we thought they'd be. They've

718
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 1: shown that they are much more all than we thought.

719
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: The Patriots have played nobody right this schedule, it's the

720
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: easiest schedule in the NFL. And five finally, they play

721
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: a good team on Sunday, but everybody they play stinks

722
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: and they haven't even played the Jets yet. Okay, so

723
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: is that what makes it hurt so much? Easy? I

724
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: can see how much this wounds you because they're walking

725
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: through this schedule, they haven't played the Jets yet, and

726
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: you just had a half of fires. It doesn't because

727
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: down halfway through. Now listen, it doesn't bother me that

728
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: they're winning. It bothers me that look how good the

729
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: Patriots are. Look how great vrabel Is looked at that.

730
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: Drake May is an MVP candidate. He's playing a bunch

731
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: of stiff teams. Haven't played anybody good. They played the

732
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: Bills once. Okay, that's but it's not like the schedule

733
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: gets harder than us the way. But they've got you

734
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: got a beat. Who's on the schedule. I know it's

735
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: the same thing for you, But don't tell But don't

736
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: sit here and tell me how great they are because

737
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: they they're beating a bunch of stiff teams. That's the

738
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: thing about the payo oh, Drake May is Yeah, I

739
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: think I'd put these numbers up against you. And I

740
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: can't throw the ball more than twenty five. Can't palm

741
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: that ball. Now, the Duke is a really hard way.

742
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: But you go there. The Steelers, they stink, they don't

743
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: do anything well, yet they're at the top of the division. Okay,

744
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: in the South, the Colts are good. Does anybody believe

745
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: in the Colts. No, it's not a team that we think, oh,

746
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna go all the way. Look at the AFC West,

747
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: you had a lot of talented teams, Broncos up at

748
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: the top. Yeah, they got problems obviously, because here they are.

749
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: They've lost a couple of games. They nearly lost a

750
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: game to the Giants, need to score thirty points in

751
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and they're tied with the Raiders. You

752
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 1: go to the NFC East and the Eagles have issues,

753
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 1: still figuring out who they are offensively. In the NFC North,

754
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: the Lions, we thought they would jump in and be

755
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: great all the way through, but they have shown you

756
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: we will stub bar toe all the way through. The South,

757
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: we thought Tampa Bay might be really good, but no,

758
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: they've hit the skids last couple weeks. Now they're coming

759
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: off of buye. In the NFC West, you want to

760
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: say the Rams, maybe, but the Rams have shown you, hey,

761
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: we can lose. This is not every week where we're

762
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: beating teams forty one seventeen. This usually we get like

763
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: there's at least three teams right now in the NFL

764
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: that we can say, hey, they're really good. They are

765
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: the elite, right, even the Chiefs. Everyone's Chiefs are one

766
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: game over five hundred. They lost last week, Right, the

767
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs have problems. Everybody's got problems. There's not one team

768
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: or again, you'd think there would be at least three

769
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: that you could say they're great, they're at the top.

770
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: This is who right now the favorites are to get

771
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. Instead, it's everybody has issues. The

772
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: best teams have issues. This is a wide open season,

773
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: one of the more wide open seasons I can remember.

774
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: And it's like college football in the NFL the same thing,

775
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: absolutely wide open. Everybody's even if the the Broncos win

776
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 1: this game, I'm not gonna walk around and say see

777
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: how great they are. No, they held the Raiders up

778
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: for three and a half quarters before they found it

779
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: wind it winning a game like I can't remember where

780
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: there's not been that favorite because normally it's the Chiefs

781
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: are this good and and the Eagles are this good,

782
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,240
Speaker 1: or before them, the Patriots were this good, the Steelers

783
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,479
Speaker 1: were this good, the forty nine Ers were this good.

784
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: But this year, nobody, nobody. You can say, yeah, they

785
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: can beat anybody any given Sunday on a field. Right now,

786
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: you cannot say that about any team in the NFL.

787
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: This is great for business and certainly for us for

788
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: the second half. Look, if you're a fan out there

789
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: of a team that's in a quasi contender status and

790
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: you've ever thought, oh, maybe if things break our way,

791
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: you know, I would go to the Super Bowl city,

792
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: go book yourself a room somewhere in the larger Santa

793
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: Clara area, because right now you have no idea how

794
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,959
Speaker 1: this is gonna break out. Right, Which teams are healthy?

795
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: You talk about Tampa, can they keep anybody on the field,

796
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: and it's Baker Mayfield. Every week it seems like he's

797
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: being introduced to some new guys to either run the

798
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: ball or catch it. You talk about these Broncos, well,

799
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: last week, great game against Houston. Not aesthetically pleasing unless

800
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: you just love to watch. You know, a chess match

801
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: where one little thing is going to make a game

802
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: eighteen fifteen isn't something that's jumping off the pages. And

803
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: the highlight reels. But it was a good fount of

804
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: you win that one. They're on this six game winning streak.

805
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: But you got Cincinnati, the Giants where they needed to comeback,

806
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: a beat down of the Cowboys. I beat a lot

807
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: of teams that, as you like to say, stink as well.

808
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: So you beat who's on the schedule, and you hope

809
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: that you find some sense of ideaanity as you go.

810
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: And certainly for Denver, they're going to be trading on

811
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: how far that defense can take them and hoping to

812
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: sprinkle a little magic on bow knicks now and again.

813
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 1: But yeah, your your point's well taken is that there's

814
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: nobody that scares you. You can go team by team

815
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: and decide which side of the ball or when we

816
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: want to add that pesky special teams thing. That's where

817
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: the Rams comes in, right, because they've had all sorts

818
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: of issues and they're kicking game and secondary they've addressed

819
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: it to a degree. We'll see how that holds for

820
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: the second half. You know, you take a team like

821
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: the Rams and say, okay, well, if they didn't have

822
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: special teams, miscues, miss a field goal at the end,

823
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: they would have won those games. Yeah. Remember they would

824
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: have lost the Colts if An Mitchell the way through.

825
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: But that's just it's one play here, one play there

826
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: in the margin of error has been diminished, which is

827
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: the way he wants it. Well, he gets it, and

828
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: that's exactly what you did there, Guns and Roses. Very nice,

829
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: very nice. Yeah, full on Duff McKagan day for me.

830
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: But as you know, you're you're watching this game, this

831
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: just feels like the Broncos will do just enough to win.

832
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: It's not pretty, and you move on and you're left

833
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: with the same questions that you had in the second

834
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: quarter when they could move the ball the third quarter

835
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: as they're sputtering and trying to get to midfield. Yeah,

836
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 1: this is where we're at. NFL twenty twenty five. It's fantastic.

837
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: You want to do your little Super Bowl odds thing

838
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: real quick? Sure, go ahead, all right? You got the

839
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs are your favorite five point fifty, because why everybody

840
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: else is I don't know. The Bills at plus six hundred.

841
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: The Lions are the favorite in the NFC, tied with

842
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: the Eagles at eight to one, Rams just behind them

843
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Speaker 1: eight and a half. Packer's still at nine to one

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Speaker 1: despite their sputtering offense. I don't know what they are

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Speaker 1: at this point. Colt's at eleven to one, and then

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Speaker 1: your next favorite the seattlew oh there we go, Yes,

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Speaker 1: eleven to one, Yeah, Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam

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Speaker 1: So yeah, New England and the Chargers still down there

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Speaker 1: at twenty five. It's the free Nobody you can say

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Speaker 1: is really really good? Nobody nobody, And again going towards

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Speaker 1: the end, I agree with you. It's just gonna be. Boy,

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Speaker 1: how are the Raiders gonna blow this game? Is it

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Speaker 1: gonna be such Raider esque fashion or will be just

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Speaker 1: a generic Thursday night football? Hey, there's a field goal

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Speaker 1: to win the game, or they really go full Raiders

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Speaker 1: like that's what I'm hoping that some hope. But you

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Speaker 1: want to see Gino, Yeah, I hope that that happens.

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Speaker 1: But is it gonna I mean really, because you can

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Speaker 1: never take the full memory of his Jets dumb out

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Speaker 1: of there, because I mean just every time he's on

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Speaker 1: national television, what do you get in your timeline? I

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Speaker 1: sure as hell see Gino Smith was punched in the

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Speaker 1: face today seven at least three or four times, seven

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Speaker 1: to seven. Midway through the third quarter on Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: These are the games al Michaels has warned about