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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Let me get to a Steve Poundlozolo. Once

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Speaker 1: we figured out how to pronounce his name. We love

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Speaker 1: to have him on co host a Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast. Do you want to jump in on any

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Speaker 1: of those topics we've already had, Well, I mean the

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Speaker 1: Brady bled Cell thing. I mean, clearly that's the most

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Speaker 1: impactful injury. I think the blindside's overrated because when the

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Speaker 1: quarterback looks to is left is blind side's protected by

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Speaker 1: the right tackle. So I think it's overrated. And then

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Speaker 1: percept you'd have some success this weekend because the Miami

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Speaker 1: has got some good playmakers, but their offensive line is rough,

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Speaker 1: So I would go justin fields there. And once again,

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Speaker 1: what you offer, what Pro Football Focus offers his non opinions,

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Speaker 1: it's all numbers based, yeah, correct, Yeah, I mean there's interpretation.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you get a number, there's interpretation, there's context. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's quantified. Film study is what we do.

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Speaker 1: That's how we come up with our grades. All right,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady versus the Rams defense, you have of two

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Speaker 1: of the top five defenders in the game. I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: maybe the best at their individual positions and Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: and Jalen Ramsey. How does Tom Brady and the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: attack the Rams this weekend. It's a tough one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna look a lot different than what the Bucks

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Speaker 1: The Rams defense, my big question coming in was they

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Speaker 1: lose Brandon Staley, who was really forward thinking and taking

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Speaker 1: run and all these different things that he did last year,

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Speaker 1: and they're carrying that over. Jalen Ramsey's playing. Remember late

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Speaker 1: career Charles Woodson when he was out there kind of

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Speaker 1: playing a little linebacker and in the slot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's how Jalen Ramsey's playing in and around the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, blowing things up. So the Bucks have to

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Speaker 1: spread them out, be patient in the underneath game. But

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Speaker 1: the Rams match up really well, and they gave the

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Speaker 1: Bucks trouble last year on Monday Night Football. That was

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Speaker 1: one of the few games where the Bucks offense was

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Speaker 1: not very good. So it's a great matchup. Antonio Brown

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Speaker 1: might be out, but the Bucks look like right now

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Speaker 1: when all those guys are out there, all those receivers

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Speaker 1: to cover because Brady just goes who's the open man

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Speaker 1: this week? So I think it'll be a good back.

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Speaker 1: The Rams will do the best job against the Bucks offense.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks will still find a way to score some points,

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Speaker 1: though more likely to happen Ramsey gets an interception from

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Speaker 1: Brady or Aaron donald Sacks. Brady, Oh, definitely go Aaron

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Speaker 1: donald Sack. I mean, he's he's gonna he wins, you

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Speaker 1: know about twenty twenty five percent of his pass rushes,

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Speaker 1: which is incredible for an interior defensive lineman. You know,

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Speaker 1: Donald will He's got a much better shot. I think

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Speaker 1: have to throw at Jalen Ramsey, he can avoid him

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Speaker 1: if needed. Chargers in the Chiefs, I've mentioned this a

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Speaker 1: to run the football. Baltimore can run it, Cleveland can

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Speaker 1: I think with the Charges have showed is they could

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Speaker 1: put the ball in justin Herbert's hands and then they

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Speaker 1: those third down conversions. I think you have to score

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Speaker 1: the Rams. What's the grade for Jimmy Garoppolo so far?

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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys. One of my favorite things

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Speaker 1: He's down there, Oh gosh, where is he? He's too low?

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Speaker 1: the Garoppolo story. He missed a lot of throws in

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Speaker 1: what are you factoring in that? The QBR is not

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Speaker 1: that's a whole bunch of credit that's going to the

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Speaker 1: good example. On Sunday Night Football, he had two touchdowns

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus NFL podcast. Did the media overreact to

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Speaker 1: the first week with Aaron Rodgers or did they overact

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Speaker 1: Probably the first week. I mean, Rodgers has had games

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Speaker 1: This is the fourth straight time he's done it now,

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Speaker 1: So people could have looked at history and said Look,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has had bad games before. This happened to

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Speaker 1: it was four touchdowns and no interceptions and he played better.

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Speaker 1: So I think Aaron Rodgers is going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: So relax again. I think we're going to learn more

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Speaker 1: so I was not surprised. I was surprised the Lions

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Speaker 1: not astronomical expectations for Trevor Lawrence, but he's been disappointing

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Speaker 1: so far. He's got the highest percentage of uncatchable passes

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Speaker 1: And then Zach Wilson all those interceptions against the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: So that hasn't been great so far. And mac Jones

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Speaker 1: getting rid of it justin field so far preseason and

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Speaker 1: pressure on an offensive line that's definitely in the you know,

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Speaker 1: bottom eight or ten I think in the NFL. Right now,

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Speaker 1: do you guys grade careers? You do? Yeah, it's Devin Hester,

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. Now that's a tricky one because

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Speaker 1: special teams it's its own, it's its own animal, you know,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, if there's if you've completely changed the game,

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Speaker 1: and could Darrel Patterson is going to have an interesting

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Speaker 1: argument that's Hester like, right, I mean there is those

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Speaker 1: Wait is a Hall of Famer. Yeah, He's the best

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Speaker 1: still extremely dangerous. I mean the blocks were you know,

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Speaker 1: can you tell me why they didn't vote? Pettiness, jealousy, rivalry, distrust, shortsightedness.

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Speaker 1: sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen

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Speaker 1: leads studio analyst NBC Sports providing comprehensive coverage of the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup from Whistling Straits. You'll see it on NBC

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Speaker 1: Golf Channel Peacock and it starts Friday morning at eight

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Speaker 1: Eastern on Golf Channel Brandal Justin Leonard rich Lerner recap

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Speaker 1: the action in depth analysis live from the Ryder Cup

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Speaker 1: on Golf Channel. Brandal, great to talk to you. Set

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Speaker 1: the scene. What's the weather going to be like at

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Speaker 1: Whistling Straits 's going to be windy, probably a little

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Speaker 1: bit chilly. I think it's supposed to warm up a

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Speaker 1: little bit tomorrow. But the weather that the players have

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Speaker 1: been practicing in is going to switch. You know, the

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Speaker 1: winds are going to come out of a different direction,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to be brutal, hard golf course, hard

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Speaker 1: against it Lake Michigan, and you know, it's going to

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Speaker 1: look like an Open championship. When it comes to trying

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Speaker 1: to assess both of these teams, we used to always

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Speaker 1: look at the Europeans and say they got along with

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Speaker 1: each other, like they were friends with each other. They

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Speaker 1: would room with each other, and that camaraderie would play

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Speaker 1: out in the Ryder Cup. Is that still the case

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Speaker 1: with the European team and the United States team? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good assessment of things. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hard. It's the hardest puzzle to put together.

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Speaker 1: Why the Europeans continue to dominate because almost every single

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Speaker 1: year they're a pretty big underdog coming in here and

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Speaker 1: every facet. But I think by and large, the differences,

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Speaker 1: it's not like it doesn't mean anything to the US.

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Speaker 1: It does. It means a lot to them. You hear them,

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Speaker 1: you seem when they win, you seem when they lose.

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Speaker 1: You can tell it means a lot to them. But

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Speaker 1: as some Europeans have described it to me, it's life

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Speaker 1: and death for the Europeans. It means that much to them,

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Speaker 1: and yet they find this perfect harmony between the intensity

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Speaker 1: and the levity that you need to play your best golf,

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Speaker 1: whereas the United States they play tight and they just

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Speaker 1: don't play their best golf. There's several reasons why I

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Speaker 1: think they haven't been able to buy in large beat Europe.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's one small part of it. Justin Leonard

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Speaker 1: last night on the broadcast said that when you play

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Speaker 1: on your home turf, it's like one and a half

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Speaker 1: or two points, that that's the home course advantage there,

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Speaker 1: and he talked about how you have to win. If

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Speaker 1: Shane Lowry wins that first match tomorrow morning, then you've

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Speaker 1: cut that lead in half. Do you agree with that assessment.

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Speaker 1: If you go back in the world ranking era, the

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Speaker 1: home field, home course, home country advantage is at one

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Speaker 1: and a half point advantage. But you know, momentum comes

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Speaker 1: and goes in this it is very ephemeral. The US

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Speaker 1: hasn't lost an opening session since two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: and yet they continue to struggle by large. I think

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Speaker 1: that you know, the captain needs to impress upon the

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Speaker 1: players on the US side if they need to play

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Speaker 1: with the same intensity that they would if they were

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Speaker 1: at ten six down in singles, try to recapture what

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Speaker 1: they that intensity that they had going into the in

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Speaker 1: the singles going all the way back to nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: I think they have gotten up and I think they've

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Speaker 1: relaxed a little bit because on paper they're meant to

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Speaker 1: dominate and they get a little bit of a lead

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Speaker 1: and Europe has been able to flip it more times

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Speaker 1: than nine. What if we traded Bryson to Shambo to

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Speaker 1: the European team. I mean, he sounds French, so wouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be a better Like we're trying to create drama, tension,

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Speaker 1: good TV. Could we trade to Shambo to the European

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Speaker 1: team and who would we get in return. That's a

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Speaker 1: great question. I don't think we'd want to trade. I

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Speaker 1: think he's pretty dark fun. No, no no, no, we have

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Speaker 1: to do this. Oh we have to trade. Yeah, we get, Well,

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Speaker 1: if we could get. If we could trade Brison to

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Speaker 1: Shambo for Victor Hoblin, I think that'd be that'd be

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Speaker 1: a heck of a trade. You'd trade the longest driver

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Speaker 1: for maybe the straightest hitter here. Victor Hoblin is guy.

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Speaker 1: I believe all twelve players on the European side were

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Speaker 1: asked who they would like to pair with. All twelve

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, eleven of them all said Victor Hoblin.

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Speaker 1: So he's that popular Bryson de Shambo's and he's an

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Speaker 1: odd guy. I'm not sure many people would want to

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Speaker 1: play with him. Who plays golf like him. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: end up in spots you've never been in. So I

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Speaker 1: think that'd be a pretty good trade for the US. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but you bring up the great point. I guess Brooks

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Speaker 1: and Bryson are playing nice. Is that good for the tour?

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Speaker 1: Is that only good for this week? This weekend? Well,

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Speaker 1: I've said this, you know, you go back to the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the Ryder Cup. Every single European US team

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Speaker 1: would have had two players on that team, at least

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Speaker 1: two players on that team that didn't like each other.

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Speaker 1: This derision on the team between two players is nothing new.

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Speaker 1: Social media's around, so we know more about it. A

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Speaker 1: little friction on a team is a good thing, and

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Speaker 1: any group dynamics saying a little friction is good. You know,

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Speaker 1: it lights things up, get a little spark. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's going to be the problem here. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: to whatever extent, I think they could come together for

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Speaker 1: the week they have. They've they've bridged that guy. It's

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Speaker 1: not like their mortal enemies. It's not like one of

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Speaker 1: the others stole the other's wife for girlfriend. Here. It's

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Speaker 1: like one of them plays golf and makes it look

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Speaker 1: as difficult as tax codes, and the other one makes

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Speaker 1: it look as simple as snowfallen off the log. They're

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Speaker 1: just two different people, team golf versus individual golf in

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Speaker 1: how you pair like like that. We talk about chemistry

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Speaker 1: a lot in sports, but but you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: piece it all together, it's like jigsaw puzzles and the

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Speaker 1: pieces you put together. How delicate is that? Well? I

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Speaker 1: think I think you can overthink it, like for example,

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Speaker 1: Sevy Jose Maria all the Thouble, the most successful team ever.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you would have ever put those two

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Speaker 1: together and Forceoms. They're both they drove it all over

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Speaker 1: the map, both of them. Neither of them would be

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Speaker 1: a good Forceoms team, and you put them together and

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Speaker 1: you think, well, they're going to be a horrendous Forceom's team,

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Speaker 1: and they were almost unbeatable. I think the one thing

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Speaker 1: that Europe has done is they either pair like for like.

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Speaker 1: In other words, long hitters were long hitters, or straight

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Speaker 1: hitters were straight hitters, players that even struggle around the

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Speaker 1: green with other players that even struggle around the green,

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Speaker 1: or players from the same country or friends. They don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily rely on metrics to say, well, this guy hits

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Speaker 1: it straight and this guy puts great and you put

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Speaker 1: those two together and it's gonna work out. That almost

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Speaker 1: never works out, Like for example, you know, Fleetwood mallin

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Speaker 1: Ari came about likely because those two guys were in

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Speaker 1: the Bahamas having a couple of pops. They got a

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Speaker 1: little liquored up. They called Bijorn and said, hey, we

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Speaker 1: want to play together. Put us together. There's no metric there.

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Speaker 1: You put them together, they're like they would out there

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Speaker 1: and they just boat raced everybody and it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you no, why not put together guys and just laughing,

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Speaker 1: have a good time together. Randall Shambleie Golf Channel the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup. You can see it starting tomorrow morning eight

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Speaker 1: each start on Golf Channel. Are there side bets during

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Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup with like USA versus European players? I

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Speaker 1: doubt it. I doubted. I mean, I'm sure going back

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Speaker 1: in the days of yr maybe, but I but I doubted.

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Speaker 1: Wait with Bill Michelson, he didn't have any side action.

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Speaker 1: Philm maybe is the exception. Phil might have some side

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Speaker 1: action right now. But I think if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they get a lot of literature,

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Speaker 1: a lot of you about let's not do that. That's

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Speaker 1: that's not good for the game. Uh So it would

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Speaker 1: be certainly on the hush hush that they do. Steve

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Speaker 1: Stricker gave an update on Tiger Woods. Um, what was

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Speaker 1: your reaction to that update. I'm just the first time

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Speaker 1: hearing of it. When when did that happen? I thought

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Speaker 1: he was he at the press conference, just talked about

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Speaker 1: Tiger's health and you know, the road to recovery and

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Speaker 1: there that he you know, things are promising. I certainly

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Speaker 1: didn't hear the specifics of that. Maybe I was sitting

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Speaker 1: on the set getting ready to go, and I had

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Speaker 1: chaos in my ear. I was under the impression that

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Speaker 1: Tiger was going to make some sort of impression before

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Speaker 1: the we was out via zoom, some sort of conference call. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen a little bit of Tiger Woods

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Speaker 1: here and there, but I haven't really heard any any

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Speaker 1: sort of predictions about him coming back or even the

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Speaker 1: state of his injury and how it's healed up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've seen a little bit of him, but but not much,

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Speaker 1: which you know, the fact that we haven't heard much, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: take that really. Um. I think was saying his relationship

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Speaker 1: with Stricker, that Tiger would probably zoom in tonight to

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Speaker 1: talk to the team. That's just a guess. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I I could see that and that'd be good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, the game, missus Tiger. Uh, he's stuck on

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Speaker 1: eighty two wins, tied with Sam Sneed you know, does

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods have another miraculous comeback, and he's already given us.

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Speaker 1: You can add him up. It's three or four, depending

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Speaker 1: upon how you count. Two thousand and eight US Open.

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Speaker 1: But he's remade himself. I've lost count, so maybe he's

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Speaker 1: got one more inning. It would be it'd be great

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Speaker 1: for golf, and who knows, maybe his presence will be

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Speaker 1: just a spark that this team needs. If I said

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Speaker 1: you could have a putt to win the PGA Championship

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Speaker 1: or put to win the Ryder Cup four foot put,

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Speaker 1: you're standing over the put. You win a major, you

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Speaker 1: win the Ryder Cup. Well, I think a US player

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Speaker 1: would say the PGA Championship. A European player would say, well,

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Speaker 1: I think you'd be fifty fifty. But a number of

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Speaker 1: European players would say the Ryder Cup. We ha call

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Speaker 1: Montgomery on our set once. I remember it pretty dark clear.

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Speaker 1: It was the US Open twenty thirteen, Marian. It was

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Speaker 1: up on our set. It was Novelo up there as

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Speaker 1: well with me. And I asked Carl and if you

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Speaker 1: could trade all of your Ryder Cup experiences for one

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Speaker 1: major championship, would you do it? And he was like,

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Speaker 1: not a chance, not a chance, not a million years

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Speaker 1: would I do that. The next day, as I was

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Speaker 1: sitting on the set, and I'm not gonna say who

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Speaker 1: this person is, but a prominent person in professional golf

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Speaker 1: came up on our set veins will pop and pointing.

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Speaker 1: And the next time somebody says something that poppycock like

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Speaker 1: that on that set, you got to call them out.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what are you talking? And they said, the

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Speaker 1: idea that somebody would trade wouldn't trade their Ryder Cup,

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Speaker 1: or would trade their Ryder Cup experience, or wouldn't trade

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Speaker 1: their Ryder Cup experience for a major championship is preposterous.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that is the difference between Europeans

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Speaker 1: and Americans. Europeans it is life or death for them.

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Speaker 1: I had a Europeans say it to me yesterday. It's

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Speaker 1: not that it doesn't matter to the US. It does.

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Speaker 1: It's just life or death for the Europeans, is how

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Speaker 1: they've described it. Yeah, but I understand that with Monty

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Speaker 1: absolutely from the European side of this. If you, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they enjoy this more. It means more to them than

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Speaker 1: it does the United States. It just does. And I

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Speaker 1: think because of that, Yeah, the US players would want

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Speaker 1: to win a major. Where this is we want a major.

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Speaker 1: That's the feeling that you would get with the Ryder Cup, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean loads and players have one major championships. How

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Speaker 1: many have done what I Ian Poulter's done in the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup, the Impulter He's won three times I think

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Speaker 1: in the United States or on the PGA Tour, he's

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Speaker 1: he's one a fair bit and in Europe he's under

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Speaker 1: raged or underrated, I would say in that regard, But

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Speaker 1: when you look at what he's done in the Ryder Cup,

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Speaker 1: he's he's a legend. Sam Torrence never won a major championship,

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Speaker 1: He's a legend. Column Montgomery, He's a legend, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Col Montgomery got into the Hall of Fame because largely

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Speaker 1: what he meant and did in the Ryder Cup. He

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Speaker 1: could have not done any of that one one major

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Speaker 1: it does mean and Jack Nicholas, I think has summed

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Speaker 1: this up pretty well. So has Tiger Woods. Look, you know,

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Speaker 1: buying large. You know the better players on the US

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Speaker 1: side are such colossally good players with unbelievable records that

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Speaker 1: there is no career prestige to be gained from them

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Speaker 1: winning a series of Ryder Cups or making the winning

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Speaker 1: put it. It doesn't really matter and how they're viewed

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Speaker 1: as players, whereas lesser careers they look at a Ryder

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Speaker 1: Cup as a chance to enhance their legacy and a reputation,

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Speaker 1: and it's worked beautifully, notably more Europeans. Great to talk to.

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Speaker 1: You keep stirring it up, have fun. This weekend we'll

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Speaker 1: be watching. Thank you Brandon, Thanks Dan. Always pressure