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Speaker 2: eight and a half, the banner being raised tonight and

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys come in and are they dangerous? Dak is

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Speaker 2: good against the NFC East. DAK is good against the Eagles,

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Speaker 2: But with what has happened in the offseason, I know

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Speaker 2: what's going to happen. The Eagles aren't going to be

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Speaker 2: able to run the ball because the Cowboys are ready

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Speaker 2: to stop the run. I don't know if they can

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Speaker 2: stop the pass, but they're going to stop the run.

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Speaker 2: With Kenny Clark, who all of a sudden is going

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Speaker 2: to be Aaron Donald. I do like him. And Ross Tucker,

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Speaker 2: who will join us a little bit later on, had

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Speaker 2: a great tweet because he was saying, well, apparently Michael

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Speaker 2: Parson's not worth forty seven million dollars a year, but

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Speaker 2: he is to Green Bay and forty seven million dollars

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Speaker 2: a year and Kenny Clark in two first round picks.

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Speaker 2: So it's the eye of the beholder here and what

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Speaker 2: Dallas was willing to pay. And if you know, Jerry

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Speaker 2: got to a point where he said, all right, that's it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to negotiate that maybe his feelings were

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Speaker 2: hurt here. Now you go to Green Bay. He's expected

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Speaker 2: to play in the opener against Detroit, although may need

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Speaker 2: an epidural, which is kind of interesting of you know,

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Speaker 2: you passed a physical, you had to pass a physical

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Speaker 2: to be traded, but might need treatment leading up to

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Speaker 2: this game. But we also have football on Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Don't sleep on that. And you have the Chiefs and

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Speaker 2: the Chargers in Brazil. Now here's the problem I have

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Speaker 2: with this. I know we're getting to you know, global

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Speaker 2: expansion here. The NFL is going to get to an

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Speaker 2: eighteen game schedule, and they're going to have, you know,

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Speaker 2: eighteen games that are going to be international games, and

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Speaker 2: they're going to you know, once again that's worth a

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Speaker 2: billion dollars or whatever. It's monopoly money. But this is

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Speaker 2: what they want to do. This way, they don't take

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Speaker 2: away a home game. The fact that the Chargers in Chiefs,

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Speaker 2: a divisional rivalry game, is going to be played in

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Speaker 2: Brazil is malpractice. I mean, that's terrible because that should

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Speaker 2: be played in Los Angeles, or if it was going

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Speaker 2: to be played in Kansas City. This is a divisional game,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think the fans in Brazil were going

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Speaker 2: to go, hey, we better get an opening game, we

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Speaker 2: better get a week one game. They should have these games.

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Speaker 2: And I'm fine with games, you know, if you want

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Speaker 2: them to have in London, in Germany and Ireland. I'm

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Speaker 2: not anti international. What I am anti is a divisional

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Speaker 2: game we're going to export and it's week one. You

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Speaker 2: can't do that to the chiefs and they charge your

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Speaker 2: fans this week seven and then you have a bye week.

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Speaker 2: If you want to do it that way, then I

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Speaker 2: think it's fair to all involved. I don't like having

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Speaker 2: open Day in Japan. I understand that, you know, or Korea.

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Speaker 2: I understand you want to Hey, this is something different.

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Speaker 2: It's still it's our game. You can still have games there.

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Speaker 2: But let's not have opening Day or their first week,

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Speaker 2: their first game, a divisional game, and you're going to

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Speaker 2: play it in Brazil. I just it's not it's not

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Speaker 2: fair to the teams, to their fans. But this will

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Speaker 2: let you know exactly what the NFL is all about.

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Speaker 2: Players don't like it, fans don't like it, but the

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Speaker 2: owners like it. Let's play some football in Brazil. Those

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Speaker 2: with me. I just think it's unfortunate that you have

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Speaker 2: send those guys to Brazil. They should be playing this

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Speaker 2: game here in the United States, and it's a divisional game.

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Speaker 2: It's an important game, yes, Dodd. And you can't even

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Speaker 2: give the charges of home game week two when they

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Speaker 2: get back from there. They got to play at the Raiders.

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Speaker 4: It's not to Week three where they host Denver.

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Speaker 2: It's like you give them a break, a little bit

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Speaker 2: of bolts. Yes, Pauli.

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Speaker 5: I think your point, especially about delaying it too week seven,

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Speaker 5: eight nine, makes tons of sense. Like people in Brazil,

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Speaker 5: while they may be growing football and they may like

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Speaker 5: to have a nice game with some big names, it

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Speaker 5: doesn't matter if it's the opener. The opener means nothing.

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Speaker 5: Like you said about baseball with the opener in Japan,

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Speaker 5: cool and I know for timing they had to do that,

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Speaker 5: but it just there's too much downside for the local fans.

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Speaker 2: They could have had training camp games in Japan and

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Speaker 2: they would have been happy to see the Dodgers there

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Speaker 2: and you could have accomplished whatever. I don't think they said,

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, is it a regular season game or

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Speaker 2: is it spring training? Now you could have ramped up

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Speaker 2: your lineup there a little bit and you could have said, hey,

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Speaker 2: we want to showcase some of our best players. We

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Speaker 2: want to make sure Otani's playing, and maybe it's three

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Speaker 2: innings that he's going to play what they do in

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Speaker 2: a typical spring training game, and maybe you get a

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Speaker 2: little bit more over there. Okay, training camp could have

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Speaker 2: been over there for a couple of you start by

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Speaker 2: playing games and then come back and go to spring training.

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Speaker 2: It's just wrong. And I'm all about growing the game,

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Speaker 2: whatever it takes. Let's try new things, grow the game.

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Speaker 2: Spring training. You can have a couple of games in

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Speaker 2: Japan and I think they're going to be okay with this.

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Speaker 2: And if you want to have a game in Brazil,

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is why we always had. It felt

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Speaker 2: like the Jags and the Panthers in London. It's like,

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Speaker 2: all right, we'll give you a game. It's not a

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Speaker 2: great game, but here you go. You got some football.

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Speaker 2: Now we're sending the Chiefs and if that's their home team,

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Speaker 2: you know, okay, we could wait for week seven or

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Speaker 2: eight and then give them a bye week when they

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Speaker 2: come back. But I don't want to be in a

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Speaker 5: Airic grievances early.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think people are going to respond to this

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Speaker 2: after the fact, certainly Chiefs fans and Charger fans, they've

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Speaker 2: already voiced their concerns disdain for this. But this is

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Speaker 2: the NFL doesn't care. They don't have to. All they

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Speaker 2: care about is themselves, the owners, and this is going

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Speaker 2: to be more money. Here's the commissioner, Roger Goodell. He

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Speaker 2: was on the Today Show in NBC talking about the

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Speaker 2: possibility of expanding to eighteen games.

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Speaker 6: Listen, we always say what do the fans want? What

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Speaker 6: are the fans really think is important? And I think

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Speaker 6: it's clear they want more regular season game versus preseason games,

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Speaker 6: and it's something that we'll work.

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Speaker 2: Through with the players Association.

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Speaker 6: We continue to make our game safer, and I think

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Speaker 6: that's at the core of making that kind of a decision.

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Speaker 6: Can we do it safely for our players? But it

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Speaker 6: also I think represents an opportunity for us to continue

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Speaker 6: to bring higher quality NFL content Ultimately, and a regular

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Speaker 6: season game is clearly better.

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Speaker 2: A lot of NFL fans would love to not have

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Speaker 2: to go to work. Point, do we start to see

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl on the President's Day weekend.

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Speaker 6: I think if you went to eighteen weeks regular season,

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Speaker 6: that would probably occur. Is possible somewhere in the calendar

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Speaker 6: could happen before that, just because because of the calendar

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Speaker 6: the way it lays out. But I think eighteen weeks

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Speaker 6: would get you to that point, and I think it'd

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Speaker 6: be a great, a really great move.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been talking about this for years that they

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Speaker 2: were going to get to I mean, this is all scripted,

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Speaker 2: This has been planned out. They know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Now the negotiations are going to happen. It'll be eighteen games,

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Speaker 2: you're going to have every team will play outside the

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Speaker 2: United States. They're going to sell that a separate TV

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Speaker 2: package for those international games, all this stuff. We've talked

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Speaker 2: about this for years, and you're going to move the

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Speaker 2: season back. It'll be President's Day weekend. Everybody gets Monday off.

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Speaker 2: This is no surprise here, and it almost sounded like

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Speaker 2: an announcement by the commissioner. It was pretty close to

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Speaker 2: saying this is what's going to happen. Then yes, we

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Speaker 2: move it back. Yeah, President's Day weekend, and everybody wants

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Speaker 2: more football and we want everybody to be safe. You

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Speaker 2: can't add another game and tell me you care about safety.

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Speaker 2: You just can't. And now this is what I want.

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Speaker 2: I want the NFL to promise this. I hope the

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Speaker 2: players Association says, hey, we'll do eighteen games. This is

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Speaker 2: what we want. We want four more roster spots for

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Speaker 2: each team, extra bodies, that's what we want. So now

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Speaker 2: I get four more players on each team getting paid,

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Speaker 2: getting benefits, the opportunity to play in the NFL. If

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Speaker 2: you say that's what you're going to get out of this,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure they'll want more than Okay, I mean,

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Speaker 2: don't I get to watch it, But these players have

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Speaker 2: to play. They're the ones that are affected the rest

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Speaker 2: of their lives playing these games. The number of games.

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Speaker 2: But if you have let's say, four more roster spots,

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Speaker 2: then maybe maybe you get the opportunity to You don't

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Speaker 2: have attrition here where you're like limping to the finish

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Speaker 2: line with your roster and every single year, how many

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks play the entire season. Just start there, and that's

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Speaker 2: the most protected player on the field. You can't add

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Speaker 2: another game and tell me it's about safety. It's about

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Speaker 2: money and the players know this. The clock is ticking

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Speaker 2: on their sports careers. How many years? How much money?

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Speaker 2: What am I going to be like when I get

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Speaker 2: out of here? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I like that clip about the eighteenth game. Roger Goodell says, well,

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Speaker 7: you know, we're just doing what the fans want, and

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Speaker 7: they've said that they want an eighteenth game, so we're

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Speaker 7: going to do that. Okay, but the fans hate the

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Speaker 7: international gipts Oh, well, you know the fans are wrong

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Speaker 7: on that. That's our international fans, don't you love it?

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Speaker 7: So we're listening to that?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, PAULI, I'm curious.

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Speaker 5: We've never really discussed this angle. It's so obvious. Does

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Speaker 5: anyone here not want an eighteenth regular season game? If

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Speaker 5: it was an actual fan vote? I don't even know

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Speaker 5: my answer yet, but I'm curious about this room.

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Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. I mean, I don't think anybody's

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Speaker 2: turn off football. I'm not big on Thursday night football.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we're being fair to the players when

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Speaker 2: you have a game on Sunday and a game on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: It's just and having spoken to current and former players,

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Speaker 2: the turnaround is really really tough. Now you do it

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Speaker 2: Ron Jaworski, NFL quarterback for seventeen seasons. He went to

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Speaker 3: Of all, greeting with you once again. Expectations in Philadelphia

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Speaker 3: through the roof.

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Speaker 9: It would be going crazy tonight at Lincoln Financial Field

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Speaker 3: The bar is very high.

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Speaker 9: I think most people that have watched football for the

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Speaker 3: It's been a bit of rivalry for a long time.

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Speaker 9: So all of a sudden you get the World Champions

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Speaker 9: Yes, it's Philadelphia just the way it is, and you

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Speaker 3: As the player development and the team they put on

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Speaker 2: I know we love rankings, we love lists, especially with quarterbacks,

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Speaker 2: How do you look at where he kind of stands

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Speaker 9: He's the best quarterback in the national football because he

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Speaker 3: He's a world champion quarterback, He's a Super Bowl MVP.

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Speaker 9: And I don't know how he come up with all

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Speaker 9: You know, I played seventeen years introduce me in this league.

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Speaker 9: The only thing that I was concerned about was can

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Speaker 9: The only thing this young man cares about is winning.

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Speaker 2: But why would he care about that, Jaws? If he

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Speaker 9: Right? Because you gotta have something to motivate yourself. Every

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Speaker 9: Everyone's different. Everyone motivates himself differently right now. But the

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Speaker 9: He prepares, and I think the players, you know, I

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Speaker 3: And you know it's no joke. It's no joking around.

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Speaker 9: He's a winning quarterback and to me, you rate a

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Speaker 3: When the game is under line. Jalen Hurts makes plays.

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Speaker 9: And I think the one thing that's probably the most

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Speaker 9: Thieves are willing to take a chance with Jendler's because

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Speaker 2: I always found it interesting with great players and players

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Speaker 9: Well, especially you know, the lineback position, it's become such

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Speaker 9: Again, I think the Bills are creeping up as far

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Speaker 9: know you're gonna have four probably four new starters, maybe

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Speaker 9: five stars a defense tonight. U Fortunately for them, their

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Speaker 9: their offense is very sound. There will be one change

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Speaker 9: at right right guard with the uh Steam going in

437
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Speaker 9: the right guard that they'll be fine on offense, but

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Speaker 9: defense there's a turnover. So you got to see how

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Speaker 9: it's gonna play out when as the season wears on.

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Speaker 2: Can you defend what Jerry Jones did in the Micah

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Speaker 2: Parsons situation?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think both teams wanting this. I think the

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Speaker 9: immediate winner is the Green Bay Packers. They get a

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Speaker 9: great football player. They're now probably along the Eagles, probably

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Speaker 9: the odds on favorite.

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Speaker 3: To go to the Super Bowl and win a World championship.

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Speaker 9: That the Packers got a lot better now, but they

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Speaker 9: gave up a lot to give them to number one

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Speaker 9: draft choices and Kenny Clarks, they gave up potentially, you know,

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Speaker 9: a few all pro players. And let's be realistic, the

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Speaker 9: Cowboys are in a kind of a rebuilding type year,

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Speaker 9: and if they hit on those draft choices, you could say, Okay,

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Speaker 9: they're gonna have four first round picks in the next

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Speaker 9: two years. They're gonna have a chance to rebuild their

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Speaker 9: football team with high draft choys. Yeah, they may not

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Speaker 9: be number one's number twos, but it gives them the

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Speaker 9: capitol now to move up into those positions where they

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Speaker 9: can get any player they want in the next two years.

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Speaker 9: So I think for the short term, the Green Bay

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Speaker 9: Packers certainly win. The long term, I think the Dallas

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Speaker 9: Cowboys win.

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Speaker 2: Always great to talk to you, Jaws, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Have fun tonight.

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Speaker 3: All right, I always worked great work with you, Dan,

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Speaker 3: You're the best.

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Speaker 2: That's Ron Jaworski handling the Eagles pre and postgame show

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Speaker 2: for NBC Sportsnet coming up tonight.

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Speaker 2: the Eagles, and then on CBS TV Cardinals and the

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Speaker 2: Saints coming up this weekend. All right, you got a

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Speaker 2: hot take for me? NFC, I can give you one.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I always get nervous about these because then

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Speaker 4: you're gonna put it on social media and then it's like,

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Speaker 4: oh my gosh, he thinks that I get ripped like

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Speaker 4: Seaton's going to for having Placo and the Browns going

481
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Speaker 4: to the playoffs. That's hilarious. You know what, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'll be curious to hear how hot you guys think

483
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Speaker 4: this is. But I think a six and eleven team

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Speaker 4: from a year ago in the NFC is going to

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Speaker 4: go to the Super Bowl. The Niners, if you're not

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Speaker 4: paying attention, it's the San Francisco forty nine ers, who

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Speaker 4: somehow not only have the easiest schedule this year, they

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Speaker 4: have the easiest strength of schedule in the last ten years.

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Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, you know, they had a

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Speaker 4: lot of underlying statistics that weren't that bad last year

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Speaker 4: in terms of yards per play, all those things. And

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Speaker 4: they did it without McCaffrey, without Trent Williams. They were

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Speaker 4: banged up on defense. I believe in their core guys

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Speaker 4: like Fred Warner and us Check and Kittle. I think

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Speaker 4: the Niners bounce back in a major way. Not the Eagles,

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Speaker 4: not the Packers. I think the San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 4: ers are going to the Super Bowl again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have Christian McCaffrey as the offensive Player of

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Speaker 2: the Year, So I'm with you on the Niners being

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Speaker 2: sneaky good this year. Yeah, you're hot. Taking the AFC,

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Speaker 2: I got two.

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Speaker 4: I got two I like in the AFC. I don't

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Speaker 4: know how scorching you think either one is. The first

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Speaker 4: one is It's not quite Joe Flacco Browns level. But

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Speaker 4: I'll take Danny Dimes, Daniel Jones and the Colts to

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Speaker 4: make the playoffs, maybe even win that division. In the AFC,

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Speaker 4: South saves Shane Steikin's job, saves Chris Ballard's job, and

508
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Speaker 4: people have to think a long hard about Daniel jones

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Speaker 4: tenure with the Giants after he leads the Colts to

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Speaker 4: the playoffs. The other one, though, I really like, is

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Speaker 4: that I think we all assume the AFC it's gonna

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Speaker 4: be the Ravens, the Bills, the Chiefs, maybe Burrow and

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Speaker 4: the Bengals. I think there's a pretty good chance the

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Speaker 4: AFC Championship Game includes Sean Payton, bow Knicks and the

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Speaker 4: Denver Broncos top five defense, top five offensive line. The

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Speaker 4: question is whether or not bow Knicks is good enough

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Speaker 4: to win multiple playoff games against MVP caliber guys like Mahomes, Burrough, Allen,

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Speaker 4: you know whatever, Lamar, But I'm gonna say that they

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Speaker 4: can do it, and that the Broncos are the surprise

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Speaker 4: team in the AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 2: All right, those are respectable, you know. And the forty

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Speaker 2: nine er take that they go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: That's not crazy.

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Speaker 4: No, those are like, those are my warm takes. Okay,

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Speaker 4: you're like, they're they're not scorching hot that I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: get ripped for them, but they're not like obvious either.

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Speaker 4: They're warm enough that they're passable for the segment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you're taking cookies out of the oven

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Speaker 2: and you don't need an oven mitt for them. That's

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Speaker 2: sort of what your takes are, and I do. I

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Speaker 2: almost picked the Colts with Danny Dimes that he would

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Speaker 2: he would have a resurgence and they would make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I decided to make it hotter and say that the

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Speaker 2: Titans were going to make the playoffs. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 2: know who's getting a lot of love the Patriots, Like

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Speaker 2: they're there's a lot of people who believe Mike Rabel

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Speaker 2: is going to have a playoff team this year.

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Speaker 4: I think they're getting a little too much love. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I mean I did a couple of their games last

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Speaker 4: year on TV. Did people watched the Patriots play football

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Speaker 4: last year? I mean they were bad, bad, and I

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Speaker 4: would agree that Mayo was not a good coach, and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure Vrabel is significantly better. And it's wild to

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Speaker 4: see the Craft family spend the money that they spent.

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Speaker 4: I think they're sick and tired of losing and they

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Speaker 4: want to at least get back to respectability. By the way,

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Speaker 4: how crazy is it?

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Speaker 3: Dan?

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Speaker 4: I love stuff like this. The highest paid player in

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Speaker 4: New England Patriots franchise history is Milton Williams. Okay, Milton

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Speaker 4: Williams was not even really a starter for the Eagles

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Speaker 4: last year. He started a bunch of games, but he's

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Speaker 4: one of the three starting d tackles that the Eagles

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Speaker 4: rotated through in the Patriots spending spree. They made him

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Speaker 4: think about the guys that have played for the like

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Speaker 4: Tom Brady and all these guys, and Milton went, that's

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Speaker 4: a good trivia question up there in New England for

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Speaker 4: you guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One He'll

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Speaker 2: be doing tonight's game with Kevin Harlan and it'll sound

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Speaker 2: a little bit like this tonight, this is the NBA

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Speaker 2: on TNT, but it'll be football, Thank you, tom And

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Speaker 2: then on Sunday he'll have the Cardinals in the Saints.

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Speaker 2: I saw where Robert Kraft commented on Belichick getting a statue,

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Speaker 2: and Tommy, of course is going to get a statue.

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Speaker 2: Would you combine the statue with Brady and Belichick in

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Speaker 2: New England?

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Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't. And you know, I think Brady already

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Speaker 4: got one. I think it's already out. Oh that's right,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be soon. You know they put it. They

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Speaker 4: better put the Belichick one up soon. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: can't remember very many guys that have done more to

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Speaker 4: diminish a reputation over the last five years than Belichick.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the crazy thing is, if you think about it, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I can't remember what year it was, Dan, but like

576
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Speaker 4: Derek Carr had signed a deal for thirty million dollars

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Speaker 4: a year with the Raiders, and Brady said, listen, I'll

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Speaker 4: make less than guys. But this is Brady's making like

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Speaker 4: nineteen So he just wonted twenty five, right like even

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Speaker 4: less than Derek Carr. Dan they gave him five million

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Speaker 4: dollars in incentives, which was incredibly insulting. You'll never convince

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Speaker 4: me that that wasn't the exact moment that he said,

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Speaker 4: I'm out here. It was Belichick's idea. See, we would

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Speaker 4: have never known, okay, that Brady could do it without

585
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Speaker 4: Belichick unless Belichick moved on from him.

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Speaker 1: Like he did.

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Speaker 4: So that was bad move number one. That led obviously

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Speaker 4: to the Patriots being in disaster the last couple of years. Then,

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Speaker 4: however you feel about his personal life, you can feel.

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Speaker 4: And then now with the North Carolina the other night

591
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Speaker 4: and not being able to get jobs from any of

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Speaker 4: these NFL teams two years in a row, it just

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Speaker 4: it's not a good look for a guy that was,

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Speaker 4: you know, in most people's opinion, the greatest coach of

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Speaker 4: all time. It feels like every year they're taking another

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Speaker 4: another swipe at that thing. They better put the statue

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Speaker 4: up soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about Brady's statue where his head is

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Speaker 2: really small, but the rest of the statue is is large.

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Speaker 9: There.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't, I mean, you were in New

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Speaker 2: England for a little while with Belichick, I just I

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Speaker 2: just don't think that personality translates transfers to the college kids.

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Speaker 2: And you've got to go in there, and you've got

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Speaker 2: to be in living rooms with them, and you got

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Speaker 2: to have, you know, another, an extra slice of pie,

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Speaker 2: and you gotta be booster mean like all the things

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Speaker 2: that Bill hates doing. You know he wants to be

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Speaker 2: in the lab. Well, well you can only be in

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Speaker 2: the lab so long. You got to be out there

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Speaker 2: front and center representing your program. And I didn't think

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Speaker 2: they were going to get embarrassed like they did. But

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is a oh my gosh, he's

614
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Speaker 2: going to show everybody he can coach no matter where.

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Speaker 4: Well, a couple things. Number one, I had nine head

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Speaker 4: coaches in the NFL. Beelchick's fantastic, I mean, schematically unbelievably impressive.

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Speaker 4: The scheme he would come up with week to week.

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Speaker 4: Best coach I was ever around in terms of telling

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Speaker 4: you the legit three keys to the game and us

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Speaker 4: knowing if we did those three things we were to win.

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Speaker 4: And it happened almost all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he didn't go into your friend, your family's

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Speaker 2: house and recruit you and try to charm your mom.

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Speaker 2: He just saided, like, uh, who do we have? All right,

625
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Speaker 2: Ross Tucker?

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Speaker 4: All right, Ross, Well that's the thing. He can turn

627
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Speaker 4: the charm on when he has to, but to your point,

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Speaker 4: he doesn't want to, and it's it's not his natural disposition.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: So I think in general, in life, you're usually set

631
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Speaker 4: up for success when you can just be your normal,

632
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Speaker 4: Like you guys know when I come on with you

633
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Speaker 4: or when I call it like this is you know,

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Speaker 4: when I have dinner with Paula, Like this is just

635
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Speaker 4: how I am, right, this is how, this is how

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Speaker 4: I am. Belichick is being forced to act in a

637
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Speaker 4: way that's not natural, that's not him. I'm a little

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Speaker 4: surprised he did it. I think, you know, they'll be better,

639
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Speaker 4: I guess over the course of the year. But that

640
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 4: was a big I mean, Michael Jordan and Lawrence Taylor

641
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Speaker 4: up there, maybe the best alumni duo I've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: It's all it's nationally televised ESPN, the Mothership, They're all there,

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Speaker 4: and that was I mean, that was about as embarrassing

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Speaker 4: as it can get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how much better it gets because

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Speaker 2: you bring in seventy players and he's the king of as.

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Speaker 2: They didn't make adjustments in the second half. The adjustment was,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, how badly are we going to lose?

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Speaker 2: Not we're going to lose. That was what was probably

650
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: the most surprising. And he's not going to coach in

651
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: the NFL again. There's no owner who's going to say,

652
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Speaker 2: you know what, let's bring in Bill. He can solve

653
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: all of this because now he's bringing in a whole

654
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: lot more than just a great resume. I just don't

655
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening.

656
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Speaker 4: Well, and think about it too, Dan, You know these

657
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 4: guys like these high school kids every year removed. Yeah,

658
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 4: they were seven and eight, you know, years old when

659
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 4: Brady was winning Super Bowls with Belichick. The shine is

660
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 4: wearing off with every passing year. I think it's gonna

661
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 4: probably get harder for him, not easier.

662
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Speaker 2: All Right, your NFC pick? Are you staying with the

663
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: forty nine ers? That was a hot take selection, But

664
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Speaker 2: what is your real take? The reasonable take in the

665
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: NFC to go to the Super Bowl?

666
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Speaker 4: You know, you know what, I think there's three teams

667
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Speaker 4: I can see doing it right now. I think it's

668
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 4: the Eagles, the Packers now that they have Micah Parsons,

669
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 4: which I still can't believe. The Cowboys made that trade

670
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 4: unbelievable on so many levels. I wouldn't be surprised if

671
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 4: the Packers went at all. But I'll go with the Niners.

672
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 4: I'll stick with it because of that schedule, because I

673
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 4: think this is probably the last run they have in

674
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 4: them with this group of guys this course, so I

675
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 4: and they find a way. It feels like cal Shanahan

676
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 4: has like bad year Super Bowl, bad year super Bowl.

677
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna get back to Super Bowl. So

678
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: I'll stick with the forty nine ers takes. Yeah, I

679
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: mean I think you guys know, I wish so badly

680
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,479
Speaker 4: that I could give you fresh blood. I would love

681
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 4: a Bills Detroit Lion super Bowl for those players, for

682
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 4: those fans. But when people ask me like you, I'm

683
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 4: gonna give you, you know what I think is most likely.

684
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 4: I think it's the Chiefs. I don't think the Chiefs

685
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 4: will win as many games this year because I don't

686
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 4: think they'll continue to win every every one score game ever,

687
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 4: that luck will run out. But I think they're going

688
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 4: to be better. I mean, I've heard from multiple people.

689
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 4: This is the best Kelsey's looked in a couple of years.

690
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 4: They're going to have the whole second half of the year,

691
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 4: Hollywood Brown, Xavier Worthy, Rashi Rice on the field. At

692
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 4: the same time, Mahomes super motivated. They're definitely better at

693
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 4: left tackle with that rookie Josh Simmons out of Ohio State.

694
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 4: I think the Chiefs, you know, I know people are

695
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: getting Chiefs fatigue. I think the Chiefs go to the

696
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 4: Super Bowl again.

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00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 2: I went on a rant to start the show, maybe

698
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: called a hot take, and we shouldn't have a divisional

699
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: game the Chiefs and Chargers out of the country. We just,

700
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: I mean, they can play, but not the first week.

701
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Speaker 2: I just don't think that's it's fair to the teams,

702
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: the fan base. But you know, I know this is

703
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 2: going to continue to happen.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 2: Your thoughts on having a game out of the country

706
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 2: of this magnitude, or any game to start the year

707
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 2: that we're going to be in another country.

708
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 4: I don't mind the first game of the year aspect

709
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 4: of it. What bothers me is if you're the Chargers

710
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 4: and you're trying to win the division, to lose a

711
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 4: home game to Brazil. Now, in fairness, if you've ever

712
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 4: seen the Chargers host the Chiefs, half the fans are

713
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 4: Chiefs fans, right like the Chargers are still trying to

714
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 4: find their way in La. Half the stadium is Chiefs

715
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 4: fans anyway. But it's still a home game. You don't

716
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 4: have to travel, you're in your own locker room and stadium.

717
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 4: You still have some fans there to give up a

718
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 4: division game. That's the part that bothers me. Is not

719
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 4: the Week one aspect of it. It's the losing a

720
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 4: home game. That home game you lose, in my mind,

721
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 4: should be a team in the other conference, you know,

722
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 4: one of the crossover games.

723
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Speaker 2: Before I let you go, I brought up we're gonna

724
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Speaker 2: get to eighteen games. The question is not if, but when,

725
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 2: but if you're part of the players association, I suggested

726
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: four roster spots, extra roster spots for each team if

727
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 2: for an eighteen game season, Ask that do you want

728
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 2: to add to that? What would you want to what

729
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: would you want as a player if you're going to

730
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 2: eighteen games with getting an extra paycheck? But what else?

731
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So I love the roster spot idea, Dan, and so

733
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Speaker 4: the owners will push back on that because those roster

734
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 4: spots lead to all the benefits, right, Yeah, so your

735
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,879
Speaker 4: health savings account, your severance, your pension, your annuity, your

736
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Speaker 4: four one K. I mean, there's a lot of benefits

737
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 4: tied into that, and so they will fight that. But

738
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Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's a worthwhile fight. I

739
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: really do. There's only two things that matter, right, trying

740
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 4: to get a greater percentage of the pies. Whatever it is,

741
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 4: forty eight and a half percent, try to get that

742
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 4: to forty nine or forty nine and a half percent.

743
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 4: You want, you want eighteenth game, let's do fifty to fifty.

744
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 4: I don't know that that'll happen, but I do like

745
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 4: your roster spot idea. Because the other thing is there's

746
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 4: sixteen guys on practice squads. Now, practice squad year does

747
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 4: not count for your benefits. So there's something there too

748
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 4: where maybe if you have two practice squad years it

749
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 4: counts for your benefits as well, because that makes a

750
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 4: big difference. Man, I look at you know, I look

751
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 4: all the time at what my four to one K is,

752
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 4: my annuity, what my pension will be, which I can take,

753
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 4: by the way, as early as fifty five. That makes

754
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 4: a big difference. I mean there's guys that hang on

755
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 4: in those last few years. I remember having a veteran

756
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 4: long snapper when I was a rookie. He said, I

757
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 4: would just play for the benefits. At this point, I

758
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 4: don't even need my salary. I just want to keep

759
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 4: stacking all those benefits. So I think you're on the

760
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 4: right track. Dand with the roster spot thing, plus, that

761
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: is music to the ears of the vast majority of

762
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 4: the game. They're going to vote on that, CBA. Those

763
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 4: are a lot of those guys are bubble guys. They

764
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 4: want those extra roster spots to keep this thing going.

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Speaker 2: Have fun tonight. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much, Dan, I will Ross Tucker