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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Ah, good morning, come on, come on, come on, a

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Speaker 2: good morning, happy happy, Final four Saturday. This is the fellas.

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Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Gargano. Went for Jeff Schwartz. You just heard him,

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Speaker 2: Danny d d A d. Danny de Bernatinas, who's our

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Speaker 2: athletic director from pench Arter High School, my co oas

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Speaker 3: He's a fella. He's definitely a fella.

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Speaker 2: And uh, it's great to have you filling it for Jeff.

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Speaker 3: Buddy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: I love I love these Saturday mornings with you. So

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to have some fun today.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have a Final four weekend, a

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Speaker 2: great sports weekend. We got my god, the draft coming

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Speaker 2: up later this month. The Masters that'll be uh beginning

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Speaker 2: this coming week.

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Speaker 3: Augusta is alive of it, right of it.

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Speaker 2: Baseball, you know, it's funny the early start with baseball,

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Speaker 2: which I kind of like, I mean, I just think

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Speaker 2: they need the schedule so they're not in cole Levi

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Speaker 2: City so you're not freezing into the yard. But baseball

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Speaker 2: ratings are wild. It's it's unbelievable. In fact, I want

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Speaker 2: to I want to throw. He must of just throwcus

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Speaker 2: Cole Griffin made his debut for the Buckos for the Pirates.

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Speaker 2: But listen to this MLB opening leekue numbers. Netflix averaged

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Speaker 2: three million viewers and the youngest audience for an MLB

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Speaker 2: opener in a decade. NBC did three point two million

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Speaker 2: for Arizona and the Dodgers, two point three million for

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Speaker 2: Mets and Pirates, marking the largest MLB opening day audience

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Speaker 2: on record for a multi game presentation.

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Speaker 3: Fox up forty five percent.

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Speaker 2: MLB network the most watched opening day in network history.

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Speaker 3: Baseball on the rise.

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Speaker 4: Wow, Now do you think this puts a little pressure

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Speaker 4: on this strike? There's some money coming in now, and

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Speaker 4: you know this strike is eminent.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be the negative guy right now,

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Speaker 4: but it seems eminent that after this season we could

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Speaker 4: be on a little break of baseball. But it's growing, man,

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Speaker 4: and it's people are excited about it. You know. I

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Speaker 4: me and you talked during the week. I called you.

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Speaker 4: I think it was Wednesday. Our Phillies were off for Thursday,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, man, yeah, I I baseball is off

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Speaker 4: the night in our town, right, I was, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm used to watching it's on even a weekend, and

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Speaker 4: you know, with all this money behind it, if this

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Speaker 4: has an growth and these numbers, that this can help

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Speaker 4: with the potential strike coming up.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm praying that you know, these both decides. You know,

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Speaker 2: understand this the last thing, with all the momentum it has,

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Speaker 2: the last thing it needs is the stoppage. I was

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Speaker 2: covering baseball as a young reporter covering baseball in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety four. We left In fact, I was with the

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Speaker 2: Mets and we were playing the Phillies, right, my hometown team.

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Speaker 2: It was August twelfth, I'll never forget, and the players

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Speaker 2: had to find their own bus back to Shay Stadium,

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Speaker 2: their own transportation, so they runted a bus, gotcha?

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Speaker 3: So I forget it with a player Reples at the time.

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Speaker 2: But I asked the player, rip cake, can I hang

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Speaker 3: And he's like and they're like, yeah, sure.

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Speaker 2: I was very close to the players, so I was

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Speaker 2: on the bus with them, and I'll never forget it

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Speaker 2: was after the game. We were driving back to the

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Speaker 2: We're uh, you know, drink of beers, like laughing, joking,

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Speaker 2: and I'll never forget the uh. The date line was

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Speaker 2: like somewhere along the Jersey Turnpike. And there was this moment,

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Speaker 2: this feeling of I We're just going to be gone

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Speaker 2: for a week or two. No one thought it would

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Speaker 2: bleed and end the World Series. Cancel the World Series.

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Speaker 2: Nobody thought that. And I covered these meetings, these owners meetings.

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Speaker 2: They were the worst in New York City, in Chicago

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Speaker 3: It was horrible. I hated it, right, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, you wanted to write about sports, not about

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Speaker 3: And it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a very tough time and the sport took

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Speaker 4: Tough to come back from that. Man, it did.

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Speaker 3: People did not you canceled the World Series.

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Speaker 2: It led into the spring training the following year where

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Speaker 2: they were using replacement players. I was a scab met

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Speaker 2: but it was it was a blast, right like you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean it was, it was horrible and that you know,

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Speaker 2: you wanted the real players the whole thing. So fast

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Speaker 2: forward to today, you have all this momentum, all.

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Speaker 3: These great young players.

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Speaker 2: Man, there's something about like young phenom kids like Cole Griffin.

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Speaker 3: Kind of conn of Cole Connor. Every kid's named color Connor. Today.

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Speaker 3: I think I got three Connors on my baseball team.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy. Connor and go are very very pop two coals.

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Speaker 2: There's Cole with a sea, there's Cold with a K.

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Speaker 2: Griffin and uh it's And we have our our our

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Speaker 2: buddy Kevin McGonagall from the Tigers who got off the

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Speaker 2: a lot of attention, which is awesome. So the sport

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it needs to be I think they

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Speaker 4: both need to come in. I understand the owner side

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Speaker 4: got to get to a middle ground here, right. I

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Speaker 4: understand that there's the haves and have nots in this

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Speaker 4: ceilings and floors. So I understand that part of it, right,

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Speaker 4: But it's the player size, Like gets worked for so long,

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Speaker 4: Why change it? Right, everyone's doing well, everyone's making money,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but we need. We

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Speaker 4: can't have baseball taking a break. It's booming, Like you're saying,

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Speaker 4: the young prospects are coming up. I mean, Connor Griffin

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Speaker 4: is wild for Seattle. No oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 4: They're signing these guys to big money deals early on,

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Speaker 4: It's wild.

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Speaker 3: It is wild. Colt Emerson.

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Speaker 2: Uh eight year, ninety five million dollar player, the largest

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Speaker 2: He's got a twenty thirty four club option, a full

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Speaker 4: So I think that was it. And then Connor Griffin's

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Speaker 4: deal is going to break it. They're saying it's going

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Speaker 2: And you know what I know, Kevin is Kevin McGonagall.

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Speaker 2: They're working on a big deal for him. He's shortstopping Troit.

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Speaker 4: It's smart for these teams to do that. I mean, look,

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Speaker 4: you take you're taking a risk, right because you don't

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Speaker 4: now and protect yourself to have these you know, really

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Speaker 4: like Seattle and Pittsburgh, right, Like, it makes sense for

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it makes a lot of sense for me.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, you do it, You're it. That's exactly it. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: So we'll get to baseball. But I I just all

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Speaker 4: I didn't know. I knew there was a spike. I

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Speaker 4: that's unheard of, right, and it's it's just people wanted it.

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Speaker 4: I thought last season ended great.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I think there's, like you said, a lot of young

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Speaker 4: great time you know in sports where you know you're

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Speaker 4: it's wild, it really is.

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Speaker 2: NBA now in its home stretch and it's all the

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Speaker 3: How about Cooper flag last night?

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Speaker 4: Fifty one fifty piece McNugget ant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's unbelievable and he does winning things. He guards,

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Speaker 4: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Fifty nine and eighteen and and you got the play

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Speaker 2: and stuff. Basically Phoenix, Portland, and I like Portland.

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Speaker 3: I think Portland's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Uh, the Clippers at Golden State is you're you're playing grouping, dude,

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Speaker 2: you know what. Portland's not a bad team, man. No,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're making tries. They got some young town out there,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're the top heavy conference where the East

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Speaker 3: The Knicks are three, Cleveland.

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Speaker 4: No, I mean, you know, I'm being a little bit

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Speaker 2: Well, I know there's one listener right now who's smiling.

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Speaker 2: Whatever they could bet that would be. And that's the

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Speaker 2: Otherwise I don't really see it. I still think it's Boston.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're looking good right now, man, dude.

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Speaker 3: Retaining them back is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Man, They're so good, they're so good.

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Speaker 4: They find these role players may them on yes, same

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Speaker 2: the Raiders will plan one point three, and the Raiders

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Speaker 2: also agreed to pay causes of fully guarantee ten million

438
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 2: dollar roster bonus on the third day of the twenty

439
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Speaker 2: seven New League year. I mean, that dude has just banked.

440
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: It's unreal how much money he's made.

441
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 4: So, I, guy, we think I got a list here

442
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 4: for you, right, I got some stats here. So he

443
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 4: set a record for his eleventh year in a row

444
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 4: with a guaranteed contract in NFL, never done before guaranteed money.

445
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 4: He is third all time and earnings. Right, So let's

446
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 4: just do the top five of this list. Matt Stafford

447
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 4: number one super Bowl champ made four hundred and eight

448
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 4: million dollars. Aaron Rodgers super Bowl champ three hundred ninety

449
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 4: five million dollars. Third all time. We have Kirk Cousins

450
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 4: three hundred and forty two million dollars, right, and then

451
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 4: he got four. You got Tom Brady three hundred and seventeen,

452
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 4: and he had five. You got Russell Wilson three hundred

453
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 4: and fifteen.

454
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Speaker 2: Look to slop because Cousins.

455
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Speaker 4: Super champions aut of five. Cousins has one ant one

456
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Speaker 4: playoff win.

457
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, and Ms russ Is won.

458
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 4: It's true one, I mean, but Kirk Cousin has one

459
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Speaker 4: playoff win.

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Speaker 1: No.

461
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 2: I it's mind boggling. It's absolutely mind boggling that that

462
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: he is heard now. It's smart. It's smart signing. First

463
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 2: of all, I don't know.

464
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 3: I don't know.

465
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: I like to me last year, like he should have

466
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 2: been back in Minnesota, right, Like, come on, I mean

467
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: Minnesota need him now, the Raiders smart, you bring him

468
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 2: in the whole thing. Be Mendoza's mentor. I am. I'm

469
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: in love with Mendoza. I love that kid. I think

470
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: that kid is going to.

471
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Speaker 4: Be a tough Yeah. I think he's got inte.

472
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 2: He's a winner. I love Mendoza. I think I think

473
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: the Raiders, after all those years.

474
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 3: Are finally going to get it right.

475
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: I I believe the kid as all as they don't

476
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 2: screw them up, and I don't think they will. I love,

477
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 2: I love men Doze. I just think Mendoze is going

478
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: to be a terrific player.

479
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

480
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 4: I think they gotta be patient with them. Their line

481
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 4: isn't there yet, right, they have these weapons, right, they

482
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 4: got to go running back. They got the best tight

483
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 4: end catching the tight end in the league.

484
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: Right.

485
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 4: They need to get a couple more receivers and they

486
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 4: need to you know, line, get that line situated. But

487
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 4: if they do, when they do that, I think it's

488
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 4: time to bring them up. So I would love for

489
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 4: them to just like, sit in for this year, don't

490
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 4: don't fall in when you're losing games to We got

491
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 4: to make a switch, really, let them just understand the game,

492
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 4: get see the speed, and then get ready for the

493
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 4: following year.

494
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Speaker 2: So I do, but twenty million, I thought, I thine

495
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: less so you won't play mendoze at all.

496
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Speaker 4: I bubble wrap them for the year. They're lying.

497
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: It's better than it was last I like what they've

498
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: done a little bit, but I mean, is it good enough?

499
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 3: No, But at some point I want the kid to

500
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 3: see it.

501
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 4: But I agree, maybe late this season. But you just

502
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 4: see these guys early in their career that just get

503
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 4: smacked up and then you know they just mentally get

504
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 4: messed up by it, right, And I'm all for seeing it,

505
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 4: but you need the right situation for these guys. And

506
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 4: I feel like too many times people get rushed in

507
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 4: and they're not going to compete right now, So what's

508
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 4: the what's the rush if you can, you know, get

509
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 4: another pick, show up the line, be in a better

510
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 4: spot the following year.

511
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just so rare these days that that happens.

512
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 4: Well, the pressure there's too much pressure always.

513
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: And I will say this because normally I'd be one,

514
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: I'd be lockstep with you. But I think that kid

515
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: has the toughness to not get derailed by it. And

516
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: I don't mind you taking your lumps early. Peyton took

517
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: his lumps early, even Brady early on before he you know,

518
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: stole the job to some lumps.

519
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 3: Guys take McNab. I'm going back there.

520
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: Era, guys take their lumps, right, Like, at some point,

521
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: you know, either you got the mental makeup and handle

522
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: it or you don't, right, And I'm with you, like

523
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: not putting the kid in peril, but I think he.

524
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 3: Can handle it.

525
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 4: And you're right, he is older. He's a guy that

526
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 4: you know, has been in college for five years. Like

527
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 4: he's not He's not like Sam Donald came in the

528
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 4: league like twenty twenty one, right, like he was so

529
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 4: young and the Jets just filming in the fire and

530
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 4: you know he kind of bounced around. Now he's you know,

531
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 4: super Bowl champion, right. So I just feel like sometimes

532
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 4: when the team's not ready to win.

533
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: I get you.

534
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 4: So we agreed. If it's late situation, then you know,

535
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 4: I just don't always like the pressure of like we

536
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 4: have to play him right now. It's like for what

537
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 4: you're not you're not going anywhere. Like, let's just let's

538
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 4: get in the right time. Let's let him see it.

539
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: I look, I look at my line. I see how

540
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: it comes about out right. I look to see where

541
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: I'm at. And at some point I'm gonna I'm gonna

542
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: play it. And it may be, you know, four games

543
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 2: into the season. It may be six, It maybe eight,

544
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: I don't know, but at some point I want to

545
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 2: see him and I because he's got to get he's

546
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 2: got to get this under his belt, right, like, because

547
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: I think that they could compete next year, Like if

548
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 2: you you're.

549
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 3: After that, like so not this season, but the following season.

550
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: If you shore up the line, you get a couple

551
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: of pieces on defense and another receiver, I think you

552
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: can compete because you're gonna have him on a rookie deal.

553
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. Yeah, that's true. You have to you

554
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 4: have to try to go to maxue locking in that window.

555
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 4: Right when you're that rookie deal. You got to try

556
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 4: to compete in that window because once you pay a quarterback,

557
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 4: everything changes on that roster, right. Yeah, Yeah, that's a point. No,

558
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 4: that's a very fair point. And if you have other pieces,

559
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 4: it's not like they're they're they're not man like.

560
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 2: You know, listen, if you get if you could put

561
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: together a good line, because I still think Genty could

562
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: play right like there is no holes for him.

563
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: No, the line was terrible last year.

564
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 3: Good yards and running back.

565
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: If you if you don't have if you don't have

566
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 2: blocking in front of it, you don't have a line

567
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 2: like you know what we are like.

568
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 3: That's just that's just what it is.

569
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 4: Is a guy.

570
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: Yes, he's a dude. I think he's still dude. I

571
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: like what they're doing. I just do. And I love

572
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: I love Mendoza. I think the kid is going to

573
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: be a star. I think he's going to be a

574
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 2: really good player.

575
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 4: Him and Brock Bowers are gonna let it up together.

576
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I love the kids' attitude. I do.

577
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 2: I think the kid makes all the throws the size.

578
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, he's tough.

579
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 4: It's tough National Champion game.

580
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: Yes, well you know it's funny. Both and I we

581
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: I did some film study again, we do our weekly

582
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: bye we every a couple twice weekly film study. And

583
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: so I love watching quarterbacks. I could watch quarterbacks all day,

584
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 2: so we watched quarterbacks again. I mean I saw everyone

585
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 2: of Simpson's throws, Ty Simpsons throws. Yeah, I mean I

586
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: I don't think they're anywhere near close. Yeah, and said

587
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 2: I love Dan, but I don't I don't know. I

588
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 2: don't know what he's looking at in that sense. I

589
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: don't see like Mendez is clear cut number one. To me,

590
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: it's it's not even close.

591
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's close either. I'm a big

592
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a Mendoza fan. I think he has all

593
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 4: the intangibles which it takes to win, right. I love

594
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 4: the little things that he does. And I think he's

595
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: going to be a leader. I think he's gonna be

596
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 4: drama free. I think he's gonna, you know, work extremely hard.

597
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 4: He's not scared to, you know, put his nose on

598
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 4: the line. So I'm a fan of his. I just,

599
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 4: you know, hopefully they're in a good spot to bring

600
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 4: him along. And I tied Simpsons. I think he can

601
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 4: be a good NFL, you know, backup to maybe low

602
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 4: end starter. But he doesn't wow me. I mean I again,

603
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: I have him too.

604
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't say it, I don't. I just

605
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: don't say it.

606
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: Now, we'll see you know if he you know, you

607
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 2: get developed at the next level. First of all, when

608
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 2: you only play handful of games, you know, I mean

609
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: I watched every one of his throws.

610
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.

611
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: I mean you could count on two hands the amount

612
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 2: of NFL throws look, and I mean like true NFL

613
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 2: throws with coverage with duress. I mean mid Dooze has

614
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: got you know, as him stacked those plays.

615
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, I got a quarterback when we

616
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 4: come back from the break, I got a quarterback that

617
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 4: I think is a sleeper.

618
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I also got a question for you about the text

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Speaker 2: a huge violation on a friend of ours, all right,

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Speaker 2: But I got I gotta run it by you, all right,

623
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Speaker 2: So let's dive in. I gotta see what you're think

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Speaker 2: of this. Where the fella is Danny d is in

625
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Speaker 2: Danny d Dad of the Project Nil, is in for

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Speaker 2: So we're in the text chain and there's a guy

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Speaker 2: in a text chain. There's it's you made TV Todd,

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Speaker 2: who's a great TV uh.

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Speaker 4: And movie guy and sportsman as well.

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Speaker 2: He's a true sports, great hockey guy, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: really he's great. And a guy named Greg who we love,

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Speaker 2: all right, but he is one of these try hard dudes,

651
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Speaker 2: like he tries to be like younger than he is,

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Speaker 2: Like we're both in our fifties, and like, I don't know,

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654
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Speaker 2: But he's always trying to act like he's young, right.

655
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: And he's locked in right like and and.

656
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 2: He doesn't understand the cool factor, like he's got no

657
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: cool factor whatsoever, right, So he's everything with him is

658
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 2: one of these bad memes in the text change And

659
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: quite frankly, I hate it all right because you're you're

660
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: in a touch tack with a bunch of your friends,

661
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 2: a bunch of dudes.

662
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 3: You're not rolling the memes.

663
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think, well this is what I.

664
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 2: You're younger, so you know, I'll give you like, I'm

665
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 2: curious what you think.

666
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 4: It's not very common to communicate via memes, at least

667
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 4: in my circle.

668
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: Like with dudes, you don't do that.

669
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 4: No. But also I think Greg is a little bit

670
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 4: of a troll, and I think he knows it gets

671
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 4: you going, and he plays he plays to that. So

672
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 4: I think it's a combination of him thinking it is

673
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 4: funny and and maybe a little cool. But also I

674
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 4: think it's.

675
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 2: That he's diluted, like he he's delusional when it comes

676
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 2: to like thinking it's cool. He listen, he may overdo

677
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 2: the meme because I hate the meme.

678
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 3: Yes, but he does.

679
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 4: The mean he likes to meme anyway. Yeah, he agree

680
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 4: with that. Yeah, I agree with He's a mean guy.

681
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: Like that's not cool, Like it's not like he I

682
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: don't know that he understands what it's like to have

683
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 2: a group of dudes like hang with it, like like

684
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: with a group of friends, Like you're guys, like you

685
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 2: don't certain things you don't at least sports guys because

686
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: he's all music guy. Yeah, sports guys don't drawn time

687
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: for the meme.

688
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a meme speaker now, I mean, people

689
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 4: do do it. But he's right now, he's on it.

690
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: Your a group of friends.

691
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 4: But I bet you I'm just scrolled through it. Yeah,

692
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 4: I scrolled through. We don't have it. We don't have

693
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 4: any memes going in the group in the list a

694
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 4: couple thousand messages.

695
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 2: But that's my point, right, your friends. I met your friends.

696
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 2: I felt right in home with your friends. They remind

697
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: your friends remind me of my friends. We grew up together,

698
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: since we were kids at all, from same neighborhood.

699
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 3: The whole thing.

700
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 2: And you know, nobody's dealing memes constantly. I just needed

701
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: that bar I just needed that ruling from you bad.

702
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 4: No, I hear you, brother, I I completely understand it.

703
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: And he loves talking boomer right o, man like that

704
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 2: A load is on cool. Like just the fact that

705
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: you that's part of your lexicon is uncool.

706
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: There's nothing cool about him nothing.

707
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 4: It's so good. Yeah, Greg Gregson, man though, he's a

708
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 4: funny guy. But yeah, he's over he's overdoing the meme.

709
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 4: I agree with you, and we need to tone down

710
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 4: the meme for sure. We gotta tone it down.

711
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he's listening right now too.

712
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 4: Well, he's a he's a specimen. He probably just got

713
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 4: in from last night. That guy, you know, he's a

714
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 4: night out.

715
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: He's a vampire.

716
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 4: He's a vampire.

717
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 3: He looks like.

718
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 4: You probably put a shift in at one of the

719
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 4: pubs and he's just getting in right now.

720
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: I know, I know. So who's the quarterback you like?

721
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 4: So it's not really a sleeper, but I think he

722
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: has NFL potential given the right situation. I'm a big

723
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 4: Drew hour guy. I know he's stunk last year he

724
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 4: got the arm man, I just think the ocs at

725
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 4: pennch State weren't great over the last year. He's got

726
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 4: the size, you know. I think in the right situation

727
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 4: he could be a dude. And I and the people

728
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 4: were saying, I see him going in the third fourth round.

729
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 4: I mean, I take a shot on him for sure.

730
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 4: I think his upside is much higher than Ty Simptons.

731
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: I think it was one ds up going beforehand.

732
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that'd be. I could see it. I mean,

733
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 4: he's got it. He has all this. He has everything

734
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 4: you want a quarterback just hasn't put it all together yet.

735
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. I his arm alone makes me want to take

736
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: a shot with him.

737
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 4: And he was like a guy that was like unranked

738
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 4: to like a top ranked quarterback in the country pretty

739
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 4: quickly in high school.

740
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: So no, I'm with you, all right, fellas. We'll go

741
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 2: back to tournament coming up next. Ah, good morning, good morning.

742
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 2: That'vy ivy final fours Saturday.

743
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: Here we go. Gotta love it.

744
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: Got great hoops today, tournament winding down, baseball, hoops and

745
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: hockey get ready for playoffs and then the drafts around

746
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: the corner. So all four sports the masters, uh t off.

747
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 2: That's this week. Man crazy line. Right, we're moving along.

748
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 3: That's it. Now we're back to a good sports time.

749
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 2: Danny d v A, d Danny di Bernadinez uh in

750
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: for Jeff schwartz Man. We're the Fellas every week right

751
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio. Let's get to it. So

752
00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 2: you got six oh nine Eastern, three to zero Pacific.

753
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 3: The team you were to talk about vampires.

754
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 2: We were talking about the Nosferatu during the break. It

755
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: looks just like god friend, a friend over there.

756
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 3: Looks just like them, h.

757
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 2: U Khan.

758
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 4: Dude.

759
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 2: They're thirty three and five and I don't know how Yeah,

760
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 2: I don't them. They have beaten Michigan State, which I

761
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 2: thought was going to be tougher than to beat, right,

762
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 2: and it was a grinding out game like we expected,

763
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 2: but they did it. I thought UCLA had a chance

764
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: and knock them off. They buried Ucla, buried them. How

765
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 2: was at that game? Buried them, buried them? That was

766
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 2: the game in our neckad it once in Philadelphia. Uh,

767
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 2: this is a team that lost by twenty in the

768
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:07,720
Speaker 2: Big East Tournament final. Yes, I mean Markqutt beat them.

769
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty astounding that. I mean, Danny Harley

770
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 2: is a great, great coach, but I just and again

771
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: they're down double ditchits the whole game. They're down nineteen

772
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 2: at one point, I did not think they were coming

773
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 2: back last week.

774
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, no way. They kept chipping away. And again we've

775
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 4: we've talked about this before, but he Yukon is a

776
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 4: rare breed in today's game where they have guys that

777
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 4: have stuck around and haven't really hit the portal. So

778
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 4: he has a good mix of young and old. He

779
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 4: is you know, Canavan is one of the you know,

780
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 4: one of the rare four year players at one school

781
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 4: that you know has won multiple national championships and stayed

782
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 4: and really done a great job. So they have that

783
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 4: that continuity that a lot of these teams don't have.

784
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: And I think they might not have the talent, but

785
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 4: that has been what has been leading them in these

786
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 4: tough games against really good teams, and that's how they

787
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 4: prevailed because they haven't had their stuff. I mean, Mullins

788
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 4: wasn't playing go the other day. It's a big shot,

789
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 4: but it's not. Again, they've been around it. They've been

790
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 4: around a winning culture and that's a credit to their

791
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 4: coaching and the staff because these other teams I think

792
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 4: are probably more talented. The last three games.

793
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: I great, I a great. Now.

794
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 2: Conversely, here's Illinois coming in and you know they're the

795
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 2: top ten school, top ten program, right they lost in

796
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 2: the Big Ten quarterfinal.

797
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 3: We know how good the Big Ten was.

798
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 2: They lost the Big Ten quarterfinal against Wisconsin in overtime.

799
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: The Big Ten was incredible. They had lot five of

800
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 2: the Elite eight.

801
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they were they had ever. I mean,

802
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 4: it was such a good year for the Big Ten at.

803
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 2: Two of the four, if two of the four, five

804
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 2: of the eight, I mean six of the of the

805
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm in sweet sixteen.

806
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 3: Ad. It was. It was unbelievable.

807
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they had six and six or yeah,

808
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 4: six or seven is sweet sixteen. And a lot of

809
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 4: people aren't talking about this because it was early. But

810
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 4: these teams played, which is rare that there's a rematch

811
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 4: in the final four. Yukon beat Illinois by thirteen. Now

812
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 4: give it. It was November right early on. You know you're

813
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 4: still feeling stuff out. But yeah, I mean they didn't.

814
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 4: Really Illinois is much better right now than they were,

815
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean they played earlier this season. A

816
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 4: lot of people haven't really been talking about that, but

817
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a great game and

818
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 4: I'm excited to watch it. And even though we've just

819
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 4: said all these intangibles about Yukon, I'm leaning Tennessee. I mean,

820
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 4: I'm leaning the Illinoise in this matchup. I just think

821
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 4: their guards are better. Wagler has been playing so well,

822
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 4: and in that first matchup, hey, yeah he played like

823
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 4: ten minutes he got hurt, so like he's a difference maker.

824
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be the best guard on the court.

825
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 4: I really like Stuyakovic. He's been playing with a lot

826
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 4: of confidence. And they're big. They're mirrorvich'es and the you know,

827
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 4: Stayakovic's and the you know, the Farnge guys just have

828
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 4: been really really playing well.

829
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 3: And I think everybody I do.

830
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are for sure because they don't have the

831
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: big they don't have that big, you know appeal. It's

832
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 4: their first time being there, you know, they don't have,

833
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 4: you know, these big five star recruits that these other

834
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 4: teams have. So but yeah, I like Illinois to the game, man.

835
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 4: I think they're the better team. I think they're playing

836
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 4: really well right now, and just through this tournament, I

837
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 4: think they've looked better.

838
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 2: The only thing that's a shame is that whoever wins,

839
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 2: uh you, I like, I'm with you. I like the

840
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 2: Illinois in the game, but you can Illinois will get

841
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 2: destroyed by Arizona Michigan and you can would have a

842
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 2: rock fight of a chance.

843
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, weird going to be because either one of

844
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 4: the whoever wins that Michigan Arizona game is going to be.

845
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got seven and a half eight seven

846
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 4: eight point favorite, I would imagine, and both these games

847
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 4: are close to pits, right, they're one and a half

848
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 4: one one and a half. Sure we'll get into it

849
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 4: with the brain later on, but yeah, I'm curious to

850
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 4: see what he thinks. That line would be regardless of

851
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 4: the matchup, just a winner of that game versus the

852
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 4: winner of that game.

853
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 3: You know.

854
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think either what either Arizona or Michigan,

855
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 2: and I think it's gotta be you know, seven eight

856
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 2: has to be.

857
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would, I would agree with that.

858
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you look at that. It's just

859
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 2: too big of a disparity that game. I cannot wait

860
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 2: for it. I can't.

861
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: You know, you were talking about the Ultimate Coin flip.

862
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

863
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,439
Speaker 2: I mean, I like Arizona only because I just think

864
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: they're harder to stop. Michigan's hard to stop. But I

865
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: mean I think Arizona, Arizona should be able to score.

866
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: I don't know that Michigan could stop them, but I mean,

867
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean this this game, this game

868
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: is a great game. It's a great game. And we've

869
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: talked about this before.

870
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 4: When the brackets came out and weeks ago that we

871
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 4: were shocked that they were playing in this round. We're like,

872
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 4: how how are they going to meet? And not until

873
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 4: the final, right, Well, dou got the overall one seed,

874
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 4: so these were the two and three one seeds, so

875
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 4: they had to meet, So I you know, would disagree

876
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 4: with that. We thought they were the best two teams

877
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 4: in the tournament and it's going to be a great game.

878
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to watch it. I just think Bradley

879
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 4: and Barry's are better in the backcourt, and I think,

880
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 4: you know, march is guard. They're both massive teams, right,

881
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 4: and that's been they've both been bullying teams inside. I

882
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 4: don't see that happening either way. I think it's gonna

883
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 4: come down to the guards, and I lean Bradley. I

884
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 4: think he's gonna be the best guard on the court.

885
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 4: He's been great all season. He's a great defender. He's

886
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 4: a senior, right, he's been there. Michigan plays a freshman

887
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 4: guard in a rotation who's really good. But you know

888
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 4: who's gonna be big in a moment. So I like,

889
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 4: you know, again, the balance we talked about the balance

890
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 4: of upperclassmen and young kids. That's what Arizona has. You know,

891
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 4: they have two great freshmen, but they're surrounded by upper classmen.

892
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 4: So it's really cool to see that dynamic. And I

893
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 4: think that's the formula to winning in this in this

894
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 4: new age of college basketball and college.

895
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 3: Well, it's been funny though.

896
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 2: It's always big guard play, right, Like it's any time

897
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 2: in any situation, you need guards that you can count

898
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 2: on because they're gonna get you through pressure and they're

899
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: gonna get you into a flow on offense and get

900
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: you buckets like that.

901
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 3: That's the truth. And a reservant's got great guards.

902
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: Man.

903
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, I like the senior leadership and I really

904
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 4: do like your dough. I don't want to, you know,

905
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 4: over in Michigan, I don't want to talk down on him.

906
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 4: He's a great point guard. I just worry about I

907
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 4: think he's gonna struggle against the length of Arizona's guards

908
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 4: and the pressure that they put on them in their size.

909
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 4: That will really make it difficult for him. So I'm

910
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 4: curious to see how it matches up. But it's going

911
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 4: to be it's going to be a heavyweight fight.

912
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 3: Man.

913
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 4: It's going to be a hell of a game. And

914
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 4: I'm just so excited to watch it and see, you know,

915
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 4: he's this and in the national Championship. It's going to

916
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:26,479
Speaker 4: be great.

917
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 3: Yeah.

918
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 2: I pumped up, and I'm really looking forward to this

919
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: game that I it's one of those I want to

920
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 2: nestle in and actually enjoy it, both of them.

921
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 3: But it's it's just been a great tournament.

922
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 2: We talked during Project Nil about the fact that the committee.

923
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 2: There's a Yahoo report that says the committee will expand

924
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 2: both the men's and the women's tournaments to seventy sixteams,

925
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,479
Speaker 2: and what they would do is they.

926
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 3: Would expand it for the playing games.

927
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 2: So the expansion to that many teams will come during

928
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: that I like the idea of the expansion.

929
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 4: You've been championing that for a minute. And this isn't

930
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 4: new to you. You've been championing this, you know, the

931
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 4: expansion of this for a while. You've had it laid out,

932
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 4: you know.

933
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to I wanted to just go all

934
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 2: in on it and just add just another another sixteen

935
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: sixty four.

936
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you think about it.

937
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 2: Right, I want to go to eighty. They're going to

938
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 2: go to seventy six, so we're not far off. But

939
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 2: my eighty your setup was different. I I had a

940
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: completely different setup. Yeah, I led them all into the first,

941
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 2: into into the into the regions.

942
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would eliminate the playing games and just have

943
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 4: a bigger feel and have two extra days of games

944
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 4: right on. Yes, Yeah, I mean I was a fan

945
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 4: of that.

946
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 3: Now.

947
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 4: Look, we talked about it in a couple hours ago

948
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 4: on that project down l The main push for this obviously,

949
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 4: they just signed a new deal with CBS recently eight

950
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 4: point eight billion. Right, these teams are pushing them to

951
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 4: get into tournament. There's more pressure now than ever because

952
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 4: these teams are spending millions of dollars on these rosters

953
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 4: and they need to see some type of revenue coming

954
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 4: back and when you get to the tournament, you sell

955
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 4: more shirts at your school store. You know, you get

956
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 4: more advertising dollars, your team's more visible, you get more applicants. Right,

957
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 4: it's crazy the trickle down when you're on this national

958
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 4: stage of how it booms your economy at your university.

959
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 4: So these schools are pressuring then c DOAA to do

960
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 4: this as well. It's not just you know, the television networks,

961
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 4: we want more add money because we're paying you this

962
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 4: massive thing. It's also now which is interesting is the

963
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 4: schools are like in the Big Ten and and you

964
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 4: know the Big East, they're saying, hey, we need more teams,

965
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 4: we need more visibility. We're spending millions of dollars on

966
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 4: our roster. We need to figure this out. And the

967
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 4: n T is dying. The Crown is actually kind of

968
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 4: interesting because do you know about the crown.

969
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 3: Ant I just know they're playing.

970
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 4: But yeah, so it's another tournament. But the champion usually

971
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 4: when you win, the money goes to your conference and

972
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 4: it gets sprinkled out. The winner gets a million dollars

973
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 4: for an il. So it's like, hey, come play in

974
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 4: our tournament. We're gonna give your school a million dollars

975
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 4: to pay your kids. So it's an interesting, you know,

976
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 4: interesting idea and it's kind of really hurt. Then the

977
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 4: N set up also, like no one's talking about the

978
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 4: I at all died, it's completely done. But the Crown

979
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 4: is actually kind of interesting where you get a million dollars.

980
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 4: So these games are getting decent viewership because the teams

981
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 4: are really playing full, teams are committing to a Teams

982
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 4: that pass up on n IT are now going to

983
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 4: this the best teams because they want.

984
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 2: The semifinals are today for the Crown, Oklahoma Balor and

985
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 2: West Virginia Creighton.

986
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, so four good teams that were really close. You know,

987
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 4: Oklahoma's first team out right, so historically that would be

988
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 4: an n team. Now they are, you know, going to

989
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 4: the Crown and trying to win this million dollars to

990
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 4: help their budget for next year.

991
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 3: When's the championship game for that?

992
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 4: So they're playing today, I don't know, I'm imagining Tuesday.

993
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 4: I have to check it out.

994
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 3: Because they're playing today, today's semifinals.

995
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't go Monday, No, no.

996
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 3: Because you're going early today.

997
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 2: It's smart. It's on Fox. It's one point thirty and

998
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: four o'clock. Right, So listen, it's smart. You got four

999
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 2: college games today, right, you have the Crown stuff, which

1000
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 2: is like the perfect appetizer to the NCAA's I guess

1001
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 2: you're right.

1002
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 3: I guess it would have to be Tuesday.

1003
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no way they put it on Monday, right?

1004
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 4: Or could it be tomorrow? Could it be a quick turnaround?

1005
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 3: I yes, it is tomorrow, tomorrow, five.

1006
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 4: April fifth, Yeah, so yeah, yeah it makes sense. Yeah, yeah,

1007
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 4: they can't.

1008
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 2: And then, you know, because the women's is at eight,

1009
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 2: so it's actually smart to slot it in before the

1010
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 2: women's game tomorrow.

1011
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, little little pre.

1012
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 2: Actually when is the is it women's just tomorrow? What

1013
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 2: time is the women's game?

1014
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 4: Let me pull it up.

1015
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 3: The NI Championship is tomorrow.

1016
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 4: The women's is Sunday. Yeah, they're playing tomorrow at three

1017
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 4: thirty ula South Carolina.

1018
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 3: Which is great matchup.

1019
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 2: But uh, you got three thirty for the women's and

1020
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 2: then yeah, it makes sense five thirty for the Crown.

1021
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 4: Is they're being strategic with it. It's down in Vegas,

1022
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 4: but they're getting really good teams in it, Like Creighton's

1023
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 4: a really good team. So I'm rooming for you know,

1024
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 4: creating Oklahoma. And then I got some play players on

1025
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 4: these teams that I you know, filed over the years

1026
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 4: that are you know, local kids to me and have

1027
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 4: come through programs I've been a part of.

1028
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 3: So you get to keep from Oklahoma.

1029
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 4: What's his name? Xavier Brown? One of the best in

1030
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 4: the country. Was eight ten Players of the Year and yeah,

1031
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year, A ten first team. He was

1032
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 4: at Saint Jose but Roman Catholic High School graduate. Great

1033
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 4: kid his junior years, right, yeah, dominated Saint Jose, played

1034
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 4: as a freshman, dominated school. Yeah yeah, and he's he's

1035
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 4: one of the baby.

1036
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 2: He played at a very competitive hight school. A great

1037
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 2: yeah man, a great Uh. Played with some played some

1038
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 2: high Division one guys. A couple of guys made to

1039
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 2: the NBA.

1040
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 4: So I was very point, yeah, taking charges, doing the

1041
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 4: little things, and you know when the great coach man, Yeah,

1042
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 4: I got to see the hard work. What it what

1043
00:56:58,040 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 4: it looks like earlier that.

1044
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 2: All those point guards they make themselves there where it's

1045
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: where the great coaches come from, the point guards and

1046
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 2: uh and uh.

1047
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 4: Because you gotta see it. You don't have that. You

1048
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 4: gotta see it. You don't have to sometimes you might

1049
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 4: not be six five or you got so you have

1050
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 4: to figure out the angles and see the game a

1051
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 4: little different. I always say, like, you know, Michael Jordan

1052
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 4: could just do things like don't get me wrong, he

1053
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 4: worked his butt off right, but like some things he

1054
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 4: just naturally could do that other people couldn't. So like

1055
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 4: to be a great coach, I feel like sometimes you

1056
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 4: need to see the different angles of it, and if

1057
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 4: you just naturally can do it, you might not see

1058
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 4: those angles. So I always questioned, like, would Michael Jordan

1059
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 4: be a great basketball coach?

1060
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 5: Well?

1061
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny because a lot of those

1062
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 2: guys tried it right, Magic tried it, Bird tried it,

1063
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 2: and they weren't good. And I think I think it

1064
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 2: has to do with there's an expectation, like they were great,

1065
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 2: so if you're great, you're thinking, well, what do you mean,

1066
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 2: like what are you doing? Like of course you should

1067
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 2: do it this way? Or they don't have even though

1068
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 2: they're all hard workers, they don't have the gifts the

1069
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 2: incredible skill like those guy's had ridiculous skill. But Larry

1070
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:21,919
Speaker 2: Berry was just like Magic Johnson where they just weren't

1071
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 2: good coaches.

1072
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's difficult. I think it's difficult, especially when you

1073
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 4: when you're so good at that level and you rarely

1074
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 4: see it where it translates over. Now. There are some

1075
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 4: greats that are good coaches, but I think it's more

1076
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 4: rare than common in that field.

1077
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 3: But yeah, I crosses over to every sport, be honest

1078
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 3: with you.

1079
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 4: Those game I love Danti. I try to model mine

1080
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 4: after Aaron Kraft Phio state Craft.

1081
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 3: That's a buzzt out one. I like it.

1082
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 4: One of the greats.

1083
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 3: I love it. That's fantastic, that's that's awesome.

1084
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 4: But we have a great slate, man, I'm so exciting,

1085
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 4: even the girls side. So we got U C l

1086
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 4: A South Carolina and the lines two and a half

1087
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 4: South Carolina LA.

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00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 3: I mean they didn't play well and.

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00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 4: Survived, agreed thirty six and one on the season. Impressive

1090
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 4: ear for them, man, But it looks like a lot

1091
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 4: a coin flip. I mean, I gotta roll with the

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00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 4: North Phillies finals and Don Staley you know, can't go,

1093
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 4: can't go against our Yeah, we loved it. We loved

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Speaker 4: on Temple Zone, you know, we loved.

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00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 2: On Dawn Down is the best. But it's a great

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00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 2: I think it's a great game.

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Speaker 4: It really, it's gonna be a great matchup for sure.

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00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a quick till we'll come

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Speaker 3: right back.

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00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 2: I got a baseball question because I gave you a

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00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 2: ratings and start to show. I want to know if

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00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 2: baseball is truly back, and I kind of want to

1103
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 2: look at the at the grand scheme of where the

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 2: sports are all right, But the baseball ratings and again

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01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 2: I'll put them out to people cause it didn't hear

1106
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 2: it are monstrous?

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? We're the Fellas hanging right here.

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Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 7: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 7: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 7: listen live.

1112
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Speaker 2: Welcome back Fellas, Danny ddad in for Jeff Schwartz.

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1114
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Speaker 2: Don't forget what the iHeart app, you could stream us

1115
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,400
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01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,400
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1117
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: and a new improved iHeart app to search Fox Sports Radio.

1118
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 2: The app to stream is live every day, all day.

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01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 2: Be sure it's left. Fox Sports Radio is one of

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01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: your presets in the app, so it always pops up

1121
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 2: at the top of your screen to search Fox Sports

1122
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 2: Radio in the iHeart app. All right, so I touched

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01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 2: on this last hour. I want to have a bigger

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01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 2: question for you. And the Major League Baseball ratings are

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Speaker 2: out for the first week and they're absolutely spectacular.

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01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 3: Fox is up forty five percent.

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01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: Netflix average three million viewers, the youngest audience for an

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Speaker 2: MLB opener in a decade. NBC they did three point

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Speaker 2: two millions for Arizona the Dodgers, two point three million

1130
01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 2: for Mets Pirates, making the largest MLB opening day it's

1131
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 2: on record for a multi game presentation, MLB Network, the

1132
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 2: most watched opening day in baseball history.

1133
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 4: That's wild.

1134
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 3: So what does this mean? All right?

1135
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 2: So obviously the game. People are falling back in love

1136
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 2: with the game. When I was a kid, Baseball.

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01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 3: Was number one when I was.

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01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, the old the old heads,

1139
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 2: they loved the baseball was their sport. And then the

1140
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 2: you know, I like, as I was, uh, you know,

1141
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 2: probably a teenager, like at thirteen fourteen, football started to

1142
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 2: rise and it was really like kind of where football

1143
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 2: started to pass everything. Now I was a kid growing up,

1144
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 2: I loved every sport. I was one of those multi

1145
01:02:55,480 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 2: sport kids. And but football started to take off and

1146
01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 2: then it went into another stretosphere right where it still is. Yeah,

1147
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: but baseball had fallen, and you could make the argument

1148
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 2: that had n't fallen to number three behind the NBA

1149
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 2: and basketball for sure.

1150
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 3: MLB was certainly behind it.

1151
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 2: And while it was big and like New York, LA,

1152
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 2: you know, Saint Louis, Boston, it was, it became hyper

1153
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 2: regional and it wasn't a national, wasn't like you know,

1154
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 2: the World Series was getting out drawn, well watched in

1155
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 2: ratings by you know, football games.

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Speaker 4: Oh for sure. I got a couple of ideas where

1157
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 4: I think it's back and why I think it's it's thriving. Right,

1158
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 4: let me let me let me run on past you.

1159
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 4: Then you see what you think about it. I think

1160
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 4: I think the pitch clock. I think the speed of

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01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 4: the game helped. Right, are averaging about absolutely two and

1162
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 4: a half hours now, I think they were closer to three.

1163
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 3: Well, I think that helps the movement and to get

1164
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 3: pacing better.

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01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 4: Faster paced. For sure. I think there's like for first

1166
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 4: time in a while, I think we have like very

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01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 4: outgoing superstars that are like really marketable. Like you got

1168
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 4: the old Tany's, you got Aaron Judge, you got the

1169
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 4: Bryce Harper's of the world. You got these guys that

1170
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 4: are vocal, that have personality, that are out in the forefront.

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Speaker 4: We have like marketable stars. I think that's strong people back, right.

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01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 4: The ABS is interesting. I think people like it.

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01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a mix of the human element. I

1175
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 4: think that the ums probably don't like it, but I

1176
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 4: think it's a it's interesting, right, It's an interesting dynamic.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of controversial. I think that's strong people back.

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01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 4: I think they kind of embraced the social media side

1179
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 4: of it all. Yeah, they might people up they're doing

1180
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 4: in game. You know, they're they realized the game got

1181
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 4: a little stagnant, you know, the home runs. Yeah, you know,

1182
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 4: all their marketing all that stuff, right, So I think

1183
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 4: that's really big and you know they're getting you know,

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01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 4: he got some international guys. I think that's how bo

1185
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 4: Tony's a you know, he's a business in himself. That

1186
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 4: guy is an international business. I mean he's he's huge.

1187
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 4: So you have these guys and then I you know,

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01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 4: I think fantasy and gambling helps too. I think all

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01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,720
Speaker 4: those kind of tie into it. That they're really drawing

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Speaker 4: the people who kind of stepped away back into it.

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01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 4: But I think it starts with the pace of the game.

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01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 4: I think that was a great first step.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, pace of the game.

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Speaker 2: I think the key is getting kids, getting the young

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Speaker 2: people back, because you know, that was.

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Speaker 3: The first sport you played.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I soccer is probably overtaken that. Like first

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Speaker 2: sport the kids play is soccer. I mean, min was baseball,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean I had to be four years.

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Speaker 3: Old, like five years old. Get you out there and

1201
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 3: you're playing like.

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Speaker 2: Soccer now is probably it. But I think I think

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01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 2: they're getting kids back, which I think is important. Everything

1204
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 2: like that Savannah Bananas, right, I think that helps. I

1205
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 2: think there is a there's a cool I don't know

1206
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 2: if you see it at your high school, but there's

1207
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 2: a cool baseball culture like gear like the gear too, right,

1208
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 2: the gear's big, the equipment like they have the baseball bros.

1209
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 2: Like my so, my kid is a baseball you know,

1210
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 2: he's a baseball nut, and he's a he plays all

1211
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 2: three sports. He probably you know, I mean, loves basketball.

1212
01:06:55,640 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 2: But the baseball things there and and I see it

1213
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 2: with the with the kids, like he plays on the

1214
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 2: thirteen U team, and you know they're they're talking at

1215
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 2: the call baseball cards, they talk about, they talk about

1216
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 2: you know, they talk about the game. They do they

1217
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 2: do that in your high school?

1218
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the high school level, I mean they did

1219
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 4: they do the walkouts. Now, this wasn't common when I've

1220
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 4: been athletic director now for twelve years. This is in

1221
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 4: the last couple of years. Kids are you know, they

1222
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 4: have speakers. They're playing walkout songs for every kid when

1223
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 4: they come up, right, Like, that's a thing. The Game

1224
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 4: Changer app has really helped, right because people can follow

1225
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 4: it at different places, right, Like you're on this app

1226
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 4: and you know you don't have to be there, and

1227
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Speaker 4: there's video aspects to it. So I think there's a

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01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 4: lot of I think technology has really helped. But I

1229
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 4: think the game there's some there's a swag to it

1230
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 4: right now. Man, they got they got some they got

1231
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 4: some buzz. The kids are leaning into it. I think

1232
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Speaker 4: major League Baseball is also leaning into it as well,

1233
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 4: and they're meeting them on like this is a cool thing.

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01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 4: It's not this boring sport that takes forever, like there's

1235
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 4: a lot more to it, and they're jazzing it up

1236
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 4: a little bit. And I think it's a part of

1237
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 4: the reason it's taken off and captivating the kids a

1238
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 4: little bit.

1239
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, and this is really interesting

1240
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 2: because in fact, our buddy mister mehme just set a great,

1241
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 2: a great tweet from Tom Aberstrow, right, so it compares

1242
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 2: he says, and this is what our man says, MLB

1243
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:40,480
Speaker 2: the stars play NBA. They don't.

1244
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:41,719
Speaker 4: That's very true.

1245
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: On Amazon Prime last night, no Cade, no Aunt, no Luca. Right,

1246
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 2: So look at this tweet from Tom Aberstrow. ABC has

1247
01:08:54,640 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 2: televised twenty three games. Guess how maybe games with the

1248
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,640
Speaker 2: full stars.

1249
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 4: In the NBA. I would I don't know, probably half,

1250
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:06,839
Speaker 4: I don't.

1251
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,200
Speaker 3: Know, ten less than half.

1252
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 4: Wow.

1253
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 2: ESPN is televised fifty two games. Take a guess how many?

1254
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 2: I go twenty fifteen? Sheesh At NBC. Peacock has televised

1255
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 2: eighty games. Take how many guys? Take a guess how many?

1256
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 2: Thirty five to forty twenty seven? Yeah, it's crazy. Prime

1257
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 2: has televised fifty six games.

1258
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 4: Guess how many to the twenty five nineteen. Sheesh, Peacock

1259
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:49,679
Speaker 4: down from my middle number.

1260
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 2: Peacock has televised nine games alone. How many games? How

1261
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 2: many stars?

1262
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 4: Three one? That's pathetic.

1263
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 2: So across national talent, across the national television ABC, ESPN,

1264
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 2: Nbcpacock Prime, there has been two hundred and twenty telecasts

1265
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 2: and only seventy two of those games were played with

1266
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:21,760
Speaker 2: the full complimented stars.

1267
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 3: That's thirty two percent.

1268
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 2: So when our man says, yeah, well, Greg says, MLB

1269
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 2: the stars play, so the kids go or sports fans go, Yeah.

1270
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:38,440
Speaker 3: Man, I want to watch Judge Otani.

1271
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 2: I want to see the young stars, like like Connor, right.

1272
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 4: They're playing one hundred and fifty games out of one sixty.

1273
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 2: Two right, like you're you're seeing these guys play.

1274
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 3: Eight army killing that lead.

1275
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 4: It has killed it and they're trying to move it.

1276
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 4: Because I all tweet yesterday from Luca's agent that said,

1277
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 4: like this historic season shouldn't be hindered, like he should

1278
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 4: be honored for all his stats because I guess he'll

1279
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 4: fall under this sixty five game for whatever. But also

1280
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 4: like league awards, because I think they are not counteracting it,

1281
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 4: Like you can't be all league if you've missed as

1282
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:20,759
Speaker 4: many games.

1283
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, they made they made a rule. What was the

1284
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 3: rule eighty You.

1285
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 4: Think it's sixty five games?

1286
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 3: Sixty six sixty five, I'll look it up for shure.

1287
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 4: You're still missing seventeen games, right, even at that seven.

1288
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 2: Sixty five games. Think about that, and he's gonna fall under.

1289
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 4: It's gonna fall under.

1290
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,200
Speaker 2: Like, dude, No, there's gotta be a certain threshold in

1291
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 2: which you play, like, that's gotta be it.

1292
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 3: But it kills the league.

1293
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:54,719
Speaker 2: It makes the league just a playoff league for sure.

1294
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 2: It kills it, absolutely buries that league. I love the NBA.

1295
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 2: It's truth. There's too many games where they just don't play.

1296
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 2: Nobody plays schedule losses. How could you charge money for

1297
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 2: a big schedule loss?

1298
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 4: Big money too right?

1299
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh, that was a schedule loss. Get the

1300
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 2: bleep out of here with your scheduled loss.

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01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 3: That's nonsense.

1302
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a crazy stat. I mean, thirty national televised games.

1303
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 3: And then they want to expand.

1304
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just that can't happen. And I don't know

1305
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 4: how you fix it either. I mean, I know they

1306
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 4: tried it this year with this new emplement of the rule,

1307
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 4: but I don't know how you fix it.

1308
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 3: I have never read a worry about taking.

1309
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 2: They still haven't figured out how to get these dudes

1310
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 2: to play.

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01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean they go around the tanking thing. They

1312
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 4: just start the guys and then they set them in

1313
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:54,799
Speaker 4: the fourth.

1314
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 4: I mean so many times this year, like Utah was

1316
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,719
Speaker 4: up big, they just sat every buddy in the fourth

1317
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 4: I knew.

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01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 3: Or they said him in the third qard Like it's

1319
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 3: bizarre how they do it too. It's a stupid.

1320
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 4: To loopholes with it.

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01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the league is ridiculous. It's killed. Analytics has

1322
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 2: killed that league more than any more than anything else

1323
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 2: because they go, well, why we tack some players, right,

1324
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,919
Speaker 2: because the analytics comes into the pounding on the players.

1325
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:33,560
Speaker 2: Between that and heavily and heavily relying on the three,

1326
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 2: you just you just changed the game. Yeah, that's crazy,

1327
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 2: it really is. And I think you know what. To

1328
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:48,799
Speaker 2: Greg's point, MLB has been the Bete factor.

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01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 4: I didn't have that in my you know, on the

1331
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:53,600
Speaker 4: break when you told me to bring it up, I

1332
01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 4: thought about that. I didn't think about it, but I

1333
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 4: didn't know it was to that extent. That's that's alarming.

1334
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 4: But it makes a lot of sense why why the

1335
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 4: numbers are starting to shift right, and why the MOLB

1336
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 4: is catching up, and why there's such a spike in

1337
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 4: them right now. When you think this is the time

1338
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 4: when everyone's trying to get a playoff spot in the NBA,

1339
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 4: you know, you would think it'd be that, but it's not.

1340
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 4: And MLB is definitely taking advantage of it and growing

1341
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 4: for it. And good for them. I'm happy that they're

1342
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 4: adapting and you know, growing the sport and you know,

1343
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 4: changing it up to be more mainstream. What's going on

1344
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 4: with these kids and getting them in there now? Again,

1345
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 4: we can't have a stoppage, am We can't. We got

1346
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 4: to keep this momentum going.

1347
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 2: No, that's the worst thing for it, the worst thing whatever.

1348
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 2: They can't have a labor stat We can't do it.

1349
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 2: You can't do it, all right, I gotta take quick

1350
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 2: T will come right back. I do as I'm curious

1351
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 2: about participation and is it follows suit that kids are

1352
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 2: playing ball playing baseball again at that level? You would know, so,

1353
01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 2: you know, I just know for my insular world for sure.

1354
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:03,839
Speaker 2: The fellas hanging out Fox.

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01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 2: Ah, welcome back fellas Danny d is it for jeff

1357
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 2: a Man? As we hang out on this final four weekend.

1358
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:32,880
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1359
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1360
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1361
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1362
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1363
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1364
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1365
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:57,120
Speaker 2: go off the air, and we appreciate that. Uh, Danny

1366
01:15:57,160 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 2: d Easter Sunday which on the tap for you tomorrow.

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01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna go to my brothers family. You know,

1368
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 4: we're gonna do like an early dinnerish late lunch type

1369
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 4: of meal. It's usually you know, the traditional ham and

1370
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 4: then you know, some Italian food mixed in ravioli or

1371
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 4: a z D or potential design. I haven't checked in

1372
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 4: with my dad yet. He's he's the cook, so I

1373
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 4: have to see what's on the menu, you know. So

1374
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 4: what about you? How's it looking for you guys?

1375
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go with my sisters. It is funny how

1376
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 2: it changed because when we were younger they have to

1377
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,639
Speaker 2: dress you up, right, like you would have to get

1378
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 2: dressed up.

1379
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 3: And it would always go with the.

1380
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 2: Spring like soup, be all spiffed up, and yeah, you

1381
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 2: go to you go to church, right, and then he

1382
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 2: did the whole thing.

1383
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 3: And then my mother would always yell because.

1384
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 2: Afterwards then we would go to our grandparents, right, and

1385
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:02,640
Speaker 2: you're all you know, they would dress they dressed us

1386
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 2: up to you know, we're kids, my cousin, and you

1387
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 2: know then they expect us to stay like that the

1388
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 2: whole day. Well, you know, you just got through a winner,

1389
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 2: and usually Easters on the usually it's a nice day,

1390
01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 2: so we won't want to go outside and play ball,

1391
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 2: and it happen like right, like what we're happening is

1392
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 2: you're playing ball wearing a white suit. What do you

1393
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 2: think's gonna happen? It's gonna get dirty, right. They used

1394
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 2: to freak out, well, what do you expect like what? Like,

1395
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:40,600
Speaker 2: you know, what do you think we're little robots?

1396
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 4: You can't put the game together? And now let us

1397
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 4: get rowdy over here, you know exactly.

1398
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 3: That's what kids do.

1399
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:54,160
Speaker 2: I never understood why like that generation would get all

1400
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 2: over kids when they're acting like kids.

1401
01:17:58,000 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 3: But what do you think we're gonna just ship there?

1402
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 1: Quiet?

1403
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 2: Now, We're gonna play it then a football game and

1404
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:04,839
Speaker 2: rough house and do whatever.

1405
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 3: That's what you do.

1406
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're dona run around and act up.

1407
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 3: Ah, my father come out that way, you guy. You

1408
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 3: acted like choches.

1409
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 2: Well yeah, what do you expect us to do? He's fifteen,

1410
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 2: I'm eleven.

1411
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 3: What do you think we're gonna do?

1412
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 2: Right, We're gonna mix it up, right, you know, we're

1413
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 2: gonna play ball, We're gonna break stuff. I mean, that's

1414
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 2: what you do. I don't understood. That's these holidays. I don't.

1415
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 2: I didn't understand it. And you're a kid. You don't

1416
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 2: care about the food. No, like when you're a kid,

1417
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 2: like you just want to get together. You want to

1418
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:40,840
Speaker 2: go play ball and do stuff like you're not carried

1419
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 2: about Oh my god, he'st him all right, Well you know.

1420
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 4: We what but yeah, we'll go.

1421
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 2: I said, we do the yet, so so since I'm

1422
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:57,240
Speaker 2: in charge of holidays now or really like you know

1423
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 2: my wife and my sister, but but I'm a charge,

1424
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 2: we do the feats of strength. When he got there,

1425
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:11,640
Speaker 2: so we have an arm wrestling contest. So is my

1426
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 2: cousin got like a Seinfeld episode with Festivus where he

1427
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 2: has to wrestle because of me, my two sons, and

1428
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 2: then my nephew Joseph. So all this we will will

1429
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 2: have a round robin toward me.

1430
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 4: You've been training for this and or what? You gotta

1431
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 4: hold it down for us, man, you've been training.

1432
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 2: I look, Christmas, I can't I always at the belt.

1433
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 2: I lost to my son Anthony.

1434
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna say he's probably would probably saying

1435
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 4: he might have he might be didds on favorite right now.

1436
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:47,960
Speaker 2: I mean it was a it was. It was a battle,

1437
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 2: but I can't believe I was having it. I was

1438
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 2: like a little stuff that day. I think my my

1439
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 2: positioning was off too.

1440
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:58,560
Speaker 4: We gotta get you loose. We gotta lock in, and

1441
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 4: this is a big day. We can't. We can't be

1442
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 4: taking the yells over here, right.

1443
01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 3: I didn't, And he was like ear to ear smiling.

1444
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 4: Oh man, he's probably all gassed up over that.

1445
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 3: Man.

1446
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 4: We gotta lock in, and we gotta make sure loose

1447
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 4: and nimble.

1448
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 2: Right.

1449
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 4: We gotta make sure we're you know, we're feeling good tomorrow,

1450
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 4: get a good night rest. We gotta have the top

1451
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 4: tip top tip shape.

1452
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 5: Man.

1453
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 2: I can't lose again, Like, I gotta go back. Problem

1454
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:28,320
Speaker 2: is I haven't been like he's been to gym every day.

1455
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a big boy man.

1456
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 3: He's a defensive end.

1457
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 4: He's a big kid.

1458
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 2: And I got it he's been he has. You know,

1459
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 2: I gotta get back. I might have to go through

1460
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:47,200
Speaker 2: some pharmaceuticals. I gotta, I gotta go find Paul. George

1461
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 2: can get you on some for tomorrow.

1462
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 3: Brother.

1463
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,840
Speaker 2: But you know, it's funny because we'll watch baseball and

1464
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 2: there's a hockey game on and we'll do all this stuff.

1465
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 2: Sports and hollow days is always like a fun thing

1466
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 2: for me. I always liked the intersects and the sports

1467
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 2: and I wait to watch the game.

1468
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 3: It's sports. It's such a big part of our family

1469
01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 3: like yours.

1470
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. And yeah on that no, I mean

1471
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:15,920
Speaker 4: we can talk about the at some point today we'll

1472
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 4: talk about the owners meetings and they're trying to add

1473
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:19,960
Speaker 4: to Christmas and some other things, so we can.

1474
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 3: Well that's coming up next.

1475
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 2: It's funny you said that we're gonna get to some

1476
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 2: NFL stuff coming up next Fellas.

1477
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 3: On Fox.

1478
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:35,839
Speaker 2: Good Morning, Good Morning about it, Happy Happy Happy Final

1479
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 2: four Saturday fellas Anthony Gargando, Danny de Beverdinez, Dandy d

1480
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 2: d A D from Project Nil filling in for Jeff Schwartz.

1481
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 2: As we get it. Going on a Final four weekend,

1482
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 2: you gotta love it. They don't forget when the I

1483
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:04,360
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Speaker 2: Again to search Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart app.

1492
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:30,960
Speaker 2: Did a lot of extensive Final four talking as you

1493
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 2: can well imagine the championship game. It's the de facto

1494
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:41,959
Speaker 2: championship game is today, Michigan Arizona. It's gonna be amazing. Rights,

1495
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 2: that's gonna be an I would be shocked if either

1496
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 2: Yukon Illinois, who ever wins that game, can can take

1497
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 2: down one of those beasts.

1498
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,720
Speaker 3: But we'll see. The brain will be on later on

1499
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:55,760
Speaker 3: to go over.

1500
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 2: From a betting standpoint, we've been all over the place,

1501
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 2: talking a lot of ball. This morning, Connor Griffin made

1502
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 2: his debut for the Pirates, got laced a hit, threw

1503
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 2: a guy out, was with a great double play, stolen

1504
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 2: base fast, He's a teenager.

1505
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:17,480
Speaker 3: I love seeing these these phenoms.

1506
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,559
Speaker 2: And we were talking a lot about baseball and baseball

1507
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 2: and a huge week numbers wise across it all.

1508
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,480
Speaker 3: Also this week was the NFL.

1509
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:32,120
Speaker 2: Owners meetings and a lot of stops, a lot of

1510
01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 2: stuff coming up when it comes to the NFL owners,

1511
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 2: all the all the football stuff as we start draft season.

1512
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 2: It's in earnest now it's this month. Later this month,

1513
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 2: we'll talk a lot about the draft. We touched on

1514
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins going to the Raiders a little a little earlier.

1515
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 2: The big story out of Philadelphia was the Jalen Hurts

1516
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 2: ESPN story, which kind.

1517
01:23:58,760 --> 01:23:59,799
Speaker 3: Of deemed him.

1518
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 2: An issue with some of his coaching and whether or

1519
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 2: not he's coachaball and some of that stuff.

1520
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 4: Danny Yeah, man, I mean he comes off to the

1521
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 4: blind eyes. You know, this guy with all these intangibles

1522
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 4: and he's a winner, but it seems the more they

1523
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 4: dig deep is like he does have these winning, you know,

1524
01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:23,680
Speaker 4: attributes However, he seems to be want to do it

1525
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 4: his way now, you know, and that happens sometimes when

1526
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 4: you're successful, right you say, well, I want to do

1527
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 4: it my way now and not keep adapting. So we'll see.

1528
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 4: I think, Look, he the Eagles are a really talented team.

1529
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:37,759
Speaker 4: We'll see how they do. But a very interesting story

1530
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:41,680
Speaker 4: for someone who's been so successful in his career as

1531
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,759
Speaker 4: far as winning goes. You know, maybe not the stats,

1532
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 4: but the big stat that matters is w's and he's

1533
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 4: been a part of some big w's. But it seems

1534
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 4: like people are kind of getting fed up with him.

1535
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 4: So we'll see how it trains, how it plays out,

1536
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,400
Speaker 4: and I'm not sure how it's gonna continue to play.

1537
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 4: But it's a big season for him and for our Eagles.

1538
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting, uh, just knowing a lot about

1539
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 2: that situation. Look, you know, I think Hurts is at

1540
01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 2: a crossroads in his career and this is not uncommon, right, Like,

1541
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 2: he has had a ton of success. Now, a lot

1542
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 2: of success came with running its specific offense. When he

1543
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 2: was in an RPO based offense and he had legs,

1544
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 2: he was dangerous. Yeah, twenty two, when he goes to

1545
01:25:29,160 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and has it and basically outplays Patrick Mahomes.

1546
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 3: He was terrific.

1547
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 2: And then teams start to kind of game plan for you,

1548
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 2: and do you have an array of OC's come in

1549
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 2: and stable.

1550
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 4: He's at a nonstable offensive coordinator market for sure. Every

1551
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 4: year has had someone now.

1552
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even in the Super Bowl year where

1553
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 3: they win it two years ago. Kellen Moore is a

1554
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 3: one in done OC.

1555
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 2: He tried to turn the offense more of a passing

1556
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 2: offense and it didn't work.

1557
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 3: They lead into a strong run game.

1558
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 2: He had a great old line in Sae Kwon Barkley

1559
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,799
Speaker 2: and a great defense and then that was the ticket

1560
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 2: that worked. It wasn't Hurts in the passing game, which

1561
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:16,639
Speaker 2: was bad last year.

1562
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 3: So now Lot now a new OC, a new offense.

1563
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 2: They're going to bring in more of an under center

1564
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 2: play action McVeigh Shanahan style of offense with Sean Mannion

1565
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 2: as the OC, and basically it's up the Hurts to

1566
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 2: adapt to that new offense.

1567
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again, like a big narrative where we see

1568
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 4: day to day because we're in the area, but a

1569
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,799
Speaker 4: big narrative locally is that he just decided he doesn't

1570
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:47,880
Speaker 4: want to run anymore. Right that it's not that he

1571
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,519
Speaker 4: doesn't have the ability. Now I kind of am in

1572
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 4: the middle on that. I think he definitely lost a

1573
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 4: step and that's probably been a hindrance to him wanting

1574
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 4: to take off. Right, guy has to turn the corner.

1575
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 2: He hasn't gotten the edge, like I like where he

1576
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 2: used to get the edge. He doesn't get the edge. So,

1577
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 2: you know, again, I don't really I don't know how

1578
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 2: much I blame him in that sense, but that was

1579
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 2: a piece that made him in his arsenal, that made

1580
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 2: him great for sure.

1581
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:18,840
Speaker 4: And when plays do break down, I feel like he

1582
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:21,559
Speaker 4: did stay in the pocket a little too long, even

1583
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:24,719
Speaker 4: not just taking the edge in the RPO, but wanting

1584
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 4: to just take off and run. And you got to

1585
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 4: be smart and you want to protect your body. But

1586
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 4: I think for them to grow, and I think for

1587
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 4: his teammates to want to buy into him, I think

1588
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 4: he needs to, you know, continue to do the little

1589
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,719
Speaker 4: things which made him great in the past.

1590
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get the ball out, you got to

1591
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 2: play quarterback more. I mean, that's just it's more of

1592
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 2: a traditional, more of a traditional kind of execution of

1593
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 2: the position.

1594
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 3: That's what he's going to have to do.

1595
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:52,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, get the.

1596
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 2: Ball out, you know, stand toll in the pocket, slide

1597
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 2: in the pocket, don't just bail all that stuff.

1598
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 3: Like, that's what you're gonna have to do.

1599
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 2: And he's not going to get an extension until he

1600
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 2: proves he could do it.

1601
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:08,400
Speaker 4: For sure. It's a huge year for him, huge year

1602
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 4: for the Eagles in the direction they're gonna move moving forward.

1603
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 4: So it was a great piece by ESPN. And you know,

1604
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 4: it was a great piece and very interesting. I'm sure

1605
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 4: you're already privy to it. You're really tied in over there.

1606
01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 4: But for for the you know, for the general listener,

1607
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 4: it was really really a great read.

1608
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:26,840
Speaker 2: It was interesting, and again it wasn't a hip piece,

1609
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 2: so it was more like, hey, you know, you told

1610
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 2: me about a player that's had a ton of success,

1611
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 2: great success, but also needs to adapt. And that's not

1612
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 2: uncommon for a quarterback, especially when you lose this to

1613
01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:43,639
Speaker 2: all those guys, like they all think you could run

1614
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:46,760
Speaker 2: for days, run for years, and then it catches up

1615
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 2: to you aiden your body just can't handle it.

1616
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:53,799
Speaker 3: For sure, you're taking too many hits.

1617
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 4: I'm excited for the draft. I'm excited you know owner's

1618
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 4: meetings where you know, it seemed to be productive, and

1619
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 4: you know, just getting the buzz around football is great.

1620
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:03,599
Speaker 4: This is a great time of year, like we've talked about,

1621
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 4: got you know, the playoffs, NHL, MLB starting up, you

1622
01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:10,439
Speaker 4: got the bad NBA starting up, and then you got

1623
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 4: March madness, and then you're starting to tickle in these

1624
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 4: NFL stories, which is really cool.

1625
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know we talked about the Cousins going

1626
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 2: to the Raiders to back up Mendoza.

1627
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 3: It's gonna be We're gonna get all in.

1628
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 2: And what happens to Aaron Rodgers is also out there,

1629
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 2: Like you know, the drafts of Pittsburgh.

1630
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:36,879
Speaker 3: Who's the Who's the Who's the Steelers quarterback?

1631
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. They keep doing this dance. You know,

1632
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 4: as long as they know before the draft, I think

1633
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 4: they'll be fine. But who knows. Man, I mean, you

1634
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 4: think he would come back, but it's not definite for sure.

1635
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 3: It's wild there really is.

1636
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 4: It's a wild situation. If I was a Steelers fan,

1637
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:56,840
Speaker 4: I would be incredibly annoyed. I think regardless you draft

1638
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:59,040
Speaker 4: a quarterback, it's just when do you draft a quarterback?

1639
01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 3: Right? Yet?

1640
01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:05,360
Speaker 2: Who I mean Who's who's the again for the Steelers.

1641
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:08,599
Speaker 2: The shame is this draft is not a quarterback draft.

1642
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 2: It's a complete project draft. Yep, you got to figure out,

1643
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:14,960
Speaker 2: like who you know you want to take a flyer on?

1644
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 3: Look?

1645
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:19,799
Speaker 2: You mentioned Aler from Penn State, which is the Steelers' backyard.

1646
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:22,599
Speaker 3: I listen.

1647
01:30:22,760 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 2: He's big, he fits the suit, he's got a great on,

1648
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:29,720
Speaker 2: a strong arm.

1649
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 3: But he's got to get developed. He was not developed

1650
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 3: at Penn State.

1651
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needs he needs a lot of work, but

1652
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 4: he has all the all the things you need to

1653
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 4: be successful, all the things you can't teach he has, right,

1654
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 4: So it's about the teaching both things and processing and

1655
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:47,400
Speaker 4: making the right decisions. But he has everything you can't

1656
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 4: teach it. I mean, he's got the size, he's probably sick,

1657
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 4: close to sixty five, he's got the arm, he's mobile enough,

1658
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 4: you know, So we'll see how it plays out. But

1659
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 4: he's a guy that I think, given the right situation

1660
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 4: in time developed, could be a really really.

1661
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 2: Right But you can't. You can't. You can't just go

1662
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 2: in to.

1663
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:07,639
Speaker 4: Get a couple of years. Yeah, for sure.

1664
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:10,200
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's paramount. I get it.

1665
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 2: I love the size. I love the arm strength and

1666
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 2: then that's it. He's gotta he's gotta. You gotta reprogram him.

1667
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 2: There's a lot of work to do there.

1668
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 3: The uh. The league also talked about that.

1669
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:24,560
Speaker 2: The owners also talked about, obviously the use of replacement

1670
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 2: refs and the foul safe, which is allowing New York

1671
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 2: to overturn like to make a.

1672
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:33,560
Speaker 3: Call or overturn a call instantly.

1673
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. Where

1674
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:38,040
Speaker 4: you at on that topic.

1675
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, especially if you're thinking about going ahead

1676
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:42,519
Speaker 2: with replacement refs.

1677
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 4: Oh well, replacement refs with that doubt, but with you

1678
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 4: gotta have it.

1679
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 3: I don't mind it, and the I don't mind it.

1680
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 3: It does.

1681
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 2: It's kind of to the point where it's pretty quick. Yeah,

1682
01:31:55,360 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 2: the only problem is, like when do you deploy it?

1683
01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 2: Like they how many times you see it during a game,

1684
01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 2: whether they'll pick up a flag or they'll do all that,

1685
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 2: Like it's not a review, you're right, Like they'll they'll

1686
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 2: they called it that spensighted review where it's not a fumble. Now, no,

1687
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 2: it's not a funble. Well where do you think that's

1688
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 2: coming from? That's coming from replay?

1689
01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did, that's my big questions like when is

1690
01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:26,680
Speaker 4: it used? How how like what situations? I just want

1691
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 4: consistency in it. If there's consistency in it, I'm all

1692
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 4: for it. I feel like right now it's pretty random.

1693
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 2: It's it's random, and I don't know how you're going

1694
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 2: to get consistency from it.

1695
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 3: You know.

1696
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:45,639
Speaker 2: Also the International Games? Do you like the International Games?

1697
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 4: I like this as grown a sport. I like that

1698
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:51,880
Speaker 4: it's becoming more national thing. But as like a fan

1699
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:55,840
Speaker 4: that goes to games, you don't like losing losing games.

1700
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,719
Speaker 4: So like I think to find these teams that lose

1701
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 4: two games as wild, Like there's teams that lose two

1702
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:03,680
Speaker 4: three games a year over there now, you know, like

1703
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 4: Jaguars Jacksonville.

1704
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jacksonville. Through the peaky blinders of the NFL.

1705
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,679
Speaker 4: They are they live over in London. Man, it's crazy.

1706
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,040
Speaker 4: They're over there all time. It's it's a wild thing.

1707
01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 4: But I think it's important for the sport to continue

1708
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 4: to grow it. It's it's huge to grow sports and

1709
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 4: be an international you know, be a national international product.

1710
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 4: But I'm also curious to see, like is everyone going

1711
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:30,680
Speaker 4: to have to have a game now? Like how does

1712
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 4: what's the format as you continue to grow it.

1713
01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 2: So what I would do is, once you go to

1714
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:38,680
Speaker 2: eighteen game schedule, you have a first half by in

1715
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:43,599
Speaker 2: the second half buy, and that everybody plays an international game.

1716
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, then then I'm with it. Yeah, if I just

1717
01:33:47,720 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 4: feel like you can.

1718
01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 2: Actually you know, everybody plays two international games. And because

1719
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,040
Speaker 2: you have a first half by the second half buy,

1720
01:33:57,720 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 2: it'll work.

1721
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:02,000
Speaker 4: You up the preseason and start the season earlier.

1722
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:05,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you start the season the same, you

1723
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 3: just go on the back end.

1724
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:10,559
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I'm with that. And then yeah, as long

1725
01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:12,120
Speaker 4: as you have the two buys, because you need to

1726
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:14,599
Speaker 4: buy as the factor and to travel with them to travel.

1727
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 2: Plus I think if you're the players, I mean you

1728
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 2: need to buy with the heel.

1729
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would have to. If I'm fine with eighteen

1730
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:26,120
Speaker 4: games that they added a second by, yes, yes, but

1731
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 4: without the second bye, I don't. I don't agree with it.

1732
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 3: I'm with you.

1733
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 4: Uh is that on the table? I don't know enough

1734
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 4: about it.

1735
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're talking about the first half. Biden said

1736
01:34:38,439 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen.

1737
01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 4: Okay, that'd be great.

1738
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, the double buys, that's definitely gonna happen.

1739
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 4: Great.

1740
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:46,559
Speaker 3: So that that's part of the that's part of one

1741
01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:46,800
Speaker 3: of your.

1742
01:34:46,760 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 4: Best players healthy. And you want you want to you

1743
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 4: want the best products on the field.

1744
01:34:49,640 --> 01:34:51,800
Speaker 3: I mean, we already know about the derth of quarterbacks,

1745
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:55,720
Speaker 3: right like the the you need you just need quarterbacks

1746
01:34:55,720 --> 01:34:57,360
Speaker 3: being healthy for sure.

1747
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:02,640
Speaker 2: Uh. And then he got do you like the Christmas

1748
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 2: the Christmas games?

1749
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:08,280
Speaker 3: The Thanksgiving? EVE games? Do you like all that?

1750
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 4: I'm for the Thanksgiving games. It gets Christmas. Look, I'm

1751
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:16,280
Speaker 4: excited for it. I want one game. Multiple games would

1752
01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:19,720
Speaker 4: be tough. I don't know how my attention span would

1753
01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:22,080
Speaker 4: be with multiple games because I love watching the games.

1754
01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:25,439
Speaker 4: But I love Thanksgiving. That's always been a huge hit.

1755
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:27,320
Speaker 4: I mean it's been a staple my whole life. I'd

1756
01:35:27,360 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 4: like the EVE game actually, and then the Black Friday Game.

1757
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:32,639
Speaker 4: I actually went to. The Eagles were part of Black

1758
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:33,280
Speaker 4: Friday Game this.

1759
01:35:33,320 --> 01:35:35,360
Speaker 3: Year and I went and I played in Chicago that day.

1760
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, ugly game, but great day.

1761
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 2: They're going to add for the Black Friday Evening game too.

1762
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 4: Wow, that could be dangerous. A lot of people are

1763
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,800
Speaker 4: going to be hanging out late. Thanksgiving's gonna be a

1764
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:48,719
Speaker 4: little bit more hungover.

1765
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 3: You know. Well, I liked it.

1766
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 2: I love going Wednesday night, three on Thursday and two

1767
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:56,280
Speaker 2: on Friday.

1768
01:35:56,880 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great slate. Where do you stand on

1769
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:00,360
Speaker 4: the Christmas game?

1770
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 3: I mean Christmas falls on the weekend you get football.

1771
01:36:05,080 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, because it would be difficult

1772
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,640
Speaker 4: to always do it with it as the days change, right, Like,

1773
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 4: if it's a Wednesday, how do you do it?

1774
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:13,160
Speaker 3: Well, they didn't. That's that was last year.

1775
01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:14,679
Speaker 4: They did it on Oh yeah, if they just get

1776
01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 4: the teams buys a week before.

1777
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:21,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they're listen, they're in man there eight Christmas Eve,

1778
01:36:22,120 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 3: it's gonna be there's gonna be gay Christmas Eve.

1779
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 4: There's gonna be football every day during a week.

1780
01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:26,800
Speaker 2: Listen.

1781
01:36:28,240 --> 01:36:30,519
Speaker 3: Like, I would be a hypocrite if I said I

1782
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:31,800
Speaker 3: don't like it. I love it.

1783
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:35,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the truth of the matter is I do

1784
01:36:35,760 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 2: a a uh big Christmas Eve gathering.

1785
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 3: So I cook a huge dinner.

1786
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 2: I got, you know, all friends and family come over

1787
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 2: and when there's games on, like and we started early,

1788
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 2: Like I'll start cooking, you know, six o'clock and then

1789
01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 2: I'm on and off cooking until mid night. Right but

1790
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:04,599
Speaker 2: like like I'll take a break and everybody be watching

1791
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 2: the game and hanging out like you know, everybody, the

1792
01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 2: ladies are talking. We have the game on. You're not

1793
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 2: just sitting there watching the game. You're having conversations.

1794
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 3: You're doing it.

1795
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:18,479
Speaker 2: It's it's and then then you may lock in depending

1796
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 2: on who's playing, or you may ignore it.

1797
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 3: But it's going well.

1798
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:25,840
Speaker 4: Listen. The NBA is in trouble with this Christmas game

1799
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,840
Speaker 4: because they own Christmas. Those ratings were great, Well they

1800
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:33,320
Speaker 4: got smacked around. List list it's over. They we have

1801
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 4: to pivot. They gotta finds. They gotta find a new

1802
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:40,160
Speaker 4: slant because if if the if NFL fully embraces this

1803
01:37:40,240 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 4: Christmas Day game.

1804
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 3: Well I think that is that's done. They did last year.

1805
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 3: That's not changing.

1806
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 4: He had it just want to day on the multiple

1807
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:51,920
Speaker 4: multiple Yeah, they're in trouble.

1808
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean listen again, we talked about

1809
01:37:56,520 --> 01:38:00,240
Speaker 2: it last hour. The problem when you have that any

1810
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:02,560
Speaker 2: games and that few stars playing.

1811
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:06,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, products weaker product.

1812
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:12,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's terrible. It's a terrible. Once again,

1813
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:17,120
Speaker 2: just to just to give people the numbers there were,

1814
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:23,680
Speaker 2: there has been two hundred and twenty nationally televised games

1815
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:28,400
Speaker 2: of that number. The games with a full complement of

1816
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 2: stars seventy two.

1817
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy.

1818
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:38,439
Speaker 2: That's thirty two percent of games haven't had their full

1819
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:39,600
Speaker 2: comp minute stars.

1820
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:42,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's an insane stat.

1821
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:44,840
Speaker 2: I mean, like I was supposed to run a league,

1822
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:48,200
Speaker 2: like I supposed to sell a league. When you have that,

1823
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 2: that's that's problem.

1824
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,639
Speaker 4: It is. It's not stopping either. I got to figure

1825
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 4: it out.

1826
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:57,719
Speaker 2: No, that's it that. I mean, that's it, Like that's

1827
01:38:57,720 --> 01:38:59,440
Speaker 2: a problem you look at.

1828
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:00,599
Speaker 3: Hey.

1829
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,479
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still floored by these bad reason why

1830
01:39:03,439 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 2: I bring them up is I'm just floored by the

1831
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 2: baseball numbers.

1832
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 3: I'm I love the fact.

1833
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 2: That these baseball audience numbers are huge.

1834
01:39:12,520 --> 01:39:14,959
Speaker 3: I mean the fact that they're doing on streaming is shocking.

1835
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:21,200
Speaker 2: Yeah that Netflix is I did that well.

1836
01:39:22,200 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you what though. I love that it's growing.

1837
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:27,320
Speaker 4: I love the money that's generating because I'm happy for

1838
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 4: everyone that's involved. But I'm a guy that likes to

1839
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 4: bounce around and watch multiple things. So the streaming thing

1840
01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 4: is just making me have a bunch of stuff out right,

1841
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:40,840
Speaker 4: Like I gotta have tablets and computers out I'm a

1842
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 4: guy that you can't jump. You can't jump when you're

1843
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:46,080
Speaker 4: on the service. You gotta get out of it, you

1844
01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:49,080
Speaker 4: gotta go into the next one. So that's my knock on.

1845
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:49,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I know.

1846
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 3: You're right.

1847
01:39:52,439 --> 01:39:54,919
Speaker 2: I don't blame me a little bit. It's a bad

1848
01:39:56,240 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 2: it's bad to rome. Like if you're a clicker, I'm

1849
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:00,759
Speaker 2: a click too.

1850
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:02,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm like, look, I'm paying for the things,

1851
01:40:02,680 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 4: so they should figure out a way, Like it's not

1852
01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:05,639
Speaker 4: like I'm not paying for one of them. If I'm

1853
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:07,080
Speaker 4: paying for all of them, I should be able to

1854
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:08,280
Speaker 4: figure out a way to.

1855
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:12,439
Speaker 2: Shouldn't have any and forget me because my setup is

1856
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:14,160
Speaker 2: not good.

1857
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:16,360
Speaker 3: It's not it's not up.

1858
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:20,720
Speaker 2: To date, okay, but shouldn't there be where you have

1859
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 2: you don't have to get out of your apps. You're

1860
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:30,720
Speaker 2: saying any way that you could do it because it's like,

1861
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:33,560
Speaker 2: you know, I got I cable.

1862
01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 4: Yeah right now you need multiple TVs to have to

1863
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 4: set up so.

1864
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 2: Right, and then you have to get them out, get

1865
01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:42,760
Speaker 2: out of your apps. If I want to go with

1866
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:44,760
Speaker 2: the Netflix, I want to go to Amazon. I'm like,

1867
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:47,679
Speaker 2: you know, you're you're you're always in your app. Out

1868
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 2: of your app?

1869
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:52,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's too much. You need you need to have

1870
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 4: a true man cave to watch multiple games at once anymore.

1871
01:40:55,600 --> 01:40:58,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have the multiple. My wife is already

1872
01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 2: like yo, relaxed. Yeah, you know, she's like, no, come on, man,

1873
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:11,759
Speaker 2: and I and I'm a downstairs like, I'm a living

1874
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:12,360
Speaker 2: room guy.

1875
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 3: So I'm over by. That's kind of where I'm at.

1876
01:41:16,360 --> 01:41:20,200
Speaker 2: So s you know, and we're like today I'll be

1877
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:28,559
Speaker 2: That's where I'll be right like you know, Final four, baseball, hoops, hockey,

1878
01:41:28,680 --> 01:41:29,519
Speaker 2: like it'll all be.

1879
01:41:29,479 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 4: There, Yeah, flipping around, flipping through. But I'm a big

1880
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 4: quicker guy. I love I love to be able to

1881
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 4: checking on different things.

1882
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 2: And like you, you're at the point where you know

1883
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 2: when you're watching off sports that you know that when

1884
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 2: the commercials.

1885
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:47,400
Speaker 4: Over, oh you got we gotta timed out. We got

1886
01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 4: to feel for it.

1887
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:49,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a clock.

1888
01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:50,760
Speaker 3: It's like an internal clock.

1889
01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:54,720
Speaker 2: It's like the pocket you feel about pressure that you

1890
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:55,960
Speaker 2: could get back to the game.

1891
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:59,440
Speaker 4: We know the blindside coming, We feel.

1892
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:02,640
Speaker 2: It ectly exactly. All right, We're gonna take quick to

1893
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:07,000
Speaker 2: you come back. The brain will join us. So we'll

1894
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:09,120
Speaker 2: take a look at the final four, we'll take a

1895
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 2: look at sports in general. A lot of good stuff

1896
01:42:12,479 --> 01:42:17,720
Speaker 2: happening as we hang out on a final four Saturday

1897
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 2: of Easter Weekend, Fellas Danny D and for Jeff A

1898
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:28,600
Speaker 2: Man Fellas on Fox Sports Sports.

1899
01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:43,479
Speaker 3: Radio Welcome Back Fellas Danny D the a d.

1900
01:42:45,080 --> 01:42:45,639
Speaker 4: A man.

1901
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 3: All right, just talking to Mike Garrafalo.

1902
01:42:55,479 --> 01:43:02,519
Speaker 2: About some football stuff, Uh.

1903
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:02,439
Speaker 3: My man, A couple of things.

1904
01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:08,560
Speaker 2: And then because I want to address I completely flubbed

1905
01:43:09,560 --> 01:43:13,720
Speaker 2: something when we were talking about great players coaching, and

1906
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:20,160
Speaker 2: I want to address Larry Larry Bird's mullet and live

1907
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 2: free or die guy. All right, So like, yo, Larry

1908
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,600
Speaker 2: Bird wasn't a good coach, and it hit me with

1909
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 2: the NBA the best wwinny percent of the NBA, right,

1910
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 2: the whole thing. And I honestly listen, I was around

1911
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 2: that Patrios team because they were playing the Knicks and

1912
01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:43,720
Speaker 2: that was the Reggie Miller and Mark Jackson, and I

1913
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:46,280
Speaker 2: didn't mean that he wasn't as good like a good coach.

1914
01:43:46,720 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 2: I kind of remember they had two things. Rick Carlisle

1915
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 2: coached the offense and Dick Harder was primarily responsible for

1916
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:01,800
Speaker 2: the defense. And I remember talking to Bird and him

1917
01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:08,120
Speaker 2: talking about the struggles of like implementing what he saw

1918
01:44:09,160 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 2: to the players when we were doing that whole thing

1919
01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 2: about point guards being the best coaches, like back up

1920
01:44:14,320 --> 01:44:16,160
Speaker 2: point guards. Yeah, because they're.

1921
01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:17,639
Speaker 3: Relatable, they see the game.

1922
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:22,160
Speaker 2: And I was like, superstars don't make good coaches, and

1923
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 2: like Magic wasn't a good coach, and you see a

1924
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 2: lot of those stars.

1925
01:44:27,120 --> 01:44:30,240
Speaker 3: We're talking about Jordan being a good coach. Like those

1926
01:44:30,240 --> 01:44:30,840
Speaker 3: guys are right.

1927
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:35,680
Speaker 2: Like I flubbed how I explained it, but I remember

1928
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 2: what Larry Bird telling me was how important it was

1929
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:44,439
Speaker 2: to have Carlisle and Harder to really kind of do

1930
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 2: a lot of the X and O coaching.

1931
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:46,840
Speaker 4: For sure.

1932
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:48,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, so those.

1933
01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:50,479
Speaker 2: Guys do a lot of the X and O. But

1934
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:52,960
Speaker 2: obviously they were right. I just met more of the

1935
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 2: X and O stuff.

1936
01:44:54,920 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they were really talented teams, and Larry, I'm

1937
01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 4: sure I had a great winning percentage. I remember those teams.

1938
01:44:59,120 --> 01:44:59,599
Speaker 4: I was young.

1939
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 2: I remember like it was Mark Jackson, Dale Davis, Rick Smith's.

1940
01:45:06,160 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 3: Rick Smith's, the big Dutchman.

1941
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:09,960
Speaker 4: The Dutchman.

1942
01:45:10,080 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, Antonio Davis was on that team. Reggie.

1943
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,720
Speaker 4: You know, they're really talented team. But again, he had

1944
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:21,800
Speaker 4: great assistance, and I'm sure it's one of percentage of great.

1945
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 4: He didn't get over the top and it just again

1946
01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 4: we did, and he could be in the small percent.

1947
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:28,960
Speaker 4: We said, like it is, it's just a much more

1948
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,880
Speaker 4: percentage of guys who were just naturally that gifted, that

1949
01:45:31,960 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 4: succeeded at that level, right, like Isaiah Thomas right, I

1950
01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:40,800
Speaker 4: mean great, great, great player, but like really average coach. Right,

1951
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:45,080
Speaker 4: So like to see you know, just we're just saying,

1952
01:45:45,120 --> 01:45:47,519
Speaker 4: like it's it's it's a different point of view for

1953
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:49,839
Speaker 4: guys who had to just work at it a little differently.

1954
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 3: Uh, it is, it is. It's a whole fascinating thing, man,

1955
01:45:57,320 --> 01:45:57,840
Speaker 3: it really is.

1956
01:45:57,880 --> 01:46:03,599
Speaker 2: All right, real quick, we got to do this our

1957
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1963
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1964
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:35,120
Speaker 2: to Cooper Flag.

1965
01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:38,080
Speaker 3: All the draft cheering now Scooper brings it up.

1966
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 2: We should be feeding Wendell Shrouds.

1967
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:41,840
Speaker 7: Out for them.

1968
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag has got himself a career high and he's

1969
01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:49,799
Speaker 4: got a fifty fiece. He'll try to make it fifty

1970
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:50,680
Speaker 4: one at the.

1971
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:51,479
Speaker 7: Free throw line.

1972
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:55,480
Speaker 2: And this crowd is appreciated every minute as well they should.

1973
01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:58,679
Speaker 4: How about that fifty nugget.

1974
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's unbelievable.

1975
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:09,799
Speaker 3: Man, that was incredible. All right, on this final four weekend,

1976
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 3: let us.

1977
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 2: Welcome in the brain are a handicappy expert.

1978
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:17,720
Speaker 3: Good morning, Brain.

1979
01:47:18,479 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 5: Good morning. It's funny when you're talking about that Pacer team. Man,

1980
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:24,519
Speaker 5: you forgot not that you were listening to them all.

1981
01:47:24,600 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 5: Travis Best remember him?

1982
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,719
Speaker 4: Great energy?

1983
01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:32,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hirrington, I was thinking about that team.

1984
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 2: Eric McKee was a really good veteran player career. He

1985
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 2: played like a two three.

1986
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 4: The youth now the youth, the young guy on the team,

1987
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:46,200
Speaker 4: nice wing I remember.

1988
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:48,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was great.

1989
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:54,000
Speaker 2: In fact, they had the bulls on the ropes the

1990
01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:56,360
Speaker 2: one year it was game seven.

1991
01:47:56,439 --> 01:47:57,639
Speaker 3: They took him in Game seven.

1992
01:47:57,880 --> 01:48:00,000
Speaker 5: They were winning by like fifteen in the second half.

1993
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:00,919
Speaker 5: For I call correctly.

1994
01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:03,040
Speaker 3: I was at the I covered the game.

1995
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's so cool.

1996
01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:09,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, I covered, So I was I covered.

1997
01:48:10,920 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 2: I used to do a lot of the opposing teams

1998
01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 2: in the East against the Knicks, and so I did

1999
01:48:18,560 --> 01:48:20,240
Speaker 2: the Heat. I spent a lot of time with the Heat,

2000
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:22,280
Speaker 2: and then I spent a lot of time with the Pacers,

2001
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:24,800
Speaker 2: and then I would go on to cover you know,

2002
01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:29,160
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference Finals in the finals, but the year

2003
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:36,360
Speaker 2: the battles with that year the Pacers almost beat the Bulls.

2004
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:39,720
Speaker 2: That was all the Reggie Miller stuff right, like where

2005
01:48:39,760 --> 01:48:43,160
Speaker 2: Reggie was freaking out and him and Spike were going

2006
01:48:43,200 --> 01:48:45,759
Speaker 2: at it and it was it was awesome.

2007
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:47,200
Speaker 3: I'll never forget that year.

2008
01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 2: It was a Memorial Day weekend and my editor said, hey,

2009
01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:56,599
Speaker 2: do you want to cover Pacers practice or the Indy

2010
01:48:56,760 --> 01:48:57,960
Speaker 2: five hundred?

2011
01:48:59,320 --> 01:49:02,800
Speaker 3: And I was like, and I didn't know I should.

2012
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 2: Have done the Indy five hundred because I never like

2013
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 2: I never covered it. I never, but I didn't know

2014
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 2: anything about it, and I felt uncomfortable writing about it

2015
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 2: because I didn't know the sport.

2016
01:49:15,760 --> 01:49:17,520
Speaker 3: So I took patries practice.

2017
01:49:18,160 --> 01:49:20,639
Speaker 2: And then that day I was close with Mark Jackson

2018
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:23,920
Speaker 2: because Mark we used to play in New York.

2019
01:49:24,600 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 3: So Mark would always let they go. He's like, dude,

2020
01:49:26,479 --> 01:49:28,040
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a quote.

2021
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:30,360
Speaker 2: We we're gonna put it on the back page, and

2022
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:32,240
Speaker 2: like he would like fire everybody up.

2023
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 3: It was awesome.

2024
01:49:33,720 --> 01:49:36,360
Speaker 2: So I expect that day and they went on the

2025
01:49:36,360 --> 01:49:38,680
Speaker 2: they went on the lake on a boat. I went

2026
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:42,160
Speaker 2: on their boat. It was Kim where it was Rechie,

2027
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:44,760
Speaker 2: it was Renchie, it was Mark and it was cool.

2028
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:46,960
Speaker 2: It was like it was like Memorial Day after practice.

2029
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:49,960
Speaker 2: I went on their boat. It was fun and that

2030
01:49:50,040 --> 01:49:54,080
Speaker 2: was Yeah. Thanks Britt, you got me to chance to

2031
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:58,400
Speaker 2: uh reminisce think about those days I haven't thought about.

2032
01:49:59,280 --> 01:50:01,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's dive into it.

2033
01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:07,040
Speaker 2: Let's go start with the first game Illinois and U Khon.

2034
01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 3: Let's dissect that where you're at.

2035
01:50:11,120 --> 01:50:13,640
Speaker 5: You know, look, they played earlier this year, and I

2036
01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:16,000
Speaker 5: have to want to say after they happen, I'm gonna

2037
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:20,840
Speaker 5: throw it out. Yukon just absolutely destroyed them. But I

2038
01:50:20,960 --> 01:50:24,040
Speaker 5: really do think that was a different Illinois team. Wagler

2039
01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:26,760
Speaker 5: barely even played in the game. Who's now obviously their

2040
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:32,360
Speaker 5: best player. Look, Yukon, Anthony, I'll give them their due.

2041
01:50:32,840 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 5: They are a team that every time I watch them,

2042
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:39,120
Speaker 5: I just think they're so okay. I feel like they're

2043
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:41,120
Speaker 5: the kind of team that, like a hen feed g

2044
01:50:41,200 --> 01:50:46,040
Speaker 5: easily beat on a given day, but well coached, gritty, tough.

2045
01:50:46,960 --> 01:50:49,960
Speaker 5: I just think Illinois is better. I really think Illinois better.

2046
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:52,360
Speaker 5: I think they win this game five out of eight times.

2047
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:54,600
Speaker 5: You to lay one and a half right now, I

2048
01:50:54,680 --> 01:50:58,640
Speaker 5: bet Illinois. I'm gonna go down with Illinois. I just

2049
01:50:58,680 --> 01:51:01,120
Speaker 5: don't think you contact great. Got an all time win

2050
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:04,160
Speaker 5: against Duke slightly Overady to do a team, but it

2051
01:51:04,200 --> 01:51:06,559
Speaker 5: took a million things to happen. At the end, they

2052
01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:08,639
Speaker 5: got all of them to go their way. Credit to them,

2053
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:11,200
Speaker 5: total credit to them. But I do think Illinois is

2054
01:51:11,240 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 5: a better team. I'll think they'll prove it over forty minutes.

2055
01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:15,639
Speaker 5: I like Illinois would dance.

2056
01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 4: What do you think, Damy dig Yeah, I'm with the

2057
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 4: brain on this. I mean we've been saying this all weekend.

2058
01:51:22,320 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 4: They are the better team. Like and I saw you

2059
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:25,920
Speaker 4: come play a lot this year. I saw him play

2060
01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:31,080
Speaker 4: in person. They've they've they've survived, they've they've figured out

2061
01:51:31,120 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 4: ways to win. But they're really not they've been good.

2062
01:51:34,479 --> 01:51:37,080
Speaker 4: They're not that good. Like the roster isn't that great.

2063
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 4: So I kind of you know Illinois is. You know,

2064
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:42,479
Speaker 4: they played her over New Year. We mentioned that earlier.

2065
01:51:42,520 --> 01:51:46,120
Speaker 4: Brains brought it up. They're the better team. They're much

2066
01:51:46,120 --> 01:51:49,360
Speaker 4: different team than it was in November. Wagler is, you know,

2067
01:51:49,439 --> 01:51:51,720
Speaker 4: taking to another level. He played twelve minutes in that

2068
01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:55,280
Speaker 4: first game. They're gonna have the better guards, and I

2069
01:51:55,320 --> 01:51:58,840
Speaker 4: think Illinois size is going to give them issues for Yukon,

2070
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:02,960
Speaker 4: and I think think I see them, you know, handling them,

2071
01:52:02,960 --> 01:52:04,680
Speaker 4: and I think, you know, again, Yukon can win. I

2072
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 4: won't be surprised, but I would definitely lay the point

2073
01:52:07,520 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 4: and a half and take Illinois in this game.

2074
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 3: How do you how do you see the game flow?

2075
01:52:13,960 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 3: You see rock fight?

2076
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:21,479
Speaker 5: I mean, look, uh, every game that mus shouldn't every game,

2077
01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 5: but most of the games that a lot of the

2078
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:27,880
Speaker 5: games that Yukon plays have been that way. And also

2079
01:52:27,920 --> 01:52:30,760
Speaker 5: I will say Illinois defense has actually been better as

2080
01:52:30,800 --> 01:52:32,840
Speaker 5: of late. Maybe even some of their games they haven't

2081
01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 5: been like that. I don't think be total rock fight. I

2082
01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 5: think I like Illinois offensively.

2083
01:52:39,439 --> 01:52:39,600
Speaker 2: I do.

2084
01:52:40,680 --> 01:52:43,639
Speaker 5: Holy no, I only be one of those sixty three

2085
01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:45,479
Speaker 5: fifty eight kind of games. No, I don't think so.

2086
01:52:45,479 --> 01:52:47,519
Speaker 5: I thinks have a more success than people think. Actually

2087
01:52:47,520 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 5: think they're gonna win this one by double digits.

2088
01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:54,320
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, I agree with them. I mean I like him,

2089
01:52:54,400 --> 01:52:56,400
Speaker 4: but by eight or nine. But yeah, I'm right there

2090
01:52:56,400 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 4: with Brain. I think either their defense was an issue

2091
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:02,160
Speaker 4: earlier the season, they were giving up a lot of points.

2092
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:05,599
Speaker 4: But they're they're rolling right now. They're playing well, and

2093
01:53:05,840 --> 01:53:08,519
Speaker 4: they're just they just have talent. Man, They're really talented team,

2094
01:53:08,520 --> 01:53:10,680
Speaker 4: and I like them to kind of handle it.

2095
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:15,800
Speaker 2: You con today, All right, let's do this. Let's take

2096
01:53:15,840 --> 01:53:22,519
Speaker 2: a quick too and come right back. And it's a

2097
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 2: super heavyweight fight. It's an incredible game. It's Arizona, Michigan.

2098
01:53:29,240 --> 01:53:33,519
Speaker 2: The Brain is a proud Michigan alump. Now he knows

2099
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:36,720
Speaker 2: his Michigan teams inside and out. I can't wait to

2100
01:53:36,760 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 2: find out what side he's on. We'll discuss that one

2101
01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 2: and the rest of your sports weekend coming up next.

2102
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:46,080
Speaker 2: Danny DDA DM man. Where the Fellas right here?

2103
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:49,439
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2104
01:53:49,439 --> 01:53:52,480
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2105
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2106
01:53:57,080 --> 01:53:57,920
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2107
01:54:09,880 --> 01:54:17,880
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Fellas, Dandy d and Jeff's on

2108
01:54:17,960 --> 01:54:25,679
Speaker 2: vacation and the Brain. All right, Brain, this time has come.

2109
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:30,880
Speaker 2: This is the moment of truth for you, A proud Michigan. Man,

2110
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:36,040
Speaker 2: they are up against one of the great all time teams.

2111
01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:41,320
Speaker 2: This Arizona team is pretty special. I could score two's

2112
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 2: with the best of them, can get to the basket.

2113
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:49,800
Speaker 2: They could play just about any style. Brain, how do

2114
01:54:49,840 --> 01:54:51,000
Speaker 2: you see this game going?

2115
01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 5: I mean, I think this is the best matchup of

2116
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:57,520
Speaker 5: the year. I think these are the two best teams.

2117
01:54:57,840 --> 01:54:58,440
Speaker 3: I really do.

2118
01:54:58,480 --> 01:55:02,720
Speaker 5: I think most people would agree as of today. Notwithstanding

2119
01:55:02,760 --> 01:55:05,560
Speaker 5: we saw with Duke. I really think these are the

2120
01:55:05,600 --> 01:55:07,920
Speaker 5: two best teams. And even if Duke get advanced, I

2121
01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:10,840
Speaker 5: think Duke was leaking oil a little bit at least

2122
01:55:10,880 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 5: once this tournament started. These teams, to me, are so

2123
01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:16,480
Speaker 5: much similar in so many ways, Anthony. They both rebound well,

2124
01:55:16,840 --> 01:55:19,200
Speaker 5: shoot the three of the exact same percentage, the exact

2125
01:55:19,240 --> 01:55:22,480
Speaker 5: same fieldal percentage. They score the same exact amount of points.

2126
01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:25,440
Speaker 5: I mean, it's almost literally looking in the mirror in

2127
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 5: terms of how much like statistically they match up dead even.

2128
01:55:31,600 --> 01:55:31,880
Speaker 3: For me.

2129
01:55:32,360 --> 01:55:35,720
Speaker 5: And again, look, I would have made this line anywhere

2130
01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:39,200
Speaker 5: between Pickham and Michigan minus one. Right now the line

2131
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,520
Speaker 5: is sitting at minus one and a half, so it's

2132
01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,600
Speaker 5: certainly a number I think is reasonable. I think Michigan

2133
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 5: wins a very very very close game five points so

2134
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:53,880
Speaker 5: less either way. Reason for me being I think Lendenborg

2135
01:55:53,960 --> 01:55:56,720
Speaker 5: is the best player in the game. I think he

2136
01:55:56,840 --> 01:56:00,240
Speaker 5: will find a way to make enough plays in a

2137
01:56:00,280 --> 01:56:02,080
Speaker 5: game where there's a lot of really good players. I

2138
01:56:02,120 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 5: love Burry's he's a really good Pet's had a really

2139
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:08,480
Speaker 5: good year. But I really think Yaxo is the difference,

2140
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 5: and I think he finds a way his overall game

2141
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:14,800
Speaker 5: his overall just I just love the way that guy plays.

2142
01:56:15,200 --> 01:56:17,000
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be really really close game with

2143
01:56:17,160 --> 01:56:19,560
Speaker 5: not Blinko and I if Arizona wins, I think the

2144
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:21,080
Speaker 5: winner of this game, I know won't be on the

2145
01:56:21,120 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 5: air and on Monday obviously, but I think the winner

2146
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:26,560
Speaker 5: of this game will clearly be a five to five

2147
01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:29,560
Speaker 5: and a half point favorite in the National Championship game,

2148
01:56:30,320 --> 01:56:32,520
Speaker 5: and the winner of this game, in my opinion, definitely

2149
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:34,600
Speaker 5: will be a prohibitive favorite, and I think we'll win

2150
01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 5: the title.

2151
01:56:36,640 --> 01:56:41,680
Speaker 2: Wow you hear that, Danny Date, Wow win the title?

2152
01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 3: That spoken?

2153
01:56:45,320 --> 01:56:47,360
Speaker 4: I love that. I love look. I love when alumni

2154
01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:51,880
Speaker 4: Brace bases are proud and loyal, So I'm happy for

2155
01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 4: the Brain. This is a really cool, you know, opportunity

2156
01:56:55,360 --> 01:56:58,240
Speaker 4: for Michigan. They you know, they jumped back on the scene.

2157
01:56:58,600 --> 01:57:02,080
Speaker 4: Dusty made the great coach And I told Anthony, I

2158
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:06,080
Speaker 4: did two brackets, Michigan winning one, Arizona winning one. Yeah,

2159
01:57:06,200 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 4: I win the bracket. If Arizona wins, the wins it all.

2160
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:11,800
Speaker 4: So the other Michigan one. I had a couple more

2161
01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 4: upsets that didn't come to fruition, so I can come

2162
01:57:15,200 --> 01:57:19,040
Speaker 4: in like third place. So I'm leaning Arizona just because

2163
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Speaker 4: of that. I think it's gonna be a great game.

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01:57:20,600 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 4: It's a true coin flip. Both teams are so talented.

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01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 4: They bullied ball teams early. They can't do that. They're

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01:57:27,040 --> 01:57:28,720
Speaker 4: you know, well they can. We'll see who wins that.

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01:57:28,760 --> 01:57:31,920
Speaker 4: They're both really big inside. The guards are great. I

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01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:35,600
Speaker 4: left your dough. I think you're right with beat the

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01:57:35,600 --> 01:57:37,520
Speaker 4: best player being on the floor and that could be

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Speaker 4: the difference maker. I lean Arizona and the guard play

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01:57:40,280 --> 01:57:40,760
Speaker 4: a little bit.

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01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:41,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:42,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's what's got me to brain is you know, damn

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01:57:46,680 --> 01:57:48,800
Speaker 2: I told you about it all morning. Is that guard

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01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,200
Speaker 2: play man. They're tough.

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Speaker 5: For Arizona. I have a lot of respect from Arizona.

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Speaker 5: They they've probably been the most consistent team all year.

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01:58:00,080 --> 01:58:02,760
Speaker 5: They only lost two really close games to Kansas and

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01:58:02,760 --> 01:58:06,200
Speaker 5: Texas Tech back to back. Outside of those pickups, they've

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01:58:06,240 --> 01:58:08,640
Speaker 5: just been they've looked, they've been great. I think they're

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Speaker 5: a terrific team. And again, to me, this game is

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01:58:11,120 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 5: like fifty one forty nine. So this isn't like, Oh

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01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:17,680
Speaker 5: I love Michigan, absolutely not, do not love Michigan. This

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01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:21,080
Speaker 5: is a game. Again, I will I say anything a

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01:58:21,080 --> 01:58:23,040
Speaker 5: lot of times NFL. I'll be shocked the game doesn't

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01:58:23,040 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 5: in the last two minutes in the NFL. I'll be

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01:58:26,040 --> 01:58:28,240
Speaker 5: extremely surprised that this game is not the side up

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01:58:28,280 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 5: between one and five points and either team can win

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01:58:31,400 --> 01:58:34,960
Speaker 5: down the stretch. That would really truly surprise me. I

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01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,640
Speaker 5: don't see any edge in betting this game for either side.

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01:58:39,160 --> 01:58:43,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel the same way. Like I don't

2193
01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:45,400
Speaker 2: know how you I don't know how you play it.

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01:58:45,600 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 2: Like you know, it's a coin floit. It's it's an

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01:58:47,840 --> 01:58:50,640
Speaker 2: ultimate coin flip game, which is which is the shame,

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01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:52,680
Speaker 2: because you really want.

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Speaker 3: You wanted this to be the final, that's what you wanted.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I understand why Duke was number one seed.

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Speaker 5: I get it. I get it towards the.

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Speaker 3: End of the year.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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01:59:03,280 --> 01:59:07,000
Speaker 2: Honestly, I but Danny Dean I talked about it before

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01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,320
Speaker 2: the tournament. I did not see Duke as the number

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01:59:09,360 --> 01:59:10,120
Speaker 2: one overall seed.

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01:59:10,800 --> 01:59:12,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they were old again.

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01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:14,440
Speaker 5: I have to give them. Yeah, they were vulnerable and

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01:59:14,440 --> 01:59:17,080
Speaker 5: they they look I always say, Andy, it's not who

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01:59:17,120 --> 01:59:19,080
Speaker 5: you play a lot of times, it's when you play them.

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Speaker 5: I felt like at the end of the year, for

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01:59:20,960 --> 01:59:24,200
Speaker 5: whatever reason, Duke was not playing at the best, and

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01:59:24,240 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 5: then you saw it in the tournament. They almost lost

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01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:28,720
Speaker 5: in round one, right, I mean they almost lost in

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01:59:28,720 --> 01:59:31,520
Speaker 5: around one. They almost lost to Saint John's. Their TCU

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01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:35,040
Speaker 5: was beating. They were hanging by a thread and Yukon

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01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:38,680
Speaker 5: finally just chopped them off at the end. But I

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01:59:38,720 --> 01:59:41,200
Speaker 5: feel like Michigan Arizona are playing at a very high

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01:59:41,280 --> 01:59:43,520
Speaker 5: level right now. I think these are the two best teams.

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Speaker 5: I note, I do think Illinois has a far better

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01:59:46,800 --> 01:59:49,600
Speaker 5: chance and I do mean far better to beat the

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01:59:49,640 --> 01:59:53,520
Speaker 5: winner of this game, because at least they, to me offensively,

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01:59:53,920 --> 01:59:57,160
Speaker 5: can more than compete and can score with these teams.

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Speaker 5: I think Yukon will just at the the end of

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Speaker 5: the day if there beat Illinois, which they certainly can.

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Speaker 5: I think they would struggle and men playing the game

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Speaker 5: like this and lose by twelve plus. I don't think

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Speaker 5: it would be a competitive national championship if Ukon wins.

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Speaker 3: To you with size, what do you think the line would.

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Speaker 5: Be if Yukon wins, probably like six ish, something like that,

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02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:21,120
Speaker 5: five and a half?

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02:00:21,280 --> 02:00:21,520
Speaker 2: Six?

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Speaker 3: How about how about Illinois?

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Speaker 5: Illinois? Maybe like point lower?

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Speaker 4: Wow, ILLINOI maybe like a half. We said seven and

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Speaker 4: a half.

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Speaker 3: Really I said seven and al when Yukon, I don't,

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't think if Ukon wins, I don't think it

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Speaker 5: would be Look, Yukon closed four and a half against Duke, right,

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02:00:40,640 --> 02:00:42,480
Speaker 5: so to say it would be seven and a half,

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Speaker 5: I think that's a little bit too much of a stretch.

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Speaker 5: But obviously the winner of here's the thing, though, guys,

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Speaker 5: for everyone listening, the winner of you of Illinois, I'm sorry,

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02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:52,480
Speaker 5: of Michigan Arizona is just going to get an inherent

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02:00:52,600 --> 02:00:55,520
Speaker 5: bump because that's considered to be one in one A.

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02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:57,880
Speaker 5: So whoever wins that game is going to get a

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02:00:57,880 --> 02:01:00,640
Speaker 5: power rating bump just by beating the other team automatically

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Speaker 5: for sure, which would get credence to what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Right right, that makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: Uh brain, great stuff, listen, good luck, enjoy it past.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate good luck to you guys as well. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you brain there he is the brain checking in

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02:01:16,880 --> 02:01:19,200
Speaker 2: Danny d what a plant man.

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Speaker 4: Had a great time, brother, so much fun. Thank you, Mark,

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02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:24,120
Speaker 4: thank you Brandon back there. You guys crossed it today

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Speaker 4: and uh yeah, great Saturday, man, we just start today.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic everybody. Thanks for hanging as always. Have

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Speaker 2: a wonderful Easter weekend and passover.