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Speaker 2: here we go. We're sixteen hours away from the annual

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Speaker 2: NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament aka March Madness. It is upon us,

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Speaker 2: but of course, over the next four hours while it

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Speaker 2: will be a cornucopia of March Madness, madness, fun fact figures.

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Speaker 2: We even have some tips to fill out your bracket

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Speaker 2: later in the show. But we've also got NBA stuff

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Speaker 2: with Mark Badina, and we of course have to wrap

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Speaker 2: up our situations with respect to the most recent moves

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Speaker 2: in NFL Free agent in trades. Get to that a

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Speaker 2: little bit later. Jared Smith will join us in about

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. You hear him on countdown to tip off,

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Speaker 2: and of course brand new editions of Brand New Fool

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Speaker 2: and what my name at two am Pacific, five a

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Speaker 2: m Eastern, A cornucopia. And as soon as I get home,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna look that word up. Okay, work with me.

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Speaker 2: As I just said, March madness is upon us over

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Speaker 2: the next three long weekends, good long weekends, I said

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Speaker 2: it in a good way. Well, let's see a little

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Speaker 2: over one hundred million people will tune in to watch

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Speaker 2: sixty seven games. There are sixty eight teams that will

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Speaker 2: be announced tomorrow, played across fourteen cities. And of course,

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Speaker 2: what's a good March madness event without you know, a

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Speaker 2: little wagering, right See, the American Gaming Association projects a

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Speaker 2: little over eleven billion dollars will be waged on the

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Speaker 2: NCAA Men's tournament, including office pools. Last year, Neilsen estimated

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Speaker 2: seventy four million persons north of the age of eighteen

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Speaker 2: filled out a total of one hundred and seventy million brackets. Folks,

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Speaker 2: that's more people that vote in the election, the presidential election. Now,

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Speaker 2: there's always that whimsical hope that somebody could correctly pick

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Speaker 2: the winner of every single game, you know, a perfect bracket.

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Speaker 2: In the sixty four team tournament, sixty eight team turned well,

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Speaker 2: sixty four. Okay, there's a one in nine point two

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Speaker 2: quintillion chance that someone could correctly do it. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: you know it could happen. You're saying there's a chance.

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Speaker 2: How about the old argument, does work pretivity productivity go down? Well,

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Speaker 2: the head hunting firm, the legendary headhunting firm of Challenger

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Speaker 2: Grand Christmas estimates that every hour spent on games will

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Speaker 2: cost employers about two point one billion, for a total

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Speaker 2: of about fourteen billion dollars or a link of the

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Speaker 2: tournament and lost productivity. Walhaub estimates almost sixty percent of

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Speaker 2: people would be willing to miss a deadline because of

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Speaker 2: March madness. Eighty one percent of offices, Well, they say

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Speaker 2: they have no policy for office pools, but eighty nine

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Speaker 2: percent actually say office pools build better camaraderie with workers. Look,

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Speaker 2: this tournament wasn't born yesterday. It actually started in nineteen

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Speaker 2: thirty nine. There were only eight teams, one by Oregon

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Speaker 2: back in nineteen thirty nine. How about that. You gotta

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Speaker 2: love the circle of life. Danny Altman gets it done

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Speaker 2: at Oregon. They wrap up the PAC twelve Championship tonight.

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Speaker 2: They're on their way to the dance, they punch your

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Speaker 2: ticket in case you missed it. I think David Altman's

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Speaker 2: been there about twelve years now. I want to stareabouts.

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Speaker 2: He was Oregon's fourth choice. Joked about that once at

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Speaker 2: choice too. That worked out, okay, all right? Onward and

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Speaker 2: upward now. By the way, since the NCAA tournament was

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Speaker 2: expanded as sixty four teams, number one seeds have a

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Speaker 2: That's like eight hundred win percentage. You remember twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: Maryland Baltimore County became the first sixteen seed to defeat

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Speaker 2: two of the three just lost done ceremoniously frankly in

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Speaker 2: there's so much parody this year. Princeton looked Princeton to me,

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Speaker 2: if you're a trivia buff, John Wooden won the tournament

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Speaker 2: sixteen hours away from selection Sunday. Who better to bring

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Speaker 2: a contown to tip off, say he load of Jared Smith?

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Speaker 2: How worry am my? Man? Oh, Bernie?

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Speaker 5: I am fantastic. We just witnessed Whack Vegas finishing up

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Speaker 5: the Whack championship game, which I think it's my new

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Speaker 5: And I'll be honest, Vegas Conference Tournament week in Vegas,

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Speaker 5: Bernie is an absolute show. It's been an awesome week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know we have five conference tournaments here

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Speaker 2: It's always cliche that heading into the tournament, you'll hear

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Speaker 5: No. I think the key is we need to make

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Speaker 5: if you lose your first conference tournament game, there's never

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Speaker 5: That means Duke, that means Tennessee, that means Kentucky, that

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Speaker 5: Not all teams are equipped to win six straight games.

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Speaker 5: Some teams they need the games to break a certain way,

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Speaker 2: we all saw that Iowa State beat Houston by twenty eight. Okay,

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Speaker 2: hold home, Houston is still gonna be a number one seed.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, and I don't want to get too

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Speaker 5: Oh? I think you take Yukon right now. Yes, I

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Speaker 5: If they need to win what was it to night

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Speaker 5: Last night. The best clip from Rick Fittino in Friday's

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Speaker 5: think Camp Spencer, the Rutgers transfer has just been so

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Speaker 2: Well, they revamped their roster. I mean, you know, they

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Speaker 2: I'll put Yukon's defense damn near against anybody. And they

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Speaker 2: they revamped their roster and you just said it. They're

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Yukon's to pick. I will say this,

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Speaker 5: This was the last big game. Was worried about that

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Speaker 5: I think the conference is down. I agree with that sentiment.

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Speaker 5: I think he's the great equalizer. Now, foul trouble today

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Speaker 5: But you mentioned it never again with Matt Paynter. Do

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Speaker 5: I think they're probably a hair undervalued because of that

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Speaker 2: Jared, this is good, tough. Can you hang one more segment? Absolutely? Good, good.

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Speaker 2: We're talking with Jared Lee Smith. You hear them every

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning here on Fox Sports Radio. Rich Orenberger and

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Speaker 2: Branno was countown to kickoff. Now it's countdown to tip off.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back to jaredy. Second to first, Let's go

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Speaker 2: to a guy, the chef, Kevin Wyron with the latest.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Bernie, Saturday, a big day in college hoops conference

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Speaker 7: tournament season. The best appetizer in sports as several teams

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Speaker 8: NC State.

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Speaker 7: How about the wolf Pack five straight wins in five

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Speaker 7: days and they're celebrating like it's nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 1: Here's Jordan Snell.

430
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Speaker 2: He's gonna dribble out the clock. There's so hard of

431
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 2: the Pack's done it. NC State is the twenty twenty

432
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 2: four acced Ben's basketball champion, eighty four seventy six to the.

433
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Speaker 1: Final here in Washington, d C.

434
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Speaker 2: The confetti starts to come down from the upper reaches

435
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Speaker 2: of Capital Janata.

436
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 7: That was Gary Hahn on the NC State Sports Network

437
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 7: from lear Field as the wolf Pack getting their fifth

438
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 7: win in a row to capture the ACC championship, and

439
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 7: they've won more games in Washington this week then the

440
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 7: Wizards have at home all season long. They're just four

441
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 7: and twenty six at Capitol One Arena. The final edition

442
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 7: of the PAC twelve tournament goes to Oregon, as they

443
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 7: win the final seventy five sixty eight. So tonight's victory

444
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 7: is by NC State in Oregon. It could cause bubble

445
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 7: teams like Saint John's and Virginia to miss the NCAA

446
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 7: Tournament field tomorrow, but we'll see how that turns out.

447
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 7: The Mountain West Championship goes to New Mexico as they

448
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 7: upset the San Diego State Aztec sixty eight sixty one.

449
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 7: Akron snatches victory from the jaws of defeat. They win

450
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 7: it against Kent State in the MAC Final sixty two

451
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Speaker 7: sixty one, but that's because Kent State, who had taken

452
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 7: the lead with a few seconds to go, committed a

453
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Speaker 7: foul in the backcourt that allowed Akron a chance to

454
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 7: take the lead at the free throw line, and they

455
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 7: did so, winning at sixty two to sixty one. They

456
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 7: entered the Big Dance as the MAC champion in the

457
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 7: swack It's Grambling, winning it, and they advanced the NCAA's

458
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Speaker 7: for the first time ever to a seventy five sixty

459
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Speaker 7: six win against Texas Southern Long Beach State. They just

460
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 7: fired their head coach, Dan munths In, but they let

461
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Speaker 7: him coach out the remainder of the season and postseason,

462
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Speaker 7: and his tenure is gonna last at least one more game.

463
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 7: Long Beat State wins the Big West Championship, beating UC

464
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 7: Davis in the finals seventy four to seventy and in

465
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Speaker 7: the NBA. It was a frustrating final couple of minutes

466
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 7: and nothing but reviews. The shot clock wouldn't work. Eventually,

467
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 7: the Golden State Warriors do beat the Lakers one twenty eight,

468
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 7: one to twenty one. Anthony Davis had to leave in

469
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 7: the first quarter. He got poked in the eye and

470
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 7: it really looked a bad I swelled shut and he

471
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 7: was not able to return after that. Oklahoma City Thunder

472
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 7: to win at Memphis one eighteen one to twelve. The

473
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 7: Minnesota Timberwolves winners against the Jazz one nineteen to one hundred.

474
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Speaker 8: Back to you Urney, all.

475
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Speaker 2: Right, thanks chef. Back to Jared Lee Smith. Jared, what

476
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 2: would the tournament be without Cinderellas? And I was all

477
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 2: set to think that Princeton might be able to make

478
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: a run this year and they don't even get to

479
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,479
Speaker 2: the finals. I was worried that Yale could get them,

480
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: but we're not going to be you know, I love

481
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 2: the flow of their game, the way they move the ball,

482
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 2: by the way they distribute the ball. But still hope

483
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: for McNee state. Your thoughts and Will Wade? Could they

484
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 2: be the Florida Atlantic of this year? At the San

485
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 2: Diego State. I don't want to look too far ahead,

486
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 2: but thoughts on McNee State.

487
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think McNee State certainly fits the profile.

488
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 5: If you look at their ten Palm resume, you know,

489
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 5: top one hundred offense, top one hundred defense. They're a

490
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 5: good shooting team. You'll hear a lot about e FG

491
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 5: percentages and turnover percentages and that stuff, and I think

492
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 5: the numbers matter a lot with these teams. But what's

493
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 5: the makeup of these teams. I'll be honest, I haven't

494
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 5: watched the pun of the Southland Conference this year, but

495
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,479
Speaker 5: Will Wade's done a really good job. I mean, they

496
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 5: got to win over RECU earlier this season. They're in

497
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 5: the eight ten title game tomorrow beat Michigan. Obviously Michigan

498
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 5: had a really down year, but it's still a Power

499
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 5: five Big Ten program. So they certainly challenged themselves in

500
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 5: the non conference and then ran through the Southern Conference tournament,

501
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 5: which is frankly one of the worst conferences out there.

502
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 5: But they're a top sixty five team according to NPOM,

503
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 5: so they're not going to be delegated to one of

504
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 5: those out you know, sixteen seat or fifteen seeds. They're

505
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 5: going to be a pretty you know, considerable seed there.

506
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 5: But it's all about the backcourt, Wells, the seniors, kind

507
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 5: of the kid that makes them go. And yeah, they

508
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 5: they're a top those team, you know, Wells.

509
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 9: The TRANSPONDCS.

510
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 5: They got some high major kids there and will Wait

511
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 5: obviously can coach. So yeah, they could be a team

512
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 5: that could certainly turn some heads.

513
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: Another team that I think deserves a lot more respect

514
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: than they get. I don't think they get it on

515
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: a national basis. I know, you know them talking about

516
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: Saint Mary's and what an incredible job Randy Bennis there.

517
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: I think they're a sneaky Elite eight team this year.

518
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Yeah, I.

519
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 5: Think that league is maybe a little better than we expect. Right,

520
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 5: usually when we think of the West Coast Conference, it's

521
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 5: two teams and nobody else. Well, they had four twenty

522
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 5: win teams in that league this year. Sara Francisco and

523
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 5: Santa Clair also won twenty plus games. San Francisco was

524
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 5: really good and so they had some injury problems late

525
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 5: in the year. You know, they beat it, had some

526
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 5: really you know, high level wins. I still think Gonzaga

527
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 5: is better than Saint Mary's and I know that West

528
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 5: Coast Conference final is not gonna, you know, turn any

529
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 5: heads in that regard, but I still think when Gonzaga

530
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 5: is playing at their highest level with Nemhark kind of humming,

531
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 5: I do think they're better. Like like you saw them

532
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 5: going to Moraga a couple of weeks ago and beat

533
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 5: Saint Mary's and in that game, and I think Gonzaga

534
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 5: was playing at such a high level. I was at

535
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 5: that West Coast Conference game against Saint Mary's the other

536
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 5: night here in Vegas. They just looked flat. You don't

537
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 5: hold Gonzaga at a sixty points very often, like that

538
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 5: was just such an outlier performance. I think for them,

539
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 5: they will be better in the tournament. But to your point, St.

540
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 5: Mary's has, you know, arguably one of the best one

541
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 5: to two punches in terms of the backcourt in the country.

542
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 5: The kid Marcionis won the West Coast Conference MVP for

543
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 5: the tournament, and they may you know, I thought I

544
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 5: was surprised that he did do that. In Mahiti didn't win

545
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 5: that award. So they've got two guys in the back

546
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 5: court Mahinei and Marshall Bonus that are kind of pace centers.

547
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 5: But I still think Gonzaga at their peak, like when

548
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 5: Gonzaga is playing their best ball, I think Gonzaga's best

549
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 5: beat Saint Mary's best. But it's harder for Gonzaga to

550
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 5: maintain that level because it's very volatile.

551
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 2: Gun to your head. Of the teams that I mentioned earlier,

552
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: the Houston's, the Arizona as, the Tennessee's are produced in

553
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: North Carolina's, which goes out first and surprises everybody. And

554
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: part B of the question is who were we not

555
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: talking about that? I haven't mentioned that. We'll be talking

556
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: about Sunday as we go to bed. We've got a

557
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: new Sweet sixteen.

558
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 5: Hmm. That's a good question.

559
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: I think I think North Carolina San Diego State's oh

560
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: my god, yeah, oh you're oh yeah, yeah.

561
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 5: I think I think NC State might run out of gas.

562
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 5: Keep an eye on the Mountain West. They've got six

563
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 5: teams that looks like that are going to be in it.

564
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 5: New Mexico made to push this week. Obviously, last year

565
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 5: we at San Diego State. The irony is prior to

566
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 5: that team's really struggled in the Mountain West to win

567
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: games in the tournament. It's a really weird Honestly, Bernie,

568
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 5: it is a really strange year for this tur I mean,

569
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 5: just think about what we've had in the last three days.

570
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 5: NC State won five games in five days to make

571
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 5: it to the tournament. Oh, by the way, after that

572
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 5: Dan Munson, who was fired by Long Beach State a

573
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 5: week ago. Yes, they won the Big West tonight. And

574
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 5: then you just get I mean, it's been absolutely bananas

575
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 5: all over the map, So you get all of these

576
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 5: really weird storylines. NC State, Oregon stealing a bid out

577
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 5: of nowhere with Dana Altman in a very shorthanded Oregon

578
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 5: Ducks team. I mean, these are high major conferences that

579
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,959
Speaker 5: are being bid stolen. You know, you don't see that

580
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 5: very often. You'll have a bid steal in the eight

581
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 5: ten tomorrow. How about the American Conference? How about Temple

582
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 5: Nine days after being accused throwing a game against UAB,

583
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 5: they will play in the American Conference title game against UAB.

584
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 9: Like scrappy storyline, just right themselves.

585
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 5: With these tournament teams, I don't know really what my

586
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 5: I guess stark Horse pick would be. I really want

587
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 5: to see the matchups, and I think that is the

588
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 5: hard part at this stage. My vibe for betting this tournament.

589
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 5: I like to bet favorites up until the tournament and

590
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: then I want to see the bracket. Once I see

591
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 5: the matchups, then I can start to piece together. I

592
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 5: like this team to make it to the Sweet sixteen.

593
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 5: I think this team. And by the way, the betting

594
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 5: markets for this tournament. You can bet over under wins

595
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 5: by Conference. You can bet yes rounds will they eliminated in.

596
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 5: There are so many new markets that are being created.

597
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 5: It's getting a lot easier I think for us to

598
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 5: kind of find some megics.

599
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up over under wins by Conference.

600
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: So I'm going to say something very unbecoming. Because we

601
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: live in the West Country other than San Diego State,

602
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: I've made a pretty good living fading Mount West teams.

603
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: I started doing it ten years ago. New Mexico was

604
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 2: a number three seed with Steve Alford. They were laying

605
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: four and a half points to Harvard. Harvard surgically took

606
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: them apart in the first round. I don't know what

607
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 2: it is. Utah State gets on the floor, they go

608
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 2: to pieces New Mexico. They rebounded defendwill and I actually

609
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 2: like Richard Patino. He's in still toughness in this team.

610
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: I hate their offensive sets. Hey look like a playground team.

611
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 2: Where am I going with this? Until they prove it

612
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: to me? Jared? And by the way, in twenty fourteen,

613
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 2: I believe it was the first year they started to

614
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: do the conference the conference cumulative over under total for wins.

615
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 2: I want to say that mount West that year was

616
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: two and a half and you had four teams that

617
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: got in in Colorado State, New Mexico, Sandys and they

618
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: managed to muster one win. So until they proved different,

619
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: I like to say to the Mountain West except for

620
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: San Diego, Stik, you got the last word, buddy.

621
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 9: Yeah.

622
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 5: Well, I'll give you two things on that. First of all,

623
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 5: the Mountain West in general, and here's my theory on

624
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 5: the Mountain Left. Most of those teams play at elevation.

625
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 5: You take those teams out of elevation, you throw them

626
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 5: in whatever random you know, regional they go to. They

627
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 5: lose their edge a little bit like if you look

628
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 5: at the home teams in the Mountain Left this year

629
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 5: against the spread, they were fantastic. The final word on

630
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 5: the on the conferences over under big ten under feels

631
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 5: like a bet for me, this.

632
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: Year, they're only going to get about four teams in

633
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: I think right.

634
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 5: And usually again, Purdue is going to gobble up so

635
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 5: much equity. If you think Purdue is an early exit,

636
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 5: you have to bet the Big ten under in the wins.

637
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 5: So I don't know what the number is going to be.

638
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 5: It's very hard to quantify that before we see a bracket,

639
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 5: before we see everything. But my guess is the Power five,

640
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 5: especially the Big ten, and probably the ACC a little

641
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 5: bit heavy on those numbers.

642
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 2: I would guess fair enough. Good stuff, Jared, enjoy your weekend,

643
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 2: my friend. We'll talk again soon.

644
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Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Bernie, good luck everyone.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. That's Jared Lee Smith. You here every Saturday morning

646
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Speaker 2: here on a comptown to tip off with rich Ron

647
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Speaker 2: Berger and Brian Knows. Guys. Guys do a great job.

648
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Speaker 2: Coming up, we have a few more fun facts on

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Speaker 2: the March Madness Tournament. We are now just a little

650
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: over fifteen hours away. You'll be glued to the TV.

651
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 2: Did your team get in? We'll see who who's on

652
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: the bubble, who got left out based on what happened

653
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: today with all the fsets, a lot of at large,

654
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 2: you know, opportunities got gobble up, but we shall see

655
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Speaker 2: what we shall see. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Kenedy Lyne from

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio Diirec dot com studios. Keep

657
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: it locked right here. It's the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox

658
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Dore listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. All

659
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 2: right back at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio

660
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 2: coming to you from the tyrek dot com studios here

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00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Will take you up to three am Pacific,

662
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: six am Eastern. Lots of March Madness stuff tonight coming

663
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 2: up top of the r Mark Medina Medina Magic. And

664
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Speaker 2: of course we've got more news in the NBA. We

665
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Speaker 2: will bring that to you as well. Later in the show.

666
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: We'll get it in a little bit more depth into

667
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: tips for filling out your bracket. It's always, you know,

668
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 2: here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna look at the seeds

669
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 2: tomorrow and Yukon Purdue Houston. They'll all be number one

670
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: seeds and you can say, wow, how's it. They're all

671
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 2: gonna all the number one seeds are gonna get to

672
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 2: the final four. No, it almost never happened. I think

673
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 2: it's happened once in the history of the tournament under

674
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Speaker 2: the current format, and last year was a particularly outlier year.

675
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 2: Yukon won the NCAA tournament. They were a number four seed,

676
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: and the final four featured Yukon, Miami is a number

677
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 2: five seed, San Diego State as a number five seed,

678
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 2: and Florida Atlantic is a number nine seed. And again,

679
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 2: if you thought the tournament was unpredictable, you might be

680
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: unpredictable this year. Well, how about last year Fairleigh Dickinson

681
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: upset number one Perdue in the first rounds after it

682
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 2: never happening in thirty seven years, and it happens twice

683
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: in six years. Okay, but I'm of the belief that

684
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 2: this year it's going to progress back to the mean,

685
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: meaning number one seeds will restore order in twenty twenty four.

686
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: Now I just mentioned three teams, Yukon, Purdue, in Houston, Purdue,

687
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Speaker 2: you can have them. They might make the final four,

688
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 2: but I will not have them in my final four.

689
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 2: Yukon I will have in my final four. Houston I

690
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 2: will have in my final four. After last year's outlier,

691
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 2: I think it flips. Don't go to sleep on number

692
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: one seeds because if you look at the history go

693
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: back to nineteen eighty five, thirty eight of the seventy

694
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 2: six championship game participants have been number one seeds. That

695
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: means the number one seed makes it to the final

696
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: game fifty percent of the time. Didn't happen last year.

697
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't think that will happen two years in a row.

698
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 10: Now.

699
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: If you look at a statistical trend in the NCAA

700
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: tournament since nineteen eighty five, you can quote unquote play

701
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: the percentages there have been one hundred and fifty two

702
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 2: number one seeds since that time. Twenty five percent of

703
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 2: the time that number one seed makes it to the

704
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 2: championship game. The number two seed only makes it eight

705
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: percent of the time, the number three seed seven percent

706
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: of the time, and the number four seed only two

707
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 2: percent of the time. There's never been a seed lower

708
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 2: than number eight. What's only happened four times where number

709
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: eight seed has made it to the final game. The

710
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Speaker 2: number seven seeds only made it once once out of

711
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two tries. Last year was the

712
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 2: first time since twenty fourteen the championship game did not

713
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 2: have at least one number one seed in the championship game.

714
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: From twenty fifteen to twenty twenty two, A total of

715
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Speaker 2: ten of the fourteen National Championship Game participants were number

716
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Speaker 2: one seeds, and that includes number one versus number one

717
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen, and twenty twenty one. So

718
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Speaker 2: where am I going with this? Given the strength of

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Speaker 2: the number one seeds in this year's field, I believe

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Speaker 2: a correction from last year seems very likely, where at

721
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Speaker 2: least one title game participant is a number one seed.

722
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: How about the final four? Number one seeds routinely make

723
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Speaker 2: it to the final four. Go back to nineteen eighty five,

724
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty two possibilities, sixty number one

725
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: seeds made it to the final four. It drops dramatically.

726
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: Only twenty percent of number two seeds made it to

727
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: the final four, ven percent of number three seeds made

728
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 2: it to the final four, and only nine percent of

729
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: number four seeds make it to the nine final four.

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Speaker 2: So total of one hundred and nine of one hundred

731
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: and fifty two final four per participants, which is about

732
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 2: seventy three percent, have been number one, number two, or

733
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Speaker 2: number three seeds. That trend has held up in the

734
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Speaker 2: last five final fours fourteen of the twenty participants have

735
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Speaker 2: been a number one seed, a number two or number three.

736
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Speaker 2: So don't go too crazy on your upsets. I know

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Speaker 2: you want to look like a hero. Predict that George Mason,

738
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: or predict that Loyal or Chicago or you know, you

739
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: know Harveythorp, Trucking School of State, whatever they want it

740
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 2: to be. Be very careful. You could just about kill

741
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Speaker 2: your bracket if you do something like like that. Come up,

742
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Speaker 2: Mark Mandina, Medina Magic. Keep it locked. You listening to

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. That's right,

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Speaker 2: We've got NBA basketball. So when midnight rolls are out

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Speaker 2: on Saturday night, the Bernie Frattle Show, three words, it's

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Speaker 2: that time. Mark Medina our Fox Sports Radio NBA Guru

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00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 2: joins us every night Little Medina Magic every Saturday night

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00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: midnight on The Bernie Frattle Show. Mark, how are you

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Speaker 2: on this selection Sunday Sunday.

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00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 9: Well, Bernie, I'm doing all right, so I'm talking to you.

758
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 9: But I hope that this segment does not have any

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Speaker 9: you know, technical difficulties that require lengthy reviews.

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Speaker 2: H see, yea, I love it. I love it. So

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Speaker 2: we're going to get to that at a second here,

762
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Speaker 2: but let's start at thirty thousand feet and to send

763
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Speaker 2: you saw maybe the greatest regular season NBA ninth place

764
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: battle in history between two heavyweights tonight and Steph Curry

765
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 2: returns just in time to score thirty one points. But

766
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I've been critical to this guy.

767
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 2: But if you dish out thirteen assists and get ten

768
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: defensive rebounds, Draymond Green seems like he is playing well.

769
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 2: What were your takeaways from tonight's Golden State Lakers game.

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00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 9: Well, there are a lot of takeaways, but I think

771
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 9: from the Warriors and it's a few things. One, Steph

772
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 9: Curry is back to Steph Curry. He didn't show any

773
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 9: limitations with his left ankle, which was an injury that

774
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 9: sidelined him for the previous three games. Draymond Green didn't

775
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 9: show any limitations with his backspathens that limited him in

776
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 9: Thursdays came against Dallas.

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00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 5: But I think, big.

778
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Speaker 9: Picture, while we are talking about a team that's trying

779
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 9: to barely scrape into the play in tournament, they put

780
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 9: all the right ingredients together where you know, I'm not

781
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 9: going to say that realistically they can win a championship

782
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 9: or anything like that, but you have Steph playing, give

783
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 9: Raymond playing as best, Klay Thompson embracing a secondary scoring role.

784
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 9: You have Jonathan kaminga growing really well as a third

785
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 9: year player. You have Chris Paul manned the second unit

786
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 9: as well. I think when you combine that team chemistry

787
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 9: and experience together, they can at least make noise in

788
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 9: the playing tournament and at least be a tough out

789
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 9: in the first round. And I think considering the up

790
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 9: and down nature of their season, that's probably realistically all

791
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 9: you can ask for.

792
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 2: Was I'm glad you mentioned Klay Thompson twenty six key

793
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: points off the bench, five or ten from behind the arc.

794
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: Those points mattered, all right. Let's flip to Part B.

795
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: How different might this game have looked? Of course it's

796
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: a hypothetical, and you know the world's a vexing enough

797
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: place without worrying about hypotheticals. But how different might this

798
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 2: game have looked had Anthony Davis not gotten injured after

799
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: twelve minutes? And to that end, what's the situation with

800
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 2: his eye?

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00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, to as your first question, and it's dramatically different.

802
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 9: Because the Lakers did not have their defensive anchor. They

803
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 9: really had no answer for any of the Warriors players

804
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 9: because of how undersized they were. It was kind of

805
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 9: free reign from three point range and an open layup

806
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 9: line because of that, and even though that Jackson Hayes

807
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 9: trying to put them a fighting effort, they just didn't

808
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 9: have enough. And so you know, I think Lebron James

809
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 9: tried to take it upon himself. That's partly why he

810
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 9: got that those forty points. He probably wouldn't have had

811
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 9: a carry as big of a workload with Anthony Davis.

812
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Speaker 9: And how what it means moving forward, we really don't know.

813
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 9: You know, Darvinham talked after the games and that he's

814
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 9: going to be evaluated, but I think it was very

815
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 9: telling that the timeline of This makes him seem like

816
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 9: this could be serious because he went he went for

817
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 9: an entire quarter before the Lakers had any update at

818
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 9: all that he was dealing with issues with his eye,

819
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 9: and that lends me to believe that this is something

820
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 9: that's serious. And obviously the fact that he missed the

821
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 9: entire game. Now he does have suburb to recover Sunday.

822
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 9: They don't play until Monday, but that's a quick turnaround.

823
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 9: But you know, maybe there's enough time for him to

824
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 9: recover at least ahead of Friday's game against Philadelphia. But

825
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 9: you know, given ads uh, I want to say injury

826
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,959
Speaker 9: history because of the fact that is more of a

827
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 9: isolated event, but just given the severity of where the

828
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 9: Lakers are at, or fragile nature of whar they're at

829
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 9: in the playing standards, this kind of come at a

830
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 9: worse time.

831
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think Houston can catch them, but they're

832
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 2: they look like they're very much on their way to

833
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: a nine or ten seed and not much better. And

834
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: then they're gonna do They're gonna have a little bit

835
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: of an uphill climb. But if you think Anthony Davis

836
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 2: can be back by next Friday, that's better than I

837
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 2: might have imagined. Is that is that something you just

838
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: you know, your your best guests, or you know, did

839
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Speaker 2: you get some indication from staff?

840
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 9: No indication, just my best guess. You know, the Lake

841
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 9: just said that they were going to reevaluate them Sunday.

842
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 9: But I just think because of the fact that he

843
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 9: couldn't even play at all for the final three quarters

844
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 9: and the fact that there was so much time laps

845
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 9: before they gave any kind of update, it made me led,

846
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 9: made me believe that it was serious. And I think

847
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 9: to your point about the big picture of view, the

848
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 9: Lakers are making a play in tournament. The Warriors are

849
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 9: making a play in tournament. You know, I guess hype it. Mathematically,

850
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 9: either team could somehow avoid it and get the sixty.

851
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 9: But I think realistically, regardless of how many wins or

852
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 9: losses are left the last month they're in the plan,

853
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 9: it's just a matter of which team will have home

854
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 9: court advantage in that they have to win one or

855
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 9: two games just to get to the playoffs. And you know,

856
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 9: those are pretty big things because of two reasons. One,

857
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 9: they're leaving up you know, in the in the hands

858
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 9: of just one good or poor game, and determining your outcome,

859
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 9: and then second you're carrying that additional heavy workload into

860
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 9: a pretty tough first round matchups.

861
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the Lakers are five and five in

862
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: the last ten. I think at some point you have

863
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: to look at reality. I don't know, they're baffling to me. Yeah,

864
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: they're not going to be like they were last year.

865
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: That's just my humble opinion. They look good against Milwaukee,

866
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: they look and then what happened against Sacramento. That's a

867
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: topsy trivy game. But let's let's look forward, not backward. Actually,

868
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 2: let's pay off that tease. So tonight there had to be,

869
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: my goodness, gracious, the longest review in NBA history. I

870
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: went to the movies and saw Oppenheimer. I came back,

871
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 2: they were still reviewing. And then when they finally returned

872
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 2: to play, you had the shot clock malfunction. That last

873
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 2: minute forty seven took for I mean forget, you know,

874
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,919
Speaker 2: trying to find a funny adjective mark, this isn't good.

875
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 2: How does this happen in an NBA game? This isn't good?

876
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, let's let's keep this mataphoor alive. You probably

877
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 9: would have been able to see the Titanic as well,

878
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 9: right in between the reviews in addition to off and

879
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 9: you know, this is the thing, this is just a disaster.

880
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 9: It's not as tragic as Titanic, but it's something that

881
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 9: I think really exposed itself this game of a bigger

882
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 9: problem that these reviews are taking way too long. I mean,

883
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 9: it's it's a little bucks league that the clock doesn't work.

884
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 9: Usually you just see that in preseason games and arenas

885
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 9: that you've never heard of. But for it to be

886
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 9: at Crypto dot com arena, it's not a good look.

887
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 9: But you know, that can be a one off thing.

888
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 9: Technological Bulich. The lengthy of reviews is something that's almost

889
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 9: common in the NBA, and it was so bad that,

890
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 9: you know, I don't think it's coincidence that Warriors coach

891
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 9: Steve Kerr used the time and platform to say that

892
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 9: they got to get rid of reviews unless it's for

893
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 9: you know, a game winning type of situation. And I

894
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 9: know that, you know, coaches will change their mind on

895
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 9: a whim if it's convenient for them. You know, I

896
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 9: know a few years ago when they passed the challenge rule,

897
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 9: they kind of thought, hey, this could be cool. It's

898
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 9: like the NFL. But I think in fairness to the

899
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,479
Speaker 9: coaches and fairness to players, they would much rather have

900
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 9: a continuous flow of the game than officials getting the

901
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 9: call long. I mean, as much as they'll gripe about stuff,

902
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 9: they know that, you know, they're human just as much

903
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 9: as players and coaches are human with missing shots or

904
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 9: messing up play calls. They care more about the flow

905
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 9: of the game because it doesn't disrupt it. It allows

906
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 9: guys to stay in rhythm. And we're in the entertainment business,

907
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 9: and your right, while you're obviously exaggerating, they went to

908
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 9: see Oppenheiheimer of all movies. You're not exaggerating that people

909
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 9: that tune in the ABC then flip the channel because

910
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 9: of this embarrassment. And the NBA has got to fix this,

911
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 9: and it's just unacceptable.

912
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 5: You know.

913
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 9: They can have in haul all they want and say, hey,

914
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 9: we're trying to have a game be called fairly. And

915
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 9: the officials are the best in the world. The best

916
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 9: in the world. Wouldn't need to have a biker scope

917
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 9: and breakdown the Bruder film just to see if a

918
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 9: guy stepped out of bounce. At some point, you just

919
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 9: got to call the play and then move on the entertainment.

920
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 2: Quot is a word I was going to invokes, So

921
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 2: I'm glad you did it, but we saw something else

922
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Mark. I don't think I've ever seen, and

923
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 2: of course replay has not been around that long. But

924
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 2: while the officials were reviewing the out of bounds call,

925
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they determined that that corner three

926
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 2: that Lebron made on the previous trip down the court

927
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 2: didn't count. So, all of a sudden, the Lakers win

928
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: the challenge Hayzen Wiggans face off for a jump ball,

929
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 2: but they lose points in the process, so they make

930
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: a calling on something when they weren't even reviewing. Have

931
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 2: you ever seen that?

932
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 9: I have seen that. I mean, I can't think of specifics,

933
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 9: but one of the byproducts with the challenge call is that,

934
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 9: you know, sometimes times officials if they noticed something shortly

935
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 9: before it that needs to be corrected, it wouldn't then

936
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 9: bounds to do it. Now, I think what's interesting is that,

937
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 9: you know, the crew chief said that, you know, they're

938
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 9: they're obviously able to do that because of the challenge call,

939
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 9: but they even cited, you know, a bylaw in the

940
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 9: rule book saying that they can review out of bounced

941
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 9: calls if they think that they see a player's foot

942
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 9: before the shots release. But I think the broader point

943
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 9: that you're talking about is if a team is challenging

944
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 9: a call and then they get penalized for a previous

945
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 9: call that's happened before that this isn't the first time,

946
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 9: but it does explain why Steve Kerr said, yeah, they

947
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 9: should get rid of that as well, because when you're

948
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 9: challenging one thing, you shouldn't become vulnerable to another thing.

949
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 9: And I think that it's telling that Steve Kerr talked

950
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 9: about this when clearly that call actually benefited the Warriors.

951
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 9: So I think, you know, when you removed everything and

952
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 9: take everything into consideration. Coaches and players aren't just driven

953
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 9: by self interest. They want the game to be flowing

954
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 9: at a much better pairs.

955
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 2: And so to the fans. I'm watching the game at

956
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: home tonight. This is a nationally televised ABC game. So

957
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 2: they start to play the rest bowl the whistle. They

958
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: had four faalse starts four in a row. What do

959
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: I observe? Fans start booing, booing, booing. The camera cuts

960
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: to a tight shot on Ben Affleck, who was there

961
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: with Jennifer Lopez. He slumped in his chair. He's like,

962
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: what are we doing here? Really, you should have seed

963
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 2: The look on his face. It was like he was

964
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: in an elevator and somebody had some bad flatulence. He

965
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 2: looked like he was losing his mind. Then the camera

966
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: had a tight shot on Lebron James shaking his head

967
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 2: and you could read his lips and he says, I'm

968
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 2: too old for this. Ish, that's not a good look

969
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 2: on a national TV ABC game. You got the last

970
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 2: word on this, and we'll move on.

971
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent. Ironically, the clock

972
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 9: stuff with a terrible look, and I just think it

973
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 9: perpetuated all the frustration from the previous review calls. But

974
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 9: I think the fact that the review calls were so

975
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 9: long that's what really caused the anger here. And the

976
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 9: NBA has got to fix this, you know, it's just

977
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 9: it just gets aggravated when you when you go to games,

978
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 9: you know, not just as the journalist, but you're seeing

979
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 9: fans pick a lot of good money, and there's so

980
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 9: many times that officials are just taking their sweet old

981
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 9: you know what time just to review a play like

982
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 9: it's I'm just beside myself because you know, you never

983
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 9: want to be one of those guys that you know,

984
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 9: our Monday morning quarterbacks or say, the officials never know

985
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 9: what they're doing. They know what they're doing, but I

986
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 9: don't think it should be asking much for them to

987
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,959
Speaker 9: make a quick decision. And I know that this goes

988
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 9: above them. The NBA wants to get calls right, and

989
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 9: they do the two minutes report, but it goes back

990
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 9: to what I was saying before. What matters more is

991
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 9: about ensuring a proper flow of the game and enough

992
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 9: of this paralysis by analysis nonsense.

993
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you haven't made up your mind in thirty seconds,

994
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 2: and I'm guessing you have enough evidence to overturn it.

995
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 2: But let's move on. I want to revisit a quick

996
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 2: conversation we had last week. I believe that Rudy Gobert

997
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 2: got off easy for what he said and what he did.

998
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand dollars. Fine, sure it's his money, it's

999
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 2: not my money, but I don't think it sends must

1000
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 2: much of a message. Do you have any thoughts from

1001
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: your advantage point on how the NBA treated the Rudy

1002
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: Gobert situation and feel free to refresh the audience as

1003
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 2: to what happened there.

1004
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the quick refresher is after the Timberwolves

1005
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 9: lost against Cleveland, you know Rudy Gobert, well, not after,

1006
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 9: but he flashed the money sign in the direction of

1007
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 9: Scott Foster. He got ejected immediately, not just because of

1008
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 9: the taunt, but because of the insinuation that, you know,

1009
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 9: the referees are being paid off or they're gambling. And

1010
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 9: then he doubled down with postgame comments saying that, you know,

1011
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 9: the betting society in our world has affected the way

1012
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,959
Speaker 9: games are officiating. And yeah, I mean it's just over

1013
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 9: the line. I mean, it's one thing for players to

1014
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 9: gripe about missed calls for competitive reasons, and Minnesota has

1015
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 9: done that plenty of times this season, as well as

1016
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 9: other teams, but another to suggest directly or indirectly that

1017
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 9: the referees are, you know, either rigging games or calling

1018
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 9: games according to that are betting behavior. And it's not

1019
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 9: cool because the NBA, like any professional sports league in

1020
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 9: college for that matter, take these allegations seriously. Because he

1021
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 9: never want there to be any suspicion, real or perceived

1022
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 9: that the games are fixed, and I think that the

1023
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 9: NBA slapped them on a risk. One hundred thousand dollars

1024
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 9: isn't really much out of his pocket, and uh, I think,

1025
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 9: you know, I hate to be so critical, but I'm

1026
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 9: not going to hold back. Like this is Adam Silver's NBA.

1027
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 9: He's afraid of you.

1028
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 2: Know, make it, you're not my friend.

1029
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 5: Get that at him, and he.

1030
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 9: Wants the players to like him. That's not what your

1031
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 9: job is. It's your job is to run the league,

1032
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 9: and the commissioner works on behalf of the owners. It's

1033
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 9: not a popularity contest spot.

1034
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 2: On mark and that's not very you know, well, maybe

1035
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 2: this is not the league, but come on, this is

1036
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 2: the this is the this is the sport that had

1037
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,759
Speaker 2: Tim Donny and people can google it if they if

1038
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 2: they need to. All right, so you you they're they're

1039
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 2: they're treading on some sin ice here. I believe, and

1040
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm shocked that Grudy Gobert didn't get at

1041
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: least a two game suspension or something. That's just ridiculous.

1042
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 9: But yeah, I mean, I don't know how many games

1043
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 9: he would have given him. But it goes without saying

1044
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 9: David Stern, if you were around, if he was the commercer, still,

1045
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,720
Speaker 9: the punishment would have been a lot more severe.

1046
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 2: I agree with that. Finally, last thing, it's hard to believe.

1047
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 2: I was incredulous when I actually heard this today. So

1048
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid is now thirty years old. Thirty years old,

1049
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 2: but I understand his injuries coming along and Philly expects

1050
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 2: to get him back. Do you know what the timeline

1051
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 2: is there? And I know they have high hopes for

1052
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 2: their postseason? How much will Joel Embiid's injury affect his

1053
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 2: play on the court as they head into the playoffs

1054
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 2: These six.

1055
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 9: Ers, Well, everything's in an information vacuum right now. The

1056
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 9: Sixers have not given any timetable clarity on his recovery

1057
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 9: until sold otherwise I'm just presuming he's out. But with

1058
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 9: that being said, the Sixers do expect we'll come back

1059
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 9: at some point just before the playoffs start. And it

1060
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 9: goes without saying that the Sixers playoff fortunes largely depend

1061
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 9: on him. But I think the tricky thing is this,

1062
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 9: They're trying to hold up enough ground with Tyre Smaxy

1063
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 9: and Tobias Harris and Buddy Healed and Nick Nurse is

1064
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 9: great coaching to try to stay out of the play

1065
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 9: in tournament, but the reality is the Celtics of so

1066
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 9: much separation, the Bucks are trying the right direction. I

1067
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 9: don't know if it's enough. Number one, number two. Just

1068
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 9: because Joel Embiid is back does not mean he's one

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Speaker 9: hundred percent. So I would imagine what's going to deal

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Speaker 9: with limited workloads, conditioning, transition issues. And then to your point,

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Speaker 9: you know, how healthy can he stay? He has an

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Speaker 9: injury history. And while I do give Joel Embiid some

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Speaker 9: props for trying to fight through injuries and try to improve,

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Speaker 9: you know, just his body over the years, so he's

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Speaker 9: not as injury prone, it kind of is what it is, right,

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Speaker 9: And so that's really the scary and uncontrollable part that

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Speaker 9: while there is optimism and an expectation that he'll be

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Speaker 9: back in time for the playoffs, no one knows at

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Speaker 9: all if that's going to be. That's going to mean

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Speaker 9: that he can play for the remainder of the playoffs,

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Speaker 9: however long or short that is.

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Speaker 2: And I'm actually anticipating a very spirited NBA playoffs this year.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, both the Western and Eastern conferences. We're

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Speaker 2: going to see some some real slugfests.

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Speaker 9: I believe it's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 9: I do think if I had to compare both conferences,

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Speaker 9: the Celtics will have a relatively better pass to the

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Speaker 9: NBA Finals because there's more separation. Even with Milwaukee or

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Speaker 9: the West, it's just a wild, wild West with a

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Speaker 9: lot of jumbled mess that they have to sort out.

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Speaker 9: But that'll make for a lot of good playoffs series.

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Speaker 2: And I hope people do stay healthy. I want to

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Speaker 2: see the Golden State Warriors stay healthy. I want to

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Speaker 2: see the Phoenix sen stay healthy. I want to see

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Speaker 2: the Lakers stay healthy. It'll make for a great playoffs. Mark,

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Speaker 2: great stuff. As always. We will see you through the

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Speaker 2: radio next Saturday night midnight on the Bertie Frattle Show.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate you, Bertie.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Mark. That is Mark Medina, our Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio NBA guru. You hear them all around the network.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge is

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Speaker 2: You recall on February eighth, the Lakers, well, they honored

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Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant with the statue outside Crypto dot Com Arena.

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Speaker 2: Has anybody ever heard of spell check? All right, I'll share,

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Speaker 2: I'll share what I'm talking about. Coming up. I'm Bernie

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Speaker 2: Fraderworck Comedy Live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tireck

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back

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Speaker 2: at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio Company Live

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Speaker 2: me tyrect dot Com Studios here in Las Vegas. Coming up,

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Speaker 2: after the Chef's update, we dive into the Justin Fields

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01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 2: trade to Pittsburgh and the moving parts and the dominoes

1117
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: that fall and a little bit. We're going to dissect

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Speaker 2: it a little bit from multiple different angles. But first,

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Speaker 2: one month after the Los Angeles Lakers unveiled their Kobe

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Speaker 2: Bryant stature to honor Kobe the all time legend. Well,

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Speaker 2: this new landmark apparently has a few what do we say, typos?

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Speaker 2: How the hell does this happen? How in the hell

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Speaker 2: does this happen? It's past Monday, a German journalist by

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Speaker 2: the name of andree Voy posted a series of viral

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Speaker 2: videos that showed at least three typos and a box

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Speaker 2: score that's feed on the statue. Now, if you recall

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Speaker 2: back in January twenty oh six, Kobe had a legendary

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Speaker 2: eighty one point game against the Toronto Raptors. Two of

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Speaker 2: the players that Kobe played against that night, or Chack

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Speaker 2: check that one was on his team, Von Wafer, and

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01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 2: he played against Toronto Raptor guard Jose Calderon. Their names

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Speaker 2: are misspelled on the statue. Instead of von wa for

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Speaker 2: v o N, it's vom v om is in Mary

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Speaker 2: and instead of Jose Calderon, it's Jose Calderson cld R

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Speaker 2: s o N. But it gets worse. Okay, the two

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Speaker 2: players were in the box score, but the word decision

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Speaker 2: in coach's decision is misspelled as de ci cio n

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Speaker 2: instead of decision d e c I sion. Well, the

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Speaker 2: Lakers apparently have been aware of this for a few weeks,

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Speaker 2: well a few weeks. Hell, he did just have the

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01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 2: ceremony February eighth, and they're already working on getting it

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Speaker 2: corrected soon. How does this happen this I find bothers them. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: I do no excuse. The statue was designed by some

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01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 2: great people. I mean it was unveiled on at a

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01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 2: very emotional ceremony outside Crypto dot Com Arena back on

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Speaker 2: February eighth. It's nineteen feet tall, it's bronze, and it's

1147
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 2: there to chronicle Kobe Bryan as an immortal because he was,

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01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: and he has that iconic pose during his eighty one

1149
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: point performance, and he's surrounded by his five championship trophies.

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Speaker 2: Here's what's interesting. Two more statues have been commissioned to

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Speaker 2: honor Kobe Bryan. One will show him wearing number twenty four,

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01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 2: and one will be featuring him and his late daughter Gianna.

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Speaker 2: Be better. You gotta be better. This isn't acceptable. Coming up,

1154
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 2: we dive into the Dustin Fields situation. I just did.

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01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 2: It must be going around. I don't know who the

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01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 2: hell Dustin Field is, but I know who Justin Fields is,

1157
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:13,479
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what's going on there. But first

1158
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 2: let's go back to our guy. The chef, Kevin Wirt.

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01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 2: Warming up is you know.

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Speaker 7: Boy efforts by Yeah Baby, and we've also warming up

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Speaker 7: for March madness with conference tournament on Saturday and several

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01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 7: teams punching their tickets into the Big Tournament, but one

1163
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Speaker 7: of them is not the top ranked team in the country,

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Speaker 7: the Houston Cougars at least, so they're not getting in

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01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,439
Speaker 7: automatically as they get blown out sixty nine to forty

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Speaker 7: one by number seven Iowa State in the Big Twelve Tournament,

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Speaker 7: So that likely costs of the Cougars the number one

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Speaker 7: overall seed in the tournament. We'll see if maybe they

1169
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 7: could still get one of the other three one seeds,

1170
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Speaker 7: but they had the lowest point total by a top

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Speaker 7: ranked team since nineteen eighty two. Number two Connecticut taking

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Speaker 7: advantage of Houston's loss as they're likely to be the

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Speaker 7: top team in the tournament, they take care of number

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Speaker 7: ten Marquettes seventy three fifty seven to win the Big

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Speaker 7: East NC State. What a story they have been five

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Speaker 7: wins in five days to take the ACC's automatic bid

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Speaker 7: as they beat their heated in state rival number four

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Speaker 7: North Carolina eighty four to seventy six, and the wolf

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Speaker 7: Pack winning more games in Washington this week than the

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Speaker 7: Wizards have at Capitol One Arena all season. They're just

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Speaker 7: four and twenty six there the PAC twelve, the final

1182
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Speaker 7: edition of that tournament. Oregon wins it over Colorado seventy

1183
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Speaker 7: five sixty eight New Mexico over San Diego State in

1184
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 7: the Mountain West Championship to take that Conferences automatic big

1185
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 7: sixty eight to sixty one. Akron snatching victory from the

1186
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 7: jaws of defeat. Kent State man a tough tough way

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Speaker 7: to go out for Kent State, as they were ahead

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Speaker 7: with a few seconds ago. They took the lead and

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Speaker 7: then committed a foul in the backcourt, so Akron had

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Speaker 7: a chance down by one to take the lead at

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Speaker 7: the free throw line, and they took care of business

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Speaker 7: there as they win at sixty two to sixty one.

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Speaker 7: Grambling wins the Swack Final they get to the NCAAs

1194
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Speaker 7: for the first time. They beat Texas Southern seventy five

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Speaker 7: sixty six. Long Beach State firing Dan Munson. They did

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Speaker 7: let him finish out the season and into the postseason,

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01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 7: but they announced that he will not be returning next year,

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Speaker 7: and he decided that he's not done coaching, as he

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Speaker 7: gets the Long Beach State into the NCAA Tournament by

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Speaker 7: beating UC Davis and winning the Big West Championships seventy

1201
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Speaker 7: four to seventy and in the NBA, Golden State over

1202
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 7: the Lakers one to twenty one. Anthony Davis after the

1203
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 7: first quarter had the leave, got poked in the eye

1204
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 7: and it looked really bad. His eyes swollen shut, couldn't

1205
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 7: play the rest of the way, and despite some lengthy

1206
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Speaker 7: delays in the last couple of minutes several reviews, a

1207
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 7: shot clock wasn't even working for a while. Golden State

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01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 7: does prevail one twenty eight one to twenty one. Oklahoma

1209
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 7: City beats Memphis one eighteen one twelve, Minnesota over Utah

1210
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Speaker 7: one nineteen to one ten. In the NFL, the Chicago

1211
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Speaker 7: Bears trading Justin Fields to the Steelers for a conditional

1212
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Speaker 7: sixth round draft pick for it next year. So very

1213
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 7: likely that Caleb Williams will be heading a too chicag

1214
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Speaker 7: but we'll see how the draft plays out at the

1215
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Speaker 7: end of April.

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Speaker 8: Back to Bernie all.

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Speaker 2: Right, chef warming up those vocal cords and one thirty

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Speaker 2: Pacific of course, another baffo performance. All right, so Justin Fields,

1219
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Speaker 2: the Justin Fields era in Chicago has officially come to

1220
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Speaker 2: an end. Saturday night, After what seven eight days of

1221
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 2: musical chairs and quarterbacks going here and there and everywhere,

1222
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 2: free agency played out in a big way. Fields was

1223
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Speaker 2: traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a sixth round pick. Well,

1224
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:37,959
Speaker 2: it could be a fourth round pick depending on playing time.

1225
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Speaker 2: It's my understanding that Fields would have to take fifty

1226
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 2: one percent of the snaps. Of course. We talked about

1227
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Speaker 2: the Russell Wilson situation at length on The Bernie Friday

1228
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 2: Show Friday night during the midnight hour. Very mixed reviews.

1229
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 2: One of my favorite tweeters thinks, Russell Wilson benched by

1230
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 2: mid season. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but

1231
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 2: let's just see what happens. Right now. It's a six

1232
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 2: round pick that the Bears will get back unless somehow Fields,

1233
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 2: you know, takes fifty one percent of the snaps in

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh this upcoming season. But for now, it looks like

1235
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Speaker 2: Fields will back up Russell Wilson. They're not going to

1236
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 2: compete for the job. And you know, here you have it.

1237
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 2: You got two quarterbacks here. No one seemed to want

1238
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson except they did, and you got a first

1239
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 2: rounder that I look I like Justin Fields, and he

1240
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 2: proved to be the class act that we know that

1241
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 2: he is by the outgoing message he sent to the

1242
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 2: fans in Chicago, and it did not sound phony or contrived,

1243
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 2: and it sounded like something he wrote. Fields is a

1244
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 2: class act. It's just too bad he can't operate from

1245
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 2: the pocket. But I don't want to give my scouting

1246
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 2: report again. If you listen to my show, you've heard

1247
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 2: the thousand times. I think he's a college version of

1248
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 2: a dual threat quarterback. His default mechanimism is to run.

1249
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 2: But look at the Steelers, and I think he will

1250
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 2: add to that quarterback room just by presence. All of

1251
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 2: a sudden, like that, snap your fingers. The Steelers have

1252
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 2: transformed the quarterback room from Mitchell Trubisky, who, by the way,

1253
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 2: I'm going to be fair, he was twenty five and

1254
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 2: thirteen as a starter in his thirty eight starts in Chicago,

1255
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 2: even went to the playoffs twice and would have won

1256
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 2: a playoff game if not for the double doing field goal.

1257
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 2: They were never gonna win a Super Bowl with him.

1258
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 2: I get it, So that's why they moved on. But

1259
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers. A week ago, when I was doing the show,

1260
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 2: their quarterback room was Mitchell Trubisky, Mason Rudolph and Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 2: Now it's Russell Wilson in fields. And here's the kicker.

1262
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 2: The best part what you would consider bargain basement compensation.

1263
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 2: They're getting both of those guys, Russell Wilson and Justin

1264
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 2: Fields for a total of four point five million and

1265
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 2: draft picks. So for those who thinks that think that

1266
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 2: Russell or checked that Justin Fields has an upside, then

1267
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 2: that quarterback room might even be better than they realized.

1268
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 2: But you've now got a I am still gonna say

1269
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 2: that Russell Wilson is highly motivated. He's in a good

1270
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 2: situation with Arthur Smith and Mike Tomlin. We shall see,

1271
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 2: And the Steelers have never really tell me when and

1272
01:09:14,360 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 2: how they've ever really transitioned after life with Ben Roethlisberger.

1273
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 2: They may at least have a temporary succession plan with

1274
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 2: a bridge quarterback in Fields. And the Seed North is

1275
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 2: a very competitive division. So if something happens to you know,

1276
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson or doesn't work out, I believe they have

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Speaker 2: a very capable backup. He's gonna He's had thirty eight

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Speaker 2: starts in the league, or checked that twenty eight starts

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01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:43,920
Speaker 2: in the league, and you know they are general managers,

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01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 2: and the Steelers general manager Omar Kahn. They also signed

1281
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 2: Patrick Queen and in Pittsburgh's defense was sixth last year.

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 2: So I think as a human being, you have to

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01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 2: have you have to feel for Justin Fields a little bit.

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01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 2: You watch Kirk Cousins and Nathan Peterman and they all

1285
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 2: get new jobs and Fields is waiting, waiting, waiting after

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01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 2: Ryan Poles told him they were going to try to

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01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 2: take care of it as soon as possible. But the

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01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 2: good news is, even though there's not really a starting

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01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 2: opportunity for him right now, I get that Fields, you

1290
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,879
Speaker 2: could say, landed in the perfect spot to rejumpstart his career.

1291
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 2: Wilson has only signed for one year. Remember Russell Wilson,

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01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 2: and assuming he remains a starter, you know, maybe he

1293
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 2: can be in a part of an apprenticeship for Fields.

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01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 2: You can make fun of him all you want, and

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 2: I get the people do. But you know Russell Wilson

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01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 2: and he's not the guy he was ten years ago.

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01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 2: But he's still been to a super Bowl and he's

1298
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:35,600
Speaker 2: won a super Bowl, so he knows what that looks like.

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01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 2: And now the Steelers have the rights to his fifth

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01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:43,559
Speaker 2: year option and Justin Fields plus should Justin Fields find

1301
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 2: himself under center. He's on a team of the top defense,

1302
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 2: a wave above average running attack, and an offense uses

1303
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 2: a lot of run and play action passes, which will

1304
01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 2: simplify things for Justin Fields. All right. He's only twenty

1305
01:10:55,600 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 2: five years old, so we'll see what happens. So whatever,

1306
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 2: If there was any suspense having to do with what

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01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 2: the Bears were going to do, which I never thought

1308
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 2: there was, Yeah, they're gonna draft a quarterback with a

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01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 2: first overall pick, and I will be shocked. If that

1310
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 2: name doesn't rhyme with Caleb Williams, I'd be shocked. All right,

1311
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 2: So these things don't happen in a vacuum, all right.

1312
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 2: How does this affect the Chicago Bears? How does this

1313
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 2: affect the New York Jets? How does this affect can

1314
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 2: he Pickett himself? I'm gonna tackle that coming up him.

1315
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 2: Bernie Friddle were keviny Lyaf from the Las Vegas Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio tirerac dot Com studios. Keep it locked right here.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: How right back of the Bernie Fridle Show, Fox Sports

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01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 2: Radio comedy Life from the Tarret dot Com studios here

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, talking about Justin Fields heading to Pittsburgh.

1321
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 2: But these things don't happen in a vacuum. How does

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01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:03,719
Speaker 2: it affect the Chicago Bears? So the Bears obviously faced

1323
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 2: with a very soft market for Justin Fields and lots

1324
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 2: of pressure to move him before the draft so that

1325
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 2: they could just simply bring in Caleb Williams with a

1326
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 2: clean slate. Well, you know they got Field. You know,

1327
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 2: they got the eleventh overall pick into a six round

1328
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 2: draft pick, and that's not good. But General or the

1329
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 2: GM Ryan Poles had to make the deal. There's no debate.

1330
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 2: Justin Fields just simply wasn't going to be the future

1331
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 2: in Chicago. It's whimsical if he thought that. He was

1332
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,800
Speaker 2: ten and twenty eight as a starter, his QBR was

1333
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 2: forty six. If you ranked the thirty six qualifying quarterbacks

1334
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 2: in six key categories, okay, one loss. Justin Fields was

1335
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 2: ten and twenty eight, he ranked thirty fourth. His QBR

1336
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 2: is forty six. At ranked twenty eighth, he averaged one

1337
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty seven passing yards a game that ranked

1338
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 2: thirty sixth, completed sixty percent of his passes, ranked thirty fourth.

1339
01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 2: He threw forty tups against thirty interceptions, that ratio ranks

1340
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 2: thirty first. The only thing he did was run for touchdowns.

1341
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:09,879
Speaker 2: He ran for fourteen that would have ranked him third. However,

1342
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 2: if that's so damn important, why didn't it lead the

1343
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 2: wins its ten and twenty eight. So look, it will

1344
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 2: always hang over the bears head what they might have

1345
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 2: gotten they trade to what they might have gotten had

1346
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 2: to agree to a trade earlier, or if they would

1347
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 2: have traded Justin Fields before last year's season, which were

1348
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 2: there was some pressure to do, and guests and theory

1349
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 2: who they could have drafted CJ. Stroud. So these are conversations.

1350
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 2: These are conversations. But the Bears are gonna have the

1351
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 2: number one pick. They're gonna take, take Caleb Williams. How

1352
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 2: about the Jets? Well why would I bring up the Jets? Well,

1353
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 2: see if you're if you're watching from the sidelines, upun attended.

1354
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 2: If the Bears only got a conditional sixth round pick

1355
01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 2: for Justin Fields, who you could argue played reasonably well

1356
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 2: in patches last season finished the four and three down stretch.

1357
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 2: What the hell can the Jets hope to get and

1358
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 2: trade for Zach Wilson, who they want to trade now,

1359
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 2: and there's even fewer jobs, and especially fewer backup jobs available,

1360
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 2: the Jets might be stuck. Meanwhile, Kenny Pickett, So we

1361
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 2: come to find out that it's my understanding that there

1362
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:34,759
Speaker 2: was a bit of a less than flattering report about

1363
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 2: why the Steelers ended up trading Kenny Pickett. So when

1364
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 2: Friday rolled around, it was a little bit of a

1365
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:46,679
Speaker 2: surprise that all of a sudden the Steelers traded Kenny

1366
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 2: Pickett to the Eagles. But apparently it was Kenny Pickett's

1367
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 2: own behavior that led to the move. There were multiple

1368
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,880
Speaker 2: reports earlier in the week that suggested the Steelers traded

1369
01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 2: Picket because of the way he responded to the team

1370
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 2: signing a Russell Wilson. This is according to a Jerry

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01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 2: Dulac at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Apparently, Pickett handled Wilson's

1372
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 2: arrival quote poorly, which prompted the trade, and mister Doulac

1373
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 2: put out a tweet that said the Steelers made the

1374
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 2: move because of the way Pickett was poorly handling the

1375
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 2: arrival of Russell Wilson that came on the heels of

1376
01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 2: Pickett's behavior last season when he refused to dress as

1377
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 2: the emergency third quarterback in Seattle in Week seventeen. I

1378
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 2: don't know if iver knew that, and an Albert Breer

1379
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 2: of Monday Morning Quarterback expanded on the report. He said

1380
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 2: the Steelers would be you know, Pickett reportedly told the

1381
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,120
Speaker 2: Steelers he'd be willing to compete for the starting quarterback job,

1382
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 2: but then he reversed his stance when Russell Wilson was signed.

1383
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 2: Now I came to find out through reports that there

1384
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 2: had been growing rumors about Pickett's attitudes since late last season.

1385
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 2: Pickett was forced to deny a story that he he

1386
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 2: refused to dress his Mason Rudolph's back up in Week

1387
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 2: seventeen despite being healthy, which people have alluded to. And

1388
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 2: it makes you wonder, would this You know, I thought

1389
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett might have had a pretty good future. He doesn't.

1390
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 2: He's not going to be CJ. Straw where you come

1391
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 2: into the league and take by storm in the first year.

1392
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 2: But I saw enough there to think he could develop. Right,

1393
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 2: it was going to take time. It's certainly plausible that

1394
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 2: maybe the Steelers weren't planning on trading Picket, but they

1395
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 2: changed their mind based on his reaction to the Wilson move. Look,

1396
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 2: Steelers have a good culture. They've got stability there, they've

1397
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 2: got leadership. All right, they haven't been perfect, we get that.

1398
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 2: But here's another first round pick. You know that draft

1399
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 2: three years ago, Zach Wilson first round, Trey Lance first round,

1400
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett first round. So now the new reality for

1401
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 2: Kenny Pikett, Well, he doesn't have to change his drivers

1402
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 2: since he's still going to stay in Pennsylvania, but he'll

1403
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 2: be in Philadelphia, and I will promise you this not

1404
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 2: exactly going out on a limb here. He'll have no

1405
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 2: shot of starting ahead of Jalen Hurts unless you know,

1406
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 2: there's some unfortunate situation and Jalen Hurts gets hurt. That

1407
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 2: didn't roll off my tongue so easily. So there you

1408
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 2: have it. Long strange trip for Justin Fields and the

1409
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. But you know, after a week of musical

1410
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 2: chairs it played out free agency. Fields was traded to

1411
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh's Jalis for a first round pick, and you

1412
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 2: know it could be a fourth rounder, depending on if

1413
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 2: Justin Fields gets fifty one percent of the snaps in Pittsburgh,

1414
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 2: which I don't believe he will. However, what really got

1415
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 2: the ball rolling on all of this, and it's something

1416
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,400
Speaker 2: that I call redemption is good for the soul. And

1417
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 2: by the way, the NFL and I talked about the

1418
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 2: NFL calendar right after the Super Bowl and things leading

1419
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 2: up to the draft, and you know OTAs and you

1420
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 2: know obviously the underwear Olympics. Now free agency and trading

1421
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 2: and the NFL free agency this past week, I mean

1422
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 2: the legal tampering period. You couldn't even start sign guy's

1423
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 2: official Wednesday. But hell, most of the big news has

1424
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 2: already gone by that, including a guy by the name

1425
01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 2: of Russell Wilson. I'm calling this redemption is good for

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01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 2: the soul. Let's talk about how Russell Wilson is a

1427
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 2: Steeler and some details. Not everybody's happy about it, but

1428
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 2: the Steelers did win ten games last year without Wilson.

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Speaker 2: Now he's got an e lead defense. I'm Bernie Frattle.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio. Keep it lock. You're listening

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Speaker 2: that got all these dominoes going? The biggest move of

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Speaker 2: the week. As you know, as we talked about the

1441
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Speaker 2: NFL free agency feast, complete full, unmitigated proof, there is

1442
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 2: no off season for the National Football League. This is

1443
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 2: what you call this is what you call redemption is

1444
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 2: good for the soul. I'm talking about Russell Wilson. And

1445
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 2: we talked about this Friday night on my show. Who's

1446
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:39,640
Speaker 2: going to have the last laugh? Is it going to

1447
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 2: be Russell Wilson or is it going to be Sean Payton.

1448
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 2: I guess we'll have to wait and see. But for now,

1449
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:48,520
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson is a stealer. Here's your details. The Broncos

1450
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:53,200
Speaker 2: oh Russell Wilson thirty nine million guaranteed in twenty twenty four.

1451
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:58,880
Speaker 2: The salary, though, was subject to offset language. So his deal,

1452
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson's deal with the Steelers is for the veteran minimum,

1453
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:05,719
Speaker 2: which is one point two million. This is a twelve

1454
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 2: year veteran. You talk about an incredibly cost effective way

1455
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 2: to take a flyer on. A quarterback has actually been

1456
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 2: too a couple of Super Bowls, and I get it,

1457
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 2: I get the recent history. We don't need to go

1458
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:18,960
Speaker 2: down that road. We get it. Denver is now paying

1459
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson just under thirty eight million for twenty twenty

1460
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 2: four for the right to compete against him. She had

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01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 2: those two lockhorns on the field. A couple of weeks ago.

1462
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 2: The thought that Russell Wilson might become a Steeler felt

1463
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 2: like a long shot. Their general manager. The Steelers general

1464
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 2: manager omar Con said Cody had full faith in Kenny

1465
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 2: Pickett and the Steelers wanted to re sign Mason Rudolph.

1466
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 2: But you know talk is cheap, isn't it. Don't tell me,

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01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:56,519
Speaker 2: show me. So Russell Wilson will be the number one

1468
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 2: starter in Pittsburgh. They're not going to compete for the

1469
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 2: job with Justin Fields. The question is, what in the

1470
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 2: hell happened in such a short period of time. The

1471
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 2: Steelers they won ten games last year. They have to

1472
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,719
Speaker 2: think behind the four walls up in the average tower,

1473
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:15,879
Speaker 2: they have to think that Russell Wilson puts them closer

1474
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 2: to a championship, or they wouldn't have brought him in.

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01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:21,440
Speaker 2: Why would they even if they frame it as a competition,

1476
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 2: which they'll lack like they do, it's not going to

1477
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 2: be Russell Wilson, amongst all of his foibles and the

1478
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 2: perceived phoniness and inauthenticity, and he drove people nuts in

1479
01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:34,880
Speaker 2: Denver and apparently it happened in Seattle too, still a

1480
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 2: nine time Pro bowler. Quarterbacks don't grow on trees. It's

1481
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 2: the thinnest position in all sports. You know, Zach Wilson

1482
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 2: or Dak Prescott wants sixty million, you might get it.

1483
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,680
Speaker 2: Look ad the money Kirk Cousins got. Those guys are

1484
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 2: never win anything. So the question will be is this

1485
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 2: going to be the Russell Wilson pro bowler? Which we

1486
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 2: know he's not a former Super Bowl champ that's got

1487
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:04,679
Speaker 2: left gas natank. He got a cheap price tag and

1488
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:10,640
Speaker 2: you know he's they're gonna hand him the job. But

1489
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 2: for all of the criticism again Russell Wilson, and I

1490
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 2: understand it. He still threw for almost thirty one hundred

1491
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 2: yards last year, twenty six touchdown passes, only eight interceptions,

1492
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 2: had a ninety eight passer rating, and he only got

1493
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:25,719
Speaker 2: to play fifteen games. They kicked him to the curb

1494
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 2: after game fifteen. Sean Payton's offense was not a fit

1495
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:32,640
Speaker 2: for Russell Wilson. Wilson struggled. I think he had a

1496
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 2: career worst eighty four passer rating along with you know what,

1497
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:41,719
Speaker 2: thirty five hundred yards and sixteen touchdowns the year before.

1498
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:47,640
Speaker 2: He didn't work under Nathaniel Hackett either, So Nathaniel Hackett, goodbye,

1499
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 2: Sean Payton. Russell Wilson moves on Denford fires Hackett before

1500
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 2: the end of the year. But how here this is

1501
01:22:54,640 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 2: the second question, Okay, how exactly will Russell Wilson fit

1502
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. You got him in the veteran minimum. I

1503
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 2: know Mike Tomlin is not his style to anoint starters

1504
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 2: six months before the season starts, but he's going to.

1505
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 2: He's gonna be the odds on favorite to start. And

1506
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's defense, which finished sixth best in scoring last season,

1507
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 2: managed to put an anemic offense on their back and

1508
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 2: get to the postseason. Hey, ten wins, Now you add

1509
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:34,080
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith, who is going to install. Arthur Smith will

1510
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:38,880
Speaker 2: be your offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh. I fully expect him

1511
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,599
Speaker 2: to install a very run heavy scheme that takes a

1512
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 2: lot of pressure off Russell Wilson. So Wilson's going to

1513
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 2: be put in a position to do he does best. Frankly,

1514
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 2: minimized turnovers. He only three eight picks last year. Kenny

1515
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 2: hit a few deep balls to keep defenses on their toes.

1516
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 2: Meaning can Russell Wilson maximize George Pickens big play potential?

1517
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 2: Could it happen? It's worth watching from a football standpoint.

1518
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 2: The move makes sense. It's a good fit. Arthur Smith's

1519
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 2: offense is heavy on the run game. They do a

1520
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 2: lot of RPOs, do a lot of play action passes,

1521
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 2: play action passes. Russell Wilson, Yeah, that's who he is.

1522
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:26,599
Speaker 2: That he basically will you know, he'll help him. He'll

1523
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 2: only have to make straightforward reads and the quarter you know,

1524
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 2: as a quarterback, he'll be able to predetermine his targets

1525
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 2: when they're breaking the huddle. That offense suits Wilson's skill set,

1526
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 2: at least certainly at this point. And the Steelers, I

1527
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,360
Speaker 2: think they've got a healthy culture and a healthy locker room.

1528
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 2: They've got other leaders, so we're not gonna hear in

1529
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,759
Speaker 2: this crap about less let Russ Cook or the Russell Show.

1530
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 2: And he's going to be around guys. I think that

1531
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 2: are going to keep him at check, certainly more so

1532
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 2: in Denver. And after you know, a decade in Seattle,

1533
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 2: the balloom was off, the rows, pickets gone. This is

1534
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 2: a fresh start for everybody. Now, I get it. I'm

1535
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:09,200
Speaker 2: not mixed up. The Steelers are not getting the version

1536
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 2: of Russell Wilson. It was an MVP candidate as recently

1537
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 2: as four years ago. But Russell Wilson showed enough flashes

1538
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 2: if you will honestly watched the games. He's a far

1539
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 2: better player than the one who had his career worst

1540
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 2: season back in twenty twenty two, his debut year in Denver,

1541
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:28,759
Speaker 2: and as a quarterback entering his thirteenth season, he's somewhere

1542
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 2: in between. He's not gonna be as accurate as a

1543
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 2: deep ball passer as he used to be, but he

1544
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 2: had a throw against the Chargers Week fourteen, to Courtland

1545
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:44,719
Speaker 2: Sutton that showed he can still what's the old Garth

1546
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 2: Brooks said, or Toby Keith. I'm not as good as

1547
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 2: I once was, but as good once as I always was.

1548
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,200
Speaker 2: I think he's got enough junk in his trunk to

1549
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 2: make some unique things happen. You know, you'll see the

1550
01:25:57,560 --> 01:26:01,959
Speaker 2: occasional double spin touchdown throw. But he's not as elusive

1551
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 2: as he was. I get it. It asn't run as well.

1552
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 2: I'm not mixed up. Russell Wilson did take a hundred

1553
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:09,639
Speaker 2: sacks during his two seasons in Denver, more than any

1554
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 2: other quarterback in the league. But still he brings experience

1555
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 2: and he's never hurt, and he doesn't turn the ball over,

1556
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,000
Speaker 2: and somehow they got the Broncos to seven and six

1557
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 2: through thirteen games after starting one in five. He's going

1558
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 2: to have a stronger supporting cast in Pittsburgh, He's going

1559
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 2: to have a stronger running game in Pittsburgh, and he'll

1560
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:33,639
Speaker 2: be able to be far more effective in play action. Right. So, look,

1561
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 2: it's one of those situations where the Steelers, who really

1562
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:44,879
Speaker 2: have always been defined by their running game and their defense,

1563
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:47,679
Speaker 2: even during the Ben Roethlisberger years, that was their bread

1564
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:50,799
Speaker 2: and butter. But Steelers spent first round picks on defense

1565
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 2: in nine of ten years up until twenty twenty one

1566
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,800
Speaker 2: and counting in including the compensation they got from micking

1567
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 2: fnz Patrick two years ago. When Ben Roethlisberger returned from

1568
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,640
Speaker 2: elbow surgery, the hope was at the defense and a

1569
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 2: reliable running game could carry them into the playoffs. Now

1570
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 2: you got Cam Hayward. Two years older, you got TJ.

1571
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 2: Watt Fitzpatrick. They're going to try that same approach with

1572
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 2: another veteran quarterback. So here's the beauty. Look, the opposite

1573
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 2: of love is not hate, its indifference. So for the

1574
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 2: people who hate Russell Wilson and there's no shortage, you

1575
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 2: have some emotion invested there for a reason, this is

1576
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:33,719
Speaker 2: gonna be fun to watch. No, there was another guy

1577
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 2: that no one's really talking about that also falls under

1578
01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 2: the category of redemption is good for the soul. He

1579
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,599
Speaker 2: just got himself a three year, hundred million dollar deal,

1580
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 2: including fifty million guaranteed. We'll break it down coming up.

1581
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 2: I want to remind everybody shortly after the show, our

1582
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1583
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Speaker 2: News Flash. The Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield have agreed to

1604
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:15,599
Speaker 2: a three year, one hundred million dollar contract. Yes earlier

1605
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 2: in the week. Redemption continues to be good for the soul. Remember,

1606
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:25,000
Speaker 2: you know, Baker Mayfield's been maligned, but he took over

1607
01:29:25,040 --> 01:29:27,519
Speaker 2: a situation in Cleveland where there had been one in

1608
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 2: thirty one the two years prior, somehow got them to

1609
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Became very parapatetic. I mean, he traveled a lot,

1610
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 2: ended up in Stinton, Carolina. Didn't work out so well.

1611
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 2: He ended up with the Rams. He was there for

1612
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee, not even that, or a latte,

1613
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,680
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it. But he has very

1614
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 2: much found a home in Tampa Bay. Last year, both

1615
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 2: Mayfield and the Buccaneers gambled figuratively. Figuratively, you can't gamble

1616
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:03,240
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Member Tom Brady retired. What happened, well, Tampa

1617
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 2: Bay took a flyer. They said, Baker will give you

1618
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 2: a one year deal and you can compete with Kyle

1619
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:11,600
Speaker 2: Trask for the starting job. And if I had a

1620
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 2: nickel for everybody who told me Kyle Trask who was

1621
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:18,679
Speaker 2: gonna beat out Baker Mayfield, Elon Musk could be mowing

1622
01:30:18,760 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 2: my lawn. But let's not forget Baker Mayfield was a

1623
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:27,160
Speaker 2: number one pick overall back in twenty eighteen, and he

1624
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:29,680
Speaker 2: was the number one pick for a reason. Again, their

1625
01:30:29,720 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 2: objective truths and personal feelings. Most of the opinions people

1626
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:38,960
Speaker 2: have about Baker Mayfield more are around their personal feelings.

1627
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 2: But he won the job. Baker Mayfield beat out Kyle

1628
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 2: Trask and delivered one of the best seasons he's had

1629
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:50,240
Speaker 2: as a pro. He led the Bucks to the NFC

1630
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 2: South title and even a wild card win. So here's

1631
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 2: a guy been in the league. What five years? He's

1632
01:30:56,080 --> 01:31:00,360
Speaker 2: led two franchises to a playoff win? Remember the Kansas

1633
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 2: City on the ropes in the second half one year

1634
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:04,840
Speaker 2: and defense couldn't hold it. But I'd story for another day.

1635
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 2: Now Mayfield has found another chance to be a genuine

1636
01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:15,440
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback and the Bucks have now I believe, solidified

1637
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 2: that position. Now Mayfield, he turns twenty nine next month.

1638
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 2: He view for just under forty one hundred yards, twenty

1639
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns, ten interceptions, had a ninety five passer rating,

1640
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:33,479
Speaker 2: and the yardage and TD totals were career hins and

1641
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:37,240
Speaker 2: the passer rating was his second best. Added up, he

1642
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 2: also got his first Pro Bowl appearance for the twenty

1643
01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 2: twenty three season. Now, in Baker Mayfield's career, he's thrown

1644
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 2: for almost twenty one thousand yards, one hundred and thirty touchdowns,

1645
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 2: seventy four interceptions, eighty eight passer rating. And again he's

1646
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 2: been traveled Cleveland, Carolina, the Rams. Now he is with

1647
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:04,520
Speaker 2: the Bucks. So in the end, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1648
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 2: have taken care of what I believe was a major

1649
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 2: offseason priority and they got it done just heading into

1650
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 2: the EVA free agency. Now the deal is actually worth

1651
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 2: up to one hundred and fifteen million dollars over three years.

1652
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 2: It also includes a fifty million dollars guarantee. Mayfield was

1653
01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:23,800
Speaker 2: cooler than saying, quote, I wanted a chance to come back.

1654
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 2: I love coach Todd Bowles and the staff. I'm happy

1655
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 2: to be here and I want to win more in

1656
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 2: the postseason. We'll see. There was never much doubt that,

1657
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 2: frankly the big that the Bucks are going to sign

1658
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield after after they signed Mike Evans to a

1659
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 2: new two year contract. But what that move showed is

1660
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:49,200
Speaker 2: that they were committed to keeping their core together after

1661
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:52,360
Speaker 2: what I think surprised a lot of people in their

1662
01:32:52,360 --> 01:32:57,679
Speaker 2: playoff win, and that move showed that they think they can.

1663
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:00,640
Speaker 2: They can follow up that play off win with a

1664
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:03,240
Speaker 2: playoff appearance and maybe more wins next season. We'll see

1665
01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 2: last off season. This is a far cry from last

1666
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:11,719
Speaker 2: off season. Remember, Baker Mayfield got a one year deal

1667
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,360
Speaker 2: for four million dollars. Now he gets a three year

1668
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,480
Speaker 2: deal for one hundred million and fifty of it's guaranteed.

1669
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 2: But he earned it. He bet on himself. Both sides

1670
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:26,679
Speaker 2: gambled Mayfield. What is starting job? Beat out? Kyle Trask

1671
01:33:27,160 --> 01:33:29,599
Speaker 2: helped Tampa Bay win the NFC South, and I realized

1672
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,639
Speaker 2: the NFC South is not that all that great shake

1673
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 2: of a division. I told you Derek Carr would do

1674
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:38,400
Speaker 2: what Derek Carr does. The Saints not so much. Carolina,

1675
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 2: they're a long ways away. Atlanta had their shot, but

1676
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,720
Speaker 2: they just couldn't close the deal. And of course they

1677
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 2: got their quarterback now too as well. Let's not forget

1678
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:54,080
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins. He will now be worrying. Did they call

1679
01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 2: him the dirty bird Khakis anymore? But you know we're

1680
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 2: quickly with Mayfield. Look, they beat the Eagle, who were

1681
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 2: you know, a hot mess? And then they lost to

1682
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:07,919
Speaker 2: Detroit in the divisional round, but they hung with Detroit

1683
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 2: that king was decided to the fourth quarter. By the way,

1684
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:15,840
Speaker 2: let's talk about Kirk Cousins for a second, because there

1685
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,400
Speaker 2: was a lot of smoke around Cousins joining the Falcons

1686
01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:21,760
Speaker 2: with free agency because the Vikings had a lot of

1687
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:26,280
Speaker 2: cap concerns and the contract concerns, and you know, cousins

1688
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:31,679
Speaker 2: restructure last offseason was a smart thing because it forced

1689
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 2: the Vikings hand on signing Cousins before March thirteenth. There're

1690
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 2: else to be forced to dealing or they'd have a

1691
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 2: massive dead cap hit in addition to Cousins contractual cap hits.

1692
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:46,519
Speaker 2: So the Falcons in their new staff, I think Rarehem

1693
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:48,559
Speaker 2: Morris is going to do an excellent job as their

1694
01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 2: head coach. I really do. Zach Robinson. They got their

1695
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 2: heads together. They pulled no punches. They said this is

1696
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:57,960
Speaker 2: what we want in a quarterback and and it didn't

1697
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 2: rhyme with Esben Ridder. They said, quote, we want a

1698
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 2: veteran distributor who get the ball out of his hand quickly.

1699
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:12,160
Speaker 2: He does and correctly to the various playmakers that they have.

1700
01:35:13,080 --> 01:35:16,639
Speaker 2: They wanted someone who could operate from the pocket, all right.

1701
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,640
Speaker 2: They ruled out justin fields and you know why, and

1702
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 2: they landed on Kirk Cousins. This is actually and I

1703
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:26,680
Speaker 2: don't know if Cousins has ever going to win a

1704
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 2: damn thing in this league, although he's gonna win at

1705
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:31,479
Speaker 2: the bank, no two ways about him. The way he

1706
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 2: has managed his career patiently through the franchise tags in

1707
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 2: Washington and in Minnesota. I mean, the Atlanta just handed

1708
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 2: Cousins in one hundred and eighty million dollars deal over

1709
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:46,640
Speaker 2: four years, with ninety million fully guaranteed. This is a

1710
01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 2: great landing spot though for Cousins, because the Falcons have

1711
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:51,920
Speaker 2: a lot of pluses and they happen to be in

1712
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 2: a relatively easy division. They've now got a selid team,

1713
01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:57,720
Speaker 2: a good coaching staff, and the ownership's all bought in

1714
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:00,599
Speaker 2: their willingness to spend on the contract. They didn't blink

1715
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 2: at the idea of paying a guy who's, well, let's

1716
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 2: be honest, he's playing the back nine. Cousins isn't the

1717
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:11,519
Speaker 2: youngest quarterback in the league who's coming off an Achilles injury.

1718
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 2: But if there is ever a Maxter class or they

1719
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 2: open a wing at Canton in the Hall of Fame,

1720
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 2: and they call it the Business Hall of Fame or

1721
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:27,599
Speaker 2: the contract Hall of Fame. I'm telling you Kirk Cousins

1722
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 2: is the first ballot Hall of Famer, and you know

1723
01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 2: Darrell Reeves is not far behind. But for Atlanta, if

1724
01:36:34,080 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 2: you're Atlanta in theory, this was kind of a no brainer.

1725
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:42,800
Speaker 2: Think for a second. The Falcons have a good offensive line.

1726
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 2: They have more than one elite playmaker be Jean Robinson,

1727
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:49,639
Speaker 2: Drake London, Kyle Pitts. They're all top ten picks over

1728
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 2: the last three years. And the Falcons defense, it proved

1729
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 2: dramatically last season. Mariam Morris is a defensive minded coach.

1730
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:03,840
Speaker 2: Could you make a case that the Atlanta Falcons were

1731
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:08,400
Speaker 2: just a quarterback away from getting to the Promised Land. Well,

1732
01:37:08,439 --> 01:37:10,640
Speaker 2: they've got their guide. Now they'll see we'll see what

1733
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 2: they can do. By the way, I think Derrick Henry

1734
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:20,560
Speaker 2: coming to the Baltimore Ravens might have been the shrewdest

1735
01:37:20,560 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 2: move in free agency. Okay, I don't have I think

1736
01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:29,280
Speaker 2: you know you can listen to the group that Gacko Chamber.

1737
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 2: I don't think you should have any reservations about Derrick

1738
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 2: Henry and what he's got left in the tank. I

1739
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 2: get it. He only had eleven hundred and sixty yards

1740
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 2: rushing this last season in quote, I say this in

1741
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:46,719
Speaker 2: air quotes, only twelve touchdowns. I understand their skepticism. Derek

1742
01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 2: Henry led the league in carries last season two hundred

1743
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 2: and eighty and he only averaged four point two yards

1744
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 2: of carry. And now he's thirty years old, and thirty

1745
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:57,680
Speaker 2: year old running back is those two words don't necessarily

1746
01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 2: go well together in a sentence. But assuming he'll continue

1747
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 2: to be dominant, there's a bit of a leap of

1748
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:08,040
Speaker 2: faith there. But this is Derrick Henry. He's different. He's

1749
01:38:08,080 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 2: not Derrick Henry's different. If you don't think he is,

1750
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 2: you have been watching. And let's forget he was a

1751
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:18,080
Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy winner. He's led the league in carries for

1752
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:20,920
Speaker 2: the last five years. One year he topped three hundred

1753
01:38:20,920 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 2: and forty carries. Actually one year in twenty twenty he

1754
01:38:24,479 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 2: carried the ball three hundred and seventy eight times. But

1755
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:30,760
Speaker 2: he had a fluke injury the following year. But his

1756
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:33,640
Speaker 2: production is slightly diminished. But when you pair him up

1757
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:37,560
Speaker 2: with Lamar Jackson, are you kidding me? Do you realize

1758
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 2: what that combination is going to do and how they're

1759
01:38:42,120 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 2: gonna play downhill? Here's the beauty of that deal. You

1760
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:48,800
Speaker 2: put two and two together. Now, the Ravens have not

1761
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:52,920
Speaker 2: spent big money at running back in recent years. JK.

1762
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:57,160
Speaker 2: Dobbins Got Edwards are both free agents. But what would

1763
01:38:57,200 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 2: the Ravens need to complete that right, a hard nosed,

1764
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:05,760
Speaker 2: physical running back. Why? Well, in John Harball's history, he

1765
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:07,599
Speaker 2: likes to go forward a lot on fourth and short.

1766
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:10,040
Speaker 2: But they didn't do it in twenty twenty three. They

1767
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:13,840
Speaker 2: didn't have someone to get those tough yards. With Derek

1768
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:19,639
Speaker 2: Henry in the lineup, that's going to diminish other defensive

1769
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:25,400
Speaker 2: coordinators and their necessity to create a situation where Lamar

1770
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:30,560
Speaker 2: Jackson has to have more attract more defensive attention. For

1771
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:34,320
Speaker 2: lack of a better word, what do I so, net,

1772
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:36,639
Speaker 2: What does this mean if you're not paying as much

1773
01:39:36,640 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 2: attention to Lamar Jackson as you need to be Because

1774
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:44,679
Speaker 2: Lord knows he can run, and I also think Lamar

1775
01:39:44,760 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 2: Jackson is a better pocket passer than people give him

1776
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:51,120
Speaker 2: credit for. But because Lamar Jackson can do what he

1777
01:39:51,160 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 2: can do, and he will attract less defensive attention. Even

1778
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,680
Speaker 2: if he does have defensive attention, that's going to recharge

1779
01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:03,120
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry's numbers. So those two were gonna play off

1780
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:07,880
Speaker 2: each other. And if Lamar Jackson can operate from the pocket,

1781
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:11,639
Speaker 2: you're gonna open up lanes. And if Derrick Henry gets

1782
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 2: to the second level, you know what Derrick Henry can

1783
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 2: do in the open field. So I thought it was

1784
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 2: a very very shrewd move for Derrick Henry coming up.

1785
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:23,679
Speaker 2: I want to give the Raiders credit and I want

1786
01:40:23,680 --> 01:40:28,400
Speaker 2: to get into I mentioned some March Madness bracket tips

1787
01:40:28,400 --> 01:40:30,840
Speaker 2: as we are now what goodness gracious here we are

1788
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 2: twelve thirteen and a half hours away from selection Sunday

1789
01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:38,960
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. But first we go back to our

1790
01:40:39,000 --> 01:40:41,680
Speaker 2: guye Kevin Wyre at the chef with another boffo performance.

1791
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 10: Nobody could take your place, No way to can match

1792
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:50,679
Speaker 10: your blade. No, you gotta go on all in a way,

1793
01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 10: so clear, I judge bought, I'm by you. We'll see

1794
01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 10: maybe tonight. It's still a thirty especial. They got gonna

1795
01:40:57,320 --> 01:41:03,280
Speaker 10: come by and did you up the mark? No tough

1796
01:41:03,320 --> 01:41:10,360
Speaker 10: the tooth for you, no favorites for you, God for

1797
01:41:10,520 --> 01:41:15,280
Speaker 10: you now you know if the hardest true, You've got

1798
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:17,280
Speaker 10: no dotitut behind you.

1799
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 2: Ah. The base baritone of the chef, Kevin Wirre, Nice

1800
01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:22,320
Speaker 2: State done.

1801
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:24,719
Speaker 8: I love, I love belting that out.

1802
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 2: This might be my second favorite one because super will leave.

1803
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:30,760
Speaker 2: You had a tremendous one involving football. Take it away,

1804
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 2: Kevin all right.

1805
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 7: Of course. The story of the day college basketball. It's

1806
01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 7: the best appetizer in sports. The conference tournaments, in which

1807
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:41,759
Speaker 7: several teams fighting for their spot in the Big Dance.

1808
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 7: We saw NC State win their fifth game in five

1809
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:47,960
Speaker 7: days to punch their take it into the tournament as

1810
01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 7: they win the ACC Tournament over number four North Carolina

1811
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 7: eighty four to seventy six. The final edition of the

1812
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:57,880
Speaker 7: PAC twelve tournament was in Las Vegas, Oregon, Colorado for

1813
01:41:58,040 --> 01:42:01,080
Speaker 7: the championship, as the Ducks win this on seventy five

1814
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:04,960
Speaker 7: to sixty eight. In the Mountain West. It's New Mexico

1815
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:08,439
Speaker 7: over San Diego State to get that Conferences automatic Big

1816
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:14,799
Speaker 7: sixty eight to sixty one in the mac Akron, winning

1817
01:42:14,840 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 7: it on two free throws. Kent State had taken the

1818
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:20,720
Speaker 7: lead with just a few seconds ago, but then immediately

1819
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:23,640
Speaker 7: fouled in the back court ahead by one, and that

1820
01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:26,560
Speaker 7: gave Akron a chance to win the game at the

1821
01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:29,439
Speaker 7: free throw line. They did so, sixty two to sixty one.

1822
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,840
Speaker 7: Grambling wins the Swack. They advanced to the Big Dance

1823
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:34,639
Speaker 7: for the first time in their history as they take

1824
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 7: care of Texas Southern seventy five sixty six Long Beach State.

1825
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:40,280
Speaker 7: What a story they have been the last few days.

1826
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 7: Forty nine Ers coach Dan Munson he is still coaching

1827
01:42:45,520 --> 01:42:48,760
Speaker 7: the team despite having been fired by the.

1828
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 8: School about a week ago.

1829
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:52,880
Speaker 7: They said to let him finish out the season and

1830
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:56,559
Speaker 7: the postseason, but he'll at least get one more game.

1831
01:42:56,600 --> 01:42:59,479
Speaker 7: They win the Big West Championship over UC Davis seventy

1832
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:03,560
Speaker 7: four seventy and in the NBA Golden State over the

1833
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:05,719
Speaker 7: Lakers one twenty eight, one to twenty one. But Anthony

1834
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 7: Davis suffering and injurying that game. He got poked in

1835
01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 7: the eye and it really looked bad. His eyes swollen

1836
01:43:10,160 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 7: shut and he was not able to return. As LA

1837
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:16,680
Speaker 7: and Golden State were playing a pretty good pace up

1838
01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:19,639
Speaker 7: until the last two minutes, in which there were several reviews,

1839
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:22,080
Speaker 7: challenge calls that the shot clock wouldn't work and it

1840
01:43:22,160 --> 01:43:25,280
Speaker 7: took a lengthy time and something that's probably gonna be

1841
01:43:25,280 --> 01:43:27,479
Speaker 7: looked at going forward, the amount of time taking on

1842
01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 7: these reviews, because that game really slowed down and zapped

1843
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:32,840
Speaker 7: the momentum out. As Golden State does hold on for

1844
01:43:32,880 --> 01:43:34,599
Speaker 7: a one to twenty eight, one to twenty one win

1845
01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:37,719
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City, they beat Memphis twent eighteen, one to twelve,

1846
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:41,120
Speaker 7: the Timberwolves over the Jazz one nineteen one hundred and

1847
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 7: in the NFL, the big news of the day Justin

1848
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,920
Speaker 7: Field's getting traded by the Bears to the Steelers in

1849
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 7: exchange for a conditional six round pick for twenty twenty five.

1850
01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 7: The Players Championship, what they call golf's fifth Major. Xander's

1851
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:59,639
Speaker 7: Chaufla ahead by one stroke over Wyndham Clark.

1852
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 2: Bernie all right, chef, another baffo performance, Kevin Weyer. Well,

1853
01:44:07,720 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 2: you know, one of the things Friday night we talked

1854
01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:12,599
Speaker 2: about in the midnight hour on the Bernie Frattle Show

1855
01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:15,720
Speaker 2: was who would have the last laugh with respect to

1856
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:19,640
Speaker 2: the Russell Wilson deal going to Pittsburgh. Who would have

1857
01:44:19,640 --> 01:44:21,639
Speaker 2: the last laugh? Would Russell Wilson have the last laugh?

1858
01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:25,120
Speaker 2: Or would be Sean Payton and the Broncos, and the

1859
01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 2: Broncos are a story franchise. There are a highly respected

1860
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:32,599
Speaker 2: franchise throughout the annals of the National Football League, multiple

1861
01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:36,080
Speaker 2: Super Bowl appearances, But I don't know who the quarterback

1862
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:37,640
Speaker 2: is going to be, who the star is going to be.

1863
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 2: And they're in a division that has Kansas City, you

1864
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 2: know the charges will be better. And of course let's

1865
01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:50,439
Speaker 2: give the Raiders a winking or nod because they did

1866
01:44:50,439 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 2: something this past week that feels to me like it

1867
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 2: has the Antonio Pierce influence already. They went out and

1868
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:02,280
Speaker 2: signed Christian Wilkins to book in with Max Crosby. And

1869
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:05,760
Speaker 2: you say to yourself, when you have a what I

1870
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:12,719
Speaker 2: would consider to be a very productive, very prolific defensive

1871
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:16,920
Speaker 2: tackle who was very you know with you last year

1872
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:20,559
Speaker 2: with the Dolphins, nine sacks, thirty five pressures, he ranked

1873
01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 2: thirteenth and pass rush win rate among interior alignment And

1874
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,160
Speaker 2: you might say, well, are those gaudy numbers? Will you

1875
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 2: tell me he faced double teams? He commanded double teams

1876
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:35,600
Speaker 2: every game. He's also a very strong run defender. So

1877
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:38,360
Speaker 2: how does a player like Christian Wilkins end up in

1878
01:45:38,400 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 2: free agency? And how do they let him out of town. Will.

1879
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:43,760
Speaker 2: We're in the salary cap era and the Dolphins cap

1880
01:45:43,840 --> 01:45:48,920
Speaker 2: situation forced their hand, and it's been talked about the

1881
01:45:49,040 --> 01:45:51,680
Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins wanted a bigger contract than Miami's willing to

1882
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 2: hand out. So fortunately in free agency there are multiple bidders.

1883
01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 2: The market always speaks someone's likely to cough up the cash.

1884
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 2: That's what the Raiders did once tampering was legal. They

1885
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 2: gave Christian Wilkins the third biggest contract for an interior

1886
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:11,200
Speaker 2: defensive lineman in all of football. His contract is worth

1887
01:46:11,240 --> 01:46:14,320
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten million, fifty seven million fully guaranteed.

1888
01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:18,240
Speaker 2: He's only behind Chris Jones and Aaron Donald in terms

1889
01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:20,599
Speaker 2: of average annual value. It's a hafty price to pay.

1890
01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:23,439
Speaker 2: But here's a dude, it's only twenty six years old.

1891
01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 2: He's got outstanding production, he's got a great pedigree, and

1892
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:30,320
Speaker 2: again he's lined up with Max Crosby. The Raiders. They

1893
01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 2: might be a real problem for AFC teams, especially FC

1894
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:36,559
Speaker 2: West quarterbacks, and you're gonna have to be if you're

1895
01:46:36,560 --> 01:46:39,960
Speaker 2: gonna win in that division, you're gonna have to make

1896
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 2: life difficult for the opposing quarterback. And if the Raiders

1897
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:46,719
Speaker 2: can do that, then they're gonna be hanging around in games.

1898
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:49,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're a contender, but they took

1899
01:46:49,439 --> 01:46:53,640
Speaker 2: an inch closer to being a contender, and that's a

1900
01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 2: big signing. When you get a guy like Wilkins, he

1901
01:46:56,680 --> 01:46:59,479
Speaker 2: might not fit their timeline, but I'll tell you I

1902
01:46:59,520 --> 01:47:03,840
Speaker 2: would say this on Christmas Day. I marveled at how

1903
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:06,600
Speaker 2: the Raiders defense managed to bottle up Kansas City in

1904
01:47:06,680 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 2: Kansas City, and now you add another guy that brings

1905
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:15,600
Speaker 2: great production. By the way, it didn't hurt. And I

1906
01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:18,040
Speaker 2: know they took some criticism or letting Josh Shacobs go

1907
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 2: that was a little confusing. And then but they brought

1908
01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:24,760
Speaker 2: in Gardner Minshew, who's gonna be a bridge quarterback. And

1909
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:28,719
Speaker 2: I think Gardner Minshew will do better than people think

1910
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:33,600
Speaker 2: as far as perhaps at least happening the Raiders. In

1911
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:36,439
Speaker 2: the conversation, when you get into December, maybe they make

1912
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:38,960
Speaker 2: the playoffs. We'll see. It's not gonna be easy, but

1913
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:41,600
Speaker 2: you know, seven teams from each division do it, and

1914
01:47:41,600 --> 01:47:43,680
Speaker 2: the Raiders could be one of them. But at the

1915
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 2: end of the day, with a blue chip player like

1916
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 2: Christian Wilcoms, it becomes available and he's in his prime.

1917
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 2: You cannot second guess that decision in any way for

1918
01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 2: what the Raiders did. So very brisk, very brisk. Twenty

1919
01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 2: twenty four NFL Free Agency. Lots of moves, lots of

1920
01:48:02,160 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 2: impactful moves, big names moving back and forth. All right,

1921
01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:13,280
Speaker 2: let's talk ever so quickly about some tips for filling

1922
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:17,320
Speaker 2: out your bracket. There were lots of wild upsets last season,

1923
01:48:17,360 --> 01:48:21,360
Speaker 2: so people are going to expect upsets this year, and

1924
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:24,840
Speaker 2: they're going to be The problem is, you gotta be

1925
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:30,640
Speaker 2: careful when you overdo that. It's difficult. For instance, a

1926
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 2: one versus sixteen, it's happened twice since nineteen eighty five.

1927
01:48:34,520 --> 01:48:38,160
Speaker 2: Two versus fifteen, it's happened eleven times since nineteen eighty five.

1928
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:42,240
Speaker 2: That's seven percent of the time. Three verses fourteen it's

1929
01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:45,080
Speaker 2: happened fifteen percent of the time. You start to hear

1930
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 2: the proverbial twelve versus five upset. What do you hear

1931
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,040
Speaker 2: every year? Oh? Yeah, twelve verses five. I think last

1932
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:56,160
Speaker 2: year all five. I'll check that, all four five seeds one.

1933
01:48:57,680 --> 01:49:00,200
Speaker 2: So it was only happening thirty four percent of the time.

1934
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:03,200
Speaker 2: It's one of those group think echo chamber narratives that

1935
01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 2: if you if you would you know, if you hitched

1936
01:49:04,920 --> 01:49:07,880
Speaker 2: your wagon to that, you were failing sixty seven percent

1937
01:49:07,920 --> 01:49:10,880
Speaker 2: of the time. Pay more attention to the eleven versus

1938
01:49:10,920 --> 01:49:13,720
Speaker 2: six upsets that's forty percent of the time. And the

1939
01:49:13,760 --> 01:49:16,200
Speaker 2: seven versus ten upsets, which may not be as big

1940
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,519
Speaker 2: of an upset as you think, that's still forty percent

1941
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:21,080
Speaker 2: of the time. And of course nine verses eight. There's

1942
01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:23,840
Speaker 2: no real angle there because it's about fifty one to

1943
01:49:23,920 --> 01:49:28,120
Speaker 2: forty nine. But research the seven to ten, six to

1944
01:49:28,120 --> 01:49:30,320
Speaker 2: eleven games. Those are the games that can make a big,

1945
01:49:30,800 --> 01:49:34,920
Speaker 2: big difference in scoring later because the number eleven seeds

1946
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 2: typically have a better first round record than the number

1947
01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:40,960
Speaker 2: ten seeds. That's interesting, and there are very there are

1948
01:49:41,320 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 2: typically going to be a few eleven seeds on the

1949
01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:46,559
Speaker 2: bracket this season, and it's it's going to be something

1950
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:51,120
Speaker 2: to watch. But be careful, don't go crazy on trying

1951
01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 2: to pick lower seeds, you know, even though even though

1952
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 2: a number fifteen seed is made to Sweet sixteen each

1953
01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:01,639
Speaker 2: of the last three seasons. Princeton did it last year,

1954
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 2: Florida Gulf Coast did it ten years ago, Saint Peters

1955
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 2: did it in twenty twenty two, or Roberts did it

1956
01:50:06,479 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. But low seeds. This is a

1957
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 2: tournament that when it shakes out, it's going to be

1958
01:50:12,200 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 2: the higher seeds to get to the final four. It's

1959
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:18,040
Speaker 2: just the way it is. Number one seeds make it

1960
01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:20,759
Speaker 2: to the final four forty percent of the time, number

1961
01:50:20,760 --> 01:50:23,960
Speaker 2: two seeds twenty one percent, number three seeds twelve, number

1962
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:28,840
Speaker 2: four nine, So that's eighty percent of the time. The

1963
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:31,200
Speaker 2: final four is going to be populated by seeds one

1964
01:50:31,320 --> 01:50:34,960
Speaker 2: through four, So don't go crazy. Only one time was

1965
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 2: a number ten seed ever made it, So you know,

1966
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:42,000
Speaker 2: be a little careful with this. But at the same time,

1967
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:45,519
Speaker 2: you know, we are in a situation where you saw

1968
01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:48,280
Speaker 2: some big teams go down this past week and it's

1969
01:50:48,320 --> 01:50:52,280
Speaker 2: not easy. Three of the number one seeds Yukon Perdue

1970
01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 2: in Houston. They've dominated through the regular season. Yukon won

1971
01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:58,920
Speaker 2: their their conference tournament, but Perdue. You saw what happened

1972
01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:03,200
Speaker 2: there Houston. You saw happened there. It's going to be

1973
01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:07,040
Speaker 2: a wide open tournament. Just don't go crazy over trying

1974
01:51:07,080 --> 01:51:10,759
Speaker 2: to pick upsets and predicting the wacky upsets, the long

1975
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:13,559
Speaker 2: shot upsets by the way. I want to remind everybody

1976
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:17,840
Speaker 2: tonight tonight. The Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge is live

1977
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 2: tonight at Fox Sports Radio dot Com. Register get rules,

1978
01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:24,040
Speaker 2: be in it for a chance to win the Ultimate

1979
01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:27,120
Speaker 2: Sports trip the Graduate Hotels. His challenge is sponsored by

1980
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Speaker 2: Graduate Hotels, Were College Fans Stay and Tractors Supply. Coming up.

1981
01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:35,680
Speaker 2: A couple of other names in the news in the

1982
01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:42,000
Speaker 2: National Football League this week. Prominently one rhymes with John Gruden. Day.

1983
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:45,679
Speaker 2: What's going on there? And you know, for a guy

1984
01:51:45,720 --> 01:51:50,559
Speaker 2: who says he thinks his team needs less distractions, he

1985
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 2: hasn't shut down the fact that if he's asked to

1986
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 2: be Robert F. Kennedy's junior running mate on an independent ticket,

1987
01:51:57,479 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 2: he hasn't said no, I won't do it. I missed it.

1988
01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:03,760
Speaker 2: We'll talk about Aaron Rodgers and John Gruden coming up. Yeah,

1989
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:06,719
Speaker 2: they found their way into the news this past week.

1990
01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:08,719
Speaker 2: Him Bernie Fraddle coming to you live from Las Vegas,

1991
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, tirect dot com studios. Keep it locked.

1992
01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:13,960
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fradle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1993
01:52:15,200 --> 01:52:17,599
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1994
01:52:18,120 --> 01:52:20,920
Speaker 2: Coming to live from the Tiret dot com Studios coming

1995
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,840
Speaker 2: up top of the hour, eleven minutes away, the dance

1996
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:26,639
Speaker 2: sensation sweep in the nation. What kind of brand new

1997
01:52:26,680 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 2: fool you followed by what my name? All right? Can't

1998
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:36,280
Speaker 2: make this stuff up, folks. On March twenty six, Market Calendar,

1999
01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:39,040
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Junior, He's a candidate the next election

2000
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:45,520
Speaker 2: for your United States President. An independent ticket recently approached

2001
01:52:46,880 --> 01:52:50,400
Speaker 2: a New York Jets quarterback. Well, he did have seven

2002
01:52:50,439 --> 01:52:56,639
Speaker 2: snaps or whatever Aaron Rodgers about wait for it, serving

2003
01:52:56,680 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 2: as his running mate on an independent ticket. Can you

2004
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 2: imagine that? Could Aaron Rodgers be vice president and be

2005
01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 2: quarterback or the Jets at the same time. Well, it's

2006
01:53:06,040 --> 01:53:08,879
Speaker 2: not clear whether Rogers have been formally offered the position,

2007
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:15,640
Speaker 2: but he he meaning Robert F. Kennedy admitted that he

2008
01:53:15,680 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers have been talking quote pretty continuously for

2009
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:23,720
Speaker 2: the past month. Ian Roddy, when you hear this kind

2010
01:53:23,760 --> 01:53:26,360
Speaker 2: of nonsense, I mean, and Rodgers hasn't shot it down.

2011
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 2: That's that's why I'm talking about this. He could have

2012
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 2: easily shot it down. Uh, that can't make the Jets

2013
01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 2: too happy, and that's got to make green big idea.

2014
01:53:35,240 --> 01:53:37,800
Speaker 2: I'm glad we're done with this guy. Ian. Your thoughts

2015
01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 2: when you heard this whole deal.

2016
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:41,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean as a Jets fan when I heard it,

2017
01:53:41,880 --> 01:53:44,920
Speaker 6: panic that that was what I because because we got,

2018
01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:47,759
Speaker 6: you know what, four snaps out of him last season

2019
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:48,719
Speaker 6: before he went down.

2020
01:53:49,240 --> 01:53:52,559
Speaker 8: We still have yet to see what this is.

2021
01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:54,680
Speaker 6: Gonna look like, what Aaron Rodgers in a New York

2022
01:53:54,760 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 6: Jets uniform is gonna Is it gonna even work? Is

2023
01:53:57,040 --> 01:54:00,000
Speaker 6: he's still capable of being one of the best quarterback

2024
01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:00,879
Speaker 6: X in the league.

2025
01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:02,600
Speaker 8: I think so.

2026
01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:05,519
Speaker 6: But but the point is if he becomes vice president,

2027
01:54:05,560 --> 01:54:07,400
Speaker 6: we won't even have the opportunity to find out, and

2028
01:54:07,400 --> 01:54:10,240
Speaker 6: that would be the most painful possible thing and the

2029
01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 6: most Jets possible thing that could possibly happen. But I

2030
01:54:13,240 --> 01:54:16,240
Speaker 6: do want to say I think as of like today,

2031
01:54:17,080 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 6: it's come out that that he did announce his.

2032
01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:23,280
Speaker 8: Running mate and it's not Rogers, which is good to know.

2033
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:26,640
Speaker 2: Okay, we get let's look into that because I had

2034
01:54:26,640 --> 01:54:30,400
Speaker 2: someone tweeted me saying two days ago, is it going

2035
01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:32,640
Speaker 2: to be Rogers or Jesse Ventura? And my response was,

2036
01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:33,640
Speaker 2: it's not going to be either one.

2037
01:54:34,200 --> 01:54:35,760
Speaker 8: In a way, it is not either one.

2038
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:37,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was it was a guest on my apartment.

2039
01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 2: It was an educated guess.

2040
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 6: It is Nicole Shanahan is her name. You know she's

2041
01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:45,240
Speaker 6: not related to Kyle Shanahan, but you know that that

2042
01:54:45,280 --> 01:54:48,640
Speaker 6: would be funny. Shan from Give me just a sec here,

2043
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:49,200
Speaker 6: all right, no.

2044
01:54:49,080 --> 01:54:52,840
Speaker 2: Problem, you look that up. Chef. What what were your

2045
01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 2: thoughts when you heard about Aaron Rodgers.

2046
01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:58,800
Speaker 7: I thought it was just a publicity stunt by either

2047
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:02,080
Speaker 7: by both RFK jor and Aaron Rodgers just going with it.

2048
01:55:02,960 --> 01:55:06,000
Speaker 7: I never seriously thought it was gonna be anything that

2049
01:55:06,120 --> 01:55:10,040
Speaker 7: was under real consideration, because Aaron Rodgers has millions of

2050
01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:12,760
Speaker 7: reasons to try to play for the Jets this season

2051
01:55:12,800 --> 01:55:17,400
Speaker 7: as opposed to making a very unlikely run to the

2052
01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:21,240
Speaker 7: vice presidency. It does not seem likely that RFK Junior

2053
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:24,480
Speaker 7: will get enough Electoral College votes to win win the presidency.

2054
01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:26,040
Speaker 8: So it's not like it's something I don't.

2055
01:55:25,920 --> 01:55:30,120
Speaker 2: Like his chances. I'm with you there, and yeah, so.

2056
01:55:30,120 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 8: I think it was.

2057
01:55:30,600 --> 01:55:32,480
Speaker 7: I think it was all about publicity and just getting

2058
01:55:32,480 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 7: it takes im about him, right, it's exactly. And Aaron

2059
01:55:35,600 --> 01:55:37,680
Speaker 7: Rodgers is someone who I think is I mean, the

2060
01:55:37,720 --> 01:55:39,320
Speaker 7: last couple of years, I think it's been a parent

2061
01:55:39,360 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 7: that he's been looking more toward what's after his playing

2062
01:55:42,880 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 7: career as opposed to what's what he's currently doing right now.

2063
01:55:46,120 --> 01:55:49,080
Speaker 7: So it does add on to the speculation, at least

2064
01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:51,360
Speaker 7: for my part, that I mean, how committed is he

2065
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:54,280
Speaker 7: really to the Jets. I mean, I know he worked

2066
01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:57,120
Speaker 7: the trade there and was you know, committed at least

2067
01:55:57,160 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 7: until he got his achilles injury. But you're forty coming

2068
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 7: off and heally's injury. I mean, how much do you

2069
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:05,200
Speaker 7: really have left? It makes me, you know, is his

2070
01:56:05,200 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 7: head fully in the game, I guess is my main question,

2071
01:56:07,480 --> 01:56:09,160
Speaker 7: And I'm not convinced that it is. So if I

2072
01:56:09,200 --> 01:56:12,400
Speaker 7: were a Jets fan, even if he does seem to

2073
01:56:12,440 --> 01:56:14,440
Speaker 7: do all the right things going into next season, I'd

2074
01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:17,040
Speaker 7: be worried that maybe he's not completely mentally in there.

2075
01:56:18,480 --> 01:56:20,080
Speaker 2: You were going to say some more stuff Ian he

2076
01:56:20,120 --> 01:56:20,880
Speaker 2: has some stuff to say.

2077
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:22,000
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I was just gonna say that.

2078
01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:25,000
Speaker 6: Rogers had the opportunity this whole time to shoot it down.

2079
01:56:25,080 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 6: Just take to Twitter, be like it's not true. You know,

2080
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:29,760
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be his running mate.

2081
01:56:29,800 --> 01:56:33,320
Speaker 6: But he he loves the publicity. I think even with

2082
01:56:33,520 --> 01:56:36,879
Speaker 6: there being what I believe to have been like virtually

2083
01:56:36,920 --> 01:56:39,480
Speaker 6: no chance he actually does this. He could have just

2084
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:42,200
Speaker 6: gone out and calmed the storm. Let everyone know that.

2085
01:56:42,280 --> 01:56:46,360
Speaker 6: But anyway, just just to complete the circle here finished

2086
01:56:46,400 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 6: the point I was making is that Shanahan who is

2087
01:56:50,040 --> 01:56:54,400
Speaker 6: now Robert F. Kennedy Junior's running mate. She's a Democratic

2088
01:56:54,480 --> 01:56:58,720
Speaker 6: donor who was once married to Google co founder Sergei Brinn,

2089
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:05,240
Speaker 6: and she founded Kennedy's pricey Super Bowl campaign commercial.

2090
01:57:06,360 --> 01:57:07,680
Speaker 8: That's a New York poster.

2091
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 2: That stuff there, Thanks Ian, Well there you have it,

2092
01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:14,440
Speaker 2: and that what better segue. We'll get to the John

2093
01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:16,000
Speaker 2: Bruden thing later in the show. I got to share

2094
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,120
Speaker 2: with you what's going on with him. But coming up,

2095
01:57:18,360 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool? You followed by what

2096
01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:22,400
Speaker 2: my name? Keep it locked? You're listening to the Bernie

2097
01:57:22,400 --> 01:57:26,720
Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Well, that's right, you

2098
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Speaker 2: heard the man. The Bernie Fraddle Show continues to roll

2099
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2112
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Speaker 2: more serious, and in many cases they can put you

2113
01:58:21,880 --> 01:58:24,120
Speaker 2: on the wrong side of the law and even land

2114
01:58:24,160 --> 01:58:30,080
Speaker 2: you in jail. But regardless of the activity, regardless of

2115
01:58:30,080 --> 01:58:33,240
Speaker 2: the event, regardless of the behavior, no matter what these

2116
01:58:33,240 --> 01:58:36,600
Speaker 2: people do, it always leaves us scratching our heads and

2117
01:58:36,640 --> 01:58:44,520
Speaker 2: asking ourselves, what kind of brand new fool are you?

2118
01:58:45,840 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 5: So?

2119
01:58:46,360 --> 01:58:48,360
Speaker 8: What kind of brand new fool are you?

2120
01:58:49,240 --> 01:58:49,320
Speaker 10: So?

2121
01:58:49,560 --> 01:58:52,600
Speaker 2: Tonight for me, this will be a first. I want

2122
01:58:52,600 --> 01:58:55,480
Speaker 2: to give a gentleman credit. Stephen Tesfitch. I think I'm

2123
01:58:55,480 --> 01:58:59,680
Speaker 2: pronouncing his name right. He tweeted at me, and I

2124
01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:02,720
Speaker 2: guess likes the segment and he wanted to share with

2125
01:59:02,920 --> 01:59:06,480
Speaker 2: me a story. Uh, and so I want to give

2126
01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:09,440
Speaker 2: Steven credit, Steven test Fitz credit because he's the one

2127
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:13,600
Speaker 2: who came up with this. So listen. I don't know

2128
01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:17,760
Speaker 2: if you saw the movie Shawshank, Redemption, Redemption, or Escape

2129
01:59:17,760 --> 01:59:23,600
Speaker 2: from Alcatraz. Throughout history, there has there there have been documentaries,

2130
01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:26,800
Speaker 2: there have been movies, there have been TV shows about

2131
01:59:27,160 --> 01:59:33,160
Speaker 2: prison life and people escaping from prison. But this segment

2132
01:59:33,240 --> 01:59:35,200
Speaker 2: is called what kind of brand new fool are you? So?

2133
01:59:35,240 --> 01:59:37,040
Speaker 2: What kind of brand new fool would do this? We

2134
01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 2: take you to New Orleans, Louisiana, where just recently a

2135
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:52,800
Speaker 2: gentleman was well, what do we? How do we? There's

2136
01:59:52,840 --> 01:59:55,160
Speaker 2: no other way to put it. He was trying to

2137
01:59:55,240 --> 02:00:00,440
Speaker 2: scale a wall to break into the secure g rounds

2138
02:00:00,480 --> 02:00:07,080
Speaker 2: of the Orleans Justice Center jail. You heard that right?

2139
02:00:07,120 --> 02:00:09,040
Speaker 2: I mean the reason you heard me trip over my

2140
02:00:09,080 --> 02:00:11,280
Speaker 2: tongue there for a second is the sure as hell

2141
02:00:11,400 --> 02:00:14,040
Speaker 2: is not a jail break. What do you call it?

2142
02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:17,440
Speaker 2: I don't know what you call this, but say hello

2143
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:20,640
Speaker 2: to Dylan Guidry. He was booked with a template burglary,

2144
02:00:21,160 --> 02:00:27,600
Speaker 2: attempted burglary, resisting arrest by force, trespassing, and attempting to

2145
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:31,720
Speaker 2: bring contraband into the jail. This is according to Orleans

2146
02:00:31,720 --> 02:00:37,200
Speaker 2: Parish Sheriff Susan Hudson, this is a very unusual activity.

2147
02:00:37,280 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 2: Handed it happened right like in the middle of the day,

2148
02:00:41,240 --> 02:00:44,280
Speaker 2: one thirty in the afternoon, the sheriff said, the deputy

2149
02:00:44,360 --> 02:00:47,960
Speaker 2: spotted the man, wearing a white shirt cargo shorts, attempted

2150
02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:51,840
Speaker 2: to climb a wall between the temporary detention center. I

2151
02:00:51,880 --> 02:00:55,320
Speaker 2: guess it's on Perdido Street, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well,

2152
02:00:55,320 --> 02:00:58,440
Speaker 2: it only took about eleven minutes to apprehend mister Gidry.

2153
02:00:58,880 --> 02:01:03,640
Speaker 2: Deputy showed up from their Investigative Services Bureau and the

2154
02:01:03,680 --> 02:01:07,320
Speaker 2: Sheriff's office then proceeded to conduct an immediate headcount of

2155
02:01:07,400 --> 02:01:11,360
Speaker 2: jail inmates and they confirmed that all detainees are actually

2156
02:01:11,360 --> 02:01:14,480
Speaker 2: still in custody. But there was one more. It was

2157
02:01:14,720 --> 02:01:19,720
Speaker 2: mister Guidry. So apparently the allegation against the suspect stemmed

2158
02:01:19,720 --> 02:01:21,960
Speaker 2: from his attempt to bring a cell phone into the

2159
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:25,440
Speaker 2: facility when he tried to scale the wall. So you've

2160
02:01:25,480 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 2: heard of people trying to break out of jail, this

2161
02:01:28,560 --> 02:01:31,560
Speaker 2: is a new one. Twenty nine year old Dylan Guidry

2162
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:35,760
Speaker 2: of New Orleans, Louisiana, booked with attempted burglary and resisting

2163
02:01:35,840 --> 02:01:40,720
Speaker 2: arrests trespassing trying to break into jail. Mister Guidrey, what

2164
02:01:40,800 --> 02:01:46,080
Speaker 2: kind of brand new fool of you? Compliments of Steven Tesfitch.

2165
02:01:46,120 --> 02:01:51,640
Speaker 2: Thanks Steven. All Right, Ian Roddy, you have become a

2166
02:01:51,680 --> 02:01:53,680
Speaker 2: master at this game. What have we got for us today?

2167
02:01:54,120 --> 02:01:54,560
Speaker 8: All right?

2168
02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:59,480
Speaker 6: Well, we have another fool from Florida, and I think

2169
02:01:59,720 --> 02:02:02,200
Speaker 6: I think we've actually had someone from Polk County as

2170
02:02:02,200 --> 02:02:05,080
Speaker 6: well before, but we have another one now. His name

2171
02:02:05,120 --> 02:02:07,840
Speaker 6: is Johnny Yates. Today's fool.

2172
02:02:08,120 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 5: So.

2173
02:02:08,520 --> 02:02:12,280
Speaker 6: Yates was wanted by police for aggravated battery, false imprisonment,

2174
02:02:12,320 --> 02:02:13,480
Speaker 6: and tampering charges.

2175
02:02:13,520 --> 02:02:16,080
Speaker 8: But that's not what this story has to do with.

2176
02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:16,680
Speaker 2: Uh.

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02:02:16,720 --> 02:02:18,800
Speaker 6: They got a tip that he was holed up inside

2178
02:02:18,840 --> 02:02:22,720
Speaker 6: his home in Lakeland, Florida, so he's wanted. Police are

2179
02:02:22,760 --> 02:02:24,560
Speaker 6: looking looking for him. They get a tip as to

2180
02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:27,280
Speaker 6: where he is, so they set out immediately. Here's the

2181
02:02:27,360 --> 02:02:30,760
Speaker 6: kicker though. When they got there to the house, they

2182
02:02:30,800 --> 02:02:33,960
Speaker 6: found a whiteboard propped up in front of his window

2183
02:02:34,040 --> 02:02:34,800
Speaker 6: next to the door.

2184
02:02:35,400 --> 02:02:35,600
Speaker 9: Uh.

2185
02:02:35,640 --> 02:02:39,760
Speaker 6: And handwritten on that whiteboard was the message Johnny Yates

2186
02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:43,720
Speaker 6: does not live here and not was in all caps

2187
02:02:43,960 --> 02:02:47,880
Speaker 6: with three exclamation marks at the end of that message too.

2188
02:02:48,080 --> 02:02:48,280
Speaker 11: Uh.

2189
02:02:48,360 --> 02:02:51,560
Speaker 6: They someone came out of the house late at some

2190
02:02:51,720 --> 02:02:54,760
Speaker 6: point in all of this. They they questioned that person,

2191
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:57,960
Speaker 6: who confirmed that Yates was in the house. They surrounded

2192
02:02:58,080 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 6: for an hour, yelling for him to come out, which

2193
02:03:00,520 --> 02:03:04,040
Speaker 6: he wouldn't. They eventually entered the house with smoke and

2194
02:03:04,080 --> 02:03:07,360
Speaker 6: they found him hiding in what the article I read

2195
02:03:07,440 --> 02:03:11,760
Speaker 6: described as a modified chest of drawers. So Johnny Yates

2196
02:03:11,760 --> 02:03:14,720
Speaker 6: from Polk County, Florida, what kind of brand new fool

2197
02:03:14,760 --> 02:03:15,080
Speaker 6: are you?

2198
02:03:15,280 --> 02:03:18,920
Speaker 2: Beautiful? Amazing how Florida manages to work their way in

2199
02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:21,880
Speaker 2: almost every All Right, the chef Kevin wired you're up

2200
02:03:21,920 --> 02:03:23,960
Speaker 2: next with our brand new Fool segment.

2201
02:03:24,480 --> 02:03:27,360
Speaker 7: Okay, doesn't say exactly where this take place, but this

2202
02:03:27,440 --> 02:03:31,600
Speaker 7: is an interesting story. So Quest Diagnostics had been robbed

2203
02:03:31,600 --> 02:03:34,000
Speaker 7: and this is a big robbery, seven hundred and eighty

2204
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:38,960
Speaker 7: thousand dollars. A couple of guys tied up, a couple

2205
02:03:39,000 --> 02:03:42,839
Speaker 7: of people ransacked, use explosives to break into a safe.

2206
02:03:43,120 --> 02:03:45,120
Speaker 7: Now this is where it gets interesting. They made an

2207
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:48,040
Speaker 7: escape attempt, and of course the law enforcement quick to

2208
02:03:48,080 --> 02:03:51,800
Speaker 7: respond to that they dropped their cash, approximately fifty thousand

2209
02:03:51,880 --> 02:03:55,200
Speaker 7: dollars worth, where a couple of security guards who are

2210
02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:58,200
Speaker 7: part of the response team, decided, you know what, let's

2211
02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:01,680
Speaker 7: take this dropped stoolen money at these robbers left behind

2212
02:04:01,720 --> 02:04:04,280
Speaker 7: and try to use it for ourselves. And this is

2213
02:04:04,280 --> 02:04:08,320
Speaker 7: where it really gets interesting. They ended up giving it

2214
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 7: away because they thought they were caught by police, but

2215
02:04:11,920 --> 02:04:14,760
Speaker 7: the guys that caught them were actually impersonating police officers.

2216
02:04:14,760 --> 02:04:18,520
Speaker 7: They gave away their money to fake cops and all

2217
02:04:18,640 --> 02:04:20,680
Speaker 7: all said, though, all of them are now being held

2218
02:04:20,720 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 7: in court. The robbers, the security guards, the fake police

2219
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:27,720
Speaker 7: are all facing various charges. So yeah, if you're gonna

2220
02:04:27,920 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 7: try to make away with some cash, make sure the

2221
02:04:30,040 --> 02:04:32,400
Speaker 7: cops are real before you surrender to that.

2222
02:04:32,960 --> 02:04:34,760
Speaker 8: So what kind of randy fool are you?

2223
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:34,960
Speaker 10: You know?

2224
02:04:35,920 --> 02:04:38,960
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure. I'm mildly curious where that took place.

2225
02:04:39,840 --> 02:04:43,000
Speaker 2: We have Quest Diagnostics here in Las Vegas. I do

2226
02:04:43,040 --> 02:04:45,200
Speaker 2: not sure do you have it in California that do?

2227
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:47,800
Speaker 7: I'm not sure and I need to maybe look look

2228
02:04:47,880 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 7: up more on now exactly for giggles, Yeah, just forget not.

2229
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:52,840
Speaker 2: That big a deal. But so there you have it.

2230
02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:55,680
Speaker 2: Another rousing addition of what kind of brand new fool

2231
02:04:56,320 --> 02:04:56,720
Speaker 2: are you?

2232
02:04:57,400 --> 02:04:57,440
Speaker 11: Is?

2233
02:04:57,480 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 2: In the books? You know, I was mildly tempted to

2234
02:05:02,520 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 2: mention Aaron Rodgers. Well, we typically don't bring celebrities into this.

2235
02:05:06,280 --> 02:05:09,840
Speaker 2: We just have regular folks, you know, like breaking into

2236
02:05:09,880 --> 02:05:13,040
Speaker 2: jail or doing stupid crazy things like that. You get

2237
02:05:13,040 --> 02:05:16,160
Speaker 2: to drift. But what that does now is allow us

2238
02:05:16,160 --> 02:05:19,960
Speaker 2: to segue into our second favorite bit that we lovingly

2239
02:05:20,040 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 2: refer to as what my name? And here we go.

2240
02:05:27,880 --> 02:05:34,200
Speaker 2: All right, recently, I just completed my fortieth year as

2241
02:05:34,240 --> 02:05:39,400
Speaker 2: a head basketball coach in college and so at forty years,

2242
02:05:39,440 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 2: I am the longest tenured coach in college basketball at

2243
02:05:42,640 --> 02:05:46,840
Speaker 2: the same school, Ian Roddy, what my name?

2244
02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:50,480
Speaker 6: I was confident that you said the same school, So

2245
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 6: I know I'm wrong, but I'm a guess.

2246
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:53,880
Speaker 8: Rick Patino, not.

2247
02:05:53,920 --> 02:05:56,880
Speaker 2: Rick Patino, because he's fairly well branded. He's been around

2248
02:05:56,880 --> 02:05:59,280
Speaker 2: a long time, for sure, but he's fairly well new

2249
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:02,440
Speaker 2: at Saint John's. All right, forty years at the same

2250
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:05,200
Speaker 2: school college basketball, and the longest tenured head coach at

2251
02:06:05,200 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 2: the same school in college basketball. That's the department of

2252
02:06:07,920 --> 02:06:10,480
Speaker 2: redundancy department, Kevin Wired, what my name.

2253
02:06:10,400 --> 02:06:11,600
Speaker 8: Forty years at the same school.

2254
02:06:11,600 --> 02:06:16,040
Speaker 7: Man, I have the same school, dang, Coach K retired,

2255
02:06:16,120 --> 02:06:18,720
Speaker 7: so I tried that after that happened, and Jim Baeheim

2256
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:20,720
Speaker 7: retired too, So all all the old ones.

2257
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:22,640
Speaker 8: Ugh can't get this one.

2258
02:06:23,400 --> 02:06:26,200
Speaker 2: All right, we'll come back to it. Forty years long,

2259
02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 2: ast tenure, same school, college basketball head coach I got,

2260
02:06:30,240 --> 02:06:32,600
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey might get this. Mark Ramsey, what my name?

2261
02:06:33,880 --> 02:06:35,600
Speaker 8: I can only think I don't know his name, but

2262
02:06:35,680 --> 02:06:36,800
Speaker 8: the guy from Kentucky.

2263
02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:40,280
Speaker 2: You're thinking of John Caliparia, but he has him been

2264
02:06:40,320 --> 02:06:44,880
Speaker 2: there forty years. It's actually Greg Campy from Oakland University.

2265
02:06:45,160 --> 02:06:46,840
Speaker 2: You guys, I bet you knew that.

2266
02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:48,920
Speaker 8: That's Michigan in Michigan, right Oakland?

2267
02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:52,000
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, exactly right, Oakland University in Michigan. Really nice

2268
02:06:52,040 --> 02:06:56,360
Speaker 2: school and they made the tournament. They made the tournament.

2269
02:06:56,400 --> 02:06:58,120
Speaker 2: You saw his press conference earlier in the week, and

2270
02:06:58,200 --> 02:07:01,680
Speaker 2: that's that's when this came out. I believe in twenty

2271
02:07:01,760 --> 02:07:03,960
Speaker 2: nine years coach K would have been second, but he's

2272
02:07:04,000 --> 02:07:07,600
Speaker 2: since retired. Okay, all right, we're gonna continue on in

2273
02:07:07,640 --> 02:07:11,280
Speaker 2: our March madness what my name theme? I've scored more

2274
02:07:11,320 --> 02:07:15,960
Speaker 2: points than any other player in March Madness history. Ian Rotti,

2275
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:16,800
Speaker 2: What my name.

2276
02:07:19,840 --> 02:07:20,480
Speaker 8: I'm gonna guess?

2277
02:07:20,480 --> 02:07:23,760
Speaker 2: Stephan Curry, Not Steph Curry. Not a bad guess, but

2278
02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:26,280
Speaker 2: he only had the one year. I've scored more points

2279
02:07:26,280 --> 02:07:29,360
Speaker 2: than any other player in March Madness history. Kevin Wyert,

2280
02:07:29,440 --> 02:07:30,040
Speaker 2: What my name.

2281
02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:32,720
Speaker 8: I'm gonna guess, Christian Latner, Christian.

2282
02:07:32,400 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 2: Lader winner, nicely done, membery played all four years, and

2283
02:07:38,040 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 2: Duke was a fixture in the tournament who probably played,

2284
02:07:40,280 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 2: my god, twenty twenty games. All right, I have the

2285
02:07:44,920 --> 02:07:50,760
Speaker 2: most head coaching wins in March Madness of all time,

2286
02:07:51,360 --> 02:07:52,600
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey, What my name?

2287
02:07:54,760 --> 02:07:58,320
Speaker 6: I'm only thinking of the guy from UCLA.

2288
02:07:58,560 --> 02:08:02,280
Speaker 2: John Wooden, Yes, not John, Not John Wooden. I'd have

2289
02:08:02,320 --> 02:08:07,000
Speaker 2: the most head coaching wins in March Madness history, in

2290
02:08:07,200 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 2: all time. Ian Roddy, What my.

2291
02:08:10,720 --> 02:08:14,040
Speaker 8: Name could it be? Coach K Mike Krzyzewski.

2292
02:08:14,400 --> 02:08:17,400
Speaker 2: It is coach K. Remember twenty nine and you got

2293
02:08:17,440 --> 02:08:20,800
Speaker 2: to remember too. And here's John Wooden's a good guess.

2294
02:08:20,880 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 2: But up until nineteen seventy five they only had thirty

2295
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:26,680
Speaker 2: two teams, and so you don't have to win three

2296
02:08:26,720 --> 02:08:27,880
Speaker 2: or four games to win the tournament.

2297
02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:28,520
Speaker 10: Uh.

2298
02:08:28,960 --> 02:08:30,400
Speaker 2: And then in the sixties I think it was even

2299
02:08:30,480 --> 02:08:34,480
Speaker 2: less than that. So Skrzyzewski was most of his career

2300
02:08:34,560 --> 02:08:39,240
Speaker 2: was with you know in since they went to sixty

2301
02:08:39,280 --> 02:08:41,560
Speaker 2: four teams in nineteen eighty five, I believe it was

2302
02:08:41,840 --> 02:08:46,640
Speaker 2: all right. I still, after all these years, I still

2303
02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:53,360
Speaker 2: hold the all time single game scoring record during March

2304
02:08:53,400 --> 02:08:58,200
Speaker 2: Madness with sixty one points. Kevin Wired What my name?

2305
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:00,960
Speaker 8: Sixty one points? I was gonna guess Steph Curry.

2306
02:09:01,520 --> 02:09:06,760
Speaker 2: Not Steph Curry, but fair enough. After all these years,

2307
02:09:06,960 --> 02:09:10,160
Speaker 2: I still hold the all time single career scoring record

2308
02:09:10,920 --> 02:09:15,120
Speaker 2: with sixty one points in a March Madness game. Mark Ramsey,

2309
02:09:15,120 --> 02:09:20,000
Speaker 2: What my name? Patrick ewing Hey, good guess not him

2310
02:09:20,320 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 2: of Georgetown fame. After all these years, I still hold

2311
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:28,560
Speaker 2: the all time single career scoring record in March Madness

2312
02:09:29,680 --> 02:09:32,720
Speaker 2: in a single game sixty one points. Ian Roddy, What

2313
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 2: my name?

2314
02:09:33,360 --> 02:09:35,160
Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure that was Austin Carr.

2315
02:09:35,200 --> 02:09:42,120
Speaker 2: It is Austin Carr from Notre Dame. Austin Carr. All right.

2316
02:09:43,800 --> 02:09:47,440
Speaker 2: So the term March Madness was actually first coined an

2317
02:09:47,480 --> 02:09:52,080
Speaker 2: Illinois basketball tournament in nineteen thirty nine, but I'm the

2318
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:55,320
Speaker 2: one who really credited with coining the urnam March madness

2319
02:09:55,960 --> 02:10:01,960
Speaker 2: during the tournament back in nineteen eighty two. Kevin Wyatt

2320
02:10:02,000 --> 02:10:02,640
Speaker 2: what my name?

2321
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:05,680
Speaker 7: Back in nineteen eighty two coined the term Mark It's

2322
02:10:05,680 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 7: gotta be some like newspaper writer, but I can't.

2323
02:10:08,400 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 8: I wouldn't run on the right track.

2324
02:10:09,800 --> 02:10:12,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, got a guess.

2325
02:10:12,040 --> 02:10:13,560
Speaker 8: No, I would not know that.

2326
02:10:13,800 --> 02:10:15,480
Speaker 2: I guarantee you guys will have heard of this guy

2327
02:10:15,480 --> 02:10:18,440
Speaker 2: when I say the name. I'm credited with coining the

2328
02:10:18,560 --> 02:10:23,120
Speaker 2: term march madness by back in nineteen eighty two, Mark Ramsey,

2329
02:10:23,120 --> 02:10:23,720
Speaker 2: What my name?

2330
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:29,880
Speaker 8: I can only think of the coach from last the

2331
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:32,000
Speaker 8: one who used to chew on the towel all the time.

2332
02:10:32,040 --> 02:10:35,840
Speaker 2: It was Jerry Tarkanian. Yeah he was not him. I

2333
02:10:35,920 --> 02:10:38,920
Speaker 2: am credited with coining the term march madness back in

2334
02:10:39,000 --> 02:10:41,360
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. Ian Roddy, What my name?

2335
02:10:42,240 --> 02:10:44,000
Speaker 8: I'm gonna guess John Wooden on this.

2336
02:10:43,920 --> 02:10:48,400
Speaker 2: One, fair enough, guess it's actually the great Brent Musburger.

2337
02:10:49,000 --> 02:10:51,480
Speaker 2: Brett Musburger was credited with that night in nineteen eighty two.

2338
02:10:52,640 --> 02:10:57,240
Speaker 2: All right, switching gears ever so quickly, I'm actually the

2339
02:10:57,400 --> 02:11:05,880
Speaker 2: highest paid college athlete at five point nine million. On

2340
02:11:06,040 --> 02:11:10,240
Speaker 2: the highest paid college athlete nil five point nine million.

2341
02:11:10,280 --> 02:11:11,440
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey, What my name?

2342
02:11:12,960 --> 02:11:13,400
Speaker 5: Could it be?

2343
02:11:13,480 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 8: The nice lady from Iowa, Miss Clark's.

2344
02:11:16,960 --> 02:11:19,600
Speaker 2: I think she's around a million. Yeah, she's on her way.

2345
02:11:20,160 --> 02:11:24,760
Speaker 2: I am. I am the highest paid NIL college athlete

2346
02:11:24,760 --> 02:11:27,280
Speaker 2: at five point nine million. Ian Roddy What my name?

2347
02:11:28,040 --> 02:11:30,040
Speaker 6: I know it's got to be one of two guys,

2348
02:11:30,560 --> 02:11:32,280
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna guess Bronnie James.

2349
02:11:32,400 --> 02:11:35,440
Speaker 2: It is Bronnie James. Who would have been your second game?

2350
02:11:35,520 --> 02:11:35,720
Speaker 10: Yeah?

2351
02:11:35,800 --> 02:11:39,320
Speaker 6: I was guessing Sear Sanders, but oh yeah, Bronnie makes sense.

2352
02:11:39,360 --> 02:11:42,160
Speaker 6: I guess arch Manning too, just because of the name. No, actually,

2353
02:11:42,280 --> 02:11:45,240
Speaker 6: arch Manning. I think they don't let him take nil

2354
02:11:45,360 --> 02:11:47,640
Speaker 6: until he's a starter. It's interesting they're like not letting

2355
02:11:47,680 --> 02:11:48,080
Speaker 6: him do it.

2356
02:11:48,160 --> 02:11:51,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I heard he was offered like three million,

2357
02:11:51,320 --> 02:11:54,760
Speaker 2: but regardless of still Bronnie James fair, fair enough, all right.

2358
02:11:54,920 --> 02:11:57,000
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of this guy. I've had some

2359
02:11:57,160 --> 02:12:00,440
Speaker 2: dealings with him. Love the love the guy. I've won

2360
02:12:00,760 --> 02:12:04,680
Speaker 2: more Big Ten Conference tournament games than any coach in

2361
02:12:04,760 --> 02:12:09,040
Speaker 2: Big Ten history. Kevin Wirrett, What my name?

2362
02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:14,800
Speaker 8: I'm gonna guess? Uh, tom Izzo.

2363
02:12:15,240 --> 02:12:19,040
Speaker 2: It is tom Izzo has the one championship over Florida

2364
02:12:19,040 --> 02:12:21,160
Speaker 2: in two thousand. But he's also been to eight final fours.

2365
02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:23,920
Speaker 2: And if you don't think that's a that's a you know,

2366
02:12:24,000 --> 02:12:26,840
Speaker 2: great you know what fact checked me on that, Ian

2367
02:12:27,000 --> 02:12:29,680
Speaker 2: or somebody. I want to say eight final fours, but

2368
02:12:29,720 --> 02:12:31,800
Speaker 2: I don't want to be wrong. The reason it's significant

2369
02:12:32,840 --> 02:12:35,920
Speaker 2: is because we talked about Purdue earlier in the show

2370
02:12:35,960 --> 02:12:38,720
Speaker 2: and they, you know, they would like eight final fours.

2371
02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:41,880
Speaker 2: Thank you Ian for checking Bud. You know, we talked

2372
02:12:41,880 --> 02:12:47,200
Speaker 2: about gene Katie spelled k e. A d y, longtime

2373
02:12:47,320 --> 02:12:49,880
Speaker 2: legendary coach at Purdue. If you were to go to

2374
02:12:49,960 --> 02:12:54,000
Speaker 2: a Purdue game in Weslafayette, you'll you'll observe the game

2375
02:12:54,080 --> 02:12:57,760
Speaker 2: being played on Gene Katie floor. Never went to a

2376
02:12:57,800 --> 02:13:01,760
Speaker 2: Final four. Perdue probably consider the greatest Purdue coach of

2377
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:08,400
Speaker 2: all time. Speaking of Purdue, when Zach Edi became the

2378
02:13:08,520 --> 02:13:11,600
Speaker 2: all time leading scorer for Purdue basketball this past week,

2379
02:13:12,120 --> 02:13:15,920
Speaker 2: he broke my record. Mark Ramsey, what my name?

2380
02:13:17,760 --> 02:13:19,240
Speaker 8: Mark has no clue.

2381
02:13:19,320 --> 02:13:21,200
Speaker 2: We're going we're going deep into the cookie jar on

2382
02:13:21,200 --> 02:13:23,480
Speaker 2: this one. But but again it's a trivia question. So

2383
02:13:23,520 --> 02:13:30,000
Speaker 2: it's a trivia type question, and you know, you guys

2384
02:13:30,080 --> 02:13:31,680
Speaker 2: might have heard this name he was on the cover

2385
02:13:31,720 --> 02:13:35,600
Speaker 2: of Sports Illustrated once. I'll that's a clue, all right.

2386
02:13:36,600 --> 02:13:39,840
Speaker 2: When Zach Edy became Produe's all time leading scorer this

2387
02:13:39,880 --> 02:13:43,520
Speaker 2: past week, he broke my record, Ian Roddy, what.

2388
02:13:43,600 --> 02:13:51,120
Speaker 8: My name, ah Drew Brees because alumni from.

2389
02:13:52,520 --> 02:13:55,520
Speaker 2: To the best of my knowledge, to the best of

2390
02:13:55,560 --> 02:13:58,200
Speaker 2: my knowledge, Brew Drew Brees did not play basketball. But

2391
02:13:58,240 --> 02:13:59,560
Speaker 2: you know I got a few holes in my game,

2392
02:13:59,640 --> 02:14:02,560
Speaker 2: so check that out, all right. When Zachy and he

2393
02:14:02,640 --> 02:14:07,360
Speaker 2: became Produce all time leading scorer this past week in basketball,

2394
02:14:07,440 --> 02:14:13,640
Speaker 2: he broke my record. Uh, Mark, come on, Kevin Wyre,

2395
02:14:13,680 --> 02:14:14,400
Speaker 2: you want to give it a one?

2396
02:14:14,440 --> 02:14:14,600
Speaker 5: Oh?

2397
02:14:14,640 --> 02:14:18,160
Speaker 7: I could not tell you this. I don't even know

2398
02:14:18,240 --> 02:14:21,000
Speaker 7: who played it had Purdue, so fair enough?

2399
02:14:21,120 --> 02:14:23,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough. Actually, a guy by the name of

2400
02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:27,800
Speaker 2: Rick mount Rick Mountain, if you google that, he's he's

2401
02:14:27,800 --> 02:14:32,000
Speaker 2: a pretty pretty famous, pretty famous guy. Uh and a

2402
02:14:32,320 --> 02:14:36,840
Speaker 2: and a big time score. So uh got to your head? Ian,

2403
02:14:36,880 --> 02:14:37,960
Speaker 2: who wins it all this year?

2404
02:14:39,760 --> 02:14:41,400
Speaker 8: I gotta go you. It's hard to say.

2405
02:14:41,640 --> 02:14:43,520
Speaker 2: You come too, man, They're gonna repeat. I don't care

2406
02:14:43,720 --> 02:14:45,600
Speaker 2: that no one did it, three or four teams done

2407
02:14:45,720 --> 02:14:47,000
Speaker 2: and forty years. I get all that no one's done

2408
02:14:47,040 --> 02:14:49,560
Speaker 2: it since twenty twelve. Dude, they got five shooters and

2409
02:14:49,600 --> 02:14:52,520
Speaker 2: they could defend like crazy. It's who can win six

2410
02:14:52,560 --> 02:14:54,720
Speaker 2: in a row. Who can you trust when the heat

2411
02:14:54,760 --> 02:14:56,760
Speaker 2: gets hot and it's hard to breathe. You gotta go

2412
02:14:56,840 --> 02:14:59,720
Speaker 2: three straight weekends and win back to back games three

2413
02:14:59,720 --> 02:15:02,680
Speaker 2: state weekends, do or die? And I think you comes

2414
02:15:02,720 --> 02:15:06,640
Speaker 2: better this year than they were last year. I really do, chef.

2415
02:15:06,680 --> 02:15:08,080
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? Who wins it all?

2416
02:15:08,160 --> 02:15:10,800
Speaker 8: Give me long Beach State? No, in all serious system.

2417
02:15:10,800 --> 02:15:12,919
Speaker 2: I would love it that. Yeah, right, that would be something.

2418
02:15:12,840 --> 02:15:15,680
Speaker 7: Fifteen seed or however winning the championship, right, But anyway,

2419
02:15:16,680 --> 02:15:18,400
Speaker 7: Iowa State, man, how do they look today?

2420
02:15:18,520 --> 02:15:18,680
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2421
02:15:18,920 --> 02:15:21,920
Speaker 7: That they look incredibly impressive. That Houston team, I mean

2422
02:15:23,600 --> 02:15:26,240
Speaker 7: forty one points for the game. Siowa State plays that

2423
02:15:26,320 --> 02:15:27,880
Speaker 7: type of defense, They're gonna be a tough out in

2424
02:15:27,880 --> 02:15:31,640
Speaker 7: that tournament. So uh, just to go from the common

2425
02:15:31,680 --> 02:15:34,080
Speaker 7: pick of Yukon, that'll be my pick Iowa State.

2426
02:15:35,560 --> 02:15:37,720
Speaker 2: That would be something. I wonder what kind of seed

2427
02:15:37,760 --> 02:15:41,560
Speaker 2: Iowa State's gonna get. Here's what blows me. They're twenty

2428
02:15:41,560 --> 02:15:45,920
Speaker 2: seven and seven, okay, so I I would just say

2429
02:15:45,960 --> 02:15:50,560
Speaker 2: this what blows me away about? And this hasn't been

2430
02:15:50,560 --> 02:15:52,520
Speaker 2: talked about. I brought it up with with Jared Smith

2431
02:15:52,520 --> 02:15:56,240
Speaker 2: earlier in the show. Houston has four losses this year,

2432
02:15:57,480 --> 02:16:01,800
Speaker 2: two or two Iowa State and they just completely blitzed

2433
02:16:01,800 --> 02:16:06,120
Speaker 2: Houston on Saturday. They beat him by twenty eight points. Unreal.

2434
02:16:07,160 --> 02:16:11,680
Speaker 2: And so I will guarantee you there are probably some

2435
02:16:12,320 --> 02:16:16,920
Speaker 2: bracketology wonks out there. I am not a bracketology wonk,

2436
02:16:17,440 --> 02:16:21,280
Speaker 2: but with North Carolina going down, and you know, I

2437
02:16:21,360 --> 02:16:23,440
Speaker 2: think Purdude's gonna be a number one seed, Yukon's gonna

2438
02:16:23,440 --> 02:16:25,640
Speaker 2: be a number one seed, Houston's gonna be a number

2439
02:16:25,640 --> 02:16:32,440
Speaker 2: one seed. Tennessee will not be, North Carolina will not be.

2440
02:16:33,320 --> 02:16:36,000
Speaker 2: So the question is who might it be? And I

2441
02:16:36,440 --> 02:16:41,240
Speaker 2: will bet you that somebody is going to anoint Iowa

2442
02:16:41,280 --> 02:16:44,840
Speaker 2: State as a number one seed. I don't know that

2443
02:16:44,920 --> 02:16:48,720
Speaker 2: I can do that, but someone's gonna do it. Someone's

2444
02:16:48,760 --> 02:16:51,600
Speaker 2: gonna do it. And I don't know what their magical

2445
02:16:51,680 --> 02:16:54,160
Speaker 2: lecture is. I know they played great defense. They got

2446
02:16:54,200 --> 02:16:59,000
Speaker 2: completely Houston got completely obliterated by Iowa State. I simply

2447
02:16:59,000 --> 02:17:01,840
Speaker 2: did not see that coming. And there seven lost team,

2448
02:17:02,120 --> 02:17:04,320
Speaker 2: all right, But that's the beauty of this tournament, you know.

2449
02:17:04,879 --> 02:17:09,200
Speaker 2: And it's not necessarily who is the best team, it's

2450
02:17:09,240 --> 02:17:12,320
Speaker 2: who's playing the best. And they just waxed Baylor and

2451
02:17:12,320 --> 02:17:15,240
Speaker 2: they destroyed Kansas State. They won their three tournament games

2452
02:17:15,280 --> 02:17:18,200
Speaker 2: this past week. Iowa State, I'm not joking by like

2453
02:17:18,280 --> 02:17:22,440
Speaker 2: sixty six points, something ridiculous, something that maybe not that much,

2454
02:17:22,640 --> 02:17:24,800
Speaker 2: but they would be Houston by twenty eight. I need

2455
02:17:24,840 --> 02:17:27,480
Speaker 2: to be Baylor by fourteen. That's forty two. Be Kansas

2456
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:31,160
Speaker 2: State on sixty one points for crying out loud. So

2457
02:17:31,240 --> 02:17:35,640
Speaker 2: there you have it, all right, coming up, John Gruden

2458
02:17:36,760 --> 02:17:42,000
Speaker 2: landed the job. Yeah he's not in the NFL, but

2459
02:17:42,680 --> 02:17:45,119
Speaker 2: it's with football. I'll share with you what's going on

2460
02:17:45,240 --> 02:17:48,480
Speaker 2: in the world of John Gruden. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're

2461
02:17:48,480 --> 02:17:50,560
Speaker 2: coming to live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tireck

2462
02:17:50,600 --> 02:17:52,760
Speaker 2: dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

2463
02:17:52,800 --> 02:17:56,280
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. I were back

2464
02:17:56,280 --> 02:17:58,640
Speaker 2: at the Bernie Fraddle Show Fox Sports Radio. Comedy Live

2465
02:17:58,720 --> 02:18:02,560
Speaker 2: from the tarret dot Com studio is here in Las Vegas.

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02:18:03,200 --> 02:18:05,600
Speaker 2: You all remember John Gruden. As a matter of fact,

2467
02:18:05,760 --> 02:18:08,360
Speaker 2: back the first week in January, there was a rumor

2468
02:18:08,400 --> 02:18:12,640
Speaker 2: floating that he might be landing back in the NFL

2469
02:18:12,840 --> 02:18:16,400
Speaker 2: with what they even mentioned the New York New York.

2470
02:18:16,600 --> 02:18:19,280
Speaker 2: The New Orleans Saints is a possible landing spot well

2471
02:18:19,320 --> 02:18:21,640
Speaker 2: that did not not as a head coach, but in

2472
02:18:21,680 --> 02:18:26,640
Speaker 2: some sort of capacity that obviously did not materialize. And

2473
02:18:26,760 --> 02:18:29,800
Speaker 2: at this point I did not see that John Gruden

2474
02:18:29,840 --> 02:18:31,360
Speaker 2: has a root back to the NFL. Not that it

2475
02:18:31,440 --> 02:18:34,280
Speaker 2: can't change, but I don't see it at this point.

2476
02:18:34,760 --> 02:18:37,600
Speaker 2: So in the meantime, John stan busy. It turns out

2477
02:18:37,640 --> 02:18:41,119
Speaker 2: he will be. He will be working as an advisor

2478
02:18:41,280 --> 02:18:45,039
Speaker 2: with the Mulano Seamen of the European League of Football.

2479
02:18:45,120 --> 02:18:47,920
Speaker 2: They're based in Milan, Italy. They're five time winners of

2480
02:18:48,000 --> 02:18:52,480
Speaker 2: the Italian Football League. Well their five time winners. How

2481
02:18:52,560 --> 02:18:56,600
Speaker 2: much advice do they need? Anyway? I don't know that

2482
02:18:56,640 --> 02:18:59,080
Speaker 2: I've ever heard of the milinald Seamen. Most American football

2483
02:18:59,120 --> 02:19:01,640
Speaker 2: fans haven't. But you might have heard of Milan native

2484
02:19:01,640 --> 02:19:04,680
Speaker 2: Giorgio Tavecio. He's a former NFL kicker and he's a

2485
02:19:04,720 --> 02:19:07,080
Speaker 2: member of the team. Apparently, Gruden will be working with

2486
02:19:07,080 --> 02:19:10,400
Speaker 2: the coaching staff, offering advice how to improve the organization

2487
02:19:10,480 --> 02:19:13,640
Speaker 2: quote in every aspect. We don't know how intensive the

2488
02:19:13,720 --> 02:19:16,800
Speaker 2: role is I doubt he's moving to Milan, Italy. As

2489
02:19:16,840 --> 02:19:18,680
Speaker 2: you know, Gruden has not worked in the NFL since

2490
02:19:18,680 --> 02:19:21,320
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, when he was forced to resign as

2491
02:19:21,360 --> 02:19:24,800
Speaker 2: the Raiders head coach over the league emails currently embroiled

2492
02:19:24,800 --> 02:19:27,200
Speaker 2: in some legal action against the league the league of

2493
02:19:27,200 --> 02:19:30,640
Speaker 2: proceedings are still ongoing, but in the meantime, John Gruden

2494
02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:34,800
Speaker 2: the team announced they're excited that football legend American football

2495
02:19:34,840 --> 02:19:38,600
Speaker 2: agend John Gruden will be working with the Seamen as

2496
02:19:38,680 --> 02:19:41,760
Speaker 2: an advisor. By the way, let's not forget Gruden did

2497
02:19:41,760 --> 02:19:44,959
Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl twenty oh two. With Tampa Bay

2498
02:19:46,040 --> 02:19:48,400
Speaker 2: coming up, Chris profets World of Soccer. But first we go

2499
02:19:48,440 --> 02:19:50,359
Speaker 2: back to our guy, the Chef, Kevin Wyrett.

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02:19:50,040 --> 02:19:53,960
Speaker 7: With the latest college hoops action on Saturday. Number seven

2501
02:19:54,040 --> 02:19:57,280
Speaker 7: Iowa State a big showing on Saturday as they take

2502
02:19:57,320 --> 02:20:00,280
Speaker 7: down the top rank Houston Cougar sixty ninety on to

2503
02:20:00,320 --> 02:20:03,160
Speaker 7: win the Big twelve tournament, holding the Cougars to just

2504
02:20:03,240 --> 02:20:07,480
Speaker 7: twenty seven percent shooting on the game, and that likely

2505
02:20:07,600 --> 02:20:10,080
Speaker 7: knocks the Cougars out of a consideration for the number

2506
02:20:10,120 --> 02:20:12,840
Speaker 7: one overall seed that very well could go to Yukon.

2507
02:20:13,040 --> 02:20:16,240
Speaker 7: They take care of business against number ten Marquette seventy

2508
02:20:16,280 --> 02:20:19,080
Speaker 7: three fifty seven, so Yukon looking to be the top

2509
02:20:19,120 --> 02:20:21,680
Speaker 7: team in the tournament. Houston gonna have to wait and

2510
02:20:21,720 --> 02:20:25,480
Speaker 7: see exactly where their seeding will go after that loss.

2511
02:20:25,840 --> 02:20:28,959
Speaker 7: NC State five wins in five days to take the

2512
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:31,959
Speaker 7: ACC championship. They beat their en State rival, number four

2513
02:20:31,959 --> 02:20:35,360
Speaker 7: North Carolina eighty four to seventy six. The final addition

2514
02:20:35,400 --> 02:20:38,080
Speaker 7: of the PAC twelve Tournament, Oregon takes it over Colorado

2515
02:20:38,160 --> 02:20:40,680
Speaker 7: seventy five to sixty eight. In the Mountain West, it's

2516
02:20:40,680 --> 02:20:44,520
Speaker 7: New Mexico over San Diego State sixty eight to sixty one.

2517
02:20:44,800 --> 02:20:48,720
Speaker 7: Akron scanning two free throws with five seconds to go,

2518
02:20:48,800 --> 02:20:51,119
Speaker 7: they were down by one. Kent State had just taken

2519
02:20:51,120 --> 02:20:54,160
Speaker 7: the lead, but then fouled in the backcourt, so that

2520
02:20:54,240 --> 02:20:56,400
Speaker 7: gave Akron a chance to win it the free throw line,

2521
02:20:56,400 --> 02:20:58,240
Speaker 7: and they did so by a final of sixty two

2522
02:20:58,280 --> 02:21:01,760
Speaker 7: to sixty one, grambling the SWACK champions. They go to

2523
02:21:01,879 --> 02:21:04,240
Speaker 7: the Big Dance for the first time seventy five sixty six.

2524
02:21:04,320 --> 02:21:07,640
Speaker 7: They beat Texas Southern Long beat State. They fired their

2525
02:21:07,680 --> 02:21:11,119
Speaker 7: head coach Dan Munson about a week ago. They let

2526
02:21:11,160 --> 02:21:14,160
Speaker 7: him finish up the season and continue into the postseason

2527
02:21:14,240 --> 02:21:16,680
Speaker 7: and he's gonna get another game. They beat UC Davis

2528
02:21:16,680 --> 02:21:20,879
Speaker 7: in the Big West Championships seventy four to seventy and

2529
02:21:20,959 --> 02:21:23,320
Speaker 7: in the NBA Golden State over the Lakers one twenty

2530
02:21:23,360 --> 02:21:26,040
Speaker 7: eight one to twenty one. Anthony Davis getting hit in

2531
02:21:26,120 --> 02:21:28,000
Speaker 7: the eye and it really looked bad and he could

2532
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:30,360
Speaker 7: not return for the rest of the game. But Man

2533
02:21:30,400 --> 02:21:34,000
Speaker 7: after that game had a great back in for Flow

2534
02:21:34,160 --> 02:21:37,880
Speaker 7: for the first forty six minutes. The last two minutes

2535
02:21:37,879 --> 02:21:40,600
Speaker 7: took forever, a lot of reviews, and the eventually the

2536
02:21:40,600 --> 02:21:42,879
Speaker 7: shot clock couldn't get started. It took a while to

2537
02:21:42,879 --> 02:21:45,840
Speaker 7: get everything sorted out, but Golden State does hold off

2538
02:21:45,879 --> 02:21:47,720
Speaker 7: the Lakers one twenty eight one to twenty one, but

2539
02:21:47,800 --> 02:21:52,439
Speaker 7: it's certainly a cause discussion about the league's replay process.

2540
02:21:52,760 --> 02:21:55,920
Speaker 7: Other NBA scores, they Thunder over the Grizzlies won eighteen

2541
02:21:56,000 --> 02:21:58,840
Speaker 7: one to twelve. Timberwolves take down the Utah Jazz one

2542
02:21:58,959 --> 02:22:02,760
Speaker 7: nineteen to one hundred. In the NFL, the big story

2543
02:22:02,760 --> 02:22:06,440
Speaker 7: of the day Justin Field's getting traded by the Chicago Bears.

2544
02:22:06,440 --> 02:22:08,960
Speaker 7: He's heading to the Steelers for a conditional sixth round

2545
02:22:09,080 --> 02:22:12,640
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five draft pick. And in golf the fifth major,

2546
02:22:13,120 --> 02:22:16,440
Speaker 7: the Players Championship Xanders show Flay ahead of Wyndham Clark

2547
02:22:16,560 --> 02:22:19,199
Speaker 7: by one stroke going into the final round of play

2548
02:22:19,200 --> 02:22:19,800
Speaker 7: on Sunday.

2549
02:22:19,800 --> 02:22:21,400
Speaker 8: Back to you, Bernie, all right.

2550
02:22:21,320 --> 02:22:24,560
Speaker 2: Good job, chef. We covered all on the Bernie Frittle Show.

2551
02:22:24,640 --> 02:22:28,320
Speaker 2: And we are a little over four months away from

2552
02:22:28,360 --> 02:22:30,840
Speaker 2: the Paris Olympics, in which soccer will be back center

2553
02:22:30,879 --> 02:22:32,879
Speaker 2: stage with the women's team. We'll see where they go,

2554
02:22:33,200 --> 02:22:35,560
Speaker 2: and of course the men's team. But whether it's on

2555
02:22:35,600 --> 02:22:37,360
Speaker 2: the field or off the field, in season or out

2556
02:22:37,360 --> 02:22:39,640
Speaker 2: of season, there's never a shortage of news. That's where

2557
02:22:39,640 --> 02:22:41,840
Speaker 2: we bring you Chris Purffett's World of Soccer.

2558
02:22:42,920 --> 02:22:55,280
Speaker 12: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama too.

2559
02:22:58,760 --> 02:23:02,240
Speaker 3: It's all here in this report from the world of soccer.

2560
02:23:02,760 --> 02:23:06,000
Speaker 11: Wonderful and fascinating stuff happening this week in the world

2561
02:23:06,040 --> 02:23:06,560
Speaker 11: of soccer.

2562
02:23:06,600 --> 02:23:06,920
Speaker 2: Bernie.

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02:23:06,959 --> 02:23:09,160
Speaker 11: We're going to get to the biggest story that involves

2564
02:23:09,320 --> 02:23:12,640
Speaker 11: finances here in a second, and indeed the future of

2565
02:23:12,640 --> 02:23:16,000
Speaker 11: the sport as it exists currently in England with the

2566
02:23:16,040 --> 02:23:19,000
Speaker 11: Premier League and in the rest of their table with

2567
02:23:19,360 --> 02:23:22,000
Speaker 11: the English Football League and a deal that fell through.

2568
02:23:22,040 --> 02:23:24,440
Speaker 11: But I want to start with the Champions League as

2569
02:23:24,480 --> 02:23:27,040
Speaker 11: I want to do the Champions League when they're playing

2570
02:23:27,080 --> 02:23:30,720
Speaker 11: their knockout rounds. It's some of my favorite soccer in

2571
02:23:30,800 --> 02:23:35,560
Speaker 11: the world right now. Arsenal advances thanks to penalty kicks.

2572
02:23:35,560 --> 02:23:39,800
Speaker 11: A one zero win over Porto on Tuesday left them

2573
02:23:39,879 --> 02:23:42,680
Speaker 11: tied on aggregate, so they went to penalty kicks. Same

2574
02:23:42,720 --> 02:23:47,760
Speaker 11: thing happened with at Lettico Madrid and Internazional. Atletico advances

2575
02:23:47,840 --> 02:23:51,400
Speaker 11: three to two on penalties. They were able to rally

2576
02:23:51,560 --> 02:23:54,320
Speaker 11: from a one goal deficit on their first leg with

2577
02:23:54,360 --> 02:23:58,400
Speaker 11: a two to one game. Really fun stuff. Very sad

2578
02:23:58,440 --> 02:24:02,920
Speaker 11: to see Internazenal out, however, at Lettiico plenty of fun

2579
02:24:03,000 --> 02:24:06,240
Speaker 11: to have Arsenal great to see them move forward. This

2580
02:24:06,280 --> 02:24:08,320
Speaker 11: is one year for them that I think they should

2581
02:24:08,360 --> 02:24:11,000
Speaker 11: really be cherishing with a lot of their great players

2582
02:24:11,000 --> 02:24:14,279
Speaker 11: they have. The real bout to the day was Barcelona

2583
02:24:14,560 --> 02:24:18,320
Speaker 11: three to one, advancing over Napoli for two. Is the

2584
02:24:18,360 --> 02:24:22,600
Speaker 11: aggregate again kind of part of the fall of Napoli

2585
02:24:22,720 --> 02:24:26,280
Speaker 11: this year after going all in and winning the Italian

2586
02:24:26,520 --> 02:24:31,000
Speaker 11: Seria last season. In spite of these losses for the

2587
02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:35,080
Speaker 11: big Italian clubs, their FIFA coefficient is still very good

2588
02:24:35,080 --> 02:24:37,879
Speaker 11: in a lot of Italian clubs in the Europa League

2589
02:24:38,160 --> 02:24:42,720
Speaker 11: and the Conference Europa Conference remain in contest and it

2590
02:24:42,879 --> 02:24:44,240
Speaker 11: keeps bumming up the coefficient.

2591
02:24:44,280 --> 02:24:45,560
Speaker 1: Why's the coefficient important?

2592
02:24:45,800 --> 02:24:49,080
Speaker 11: Means next year they'll get another guaranteed champion spot for

2593
02:24:49,440 --> 02:24:52,400
Speaker 11: Italian clubs and that leads us to the last one

2594
02:24:52,440 --> 02:24:56,720
Speaker 11: who advances Borussia Dortmund to nil over Eindovin. So that

2595
02:24:56,800 --> 02:25:01,320
Speaker 11: leads us to a very star studded quarter finals we

2596
02:25:01,400 --> 02:25:08,599
Speaker 11: are heading to right here, with Atletico Dortmund, Arsenal, Barcelona,

2597
02:25:08,760 --> 02:25:12,920
Speaker 11: Real Madrid, Manchester City already through, along with Bayern Munich

2598
02:25:12,920 --> 02:25:15,920
Speaker 11: and Paris Saint Germain really the cream of the crop

2599
02:25:16,480 --> 02:25:20,120
Speaker 11: as we are now down to the Elite eight of

2600
02:25:20,200 --> 02:25:22,920
Speaker 11: the Champions League. But what's really become a story this

2601
02:25:23,040 --> 02:25:26,119
Speaker 11: week over in England, over in the UK has been

2602
02:25:26,600 --> 02:25:30,280
Speaker 11: the fallout from Premier League clubs shooting down a deal

2603
02:25:30,360 --> 02:25:31,879
Speaker 11: with the English Football League.

2604
02:25:32,600 --> 02:25:34,160
Speaker 1: It would have been to the tune of about.

2605
02:25:33,959 --> 02:25:38,680
Speaker 11: Nine hundred million British pounds, the idea being that the

2606
02:25:38,720 --> 02:25:42,440
Speaker 11: premier leagues would help to subsidize the EFL clubs and

2607
02:25:42,560 --> 02:25:46,280
Speaker 11: continue to help the lower tiers of English soccer. It

2608
02:25:46,320 --> 02:25:49,480
Speaker 11: was shot down by about ten top flight sides met

2609
02:25:49,520 --> 02:25:52,039
Speaker 11: on Monday. They tried to have a vote vote, but

2610
02:25:52,120 --> 02:25:55,600
Speaker 11: the vote didn't even take place. Ten clubs instead shot

2611
02:25:55,640 --> 02:25:59,039
Speaker 11: down the very proposal of even having a vote, leaving

2612
02:25:59,080 --> 02:26:02,440
Speaker 11: the entire deal in the lurch. Now, let's step back

2613
02:26:02,440 --> 02:26:05,480
Speaker 11: a second. Why is this money important? Why should the

2614
02:26:05,520 --> 02:26:09,240
Speaker 11: Premier League clubs be subsidizing the rest of the EFL. Well,

2615
02:26:09,280 --> 02:26:12,640
Speaker 11: this is part of an ongoing story about the health

2616
02:26:12,720 --> 02:26:16,279
Speaker 11: of the game in England, which houses so many clubs

2617
02:26:16,320 --> 02:26:17,280
Speaker 11: at so many levels.

2618
02:26:17,320 --> 02:26:18,480
Speaker 1: It's what makes the sport over.

2619
02:26:18,400 --> 02:26:22,039
Speaker 11: There so so incredibly special that you can have a

2620
02:26:22,320 --> 02:26:25,640
Speaker 11: story like we saw with FFAX as Welcome to Wrexham,

2621
02:26:25,840 --> 02:26:28,440
Speaker 11: of a club like Wrexham in the National League being

2622
02:26:28,440 --> 02:26:29,600
Speaker 11: able to eventually make.

2623
02:26:29,480 --> 02:26:30,160
Speaker 1: Its way up.

2624
02:26:30,320 --> 02:26:33,560
Speaker 11: It's the livelihood of so many local communities which have

2625
02:26:33,680 --> 02:26:39,080
Speaker 11: a big importance in England in the UK. And really

2626
02:26:39,160 --> 02:26:41,440
Speaker 11: you have to wind back the clock now about five

2627
02:26:41,560 --> 02:26:43,920
Speaker 11: years ago when a collapse of a club called Bury

2628
02:26:44,360 --> 02:26:46,920
Speaker 11: they were expelled from the EFL after they were in

2629
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:50,640
Speaker 11: League One and they went and busted amid financial mismanagement,

2630
02:26:51,360 --> 02:26:54,640
Speaker 11: and it had come on the heels of what we've

2631
02:26:54,680 --> 02:26:57,360
Speaker 11: just seen. The Premier League makes more and more and

2632
02:26:57,440 --> 02:27:00,800
Speaker 11: more money every year and the EFL club really don't

2633
02:27:00,800 --> 02:27:04,000
Speaker 11: see a lot of it. Even though even though a

2634
02:27:04,040 --> 02:27:08,360
Speaker 11: lot of the talent and promotion, relegation and everything else

2635
02:27:08,360 --> 02:27:11,760
Speaker 11: that the Premier League enjoys depends upon the health of

2636
02:27:11,800 --> 02:27:16,600
Speaker 11: the English Football League. It is a problem of inequality

2637
02:27:16,640 --> 02:27:21,039
Speaker 11: in a country in its greatest clubs, and because these

2638
02:27:21,040 --> 02:27:24,360
Speaker 11: clubs are part of their own ecosystem together, it's really

2639
02:27:24,400 --> 02:27:27,039
Speaker 11: hard to argue that the Premier League clubs should just

2640
02:27:27,160 --> 02:27:28,879
Speaker 11: be allowed to do whatever they want.

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02:27:28,959 --> 02:27:31,679
Speaker 1: It's their money, they should be allowed to keep it.

2642
02:27:31,840 --> 02:27:36,480
Speaker 11: They would be made very much so, very impoverished by

2643
02:27:36,520 --> 02:27:39,480
Speaker 11: seeing a lot of their ecosystem get the legs taken

2644
02:27:39,520 --> 02:27:42,840
Speaker 11: out from under it. And pressure remains on fans in

2645
02:27:42,920 --> 02:27:47,080
Speaker 11: England in the Premier League and EFL want to see

2646
02:27:47,120 --> 02:27:48,080
Speaker 11: the EFL support.

2647
02:27:48,240 --> 02:27:49,840
Speaker 1: They want to see that.

2648
02:27:50,080 --> 02:27:53,480
Speaker 11: They had a fan led review in twenty twenty one

2649
02:27:53,920 --> 02:27:57,440
Speaker 11: that looked into the findings of how badly some lower

2650
02:27:57,560 --> 02:28:00,640
Speaker 11: end clubs were being run and where their finances we're going.

2651
02:28:00,680 --> 02:28:05,360
Speaker 11: How very close some clubs like Macclesfield, Derby and Wigan

2652
02:28:05,600 --> 02:28:09,560
Speaker 11: had all been on the verge of insolvency. And now

2653
02:28:09,560 --> 02:28:12,360
Speaker 11: there is pressure both in the both among fans and

2654
02:28:12,440 --> 02:28:16,480
Speaker 11: in the UK government itself for things like an independent

2655
02:28:16,520 --> 02:28:19,680
Speaker 11: football regulator what we call over here footballs are with

2656
02:28:19,760 --> 02:28:23,879
Speaker 11: the power to impose financial settlement on football. There's been

2657
02:28:23,959 --> 02:28:26,880
Speaker 11: pressure to just make sure the Premier League's pays their

2658
02:28:26,959 --> 02:28:31,240
Speaker 11: fair share of the ecosystem that they benefit from. However,

2659
02:28:31,360 --> 02:28:34,000
Speaker 11: there is no deal and now it's left every side

2660
02:28:34,040 --> 02:28:38,440
Speaker 11: scrambling in a big way and it could really impacts

2661
02:28:38,480 --> 02:28:41,040
Speaker 11: the EFL for years to come. And if it impacts

2662
02:28:41,080 --> 02:28:43,920
Speaker 11: the EFL, it won't be before long before it impacts

2663
02:28:44,000 --> 02:28:47,000
Speaker 11: the Premier League as well, because while the Premier League

2664
02:28:47,080 --> 02:28:50,480
Speaker 11: has all the money, they subsist upon this ecosystem where

2665
02:28:50,520 --> 02:28:52,600
Speaker 11: they need to share it. However, it's part of another

2666
02:28:52,640 --> 02:28:55,040
Speaker 11: problem in the Premier League too, and that clubs just

2667
02:28:55,200 --> 02:28:57,400
Speaker 11: don't seem to really be able to agree with one

2668
02:28:57,440 --> 02:29:01,200
Speaker 11: another anymore, both about the money and about just in

2669
02:29:01,240 --> 02:29:03,600
Speaker 11: general how the sports should be run. After all, there

2670
02:29:03,640 --> 02:29:07,560
Speaker 11: was the points deduction that Everton had suffered, and at

2671
02:29:07,600 --> 02:29:11,320
Speaker 11: the same time Everton is crying foul over one infraction.

2672
02:29:11,480 --> 02:29:14,240
Speaker 11: Where you can look at a club like say Manchester

2673
02:29:14,360 --> 02:29:18,040
Speaker 11: City that is being accused of hundreds of infractions and

2674
02:29:18,080 --> 02:29:19,640
Speaker 11: they're not seeing any punishment.

2675
02:29:19,840 --> 02:29:21,439
Speaker 1: Where is the fair answer.

2676
02:29:21,120 --> 02:29:24,160
Speaker 11: Here and can these clubs even work together or will

2677
02:29:24,400 --> 02:29:27,879
Speaker 11: Much like college football in recent years, greed divide them,

2678
02:29:28,360 --> 02:29:31,440
Speaker 11: fracture a lot of the associations that maybe and may

2679
02:29:31,600 --> 02:29:36,480
Speaker 11: even very well endanger the domestic league that we have

2680
02:29:36,520 --> 02:29:39,920
Speaker 11: come to associate in America with the top flight of

2681
02:29:40,680 --> 02:29:45,160
Speaker 11: European football because many people every morning get up and

2682
02:29:45,240 --> 02:29:48,400
Speaker 11: turn on at the NBC channels and get on Peacock

2683
02:29:48,520 --> 02:29:51,560
Speaker 11: to watch the Premier League. It has become a product

2684
02:29:51,640 --> 02:29:54,080
Speaker 11: that has been pushed around the globe and they've done

2685
02:29:54,200 --> 02:29:57,440
Speaker 11: very well at it. But as there's more money rolling

2686
02:29:57,480 --> 02:30:02,000
Speaker 11: in the greed multiplies, Bernie, we also have this week

2687
02:30:02,320 --> 02:30:06,360
Speaker 11: the US men's national team back in action. It's the

2688
02:30:06,400 --> 02:30:12,320
Speaker 11: semi finals of the CONCACAFF Champions League hosting Jamaica. Reminder again,

2689
02:30:13,120 --> 02:30:16,960
Speaker 11: the top nations in the CONCACAFF Nations League are going

2690
02:30:17,000 --> 02:30:21,880
Speaker 11: to be handed invites to Copa America, the contest held

2691
02:30:21,920 --> 02:30:25,440
Speaker 11: in between years of the World Cup, nominally between the

2692
02:30:25,480 --> 02:30:29,160
Speaker 11: South American countries, but this year, as the contest is

2693
02:30:29,200 --> 02:30:33,120
Speaker 11: being held in North America, conca CALF North American region

2694
02:30:33,440 --> 02:30:37,400
Speaker 11: will send some of their top teams to this competition.

2695
02:30:37,600 --> 02:30:39,560
Speaker 11: And for the United States, it's a chance for them

2696
02:30:39,560 --> 02:30:42,720
Speaker 11: to win a very prestigious or at least compete in

2697
02:30:42,760 --> 02:30:46,040
Speaker 11: a very prestigious contest. Now, the USA has always punched,

2698
02:30:46,080 --> 02:30:49,879
Speaker 11: already punched their ticket to Copa America. However, it is

2699
02:30:50,040 --> 02:30:52,640
Speaker 11: safe to say that getting a nation's league title on

2700
02:30:52,680 --> 02:30:54,640
Speaker 11: top of it is a good way to kick off

2701
02:30:54,959 --> 02:30:58,440
Speaker 11: the festivities. Enjoy the weekend, Bernie, and we'll see you

2702
02:30:58,520 --> 02:31:00,359
Speaker 11: next time in the world of soccer.

2703
02:31:00,600 --> 02:31:03,440
Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Chris. Always planned to talk about and

2704
02:31:03,480 --> 02:31:06,640
Speaker 2: we're not even in season. We started this six months

2705
02:31:06,680 --> 02:31:09,920
Speaker 2: before the Men's World Cup a year and a half ago,

2706
02:31:10,240 --> 02:31:13,440
Speaker 2: and it's picked up ever since. So there you have

2707
02:31:13,520 --> 02:31:18,840
Speaker 2: it coming up. You know, we're a little over twelve

2708
02:31:18,840 --> 02:31:22,520
Speaker 2: hours away. Seventy three million brackets will be filled out.

2709
02:31:22,920 --> 02:31:25,360
Speaker 2: They'll fill out, actually, seventy three million people will fill

2710
02:31:25,360 --> 02:31:29,160
Speaker 2: out one hundred and seventy million brackets. Eleven billion dollars

2711
02:31:29,240 --> 02:31:32,600
Speaker 2: of you wager a little thing called March Madness, and

2712
02:31:33,120 --> 02:31:37,320
Speaker 2: the bracket selection show is about twelve hours away. Where

2713
02:31:37,360 --> 02:31:40,439
Speaker 2: am I going with this? If you're rooting for Auburn,

2714
02:31:40,600 --> 02:31:44,039
Speaker 2: and Auburn plays Florida here they tip off in seven

2715
02:31:44,080 --> 02:31:47,480
Speaker 2: hours for the right to win the SEC Tournament champion.

2716
02:31:48,720 --> 02:31:50,600
Speaker 2: If you're rooting for Auburn, I'm going to give you

2717
02:31:50,640 --> 02:31:55,160
Speaker 2: another reason to root for Auburn. An amazing story evolving

2718
02:31:55,360 --> 02:31:59,560
Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl and a young man that's seven years in

2719
02:31:59,600 --> 02:32:02,000
Speaker 2: the making. I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Company live from the Las

2720
02:32:02,120 --> 02:32:04,680
Speaker 2: Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tarrack dot com studios. Keep it

2721
02:32:04,720 --> 02:32:06,879
Speaker 2: locked you listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox

2722
02:32:06,920 --> 02:32:10,400
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. All right? We are wrapping it up on

2723
02:32:10,520 --> 02:32:13,600
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frale Show with Company live from the Tyraq

2724
02:32:13,680 --> 02:32:17,480
Speaker 2: dot com studios here in Las Vegas, and I want

2725
02:32:17,480 --> 02:32:21,760
Speaker 2: to remind folks one last time the Fox Sports Radio

2726
02:32:21,840 --> 02:32:27,000
Speaker 2: Bracket Challenges live tonight at Fox Sports Radio dot Com.

2727
02:32:27,120 --> 02:32:29,240
Speaker 2: Register get rules, be inner for a chance to win

2728
02:32:29,240 --> 02:32:32,400
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Sports Trip with Graduate Hotels. This challenge is

2729
02:32:32,400 --> 02:32:36,720
Speaker 2: sponsored by Graduate Hotels, where college fans stay and tractor supply.

2730
02:32:37,320 --> 02:32:38,879
Speaker 2: Far go any further though, I want to thank my

2731
02:32:38,959 --> 02:32:41,560
Speaker 2: broadcast team. They've been with me since eleven pm Pacific

2732
02:32:42,240 --> 02:32:46,720
Speaker 2: on Saturday night, and that of course is Kevin Wyre

2733
02:32:46,760 --> 02:32:51,080
Speaker 2: at the chef on all the updates. Mark Ramsey, our

2734
02:32:51,160 --> 02:32:53,720
Speaker 2: technical producer, turning old dials, keeping us goood together. And

2735
02:32:53,760 --> 02:32:58,840
Speaker 2: Ian Roddy. Outstanding job as an executive producer. Great teamwork,

2736
02:32:58,879 --> 02:33:02,879
Speaker 2: great great job, guys. Way to keep things rolling. We'll

2737
02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:05,240
Speaker 2: do it next weekend as well as they'll be back

2738
02:33:05,280 --> 02:33:09,360
Speaker 2: on these air waves next Saturday night. Check that next

2739
02:33:09,360 --> 02:33:11,760
Speaker 2: Friday night at eleven pm, Saturday two. But next Friday.

2740
02:33:11,959 --> 02:33:16,120
Speaker 2: All right, we are just under twelve hours, just over

2741
02:33:16,160 --> 02:33:20,840
Speaker 2: twelve hours away now from the March Madness selection show.

2742
02:33:21,840 --> 02:33:24,840
Speaker 2: And you know, as I said, seventy four million people

2743
02:33:24,879 --> 02:33:27,400
Speaker 2: will be filling out brackets, one hundred and seventy million brackets.

2744
02:33:27,959 --> 02:33:30,400
Speaker 2: You've heard the stories about lost productive time at work.

2745
02:33:30,440 --> 02:33:34,520
Speaker 2: Eleven billion dollars will be wagered, all the things. That's

2746
02:33:34,840 --> 02:33:38,320
Speaker 2: why they call it March Madness, thanks to Brent Musburger

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Speaker 2: coining that term back in nineteen eighty two. But I digress.

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Speaker 2: So if you happen to tune into the Auburn Florida

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Speaker 2: SEC Championship game, which tips off here in a little

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Speaker 2: over seven hours, if you were already rooting for Auburn

2751
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Speaker 2: and Bruce Pearl, well you might have another reason now

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Speaker 2: to root for well, not just Auburn, but certainly Bruce

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Speaker 2: Pearl and the whole mushbooka really interesting story that actually

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Speaker 2: started about seven years ago. See, there was a young man,

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Speaker 2: his name is Sam Cunningham. Seven years ago, at the

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Speaker 2: age of twelve, young Sen Cunningham was diagnosed with leukemia.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if you watch Bruce Pearl and you've

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Speaker 2: observed his career, he's got multiple personalities. He produces results,

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Speaker 2: he's on the court, he comes to some sometimes comes

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02:34:50,680 --> 02:34:55,480
Speaker 2: across as a tough guy, tough on players, snarls sneers,

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Speaker 2: gets on the refs, cans, yell at the media. But now,

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Speaker 2: according to Sam Cunningham, Sam Cunningham only knows Bruce Pearl

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Speaker 2: as a nice, caring, loving person. His words his exact words.

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Speaker 2: So where does Sam Cunningham get this unique perspective from. Well,

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Speaker 2: it was born of the greatest struggle in a human

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Speaker 2: being could ever have. In twenty seventeenth, at the age

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Speaker 2: of twelve, Sam Cunningham was diagnosed with leukemia. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure as to the origin of this, but not

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Speaker 2: long after that happened, somebody asked Bruce Pearl if he

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Speaker 2: would just take a minute to record a video and

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02:35:33,200 --> 02:35:36,800
Speaker 2: encouraging video for Sam Cunningham. Well he did more than that.

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Speaker 2: He went out in the video, and you can see

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Speaker 2: the video on the internet. It says, quote, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: beat this sun. That's what Pearl said in the video

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02:35:44,200 --> 02:35:48,080
Speaker 2: cancer picked the wrong ombre, picked the wrong dude, demess

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02:35:48,120 --> 02:35:51,440
Speaker 2: with okay, which Sam found funny. He liked that choice

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02:35:51,480 --> 02:35:54,120
Speaker 2: of words, wrong ombre, wrong dude to mess with. And

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Speaker 2: Sam Cunningham swears he kept that quote with him when

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Speaker 2: he got into his darkest days. He was in the hospital,

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Speaker 2: through all complications, through all the relapses, through all the

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Speaker 2: days what it felt like it might be his last

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Speaker 2: day on Earth. Sam kept watching the video over and

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Speaker 2: over and over and over. Finally, Bruce Pearl met Sam

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Speaker 2: in person, delivered the same line, picked the wrong ombre,

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02:36:14,480 --> 02:36:17,440
Speaker 2: and they became friends. Then one day Bruce Pearl said

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Speaker 2: something even more inspired, and he says, Oh, tell you what, Sam,

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Speaker 2: when you get better, you come to Auburn. You're gonna

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02:36:22,400 --> 02:36:25,760
Speaker 2: be my assistant. And he did. March to twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, Sam Cunningham was declared cancer free. And today

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Speaker 2: Sam Cunningham, seven years later, is the team manager for

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02:36:33,879 --> 02:36:36,800
Speaker 2: Auburn basketball and he's so happy to be here. He

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Speaker 2: believes Bruce Pearl's words truly healed him. Go Sam Go Auburn.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked up. Next the great Andy Furman on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.