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Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Arcano. That's us. Every week the Fellas and

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Speaker 2: we saw a batter week of free agency man It's

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Speaker 2: just it's amazing how the theater never stops in that

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Speaker 2: league and just now that their faces the teams.

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Speaker 3: I'm in the middle of it in.

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia, where the Eagles never shy, always players in free agency.

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Speaker 2: Howie Roseman is big balls. How he and he went

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Speaker 2: out and and he was he was he was active,

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Speaker 2: sequon and going out. You know, Devin White, just amazing.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, my brother.

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Speaker 3: How are you? FITZI man?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm spectacular like you're you're in Philly. Hell.

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Speaker 1: I was sitting there on the couch, just minding my

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Speaker 1: own business. Free agency frenzy starting on Monday, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, I'm just sitting on the

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Speaker 1: couch hanging out with Danabell, like nothing big going on.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden phone blowing up and I'm looking down.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what has happened that would cause my phone

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Speaker 1: to get this many texts? Immediately I think, what did

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Speaker 1: the Raiders do wrong? And instead I'm getting a sea

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Speaker 1: of texts from smart football mindset of telling me my

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Speaker 1: team has finally done it. They have signed a free

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Speaker 1: agent that is meaningful in his prime, that still has

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Speaker 1: everything left that he can give them Christian Wilkins. I

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Speaker 1: mean it was. It was a big week. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna lie like usually on free agency, I'm getting blown

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Speaker 1: up on my my friends and smart people saying you

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Speaker 1: really blew it this time, And instead every single text

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Speaker 1: was positive. I'm waiting for the other shoot to drop. No, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm celebrating. It's a March celebration for me.

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Speaker 2: You should, Christian Wilkins is a great It was a

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Speaker 2: great move. I love I love how the writers are

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Speaker 2: taking shape from head coach on down and how they're.

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Speaker 3: In the whole growth piece. So you should feel good.

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Speaker 2: And it just it's it just big picture of fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand feet. It's amazing how that league is and just

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Speaker 2: you know, and I remember looking at the class going okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, you know, and then I don't know, it

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Speaker 2: just got bigger and then it was all the trades

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Speaker 2: and everything else.

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Speaker 3: What a wild week.

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Speaker 1: This is what the NFL does so well, right, like

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Speaker 1: the fact that Monday was the beginning of the legal

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Speaker 1: tampering period, and I found myself glued to the NFL

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Speaker 1: network for hours for transactions that really aren't historically they

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Speaker 1: don't typically work out. And then above and beyond that.

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Speaker 1: You're right, it was a meh class, right, But they

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Speaker 1: just find a way at the beginning of every one

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Speaker 1: of these league years to suck us all in, remind

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Speaker 1: us why they're king. Like I would argue that Monday's

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Speaker 1: free agency and Tuesday's free agency was getting more traction

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Speaker 1: than most interest in most regular season games for other sports.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just how dominant football is in the market.

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Speaker 1: And it speaks to what we talk about all the

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Speaker 1: time of the offseason, like hope becomes the thing that

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Speaker 1: just absolutely rules every fan as they're sitting there watching them.

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Speaker 1: It's like nobody's sitting here thinking, oh, that's probably a

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Speaker 1: bad contract. Everybody's sitting here saying, my team just got

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Speaker 1: drastically better. That's what we all do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, the big the two biggest signings, I mean, Kirk

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Speaker 2: Cousins gots a monster contract. We were talking about that,

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Speaker 2: rememberand last week you and Figgy we're talking about that number,

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Speaker 2: the big number man for Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And the crazy part about it is I understand

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Speaker 1: why and why the Falcons went that route. I know

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Speaker 1: it feels like a lot of money, but what's Minnesota's

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Speaker 1: actual for everybody? You know? And obviously yesterday they trade

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Speaker 1: telling me, well, that means they're going to try and

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Speaker 1: move up to three or four. If the third or

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Speaker 1: be better than Kirk Cousins has been throughout his career,

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Speaker 1: that would be a home run, right, Like that is

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Speaker 1: so rare. I just the only pause that I pressed

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Speaker 1: them to the super Bowl all of these things, But man,

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Speaker 1: the devil you know versus the devil you don't because

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Speaker 1: now you're dipping into this and you're hoping that this

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Speaker 1: isn't suddenly a draft class. I know we all think

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Speaker 1: this is a great draft class. I would just remind

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Speaker 1: everybody that people vote pretty good at the time. Not me,

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Speaker 1: but many people vote pretty good at the time. But

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Speaker 1: about Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, Mac Jones all

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Speaker 1: being first round picks, and where are four of the

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Speaker 3: Or picks.

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Speaker 2: Now, the cautionary tale is and as the elder Statesman

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Speaker 2: here covered it nineteen ninety nine, and it was McNabb.

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Speaker 2: It was the only quarterback who panned out. Achille Smith,

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Speaker 2: Kay McNown Tim Couch, Dante Kulpepper. I mean that that illustrates,

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Speaker 2: you know, that stuff don't always work out at that position.

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Speaker 3: Totally.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to make it. Well, look at a few

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Speaker 1: years ago when it was Herbert and Tua and you know, Joe,

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Speaker 1: we talked about that like the one really good draft. Right,

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Speaker 1: everybody's obsessed with the one really good quarterback draft of

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Speaker 1: as much as everybody's excited about Drake and Caleb and

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Speaker 1: suddenly Michael Pennix, JUNI You're gonna go in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's excited about all of these, but you look at historically,

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Speaker 1: to hear that because it is hopeful. But man, if

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Speaker 1: You're you're putting a band aid on it every year

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Speaker 1: and get a quarterback. You're gonna regret not having Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: no matter what the cost is.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh Figgy, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Morning guys. You know what, asxciting as I was for

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Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins, I was just as excited that minshew Mania

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Speaker 4: began in Las Vegas because that means they dodged the

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Speaker 4: bullet known as Justin Field. So I was equally as

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Speaker 4: excited for that transaction as I was for Christian Wilkins.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, well, the market is spoken

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Speaker 4: Because if lou Getzy didn't want him, then who else would?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You uh, and you you you've been steadfast on that

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Speaker 2: side that you know, he's not a guy that you

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Speaker 2: want to build around and he's going to be a backup.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, and there is reports that you know, Philadelphia might

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Speaker 4: be interested because he's kind of be a natural fit

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Speaker 4: as a backup at the time, Jalen hurts and they

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Speaker 4: go ahead and trade for Kenny Pickett, who is not

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Speaker 4: even the same fit from a style standpoint, And just

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have to be honest with you. If

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Speaker 2: I'm the Giants, I don't know what you're waiting for.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're the Giant, it's almost like, why not,

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Speaker 4: how much worse can he be than Daniel Jones? See

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Speaker 4: that's a franchise. I'd be like, you know what, trade

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Speaker 4: for him, see what he can do, have a competition,

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Speaker 4: give him a shot.

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Speaker 3: I think he's better than Dangiel Jones. Right now, i'd agree.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think the bar is very high, but I

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Speaker 4: do think he's better than Daniel.

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Speaker 2: Yes, me right, Yeah, I'm sure it's a great If

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Speaker 2: you're a Giant, you got lucky and you actually got

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Speaker 2: an upgrade. If you can, if you can bring him in,

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Speaker 2: I know you know that Giant team is going to

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Speaker 2: be just woeful.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I'd say with the Giants guys is

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Speaker 1: Indy that they want to trade up, and they want

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Speaker 1: to get a quarterback. My argument to this is, if

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Speaker 1: two or three of them in this year's draft. It's

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Speaker 1: not just Marmon Harrison Junior. Right, So if you are Arizona,

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Speaker 1: Giants can move up to four. I've become convinced in

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Speaker 1: the last few days the quarterbacks are going to go

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Speaker 1: one to three and four, and Arizona's going to move

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Speaker 1: down from the fourth overall pick to six, So the

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Speaker 1: Giants can move up to four. It's only two spots.

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Speaker 1: Arizona can still get the wide receiver they want. The

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Speaker 1: Giants will then move up to four and take the

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Speaker 1: fourth best quarterback. The more we get into this, the

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Speaker 1: more I'm starting to wonder if five quarterbacks are going

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Speaker 1: to be selected in the top ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it's wild, Yeah, you got it feels that way

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Speaker 2: when you when you start to kind of look at

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Speaker 5: It does feel like that, and that's why like Minnesota,

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Speaker 5: Minnesota's picking eleven, y'all, like Arizona can't move down to

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Speaker 5: eleven and still get the best wide receiver that they want, right,

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Speaker 5: they can move out of six if the top four quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: They're guaranteed to get one of those two wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: They can't move past six going down. So that's why

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Speaker 1: all this equity Minnesota is picking up for what like,

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Speaker 1: So our team's going to want to move down to eleven, twelve, thirteen,

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Speaker 1: where Minnesota, Denver, and the Raiders are. I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: An interesting thought with Minnesota, and I part of me

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Speaker 4: wonders if they're looking to go even bigger here for

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Speaker 4: a full on rebuild in knowing that Justin Jefferson is

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Speaker 4: up for an extension here pretty soon, and if they're

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Speaker 4: going to go for a young quarterback they just traded

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Speaker 4: for another first round pick, who's to say they don't

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Speaker 4: start shopping Jefferson around and say, hey, Arizona, you want

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Speaker 4: to have another weapon for Kyler Murray, would you take

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Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson for the third over for the fourth overall pick,

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Speaker 4: a proven wide receiver who's still young and not even

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Speaker 4: in his prime yet. And if you're Minnesota now you've

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Speaker 2: What is your I mean, you go through the all

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Speaker 4: It's kind of what they've been missing as far as

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Speaker 1: I think, by the way, that's a home run move.

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Speaker 2: And I felt the same thing about the McCaffrey move,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that move. I also like, I know,

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Speaker 1: And I honestly thought the Gardner Minshee signing was perfect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me say real quick to on Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm with you. I do I agree.

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Speaker 2: All right, Uh, we got a lot to do, man,

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Speaker 2: we have a lot to get I'm very excited about

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just thinking about Keith Mitchell. What's funny?

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Speaker 2: It is a little early on the East coast here

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Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, I, FITZI, there were

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Speaker 2: I mean as once it's wide open, they had that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt Houston. I would argue Connecticut also

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Speaker 1: What did we see yesterday from Tennessee? You know, and

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Speaker 1: the slightest off day, I don't trust them, Right. So

436
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 1: I think we saw sort of the best of one

437
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: strategy versus the worst of the other. Yesterday. We see

438
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 1: Houston absolutely just they roll and they make it look easy,

439
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 1: and then we see Tennessee just get throttled and all

440
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm looking at it and saying, man,

441
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 1: this is why I think sometimes we become enamored with superstars.

442
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 1: But superstars don't necessarily win championships in college basketball.

443
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you can key in on one guy you're

444
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 4: playing one particular game, not necessarily a series, it changes

445
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 4: the entire dynamic. Which is why, even more so than Houston,

446
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 4: I'll love Yukon so much because even though Houston, you know,

447
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 4: does spread it around and they have their three guards,

448
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 4: it is just, you know, it's three guys. Yukon goes

449
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 4: like six deep of guys and you can score fifteen, seventeen,

450
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 4: eighteen a night and you don't know where it's coming

451
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 4: from on a nightly basis. And that's kind of why

452
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 4: I've been on them for the majority of the season,

453
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 4: despite the fact they don't really have any stand out

454
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 4: superstar type players at all. They're just a really good

455
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 4: cohesive unit as a team. You haven't seen You don't

456
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 4: see a lot of that in college basketball these days.

457
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 2: No, because of the the portal. Yeah, and between leaving

458
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: school early and a portal, and then you have a

459
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 2: team like Yukon, which is tested, you know, it's that

460
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: it's there.

461
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 3: There they are. They're really really good. I have to

462
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 3: tell you, I was, I was. I was root for

463
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 3: the Johnny.

464
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 2: To stay to you know, to stay that game last

465
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 2: night because it was it did my heart my heart

466
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 2: well to see Patino and have Saint John's you know.

467
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, they're not there yet, but they like

468
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 2: they hung They're tough.

469
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 4: It's just funny. After right after Patino calls out all

470
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 4: of his players by name publicly, they turn it around

471
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 4: and start playing and turn on at the end of

472
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 4: the season and might find their way in the tournament. Now,

473
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 4: based on their tournament.

474
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: I think they were like a seven seed going in

475
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 2: and you got to a Friday. That was their first

476
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 2: time they got to a Friday since Oh one.

477
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 4: Wow, it's insane.

478
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That is crazy. You mentioned seeing them in

479
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: the tournament. Also pretty significant yesterday, I mean, Purdue gets

480
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,239
Speaker 1: to win over Michigan State. I don't think a lot

481
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: of people stopped in their tracks when they saw that outcome.

482
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: But it should be noted Michigan State's made the Atturney

483
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 1: twenty five straight years. I don't know that we can

484
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 1: say that that's a tournament like Michigan State now needs

485
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: a lot of things to break right for Sparti to

486
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: go into the tournament this year. Like that's that's kind

487
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: of wild to me for a team that, by the way,

488
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: enter this season as a preseason top five team in

489
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: the country. Like the wheels fell off this year for

490
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,959
Speaker 1: Michigan State, for Izzo, and like, I know we're never

491
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: allowed to question is though, but like this was just

492
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: a really bad year and Purdue now beats them again,

493
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: and it's got to be maddening for Michigan State because

494
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: they know the like they know the process to try

495
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: and beat Purdue, and they're close every time. It just can't.

496
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: They were tied with I think two minutes to go

497
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: in that game and they end up losing the second

498
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: time this month that they've been in a game with

499
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: Purdue Layton. They just they can't hang with them. They

500
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: just can't get it done.

501
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't have a closer. Yeah.

502
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 4: The issue with Michigan State though, and maybe it's not

503
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 4: an issue because we get to the tournament and we

504
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 4: want to see legacy brands even though there aren't stand

505
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 4: out players. You wonder if it's close and there's a

506
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 4: first four in force four out situation that because it's

507
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 4: Michigan State and because it's is Oh, even if they

508
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 4: don't think they're that good of a team, it is

509
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 4: old Michigan State. Let's go ahead and put them in

510
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 4: over a team like an Indiana State who people kind

511
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: of want to see and have had a great season

512
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 4: even though they're at a mid major and they have

513
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 4: the guy they call Larry Nerd. You know, it looks

514
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 4: like a you know, an overweight guy at the rec

515
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 4: league and he's just schooling cats left and right. They

516
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 4: might be more deserving than a Michigan State, but it's

517
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 4: Michigan State. Are you going to keep out of blue

518
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 4: blood that's on the bubble for a team that doesn't

519
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 4: really have that same sex appeal For lack of a better.

520
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: Term, you're a thousand percent right about that, And for

521
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,719
Speaker 1: that reason, maybe they do. Maybe they do. And I know,

522
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: like we needs the stat we needs will tell you

523
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: about the Kemp palm and all the reasons that Michigan

524
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: State stands out this year statistically, even though they just

525
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: haven't been able to win those types of games. I'm

526
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: just saying, it's wild to be going into Sunday, you know,

527
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: at this point and to the point that Michigan State

528
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: needs a closer. Ever since they ever since Cashus Winston left,

529
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: they haven't had that guy that can really take over.

530
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty surprising in an nil world that

531
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: Michigan State, of all places, just hasn't figured out how

532
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: to bring in a superstar player. And now they're just

533
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: they're sort of program instead of a program. A note.

534
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, now listen, I agree. I agree. I tell you

535
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,479
Speaker 3: one thing. Know, like I got swept up into yesterday.

536
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: I for the first time the entire college basketball season.

537
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 2: I was actually just enjoying myself just watching like it

538
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 2: started like a little bit jip strips during the week

539
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 2: and it was some fun stuff. And then you know

540
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 2: that I love that Friday, like yesterday, Thursday and Fridays

541
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: the first like you get the fever.

542
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the stakes are highest. You start getting

543
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 4: this quarterfinals and semi finals and you know the championship

544
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 4: games coming up later today and on Sunday for a

545
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 4: selection Sunday that the games have meaning. That's why it

546
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 4: makes all the sense in the.

547
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: World to me, is there is there a part of

548
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: all of us that that to like when you tune

549
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: in on the middle of the day, like middle of

550
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: the day on a Friday. Usually in life there's not

551
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: college basketball going on, like right now there is, right

552
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: it's noon, two o'clock in the afternoon whatever on a Friday,

553
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: you tune in, it just feels different, like there's a

554
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: moment where all right now we're into the real because

555
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: it's a middle of the day on a workday, and

556
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: I love basketball going on, Like it hits different, like

557
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: it hits my senses is oh yeah, oh yeah, this

558
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 1: is a reminder it's time to really get into this.

559
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: Like it just feels different that way.

560
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 3: I love it. I absolutely love it.

561
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: One of my third day It's like, it's why, like

562
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 2: the Bulls, even the ancillary bowls, because if it's you know,

563
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 2: two o'clock on a Wednesday, I got football during the day.

564
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: Like I love that. It's it's why I love day baseball, right,

565
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: I love that sports story of the day. I wish

566
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 2: that college basketball would do that more often, that you

567
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 2: would stagger games and that you would actually have games

568
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 2: at two o'clock afternoon on a Wednesday workday.

569
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 4: Probably will be better than going up against you know,

570
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: NFL games on Thursday nights. During the season, Like if

571
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 4: the alternative is, you know, we can't change the start

572
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 4: time of the season. We have to start in November

573
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 4: or whatever. And you're going against all these other competitors

574
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 4: where you get lost in the shuffle. Why not do

575
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 4: something different and put it in a different time wind

576
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 4: work and at least own the time slot that it's in.

577
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 4: It makes all the sense in the world exactly.

578
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: And like the world's changed where it's like the prime

579
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: time thing like nowadays, like pep, the world is completely different.

580
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: So you know you can put it. We put a

581
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 2: basketball game on two o'clock. Basketball junkies will watch it,

582
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, that's just that's the truth. I

583
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: like to see the NBA do that every once in

584
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: a while, you know, make it like a baseball and

585
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 2: have a game when midweek any afternoon.

586
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 3: I'd love to see that.

587
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that comes back to creative marketing sometimes too.

588
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: How do you get yourself like putting yourself in situations

589
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: where oh, yeah, that's that's our spot and we're going

590
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 1: to own it.

591
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 3: You know.

592
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: I think there's something interesting about that, And you're right,

593
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: you know, that also takes sports thinking outside any sport

594
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: thinking outside the box of just this is what we

595
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: do with this, how we do it? You know I do.

596
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: I will say I really enjoyed this year, like the

597
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: Fox Late night Saturday college basketball feel over the last month,

598
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: it's really been nice, right Like I think they've found

599
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: a nice way over the course because we've we've been

600
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: critical of college basketball on this show. I think over

601
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: the course of the last few weeks, I've watched a

602
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: lot of these broadcasts thinking, hey man, this feels it

603
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: feels big, it feels good, it feels like there's a

604
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: moment happening here. It just takes a minute to it's

605
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: taken longer than normal to get to get up for it.

606
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: But now that it's happening, it feels like it's happening

607
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: in a good way.

608
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm with you.

609
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: And maybe yet maybe it was like for me, it

610
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: was a singular moment of yukon Saint John's gus on

611
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 2: the call at the Garden, and I was like, all right,

612
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: well this feels like college basketball to me right like

613
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 2: that I saw Potito, right, I got goss I feel

614
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 2: and it's like Madison Square Garden, a place that I've

615
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: you know, so for me, especially an East Coast hoop.

616
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 3: Guy, it felt like college basketball to me.

617
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 4: I mean, there's like the Marquee Conference Tournament through all

618
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 4: of these years, you know, has been the Big East

619
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 4: Tournament generally speaking, and there'll be some classic iconic games.

620
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 4: I mean the was it Yukon Syracuse six overtimes or

621
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: whatever it was with Kimba Walker years ago, and there

622
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 4: there's been so many iconic matchups. And to see Yukon

623
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 4: get pushed by an upstart like Saint John in a

624
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 4: situation like that was was really fun to see.

625
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: It was.

626
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like to me, that was that felt

627
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 2: like March. That felt like March madness. That felt like basketball.

628
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 2: What are we making it? Big twelve man Big twelve say,

629
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: it's interesting, and you're gonna see today with Iowa State,

630
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: I'm curious about what you guys are are looking when

631
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 2: it comes.

632
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: To the Big twelve.

633
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: I was stayed in Houston today, you know, I always State

634
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: takes out baalor yesterday.

635
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: I think the funny thing is, like Figgie was just

636
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: talking about how certain brands are gonna get benefit of

637
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: the doubt, Like the Big twelve is gonna get a

638
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: lot of benefit of the doubt. From the committee right,

639
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: like it's been a it's been a brutal conference this year,

640
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: and it's been up and down, like the results have

641
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: been up and down. I sh that everybody sort of

642
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: found a way to smack everybody around so other than Houston.

643
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: So I think, FIGI that there's gonna be a ton

644
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: like the Committee's going to give a ton of weight

645
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: to the Big Twelve.

646
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 4: This year, oh one thousand percent. And look you look

647
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 4: at just the overall resume of the conference, a ton

648
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: of twenty win teams, uh with with you know, solid

649
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 4: or solid resumes across the board. And the crazy part

650
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 4: is the report that came out earlier this week about

651
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 4: the NCUABLEA looking to further expand as a way to

652
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Speaker 4: appease the major conferences, you know, like the Big Twelve.

653
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Speaker 4: And I guess Brett yourmark was one of the ones

654
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Speaker 4: championing that said we need more teams in And it's like, dude,

655
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Speaker 4: you're gonna get like eighty percent of your team's in

656
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 4: there in there anyway? How many more? Did you just

657
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Speaker 4: want to put the entire Big twelve in the field?

658
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Speaker 3: I mean, what are we doing?

659
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Speaker 4: But to your point, because there are big brands with

660
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Speaker 4: twenty plus wins, I do think the Big twelve is

661
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Speaker 4: going to get the benefit of the doubt and get

662
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Speaker 4: a lot of these bids that, honestly I think should

663
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Speaker 4: be more, should go to more deserving teams from other

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Speaker 4: mid majors.

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Speaker 3: So and I guess Mike might.

666
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Speaker 1: Should should it? Like okay, look as somebody that is

667
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Speaker 1: still in my feet. It was about the fact that

668
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Speaker 1: UNLV won ten of their last eleven games and then

669
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Speaker 1: an early hours in their conference tournament means they have

670
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Speaker 1: no shot at the tournament yet again, I still don't know.

671
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Speaker 1: Like I love the concept of mid majors making the

672
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Speaker 1: tournament because it's fun, but also like I don't know, man,

673
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Speaker 1: I mean, just if you've gone through the gauntlet of

674
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Speaker 1: the Big twelve versus the team that's gone through the

675
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Speaker 1: gauntlet in a lesser conference, I don't know, man, Like

676
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of okay with big conference bias in

677
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament out I'll say it, I'm kind of like,

678
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Speaker 1: you know, living all the years in Nashville. It's cute

679
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: when MTSU has a big upset of Michigan State, but

680
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Speaker 1: like year in and year out, Like I mean, if

681
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Speaker 1: you're coming from a tough conference. If I was on

682
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Speaker 1: the committee, I would give that. I would give that

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Speaker 1: some credence.

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Speaker 4: I understand that part and I totally get it. But

685
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Speaker 4: I look at a team like say Texas, which has

686
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Speaker 4: a solid year this year, but I would think for

687
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Speaker 4: their standards not necessarily anything special, and I don't think

688
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 4: we have the highest of expectations for them. If I

689
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Speaker 4: were to say it was Texas or say Indiana State,

690
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Speaker 4: Texas might be better, but I think in a one

691
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Speaker 4: game Indiana State can probably beat them. And I think

692
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Speaker 4: that there's a good story around a solid mid major

693
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Speaker 4: team that has had a really good record this year.

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Speaker 4: I would rather see them in the field over a

695
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Speaker 4: team even if it's from a major conference I don't

696
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Speaker 4: think has a chance to actually make a lot of noise.

697
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Speaker 2: It's cappelling. I mean, I think Texas deserve to begin,

698
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Speaker 2: But I feel.

699
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Speaker 4: You use them as an example.

700
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, now I feel you. It's it's

701
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Speaker 3: it is interesting.

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Speaker 4: I think with Texas, TCU, Oklahoma, I can kind of

703
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Speaker 4: group them all together.

704
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Speaker 3: They're the same.

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Speaker 2: To me, Oh, I listen, I hear you. No, that's

706
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: very fair. All right, Let's take a quick too, and

707
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Speaker 2: we'll come right back. I love them to college hoop

708
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Speaker 2: talk tomorrow, selections someday. The weather is starting to break,

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Speaker 2: Spring is in the air, and we got hoops, Saint

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Speaker 2: Patrick's Day, the whole thing. Fellas hanging right here Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to the tyraq dot com studios.

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Speaker 2: Fellas on, there's great March weekends. The brackets come out

715
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. We'll be fighting about that, and then we'll

716
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 2: be indulging and then by you know, Friday night, half

717
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 2: of us, if not more, we'll be busted up.

718
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Speaker 3: How'd you do? Like, you know, the first day, right,

719
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 3: we have all those.

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Speaker 2: Games, right, and you know it used to be because

721
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Speaker 2: like you had a more better handle, right, you could go,

722
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Speaker 2: you know, thirteen and three on a Thursday, Right, But

723
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Speaker 2: now you're looking and you're going, if you're like nine

724
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Speaker 2: and seven, you feel good on the first day of

725
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Speaker 2: the first day of the tournament.

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Speaker 1: Look. So I was hanging out yesterday a little bit

727
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Speaker 1: with our buddies Cavino or Rich And the question that

728
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: we asked that they were asking is is there a

729
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: bigger fraud in sports than the person that pretends that

730
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Speaker 1: they knew what they were doing when their bracket gets

731
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: filled out, like none of us know. It doesn't matter

732
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Speaker 1: how much you watch. I've had years where I didn't

733
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: watch any college basketball and won my brackets with my buddies.

734
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Speaker 1: I've had years where I covered this sport thoroughly all

735
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Speaker 1: year long and came in last place. Like none of

736
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: us know. We are wild, like we are just throwing

737
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Speaker 1: darts against And that's all I asked. If you're going

738
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Speaker 1: to show me your bracket, then make it like when

739
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: you want it Roulette in Vegas, Like acknowledge that you

740
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: just let it all ride on Black thirty one and

741
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: thirteen and somehow, some way you're paying your mortgage this month.

742
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: If you will admit that you are just lucky and

743
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: not good, then I will listen to your NCAA tournament

744
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: bracket stories. If you tried to tell me that you

745
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: outsmarted the whole world to get the best bracket in history,

746
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: you are a liar and a fraud.

747
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Speaker 2: No, Lisia, I agree, but real quick, if you went back,

748
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, let's say ten years, right, I'm not

749
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 2: only talking first round. I'm not talking about you know,

750
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Speaker 2: because I agree with it. Once you're into the you know,

751
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: sweet sixteen elite a, you know again, you gotta be

752
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 2: there's a high degree of luck.

753
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Speaker 3: But it used to be that you had an idea

754
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Speaker 3: in the.

755
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Speaker 2: First round, like you could go, you know, thirteend three,

756
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 2: twelve and four, like legitimately by by just by knowing,

757
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: by watching the game, because you knew certain teams were

758
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 2: the upsets where that's why there was a Cinderella and

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Speaker 2: that's why there was all that stuff because those they

760
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 2: were few and far between. Now it's it's all crazy.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't disagree with that at all. I don't

762
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Speaker 1: disagree with the fact that you know it is. It

763
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Speaker 1: is chaos from day one, and this year I think

764
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Speaker 1: Figgie and I have both agreed that Houston in Connecticut,

765
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sort of take out of this conversation for

766
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: the rest of right, but for everybody else this year,

767
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't like. I just don't think we have any

768
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: idea what's happening and how it's gonna happen. Like it is,

769
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: it is such a wildly unpredictable year. I just don't

770
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Speaker 1: even know what to make of it.

771
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Speaker 4: And even as much of a sure thing, as I believe,

772
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Speaker 4: as we believe Houston and Yukon are. I thought, at

773
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Speaker 4: the very least per Due would get out of the

774
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 4: first round last year as a one seed, right everyone

775
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 4: in the clock to what three four years ago? I

776
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 4: thought Virginia would get out as a one seed, as

777
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 4: the top overall seed in the tournament, and they got ousted

778
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Speaker 4: in the first round. You know, this is happening more

779
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 4: and more often. Whereas it had never happened in the

780
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: history of the tournament, we've seen it happen twice in

781
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Speaker 4: the last five years, exactly as an incredible exactly like Arizona.

782
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: It was like the big you remember, like back in

783
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 2: the day Lute Olsten, Right, like every once in a

784
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 2: while they'd have a hiccop and it'd be like the shocker,

785
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: Oh my god, fifteen beats of two.

786
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be a two or three seed. You know that.

787
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 4: That would happen every now and then. It was a

788
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Speaker 4: big deal. I think when Fits referenced the MTSU against

789
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 4: Michigan State, I believe the Spartans were two seed that year.

790
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 4: That happens here and there. But say one seeds go down, No,

791
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Speaker 4: that's not heard of.

792
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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 2: I mean for years, wasn't that the always the talking

794
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Speaker 2: point of the first two of the first two days,

795
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Speaker 2: how sixteen has never beaten the one? And like you know,

796
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 2: and back before every game was staggered, and they would

797
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 2: have these live lookings and they let's go over today,

798
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: Well let's go to Buffalo for the East Region first

799
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 2: round game.

800
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Speaker 3: Preston has Kansas on the ropes.

801
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Speaker 2: And then like you did, to go in and five

802
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 2: minutes to go and it was fifty one fifty one,

803
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 2: and like you watch the finish, and they would always

804
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 2: say sixteen has never beating the one and the ivy

805
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: like all those like that was what made the tournament great,

806
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: right you know?

807
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: No, he's not wrong. By the way, I'm looking here

808
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: at the most recent Joe Lenardes and I'm looking the

809
00:38:56,239 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: one versus sixteens this year Yukon Stetson, North Carolina against

810
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: either Wagner or Howard, Purdue versus Grambling, Houston U. C. Davis.

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Speaker 1: I think the ones are safe this year. But I

812
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Speaker 1: will say, when you start to get it, it is

813
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: pretty staggering to see eight nine where Poise State, Texas

814
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Speaker 1: like who knows Nebraska Dayton, who knows for years we all.

815
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Speaker 2: Like those are great games. Yeah, I like yeah, yeah,

816
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Speaker 2: I like like. I think the Braski wins today. Upset today.

817
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 4: I can see that happening. Yeah, they're playing over there.

818
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: I like it.

819
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Speaker 2: And they move, they move it, they move the ball,

820
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Speaker 2: you know. I like their pace. I like them today.

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Speaker 2: I think they I think they win.

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Speaker 1: Ben't you say that? Isn't it like pretty? It's pretty

823
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Speaker 1: alarming right now when you watch teams that move the

824
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: ball well versus teams that don't. It's so you can

825
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: see it in the first two three minutes of a

826
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Speaker 1: game when you've got when you've got one team that's

827
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: just making the other team gas by just moving the

828
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: ball all over the price place and getting good shots selection.

829
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Speaker 1: It's so apparent when you see it well done right now,

830
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: and there are so many teams that can do it well.

831
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: You know, can they finish the open look? So that's

832
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: always going to be the question. And you know, I

833
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: talked to Philipowski this week for Yahoo and he was

834
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Speaker 1: the first to admit that last year was it was

835
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Speaker 1: wild being in the tournament like it hits you different.

836
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Speaker 1: I am curious how that's going to impact some of

837
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Speaker 1: these young guys coming into this tournament this year.

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Speaker 4: And with that, don't sleep on a team like Creighton.

839
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 4: They move the ball, they shoot the ball, they play defense.

840
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Speaker 4: They are dangerous.

841
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: I create Hi Craton is dangerous.

842
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 2: They're the type of team. But you go, I don't

843
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 2: want to play them, Yep. I just don't want to

844
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 2: play because they when you can shoot it, and it

845
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 2: comes down to move it and shoot it.

846
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: And lock the paint down the way they do.

847
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848
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Speaker 2: As we hang out on this h March tomorrow Saint

867
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 2: Patrick's staff. It's always a good time of the year field,

868
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: so you can feel the rebirth baseball only a couple

869
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: weeks away before everybody comes north and we kick off

870
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 2: the season.

871
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 3: So that's fun.

872
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 2: But speaking of kickoff, it's always about football, and uh,

873
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: I want to play a little game and this is

874
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 2: we usually do this stuff where we're gonna go around

875
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 2: the league and as we look towards the draft, because

876
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 2: that's the next big thing. As we look towards the draft,

877
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 2: let's get kind of temperature on how you think teams

878
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: did free agent wise?

879
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 3: Boys, do you what do you think?

880
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: Well, I mean there, I think overall.

881
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 3: I'll give you teams. I'll set you guys up.

882
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll play the game.

883
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 2: I'm scared just fifty feet first and then I'm gonna

884
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: set you. I'm gonna set all the teams up for you,

885
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 2: one by one, and you could tell me love it

886
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: hate it right like this is your first visceral reaction.

887
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: Let me say this about fifty thousand feet real quick.

888
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: The one thing that we learned this week is everybody

889
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: in the league knows that there aren't enough quality offensive

890
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: linemen because pretty good offensive linemen got paid like they

891
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: are epic offensive lineman. So I'm just that's that's what's

892
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: the glory.

893
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 2: One thing that really a great point man, great observation.

894
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: It's the truth, isn't it? O?

895
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, and you need it, like the this

896
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: is a big offensive line. I keep talking to fat

897
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: guys looking at this year's draft, and all of the

898
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: former players that I talk to love the guys that

899
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: are coming out in this year's draft. But you still

900
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: have guys getting one hundred million dollar contracts because you know,

901
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: if you need a guard, you need a guard. There

902
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: just aren't enough of them right now they can actually play.

903
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: And the other thing too, is see that's a position

904
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: for me that you get better with experience and age.

905
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 4: Well, especially now because the college game is so much

906
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 4: different than the NFL and how they coach guys and offenses.

907
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 4: Looking over to the sideline, the hash marks are wider,

908
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 4: they the calls on the line are completely different. So

909
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 4: a lot of offensive line coaches and coaches in general

910
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 4: and scouts will saying, you have to basically reteach these

911
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 4: guys how to play the position at the NFL level.

912
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 4: So along with the fact that they're just not fully developed,

913
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 4: and you have a you know, a guy who's nineteen

914
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,479
Speaker 4: twenty years old coming into college and staring at Max

915
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 4: Crosby or Chris Jones across the other side of the line,

916
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 4: just grown man's strength versus a college kid. You have

917
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 4: to teach them the technique of how to deal with

918
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 4: it too, along with the physicality. So it makes sense.

919
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 3: True, Man's that's so true. That's so true.

920
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 4: So when I find someone, you know, to fit his point,

921
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 4: who may be halfway decent, is like, well, I'd rather

922
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 4: overpay for this guy than you know, find myself, you know,

923
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 4: looking at the bottom of the scrap people with a

924
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 4: guy who does who can't play, who is not talented

925
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 4: and isn't skilled, And this is going to get my

926
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 4: guys destroyed.

927
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 3: Every other play, like to me.

928
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 2: And again, this is one of these age old you

929
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: know kind of theories that to me, I subscribe to,

930
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: which is it's really some of all parts.

931
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 3: You gotta play together.

932
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: Your line has to be able to build and grow

933
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 2: together because individually they're not.

934
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 3: You know, it's not going to go.

935
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 2: I could fix the position with one player, like if

936
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: you get a just absolute stud linebacker that normally could

937
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 2: suffice right, but like you can't. You got to get

938
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 2: these guys to play together because it really is being one.

939
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 2: Like that's everything you saw last year. Look how about

940
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 2: the Texans old line last year? Like that was a

941
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 2: that was the line that stayed together and I played

942
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: that was healthy. Same thing in Baltimore, like those lines were,

943
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: they stayed healthy, they grew together. The Packers, I because

944
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 2: remember two years ago how they struggled on that line,

945
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 2: and I'm much better they were last year.

946
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 4: Well, just teams that have sustained success over the years.

947
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 4: And look, you have a front row seat for one

948
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 4: or had one for years in Philadelphia. You know you

949
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 4: had consistency, you know, from inside out when it came

950
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 4: to Kelsey and my Lotta and all those guys be

951
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 4: able to grow together. San Francisco has had consistency on

952
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 4: their offensive line out throughout the years. You know, even Dallas,

953
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 4: with all the shortcomings at times, at least throughout the

954
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 4: regular season, their offensive line and their running game was

955
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 4: one of the best when they actually committed to doing it.

956
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 4: Because they invested so much talent and kept that talent

957
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 4: together up front. It makes a difference not only to

958
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 4: bring in talent, but to have guys who stayed together

959
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 4: for four or five six.

960
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 2: Years completely agreat completely a great All right, boys, let's

961
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 2: get in to this little exercise. All right, we're going

962
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: to go through every team. Go ahead, hit me with it, Figgy, No,

963
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 2: every team. Huh yeah, my old to Lincoln Kennedy.

964
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 3: There you go. You know it is fifty. I would

965
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 3: do this all the time. I would say, let's go

966
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 3: to every t and then Lake would go.

967
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 4: It'll be like April twenty ninth, like just away off

968
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 4: the radar, or like even like sometime like late in May,

969
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 4: the NFL Draft is behind you. In the rear view

970
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 4: of the NFL, it's kind of in its dead period,

971
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 4: because is all right, let's talk about the top ten

972
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL, and who would you build your

973
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 4: roster around, and Link is like, really we're doing this now.

974
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: You know, I appreciate the commitment to it.

975
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 4: You know, I agree. I loved it.

976
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: I love this, I love I love this stuff. I

977
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 2: completely love it. I know you guy to too, So

978
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 2: you know, all right, so let's go too. Let's start.

979
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 2: We'll start ANFC East, all right, because there was a

980
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 2: lot of talk, and I'll start with my squad, the

981
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: Eagles and how busy they were, obviously starting with Shea

982
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 2: Kwan and it's such a big deal.

983
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 3: Now.

984
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 2: I will say this, years and years and years ago, dude,

985
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 2: the Eagles had a banner free agent class that everybody loved.

986
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 2: And Vince Young, he was a backup quarterback to Michael Vick.

987
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 3: Remember, coming out of Texas.

988
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 2: Called it the dream team and it stuck and it

989
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 2: was a flop of the first order. So, like we

990
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 2: talk about free agents, you go, oh my god, they

991
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: got sa Quon, they got Hoped from the Jets off

992
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 2: the edge, they got C. J. Gardner, Johnson back Devin White,

993
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 2: and you go, damn, that's that's nasty, man, that's really

994
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: that's a great free agent class. Is there any caution?

995
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 2: Every tales? How do you see it. Do you love it?

996
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 2: Are you a little suspect? Or do you hate it?

997
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 3: No?

998
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: I actually thought they had a really strong free agency.

999
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: I don't think there was anything that I looked at

1000
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: that I said why and feel like they gave out

1001
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: inappropriate money on anything either. So like typical to a

1002
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: smart run organization, you're talking shorter contracts on a lot

1003
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: of it. And I thought it was really good. The

1004
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: only thing that there's not an immediate answer for for

1005
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: this team obviously, is how they're going to replace Kelsey

1006
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: on the offensive line.

1007
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: You may know them well, Landon Dickerson is ready. Yeah,

1008
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: he's the guy ready to step in for them.

1009
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the thing I don't know, like is

1010
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: he ready to say like that? That would be my

1011
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: one question is like is he just plug and play?

1012
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 2: You're not going to be obviously gonna you know, not Kelsey,

1013
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 2: But but he's been their answer and there'll be a

1014
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 2: good player.

1015
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. And they needed to lock him up because of

1016
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: the amount of money that offensive lineman got paid this offseason. Yeah, Yeah,

1017
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: I didn't. There was nothing I looked at that said

1018
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: huh for them, So I think it was like I'll give.

1019
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 4: Him an a Yeah, and just in general. This is

1020
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 4: something we discussed in last week's show too, is that

1021
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 4: you know, free agency you want to use to sort

1022
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 4: of fortify your roster, but you don't want to use

1023
00:49:58,000 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 4: it to build out and say that we're going to

1024
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 4: go out and spend gobs of money to bring in

1025
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 4: a bunch of guys to fix a bunch of and

1026
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 4: plug a bunch of holes, because generally speaking, that doesn't work.

1027
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 4: But to your guys's point, I don't think that Philadelphia

1028
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 4: went out and spent recklessly on non need position. Now

1029
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 4: you can argue whether or not they quote unquote needed

1030
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 4: Saquon Barkley, but he's an upgrade and it is definitely

1031
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 4: gonna help that offense. And at that price tag when

1032
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,479
Speaker 4: he get twenty five million guaranteed for three years, that's

1033
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 4: not bad. Even Dickerson, a younger, you know, coming off

1034
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 4: of his rookie contract, whose arrow is pointing up. You

1035
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 4: know that's probably gonna look like a good contract three

1036
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 4: years from now. You know you needed to fortify your

1037
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 4: defensive backfield, you bring back CJ. Gardner Johnson, who I mean, look,

1038
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 4: he's not Deon Sanders, but he certainly will help so

1039
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 4: and Jake Elliott has been one of the best kickers

1040
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 4: in the league the last seven years, so maybe he's

1041
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 4: a little overpaid. But when you find a good kicker

1042
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 4: like that who can be a difference maker, you know,

1043
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 4: ask San Francisco. You know the difference be so you

1044
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 4: have a Nicola quality kicker or not, it makes a

1045
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 4: big difference. So that might be something I'm willing to

1046
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 4: slightly overpay for because I know there's such a premium.

1047
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 4: So I don't have any problem with Philadelphia.

1048
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 2: Did you know? You know it's funny we're talking about

1049
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 2: the money of running backs. Kid, Well, you got like

1050
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 2: Cody Parkinson gets whatever it was on the D eleven

1051
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 2: million a year.

1052
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 3: I mean.

1053
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 2: You're gonna bat an eyelights, say what Barkley got Henry?

1054
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't, I don't see that. All right, Giants,

1055
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 2: let's go Giants. The Giants big acquisition Brian Burns from Carolina,

1056
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 2: so they get a really good edge rusher. But you

1057
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 2: lose your stud back. You sit there and you go, who,

1058
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 2: what's your identity you're placing with? Devin Singletary? Eh, John Runyon,

1059
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 2: good signing guard. Okay, you need some help. Interior part

1060
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 2: of the linement of that line.

1061
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 4: It was John Runying Senior, Robbie all for it, right, right, right,

1062
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 4: That's when you know we're all old.

1063
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 2: Been talking about the father, Yeah, the true Locke. Okay,

1064
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 2: you know Isaiah Mackenzie.

1065
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 4: Okay, Jermaine Raider, great, Jermaine Iluminor, yes, yeah, that's.

1066
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: I would this is the one thing. And look, Jermaine,

1067
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 1: I think Jermaine and Viggie and I know this watch

1068
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: and so much of the Raiders. I've had so many

1069
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 1: people doing phoners over the last couple of weeks. Ask

1070
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: me about your lane, Jermaine, And the one thing I'd

1071
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: say is that the Raiders have absolutely no idea what

1072
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: they're doing at right tackle and they were still comfortable

1073
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: letting Jermaine ILLUMINOI walk for a decent like and not

1074
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: even for a ton of money two years, fourteen million.

1075
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: I mean that tells you that they That tells you

1076
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: where the player is at some point where it's like

1077
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: the organization needs somebody in there, like now, we'll figure

1078
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: it out, you know. So I think that's when I

1079
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: look at the Giants. Getting Brian Burns was a huge acquisition,

1080
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: by the way, and the Panthers are just a total disaster.

1081
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: I know all of their fans in apology for getting

1082
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: so little for Brian Burns, So I love that. I

1083
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: don't love anything else they did, and I think we're

1084
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: sort of sleeping on what important this year. This is

1085
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: for Day Bowl at this point, like year one was

1086
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: incredible and year two was terrible. So now we've got

1087
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: the whole like Goldielocks thing, what is the norm? I

1088
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of pressure quietly on Dable

1089
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: to come out and figure it out this year. So

1090
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: they got serviceable offensive line to help an offensive line

1091
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: that needed more than that, they still don't have an answer,

1092
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: like the loss of Saquon makes me curious what their

1093
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: offense is even going to look like. And now sitting

1094
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: at six in the NFL Draft because of the way

1095
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: they've addressed things, they have too many needs to address

1096
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:34,800
Speaker 1: at six.

1097
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 4: So I mean, yeah, I agree, like you look at

1098
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 4: the Giants and by the way, look at their defensive front.

1099
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 4: While the trade for Brian Burns, I think you're kind

1100
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 4: of adding a strength on strength that probably was the

1101
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 4: strongest part of their roster last season. But for me,

1102
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 4: that's kind of a luxury move. I mean, well, they

1103
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 4: make a different Sure, it'll help your pass rush out,

1104
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 4: help you up front, but you have so many holes

1105
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 4: in so many different places. I just don't know if

1106
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 4: that was a move that they necessarily needed to make

1107
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 4: and could have used resources to go elsewhere.

1108
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Uh, how about them Cowboys?

1109
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 3: What I mean Eric Kendricks.

1110
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 4: Who they stole away from San Francisco on the dead

1111
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 4: of night, And that's only because of Mike Zimmer because

1112
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 4: he played for Zimmer in Minnesota. Right, But then' so

1113
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 4: Jerry Jones comes out and you know, talks a big

1114
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 4: game and saying, this is a big offseason and we're

1115
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 4: gonna do all this and yeah, all right, yeah you

1116
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 4: re signed Jordan Lewis, who Well, like, but what else

1117
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 4: are you doing? You lose Tony pol Do they have

1118
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 4: a running back on the roster, And I.

1119
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: Don't think yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't mind going to

1120
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 2: going to the draft and get my running back. But yeah,

1121
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 2: to your point, fake, I mean, wow, I don't know.

1122
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 3: I look at that team and I go, what did

1123
00:54:58,560 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 3: you do?

1124
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: I still think too, like, who do they Obviously they

1125
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,720
Speaker 1: didn't bring anybody in who's going to change the culture

1126
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: of the country club culture that we keep hearing about,

1127
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: like the players, right, I mean, because I don't mind

1128
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: when a team that's had tremendous success in the regular

1129
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: season turns around and says, hey, we're going to run

1130
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: it back. And I understand that from a talent standpoint, Hey,

1131
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: we're going to figure out how to make the most

1132
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: of the talent we already have because we're a talented team.

1133
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: We won a lot of games. I would have no

1134
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: problem with that. But the number of former players and

1135
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: former Cowboys that have come out and talked about this

1136
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: country club atmosphere they needed to bring a dog in, Like,

1137
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: who is that guy? I don't know?

1138
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean the culture starts at the very

1139
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 4: top of Jerry, and that's what he wants. I mean,

1140
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 4: I think part of what you're talking about is what

1141
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 4: Dalton Schultz said, you know about the fact that you're

1142
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 4: trying you're in the you know, basement, trying to get

1143
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 4: a workout in and there's a crowd of one hundred

1144
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 4: people coming in with cameras and snapping stuff for tours

1145
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 4: while you're trying to do work. It's just a different atmosphere,

1146
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 4: in a different vibe, and Jerry Jones wants to turn

1147
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 4: it into a show while guys were in there actually

1148
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 4: trying to work. And so I think, unfortunately, the culture

1149
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 4: can only change if the person at the in charge

1150
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 4: of the culture wants it to. And I don't know

1151
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 4: if Jerry wants to do that.

1152
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point, man, it really is.

1153
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 2: Uh, Washington, you got some help on the both your

1154
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 2: offensive line, you got his center, you got an end,

1155
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: and then you got an aging Austin Eckler, who I

1156
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 2: think is over.

1157
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 3: The is is. I think he's clocked, so you know, I.

1158
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 4: Mean, that's well, he battled some injuries last year and

1159
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 4: he's gonna get He's not gonna get any less banged

1160
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 4: up as he gets older. But I still think if

1161
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 4: he is healthy, he's still an effective player. Is he

1162
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 4: what he was four years ago? No, But I don't

1163
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 4: know if he's necessarily cooked. And by the way, if

1164
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 4: he is, it's not that they gave him this outrageously

1165
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 4: crazy contract.

1166
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there and they're a rebuilt type of team.

1167
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: They just had it some more like uh, getting its

1168
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 2: center and getting an end and two starters. You know,

1169
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,800
Speaker 2: so I'll find and everything else is kind of filler,

1170
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 2: like as more as you know, veteran the whole thing,

1171
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: and they did that kind of threw out Bobby Wagner

1172
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing.

1173
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: I think filler is the right way to describe this,

1174
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: because we all know that, you know, sitting at to

1175
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: in the draft, that's where they're going to make their

1176
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: big splash. Did they make themselves drastically better across the board?

1177
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so. They didn't make themselves

1178
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: any worse. But I didn't look at any of this

1179
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: and say, ooh, look out for Washington They're gonna have

1180
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: a Houston like rise next year. Didn't. It didn't feel

1181
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: like any of that out of what they say. It

1182
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: just it feels like they filled some holes, which you

1183
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: know you got to do at this point if you them.

1184
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you get the veteran presence like a zach

1185
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 4: Ertz in the lock of room, you know, I think

1186
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 4: they're just trying to They know they're inner transition period, right,

1187
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 4: so so they they they've accepted what they are, which

1188
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 4: I'm fine with.

1189
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 3: Yep, Yep.

1190
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 2: Let's go to the NFC North and we'll hit the Lions.

1191
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 2: Carlton Davis. They you know, we all know about the

1192
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 2: Lions secretary. So getting Carlton Davis from Tampa I was

1193
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 2: a great move.

1194
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 3: You get DJ.

1195
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 4: Reader, Reader was the one I really liked.

1196
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,439
Speaker 2: You know, I think you got you know, I think

1197
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 2: you humped your team meant so that that side of

1198
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 2: the ball.

1199
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 3: You know, how great their offenses.

1200
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I honestly think that they knew they had one

1201
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: hole and they went out and they aggressively went after

1202
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: that one. And doing it by trade was great because

1203
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: there wasn't anybody on the free agent market that was

1204
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: going to satisfy what they needed. So, you know, I

1205
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: thought it was really solid work by them, and also

1206
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: just a reminder that right now where they are, most

1207
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: of their efforts are going to be on re signing talent.

1208
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: Like the Lions are in the spot they haven't been

1209
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: in for a very long time, which is going to

1210
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: be how do we sort of make sure that we

1211
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: keep our homegrown talent in the building. That's this is

1212
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: a different Lions era, and I thought they handled it

1213
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: really well. They addressed their one whole and everything else

1214
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: sort of stays right in line with Where's man.

1215
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they lose Jonah Jackson to the Rams, one

1216
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 4: of their better interior alignments, so that certainly doesn't help.

1217
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 4: But you know, to your point, that's you're gonna have

1218
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 4: to end up cutting at some point. If you're gonna

1219
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 4: have to end up resigning, you have to make hard

1220
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 4: decisions as to who you're keeping and who you're letting go.

1221
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 4: And that was one of them.

1222
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's right. All right, stay with us. We're

1223
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 2: in the middle of going through every team. We will

1224
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:27,959
Speaker 2: We will go through every team between now and Yes,

1225
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 2: there you go.

1226
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 3: You you said it so perfectly delivered that line.

1227
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 2: I give you an a on delivering that line FITSI

1228
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 2: he shakes and Fitz Kevin figures, I'm Anthony Garganta. We're

1229
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 2: here till nine am Eastern, six am Pacific, and we

1230
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 2: will go through every team.

1231
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 3: I also have.

1232
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 2: To tell you I watched the new series TV show

1233
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 2: this week. I flipped out. It's awesome, so I'll tell

1234
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 2: you what that is coming up as well. Fellas hagging

1235
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 2: right here Fox Sports Radio, Welcome back Fellas, Jason Fitz,

1236
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Gargano. Kevin figures, it's great, Figure, So we're

1237
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 2: gonna get to the other teams as we're in the

1238
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 2: NFC North right now I want to look at the packers.

1239
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 2: But I do have to tell you, guys, because I've

1240
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 2: geeked out. I'm kiked up over the show new show

1241
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 2: Alert the Gentleman on Netflix about it's a guy Ritchie

1242
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: series about this brit who inherits this estate and beneath

1243
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 2: the inside the state, beneath the ground is a weed

1244
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 2: empire and he gets caught into this whole other in

1245
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 2: the web of the other world. It's it's great. It's

1246
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 2: typical if you like do you like guy Richie stuff?

1247
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yea one hundred percent. I haven't heard of

1248
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: this at all. Was this so? Did this just come out?

1249
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? It's great this week. It's great. Fike, you love it?

1250
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not aware of it, to be honest with you, really, No,

1251
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 4: all right, I'm glad I got to bring you guys something.

1252
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 2: Put it on your radar, all right, you guys will

1253
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 2: both trust me, you'll both love it.

1254
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 4: Who are the principal figures, the leading acts anybody of note?

1255
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the one dude, the lead you'll know,

1256
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 2: and then they have you know, there's a lot of

1257
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 2: character actors. There's that, there's the there's this movie that

1258
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 2: I loved. I'm probably I'm sure you've heard me talk

1259
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 2: about this.

1260
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: It's year.

1261
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 3: It's an old movie. It's called Sexy Beast Before. Yeah.

1262
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about the British gangster and the guy who

1263
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 2: plays that. This the lead in the movie is in this.

1264
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 2: He's what of he was in The Departed. He was

1265
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 2: French he and it Departed. Oh okay, you know, you

1266
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 2: know he's a great character actor. He's in it, and

1267
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 2: it's it's just a great it's fun dad, it's a

1268
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 2: it's a fun show. I loved it. I loved it.

1269
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm weird. When I watch these shows. I

1270
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: like to go back and rewatch them before. Like, if

1271
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 2: I watch a couple of them, I'll watch the last

1272
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 2: one I watched twice so that I catch some of

1273
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 2: the nuanced before I move on.

1274
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 3: My wife thinks.

1275
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 4: Something to say, you want to make sure you fully

1276
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 4: absorb all the nooks and crannies of the episode.

1277
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, I enjoy it like I like to, especially

1278
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: when it's a good show, Like you're into it.

1279
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 3: I love that stuff. Do me a favorite here. It's

1280
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 3: with some trending.

1281
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we got some conference tournament playing college

1282
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 4: basketball and a series of upsets in the SEC quarterfinals

1283
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 4: on Friday night, Texas A and MBAT in Kentucky, Mississippi

1284
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 4: State steam roll Tennessee in Florida dominating Alabama in the

1285
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 4: back twelve or upset sixth ranked Arizona, while Colorado beating

1286
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 4: number twenty two Washington State. As those teams advanced to

1287
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 4: the championship game, second rank Yukon eked out of victory

1288
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 4: over Saint John's. They'll take on tenth ranked Marquette for

1289
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 4: the Biggies Championship. Big Ten quarterfinal victories for Illinois, Perdue, Wisconsin,

1290
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Speaker 4: and Nebraska. Michigan fired head coach Juwan Howard after five

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Speaker 4: seasons at the Helm. In the NBA didn'tver improve to

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Speaker 4: forty seven to twenty. They pick up a one seventeen

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Speaker 4: to one oh six victory over the Spurs. New Orleans

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01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 4: got thirty four points from Zion Williamson in a one

1295
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 4: twelve to one oh four victory over the Clippers. You

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01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 4: had wins for Phoenix, Miami, and Orlando in the NFL.

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01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 4: That Jets agreed the terms on a one year contract

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Speaker 4: with veteran offensive tackle Tyron Smith back to the fellas.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: That's us Jason Fitz, Anthony Garganon, Andy, here's Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 2: We're live from the tyreck dot Com studios. Hey, just

1302
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 2: like in basketball, a successive game plan, a successful game

1303
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 2: plan starts with the right pliers.

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01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 3: The team at Track.

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01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 2: Supply brings hustle and heart and that's what sets them apart.

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01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 2: So lace up your sneakers. Make that when he played

1307
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:12,919
Speaker 2: by heading to your local tractor supply store today. All right,

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01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 2: let's get back to our team by team free agency

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Speaker 2: and let's go to the Packers. The Packers gotta love

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01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 2: the fact you get Josh Jacobs and Xavier McKinney.

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Speaker 1: Where you think Kitcy, I mean, I think the Josh

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Speaker 1: Jacobs move was a smart one. And you know, when

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Speaker 1: you're looking at where Green Bay is financially, particularly, they

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01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: can invest in a in a running back if they

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Speaker 1: want to. Also interesting, I mean everybody said it was

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Speaker 1: a four year, forty eight million dollar deal for Josh.

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Speaker 1: It's really like a one year thirteen point five million

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Speaker 1: dollar deal with then a bunch of team options after that.

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Speaker 1: So really smart move by them. And frankly, I do

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Speaker 1: think Josh Jacobs is an upgrade over Aaron Jones and

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Speaker 1: obviously younger. So I feel like they did they so.

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01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,919
Speaker 2: Much less, I mean, as much big and as much

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01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: carried as he's had, not like Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones

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01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 2: was I mean, look at the touches from last year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Jones is more explosive in the open field,

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01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 4: but Jacobs is just more powerful and more consistent. You

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01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 4: can get more and more tread on the tires.

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Speaker 1: Yep, I agree with all of that. And then, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Xavier McKinney, I don't want to sleep on

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01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: that best safety going into free agency in a year

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Speaker 1: where there isn't a lot of safety help in the

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Speaker 1: NFL draft, right, So when everything opened up on Monday,

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Speaker 1: it felt like this was a no brainer. He was

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Speaker 1: going to get a big deal, and I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: the money on it made a lot of sense. So

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Speaker 1: green Bay continuing to do things I think the smart way.

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Speaker 1: So they managed to keep their own on some pretty

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Speaker 1: reasonable deals and they managed to add a little bit

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Speaker 1: of talent at green Bay. Feels like they're in a

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01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: really good spot. I thought it was a solid day

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Speaker 1: for them.

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Speaker 3: Bears.

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01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 2: Hey, DeAndre Swift, who had a you know, dcent year

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Speaker 2: for the Eagles, solid.

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Speaker 4: I think he's an upgrade over what they had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would agree.

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01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't think it was a huge area

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Speaker 1: of need necessary. I mean, i'll give you it's an upgrade,

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Speaker 1: but it was like, I don't know it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm not saying they knocked my socks off with it,

1352
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 4: but I don't know if it was a terrible signing.

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01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 4: It was like, all right, yeah, I can get with it.

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Speaker 2: Sure, terrible, I just go, you know, but not moving

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Speaker 2: the needle.

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Speaker 4: I thought Gerald Everett was a solid signing to kind

1357
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 4: of give you a two headed monster, a tied end

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01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 4: with with Comet. I thought that was solid. Opens things

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Speaker 4: up more offensively, just giving more weapons to whoever the

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Speaker 4: quarterback is going to be the trade for Keenan Allen,

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Speaker 4: although he's aging, had one of his best years of

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Speaker 4: his career last year. So I think offensively, they they

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Speaker 4: basically I know they they basically had a plan to

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Speaker 4: get as much as many offensive skill position players as

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Speaker 4: they can to give themselves an opportunity to open things

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Speaker 4: up next year with whomever is going to be behind center.

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Speaker 4: So I give them credit for that, at least to

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Speaker 4: get Keenan Allen for a fourth round pick. I thought

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Speaker 4: that was a slam dunk.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I thought that was a great move. For sure.

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Speaker 1: The Kevin Bayer deal is fine. Like I looked at

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Speaker 1: a lot of the Bear stuff and thought, Okay, it's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's just sort of a reminder that, you know, to

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Speaker 1: your point, Figuie, like they're trying to make sure the

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Speaker 1: infrastructure is better for their quarterback. And I do think

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Speaker 1: their infrastructure is better for a quarterback, Like the quarterback

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Speaker 1: is going to have a better opportunity for success next

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01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: year simply because they've put more pieces around that that quarterback,

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Speaker 1: whoever that quarterback ends up being. But it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: I didn't My mindset on the Bears didn't change. I've

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01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: seen a lot of people saying, all the Bear is

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01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: going to be a playoff team next year. I don't

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01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: see that sort of meteoric leap for Chicago right now.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin Bayer is not the same Kevin Byer from

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Speaker 4: four years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 2: I loved that. I loved Chevin. He's great dude, But

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Speaker 2: yeah he's not. He's definitely not the same player Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: I think Figuring and I talked about it earlier with you,

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Speaker 2: FITZI that they're going into rebuild mode. They let Cousins go,

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Speaker 2: and uh, you bring in Aaron Jones, who I think

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01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 2: is you know, a.

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Speaker 3: Wear and tear right.

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01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 4: I think he's he's better than Dalvin Cook, but I

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 4: think he's probably on the downward trajectory. A guy they

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01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 4: had it was like, you know what, I think he's done,

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01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 4: And sure enough last year that was it. So but again,

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Speaker 4: Aaron Jones, one year, seven million doesn't really cost you

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Speaker 4: a whole lot.

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01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 2: So I hope you get something out of them. And

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01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 2: and but the lousing did Al Hunter. Yeah, right, you

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01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 2: let cousins walk. I mean to me, it's clear where

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,919
Speaker 2: you're heading. Yeah, it's it's screaming rebuild.

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01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,240
Speaker 4: To me, it would not surprise me that if Justin

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01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 4: Jefferson is gone by draft day or on draft day

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01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 4: and they try to find a way to move up

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Speaker 4: in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Again, they did short deals like if you look at

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Speaker 1: Van Ginkel it was two years, if you look at

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01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: Cashman three years, but really mostly a two year deal,

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01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: one year deal for Aaron Jones. I think that also

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01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: speaks to what you guys are saying that they accept

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Speaker 1: that they're in rebuild mode, and I just, I mean

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01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 1: Vikings fans, I feel for you because you can't you just,

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: no matter what you thought of Kirk Cousins, you cannot

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01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: tell me that right now you feel better about the

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01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: state of the Vikings knowing that as of right now today,

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01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,560
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and Aaron Jones is basically going to be

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Speaker 1: your offense. Like that does not feel like that's putting

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01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: you closer to competing with the Lions, right Like, that's

1422
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: just you're asking for Sam Donald to suddenly become, you know,

1423
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 1: a gift and I don't think he's got that left.

1424
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 1: You're asking Aaron Jones to be, you know, great, And

1425
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 1: I think Aaron Jones is good, but I don't think

1426
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: he's going to be at that level. And if there

1427
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: is no Justin Jefferson, then I mean no Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: on this team. The way it's constructed right now, the.

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Speaker 4: Vikings look like a five win football team next year,

1430
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 4: and that might be by design, although I will say

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Speaker 4: it's interesting if that is the direction that they're going.

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01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 4: In signing Greener to a four year deal, it was

1433
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 4: was puzzling, So I'll give him that. One of the

1434
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 4: better pass rushers on the market.

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01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 1: I gotten thought about it. I hadn't thought about that,

1436
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: like you're you're right. I totally totally forgot that signing

1437
01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: and that that's a one that doesn't sort of align

1438
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: with everything else.

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01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 4: Right, So maybe they are. So that kind of flies

1440
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 4: in the face of my rebuilt theory because otherwise, why

1441
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 4: would you give somebody a contract like that?

1442
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:15,919
Speaker 2: So yeah, but again exhibit A is for the rebuild,

1443
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 2: is Donald.

1444
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 4: Correct that he's gonna be the bridge guy right to

1445
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 4: end up drafting.

1446
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 2: Right, So if there's no way in the world you're

1447
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 2: gonna go into it and go, hey, they're gonna move

1448
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 2: on from Jefferson. It just feels it. I mean, it's

1449
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 2: it's actually the smart thing to do it once. I

1450
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 2: love justin Jefferson.

1451
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 4: Kind to sell high.

1452
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's a smart thing to do. Man,

1453
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:40,720
Speaker 3: you could Arizona.

1454
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 4: Will give you store and they have all the money

1455
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 4: in the world, so if he's willing to stay there,

1456
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:45,600
Speaker 4: they'll extend them immediately.

1457
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 2: I yeah, I mean I just think it makes sense.

1458
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 2: You get your quarterback, I mean, you start the process,

1459
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 2: especially where you.

1460
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 4: Stand a desperate division, a desperate team like the Jets

1461
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 4: who feel like they're knocking on the door. You can

1462
01:10:57,560 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 4: trade him for the tenth overall pick. Now, all of

1463
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 4: a sudden, you have ten, eleven, and twenty three and

1464
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 4: you can move up or you can keep all three

1465
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 4: and there's they have options. Jefferson will net you a

1466
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 4: top ten pick in this year's draft easily?

1467
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, I agree, Yeah, there's no doubt about that.

1468
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the NFC South fellas, and

1469
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 2: let's start with the Falcons and Kirk Cousins.

1470
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 3: So we totally You remember.

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Speaker 2: It's funny last week we got the whole conversation about

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01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 2: the contract and what we would pay, and I know,

1473
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 2: I forget the debate, but like we were just kind

1474
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 2: of we're going, there's a ceiling to what you're going

1475
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 2: to give them.

1476
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 3: Right, Well, they went through the ceiling. Hey there go

1477
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 3: what is it? This is it?

1478
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 2: Like Kirk Cousins, is there is there? You know, Saiah, I'm.

1479
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: Not gonna lie boys like it. You know, it's rare

1480
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: that I tooped my own horn, but I definitely saw

1481
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: that contract come through and said, man, I was right,

1482
01:11:56,320 --> 01:12:00,759
Speaker 1: you were you did you can you can away because

1483
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: like you just get desperate and I feel like, like

1484
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 1: the one thing that I don't think we're talking enough about,

1485
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: and I want to be consistent here. It's the reason

1486
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 1: I have absolutely no faith in the Jets. A guy

1487
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: Kirk cousins age coming off of the achilles, I don't

1488
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: care if he's throwing on a practice field right now, Like, yeah,

1489
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 1: shouldn't there be at least a little concern about like

1490
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: we're just glossing over this, like he's gonna step in

1491
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 1: and it's going to be remarkable. Now. They are great

1492
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 1: weapons there, and I thought the Darnell Mooney edition was.

1493
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that for them.

1494
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 2: Actually they got RONF for Ridder with solid Yeah, yeah,

1495
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 2: I like both those to go with what you got

1496
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 2: with Kyle Pitts and Bjean and Drake Lundon.

1497
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 3: That's a nice that's a good offense.

1498
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: No, that's going to be a very good offense. I

1499
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: think the Falcons are the favorite in their division, and

1500
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 1: you know that that's this was the move they needed

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01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 1: to make to finally answer the quarterback position. The only

1502
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: thing I'd say is I don't think any of this

1503
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:57,839
Speaker 1: is long term. So now the Falcons have put themselves

1504
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: like nobody cares about long term. I get it. But

1505
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 1: in my mind, if this goes the way they expected

1506
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 1: to go for the money they're paying, they're not going

1507
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: to be in a position to draft a quarterback again

1508
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: in the next several years. So like, what what's the

1509
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: what's the long term plan? Because Kirk, like this year

1510
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: they were sitting in proximity, they could have at least

1511
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: looked at it in the draft and tried to figure

1512
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: it out. Now it's like, man, if Kirk doesn't if

1513
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: Kirk plays well, they're not going to be anywhere near

1514
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: the top of the draft for a long time, which

1515
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 1: is a good problem. I just don't think they're a

1516
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: super Bowl team and I don't think that they're like

1517
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: they're good, but they're not correct.

1518
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, it puts you in no man's land where you

1519
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,560
Speaker 4: don't want to be. It makes you if you're the

1520
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 4: Vikings with Kirk Cousins. You're mediocre. You can make the

1521
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 4: playoff two out of three years or probably get ousted

1522
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 4: in the first round. You're not You're not good enough

1523
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 4: to be a title contender, but you're not bad enough

1524
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 4: to get an elite quarterback at the top of the draft.

1525
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,879
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if all goes their defense is good,

1526
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 2: very good, very very good. And now they're favorite, I'll

1527
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 2: think so. I think they're heavy favorite that division too.

1528
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 2: Here's my only here's the only caveat kay it is

1529
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 2: if I say Atlanta v. San Francisco, Atlanta v. Detroit,

1530
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:08,600
Speaker 2: Atlanta v. Philadelphia.

1531
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, I already hat Green Bay in there, who's probably

1532
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 4: gonna take leaps ahead after I was gonna say them too.

1533
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:21,799
Speaker 2: The Three Titans and that conference. How do they stack

1534
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 2: up now? Again, I like their defense a lot, and

1535
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 2: I think they have a lot of weapons. I think

1536
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:32,320
Speaker 2: their weapons are legit. I love Drake London, and then

1537
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:33,759
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see Pitts.

1538
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 4: I think Pitts has been a bit of a bust

1539
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 4: so far.

1540
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 2: And I and I wonder if that's quarterback and the

1541
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 2: whole thing, because the kids a tremendous athlete with good hands.

1542
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:45,799
Speaker 3: I don't know why he's been a bust.

1543
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just puzzling that London can perform the way

1544
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 4: he's performed when he's been healthy, but Pitts hasn't. Yeah,

1545
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 4: that's that's the only fear for me.

1546
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: I do think just started Atlanta now because of all

1547
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: of this, has a ton of flexibility with that draft pick.

1548
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely anything they want in the draft. That's

1549
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: that is a luxury to have.

1550
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:08,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're you're you're spot on. All right, let's

1551
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 2: do this. Let's take a quick to o, all right,

1552
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 2: and then we'll reconvene. We're hanging in the NFC South,

1553
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 2: going around the whole league. We've got hoops to be

1554
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 2: talking to. Talk about a little baseball. I want to

1555
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 2: throw it to fellas. That's who we are, fellas right

1556
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, fellas from the

1557
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 2: tire rack dot Com Studios, Jason fitz Kevin, figures of

1558
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 2: Anthony Garganham alright, man Ian and then of course mighty

1559
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:48,560
Speaker 2: Mighty Mark the production team.

1560
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 3: How do you feel, Mighty Mark?

1561
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:52,759
Speaker 1: All as well?

1562
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:53,879
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1563
01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 3: Mighty Bark makes me laugh every morning.

1564
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 2: He's got a great laugh, like when you when you

1565
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 2: get to Muddy Mark go and he's got that dry

1566
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 2: sense of humor and then it'll start laughing and he

1567
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 2: brightens the whole thing.

1568
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 3: Isn't that right, Figgy?

1569
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 2: Oh constantly, Yeah, he's uh, he's good.

1570
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 3: My favorites, Yeah, he's good.

1571
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:21,600
Speaker 2: Peeps and our man I and now firmly entrance at

1572
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 2: the Helm producing How you feeling, buddy, I'm good.

1573
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,839
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here, all right, one of the fellas.

1574
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 3: That's it. You gotta get you're not you're not made yet.

1575
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 4: I'm not one of the fellas yet. I'm trying to

1576
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 4: earn my stripes first, exactly exactly.

1577
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: But I mean, you don't I'm one of the fellaws

1578
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: by talking about earning the stripes like that's it, Like

1579
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: we just got you know, you gotta play cool here

1580
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: all right, like you know, if you're asking about it,

1581
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:49,320
Speaker 1: if you're talking about it, like now all of a sudden,

1582
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,600
Speaker 1: like an's got like there's a criteria here, like like

1583
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:55,640
Speaker 1: just imagine the Sopranos, And if you don't know it,

1584
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 1: don't admit that right now because that's not gonna help you.

1585
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 1: And then like just imagine sitting outside at the little

1586
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:03,760
Speaker 1: table at the coffee shop, everybody walks by, like, you know,

1587
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 1: you want to be made. You know you're not made yet.

1588
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: The best thing you can do is just be cool, Be.

1589
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 3: Cool, man, be cool.

1590
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 2: I So we're going through this whole thing, and clearly

1591
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 2: we were saying about Atlanta being the number one team

1592
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 2: in the South. They solidified themselves, they take over that division,

1593
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 2: what do you make of of Carolina.

1594
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 1: Carolina is a disgrace to the entire NFL IV the

1595
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 1: way they have run their business into.

1596
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:47,560
Speaker 3: The Plying Birds. I mean, I don't get that they.

1597
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: Actually made like a little PowerPoint presentation on how to

1598
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 1: not run your football team. The front page of it

1599
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 1: would be the Carolina Panthers, And like, I just I

1600
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: feel for Panthers fans right now, and like, look, I

1601
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: say that as a as a fan of a team

1602
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,799
Speaker 1: that is stunk for most of the last twenty years,

1603
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: Like I understand what it feels like to have a

1604
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: franchise that I root for that sucks, and even I

1605
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:16,120
Speaker 1: feel sympathy for the Panthers. And it's not it's just

1606
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 1: because every step is the wrong step. And okay, so,

1607
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: how did you make your team any better by letting

1608
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: Burns go? We're never going to get an answer to that.

1609
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,120
Speaker 1: Did you get fair value for him? The answer to that,

1610
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: we know the answer to that is no. So yet again,

1611
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: like the same organization that didn't draft c. J. Stroud,

1612
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: the same organization that you know let Christian McCaffrey walk

1613
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 1: for a bag of peanuts, has now let they've let

1614
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: one of the better pass rushers in the NFL walk

1615
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: a year late when they could have gotten far more

1616
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: for him for far under market value. Like you can't.

1617
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,600
Speaker 1: You can't be this bad consistently and have everybody just

1618
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: turn the other cheek. This is it's a disgrace to

1619
01:18:58,080 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: the NFL the way they've run this franchise for the

1620
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: life several years, and the fans, who are amazing deserve better.

1621
01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 4: It really is odd that someone who built their wealth

1622
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:08,360
Speaker 4: and you know, in hedge funds and knowing how the

1623
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:11,679
Speaker 4: market works and being able to you know, predict things

1624
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:14,799
Speaker 4: and be well thought out, has just been so freaking

1625
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 4: impulsive through his very short tenure as the owner of

1626
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:22,559
Speaker 4: the Panthers. It really astonishes me, it really does. You

1627
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 4: ain't lying, brother, I mean, they're just no vision.

1628
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: I did like what they did with the offensive line,

1629
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: by the way. I know everybody's talking about you overpaid

1630
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: in the guard market, you know, Hunt and Lewis. I

1631
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: think you you had to go out there and fix

1632
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: the offensive line. If you want to give Bryce any chance,

1633
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: you got to fix the offensive line. So I think

1634
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: that was smart. I just I can't get past the

1635
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: fact that you let one of the better players in

1636
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: the NFL leave your team, and you let them leave

1637
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: your team for.

1638
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 4: Nothing one hundred million for Robert Hunts. It's rich. For me,

1639
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 4: it's deep.

1640
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 2: It's steep, yep, it's it's definitely steep.

1641
01:19:58,360 --> 01:19:59,839
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, dude, the Staints exist.

1642
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 1: No, No, are everyone that says the salary caps not real?

1643
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: Just look at the New Orleans Saints who essentially just

1644
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 1: sat back and said, now we're good. We're all said thanks.

1645
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 2: I just wonder if they really exist, Like, are they

1646
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:17,679
Speaker 2: a team in the NFL?

1647
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 4: Well, they're gonna show up sixteen times on somebody's schedule

1648
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 4: next year, so in that sense, yes, they do.

1649
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:24,440
Speaker 3: Fellas.

1650
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, well, good morning, good morning, good morning,

1651
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1652
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1653
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Speaker 3: Jason Fitz, Kevin Figures, and Anthony Gargano.

1654
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1660
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,760
Speaker 2: We're going through a lot of the NFL free agency,

1661
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 2: talking about all the moves and the week that was

1662
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:13,120
Speaker 2: pretty wild. Let's get back to college basketball for a second, though,

1663
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 2: Boys and FITZI you covered for Yahoo, and.

1664
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:20,759
Speaker 3: Is it clear to you.

1665
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 2: Watching through the college tournament, the conference tournaments. Now we

1666
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 2: reach the semifinals in the finals today and tomorrow selection Sunday,

1667
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 2: is it clear that it's a two team tournament Houston, Connecticut.

1668
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: For me, yeah, it is. I mean, I think obviously

1669
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: we could get some surprises, and I want to give

1670
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: the Big East a little bit of love because earlier

1671
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: we talked about the Big twelve is going to get

1672
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: a bunch of committee love. I do believe that. But

1673
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:52,120
Speaker 1: when we talked to you mentioned Creighton earlier, Figgie, I

1674
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: would add Marquette to that. There are some teams at

1675
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:56,600
Speaker 1: the Big East that can do some damage. And this

1676
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: year's tournament certainly feels like it's wild. It's up in

1677
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: the but there are a couple of teams in Houston

1678
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 1: and Connecticut we keep talking about that not only know

1679
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: how to play great defense, not only know how to

1680
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:11,160
Speaker 1: play with great energy, can get the points when they

1681
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: need them. One thing, I think that it has been

1682
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: really interesting this year in college basketball is you can

1683
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: see who can't consistently score and what do you do

1684
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: if you're one of these Big ten teams, for example,

1685
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:23,799
Speaker 1: that just wants to make things ugly in the tournament,

1686
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 1: Well that's fine, But if you find yourself down by ten, twelve, fifteen,

1687
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: how you got your way back? Connecticut can do that,

1688
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: Houston could do that. They both got guys. They can

1689
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 1: score all over the place. They can put you into

1690
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 1: a high paced game. You know Connecticut wins where they

1691
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 1: put up ninety five yesterday. I mean, Connecticut can score

1692
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: on anybody at any point. So you know, when you

1693
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:46,719
Speaker 1: look right now and you ask yourself, what's a take

1694
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: to win in the tournament? We always talk about guard play.

1695
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: It takes more, in my mind, more than one guy.

1696
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: Like you can't be Purdue relying just on essentially Zach

1697
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:58,479
Speaker 1: Eaty and whoever's going to be his robin that day. Like,

1698
01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: that's not going to work for you, right. I meant

1699
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: mentioned Dalton connect earlier for tennessee same sort of thing.

1700
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: When you look at balance, gooring, balance, defense, ability to

1701
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,759
Speaker 1: take the pressure, ability to put on the pressure, Houston

1702
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,560
Speaker 1: and Connecticut are the two that stand out to me.

1703
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:17,600
Speaker 2: All right, I'll ask you, Fike, is there a team

1704
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 2: other than Houston and other than Euston and Yukon that

1705
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 2: you go this is the team that can challenge them?

1706
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 4: So yeah, I brought up Crayton earlier. I do believe

1707
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 4: Creighton is a team that has a legitimate chance to

1708
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 4: make a deep run because they do all the things

1709
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 4: that really are conducive to success in the NCAA tournament.

1710
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 4: They have good guard play, they get open shots, they

1711
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 4: make their open shots, and they're dominant defensively, especially in

1712
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 4: the painted area. And by the way, Marquette is excellent too.

1713
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:51,680
Speaker 4: I certainly wouldn't sleep on them North Carolina, believe it

1714
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 4: or not. I think it's a team that is a

1715
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 4: chance to go deep because while they don't have the

1716
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 4: deepest roster per se, they do have two outstanding players.

1717
01:23:59,640 --> 01:23:59,840
Speaker 1: R J.

1718
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 4: Davis can light it up on a given night and

1719
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 4: Armando Baycott. I know I kind of ripped into him

1720
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago for not you know, talking

1721
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 4: to talk when not walking the walk. But he's shown

1722
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 4: that he can do it when he needs to. And

1723
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 4: you can ride a duel like that very deep into

1724
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 4: the NCAA tournament if they if they get those guys

1725
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 4: consistent and going, they have enough talent overall, and they

1726
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:22,799
Speaker 4: have two really top notch players. I think North Carolina

1727
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 4: is a team that can absolutely challenge a Yukon or Houston.

1728
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: And it loved for Duke and not for you FIGI.

1729
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about North Carolina, feel like I'm

1730
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 1: talking about Duke and yeah and again I'll say, like,

1731
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, having talked to Philipowski a couple of days

1732
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: ago for Yahoo, Uh, pretty pretty amazed how open he

1733
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: was in talking about you know, what they what they

1734
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,719
Speaker 1: learned last year and how they go into the tournament

1735
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 1: this year because of their experience last year, which I

1736
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,840
Speaker 1: think hit me a little bit. Also, he had a

1737
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:52,760
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of self awareness. I didn't expect to the

1738
01:24:52,760 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: whole villain role and to you know, sort of the

1739
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: way he's being perceived right now. But I and I

1740
01:24:57,520 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: walked away from that wondering, if you know, host coach

1741
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:02,519
Speaker 1: k if I'm sleeping on Shire's Duke.

1742
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 4: Maybe the big thing for me with them in Philipowski

1743
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,280
Speaker 4: is a good player, though I still feel he's kind

1744
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 4: of out of position as a center. I think he's

1745
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 4: probably a four, and when he plays against better bigs.

1746
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 4: I really think where they get seated and where their

1747
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 4: matchups lie really will dictate what happens to them. Because

1748
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 4: if they run into North Carolina, Baycott eats him up

1749
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 4: on the inside. If he has to play against Zach Edie,

1750
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 4: that's not gonna be advantageous for him. Yukon, you know,

1751
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 4: is not a good matchup for them on the inside either.

1752
01:25:31,600 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 4: So I do think they can make a deep run.

1753
01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 4: I think for them, more so than the other teams

1754
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 4: we talked about, I think it really is dependent on

1755
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 4: the matchups and where they fall in what side of

1756
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:40,879
Speaker 4: the bracket.

1757
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 2: Agreed, agreed, I'm not. I'm not in love with them.

1758
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 2: I like Iowa State. I States pretty Man.

1759
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: That pretty by the way, Like like that is that

1760
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: is the right way to describe Iowa State right now,

1761
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 1: And like the funny thing is is Iowa State knows

1762
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: how to just muck it up and win, and that

1763
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: like all year they've been doing this, the number of

1764
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: ugly games. I'm trying to remember it was Oklahoma that

1765
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 1: they played that I sat there and I was like, man,

1766
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: I feel like this is one of those games. It's

1767
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: just set basketball back ten years. But it was one

1768
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: of those just everything was difficult, everything was ugly, and

1769
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: Iowa State really thrives in that one hundred percent. Like

1770
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: they they don't necessarily score, but nobody scores on them.

1771
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: It's really interesting.

1772
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they're they're better there. They remind you of

1773
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 4: Tony Bennet's Virginia teams from five six years.

1774
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 3: At all, Yes, because their offense is better. Yeah.

1775
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, so even those teams, like their offenses weren't great,

1776
01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 4: but they were good enough. You had Brogdar, you had

1777
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 4: some guys. They're still playing great defense. They just can't

1778
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 4: score a lick at all this year. That's the problem

1779
01:26:43,479 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 4: with Virginia the last couple of seasons. So they remind

1780
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 4: me of the Virginia teams from five six years ago

1781
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:50,920
Speaker 4: that had just enough offense to be able to win

1782
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 4: games and would just lock you down defensively. My only

1783
01:26:53,640 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 4: fear with Iowa State do they have enough offense as

1784
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 4: good as they are defensively? You know the old Mark Jackson.

1785
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 4: You know, good offense beats a good defense. You know,

1786
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 4: if they run into a team that can get hot,

1787
01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 4: can't do they have enough offensively to be able to

1788
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 4: keep up if their defense happens to slip on a

1789
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 4: given night, and I don't know if I trust Iowa

1790
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 4: State to be able to do that.

1791
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:14,520
Speaker 3: Agreed, Agreed.

1792
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get back to the tournament and selection

1793
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 2: Sunday and all that fun stuff. But we got to

1794
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 2: continue our ride through free agency and the NFL.

1795
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,799
Speaker 3: We last left off in the NFC South.

1796
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 2: The biggest signing, of course, Kirk Cousins a boatload of money,

1797
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:35,639
Speaker 2: and you all of a sudden you have a team

1798
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:39,840
Speaker 2: like the Falcons, who have a good defense, and you

1799
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 2: give him a competent Let's say, I like cal I thought, FITZI,

1800
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 2: you you really characterized him well, which is he's like

1801
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:54,519
Speaker 2: an upper middle class quarterback. Like he's not a wealthy,

1802
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 2: elite quarterback. He's an upper middle class you know, you know,

1803
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 2: competent and and he'll give you you know, you surround

1804
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 2: them with weapons and and you'll they'll you know, do

1805
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:08,360
Speaker 2: the job. Now come off that major injury. You surround

1806
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:13,080
Speaker 2: him with great stuff, I mean Drake London, Kyle Pitts, Bijon,

1807
01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 2: and then.

1808
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 3: You add uh and I like Mooney as a.

1809
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 2: Deep threat because because Cousins can give him a ball

1810
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 2: and Mooney can get open.

1811
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 3: That was an that was kind of an underrated signing.

1812
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you on Mooney one hundred percent.

1813
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:32,720
Speaker 1: And you also mentioned Pitt's earlier. I'm genuinely interested in

1814
01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 1: This is going to sound so disrespectful to Desmond Ritter,

1815
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:39,640
Speaker 1: but I'm genuinely interested to see what Pits looks like

1816
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 1: with a competent quarterback, you know, somebody that can absolutely

1817
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:46,720
Speaker 1: come in and really maximize the best. And that's what

1818
01:28:47,080 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: Kirk is going to be able to do with with

1819
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 1: young offensive weapons. You know, like he becomes the the

1820
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 1: grown up in the room in a lot of different

1821
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: ways that that's really beneficial. Look, I think the at

1822
01:28:58,439 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 1: the end of it all, if you want to win

1823
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of football games, if you want to be

1824
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 1: in the hunt consistently, and you want, you know, competent

1825
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 1: play at quarterback, Kirk Cousins is going to give you

1826
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:10,639
Speaker 1: all of that. Is he going to give you super Bowls?

1827
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 2: No?

1828
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,759
Speaker 1: But I keep going back to you asked earlier stacking

1829
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: up the NFC. I just want to see now, like

1830
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 1: I've decided I want an NFC championship game somehow. That's

1831
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 1: Atlanta versus San Francisco just so we can call it

1832
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: the meltdown Bow and we'll figure out like is Kyle

1833
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 1: gonna melt down or the Falcons gonna melt down? Like

1834
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:30,360
Speaker 1: the thing of it is Kirk Cousins is not going

1835
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 1: to get to the Falcons in my mind, you know,

1836
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 1: to a twenty eight to three Super Bowl lead, But

1837
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: he is going to make the Falcons a better football team.

1838
01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 1: So you know, where's the cost? Like are you are

1839
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:42,439
Speaker 1: you interested in being a better football team or are

1840
01:29:42,439 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 1: you interested in winning Super Bowls? And I think at

1841
01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:46,600
Speaker 1: some point you just got to do your best to

1842
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:48,240
Speaker 1: at least put the best players on the field that

1843
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: you can. So I think the Falcons are going to

1844
01:29:50,040 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: be good this year.

1845
01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 2: So we were talking at the rest of that division

1846
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:57,800
Speaker 2: and it's a just a slop fest other than.

1847
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 1: Well any love for Tampa Bay though, like about to.

1848
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:02,559
Speaker 2: Bring that up, and I just spent I was more

1849
01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:04,600
Speaker 2: like Caroline in the worlds and I was about to

1850
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 2: bring up Tampa Tampa it's status quo, right.

1851
01:30:08,439 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, stay bad. They just brought back their guys, which

1852
01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 4: is good. I mean, you bring back Baker. You had

1853
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 4: a good season last year. The fact that Mike Evans

1854
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 4: took a pay cut to stay there is excellent, but

1855
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:22,320
Speaker 4: they didn't necessarily Levante David returns cool, but I don't

1856
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 4: know if they necessarily did anything to move the needle.

1857
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 4: Whereas at Lanta, I think improved. I think Tampa Bay

1858
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 4: stood pat is where it is. So can you let me.

1859
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:33,400
Speaker 1: Be devil's advocate here or or let me the bear

1860
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: of bad news? I guess I better said. I mean,

1861
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:38,680
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was nine to eight last year on a

1862
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:42,160
Speaker 1: resurgent year from Baker. They lose their offensive coordinator and

1863
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:45,080
Speaker 1: their decision is to run it back Like that's that's

1864
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 1: banking a lot on the ability to that's banking a

1865
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: lot on that wasn't just a one year sensation. That's

1866
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:53,080
Speaker 1: banking a lot on. Hey, we're going to get better,

1867
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,920
Speaker 1: But it's not because your young guys are developing. You're

1868
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:58,680
Speaker 1: you're getting better because you think that there's better to

1869
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:01,160
Speaker 1: be had from you. Guys may have had career years

1870
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:03,519
Speaker 1: like I just wouldn't be surprised to see Tampa take

1871
01:31:03,560 --> 01:31:04,720
Speaker 1: a little bit of a dip next year.

1872
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree for everything that you talked about in

1873
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:09,640
Speaker 4: their offensive court is like you're keeping continuity with the

1874
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:12,360
Speaker 4: coordinator staying he's gone now, so you're kind of rebuilding

1875
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,880
Speaker 4: on that front. And is this was last year they

1876
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 4: were Baker Mayfield or you know, will he take a

1877
01:31:17,479 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 4: step back?

1878
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 3: You know?

1879
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:20,240
Speaker 4: And the crazy thing is, I mean they you know,

1880
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:22,360
Speaker 4: you can argue they should have won in Detroit. You know,

1881
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 4: it's just how thin the margins are in the postseason,

1882
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 4: and you know how things could have shaken out a

1883
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 4: little bit differently. But I digress. I feel by virtue

1884
01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 4: of the fact that they pretty much didn't improve by

1885
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 4: bringing anybody in from the outside for the most part,

1886
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 4: and just kept their guys in the status quo. I

1887
01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 4: guess it's an okay off season, but I think Atlanta

1888
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 4: has kind of surpassed him with what they did.

1889
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:46,800
Speaker 2: Doesn't it feel I agree? And doesn't it feel like

1890
01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:52,240
Speaker 2: Tampa is the giants from last year? Like there's always

1891
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 2: those teams that made the playoffs that you know are

1892
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:57,720
Speaker 2: not going to make the playoffs the following year.

1893
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:00,000
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can definitively say that Tampa's

1894
01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 4: not gonna make the playoffs next year. I guess there's

1895
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 4: a chance that Baker has turned the corner and kind

1896
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 4: of figured out who he is and can build on

1897
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:09,559
Speaker 4: this past season. So it's more of an incomplete as Daniel,

1898
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:12,519
Speaker 4: because the problem is Baker Mayfield had the production. Daniel

1899
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:15,200
Speaker 4: Jones was still you know, completing eight passes for one

1900
01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 4: hundred and ten yards and getting some evolved in the

1901
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 4: run game here and there. They were winning ugly. Tampa

1902
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:21,840
Speaker 4: Bay was finding a way to actually put up some

1903
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 4: solid numbers and win games, I won't say impressively, impressively,

1904
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 4: but legitimately, unlike the Giants who were kind of skating by,

1905
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:30,800
Speaker 4: especially late in the season a couple of years ago.

1906
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:33,120
Speaker 3: I mean that's fair. I'll give you that. I think

1907
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:37,080
Speaker 3: it's fair. I still think there's a fugazy element to them.

1908
01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: I feel like Tampa is a lot like Seattle, where

1909
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: like Gino has the big year and everybody thinks, oh,

1910
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:45,960
Speaker 1: this is gonna be great, and Seattle was still good

1911
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:49,679
Speaker 1: last year, but it's like how much how much juice

1912
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: can you get from the squeeze? Right? That's that's where

1913
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:52,799
Speaker 1: I put Tampa.

1914
01:32:53,240 --> 01:32:55,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the idea that you're gonna get the first

1915
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:58,120
Speaker 4: play schedule this year, which is always a factor, you know,

1916
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 4: so which worked against the Giants, you know, So you know,

1917
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 4: that's well, I guess they didn't win the division, but

1918
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:07,599
Speaker 4: you know you're winning the division as Tampa Bay. You're saying, yeah, yeah,

1919
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:08,600
Speaker 4: but you know what I mean. It's going to be

1920
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 4: a harder schedule for them than it was this past season.

1921
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 4: So that's something the factory win it.

1922
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 2: And I don't think Tampa makes the playoffs next year.

1923
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 3: It's kind of mine.

1924
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 4: I think that's probably a safe bet.

1925
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:19,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1926
01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go to the NFC West and kind of

1927
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 2: look at where we stand. And I'm going to start

1928
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 2: with the Rams because you're close to the Rams. Figure,

1929
01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 2: what do you make of the Rams off season?

1930
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:40,080
Speaker 4: Well, we mentioned Detroit losing Jonah Jackson. I thought that

1931
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:42,360
Speaker 4: was a really good signing for them, looking to bolster

1932
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:45,799
Speaker 4: the offensive line and try to keep Matthew Stafford upright.

1933
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:47,639
Speaker 4: They were able to do that for the most part

1934
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:49,639
Speaker 4: last season, and he had a bit of a resurgent year.

1935
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 4: And bringing back Kevin Dotson, he was a godsend. They

1936
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 4: traded for him and from Pittsburgh for a low round

1937
01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:56,240
Speaker 4: pick and he turned out to be an excellent player

1938
01:33:56,240 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 4: for them. They did need some fortification at the Titan position,

1939
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 4: and I thought the contract for Kobe Parkinson was a

1940
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 4: little rich, to be honest.

1941
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:06,400
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, but.

1942
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a he's a solid player. I guess. I

1943
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 4: guess we'll see how it shakes out. And look, Sean

1944
01:34:11,320 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 4: McVay was able to is able to kind of unlock

1945
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 4: things and a lot of guys that other people don't see.

1946
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 4: So maybe Kobe sees something in Kobe Parkinson and is

1947
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 4: able to wake it up.

1948
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:19,439
Speaker 2: Uh.

1949
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:22,040
Speaker 4: Losing Aaron Donald is a huge blow, and I don't

1950
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,760
Speaker 4: believe they anticipated that happening. It didn't take a lot

1951
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,280
Speaker 4: of people by a huge surprise because this is something

1952
01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 4: he's been flirting with since they won the championship a

1953
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,920
Speaker 4: couple of years ago, but certainly at the point in

1954
01:34:32,960 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 4: time that he decided to do it, basically basically at

1955
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 4: the end of the week when free agency started, probably

1956
01:34:38,680 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 4: took a little a lot of people in the RAMS

1957
01:34:40,200 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 4: organization somewhat by surprise, and they probably wish he would

1958
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 4: have done this last Friday as opposed to this this

1959
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 4: past Friday.

1960
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Yeah, I think that's that's.

1961
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:52,799
Speaker 1: Hard because I don't want to lump Aaron Donald's retirement

1962
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 1: into what they did in free agency. And I thought,

1963
01:34:55,320 --> 01:34:57,240
Speaker 1: what they did in free agency was just fine.

1964
01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 4: No, I agree, I mean, but you're right that.

1965
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:02,839
Speaker 1: When we look at the state of the Rams today

1966
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,640
Speaker 1: without Aaron Donald, it just it sort of took the

1967
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:09,400
Speaker 1: breath away from everybody, Right. It was that gas moment

1968
01:35:09,400 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 1: where you think, oh, man, now all of the rumors

1969
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: that we've heard, like how many years in a row

1970
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 1: are we gonna hear you know, Aaron Donald might retire

1971
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 1: and what's that going to mean for McVeigh and what's

1972
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 1: that going to mean for the Rams, and like all

1973
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:23,680
Speaker 1: of that just sort of stirs up again through this process. Like,

1974
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,680
Speaker 1: the Rams didn't do anything that I thought was staggering

1975
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 1: one way or the other, but the loss of Aaron

1976
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 1: Donald is staggering.

1977
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I look and that one of the biggest

1978
01:35:32,120 --> 01:35:34,679
Speaker 4: issues for them last season was the defensive backfield. Getting

1979
01:35:34,720 --> 01:35:37,640
Speaker 4: Darius Williams back I think wasn't upgrade. I thought that

1980
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:40,759
Speaker 4: was a really good signing. Their signings, their offensive guards

1981
01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 4: and Darius Williams I thought were excellent. Yes, the problem

1982
01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 4: is when you look at the Rams to your point

1983
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,639
Speaker 4: in this offseason and to lose Aaron Donald, especially building

1984
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,680
Speaker 4: off of last year when people thought they weren't going

1985
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 4: to make the playoffs. It was going to be a

1986
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 4: rebuilding year. They had all those cap issues, and for

1987
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 4: them to win ten games and make it in people

1988
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 4: thought that was going to be a springboard this season,

1989
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 4: and they assumed Daron Donald was going to be back.

1990
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:04,720
Speaker 4: Let's build on that. We have young guys who are

1991
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 4: now more experienced, and we can take that next step.

1992
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 4: Now that you lose Aaron Donald, you're kind of taking

1993
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 4: a half step back because you're losing one of the

1994
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 4: greatest players in the history of the sport and the

1995
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:17,479
Speaker 4: anchor of that defensive line which is now extremely young

1996
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:20,880
Speaker 4: and inexperienced. So that's I'm interested to see how the

1997
01:36:20,880 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 4: rest of the off season and in particular the draft goes,

1998
01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:26,120
Speaker 4: now that they have that glaring hole in the middle.

1999
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: By the way, I quickly I will add to all

2000
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:32,439
Speaker 1: of this, if you're a former player on TV right now,

2001
01:36:33,160 --> 01:36:35,400
Speaker 1: you might be a little nervous because we got former

2002
01:36:35,439 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 1: players coming out galore that have so much personality. Right now,

2003
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, for all the guys that are

2004
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:43,760
Speaker 1: sitting at a desk and they're loving the life as

2005
01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 1: a former player talking about football, I'm looking at Aaron

2006
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:49,120
Speaker 1: Donald I'm looking at Kelsey. Soon we'll have the other

2007
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 1: Kelsey coming out. Like it's just we're in this spot

2008
01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 1: now where you've got Nick Saban impossibly Belichick and ending

2009
01:36:56,000 --> 01:36:58,720
Speaker 1: up on TV shows all over the place like it

2010
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 1: just there's an there's an error right now of just

2011
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 1: of athletes that are finishing their careers that are going

2012
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 1: to be amazing.

2013
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:09,840
Speaker 2: That's a great observation. Yeah, you know why I even

2014
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:11,120
Speaker 2: think about that, that's the truth.

2015
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 4: No, every CBS can add another person to their pregame show.

2016
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 4: They only have fifteen right now. So my asaw, squeeze

2017
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 4: somebody else in there.

2018
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the maybe some of the new talent

2019
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:22,080
Speaker 1: will replace some of the others.

2020
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:25,800
Speaker 4: I'm just well, that's floating around. Absolutely, I'd be a

2021
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:26,400
Speaker 4: little puckered.

2022
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 3: Who's the who's the rubor to be out?

2023
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:31,679
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it, I feel I from what I understand,

2024
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 4: everybody's contract is up except for James Brown.

2025
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:35,080
Speaker 3: I thought I.

2026
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 4: Saw that really yeah, literally everybody except for James Brown.

2027
01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 3: So how would you?

2028
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's take a quick time out and

2029
01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 2: let's follow this this little narrative because I've always loved

2030
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:48,880
Speaker 2: the TV sports thing.

2031
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:53,719
Speaker 3: So who who is ready to go? Is my question

2032
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:54,559
Speaker 3: to both you guys.

2033
01:37:55,400 --> 01:37:59,240
Speaker 2: Let's put your Fox executives on the hats on you guys,

2034
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 2: fellas hanging out right here Fox Sports Radio. All right,

2035
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:13,840
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2036
01:38:15,160 --> 01:38:20,240
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2037
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2044
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Speaker 2: All right, so let me let me just bring this

2045
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 2: up because this is interesting. You guys brought up and

2046
01:38:55,840 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 2: Figure senters the story about CBS A and I fits.

2047
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:02,759
Speaker 3: It was really interesting.

2048
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:06,640
Speaker 2: I had't thought about the all the personalities that are retiring.

2049
01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 3: You brought up.

2050
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:12,400
Speaker 2: Kelsey and Aaron Donald and you know Belichick, Nick Saban

2051
01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:16,719
Speaker 2: and you're right like the face of Football TV, which

2052
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:17,760
Speaker 2: is a big deal for us.

2053
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:20,799
Speaker 3: Because we're all in on that stuff is about to change.

2054
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 2: And CBS has a number of guys whose contracts are up,

2055
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 2: including you know, you got Cower and Phil Simms and

2056
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 2: Boomer Size and and you know what's weird guys as

2057
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:36,439
Speaker 2: long as like I like Phil Simms and I like Boomer,

2058
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:40,840
Speaker 2: but as long as they've been around, I don't know.

2059
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:44,760
Speaker 2: I don't feel like an attachment to any of them.

2060
01:39:45,120 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 1: Do you have an attachment to your point? No, I don't.

2061
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:52,679
Speaker 1: And I look at the energy that JJ has brought

2062
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 1: to the broadcast. He's been part of JJ Watt and

2063
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:59,600
Speaker 1: I continually sit here and think one of the tricks

2064
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:03,439
Speaker 1: from the pregame shows is that you really want player expertise, right,

2065
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 1: and it's been nice for years they've had sort of

2066
01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:09,559
Speaker 1: this mix of coaches and players and you know Cower,

2067
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:11,880
Speaker 1: like you mentioned in Sims and Boomer, so you got

2068
01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:14,439
Speaker 1: a couple of quarterbacks and a coach. Well, I would

2069
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 1: argue that right now today you could essentially rebuild that

2070
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 1: whole thing using the Kelsey brothers and Aaron Donald and

2071
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,519
Speaker 1: more people would flock to it. You know, there is

2072
01:40:25,560 --> 01:40:29,960
Speaker 1: a level of the fan that watches pregame shows is

2073
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 1: usually typically by audiences a little older, right, So you

2074
01:40:35,320 --> 01:40:37,080
Speaker 1: certainly are not going to lose that fan if you've

2075
01:40:37,120 --> 01:40:41,120
Speaker 1: got great Hall of Fame caliber NFL players sitting on

2076
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 1: the set, and you're going to have a lot of

2077
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 1: younger fans that appreciate sort of the energy that they

2078
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: bring to it. So it's a strange time because for

2079
01:40:49,120 --> 01:40:52,439
Speaker 1: the longest time, players didn't really want to focus on media,

2080
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 1: and now they understand the power of their voice from

2081
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:57,640
Speaker 1: the outset. You know how many players have podcasts, and

2082
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:00,840
Speaker 1: how many players are already using their play to sort

2083
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: of grow and be their own personalities. They're even getting

2084
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:07,720
Speaker 1: reps basically in this business before they've ever needed to.

2085
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: So they come on set more polished than ever, more

2086
01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:14,520
Speaker 1: ready for media than ever, and with the dynamic personality

2087
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:16,679
Speaker 1: that I think these pregame shows could use. I mean,

2088
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:20,920
Speaker 1: if CBS announced today that they were recasting the entire

2089
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:23,439
Speaker 1: thing with the Kelsey's and Aaron Donald, I would I

2090
01:41:23,439 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: would flock to watch that week one. So I think

2091
01:41:25,840 --> 01:41:29,040
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for former players, and that also means

2092
01:41:29,040 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: that guys that have been away for the game for

2093
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:33,160
Speaker 1: a long time have to remember that, you know, when

2094
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:35,960
Speaker 1: when you remembered more for being on TV than you

2095
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:38,439
Speaker 1: were for the fact that you actually played. You're going

2096
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:40,920
Speaker 1: to be replaced at some point that by somebody that

2097
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 1: you know comes out and has recency.

2098
01:41:43,680 --> 01:41:45,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do hope.

2099
01:41:45,720 --> 01:41:47,439
Speaker 4: And I don't know if he will because he's you know,

2100
01:41:47,600 --> 01:41:50,400
Speaker 4: kind of shooting off into a new stratosphere doing news

2101
01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:51,880
Speaker 4: and a bunch of other stuff. But I do think

2102
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:54,960
Speaker 4: Nate Berlason's been great for that show, and I thought

2103
01:41:54,960 --> 01:41:56,760
Speaker 4: he's someone I think they'd want to hang on to.

2104
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:58,639
Speaker 4: Even though he doesn't have the Hall of Fame resume,

2105
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 4: he does have a person soonality for it, and I

2106
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:03,679
Speaker 4: think even yeah, he could even be the host.

2107
01:42:04,160 --> 01:42:08,040
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, Yes, I think he's every

2108
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:13,800
Speaker 2: bit of I think he's like transcended sports. He has

2109
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 2: at this point no doubt. I think he is a star.

2110
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:20,759
Speaker 2: I agree, like I just think he's really really good,

2111
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 2: and you could I.

2112
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:26,640
Speaker 1: See I think, right, yeah, yeah, I mean they just

2113
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:29,240
Speaker 1: like James Brown just JB just did what a two

2114
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:32,599
Speaker 1: year deal, So in two years, I could totally see Nate,

2115
01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:34,760
Speaker 1: you know, flipping over to that seat. He may not

2116
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,160
Speaker 1: want to wait two years, I mean, frankly, like like

2117
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: I said, he's he's a superstar. He he could sit

2118
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: in that host seat and do a better job than

2119
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the world with it.

2120
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 2: But you know, it's funny. I just was just more.

2121
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 2: I get attached to people. I'm very sentimental, and so

2122
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:55,800
Speaker 2: I get I get attached to especially my broadcasters and

2123
01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:59,599
Speaker 2: the whole thing. But I and I and I usually

2124
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 2: get it. Like I think college basketball and you go

2125
01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:05,679
Speaker 2: through the litany of of those of those, all those

2126
01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:10,479
Speaker 2: iconic broadcasters, I don't feel like I love to this day,

2127
01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:13,800
Speaker 2: like Uncle vern Man lun Quitz was the greatest, I

2128
01:43:13,840 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 2: don't I never got that off those other guys. I

2129
01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:21,280
Speaker 2: don't know what it was, Sims or Boomer or Coach Cower.

2130
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:23,479
Speaker 2: You know, I like them, but.

2131
01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:25,679
Speaker 4: For some reason, and maybe it's because they've been there longer,

2132
01:43:25,720 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 4: but I certainly I feel that with the Fox guys.

2133
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 4: I feel that with you know, Terry and Howie.

2134
01:43:32,200 --> 01:43:36,559
Speaker 3: You know, I love Terry, I love I love Jimmy

2135
01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 3: same thing.

2136
01:43:38,560 --> 01:43:42,639
Speaker 2: And it's weird how I feel way more and they're

2137
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:43,799
Speaker 2: way more endearing.

2138
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:48,080
Speaker 3: And then CBS. CBS feels cold, it.

2139
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:49,160
Speaker 4: Just feels very sterile.

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Speaker 1: Part of that is like chemistry is what it is,

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01:43:53,520 --> 01:43:55,800
Speaker 1: and the Fox guys have always had a good amount

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01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: of chemistry on that It's it's tricky to do that right,

2143
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:01,799
Speaker 1: like one thing. You know, this is sort of inside

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01:44:01,800 --> 01:44:03,720
Speaker 1: baseball for a lot of people. But I mean, I

2145
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:07,200
Speaker 1: can only speak to my experience, you know, at ESPN

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01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:09,160
Speaker 1: when I was there for years. But so often when

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Speaker 1: they're putting together some of these big shows, it's not

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Speaker 1: like they sit there and do like people think, they

2149
01:44:13,920 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: do these big chemistry tests and put everybody together, and

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01:44:17,160 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 1: more often than not, they don't. They just they decide

2151
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 1: they've got somebody on a contract they want to put

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01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:23,800
Speaker 1: on that show now, and that person's been ad it,

2153
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:26,160
Speaker 1: and so you know, all of a sudden, you end

2154
01:44:26,240 --> 01:44:29,080
Speaker 1: up with this situation where you got guys on air

2155
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 1: that may or may not like each other, may or

2156
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 1: may not have that vibe with each other like you

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01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: just you just never know. And I think what the

2158
01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 1: Fox guys have had that chemistry for a long time.

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01:44:38,280 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 1: That being said, I don't think that there's anything wrong.

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01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:44,639
Speaker 1: And I could see Fox over time expanding that show

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01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:47,840
Speaker 1: to start to prepare for the next generation. I could

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01:44:47,880 --> 01:44:50,040
Speaker 1: see where they do you know, two sets, or where

2163
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:52,680
Speaker 1: they do like different segments that bring different people on.

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01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:54,439
Speaker 1: I mean, look at what we've seen love them or

2165
01:44:54,479 --> 01:44:56,880
Speaker 1: hate him in the conversation around Game Day. You know,

2166
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: certainly Pat McAfee has been part of Game Day in

2167
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,800
Speaker 1: a way that, you know, easing the transition when you

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01:45:02,800 --> 01:45:04,640
Speaker 1: know Corso decides he doesn't want to be part of

2169
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:08,360
Speaker 1: that show anymore. I could see some situation where people

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01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: in the Fox Show adds some guys like this in

2171
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:13,200
Speaker 1: a way that doesn't disrupt the chemistry they have, but

2172
01:45:13,280 --> 01:45:17,200
Speaker 1: also you know, brings in some fresh a fresh voice.

2173
01:45:17,280 --> 01:45:20,080
Speaker 1: But certainly I agree with all of you guys like that.

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Speaker 1: As somebody that watches CBS over Fox a lot of

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01:45:23,880 --> 01:45:26,800
Speaker 1: times on these broadcasts because I'm an AFC fan, I

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01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:29,760
Speaker 1: often find myself watching the Fox pregame show and then

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01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 1: flipping over to CBS for the game.

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01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:35,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Fox has slowly started to transition guys in there.

2179
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:38,519
Speaker 4: Gronk was a mainstay as part of their coverage this year.

2180
01:45:39,080 --> 01:45:41,799
Speaker 4: They had like the pre pre show with Carissa Thompson

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01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:44,400
Speaker 4: and Charles Woodson and a couple of others. Now whether

2182
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 4: or not they have a grand plan of transitioning those

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01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:49,559
Speaker 4: people into the larger role later on. I don't know,

2184
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 4: but you've seen them do, and they do a lot more.

2185
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:53,760
Speaker 4: They get up and move around. They have the little

2186
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:57,800
Speaker 4: half football field and they just changes your eye level,

2187
01:45:57,800 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 4: get your gets you more active, CBS. The guys just

2188
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 4: gonna sit behind a desk and it's just more, like

2189
01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 4: I said, just more sterile than the Fox Brock edge

2190
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:07,960
Speaker 4: of the behind it because there's more going on.

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01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:12,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree. Hey, don't forget.

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01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:15,679
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2193
01:46:15,680 --> 01:46:18,200
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2194
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2195
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2196
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2198
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2199
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:36,160
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2200
01:46:36,240 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 2: let's get back to our NFL foray around the league.

2201
01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:45,280
Speaker 2: We're in the West, the NFC West Niners. You add

2202
01:46:45,280 --> 01:46:48,960
Speaker 2: a little bit to the defense, which is, you know,

2203
01:46:49,080 --> 01:46:52,400
Speaker 2: the the NC champs. I have no reason to think

2204
01:46:52,400 --> 01:46:53,479
Speaker 2: that they're gonna go anywhere.

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01:46:55,120 --> 01:46:58,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean the Armstead move was a little

2206
01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 1: surprising to me. I think, you know, just in the

2207
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, teams find a way to keep

2208
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:05,120
Speaker 1: guys that want to keep it. In this situation, they

2209
01:47:05,200 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: chose not to do that, so I thought that was

2210
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,799
Speaker 1: a little surprising. But they also bring in Leonard Floyd

2211
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:13,760
Speaker 1: a short deal. They can get a lot out of

2212
01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:16,400
Speaker 1: him in a little amount of time, I don't think,

2213
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: and Malie Collins comes in via trade. So I feel

2214
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,519
Speaker 1: like the forty nine ers are just they get benefit

2215
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 1: of the doubt and what they do because their roster's

2216
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 1: better than everybody. So until I see otherwise, I would

2217
01:47:27,800 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: make the argument that the most talented team lost to

2218
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:32,639
Speaker 1: the best player in the Super Bowl, and nothing I've

2219
01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:34,679
Speaker 1: seen will change the fact that right now the forty

2220
01:47:34,800 --> 01:47:36,599
Speaker 1: nine ers are the most talented team in the NFL.

2221
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 4: To me, yeah, I'm interested in the health situation with

2222
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:42,360
Speaker 4: Devondre Campbell because two years ago he's one of the

2223
01:47:42,400 --> 01:47:44,280
Speaker 4: best defensive players in the league and he's just had

2224
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 4: a devastating injury and hadn't been the same. And my

2225
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:49,280
Speaker 4: guess is they signed him to be some sort of

2226
01:47:49,320 --> 01:47:52,040
Speaker 4: insurance for green Law who had that terrible injury in

2227
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. But if he can come back and

2228
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:55,920
Speaker 4: be anywhere close to her. He was a couple of

2229
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:58,679
Speaker 4: years ago that'd be a steal to get Defandre Campbell

2230
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:01,000
Speaker 4: on a one year contract. Becausesidering the amount of money

2231
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:03,080
Speaker 4: he had come in Tom from Green Bay before they

2232
01:48:03,080 --> 01:48:03,719
Speaker 4: cut him.

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01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:07,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hey real quick, because.

2234
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:12,840
Speaker 2: My man Eddie Webster brings this up. Is the show?

2235
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:14,599
Speaker 2: Is the pregame show too long?

2236
01:48:16,760 --> 01:48:16,920
Speaker 1: Oh?

2237
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 4: It's an hour, I believe, right.

2238
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:21,080
Speaker 3: Because he was like, it's too long.

2239
01:48:21,200 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 2: It's funny, He's like, pregame is too long, and.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I like, I don't know.

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01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 4: I mean that's a part of me that I mean,

2242
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:32,760
Speaker 4: no one's twisting your arm to watch it.

2243
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 3: There's them, right, you know.

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01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:36,280
Speaker 1: I think it depends on what coast you live on, too,

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01:48:36,400 --> 01:48:38,400
Speaker 1: Like if you live on the West Coast, yeah, it's

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01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:40,439
Speaker 1: probably too long because it's early in the morning. If

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01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: you live on the East coast, like you know you

2248
01:48:42,479 --> 01:48:44,800
Speaker 1: and I do, Anthony, Like, there's just a part of

2249
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:46,960
Speaker 1: my mind that's like, man, I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll take I find myself watching anything at ten am

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01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:52,040
Speaker 1: to help me get ready for the fact that games

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01:48:52,080 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 1: don't even kick off until one pm. Which is we've

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01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 1: gone over. I absolutely hate so I don't want a

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01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 1: shorter pregame show because I find myself just starved for

2255
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:04,320
Speaker 1: football midway through it. But yeah, I certainly think you know,

2256
01:49:04,760 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 1: the Sunday NFL Countdown game on the show on ESPN

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01:49:07,720 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 1: is wildly too long.

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01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like that's eastern, right, but that comes

2259
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 4: on at seven o'clock in the morning on the West.

2260
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:15,320
Speaker 4: Is when is when the pregame show for the four

2261
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:18,000
Speaker 4: letter starts. That's that's three hours before the games kick off.

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01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's the whole broadcast feels like they're stretching.

2263
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:25,920
Speaker 1: They're they're they're always they always feel like they're.

2264
01:49:26,080 --> 01:49:29,240
Speaker 2: That's a great Oh, that's a great observation.

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01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:31,280
Speaker 3: They do feel like they're stretching.

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01:49:31,439 --> 01:49:37,440
Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, it doesn't way. Why well, because honestly,

2267
01:49:37,520 --> 01:49:40,519
Speaker 1: because the NFL is king seven days a week. So

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01:49:40,760 --> 01:49:42,719
Speaker 1: the one thing I would say, like, if you watch

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01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: Big Noon, right, Big Noon's got so much to cover

2270
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: because most people during the week weren't paying attention to

2271
01:49:49,120 --> 01:49:51,640
Speaker 1: Colorado on what's going on? Right, So you got so

2272
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:54,439
Speaker 1: many games to cover with the NFL, it doesn't matter

2273
01:49:54,439 --> 01:49:58,280
Speaker 1: which network you're watching. Every single day, they're talking about

2274
01:49:58,280 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 1: the same five games oh and over and over again.

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01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:04,400
Speaker 1: So by the time you get to Sunday, I mean

2276
01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:06,479
Speaker 1: five or six of those games have been covered for

2277
01:50:06,640 --> 01:50:08,400
Speaker 1: twenty hours during the week, So what do you have

2278
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:11,639
Speaker 1: that's new, you know? So I just think it's tougher

2279
01:50:12,080 --> 01:50:15,520
Speaker 1: even though there's you know, in theory, you got sixteen games.

2280
01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:18,519
Speaker 2: To you know why it's spot on and now you're right,

2281
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 2: it's it's every there's so much NFL content that you

2282
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 2: go all right, you know, like I know this story.

2283
01:50:29,560 --> 01:50:32,040
Speaker 2: So by the time Sunday rolls around and you're you're

2284
01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 2: you're diving into the week stories, you've already lived them

2285
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:35,679
Speaker 2: during the week.

2286
01:50:36,560 --> 01:50:40,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even on those long pregame shows, they're still

2287
01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 1: resisting talking about the teams that nobody cares about. So

2288
01:50:43,760 --> 01:50:46,960
Speaker 1: even in that they're they're filling three hours on ten

2289
01:50:47,040 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 1: games because they just don't they don't feel like anybody

2290
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:52,400
Speaker 1: really wants to hear about the Titans, Jags, And they're

2291
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 1: probably right, you know. So it's it's a failed that

2292
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:57,120
Speaker 1: part of it's a failed system.

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01:50:57,200 --> 01:50:59,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like they go down to like syth Pal tell

2294
01:50:59,280 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 4: us about the turf down there for our this is

2295
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:03,320
Speaker 4: our third hit this hour. We got to kill some

2296
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:07,200
Speaker 4: more time. What's going tell us about this? Well, guys,

2297
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:09,960
Speaker 4: there's actually turf, so uh, nothing to worry or nothing

2298
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,800
Speaker 4: to see here back to you. That's that's what it

2299
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:13,439
Speaker 4: turns into.

2300
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:17,719
Speaker 2: Well like and look, I'm pulling the grass, I'm letting

2301
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:18,960
Speaker 2: it blow it to the wind.

2302
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:20,960
Speaker 1: You can see the wind gusts out.

2303
01:51:20,960 --> 01:51:22,639
Speaker 3: It's twenty to forty miles an hour.

2304
01:51:22,800 --> 01:51:24,519
Speaker 4: All right, we'll check in with you in fifteen minutes

2305
01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:28,519
Speaker 4: to see where the wind's blowing. Then it's like, well

2306
01:51:28,560 --> 01:51:30,599
Speaker 4: they do it. It's live programming and they know people

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01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:33,080
Speaker 4: are going to watch. That's all it is. We can

2308
01:51:33,320 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 4: we can replay Sports Center for the fifteenth time, or

2309
01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:38,160
Speaker 4: we can go we can start at seven o'clock in

2310
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:40,320
Speaker 4: the morning when it's dark outside and there's nobody at

2311
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:43,080
Speaker 4: the stadium but the reporter and one guys sweeping.

2312
01:51:43,560 --> 01:51:45,400
Speaker 3: You know that the chair leaves.

2313
01:51:45,520 --> 01:51:48,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, you blow the trash, but they know people to watch.

2314
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:52,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's great stuff. It really is.

2315
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:56,120
Speaker 2: Uh shout out tomorrow, give a yo to my man

2316
01:51:56,240 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 2: Eddie Webster who brought that up. Is very interesting. Seattle.

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01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:07,120
Speaker 2: Did you like what Seattle did? Sam Howe, No, I

2318
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 2: mean I feel the same way that I'm like, I

2319
01:52:10,360 --> 01:52:11,559
Speaker 2: saw someone gave him.

2320
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 3: A big pluser roll and they're off season free.

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01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:16,640
Speaker 4: I'm like, what how with what I do?

2322
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 3: I don't get it.

2323
01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:19,679
Speaker 4: I mean, bring Williams?

2324
01:52:19,680 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 1: Cool?

2325
01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:21,000
Speaker 4: Okay, okay?

2326
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:21,200
Speaker 3: With that?

2327
01:52:21,320 --> 01:52:23,800
Speaker 1: What choice did they have to considering what they gave

2328
01:52:23,880 --> 01:52:26,040
Speaker 1: up to get Leonard Williams? Like, I'm gonna call that

2329
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 1: a wash, Like you knew that had to get done

2330
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:30,479
Speaker 1: no matter the price. Otherwise you just you're gonna feel

2331
01:52:30,479 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 1: like an idiot on that, Like, yeah, did they did

2332
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:35,719
Speaker 1: they bring in anything that makes me feel differently about

2333
01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:39,240
Speaker 1: the NFC West next year? I mean no, In fact,

2334
01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:41,800
Speaker 1: they released a bunch of players that maybe you know,

2335
01:52:41,880 --> 01:52:43,960
Speaker 1: have a bigger reputation than they do play on the

2336
01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:47,080
Speaker 1: field right now, Like Seattle, we almost forget like this

2337
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:50,559
Speaker 1: isn't Pete Carroll's Seahawks anymore. So I think Seattle's just

2338
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:53,080
Speaker 1: sort of like, hey, don't rock the boat, Let's see

2339
01:52:53,120 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 1: what we got. They're gonna do what every new coaching

2340
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 1: staff does. They're gonna get a sense of this player

2341
01:52:57,080 --> 01:52:59,639
Speaker 1: next to this team, this roster. Next year, they're gonna

2342
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 1: rip it up and then they're going to rebuild like

2343
01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: so it was fine, but they didn't do anything to

2344
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: change power structure in the NFC.

2345
01:53:05,439 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just difficult when you're and I understand why

2346
01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:09,840
Speaker 4: you do it, but when you're a new coach and

2347
01:53:09,920 --> 01:53:12,000
Speaker 4: you want to put your stamp on it, like years

2348
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:14,759
Speaker 4: are valuable and you're basically wasting a year with somebody

2349
01:53:14,840 --> 01:53:19,479
Speaker 4: else's infrastructure, that's just that's a really difficult cell for me.

2350
01:53:20,640 --> 01:53:22,599
Speaker 4: If I'm going to come in and put a team

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01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:25,240
Speaker 4: in my own Now granted, Jim Harball is Jim Harball

2352
01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:26,760
Speaker 4: can do whatever he wants. If I want to mold

2353
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:28,559
Speaker 4: the team in my own image, you know, I'm going

2354
01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 4: to come in and if you don't want to play ball.

2355
01:53:30,120 --> 01:53:33,160
Speaker 4: Keenan Allen, you're gone. Mike Williams, you're gone. I'm doing

2356
01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:35,960
Speaker 4: this my way. I realized in Seattle. It's a little

2357
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,559
Speaker 4: bit different. He doesn't have that sort of clout, but

2358
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:40,879
Speaker 4: you'd want to have a little bit more say, assuming

2359
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:43,760
Speaker 4: that you know, these are not moves that he's necessarily

2360
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 4: on board with and he's just kind of going with

2361
01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:47,559
Speaker 4: the flow. I want to come in and shake things

2362
01:53:47,600 --> 01:53:49,439
Speaker 4: up because if nothing else, if you come in and

2363
01:53:49,439 --> 01:53:50,840
Speaker 4: blow it up and say, look, I'm trying to build

2364
01:53:50,840 --> 01:53:52,880
Speaker 4: this in my image. I need more time. That'd be

2365
01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 4: one thing if you come in and say we got

2366
01:53:55,080 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 4: pieces in place here, we'll see what happens and things

2367
01:53:57,560 --> 01:53:59,880
Speaker 4: don't go well, you're already behind the eight ball.

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01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:07,080
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, uh Arizona. You know I mean

2369
01:54:07,120 --> 01:54:11,600
Speaker 2: Sean Murphy Bunting. Uh, you get Mac Willson. So you

2370
01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:14,840
Speaker 2: got that side of the ball. I hate that's when rider,

2371
01:54:14,960 --> 01:54:18,439
Speaker 2: but you know it's a backup or whatever, you.

2372
01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:21,519
Speaker 4: Know, McCoy and not still flowing around to be a b.

2373
01:54:23,120 --> 01:54:26,240
Speaker 2: So would I I feel you? All right, So we'll

2374
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:28,960
Speaker 2: go on to the A f C coming up next,

2375
01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:31,719
Speaker 2: get back to some hoops as well. Where the Fellas

2376
01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 2: hanging out right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

2377
01:54:36,280 --> 01:54:44,920
Speaker 2: from the ti raq dot com studio. Fell is, Hey,

2378
01:54:45,720 --> 01:54:50,920
Speaker 2: my buddy, uh, Nicky's listening, and uh shout out to

2379
01:54:51,080 --> 01:54:56,720
Speaker 2: our buddy Dominic Nick Pennsylvania. He said, you know, the

2380
01:54:56,960 --> 01:55:00,720
Speaker 2: one thing that has made these shows longer is the

2381
01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:05,839
Speaker 2: gambling and fantasy. So you have all these gambling fantasy

2382
01:55:05,880 --> 01:55:08,320
Speaker 2: segments and they do go in who's in, who's out?

2383
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:12,120
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the deactivated.

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01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:15,960
Speaker 3: He's deactivated and out.

2385
01:55:17,520 --> 01:55:20,920
Speaker 2: Is that for the for the guy who's not the

2386
01:55:21,040 --> 01:55:22,800
Speaker 2: whole day doesn't revolve around that.

2387
01:55:23,880 --> 01:55:25,920
Speaker 3: Is that a turn offs?

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01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 1: I think it's exhausting at some point, the fantasy stuff particularly,

2389
01:55:31,760 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: and I'll qualify like I host a fantasy football show

2390
01:55:35,240 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: for Yahoo, so obviously I love fantasy football. It's fine.

2391
01:55:39,200 --> 01:55:42,680
Speaker 1: I think much of that content on the on Sunday

2392
01:55:42,720 --> 01:55:46,880
Speaker 1: morning is really it's digestible on social media. You know.

2393
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,800
Speaker 1: I don't think that we need big fantasy breakdown Sunday morning.

2394
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:52,560
Speaker 1: By then, most people are just trying to find out

2395
01:55:52,760 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: who's active who's not active, which can be done from

2396
01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:57,640
Speaker 1: a ticker, can be done on Twitter acts, it can

2397
01:55:57,680 --> 01:55:59,760
Speaker 1: be done on social media in general, just giving us

2398
01:55:59,800 --> 01:56:02,640
Speaker 1: the note of who's in and who's out. So I

2399
01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:06,360
Speaker 1: think that's certainly part of it. The gambling portion of it, man,

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01:56:06,400 --> 01:56:08,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just when we see the numbers

2401
01:56:08,400 --> 01:56:11,200
Speaker 1: on it, I feel like, you know, more and more

2402
01:56:11,680 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: better for better or for worse on this, More and

2403
01:56:13,760 --> 01:56:16,400
Speaker 1: more young people are getting into it, and the kids

2404
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,960
Speaker 1: are gambling like kids. The people are of age or

2405
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:20,160
Speaker 1: gambling all over the place.

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01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 3: The kids are shooting.

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01:56:27,080 --> 01:56:30,000
Speaker 1: You know, we got we got the record numbers of

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01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:33,000
Speaker 1: dollars being spend gambling. I think that I think there's

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01:56:33,040 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 1: a ton of people tuning in at noon trying to

2410
01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:38,080
Speaker 1: be like, all right, who should I play? What's my parlay?

2411
01:56:38,120 --> 01:56:40,320
Speaker 1: How should I do this? I still I think that

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01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:43,760
Speaker 1: that draws a big audience. But I also think that

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01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:47,400
Speaker 1: this is a problem for every single media company when

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01:56:47,400 --> 01:56:49,800
Speaker 1: covering gambling. How do you do it and not just

2415
01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:52,560
Speaker 1: make people's eyes gloss over? Like how do you how

2416
01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:54,720
Speaker 1: do you please people that are professional as well? At

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01:56:54,760 --> 01:56:58,800
Speaker 1: the same time, it is like, yeah, like it's hard.

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01:56:58,640 --> 01:57:00,680
Speaker 2: Because the truth of the matter is, you know what

2419
01:57:00,720 --> 01:57:02,400
Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is because I love that

2420
01:57:02,400 --> 01:57:05,960
Speaker 2: stuff too, fantasy. I love fantasy, and the whole betting

2421
01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:09,640
Speaker 2: stuff is fun. But the truth of matter is like

2422
01:57:09,680 --> 01:57:14,000
Speaker 2: the real gambling or the real uh like smart if

2423
01:57:14,040 --> 01:57:17,040
Speaker 2: you want to treat it like a stock market. So

2424
01:57:17,080 --> 01:57:20,120
Speaker 2: you guys know what you know, v sin out of Vegas,

2425
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:23,040
Speaker 2: right right? So I'm friends with a lot of the

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01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:26,840
Speaker 2: guys that started that thing. They originally wanted it to

2427
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 2: be the CNBC, uh, sports gambling like like sports betting

2428
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:36,400
Speaker 2: was going to be CNBC right like so, and and

2429
01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:39,240
Speaker 2: it's kind of followed suit but their whole thing was

2430
01:57:39,320 --> 01:57:43,120
Speaker 2: like they wanted to be on Times Square and you know,

2431
01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:45,720
Speaker 2: it was trading and the whole thing.

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01:57:45,760 --> 01:57:47,080
Speaker 3: And it's trending that way.

2433
01:57:48,200 --> 01:57:50,760
Speaker 2: But like you look at NFL games, you're when you're

2434
01:57:50,760 --> 01:57:54,120
Speaker 2: looking at movement, it really starts on Monday Tuesday, right

2435
01:57:54,160 --> 01:57:58,200
Speaker 2: by Sunday at noon. It's all a lot like you're

2436
01:57:58,240 --> 01:58:01,000
Speaker 2: not getting any sharp pick right right.

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01:58:01,800 --> 01:58:04,320
Speaker 4: I guess the thing that the question is, are you

2438
01:58:04,400 --> 01:58:07,480
Speaker 4: turn You're turning off a certain sect of the audience

2439
01:58:07,480 --> 01:58:11,360
Speaker 4: who don't care about gambling to appease those who do, right,

2440
01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:15,600
Speaker 4: But what's the bigger draw? That's the question. And I

2441
01:58:15,640 --> 01:58:18,240
Speaker 4: feel like you'd almost rather because some people are going

2442
01:58:18,280 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 4: to watch regardless. So am I willing to turn off

2443
01:58:21,000 --> 01:58:23,120
Speaker 4: the people who just want to hear about the Bengals

2444
01:58:23,160 --> 01:58:26,160
Speaker 4: offensive line matchup against Cleveland's defensive front this week when

2445
01:58:26,160 --> 01:58:28,800
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett is out Versus the people that want to

2446
01:58:28,840 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 4: hear about the betting lines and how that's affected in

2447
01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:34,080
Speaker 4: that game, as well as the Baltimore Pittsburgh game and

2448
01:58:34,120 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 4: like weather and all that stuff. I feel like they'd

2449
01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:39,480
Speaker 4: almost be more willing to sacrifice the people who are

2450
01:58:39,480 --> 01:58:41,640
Speaker 4: the football divers. They just want to hear about football,

2451
01:58:41,800 --> 01:58:44,080
Speaker 4: to talk more about the gambling and the fantasy aspect

2452
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:45,200
Speaker 4: of it.

2453
01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:47,640
Speaker 1: But this is no different Like when we watch these

2454
01:58:47,640 --> 01:58:50,600
Speaker 1: pre game shows, very rarely are they doing a deep

2455
01:58:50,680 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 1: dive on actual like oh my god, look at this

2456
01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:57,160
Speaker 1: matchup between this interior offensive lineman and this interior defensive lineman.

2457
01:58:57,240 --> 01:59:00,000
Speaker 1: Like everything is kept very broadest set of the audience.

2458
01:59:00,040 --> 01:59:03,400
Speaker 1: It's the hardest part about gambling is that to your point, cousin, Like,

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01:59:03,720 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of sharps are listening for that.

2460
01:59:05,920 --> 01:59:08,720
Speaker 1: This is like the gambling content. You want to make

2461
01:59:08,720 --> 01:59:10,080
Speaker 1: smart gambling content.

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01:59:10,520 --> 01:59:13,360
Speaker 3: Already long they played their.

2463
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:16,120
Speaker 1: Games, and like casuals don't even like a lot of

2464
01:59:16,120 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: casual gamblers don't even really understand what we're talking about. So, like,

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01:59:19,920 --> 01:59:22,360
Speaker 1: I think that that's a hard fine line on it,

2466
01:59:22,440 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 1: Like the gambling content has to be sort of very surfacy,

2467
01:59:26,360 --> 01:59:27,920
Speaker 1: and at that point, you know, there are a lot

2468
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,560
Speaker 1: of people I think that are just sort of dipping

2469
01:59:29,600 --> 01:59:31,520
Speaker 1: their toes. So I think that's the audience on it.

2470
01:59:31,880 --> 01:59:32,839
Speaker 3: But it's the audience.

2471
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:35,520
Speaker 2: What's interesting about it is is the audience, Well, you

2472
01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:37,960
Speaker 2: get a guy who bets games or whatever, and you

2473
01:59:38,040 --> 01:59:42,520
Speaker 2: know the casualness. He's already kind of betting the games.

2474
01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:46,920
Speaker 2: So you need him, you need like some of the Hey,

2475
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:49,040
Speaker 2: this is do our draft. Part of it is to

2476
01:59:49,120 --> 01:59:52,880
Speaker 2: sell it. I get the advertising piece, but I don't

2477
01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:55,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think you're kind of missing the mark. Oh,

2478
01:59:55,960 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 2: it's an interesting conversation. We can dive further into. Got

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Speaker 2: So a couple of things, boys, As we talked a

2500
02:01:08,360 --> 02:01:12,280
Speaker 2: lot about NFL free agency and winners losers, kind of

2501
02:01:12,280 --> 02:01:15,440
Speaker 2: going through the whole team, went through the entire NFC.

2502
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:18,200
Speaker 2: We're going to be doing some of the AFC as well.

2503
02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:23,400
Speaker 2: We'll get into some of the conference tournaments. Today's a

2504
02:01:23,440 --> 02:01:27,840
Speaker 2: big day, a lot of the finals and semifinals. March

2505
02:01:27,960 --> 02:01:32,000
Speaker 2: Mannits is upon us. And just to kind of reiterate

2506
02:01:32,040 --> 02:01:35,320
Speaker 2: a couple of things. When it comes to the college basketball,

2507
02:01:35,680 --> 02:01:38,320
Speaker 2: I think we both agree it's a two team tournament

2508
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:43,440
Speaker 2: with Houston and Yuka, and then it's about, you know,

2509
02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:46,000
Speaker 2: is there anybody else that can give a run. It's

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02:01:46,040 --> 02:01:50,400
Speaker 2: interesting in the era of parody, it appears that your

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02:01:50,480 --> 02:01:55,480
Speaker 2: two teams that really have to have, you know, are

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02:01:56,040 --> 02:01:58,320
Speaker 2: to me a pretty deep favorite.

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02:01:58,520 --> 02:02:00,560
Speaker 3: Fancy yeah.

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02:02:00,600 --> 02:02:03,800
Speaker 1: And the hard part about this is that I'd say

2515
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:07,440
Speaker 1: two teams are a pretty deep favorite, and people might say, well,

2516
02:02:07,600 --> 02:02:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, that seems like we keep saying it's an

2517
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:12,960
Speaker 1: unprecedented year. I would argue that most of the time

2518
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:15,040
Speaker 1: we enter the tournament saying, oh, there are four or

2519
02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:16,920
Speaker 1: five six teams that we feel I could win it

2520
02:02:17,000 --> 02:02:19,280
Speaker 1: all right, correct, This year feels like there are two

2521
02:02:19,360 --> 02:02:21,280
Speaker 1: teams that I'd be comfortable saying, hey, if I'm just

2522
02:02:21,280 --> 02:02:23,320
Speaker 1: filling out my bracket and I don't even want to

2523
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:27,160
Speaker 1: think about anything, Houston and Yukon feel like they clearly separate.

2524
02:02:27,440 --> 02:02:30,280
Speaker 1: The hard part of this year's bracket is after that,

2525
02:02:30,760 --> 02:02:33,800
Speaker 1: it's all just one big cluster, you know, walk like

2526
02:02:33,920 --> 02:02:37,120
Speaker 1: it is just all over the place. I could see

2527
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:39,640
Speaker 1: any game going any direction. If there's ever been a

2528
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:43,959
Speaker 1: time to just put on a blindfold and throw spaghetti

2529
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:46,480
Speaker 1: at a wall to see what sticks, it's this particular

2530
02:02:46,560 --> 02:02:48,520
Speaker 1: year's tournament because when you start looking at some of

2531
02:02:48,520 --> 02:02:50,800
Speaker 1: the protected matchups, like how many years in a row

2532
02:02:50,800 --> 02:02:53,040
Speaker 1: do we say, oh, a twelve always beats a five. Well,

2533
02:02:53,040 --> 02:02:56,839
Speaker 1: this year I could just I could see any underdog

2534
02:02:56,880 --> 02:03:00,400
Speaker 1: beating any favorite for most of this tournament. It's so

2535
02:03:00,560 --> 02:03:04,400
Speaker 1: wide open, and college basketball has been so inconsistent. To

2536
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,560
Speaker 1: say it as nicely as possible, this.

2537
02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:12,320
Speaker 2: Year, yeah, it's it's fascinating because you're right where the

2538
02:03:12,440 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 2: top two teams feel like the fair like anywhere else,

2539
02:03:16,320 --> 02:03:20,960
Speaker 2: anybody else could beat anyone else, like we we're talking about.

2540
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:24,320
Speaker 2: You know, you look at some of these teams that

2541
02:03:24,480 --> 02:03:28,960
Speaker 2: have are built around one player, right like, and there's

2542
02:03:29,000 --> 02:03:31,840
Speaker 2: a lot of it, Like you know, figure you bring

2543
02:03:31,920 --> 02:03:35,200
Speaker 2: up Purdue all the time and at the team they

2544
02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:38,320
Speaker 2: can get beat early because when you have one player

2545
02:03:39,000 --> 02:03:40,600
Speaker 2: and all it takes an off day.

2546
02:03:41,240 --> 02:03:45,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean I think it's slightly unfair to

2547
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:46,840
Speaker 4: say they have one player. The thing is with look

2548
02:03:46,840 --> 02:03:48,880
Speaker 4: with Zach, eat is gonna ball out regardless.

2549
02:03:48,880 --> 02:03:49,400
Speaker 3: We know that.

2550
02:03:49,800 --> 02:03:52,520
Speaker 4: It's just whether or not those guards who struggled mightily

2551
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:55,160
Speaker 4: last year in the first round are able to step

2552
02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 4: up and give them anything this year. And I have

2553
02:03:57,280 --> 02:03:58,840
Speaker 4: no reason to believe that they won't. They have an

2554
02:03:58,840 --> 02:04:01,880
Speaker 4: extra year of experience. So I don't want to sleep

2555
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:03,880
Speaker 4: on Purdue and say they don't have a shot at winning.

2556
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:06,160
Speaker 4: I think they have a legitimate chance of making a

2557
02:04:06,200 --> 02:04:08,200
Speaker 4: deep run of the tournament too. It's just contingent on

2558
02:04:08,240 --> 02:04:11,320
Speaker 4: their guards playing better, and through most of this season

2559
02:04:12,120 --> 02:04:14,560
Speaker 4: in particular, Lawyer and Branden Smith have played a lot

2560
02:04:14,600 --> 02:04:17,400
Speaker 4: better for them. Even in the midst of last year's

2561
02:04:17,400 --> 02:04:21,200
Speaker 4: great season, so I don't necessarily anticipate in an early exit.

2562
02:04:21,280 --> 02:04:23,400
Speaker 4: I think they'll show themselves much better this year than

2563
02:04:23,400 --> 02:04:24,320
Speaker 4: they have the last couple.

2564
02:04:26,160 --> 02:04:30,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's so interesting how that

2565
02:04:30,320 --> 02:04:31,800
Speaker 2: kind of works, how you look at the rest of

2566
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:32,400
Speaker 2: the tourment and.

2567
02:04:32,400 --> 02:04:34,400
Speaker 4: As look as much as I love Houston and Yukon,

2568
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:36,560
Speaker 4: and yes, they will be one in one a if

2569
02:04:36,600 --> 02:04:39,080
Speaker 4: I had to chart out my favorites to win, but

2570
02:04:39,760 --> 02:04:42,400
Speaker 4: I certainly wouldn't say like it's it's head and shoulders, like,

2571
02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:45,000
Speaker 4: oh my god, nobody else can you know, can break

2572
02:04:45,040 --> 02:04:47,320
Speaker 4: through and win. I mean, there's legitimate I think there's

2573
02:04:47,400 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 4: there's a decent amount of parody in this year's tournament,

2574
02:04:49,960 --> 02:04:52,200
Speaker 4: and I can see Purdue or North Carolina making a

2575
02:04:52,240 --> 02:04:55,320
Speaker 4: deep run if you talked about Creighton and Marquette earlier.

2576
02:04:56,720 --> 02:04:58,600
Speaker 4: As much as I don't want to pick Kentucky, they

2577
02:04:58,600 --> 02:05:00,600
Speaker 4: have so much freaking talent when the and we've seen

2578
02:05:00,640 --> 02:05:03,040
Speaker 4: what they can do when they do play defense. When

2579
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:05,520
Speaker 4: you have that much talent and can lock in and

2580
02:05:05,560 --> 02:05:07,760
Speaker 4: score the way they can score, there's no reason why

2581
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:10,520
Speaker 4: they can't make a deep run. So there's ways, there's

2582
02:05:10,640 --> 02:05:13,360
Speaker 4: arguments for a multitude of teams to be able to

2583
02:05:13,400 --> 02:05:17,200
Speaker 4: make it to the final four independent of Houston and Kukon,

2584
02:05:17,400 --> 02:05:20,520
Speaker 4: because I know they're built so well. But there's a

2585
02:05:20,520 --> 02:05:22,840
Speaker 4: bunch of other teams who will have legitimate shots too.

2586
02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:25,640
Speaker 1: But here, let me push back on the Purdue for

2587
02:05:25,720 --> 02:05:29,960
Speaker 1: one second. Just firs Braden Smith hurt yesterday. Now he

2588
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:31,560
Speaker 1: came back in the game. We'll see what it looks

2589
02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:33,840
Speaker 1: like moving forward. But I keep going back to the

2590
02:05:33,840 --> 02:05:37,400
Speaker 1: Michigan State perdue moment because we've seen now twice in

2591
02:05:37,440 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 1: the last the last month. Purdue won both of those games.

2592
02:05:40,920 --> 02:05:43,640
Speaker 1: Michigan State couldn't hit the broadside of a barn and

2593
02:05:43,800 --> 02:05:46,640
Speaker 1: in both of those games. But they really just seem

2594
02:05:46,720 --> 02:05:48,640
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, we're gonna let Zach Edy go off

2595
02:05:48,840 --> 02:05:50,960
Speaker 1: and whatever he does, he does, and we're going to

2596
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:52,840
Speaker 1: be able to stay competitive in this game. And it

2597
02:05:52,920 --> 02:05:56,520
Speaker 1: worked both times against a bad team offensively in Michigan State.

2598
02:05:56,760 --> 02:05:59,760
Speaker 1: That's why I just feel like when you are sort

2599
02:05:59,800 --> 02:06:03,080
Speaker 1: of holding to one and a one a that can

2600
02:06:03,120 --> 02:06:07,000
Speaker 1: do only they're your only scoring option, is just so

2601
02:06:07,200 --> 02:06:10,840
Speaker 1: easy in the tournament to throttle somebody like Edie down

2602
02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:13,400
Speaker 1: and to be able to just if you can shoot.

2603
02:06:13,440 --> 02:06:15,920
Speaker 1: You can bet Purdue right now. I know Purdue is

2604
02:06:15,920 --> 02:06:18,040
Speaker 1: getting a lot of love at this point, and I

2605
02:06:18,080 --> 02:06:20,080
Speaker 1: know that they're high ranked. I know that they're the

2606
02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:22,840
Speaker 1: top overall seed according to Lonardi right now. But like

2607
02:06:23,080 --> 02:06:24,720
Speaker 1: I look at stuff like that, I just I don't

2608
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:27,480
Speaker 1: think it's sustainable in the tournament especially I don't.

2609
02:06:28,520 --> 02:06:31,000
Speaker 3: But like I don't either, I don't. I agree.

2610
02:06:31,560 --> 02:06:34,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at them. A week to get ready,

2611
02:06:34,080 --> 02:06:35,800
Speaker 1: you know, a week to get ready for him, it's

2612
02:06:35,840 --> 02:06:36,480
Speaker 1: gonna be fine.

2613
02:06:36,680 --> 02:06:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look at I love Houston and and I like,

2614
02:06:41,240 --> 02:06:44,320
Speaker 2: I really like Yukon too, So I mean, I think

2615
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:48,320
Speaker 2: those two are legitimate, and I just don't. I think

2616
02:06:48,320 --> 02:06:50,400
Speaker 2: there's going to be a There's only a couple of

2617
02:06:50,520 --> 02:06:53,680
Speaker 2: teams that I look at, and we've talked about. We've

2618
02:06:53,680 --> 02:06:56,720
Speaker 2: identified a few of them when it comes to Creighton,

2619
02:06:56,880 --> 02:06:59,800
Speaker 2: like you said, Figgy or an I with State that

2620
02:06:59,840 --> 02:07:03,760
Speaker 2: can just make muck things up, you know, But those

2621
02:07:03,760 --> 02:07:08,360
Speaker 2: two teams used to the Yukon really feel pretty secure

2622
02:07:08,440 --> 02:07:08,680
Speaker 2: to me.

2623
02:07:10,160 --> 02:07:12,360
Speaker 4: It well, look, I feel like it always feels that

2624
02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:15,440
Speaker 4: way generally speaking, with what the top overall seed and

2625
02:07:15,480 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 4: the second one seed. That's kind of what makes the tournament,

2626
02:07:18,280 --> 02:07:20,200
Speaker 4: at least for me, because you know, I'm a parody guy.

2627
02:07:20,200 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 4: What kind of makes it fun? Because we go in

2628
02:07:22,840 --> 02:07:24,960
Speaker 4: with the preconceived notion that these teams are gonna run

2629
02:07:25,040 --> 02:07:26,240
Speaker 4: rough shot and make it all the way to the

2630
02:07:26,320 --> 02:07:29,720
Speaker 4: championship game. You just never know. And who's to say

2631
02:07:29,720 --> 02:07:32,760
Speaker 4: a Florida Atlantic who's gonna make it in doesn't end

2632
02:07:32,840 --> 02:07:34,800
Speaker 4: up getting hot, which they can do, and making a

2633
02:07:34,880 --> 02:07:37,960
Speaker 4: run and pushing somebody and eliminating the top seed. It

2634
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:41,160
Speaker 4: certainly can happen. So I'm just saying, there's a lot

2635
02:07:41,520 --> 02:07:46,040
Speaker 4: of talented, really good, tough matchup teams in the middle

2636
02:07:46,080 --> 02:07:48,480
Speaker 4: of this tournament. You're eight to nine seeds. You're dating

2637
02:07:48,560 --> 02:07:51,800
Speaker 4: types that look, maybe they might might not win a championship,

2638
02:07:51,880 --> 02:07:53,960
Speaker 4: but they can certainly push some of these higher seeds.

2639
02:07:54,200 --> 02:07:56,280
Speaker 4: It would not surprise me if they were favor to

2640
02:07:56,280 --> 02:07:57,080
Speaker 4: pick up upsets.

2641
02:07:57,320 --> 02:07:58,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you.

2642
02:07:58,560 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 6: You know.

2643
02:07:58,960 --> 02:08:01,320
Speaker 1: And by the way, for all the conversations of saying,

2644
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:03,800
Speaker 1: man like I think Connecticut and Houston are the two

2645
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:06,160
Speaker 1: best teams in the country, I don't think Connecticut and

2646
02:08:06,200 --> 02:08:08,560
Speaker 1: Houston are gonna end up playing for the national championship.

2647
02:08:09,360 --> 02:08:12,360
Speaker 1: To that end, somebody's going to knock one of them off,

2648
02:08:12,440 --> 02:08:15,720
Speaker 1: Like that's what's made this a really great year. It

2649
02:08:16,160 --> 02:08:19,839
Speaker 1: just has. And you know, we're seeing enough now quality

2650
02:08:19,920 --> 02:08:24,600
Speaker 1: play from North Carolina, Kentucky, Duke Kansas. I don't necessarily

2651
02:08:24,680 --> 02:08:29,280
Speaker 1: love Kansas, but we're talking about the blue blood enough

2652
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:31,600
Speaker 1: right now that at least they'll be part of the

2653
02:08:31,640 --> 02:08:35,080
Speaker 1: conversation going into the tournament. So I think this becomes

2654
02:08:35,080 --> 02:08:36,720
Speaker 1: a little bit of a win win for as much

2655
02:08:36,720 --> 02:08:40,000
Speaker 1: as we've talked about the losses this year for college

2656
02:08:40,000 --> 02:08:44,800
Speaker 1: basketball overall, I think we're gonna get incredible weekend one

2657
02:08:45,360 --> 02:08:48,040
Speaker 1: upsets everywhere, and there are at least enough brands in

2658
02:08:48,080 --> 02:08:50,280
Speaker 1: there that I think it's going to rise. People are

2659
02:08:50,320 --> 02:08:51,920
Speaker 1: going to really love this year's tournament.

2660
02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:55,160
Speaker 4: And how the matchup shake out. It wouldn't surprise me

2661
02:08:55,200 --> 02:08:58,360
Speaker 4: if your classic quote unquote upsets are actually built, is

2662
02:08:58,400 --> 02:09:00,480
Speaker 4: that it wouldn't surprise me up at two seed has

2663
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:03,520
Speaker 4: favored over a five, you know, yeah, depending on how

2664
02:09:03,520 --> 02:09:04,560
Speaker 4: some of these things shake out.

2665
02:09:04,840 --> 02:09:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the can pomps off you totally.

2666
02:09:09,880 --> 02:09:11,920
Speaker 3: I'm actually really looking forward to today.

2667
02:09:12,640 --> 02:09:20,520
Speaker 2: The U the Big Twelve Championship, Houston, Iowa State. I'm

2668
02:09:20,800 --> 02:09:24,440
Speaker 2: because I would stay beat them fifty seven fifty three.

2669
02:09:24,480 --> 02:09:27,560
Speaker 3: I guess it was in January. Yep. I'm looking forward

2670
02:09:27,600 --> 02:09:29,640
Speaker 3: to this, to this game. I really agree.

2671
02:09:29,960 --> 02:09:32,600
Speaker 2: I just kind of I'm watching you. I'm looking at Houston.

2672
02:09:32,640 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure because we're talking about these

2673
02:09:34,280 --> 02:09:38,200
Speaker 2: two top seeds and how solid they are. I just

2674
02:09:38,240 --> 02:09:41,080
Speaker 2: find it interesting that the top two I find really

2675
02:09:41,120 --> 02:09:44,320
Speaker 2: solid and everybody after that, you know, you can you

2676
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:45,600
Speaker 2: can kind of poke some holes.

2677
02:09:46,640 --> 02:09:49,840
Speaker 1: By the way, this Iowa State like look, and I

2678
02:09:49,880 --> 02:09:52,120
Speaker 1: loved your Virginia comp earlier for Iowa Stay. I think

2679
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:55,960
Speaker 1: it's a really smart comp there is everybody's going to

2680
02:09:56,040 --> 02:09:59,080
Speaker 1: be watching these matchups to figure out in the tournament

2681
02:09:59,120 --> 02:10:01,360
Speaker 1: what will work again Houston. So this is sort of

2682
02:10:01,400 --> 02:10:03,960
Speaker 1: like the opportunity to write the book for everybody else.

2683
02:10:04,160 --> 02:10:08,280
Speaker 1: Can in the tournament? Can team slow Houston down the

2684
02:10:08,320 --> 02:10:10,080
Speaker 1: way that they'll want to? Will teams be able to

2685
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:12,120
Speaker 1: play with the level of self control that it takes

2686
02:10:12,440 --> 02:10:14,960
Speaker 1: to all of a sudden change everything you do and

2687
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:17,560
Speaker 1: try and limit possessions in a game? Man, I don't know,

2688
02:10:18,040 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 1: but Iowa State, there's any school that can do that

2689
02:10:20,360 --> 02:10:22,240
Speaker 1: at Iowa State. And I don't want to sleep on

2690
02:10:22,280 --> 02:10:24,920
Speaker 1: the accomplishment of Houston just seamlessly going into the Big

2691
02:10:24,960 --> 02:10:27,640
Speaker 1: twelve and winning it. You know, I think it's really incredible.

2692
02:10:27,640 --> 02:10:30,120
Speaker 1: But Iowa State's going to be really the example for

2693
02:10:30,200 --> 02:10:33,960
Speaker 1: everybody else going into Sweet sixteen Elite eight time, presuming

2694
02:10:33,960 --> 02:10:36,280
Speaker 1: Houston makes it. They're they'll be looking at this Iowa

2695
02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:38,640
Speaker 1: State game to see if there's any tricks or tips

2696
02:10:38,640 --> 02:10:39,280
Speaker 1: that they can take.

2697
02:10:39,360 --> 02:10:41,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and really like the losses that they've had have

2698
02:10:41,920 --> 02:10:44,600
Speaker 4: been sort of anomalies, like TCU just got hot from

2699
02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:47,160
Speaker 4: three on a particular night, which, by the way, it's

2700
02:10:47,200 --> 02:10:49,280
Speaker 4: a one game situation in the tournament, So that's what

2701
02:10:49,280 --> 02:10:51,480
Speaker 4: can happen to you. Johnny Furfey at the game of

2702
02:10:51,520 --> 02:10:54,040
Speaker 4: his life when Kansas beat him in Iowa State, as

2703
02:10:54,040 --> 02:10:56,360
Speaker 4: you mentioned, because you know, you know, niped them in

2704
02:10:56,480 --> 02:10:59,200
Speaker 4: January two. Those are the only three losses that they have,

2705
02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:02,880
Speaker 4: so a lot look there, Houston is as ironclad as

2706
02:11:02,880 --> 02:11:04,840
Speaker 4: it gets. But if you just catch the wrong team

2707
02:11:04,880 --> 02:11:07,480
Speaker 4: on the wrong day, sometimes there's no rhyme or reason,

2708
02:11:07,520 --> 02:11:10,080
Speaker 4: there's no scheming. There's just a certain player or a

2709
02:11:10,080 --> 02:11:11,960
Speaker 4: certain team got hot and it was the right day

2710
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:13,800
Speaker 4: for them and the wrong day for you, which is

2711
02:11:13,840 --> 02:11:16,920
Speaker 4: why I still pause on saying give me, and I

2712
02:11:16,960 --> 02:11:19,240
Speaker 4: think that's why you said. Basically, you said I can't

2713
02:11:19,280 --> 02:11:22,160
Speaker 4: take Yukon and Houston. You would take the field before

2714
02:11:22,200 --> 02:11:24,320
Speaker 4: you take the two of them. That's the smart bet,

2715
02:11:24,600 --> 02:11:26,839
Speaker 4: because it's just too many factors, too many variables.

2716
02:11:28,120 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let me.

2717
02:11:30,040 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 1: It is a high brow question, but like, yeah, would

2718
02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: the world be excited about a Houston Yukon championship game?

2719
02:11:36,200 --> 02:11:38,600
Speaker 1: They should be like two best teams aroughout the course

2720
02:11:38,600 --> 02:11:40,120
Speaker 1: of the year, But would they.

2721
02:11:40,080 --> 02:11:40,960
Speaker 3: I actually would love them.

2722
02:11:41,240 --> 02:11:44,000
Speaker 2: I would love to see those two teams play because

2723
02:11:44,040 --> 02:11:47,480
Speaker 2: here's why. If those two teams get the final, it

2724
02:11:47,520 --> 02:11:50,960
Speaker 2: will mean like the best team two bets, clearly the

2725
02:11:51,040 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 2: two best teams, and in an era where there appears

2726
02:11:56,320 --> 02:12:00,480
Speaker 2: to be no powerhouse in this sport, to get the

2727
02:12:00,520 --> 02:12:02,600
Speaker 2: two best team square it off would be I would

2728
02:12:02,640 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 2: love to watch that game.

2729
02:12:03,720 --> 02:12:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2730
02:12:04,280 --> 02:12:07,320
Speaker 4: So the answer to the question is we should be

2731
02:12:07,400 --> 02:12:11,280
Speaker 4: excited for that matchup. The issue is even independent of

2732
02:12:11,320 --> 02:12:13,600
Speaker 4: that if we did have quote unquote blue bloods, when

2733
02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:16,400
Speaker 4: people even care about that. We had Duke in North

2734
02:12:16,400 --> 02:12:18,920
Speaker 4: Carolina fighting for the top spot in the ACC a

2735
02:12:18,960 --> 02:12:20,480
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, and all of us were kind

2736
02:12:20,480 --> 02:12:25,200
Speaker 4: of like, mant, so, what are the brands at me too?

2737
02:12:25,240 --> 02:12:25,840
Speaker 4: At this point?

2738
02:12:25,880 --> 02:12:26,080
Speaker 3: Sight?

2739
02:12:26,440 --> 02:12:29,360
Speaker 2: Like, who's you give me a matchup that would if

2740
02:12:29,440 --> 02:12:30,919
Speaker 2: that would get everybody into.

2741
02:12:30,680 --> 02:12:32,680
Speaker 4: A fraud, that would appeal to the masses, you know,

2742
02:12:32,800 --> 02:12:35,560
Speaker 4: like we would love Houston Yukon because that we as

2743
02:12:35,560 --> 02:12:38,160
Speaker 4: some as guys who pay attention. It's a phenomenal matchup.

2744
02:12:38,680 --> 02:12:42,080
Speaker 4: But like the casuals, the casuals weren't even flocking too

2745
02:12:42,560 --> 02:12:44,400
Speaker 4: to the blue bloods when they were playing each other.

2746
02:12:44,880 --> 02:12:47,280
Speaker 4: You know, maybe you'll get a few more eyeballs because

2747
02:12:47,320 --> 02:12:48,840
Speaker 4: you know, the final four is the final four. The

2748
02:12:48,920 --> 02:12:51,880
Speaker 4: championship game is going to get eyeballs regardless. But I

2749
02:12:51,920 --> 02:12:54,640
Speaker 4: don't know, I just feel like that the the sexiness

2750
02:12:54,640 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 4: of the tournament just isn't there in this particular year

2751
02:12:57,600 --> 02:12:59,760
Speaker 4: for whatever reason. And it's regardless of who makes it.

2752
02:13:00,480 --> 02:13:03,320
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Yahoo's sending me out to Phoenix. I'll

2753
02:13:03,320 --> 02:13:05,760
Speaker 1: be at the final four in the National Championship game

2754
02:13:05,760 --> 02:13:08,080
Speaker 1: out there, and like I've never covered it in person,

2755
02:13:08,120 --> 02:13:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm excited to do that.

2756
02:13:09,480 --> 02:13:11,560
Speaker 2: Oh dude, I love it. Yeah, I love the Final

2757
02:13:11,600 --> 02:13:13,160
Speaker 2: four better than super Bowl.

2758
02:13:13,960 --> 02:13:20,480
Speaker 3: Oh really, you know why super Bowl is?

2759
02:13:21,440 --> 02:13:26,400
Speaker 2: The week is just it's fun, but it gets a

2760
02:13:26,400 --> 02:13:27,240
Speaker 2: little monotonous.

2761
02:13:27,280 --> 02:13:28,520
Speaker 4: I was gonna say exhausting.

2762
02:13:28,960 --> 02:13:31,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just a little too over the top,

2763
02:13:31,600 --> 02:13:35,160
Speaker 2: too much because it ceases to become about football, you know.

2764
02:13:35,240 --> 02:13:38,160
Speaker 2: It's it's like I like visiting me some guys and listen,

2765
02:13:38,200 --> 02:13:40,600
Speaker 2: I like it. So I'm not telling you that it's

2766
02:13:40,640 --> 02:13:41,400
Speaker 2: it's not fun.

2767
02:13:41,480 --> 02:13:43,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I feel I haven't done the Final four either,

2768
02:13:43,600 --> 02:13:45,840
Speaker 4: but I feel super Bowl Week could probably be just

2769
02:13:45,880 --> 02:13:48,080
Speaker 4: fine if it was Wednesday, if it started on Wednesday,

2770
02:13:48,240 --> 02:13:50,360
Speaker 4: you know, yes, it'd be perfectly fine.

2771
02:13:50,520 --> 02:13:52,240
Speaker 3: And and that's what the Final four is.

2772
02:13:52,240 --> 02:13:54,880
Speaker 2: The Final four is awesome because you get in Thursday

2773
02:13:55,560 --> 02:13:58,200
Speaker 2: or Wednesday, depending on you know what, what media outlet

2774
02:13:58,280 --> 02:14:01,520
Speaker 2: y are, and then you know, you have a big

2775
02:14:01,600 --> 02:14:04,720
Speaker 2: news conference and everybody, teams are there and the whole

2776
02:14:04,720 --> 02:14:08,280
Speaker 2: thing at practice and then you know, then you got games.

2777
02:14:08,400 --> 02:14:08,560
Speaker 3: Right.

2778
02:14:08,600 --> 02:14:11,400
Speaker 2: The difference is you got to get you got the

2779
02:14:11,440 --> 02:14:15,800
Speaker 2: Final four Saturday, which is awesome, and then Sunday you

2780
02:14:15,880 --> 02:14:18,480
Speaker 2: got the two teams that are playing, and then Monday

2781
02:14:18,560 --> 02:14:22,840
Speaker 2: is the game. So like it's it's a fun I

2782
02:14:22,920 --> 02:14:24,720
Speaker 2: always love covering final fours.

2783
02:14:24,800 --> 02:14:27,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not as much sitting and waiting you know,

2784
02:14:27,520 --> 02:14:29,520
Speaker 4: as it is for a Super Bowl Super Bowl week.

2785
02:14:29,600 --> 02:14:31,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're you're adding two extra games to

2786
02:14:31,680 --> 02:14:32,400
Speaker 3: the whole week.

2787
02:14:32,240 --> 02:14:35,400
Speaker 1: Right for me, if you're if you're asking what I

2788
02:14:35,440 --> 02:14:37,840
Speaker 1: would love to see in Phoenix, like being there. I

2789
02:14:37,880 --> 02:14:40,680
Speaker 1: would love Connecticut and Houston taking each other on. But

2790
02:14:40,720 --> 02:14:43,680
Speaker 1: I also think this is why right now, like particularly,

2791
02:14:44,040 --> 02:14:45,800
Speaker 1: there are so many people talking about the fact that

2792
02:14:45,840 --> 02:14:48,839
Speaker 1: the women's tournament has more buzz than the men's tournament

2793
02:14:48,880 --> 02:14:51,400
Speaker 1: because there seems to be a little bit more juice

2794
02:14:51,400 --> 02:14:53,840
Speaker 1: for some of those rivalries, and there's there seems to

2795
02:14:53,880 --> 02:14:55,919
Speaker 1: be a little bit more juice for some of the stars,

2796
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,960
Speaker 1: and because everything Caitlin Clark does is absolutely attention where

2797
02:15:00,040 --> 02:15:03,400
Speaker 1: being rightfully so. So it's kind of funny that I'm

2798
02:15:03,400 --> 02:15:05,520
Speaker 1: going to Phoenix and I've got, you know, people that

2799
02:15:05,560 --> 02:15:07,360
Speaker 1: I've worked with in the past that are like, oh, man,

2800
02:15:07,840 --> 02:15:09,720
Speaker 1: you really wish you would have gone to Cleveland for

2801
02:15:09,760 --> 02:15:12,240
Speaker 1: the women's Final four. Like that speaks to the fact

2802
02:15:12,280 --> 02:15:15,600
Speaker 1: that the men's brackets so far, the men's side of

2803
02:15:15,640 --> 02:15:20,600
Speaker 1: college basketball this year just hasn't captivated people. Why I

2804
02:15:20,640 --> 02:15:23,040
Speaker 1: got pity, I'm getting pity for going to the Final four.

2805
02:15:23,080 --> 02:15:24,280
Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about that.

2806
02:15:24,280 --> 02:15:27,480
Speaker 4: That's crazy. How insane is that? And by the way,

2807
02:15:27,760 --> 02:15:31,240
Speaker 4: like a sports casual, not a casual casual, could probably

2808
02:15:31,360 --> 02:15:34,920
Speaker 4: name more women college basketball players than men right now,

2809
02:15:35,600 --> 02:15:37,960
Speaker 4: totally Clark Angel Reese.

2810
02:15:39,640 --> 02:15:42,360
Speaker 3: And that's because you know they've been there.

2811
02:15:42,920 --> 02:15:46,880
Speaker 2: When we talk about one staying power in college basketball

2812
02:15:47,320 --> 02:15:50,200
Speaker 2: and what it means, it's why you know, you go

2813
02:15:50,280 --> 02:15:54,240
Speaker 2: watching like I'm watching Saint John's and and uh, you

2814
02:15:54,360 --> 02:15:58,600
Speaker 2: kind of last night, and.

2815
02:15:57,120 --> 02:15:58,480
Speaker 3: Of course I love Gus.

2816
02:15:58,520 --> 02:16:01,640
Speaker 2: Gus is my man, Right, So you're at the garden

2817
02:16:02,240 --> 02:16:04,800
Speaker 2: and he's talking about how he ate at the Harvard Club,

2818
02:16:05,280 --> 02:16:09,160
Speaker 2: right and uh, but then but then in the same token,

2819
02:16:09,760 --> 02:16:14,040
Speaker 2: he talks about running into Walter Berry, and Walter Berry

2820
02:16:14,120 --> 02:16:17,160
Speaker 2: used to was a star at Saint John's when Saint

2821
02:16:17,240 --> 02:16:19,600
Speaker 2: John's had carn and Seca and it was like this

2822
02:16:19,720 --> 02:16:22,600
Speaker 2: great program. I mean, they haven't been into a Friday

2823
02:16:22,640 --> 02:16:24,760
Speaker 2: in the Big East Tournament since two thousand and one.

2824
02:16:25,520 --> 02:16:30,200
Speaker 2: So Patino being their first year and you know, automatically

2825
02:16:30,480 --> 02:16:33,760
Speaker 2: stepping up the program doing they did a masterful job.

2826
02:16:34,720 --> 02:16:35,920
Speaker 3: It's it's like a big deal.

2827
02:16:35,959 --> 02:16:38,879
Speaker 2: But you go back to those guys, you know, for

2828
02:16:39,600 --> 02:16:42,920
Speaker 2: the past, older people could tell you chapter and verse

2829
02:16:43,480 --> 02:16:46,520
Speaker 2: of chapter and verse about these players because they stayed

2830
02:16:46,560 --> 02:16:49,680
Speaker 2: four years, just like what's going on the women's game.

2831
02:16:52,840 --> 02:16:56,720
Speaker 1: Correct, And when you've got there's also with that not

2832
02:16:56,760 --> 02:16:59,400
Speaker 1: only comes the attention, but there comes the heated rivalry.

2833
02:16:59,480 --> 02:17:03,040
Speaker 1: Like you needed Caitlin and Angel Rees to go through

2834
02:17:03,080 --> 02:17:05,520
Speaker 1: what they went through last year to continue to build

2835
02:17:05,560 --> 02:17:07,920
Speaker 1: on that this year, Like it becomes a storyline that

2836
02:17:07,959 --> 02:17:11,560
Speaker 1: carries through. I always use this example, but let's let's

2837
02:17:11,600 --> 02:17:13,440
Speaker 1: go back to when I was a kid watching UNLV

2838
02:17:14,360 --> 02:17:17,920
Speaker 1: just absolutely destroyed Duke for the National Championship game. That

2839
02:17:17,959 --> 02:17:20,480
Speaker 1: carries over the next year in the final four, right,

2840
02:17:20,560 --> 02:17:24,640
Speaker 1: Like there is some continuity creates carryover, not just for

2841
02:17:24,720 --> 02:17:27,119
Speaker 1: the audience, but also for the athletes, for the rivalries,

2842
02:17:27,160 --> 02:17:31,560
Speaker 1: for the brands, for you know, the heated the heated moments.

2843
02:17:31,080 --> 02:17:34,280
Speaker 1: It just it resonates better that way.

2844
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:38,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're a spot on, spot on.

2845
02:17:38,879 --> 02:17:41,920
Speaker 2: All Right, we got a touchback on NFL free agency

2846
02:17:41,959 --> 02:17:47,000
Speaker 2: in the week that was in the NFL fastating week

2847
02:17:47,040 --> 02:17:49,320
Speaker 2: of movement and posturing.

2848
02:17:49,879 --> 02:17:51,680
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. We'll get into that.

2849
02:17:51,879 --> 02:17:54,400
Speaker 2: Also, take a look at the world sports from a

2850
02:17:54,400 --> 02:17:57,120
Speaker 2: betting standpoint. So no Brad this week to bring the

2851
02:17:57,160 --> 02:18:01,600
Speaker 2: big brain on Brad Brad freiberg our betting analyst. He's

2852
02:18:02,120 --> 02:18:05,560
Speaker 2: on a West coast trip with his family, so he's

2853
02:18:05,560 --> 02:18:07,960
Speaker 2: not gonna be with us the next two weeks. I'll

2854
02:18:07,959 --> 02:18:11,440
Speaker 2: get his picks though for the tournament and that sort

2855
02:18:11,440 --> 02:18:14,240
Speaker 2: of stuff for next week. But we'll take a look

2856
02:18:14,280 --> 02:18:16,520
Speaker 2: at it from our standpoint. I'll run some of the

2857
02:18:16,560 --> 02:18:19,240
Speaker 2: games by it because some of the big conference championships

2858
02:18:19,240 --> 02:18:21,400
Speaker 2: here who you like, so we'll do that as well.

2859
02:18:21,440 --> 02:18:22,920
Speaker 3: Where the fellas.

2860
02:18:22,640 --> 02:18:27,160
Speaker 2: Hanging out as always right here on Fox Sports Radio.

2861
02:18:28,640 --> 02:18:35,120
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2862
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Speaker 2: gargano Ian and my team Mi T Mack producing.

2863
02:18:42,200 --> 02:18:45,400
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2864
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Speaker 3: A lot of fun. Oh, it's a lot of fun.

2875
02:19:23,360 --> 02:19:28,920
Speaker 2: Hey, we just played a promo and I love the

2876
02:19:28,959 --> 02:19:31,920
Speaker 2: guys in the morning and Jonas Knock said, listen, there's

2877
02:19:31,920 --> 02:19:34,600
Speaker 2: no way in the world Justin Jefferson will be traded

2878
02:19:34,640 --> 02:19:41,520
Speaker 2: from Minnesota. And I don't know that that's.

2879
02:19:40,440 --> 02:19:43,840
Speaker 3: A lock that he will not be traded. Listen.

2880
02:19:44,320 --> 02:19:47,480
Speaker 2: I mean it's a lot to think about moving that

2881
02:19:47,600 --> 02:19:50,119
Speaker 2: kind of player of that ILK. I mean, you're talking

2882
02:19:50,160 --> 02:19:53,760
Speaker 2: about a top two receiver in the league. But he's

2883
02:19:53,800 --> 02:19:57,760
Speaker 2: going to bring back like you can change your franchise

2884
02:19:58,560 --> 02:20:04,600
Speaker 2: by bringing back a top ten pick and and and more.

2885
02:20:06,520 --> 02:20:08,440
Speaker 4: I mean the question is, right now, where are you

2886
02:20:08,560 --> 02:20:11,760
Speaker 4: going with him? And look, maybe they think that he's

2887
02:20:12,080 --> 02:20:14,400
Speaker 4: he's a foundational piece and they're not that far away.

2888
02:20:14,879 --> 02:20:17,120
Speaker 4: I think their move with Kirk Cousins kind of signals

2889
02:20:17,160 --> 02:20:20,199
Speaker 4: somewhat the opposite. And the problem is, Look, you can't

2890
02:20:20,200 --> 02:20:22,160
Speaker 4: be it. I guess you could do it. I'm not

2891
02:20:22,240 --> 02:20:24,640
Speaker 4: a fan of being half in and half out. Are

2892
02:20:24,680 --> 02:20:27,160
Speaker 4: you rebuilding and going young or are you gonna go

2893
02:20:27,200 --> 02:20:28,760
Speaker 4: for it and try to be a competitive team, make

2894
02:20:28,760 --> 02:20:31,360
Speaker 4: the playoffs and be a championship contender, but this we're

2895
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:33,480
Speaker 4: gonna be young and try to rebuild at the same

2896
02:20:33,520 --> 02:20:36,480
Speaker 4: time and try to compete. It's just a one way

2897
02:20:36,480 --> 02:20:38,440
Speaker 4: ticket to No man's Lang whiche. By the way, they've

2898
02:20:38,480 --> 02:20:41,120
Speaker 4: already been now that the granted, that wasn't their goal

2899
02:20:41,200 --> 02:20:42,520
Speaker 4: the last few years. They thought that they were a

2900
02:20:42,560 --> 02:20:44,840
Speaker 4: contender when they signed him, they were coming off of

2901
02:20:44,840 --> 02:20:46,800
Speaker 4: going to the NFC Championship Game and thought he was

2902
02:20:46,800 --> 02:20:49,080
Speaker 4: the missing piece, he being Kirk Cousins. But at this

2903
02:20:49,160 --> 02:20:51,000
Speaker 4: point in time, just based on the moves they've made

2904
02:20:51,000 --> 02:20:53,680
Speaker 4: and where they currently sit in that division in the

2905
02:20:53,760 --> 02:20:57,240
Speaker 4: NFC pecking order right now, I'm not saying that they

2906
02:20:57,240 --> 02:20:59,640
Speaker 4: should trade Justin Jefferson, but to me it makes sense.

2907
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:01,800
Speaker 4: It makes complete and total sense that they want to

2908
02:21:01,879 --> 02:21:02,600
Speaker 4: explore doing it.

2909
02:21:03,520 --> 02:21:05,400
Speaker 1: The only thing I would say is they're taking They

2910
02:21:05,400 --> 02:21:08,280
Speaker 1: took all of the dead cap hits this year and

2911
02:21:08,440 --> 02:21:10,560
Speaker 1: next year they would enter the season with one hundred

2912
02:21:10,600 --> 02:21:13,480
Speaker 1: and fifty nine million dollars in cap space. It's a

2913
02:21:13,480 --> 02:21:16,200
Speaker 1: ton of money. If you're getting rid of Justin Jefferson,

2914
02:21:16,480 --> 02:21:18,840
Speaker 1: the only way you'll be able to justify that to

2915
02:21:18,879 --> 02:21:22,520
Speaker 1: your fan base is if you get your quarterback. So

2916
02:21:22,560 --> 02:21:25,000
Speaker 1: if you're telling me that this all leads them to

2917
02:21:25,840 --> 02:21:28,200
Speaker 1: the guy that they're going to let run the franchise

2918
02:21:28,240 --> 02:21:30,320
Speaker 1: for the next ten years. And I'll go back to

2919
02:21:30,360 --> 02:21:32,480
Speaker 1: what the Bills GM said at the combine. You know,

2920
02:21:32,520 --> 02:21:35,199
Speaker 1: who cares what you gave up to get the quarterback,

2921
02:21:35,280 --> 02:21:38,280
Speaker 1: because if it works out, nobody remembers what you gave up,

2922
02:21:38,320 --> 02:21:40,680
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, you're getting fired anybody anyway.

2923
02:21:40,800 --> 02:21:43,600
Speaker 1: So you know, I understand the logic. If they're going

2924
02:21:43,680 --> 02:21:46,039
Speaker 1: to give up everything, if that's what it takes to

2925
02:21:46,080 --> 02:21:48,400
Speaker 1: get the quarterback that you're going to let run your

2926
02:21:48,400 --> 02:21:50,800
Speaker 1: franchise for the next ten years, then I understand the

2927
02:21:50,800 --> 02:21:52,920
Speaker 1: sales pitch. The other side of it, though, I would say,

2928
02:21:52,959 --> 02:21:55,640
Speaker 1: is they've already now acquired a second first round pick.

2929
02:21:55,680 --> 02:21:57,520
Speaker 1: If they think they have a way to get into

2930
02:21:57,560 --> 02:21:59,760
Speaker 1: the top three or four with what they have, and

2931
02:21:59,800 --> 02:22:03,320
Speaker 1: they like that quarterback, man, you've got a far easier

2932
02:22:03,400 --> 02:22:06,440
Speaker 1: job to get that quarterback acclimated thrown to Justin Jefferson

2933
02:22:06,720 --> 02:22:09,800
Speaker 1: than you do thrown to nobody. So you know, I

2934
02:22:09,959 --> 02:22:13,280
Speaker 1: hear the logic for Justin Jefferson, but only if it

2935
02:22:13,320 --> 02:22:16,160
Speaker 1: gets you to the guy that everybody in that building

2936
02:22:16,240 --> 02:22:19,000
Speaker 1: is banking on their jobs, on the ability to be

2937
02:22:19,040 --> 02:22:20,680
Speaker 1: the future face of the franchise.

2938
02:22:21,000 --> 02:22:23,240
Speaker 4: I would agree with that, like I would only pull

2939
02:22:23,280 --> 02:22:25,800
Speaker 4: the trigger on the Justin Jefferson move if I felt

2940
02:22:26,200 --> 02:22:28,119
Speaker 4: that I needed to do that in order to get

2941
02:22:28,160 --> 02:22:30,640
Speaker 4: the guy that I want. If they feel they have

2942
02:22:30,760 --> 02:22:33,800
Speaker 4: enough ammunition between these two first round picks, maybe a

2943
02:22:33,879 --> 02:22:36,200
Speaker 4: first next year or something, and they can move up

2944
02:22:36,320 --> 02:22:38,080
Speaker 4: a little bit higher and get who they want without

2945
02:22:38,120 --> 02:22:42,080
Speaker 4: trading Justin Jefferson, than sure. I'm just saying if they

2946
02:22:42,080 --> 02:22:44,120
Speaker 4: don't have enough and they feel like this the franchise

2947
02:22:44,200 --> 02:22:46,360
Speaker 4: quarterback is out there that they want to get, which

2948
02:22:46,520 --> 02:22:48,320
Speaker 4: you don't make a move like they made on Thursday

2949
02:22:48,360 --> 02:22:52,080
Speaker 4: without that being in your thought process. It's something that

2950
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:53,600
Speaker 4: you would have to explore. I know they're gonna have

2951
02:22:53,640 --> 02:22:56,000
Speaker 4: a lot of money under the cap, but paying a

2952
02:22:56,040 --> 02:22:58,120
Speaker 4: receiver and he's gonna be the highest paid receiver in

2953
02:22:58,120 --> 02:22:59,959
Speaker 4: the league when his contract is up after this sea

2954
02:23:00,120 --> 02:23:02,880
Speaker 4: and that's gonna happen. We know that upwards of thirty

2955
02:23:02,879 --> 02:23:06,200
Speaker 4: five whatever forty million dollars a year. That's a lot

2956
02:23:06,240 --> 02:23:08,199
Speaker 4: to give to a guy, knowing you have so many

2957
02:23:08,200 --> 02:23:11,519
Speaker 4: other holes on your roster. Now I'm not gonna overpay

2958
02:23:11,600 --> 02:23:14,120
Speaker 4: a receiver when I have so many other places as

2959
02:23:14,200 --> 02:23:14,840
Speaker 4: gaps to fill.

2960
02:23:14,959 --> 02:23:15,640
Speaker 1: It's not smart.

2961
02:23:16,000 --> 02:23:16,720
Speaker 3: You can't do it.

2962
02:23:16,760 --> 02:23:19,400
Speaker 2: And by the way, and listen, I'm not telling you

2963
02:23:19,680 --> 02:23:24,280
Speaker 2: that you know Justin Jefferson is the top two receiver

2964
02:23:24,360 --> 02:23:24,760
Speaker 2: of the league.

2965
02:23:24,800 --> 02:23:28,360
Speaker 3: He's tremendous, the whole thing. Yeah, but if.

2966
02:23:28,240 --> 02:23:34,119
Speaker 2: You're fourth, squarely fourth in that division, Detroit one Packers

2967
02:23:34,160 --> 02:23:37,800
Speaker 2: are right there nipping on the lion's heels, and the

2968
02:23:37,840 --> 02:23:42,039
Speaker 2: Bears are better, much better than Minnesota. What are you

2969
02:23:42,080 --> 02:23:45,560
Speaker 2: trying to do? You are you just let go of cousins?

2970
02:23:45,840 --> 02:23:50,560
Speaker 2: It speaks, It's obvious you should. Honestly, you should trade

2971
02:23:50,600 --> 02:23:54,040
Speaker 2: Jefferson because you shouldn't pay him. It's not gonna work.

2972
02:23:54,480 --> 02:23:57,920
Speaker 2: You want to rebuild, and there's three receivers in this

2973
02:23:58,080 --> 02:24:03,119
Speaker 2: draft that are stuck that cost you thirty five million

2974
02:24:03,160 --> 02:24:03,640
Speaker 2: next year.

2975
02:24:04,200 --> 02:24:08,040
Speaker 1: But couldn't you say the same exact thing about Washington,

2976
02:24:08,360 --> 02:24:12,400
Speaker 1: New England, the Chargers, the Giants. These are all teams

2977
02:24:12,440 --> 02:24:14,440
Speaker 1: that they would be trading with that are in the

2978
02:24:14,440 --> 02:24:18,480
Speaker 1: same exact situation like the Patriots. Trading for Justin Jefferson

2979
02:24:18,840 --> 02:24:21,400
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense given the number of holes they have,

2980
02:24:21,560 --> 02:24:25,160
Speaker 1: like are are we just presuming it's it's Arizona. And

2981
02:24:25,200 --> 02:24:28,600
Speaker 1: even even for Arizona, trading for Justin Jefferson isn't going

2982
02:24:28,680 --> 02:24:31,440
Speaker 1: to suddenly make them the favorite in their own division.

2983
02:24:31,480 --> 02:24:34,120
Speaker 1: The Chargers have too many holes to justify trading for

2984
02:24:34,280 --> 02:24:35,080
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson.

2985
02:24:35,320 --> 02:24:39,080
Speaker 3: The Giants, Oh, we talked about Arizona. Though Arizona makes sense.

2986
02:24:38,879 --> 02:24:42,200
Speaker 1: To me, I mean, Arizona would be the only team

2987
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it would make.

2988
02:24:43,840 --> 02:24:48,200
Speaker 2: You Kyler and you and you pair him, you pair him. Well,

2989
02:24:48,200 --> 02:24:49,640
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you look at that team, you go.

2990
02:24:49,720 --> 02:24:53,160
Speaker 4: What and you consider how I know the record wasn't great,

2991
02:24:53,200 --> 02:24:56,120
Speaker 4: but how that team played last year and competed, I

2992
02:24:56,120 --> 02:24:58,160
Speaker 4: mean they might think in their building they're not that

2993
02:24:58,280 --> 02:25:01,160
Speaker 4: far away from being fighting for a wildcard spot.

2994
02:25:01,320 --> 02:25:05,560
Speaker 3: And if Colin last year and this well, the back

2995
02:25:05,600 --> 02:25:09,800
Speaker 3: half of the season they beat the Eagles in Philadelphia.

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02:25:11,240 --> 02:25:14,200
Speaker 1: Give you, I mean, I'll give you Arizona. I'm just

2997
02:25:14,200 --> 02:25:16,760
Speaker 1: saying they're the only team in the top eight that

2998
02:25:16,800 --> 02:25:18,680
Speaker 1: would make any of the top seven that would make

2999
02:25:18,720 --> 02:25:21,680
Speaker 1: any sense. And then my follow up question is, if

3000
02:25:21,680 --> 02:25:24,640
Speaker 1: you're giving up Justin Jefferson, are you giving up extra

3001
02:25:25,000 --> 02:25:27,480
Speaker 1: Is it just justin Jefferson for the fourth overall pick,

3002
02:25:27,600 --> 02:25:28,720
Speaker 1: or are you you're.

3003
02:25:28,560 --> 02:25:32,040
Speaker 4: Giving listen, I'm getting more. Yeah, I have to get them.

3004
02:25:32,240 --> 02:25:33,840
Speaker 4: I'm not I have to get more than that. There's

3005
02:25:33,879 --> 02:25:35,600
Speaker 4: no way I'm adding something to it. He's enough.

3006
02:25:38,200 --> 02:25:40,920
Speaker 2: I went number four, and I mean this is like

3007
02:25:41,040 --> 02:25:44,360
Speaker 2: herschel Walker back in the day when they traded Rushall

3008
02:25:44,360 --> 02:25:45,600
Speaker 2: Walker to the Cowboys.

3009
02:25:45,959 --> 02:25:48,280
Speaker 1: So now I'm going to play the Cardinals GM and

3010
02:25:48,320 --> 02:25:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to say I got a shot where I'm

3011
02:25:50,400 --> 02:25:53,320
Speaker 1: sitting right now, where I can get Marvin Harrison Junior

3012
02:25:53,720 --> 02:25:56,480
Speaker 1: far cheaper than spending thirty million dollars on a wide receiver.

3013
02:25:56,720 --> 02:25:59,240
Speaker 1: Or I can move down a couple of spots with

3014
02:25:59,280 --> 02:26:02,560
Speaker 1: the Giants. Like I said earlier, the Giants move up,

3015
02:26:02,760 --> 02:26:05,080
Speaker 1: I'm still going to be in proximity to get Roma Dunes,

3016
02:26:05,080 --> 02:26:08,240
Speaker 1: a Moleague neighbors or Marvin Harrison Junior. And I'm gonna

3017
02:26:08,240 --> 02:26:11,120
Speaker 1: get extra draft capital. Like I don't. I have a

3018
02:26:11,120 --> 02:26:14,160
Speaker 1: hard time making that deal makes sense. Like for the Cardinals,

3019
02:26:14,480 --> 02:26:16,360
Speaker 1: if you want me to give you the number four

3020
02:26:16,400 --> 02:26:18,879
Speaker 1: pick and more and then you want to spend thirty.

3021
02:26:21,080 --> 02:26:23,320
Speaker 4: It's also the proven commodity over the unknown.

3022
02:26:23,720 --> 02:26:28,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's an expensive commodity. Boys, it is.

3023
02:26:29,320 --> 02:26:31,840
Speaker 3: But I mean, are you're talking about the best receiver

3024
02:26:31,879 --> 02:26:32,600
Speaker 3: in the game, right?

3025
02:26:32,840 --> 02:26:35,360
Speaker 4: And I love I highly doubt that Marvin Harrison is

3026
02:26:35,400 --> 02:26:38,960
Speaker 4: going to be a bust, but he could be, you know,

3027
02:26:39,280 --> 02:26:42,600
Speaker 4: I mean, we thought what Justin Jefferson is. We already

3028
02:26:42,600 --> 02:26:45,520
Speaker 4: know what he is. The other guys, we don't.

3029
02:26:47,120 --> 02:26:50,640
Speaker 1: I have a hard time, and I'm with you that

3030
02:26:50,680 --> 02:26:54,520
Speaker 1: they played competitive football. I have a hard time with

3031
02:26:54,600 --> 02:26:58,000
Speaker 1: the concept of a four and thirteen team trading multiple

3032
02:26:58,040 --> 02:27:01,400
Speaker 1: assets to get Justin Jefferson in the same breadth that

3033
02:27:01,440 --> 02:27:03,199
Speaker 1: I'm saying, what are the Vikings doing?

3034
02:27:03,440 --> 02:27:07,840
Speaker 2: Listen, I feel you, And quite honestly, if I was

3035
02:27:07,879 --> 02:27:09,640
Speaker 2: the GM of Arizona, I wouldn't do it.

3036
02:27:09,680 --> 02:27:10,360
Speaker 4: I wouldn't either.

3037
02:27:10,840 --> 02:27:11,879
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm keeping it.

3038
02:27:11,800 --> 02:27:12,240
Speaker 1: Real with it.

3039
02:27:12,760 --> 02:27:15,160
Speaker 2: My only pointed about if you're the Vikings and moving

3040
02:27:15,200 --> 02:27:19,160
Speaker 2: on from Jefferson is I just don't if I'm I'm

3041
02:27:19,200 --> 02:27:22,680
Speaker 2: a team that I am a last place team in

3042
02:27:22,680 --> 02:27:23,440
Speaker 2: that division?

3043
02:27:25,160 --> 02:27:26,959
Speaker 3: What am I doing? Where am I going?

3044
02:27:27,080 --> 02:27:32,240
Speaker 2: And I want to pay receiver thirty five million dollars?

3045
02:27:31,640 --> 02:27:36,160
Speaker 2: It does compute, and so I trade him now, and

3046
02:27:36,240 --> 02:27:40,280
Speaker 2: I trade him for a lot of assets and whether

3047
02:27:40,360 --> 02:27:42,600
Speaker 2: the assets I used to put together to trade up

3048
02:27:42,760 --> 02:27:46,599
Speaker 2: after that to go maybe it's not you know, Arizona's

3049
02:27:46,600 --> 02:27:49,800
Speaker 2: somebody else and I use those assets to move up

3050
02:27:49,840 --> 02:27:53,240
Speaker 2: and get the quarterback, right, I mean, whoever it is,

3051
02:27:53,680 --> 02:27:56,800
Speaker 2: now's the time of kind of where you go in

3052
02:27:56,840 --> 02:27:58,640
Speaker 2: and reshape your franchise.

3053
02:28:00,080 --> 02:28:04,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. That that that's where it becomes really interesting. Is

3054
02:28:04,240 --> 02:28:07,359
Speaker 1: because I agree with all of the logic, I struggle

3055
02:28:07,440 --> 02:28:10,400
Speaker 1: to find the trade partner that would make the most sense.

3056
02:28:10,440 --> 02:28:13,000
Speaker 1: Like I could see. I could see, honestly, even though

3057
02:28:13,040 --> 02:28:14,880
Speaker 1: I think the Jets have bigger needs, I could see

3058
02:28:14,879 --> 02:28:17,000
Speaker 1: the Jets being enticed to try and do something like that.

3059
02:28:17,040 --> 02:28:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't know financially they could. I think they should

3060
02:28:19,680 --> 02:28:21,600
Speaker 1: take an offensive lineman in the draft and not trade

3061
02:28:21,600 --> 02:28:24,800
Speaker 1: that pick. But if you start looking across the board

3062
02:28:24,840 --> 02:28:27,320
Speaker 1: from the teams that are picking ahead of minutes.

3063
02:28:29,160 --> 02:28:32,879
Speaker 2: To the Bears and go, you know, give me nine, right,

3064
02:28:33,680 --> 02:28:36,640
Speaker 2: and then from and then and then that the start

3065
02:28:36,680 --> 02:28:38,880
Speaker 2: at nine and future picks.

3066
02:28:38,920 --> 02:28:41,640
Speaker 1: The Bears, that's interesting nine in future picks, like so,

3067
02:28:41,720 --> 02:28:45,760
Speaker 1: presuming the Bears take the future quarterback, yeah, they take

3068
02:28:45,800 --> 02:28:52,840
Speaker 1: Caleb at one with Justin Jefferson, would the Vikings do

3069
02:28:52,879 --> 02:28:54,320
Speaker 1: that within their own division.

3070
02:28:54,120 --> 02:28:56,840
Speaker 3: Well, it depends give me if you give me nine.

3071
02:28:57,480 --> 02:28:59,960
Speaker 4: And one next year or something.

3072
02:29:01,280 --> 02:29:04,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do I care about indivision? I'm not I'm

3073
02:29:04,280 --> 02:29:05,800
Speaker 3: not going to compete in this division.

3074
02:29:08,360 --> 02:29:11,200
Speaker 1: I mean that that's an interesting You could talk me

3075
02:29:11,240 --> 02:29:13,920
Speaker 1: into the Bears giving up nine and future considerations, and

3076
02:29:13,959 --> 02:29:17,480
Speaker 1: then that would give the Vikings what nine eleven and

3077
02:29:17,840 --> 02:29:20,400
Speaker 1: the one they just twenty twenty three? So nine to

3078
02:29:20,400 --> 02:29:23,360
Speaker 1: eleven and twenty three, Now you could be talking about

3079
02:29:23,640 --> 02:29:27,160
Speaker 1: worth Like if you're the Cardinals, you listen, Are you

3080
02:29:27,240 --> 02:29:30,120
Speaker 1: listening to nine to eleven and twenty three to move

3081
02:29:30,200 --> 02:29:31,039
Speaker 1: down from four?

3082
02:29:31,200 --> 02:29:31,600
Speaker 3: Maybe?

3083
02:29:31,800 --> 02:29:33,600
Speaker 1: Like that that could be enough, you know, that could

3084
02:29:33,600 --> 02:29:35,920
Speaker 1: be enough enticing to move down to four because you're

3085
02:29:35,920 --> 02:29:37,600
Speaker 1: still gonna have a shot if your Arizona get one

3086
02:29:37,640 --> 02:29:40,120
Speaker 1: of those top three wide receivers. That would make some

3087
02:29:40,200 --> 02:29:42,600
Speaker 1: sense to me. Yeah, I just don't feel like y'all.

3088
02:29:42,640 --> 02:29:44,280
Speaker 1: If I right now, if I bet my house on

3089
02:29:44,360 --> 02:29:46,600
Speaker 1: a Justin Jefferson is still in Minnesota Viking at the

3090
02:29:46,640 --> 02:29:47,840
Speaker 1: beginning of the season.

3091
02:29:47,560 --> 02:29:49,000
Speaker 4: I would I would. I would agree with that too.

3092
02:29:49,040 --> 02:29:50,520
Speaker 4: If I had to bet, I would bet money that

3093
02:29:50,520 --> 02:29:51,360
Speaker 4: he doesn't get traded.

3094
02:29:51,400 --> 02:29:56,040
Speaker 2: I'm just we're just talking about the what Jones was saying, no, no, no,

3095
02:29:56,040 --> 02:29:58,039
Speaker 2: no never, it could never happen, And I.

3096
02:29:58,040 --> 02:29:59,400
Speaker 3: Go, I can see it.

3097
02:29:59,560 --> 02:30:03,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it makes it, doesn't It makes sense in

3098
02:30:04,200 --> 02:30:07,080
Speaker 4: a certain world that would make sense to and maybe fits.

3099
02:30:07,120 --> 02:30:09,560
Speaker 4: It makes sense more from Minnesota to potentially move off

3100
02:30:09,600 --> 02:30:11,680
Speaker 4: of him than it does for anybody to actually trade

3101
02:30:11,680 --> 02:30:13,119
Speaker 4: for him, if that makes sense.

3102
02:30:14,160 --> 02:30:17,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm stunned, Like Justin Jefferson is so dang

3103
02:30:17,320 --> 02:30:22,039
Speaker 1: dominant and he's twenty four, Like that's that is wild.

3104
02:30:22,400 --> 02:30:25,160
Speaker 1: He's twenty four, he'll be twenty five in June.

3105
02:30:25,600 --> 02:30:29,400
Speaker 3: It's crazy. There's funny guy, I'm thinking he's twenty or six.

3106
02:30:29,520 --> 02:30:31,720
Speaker 4: Right, I know these guys come out come in when

3107
02:30:31,720 --> 02:30:32,600
Speaker 4: they're twenty years old.

3108
02:30:32,600 --> 02:30:33,000
Speaker 3: Now you know.

3109
02:30:33,200 --> 02:30:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's create no, And he's the best receiver

3110
02:30:36,080 --> 02:30:39,080
Speaker 2: to get in the game bar none. You know, it's

3111
02:30:39,200 --> 02:30:42,080
Speaker 2: to me, it's just about do I want to spend

3112
02:30:42,840 --> 02:30:47,880
Speaker 2: thirty that kind of money on a receiver when I'm

3113
02:30:47,959 --> 02:30:50,320
Speaker 2: ill where.

3114
02:30:50,120 --> 02:30:52,720
Speaker 3: I'm going, I'm in bad, I'm the last place team.

3115
02:30:52,800 --> 02:30:55,039
Speaker 4: And there's an element of as as dominant of a

3116
02:30:55,080 --> 02:30:57,880
Speaker 4: receiver as he is. We've seen great receivers play for

3117
02:30:57,959 --> 02:31:01,520
Speaker 4: some pretty terrible teams. How big of a difference does

3118
02:31:01,600 --> 02:31:05,760
Speaker 4: a receiver really making the grand scheme? You know, like

3119
02:31:05,879 --> 02:31:08,240
Speaker 4: it's almost like like in icing on the cake sort

3120
02:31:08,240 --> 02:31:10,840
Speaker 4: of situation. They make all the highlight plays, but oftentimes

3121
02:31:11,200 --> 02:31:14,280
Speaker 4: you do wonder how in and of itself a one

3122
02:31:14,320 --> 02:31:18,280
Speaker 4: great receiver impacts winning overall. I'd rather have a great

3123
02:31:18,320 --> 02:31:21,199
Speaker 4: offensive line, I agree, defensive line or something.

3124
02:31:21,320 --> 02:31:22,800
Speaker 3: You know, that's just kind of where it is.

3125
02:31:22,800 --> 02:31:24,760
Speaker 2: Hey, real quick, guys, we come to your live from

3126
02:31:24,800 --> 02:31:28,200
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3127
02:31:28,240 --> 02:31:32,440
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3128
02:31:32,879 --> 02:31:37,360
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3129
02:31:37,400 --> 02:31:40,160
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3131
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3132
02:31:48,320 --> 02:31:51,879
Speaker 2: a quick to come right back, and I need some

3133
02:31:51,959 --> 02:31:54,920
Speaker 2: picks for the weekend. The big Brain's not coming on today,

3134
02:31:55,360 --> 02:31:57,400
Speaker 2: so I want us to kind of give the people

3135
02:31:57,879 --> 02:32:01,600
Speaker 2: some picks for today and tomorrow. All the championship going

3136
02:32:01,640 --> 02:32:05,160
Speaker 2: to championship games and semifinal games. Today, fun day and

3137
02:32:05,240 --> 02:32:10,000
Speaker 2: college ball marches upon us. Where the fellas, Jason Fitzkevin Figures,

3138
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:13,320
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3139
02:32:13,360 --> 02:32:14,880
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3140
02:32:16,200 --> 02:32:21,360
Speaker 2: Welcome back, fellas from the tyraq dot com studios.

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02:32:21,879 --> 02:32:24,240
Speaker 3: All right, some fun stuff going on today.

3142
02:32:24,320 --> 02:32:27,320
Speaker 2: College basketball March is upon us and we got a

3143
02:32:27,320 --> 02:32:30,959
Speaker 2: full day of who today, boys, So let me go

3144
02:32:31,000 --> 02:32:32,640
Speaker 2: through some of the key games and you get.

3145
02:32:32,520 --> 02:32:34,080
Speaker 3: Me some selections.

3146
02:32:34,120 --> 02:32:39,200
Speaker 2: Sound good, Let's go all right, So, just as your schedule,

3147
02:32:39,240 --> 02:32:41,680
Speaker 2: so if your geeks like us and when to watch

3148
02:32:41,760 --> 02:32:44,160
Speaker 2: ball day. It starts in the morning at eleven AM

3149
02:32:44,240 --> 02:32:50,440
Speaker 2: and just about two hours from now, Vermont hosts that

3150
02:32:51,040 --> 02:32:56,440
Speaker 2: UMass loll today and in the Ivys Dude semi final

3151
02:32:57,480 --> 02:33:00,879
Speaker 2: Princeton Brown, Princeton and a half point favorite.

3152
02:33:00,920 --> 02:33:02,400
Speaker 3: I like Princeton today, by the way.

3153
02:33:03,120 --> 02:33:05,560
Speaker 1: You're like with the points nine and a half, that's big.

3154
02:33:05,440 --> 02:33:08,400
Speaker 3: That's a big line. Yeah, Prince is good.

3155
02:33:08,640 --> 02:33:10,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, Princeton is good. I'm with you on that.

3156
02:33:10,920 --> 02:33:13,879
Speaker 1: Like nine and a half feels like a staggering number

3157
02:33:14,240 --> 02:33:15,160
Speaker 1: for a weekend matchup.

3158
02:33:16,520 --> 02:33:18,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're they're, they're they're legit.

3159
02:33:19,040 --> 02:33:24,960
Speaker 2: Princeton, Purdue and Wisconsin in the one Big Ten semi final.

3160
02:33:25,440 --> 02:33:29,760
Speaker 2: Purdue is six and a half against Wisconsin.

3161
02:33:29,760 --> 02:33:32,119
Speaker 3: Any thoughts, boys, Yeah, by.

3162
02:33:32,000 --> 02:33:34,160
Speaker 1: The way, I still think, you know, let's see where

3163
02:33:34,160 --> 02:33:37,600
Speaker 1: Purdue is coming off the injury. I don't. I just

3164
02:33:37,879 --> 02:33:42,160
Speaker 1: I'm out on Purdue. Wisconsin not particularly great team this year,

3165
02:33:42,520 --> 02:33:45,760
Speaker 1: but it Purdue is a one legged version of themselves,

3166
02:33:45,760 --> 02:33:47,560
Speaker 1: and I think they could actually lose this game. But

3167
02:33:47,600 --> 02:33:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't like Purdue to have a dominant performance.

3168
02:33:50,280 --> 02:33:53,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wisconsin surge in the tournament. Notwithstanding, They've played pretty

3169
02:33:53,959 --> 02:33:56,640
Speaker 4: terribly the second half of the season, so to say

3170
02:33:56,680 --> 02:33:58,640
Speaker 4: the least. So I'll take different.

3171
02:33:58,400 --> 02:34:00,840
Speaker 1: Versions of them, like the mediocre version than just a

3172
02:34:00,920 --> 02:34:01,520
Speaker 1: terrible version.

3173
02:34:01,640 --> 02:34:04,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so even if Perdue was banged up, I'll still

3174
02:34:04,040 --> 02:34:05,560
Speaker 4: take Perdue on that one, all right.

3175
02:34:05,600 --> 02:34:07,840
Speaker 2: In the other semi final, actually, I really like the

3176
02:34:07,879 --> 02:34:12,720
Speaker 2: game Ellinoi's four and a half against Nebraska. I like Nebraska.

3177
02:34:13,320 --> 02:34:17,240
Speaker 2: I think Nebraska wins the game. I love how they play,

3178
02:34:17,320 --> 02:34:20,760
Speaker 2: they like they they move the ball. I mean, they

3179
02:34:20,879 --> 02:34:24,320
Speaker 2: just they come at you. And I think the matchup

3180
02:34:24,440 --> 02:34:27,320
Speaker 2: is not great for Illinois. I like Nebraska in this game,

3181
02:34:27,680 --> 02:34:27,920
Speaker 2: and I.

3182
02:34:28,040 --> 02:34:31,680
Speaker 1: Actually like I like Nebraska in this game also, and

3183
02:34:32,240 --> 02:34:34,000
Speaker 1: look over the course of how they've played over the

3184
02:34:34,080 --> 02:34:36,560
Speaker 1: last three weeks. They went threw a little loll about

3185
02:34:36,560 --> 02:34:38,960
Speaker 1: a month ago where they weren't particularly good or efficient,

3186
02:34:39,720 --> 02:34:42,680
Speaker 1: but they had a loss in there to Illinois eighty

3187
02:34:42,680 --> 02:34:44,640
Speaker 1: seven eighty four. I had to pull that score back up.

3188
02:34:44,680 --> 02:34:47,200
Speaker 1: I remembered it was a close game. Look, I think

3189
02:34:47,200 --> 02:34:49,560
Speaker 1: Nebraska's playing really well right now. I'll take Nebraska in

3190
02:34:49,600 --> 02:34:49,920
Speaker 1: this game.

3191
02:34:50,040 --> 02:34:52,320
Speaker 4: I like Illinois, to be honest with you. Shannon's coming

3192
02:34:52,320 --> 02:34:55,320
Speaker 4: on Damaska playing really well. I think they can outscore them.

3193
02:34:55,360 --> 02:34:57,280
Speaker 4: So I actually like Illinois. I think Illinois is a

3194
02:34:57,280 --> 02:34:58,840
Speaker 4: sleeper to go deep in the tournament too.

3195
02:34:59,600 --> 02:35:03,640
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm not taking any sleepers out of the

3196
02:35:03,640 --> 02:35:06,160
Speaker 1: Big ten. I'm I'm done relying on the Big ten.

3197
02:35:06,720 --> 02:35:07,160
Speaker 3: Fair enough.

3198
02:35:07,360 --> 02:35:07,760
Speaker 4: I get it.

3199
02:35:07,800 --> 02:35:13,600
Speaker 2: They are heartbreakers, man, They just truly are Auburn but

3200
02:35:14,160 --> 02:35:18,480
Speaker 2: very impressive. Yesterday again they're is seven and a half

3201
02:35:18,520 --> 02:35:23,160
Speaker 2: point favored against Mississippi State. Mississippi State, man is a

3202
02:35:23,320 --> 02:35:25,039
Speaker 2: dangerous team.

3203
02:35:25,400 --> 02:35:26,200
Speaker 3: That's somebody.

3204
02:35:26,240 --> 02:35:29,680
Speaker 2: I mean, they just got all over to Trouts, Tennessee

3205
02:35:29,760 --> 02:35:30,800
Speaker 2: yesterday with a big upset.

3206
02:35:31,520 --> 02:35:31,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

3207
02:35:32,040 --> 02:35:34,039
Speaker 1: I think though that that's sort of the moment that

3208
02:35:34,080 --> 02:35:37,160
Speaker 1: you have in these tournaments that wakes people up. Auburn

3209
02:35:37,200 --> 02:35:41,600
Speaker 1: has been playing dominant basketball of leet So. I like

3210
02:35:41,640 --> 02:35:43,960
Speaker 1: Auburn in this game, but kudos to Mississippi State because

3211
02:35:44,200 --> 02:35:46,240
Speaker 1: not only was that a big win, you know for

3212
02:35:46,360 --> 02:35:48,800
Speaker 1: them at knocked Tennessee off of the one seed that

3213
02:35:49,200 --> 02:35:53,280
Speaker 1: had consequence for everybody in March Madness. So nothing away

3214
02:35:53,280 --> 02:35:55,480
Speaker 1: from them. But Auburn is hot right now.

3215
02:35:55,640 --> 02:35:58,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Auburn is playing amazing, So I think they

3216
02:35:58,600 --> 02:36:00,400
Speaker 4: went pretty easily. I think they even covered the number

3217
02:36:00,400 --> 02:36:00,920
Speaker 4: in this one.

3218
02:36:01,160 --> 02:36:03,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. I kind of lean that way too.

3219
02:36:04,240 --> 02:36:09,959
Speaker 2: Delaware State Howard and the MIAK Final today, Howard's three

3220
02:36:09,959 --> 02:36:14,160
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite, the eight ten semifinal VCU

3221
02:36:14,320 --> 02:36:20,959
Speaker 2: Saint Joe's we got the the the American Conference Championship

3222
02:36:21,400 --> 02:36:28,280
Speaker 2: UAB and South Florida. I excuse me, one semifinal South

3223
02:36:28,280 --> 02:36:30,800
Speaker 2: Florida three and a half. I don't know any faults

3224
02:36:30,800 --> 02:36:34,600
Speaker 2: in any of those games. Not really for me either.

3225
02:36:36,280 --> 02:36:40,040
Speaker 2: Fau is thirteen and a half against Temple. I don't

3226
02:36:40,080 --> 02:36:40,920
Speaker 2: even want to put up.

3227
02:36:42,760 --> 02:36:43,120
Speaker 3: Temple.

3228
02:36:43,560 --> 02:36:45,640
Speaker 4: I've seen FAU one time this year, to be honest

3229
02:36:45,640 --> 02:36:46,800
Speaker 4: with you, but I know a lot of people are

3230
02:36:46,840 --> 02:36:49,040
Speaker 4: hot on FAU so and they're a team that made

3231
02:36:49,080 --> 02:36:51,840
Speaker 4: has made runs in the past, so they're a mid

3232
02:36:51,879 --> 02:36:53,960
Speaker 4: major team that it's getting a lot of love right now.

3233
02:36:54,840 --> 02:36:57,680
Speaker 3: I could see it. And against my alma man or

3234
02:36:58,120 --> 02:37:00,480
Speaker 3: they're not good. Sorry.

3235
02:37:01,040 --> 02:37:05,280
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Uh, Florida in a and M great game today. Man,

3236
02:37:05,320 --> 02:37:08,560
Speaker 2: that's a good SEC semi final. Yeah, Florida can play.

3237
02:37:08,640 --> 02:37:10,800
Speaker 2: You know, they have some some really high highs this year.

3238
02:37:10,840 --> 02:37:12,600
Speaker 2: Florida don't seem that could be dangerous. It can make

3239
02:37:12,640 --> 02:37:14,879
Speaker 2: some noise too in the tournament. I like Florida, and.

3240
02:37:14,959 --> 02:37:17,160
Speaker 3: Hey that it takes out Kentucky yesterday.

3241
02:37:17,280 --> 02:37:21,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean Florida knows like they dominated Alabama. Alabama,

3242
02:37:21,720 --> 02:37:24,560
Speaker 1: it just didn't even belong in that game. So a

3243
02:37:24,640 --> 02:37:27,040
Speaker 1: lot a lot of this actually a hell of a game.

3244
02:37:27,240 --> 02:37:29,119
Speaker 1: I think Florida can win it. But I think it's

3245
02:37:29,120 --> 02:37:29,800
Speaker 1: a hell of a game.

3246
02:37:30,080 --> 02:37:32,960
Speaker 2: Well, two best games of the day, and just it's

3247
02:37:32,959 --> 02:37:37,240
Speaker 2: a shankause they're on opposite each other. Is IWA stayed

3248
02:37:37,280 --> 02:37:41,600
Speaker 2: in Houston six o'clock on ESPN and that's uh. And

3249
02:37:41,680 --> 02:37:44,480
Speaker 2: the one time they met this year, Iowa State beat

3250
02:37:44,520 --> 02:37:48,200
Speaker 2: them in January, So again we talked about Iowa State

3251
02:37:48,280 --> 02:37:51,040
Speaker 2: mucking it up. That's a great game, man, looking forward

3252
02:37:51,040 --> 02:37:54,520
Speaker 2: to that. And then Yu kon Marquette, uh, which should

3253
02:37:54,600 --> 02:37:57,360
Speaker 2: be interesting. U Kon is a nine and a half

3254
02:37:57,360 --> 02:38:00,680
Speaker 2: point favorite. They were nine and a half yes against

3255
02:38:00,680 --> 02:38:03,320
Speaker 2: Saint John. Saint John's kind of kept it close and

3256
02:38:03,400 --> 02:38:06,440
Speaker 2: back doored him a little bit. Nine half is heavy

3257
02:38:06,480 --> 02:38:06,680
Speaker 2: for me.

3258
02:38:07,080 --> 02:38:09,080
Speaker 1: That's really heavy, way too heavy for me, way too

3259
02:38:09,080 --> 02:38:11,320
Speaker 1: heavy for I think yu Come wins that game. But man,

3260
02:38:11,360 --> 02:38:13,000
Speaker 1: Marqutt's going to be coming out with the thunder of

3261
02:38:13,040 --> 02:38:15,760
Speaker 1: the gods. And this especially given the fact that Marquette

3262
02:38:15,840 --> 02:38:19,400
Speaker 1: was embarrassed earlier, right or Marquette embarrassed Connecticut, I should

3263
02:38:19,400 --> 02:38:22,600
Speaker 1: say earlier this year. Like I in my mind, Marquette's

3264
02:38:22,600 --> 02:38:24,960
Speaker 1: coming out with a this is our moment to prove

3265
02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:27,440
Speaker 1: that we belong in this big boy conversation. Markette's gonna

3266
02:38:27,440 --> 02:38:30,360
Speaker 1: come out. I think Connecticut wins. But that's way too

3267
02:38:30,440 --> 02:38:31,360
Speaker 1: much of a spread for me.

3268
02:38:31,440 --> 02:38:33,440
Speaker 4: On agree, way too fat.

3269
02:38:34,720 --> 02:38:41,480
Speaker 2: Uh the the ACC it's Carolina nine and a half

3270
02:38:41,560 --> 02:38:42,840
Speaker 2: against NC State, Give.

3271
02:38:42,720 --> 02:38:45,120
Speaker 4: Me the heels, Give me the heels and I'm covering

3272
02:38:45,160 --> 02:38:47,080
Speaker 4: the number. They'll run them off of the floor.

3273
02:38:47,600 --> 02:38:50,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just that's another team to just look

3274
02:38:50,560 --> 02:38:52,560
Speaker 1: look over the course of the last month, look at

3275
02:38:52,600 --> 02:38:54,039
Speaker 1: the way Carolina is playing right now.

3276
02:38:54,400 --> 02:38:58,360
Speaker 4: Look what they did to duke a camera ill.

3277
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:01,200
Speaker 1: It's not it's not an actident. I'm just saying, Carolina

3278
02:39:01,280 --> 02:39:03,440
Speaker 1: right now is not. It's not a fluke. It's not

3279
02:39:03,480 --> 02:39:05,959
Speaker 1: an accident. They're legitimate title contender.

3280
02:39:06,080 --> 02:39:06,600
Speaker 3: No, they are.

3281
02:39:07,000 --> 02:39:09,960
Speaker 2: And then in the PAC twelve tonight, Yeah it's Colorado

3282
02:39:10,200 --> 02:39:11,959
Speaker 2: Swan song or Oregon.

3283
02:39:12,320 --> 02:39:16,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh Oregon though coming through last night. Like I

3284
02:39:16,640 --> 02:39:18,320
Speaker 1: didn't think Oregan was gonna win last night.

3285
02:39:18,320 --> 02:39:19,199
Speaker 4: I didn't think so either.

3286
02:39:19,840 --> 02:39:21,320
Speaker 1: And there were a couple of times they were down

3287
02:39:21,360 --> 02:39:22,320
Speaker 1: in that game where I thought, I.

3288
02:39:22,280 --> 02:39:25,640
Speaker 3: Think they win. I think they beat Colorado today, you know, I.

3289
02:39:25,600 --> 02:39:26,199
Speaker 4: Think they should.

3290
02:39:26,959 --> 02:39:30,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's gonna do for us. Listen, everybody,

3291
02:39:30,720 --> 02:39:34,320
Speaker 2: have a wonderful week. We love hanging with you. Fela's

3292
02:39:34,760 --> 02:39:35,320
Speaker 2: see you later.