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Speaker 1: feeling better, aren't you go? Yeah? Within three seconds, just

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Speaker 1: to our good buddy Nick Wright Fox Sports Ross Tucker Westwood, one,

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Speaker 1: former NFL lineman. The NFL schedule released party last night.

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Speaker 1: Although they released it and then they had the official

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Speaker 1: dribs and drabs, and I was fine with it. You

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Speaker 1: want to put out week two Sunday Night game and

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Speaker 1: do that yesterday morning at this time, that's fine. I'm

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Speaker 1: okay with it. I just wanted to see the schedule

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Speaker 1: in totality then be able to kind of dissect this,

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Speaker 1: which will do and there's some really great games. Don't

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Speaker 1: be fooled by storylines over a good game. Because the

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Speaker 1: first Monday Night football game stood out. I thought Russell

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Speaker 1: big difference there. You know, when the Bills are going

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Speaker 1: I don't know if russ going against Seattle is going

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Speaker 1: to be a good game storyline, but maybe not a

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Speaker 1: good game. We'll talk about some of the other matchups

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Speaker 1: the day poll question, all of that forthcoming. You know

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Speaker 1: when you walk in now, I limit my exposure inside

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Speaker 1: we can. But as I walk by Paulie and we're

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Speaker 1: hot pole, And I go what he goes, I got

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Speaker 1: come in your way, all right, all right here it

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Speaker 1: as you're ready, Yeah, if all three were free agents,

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Speaker 1: and I think two of them are, and they all

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Speaker 1: all three free agents in the same price, I would

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Speaker 1: sign James Harden age thirty two, Kyrie Irving, age thirty,

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Speaker 1: behalf of Kyrie Irving. That's incredibly insulting, isn't he insulted

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Kyrie just because I know that there's

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Speaker 1: entire season. It helps that he respects Kevin Durant. You've

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Speaker 1: Thompson had an unbelievable game where he might have had

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Speaker 1: But we were talking about Hardened, Westbrook and John Wall,

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Speaker 1: him as a now he's a playmaker. I need James Harden.

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Speaker 1: James Harden is one of the great scores of all time.

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Speaker 1: But when you don't score and you don't force the issue,

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Speaker 1: going on? Hot takes? Next door? Patrick's on fire? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: right on Q. It was bound to happen. We're right

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Speaker 1: next to a fire department. Over the years, the Sixers

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Speaker 1: had been criticized for their decisions. They gave that MAX

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Speaker 1: in trade for al Horford. Since the trade, Butlers led

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Speaker 1: coming up, but the Swiss Sixers swinging miss is going

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Speaker 1: NBA the grass isn't always greener. On the other side,

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Speaker 1: I thought Joe Llenbad had really really interesting comments last

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Speaker 1: not whose anymore. He's more of a playmaker. I thought, yeah, Thomas,

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Speaker 1: lot of that comes with effort. These guys are all

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Speaker 1: Then it comes down to you do you want to

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Speaker 1: Harden wanted to be here, didn't want to be in Houston,

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Okay, so what do you do going forward?

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Speaker 1: That's really the key. And I remember talking to Chris Mannox.

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Speaker 1: I don't like why. Well, you gave up all these

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Speaker 1: spend fifty million up here, Well what about down here?

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Speaker 1: It feels like you're compounding the problem. If I'm Philly,

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Speaker 1: Doc will go, oh, we'd all love Doc. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: should you lose your job? No, So it's the same thing,

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Speaker 1: First of all, Doc is wrong, and you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of portraying the Sixers as this up and coming underdog.

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Speaker 1: Nobody saw us. You spend a lot of money, made

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Speaker 1: some moves, you have nothing to show for it. Can't

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Speaker 1: get to the next round, all right, you had injuries,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely understand it. But Doc can't here, sit here and

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Speaker 1: go man. I'm shocked that you're asking me that question.

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Speaker 1: another job here. But there is accountability here. Is Doc

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Speaker 1: But here's something that I think will blow your mind, Dan,

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Speaker 1: season with eight straight games against teams that had a

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Speaker 1: winning record in the previous season. Yeah, just a coincidence there.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the NFL has it out for your

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs? Well, no, I mean they only have

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Speaker 1: I think of their seventeen opponents, what like fourteen of

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Speaker 1: them had a winning well, no, twelve of them I

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Speaker 1: think had a winning record, and then two of the

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Speaker 1: ones that didn't know the Broncos who now Russell Wilson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, they have the Texans, they have the Jags,

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Speaker 1: they have the Seahawks. Other than that, it's just gauntlet

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Speaker 1: of games. Yeah, I mean, it's just how it drew

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Speaker 1: this year. I love how the year ends. I think

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs will be the final six games of the year.

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Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are gonna win. I think The're

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Speaker 1: gonna be twelve and five into the playoffs on six

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Speaker 1: game winning street red Hot. Could you see a team

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Speaker 1: not winning the division in the AFC West but winning

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. I think the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs or the Chargers, one of them is not gonna

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Speaker 1: win the division. And either can win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe in the Broncos. What about the Raiders?

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Speaker 1: Come on, and I'm very happy for the Raiders that

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Speaker 1: they are. They went from they got Davantae Adams, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna go from the third best team, or I

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Speaker 1: guess some would argue the second best team in the

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Speaker 1: division last year because they made the playoffs, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be the worst team in the division. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you congrats. You trade for Davantae Adams and then you extend.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Raiders will be the worst team? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Of course? Who else would be? Denver? Uh? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: mean I guess maybe you believe in Russell Wilson even

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Speaker 1: less than I do. I don't believe in them as

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender, but I do think they'll win

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Speaker 1: eight or nine games. I don't think the Raiders are

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Speaker 1: very good. I think the Raiders last Ye're all smoking mirrors.

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Speaker 1: My friend, and I don't trust Derek Carr. Who is

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Speaker 1: this year's Bengals last year's Bengals? No, I got you?

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Speaker 1: Um oh a great question. So a team that's guy, guy,

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Speaker 1: that's hard man. I didn't expect that question. I apologize.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to say the Dolphins, but I can't because

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Speaker 1: of TA I just can't. Nobody else in the AFC

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Speaker 1: North would be considered the Bengals, you know what I mean? Like,

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Speaker 1: no one's shocked if the Ravens show up, So would

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Speaker 1: you be shocked if the Niners do it with Trey Lance?

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Speaker 1: Can we go Niners? That's probably not an answer. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I don't have an answer. They're

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Speaker 1: still a good team. How about the Cults? So I

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Speaker 1: was thinking them, I didn't know if that they would

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Speaker 1: qualify that when I was doing the chief schedule. I've

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Speaker 1: the Colts Pennsylvania as a lass. I think the Cults

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Speaker 1: all they needed was a quarterback that wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: kneecap them. Now they had it. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: Cults are dangerous. I like their coach, everyone likes the

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Speaker 1: both lines. I don't know if they have enough receivers,

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Speaker 1: but yes, I think the Cults are I mean I

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Speaker 1: think the culture gonna in that division? Does that count?

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to be better than the Titans.

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Speaker 1: I'd be real worried about Derek Hendrick. Like at some

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Speaker 1: point where the usage has to wear him down, even

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Speaker 1: though he's superhuman. I was also curious about the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns and how many games would be in primetime. I

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Speaker 1: think they have one in Week two or Week three

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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. But the NFL, when you're putting out

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Speaker 1: this schedule, what do you say to the commissioner or

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Speaker 1: vice versa without a paper trail to say, hey, we

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Speaker 1: want to feature the Browns with Deshaun Watson. Is he

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Speaker 1: going to be eligible to play? Are you going to

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Speaker 1: suspend him? I'm guessing he's gonna be hard to suspend

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Speaker 1: Nick if there's nothing going on right now. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: thought I'm going the other way. I think the NFL

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Speaker 1: might be looking at what happened to Trevor Bauer and

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Speaker 1: saying we need to suspend him a long time. I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the low key reasons the Browns

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Speaker 1: maybe haven't moved on from Baker. Is what if Deshaun

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Speaker 1: is suspended for ten games? Oh? I agree? I agree

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Speaker 1: keeping Baker makes sense, but not if Baker thinks that

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Speaker 1: they actually tried to make him look bad against the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's another layer to this, that Baker

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Speaker 1: is just gonna say, I'm not going to play for you. Now,

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Speaker 1: then you have Jacobe Brissette as your backup quarterback to

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. But I'm wondering if they suspend him or

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Speaker 1: they wait until there's some kind of completion to this investigation.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they have to suspend him,

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Speaker 1: and I don't listen. I am. I am a guy

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Speaker 1: you want on your jury if you have one. If

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Speaker 1: you are accused of a single crime, my burden of

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Speaker 1: proof or reasonable doubt. What I need for reasonable doubt

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Speaker 1: is you say you didn't do it. That's pretty reasonable

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Speaker 1: to believe. But as soon as multiple people accuse you

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Speaker 1: of the same thing independently, I'm almost certain you're guilty.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's unfair, but it is impossible for me to

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Speaker 1: believe that Deshaun Watson is the victim of some grand,

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Speaker 1: multi state, two dozen person conspiracy. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna get suspended. I think he is. I mentioned this

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Speaker 1: to start the show when we look at the schedule release,

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Speaker 1: that we confuse storylines with good games. Seahawks against the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Broncos is a terrible game. Yes it's it's a great storyline,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know the game feels like it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a you know, eighteen to eleven. Well, here's what

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Speaker 1: I do know. Why would you intentionally feature Drew lock

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Speaker 1: In anything? Is part of your premier problem? That's insane.

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Speaker 1: Like the now, if if all of a sudden, that's

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Speaker 1: where Baker is, then that isn't more intriguing Russell's first

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Speaker 1: game with Denver Baker in Seattle, then it's intriguing. But

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. There's also a problem young

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Speaker 1: talk show hosts out there to take a lesson from,

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Speaker 1: you know, two veterans of the industry, one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest to ever do it, also Dan Patrick. So the

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Speaker 1: there is a massive difference between something being a great

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Speaker 1: moment and a great topic. Guy throws a perfect game,

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Speaker 1: that's a great moment. It's impossible to talk about, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, so this is the schedule

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Speaker 1: version of that. Russ's return to Seattle is it's the opposite.

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Speaker 1: It's a great topic. It's not gonna be a great moment.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a three hour, crummy football game. That's

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Speaker 1: a hot take. You can hear the fire department going by,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I like that. I hire a fire

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Speaker 1: department to drive up and down behind me just for

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Speaker 1: hot till. Yes, yeah, oh how about that? Speaking of

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Speaker 1: hot takes, I thought you're gonna ask me about this,

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Speaker 1: and I know we're late, but I want to I

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Speaker 1: need to say this. Am I gonna get like you're

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Speaker 1: gonna mention the fact I'm the one person in America

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Speaker 1: who said the MAVs are gonna win this series. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this series, and also the fact that Devin

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Speaker 1: Booker is playing a dangerous game. Even Booker and Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul mocked Luca donta chapter game two little smirks at

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Speaker 1: the press conference. Oh we're not worried about Luca. Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul's asked about Luca after game one, He's like, what

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Speaker 1: about Theo Pinson? They got a lot of great players.

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker then does a flop. It gets called on

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Speaker 1: camera calling at the Luca's special yesterday, Luca had more

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Speaker 1: point three bounds assists than those two guys combined. They

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Speaker 1: had thirteen turnovers. He's gonna go in their building on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and beat them because Luca's the second best player

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Speaker 1: in basketball already, And all of a sudden, it's like ooh,

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Speaker 1: boy Son's gonna get back here anytime soon. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. I don't like Devin Booker. I've turned on him.

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Speaker 1: I don't like the way he's mocking Luca. Not good

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Speaker 1: for him. And watch the video if you haven't seen it. Dan,

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Speaker 1: late in the game, when Jay Crowder grabs Frankie Nilikina

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Speaker 1: throws him into Chris Paul like a scheduled flop play

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Speaker 1: they have, and Chris starts falling. They got the foul call,

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Speaker 1: but Kristen starts grabbing his hand. The trainers look at

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Speaker 1: his hand, just like the basketball gods smited Marcus Smart

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Speaker 1: for the flop with four minutes left against the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, you can't do anything. The

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Speaker 1: basketball gods might have smited Chris Paul a little flop

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Speaker 1: late in that game. MAV's going to the finals. Told

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Speaker 1: you two months ago. Okay, I just forced to do

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Speaker 1: I just forced that into the show. Sorry, no, you did.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's kind of hard to compliment you

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Speaker 1: when you know both hands are patting yourself on the back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, yeah, of course somebody has to. I

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Speaker 1: mean somebody I gotta get credit me. Why are you

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Speaker 1: so needy. You know. It's a good question, Dan, But

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Speaker 1: I think you know I'm someone you know, always been

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Speaker 1: an underdog, always been disrespected. I I you know, I

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Speaker 1: come on this show. You guys don't even know what

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Speaker 1: time my show is, and I just I try to

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Speaker 1: add times. You know, remind America that the only person

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Speaker 1: who was right about the Clippers two years ago and

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Speaker 1: the only person was right about the Nets back to

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Speaker 1: back years is going to be the only person who

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Speaker 1: called the MAVs going to the finals. Six weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: your buddy Nick Right hosted the watch right in Nick

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Speaker 1: Right podcast, which you can subscribe to on iTunes and

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. I'm gonna bet you dinner, Dallas and Phoenix

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Speaker 1: already own me dinner, so you're gonna it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: two dinners. Well, I don't know if I owe you dinner.

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Speaker 1: You chose to pick up the tab when I was

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Speaker 1: going to and I thought that you should. You know,

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Speaker 1: for a legend, you're gonna buy it in the respect

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Speaker 1: and you know the advice I gave you, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you should do that. You know what, Dan, I don't

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Speaker 1: say this often. You're right? Um, So yeah, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: How about we do dinner. We'll do dinner, dinner, and

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Speaker 1: I'll take Phoenix just to be an antagonist here with you.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. We're doing any odds, any points, or just

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Speaker 1: straight straight up no problem deal. I was gonna give

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Speaker 1: you odds. No, don't it. No, I don't need it.

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Speaker 1: What odds do I need? It's either Phoenix wins or

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Speaker 1: Dallas wins. You could have gotten two dinners, could have

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Speaker 1: manned two to one dinner special. There's many more dinners

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Speaker 1: for me, you know, all of the different Max Kellerman

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Speaker 1: wants to buy me dinner now. I mean there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people out there, Colin Callender. People on the

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Speaker 1: streets in New York see me and they're like, you're

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Speaker 1: in the eye from Sports TV, and I'm like yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, Max, that happens to me a lot. Bro,

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Speaker 1: Fritzie will give you a call next week around. I

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Speaker 1: was looking at Monday or Wednesday. Okay, all right, see

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Speaker 1: taking shots? I don't know, bring on, I don't know what.

631
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: What what did I do to deserve I don't know.

632
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm under the weather. I'm I'm under the weather, and

633
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm mad, and I'm I want to lash out at somebody,

634
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: and I lash out at Fritzie all the time. And

635
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: so you just you popped up on the screen and

636
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: I have to yell at you. Well, I hope you

637
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: feel better. I've been watching this week. I saw the

638
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: hat and everything. M I'm you're you're a warrior for

639
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: doing the show all week even though you haven't been

640
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: feel great. I'll say this, Dan, in all sincerity. People

641
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: bring up the Princeton thing all the time. It's not me.

642
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: It's like people have like a little bit of like

643
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: an inferiority or insecurity thing about it. I don't know,

644
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: I don't bring it up. Well, it's not relevant to

645
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: the NFL or even college. Nobody asked me about Princeton football,

646
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: so it's not But people always bring it up somehow.

647
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: But people expect you to be smarter, right, I think

648
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: that's fair. Yeah, it's it's like eight years in a row.

649
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: It's number one school in the country. The reality is,

650
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: and you know this football absolutely helped with me getting

651
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: accepted there. In fact, Dan, I never told just before,

652
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: the valedictorian of my high school my year, had fifteen

653
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: fifty SATs back when they were really hard. He did

654
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: not get into Harvard or Princeton. I got into both.

655
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: And let me just tell you, my ats and my

656
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: class rank were lower, lower than his. It was bad.

657
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw him. I saw him in the hallways.

658
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: All he ever wanted to do was going to Harvard

659
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: or Princeton, and all I wanted to do Dan was

660
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: play football at Penn State. So I told him I

661
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: saw him the hallway. I'm like, listen, man, when you

662
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: were fooling around studying, I was lifting weights trying to

663
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: get into the best colleges. Wow, I'm sure that made

664
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: him feel better. Oh he went to Columbia or Penn

665
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: He's a doctor. It doesn't make a differences. I'm sure

666
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: he's doing great. All right. Your reaction to the NFL

667
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: schedule releases, there one thing that stood out more than

668
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: anything else. Well, two things stood out to me. Number one,

669
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: the fact that they made it like a ten day miniseries.

670
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: Dan is just hilarious. I mean it's you know, they

671
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: started the last week with the international game announcement, then

672
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: they had the initial Amazon game announcement, then they had

673
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unreal what they've made this into. And

674
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: guess what we all feed into it. Yeah, I'm going

675
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: with it. We all eat up. Yeah, you know, they

676
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: were giving standalone games by releasing it that way, and

677
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: eight forty five in the morning and they're giving me

678
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: the Thursday night Amazon game. I'm like, all right, you

679
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: know what they should do. You know, it would be

680
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: amazing next year, announced the schedule one team at a time,

681
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: so like they announced the Jets schedule and Patriots fans No.

682
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: Two of their games. Then they announced the Dolphins schedule

683
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: and Patriots fans No. Four of their games, Like, and

684
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: people are putting it together, and then there's leaks, Like

685
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable how much intrigue there is to it's That's

686
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: one thing that jumped out to me. The other thing

687
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: that jumped out, which I think is just interesting. Yeah,

688
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: Week two, they have a Monday night football doubleheader, but

689
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: there's an hour and a half overlap. So Dan, you know,

690
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: my favorite team I played for was the Buffalo Bills.

691
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 1: I say it all time. I love playing for the Bills.

692
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: I played for five teams. That was my favorite. They

693
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: host the Titans seven fifteen at eight thirty. The Eagles

694
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: host the Vikings. You know, I do the Eagles preseason

695
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: games on TV. I do their pregame on the radio,

696
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: So I watched them. They've got like the two teams

697
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: I watched the closest overlapping in quote unquote standalone games.

698
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: They've never done it before. I just talked to Michael

699
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: North from the NFL on the Ross Tucker Podcast. He

700
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: said they might try three different kinds of doubleheaders next year.

701
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: It's a little bit weird, but they're they're experimenting, they're

702
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: trying something different. We're talking to Ross Tucker. He went

703
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: to Princeton and a former NFL lineman, host of the

704
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: Ross Tucker Football Podcast. Who's the Bengals this year? Such

705
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: a good question. I think they'll be good. I'm not

706
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: sure they're the favorite in the AFC North. I think

707
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: the Ravens are going to come back with a vengeance.

708
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: Now not how are the Bengals going to be? Who

709
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: will be this year's Bengals? Oh? I thought since the

710
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: Bengals had five primetime games, you were like doing an

711
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: existential question of like who are they? Are they worthy

712
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: of that? Um? Oh, this year's Bengals. That's a good question.

713
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: Did the Broncos count? He's not unfair? No, I mean, okay,

714
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: then probably the Broncos. I was gonna say the Eagle.

715
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna say the Eagles. You know what, I

716
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: can see the Eagles being very good. I really can.

717
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they're so good upfront both sides the ball.

718
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: Look at their schedule, which I'm not a big believer in.

719
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: Oh they have an easy stretch or a tough stretch

720
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: because it evens out, but they really have a great

721
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: chance to get off to a great start. It's hurt

722
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: second four year as a starter. They have a J Brown.

723
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: The NFC East is not that tough. I think the

724
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys will be down, and I think the NFC in

725
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: general as a conference is a lot more winnable than

726
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: the AFC. So yeah, I think a surprise. I think

727
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: that'd be a really nice surprise super Bowl pick is

728
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: the Eagles. But if I say that I'm a Homer,

729
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: you can say that I can't. The team that's overrated

730
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: probably still the Packers. In my mind, I see a

731
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: lot of people talking about the Packers going to the

732
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: super Bowl. That they couldn't go to the super Bowl

733
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: when they had the best receiver in the NFL. Now

734
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna go without them. I mean, I don't really

735
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: see that happening. I think that they will lose a

736
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: playoff game like they seemingly do every year. I'm not

737
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: feeling the Packers getting the Super Bowl. I just think

738
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: you lose a guy like Davante Adams, I think it.

739
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: I think there's a vibe. I think I think it

740
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: hurts the locker room. Did you see all the Titans

741
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: players how upset they were when the team traded AJ

742
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: Brown Wells. The coach, Mike Rabel did his best acting

743
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: when he had that press conference talk about losing A J. Brown.

744
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I understand what management's doing, like, uh, okay,

745
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: good for you. It's awkward. Dan and I look, I don't.

746
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: I think John Robinson and Mike Rabel get along great.

747
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: But if things start to go south there, you know,

748
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: fully well, Rabel's gonna say, oh really, ownership, Amy Adams drunk,

749
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't my idea to move on from A J.

750
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: Brown for monetary reasons. Plus, Rabel will just come out

751
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: three weeks earlier and said that they would not trade

752
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: a J. Brown as long as he was the coach.

753
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: Rabel's a former player, we were teammates in New England.

754
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: He knows that's a bad look for him. You know,

755
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: you say something publicly like that and then go against that,

756
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 1: it's not a good look. The underdog the most underappreciated

757
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: team going into this season will be I think the Ravens.

758
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens, you know, because of how they

759
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: finished last year, because they trade Hollywood Brown and they

760
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: have quote unquote no receivers. I don't think people realize

761
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: how good they have a chance to be. They were

762
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: absolutely decimated by injuries last year. Lamar obviously didn't play

763
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. I think the Ravens

764
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,959
Speaker 1: come back with a vengeance. I think there's a great

765
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: chance they win that division. I'm curious about the Cleveland

766
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: Browns with Deshaun Watson and when he plays, how much

767
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: he's going to play, Does he get punished at all?

768
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: This year feels like these trials, these cases are not

769
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: going to be hurt until after this upcoming season. I

770
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: don't know if the NFL is proactive on something like

771
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: this or they And is that a reason why the

772
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns could be holding on to Baker Mayfield a

773
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: little bit longer? That if Deshaun is going to be

774
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: suspended for six eight games, well, if you look at

775
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 1: the Browns schedule, Dan and this is what people do

776
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: and I do it as well, to try to read

777
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: the tea leaves. They didn't give the Browns a whole

778
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: lot of primetime games, and they didn't give the Browns

779
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: primetime games early. I think it's bad for business. I

780
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: think whether he's suspended or not, it's bad for business

781
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: to have DeShawn Watson while these legal cases are hanging

782
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: over his head in primetime. You know everything they do

783
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: that do you think? It makes me laugh about all

784
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: the fan bases that are all upset and the NFL

785
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: hates them. You know this. The whole thing is to

786
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: maximize ratings. This is a business they're maximizing. They don't

787
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: care about your They don't hate your team anymore than

788
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: they like some other team. They like ratings, but they

789
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: also don't like bad pr which is why I think

790
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 1: they're trying to hide to Shawn Watson and the Browns

791
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: as much as possible. I don't think they see the value. Look,

792
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones probably says to him, put the Browns on

793
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: every week, people will be complaining about it, and any

794
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: publicity's good publicity. NFL doesn't see it that way, and

795
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 1: I think their schedule and the lack of primetime games

796
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: for the Browns pretty good indicator because they're probably the

797
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: best team to have the fewest amount of primetime games.

798
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: If Tom Brady, former teammate, asked for advice that he's

799
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: going to go into the broadcasting booth at some point

800
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: next couple of years, what would you tell Brady? Yeah,

801
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: really simple, make sure you're having fun. He's so intense.

802
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: I am not worried about him from a preparation standpoint

803
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: at all. He's the biggest psycho I've ever been around.

804
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean that as a compliment, like he will be

805
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: crazy prepared, but can he just enjoy himself? You know,

806
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: I like Romo a lot because I like broadcasters Dan

807
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: that I can tell they love it. I could he

808
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: have a money It's the reason why your show is

809
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: so successful. Everybody can tell that you guys and the

810
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: dan Nettes, you're having a great time. That's what I mean,

811
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: That's what it's supposed to be. I can tell Romo's

812
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: having a blast. There are other guys I'm not always

813
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: sure if they love football. I'm not sure if they're

814
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: having a really good time doing it. I don't know

815
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: if Brady's gonna be able to do that. I think

816
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna be so intense about the information and wanting

817
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: to do well. I don't know if he'll be able

818
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: to loosen up and relax and really enjoy it. And

819
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to really be good if you're

820
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: not enjoying it. That needs to come across. I think

821
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: it's bananas that he got that much money without ever

822
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: having done it before. It's one thing for Romo after

823
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: reproved himself. It's another thing for Akeman after reproved himself.

824
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: To give Tom not much money when he might stink,

825
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, he might not be good at it is

826
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: really an interesting decision, and you can over prepare, and

827
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: having work with analyst, you know, you tell them just

828
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: cut it in half because you get so consumed with

829
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: I got to know everything. It was my approach when

830
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: I hosted the Olympics for the first time. I thought

831
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: I had to know everything about everything, and then I realized,

832
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: as a result, I didn't know anything about anything because

833
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: I was just my mind was so full of stats

834
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: and countries and stars and events. And I talked to

835
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: al Michaels and he gave me the greatest advice that

836
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: I ever received with the Olympics. He said, Dan my Man,

837
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: half hour at a time, know what you need to

838
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,439
Speaker 1: know the next half hour and then the next half

839
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: hour instead of kind of piling on and saying I

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Speaker 1: know everything, and then I didn't use ninety seven percent

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. And that's what I'm wondering about Brady

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Speaker 1: that does he just dive in because he has to.

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Speaker 1: People expect that, and then can you come off naturally

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Speaker 1: and still have all that information? And I think that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the trick for Tom is can he

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Speaker 1: have Romo like moments where he seems downright giddy that

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Speaker 1: this team is doing this in this moment and that

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Speaker 1: result so so Dan, What's so fascinating about Tom is

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Speaker 1: his public persona and social media presence are like a

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Speaker 1: total one eighty. You know, he's so buttoned up in

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Speaker 1: every press conference or interview he ever does right, almost robotic,

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Speaker 1: but yet his social media is amazing, So any and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody else's ideas, but his social media is amazing.

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Speaker 1: He's got to be somewhere in between those two. He's

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Speaker 1: got to be relaxed. It's like when I whenever I

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Speaker 1: fill in for you. The first couple of times, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I had all kinds of notes and then like five

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Speaker 1: minutes in it's a meet Friday, and Paulie asked me

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Speaker 1: what mustard I wanted to I wanted the next thing.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's noon and I'm putting sausage. I'm putting

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Speaker 1: brats in my cup for the drive home. Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't even I don't even have notes when my

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Speaker 1: feeling for you anymore. It's unbelievable because it just it

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Speaker 1: happened so much more naturally when you just engage with

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Speaker 1: the guys. Well, Paulie would suggest you had a couple

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Speaker 1: of notes next time you did it, just like four

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Speaker 1: or five. Just a couple of notes there jumping off points. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, just a couple of notes and a Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you as always. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us, and thanks for all the input that you

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Speaker 1: provide for us. Of course, my pleasure feel better. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me. Dan