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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday as we commemorate Veterans Day.

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Speaker 1: buying should be. Hundred and thirty points. Three straight games,

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Speaker 1: a franchise record of fifty five threes, Yeah here coming next.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, a franchise record fifty five attempted. Yeah

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Speaker 1: that's okay. No no no. The way you said that we

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Speaker 1: scored a lot of it doesn't make that why ruin

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Speaker 1: a good story? I have fifty five threes the Knicks

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Speaker 1: had tonight attempts fifty five franchise record, a lot of ice.

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Speaker 1: Bucket's going to get a workout in the post game.

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Speaker 1: Three straight games with one hundred and thirty or more points. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they still may just sweat down the stretch for

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Speaker 1: a minute. It's it's look, it's it's all I have.

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Speaker 1: There's a miss layup, heer's a bad fall on an

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Speaker 1: inbounds playing. Yeah, all my other teams, and all my

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Speaker 1: teams are awful. Take it's low. All the others are awful.

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Speaker 1: Had you predicted the Jets to the Super Bowl two

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Speaker 1: years ago? Two years ago? Two years ago? You either

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Speaker 1: have to say it's new or you're indicting members of

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Speaker 1: stat No, because people wonder if I'm okay. Good dude,

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Speaker 1: come into the season with a new head coach that

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Speaker 1: really is out of his depth and justin Fields a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You predicted the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: No, I did not.

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Speaker 1: I did not. That was two years ago when we

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Speaker 1: got Aaron Rodgers. Well, you didn't know your coach was

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Speaker 1: out of his depths immediately. No, I don't play the

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Speaker 1: video tape. No, no, no, today today Aaron Glenn has

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Speaker 1: taken on beat writers well you know, upset like uh boy,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, he to New York. That's what he does.

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Speaker 1: This is how it goes. Uh. We will have big

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Speaker 1: NBA news coming up in a bit. As I believe

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Speaker 1: they have broken ground on the Nico Harrison statue outside

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Speaker 1: of Crypto, I think they're knocking down all the other

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Speaker 1: statues to put up the Nico Harrison statue. The Gretzky

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Speaker 1: gonna have just the Nico and it's gonna be larger

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Speaker 1: you'll end up sitting between Nico Harrison and Chick Her Nico.

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Speaker 1: He gets a place of prominence when you just sit

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Speaker 1: Jack can't come to the games anymore, do they give

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Speaker 1: Nico Jack's chair? Like I think they should like that.

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Speaker 1: There should be some kind of passing of the torch

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Speaker 1: you know, we want you to sit here because boy,

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Speaker 1: you really save the franchise straight to that level of prominence. Look,

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Speaker 1: I mean we don't have proof of concept just yet.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it looks great and they're playing, well,

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Speaker 1: before you fully make that statue. Well, he's what would

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Speaker 1: have to be him talking to a reporter, a Dallas

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Speaker 1: either one of those would be great Nico statues. I

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Speaker 1: You're welcome. Yes, Nico Harrison fired as general manager of

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericksday will have that story coming up in

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Speaker 1: a few minutes. But in the last hour, we have

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Speaker 1: seen the brand new college football playoff poll come out

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Speaker 1: and not a ton of surprises. Ohio State, Indiana after

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Speaker 1: like we're going back. We're going back to the pollsters

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Speaker 1: of why did you score seventy five against this non

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Speaker 1: exactly where we're back right here. Everything old is new

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Speaker 1: I love the transparency where they talk about Texas Tech

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Speaker 1: sticky wicket of who gets into that eleventh and twelve

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Speaker 1: you get into the playoff because that's the fairest way

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Speaker 1: which is great, right, you get in, you clinch, you

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Speaker 1: So in that conference title game, you're still playing for something.

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Speaker 1: You had a little bit of a honeymoon last night,

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Speaker 1: great game, and then he slipped and you got problems.

427
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Speaker 1: But they fall to three and eight and they're not

428
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Speaker 1: getting healthy anytime soon. The Western Conference is pretty deep,

429
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Speaker 1: so you can fix the glitch, but people not buying

430
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,719
Speaker 1: tickets and voting to not put asses in seats, to

431
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: not keep giving you money for an inferior product. No

432
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: matter how much they may love Cooper Flag, they're gonna

433
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Speaker 1: take that money that they would have spent on a

434
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: ticket in parking and concessions. They'll buy a jersey. They'll

435
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 1: still support him, but they're gonna go sit at home

436
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 1: and watch it and wait for it to get better,

437
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: wait for the ancillary parts to get healthy, if that

438
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: ever happens. Like you knew the risk bringing in Anthony Davis,

439
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: there was no great mystery there. It was a wishing

440
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: and hoping that these guys would all play together and

441
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: all would go right with the world. And Cooper Flag

442
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,439
Speaker 1: just having turned eighteen would have the same effect on

443
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Speaker 1: the NBA as Lebron James had, just what nobody's Lebron James.

444
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Speaker 1: And you know how much it pains me to say that.

445
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: So here we are where you fix the glitch and

446
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Speaker 1: you get a little bit of good will saying we're

447
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: advancing this, we're moving forward. And whoever gets chosen a

448
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: ultimately to lead this squad into the next era, whether

449
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: they again make more trades and shuffle up this roster

450
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 1: and say, okay, Cooper Flag, who do you want to

451
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: play with? Which is really where this is gonna end up, right,

452
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: which of these veteran guys can you tolerate? Okay, we

453
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: can get rid of this contract, this contract to this

454
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: guy gone, and then we move forward. This is think

455
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 1: about something like this where a person is a daily

456
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: reminder of something terrible just when you see them. It's

457
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 1: a daily reminder of something terrible. I don't know anything

458
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: about that. Maybe it's an X. Maybe it's someone who

459
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: missed a big field goal in a game. And that's

460
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Speaker 1: why that's why guys get cut because every time I

461
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: see him, I think back to that missed field goal.

462
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Speaker 1: But just think of every time every Dallas fans, anytime

463
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Speaker 1: anythan saw Nico Harrison, it was that's the guy that

464
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: screwed up and him right. But you can't have you

465
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: can't have your general nager be someone that every time

466
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Speaker 1: he is seen by anyone on video or in person,

467
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: it's guy traded Lucas screwed the franchise. You can't have that.

468
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: But I have a question for you can't go forward

469
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: when that reminder of such bad stuff and bad memories

470
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: and bad situations is prevalent every day. You have to

471
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,640
Speaker 1: move on for that. You got to get that out.

472
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Speaker 1: You can't see that every single day. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: You we talked about it a little before. You want

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Speaker 1: to build a statue here for Nico in Los Angeles,

475
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Speaker 1: Do you build a statue of him? Or is it

476
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Speaker 1: Michael Finley and a can of beer? No? No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Nico is one set that in motion. He was the fall,

478
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Speaker 1: He was the emissary. Nico was. Nico was the one

479
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Speaker 1: who made the trade. Look, you heard Sean Serrania say today,

480
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Speaker 1: this was Nico Harrison's calls. What Nico wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: He's a No, Nico's the guy. He's the guy. He

482
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Speaker 1: gets the statue. Michael Finley didn't get fired. He doesn't

483
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Speaker 1: get the statue. Nico got fired. He made that trade.

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Speaker 1: He gets the statue. One hundred percent. You have to

485
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Speaker 1: and really he was just following order. You can't. You

486
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: can get get rid of every other statue. To build

487
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: that Nico Harrison statue should be like fifty feet tall,

488
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: like you should be able to walk down town and

489
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: go look at Crypto man like that. The arena is

490
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: dwarfed by the Nico Harrison Statue.

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Speaker 2: It looks like Galactys fantastic.

492
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: Like when I remember when my wife and I UH

493
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Speaker 1: driving across country to drive to La. We went to UH.

494
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: We drove through South Dakota and we went to the

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Speaker 1: bad Lands where they're building the Crazy Horse Monument. That

496
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: is a monument that can fit like what like it's

497
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to fit like twelve Mount Rushmoores in it.

498
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Speaker 1: And I remember going this. We went there in the

499
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Speaker 1: late nineties and they said, yeah, this has been going

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Speaker 1: on for twenty years, and the architect realized this project

501
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: is going to outlive him by fifty years. So they're

502
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: gonna this crazy Horse monument that they've been building is

503
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: still gonna go, and it's gonna be for you and I.

504
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: It's still gonna keep going, right. That's how big. That's

505
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Speaker 1: how big and how big of a deal this Crazy

506
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Speaker 1: Horse Monument is. I remember looking at it. We were

507
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: there and in ninety six is when we were there,

508
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: seeing it was just a little bit of his head

509
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: and his finger pointing, and now there's you know, a

510
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: little bit more of it. But I'm like, oh my goodness,

511
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: this is almost thirty years later. That's the type of

512
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: care that the Lakers need to take into putting that

513
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison statue up. If you if it takes you

514
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Speaker 1: fifty years, you need to make sure that it's up

515
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: there so you can start planning it now. I mean

516
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: you you can't put it in, you know, in cement

517
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 1: and and and put it outside the arena until Luca

518
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: wins something though. No, no, no, no, no, you need

519
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: you need the reminder of this is this is what

520
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: jump started our franchise. No, you need a reminder that

521
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: and that way you can say, oh, yeah, there's no

522
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 1: room for a Lebron statue. So you know, there's just

523
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Speaker 1: there's no other room. We had to look, we had

524
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Speaker 1: to get rid of the Gretzky one. Look, we gave

525
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: Gretzky the Gretzky statue, so he was happy to have that.

526
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's there's no room for anything else. Yeah,

527
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean to be a Debbie downer,

528
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: but at this point you're just selling hope and change.

529
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: There's no there's nothing that's actually I'll tell you what

530
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: I feel. I feel pretty good if I'm the Lakers

531
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: right now after this start with lou and not having

532
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: to work. Think about the Lakers start this year. You

533
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: were gonna say, you don't have to worry, you know, James,

534
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 1: because you don't have to worry about Lebron James and

535
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 1: being healthy and how he fits into this team, because

536
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back as a third option and it's

537
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: gonna be awkward and it's gonna be delicious. But you

538
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about Lebron running the team making

539
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: decisions because this is Luca Dontage driven right. Austin Reeves

540
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: is the number two or the one A. He's the

541
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: Scottie Pippen of this situation. And Lebron's gonna come in

542
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: and have to figure out what his role is going

543
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,719
Speaker 1: to be because I'll tell you what. The minute he

544
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: tries to take over a little bit more and the

545
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: Lakers start losing, Lebron, guess what, Nope, not happen anymore. Man,

546
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: Go get your points. Michael walking out and takes whatever

547
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: he needs. Go get your points. But the Lakers, you

548
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: didn't think this is going to be a great start.

549
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: They've missed Luca for a little bit, they've missed Rees

550
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: for a little bit, They've missed Lebron for the whole thing.

551
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: And here there are at the top of the Western Conference.

552
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: I mean that that's some kind of start. Yes, they

553
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: lost to the Hawks. They should not have lost that game.

554
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: But you win five and row, you lose a game. Okay,

555
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: this start by Luca. This I'm motivated, I'm in shape,

556
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: and I'm in this team on my back. Start by

557
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Luca is the best thing you could possibly ask for.

558
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: The Lakers fan base has already embraced Luca more than

559
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: they embraced Lebron when he came. Uh, you know six

560
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: years ago, seven years ago, they've already embraced him more

561
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: than that. They even bray, you are our guy. Lebron

562
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: has always been at arm's length. You're coming here because

563
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: you want the Laker brand, you want Los Angeles, you

564
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: want to be able to push your off the court,

565
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: uh business activities. Okay, so we like you, but yeah,

566
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: you know, you're not Kobe, You're not Shock, you're not Magic,

567
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: you're not cap You're not any of these guys. But

568
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: Lucas Hey, Luca. Luca could be Kobe, Luca could be

569
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: Shot Like Luca is the guy that now Hey has

570
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: that un unconditional love from the fan base and starting

571
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: out this way. Yeah, I'm okay with building the statue

572
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: for Nico. Now I'm just gonna come back to this. Uh,

573
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: for all of you out there globally, find someone who

574
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: loves you like Jason loves Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves. Hey,

575
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is fantastic. I'm sorry you don't like I mean, look,

576
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: i'd like it. Don't look, you've elevated the Jordan Pippen.

577
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: You're a hater game. He's way better than Pippin. He

578
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: probably yeah, that's probably again. Yeah. The only thing here's

579
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: a side napkin. I mean, forty eight thousand dollars worth

580
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: of service. Pippin's got a better bourbon. But that's about it.

581
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: It is pretty good, is it good? I got that

582
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: and I got the lebron What was it? The Cavassier? Oh?

583
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: Really very nice? Okay, time out to find out. What's

584
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: trending in the wide world of sports. Is someone who's

585
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: been called the Steve de Sager of Fox Sports Radio.

586
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: Really it's Steve Desager. Hey, I hope I can live

587
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: up to that lofty villain. Not only did the Mavericks

588
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: fire general manager Nico Harrison today news from the league. Tonight,

589
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: the NBA announcing a new format for this season's All

590
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: Star Game, the US against the World in LA in February.

591
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: Two teams of American All Stars one team of international

592
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: players in a round robin format, a total of four

593
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: twelve games that day, twenty four total All Stars, twelve

594
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: from each conference. Sun's guard Jalen Green will miss at

595
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: least four to six weeks with a strained hamstring. Brandon

596
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: Clark of the Grizzlies will miss another couple months after

597
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: a procedure on his knee. As yet to play this season.

598
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and the Sixers was out again tonight with

599
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: a sore knee, but at Philadelphia, the home team edge

600
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Speaker 1: Boston one oh two to one hundred. The Celtics record

601
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: now five and seven. Oklahoma City's eleven and one after

602
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: blitzing Golden State one twenty six to one oh two.

603
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: Shay Gilgis Alexander twenty eight points eleven assists in just

604
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Speaker 1: twenty eight minutes. Brooklyn is one and ten after losing

605
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Speaker 1: it home to Toronto one nineteen one oh nine Raptors

606
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Speaker 1: and the Knicks won there fifth in a row, seven

607
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Speaker 1: and three overall after beating Memphis one thirty three to

608
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Speaker 1: one twenty Jalen Brunson thirty two points. Former Knicks All

609
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Speaker 1: star guard Michael Ray Richardson died at the age of seventy.

610
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Speaker 1: He was drafted number four overall in nineteen seventy eight,

611
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Speaker 1: also played for the Nets. In college basketball, Louisville held

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Speaker 1: on to be rival Kentucky ninety six eighty eight. Number

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Speaker 1: six Michigan won in overtime against Wake Forest eighty five

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Speaker 1: eighty four. Tenth thrank Florida edge Florida State seventy eight

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Speaker 1: to seventy six. Right now on FS one about three

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Speaker 1: and a half minutes to go. Top twenty matchup at

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Speaker 1: Illinois as the home team ahead of Texas Tech seventy

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Speaker 1: four to sixty seven. Seven rank BYU has taken the

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Speaker 1: lead on Delaware fifty five to fifty two with about

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Speaker 1: eleven minutes to play. Among the nine NHL games, laa

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Speaker 1: five to one winner at Montreal, Dallas won in overtime

622
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: at Ottawa three to two. Washington a four to one

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Speaker 1: winner at Carolina. In the new college football playoff rankings,

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Speaker 1: the top five stayed the same, led by number one

625
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: Ohio State Texas Tech is up to number six. Texas

626
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: up to number ten in the country to the NFL Jaguars.

627
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: Rookie Travis Hunter is out for the year after knee surgery.

628
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: He was injured in practice a couple weeks ago. Carlos

629
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Speaker 1: Alcarez won another match at the season ending atp Finals,

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Speaker 1: and the American League Manager of the Year is Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Vote. Vote also won this award a year ago

632
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Speaker 1: in his first year as a manager. He dominated the

633
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: voting that season, so TJ clearly Vote getting enough votes

634
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Speaker 1: for the second straight year.

635
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Speaker 4: In fact, it was seventeen votes to ten the og H,

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Speaker 4: however he spells it and the NL Manager of the

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Speaker 4: Year of repeat winner as well the Brewers Pat Murphy.

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Speaker 4: He got twenty seven of the thirty first place votes. Milwaukee,

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Speaker 4: in the number one overall seed this year, had ninety

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Speaker 4: seven wins.

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Speaker 1: Back to you and TJ clearly. John Schneider finding a

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Speaker 1: lot of hazard in winning American League Manager of the Year.

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Speaker 1: But he's just a good old boy, absolutely true. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to going sake. Thank you, Steve, And I misspoke it

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Speaker 1: but that's okay. One thing's good too. It's good, sounds

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Up next,

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Speaker 1: we got the Play of the Day coming your way,

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Speaker 1: and you're not gonna believe who add the field? Questions

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Speaker 1: about being the next Giants head coach. That's next, Jason

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Speaker 1: to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Towns nixt TV on the call. Yes, another big win

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Speaker 1: for the Knicks. They beat the Grizzlies one thirty three

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Speaker 1: to one twenty Suddenly their offense is insane. And let

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Speaker 1: me just say this before we get to a big

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Speaker 1: football story. Ten games in and I can see where

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown's imprint is, specifically getting Karl Anthony Towns on board.

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Speaker 1: He is a He is a bit of a different

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Speaker 1: player from last year. Michel Bridges is a completely different

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Speaker 1: player from last year. He's the guy that's bought into

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Speaker 1: the system the most. They're using their bench really well.

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Speaker 1: He's playing the guys. He said he was gonna play

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Speaker 1: the guys. He's playing the m Clarkson's playing well. Heart's

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Speaker 1: gonna be dinged up all year, but he's still playing well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so far, I feel really good about this change going

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Speaker 1: forward because now other guys are starting to get unlocked

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Speaker 1: under the Knick system. Little drauma to start, but now

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Speaker 1: things are going pretty good. Yeah, you be said, I

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Speaker 1: giving them what fifteen to twenty minute to night and

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Speaker 1: being able to utilize the bench just such a vast

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Speaker 1: departure from what we've seen in past years high TIBs,

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Speaker 1: So you get an opportunity to maybe spell these guys

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Speaker 1: a bit. So in games seventy one through eighty two

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Speaker 1: and throughout the playoffs, they're not tripping over their tongues.

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Speaker 1: What will be interesting is to see your team actually

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Speaker 1: win a game away from Madison Square. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you know this. The Knicks get to

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Speaker 1: play the rest of their games at MS. Is that right?

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Speaker 1: They change, so it's a residency like Billy Joel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they get.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Whatever games they played on the road, well you can't

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Speaker 1: do them. They may want to replay them, the losses,

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Speaker 1: but all the rest of the games, all next seventy

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Speaker 1: the scarcity of it, so everybody can make some extra cash.

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Speaker 1: But otherwise it's home games. You got to go on

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Speaker 1: the road. Man, Guns and Roses have been on the

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Speaker 1: road for a decade. Last show the road finally at

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Speaker 1: least for a minute, last show, last show till the

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Speaker 1: next show. But here's the thing, even if they they're

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Speaker 1: not touring again, Duffin Slash will be in the studio

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Speaker 1: or back on tour momentarily, so today being the day

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Speaker 1: after the Giants fire head coach Brian Dable and the

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Speaker 1: New York Post ad video of Brian Dable. Here are

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Speaker 1: the first pictures of Brian Dable since he was fired,

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Speaker 1: wearing a Penn State hoodie outside his house in the snow. Hey,

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Speaker 1: here's the first pictures of Brian Dable after who's fired.

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Speaker 1: H Bill Belichick was asked about the Giants opening at

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Speaker 1: his weekly press conference today, and maybe it's a couple

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Speaker 1: of wins under his belt now, but Bill Belichick going

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Speaker 1: back to being the old Bill Belichick when he's asked

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Speaker 1: about something he doesn't want to talk about it. And

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Speaker 1: then when you got here, you said that you're not

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Speaker 1: coming here at eating. But as soon as the Giants

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Speaker 1: shot came over to this Jack, your name got thrown

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Speaker 1: out there. I'm certain sure with other NFL jobs, What

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Speaker 1: is your message to players to recruits? I'm sure people

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Speaker 1: are asking me about that. He who want to come in? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: rightful way for us.

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Speaker 2: That's all I got this week.

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Speaker 1: As anyone asks you, the players or the Greek.

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Speaker 2: Tommy, I've been asked about it from tom to time.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: I I've been done this real before. I'm focused on

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Speaker 2: wake Forest.

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Speaker 1: That's it, and that's my commandment of this team.

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Speaker 4: And next week it'll be to our next opponent and

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Speaker 4: so forth.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm here to do best I can

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Speaker 1: for this team, all right, So the old Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: kind of coming back. Still a little bit longer of

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Speaker 1: an answer because no, only we would just get I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on wake Forest. Yeah, but Bill X, Y and

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Speaker 1: Z and Dable and they mention your name, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on wake Forest. So still a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the old Bill Belichick because they've won a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: but still not so comfortable that I can just go

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Speaker 1: without giving an answer to everybody. So maybe he's on

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Speaker 1: his way back to being the old Bill, But I

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Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a push. We saw

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Speaker 1: it a couple of weeks ago, right as they were

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that losing streak, and there were

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Speaker 1: all the rumors and and hit pieces coming left and

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Speaker 1: right about what they were and weren't doing in terms

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Speaker 1: of recruiting and all that other stuff. I've we certainly

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Speaker 1: talked about it, but he very much was, Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: committed to this job. Whatever happens happens right, because there

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Speaker 1: are started to be a bunch of articles as other

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Speaker 1: coaches started getting the acts that whether Bill Belichick was

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Speaker 1: gonna be next guess what a couple of wins. They're

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Speaker 1: four and five and they've got three winnable games to

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Speaker 1: close out the season, all of a sudden Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: Bowl Bowl Game and building towards year two. But I

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Speaker 1: would expect that response like loo, I got what do

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Speaker 1: you want me to do with this? Like good luck?

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Speaker 1: Let me just let me just stop everybody right here, Bill.

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Speaker 1: But there is no way that is happening. There is

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Speaker 1: no Bill Belichick is persona non grada in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: He may not even make it past this year at

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. He's not going back. That would be the

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Speaker 1: worst thing for Jackson Dart is to have Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: coaching him. You saw it Belichick did with Matt Jones.

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Speaker 1: By god, he ruined the guy. And now finally, after

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Speaker 1: a couple of years later, Jones is playing well in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. He's ten years too late for this gig. Right,

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Speaker 1: ten years ago, even five years ago, I could say, hey,

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Speaker 1: Giants head coaching job. Belichick wants to leave yeah, the

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Speaker 1: job he probably always wanted, but it's way too late

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Speaker 1: for him, and the Giants know this is not the

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Speaker 1: same Belichick. This is the Belichick that ruined the end

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Speaker 1: of the run for the Patriots that they needed three

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Speaker 1: years to dig out from that. Mike Rabel is finally

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Speaker 1: just digging out of it now because he wanted to

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Speaker 1: draft terribly. Because I'm not gonna set up the cupboard

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Speaker 1: and leave it, leave it full for my next guy

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Speaker 1: coming in. They know he is done. He is done.

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Speaker 1: He's a bad fit. He's not gonna be the next

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Giants. There is If that happens,

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Speaker 1: the Giants players should say, yeah, you know what, not

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Speaker 1: coming to work. I'll tell you this. The one thing

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Speaker 1: that's the wild card at all is Maris still in charge.

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Speaker 1: And what has he done since red Face Tom Coughlin

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Speaker 1: left six coaches one fa I mean a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys they got fired with winning records. And here we

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Speaker 1: sit and yes it's Jackson Dart. Can you promise not

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Speaker 1: to make Matt Patrician the offensive coordinator. I wouldn't rule

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Speaker 1: it out categorically that it's cross Mayra's mind, but I

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Speaker 1: think Belichick wants to win in college, so he can

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Speaker 1: tell everybody to stick it. Hey, Bill Belichick, if he

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Speaker 1: goes there, he can take Jackson Dart from being a

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Speaker 1: great quarterback into being a good quarterback. I'm also afraid

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Speaker 1: that Jackson Dart's going to be broken in half by

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, but we'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: a little bit later. I mean, you want to he's

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Speaker 1: great right now, because Jackson Dart is just absolutely great.

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Speaker 1: He'll become good to average if Belichick shows up and

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Speaker 1: the Giants know it, they know they look like if

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Speaker 1: they don't want to say, you don't want to understand,

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Speaker 1: I understand, you don't want to really just continue to

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Speaker 1: trample on the memory of Bill Belichick, NFL head coach

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Speaker 1: and the best head coach we have seen, who has

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Speaker 1: lost his fastball and is trying to stay head above

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Speaker 1: water at North Carolina. But that is absolutely not happening

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Speaker 1: at North Carolina. Way that's happening. The long road begins

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Speaker 1: with the first step. You don't build a program in

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Speaker 1: seven games. But for the Patriots out of it, or

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Speaker 1: I should say the Giant side, if he had scatterbo

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Speaker 1: I think Bill might be interested if that guy were

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Speaker 1: fully healthy, and he had the battery ram. Why is

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Speaker 1: Jackson dartingly throwing nine passes a game and Scattabo's getting

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