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Speaker 1: Everybody wants a quarterback. Everybody needs a quarterback. We're watching

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Speaker 1: the combine trying to figure out how our favorite football

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Speaker 1: with veterans that may not even be that great, because

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Speaker 1: if your favorite team stinks, you desperately want a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But I grew up with an important phrase. My mom

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Speaker 1: just because you need a quarterback doesn't mean there's one

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Speaker 1: team needs a quarterback, you're screwed. There's no nice way

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Speaker 1: to say it. It's a Fox Football Saturday on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. It's fucking fits. He's buck rising on Jason

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Speaker 1: should be. Buck Rising. First of all, you're an American

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Speaker 1: hero for even making it to the airwaves, because, as

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Speaker 1: we just heard everybody talking about, you were in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: all week. We'll talk about that in a minute. You

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Speaker 1: saw all of the chaos of the combine up close

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Speaker 1: and personal. First and foremost, how long do you have

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Speaker 2: Entirely too long at this point, FITZI.

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Speaker 3: And also I want you, I want you to slow

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Speaker 2: Don't trust you.

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Speaker 3: You're not nearly good enough of a professional broadcaster to

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Speaker 3: be able to nail the dismount on that. We'll find

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Speaker 3: out together. But I'm well, Indianapolis was great. It is

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Speaker 3: my favorite week of the year because it's lying, it's chaos,

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Speaker 2: Great things that you want.

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Speaker 3: And you know, you may even get a little dust

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you number one brother, watch your sas,

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Speaker 1: be much manlier than I You're also much taller than I,

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Speaker 1: It won't work out for anybody, kind of like, go ahead, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, you overestimate my manliness of

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Speaker 3: my coffee order. I'm a very very big fan of

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Speaker 1: I've gotten to the point now where I actually put

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Speaker 1: I get it. Like I live in Harvard. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to I know I have. Well, that's not new news

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Speaker 1: to anybody. Okay, quarterbacks are everywhere. We're watching quarterbacks throw.

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Speaker 1: They're throwing right now at the combine. We've seen all

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Speaker 1: of the hype or all of the questions. Now we

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Speaker 1: He might not even be the second best quarterback in

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Speaker 1: about this book. You live in Nashville, you cover the Titans.

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Speaker 1: I have been a lifelong diehard Raiders fan. Everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that both of the teams that were around all the time,

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Speaker 1: I keep thinking about this because, frankly, I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that's going to hit free agency. I genuinely believe. Hear

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Speaker 1: That should be your goal, because next year, maybe you

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Speaker 3: I love the idea of us starting this first broadcast

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Speaker 3: it's complete and total nonsense to me. You don't know

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Speaker 1: But all you can do is use the information you

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Speaker 1: somebody I know very well. Over at ESPN does great

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Speaker 1: I have a sentual voice. It's hard not to go ahead.

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Speaker 3: People like you are the problem, all right with this

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Speaker 2: You you are the problem, Yes you.

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Speaker 3: I am so tired of people expecting, first and foremost

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Speaker 3: We are currently going through a quarterback development crisis in

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Speaker 3: and it's because we set these outrageous expectations. And I'm

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Speaker 2: Fans don't really.

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Speaker 3: influenced by a number of different things. I don't know

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Speaker 3: But then then what is discerning about Mark Davis? If

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Speaker 2: Shameful?

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Speaker 3: No, Okay, point is though, these quarterbacks are not finished products,

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Speaker 3: none of them. Trevor Lawrence a consensus number one overall

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Speaker 3: What of these fire breathing dragons that every franchise in

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Speaker 3: There is no quarterback savior ever. It is about building

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Speaker 1: Okay, here's buck rising up. Jason Fitz it's bucking fits

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, man, Now, you're not wrong in what

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Speaker 1: So if you don't have that guy, you don't have

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Speaker 3: I have been in Indianapolis all week long at the

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Speaker 1: Like cam Ward and Shadour will be judged differently because

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Speaker 1: they were first round picks. They shouldn't be. But that's

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Speaker 1: just the wa the world's. But I want to as

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Speaker 1: somebody with baby hands, like I struggle to palm a

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Speaker 1: I can't palm a women's basketball like I need a

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Speaker 1: child's basketball for me to palm like anything I have tiny.

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Speaker 1: My hands are so small that as a kid playing

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Speaker 1: the violin, my teachers were actually like, well, you have

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Speaker 1: small hands for a violinist, that's going to be a problem.

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Speaker 1: My hands are so small it makes playing the violin

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Speaker 1: more difficult. How did Jalen Milroe grow his hands by

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Speaker 1: like an inch in three weeks? I want whatever that

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Speaker 1: pill is like, man, I want to have man hands

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Speaker 1: for like two even if I can only have them

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Speaker 1: for two or three days. I want man hands, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I want man hands.

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Speaker 3: Instead, you have just those tiny little hands like you

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Speaker 3: remember the Whopper, the Burger King Whopper commercials. I just

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Speaker 3: have these tiny hands. It's okay, it's okay. I'm here

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Speaker 3: for you in support.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: All that to say, though, the amount of dialogue around

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Speaker 3: these quarterbacks and around just generally this off season is

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Speaker 3: that to your point, for teams who are trying to

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Speaker 3: figure out, for teams who are trying to get right,

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Speaker 3: the Writers, the Titans, the Jets, the brown the Giants,

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Speaker 3: on and on it goes. And there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: teams that have a lot of work to do in

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Speaker 3: that department. This is a fascinating offseason for one reason,

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Speaker 3: and one reason only, because there is not a single solid,

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Speaker 3: clear and obvious path forward for these teams to rectify

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Speaker 3: their problems. Yes, there's a tremendous depth as far as

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Speaker 3: the pass rushers go. Ask Miles Garrett how many games

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Speaker 3: you can win by being the best pass rusher on

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Speaker 3: the face of the planet if you're tied to an

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Speaker 3: anchor like something like Deshaun Watson, if you don't have

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Speaker 3: that requisite level of quarterback play. And we'll see if

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Speaker 3: Miles Garrett is able to get out of Cleveland or not.

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Speaker 3: At this point in time, everything that we were told

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Speaker 3: at the combine, publicly, privately or otherwise as they are

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Speaker 3: absolutely not moving that player. It's a really, really difficult

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Speaker 3: place for any team to be at right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to that end, let's remember again, opening my Raiders

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Speaker 1: fandom into it, I watched Josh Jacobs lead the NFL

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Speaker 1: in rushing and Max Crosby be one of the best

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Speaker 1: edge rushers and put up the one of the highest

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Speaker 1: sack numbers we've ever seen two years ago, the Raiders

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Speaker 1: one six games. All right, I've got a question for you,

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Speaker 1: by the way. For the best pregame show every weekend,

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Speaker 1: be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radios Countdown presented

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Speaker 1: by bet MGM, every Saturday and Sunday morning from nine

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Speaker 1: am to new in Eastern six to nine am Pacific.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who don't like to do math,

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Speaker 1: we count you down all the way to the biggest

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Speaker 1: games here on the best pregame show in the business.

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Speaker 1: Tune into Countdown, presented by bet MGM, every Saturday and

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning right here on Fox Sports Radio and the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Again, Buck Rising, Jason Fitz We're in bucking

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Speaker 1: Fits hanging out on a Fox Sports Saturday. Importantly, Buck

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Speaker 1: was at the combine. I gotta ask you a question

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Speaker 1: does the combine even matter? But first let's get Martin

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Speaker 1: Wise to tell us everything that's going on.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we are well three point eight seconds left.

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Speaker 6: Top ten sec matchup men's college basketball between Alabama and Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Scores tied seventy six apiece.

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Speaker 6: If we get to the end of this game by

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Speaker 6: the time before the end of this update, I'll let

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Speaker 6: you know who ends up winning it. But right now,

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Speaker 6: there is three point eight second on the clock, seventy

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Speaker 6: six apiece right now, one forty one left in the

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Speaker 6: second half between Houston and Cincinnati. The Cougars, the fourth

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Speaker 6: rank team in the nation, have a sixty nine to

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Speaker 6: fifty eight lead with eight minutes left in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Between I'm sorry, one to forty one on the second half.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure if I said that right, but eight

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Speaker 6: minutes left in the first half for fourteenth rank Missouri

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Speaker 6: and Vanderbilt, the Tigers with an eighteenth to seventeen lead.

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Speaker 6: Pittsburgh and Louisville are tied at eighteen apiece with just

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Speaker 6: over seven minutes left in the first half. And earlier

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Speaker 6: today in some of the college basketball results, we saw

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Speaker 6: Mississippi State beat LSU.

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Speaker 2: Eighty one to sixty nine.

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Speaker 6: Number one Auburn clinch the SEC title, beating Kentucky ninety

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Speaker 6: four to seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: Auburn the number one team in the nation.

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Speaker 6: Seventh thrank Saint John's beat Seaton Hall seventy one to

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Speaker 6: sixty one. Tenth ranked Texas Tech went on the road

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Speaker 6: to Lawrence, Kansas, came out winners seventy eight to seventy three.

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Speaker 6: Texas Tech the tenth ranked team in the nation. Clemson

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Speaker 6: winners over Virginia seventy one to fifty eight and Maryland

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Speaker 6: and sixty eight Penn State sixty four the Terrapins Victoria's

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Speaker 6: sixteen to three team in the nation, Derrek Queen with

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Speaker 6: twenty three points, six rebounds, and four steals. In the NHL,

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Speaker 6: we're just a few minutes away from the stadium series.

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Speaker 6: The puck will drop there soon between the Detroit Red

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Speaker 6: Wings and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Earlier today, we saw

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Speaker 6: the Islanders beat their Predators seven to four, The Lightning

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Speaker 6: beat the Capitals three to one, Panthers over Flames three nothing,

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Speaker 6: and the Bruins held on over the Penguins three to two.

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Speaker 6: Bruins led that game two to nothing for most of

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Speaker 6: the matchup. Now there was an offensive foul on the

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Speaker 6: Alabama possession of three point eight seconds left. No time

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Speaker 6: came off the clock. Now Tennessee inbounding the ball at home. Unfortunately, guys,

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Speaker 6: we did not get to the end result of this

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Speaker 6: game before the end the result of this update. So

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Speaker 6: to that have to stay tuned to you guys to

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Speaker 6: figure out who wins.

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Speaker 2: But back to you.

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Speaker 1: Now, Oh, thank you, Ben, I appreciate it. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, Alabama had the ball on their end of

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Speaker 1: the court three point eight seconds left and a five

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Speaker 1: second violation, couldn't get the ball against the Tennessee defense.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what happened. I'm delayed. I'm delayed.

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Speaker 1: I'm delayed as I go Tennessee driving it. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: that's the balls.

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Speaker 2: We love to see it.

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Speaker 3: An unbelievable performance by Rick Barnes in this basketball team

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Speaker 3: to hand Alabama fat oldel nothing nothing. Yes, yes, we

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Speaker 3: love to see it. We love to see it. It

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Speaker 3: is a great day when the State of Alabama takes

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Speaker 3: any kind of ill back.

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Speaker 1: Buck Rising is the voice you just turned there on,

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Speaker 1: Jason fitz. So let's be very clear, Bucking fits. That

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Speaker 1: is Buck Rising that just said that. So if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna tweet, somebody tweet.

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Speaker 2: Him one fans, I'm ready for you.

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Speaker 1: He's sitting there as I see him on FaceTime while

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Speaker 1: we're doing this, he's sitting there in his Indiana I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're not talking a lot of smack for your Indiana

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Speaker 1: hoo's yours basketball program.

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Speaker 3: But yes, and then they'll lose, and then they will

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Speaker 3: suck and it will make me very sad.

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Speaker 2: But that's fine. I'll go with the winning basketball team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tennessee inbounds the ball really uncontested with three point

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Speaker 1: eight seconds left, leaves them plenty of time, just walks

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Speaker 1: down the court and not even that long of a three.

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Speaker 1: They never got a ball. Alabama never got a hand

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Speaker 1: in the ball, a hand in the face of the guard.

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Speaker 1: It really incredible. So they get to win seventy nine

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Speaker 1: to seventy six in that one. A lot of drama. Also, though, Buck,

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Speaker 1: you just hit on something that makes watching modern sports

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Speaker 1: in two different locations the worst the worst. The worst

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Speaker 1: part about this is Buck saw the result before I did.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm streaming, and this is like the weirdest thing

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Speaker 1: about streaming to me, I'm streaming from my YouTube TV

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Speaker 1: in my studio at home, and Buck is obviously on

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Speaker 1: a faster thing. So Buck reacted before I ever had

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Speaker 1: a chance to see it. I don't know how I

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Speaker 1: feel about that, Buck Rising, that you got to see

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Speaker 1: the ending first. This is what makes watching games in

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Speaker 1: different locations almost impossible.

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Speaker 3: I am also watching on YouTube TV, So perhaps you

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Speaker 3: just better internet, and that's that's I don't know what

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Speaker 3: to do about that for you.

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Speaker 2: Did you not remember to pay your bill? This?

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Speaker 1: Okay, look, here's the thing. What happened from the tire

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Speaker 1: rack dot com studios. Like in my in my house,

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Speaker 1: even my TVs don't line up like one house will

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Speaker 1: be like I'm it's all YouTube TV on all of them,

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Speaker 1: and every TV in every room is on a different spot.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, I got a lot of TVs going

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Speaker 1: at once, and they're all running sort of slightly different,

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Speaker 1: slightly off bocks. So no, I remember to pay my

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Speaker 1: internet bills. I just happened to I just happen to

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Speaker 1: be in a little bit of a delight Tennessee with

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Speaker 1: the big win. He's Buck Rising on Jason fitz Bucket

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Speaker 1: fits hanging out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday

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Speaker 1: from the ti Raq dot com studios. What's the point

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Speaker 1: of the combine? Let me just ask you that straight out,

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Speaker 1: because like nobody works out anymore. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: there should be weight to what guys do in their underwear.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's really a lot of value to

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Speaker 1: it other than interviews and medical and then everybody getting

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Speaker 1: to rage party. What is really the point of the

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Speaker 1: combine at this point?

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Speaker 3: No, I mean you hit it on the head. It

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Speaker 3: is the medicals and it is getting to know these players.

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Speaker 3: Like there is some things, very few things can impact

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Speaker 3: the tape, Like the tape is done, the college football

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Speaker 3: season has concluded. These players have played all of their games.

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Speaker 3: You know who they are on a.

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Speaker 2: Field of play heading into it. You know what their

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Speaker 2: strengths are, you know what their weaknesses are.

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Speaker 3: Then you go through the process of the combine, you

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Speaker 3: figure out that Abduall Carter, the potential number one overall pick,

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Speaker 3: has a stress reaction, not a fracture, but a stress

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Speaker 3: reaction in his foot past potentially.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, these are the things that I have

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Speaker 2: to pay attention to.

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Speaker 3: It is something that could obviously impact a team like

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Speaker 3: Tennessee who's not sold at the top of the quarterback

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Speaker 3: draft this year from taking the best overall player in

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Speaker 3: the draft this year, which is Abdul Carter. You figure

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Speaker 3: that out and then you go through the process of

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Speaker 3: interviewing the players. Cam Ward was not available at the

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Speaker 3: Shrine Bowl. He was not available at the Scene or

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Speaker 3: Senior Bowl. He attended neither of them. So it's the

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Speaker 3: first time that teams have actually been able to get

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Speaker 3: him in a room and figure out if he has

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Speaker 3: that dominant personality, personality, that domineering personality all the time,

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Speaker 3: because that's exactly what Mike Borganzi, the new general manager

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Speaker 3: of the Tennessee Titans by way of the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 3: told me.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out if.

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Speaker 3: This guy is that person all the time, if he

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Speaker 3: has that level of personality, and then can I vibe

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Speaker 3: with that? Does that contribute to the culture. So while

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Speaker 3: I understand it's easy for us to just kind of

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Speaker 3: gloss over medicals and interviews, they are critical parts of

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Speaker 3: the pre draft process. But to your point the underwear Olympics,

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Speaker 3: there will be some places for guys to make more

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Speaker 3: money for themselves to stand out. There will be some

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Speaker 3: guys who come up short, and then there will be

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Speaker 3: dialogue about whether DK Metcalf's worthy of a number. A

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Speaker 3: first round draft pick will fall to the second round

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Speaker 3: because a three cone drill wasn't good enough. Stupid stuff

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Speaker 3: like that sometimes impacts these teams, But for the most part,

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Speaker 3: it's the meta first, it's the interview second, and everything

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Speaker 3: else is ancillary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is interesting to me in general. I

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Speaker 1: think anytime you get the league together in one place,

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Speaker 1: there's power to that. That's the one thing that I

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Speaker 1: think we have to remember. Whether it's power in everybody

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Speaker 1: having drinks late at night, or whether it's power in relationships.

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Speaker 1: There's just there's so much going on there. If there's

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Speaker 1: anything that I've learned over the years, it's that realistically,

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Speaker 1: broadcast companies don't spend money anymore just for the hell

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Speaker 1: of it. So part of the reason that everybody tries

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Speaker 1: to send people to the combine like Yahoo, you know,

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Speaker 1: I do the majority of my work. Sent a bunch

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Speaker 1: of our shows to Indy. I didn't make the list.

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Speaker 1: I think they were a little afraid that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't handle myself in the bars late at night

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Speaker 1: around everybody. Maybe maybe maybe they're right, but I will

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Speaker 1: say that there's a point where that decision isn't made

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Speaker 1: lightly For most companies, there has to be a reason,

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Speaker 1: and the reason is there's just business being done, like

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Speaker 1: agents are really talking to teams and teams are talking

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Speaker 1: to each other, and I think there is that's where

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Speaker 1: the power of relationship matters. Like if your favorite team

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Speaker 1: has a GM that's not connected, that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a problem. So I think that's what we have to

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Speaker 1: remember is fans watching the combine, there's a ton of

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Speaker 1: value to what it means for relationships.

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Speaker 3: With how question, I mean, in reality, all businesses are

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Speaker 3: relationship businesses. It's just do you take the time to

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Speaker 3: go out of your way and solidify and continue to

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Speaker 3: maintain those relationships.

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Speaker 2: Certainly in the NFL that is.

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Speaker 3: A critical part of the process because even though you

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Speaker 3: know legal tampering does not happen for about a week

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Speaker 3: and a half, at this point in time, these things

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Speaker 3: are going on again. They fight in a Starbucks or

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Speaker 3: a verbal altercation.

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Speaker 2: We should say, were you at the Starbucks for the

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Speaker 2: verbal fight?

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Speaker 3: No, I was not at the Starbucks for I'm Mark safe.

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Speaker 3: I'm a Duncan guy. Myself, but.

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Speaker 1: I'm marked safe. But Jordan Schultze and Rapidport Starbucks fight,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing, stupid.

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Speaker 3: We're a bunch of high school children that can't behave ourselves,

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Speaker 3: it seems with a week in Indianapolis. But to your point,

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Speaker 3: that started that verbal altercation started over a source off

699
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Speaker 3: because is Tom Brady recruiting Matt Stafford to Montana to

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Speaker 3: a ski resort to try to get him to your

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Speaker 3: beloved Las Vegas Raiders or is it just as Ian

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Speaker 3: Rapaport reported, and in which I would say that I

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Speaker 3: am skeptical of, respectfully to rap Sheet the idea that

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Speaker 3: they just happened to run into each other at the

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Speaker 3: ski resort. Oh, then Tom Brady just started to potentially

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Speaker 3: test his level of interest Matt Stafford's enjoining the Las

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Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders before he ultimately, as we know now ended

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Speaker 3: up on back with the Los Angeles Rams. It is

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Speaker 3: critical to have these relationships because this is an ongoing process.

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Speaker 3: These contracts don't just happen as soon as Adam Schefter

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Speaker 3: gets a text message and they are tweeted out in

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Speaker 3: the universe. It's a long, ongoing process, and you have

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Speaker 3: to have a degree of diplomacy. You have to have

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Speaker 3: ego to make sure that you try and get the

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Speaker 3: best possible deal for either your client or your team.

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Speaker 3: And you cannot have so much ego that you knew

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Speaker 3: could deal because.

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Speaker 2: I covered a team that did that too. John Robinson

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Speaker 2: trade to A J.

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Speaker 3: Brown to the now Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles because

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Speaker 3: he just couldn't get his head around the wide receiver

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Speaker 3: with a lad.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet a personality just a lead. I'll bet it

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Speaker 2: too much personality.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that decision definitely had ripple effects to

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Speaker 1: how everybody pays their bills, all right, So if the

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm just being just being honest, mind certainly. Oh,

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Speaker 1: speaking of paying bills, the NFL is paying bills with

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Speaker 1: hard knocks, obviously, but the offseason hard knocks last year

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Speaker 1: had ripple effects to the future. We now know who's

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Speaker 1: partaking in this year's hard knocks, and it is curious.

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you about it when we come back. And

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, he's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitzwor hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio Radio. We are breaking news huge

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Speaker 1: NFL news has come down the pipeline. He's Buck Rising.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Fitz on a Fox Sports Saturday. Deebo Samuel

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Speaker 1: is no longer a San Francisco forty nine er. We

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Speaker 1: have a trade the forty nine ers, according to Ian

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Speaker 1: Rappaport our trading star wide receiver Deebo Samuel to the

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Speaker 1: commanders for draft pick compensation. Sources say Samuels. According to

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Speaker 1: the tweet, I'm reading directly from Ian to twenty one

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Speaker 1: point seven million dollars this year now heads to former

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Speaker 1: San Francisco exec Adam Peters and to play with quarterback

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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, who gets another weapon. It's a fifth rounder

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Speaker 1: going to San Francisco. So again, a fifth round pick

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Speaker 1: has gone from Washington to San Francisco. Deebo Samuel is

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Speaker 1: now a Washington commander. It's a Fox Sports Saturday coming

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Speaker 1: at you from the ti rack dot com studios. He's

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Speaker 1: Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz coming at you here, and Buck,

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Speaker 1: this is big news. You just came out of the

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Speaker 1: combine in Indy. One of the conversations we've been hearing

753
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Speaker 1: is what would happen? And now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: one of the most electric weapons in the NFL goes

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Speaker 1: to a team that will admit if you talk to

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Speaker 1: people behind the scenes of Washington, they'll tell you they

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Speaker 1: played ahead of their skis this year, that they believed

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Speaker 1: that their roster wasn't as good as Jayden Daniels made them.

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Speaker 1: They are going to be aggressive. They can be aggressive.

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Speaker 1: They have money to spend, they have capital, they are

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Speaker 1: using it to surround Jayden and they are all in

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: It's such a good deal.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just the rich get richer in this

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Speaker 3: particular situation. How great for commanders fans by the way,

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Speaker 3: they've been long suffering for such an incredible stretch of time.

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Speaker 2: They get an entire reset of the organization.

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Speaker 3: Very rarely do you get an ownership change that is

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Speaker 3: the impetus for all the good things that follow. But

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Speaker 3: now you're talking about Jade and Daniels the defending offensive

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Speaker 3: rookie of the Year with Austin Eckler, Brian Robbinson, Terry McLaurin,

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Speaker 3: and Deebo Samuel. My biggest question, honestly, FITZI and we

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Speaker 3: don't have to get into the weeds on the ex's

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Speaker 3: and o's type of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But how are they going to use him.

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Speaker 3: How's Cliff Kingsbury going to maximize Deebo Samuel at this

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Speaker 3: point in his career as the offensive coordinator there in Washington,

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Speaker 3: Because the thing that may Deebo so spectacular in San

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Speaker 3: Francisco for so long is that he was almost I

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Speaker 3: don't want to call him positionless because that's not quite true.

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Speaker 3: But their skill players were so versatile in the way

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Speaker 3: that you could deploy them in all manner of different

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Speaker 3: places out of the backfield, split out wide what they're

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Speaker 3: able to do specifically with Deebo. And the thing that

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Speaker 3: I know about Deebo Samuel is that he doesn't want

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Speaker 3: to play running back very much anymore at this point

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Speaker 3: in his career as he continues to age now that

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Speaker 3: he's getting into his thirties. Still an excellent deal and

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Speaker 3: the NFC's most interesting offense just got a little bit

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Speaker 3: better today.

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Speaker 1: And stick with Cliff Kingsbury for a second, because certainly

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Speaker 1: he could have put his name in the hat for

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Speaker 1: some jobs. What's happened for Washington is stability, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's one thing we have to really drill down

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Speaker 1: on for a second, because not only did they keep

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Speaker 1: they bring in dan Quinn, who, for anyone that didn't

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Speaker 1: see the NFLPA report cards where the players have given

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Speaker 1: all this information on and off the record about the

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Speaker 1: teams they play for, dan Quinn was the most liked

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Speaker 1: coach by his team in the league. So you got

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Speaker 1: a head coach that seemed to find this footing in

802
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Speaker 1: his second shot as a head coach that everybody's falling

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Speaker 1: in love with, with an offensive coordinator that he manages

804
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Speaker 1: to keep in place because they paid him very well

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Speaker 1: to come in and do it. And now you've got

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in Jane Daniels that gives you all these opportunities.

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Speaker 1: And now you're teaming debo with Terry McLaurin. I mean

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Speaker 1: buck like you want to talk about sort of being aggressive,

809
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Speaker 1: And this is what happens when you're on a rookie deal.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the magical things. We all know

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Speaker 1: about it. But if you're Washington, you're looking around and saying, Okay,

812
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Speaker 1: the Eagles just won the Super Bowl. And the Eagles

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Speaker 1: just won the Super Bowl in dominant fashion. Now, how

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Speaker 1: do we get ourselves to that level in our division?

815
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Speaker 1: How do we turn this team from a second place

816
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Speaker 1: team into a contender for the division title. And if

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Speaker 1: you're Washington, you're looking around saying, well, I don't give

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Speaker 1: a damn about a fifth round draft pick. I don't

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Speaker 1: care about that. Oh and the money. I don't care

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Speaker 1: about the money. They got the money to spend. They

821
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Speaker 1: got the money all day every day. They can make

822
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Speaker 1: the cap room. They can figure all of these things

823
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Speaker 1: out like that. There is acknowledging. Also is something that

824
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Speaker 1: you experienced last week. Everybody freaked out right, Like the

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Speaker 1: salary cap was higher than teams expected, even from their

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Speaker 1: own internal models. So if you're Washington, you have more

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Speaker 1: cap room than you expected. You got a quarterback that's

828
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Speaker 1: on a rookie deal, you got Terry McLaurin. You need

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Speaker 1: to add additional pieces. This is a draft where running

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Speaker 1: backs are everywhere, so you can worry about that. Then

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Speaker 1: go get yourself a cemented difference maker that you can

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Speaker 1: now team with the quarterback and an offensive coordinator that

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Speaker 1: both are a challenge for teams to defend. Like this

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Speaker 1: is a home run for Washington.

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Speaker 2: That's such a good deal.

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Speaker 3: And the commanders to your point at the third most

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Speaker 3: cap space, even before the cap spike that we saw

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Speaker 3: and they're you know, depending on will await additional details.

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Speaker 3: It's not clear as to whether San Francisco is going

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Speaker 3: to have to eat any of this money or if

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Speaker 3: Washington is just willing to take the full freight of

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Speaker 3: the contract because Deebo Samuel, if I'm not mistaken, was

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Speaker 3: doe twenty one point seven million dollars this year. And

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Speaker 3: now it's worth noting Adam Peters, the former San Francisco

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Speaker 3: executive who declined interviews with a team like the Tennessee

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00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 3: Titans to set out that cycle and then take the

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Speaker 3: commander's job and reap the benefits of basically a clean

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Speaker 3: slate is able to cash in in a huge way here.

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Speaker 3: I can't say enough good things about what Washington's doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited for them.

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Speaker 1: The most impressive part of what we're seeing right now

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Speaker 1: is that Washington is just talking about football. For years,

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Speaker 1: if you are a Washington fan, you stayed away from

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Speaker 1: sports talk radio and TV because what you didn't want

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Speaker 1: to do was listen to more people make fun of

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Speaker 1: your favorite team and make fun of your ownership group.

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Speaker 1: And you felt like from the beginning of the league year,

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Speaker 1: you were one step behind the rest of the world

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Speaker 1: because nobody believed in the way the organization was being

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Speaker 1: a run. They have turned this around, and I constantly

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Speaker 1: say this is the most impressive. Part of what Jayden

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Speaker 1: Daniels has done is not just what he's done on

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Speaker 1: the field. It's the fact that we are talking about

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Speaker 1: the Washington Banders with a different tone than ever before,

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Speaker 1: simply because we're only talking about the football again. The

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Speaker 1: breaking news Deebo Samuel is headed from San Francisco to

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Speaker 1: the Commanders. We'll keep breaking it down as we continue

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Speaker 1: to tell you everything you need to know about the

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Speaker 1: big trade. Well that'll come next. Fox Sports Radio, Buck Rising,

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

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Speaker 1: speak louder than words. Some teams tell you they're all in.

872
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Speaker 1: Some owners will stand up and say we're gonna do

873
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Speaker 1: whatever it takes this offseason to make our team better

874
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. And then within the same division, some teams

875
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Speaker 1: step up and say, you know what, We're just gonna

876
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Speaker 1: get it done. And that is what has happened with

877
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Speaker 1: breaking news that's gone down in the last fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: From the NFL scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Deebo Samuel no

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Speaker 1: longer a San Francisco forty nine er, He's now a

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Speaker 1: Washington commander. And when you factor in what was paid

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Speaker 1: for this, reportedly a fifth round pick, it's nothing. And

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Speaker 1: what happens Washington turns around and makes the stay that

883
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Speaker 1: we are in with our quarterback and we are going

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Speaker 1: to take the next step. It's a Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It's really Bucking Fits. He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 1: coming together, Buck Rising, Jason Fitz. We're hanging out doing

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Speaker 1: our first time on national radio. We've been fedding friends

893
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Speaker 1: for a decade, but first time getting to hang out

894
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Speaker 1: together on the radio. And what did we get? An

895
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Speaker 1: hour one, we get a half court buzzer beater for

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Speaker 1: Tennessee to win an epic game, and then Buck minutes later,

897
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Speaker 1: we get this breaking news Deebo Samuel headed to the

898
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Speaker 1: Washington commanders hell of a first hour and as we

899
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Speaker 1: come into our number two, I just keep thinking about

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Speaker 1: what you said. The rich get richer, and this is

901
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: just a calculated move when you look at it from

902
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Speaker 1: Washington standpoint. Okay, you gave up some money. Well, it's

903
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: not my money. I don't care where my favorite team

904
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: owner spends money. Let him spend it. You gave up

905
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Speaker 1: a fifth round draft pick. Okay, you're lucky if a

906
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick makes the roster most of the time, right, Like,

907
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: so calm down on that. What you got was a

908
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Speaker 1: weapon for an offense that already has such key pieces

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Speaker 1: in place. Man, I right now feel so much better

910
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: about a Washington team that I already felt good about

911
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago. I feel even better now because they

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Speaker 1: are obviously making the all in moves you have to

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Speaker 1: make when you know you have a quarterback to build around.

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Speaker 2: I love team social media.

915
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 3: The Washington Commanders just tweeted out the gift of Debo

916
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Speaker 3: from Friday, the movie.

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Speaker 2: You've said, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Sure, yes, yeah, okay, yeah, yes, I don't know.

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00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure you're up on your

920
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 2: pop culture references, even though.

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Speaker 1: That's probably to get but that's okay.

922
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Speaker 3: Don't argue with me, yet I thought, you know, it's

923
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Speaker 3: just the worst. Jeffis peanut butter. But to your point,

924
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Speaker 3: they have to be rich to be able to get

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Speaker 3: richer on the personnel side.

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Speaker 2: Because the thing that's interesting to me, FITZI.

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Speaker 3: About this transact beyond Jadeen Daniels, the defending rookie of

928
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 3: the year getting a weapon like this to go with

929
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Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin, who's already an excellent player and acquitted himself

930
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Speaker 3: so well after having so many bad years in Washington,

931
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Speaker 3: Beyond this being an incredibly exciting time for Washington fans,

932
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Speaker 3: and to your point, to actually get to talk about

933
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Speaker 3: football as opposed to their previous owner being sought out

934
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Speaker 3: for congressional subpoenas while he hides from the US government

935
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Speaker 3: on his mega yacht in the south of France. Now

936
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Speaker 3: we get to talk about the idea of can this

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Speaker 3: put the Washington commanders in the mix in the same

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Speaker 3: division to the point that you made earlier, as the

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Speaker 3: defending Super Bowl champions, can this help them put maybe

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Speaker 3: not put them over the top. Philadelphia is still a

941
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 3: juggernaut and will have to be dealt with. But Dallas, man,

942
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 3: I just I can't imagine of all the teams that

943
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Speaker 3: are suffering at this point in time, I can't imagine

944
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: how awful it is to be a Cowboys fan having

945
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 3: to deal with Jerry and then dealing with Steven Jones.

946
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 3: After all, in talking about selectively aggressive, don't raise your

947
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: hand at me. I'll get to you when I get

948
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 3: to you. I just I cannot believe. I cannot believe

949
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Speaker 3: that the Cowboys exist in this particular division. Watching all

950
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Speaker 3: these other teams save for the Giants, have so much

951
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: more fun than them, and still dealing with Dak Prescott

952
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 3: and respectfully, Brian Shottenham Schottenheimer. Easy for me to say

953
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 3: the least inspiring of any NFL coach I can remember

954
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Speaker 3: in my thirty one years of life.

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Speaker 1: This is this is just my moment to remind Cowboys

956
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 1: fans you're not special. Like. This is what I don't

957
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: understand about Cowboys fans is they come in and they're like,

958
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Speaker 1: we hadn't won the Super Bowl since nineties, just.

959
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 2: Kicking them all they're down.

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00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: You know how many teams haven't won a Super Bowl

961
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: since the nineties? Like you're not special? All right, there

962
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: are tons of I haven't won a Super Bowl since

963
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Speaker 1: the nineties. Talk to the Bills, talk to the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: talk to the talk to half the league. There are

965
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: so many teams that haven't won it. The Titans have

966
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: never won a super Bowl, the Jags have never won

967
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: a like So you've got twelve teams that have never

968
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. You've got how many teams that

969
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: haven't won a Super Bowl since the early eighties. And

970
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: then everybody comes in here and cries for the Cowboys. Well,

971
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: we hadn't won a Super Bowl since the ninth I

972
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: don't give a damn about that. You're not special. Most

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00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: of the league hasn't. You know what the Cowboys fans

974
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: need to realize your team is just like everybody else.

975
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: Most years you suck. Most years you're let down. Most

976
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: years you don't get a Super Bowl except it. Okay,

977
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: nothing's going to change that now. Washington. Washington felt that

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00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: way Buck a year ago, Washington felt helpless. And this

979
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: all comes back to how we started the show talking

980
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: about why we over obsess over quarterbacks, because man, when

981
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: you don't have one, you feel like you are stuck

982
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: in the sea of suck for the rest of your life.

983
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: You get Jayden Daniels and all of a sudden, you're like, no, no, no, no,

984
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: Now we've got a yacht in the Sea Suck. Like

985
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: we are now living We're living large in this opportunity.

986
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: Like it's so different. One player changed so much about

987
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: the way the entire franchise is perceived.

988
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 3: What is the Sea of Suck's proximity to the Gulf

989
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 3: of America? Is that anywhere logistically close at this point?

990
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 3: There is you know, I didn't know if that was

991
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Speaker 3: a Google Map adjustment that had been made since I

992
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Speaker 3: last checked my Google Map.

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00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: I feel like if there was going to be a

994
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: Sea Suck, it'd be somewhere. It'd be one of the

995
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: like Michigan lakes out there that are really pretty in

996
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: the summer, but nobody really are things to go to

997
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: Michigan on vacation, Like that's where the Sea Suck lives.

998
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 3: What are you thinking right now, if you're the Niners,

999
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 3: Let's take this somewhere else, because that is a very

1000
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 3: very interesting division. The Rams have just secured their quarterback

1001
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 3: again after having a little bit of you know, consternation

1002
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 3: around will Matt Stafford or won't Matt Stafford? Of course,

1003
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 3: we know now that he is returning to the Los

1004
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 3: Angeles Rams with a slight increase in pay. You've got

1005
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 3: the Seahawks, who are in a very interesting situations, competitive,

1006
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 3: if not not quite ready to compete for the division.

1007
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 3: You've got the Niners, who took a significant step back

1008
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 3: at this point in time, and all they talked about

1009
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 3: at the combine where I spent my entire last week,

1010
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 3: Jason Fitz is the idea that they're trying to get

1011
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 3: this Rock Party deal done.

1012
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 2: Rock Party.

1013
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 3: Speaking of quarterbacks and whether your team has what or

1014
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 3: not Brock Purty at what fifty to fifty five sixty

1015
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott kind of money to work off that Cowboys conversation?

1016
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 3: How much less special is brock Party without Deebo Samuel.

1017
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 2: I know he's still got Kittle, but he's aging.

1018
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 3: I know they've still got the what's the wonderful fullback

1019
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 3: that does everything for them, Kyle ust Check, They've they've

1020
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 3: got Brandon Ayyuk and I know he dealt with injury

1021
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 3: last year, But like, what are Niners.

1022
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: Fans thinking at this point in time? Do you imagine?

1023
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. What's more shocking that you just brought

1024
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: a fullback into the conversation is the reason to hope

1025
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: for a franchise, or that you just clossed over the

1026
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: use of consternation in that last a little moment there,

1027
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,479
Speaker 1: which was beautifully done by you, consternation pig Ward. Look

1028
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: it's going to be okay, Well, I am scared. Forty

1029
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: nine ers fans need to accept that this field. I mean,

1030
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: you tell me, this feels like you're sitting on the

1031
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: precipice of a rebuild. And look, this is.

1032
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 3: A really a fifty five million dollar quarterback.

1033
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: Oh what else are you gonna do? We can just

1034
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: roll the dice all over again.

1035
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 3: I would tell Kyle Shanahan and UH and John Lynch

1036
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 3: to sit and spend. If I was getting ready to

1037
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 3: pay Brock Party that kind of money and you were

1038
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 3: going to threaten me with a rebuild as a fan,

1039
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 3: I would not have it, Especially that sand Base.

1040
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,760
Speaker 1: The same organization that drafted Trey Lance in that same draft.

1041
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: So like, we just have to start by accepting the

1042
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: fact that as much credit as Kyle Shanahan and John

1043
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: Lynch deserved for the roster that they built and for

1044
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: the fact that they discovered Brock Party, they even have

1045
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 1: to admit that you know better to be lucky than good,

1046
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: Like they found somebody at the very end of the draft,

1047
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: and if they'd known brock Purty was going to be

1048
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: who brock Purty is, they would have drafted him early.

1049
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: Like That's the one thing I always remind teams is like,

1050
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 1: if you hit on somebody the raid drafting Max Crosby

1051
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: in the middle of the draft, all right, that's an

1052
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: amazing find. But also they got it wrong every time

1053
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: before that, like they chose not to draft that same

1054
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: player as high as he should be drafted, Like brock

1055
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: Perdy going at the end of the draft was a

1056
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: stroke of luck. Now, if you're the forty nine ers, man,

1057
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: I certainly don't want to go back into this thing

1058
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: and have to reimagine the quarterback position. But they're getting older.

1059
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that bodies were breaking down. The number

1060
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: of games lost to injury last year was catastrophic for them.

1061
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: So you've got a team that feels like they're getting

1062
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: older that you know, maybe maybe needs to refresh at

1063
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of different positions. Doesn't that feel kind of

1064
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: like a rebound?

1065
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I just I don't think that you can

1066
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 3: I mean, you certainly can't sell that to the fan base,

1067
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 3: even if that's the reality of their situation. And I

1068
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 3: don't want to. I don't want to amp up the

1069
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 3: pressure on the Niners organization because they have that they

1070
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 3: are a championship organization. I know they've fallen short in

1071
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 3: the Super Bowls here recently, but there are constant presence

1072
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship game. They've won, a constant conversation

1073
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 3: as far as the content or and perhaps we are

1074
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: in fact cycling down in this in this team's point

1075
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 3: of competitiveness.

1076
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: But you psychling down in this team's point of competitive

1077
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: like you have. That's that's working towards a politician right there,

1078
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,919
Speaker 1: cycling down in this team's point of competitive Well.

1079
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make cald real for them. I'm just

1080
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: trying to jet, I'm trying to be gentle.

1081
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: Listen to what you said about Alabama last hour, and

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Speaker 1: now you're being gentle with forty nine ers fans.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but Alabama can eat it and eat it

1084
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 2: they did earlier. Go balls.

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Speaker 3: I think that I just think that there has to

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00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 3: be some some consideration taken into Okay, are we really

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00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 3: prepared the idea of rebuilding around rock Perty is I

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00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 3: guess the thing that I'm stuck on because I know

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00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 3: that player to make good decisions. I know that he

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00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 3: is exceptional in certain areas. I know that he is

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00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 3: deficient in certain areas as well, and those haven't really

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00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 3: been exposed. And to your point about the injuries, I

1093
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 3: you know, I shouldn't roll my eyes at injuries as

1094
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 3: all and as I do, even though I covered a

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00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 3: team in twenty twenty one that was the number one

1096
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: overall seed in the AFC and still set the record

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00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 3: for the number of players that they dressed and route

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00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 3: to get that because they had so many injuries and

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00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 3: so many games lost due to injuries because of players.

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Speaker 2: I think if you're a good enough.

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00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 3: Coaching staff and a good enough front office, you can

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00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 3: find ways to make that work, because everybody is dealing

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00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 3: with depth issues at any given point in the NFL season.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't like the idea.

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00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 3: I hate the idea in fact, of a rebuild around

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00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 3: brock Party, especially when you start taking all of his

1107
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 3: favorite toys away.

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00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is an element of boy, this is going

1109
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 1: to be that moment where we learn a lot about

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00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: how much credit we want to give Kyle Shanahan. Because

1111
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: it's his job. He sees the player every day. We

1112
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: only see games. He sees the player every day. It's

1113
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: his job to know what he's actually worth. I'm going

1114
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: to have to trust at this point Kyle Shanahan to

1115
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: be smart enough to know exactly where the line in

1116
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: the sand is and what that means for San Francisco,

1117
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: because if you're telling me that they're going back to

1118
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: the drawing at the quarterback position as well, you can't

1119
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: couch that anyway other than a rebuild. Also, just importantly,

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00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: the guy that invented the technology known as the Jeff

1121
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: was given an award, and in that acceptance speech, he

1122
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: walked up on the podium and all he said for

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00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: his acceptance speech for the technology is it is pronounced Jeff.

1124
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: Look if my mom names me Jason, spells it Jasom,

1125
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: but then tells the whole world it's pronounced hey son,

1126
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: then you got no choice but to call me hey song.

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00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: If the guy that invented the technology calls it a Jeff,

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00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: that's where we are. The great thing is that I

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00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: got my last word, and you know I was sitting

1130
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: on that the whole time. You can stream this show,

1131
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: by the way, you want to stream this show just

1132
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: to listen to how the last hour went during the

1133
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: college basketball madness and all.

1134
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Speaker 3: Of our interesting case I call it something worse than

1135
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 3: hay Son.

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1137
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,920
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1138
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,760
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1139
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: features in the app is that you can select Fox

1140
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1141
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: on a radio dial. We're convenience, so be sure to

1142
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: set your preset to Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio

1143
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: app and it will always pop up at the top

1144
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: of your screen. We will continue to break down the

1145
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: breaking news. If you're just tuning in. Deebo Samuel has

1146
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: been traded from the San Francisco forty nine ers to

1147
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. We're not gonna go anywhere on that.

1148
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: We'll get you updated on the combine, but coming up next,

1149
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation between Lebron and the media about

1150
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: how the NBA should be covered. All I'm going to

1151
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: tell you is that maybe it's neither of their faults.

1152
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: Maybe we're the ones to blame. Maybe the people watching

1153
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: are the actual issue with the NBA. We'll tell you

1154
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: why and we'll break it down next. He's Buck Rising

1155
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: on Jason Fitz. We're hanging out with you on a

1156
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Saturday on Fox Sports Radio. Would you rather

1157
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: be Beyonce or Jason isbel? Right? Like not that Jason

1158
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: Isisbel isn't very accomplished, but you know, like I think

1159
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: I'd rather be that guy. No, No, he's very accomplished,

1160
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: but he's not be honest like Jason isbel doesn't walk

1161
00:53:58,680 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: into accomplished.

1162
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 3: Jason is Bell playing the exit in on a Tuesday

1163
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 3: night for thirty people.

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00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

1165
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: I mean, like Jason, half the people listening to this

1166
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: like that, which is half of Scott Shapiro is basically

1167
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: Sidor saying, who the hell is Jason is Bell?

1168
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 2: Who the hell is Jason is Bell?

1169
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 3: Welcome back FUS Sports Saturday.

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00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 2: Forth tire rack dot Com Studios.

1171
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 3: That high pitched, squeaky laugh that you hear is Jason Fitz.

1172
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 2: I'm Buck Rising.

1173
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 3: The latest news as we sit here, or as we've

1174
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,720
Speaker 3: been sitting here, is the Deebo Samuel has been traded

1175
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 3: from the Washington Commanders to the or excuse me, from

1176
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 3: the San Francisco forty nine ers to the Washington Commanders.

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00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 2: That would be bad.

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00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 3: That'd be an NBA like trade if you got traded

1179
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 3: one place and then traded right back. Asked, don't connect

1180
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 3: how that went with the Los Angeles Lakers. Speaking of

1181
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 3: the Lakers, Lebron James, he's been the face of the

1182
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 3: NBA for his entire twenty two year career, but recently, FITZI,

1183
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 3: he took a position saying he sided with other NBA

1184
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 3: players that don't want to fill in that void whenever.

1185
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 2: It is that the forty year old James leaves the league.

1186
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 3: We understand the position that Lebron has been in, we

1187
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 3: understand the scrutiny that it comes with, and the quotes

1188
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 3: certainly on this are worth dissecting. But Lebron James saying

1189
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 3: that he sides with players who don't want to be

1190
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 3: the next face of the NBA, what do you make

1191
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 3: of such a statement?

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Speaker 1: So here's what's hard about it, Like this is all

1193
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: part of a movement that's happened in the last week

1194
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: where players and I thought Chineo Kumuka, who I love

1195
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: and have worked with a lot in the past, did

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00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: a nice job on first take of even talking about

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00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, players want more talk about the game. They

1198
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: want more specifics instead of making everything about broad stroke

1199
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: NBA conversations. They want more talk about the game. And

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00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: Cheney even pointed out in the broadcast they were on,

1201
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: look at how much time we spent today talking about

1202
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Nobody talks about Oklahoma City. And this is

1203
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: the argument I hear made all the time. What you

1204
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: end up with is Lebron's yelling at the media, and

1205
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: the media is yelling at Lebron. And I keep looking

1206
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: at all of this and saying, Okay, I understand what

1207
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: players want, buck I truly do I want. I understand

1208
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 1: that players want deep dive thought processes on the NBA.

1209
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: Why ball movement's moving here? Like why this team move?

1210
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: Does this? Really? Well, Like that's what they want, But realistically,

1211
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: that's not what the people want, and I mean the

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00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: broadest set of the audience, because let's be honest for

1213
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: a second. The daily numbers are taken on TV every

1214
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: single day. So if you're talking about ESPN or or

1215
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 1: Fox Sports like any of them, we see TV numbers

1216
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: every single day. If any of these networks believed that

1217
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 1: a deep dive show into the strategy of the NBA

1218
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: would be successful, it would exist. In fact, NFL Matchup,

1219
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: I think is one of the smartest TV shows that's

1220
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: ever been made. It gets buried at two in the

1221
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: morning because nobody watches the damn thing because at the

1222
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: end of the day. This is like years ago, years ago,

1223
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: there were ratings on You're too young to remember this,

1224
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: but Nielsen used to send out a survey. Like now,

1225
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: for anyone that doesn't know, Nielsen gives you like a

1226
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: little pager sort of thing, like it listens to you,

1227
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: like that's how they track everything. They just okay, fine,

1228
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: they they used to send out a survey, and what

1229
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: they found is that NPR really smart. You know, talk

1230
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: radio shows were highly rated at the time. And then

1231
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: the first time people actually had to start wearing a

1232
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: device that tracked what they watched, the ratings went down

1233
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: in the dumps. Why because people weren't really listening to NPR.

1234
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: They just wanted everybody to think they were smart, so

1235
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: they told people they were listening to it. When you

1236
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: actually study the habits, people don't want that. And so

1237
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: like when when anyone screams, well, why do they only

1238
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: talk about the Lakers. Why are we only talking about

1239
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: the Celtics because they watched the numbers and that's what

1240
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: people want. So like Lebron sits here and blames the

1241
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: coverage of the NBA for why you shouldn't want to

1242
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: be the face of it. It hates the way the

1243
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: game is being covered, and then the media yells at

1244
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: Lebron for not wanting to be the But really, I

1245
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, like the consumer

1246
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: is driving the content, not the other way. Content isn't

1247
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: being made that consumers aren't watching. It is true the

1248
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: profits are up for ESPN, right, Like everybody wants to

1249
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: talk about the dying way that the NBA is covered.

1250
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: I think the fact is not enough. True people want

1251
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: die hard coverage of the NBA. So Lebron is blaming

1252
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: the wrong people.

1253
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 2: This is the exact quote.

1254
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 3: Why do you want to be the face of a

1255
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 3: league when all the people that cover our game and

1256
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 3: talk about our game on a day to day basis,

1257
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 3: I'll use FCCSA language for my first time on Fox

1258
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 3: Sports Radio.

1259
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: That's probably good idea on everybody.

1260
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 3: As opposed to the word that Lebron used, that's responsibility.

1261
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 3: That responsibility it's just weird. It's weird energy from people,

1262
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 3: from the people that I don't know. Well, I'm capable

1263
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 3: of being that guy, but I don't want to be

1264
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 3: that guy.

1265
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 2: Put it like that.

1266
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 3: I want to be the guy to just show up

1267
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 3: and hoop and just kill dudes and go home. That

1268
00:58:56,240 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 3: is quotes from Lebron James and Anthony Edwards who asked

1269
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 3: about being the next face of the league. That's what

1270
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 3: that is, what Anthony Edwards is saying, is capable of

1271
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 3: being that guy, but he doesn't want to be that guy.

1272
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 3: And I find that fascinating because we're going to make

1273
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 3: him the face of the league, whether he wants to

1274
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 3: be or not. And I just think that you have to.

1275
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 3: It's so much more hyper focused fits in the NBA

1276
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 3: than it is in really any other sport, because.

1277
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 2: Who has who?

1278
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 3: Which league has the most famous professional American athletes, the

1279
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 3: most recognizable professional American athletes instant, It's the NBA. These

1280
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: guys are international superstars. There's only five guys on a

1281
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: court at any given point. You know what they look like.

1282
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 3: They don't have helmets. You don't identify them as much

1283
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 3: by jersey numbers as you do in the NFL, they're not,

1284
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 3: you know, they're not quite as interchangeable because one player

1285
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 3: can still impact the game in the NBA in an

1286
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 3: incredible way.

1287
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 2: But to your point, and I watched the NFL Matchup Show,

1288
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 2: don't be rude.

1289
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 3: Greg Cosel as a co host on a podcast of

1290
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 3: mine back all I love that stand with the facts

1291
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 3: of the facts, and Greg often you know, echoes a

1292
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 3: similar sentiment about where the NFL Matchup Show is broadcast

1293
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 3: on a regular basis, But that is the that is

1294
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 3: the easiest way for the most amount of people, like

1295
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 3: you're saying, to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the NBA.

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01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 3: And I get Kevin Durant is out here on Twitter saying, well,

1298
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 3: it seems like it seems like people have more fun

1299
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 3: talking about the NBA, or rather complaining about the NBA

1300
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 3: than they do watching the actual thing. But they're a

1301
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 3: part of the problem. They're a part of the problem

1302
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 3: because their level of disinterest in the regular season. Lebron

1303
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 3: James being there at NBA All Star Weekend telling people

1304
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 3: what a couple hours before, maybe about a day before,

1305
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 3: that he wasn't going to participate in the game after

1306
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 3: he was expected to him being in street clothes for

1307
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 3: the NBA picture, knowing full well he's going to be

1308
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 3: front and center. The weird energy is on behalf of

1309
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 3: Lebron James. He's a part of the problem. He has

1310
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 3: directly led us to this point.

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Speaker 1: I think this is just at some point, Like look,

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01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,439
Speaker 1: I said earlier, the Cowboys aren't special. He's buck rising.

1313
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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm Jason Fitcher listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: I think what we need to remember is that none

1315
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: of this is special. You know, like, Okay, so the

1316
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: regular season is meaningless. Guess what. It's meaningless for Major

1317
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: League Baseball too. It's meaningless for the NHL. Also, it's

1318
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: meaningless for college basketball. Nobody cares about night in, night out,

1319
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,959
Speaker 1: what it like the general population. I'm not talking about

1320
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: basketball diehards. I'm talking about the gen pop right is

1321
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: not sitting here saying, oh man, Michigan State's playing Wisconsin tonight.

1322
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: I wonder if Michigan State's gonna shoot better from the outside.

1323
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: Heck no. But when we get to the tournament, everybody

1324
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: cares because they got money on it and it's fun

1325
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: and it's an experience like just except who you are.

1326
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: Like this whole concept of well, everybody treats us negatively.

1327
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: My god, I will go back to the business that

1328
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: I grew up in. I grew up in the music business.

1329
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: Just think for a second about the way we treat

1330
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: the concept of a one hit wonder. We sit here

1331
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: and trash somebody for only having one song. That becomes

1332
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: like for an entire generation, and it's like, well, you sucked,

1333
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 1: you only had one hit. Like I look, I played

1334
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: the fiddle in the vand Perry for how many years? Right?

1335
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: Like If I Die Young was our big song that

1336
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: everybody knows. Now we had six number ones in country,

1337
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: but nobody cares about that. People often say one hit

1338
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: wonder And at the time that used to really bother me.

1339
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: Now I laugh and I'm like, okay, cool, you want

1340
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: to come at me for being a one hit wonder,

1341
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: Like what's the one thing you did that history will

1342
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: remember forever? But that's the way we treat things as

1343
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: a society. Everything's negative from everybody. Is this, Like that's

1344
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: not special to the NBA. We don't talk about who

1345
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: wins the AFC Championship game for three days afterwards, we

1346
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: talk about who lost it. That's the way people consume

1347
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: sports now, Like you go to a sports bar. Rarely

1348
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: is somebody saying high five, Oh my god, this guy's

1349
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: so great. They're just sitting there saying, ah, this team sucks.

1350
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: That's the way people are now.

1351
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 3: No, and I and I took a dig at Lebron,

1352
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 3: so I'll give him some credit on the back half

1353
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 3: of things. I hate that, like, I genuinely get where

1354
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 3: he's coming from on that particular position because and Lebron

1355
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 3: is also at an age where he's concerned a great

1356
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 3: deal about legacy. I'm sure he's been concerned about his

1357
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 3: legacy his entire career. He's very self aware and very

1358
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 3: calculated that way. But it is it is the kind

1359
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 3: of thing that you don't want an undefeated team in

1360
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 3: a sport because they're less interesting.

1361
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 2: Right if they just go about winning.

1362
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 3: The winning is fine, but what is the conversation For

1363
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 3: twenty years Tom Brady in the NFL, we're trying to

1364
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 3: figure out how what is going to be the thing

1365
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 3: that keeps the Patriots out of the AFC championship? What

1366
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 3: is going to think be the thing that topples the dynasty? Oh,

1367
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 3: is Patrick Mahomes making a move here to the Chiefs

1368
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 3: have something that the new England Patriots don't. And then

1369
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 3: you see Tom Brady do what he does over the

1370
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 3: course of two decades, sustained greatness, and you don't really appreciate.

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01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 3: I mean, you appreciate it in real time, but more

1372
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 3: people spend time hating it than they do appreciating it

1373
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 3: because that's not their team. And there's only one fan

1374
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 3: base that gets to feel that way. And even that

1375
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 3: fan base is rolling their eyes, being like, oh, Brady

1376
01:03:57,920 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 3: and Belichick, are they going to be able to are

1377
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 3: they going to be able to get to the super

1378
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 3: Bowl again? Now they went ten years between three peats essentially,

1379
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 3: I know they didn't three peat, but they went ten

1380
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 3: years between Super Bowl runs? Does that mean that the

1381
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 3: dynasty is over? Have they lost their shine? Even the

1382
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 3: fan bases that get to experience the winning do this.

1383
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 3: So I don't know how Lebron gets a resolution to

1384
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 3: his issue here. All I know is that it's okay

1385
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 3: if players disagree with the way that their sports are discussed,

1386
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 3: even as we understand that this is the reality of

1387
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 3: the situation.

1388
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:32,959
Speaker 1: You just said something that I absolutely have to react

1389
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 1: to because there's a way this can all be solved.

1390
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how. But first, Marve White's got to

1391
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 1: get us caught up on what is trending right now

1392
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: in the world of sports. Lets see if we got

1393
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: another trade.

1394
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 6: Let's go just one agreed to thus far. But big

1395
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 6: news in the NFL Deebo Samuel on the move. Well

1396
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 6: he's not about a week and a half before it'll

1397
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 6: actually be on the move, But now forty nine ers

1398
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 6: have agreed in principle to trade Deebo Samuel to the

1399
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 6: Washington Commanders in exchange for a fifth round pick. The

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01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 6: reason why we have to dance around it is because

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01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 6: the new league year has not started. That will starts

1402
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 6: March twelve, and that will be when the deal is

1403
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 6: officially made. But right now, for all intents and purposes,

1404
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 6: Deebo Samuel starts shopping in the DMV. Buddy Yerick Washington

1405
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 6: Commander in the NBA right now two games and accent

1406
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,959
Speaker 6: in Detroit Pistons with a thirty one to sixteen lead

1407
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 6: over the Brooklyn Nets, and the Washington Wizards with an

1408
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 6: eighty two to seventy two lead over the Charlotte Hornets.

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01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 6: That Pistons game with about two minutes left in the

1410
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 6: first quarter, Wizards game with about three minutes left in

1411
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 6: the third quarter. Men's college basketball three games and action

1412
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Speaker 6: in the top twenty five right now. Number two Duke

1413
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 6: with a twenty two to fourteen lead over Florida State,

1414
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 6: just under ten minutes left in the first half. Just

1415
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 6: over ten minutes left in the second half. Between Louisville

1416
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 6: and Pittsburgh, the nineteen thrand Cardinals with a fifty six

1417
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 6: to fifty two lead. It's fifty six to fifty five

1418
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,439
Speaker 6: between Missouri and Vanderbilt, the fourteenth Tigers in the league.

1419
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,959
Speaker 2: They are just under ten minutes to go in the game.

1420
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Speaker 6: Earlier today, we saw number one Auburn win the SEC title.

1421
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 6: They beat Kentucky ninety four to eighty I'm sorry seventy

1422
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Speaker 6: eight Auburn Tigers, number one team in the nation. Fourth

1423
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Speaker 6: Great Houston beat Cincinnati seventy three to sixty four. Fifth

1424
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 6: and sixth ranked teams played each other Tennessee and Alabama,

1425
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 6: and an SEC matchup. Tennessee with a buzzing buzzer beater

1426
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Speaker 6: three point four the win seventy nine to seventy six.

1427
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Speaker 6: To final There, Mississippi State blshoo eighty one to sixty

1428
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 6: nine Saint John's Overseaton Hall seventy one to sixty one,

1429
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 6: and Texas Tech went on the road to Kansas and

1430
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 6: beat them in Lawrence seventy eight to seventy three. The

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01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 6: Texas Texas tenth ranked team in the nation. In the

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01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 6: NHL Stadium Series, the Detroit Webrings Red Wings say that

1433
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 6: ten times fast, and the Columbus Blue Jackets started the

1434
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 6: second period nineteen minutes left in the second period Stadium Series,

1435
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 6: no score between the two of them.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, he's Buck Rising on Jason fitz

1437
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: We're hanging out with you on a Fox Sports Saturday.

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01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: Don't forget to check out the podcast. Shortly after the

1439
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: show the podcast goes up. If you missed any of

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Speaker 1: today's show, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get

1441
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1442
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,720
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1443
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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. You'll see today's show posted right after

1444
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 1: we get off the air, Buck Rising, Jason Fitz, Buck,

1445
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: you just talked a little bit about like the right

1446
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: now and what it means to be the face of

1447
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,919
Speaker 1: the NBA. I think the solution to this we can't

1448
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: change the fact that everybody wants to find the negative

1449
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: in the way things are covered. I don't believe that

1450
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: one person can change that, right, So if nobody can

1451
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: change that portion of it, what can we change. I

1452
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: think what we can change is perspective on when we

1453
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: will be judged, because you're one thousand percent right, Like

1454
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: in the moment people wanted to give up on Brady

1455
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: and Belichick, right ah, they suck right like right now,

1456
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: every single person that today is telling you Lebron isn't

1457
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: good enough when they are a great grandparent is going

1458
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 1: to be sitting on the same porch saying no, no, no, no.

1459
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: That guy you're watching right now isn't as good as

1460
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: Lebron was. I watched Lebron. We went from Mahomes as

1461
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 1: the best ever to Mahomes has plenty of work to

1462
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: do to catch Tom Brady in one game, right, But

1463
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: in ten years we'll have a much better mindset on it.

1464
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 1: I think what you're forgetting not you, but what Lebron

1465
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 1: is forgetting when he talks about being the face of

1466
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: the league is that the face of the league isn't

1467
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: just about today. It's about the way your body of

1468
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: work is judged fifteen years from now, and fifteen years

1469
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:33,200
Speaker 1: from now, I think we become more favorable to everything

1470
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: we saw when we have the distance from when it

1471
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 1: happened to where we are right now.

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01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:41,400
Speaker 3: What has Lebron been fighting more the way that the

1473
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 3: NBA has covered with the comparisons to Michael Jordan, because

1474
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 3: that is kind of the thing that is the overarching

1475
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 3: thing of Lebron James's tenure as the face of the league,

1476
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 3: and I wonder, you know, I don't know what that's

1477
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 3: going to look like post Lebron.

1478
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 2: It's been twenty two years.

1479
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,599
Speaker 3: We haven't had to think about it, really, not in

1480
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 3: my adult lifetime at this point.

1481
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 2: But I.

1482
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 3: Hear what you're saying about how he's handling it and

1483
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 3: the way in which he's not going to be able

1484
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 3: to change it. I just think when you give anytime

1485
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 3: Lebron James speaks, you're going to invoke a reaction, whether

1486
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 3: it be positive because people are such super fans of

1487
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 3: him or such super fans the Lakers, or negative because

1488
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 3: you disagree with Lebron.

1489
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 2: You disagree with the.

1490
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Speaker 3: Way that he handled the decision, you disagree with his

1491
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 3: comments going back to when he kind of stepped in

1492
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 3: it with the China stuff. But like even Lebron think

1493
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 3: about this, If Lebron James is in a position where

1494
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 3: he is siding with these players who do not want

1495
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 3: to take up the mantle after he's gone a lah

1496
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards, because this was the player who was most

1497
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 3: recently asked about that. What message does that send to

1498
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 3: the consumers?

1499
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 2: My thing with the NBA and with.

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Speaker 3: The difficulty that I have with things like All Star weekend,

1501
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 3: and I know that's been talked about at nauseum in

1502
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 3: the comparison to the Four Nations Final with the hockey,

1503
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 3: and that happened to just be the same weekend that

1504
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 3: we didn't have football for the first time this year.

1505
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 3: The idea of taking your audience for granted, like the

1506
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 3: messaging on this, they they help or they contribute to

1507
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 3: the level of negativity around the NBA when they when

1508
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 3: they say things like this, it's an honor to be

1509
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 3: the face of a league. How How on earth can

1510
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 3: you be at all comfortable public publicly espousing the opinion

1511
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 3: of yeah, I get it, I wouldn't want to do

1512
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 3: it again, but it's my job and I'll do it.

1513
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:39,680
Speaker 3: And I get it's a burden and it comes with

1514
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 3: incredible scrutiny and listen to Lebron's To Lebron's undying credit,

1515
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 3: he has been this the entire time he.

1516
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 2: Has been a professional athlete.

1517
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 3: He has been this this level of scrutinized basically his

1518
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 3: entire basketball career, dating back to high school.

1519
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 2: As a phenom.

1520
01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:00,879
Speaker 3: He has very, very rarely taken any kind of public

1521
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 3: missteps that you can actually criticize him for, Like, really

1522
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 3: not that many things that you can count and you

1523
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 3: can nitpick, and you know, just dislike the personality of

1524
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 3: who Lebron is or whatever, But how can you continue

1525
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 3: to have this as a part of your legacy when

1526
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 3: you've done this so well in a way that very

1527
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 3: few people are capable of doing it, and then say, yeah,

1528
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 3: I get it, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

1529
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 3: You just can't say that stuff out loud. Fits That's

1530
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 3: what drives me nuts about basketball, that they are publicly

1531
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 3: dismissive of their own product.

1532
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 1: I think at some point my question to everybody is,

1533
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 1: why do you care? Like, if you're Lebron, you're worth

1534
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,679
Speaker 1: a billion dollars at this point. You play the sport

1535
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:47,719
Speaker 1: you love, and you've played your tail off every single

1536
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: night and again, I don't know anything about being an athlete,

1537
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: but I do know this. Every night, when we stood

1538
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,760
Speaker 1: up on stage and played, the biggest crowd I ever

1539
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: played in front of was one hundred thousand people. And

1540
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: I remember walking off stage after playing in front of

1541
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people, and somebody said, what was a

1542
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: crowd like? And I was like, I don't know, because

1543
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:04,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't much. My job was to play, to go

1544
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 1: out and execute a show perfectly. And if I executed

1545
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 1: a show perfectly, I didn't really care if the crowd

1546
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: had a great time or not. I just cared did

1547
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: I do my job at the highest possible level? You know?

1548
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: And certainly I know what it feels like to open

1549
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: up the paper the first review that ever a band

1550
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: that never made it, and the review said the fiddle

1551
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: player ran around on stage like a bear and a

1552
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: bear on a bicycle in a circus act that wasn't

1553
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: worried about doing anything the right way. I remember that distinctly.

1554
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: Did I care? What's some idiot thought? No, I don't

1555
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: like so to me right now, Lebron James could take

1556
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: stacks of thousand dollars stacks, lay them out on a

1557
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: bed and lay in it like he's Scrooge McDuck. Right,

1558
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:47,600
Speaker 1: then he can look at his entire legacy with confidence

1559
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 1: in what he did. You can't change the way people

1560
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: judge you. You can't change what people thought of your career.

1561
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: You can't change. But I can't change what people think

1562
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: listening to this show right now. All I can do

1563
01:12:58,000 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: is do the best to be as prepared as I

1564
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: can and to do a show that I'm proud of.

1565
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 1: And I just look at Lebron and I'm like, my god, dude,

1566
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: Like you have been the face of the league and

1567
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: you did everything the way you wanted to do it.

1568
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: So like, why do you care what Stephen A thinks

1569
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: of the NBA product? Why do you care what the

1570
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: talking heads have to say? Just go go do what

1571
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 1: you do and do it the way you do it.

1572
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 3: No, but it's inescapable. I mean, like the newspaper review.

1573
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 3: Obviously it sticks with you and you carry it, and

1574
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 3: I'm sure you use it as a source of motivation

1575
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 3: when you face any trials throughout the course of your

1576
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 3: music career or even your sports career, if you need

1577
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 3: to kind of regenerate that source of motivation. And there

1578
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 3: is some motivation in people doubting and hating you and

1579
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 3: being able to prove them wrong. You take that into consideration,

1580
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 3: but like, it's inescapable, the level of scrutiny. I talk

1581
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 3: to athletes every day, it's a part of my job.

1582
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 3: I cover an NFL team. I'm in a locker room

1583
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 3: four days out of a seven day, seven day week,

1584
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 3: and they say things like, well, we don't really hear

1585
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 3: the outside criticism, we don't pay attention to the external noise, this,

1586
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 3: that and the other, and they're just lying. They're just

1587
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 3: lying because you cannot escape it. It is in your phone.

1588
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 3: If you have a phone, you are just buried with

1589
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 3: it every time you open it up, because if it's

1590
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 3: not you actively searching these things out on social media

1591
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 3: or just even checking your notifications, You've got friends, family member,

1592
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 3: family members texting you this criticism asking you what you

1593
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 3: think of what Steven A is. It's inescapable. You have

1594
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 3: no choice but to think about it. It's how we

1595
01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:27,480
Speaker 3: have been wired as a sports society.

1596
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: The only thing I'd say is that's true for everybody.

1597
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: Whether you're working at a McDonald's and people are mad

1598
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 1: at you when they get the food of the drive through,

1599
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 1: or whether you sit in front of a microphone and

1600
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: talk about sports, like I mute conversations all the time

1601
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: where people are just coming at me saying stick to

1602
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: the stick to the fiddle, Like I mute those things

1603
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: all the days. It's unavoidable. I know, I know, like

1604
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's the We've got a lot to break down.

1605
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: There's breaking news today, obviously the trade of the day.

1606
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:58,679
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is headed from San Francisco to Washington, which

1607
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: brings us to a would you rather? We're gonna do

1608
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of this or that? Coming up next.

1609
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz on Fox Sports Radio

1610
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 1: on a Fox Sports Saturday. It's a Fox Sports Saturday

1611
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: Bucking fits. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz, hanging out

1612
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 1: with you, coming you, coming at you live from the

1613
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,080
Speaker 1: ti raq dot Com studios. Buck and I have a

1614
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 1: game we like to play. It's a simple game. It's

1615
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: called would you rather? But see, here's the thing. We're

1616
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 1: gonna bring this in. We're gonna we're gonna pose the question.

1617
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it this big thing. Buck. We didn't

1618
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: we didn't have any you know, we don't have any

1619
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: imaging for it yet, or any you know, a game

1620
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 1: show voice or anything. But I think that what we

1621
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: should do. We'll get producer I intome and he's gonna

1622
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: read the question. But to start it off, we should

1623
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: just do like, would you rather like it's a game show?

1624
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 2: Right?

1625
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 1: You in for this, so we'll just we'll bring it

1626
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: in together. It's just we're good.

1627
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 2: There is zero percent chance that we pull this off correctly.

1628
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like this, So I'll just go three two

1629
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: one and then we say would you rather we got

1630
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: this three two one? Would you That was terrible? I

1631
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: was terrible. That's terrible trash. Okay, fine, Ian, come on

1632
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 1: save us here. You'll give us the scenario.

1633
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 7: I told him not to. He just refuses to. I

1634
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 7: like the creativity. It was a good idea in theory,

1635
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 7: execute it perfectly. All right, we'll start. We got some

1636
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 7: sports ones, we got some nonsports ones. All uh, we've

1637
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 7: been talking sports all day. I'll start with a non

1638
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:24,599
Speaker 7: sports one.

1639
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 4: Let's go, Uh, would you rather fight a chicken every

1640
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 4: time you get into the car or fight a chimpanzee

1641
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 4: once a year with a sword.

1642
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 2: Oh well, if you're giving me a weapon, you get

1643
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:38,520
Speaker 2: a weapon for the chimpanzee.

1644
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 3: Yet I feel like I feel like that sounds more viable.

1645
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 3: That's just exhausting every day to have something trying to

1646
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 3: clawed your face. Like I'm always I'm just in a

1647
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 3: rush when I'm trying to get where I'm going.

1648
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 2: I'm never on time.

1649
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,559
Speaker 3: You know, like you're you've had a bad day. You know,

1650
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 3: you're You're just You're just trying to get through. You're

1651
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 3: just trying to get home. You got rush hour traffic

1652
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 3: to and fro, and then a chicken comes flying at

1653
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 3: your head and tries to claw your bleeping eyes out.

1654
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 2: That sounds awful. Give me the chimp and the sword.

1655
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the problem is I'm gonna believe that

1656
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: the chimp also has a sword. I don't trust the

1657
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: chimp with the sword. I'd rather go with at least

1658
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: the chicken is only gonna call me. I feel like

1659
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get sorded. I don't know, like like I'm

1660
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: gonna sort We're gonna make that work.

1661
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna get stabbed. Why are you.

1662
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:29,519
Speaker 1: Gonna get well, I'm not full stabbed. It's just like

1663
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: the slices, you know, Like I'm gonna lose portions of limbs.

1664
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I'm going chicken sorted.

1665
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 4: Picturing you guys have like a bad day of work

1666
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 4: and man the chicken.

1667
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:42,479
Speaker 1: Now look at the feet before you open the door

1668
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: to get in the car.

1669
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 3: Maybe you forgot you're having a bad day. You're walking

1670
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 3: to the car, and then all of a sudden you realize,

1671
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that damn chicken's waiting for it again.

1672
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:53,479
Speaker 1: Oh God, what do you got next?

1673
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 4: Well, jeezus, all right, we'll switch over to sports for

1674
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 4: this one. Would you do you rather be an athlete

1675
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 4: and play for one team your entire career and never

1676
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:08,560
Speaker 4: win a ring or play for multiple to get a championship.

1677
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,680
Speaker 1: I just want championships. No, like because at the end

1678
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: of the day, like you're asking me, you know, can

1679
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:15,720
Speaker 1: it be big shot Bob or can I be some

1680
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:17,640
Speaker 1: random guy that plays my whole guy? Yeah? No, I

1681
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: want all the chips you can give me. I want rings.

1682
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: I want to flaunt my rings, like as a guy

1683
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: that you know flaunts the record placks I have. Yet

1684
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 1: I'll take all of them. I'm a mercenary.

1685
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 2: Oh I hate that we are going to agree here.

1686
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 1: Of course, you're a mercenary. You have no heart. There's

1687
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: no connection for Buck Rising.

1688
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 3: Well, you know also, I'm a shell pony, and I

1689
01:18:36,479 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 3: like to tell people that I do big things and

1690
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 3: enjoy things and win things, and they're better than that. Yeah,

1691
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:44,879
Speaker 3: you know it comes with the territory.

1692
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the rings. All right?

1693
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 5: I like this one.

1694
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 4: Would you rather commute two hours to work every day?

1695
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that's a normal sized apartment you live in

1696
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 4: or house, or live in a tiny apartment right next

1697
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 4: to your job.

1698
01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 2: Oh, I would rather live in a tiny apartment right

1699
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 2: now next to my job, no question, inspactor.

1700
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 3: There is no nothing in the world that is going

1701
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 3: to make me sit through two hours of traffic.

1702
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 2: You insane.

1703
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I like my Space. I'm taking

1704
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: the two hour commute each way. I'll find a way

1705
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: to listen to pods and I'll listen to more Fox

1706
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: Sports Radio in the process. You got one more quick

1707
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: one for us, yeah.

1708
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 2: Company man, all right?

1709
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:20,719
Speaker 1: Today?

1710
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 4: Would you rather be a forty nine ers fan or

1711
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 4: a commander's fan?

1712
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 1: Commanders? Commanders all day? Buck, what do you got?

1713
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 2: Commanders?

1714
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 3: They've had it so bad for so long, and now

1715
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 3: they get to be they get to be the bill

1716
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 3: of the ball.

1717
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 2: It's not so bad.

1718
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: Look at that. Hey, we couldn't have done this show

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Speaker 1: without Ian by the way, producer extraordinaire Mary on the

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Speaker 1: board absolutely doing great work, and of course Martin giving

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Speaker 1: us all the updates. So this was the first time

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Speaker 1: Buck Rising and I, after ten years of friendship, got

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Speaker 1: to be together on radio, which is incredibly meaningful. So

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Speaker 1: we have to take a second and thank the bank,

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Speaker 1: the bosses at Fox Sports Radio. Buck, anything you want to.

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Speaker 2: Say, uh yeah, have me back. I had fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, that was it. Like I queued

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Speaker 1: you up for all of that and you gave me.

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Speaker 1: Have me back. He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next on Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Hartman VJ Husky

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Speaker 1: Don't Go Anywhere. Thanks for letting us entertain you for

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Speaker 1: the last few hours.