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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Hello and welcome inside our two of the

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: and my bass friend Mike Harmon in for Dan and

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Speaker 1: the Danettes. Today. They are on their way to Chicago

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Speaker 1: to broadcast the Knicks Bulls Eastern Conference preview final tonight.

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Speaker 1: All right, they're not going to do that there for

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Speaker 1: They're going the radio. Well, I don't know. They can

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Speaker 1: split time, can't they can't you zoom in? Wait didn't

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Speaker 1: you guys travel to Chicago? Well, we multitask. Listen. You

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Speaker 1: don't need me at that ceremony, right because I really

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Speaker 1: I got core side for Knicks balls, and like, this

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Speaker 1: is a really big game, so I'm gonna go there instead.

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Speaker 1: If that works? Is this big enough for Spike Lee?

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Speaker 1: Do show up for? Well? It's Joe Kim Noah Knight, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so, I mean that's a that's a big

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Speaker 1: enough night because you're talking about a night about heart

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Speaker 1: and a night about trying hard, because you know, Joe

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Speaker 1: Kim Noah tried harder than any player whoever played an

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Speaker 1: NBA before in history, especially when he got all that

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Speaker 1: money from the Nixon did nothing. So yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: think Joe Kim Noah Knight is pretty big. Oh how

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Speaker 1: about this one? Does Phil Jackson emerge from seclusion? Oh? Why? Wow?

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Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think this is a

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Speaker 1: Phil job. Sudd's hey and whistling really loud and scaring

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Speaker 1: the hell out of people in the front row. He's back.

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Speaker 1: He's back. It's kind of like Voldemort. He's back. He's back.

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Speaker 1: From now on. You put your faith in me, and

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Speaker 1: then no, Phil get out. Yeah, I think it's too

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Speaker 1: early in this season. If it does become an Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference final series, then Phil Jackson comes out, because then

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Speaker 1: you would hear announcer say, and there's Phil Jackson, whose fingerprints,

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Speaker 1: of course for years all over both of these teams.

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Speaker 1: Leaving out the fact that, boy, the Knicks really got

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Speaker 1: good when they got rid of him, and then they

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Speaker 1: brought in a whole bunch of other people, and Leon

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Speaker 1: Rose came into. The Knicks are in the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: look how good things are. So I don't think tonight

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Speaker 1: as a Phil Jackson games. Also the curiosity of why

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Speaker 1: we're having these celebratories. I know, he's only coming to

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Speaker 1: town so many times, and you can do this, you know,

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Speaker 1: with these teams matching up. But second week of the

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Speaker 1: season seems seems a little early for the celebratory victory

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Speaker 1: lap games. Don't you normally wait and try to figure

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Speaker 1: out how the winds blowing in your season? Man, Obviously

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Speaker 1: you don't want to Washington Football team Sean Taylor thing

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Speaker 1: where it's Tuesday and you start calling people to show

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Speaker 1: up on Sunday. But I don't know, Week two of

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Speaker 1: the season seems a little little, little early, Mike. Don't

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Speaker 1: you know this always could be as good as it gets,

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Speaker 1: So you have to go with it right now, ydefeated ball. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Look, I told you before the season started.

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Speaker 1: I like both of our teams to be able to

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Speaker 1: take big leap sword like everybody's making the big leaps

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Speaker 1: in the East. The Heat are really good. The Bucks

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Speaker 1: bunch of games even without Kyrie. The Knicks improved in

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Speaker 1: a large way. They were great defensively. What did they

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Speaker 1: need scoring? What did they get scoring? They have an

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Speaker 1: underrated second unit. The Knicks are legit. The Bulls are legit.

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Speaker 1: This I mean Zach Levine's hand injuries a lot to watch. Mean,

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Speaker 1: these are two teams that are up and coming that

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Speaker 1: this is where all the talent is. This is where

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Speaker 1: all the improvement was made this year in the East.

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Speaker 1: Those teams in the West. Everybody else was just kind

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Speaker 1: of hoping their injured players came back and they played well.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers made the bold move for Russell Westbrook. But

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Speaker 1: all that improvement, all the teams are gonna see that

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Knicks, Bulls Eastern Conference. You can watch

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Speaker 1: the companion broadcast, and the Mannings are going to do it.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna broadcast Nick's bowls as as as a specialist

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's like political season where you've got

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Speaker 1: don't think the other coaches in the SEC get five

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Speaker 1: the Arch Manning show? Oh? Look, Patrid's Gerald Northwestern is here.

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Speaker 1: But that would be pretty cool. Hey, we actually have

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Speaker 1: the Manning broadcast. That's great, Yeah, but it's Archie and

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Speaker 1: arch What do you want to watch it? Done? All right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I've only been waiting on one of those national

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Speaker 1: is the matchup of the year so far on national television.

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Speaker 1: The Packers are trying to play this game without any

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Speaker 1: to be able to say, this is an Aaron Rodgers game.

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Speaker 1: So whoever wins tonight is going to be that midseason

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Speaker 1: And if the Packers, it's more of the deification of

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Speaker 1: And I again, I'd love to pick the Packers. They

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Speaker 1: go out the window. Arizona wins. This a big night

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Speaker 1: from Kyler Murray. I'm saying, like thirty five seventeen, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals win. Look at you, you're taking the over. Then

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Speaker 1: it's at fifty and a half. Line started as Cardinals

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Speaker 1: I don't think we get the blowout that you're anticipating.

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Speaker 1: Why guts Gile and just the opportunity, the odd play

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Speaker 1: The curiosity becomes, can you can you get and surmount

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Speaker 1: We're talking about one letter of different. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: not in the firefighters. You can honor whoever you want,

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Speaker 1: but you're saying brave. So but they're stuck in their

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Speaker 1: ways about this, and they told the season tickeloholders, we're

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Speaker 1: not changing, uh, you know. And they weren't supposed to

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Speaker 1: do the tomahawk chop anymore. They weren't supposed to encourage it.

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Speaker 1: They say, well, we can't stop the fans. But you

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Speaker 1: know now the scoreboard actually encouraged it, you know, and

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Speaker 1: us you know, you know, very offensive. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a uh you'll hear it loud and clear. Uh on

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Speaker 1: game three, Bob, do you see this changing? I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: we always see Look when there's controversy in sports, when

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Speaker 1: the spotlight is on the sport, that's when you see

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Speaker 1: the most movement. Do you see any movement in braves

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Speaker 1: and the tomahawk chop going forward? I think that's gonna

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Speaker 1: take a while. And I mean, look how long it

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Speaker 1: took in Washington with you with the redskin nickname. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's how blatant was that that took forever to get changed.

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Speaker 1: And what's what the corporate sponsor decided to pull out.

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Speaker 1: You know, they said, okay, you know, we'll do it

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Speaker 1: now too. Cleveland took forever. This is gonna take. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna take a while. You know a lot of

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Speaker 1: times it takes, you know, another team, another sport. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why, you know what, I like when Stamford

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Speaker 1: changed their nickname back in the day and Saint John's.

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Speaker 1: You know, colleges do it. All team change their nickname

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Speaker 1: and nobody has a problem with it. But I think

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Speaker 1: the all their fans get stuck in their ways and

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Speaker 1: don't want to see it changed. I mean, people are

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Speaker 1: still playing in Cleveland about you know, changing to the

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Speaker 1: Guardians well, which is still under dispute because you've got

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Speaker 1: a roller derby team that wants to sue them, and

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Speaker 1: they grossly over exaggerated the amount of income because that's

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Speaker 1: the most successful roller derby team nobody's ever heard of.

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Speaker 1: If they're making money the rate they were glaiming based

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Speaker 1: on that ten thousand dollars offer from the the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: brass to to have that nickname. But they pay out

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Speaker 1: and just get this settled, or is this going to

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Speaker 1: drag on too? But I think they get settled. I

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Speaker 1: mean I think they'll uh. I mean, certainly some money

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Speaker 1: from the UH to his baseball franchise. Had to know

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Speaker 1: about that, like, okay, especially in town. You know this,

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Speaker 1: so you know, this team's already called the Guardians, so

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Speaker 1: they must not have thouas a big deal. I would

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Speaker 1: think they'll do some kind of uh, you know, small

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Speaker 1: type of settlements say okay, yeah, here's here's your money.

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Speaker 1: We know it's infringement, right, but certainly it can't have

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Speaker 1: caught them by surprise. I mean, if they did it

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Speaker 1: a little homework. Hey, Bob, lastly, uh, going forward here,

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Speaker 1: obviously you've been around to get Look, I think, are

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Speaker 1: you in baggage claim right now? Like where did you

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Speaker 1: just like you just landed in Atlanta? Are you still

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Speaker 1: in the airport baggage tame number three? Here? I am there?

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Speaker 1: You go, Hey, get Bob's backs to him. He's got

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Speaker 1: a game to do. Uh. How much talk has there been,

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Speaker 1: whether it's you know, you guys talking about it around

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Speaker 1: the team about the astro signs dealing scamble you know it.

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Speaker 1: You know we'll hear a lot more talk game three,

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Speaker 1: because then you can see Atlanta fans, you know, going

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Speaker 1: crazy and booing, but not so much. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think it helps when they put Chris Batson of the

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Speaker 1: Open Age just came out recently and said, you know

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Speaker 1: what this. You know everybody, you know, most teams are cheating.

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Speaker 1: They used to happing that caught they had a whistle blower,

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Speaker 1: and it's too bad. Everybody knew what was going on.

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Speaker 1: Nobody want to do anything about it, but stopped. And

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Speaker 1: then I agree with that. I just think, you know,

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Speaker 1: if if they didn't have Mike Fiers in it talk,

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Speaker 1: they would have got away with it. You know. It's

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Speaker 1: a little bit like, uh, you know, the guy's been

494
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Speaker 1: a biogenesis skinned all of the steroid use. It's like

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Speaker 1: everybody taunt you know, doing stuff and until someone gets caught,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then no one does anything about it.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a you know, people are still

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Speaker 1: mad everything else, but you know, there's only four players

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Speaker 1: left on the Astros team. You know, you know that

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Speaker 1: that we're a part of it, so you know, at

501
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Speaker 1: some point you've gotta let it go. From baggage claim

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Speaker 1: number three, USA Today Baseball insider Bob Knight and Galley's

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at b Night and Gale, Bob appreciate the time,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the games. We'll talk to you soon. All right,

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Speaker 1: sounds great, Thank you guys. Safe drives, Bob. All right,

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Speaker 1: there goes Bob Night and Gale, Bob and all. Today's

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Speaker 1: your local dealership for a test drive today. Now the

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Speaker 1: thing is, you know, talk about the tomahawk chop and Braves.

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Speaker 1: I agree, it's going to be a process because it

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Speaker 1: was one for the Washington football team. But this is where,

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Speaker 1: now that they're playing at home, you're going to see

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Speaker 1: the tomahawk chop. It's going to become a story. Right

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Speaker 1: the first two games of the series in Houston obviously,

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Speaker 1: oh here the Braves. Yeah, I get it. But now

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Speaker 1: that they're at home, and as Bob said, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be encouraged. Now is when you're going to see

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Speaker 1: the spotlight come on this. It's going to be on

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Speaker 1: the Braves and their nickname, the Cleveland Indians changing the

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Speaker 1: name to the Guardians. This is where it becomes a

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Speaker 1: hot button topic. Now it just means we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: something in the off season. Probably not, but we'll look

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Speaker 1: back at this moment and say, this is when the

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Speaker 1: Boulders started rolling downhill for the Braves for a nickname

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Speaker 1: change or to eliminate the tomahawk chop. This is that moment,

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Speaker 1: because this is when it's gotten a national attention. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about the World Series. You have teams where

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Speaker 1: it look quite frankly, unless you're a big baseball fan,

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Speaker 1: you don't know a lot of the names. Right, You're

530
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Speaker 1: in it because you're rooting for the Braves because they're

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Speaker 1: America's team, right, because for the first time since the

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Speaker 1: mid nineties, Hey, we really want the Braves to win.

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Speaker 1: Right in the mid nineties, it was oh, we hate

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Speaker 1: the Pirates and Barry Bonds. Let's I hope this team wins.

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Speaker 1: Terry Pendleton is great, Ron Gant, Dave Justice. Look at

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Speaker 1: the Braves, there's so much fun. They've stunk for so

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Speaker 1: long since they had Murphy and Horner. Oh look out,

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Speaker 1: great there. Now they're America's team again. Because everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to see the Astros lose. So when you're looking for storylines,

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Speaker 1: because you know, as much as you can talk about

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Speaker 1: Charlie Morton pitching on a broken leg, it's Charlie Morton

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Speaker 1: and he pitched a couple of innings. It's hard. This

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Speaker 1: is something that people can sink their teeth into and go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh wow. This is a big controversy now and it

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Speaker 1: plays into what we saw with the Washington football team

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Speaker 1: and Cleveland now being the guardians. Well when it adds, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the layer of Manford in his address to everybody, right,

548
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Speaker 1: the commissioner's address said end of story and kind of

549
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Speaker 1: said this is what it is. So the backlash on

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Speaker 1: him and with a pending work stoppage, and as we

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Speaker 1: talk to Bob and John Morrossi and our other baseball

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Speaker 1: insiders getting into this offseason, I got to imagine that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of the talk around the water cooler as

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Speaker 1: well that this this also becomes one of the big

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Speaker 1: fighting points against Rob Manford, not necessarily in the players

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Speaker 1: you know, and the players Association, Right, that's all about dollars, cents,

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Speaker 1: treatment of players, minor league testing policy, all of those things,

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Speaker 1: a swirl in games and expansion of the seasons. But

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Speaker 1: behind it, you start getting that public thrust. The morning

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Speaker 1: shows start jumping on this, and it becomes a much

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Speaker 1: bigger issue, you know, and going forward, with this. As

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Speaker 1: I mentioned with Bob, look, as far as the games itself,

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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to see the Braves as a

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Speaker 1: team that can use this this home field advantage and

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Speaker 1: close this series out because of the pitching issues they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have. But neither team is a great team, right.

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Speaker 1: These are good teams that got hot at the right time. Look,

568
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Speaker 1: because that's how it works in baseball, right, the best

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Speaker 1: teams make it and the hottest teams win it, right

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Speaker 1: more so than any other sport, because it's a couple

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Speaker 1: of series. It's long, but it's not NBA playoffs long.

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Speaker 1: If you get hot for a couple of weeks, you

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Speaker 1: can win the World Series. And the Braves are flawed.

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Speaker 1: Their lineup isn't that great. Their pitching is good, but

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Speaker 1: now it's really struggling when you don't know what you're

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Speaker 1: going to get out of your race and your other

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Speaker 1: races now out for the postseason. The Astros also aren't

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Speaker 1: a great team. Like we still have this image of

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Speaker 1: the Astros as boy, look at all these guys that

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Speaker 1: can ray coming off the sign stealing scandal. But as

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Speaker 1: Bob said, look, there's only four guys left. Everybody else

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Speaker 1: is gone. But because it's Altwove and Korea, two of

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Speaker 1: the biggest, most popular faces of it. This is how

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Speaker 1: we think of the Astros. But this is not the

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Speaker 1: Astros's rolling out Cole and Verlander and hey, good luck guys,

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Speaker 1: because we got a dynasty building here. This is a

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00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: flawed team, but both of them were good enough to

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Speaker 1: get in and they got hot at the right time.

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Speaker 1: So I don't see either team being able to pull

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Speaker 1: away from the other. I don't see the Braves winning

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Speaker 1: three games in Atlanta. If I had my money, I

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Speaker 1: would say this series is going seven, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a tight series all the way through because

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Speaker 1: neither team is that good to say all right now

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Speaker 1: it's time for us to exert our will on this series. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the hope is that we get seven. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: you want to see it drag out. I would like

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Speaker 1: it to not come down to just bullpen guys that

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00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: have nothing left. So it's you know, on fumes because

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Speaker 1: as of right now, I think that's what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get as those drags out right, the Astros hitter, they're

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Speaker 1: just gonna be too dialed in. We talk about the

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Speaker 1: historic stuff, al Twove's doing. He's tied for second all

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Speaker 1: time in postseason home runs, and Bernie Williams is there,

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Speaker 1: and then your leader is Manny Ramirez with twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: Al Twove already with twenty two. You wouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: thinking about him as mister October, but there he is.

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Speaker 1: Well when for most of the part, you know, you

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Speaker 1: have that buzzer right too soon. Look I I just

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Speaker 1: lobbed that up for you to dunk it, or I

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Speaker 1: you stole the inbound pass, you know, like a Carmelo Anthony.

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Speaker 1: Just don't airballing and you actually hit the spot with

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Speaker 1: your jokes, so it work. I still like Darius Basley

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Speaker 1: went in for the dunk and got yelled at by

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. Get up by Lawn Twitter at how about

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Speaker 1: a frescoup Mike at Smollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with Mike Harmon is our show heard nights here on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio or in for Dan and the Dan.

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Speaker 1: That's today. We'll have more baseball coming up in a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But just because you know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: this a few minutes ago in the Deshaun Watson situation

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Speaker 1: where the Panthers have dropped out of the bidding for Watson,

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Speaker 1: Matt Rule said today, Hey, we feel confident with Sam

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Speaker 1: Darnold as our quarterback. I mean, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the hell else is he gonna say. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you did it with a straight face, but you know, quote,

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Speaker 1: we feel really good about Sam Darnold as our quarterback. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's just stop for one second. Let's just stop. You

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Speaker 1: bench the guy last week, right, I told you he's

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Speaker 1: just a guy. You got him thinking magically, will get

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Speaker 1: him away from the Jets, and he's gonna be good

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Speaker 1: because you know, Jets everything. It's just about being in

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Speaker 1: New York and being a Jet, which is why he

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Speaker 1: was bad. I can't say that I would, though, Jason, No,

635
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: well that is true. I mean, given your there's a reason.

636
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: There's a reason people had that suspicion and wanted to

637
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: believe it because he can't possibly be this band. It's

638
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: got to be an organizational thing. Yeah. No, no, I'm

639
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: not saying this was some Reddit thread that got out

640
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: of hand. No, I mean, really, you you get away

641
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: from the Jets. I mean, there's his tree there, buddy. Yeah. Oh, look,

642
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson got away and look oh he's great, But

643
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: it was it was this belief that all Adam gasee

644
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: is screwed up Sam Darnold, and Darnold's great, and once

645
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: you get away from Adam Gase, look how great things

646
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: are going to be. Uh. Recently, the only guy that's

647
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: gotten away from the Jets that they've traded or gotten

648
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: rid of that's been good has been Leonard Williams, and

649
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: the Jets actually got a decent trade back for him.

650
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: While I'm sure they'd glad to have his production, they

651
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: still got a decent move back for everybody else they

652
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: gotten rid of. They've all stunk. They've proven that once

653
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: they're a Jet, they can't get it out. You can't

654
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: get it out of your system. There. Still the Jets

655
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: are n't me. And that's what's going on with Donald.

656
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: Even when Darnold was playing well, I told you he's

657
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: just a guy, all right. Even that first game against

658
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: the Jets, first game of the season, he missed many

659
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: open wide receivers. His footwork is not good, and he's

660
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: someone that wants to throw the football early. Now, whatever

661
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: it is, whatever he's hearing, if he's seen ghosts, he

662
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: is just a guy. This is his fourth year in

663
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: the league. Now, this is not He had one year

664
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Speaker 1: with the Jets and maybe he got up and he

665
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: goes someplace else and suddenly he's really really good. Donald

666
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Speaker 1: is just a guy I knew going to Carolina. This

667
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: is what's gonna happen. Look, they had three easy games

668
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: to start the season, and he had some weapons, so

669
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: he played passively. Now he's one of the worst quarterbacks

670
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And without Christian McCaffrey, clearly this offense

671
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: can't go anywhere. And the Panthers have given away their

672
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: three and oh start. They made trades for big cornerbacks,

673
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: thinking this is our year because Sam Darnold's our guy.

674
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Speaker 1: And now he's benched, and I guarantee you this, he'll

675
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: be benched again and he'll lose his job for the

676
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Speaker 1: end of the season. Right, he's in his last year

677
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Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback in the NFL. We talked about

678
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield having a couple of weeks left to prove

679
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: that he's the Browns guy before the Browns say, you

680
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: know what, case Keendom's gonna be our guy for the

681
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: rest of twenty twenty one. Sam Donold's only going to

682
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Speaker 1: start a handful more games in the NFL because already

683
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: the Panthers, no, we have to move on. Their interest

684
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: into Shaun Watson was renewed, likely he was told I

685
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: don't want to go there, so they had to back off.

686
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: Now they got to remake things with Sam Donald. They

687
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: went all in on him and thought he was going

688
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,479
Speaker 1: to be the guy. He's not. If they benched him once,

689
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: they'll bench him again. He's not gonna suddenly turn around

690
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: and start seeing receivers right. He's not gonna suddenly turn

691
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: his footwork isn't gonna get great overnight. He's not gonna

692
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: throw the football on timing routes when he should because

693
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: it's his fourth year in the league. This is just

694
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: who he is. So what's gonna happen is he's gonna

695
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: play poorly. They'll go to PJ. Walker to try to

696
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: save the season, and they're gonna be in the market

697
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: for a quarterback the beginning of next year, and Darnold's

698
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: gonna go somewhere as a backup and hope to get

699
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: tannehilld meaning that, hey, if I go somewhere for a

700
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: couple of years and backup and stay in the same system,

701
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: if I get a chance, maybe I can mature enough

702
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: and I can get another chance to start. I can

703
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: play well and get a big Ryan Tannehill contract. That's

704
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: the present and the future for Sam Darnold. Certainly seen

705
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: a lot of super cuts of Sam Darnold over the

706
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: course of the week. And no, I'm not making reference

707
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: to you know, him having nice hair, the fact that

708
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: his drops aren't deep enough, he's not letting guys get

709
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: into route. Some of them are just incredible three four steps,

710
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: you know, the five step quick quick back, and he's

711
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: rocking into his throw and guys aren't finishing the routes.

712
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: Orlovsky had one. I know he had Fox. We've had

713
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: a number of those cuts, and it's just the question of,

714
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: all right, can you teach at this point or is

715
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: that just the way you have to work? Right, And

716
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: let's be fair about it. You've got DJ Moore and

717
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: a lot of nothing. Robbie Anderson, Yeah, just because they

718
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: played with the Jets and they had that one big

719
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: playback in week one. It's a long time ago, new

720
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: day yesterday, but it's an old day now, as they say.

721
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: And that offensive line was terrible, but we knew that

722
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: coming into the season. But here's the thing. Nobody's trading

723
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: you offensive lineman in season. Why because nobody's got enough

724
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: of them. Right, you can can find the the odd

725
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: defensive back that's not able to crack, you know, a

726
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: bigger snap count. But yeah, this is this is a

727
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: tough run for Sam Darnold, and like, you can only

728
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Speaker 1: beat who's on the schedule. So I'll defend that early

729
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: start because you can only do the show that day

730
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Speaker 1: based on the information that you have. And at that

731
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: point they were winning and Matt Rule looked like he

732
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: built a dynasty, unless he didn't. As Berman would say, TJ.

733
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: Matt definitely not ruling the last month with the Packers,

734
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Speaker 1: with the Panthers teaching Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for

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Speaker 1: action live on November fifth and sixth. Well coming up next,

741
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Speaker 1: another quarterback who may or may not be wanted by

742
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Speaker 1: his current team, said, I don't not feel not wanted

743
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: by them? Yeah, why he needs to be traded by

744
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: the deadline? Coming up next right here, This is Fox

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756
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Speaker 1: Harmon in for Dan and the Dan Nettes. Today, Well,

757
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Speaker 1: we talked about Sam Darnald a few minutes ago and

758
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 1: how the Panthers really want to move on no matter

759
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: what they're saying about how Grady is and I told

760
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: you Darnald was just a guy. But speaking of moving on,

761
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: the latest involving to a tongue of Valoa who Now

762
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: that we get more stories about the Deshaun Watson situation,

763
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: how the Panthers have dropped out, the Dolphins are his

764
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: personal destination. Potentially there's a trade already worked out. The

765
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 1: Dolls just want clarity on Watson's legal situation. Going forward

766
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: to a Tevaloa was asked about his status with the

767
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: Dolphins and how much they like him, and he said, quote,

768
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: I don't not feel wanted, which kind of sounds pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I like that. It's like a country music song, right,

770
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 1: Like that's that's something you would hear coming up. Alan

771
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: Jackson's guy, I don't not feel wanted here on coming up,

772
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: Darius Rucker and I don't not feel wanted coming up.

773
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: So here's two us saying I don't not feel wanted

774
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: by the Dolphins, which is not saying I feel wanted.

775
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: It's I don't feel not wanted, which is as luke

776
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: warm away as you could say. I think they like me,

777
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: because you sure, I'm sure what's going on behind closed

778
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: doors is blind. Brian Flores is telling him, hey, block

779
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: everything out, you're my guy, go out do your thing.

780
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: We need you, but clearly he knows that they don't

781
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: want him as their quarterback. Right, the guy just had

782
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: two three hundred yard games back to back with the

783
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: pressure on him, and all anybody can talk about as

784
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: well he threw those two picks. Well, he also threw

785
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: for three hundred yards and four touchdowns against the Falcons.

786
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 1: But no, let's talk about the picks, and the picks

787
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: aren't great, and the Falcons scored touchdowns off of both

788
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: of them. But this is about finding out if two

789
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: a tongue of Iloa can be your franchise quarterback. And

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00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: the guys played well in spurts. It's not like he

791
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: hasn't shown you that he's got at something. No, he's

792
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: shown you, hey, I can do it. You'd had to

793
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: let him get healthy from last year, give him the

794
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: keys to run the offense. But the Dolphins don't want

795
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: to do it. They want to Shaun Watson. It's clear

796
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: you know what I do. If I'm toa I say, okay,

797
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: you know what. I can only hear this so much.

798
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna sit me and you're gonna trade me at

799
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: the deadline because clearly you don't want me to be

800
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Speaker 1: your quarterback and I don't want to play and get

801
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: hurt and then next year I have to worry about

802
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: finding a gig. I want you to trade me to

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00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: a new team because you want to get rid of

804
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: me so I can get there and I can jump

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00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: in and I can play. Because if I play the

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00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: rest of the season, something happens to me, then my

807
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: potential earning goes out the window and my odds getting

808
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback job go away. So you find a

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Speaker 1: team that wants me, whether it's Washington or somebody else,

810
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: and you trade me. Because for this point, for two,

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for the guy. I mean, all he's

812
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: had to hear is that, hey, you're not our guy.

813
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: You're not our guy, and you know the organization doesn't

814
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: want you. So you know what, stand up and say

815
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: you're not gonna ruin me. And I'm not gonna sit

816
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: here and get hurt and then have to worry about

817
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: the rest of my career. So I'm gonna sit out,

818
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: You're gonna trade me by the deadline and we can

819
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: all move forward. That's what I do. If I'm too

820
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: I pull that power play on the Dolphins because it's

821
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: clear he's got no future there where you're in the seat,

822
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: but you know they covet something else. Well, yeah, you

823
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: can do that in your in your life, right, better

824
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: deal people, and you're like, yeah, I'll go with you

825
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: to the concert. Hey wait, no, I got I got

826
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: a better concert down the road. So I'm out because

827
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Speaker 1: I think they liked to h right. I think anybody

828
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: that's watched him play, there's stuff to like. Remember coming

829
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Speaker 1: off the hip injury last year, no off season, all

830
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 1: of those things, a lot of questions. Still completed sixty

831
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Speaker 1: four percent of his passes, eleven touchdowns, five picks in

832
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Speaker 1: the ten games that he played, six and three record,

833
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: and then you come in this year, injuries at wide receiver,

834
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Speaker 1: some other issues, Still completing sixty nine percent of his passes,

835
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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, four picks. Yeah, the one in three record.

836
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Speaker 1: But I think maybe we were all buffaloed into how

837
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: good a roster this truly was? Right? This is and

838
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: their defense hasn't been what was advertised. Like you add

839
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Speaker 1: them to the short list of Washington and maybe one

840
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: or two other teams to say, all right, their defenses

841
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: are are far worse than what we're anticipated, and it's

842
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: taken everything else with them. So yeah, for two, I

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Speaker 1: That's where he's got to be at this point. I mean,

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