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Speaker 2: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire. What is up

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Speaker 2: straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: December nineteenth, and wo whoa the football? The football was

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Speaker 2: crazy last night. The Philadelphia Eagles nearly lead wire to

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Speaker 2: wire and then come up on the losing end in

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Speaker 2: one of the most incredible final two minutes that I've

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Speaker 2: seen this season. And there's been wacky football all around

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Speaker 2: the league, but I did not have Drew Locke going

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Speaker 2: ninety two yards in a two minute drill for the

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Speaker 2: go ahead touchdown against the defending NFC champs, And the

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Speaker 2: second order effect of the Eagles loss are enormous. And

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Speaker 2: I would say, listen, you never want to go overboard

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Speaker 2: because you never know what can happen. But the San

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Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers are the biggest winners, bigger than Seattle,

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Speaker 2: which obviously it helps their playoff ramifications. Cowboys are big

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Speaker 2: winners because they're now back in the mix to win

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Speaker 2: the NFC East. But the biggest winners by a mile

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Speaker 2: are the San Francisco forty nine ers, the favorites to

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Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. They now have inside track on

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Speaker 2: home field advantage, three games left. Yes, they played Baltimore

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Speaker 2: on Monday night, and what I think is a dangerous

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Speaker 2: spot and I would probably lean Ravens. I'm gonna wait

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Speaker 2: for a six if I'll get one. But you've got

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Speaker 2: to assume even if the Niners lose, because they beat

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys and Eagles head to head, if they're tied,

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Speaker 2: they get the number one seed. So maybe Detroit sneaks

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Speaker 2: in there. I don't personally see that, but right now

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Speaker 2: things look great for the Niners, and boy, we are

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Speaker 2: way beyond the panic button pushed in Philadelphia as the

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Speaker 2: defense chiefly, Holy hell, James Brad Listen, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of people in the sports were waking up this morning

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Speaker 2: who might have gone to bed early, you know, wrapping

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Speaker 2: Christmas gifts, thinking the Eagles have this locked up, and

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Speaker 2: they're gonna wake up and see this and be like,

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Speaker 2: what the what? Before the final drive, Seattle had two

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Speaker 2: hundred and five yards of total offense. I could move

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Speaker 2: a football. It's terrible. Maybe Matt Patricia was working and

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Speaker 2: then when it mattered most, Drew Lock, the immortal Drew Lock,

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Speaker 2: Misery's finest. I don't know if he's better than Chase Daniel,

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Speaker 2: but he Drew Lock had a good college career, goes

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Speaker 2: ninety two yards. But here's the worst part, and Philadelphia

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Speaker 2: fans gotta be super pissed at this. So James Bradbury

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Speaker 2: was one of the best corners in the league last year. Now,

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Speaker 2: it helps to be an awesome corner when your pass

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Speaker 2: rush is incredible. And if you guys remember the Eagles

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Speaker 2: last year, their front seven was just overwhelming, folks, and

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Speaker 2: they set an NFL record for that sacks. I think

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Speaker 2: they had like seventy something. The Eagles. The defensive front

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Speaker 2: was so overwhelming that the secondary was awesome. And the

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Speaker 2: secondary you know, only got lit up basically by Patrick

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Speaker 2: Mahomes in the Super Bowl. But everybody Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 2: that's what he does. So James Bradbury comes back and

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Speaker 2: after what was I don't know if I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: go spectacular year last year, but according to Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 2: he graded out as the twenty seventh best corner in

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Speaker 2: the league. Like, listen, everybody starts two corners twenty seven

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Speaker 2: out of one hundred eighteen, dude, that's up resh line.

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Speaker 2: Bradbury has regressed massively this year. Now, cornerbacks we know

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Speaker 2: at thirty ten to hit a wall. Bradbury it turned

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Speaker 2: thirty back in August. He now has graded out as

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Speaker 2: the eighty eighth best cornerback in the league. In folks,

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Speaker 2: that final drive is like a nightmare for Bradbury. Listen,

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Speaker 2: obviously you love when I referenced my men's basketball leagues.

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Speaker 2: There have been games where I know I didn't play well,

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Speaker 2: and I'm never gonna blame myself for the loss because,

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Speaker 2: like listen, I'm not one of the stars on the team.

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Speaker 2: I surrounded. The team was awesome players. But like anytime

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Speaker 2: I have like a rough night, I'm not even kidding

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Speaker 2: men's basketball league, that shit eats me up. I'm not

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Speaker 2: even kidding. You know, I'm competitive. It hurts, and I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm wounded. I'm like, damn, I let my team down.

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Speaker 2: That was terrible. Okay, magnify that by your a quarterback

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Speaker 2: on an NFL team that gives up four catches on

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Speaker 2: the final drive. DK metcalf for the first three and

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Speaker 2: and it's like, oh my gosh, like at what point,

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Speaker 2: DK I think it was third and ten and Drew

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Speaker 2: Lock just chucked it up. I'm like, oh, that looks

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Speaker 2: like it's going out of bounds. Somehow it was in bounds,

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Speaker 2: and somehow Metcalf went up and beat two guys for it,

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Speaker 2: but he got bad Bradbury first, and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: you just look around. You're like, holy shit, the Eagles

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Speaker 2: have led this entire game and now Drew Lock NA

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Speaker 2: like forty five seconds and it just uncorks one and

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Speaker 2: runs right by Bradbury fingertip grab touchdown and I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 2: My kids are like, you know, my wife went out

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Speaker 2: to like a mom Christmas thing and I'm sitting here

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Speaker 2: with the kids and I'm like, you know, okay, guys,

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Speaker 2: And as soon as that pass connected, I was like, WHOA,

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Speaker 2: do your thing, guys. I gotta strap in here. Eagles

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Speaker 2: have time mouths, they got time and that's when it

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Speaker 2: gets weird. Philadelphia Poise veterans. Jalen Hurts is not necessarily

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Speaker 2: a veteran, but are pros pro He's been in adversity before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy went to totoe with Mahomes in the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Jalen Hurts is seen adversity. He was at Alabama,

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Speaker 2: lost his job, two up ounce back at Oklahoma got

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Speaker 2: them to the playoff. Like, he's been through some stuff.

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Speaker 2: And Jalen Hurts, you know, they got a great kicker.

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Speaker 2: You're like, oh, they got some timeouts. They got a

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Speaker 2: little bit. It's like twenty six seconds left, twenty eight

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Speaker 2: seconds something like that. But that's plenty of time in

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Speaker 2: the NFL with your timeouts. And for some reason that

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen like a legitimate answer, Jalen Hurts and

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Speaker 2: what I can only express is a Hannick throw. Just

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Speaker 2: chucks one down the sideline looking for aj Brown and

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Speaker 2: Julian Love, the former Notre Dame drad two picks on

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Speaker 2: the night. Julian Love with just an incredible toe tap.

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Speaker 2: I think he was kind of saved on the second

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Speaker 2: foot by his other defender who like hit him, which

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Speaker 2: slowed his foot from flying out of bounds and both

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Speaker 2: feed are in and it's like, oh my gosh. First

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Speaker 2: of all, why did it hurts?

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Speaker 1: Throw that?

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Speaker 2: You're like fifteen to twenty yards away from Jake Elliott.

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Speaker 2: Remember this is the guy who had like a sixty

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Speaker 2: yarder or fifty nine yard or maybe it was sixty

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Speaker 2: a couple weeks back against the Bills. He's hit some

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Speaker 2: bombs against doubt like, this guy's a great kicker. What

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Speaker 2: are you doing chucking it way down the field? Don't.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen an answer that is a good one.

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Speaker 2: And now you've got a Philadelphia Eagles team that is

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Speaker 2: and I'm using this politely reeling. We're talking about a

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Speaker 2: ten and fourteen that is leaking oil here late in

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Speaker 2: the season, the defense, which look good under Matt Patricia

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Speaker 2: for fifty nine fifty sorry, fifty eight minutes, and then

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Speaker 2: when it mattered, can't stop Drew Lock. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: Mahomes goes down the field, gets you the game when

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Speaker 2: he touched down, Hey, it happens. It's Patrick Mahomes. I

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Speaker 2: get it. You know you want to say just I'll

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Speaker 2: throw Justin Herbert out there.

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Speaker 1: He's hurt.

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Speaker 2: Let's get throw the guy a bone and Rob g

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Speaker 2: I'll hate it. Justin Herbert goes down the field. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you lost to his stud quarterback. You know Joe Burrow

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Speaker 2: pulls that off. Okay, I get it talking about Drew Lock. Now,

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. I missed the beginning of this game.

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Speaker 2: I was out getting Christmas presents. No, I did not

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Speaker 2: go into a mall. I did the whole thing where

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Speaker 2: you go to the store and they bring it out

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Speaker 2: to you, and then I had to pick up dinner.

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Speaker 2: So I'm kind of watching it on my phone and

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Speaker 2: I'm getting text so I'm not totally lucking. And maybe

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Speaker 2: Rob can help me explain this. I saw Gino Smith

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Speaker 2: was active for the game, but then he wasn't out

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Speaker 2: during warm ups, and then Drew Lock trots onto the field,

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Speaker 2: like I'm just perplexed. I don't even know why Drew

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Speaker 2: Locke was out there. That is Pete Carroll's guy. And Rob,

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Speaker 2: I'm just the whole thing bewildered me, from the Drew

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Speaker 2: idiotic throw, and now the Eagles are looking at worst

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Speaker 2: case scenario are road game in the opening round. They

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Speaker 2: should be fine against Tampa or whoever wins that awful division,

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Speaker 2: but I think they're out of the mix for homefield advantage.

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Speaker 2: It's San Frans in the NFC, and I mean, you

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Speaker 2: got smoked at home by San Fran I don't know, man. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Eagles are leaking oil badly here, Rob, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is if you flash back

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago, yesterday, Jalen Hurds had just ending engineered

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Speaker 1: yet another fourth quarter comeback win for the Eagles, that

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Speaker 1: one coming against the Buffalo Bills, Right, and just think

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Speaker 1: about where we are today, how Eagles fans are feeling

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Speaker 1: juxtaposed with how Bills fans are feeling after what happened

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Speaker 1: on Sunday and Monday here this week, Jalen Hurds, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with him because it can't be

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Speaker 1: simply as simple. It can't be as simple as oh,

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Speaker 1: he's just not feeling well, right because they said it

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Speaker 1: was the knee, and then he's kind of sick this

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Speaker 1: separately from the t But that's fine. But you don't

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Speaker 1: don't go from winning eight straight games when trailing by

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Speaker 1: ten or more points, having a one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: eight point six passer rating when trailing in the second

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Speaker 1: half in overtime, engineering multiple ten plus point second half deficits,

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Speaker 1: and getting these wins to what we've seen in the

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Speaker 1: last three weeks. Last three weeks, one touchdown, two picks.

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Speaker 1: The last two weeks, he's failed to eclipse two hundred

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Speaker 1: yards passing. As a team, the Eagles offense during this

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Speaker 1: three game loser streak has not scored more than nineteen

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Speaker 1: points at any one of these games. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's changed for them. I don't know if teams

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Speaker 1: are catching up to them. Maybe Nick Bosa had it

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Speaker 1: right when he said that we figured Jalen Hurts out,

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Speaker 1: because ever since that game, he has not looked like

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Speaker 1: MVP caliber Jalen Hurts. He hasn't even looked like top

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Speaker 1: There's something going on in Philadelphia. And even though I

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Speaker 1: just went on that rant saying, hey, what's up with

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurs. He's not playing well. He obviously lost was

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Speaker 1: off the MVP, you know last night. With that performance,

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Speaker 1: I know there's any realistic way anything he can do

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Speaker 2: you need to run. I know you're ill. I know

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Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent. Nobody's one hundred percent. This late

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Speaker 2: in the season, Hurts led the team in carry oh sorry,

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Speaker 2: remember that game fourth They did like the brotherly shove

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Speaker 2: But then you're putting your QB in harms way. Listen,

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Speaker 2: You get the Giants in DeVito twice. I'm guessing those

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Speaker 2: But Rob, even at three and O, that still at

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Speaker 2: don't think they're scaring anyone. And this is good. This

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Speaker 2: is where it gets interesting, Rob, What if the La

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Speaker 2: probably be the six ahead of Seattle, which the Rams swept,

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Speaker 2: But if they have to face the Rams and that

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, Rob. I was trying not to

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Speaker 2: I thought they would get the win by three. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially the first and foremost, you worried

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Speaker 1: So you got to get Jalen Hurbs back to a

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Speaker 2: you know obviously that it's the big story in sports today,

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Speaker 2: but I do want to ask about this, this situation, uh,

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Speaker 2: with the banner in LA. So again, I know NFL

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Speaker 2: we got to let a lot of Lakers fans listening

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Speaker 2: to this. So the Lakers decided we're gonna hang a

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Speaker 2: banner for the n season tournament. I'm sure the league

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Speaker 2: nudged them. Hey, it would be cool if you guys

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00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 2: did this. It would set the precedent, and then everyone

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Speaker 2: else I followed would hang a banner. You know, you

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Speaker 2: know the Indiana Pacers would have hung a banner if

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Speaker 2: they had beat the Lakers. That's foh show. So the

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Speaker 2: Lakers when they've got a billion banners in crypto dot

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Speaker 2: com and they're hanging the banner, and there's of course

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Speaker 2: a million videos. The media members are putting it out.

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Speaker 2: Here's the banner being hung, and all these people Jabbroni's

487
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 2: chiming in, Oh, that's so dumb, it's so idiots, it's

488
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Speaker 2: a weak. Michael Jordan would ever do that, all this

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Speaker 2: asanine shit. And then I see Ron Harper, as Rob

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00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 2: likes to say, former Laker Ron Harper. Listen, Ron Harper

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Speaker 2: when he was with the Cavs is a nice player.

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00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: Ron Harper with the Bulls was a really really good

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Speaker 2: role player in his time. Ron Harper put out some

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Speaker 2: crap that just you know, as a former Laker, you're

495
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: a little surprised, But remember, chiefly he played in Michael

496
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Speaker 2: Jordan's era. On Michael Jordan's team. He's got to gas

497
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Speaker 2: up his guy Jordan and the era he played in.

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Speaker 2: All these guys are defending their era. The young guys,

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00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: they all think Jordan's the best most of the modern players.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard Anthony Davis recently say, oh, come on,

501
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: I could take Jordan one on one or whatever he said,

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Speaker 2: Jordan couldn't guard me. That's what you're gonna get from

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Speaker 2: the young guys. The old heads, obviously are gonna defend

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's era, so I'll just read you quickly what

505
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Speaker 2: Ron Harper wrote, and this is his tweet, embarrassing to

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Speaker 2: all those NBA Finals Championship banners. Wow, thanks for the

507
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 2: insightful tweet, Ron, so I wrote, I'd expect nothing less

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Speaker 2: from one of the guys on the Bulls in the

509
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 2: nineties when the Bulls dominated the water down expansion era.

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Speaker 2: And as this is what happens when I, you know,

511
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: put out a little dig there. It's like the Joe

512
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: Rogan strategy. I just drop a little grenade and then

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Speaker 2: I back away gently. All these people, Oh, Rod Harper's

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Speaker 2: the title of his opinion. He played he knows. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: what do you mean? What do he knows? Banners stop?

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00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: And that's the new thing online, Rob. I don't know

517
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 2: how much you've seen this, but I think it started

518
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Speaker 2: with the cam thing. It was like, he's entitled to

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Speaker 2: his opinion. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Everybody's entitle their opinion.

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00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 2: And you know what, you want to put it out there,

521
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 2: you open yourself up. Get ready. It's full on combat

522
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 2: battling on social media. You want to step in the ring,

523
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: you want to climb in the ring. Get ready. People

524
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: are coming for your head, and it's fun. We all

525
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 2: have fun with it. Not everybody. It hits one hundred percent.

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00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 2: I mean I rarely miss you know, occasionally I will,

527
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: but it happens. I'll defend this forever. I got no

528
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: problem with the banner. Rob, who cares? It's an in

529
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,239
Speaker 2: season championship. They had to win seven games, they had

530
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: to get out of group play, and then I think

531
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: it was three in single elimination to get to the

532
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: finals and win it. Like, it's not an easy task.

533
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: If it were easy, anybody would have done it, right.

534
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: Why didn't the Bucks do it? Why didn't the Celtics

535
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: do it? Hell, I don't even know if they did.

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00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: The Nuggets even get out of pool play, Rob, Like,

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00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like, stop with this. It doesn't mean anything.

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00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 2: This is the you know who's saying that, guys that

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00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: want to devalue a the regular season, nobody was watching.

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00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. I get it. You clearly were watching, otherwise

541
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be putting this out there. And then b oh,

542
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,479
Speaker 2: nobody's trying. Everybody's playing defense. It's the NBA in December.

543
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: Nobody nobody's trying, Like, just shut up, like go away,

544
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: we get it. You don't like the NBA. You're just

545
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: out here trolling to get people all fired up. I

546
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: have a rule. If you don't follow me, I'm not

547
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 2: replying to you. I just don't care who you are,

548
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 2: what you said about me, or my mom, or my

549
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 2: wife or my kid. I don't care. You're irrelevant to me.

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Speaker 1: Dude.

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00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: Sorry, but Rob, when I see all this anti banner stuff, Now,

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00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 2: you're a Laker guy. You've witnessed banners being hung. You're

553
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: a huge Laker head. You crown future Lakers. Please tell

554
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 2: me you don't have an issue with the banner.

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00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: Jason. If we were in person right now, I would

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00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: fight you.

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00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: Oh.

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00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 1: I could not disagree with you more on any topic

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00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: that we have ever discussed in the three plus years

560
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: of doing this podcast. Okay, I don't know if you

561
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: remember this, but Kobe Bryant did an interview with Jalen

562
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: Rose years ago, and it's an interview that they've replayed

563
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: over and over anytime the Lakers have made a playoff

564
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: run since his passing. Here's the quote, second place does

565
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: not matter. Second place means you're the first loser. You

566
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: have that mentality here. This is what gets it here.

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00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: This franchise not about hanging division banners. Does not hang

568
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: conference championships. We hang one banner, one banner only, that

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Speaker 1: is the NBA title. If this was.

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00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: The Utah rob was the in season tournament even did

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00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: not clean and Adam Silver's eye. No, so like I.

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Speaker 1: If this was the Utah Jazz, If this was the

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00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic, if this was the Indiana Pacers, sure hang

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Speaker 1: the in season banner. Hang it below the scoreboards. Every

575
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: time someone looked to see how many timeouts they had,

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: they got to be reminded Indiana Pacers twenty twenty three

577
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: in season tournament champs. But this is the Lakers. Their

578
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: standards are so much higher than almost anybody in sports

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00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 1: outside of the Yankees and the Boston Celtics. There is

580
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: no reason whatsoever that they should hang an in season

581
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: tournament banner next to beneath beside on the same wall

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00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: as the NBA championship. Where they placed it is directly

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00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: to the left of the Los Angeles Lakers championship banners

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00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: and underneath all the Minneapolis Lakers championship banners. If you

585
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: want to honor it, sure practice facility had that banner

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00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: in there. Display the cup somewhere in Jeanie Buss's office,

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00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: so Jaymore can see it when he goes and visitor

588
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: on his lunch break. Sure, I do not need to

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00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: see the N Season tournament banner at Staple Center. I'm

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00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: not gonna call it a crypto at Staple Center. No,

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00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: don't need to have it.

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00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: So did you not watch the N Season Tournament?

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00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: Of course I did?

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00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: Okay. Was it not quasi riveting television?

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00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: Yes?

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00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: It was?

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00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: Okay?

598
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 2: So why are we so against newness? You are a

599
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: young guy, you love all the new mediums. You're dominating podcasting,

600
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: which is I did not exist as a job fifteen

601
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: years ago. Okay. Now it's like a big business, a

602
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 2: billion dollar industry probably, like the world changes, like the

603
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: leagues adapt, So what if they have an ND season tournament?

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Speaker 2: It was pretty damn cool. The courts were like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: that's kind of snazzy. What's happening here? It's like a

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00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: talking point. I thought it was interesting. I'm sure if

607
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: this podcast still exists, like six years from now, when

608
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: say Lebron's got three in season titles, right, and it's

609
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: like a thing. People are gunning for it because they've

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Speaker 2: raised the pot from five hundred thousand to one point

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Speaker 2: five million. It's gonna be it's gonna be cool. But

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Speaker 2: now because it's new, people are against it. I want

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Speaker 2: to remind you. Do you remember if you've heard of

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00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: that tournament, the TBT, the Basketball Tournament. Yea, I have. Okay,

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00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 2: Initially when I heard about it, I was like, this

616
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: is wow, this is wild. It's not really serious. I

617
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Speaker 2: should get a team and put in you know, this

618
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: is like six years ago. Of course I didn't get

619
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Speaker 2: a team, and it wouldn't matter because now it's huge

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00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: and massive and they use it as like almost a

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Speaker 2: lab to tinker with stuff. They add that ending, the

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Speaker 2: elam ending, and they incorporated that to the NBA All

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Speaker 2: Star Game because it was so cool. The now the TBT,

624
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: the tournament like colleges get stacked teams and go in there,

625
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: and it's helped rejuvenated careers of guys. It's gotten dude

626
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 2: to maybe maxed out at college more shine because we

627
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: forgot about it after March Badness. Like the TBT has

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Speaker 2: had pretty cool impact. We want to be five, six,

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Speaker 2: seven years in. It's it's kind of neat. I think

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Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Game went from changing. I think

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Speaker 2: it was just you know, East first West to let's

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00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: tinker with a draft, let's tinker with US versus international,

633
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: Like they're throwing everything up against the wall, Like I

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00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,719
Speaker 2: like change and new and I've got like no problem

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Speaker 2: at all. It's weird to me that you are are

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Speaker 2: so antidy.

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00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm only against it because it's the Lakers. That would

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00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of like Duke or Kentucky hanging up

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00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: the Maui Invitational banner in their home. Did they try

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Speaker 1: to win it? Of course, did it mean something to

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Speaker 1: them to win any and when they're competing as high

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Speaker 1: level competition, absolutely, But when you're one of these blue

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Speaker 1: blood type sports franchises where you're measured not in conference championships,

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Speaker 1: not in regular season tournament championships, when you're measured in

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Speaker 1: end of the season who's the last man Standing type championships,

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Speaker 1: you do not drop yourself and humble yourself down to

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Speaker 1: the level of the also rams. You have to carry

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Speaker 1: yourself as if you're better than everyone else, because you

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Speaker 1: are better than everybody else. If this was the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: they could have a parade down figure Row over winning

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Speaker 1: the n season tournament because they never want shit in

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Speaker 1: their franchise history. The Lakers have too many rings and

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Speaker 1: too much hardware to be hanging an n season tournament champion.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Ron harper Man. That is rough.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the comp with the Maui Classic is a

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Speaker 2: little rough because not all of college hoops is in.

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Speaker 2: It's just a handful of teams. Good teams. Usually the

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Speaker 2: NBA in season had everybody. I'm trying to this in

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Speaker 2: season was born out of something that happened in Europe.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the FA Cup? Am I right? Is

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Speaker 2: that what it is? Or is it the EUROFA.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't it based off of the soccer?

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Speaker 2: Is it the Uapha Cup?

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Speaker 1: I think so?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was something like cut Well that's a problem,

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Speaker 2: but the FA Cup is super old And now my

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Speaker 2: soccer guys who listen are going to be like, Jay,

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Speaker 2: how the hell do you not know that? That's embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Bottom line that they stole this idea from Europe because

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Speaker 2: it was huge and it worked and it generated interest

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Speaker 2: and got everybody involved and excited, and they're kind of

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Speaker 2: taking a page out of their book and I don't know.

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Speaker 2: All right, Rob, It's fine. We could disagree on some stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. We'll be friends after this.

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Speaker 2: Probably, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Probably.

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Speaker 2: By the way, do we need do we need to

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Speaker 2: spend any time at all on James Harden going off

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Speaker 2: for twenty one points in the fourth and the Clippers

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Speaker 2: winning eight straight games and now making a run in

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Speaker 2: the West because oh, one of us here said the

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Speaker 2: Clippers were going to be fine and they're gonna make

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Speaker 2: a run and they're the most dangerous team in the West.

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Speaker 1: I forgot.

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Speaker 2: I forgot said, yeah, listen, man, I'm just smart. Teams

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Speaker 2: figure shit out. Harden was cooked. Did you see him

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Speaker 2: go off against the Pacers? Like some of the highlights

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Speaker 2: are like, geez, he was in the zone. I've been

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Speaker 2: in the zone once like that playing hoops. I mean

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Speaker 2: more than once. But it's a it's an awesome feeling,

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Speaker 2: it really is. Obviously James Harden like doing snow angels

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Speaker 2: after hitting his fourth straight three or something is next level.

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Speaker 2: But there's a vibe around the Clippers that if they

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Speaker 2: stay healthy, which is the biggest f on the planet,

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Speaker 2: and that's the reason not to get excited. If they

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Speaker 2: stay healthy. Man, you you know this, like watch out

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Speaker 2: Kawhi back to all NBA levels. I don't even like

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Speaker 2: the Clippers. But I'm just saying, they look every time

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Speaker 2: I turn them on and it's like, damn, he got

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Speaker 2: some dudes. Any Clippers thoughts, Robert.

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Speaker 1: Look, they're playing great. If Kawhi is planning on playing

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Speaker 1: every game, then they are absolutely dangerous. The problem is

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Speaker 1: is I don't know when he's gonna start load managing.

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Speaker 1: It's coming eventually, but so far, as far as I know,

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Speaker 1: he's played every game this season.

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Speaker 2: It's really yeah, you shouldn't anyways. All Right, that's all

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Speaker 2: for today. We'll be back tomorrow. Talk to you then,