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Speaker 2: Not just any other Sunday, not this one.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you could argue that this is the most

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Speaker 3: But I also think you might not like a couple

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Speaker 3: I thought this question is gonna be right up your

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Speaker 3: alley because you're a pro athlete. So now I bet

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Speaker 3: at a certain point in your life you had to

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Speaker 3: question when people, I won't even just say ladies, just people.

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Speaker 3: People would come up to you and you had to wonder,

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Speaker 3: do they like me for the wrong reason? Is that

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Speaker 3: an accurate that my part, that would be accurate?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Okay, okay?

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Speaker 3: How did you how did you kind of decipher what

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Speaker 3: was what was happening in situations like well, you just.

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Speaker 4: Got to get to know the person right, and you

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Speaker 4: can tell. When you're younger, it's harder to tell. But

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Speaker 4: as you get older and more experienced in just life

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Speaker 4: and then you're able to identify it and I'm move on.

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Speaker 3: But it takes some time, though, right does takes some time? Well,

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Speaker 3: and so has this. And I feel e from it's

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Speaker 3: possible that I like the March Madness NCAA men's basketball.

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Speaker 4: Tournament for the wrong reasons.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's possible I'm turning the arrow at

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Speaker 3: myself and I wonder if I enjoy this tournament and

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Speaker 3: I enjoy this sport for all of the wrong reasons.

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Speaker 3: And that is in twenty twenty four, even those of

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Speaker 3: us who still love college basketball. I look at it

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Speaker 3: more not about college pro whatever. I love the sport.

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Speaker 3: I love the game. I played it only through the

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Speaker 3: high school level, but it was the sport that I

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Speaker 3: of knowledge and experience or what have you, like, this

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Speaker 3: was this was my sport. And I still love the game,

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Speaker 3: and I still love watching the game. But there's not

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Speaker 3: a damn one of us, at least if you're north

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Speaker 3: of I don't know, twenty years old who believes that

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Speaker 3: the state of college basketball in twenty twenty four can

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Speaker 3: hold a candle to what college basketball was like fifteen

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Speaker 3: to twenty to twenty five to thirty years ago.

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Speaker 4: What have you?

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Speaker 3: I mean, the biggest name in college basketball is a woman, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: which is amazing, But it's also like damn right, Like

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Speaker 3: I mean the Fab Five that were documentaries about like

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Speaker 3: it was different. And so I've reached a stage where

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Speaker 3: just even how much I hear about college hoops, my friends,

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Speaker 3: the people, we co workers, what have you in terms

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Speaker 3: it would be without these brackets, without this piece of

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Speaker 3: seventy two hours, fill it out and act like you

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Speaker 3: know a damn thing about any of these teams. And

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Speaker 3: I know there are exceptions, there's some of you out there,

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Speaker 3: there's also data that would suggest that that's.

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Speaker 3: And so without the gambling aspect of it, what do

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Speaker 4: What are we really.

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Speaker 3: Looking at in terms of college basketball right now?

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Speaker 4: That was Will said, And I get your point, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I get your point because Caitlin Clark is the biggest

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Speaker 4: kudos to her and what she's done, and just to

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Speaker 4: been spectacular to watch. Yes, and I'm happy that more

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Speaker 4: and so I love them getting their due because I'm

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Speaker 4: an athlete and I love competition. Now that brings me

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Speaker 4: to March madness, whether you know outside of you know

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Speaker 4: You'll get those fans of the schools that make the

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Speaker 4: But the real story of March Madness is the compelling

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Speaker 4: Cinderella stories are the upsets. So people who are just

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Speaker 4: the sixteen to one upset. And we've seen we've been

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Speaker 4: seeing that more and more lately. And that's a credit

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Speaker 4: to men's college basketball as a whole, because what we're

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Speaker 4: seeing is these they call them mid majors, these lesser

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Speaker 4: known conferences like a Mountain West Conference, who, by the way,

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Speaker 4: has six teams in the conference this year, I mean

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Speaker 4: in the tournament this year. One of the top basketball

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sniack up on anybody anymore.

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Speaker 4: But no. But what I'm saying is good basketball is

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Speaker 4: being played all over the country. Now, whether you can

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Speaker 4: see all of these teams on television or not doesn't

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Speaker 4: if you don't know either team that's playing, you would

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Speaker 4: naturally gravitate to the underdog and you start pulling for

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Speaker 4: if it's entertainment, we love a good story, and that's

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Speaker 4: what the tournament is. It's entertainment with a competitive aspect

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Speaker 4: to it. So as fans, we're looking for the story.

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Speaker 4: I love. Whether San Diego State is not in or not,

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Speaker 4: like I can't wait to see Saint Peter's who's a

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Speaker 4: fifteen seed play Tennessee? Uh huh? Right, who was a

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Speaker 4: two seed who kind of stumbled into the tournament? Yep. Now,

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Speaker 4: those senior Layton mid major teams don't care anything about

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Speaker 4: You gotta show up and you gotta play. And some

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Speaker 4: their senior Layton even COVID seniors, meaning you have somebody

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Speaker 4: He got a whole family, right, kids, wife, and they

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Speaker 2: Well that's the kind of the thing though.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you could take two different views of what

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Speaker 3: you're saying. Good basketball being played all over the country parody, sure,

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Speaker 3: or is that just And the answer is obviously yeah.

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Speaker 3: Is that at least partially the result of the fact that, yes,

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Speaker 3: those mid majors have been playing together for two, three,

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Speaker 3: dealing with the top recruits in the nation who have

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Speaker 3: been there since check's notes October.

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Speaker 4: And they're leaving in another three weeks.

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Speaker 3: And no matter how talented you are, that's not the

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Speaker 3: way basketball is played. And you could just check the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Almost every team's got a dude. You got a dude,

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Speaker 3: but right the Detroit Pistons have a dude. His name's

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Speaker 2: And I don't know is that a good thing? Is

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Speaker 4: Is it both?

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a bad thing for the season long

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Speaker 4: it's a good thing because it's exciting and you never

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Speaker 4: if you know, San Diego State's run in Florida Atlantic

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Speaker 4: have to be able to roll the ball out and

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Speaker 4: go play. No one cares about your seed or anything.

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Speaker 4: It'd be interesting if they just took the seeds off,

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Speaker 4: like you didn't know who was what seed and you

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Speaker 4: just had the matchups, right, Think about that if you

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Speaker 4: you want. Well, a team like Yale, yes, right, a

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Speaker 4: His first name is great. How about that? And then

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Speaker 4: you take a guy like Jayden Ladie from San Diego State,

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Speaker 4: So now going up against these these teams that are

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Speaker 4: the Big Ten for the you know, second most teams

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Speaker 4: in the tournament. That's how good a college basketball is

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Speaker 4: becoming across the country, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: I mean to the point where and I would suggest this,

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Speaker 3: you know how a lot of people will fill out

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Speaker 3: brackets this week and you're in any of those pools

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Speaker 3: that are like a multiply seed pool in other words,

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Speaker 3: like round one, multiply one by whatever their seed is, right,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, go to the Vegas lines because we've reached

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Speaker 3: a time where you remember when it was a big

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Speaker 3: upset when twelve would beat five. I'm like, now you

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Speaker 3: could look at and some of them is like five

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Speaker 3: You'll see stuff like that. So that's a little pro tip,

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Speaker 3: Like that's what you're supposed to take the twelve because

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Speaker 3: it's a good value pick for your little multiply seed pool.

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Speaker 3: But it's parody across the board, and it is interesting

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Speaker 3: the idea of if you removed the seeds, and also

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Speaker 3: what if you just removed the brackets as a whole.

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Speaker 3: I know this sends a shiver down your spine. You

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Speaker 3: Mark Weather. Glad you're with us on this Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: Look at you right now, Look at you all trying

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Speaker 4: Now you're watching, yeah, because there are stakes. Anytime there's stakes,

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Speaker 6: hits a game winning buzzer beater now for a third

436
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Speaker 6: different team in his career. Boston, Brooklyn, Dallas not just

437
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 6: a game winner buzzer beater to win the game only

438
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 6: two other active NBA players have hit game winning buzzer

439
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Speaker 6: beaters for three different teams. Derek Rose, Harrison Barnes the

440
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Speaker 6: other one. And my favorite NBA stat which we mentioned

441
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 6: on last night's show, and it applies now because Washington

442
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 6: is just lost at home. Did you see the ACC

443
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 6: tournament that NC State won five games in five days

444
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 6: in DC this past week. They got a bid for

445
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 6: the NCAA Tournament because of it. Well, the Wizards lost

446
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 6: in that same building in a home game here tonight.

447
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 6: They're four and twenty seven at home. In other words,

448
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 6: NC State had more wins in one week in that

449
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 6: building than the Wizards have all season there.

450
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, back to you.

451
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 3: That's almost as good as the story out of Long

452
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 3: Beach State, yes, where they fired the coach and he

453
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: responded by winning the damn postseason tournament and going to

454
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 3: the dance.

455
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 4: I love it.

456
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 6: You can stick around for the Oh you're still playing, well.

457
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 3: I'm sorry we had not. We had not budgeted for

458
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 3: you to be here for another week.

459
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 6: I love it and so great because Dan Monson has

460
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 6: been at Long Beach Safe over fifteen years now. Long

461
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 6: he was the coach at Gonzaga when they were just

462
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 6: starting over twenty years ago to get good or noticed

463
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 6: on a national scale. But his dad was at this

464
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 6: Long Beach State wind last night. His dad used to

465
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 6: be coach at Oregon for almost a decade. His dad

466
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 6: helped recruit Magic Johnson to Michigan State. He was a

467
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 6: Spartan's assistant. So basketball college hoops has been in this

468
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 6: family for years. Quite a story.

469
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 3: I may have to fill out one bracket where I

470
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 3: take him to beat Arizona just in case they do.

471
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: Just in case they do, I want to be rooting

472
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: for it.

473
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 6: You know, I think some people would do that just

474
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 6: to spite Arnie Spaniers, since he's always always talking about

475
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 6: his Wildcats.

476
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 3: Multiple good reasons to pick Long Beach State is the

477
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: moral and that's what and you know what we talked

478
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 3: about it earlier.

479
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 4: That's why people tune in. Wouldn't that be a heck

480
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 4: of a story. Yeah, ultimately, I mean that would be crazy.

481
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 6: You know, the West Regionals are in LA this year

482
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 6: at the Lakers Arena. You say twos away, Yeah, that's it.

483
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 6: We never thought Loyal of Merrimatt was going to win

484
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 6: at Long Beach read in nineteen ninety.

485
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 4: It is true why won't they ever put San Diego

486
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 4: State in the West? I mean, yeah, I'm surprised Arizona's

487
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 4: in the West. Honestly, they didn't get a one seed.

488
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: They still get everything as far as an easier path

489
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 4: to the final four, which will be in Arizona. Crazy,

490
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 4: they don't.

491
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 3: I don't know this for sure, but it is my

492
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: sense that there were conversations on the selection committee that

493
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 3: the complaining on Fox Sports Radio would not be as

494
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 3: loud if they put San.

495
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 4: Diego State in the West region.

496
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 3: They would they would lose that that sort of angst

497
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: from me from something.

498
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,959
Speaker 4: How do you take the fifth seed and take them

499
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 4: to the East to play a team in the East.

500
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 4: I'm like, what sense does that make? Where is that?

501
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 4: I don't even know where they is? It's where they close.

502
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 4: It's that one's closed in Spokane, Okay. But I mean

503
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 4: she like, that's another thing. Can I just like be

504
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 4: like old man yelling at clouds for a second. I

505
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 4: have totally lost, Like I am the idiot who is

506
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 4: just completely confused by who the hell is where once

507
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 4: once the pod system started there like, they're in the

508
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 4: East region, so they'll be in the East, Okay, where

509
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 4: they start Washington, makes no sense. Where are they? But

510
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 4: the teams that are right above them in the bracket,

511
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 4: where are they? Not there?

512
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,479
Speaker 3: They're somewhere else. I'm like, I don't know where anybody is.

513
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 3: Just just playball and and let me know when I

514
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 3: can rip my bracket in half place.

515
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 4: It's crazy that they put three of last year's final

516
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 4: final four Final four participants in the same region. It's

517
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 4: the same bracket.

518
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: Apparently they did not want the same final.

519
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 6: Four in the same sum region.

520
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 3: I'm what'll just trip me up because I'm like, I

521
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 3: don't even know if I can name who the final

522
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 3: four teams were last year.

523
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 4: Miami, Yukon, y f A, f AU.

524
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 3: Got it so and those Yeah, the f AU will

525
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: play Yukon if both of them win their first game, Yes,

526
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 3: and then and.

527
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 4: Then we'll meet. We'll meet the winner out of that.

528
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: That's right, Yes, you will. Okay, Well, all right, here

529
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 4: we go. We ran through a one seed last year

530
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 4: to get there, so let's do it again. Do it again? Payback?

531
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, man, it's it's it's great and confusing

532
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 3: and not what it was, but also in in some

533
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 3: in some good ways, like like you're not wrong. The parody.

534
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of parody in sports. That's that's

535
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 3: a great thing. It's it's what, it's one of the things.

536
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 3: And I know, as a player you'll never say this,

537
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 3: but like, it's why there are moments when I support

538
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 3: a salary cap in professional sports because it creates what

539
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 3: you have in the NFL where Jacksonville, Florida can play

540
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 3: New York, New York and play like they can win potentially,

541
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 3: But you don't have that in most of your other sports.

542
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: It's not it's not really a fair fight. And and

543
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 3: college basketball for very very different reasons that we sort

544
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 3: of you know, put the blueprint out for that off

545
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 3: the top of the show. But it is a much

546
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 3: more fair fight now when when you're mid major San

547
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: Diego State takes on Yukon.

548
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, it's it's it's it's a fair fight now.

549
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that'll bring you big boy pants because we

550
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 4: coming you want them, you want them so badly? Do

551
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 4: you want them again? Good man? They're good.

552
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: Everybody I know, I know, well long we'd stan it's

553
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: not very good. But other than that, we'll see.

554
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 4: Guess what. Sometimes the story can propel you to do

555
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 4: things you wouldn't possibly think you could do amen. I

556
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 4: mean they've already done that. They've already done it. You

557
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,719
Speaker 4: don't think that coach is in there. You don't think

558
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 4: those kids are in there planning for that coach. I

559
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: think they are. You'd be surprising kid who was twelve

560
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 4: percent from three, all of a sudden comes I hit

561
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 4: four threes and it's just like, wait, what is happening

562
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 4: right now? All right?

563
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 3: We have we have spent forty minutes taking a different

564
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 3: angle on March madness. I do I do want to

565
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 3: get to a traditional angle with you as well, and

566
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 3: uh and and get some thoughts on some of these

567
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Speaker 3: matchups and and where we think they're going. So we're

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Speaker 3: By the way, I know why you wanted San Diego

588
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Speaker 3: State in the West, smart weathered, diferen salam live tyrack

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Speaker 3: dot com studios. My man, that side is wh the

590
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 3: heck o yeh oh man. I'm like, hold on a second.

591
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: I like Mississippi State, that's the eight seed. I'm interested

592
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 3: in Saint Mary's the five seed. New Mexico is the

593
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 3: eleven seed. That is the ten. I'll tell you what though,

594
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm interested in all those teams.

595
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: I think all of them can make noise.

596
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 4: Look here, you said you're interested in Saint Mary's. They

597
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 4: have a buzz sawt they about to run into Grand Canyon.

598
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 4: Can play basketball, Yeah, Grand Canyon. That was one of

599
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 4: our early losses. It was a quad one loss Grand Canyon. Yep,

600
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 4: they can play. So yeah, the West is wide open

601
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 4: and they play in Los Angeles, which would have been

602
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 4: nice for me.

603
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 7: Because that could have just gone. Now I have to

604
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 7: get on a plane, Friday.

605
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 4: You gotta go again first round. It's tough to go

606
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 4: in the first round. But if they get out of

607
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 4: the weekend, I get they on the East Coast. Now

608
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 4: I can't do that. Life happening right now, Friday.

609
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 2: Who's coaching that little league team?

610
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 4: Man, it's all kinds of I'm filming, uh, producing an

611
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 4: episode of television, Like is this too much going on?

612
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 4: But if they were here here, just pop on the

613
00:35:50,000 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 4: one on one down to the one ten right now.

614
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 3: You know what I'm looking at right now, and it's

615
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 3: to your point, And this is I hate this because

616
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 3: this is not like, this is not like inspired or

617
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 3: a cool way to fill out a bracket. But forget

618
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 3: those seeds, man, forget those seeds and go pop over

619
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 3: to your favorite betting app and find out before you

620
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: make your big upset. Pick how big of an upset

621
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Speaker 3: is it? Actually this game that you talked about. Just

622
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 3: as an example, Saint Mary's five seed been interesting out

623
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Speaker 3: of a conference that we followed this time of year, Gonzaga,

624
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 3: et cetera.

625
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: This is a basketball conference and Saint.

626
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,959
Speaker 3: Mary's has been really good all year and their five

627
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 3: seed and that's that old adage. Oh a twelve always

628
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 3: beats a five, right, But it also was a big

629
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 3: upset whenever it would happen. Saint Mary's favorite by four,

630
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 3: favored by four. That's nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing. They're telling

631
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 3: you what your because you would look at that on

632
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: a piece of paper and be like Grand Canyon, that

633
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 3: the tourist attraction, not a basketball team. It's a four

634
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 3: point spread in that in that basketball game, your Aztecs

635
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 3: are only favored by six.

636
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know this is this is why it's so exciting.

637
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 4: Number One, gambling makes the sports world move. And now

638
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 4: that the NBA and the NFL have embraced the dark

639
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 4: shadow of gambling revenues of skyrocketing, yes, skyrockety of course,

640
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 4: before it's oh, I don't know. We want to keep

641
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 4: the integrity of the game and the sanctity of the

642
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 4: game and tact And I was like, how much say

643
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 4: what now? Is that with a B? Yes, it's with

644
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 4: a B. Sign us up.

645
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: I mean one of those teams I just mentioned in

646
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 3: the West New Mexico on eleven seed.

647
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 4: Man, they can play. They're favored.

648
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: Yes, they are favored against the sixth seed Clemson.

649
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 4: They are Jalen House, Eddie House's son, Yeah, Jamal Mashburn junior.

650
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 4: I mean they can they have three guards there. They

651
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 4: can get buckets. I know San Diego State just lost

652
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 4: to them yesterday in the Mountain West Finals. I love

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Speaker 4: this time of year, starting on Tuesday, first four, which

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Speaker 4: happened happened to have Boise State.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I was. Actually I ran into a buddy

656
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Speaker 3: earlier this afternoon. He's cruising around and you know, we're

657
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Speaker 3: out here on the West coast in California. He's cruising

658
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Speaker 3: around in his Virginia T shirt. He's like, we made it,

659
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Speaker 3: we made it. He's like, we got to play Tuesday,

660
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Speaker 3: but we made it. Well, you're in, you got you

661
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Speaker 3: gotta got a shot. Yep, you got a shot. And

662
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: uh and and that first four, which it felt even

663
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: just a few years ago to me, like Okay, you

664
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Speaker 3: go to Dayton and then you mess around or whatever

665
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 3: for a couple of days and then you go get

666
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Speaker 3: fed to the wolves.

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Speaker 2: And it's not that anymore. And it sort of does

668
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Speaker 2: feel like. And maybe it's.

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Speaker 3: Because of the NBA Playing Tournament where we watched the

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Speaker 3: Miami Heat go from the Playing Tournament the NBA Finals

671
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Speaker 3: and now you're you're not coming just out of the

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Speaker 3: first four to go play the number one seed in

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Speaker 3: the whole tournament. The whole way that it's been set up.

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Speaker 3: Sort of you look at it and you go, gosh, yeah,

675
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Speaker 3: absolutely somebody could mess around coming out of there.

676
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Speaker 4: Oh easily, easily. Look, all it takes is your guy.

677
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Speaker 4: And most of these teams have a guy. If he's

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Speaker 4: off off, yep, you be by anybody?

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Speaker 3: All right, speaking of your guy, who is the Pittsburgh

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Speaker 3: Steelers guy, Let's.

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Speaker 4: Get into that.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio, Well, it is

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Speaker 3: Selection Sunday. Maybe the Steelers will sit down and select

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Speaker 4: I get it.

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Speaker 3: I know the reports the Steelers say Russell Wilson is

693
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Speaker 3: their quarterback. I believe them, although we'll see, we'll see

694
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Speaker 3: about injuries, we'll see how he performs. There are question

695
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 3: marks all over the place. As the Steelers also acquire

696
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Speaker 3: Justin Fields from the Chicago Bears. Ephrom here is my

697
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 3: question about Justin Fields. You and I have talked a

698
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Speaker 3: lot about him the last few weeks, and now we

699
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Speaker 3: sort of get our answer in terms of what the

700
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Speaker 3: league sees as Justin's value, and I'm left scratching my head.

701
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Speaker 3: I understand there are questions that remain. I understand it's

702
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 3: been very underwhelming. But when you go back to that

703
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,439
Speaker 3: draft class right now, which was so built up, such

704
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Speaker 3: a big deal, five quarterbacks in the first fifteen picks,

705
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 3: here we go stars all over the place, and it's

706
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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence who's been and this is how I'd say

707
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 3: it good, right, but there's still like some stuff for

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00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 3: him to prove.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 3: Zach Wilson total bust, Trey Lance total bust, and then

711
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Speaker 3: you've got Mac Jones at the back end of it.

712
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Speaker 3: He's already been dealt for a whatever draft pick. Wilson

713
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Speaker 3: is untradeable. The forty nine Ers dump Lance for a

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Speaker 3: fourth round draft pick, and he remains a third stringer,

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Speaker 3: and now you go to Fields, Fields goes for a

716
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Speaker 3: sixth rounder that could become a fourth. So it sort

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Speaker 3: of feels like all four of them are sort of

718
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Speaker 3: being treated the same. And I don't get that. I

719
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Speaker 3: don't get that at all. You can say that Justin

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Speaker 3: fell short. You can have an opinion one way or

721
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Speaker 3: the other on what the rest of his NFL career holds.

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Speaker 3: What I will not allow is putting Justin in the

723
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Speaker 3: same bucket with Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, and Mac Jones.

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Speaker 4: He's definitely been different than that, right So why why

725
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Speaker 4: is this the way the league is viewing him right now?

726
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 4: Perception is reality and that just that's that, That's life.

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00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 4: The situation is you rattled off all those names who

728
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Speaker 4: were in that draft. There hasn't been one out of

729
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 4: the names to stand out, to stand out and and

730
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Speaker 4: take a team outside of Trevor Lawrence to the next stage.

731
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Speaker 4: So what they do is they forget the hand that

732
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 4: you were dealt as a as a player, as a

733
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Speaker 4: young player the team, and they kind of ball everything

734
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Speaker 4: up and clump you into one category. It didn't work.

735
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Speaker 4: It's no way you can compare Zach Wilson to Justin Fields.

736
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Speaker 4: No shot, there's no shot that you can compare mac

737
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Speaker 4: Jones to Wilson. Mac Jones took the team to the playoffs.

738
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Speaker 4: It wasn't his fault. His coach has an ego problem

739
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Speaker 4: and decided, I guarantee you I can do this with

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Speaker 4: people in position that doesn't benefit mac Jones. The offense

741
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Speaker 4: are the franchise that has nothing. That's not mac Jones' fault.

742
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Speaker 4: It's not. And it's so crazy to me when we're

743
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Speaker 4: consistently blaming these young players and it's really them being

744
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 4: in complete lea out of they're just mismanaged. It starts

745
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 4: at the top. If you have a poor roster, which

746
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Speaker 4: normally you do picking that early in the draft, and

747
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Speaker 4: you don't get your roster better offensive line, weapons, defense,

748
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Speaker 4: and then you just dump all the blame on a

749
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 4: young quarterback that's irresponsible. And we're seeing that a lot.

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Speaker 4: And so now what they're doing is you just clumping

751
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Speaker 4: everybody into one category or it didn't work? Well? Why

752
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 4: didn't work? No one asked that question, because when you

753
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Speaker 4: continue to have outliers like a CJ. Strial, Well, CJ

754
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 4: came in ready to play well, CJ had a terrific

755
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Speaker 4: rookie coach that had respect from top to bottom, and

756
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Speaker 4: they drafted extremely well and did well in free agency.

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Speaker 4: I mean, some might say the Texans are winning this

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Speaker 4: year's free agency.

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Speaker 3: I firmly believe yeah, Like that's yeah, because it starts

760
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Speaker 3: at the top.

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Speaker 4: It starts at the top, and we're seeing that happen.

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Speaker 4: And it's disappointing to these young players who obviously have

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Speaker 4: talent that they don't get a chance to cultivate that talent,

764
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 4: that that talent isn't you know, nurtured and grown with

765
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Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence. We gave him Urban Myers for half a season.

766
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Speaker 4: It was a train wreck right second season, he came back,

767
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Speaker 4: got him to the playoffs, got injured. Third season didn't

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Speaker 4: go well. Are we ready to throw him out? I'm not,

769
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Speaker 4: But it's that notion of we need it now. I'm

770
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 4: telling you rookie quarterbacks that came into the league and

771
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 4: had immediate impact. One of the greatest quarterbacks of all

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Speaker 4: time led the league and interceptions his rookie year and

773
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Speaker 4: paid maney yep, but they gave him time and he

774
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Speaker 4: also Oh, by the way, had Marshall Falk Hello, one

775
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Speaker 4: of the greatest dual threat running backs to ever walk

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Speaker 4: the earth. Don't forget the two Hall of Fame receivers, right,

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Speaker 4: So this whole notion of ah, these guys are, they're

778
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Speaker 4: not ready to go. No, what they need you to

779
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 4: do is you can't just draft a quarterback and at

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Speaker 4: that position and it be the end all be all.

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00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: You got more holes in your team than just at

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Speaker 4: the quarterback position. So it's literally up to you to

783
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Speaker 4: fill those holes. And if you don't do it, it's

784
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 4: easy to just blame through the quarterback. Sure. Now in

785
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Speaker 4: some cases that you know Kyler Murray, this seems to

786
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 4: be a hymn problem just his approach because he's alienated

787
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 4: the locker room. Zach Wilson alienated the locker room Justin

788
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 4: Fields didn't, Mac Jones didn't. So how can you put

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Speaker 4: them all in the same category and assign them the

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00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:34,720
Speaker 4: same value?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the only thing to say, and real quick,

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Speaker 3: By the way, did you know Discover wants everyone to

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Speaker 3: Like that's the to me, that's the takeaway here is

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Speaker 3: I don't even know which one of these two dudes

799
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Speaker 3: is gonna end up being the quarterback. And I don't

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Speaker 3: even know if either one of them are are going

801
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Speaker 3: to end up playing well or be the future with Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: But my god, y'all did a good job. You went

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Speaker 4: to Costco.

804
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Speaker 3: You went to Costco and for one point seven million

805
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Speaker 3: dollars and a sixth round.

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Speaker 4: Draft pick, you got two.

807
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Speaker 3: You didn't get one, you got two, and if neither

808
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Speaker 3: of them work out, poof you done. You're done with

809
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Speaker 3: nothing on the back end. But knowing Mike Tomlin and

810
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 3: that team the way we do, you don't even really

811
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Speaker 3: need a good quarterback to make the playoffs. If they

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Speaker 3: do get either of those guys playing well next year,

813
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 3: watch out for that team in a in a division

814
00:49:55,400 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 3: that is filled with phenomenal quarterbacks. So the stealer, to me,

815
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Speaker 3: did a great job shopping here for low risk, high

816
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Speaker 3: upside situations.

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Speaker 4: But the other side to.

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Speaker 3: This is is just justin Field's the player, and like

819
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 3: it is to me, it is very rare that you

820
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 3: would have a quarterback get to the whole like it's

821
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 3: time to make a decision on his option year. He's

822
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: been in the league now for three four years, and

823
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Speaker 3: you're still like, watch out, that thing may pop. You know,

824
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 3: usually by now we can have a firm decision. Zach Wilson,

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Speaker 3: that's a no. You know, Mac Jones, you're going to

826
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Speaker 3: be a backup. You're a good one, but you're going

827
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Speaker 3: to be a backup. Trey Lance, You're either going to

828
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Speaker 3: be a backup or you're not going to be in

829
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Speaker 3: the league. Justin Fields, if I could see Russell Wilson

830
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Speaker 3: playing fifteen games or more this year, Fields is like

831
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 3: just out there spinning in in NFL obscurity and he

832
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 3: could be Geno Smith plus, which is dude, if you

833
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Speaker 3: just get a chance down the road, I still.

834
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Speaker 4: Think it could be good.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you've never seen him with a supporting cast, not yet.

836
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Speaker 4: The great thing about what I think Pittsburgh has done

837
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Speaker 4: and Mike Tomlin and bringing these two quarterbacks in. They'reof

838
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Speaker 4: similar Ilk meaning a little bit undersized athletic Russell less

839
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Speaker 4: than before, but they bring elements that a lot of

840
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 4: quarterbacks don't. This is a perfect opportunity for Justin Fields.

841
00:51:54,280 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 4: He literally now gets to learn and see how to

842
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 4: be an NFL quarterback from someone who's competed in one

843
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 4: at the highest level in this league, who's been a

844
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Speaker 4: leader of a team, and who's put up consistent numbers

845
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 4: every year. So now the pressure is not there for

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Speaker 4: Justin Fields. He can learn so much from Russell Wilson.

847
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 4: I think it's going to benefit him in the long run,

848
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 4: and he can step right into that role next year

849
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Speaker 4: if Russell moves on. But I think this is a

850
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 4: perfect time for him not to have the pressure on him, yep,

851
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 4: to try to guide a team that doesn't have the

852
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 4: talent in a division with you know, Aaron Rodgers when

853
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 4: he came into the league, and Kirk Cousins and uh a,

854
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 4: Dan Campbell Detroit Lions. That's a tough that's that's a

855
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 4: tough nut to crack as a young quarterback with the

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Speaker 4: with the poor roster.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean we see that a lot in sports.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, which is a very very highly drafted

859
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 3: player falls out of favor with the team and the

860
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 3: fan base that drafted him, but then he goes somewhere

861
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Speaker 3: else where that fan base is like, well, no, we're not.

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Speaker 4: We're not.

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00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 3: We're not pinning you with being the number two overall

864
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 3: draft pick. We're just like, can you can you help

865
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 3: our team? You know, take a look at what Andrew

866
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 3: Wiggins was two years ago to the Warriors.

867
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Speaker 2: Loved him, loved him, fan base loved him.

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Speaker 3: Got a little bit of a different thing going on now,

869
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 3: but loved him at the time because that fan base

870
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 3: was not worried about you were the number one overall

871
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 3: pick and you need to come in here and beat

872
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 3: that the franchise and be the dude. And you know

873
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 3: that fan base like, we got a dude, and another

874
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 3: dude and another dude. Just just come be Andrew, float around,

875
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 3: do some stuff. And so maybe Justin will get that now.

876
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 4: Well, I think without that pressure, he'll really be open

877
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 4: to understanding what this is. He'll be able to get

878
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 4: real actual reps in practice in terms of learning from

879
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 4: Who was he learning from in Chicago? Right? Right? Who

880
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 4: is he learning from in Chicago? Who did he have

881
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 4: to sit down and have a conversation about what if

882
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 4: this happens then when I see this, what who was

883
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 4: he talking to?

884
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 3: Not only was there not another quarterback to talk to.

885
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:53,760
Speaker 3: There was barely a receiver, a coach, an offensive lineman.

886
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 3: There was nothing. There was nothing, and that that's when

887
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 3: Still put it numbers. Yep, and he still did right,

888
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 3: not great, but like yes, viable. Like that's why I

889
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 3: find him to be a pretty unique prospect. Still I

890
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 3: get why no one wanted to make him their clear

891
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 3: number one. I also think it's a rare circumstance where

892
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 3: we're going to be four years in and we're like, yeah,

893
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 3: I still don't know, Still still don't know. So a

894
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:30,600
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895
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,400
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909
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

910
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 3: Okay, these are the tire rack dot Com studios. Mark

911
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 3: Willardy from Salam. Steve de Seger will be along in

912
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 3: a few minutes. Get us all caught up on all

913
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 3: the dancing. What's going on out there. I haven't mentioned

914
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 3: Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you yet, so Happy Saint

915
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 3: Patrick's Day. However, I don't even know if anybody knows

916
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 3: what the hell that means. I know, right, yeah, Like

917
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 3: I like Saint Patrick's Day is like.

918
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 4: Let's just go get drunk.

919
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 3: And nobody right and it's all so maybe it's significant

920
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 3: when you're a kid. I liked that it fell on

921
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 3: a Sunday because if it falls on a school day

922
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 3: when you're a kid, there's always those little jerk kids

923
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 3: that come around start pinching you if you didn't wear

924
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 3: green green. It's like, I'm not like, get your hands

925
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 3: off me. Yeah, like don't what are we doing here?

926
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 3: So anyway, weird holiday, But but you know. I hope

927
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 3: you're enjoying it. Okay, I will, I will. I don't

928
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 3: mean I don't drink, so I'm not Irish, so but

929
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 3: I will say this.

930
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 4: In the City of Los Angeles, March seventeenth is officially

931
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 4: from Salon Day. So wait, I'm sorry?

932
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: What?

933
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I was given my own day by the

934
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 4: City of Los Angeles.

935
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to need to know more about this.

936
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 4: Oh, just the work I was doing the community, Like

937
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 4: when I would come come back in the off season,

938
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 4: I would, you know, go to schools and the inner

939
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 4: cities and you know, whole different things for kids in

940
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 4: the community and things like that. And they gave me

941
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 4: a day and it just happens to be more at seventeen.

942
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 4: Send the books, baby?

943
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 3: Why why? Like, first of all, why have I never

944
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 3: heard this before? And second of all, so then what

945
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 3: happens do you have like a key to the city.

946
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 3: I have a key to the city, okay, And what

947
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 3: does that even mean? By the way that means? Is

948
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 3: that mean on weekends you can just go into city

949
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 3: hall and steal stuff or like what is steel? It's

950
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 3: my day? It's my style. No, I understand that giving

951
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 3: you a key to the city. Well is it locked? Like,

952
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 3: what what does that mean? What do what do you get?

953
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 4: I get to have my own day, so now it

954
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 4: has my birthday in March seventeenth.

955
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, when's your birthday?

956
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 4: Okay, so you get two days two days.

957
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 3: But when March seventeenth rolls around, do you get a

958
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 3: call from the mayor?

959
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 4: Do you get and and what is the what does

960
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 4: this key to the city look like? Is it?

961
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 2: Is it large? Is it bigger than an actual key?

962
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 4: The car key? No? Right, Like, what do you get?

963
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 4: What do you have? Just looks like you're unlocking an

964
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 4: old omoir or something like that. Okay, where do you

965
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 4: have it? Do you know where it is? Yeah? Okay,

966
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 4: have you ever used it? No? No, what does it open?

967
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 3: It?

968
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 4: Just it opens my heart? Okay, because it's just to

969
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 4: acknowledge the giving back, Right.

970
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 3: I understand. I know I'm over here kind of being

971
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 3: like Christmas.

972
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 4: Required. I get it, and.

973
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 3: I know you didn't do it for the stuff, but

974
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out what this stuff is.

975
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 4: Like, what do you what do you I.

976
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 3: Mean, that's amazing that you have your own day, So

977
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 3: what do you get to do or what do you.

978
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 4: Get to wake up and take care of my kids

979
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 4: and and be a good husband. That's that's it. And

980
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:02,959
Speaker 4: go to work.

981
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 3: But you get to do that anyway, that's it. Okay.

982
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 3: So I would argue that if it's your day, you

983
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 3: should not do those things on that day. I'm going

984
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 3: to do them because I like doing them well, and

985
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 3: that's great. That's why you get a day which is

986
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 3: a little ironic.

987
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 4: I think, hey man, it is.

988
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 2: Like Mother's Day. It's funny.

989
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 3: This is I don't say this is a measure of

990
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,959
Speaker 3: a person, but I do file this sometimes. The way

991
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 3: people handle Mother's Day and Father's Day, Oh my god,

992
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 3: do you walk?

993
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 4: Do you want to be with the kids or do

994
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 4: you are you? Do you taking this?

995
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 7: Like?

996
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 4: Get get the kids to get the hell out of

997
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 4: here Mother's Day. They're already advertising for Mother's Day right

998
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 4: now in March. Okay, all right, Well, I mean before

999
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 4: Father's Day, you start seeing ads for power tools and

1000
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 4: socks and time day.

1001
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 2: And they don't even know, they don't even know that

1002
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 2: it's coming.

1003
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, it's Father's Day. And look I get

1004
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 4: a double whammy because I'm on June nineteenth, and whenever

1005
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 4: that falls on a Sunday. Oh god, it's on father's

1006
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 4: Father's Day, so.

1007
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 3: You get the old like here, I bought you a

1008
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 3: new pair of socks, and that covers both.

1009
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 4: It's just ridiculous.

1010
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 3: That's terrible. That's terrible. It's true though, it's very true.

1011
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make this a gender thing. I've

1012
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 3: seen it both ways. But like, if you're a mom,

1013
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 3: are you like, let's all have a meal together as

1014
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 3: a family, or are you like I'm out, I'm going

1015
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 3: to the spot. If you're a dad, if your dad,

1016
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 3: are we doing brunch together? Or am I going to

1017
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 3: play Pebble Beach by myself? What are you doing? I'm

1018
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 3: always like I want everybody like, no, come on with me, Like, say,

1019
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 3: let's be here. How who the hell's gonna shower me

1020
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 3: for being a father if the kids aren't there?

1021
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I look, I'd spend all the time in the

1022
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 4: world with them. What fair enough? I know that you do.

1023
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 4: So if my wife were to take the kids to

1024
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 4: Disney Father's.

1025
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 3: Day, you don't want to go get a fast pass

1026
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 3: and go on Space Mountain?

1027
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 4: No, No, that'd be a win.

1028
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 2: Okay do you.

1029
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 4: Even fit on that?

1030
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 3: No?

1031
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 4: I don't fit almost roller coasters.

1032
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you like I I just envisioned you getting

1033
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 3: on the matter horn and you're whacking your head on

1034
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 3: a on the side of a snowman or something.

1035
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm cool on that. But I know somebody

1036
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 4: who loves roller coasters. They just love the speed of it.

1037
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 4: They love the adrenaline. And you know, scariest roller coasters

1038
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,919
Speaker 4: in the world. I got a guy who it's it's

1039
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 4: the thrill of the rush, and whenever he comes on

1040
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 4: the airways, you can hear that same rush, in that

1041
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 4: same adrenaline. And that's one stephen A Di Sager an

1042
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 4: hour ago. Yeah, he has got many names, many many names.

1043
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 6: By the way, I do see that it's a long

1044
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 6: beach States against two seed Arizona at two pm on Thursday,

1045
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 6: two pm Eastern, So set your TBS stevirs right now.

1046
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 6: We did find out the tournament field today is Selection

1047
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 6: Sunday after all, and might actually be Saint Patrick's Day. Hello, Connectic.

1048
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 6: It is the number one overall seed for the NCAA

1049
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 6: Men's Tournament, Yukon the defending champ. The other one seeds

1050
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 6: are Houston, North Carolina and a Purdue team that gets

1051
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 6: to open in Indianapolis on Friday. It lost in the

1052
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 6: first round last year. Yale today won the Ivy League

1053
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 6: on a shot at the Buzzer. Yale opens Friday against Auburn,

1054
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 6: which won the SEC tournament. Today, Dukane won the Atlantic

1055
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 6: Ten title, clinching its first NCAA bid since nineteen seventy

1056
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 6: seven Thursday at first round matchup as Ducane against BYU.

1057
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 6: Illinois won the Big Ten Tournament. The Alini open against

1058
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 6: Moorhead State on Thursday. The first four openers on Tuesday

1059
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 6: and Wednesday include Colorado State against Virginia and Colorado against

1060
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 6: Boise State. Also, it's Howard University against Wagner and Grambling

1061
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 6: against Montana State. Grambling in the NCAAs for the first time.

1062
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 6: Howard a team that had a record as of early

1063
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 6: February of nine and fourteen. Since then, they're nine to two.

1064
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 6: UAB won the American Conference today and yesterday it upsets

1065
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 6: South Florida in a semifinal. UAB pla a team known

1066
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 6: as San Diego State University. On Friday, Oklahoma just missed

1067
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 6: the NCAA field. The women's number one overall seed is

1068
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 6: undefeated South Carolina. Iowa is a one seed for the

1069
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 6: first time since nineteen ninety two.

1070
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 4: In the NBA.

1071
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 6: We've got two late games about to start. In LA,

1072
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 6: the Clippers are hosting the Hawks. The other game it's

1073
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 6: still going overtime. In San Antonio, the Nets ahead of

1074
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 6: the Spurs one fifteen, one twelve, two and a half

1075
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 6: minutes to go in the OT Rookie Victor wimbin Yama

1076
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 6: thirty one points and fifteen rebounds for San Antonio. Milwaukee

1077
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 6: beat Phoenix today one forty to one twenty nine. Damian

1078
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 6: Lillard thirty one points, sixteen assists. Miami won at the

1079
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 6: Buzzer at Detroit one oh four, one oh one, bam

1080
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 6: At Abayo with the three pointer to win it. At Dallas,

1081
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 6: MAVs over Denver one oh seven, one oh five to

1082
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 6: end of Nuggets five game winning streak at the Buzzer.

1083
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Speaker 6: Kyrie Irving the game winner. Orlando sent Toronto to a

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Speaker 6: seventh straight loss one eleven ninety six, and Boston, as expected,

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Speaker 6: did win and win big at Washington one thirty to

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Speaker 6: one oh four, even though Jalen Brown and Christaps Porzingis

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Speaker 6: were out. Boston's won five straight. Celtics have a record

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Speaker 6: of fifty three and fourteen. Among the NHL games, Carolina

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Speaker 6: won seven to two at Ottawa Winnipeg, a six to

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Speaker 6: one winner at Columbus. Denny Hamlin took the NASCAR race

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Speaker 6: at Bristol. Martin Truex finished second. The Cleveland Brown signed

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Speaker 6: former Ravens quarterback Tyler Huntley. At spring training, Colorado beat

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Speaker 6: San Francisco five to three. The lost to Logan Webb.

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Speaker 6: He did have eight strikeouts in five and a third innings,

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Speaker 6: but he's zero and three with a springy array of nine.

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Speaker 6: Arizona beat the Angels to thing. Zach Gallon got the

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Speaker 6: win and to golf, Scottie Scheffler won the Players Championship

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Speaker 6: by one stroke over three other golfers. We were this

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Speaker 6: close to a playoff today, Wyndham Clark with the late

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Speaker 6: putt to send it into overtime. It just looked out

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Speaker 6: of the cup. And that's the difference of two million dollars,

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Speaker 6: lady and gentlemen. Wow, actually more than that, because this

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Speaker 6: was the richest event on tour. Scottie Scheffler, who wins,

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Speaker 6: who was five shots back to start the day, earns

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Speaker 6: four point five million dollars. Since there was a three

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Speaker 6: way tie for second place. They each get about two

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Speaker 6: million dollars. They paid out like lived golf today.

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Speaker 4: This is the one right, one time I like to

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Speaker 4: live golf. Guys are like, what do you like? Wait

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Speaker 6: Roy McElroy, for example, McElroy barely in the top twenty

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Speaker 6: and two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars for him

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Speaker 6: for the weekend. By the way, world number one, Scheffler

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Speaker 6: became the first back to back winner there in the

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Speaker 6: event's fiftieth edition.

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Speaker 3: Back to you all right, very good stuff, Steve, appreciate

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Speaker 4: While Steve was talking, I was.

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Speaker 3: Also just perusing for an update on Anthony Davis's health.

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Speaker 4: It's just his I.

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Speaker 3: He's been listening to, he's been listening as questionable and

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Speaker 3: their next nasty hitting that eye. Did you see it?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, not good. No, No, I'm not making light

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Speaker 3: of the injury. It sounds like you are. I'm just

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01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 3: going to throw that out there.

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Speaker 4: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not doing that way.

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01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 3: Know what I'm doing is I'm heading you off at

1141
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 3: the past because I know that if I don't do that,

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01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 3: you are going to diminish the Warriors victory.

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01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 4: And it is diminished. Why Okay, So let me just

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01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 4: ask you this. Okay, say, in that game, which was

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01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 4: back and forth, it was a great game. First half,

1146
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 4: it was just going back and forth, sixty seven, sixty six,

1147
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 4: But they didn't lead the whole way. It was sixty

1148
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 4: the whole whole second half. They didn't lead the whole way,

1149
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 4: just f yi, second half because they hit a late

1150
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 4: bucket to go up by one at halftime. Just I

1151
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 4: don't know if you were watching the game just looking

1152
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 4: at the highlights, but I watched games anyway. I watched

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01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 4: the whole second half.

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Speaker 3: I spent the first half watching my son take down

1155
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 3: the ten year old Phillies eight to two.

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01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:50,719
Speaker 4: But yes, priorities, Okay, yes, and you're speaking on something

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01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 4: you don't know about, So I'll step in. I'll step

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Speaker 4: in here.

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Speaker 2: Second half, the whole second.

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Speaker 4: At halftime, Draymond Green didn't come back out. Oh, do

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01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 4: you think Golden State would have won?

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Speaker 7: Mmm?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm just asking just what it just?

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Speaker 3: You know, I know if Draymond didn't come back out

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01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 3: and Anthony Davis did, do you think.

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Speaker 4: Golden State would have won that game? I don't, I

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01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 4: don't know. I can tell you what the answer is.

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01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 4: And you do know the answer. You do know the answer?

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01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:24,560
Speaker 4: You do not?

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01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 3: No, you can't. You know you do know what you

1171
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 3: you know? You know, I know what the answer is.

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Speaker 3: The better question would be if, in your scenario, Anthony

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01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 3: Davis plays and Draymond Green does not, would you the

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01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,599
Speaker 3: Warrior fan, then use that as an excuse for why

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01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 3: you lost.

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 4: No, I'm not using it as an excuse. It sounds

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01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 4: like it. No, it's not an excuse, right, because still.

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01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 2: Told me the Warriors could not handle the size of

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01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 2: the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: Lakers, the size of the Lakers. That's what I said. Remember,

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,040
Speaker 4: you're not the only towel guy. No, but that's what

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01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 4: I said. The other three are sitting on the bench

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01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,240
Speaker 4: and street close. Just FYI, I'm just going to throw

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01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 4: that out there. The other three tall guys are also

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01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 4: sitting on the bench over there in Street Close. So

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01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,600
Speaker 4: when you take Anthony Davis, who you know quite possibly

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01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 4: could be the defensive player of the year out of

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01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 4: the game because someone maliciously attacks his eye, well, now

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Speaker 4: you're losing me.

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Speaker 3: You didn't really have any to begin with, but now

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01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,120
Speaker 3: now you're now you're losing me. Did he play in

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Speaker 3: the first half? My understanding is he played in the

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01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 3: first half. Yeah, he played in the first half. He played.

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Speaker 3: So why were the Lakers not pulling away from the

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Speaker 3: Warriors in the first half?

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Speaker 4: Out? Because that's how these games go with the Lakers

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Speaker 4: and the Warriors. You know that nobody's pulling away like that.

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Speaker 4: I see. You know that the size of the Lakers

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Speaker 4: and the shot of making of the Warriors. That that

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Speaker 4: that's why people love this series. Mm hmm. So it

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01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 4: was according to to script until someone on the Warriors

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01:11:55,320 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 4: maliciously Militia dug into Anthony Davis's I his left eye

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Speaker 4: and he didn't return in the game. Smart smart play,

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01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 4: it looks like but.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's how you guys do it up in Debay.

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01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 3: Now here's the bad news. The bad news is not

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01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 3: for one or the other. It's for both, especially when

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01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 3: you get Kyrie Irving left handed running buzzer beaters to

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01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,600
Speaker 3: put the Mavericks back in the seventh seed. Look, the

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01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 3: bottom line is this, it is so hard to make

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01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 3: up ground in the NBA. It is so hard. A

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Speaker 3: three game lead. If it was a baseball division, you'd

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01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 3: be like, that might be gone by this weekend. A

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Speaker 3: three game advantage in the NBA at this time of

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 3: the year almost feels insurmountable, especially as you get to

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01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 3: late March, where half of these teams, the ones at

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01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 3: the bottom half of each conference, kind of stopped playing.

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01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 3: A lot of teams stop playing players, a lot of

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01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:02,879
Speaker 3: teams are starting to think about draft position and lottery

1220
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 3: balls and all of this, and it becomes I think,

1221
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 3: even harder for upsets to happen. And so the bottom

1222
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 3: line is the high likelihood is Ephraim and I don't know.

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01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 3: I can't decide this is a good thing or a

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01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 3: bad thing. But the Warriors and Lakers are jockeying right

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01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 3: now simply to see who hosts that nine to ten

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 3: play in game. And there's a couple of points to

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Speaker 3: make about that. Is that good for Adam Silver? Is

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01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 3: it bad for Adam Silver? And then maybe the even

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01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 3: bigger question, are these two teams getting a ridiculous amount

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 3: of publicity for what is almost a sad state of

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01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 3: affairs that both of them are going to be in

1232
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 3: this game where one of them will win so that

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01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 3: they can probably go to a different city and lose

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01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 3: a couple of nights later. But we can get into

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Speaker 3: that a little bit further. Coming up next Tyrak Studios.

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Speaker 3: That's e from Salama, Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. My dude,

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01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 3: I got wide receiver questions. Can we get to some

1238
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:13,839
Speaker 3: at the top of the hour? I got questions? Remember

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01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 3: who's my guy on the Jacksonville Jaguars, Christian Kirk.

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01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 4: Yep.

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01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 3: That contract shook everything up. It led to Tyreek Hill

1242
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 3: getting switched teams, Deebo, Samuel dk Metcalf holding out aj

1243
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 3: Brown switching teams. Could Calvin Ridley's contract with the Titans.

1244
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:40,680
Speaker 3: Now do the exact same thing, and what does it

1245
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 3: mean for certain players? And I'd love to know what

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01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 3: you would do if you were in the position of

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01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 3: some of these teams.

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01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 4: So we'll get to that a little bit.

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01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 3: Tyrack dot Com Studios, Mark Willardy from Salam Glad you're

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01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 3: with us tonight. It is bracket Sunday, and we got

1251
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 3: a lot more on that coming up next hour as well.

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01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you this question because it

1253
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 3: was either a week or two ago.

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01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 4: We were like, man, this is going to be.

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01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 3: The greatest playing tournament ever, which is a funny statement

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01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 3: because what's it been going now for three years, four years,

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 3: whatever it is, and it's the playing tournament which already

1258
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 3: has sort of a mixed reaction from people. Some people

1259
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 3: think the whole thing is concocted, which also, by the way,

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01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:26,479
Speaker 3: is a funny statement to me because I'm like, sports

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01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:31,520
Speaker 3: is concocted. Why are you mad about that playoff structure?

1262
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 3: Like that's how that's how all of these things came

1263
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 3: to be. Someone sat down and went, you know what,

1264
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 3: we should give everybody uniforms and play ball in front

1265
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:43,520
Speaker 3: of everyone and make it entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm going off on a tangent.

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01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 3: Is it a good thing for the league or a

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 3: bad thing for the league that all of these future

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Speaker 3: Hall of famers and.

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Speaker 4: High profile teams.

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01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 3: You look at it right now, the Western Conference playing

1272
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 3: as of today, Luca KD Booker, Steph clay dre lebron

1273
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 3: ad for half of the game, all of these players

1274
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 3: would be in the playing tournament. And so that's wonderful

1275
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 3: for one night. It also means that two of the

1276
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 3: four are gonna get eliminated lickety split. So is this

1277
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:41,679
Speaker 3: good or bad? It's it's good for sport. I personally

1278
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:42,719
Speaker 3: liked the playing tournament.

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01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 4: I do too. I didn't like the NBA coming down

1280
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 4: the stretch where guys were just bailly jumping off the

1281
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 4: ship as we've seen for the last three years, especially

1282
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 4: last year, from the Eastern Conference playing champion and the

1283
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 4: Western Conference playing champion. They both went to the Eastern

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01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 4: and Western Conference finals respectively. And so it goes to

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01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 4: the notion of once you're in anything can happen. And

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01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 4: so I love that added you know, Carrot there for

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01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 4: us as the viewers, right, we don't neither one of

1288
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 4: us play on an NBA team. So as a fan

1289
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 4: of the game, I love meaningful games when before there

1290
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 4: was nothing. I love the tenth seed and then the

1291
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 4: ninth and the seventh and eighth seed having the fight

1292
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,799
Speaker 4: to get in, and then it's like a pre playoff.

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01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 4: It's just like the NCAA tournament. The first four they

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01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 4: did that for a reason. So instead of just the

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Speaker 4: sixty four teams, they did it for a reason. Hey,

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Speaker 4: you know what, let's let's do this. Let's give a

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01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 4: a bonus. Let's give a precursor to the tournament. Still

1298
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 4: counts as the tournament, but let's wet the whistle. And

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01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:29,680
Speaker 4: I like my whistle being wet. When it comes to sports,

1300
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 4: thinks great. I think Super Wildcard weekend for the NFL

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01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 4: is great. Will you add another playoff game? I believe

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01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 4: fans enjoy it. Once again, what is sport? It's entertainment

1303
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 4: for all those who aren't participating in it, which is

1304
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 4: everyone else?

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01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,719
Speaker 2: Right, No, I'm with you one hundred percent.

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01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 3: I just you know, we look at it, and the

1307
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 3: odds would be that the two biggest and this is

1308
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:09,839
Speaker 3: a fact, this is not some sort of a California opinion.

1309
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 3: The two biggest ratings drivers in the NBA for the

1310
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 3: last fifteen years currently sit in a nine to ten

1311
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 3: game where one of them will go home right away

1312
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 3: and the other one is likely to go home two

1313
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 3: nights later. That's what the that's what the odds will say,

1314
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 3: which is that you could have a Western Conference playoffs

1315
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 3: with no Lebron and no Steph and so that's really

1316
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 3: fun for one night. But I don't think that that's

1317
01:19:41,280 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 3: something that Adam Silver is licking his chops about.

1318
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 4: No, it's it's not. But you you get what you get.

1319
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 4: Everybody got eighty two games, so you get what you get.

1320
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 4: You got to step up and you have to perform. Yeah,

1321
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 4: they are as of now performing in terms of a

1322
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 4: playoff team. So now you have to fight and clawe

1323
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:12,879
Speaker 4: to get in. All right, let's see what happens.

1324
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:15,760
Speaker 3: Gonna be a gonna be an interesting run on the

1325
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 3: stretch drive for sure. But right now, at least for

1326
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Speaker 3: tonight and for this week, the focus on basketball is

1327
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,600
Speaker 3: actually at the lower level. So we'll get back to

1328
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 3: March madness. But I also got NFL free agency wide

1329
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 3: receiver questions. That's next on Fox Sports Radio. I mean,

1330
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 3: we did talk justin fields Russell Wilson, but not as

1331
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 3: much NFL free agency as you might expect in the

1332
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:47,640
Speaker 3: week that was. But it's also selection Sunday. You get it,

1333
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 3: and you only need to look actually to another sport,

1334
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 3: which is baseball, to see that if you'll overplay that

1335
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:58,919
Speaker 3: free agency hand, whoopsie daisy, it can change quickly.

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01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 2: Hashtag Blake Snell cy.

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01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 3: Young Award winner. Is he even going to be on

1338
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 3: a team by opening Day? I use that as a

1339
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 3: cautionary tale for all free agents, especially wide receivers, which

1340
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 3: to me has become the most interesting position in the sport.

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Speaker 3: It's so interesting, right because you look at the way

1346
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 3: the sport has changed in recent years. Now a running

1347
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 3: back can barely get a sniff, you know. Austin Eckler

1348
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 3: has been a guy, for instance, who the last few

1349
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 3: years he's been outspoken. He until last year was fantastic

1350
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 3: and every time he'd ask for a nugget the Chargers

1351
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 3: are like, well, no, we're not going to do that,

1352
01:21:56,640 --> 01:21:59,760
Speaker 3: and now off this guy goes to Washington for two

1353
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:04,799
Speaker 3: year years and maybe eleven million dollars if it goes well,

1354
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:09,840
Speaker 3: maybe eleven million if it goes well. Meantime, you got

1355
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:13,000
Speaker 3: wide receivers making twenty five to thirty million a year.

1356
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley's deal with the Titans a from.

1357
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 2: Means what if you're a team, do you blink?

1358
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 3: Do you pay a Brandon Nyuk for example, or do

1359
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 3: you say, I'm sorry, we can we can replace that

1360
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 3: production for a whole hell of a lot.

1361
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 4: Yet less Brandon was special for them. Now, you can't

1362
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:55,679
Speaker 4: keep everybody, but Brandon Nayuk was. He worked himself into

1363
01:22:55,680 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 4: a top five receiver, and I know he doesn't get

1364
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 4: a lot of you know, the mentioned because of Christian

1365
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 4: McCaffrey obviously, and Deebo Samuel's you know, you got two

1366
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 4: one of one's on one team, right, Nobody in the

1367
01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 4: league is like Deebo, And nobody in the league is

1368
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 4: like Christian McCaffrey. And then, oh, by the way, you

1369
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 4: got you know, a Hall of Fame bound tight ending

1370
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 4: in Kittle. So it seems crowded, right, so you don't

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01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 4: get the the the actual or talk about the actual

1372
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:42,639
Speaker 4: words of a brand and ayut. And look, the wide

1373
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 4: receiver market is on fire right now. I remember when

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01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 4: it wasn't. In these last couple of years, it's been

1375
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 4: great for receivers. So as forty nine ers, what do

1376
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 4: you do? Do you spend that type of money on

1377
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 4: a guy? I don't think you can. But you've also

1378
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 4: shown that you're your ability to build out a real

1379
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 4: legitimate roster, and I think that's what San Francisco's done

1380
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 4: better than anybody the last five years, no matter who

1381
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 4: the quarterback was or what was going on, they've made

1382
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 4: the right decisions. They went out and got Christian McCaffrey. Yep.

1383
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 4: So when you talk about what should they do, the

1384
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 4: real answer is they probably already know what they're gonna

1385
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 4: do and it's probably gonna work. Well, that's a good answer.

1386
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:55,880
Speaker 3: I do think it's gone back and forth, if you know,

1387
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:57,600
Speaker 3: and this is just an example.

1388
01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff out there.

1389
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 3: Ridley gets four years in ninety to mill Michael Pittman

1390
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 3: from the Colts gets twenty three million per year. Michael

1391
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:11,640
Speaker 3: Pittman gets twenty three million per year from Indianapolis. So

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01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 3: I just think it's interesting anytime you've got a team

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01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 3: and a very productive wide receiver in this position, you

1394
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,240
Speaker 3: know what, what's the tipping point?

1395
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 2: What is the tipping point?

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01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 3: Because you're right, they probably do know what they want

1397
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:31,840
Speaker 3: to do, except for I do think that adjusted on

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01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 3: the fly a little bit. If I'm reading tea leaves.

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Speaker 3: When the season ended, I think A Yuke was not

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01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 3: going to be a forty nine Er anymore. Clues were everywhere.

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01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 3: His brother was on Instagram being like, yeah, we're out.

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01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 3: His girlfriend was on TikTok leaving levi Stadium on you know,

1403
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 3: on exit interview day being like, wow, might be the last.

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01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 2: Time we're at Levi's Stadium.

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01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 3: And the forty nine ers John Lynch when he was

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01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:02,839
Speaker 3: asked the question, was like, yeah, you know, these cap

1407
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 3: situations can really be tough.

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01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 2: Love the guy, but really tough.

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01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,160
Speaker 3: Then the league handed out the new salary cap number,

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01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:15,919
Speaker 3: which was higher than everyone thought, and the Niners random

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01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 3: microphones to be like, so we love Brandon Ayuk and

1412
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 3: we really planned to keep them.

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01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:24,320
Speaker 4: Around, and I was like, whoa that changed? And then

1414
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:25,919
Speaker 4: then this happened.

1415
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 3: Then Calvin Ridley got fifty mil guaranteed to go to

1416
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 3: a team that doesn't even have.

1417
01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:32,880
Speaker 4: A quarterback at all.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh God, is this going to change?

1419
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 3: It now back into a different direction. And I'm with

1420
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 3: you where it's like, I trust that team. They make

1421
01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:47,679
Speaker 3: good decisions, they've got a good roster. They've been kind

1422
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 3: of like shopping for their positions at the bargain bin

1423
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:53,519
Speaker 3: and looking for diamonds in the rough.

1424
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine.

1425
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,479
Speaker 3: It feels to me like you're saving up for a

1426
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 3: big old whammy. But is that whammy a white receiver

1427
01:27:00,680 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 3: or are you saving up for I don't know, like

1428
01:27:03,640 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 3: a quarterback next year for example.

1429
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 4: I honestly think they're happy with brock Perdy just well.

1430
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:14,640
Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, no, I'm not saying that. I'm being sarcastic,

1431
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 3: like they're going to have to pay that man.

1432
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 4: Now.

1433
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 3: The extension comes next year. It doesn't kick in until

1434
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 3: the year after that, so you actually have two more

1435
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 3: seasons of cheap party, if you will. And so there

1436
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 3: are options you could trade Deebo after another year or

1437
01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 3: something like.

1438
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 4: There's ways to do it.

1439
01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 3: I just wonder what the tipping point is, because it's

1440
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,280
Speaker 3: a man. Every coach I've talked to will tell you

1441
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:46,799
Speaker 3: the key positions are quarterback, pass rusher, maybe a lockdown corner.

1442
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 4: Somehow we've arrived at the situation where the.

1443
01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 3: Wide receiver is like one of the most important things

1444
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:56,799
Speaker 3: in football except for the Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes

1445
01:27:56,880 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 3: keep running around and winning super Bowls without any good ones.

1446
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 4: I'm like, what are we doing? Yeah, it's this notion

1447
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:14,719
Speaker 4: of it's it's the market, man. Remember what the running

1448
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 4: back market was and then it dried up. Yep, it's

1449
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 4: ebbs and flows. The only market that never drives up

1450
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:24,400
Speaker 4: is left tackle in the quarterback.

1451
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 3: Left tackle I left out. Yes, that's the of the

1452
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 3: you know, of the Big four. That's definitely another one

1453
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:29,760
Speaker 3: of them.

1454
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 4: An edge rusher. Those three positions are consistent no matter

1455
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 4: what year, and they will always be consistent because that's

1456
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 4: literally legitimately where you can change your team. Yes, So

1457
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:48,839
Speaker 4: it's ebbs and flows man, Like you set that market.

1458
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,639
Speaker 4: It's whatever one team is willing to pay whatever they

1459
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,160
Speaker 4: think that that is. And these teams with all this

1460
01:28:55,280 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 4: cap space, they can splurge. They can go splurge. When

1461
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 4: you got all that cap space, you can do that.

1462
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:08,799
Speaker 4: You can set the market, and that's what we're seeing happening.

1463
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 3: Another funny thing out of this story, which maybe you

1464
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 3: can help me sort of translate. Did you see the

1465
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 3: report that came out two days ago that there is

1466
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:28,680
Speaker 3: mutual interest between Ayuk and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now I'm

1467
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 3: sitting here going, okay, help me understand the NFL rules.

1468
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:38,559
Speaker 3: Ayuk is not a free agent, like at all, like

1469
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:42,080
Speaker 3: not even close. He is under contract next year. The

1470
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 3: forty nine ers have the franchise tag the year after

1471
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:48,360
Speaker 3: that if they want it. So one of two things

1472
01:29:48,439 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 3: is happening if a Yuk and the Jags have quote

1473
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 3: mutual interest. Either the forty nine ers have told him

1474
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 3: he can go seek a trade right or those ja

1475
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:01,160
Speaker 3: are tampering.

1476
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 4: Now I think it's I think it's I mean the

1477
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 4: one before. I think for the former uh because that you,

1478
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 4: I mean, when you're tampering that you that would never

1479
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 4: come out, that would never come out. So I think

1480
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 4: I did.

1481
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 3: I did hear an interview with the reporter who uh

1482
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 3: who who spoke about it, and the reporter was like, well,

1483
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 3: do y' all know the the Twitter account called pretty ricky?

1484
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 3: And so it all started with a tweet from that,

1485
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:37,799
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what the hell are we talking about?

1486
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:42,599
Speaker 3: But somebody went to pretty Ricky dot com and and

1487
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:45,080
Speaker 3: now Brandon ayuks on that what are we doing? Please,

1488
01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 3: that's not that's not a report, please, that's a that's that's.

1489
01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 4: A social media rumor.

1490
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 2: You and I could start eight of those.

1491
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 4: But right now we want the air.

1492
01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:02,680
Speaker 3: Blake snelled to the Dodgers boom. I could do that

1493
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:11,600
Speaker 3: in the next ten seconds if I wanted. It's crazy anyway, So.

1494
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 4: That's that. That's that.

1495
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 3: But the wide receiver thing, I still look at it, and

1496
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:22,799
Speaker 3: I'm legitimately puzzled. Across the league, Brady owned this league

1497
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 3: for the better part of two decades, and Patrick Mahomes

1498
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 3: just won a Super Bowl with a guy by the

1499
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 3: name of Rashi Rice at the beginning of the year,

1500
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:37,440
Speaker 3: knowing had heard of as his lead receiver. And somehow

1501
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:42,639
Speaker 3: teams are breaking off twenty five to thirty per year.

1502
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 3: And I'm talking for receivers who aren't even like right,

1503
01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 3: I love Calvin Ridley, Christian Kirk is a really good player.

1504
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 3: But these are not dudes where you're like, oh, oh,

1505
01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 3: that's wr one. They're not just Jefferson. No, what the

1506
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 3: hell is Justin gonna make? For God's sakes, ain't not

1507
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 3: T Higgins? What the hell is that gonna look like? Yeah?

1508
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 3: Shortly after the show, the podcast going up. If you

1509
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 3: missed any of today's show, be sure to check out

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Speaker 3: the podcast. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get

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Speaker 3: Radio wherever you get your podcasts. You'll see this show

1514
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 3: posted right after we get off the air. But that's

1515
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:40,840
Speaker 3: not where we're going yet. We're not done. Back to

1516
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:45,760
Speaker 3: the brackets on Selection Sunday. Coming up next with E

1517
01:32:45,880 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 3: from salam Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. Okay, we're rolling

1518
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 3: on with E from salam Mark Willard live in the

1519
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 3: tire Reck dot Com studios. I forget and after doing

1520
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 3: the whole tournament experience with you last year, I'm almost

1521
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 3: mad at myself for this.

1522
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 4: Do you even fill out a bracket? No?

1523
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 2: Ever, No, you've never done it.

1524
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:20,960
Speaker 4: You know why? Why? Because I enjoy watching the games? Yep,

1525
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:27,679
Speaker 4: as soon as you put pen to paper or tap

1526
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 4: on the keyboard, you're now no longer watching the games

1527
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:36,160
Speaker 4: to watch the games, You're watching the games to win

1528
01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 4: your bracket, and it takes a little bit away from it,

1529
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:47,439
Speaker 4: There's no doubt, and I want to enjoy it. I

1530
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:50,440
Speaker 4: think this is the greatest time of year for college basketball,

1531
01:33:51,520 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 4: and I don't want to be saddled to picking a brand,

1532
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:06,080
Speaker 4: get and just dissecting something I have. It takes the

1533
01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:11,320
Speaker 4: fun out of it for me, and I enjoy watching it.

1534
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 4: I get it. I completely get it.

1535
01:34:18,439 --> 01:34:20,800
Speaker 3: It's I told you I did it one time, and

1536
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 3: it completely changed the experience to like every other sporting event,

1537
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,880
Speaker 3: which is think about it like a pyramid. As you

1538
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 3: go up in the field gets smaller, it gets more

1539
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:38,400
Speaker 3: dramatic when you fill out a brackets the other way around.

1540
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 3: The drama starts on Thursday, and I'll never forget the year.

1541
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,320
Speaker 3: I sat down and I really got into it.

1542
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 4: Brother.

1543
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna watch a lot

1544
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:55,920
Speaker 3: this year. We're gonna know some things, we're gonna read, Okay,

1545
01:34:56,479 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 3: we're gonna look at odds makers, we're gonna we're gonna

1546
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 3: dive in on these teams.

1547
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 4: We're gonna see what's going on.

1548
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 3: Okay, And when the dust settled from all of this

1549
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:15,080
Speaker 3: brain activity, I had Louisville in the final box. Louisville,

1550
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 3: They're going all the way. And then Thursday comes around

1551
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 3: and we're on the West coast and so those first

1552
01:35:27,040 --> 01:35:31,640
Speaker 3: games they started like nine or seven, and right You're like,

1553
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 3: I just had eggs and now we're watching and this

1554
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:41,640
Speaker 3: championship is underway, and before I could sit down and

1555
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:49,720
Speaker 3: have lunch, Louisville had been eliminated. And I'm like, we

1556
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:54,520
Speaker 3: didn't even make it to Friday. Like, there are teams

1557
01:35:55,680 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 3: that will be in the first round tomorrow. They're at

1558
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 3: their hotel in socks right now, and my whole experience

1559
01:36:06,439 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 3: is over. It's over before lunchtime on Thursday. And that's

1560
01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:18,120
Speaker 3: out process by the same token though, And this isn't

1561
01:36:18,200 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 3: like fomo, but this is what I wonder, you know,

1562
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:22,639
Speaker 3: And you are a little bit different, right because you're

1563
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:24,960
Speaker 3: like you've got a squad, you do have skin in

1564
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:27,559
Speaker 3: the game, You're going to travel, Yeah, you're going to

1565
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 3: watch this team. But like there's a little bit of

1566
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 3: missing out going on here too. I think for a

1567
01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 3: lot of people, it's like, you know, if you don't

1568
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:38,400
Speaker 3: fill out a bracket, you're not like doing what everybody's doing.

1569
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm never I'm okay with not doing everything.

1570
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:42,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what I mean.

1571
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 3: It's like it's kind of like, uh, you walk by

1572
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 3: a craps table that's hot, they want to get in

1573
01:36:51,040 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 3: on that.

1574
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:51,679
Speaker 4: Everybody.

1575
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:56,960
Speaker 3: Let's say you're having a good time, what's you gonna do?

1576
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 3: Go play kino or something.

1577
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:02,559
Speaker 4: I'm just different. I just go play blackjack. But I'm

1578
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 4: just different in general when it comes to I don't

1579
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 4: need others to find joy like me, finding joy is

1580
01:37:13,120 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 4: not based on what everybody else is finding joy in.

1581
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:19,360
Speaker 4: Like so, I'm not a drinker, so I don't drink.

1582
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 4: I never have on smoke or anything like that. And

1583
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:26,600
Speaker 4: so after games, when everybody was going out to the

1584
01:37:26,640 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 4: club and all that, I would go to Dave and

1585
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 4: Busters yep. Or I would go to the movies yep.

1586
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 4: Most of the time by myself though, right I'm an

1587
01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 4: NFL player starter early twenties. I just didn't find joy

1588
01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:54,839
Speaker 4: where others found joy. And so if the whole world

1589
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 4: is loving this bracketology, and I just want to watch

1590
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 4: all the games and pick the teams I want on

1591
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:11,360
Speaker 4: the spot of the games, and that's comforting to me.

1592
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 4: It's peaceful, it's peaceful. You missed your whole, your whole

1593
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,679
Speaker 4: march madness up the first game.

1594
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 3: Well, no, the mistake was mine. The mistake was not

1595
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 3: picking Louisville. The mistake was reading enough to where I

1596
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 3: thought that I had arrived at the spot where I

1597
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:36,000
Speaker 3: knew something and we know not.

1598
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:38,599
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm a different human being right now.

1599
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:41,479
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this bracket and I'm going, y'all realize,

1600
01:38:41,520 --> 01:38:44,720
Speaker 3: I don't know a damn thing about this, And that's

1601
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 3: why I have not spent any of these three hours

1602
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:50,200
Speaker 3: like I've yes, I've watched, I got it.

1603
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 2: I know who's doing what, I know who the sleepers are.

1604
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 3: I could sit here and have a conversation with you

1605
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 3: about how New Mexico is gonna be clemsing, if you want,

1606
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 3: But like, I'm also going to keep real I don't

1607
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 3: know what the hell is going to happen in this

1608
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:03,360
Speaker 3: stupid thing.

1609
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 4: Sixty eight teams.

1610
01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:09,280
Speaker 3: And the difference between the best one and the worst

1611
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 3: one is like, nah, I don't know right day, right,

1612
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 3: it's about eleven points and whether or not that guy

1613
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:17,720
Speaker 3: shows up that day?

1614
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:19,479
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

1615
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 3: What's the difference now between Kansas and Samford? I didn't say, Stanford,

1616
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:25,160
Speaker 3: I said, Samford.

1617
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 4: What's the difference.

1618
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:32,720
Speaker 3: Between those two teams in twenty twenty four? By the way,

1619
01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 3: I know, I know what an odds maker will say

1620
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 3: to the answer to that question. The answer is six

1621
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:41,759
Speaker 3: and a half points. Think about that for a second.

1622
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:46,000
Speaker 3: If you've been alive for more than twelve seconds, think

1623
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:52,200
Speaker 3: about that. The difference between Kansas and and Samford Samford

1624
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 3: is six points?

1625
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:56,919
Speaker 4: What? That seems crazy?

1626
01:39:57,160 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 3: And ain't the college basketball that I grew up watching?

1627
01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:03,320
Speaker 3: Kansas was thirty six points.

1628
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 4: Better than Sanford anymore.

1629
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 3: In the college basketball that I watched, you know, I mean,

1630
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 3: I'm even looking at this. How many spreads do you

1631
01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:18,920
Speaker 3: have that are north of twenty points? Because that used

1632
01:40:18,920 --> 01:40:22,599
Speaker 3: to be norm. Oh that was right one sixteen game

1633
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:27,880
Speaker 3: right North Carolina's playing you know, boppity boops State and

1634
01:40:27,920 --> 01:40:29,599
Speaker 3: they're favored by thirty two and a hook.

1635
01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 2: That was all that was the way it went.

1636
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:34,880
Speaker 3: You know, how many first round games have a spread

1637
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 3: north of twenty points? In this entire first round? None

1638
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 3: can't be two to two. Kan Is a twenty six

1639
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,800
Speaker 3: point favorite over Stetson, which I thought was a cologne.

1640
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 4: I didn't even realize that was school.

1641
01:40:52,120 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 2: And uh and Houston is a twenty three.

1642
01:40:55,920 --> 01:41:00,559
Speaker 3: And a half point favorite over Longwood.

1643
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 4: Speaking of Longwood, hell is that? Speaking of Longwood, we

1644
01:41:05,360 --> 01:41:06,719
Speaker 4: got a guy on our team.

1645
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:10,160
Speaker 2: Good Lord, These intros are getting in more interesting by

1646
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:10,599
Speaker 2: the week.

1647
01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:18,240
Speaker 4: When it comes to prediction, when it comes to truth speaking,

1648
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:26,800
Speaker 4: when it comes to unworldly advice, we got a guy

1649
01:41:28,439 --> 01:41:35,719
Speaker 4: by the name of Steve A w for winner.

1650
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:40,559
Speaker 6: I would there's no letter for dollar signs. But that's

1651
01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 6: what I'm going to start talking about here because I

1652
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:46,160
Speaker 6: just saw a tweet from Iowa Women's basketball. As the

1653
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 6: field is set for women's hoops as well as men.

1654
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:53,120
Speaker 6: This is selection Sunday for the NCAA's Yes, undefeated South

1655
01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:56,479
Speaker 6: Carolina is women's number one overall set again, Iowa is

1656
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 6: a one seed for the first time since nineteen ninety two.

1657
01:41:59,280 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 6: They have a player, Caitlin Clark. You may have heard

1658
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:04,800
Speaker 6: of her. Foxes I recall got better ratings for the

1659
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,719
Speaker 6: women's hoops than the men's hoops this year, largely because

1660
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 6: of her. Iowa has tweeted out there will be no

1661
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 6: public on sale for the NCAA first and second round

1662
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,680
Speaker 6: games that are in Iowa City. Keep in mind the

1663
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:20,240
Speaker 6: first two rounds are on home courts. In the women's tournament,

1664
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 6: Both sessions Saturday and next Monday are sold out and

1665
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:32,400
Speaker 6: they refer you to the official, verified, trusted resale marketplace site.

1666
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 6: So I go there and tickets are a thousand, three

1667
01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:43,280
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty six dollars currently for the Saturday Iowa

1668
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 6: Women's basketball one thousand, three hundred and twenty six dollars.

1669
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:53,280
Speaker 6: That is section L L row thirty two. This is

1670
01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 6: not the front row. Wow, it's all I gotta say,

1671
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:02,040
Speaker 6: what if you sput that on one event?

1672
01:43:02,160 --> 01:43:02,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1673
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,160
Speaker 2: I like, but I but I get it.

1674
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:05,920
Speaker 3: This is and we could talk about this morn a

1675
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:09,840
Speaker 3: little bit like That's that is college basketball's problem because

1676
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 3: ever since David Stern, basketball has been about the stars.

1677
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:17,200
Speaker 3: It's about that person that you want to watch play ball.

1678
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:19,519
Speaker 4: I just don't even know who that is in the

1679
01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:21,280
Speaker 4: men's game this year. True.

1680
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 6: By the way, tickets it might be one thousand, three

1681
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,720
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty six dollars each, but the site does

1682
01:43:27,800 --> 01:43:29,840
Speaker 6: point out they are as low as three hundred and

1683
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:32,879
Speaker 6: thirteen dollars per month if you sign up for an install.

1684
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:39,800
Speaker 6: But oh gosh, I had no idea.

1685
01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:43,080
Speaker 3: I have If you were just can I please a

1686
01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:44,920
Speaker 3: word to the why if you have to consider a

1687
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:49,800
Speaker 3: payment plan? You're not supposed to go watch it on

1688
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:53,519
Speaker 3: TV from from this game? You're going to Thursday. No

1689
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 3: payment plan?

1690
01:43:54,479 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 4: Right? No? Okay?

1691
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 6: They have a three month payment plan with a very

1692
01:43:59,640 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 6: low fifteen percent APR.

1693
01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:02,000
Speaker 4: Nice.

1694
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 6: There's also a six month and twelve month payment plan.

1695
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 6: It's just this doesn't end.

1696
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 3: We rent and sporting events a two things that I'm like,

1697
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:13,120
Speaker 3: let's not do the payment plan.

1698
01:44:13,479 --> 01:44:15,360
Speaker 6: You know, we live in California. I thought things were

1699
01:44:15,439 --> 01:44:19,480
Speaker 6: cheaper in Iowa. Good Lord, not so for this. Connecticut

1700
01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:22,519
Speaker 6: is the number one overall seed for the NCAA Men's Tournament.

1701
01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 6: The other one seeds are Houston, North Carolina and Purdue

1702
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:29,679
Speaker 6: Perdue with some star power Zach Edy opens in Indy

1703
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 6: on Friday. Of course, it lost in the first round

1704
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 6: last year. Connecticut opens Friday against Stetson. Yale won the

1705
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:38,320
Speaker 6: IVY League today on a shot at the Buzzer. Yale

1706
01:44:38,360 --> 01:44:41,759
Speaker 6: will open Friday against Auburn, which won the SEC tournament.

1707
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:45,720
Speaker 6: The first four openers this Tuesday and Wednesday include Colorado

1708
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:49,640
Speaker 6: State against Virginia. That winner goes up against Texas Thursday

1709
01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:53,880
Speaker 6: and also Colorado against Boise State that play, and Winter

1710
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:57,880
Speaker 6: will go up against the Florida Gators on Friday. Arizona

1711
01:44:57,960 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 6: is a two seed. It opens against Long Beach Day Thursday.

1712
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:03,120
Speaker 6: As we spoke of early in the show, Long Beach

1713
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:06,120
Speaker 6: State somehow won the Big West Tournament even though it

1714
01:45:06,200 --> 01:45:08,760
Speaker 6: had quote parted ways with his head coach at the

1715
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 6: beginning of the week. But go ahead, stick around, you

1716
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 6: can finish out the season. Oh you're still playing. Oh

1717
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:18,519
Speaker 6: my goodness, Long Beach State Arizona opener I'm watching. First

1718
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:22,160
Speaker 6: game on Thursday is Mississippi State against Michigan State. That's

1719
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,879
Speaker 6: noon Eastern time. That is an eight to nine matchup

1720
01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:28,559
Speaker 6: Michigan State. For what it's worth, the nine seed. Are

1721
01:45:28,680 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 6: you aware that nine seeds actually have a winning record

1722
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 6: against eight seeds all time seventy eight and seventy four.

1723
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:39,760
Speaker 2: And Michigan State is favored in that basketball.

1724
01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 6: Game Michigan State. You know it's been said for probably

1725
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 6: two decades by now. Time is oh in the tournament

1726
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:49,120
Speaker 6: he's lost early. Also, people, let's not go nuts like

1727
01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:54,000
Speaker 6: he's John Wooden or something. People, especially college basketball these days,

1728
01:45:54,360 --> 01:45:58,080
Speaker 6: anybody can lose to anybody. And put that in capital letters.

1729
01:45:58,479 --> 01:46:01,919
Speaker 6: In the NBA, We've got one game in LA halftime.

1730
01:46:01,960 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 6: The Hawks are leading the Clippers sixty one to forty four.

1731
01:46:06,880 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 6: The Clippers do have Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in

1732
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 6: this game, and James Harden as well, and they're losing

1733
01:46:13,439 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 6: at home at half to the Atlanta Hawks sixty one

1734
01:46:17,240 --> 01:46:20,719
Speaker 6: forty four. Miami won at the Buzzer at Detroit. Dallas

1735
01:46:20,760 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 6: won at the Buzzer against Denver. Scottie Scheffler took the

1736
01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:28,679
Speaker 6: Players Championship by one stroke. Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR

1737
01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:32,000
Speaker 6: Race at Bristol, and the Padres shut out. South Korea

1738
01:46:32,120 --> 01:46:34,519
Speaker 6: won nothing overseas, the only run on a wild pitch.

1739
01:46:34,600 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 6: San Diego's final exhibition is against a Korean pro team

1740
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:41,880
Speaker 6: tonight eleven pm Eastern Time. Dylan seaestue to be the

1741
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:44,599
Speaker 6: Padre pitcher, just acquired from the White Sox. Why are

1742
01:46:44,640 --> 01:46:48,759
Speaker 6: they overseas, you might ask. The Dodgers won their first

1743
01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:52,200
Speaker 6: exhibition in Seoul overnight against a Korean pro club fourteen

1744
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:54,799
Speaker 6: to three. You see, the Dodgers and Padre started workouts

1745
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 6: early since their regular season starts with two games in

1746
01:46:57,560 --> 01:47:02,400
Speaker 6: South Korea against each other Wednesday, and Thursday this week,

1747
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:08,799
Speaker 6: three am Pacific time for Dodgers Padres to open the season.

1748
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 6: Set the DVR. By the way, the Dodgers radio crew

1749
01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:15,519
Speaker 6: says they are not going. They are not there. The

1750
01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 6: TV people are, the radio crew is not. Instead, they

1751
01:47:18,240 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 6: will go to watch the game on television at the

1752
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:26,400
Speaker 6: Dodgers TV station near the LA Airport and call the

1753
01:47:26,439 --> 01:47:29,719
Speaker 6: game off TV at three in the morning for radio

1754
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:30,519
Speaker 6: back to you.

1755
01:47:32,400 --> 01:47:41,040
Speaker 3: Perfect. Yeah, and seven people will listen. So yeah, there

1756
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:44,040
Speaker 3: it is there. It is perfect to pick the West

1757
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:47,840
Speaker 3: Coast teams to head over there so that the game

1758
01:47:47,920 --> 01:47:50,400
Speaker 3: can be at three in the morning as opposed to

1759
01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:51,320
Speaker 3: six in the morning.

1760
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:54,920
Speaker 6: Couldn't you have just picked, say, an East Coast team

1761
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:58,240
Speaker 6: that happens to train in Arizona. And therefore, if it's

1762
01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 6: the flight that you're worried about, I mean, everybody's taken

1763
01:48:01,240 --> 01:48:05,040
Speaker 6: off from Arizona, be at Dodgers Padres or Red's in Cleveland, right.

1764
01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 2: I mean, are we worried about the plane flight?

1765
01:48:07,600 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1766
01:48:08,160 --> 01:48:10,200
Speaker 3: Come to LA and hang out for a couple of

1767
01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:13,960
Speaker 3: days before you go. I don't know, I don't know.

1768
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,439
Speaker 3: I mean, I do we get it? These leagues are

1769
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:21,920
Speaker 3: going to continue to be as international sure as possible,

1770
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:26,880
Speaker 3: the Openford to Australia. There's got to be a way, though,

1771
01:48:26,920 --> 01:48:30,200
Speaker 3: There's got to be a way to make this just

1772
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:33,679
Speaker 3: more accessible to the fan. That's the whole thing. It's

1773
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:35,880
Speaker 3: in fact what I was just saying, even about college

1774
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:37,800
Speaker 3: basketball baseball is the same thing.

1775
01:48:39,439 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 2: Whether it makes sense or not.

1776
01:48:42,080 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 3: Our society right now in sports is a lot less

1777
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:50,000
Speaker 3: about team, and they're much more about individuals. They're much

1778
01:48:50,040 --> 01:48:57,639
Speaker 3: more about stars, and making those players accessible is the way.

1779
01:48:57,920 --> 01:49:00,719
Speaker 3: And baseball has a hard time with it. College basketball

1780
01:49:00,760 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 3: has got an even harder time with it. And as evidence,

1781
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,880
Speaker 3: when you do it, look what happens as Steve just

1782
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:07,480
Speaker 3: talked about with Caitlyn Clark.

1783
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:10,160
Speaker 6: And it's not just about team. It's about stream new

1784
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 6: revenue stream as well, which is what they're getting, which

1785
01:49:12,920 --> 01:49:15,759
Speaker 6: I mean, look at the increased out of country games

1786
01:49:15,760 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 6: for the NFL as well. I thought that was bad

1787
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 6: with the six am. This is this is three am

1788
01:49:20,760 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 6: this week on the West Coast.

1789
01:49:22,240 --> 01:49:27,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody watching that meantime, one of those teams has

1790
01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:30,800
Speaker 3: the reigning Cy Young Award winner who now is not

1791
01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:37,120
Speaker 3: apparently doesn't play baseball anymore. Like I'm not even sure

1792
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 3: what the hell? Like Scott Boris supposedly runs this.

1793
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:45,720
Speaker 4: League, what did he do this offseason?

1794
01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:52,200
Speaker 3: Is this not the greatest example of overplaying your hand

1795
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:55,479
Speaker 3: that we've ever seen, because it's not like we've seen

1796
01:49:55,520 --> 01:50:00,360
Speaker 3: it before. But it's not one player, it's four live

1797
01:50:01,920 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 3: players that that just completely completely got.

1798
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:09,320
Speaker 2: Left behind in this entire process.

1799
01:50:11,640 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a weird time.

1800
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 3: Man.

1801
01:50:16,560 --> 01:50:21,160
Speaker 4: Baseball got to get it together. How do they do it?

1802
01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:26,679
Speaker 4: I mean, first they got to stop taking themselves so serious?

1803
01:50:26,800 --> 01:50:28,479
Speaker 4: Good lord, Well.

1804
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:28,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that.

1805
01:50:29,840 --> 01:50:34,760
Speaker 4: I mean, bring some youth and energy into it. Let's

1806
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:41,599
Speaker 4: have some fanfare. It's just it's just it's a lot, man,

1807
01:50:43,760 --> 01:50:44,679
Speaker 4: It's it's a lot.

1808
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:50,680
Speaker 8: It's it's slow, it's Could you imagine how exciting it

1809
01:50:50,960 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 8: could be if you can bat, flip and stare somebody

1810
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 8: down and actually talk trash and what what?

1811
01:50:58,360 --> 01:50:59,200
Speaker 4: What? What about this?

1812
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:03,400
Speaker 3: My friend I look at and we even talked about

1813
01:51:03,400 --> 01:51:05,679
Speaker 3: it earlier. Like in baseball, you don't go watch two

1814
01:51:05,720 --> 01:51:08,360
Speaker 3: teams from the other coast that you like, you have

1815
01:51:08,479 --> 01:51:09,360
Speaker 3: no rooting interest.

1816
01:51:09,439 --> 01:51:10,680
Speaker 2: You don't do that. But I'll tell you what I

1817
01:51:10,720 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 2: would do every night.

1818
01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:16,519
Speaker 3: I wanted to see two years ago if the Mets

1819
01:51:16,640 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 3: were up by one, two or three runs going into

1820
01:51:20,160 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 3: the ninth inning and they were at home and Diaz

1821
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:27,759
Speaker 3: was coming in out of the bullpen, I'm like, show

1822
01:51:28,160 --> 01:51:33,599
Speaker 3: me that, because this entrance felt like eight It took

1823
01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 3: eight minutes, and I was there for all eight of them,

1824
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:41,160
Speaker 3: and I was like, this is the greatest thing I've

1825
01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:45,760
Speaker 3: ever seen on a baseball diamond. And I don't love copycats,

1826
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:51,080
Speaker 3: but why would you not immediately tell all the teams, Okay,

1827
01:51:52,400 --> 01:51:59,400
Speaker 3: pick your closers, song and entrance production. You're all doing

1828
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 3: this period, You're all doing it. Make it about your city,

1829
01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:08,759
Speaker 3: make it about your colors, make it about your player.

1830
01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:10,519
Speaker 4: I don't care what it is.

1831
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:15,400
Speaker 3: You're doing, but you, whoever your closer is, we are

1832
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:19,240
Speaker 3: going to build a damn float around this person.

1833
01:52:20,439 --> 01:52:26,519
Speaker 2: For when they come into the game. I don't know

1834
01:52:26,520 --> 01:52:27,320
Speaker 2: why you wouldn't do that.

1835
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 4: No, I mean, do you have to? It's you have

1836
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:39,720
Speaker 4: to entertain. It would behoove you to entertain people. It

1837
01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:40,680
Speaker 4: would behoove you.

1838
01:52:42,200 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 3: We're live in the Tiraq dot Com studios and I

1839
01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:49,560
Speaker 3: would love as we talk about some of the individuals

1840
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:54,639
Speaker 3: that have not grabbed our attention. I'd love to maybe

1841
01:52:54,680 --> 01:52:57,439
Speaker 3: hop into some of the individuals who don't have name

1842
01:52:57,560 --> 01:53:01,519
Speaker 3: value yet, but maybe will in three weeks after what

1843
01:53:01,560 --> 01:53:05,280
Speaker 3: we're about to see unfold with March Madness getting started

1844
01:53:05,280 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 3: this week. That's coming up. That's it from Salama Mark Willard.

1845
01:53:08,240 --> 01:53:16,880
Speaker 3: It's Fox Sports Radio. Okay, Plank and Span your on deck.

1846
01:53:18,240 --> 01:53:20,439
Speaker 3: We're live ti rag dot com Studios. That's it from

1847
01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:24,080
Speaker 3: Salama Mark Willard. Give it to me, man, give me

1848
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 3: a name, Give me a name that America doesn't know

1849
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,639
Speaker 3: a whole lot about today, but maybe in three weeks

1850
01:53:32,640 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 3: they will.

1851
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:41,640
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what you're gonna say. Just say it.

1852
01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, give it to me. I know

1853
01:53:45,160 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 2: what you're gonna say.

1854
01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 4: Jaden Lede, of course, be good. Jaden led He's good.

1855
01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:59,760
Speaker 4: He is a grown man. And we'll see how this

1856
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:09,879
Speaker 4: thing shakes out. A senior, A senior, Oh, the horror,

1857
01:54:12,479 --> 01:54:17,439
Speaker 4: what's wrong with it? You know he's still playing?

1858
01:54:17,520 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 2: Why is he still playing college basketball?

1859
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:23,000
Speaker 4: He went to Ohio State. Yeah, I know. Then TCU

1860
01:54:23,520 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 4: didn't work, transferred to San Diego State, red shirted for

1861
01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:31,800
Speaker 4: a year, played last year, was great off the bench

1862
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:35,360
Speaker 4: in reserve seven points a game. He got his time

1863
01:54:36,200 --> 01:54:40,440
Speaker 4: as you develop as a player, which we don't see

1864
01:54:40,480 --> 01:54:44,120
Speaker 4: a lot of. And now he is a twenty and

1865
01:54:44,200 --> 01:54:50,720
Speaker 4: ten player a game. M h. That's it. Shooting forty

1866
01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 4: from the three point line as a big never shot

1867
01:54:55,800 --> 01:55:01,360
Speaker 4: at three point prior to this year. Crazy called development.

1868
01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 4: That's what college is for. That's what it's for.

1869
01:55:12,840 --> 01:55:15,080
Speaker 3: Also so that we can take money off of our

1870
01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:25,360
Speaker 3: co workers. I thought, that's right. Yeah, you pop around

1871
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:31,520
Speaker 3: right now with at least statistically, uh, the guys who

1872
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,880
Speaker 3: are and and this is not all of them by

1873
01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:36,960
Speaker 3: any stretch, but a lot of the guys who are

1874
01:55:37,040 --> 01:55:40,440
Speaker 3: really putting up those kinds of consistent numbers. Like I'll

1875
01:55:40,480 --> 01:55:44,440
Speaker 3: give the name Mark Sears for a couple of reasons.

1876
01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:45,920
Speaker 4: Uh, just a.

1877
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:48,160
Speaker 3: Little guard out there in Alabama, but you shoot the

1878
01:55:48,240 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 3: lights out and uh and also because they're in that way.

1879
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:53,640
Speaker 3: You know, in order to make a name for yourself

1880
01:55:53,680 --> 01:55:55,360
Speaker 3: in the tournament, you don't just have to go play

1881
01:55:55,360 --> 01:55:57,080
Speaker 3: a good game. You got your team's got to win

1882
01:55:57,120 --> 01:55:59,840
Speaker 3: a few and uh and and you've got to go

1883
01:55:59,880 --> 01:56:02,000
Speaker 3: on a little bit of a run. And I really

1884
01:56:02,000 --> 01:56:05,760
Speaker 3: do look at that West bracket and I'm like, throw

1885
01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 3: a throw a paper airplane up in the air. On

1886
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:11,280
Speaker 3: a windy day. Now, I don't know who's coming out

1887
01:56:11,320 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 3: of that. I don't know what's going on. North Carolina

1888
01:56:15,440 --> 01:56:18,560
Speaker 3: and Arizona are the one and the two I think there.

1889
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 3: You know, there are holes in those games. Arizona is

1890
01:56:21,320 --> 01:56:23,960
Speaker 3: very very good, don't get me wrong. But and then

1891
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:27,720
Speaker 3: after that, it's not just that the one, two, three, four,

1892
01:56:27,880 --> 01:56:31,520
Speaker 3: five feel wobbly and beatable, but all the way up

1893
01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:35,840
Speaker 3: to the eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, those teams are

1894
01:56:35,920 --> 01:56:40,520
Speaker 3: really really good too. I mean, no joke, you could

1895
01:56:40,600 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 3: convince me of nothing less than seven or eight teams

1896
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:48,000
Speaker 3: who could actually come out of that, like literally come

1897
01:56:48,040 --> 01:56:49,720
Speaker 3: out of that bracket and go to the final four.

1898
01:56:50,600 --> 01:56:55,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a good one to be in. There's

1899
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:57,720
Speaker 4: East gonna be a grind, so whatever coming out of

1900
01:56:57,720 --> 01:56:59,760
Speaker 4: the East, they got a good shot at this thing.

1901
01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:09,000
Speaker 4: You focused, Yeah, I'm focused. I'm I'm locked up. Yep. Yeah,

1902
01:57:09,320 --> 01:57:11,320
Speaker 4: damn man, We've done it before. Let's do it again.

1903
01:57:11,400 --> 01:57:12,320
Speaker 4: Let's finish the job.

1904
01:57:12,720 --> 01:57:13,000
Speaker 2: Well.

1905
01:57:13,080 --> 01:57:14,760
Speaker 3: I do think there's a lot to be said for

1906
01:57:14,840 --> 01:57:17,200
Speaker 3: two things with with San Diego State.

1907
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 2: You got a lot of players who just did this.

1908
01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:22,720
Speaker 3: Yep, you know, you think of you think of Gonzaga

1909
01:57:22,760 --> 01:57:25,680
Speaker 3: through the years, Like, sure, that's a good team, but

1910
01:57:25,720 --> 01:57:27,840
Speaker 3: also like each year you've got players who are like,

1911
01:57:27,880 --> 01:57:30,920
Speaker 3: we just did this last year, and so you've got

1912
01:57:30,960 --> 01:57:33,640
Speaker 3: a lot of players who have done that. And then

1913
01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:37,600
Speaker 3: whatever it is in terms of systematically that Brian Dutcher

1914
01:57:38,240 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 3: is doing with regard to that program, they played defense.

1915
01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:48,080
Speaker 3: Travels play defense, They play defense, and so they're going

1916
01:57:48,160 --> 01:57:50,480
Speaker 3: to have the opportunity to beat you fifty nine to

1917
01:57:50,480 --> 01:57:54,880
Speaker 3: fifty five, and i'd expect them to probably do that

1918
01:57:54,920 --> 01:57:56,680
Speaker 3: at least a couple of times in this tournament.

1919
01:57:56,800 --> 01:57:59,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you you can't go there if you don't

1920
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 4: play defense. Are not willing to learn how to play

1921
01:58:04,120 --> 01:58:06,480
Speaker 4: defense at a high clip. Talk about high in the

1922
01:58:06,600 --> 01:58:11,200
Speaker 4: nation type of clip, tops in the nation type defense.

1923
01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:15,040
Speaker 4: And they've been that consistently even when the great Steve

1924
01:58:15,080 --> 01:58:18,840
Speaker 4: Fisher was there and Brian Detchy was, you know, as

1925
01:58:18,880 --> 01:58:21,040
Speaker 4: an assistant coach for twenty five years talking about waiting

1926
01:58:21,080 --> 01:58:23,960
Speaker 4: your turn. Shout out, shout out to Brian Dutchick just

1927
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:26,440
Speaker 4: got a contract extension as well.

1928
01:58:26,680 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 3: Finally, good dude, Yeah, great guy, Yep, yep, yep, good dude.

1929
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:35,360
Speaker 3: It's so funny though, that idea of defense in college basketball.

1930
01:58:35,400 --> 01:58:38,960
Speaker 3: We haven't seen this out of the STSU program yet,

1931
01:58:39,000 --> 01:58:41,160
Speaker 3: but I always think back to like, like there is

1932
01:58:41,200 --> 01:58:44,040
Speaker 3: a line that you can almost cross. You know, Ben

1933
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:47,320
Speaker 3: Howland was playing games in the forties and fifties when

1934
01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:50,400
Speaker 3: he was coaching at UCLA, and so you kept having

1935
01:58:50,400 --> 01:58:52,120
Speaker 3: players coming out of that program and go to the

1936
01:58:52,200 --> 01:58:55,840
Speaker 3: NBA and you're like, oh my god, where the hell

1937
01:58:55,880 --> 01:58:57,200
Speaker 3: did you come from?

1938
01:58:57,560 --> 01:58:58,160
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

1939
01:58:58,280 --> 01:59:01,960
Speaker 3: Like the Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love. These guys looked better

1940
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:03,640
Speaker 3: at the pros than they did in college.

1941
01:59:04,480 --> 01:59:11,840
Speaker 4: Yep, you just gotta and look I love, I can't wait.

1942
01:59:12,080 --> 01:59:16,680
Speaker 4: I can't wait for Tuesday night. Yeah, if you're into

1943
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 4: the first four, I'm into all of it. Yeah.

1944
01:59:21,720 --> 01:59:27,240
Speaker 3: Virginia's gonna play Colorado State. Howard and Wagner is going

1945
01:59:27,280 --> 01:59:28,880
Speaker 3: to be your very first game.

1946
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:32,760
Speaker 4: Shout out to Hu Howard and Wagner.

1947
01:59:32,800 --> 01:59:36,120
Speaker 3: Two last names are gonna get together and only one

1948
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:38,160
Speaker 3: of them will emerge.

1949
01:59:40,320 --> 01:59:44,320
Speaker 4: HBCUs in house. Gramlin's in there too. Let's do love it.

1950
01:59:44,880 --> 01:59:45,360
Speaker 4: Let's do it.

1951
01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 3: No, it'll be fun, man, You got any Like I mean,

1952
01:59:48,200 --> 01:59:50,680
Speaker 3: I know San Diego State, right, but like what else?

1953
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:53,880
Speaker 4: What else? What else? There? Is no else. Yes, there

1954
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:56,840
Speaker 4: is doing else. I'm sorry, it's not it doesn't happen, bro,

1955
01:59:57,080 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 4: it doesn't happen. Sorry, not happened.

1956
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Speaker 2: So all right, when are you leaving?

1957
02:00:01,680 --> 02:00:03,360
Speaker 4: Then? What's your travel schedule?

1958
02:00:03,360 --> 02:00:09,240
Speaker 3: They played Friday at ten am. Yes, so you're going Thursday.

1959
02:00:08,840 --> 02:00:12,680
Speaker 4: Thursday night. I gotta get a bite of there. Okay, Well,

1960
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Speaker 4: good luck brother. Do I get to talk to you

1961
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Speaker 4: again next week? Yeah? I hope. So.

1962
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see perfect perfect, we'll look forward to that.

1963
02:00:19,120 --> 02:00:21,440
Speaker 3: You can look forward to playing and span your because

1964
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Speaker 3: they are coming up next on Fox Sports Radio