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Speaker 1: however you may be watching or listening. Thanks for making

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Speaker 1: us part of your day. The truth once the playoffs

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Speaker 1: arrive always reveals itself. You can't trust the Jacksonville Jaguars

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Speaker 1: and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our sears department store three point

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Speaker 1: one yards per play, lowest yards per play in the

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Speaker 1: last nine years in the playoffs, and they got turnovers.

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Speaker 1: They get three times. Houston gave him opportunities thirteen total

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Speaker 1: first downs, awful on third down, couldn't run the ball again.

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Speaker 1: If the Steelers were just competent offensively, and I know

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Speaker 1: the Texans are good, but you had a ballgame. Pittsburgh's

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Speaker 1: longest drive in the second half twenty three yards. So

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Speaker 1: they're not going to fire Mike Tomlin. Aaron's of course

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Speaker 1: going to always defend him. They have no young quarterback

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Speaker 1: for the future. It's one of the oldest rosters in

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Speaker 1: the league. The money's mostly spent on defense. Pittsburgh is

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Speaker 1: stuck in a mediocrity loop and they're never terrible, but

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Speaker 1: exceedingly average, and they've become so consumed with stability. Boy, hey,

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Speaker 1: at least we're not Cleveland. Yeah, but either are the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: the Rams of the Niners. And they take swings. I

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Speaker 1: mean a prime example of the Steelers. They go get

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and yet the Steelers are last in the

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Speaker 1: NFL with Aaron Rodgers in air yards per attempt. So

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Speaker 1: they buy a sports car and don't know how to

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Speaker 1: drive it. And it's not just about not winning a

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Speaker 1: playoff game for nine years. I went and looked at

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's last thirteen playoff games. There's six blowout losses.

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Speaker 1: In fact, in their last seven playoff games, they have

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Speaker 1: not led for a single snap in the second half

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Speaker 1: in any of them. The games aren't that competitive. You

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Speaker 1: old saying about you know, you can't save your way

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Speaker 1: to being wealthy just being content. And that's how I

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Speaker 1: to be there. They're content, which to me just feels

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Speaker 1: like a weighted blanket. I just don't get it. There.

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Speaker 1: You got to take swings, increase risk. We're going into

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Speaker 1: another season Aaron'll take off. They won't have any urgency

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. And it's actually the easy way out in

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Speaker 1: life to not offend anybody and be loyal to all

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Speaker 1: your employees. That is the easy way out in life.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to fire people. And I'm not insisting that

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Speaker 1: you should fire Tom. It's not what I'm saying. He

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Speaker 1: get a TV job or another job in one second.

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Speaker 1: He's more than competent. Stop spending money on defense. Okay,

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Speaker 1: last night. It's like I know in Pittsburgh and I

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Speaker 1: get it. It's an old school, proud town that putting

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Speaker 1: fries and a sandwich is cool. But the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country took the fries, moved him on a plate,

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Speaker 1: put parmesan cheese and truffle salt on them. That's what

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Speaker 1: the rest of us do. It's time to spend money

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Speaker 1: on offense. It's time to today work on getting your

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Speaker 1: next star quarterback, free agency, college, whatever you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: But I just I feel like, I mean, I suggested,

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Speaker 1: remember this couple of years ago, oh outr. I was

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Speaker 1: mocked when I suggested TJ. Watt, still in his prime

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's like, nah, we're gonna make him the highest paid

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Speaker 1: Watt now aer and five in playoff games. You're grabbing

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Speaker 1: on to the wrong stuff, spending way too much money

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Speaker 1: on defense. Every I mean again, you can be loyal

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Speaker 1: to your best employees, right. I'm not asking for anybody

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Speaker 1: to be fired here. It's not my thing. I was

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Speaker 1: surprised that John Harball was Harbaugh and Tomlin you can argue,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to make any emotional decisions. Disappointed, you know, obviously,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to talk about that.

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Speaker 4: Eric Hunt, do you approach just what you decide to

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Speaker 3: They just get away and then then I have the

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Aaron's going to disappear for a while. He

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Speaker 1: it now. It's his life. Hall of Famer, first ballot,

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Speaker 1: He defended Mike Tomlin after I want you to listen

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Speaker 3: Mike t'z had more success and damn near anybody in

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Speaker 3: the league you know, from for the last nineteen twenty

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Speaker 3: years and more than that that. When you have the

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Speaker 3: right guy and the culture is right, you don't think

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Speaker 3: about making a change. But there's a lot of pressure

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Speaker 3: that comes from the outside, and obviously that sways decisions

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Speaker 3: from time to time. But it's not how I would

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Speaker 3: do things, and not how the league used to be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop right there. It's not what the

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Speaker 1: league used to be. That's right. The NFL's now smarter, shrewd,

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Speaker 1: and more offense. The league isn't what it used to be,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers are. They spend all their money on defense,

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Speaker 1: So you know what the league is now. It's not

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Speaker 1: what it was when Tomlin took over the Steelers. We're

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Speaker 1: just a good defense in a run game, got you

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Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl and won it. Now it's about

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Speaker 1: offensive coaches, it's about quarterbacks and passing games. It's about

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Speaker 1: spending your money at left tackle, quarterback, two weapons, maybe

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Speaker 1: even a center, not on a second pass rusher. So

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Speaker 1: that mindset that Aaron just voiced is precisely why the

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Speaker 1: Steelers steel outdated. The last nine Super Bowl champs nine

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Speaker 1: for nine have top ten offenses. The Steelers once again

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Speaker 1: this year twenty sixth on offense. For a city that

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Speaker 1: worships bridges, Pittsburgh needs to cross one. It's time to

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Speaker 1: change the way you're doing business.

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Speaker 1: Penny were cool. Now we all shop online like you

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Speaker 1: got to stop the money on the other side. So

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Speaker 1: the NFL is richer. General managers are younger and very aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Howie roseman less need go look around now. The best

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Speaker 1: very busy at the trade deadline. I mean, I'll give

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Speaker 1: you credit for DK metcalf and at the same time

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Speaker 1: George Pickens left, and I'm not sure who's already better

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Speaker 1: this year. It was Pickens. So and I don't buy

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Speaker 1: into well the league was better years ago. No, it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: It's safer now, it's smarter now. The gms are less

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers against playoff teams this season, and I thought

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Speaker 1: Aaron played very very well. I defended Aaron. Everybody is

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Speaker 1: my witness the entire year. But the judge of team

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Speaker 1: or the cruddy Browns and the AFC this year was

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Speaker 1: weaker this year. Even Aaron Rodgers against playoff teams had

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Speaker 1: a passer rating of seventy was one in five. That's

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Speaker 1: the year. I really did based on what I saw

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Speaker 1: thought Aaron played very well except against the good teams.

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Speaker 1: And you could watch Aaron's body language on the first

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Speaker 1: Steelers are offensive quicksand Aaron just stepped into it, and

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Speaker 1: to his credit, he elevated this team. Aaron deserves a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit for forty two years old. I thought

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Speaker 1: he played really well. They don't have a number two receiver.

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Speaker 1: DK Metgoff got himself in trouble, had to miss two

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Speaker 1: big games run game. I like Jalen Warren. The old

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Speaker 1: line was better than I thought. Some of that goes

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Speaker 1: to credit Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers. But the last

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Speaker 1: DINE Super Bowl champs nine for nine, top ten offenses.

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Speaker 1: The world has pivoted. It's pivoted, and that city that

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Speaker 1: worships bridges, they are just struggling to cross it to

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Speaker 1: the other side. All right, J Matt, congratulations you hit

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Speaker 1: your first bet of the weekend. I know you were

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Speaker 1: freaking out last night. You know, It's funny the whole

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Speaker 1: second half. I'm like, the Texans are the better team.

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Speaker 1: The Texans are gonna win this game. But Pittsburgh did

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Speaker 1: this all year long. They just sort of hung around

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Speaker 6: Happy to get aside. Right, the Texas defense took over.

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Speaker 6: I just don't know what they're gonna have going into

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Speaker 6: New England without Nico Collins. That concussion look brutal. I

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Speaker 6: can't imagine a scenario where he plays. The defense is awesome,

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Speaker 6: but Colin that offense. What has happened to CJ.

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Speaker 6: I mean that guy has regressed since his rookie year.

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Speaker 6: Did you know Christian Kirk was the leading receiver on

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Speaker 6: Wild Card Weekend? Most yards of any receiver or tight

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Speaker 1: to like an Arizona bounced around. He actually works in Houston. Yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Jacksonville. He works in Houston. Had a great

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Speaker 1: night for him. So some thoughts about Philadelphia. A former Eagle,

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Speaker 1: he's probably the second or third best safe center that's

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Speaker 1: for their loss. He said, we just we just didn't

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Speaker 1: make our guys highest paid a lot of money on offense,

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Speaker 1: we didn't make plays. I disagree. When a department in

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Speaker 1: your company isn't a death spiral, it's on management. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles offense has been circling the drain for nine months.

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Speaker 1: And just take Ben Johnson, what he did week one

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Speaker 6: Not good in Philly, also not good in Houston. Despite

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Speaker 1: Now let me defend him here. Pittsburgh knew. There's two

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and CJ strike. That was a really bad throw. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: All right, Well, I mean, look fine, I'll give you

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Speaker 6: some of the excuses though the fumbles Colin. I honestly,

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Speaker 4: Ask you this.

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Speaker 6: You know I like ranking stuff, right, It's fun. My

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Speaker 6: I'm ranking the quarterbacks in the divisional round, CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 6: I think he's gotta be behind Caleb Williams. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: Caleb Williams had a better season than c J. Stroud,

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Speaker 6: And I don't know if Stroud is seven or eight.

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Speaker 6: I don't have a lot of confidence him in in

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's there's nothing not to It's.

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Speaker 4: Better than the Chargers defense.

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Speaker 6: And Drake may like couldn't move the ball, sack five times, like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I saw the number forty one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Let's move on to Justin Herbert and those LA Chargers,

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Speaker 4: Herbert's catching flack.

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Speaker 6: On the inner webs from the keyboard jockeys who are

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Speaker 4: Well defensive end.

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Speaker 6: Khalil Mack says everyone is to blame, not just Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 10: He wants he wants to be gay for us in

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Speaker 1: And he's not into the law.

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Speaker 6: He's not in it by itself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's c J. Stroud and Herbert. You know, I

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Speaker 1: But at least I'm consistent. I defend Arnold this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And I mean that's what Herbert gets in Trump and CJ. Stroud.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to extend plays. They got guys hanging off

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Speaker 4: And I look at the offensive lineman in that video.

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Speaker 6: They're they're just standing there playing Patty Cake as justin

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Speaker 4: I mean, Colin, it was.

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Speaker 6: It was sad to watch. I'll say Herbert had a

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Speaker 6: rough game. It happens he wasn't great losing Hampton or

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Speaker 4: They had no run game, no wide receiver separating. I

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Speaker 6: I know the Chargers need O line, but Colin they

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Speaker 4: They just need a game breaker.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that I think more than that, I think

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Speaker 4: What happened to them against the paper? Were they against

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Speaker 1: Guard? Center guard? They need protection. It all starts with

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Speaker 6: Final story is The Athletic is reporting that John Harbaugh

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Speaker 6: the Dolphins. Colin, what do you make of this? You

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Speaker 6: know Harball, he's the bell of the ball.

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Speaker 4: Everybody wants them.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think if I was the Giants, I'd be

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Speaker 4: Well is there is there a better one?

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Speaker 1: Atlanta is interesting but not ideal? There is no great

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Speaker 4: Why is Atlanta not ideal?

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Speaker 1: Who's your quarterback?

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Speaker 2: Pennix?

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Speaker 1: Is he proven? I mean he's good, not as a

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Speaker 1: That's not why John Harball got into this league to

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Speaker 1: Ravens is the best job. And there's an argument now

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Speaker 1: Jackson Dart appears to be to me a solid franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Scataboo is a number one back. Left tackle. They got

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Speaker 1: thing is the Giants at nauseum. I've discussed this. The

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Speaker 1: Giants need a culture changer, not just to play caller.

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Speaker 1: I could argue the Ravens need a play caller, Kevin Stefanski.

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Speaker 1: They need somebody to get right with Lamar right, he

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Speaker 1: keeps for siints. Get right with Lamar. Get on Lamar's side.

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Speaker 1: The Giants, it's not about play calling. You can go

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Speaker 1: hire one of those guys. They need a guy to

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Speaker 1: change the awful ten year abyss known as their culture.

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Speaker 1: And I think hardball's absolutely as good as the Giants

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Speaker 1: can do.

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Speaker 6: So what if I let's compare Atlanta and the Giants

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Speaker 6: real quick. So Drake London is better than neighbors. We

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Speaker 6: know that Drake start with a quarterback. Okay, fine, we'll

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Speaker 6: give Jackson Dart the edge. We'll give you that line

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Speaker 6: a wash.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that there's a major advantage for the Giants.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't great.

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Speaker 6: Jon Robinson is Argua with the best running back in

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Speaker 6: the league.

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Speaker 4: Kim's gotta who's nice.

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Speaker 6: Bijon is a superstar, maybe a franchise tag pits. You see,

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Speaker 6: he's got an offense.

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Speaker 1: You see the world differently than me. I think about

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Speaker 1: my boss Falcons better owner period. I got a better

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Speaker 1: owner and Arthur Blank. I play indoors all right, so

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Speaker 1: I can control the environmental Lamore. I plan a weaker

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Speaker 1: division in Atlanta. That's great, But in the end, I

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Speaker 1: get Jackson Dart. I mean, Jackson Dart is a starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta's got the owner, Atlanta's got the easier division. I'm

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Speaker 1: not denying that, and Bjean's great, but I get Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 1: I have plenty of offensive components. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the division outside of Philadelphia. And if

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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni retains his job, Cowboys Washington Adam Peters is

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Speaker 1: rubbing people the wrong way. But to me, I want

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Speaker 1: weapons and a quarterback and edge rushers. The Giants have

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Speaker 1: an elite edge rusher, quarterback, running back, left tackle, weapon

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Speaker 1: that that's about as good as it's going to get.

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Speaker 1: I do think Arthur Blank is the Atlanta edge.

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Speaker 6: I think they I think they'll probably let Harball pick

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Speaker 6: his GM right because they got rid of their old GM.

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Speaker 6: So the Giants have Joe Shane still in place, I

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Speaker 6: mean owner, but you're.

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Speaker 1: Talking, you're bouncing around to a lot of places. The

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Speaker 1: owner for Atlanta is in play. That matters. But I

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Speaker 1: mean last year Michael Pennix. First of all, he's twenty six,

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Speaker 1: coming off another injury.

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Speaker 4: That's a concern.

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Speaker 1: That a concern. I mean, one guy's going into the

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Speaker 1: blue tent jackson Dark, he's coming out of the blue

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Speaker 1: tent reay to play. The other guy's just not available.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right.

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Speaker 2: J McK with the news, Well that's the news, and

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Speaker 2: thanks for stopping that. The Herd Line News.

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Speaker 1: Really our last herd hierarchy for a long time, is

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Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour. Eight teams left.

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Speaker 1: We'll rank them one through eight. So a lot was

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Speaker 1: made this weekend of two things. Some local reporter sucking

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Speaker 1: up to Liam Coleman Jacksonville. I don't know why that

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Speaker 1: was so interesting to so many people. I've been in

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Speaker 1: media rooms when I was younger, at twenties thirties, that happens.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not that crazy, and nobody really cares

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Speaker 1: outside of the media. The second thing is the f bombs.

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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson was screaming in the locker room after the

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Speaker 1: Bears beat the Packers, and I gotta be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I don't care like Michigan Ohio State hate each other.

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Speaker 1: That's why I love watching it. Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark,

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Speaker 1: we finally watched the WNBA. I'm all for this stuff. Conflict, intention,

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Speaker 1: and animosity is what every Hollywood screenwriter is trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out. I'm okay with Ben Johnson is doing something,

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Speaker 1: and what he's doing is building a fence. That fence

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Speaker 1: is us against green Bay. We're smarter than green Bay.

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Speaker 1: We're tougher than green Bay. We're better in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter than green Bay. We're more resilient than green Bay.

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Speaker 1: And you know what in one year they were. They

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Speaker 1: were smarter, they were more resilient, they were better in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Yes, it's a little petty, what emms

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Speaker 1: Belichick still petty? Okay, So to me, you know, the

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Speaker 1: reality is most successful people. I'm talking professionally the most

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Speaker 1: successful people I've met in my life. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: they're a little petty and they're ridiculously competitive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. A lot of coach

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Speaker 1: Jim Harball. Remember the hard slap to Jim Schwartz's back.

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Speaker 1: Remember Pete Carroll when he was at USC and Harball

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Speaker 1: was at Stanford and Harball, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what happened the interaction during the game, but Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: came up at the end of the game and game, Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's your deal? And Harball was like, just competing, right, Pete,

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Speaker 1: just competing. You can't worry about it. I mean, to me,

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Speaker 1: what Ben Johnson tried to do is bill a And

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Speaker 1: if it takes a little hate, I'm okay with it.

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Speaker 1: Bill A fence around the Bears. We're gonna be tougher,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be better in the fourth quarter, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be more resilient, we're gonna fight harder. And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what I saw. That's exactly what I saw in the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay game. So if it takes a little hate

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Speaker 1: to get there, whatever whatever it takes to galvanize. I

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Speaker 1: always said it's really it really does matter what your

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Speaker 1: head coaches like. I think Mike McDaniel's really smart. Mike Vrabel,

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, the Harbaughs, those are alphas. That is a

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Speaker 1: locker room of fifty five dudes that that scored the touchdown,

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Speaker 1: got the girl. People pick up their check. They're tough guys,

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Speaker 1: NFL locker room. And if if the coach is taking

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Speaker 1: a shirt off and dropping some f bombs, we in

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Speaker 1: the media get over it. I got to get over it.

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Speaker 1: They're doing this. I mean all these movies. It always

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Speaker 1: cracks me up. Most of us would not. Michael Jordan's

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Speaker 1: the best basketball player of all time. But Michael Jordan

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Speaker 1: did not treat his teammates well. But we we glamorize

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Speaker 1: the athlete who punches a teammate. We glamorize Michael Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan's Night Sue and NASCAR. Michael Jordan's tough teammates didn't

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Speaker 1: like Michael Jordan. That's what created his competitive fire. To

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Speaker 1: this day, Michael still competitive on a golf course. The

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Speaker 1: late Kobe Bryant, same thing. Why can't coaches be like

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Speaker 1: I again? Danny Parkins joked about it yesterday. Less hate

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Speaker 1: in the world more Hayden sports like this is what

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Speaker 1: this is what motivates a lot of guys. I can't

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Speaker 1: speak for women. It's what motivates a lot of professional men.

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Speaker 1: It could be Silicon Valley, Wall Street, NFL locker rooms.

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Speaker 1: And here's Ben Johnson this week on having no love

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Speaker 1: for Green Bay.

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Speaker 10: There's a rivalry that exists between these two teams, something

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Speaker 10: that that I fully recognize and I'm a part of.

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Speaker 10: And yeah, I mean there's I just I don't like

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Speaker 10: that team. So George and I have talked and we're

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Speaker 10: on the same page.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it, I really am. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's heard hierarchy, the last one, top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: So I looked at the eight playoff teams left and

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Speaker 1: seven of eight and maybe it's eight of eight, but

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Speaker 1: I think seven of eight have something in common and

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Speaker 1: it's not a great quarterback. And I hope all those

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Speaker 1: teams out there that currently stink are watching what seven

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Speaker 1: of eight and maybe eight of eight have. Again, it's

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Speaker 1: not the quarterback that's next in Chicago, it's the hurt.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 2: and Noon Easter, not a em Pacific.

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Speaker 6: Tonight, it's a college hoops triple header on FS one,

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Speaker 6: starting at six Eastern with a classic Big East rivalry

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Speaker 6: between Villanova and Providence. Then West Virginia takes on seventh

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Speaker 6: ranked Houston, followed by Maryland versus usc it All tips

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Speaker 6: off tonight only on FS one.

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Speaker 1: So as we've put on the screen the matchups for

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Speaker 1: this weekend's NFL playoffs, here's what I see. I see

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Speaker 1: Sean Peyton against Mike McDonald, Vrabel against Dimiko Ryans McVeigh

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Speaker 1: against Ben Johnson, Shanny Mike McDonald, and then Sean Payton

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Speaker 1: against Josh Allen. Let's be honest, in seven of eight,

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Speaker 1: I see the coach. That's what I see seven of eight.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Sean McDermott is not a good coach.

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Speaker 1: I think the other seven are like, really really uniquely

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Speaker 1: special coaches. All eight of those coaches. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if you combine, they're winning percentage at sixty one percent

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Speaker 1: higher than Bill Walsh. What they have in common this

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Speaker 1: weekend is not great quarterback. We're not quite sure what

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Speaker 1: bo Nicks is yet. It's not quarterback. Has brought pretty

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Speaker 1: great or does he have a great coach. And again

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Speaker 1: McDermott's a good coach. McDermott is a good coach. Nobody

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Speaker 1: disputes that. I think Mike McDonald is the defensive version

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Speaker 1: of Sean McVay, Shanahan McVeigh, Ben Johnson, Sean Payton. So

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Speaker 1: what this weekend is, it's not about the quarterback. It's

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Speaker 1: an instruction to all the crappy teams in this league

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Speaker 1: called the Jets and the Giants and the Titans in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: don't go cheap on the head coach. Go spend money

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Speaker 1: on the head coach. By the way, when the Titans

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Speaker 1: let go of Mike Vrabel, do you know what the

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Speaker 1: record is since six and twenty eight when the Niners

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Speaker 1: fired Jim Harbaugh seventeen and forty seven the next four years. So, Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: I know you think you can just fire John Harbaugh

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Speaker 1: and is all going to be good. Be very careful

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Speaker 1: firing a guy who's the leading candidate in the coaching

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Speaker 1: pool all which, by the way, Kevin Stefanski was. I

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Speaker 1: said when Stefanski there was rumors he would get fired,

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Speaker 1: I said, he will be the number one candidate, not

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Speaker 1: for a team for sixteen and he was immediately and

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Speaker 1: then John Harbaugh got fired and now Stefanski at worst

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Speaker 1: is number two. So you know, I didn't say he'd

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Speaker 1: interview for a job. I said, no, No, Stefanski's gonna

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Speaker 1: interview every single job. He'll be the number one candidate.

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Speaker 1: And I would argue there are those that think, because

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Speaker 1: he's an offensive coach, that maybe he still is the

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Speaker 1: number one candidate. He's already had a couple of interviews,

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Speaker 1: reportedly aced both of them, so be careful about firing

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Speaker 1: the best candidate in the coaching pool. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I see this weekend. That that's what I see this weekend.

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Speaker 1: That is not a knock on McDermott. I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds like it, but even Matt Hasselbeck said this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: When you think of the Bills, I think one guy,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen.

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Speaker 7: He literally is superman, Like if the MVP was really

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Speaker 7: just the MVP, not like whose team was the best

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Speaker 7: and you had the best stats, like.

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen's the MVP. He is that guy.

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Speaker 7: He can put a cape on and carry his team.

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Speaker 7: He's done it year after year. But this is a

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Speaker 7: huge opportunity for Buffalo with you know, no Lamar, no Burrough,

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Speaker 7: no Mahomes in the playoffs, like, this is your opportunity

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Speaker 7: to throw the cape on. It doesn't matter if your

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Speaker 7: defense can't stop the run. They do other things well,

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Speaker 7: they're creating interceptions, they're playing well enough. This is your opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those things. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: jobs that people make great money. They're compensated. I think

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Speaker 1: we all think that teachers should be paid a little more.

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Speaker 1: But whenever I hear people go college football coach, how

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Speaker 1: can he be worth this? Or how can he be

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Speaker 1: or an NFL or an NBA coach, football coaches go, Look,

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Speaker 1: you don't have eight great defenses this weekend. You don't

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Speaker 1: have eight great offenses this weekend. You don't have eight

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Speaker 1: great quarterbacks this weekend. You have seven great coaches. And

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Speaker 1: mcdermot's really good. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he is great.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he went to Super Bowl and I'm wrong. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if he's if he goes to Denver and wins, maybe

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Speaker 1: he's great coach and I'm just wrong. Maybe it was

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Speaker 1: always about Mahomes and Andy Reid, but look at all

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Speaker 1: those teams. The Rams don't even have good special teams.

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00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: The Texas don't have a good offense, has brought pretty

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback er bo Nick. It's all excellent coaching.

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Speaker 1: So the Lakers last night just got housed one twenty four,

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Speaker 1: one twelve, And I laughed at this number. I did

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Speaker 1: not I did not watch the game. I saw highlights.

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Speaker 1: I watched ten minutes this morning on YouTube. Sacramento shot

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Speaker 1: sixty five from three. That's that's like, that's like an

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Speaker 1: off night at the free throw line. So and this

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Speaker 1: is one hundred percent on roster construction. It has been

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00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: a three and league for a decade. They got no

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Speaker 1: great three shooters, and they have absolutely bottom three team

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Speaker 1: in the league on the d part. Outside of Jared Vanderbilt,

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00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: they don't have any versaal defenders with length. They just don't.

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Speaker 1: So you can blame JJ Reddick. Every time I go

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Speaker 1: to the interweb, I go to x it's always JJ Reddick.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers are thirteen and one in clutch games, best

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Speaker 1: in the league. So if you give JJ Reddick a

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Speaker 1: close game late, he is unbelievable. But he can't keep

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Speaker 1: the games close. Thirteen of their fourteen losses they get

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Speaker 1: their doors blown off, and it's probably a bad sign

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Speaker 1: when your best three point shooter is the coach. And

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Speaker 1: unless JJ Reddick's gonna pull a late Bill Russell and

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Speaker 1: go player coach, they don't have enough shooters. So and again,

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Speaker 1: it has been a three and D league for a

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Speaker 1: long time. It's not a center league. I talked about

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Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks ago. Between Jokic, Jannis and Embiid,

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Speaker 1: probably the three best centers in the last decade. You

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Speaker 1: got two rings in thirty four total years. It's not

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Speaker 1: a center league. Titles don't go through bigs. It's not

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Speaker 1: the seventies or eighties or nineties. They go through wing

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Speaker 1: defenders and wing scorers. So here's my prediction. Rob Polenka,

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Speaker 1: Kobe's former agent, has become GM and now the new

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Speaker 1: Dodger owners have made him GM and head of basketball operations,

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Speaker 1: right President. Rob's smart, he's a good communicator, he's a

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Speaker 1: deal maker. He's a little thin skin for my taste,

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Speaker 1: but whatever. Nobody likes to be criticized, and he gets criticized.

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Speaker 1: But I do think he's a smart guy, a very

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Speaker 1: good communicator, and he's a good deal maker. The Luca

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Speaker 1: thing is one of the top five or six deals

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Speaker 1: had a very Jerry westfield to it. So I'll defend

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Speaker 1: Rob Polink. I think he's more than capable. But I

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Speaker 1: will say this, if you look at the Dodgers' front office, now,

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Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. I apologize to the radio audience. Look

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Speaker 1: at the Dodgers front office. I mean they've got eleven

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Speaker 1: vice presidents. The Lakers, Rob Polinka is the president Basketball

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Speaker 1: Ops GM and then Kurt Rambus does basketball affairs. The

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Speaker 1: new Dodgers owners, who now own the Lakers, have to

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Speaker 1: massively expand the front office. Move move Rob Polenka to

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Speaker 1: just basketball ops president, Get him out of Dusseldorf, get

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Speaker 1: him out of grinding tape, get him out of that space.

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Speaker 1: If you want to win, look at the Philadelphia Eagles

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Speaker 1: front office and look at the Bengals. They were, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers have been. They're under managed, and I everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to blame JJ Reddick. He's thirteen and one in close

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Speaker 1: games and people can bang on Rob Polenka. And I

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Speaker 1: don't love the roster construction either. But the Bus family

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Speaker 1: was one of the poorest ownership groups. They don't have

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Speaker 1: enough eyes, they don't have enough ears, they don't have

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Speaker 1: enough people. JJ Reddick on last night's embarrassing loss to

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Speaker 1: awful Sacramento.

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Speaker 9: Literally, we can't make a shot. I mean you look

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Speaker 9: at it. First of all, they're right there with us

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Speaker 9: as being one of the worst shooting teams in the league.

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Speaker 9: Had fifty potential assists tonight we converted on twenty one

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Speaker 9: of those. Expected score We won by twenty four. Like

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Speaker 9: this has been the theme. You know, it has been

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Speaker 9: the theme.

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Speaker 6: So just.

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Speaker 9: Keep shooting.

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Speaker 1: I guess again, you can blame the coach. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: you can do when you're getting blown out. He's very

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Speaker 1: good in clutch games because he's a really smart guy.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, Palinka, I think it's too thin skinned

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Speaker 1: if you're the front guy for the Lakers. I mean

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Speaker 1: I see Rambus two or three times a year. I

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Speaker 1: bang on the Lakers all the time. He's always in

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Speaker 1: good spirits. He gets it. He's a former player. That's

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Speaker 1: just the world. If you run the Lakers in La

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Speaker 1: are the Dodgers Now? The Dodgers have a brilliant GM

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Speaker 1: and a brilliant OPS people their research and development, and

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot of money. When I moved to LA.

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Speaker 1: When I moved to La, it was a Lakertown. It

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Speaker 1: is a Dodger town, and part of it is they

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Speaker 1: spend money and they make money that front office layers

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Speaker 1: of competent people with the Dodgers