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Speaker 1: The Around the League podcast always goes for it on

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Speaker 1: fourth down. Welcome back to another disc early Round the

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Speaker 1: League podcast. My name is Dan Hymns, and I'm joined

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Speaker 1: by room filled with heroes Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What up, boys, He's back, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling is back and Greg rosenthals, Hey, Dan is

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Speaker 1: a cheap knockoff. Yes, we all knew that. Just say

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Speaker 1: I never said it wasn't. I had a few bones

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Speaker 1: the top of the show. First of all, my copy

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Speaker 1: where honesty is usually happening? All right, what other problems

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Speaker 1: It just shows so many levels, the guys just operating

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Speaker 1: at full capacity. Gold Center. We appreciate you. Uh. On

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Speaker 1: today's show, we're gonna get into um a lot of news.

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Speaker 1: my point that I think by September, Tyler Thigpen will

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Speaker 1: thirty two teams into a year round or year round

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Speaker 1: operation where we have stories like this, who cares if

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Speaker 1: the Dominican Sioux shows up to voluntary workouts in April

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Speaker 1: and May? Is he going to be on the field

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Speaker 1: week one? Yes? Dumb story? And it brings up my

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Speaker 1: least favorite type of question, which always comes up with

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Speaker 1: this sort of thing, which is what do you think

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Speaker 1: of all the negative reaction to you about missing O

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Speaker 1: T s? Or do you think that the media is

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Speaker 1: making too big a deal about it? You're asking the question,

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Speaker 1: Just own it and ask it, just say and if

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Speaker 1: you if you think the media is making too much

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Speaker 1: of it, then shut up, don't say anything, right, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Moving forward, this is there's a Chip Kelly remote control

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Speaker 1: car story that I'm about to run you guys that

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Speaker 1: don't really understand what's happening with it. So it's a

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Speaker 1: seventh round pick named bo Allen revealed late last week

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Speaker 1: that Chip Kelly introduced himself by running a remote control

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Speaker 1: car into the nose tackle, the rookie nose tackle. Wes

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Speaker 1: he wrote this story so I would like you to

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Speaker 1: tell the public what this is all about. Well, offenses

448
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: and defenses cannot face each other in phase two of

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Speaker 1: the off season, which is what we're in right now.

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Speaker 1: So in order to gauge the reaction of defensive players,

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Speaker 1: chip Kelly has a remote control car which he uses

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Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage to simulate motion, and then

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Speaker 1: he judges the defensive player's reaction by that. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was kind of fun. It was fun story. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a It's definitely a fun story. But isn't it

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Speaker 1: kind of Rieka and smack of chip Kelly doing this

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Speaker 1: just so people write about how ingenious chip Kelly is.

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Speaker 1: It worked well, yeah, I mean I'm not saying well

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Speaker 1: because it came out of a random seventh round pick

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Speaker 1: in an interview. No, and actually saw this on the field.

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Speaker 1: It does sort of these things happen to leak though

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Speaker 1: when there's a reporter snipping around looking for anything to write,

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Speaker 1: I think, right, you think this is some machiavellian. Here's

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get them to be

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Speaker 1: talking about the remote and I'll use bo Allen. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's machiavellian on any level, but I think

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Speaker 1: Kelly enjoys his reputation as a because one thing, and

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Speaker 1: I love Chris's story. But the Eagles, you know in

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Speaker 1: the in the source material that you took it from,

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Speaker 1: are touted as this like high octane, high tech outfit

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Speaker 1: because they're recording meetings and sending them to people on

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Speaker 1: their iPads. So what's so important about recording a meeting?

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's been done for years. I think

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Speaker 1: I made that point, But that's the whole point in

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Speaker 1: the source Machill is like in Chip Kelly, for some

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Speaker 1: of you, the original source. For some of you that

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Speaker 1: are over the age of twenty five, get this, there's

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Speaker 1: sending meetings online to their players through recording content police.

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Speaker 1: I just you know what, Chip Kelly, You're not as

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Speaker 1: brilliant as maybe you think you are. Maybe is an

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Speaker 1: offensive mind. People kind of anti Chip Kelly from the

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Speaker 1: It's just like, even though he's proven to be kind

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Speaker 1: of ahead of the curve on do you use iTunes

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Speaker 1: genius to pick your music selections? And now all of

485
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Speaker 1: a sudden you've cracked the human code for how to

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Speaker 1: get guys to operating practice, and you have smoothies that

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Speaker 1: have vitamins in them. And now you're the guy that

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Speaker 1: understands fitness. And by the way, Chip Kelly fitness, come out.

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Speaker 1: Let's be serious here, I don't know you know that.

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Speaker 1: Come on? You know, chip Kelly comes. Who do you

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Speaker 1: think I changed genius is named? If that's a Chip

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Speaker 1: Kelly production. I just the only thing that strikes me

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Speaker 1: as funny about this is if you're a defensive player

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Speaker 1: and okay, there's no motion across from you on the

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Speaker 1: line and this part of the off season, but now

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Speaker 1: you're seeing this remote control car. Is that that genuinely

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Speaker 1: helping you? You're like sitting there and you're in your

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Speaker 1: stance and you're just like, oh, there goes Lashan McCoy.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that's a one in tall like four weeks

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Speaker 1: might step. Is that really gonna help you in the

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Speaker 1: when the season start? How smart chip Kelly look when

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Speaker 1: he when one of his players steps on that freaking

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Speaker 1: car and pops in achilles. You know the only thing,

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Speaker 1: the only person that helps this whole thing is chip Kelly. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Egos were the least injured team in the league

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Speaker 1: last year. We'll watch out for remote controlled cars, his

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Speaker 1: personalized protein shakes, and his customized sleep schedules. If we

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Speaker 1: know one thing about the NFL this upcoming season, they

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Speaker 1: could be the most injured team in the league. That's true.

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Speaker 1: That's fair point, Dan chip Kelly. You know when a

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Speaker 1: win a title, alright, an NFC the East title last year,

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Speaker 1: I'd say, coming last to first, back to me when

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Speaker 1: you're an Obama's company in the East room of the

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Speaker 1: White House. Maybe maybe then he'll deliver the jersey with

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Speaker 1: a remote control car, and then I'll be like, this

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Speaker 1: guy's a genius, because that that would actually be pretty cool. Um,

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Speaker 1: speaking of people that we won't never get to the

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Speaker 1: White House. Tony Romo was the top one hundred players

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Speaker 1: of two thousand fourteen in NFL Network weekly special during

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Speaker 1: the summer and Spring and Summer That's kicked off on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday show which ran down the number seventy one through eight.

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo was in that group that put him as

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Speaker 1: the twelfth quarterback on the list of there are eleven

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks ahead of him, and I believe there were two

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Speaker 1: behind him, Kaepernick and Matthew Stafford. Correct mistaken? Uh? I

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Speaker 1: ask you, gentlemen. Greg wrote a nice piece on the

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Speaker 1: Round the League page about Tony Romo. Is it fair

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Speaker 1: to put Tony Romot number twelve among quarterbacks? I think

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Speaker 1: that's about right. There's a couple of guys in front

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Speaker 1: of him I might not have in front of him.

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Speaker 1: There that I'm guessing there in front of Okay, I've

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Speaker 1: seen the list. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of guys in front of him I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have chosen, and there's a couple of guys behind

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Speaker 1: him that might be better than him. I've always been

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Speaker 1: such a Tony Romo believer, and yet at this point

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Speaker 1: of his career, that sounds about right to me in

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Speaker 1: terms of where he is in the NFL pecking order.

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Speaker 1: This is one where with with the players doing the voting,

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Speaker 1: it's always interesting to me to see where a guy

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Speaker 1: like Tony Romo shows up. Because you've heard, even in

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Speaker 1: our own office, former players come out and they seem

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Speaker 1: to have no more of an in depth view of

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Speaker 1: Romo than a lot of us do. Is just fans

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Speaker 1: and people that follow the game where they look at

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Speaker 1: his late game meltdowns and they seem completely affected by that.

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Speaker 1: But number eleven feels about right for me. I had

548
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Speaker 1: to give the boss some credit here. How are refreshing

549
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Speaker 1: to see a Tony Romo article that's fair and balanced,

550
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Speaker 1: all right? I mean it's not. It's not an apologist

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Speaker 1: acting like his late late game failures never happened, and

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Speaker 1: it's not a detractor just totally ignoring the fact that

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Speaker 1: all of his right stats rank in the top five

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Speaker 1: in NFL history. So yeah, he's somewhere in between that

555
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Speaker 1: and I think you named it well. And Greg also

556
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Speaker 1: fairly points the blame at Jerry Jones and the way

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Speaker 1: that team has been run during Romo's tenures. Well, that

558
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Speaker 1: was what I wanted to write about it. I think

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo has been blamed unfairly throughout his career and

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Speaker 1: in general. I've probably leaned on the side of that

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Speaker 1: he gets too much grief and that he is better

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Speaker 1: than most people believe. But I also recognize they might

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Speaker 1: have missed their window. With Tony Romo at his peak.

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Speaker 1: He is turning thirty four years old. He is coming

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Speaker 1: off of a back surgery. He's coming off a season

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Speaker 1: where he had the lowest yards per attempt of his

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Speaker 1: entire career. His yards pertemptive dropped significantly over the last

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Speaker 1: two years. He plays it a little safer, less than

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Speaker 1: the interceptions, but he's not as accurate, and the numbers

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Speaker 1: match up with what I see. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo is as good as he was five years ago.

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Speaker 1: I think his worst two seasons in the league we're

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons. So I just worry. Even if

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Speaker 1: the team around him gets better, I think they've missed

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Speaker 1: that window where Romo was at his peak and one

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Speaker 1: of the five or six best quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 1: So they should have followed Dan's advice and gone out

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Speaker 1: and gotten Johnny Manzel. Well it's too late now. I

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Speaker 1: ain't getting no sandwiches that I don't know because he's

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Speaker 1: still goes a couple of good years. Oh yeah, don't

581
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Speaker 1: get me wrong. I still think he's better than Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 1: better than Eli Manning, better than a lot of kid.

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Speaker 1: What speaks to Greg, what you're saying is he he

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Speaker 1: probably has two or three nice Tony Romo seasons left.

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Speaker 1: But even if the Cowboys were a well run organization,

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Speaker 1: which you could definitely say they're not, it might take

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Speaker 1: them two or three years to be back in the

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Speaker 1: conversation as a real threat in the NFC. And then

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Speaker 1: Tony ro almost thirty seven, So maybe you should have

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Speaker 1: drafted Johnny Manzel. He is ninth in NFL history in

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Speaker 1: yards per at tempt. There was a period and he

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Speaker 1: was great the moment he stepped in for Drew Bledsoe,

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Speaker 1: which is very different than most quarterbacks, and he was older.

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Speaker 1: He was a Pro Bowl type player at the moment

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Speaker 1: he stepped on the field, and from that moment, for

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Speaker 1: the next six or so years, he was a top

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Speaker 1: seven NFL quarterback. And I just don't think he's at

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Speaker 1: that level anymore. All right, gentlemen, So team of a

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Speaker 1: t l m hmmm, it's time to talk about it. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of thinking about this, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I know this all means a lot to us. I

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Speaker 1: know we really enjoyed rooting for the Panthers as a

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Speaker 1: collective unit, uh last season, and and we picked the

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Speaker 1: Panthers about Week four. I'd say, right at the end

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Speaker 1: of September early October. So I guess the first thing

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Speaker 1: I want to run by you guys, and this is

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Speaker 1: all open conversation, was the idea of potentially getting a

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Speaker 1: little more brave, I'll say it, and picking a team

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Speaker 1: before the season starts. I'm gonna start there, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna throw it out of the room. I feel the

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Speaker 1: same way about this as I did about the softball

612
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Speaker 1: pants discussion. It has to be organic. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we want to be pressured into picking a team to

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Speaker 1: fit anyone's schedule. I like how it happened with the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: We just grew to like them, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: how it works. Nobody beat, nobody would care about this,

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Speaker 1: nobody would bring it up on Twitter if it didn't

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Speaker 1: happen organically last year. Alright, how about this, because I'll

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Speaker 1: throw this out there. Then what if we did we

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Speaker 1: picked a team to enter the season, and then we

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Speaker 1: gave ourselves one Matthew Mulligan, and we could bail on

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Speaker 1: that team and pick a team in late September and

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Speaker 1: run with that team. I think you picked your team,

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Speaker 1: you gotta stick with him through through uh hell or

625
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Speaker 1: high water. I kind of feel that's your team even

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Speaker 1: if they even if they lose games, and they're still

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Speaker 1: your team for that year. All right, Well, I just

628
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Speaker 1: I'm throwing things out there. My thought is, how do

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Speaker 1: you know the team until you see him play? And

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Speaker 1: that's the thing I love about the NFL. Team has

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00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: changed so much and you don't really know their personality

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Speaker 1: until they play some games. Yeah no, and that's certainly fair.

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Speaker 1: I'm also thinking about the podcast and having something locked in.

634
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of us as a product rather than something organic,

635
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Speaker 1: which I apologize for. We didn't know the series existed

636
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: when the season began last year. Now we do, and

637
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Speaker 1: so obviously it's let's think ahead. But it's hard right

638
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: now to zone in on one team. It's a fun exercise,

639
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Speaker 1: but you talk about organic, it's hard to know where

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Speaker 1: we are. I have one team that has already organically

641
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Speaker 1: become that team for me, but I don't expect that

642
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Speaker 1: the three of you do. In May. All right, let's

643
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: hear it, the Steelers are that team for me. Oh

644
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Speaker 1: that is rich we already got because I think one

645
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Speaker 1: thing we all agree on is that this needs to

646
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Speaker 1: be a unanimous vote for team about a t I

647
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Speaker 1: want to hear him out. I'm not I didn't rule

648
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Speaker 1: it up. This has been kind of an interesting team

649
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: to me. I've explained this a few times on the podcast,

650
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: where they were a team that was a perennial contender

651
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: that took on the look of a rebuilding team. Early

652
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: last season they were abysmal. Uh since then, they're just

653
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: now getting to the point where some two thousand thirteen

654
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: draft picks can come in to contribute they had. I

655
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: liked what they did in the two thousand fourteen draft.

656
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Schasier was one of my favorite players, said automatically.

657
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: Has me interested that it looks like they're a lot speed,

658
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: You're a lot more athletic, and I want to see

659
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: if they can turn it around and regain contender status.

660
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: I don't think the rest of the country sees them

661
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: that way anymore. And we should probably clarify what a

662
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Speaker 1: team of a t L is. We're not necessarily picking

663
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Speaker 1: the team we think is gonna win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It's more and correct me if I'm wrong, A gentleman,

665
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: just the team that we we enjoy and the guess.

666
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: They're a good team and they're gonna be a competitive team,

667
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: but also a team that's easy to root for and

668
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and there's some Chip Kelly on us,

669
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Speaker 1: which is why we want to see things before they

670
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: happen and then get rewarded for that. I like the

671
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: Steeler's idea. I mean, that's intriguing to me. You don't

672
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Speaker 1: have to sell me on the whole idea of you know,

673
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger having one final glorious season. I picked him

674
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Speaker 1: to win m v P last year before the year

675
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: that didn't work out too well. But I'm curious, Mark,

676
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Steals aren't your initial pick. Maybe

677
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: Bill come around on them. Is there a team that

678
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 1: maybe you're interested in right now? The team that came

679
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: to mind right away from me is the Cults. A Chris,

680
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: you love big you love Big Ben, and I respect

681
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: Big Ben as a player. I think he's fun to watch.

682
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: I feel that way about Andrew Luck where I can

683
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: sit down and watch a Cults game and because of him, primarily,

684
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: I'm plugged in right from the start. I think they've

685
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 1: got some interesting weapons on offense. I think Kim Nicks

686
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: is in for a bounce back year in that offense.

687
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: I want to see what happens with Trent Richardson in

688
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: the backfield. The defense potential disaster zone, but that could

689
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: create some high scoring, interesting games. There's something about the

690
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Speaker 1: Cults that if for me, I uh, that's my team,

691
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: fun team to watch Andrew Luck. There might not be

692
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: a player I enjoy watching more than Andrew Luck. But

693
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Speaker 1: I've kind of I still like the Colts. I'll enjoy

694
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Speaker 1: watching it, but I'm not wild about their off season

695
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: and now if if they're gonna pass our early season test,

696
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to do it without Robert mathis right,

697
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: and teams don't necessarily have to win early either. We

698
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Speaker 1: picked the Panthers when they were struggling a little bit

699
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: bounce back. I just see a team that has the

700
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 1: same issues on the offensive line, the same issues on defense,

701
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: and the same offensive coordinator who prefers his philosophy to

702
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: the to gearing it towards the personnel. I don't disagree

703
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: at all, but I think the Luck is going to

704
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: be an example of a quarterback that kind of over

705
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: rides all of those on paper issues. That would not

706
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: surprise me. Greg Oh, I've got so many right down.

707
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: This is like like more single here, and there's just

708
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: so many beautiful women out there. This is Friday one

709
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Speaker 1: hot babe. No, I can't just limited. I think the

710
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Speaker 1: Bucks are going to be a team to watch for

711
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: maybe a trendy. The Raiders would be a fun one. Now,

712
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: now I bear with me here never happened, little too

713
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: much shop here. But there is nothing I would enjoy

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Speaker 1: more this year than the Raiders coming out of the

715
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Speaker 1: gate and being feisty and just battling their way to

716
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: a nine and seven type of season that no one

717
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: saw coming. That's something that would get me excited. And

718
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: that's the type of thing that the team of They're

719
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: like the bad News Bears. Now different guys are showing up.

720
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: One guy came from jail, another guy came from you know,

721
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: he's been out of work for tenure. It's not quite

722
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: like that, but eleven or twelve different people, different cities

723
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Speaker 1: coming together. I like that in the sense that last

724
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Speaker 1: year's a t L team seemed like a from the

725
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: Wilderness group that no one saw coming. Colts are not that,

726
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: and frankly, sorry Chris, the Steelers are not an underdog

727
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: team on any level. It doesn't have to be an underno,

728
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: but but the Raiders would be about we go from

729
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: a team that that prevented Chris for meeting softball pants

730
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: to talking nine and seven. That's I don't yeah, I

731
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: mean unfortunately, I will say Greg that the reason why

732
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: you shouldn't get your hopes up is because during your

733
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: entire Rent West said nope like five times. And let's

734
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Speaker 1: get written apology from at least a hundred of Oakland

735
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: Raiders fans. I will not exercise. That's a good thing.

736
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Speaker 1: How about this one? How about this one? Bruce Arians

737
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: in the kango hat, Steve Kim in his converse, Patrick Peterson,

738
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Darnell Docket, Calais Campbell, Carson forget about though. That could

739
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: be a fun little team. That's fun. That's a fun team.

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Speaker 1: If Greg would have stuck to doing one team, he

741
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: wanted to have taken my team, which was the Irizona Card,

742
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with four more. Can can the A

743
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Speaker 1: t L get behind Carson Palmer. That's a tough one.

744
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: Tough I can get behind that team. Everybody else. If

745
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Drew Stanton takes over, I didn't know. No, it's okay.

746
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Speaker 1: I mean I thought you set it up pretty well there,

747
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: uh uh, throwing another one. I like the Packers I

748
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: thought the Packers were playing very well. That four Rodgers

749
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: went down. I think they you know, they made some

750
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: moves that are nice. And Aaron Rodgers. If if everybody

751
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: thinks andrew their favorite quarterbacks watching the league, he's probably

752
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: my top three. But Rogers is still my favorite personally.

753
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of feeling the Packers as a bounce

754
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: back team that could do some things this year and

755
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: maybe won't be a popular pick now that they've kind

756
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: of gotten back from their fifteen and one campaign of

757
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 1: two seasons ago. Yeah, but you gotta admit that seems

758
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: like a long time ago. Let me throw one quick out.

759
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: I know Dan is gonna veto this. The Eagles, I

760
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: find them. Forget all the Chip Kelly. I agree with

761
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: you about the those a little bit of a bit

762
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: of a pompous b line to Chip Kelly, which bugs me.

763
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: But the team is fascinating to watch. I think they're

764
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: gonna be a major player in the NFC. I feel

765
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: like half the league's half the pundits will pick them

766
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: to get to the NFC title game. You just said

767
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: the Packers. The Packers are gonna be one of the

768
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: top three or four. Favorite Kelly involved Kelly. I feel

769
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: like we haven't even remote control cars. Who do you

770
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: hate more, Chip Kelly or Teddy Bridgewater? I like Teddy.

771
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: He just seemed to He's a kid, he's a little confused,

772
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: he's mixed up. But when you take a remote control

773
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: car and you're driving across the field and basically, you know,

774
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: pointing to reporters, Hey look what I'm doing, I'm cool.

775
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: He didn't point to reporters. I think he probably would

776
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: have preferred if that story never even came out. Right,

777
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: we haven't even mentioned the elephant in the room here,

778
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: bo bo Allen, Alright, go ahead. I feel like if

779
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: if I was going and uh making a sandwich proposition

780
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: on this, and I would predicting. Of course I'm part

781
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: of the decision, but I was predicting what team would

782
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: be the team of atl I think the leader in

783
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: the clubhouse right now, you're Cleveland Browns. You got Johnny Football,

784
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: You've got a team coming out of nowhere. You've got

785
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: a feel good story, You've got Kevin Costner, You've got

786
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: it all. Tell you what Josh Gordon really took the

787
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: Do you really want to watch Nate Burlson and Earl

788
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: Bennett all year. He's a wide receiver. Calvin Johnson has

789
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: not helped the Lions escape from being the Lions. And

790
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: he's Calvin Johnson. He's just one player. The Browns are

791
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: bigger than that. When I woke up Friday morning after

792
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: the draft, I thought they would have been Vegas would

793
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: take them off the board as the team of a

794
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: t L And when Gordon went out of the lineup

795
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: or we don't know what's gonna happen with maybe he'll

796
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: get banned six games and he'll still be in play

797
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: for them, But that that was payingful. I can't get

798
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: behind that team anymore because I think they're ceiling is

799
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: probably eight wins. I could still get you. I'm saying,

800
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: I'm not rolling them out. This could be a possibility

801
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: come rejuvenated. Yeah. No, I wouldn't rule them out by

802
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: any stretch. But Gordon that was killer. There aren't if

803
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: you look at Cleveland's defense, for instance, and with Mike

804
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: Penniser coach, there's not an area of that defense that's

805
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: a major issue. They are going to be. I don't

806
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 1: see a three and thirteen type year. But putting all

807
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: our money on the Browns, they win the Super Bowl,

808
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: or just a fun team to follow. What if Charles Johnson,

809
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 1: I like this guy who I've never seen a snap out.

810
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,959
Speaker 1: What if he emerges as a player. Here here's how

811
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: I He's a guy the Packers drafted in his seventh round.

812
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: He's a favorite of Draftnicks because he's like thirty, highly

813
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: athletic ran a four three something, and then the Packers

814
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: he he they thought he tore his m c L

815
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: and training camp it turned out to be his a

816
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Speaker 1: c L, so they stashed him on the practice squad.

817
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: Brown's claim him off the practice squad needing a wide

818
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: receiver and discovery as a torn a c L. Well

819
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: he didn't know that. Well, nobody's you know, the end

820
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Speaker 1: quotes size, speed, freak, and it's this like dark horse

821
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: candidate that's in the back of the depth chart. But

822
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: he's like the Ricardo Lockett of this offseason. You you

823
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you mentioned, you know, you're trying to figure

824
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: out what is the team of a t L. I

825
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: think this is my definition. It's a team. It's what

826
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: West said. It's a team you want to root for.

827
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: It's a team you have no choice but to root for.

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00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty sounds like the Jets. To me, I'm

829
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: not Yeah, it sounds like that. I love X, but

830
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: I can't stand the way the media covers that team. Alright, alright,

831
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: just threw it out there. Back off everybody. Um, So

832
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: we're gonna be tracking this all offseason. You know, we're

833
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: gonna be figuring out who this team will be. You know,

834
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: we might end up picking the team later into the

835
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: regular season if we want to take a more cowardly route,

836
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 1: but we can. We'll figure it out. And gold Center

837
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Speaker 1: behind the Glass. I was thinking, this seems like an

838
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Speaker 1: exercise that needs needs a theme song. And I was

839
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Speaker 1: thinking the man for this is the great Dick Banks,

840
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Speaker 1: who of course has some experience with the A t

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Speaker 1: L podcast or the original incarnation hands do some Mr

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Speaker 1: fancy fans the Flames need in NFL news, the Chances

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Speaker 1: Tu the round like boys Pigs. There was the great,

844
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Speaker 1: the Great Thick Banks, and you know Dave damas Check,

845
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Speaker 1: who we owe Dave a lot because he put us

846
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: on the back end of the damas Check podcast. I

847
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: guess at about two years ago. Now, really try to

848
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: start this movement making Mark Sessler Mr fancy Pants because

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Speaker 1: his Twitter handle was Mark Sessler underscore it a t

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Speaker 1: L or NFL. Excuse me, well, Mark Cussler was not available.

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Speaker 1: Someone out there jumped on that, and so I used

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Speaker 1: my name with NFL at the end, and he found

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Speaker 1: that to be a headache. And you know what do

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Speaker 1: I have? Like I have like maybe a close closet

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Speaker 1: that has like six items in it tops and I'm

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Speaker 1: getting labeled fancy the entire shirt closet. So anyway, obviously

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Speaker 1: we that had to be retired when we became a

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Speaker 1: larger group. But Dick Banks did a great job of

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Speaker 1: that sort. Thinking maybe put him in charge of some

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Speaker 1: type of song about who will be the team of

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Speaker 1: a t L so gold standard as our producer. Do

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Speaker 1: you think you can get on that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where Dick Banks is. He could be at the top

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Speaker 1: of the castle. He could be in a dingy apartment

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Speaker 1: in Venice. I know nothing about the man, but he's talented.

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Speaker 1: His fee will come out of your non existent salary.

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Speaker 1: That sounds good. You have a non existent out of

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Speaker 1: here from I don't know um. All right, So that's

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Speaker 1: it for today's edition the a t L Podcast. Before

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Speaker 1: we go west, just one update. We'd love to know um,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot. It felt like it, and maybe

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Speaker 1: this is just more my feeling if there was a

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Speaker 1: lot riding on this weekend with your significant other erin, Um,

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00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: are you now in a committed relationship and are you

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Speaker 1: thinking wedding belts? Why are you? I mean, could be

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Speaker 1: something that's happened. I think you have misread this trip

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Speaker 1: from the beginning. It was a way for me to

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Speaker 1: go up the coast and to bring someone along with me,

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Speaker 1: and she was a very We have always traveled well together,

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Speaker 1: the two of us. I've always had a good time.

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00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: We get along well. Um, we have separating us. We've

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Speaker 1: realized that from the start that we're up against this,

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Speaker 1: so I think we've been realistic from the beginning. It's

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Speaker 1: this wasn't something that we thought was going to result

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Speaker 1: in wedding bills, you know, right right away or within

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know what will happen,

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Speaker 1: but I think we're both realistic about it. You're the

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Speaker 1: first guy I've ever heard ask another guy that question.

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Speaker 1: Does she have an issue with Dan turning your whatever

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Speaker 1: status is relationship into a rating scrab She listeners, tuning

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Speaker 1: in right now, what's all the way. You did get

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Speaker 1: some backlash about this, Dan, not just from West, but

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Speaker 1: you know, people were coming up in the news room

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Speaker 1: being like, ah you you know people were coming up,

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Speaker 1: well they I think some people misconstrued my conversation with Aaron,

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Speaker 1: but I see it sounds like Aaron's a very nice

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Speaker 1: girl and West is a very good guy, So I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a nice team. I did catch heat

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Speaker 1: from her because you forgot her name, and I must

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Speaker 1: I must not be talking about her enough around the office. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just bad with names, which is a sign of

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00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: like self absorption. So that's exactly what so self absorbed.

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Speaker 1: You were deemed slightly insensitive. That is, we know you,

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Speaker 1: and we know that's not true. Of course not no,

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Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to meeting Aaron one of these days.

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Speaker 1: She seems like a great girl, and we're glad that

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Speaker 1: you're back and didn't just settle up in some shock.

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Speaker 1: I thought the institute up there, But big, sir, what

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Speaker 1: do they do? It's a uh they are very big

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Speaker 1: into kind of um Mark would love it. They're very organic.

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00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: They're into poetry. Uh, food like French fries and olives.

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Speaker 1: It's like a new a g type of thing, but

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Speaker 1: it's discovering human potential and it's a little off the

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Speaker 1: beaten path, which you know. Like I said, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a freeway guy, and this was a good reminder. I

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Speaker 1: think we need to recharge every once in a while.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if this doesn't work out with this woman, we

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Speaker 1: could go up and start a new life up in

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Speaker 1: the cliffer to Friday. Keep Mark's wife out of this

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Speaker 1: UH podcast will tell there was no podcast today, Um, gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: That's it for today's edition in the round Link podcast

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Speaker 1: that we got got a lot of info in there.

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Speaker 1: We UH will be back on Friday with a special guest,

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, who will Friday morning. In fact, we're going

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Speaker 1: to UH get the podcast. We're going forward at least

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Speaker 1: through the rest of the springing through the summer. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get the podcast the first thing Friday morning on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast. Um, so look for it to land

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Speaker 1: earlier than you typically see, So get excited for that.

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, UH draft Analysts and Scout extraordinaire will be

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Speaker 1: back in the studio with this. He says he has

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Speaker 1: some goodies to unload and he will do it here,

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Speaker 1: So that's good, well, that sounds pretty goodness. But until

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Speaker 1: that is, Dan had signing off for the Mailman, the Sizzler,

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Speaker 1: the Boss as a gold stand behind the glass and

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Speaker 1: build Friday Taste in. Oh God, God,