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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: I bet every single person listening to the sound of

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Speaker 2: family that you thought had it all and they were perfect,

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Speaker 2: Everything looked great inside the home and then the whole

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Speaker 2: thing splits up. Or do you ever find out that

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Speaker 2: the person who looks like they've got the perfect life

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Speaker 2: Like everything can look right, but it's gotta be constructed

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Speaker 2: in a healthy way from the inside out or it

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Speaker 2: not gonna work. And I'll tell you which professional sports

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Speaker 2: team relates to that comment in just a moment. But

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Speaker 2: that comes after I say hello and good evening to

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Speaker 2: my partner E from Salam.

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Speaker 1: Hello, sir, Hello, my good man. How we doing. I'm great?

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Speaker 1: How are you? What's happening this weekend?

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Speaker 3: I've just basketball just got a more here was zoomed

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Speaker 3: up from Seal Beach.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you tell me that it was like over like like.

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Speaker 3: Like theoretically, theoretically erratically but in reality.

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Speaker 1: Found yourself some more games. Didn't you ever.

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Speaker 3: Said so this week my brand new like two month

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Speaker 3: old eleven year old, right, my two month eleven year old.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say, dude, if you have a

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Speaker 2: two month no, no, no, no, about to take a damn

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Speaker 2: turn if we.

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Speaker 3: Have if I have a two month older, dain't mine?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: It was uh he was playing with the twelve you team.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well.

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Speaker 3: Technically it was the twelve you team, but he was

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Speaker 3: playing against thirteen and fourteen you players.

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Speaker 1: How does that work? Were any of them named Danny Almonte? Like?

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Speaker 1: How does this right? How does this work?

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Speaker 3: This is this state that we are in. Lot of coaches,

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Speaker 3: a lot of parents want their talented kid to really

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Speaker 3: stick out and really shine, so they allow them to

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Speaker 3: play down one or two years because it their first

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Speaker 3: of all that their body control. They're more explosive. As

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Speaker 3: you know as a father, eleven to twelve is physically

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Speaker 3: is ginormous.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Now every year it's like a huge milestone. Now that

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Speaker 3: tapers off as you get an adult and it just

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Speaker 3: becomes who you are. But as a kid going through

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Speaker 3: growth and pre puberty and then puberty, your body changes

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Speaker 3: exponentiously and and it is as fast as quick. And

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Speaker 3: so when you I have my brand new essentially a

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Speaker 3: and his dad is on the sidelines like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm like he's touching the rim, right, he's not twelve, Like,

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Speaker 3: he's not twelve.

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Speaker 2: No, I like I always I've always used this comparison,

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Speaker 2: and it sucks that we get older and so the

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Speaker 2: to us don't understand the reference.

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Speaker 1: But it's very much Billy Madison.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is an old Adam Sandler movie where basically

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Speaker 2: an adult has to go back and be in kindergarten

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Speaker 2: and he's playing dodgeball on the playground with little kids,

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Speaker 2: and being like yeah, and it's like right, dude, you're

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Speaker 2: you're three times the size of that person. And it's

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Speaker 2: very funny when it's a slapstick comedy movie. Less so

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Speaker 2: when it's club basketball on an August weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's disheartening. But this is the lens

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Speaker 3: scape of youth basketball as we speak. They are fifteen.

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Speaker 3: This is a real thing. They are fifteen year old

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Speaker 3: eighth graders. Eight, they're fourteen year old eighth graders YEP,

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Speaker 3: which blows my mind. I'm like, why are you in

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Speaker 1: Because people are overly competitive.

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Speaker 3: You can have a learner's permit, you need to tell

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Speaker 3: me in junior high school. You can drive to school.

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Speaker 3: You can have a job. I mean, you can go

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Speaker 2: We might be a few years away from them all

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just weird to see that. And I

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Speaker 3: believe I'm the outlier in terms of how I approached sports,

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Speaker 3: one offers for football and basketball as a four year

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Speaker 3: And so I look at it differently. I see these

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Speaker 1: I'm like that.

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Speaker 3: Just imagine you're sixteen going into high school. Just imagine

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Speaker 3: that has you graduate at twenty you're a nineteen year

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Speaker 3: old junior, right, like, this is what we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: And to me, I think it's just you know, look,

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Speaker 3: everybody make it to the league, but now the benchmark

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Speaker 3: can make more money in high school and in college

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Speaker 3: in athletics than you ever do in the league. Yep,

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Speaker 3: Like most of these nil kids aren't going to make

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Speaker 3: a bunch of money playing professional basketball and football. It's

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Speaker 3: just and I don't knock that. If you can change

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Speaker 3: your socio economic background in college and in high school.

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Speaker 1: Please do it.

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Speaker 3: Do it, absolutely, please do it change the course of

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Speaker 3: your family's financial his future and so, but don't take

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Speaker 3: it out on little kid Like I got a real

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Speaker 3: eleven year old going like I have a he's young, right,

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Speaker 3: he's in the sixth grade. He just turned eleven two

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yeah, I mean you and I we like

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Speaker 2: our youngest are I mean, yours is a little bit

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Speaker 2: younger than mine. Mine will be starting sixth grade on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: He turned eleven, uh late in the spring, and so

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Speaker 2: I know exactly a what you speak.

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Speaker 3: So it's just it's weird and it's disheartening. Watching all

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Speaker 3: these parents live vicariously through their children. I just I

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Speaker 3: refuse to do it. I'm involved in my son's basketball

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Speaker 3: has to play basketball. I have a six to one

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Speaker 3: fourteen year old in high school, at his rightful age fourteen,

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Speaker 3: care less about every we want to freshman orientation last

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Speaker 3: dad's the parents. And I said, no, no, no, he's

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Speaker 3: you know, he's an engineer. He wants to design roller

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Speaker 3: I said, Rashid, you got to get used to it, man,

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Speaker 3: because people are going to be asking you that all day.

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Speaker 3: Every day. The coaches will see you walking in the

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Speaker 3: for a second. So just get used to it. Yep,

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Speaker 3: you know. So, hey, look it's all good. It's just

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Speaker 3: disheartening to see the levels that some of these programs

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Speaker 3: kid to feel special.

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Speaker 1: I get it, I get it.

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Speaker 2: I mean the hope is I think for most of

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Speaker 2: these parents is that someday their child will play offense

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Speaker 2: for the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: That's the best transition I could do. So pretty good. No,

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Speaker 1: let's get it word out.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're working on the fly here in the

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios. Mark Willard eat from Salam But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so my man, I had I had my first fantasy

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Speaker 2: draft yesterday. Yeah, have my first fantasy already. Yeah, already.

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Speaker 2: Because it's a groupa well that I didn't get to go.

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Speaker 2: But the group likes to get together in person, and

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Speaker 2: if you're going to be in person, you kind of

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Speaker 2: got to do it before school starts because then all

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Speaker 2: the dads are like, sorry, I can't go anymore. And

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Speaker 2: so we always tend to do it a little bit early.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, you get some bumps and bruises and lose

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Speaker 1: But you know, life goes on, so whatever. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: point is is it's what's called a super flex league.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what that is?

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Speaker 2: No super flex, which means it's the rosters are bigger,

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Speaker 2: and you play not one quarterback. You played two quarterbacks,

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Speaker 2: two quarterbacks, three receivers, two running backs, and two flex

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Speaker 2: It's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot going on.

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Speaker 2: But in other words, what happens the first round is

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Speaker 2: largely made up of qbs. There's a lot, like you know,

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Speaker 2: that's what goes off the board first, Okay, And so

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Speaker 2: I ended up with the fourth pick, and with the

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Speaker 2: fourth pick in the draft, your boy selects Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 2: quarterback Cincinnata Bengals, and I have a feeling that I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be laughing at these suckers all year long,

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Speaker 2: because what the Bengals have is absolutely the perfect life

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Speaker 2: hack for fantasy football, which is incredible talent on the

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Speaker 2: offensive end, and the need to score forty eight points

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Speaker 2: every Sunday. Because now the rumors are coming up all

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Speaker 2: around this weekend that Trey Hendricks in their top pass

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Speaker 2: rusher who remains unsigned and holding out.

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Speaker 1: There are now trade talks with multiple teams underway.

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Speaker 2: You and I have talked about this already, and this

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Speaker 2: is kind of why I called the Bengals that family

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Speaker 2: that looks wonderful from the outside, but if you went

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Speaker 2: about the Bengals. Everybody out there knows about Burrow and

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Speaker 2: his receivers. Everybody knows about that, but I don't think

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Speaker 2: that that group is built to actually go win football

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Speaker 2: games that matter.

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Speaker 1: But yay, fantasy that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, you're gonna rack up now you you

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Speaker 3: you're gonna kill yep, So hold on tight and and

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Speaker 3: and let it rip. Seriously good good pick by. You

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Speaker 3: surprised he was still there?

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Speaker 2: Well, Lamar and Josh and and Jayden Worth you know Hayden.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's what the uh, that's what the

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Speaker 2: chalk told them to do. And you know all of

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Speaker 2: us are just we're just slaves to that stupid ranking

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what everybody does.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe they don't know the the context of what

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Speaker 3: the Bengals are in for. Like were we we have

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Speaker 3: a little we have an advantage because.

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Speaker 1: We know, I mean, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't feel like it's a secret now, Like y'all we're

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Speaker 2: all want.

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Speaker 3: To pay attention. Most people in fantasy football it did you.

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Speaker 1: Know We watched the Bengals do this last year too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and if it's a regular draft, everybody's

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Speaker 2: taken Jamar Chase number one overall for the exact same reason.

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Speaker 3: So absolutely, you know.

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Speaker 2: So here here's what I'd like to ask you, and

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Speaker 2: we can go ahead and loop the Cowboys into this

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Speaker 2: as well with with Micah which is maybe an obvious answer,

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Speaker 2: but but you tell me, what precisely would you do

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Speaker 2: if you were these two teams? What precisely would you

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Speaker 2: Look negotiation in sports, it's always the same, their standard.

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Speaker 2: It's a staring contest. You and I have talked about

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Speaker 2: a bunch of them. Micah Parsons and the Cowboys, Jonathan

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Speaker 2: Like that's that's not what we're doing. So I'm sure

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Speaker 3: Because you weren't negotiating with out the principle of the

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Speaker 2: D You're a completely right, but B this is what

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Speaker 2: This is why nobody can understand what they're doing, because

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Speaker 2: the same goal. But instead of going all right, then

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Speaker 2: once you do that, I believe you're screwed. I don't

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Speaker 2: really think that there's too often where that ends up

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Speaker 2: And everybody is still livid with each other today. They're

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Speaker 2: So you know, as some of the roots against the Cowboys, yay, right, like.

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Speaker 3: Keep going, it's.

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Speaker 2: So dumb, it's so dumb, right, So I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, being traded would be the best thing for him.

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Speaker 3: I mean I keep them just like I keep Steve

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Speaker 5: season and as far as the NFL preseason, it will

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Speaker 5: end this Saturday night. We've got a couple of games

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Speaker 5: on Thursday, we have a few on Friday, including the

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Speaker 5: Bears at the Chiefs, and then a lot of Saturday games.

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Speaker 5: By the time we get to the late game this

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Speaker 5: Saturday Raiders at Cardinals, that will be it for the

439
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Speaker 5: NFL preseason. That means we are that much closer to

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Speaker 5: real NFL football and that comes in September.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, let's go, let's go. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: dumb idea time, how long are we?

443
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Speaker 2: How far away are we until they turn the preseason

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Speaker 2: into a reality show.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I mean.

446
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Speaker 2: Most good reality shows that have shown the ability to

447
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 2: last on TV for a long time involve eliminating people,

448
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 2: survivor The Bachelor.

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Speaker 5: All right, might be familiar with one of those shows.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's possible. So seeing as so many.

451
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Speaker 5: Bachelor we're talking about The Bachelor.

452
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Speaker 2: The Bachelor, So seeing as so many of these coaches

453
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: have little to no interest at all in playing football

454
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Speaker 2: players who are going to play football come September.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Sean McVay. More on that in a second.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we actually get to know some of the

457
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 2: way Hard Knocks does. Let's get to know some of

458
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 2: the people trying to make a team, and after each game,

459
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Speaker 2: then let's let's.

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Speaker 1: Have cuts.

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Speaker 3: After each game.

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Speaker 5: Each game.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm trying. I had to think like a real

464
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 2: entertainer here, Okay. I mean if I had told you

465
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Speaker 2: about TikTok twenty five years ago, what would you have said?

466
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Speaker 2: But my like, dude, what are we doing with this?

467
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Speaker 2: What are we doing with this preseason? Like from an

468
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Speaker 2: entertainment perspective, I have no problem with the idea that

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Speaker 2: coaches like we need to evaluate our third string. Great,

470
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Speaker 2: how are you going to entertain the public with that?

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Speaker 2: Let's get to know these people, and it doesn't need

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Speaker 2: to be immediately after the game. But like, okay, if

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Speaker 2: you finished your game two days ago, you come on

474
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Speaker 2: after the game that just finished and now let's see

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Speaker 2: your cuts.

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Speaker 3: Well that, I mean, that's what Hart not Knox is for, right,

477
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Speaker 3: I mean, you get to know the guy, the one

478
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Speaker 3: guy who's doing this and.

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Speaker 5: Well edited, it's packaged.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we already have it. Are you talking about for

481
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Speaker 3: every team?

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Speaker 2: I believe I entered this by saying bad idea time.

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Speaker 2: But my point is is I would like to find

484
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Speaker 2: a way I would write totally but like, I would

485
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Speaker 2: like to find a way to make some of this watchable.

486
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: Sean McVay is over there holding out the backup quarterback.

487
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Speaker 2: The backup quarterback is now not allowed to.

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Speaker 5: Play and sitting upstairs himself.

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Speaker 3: But not even coaching. He what's the coach right right?

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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: He's doing it like a G league, right, I mean

492
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: the summer league, and your assistant coach goes to coach

493
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Speaker 3: the summer league team.

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Speaker 2: Shannon HiT's not calling the plays. He doesn't call the plays.

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Speaker 2: He's letting Clint Kubiak call the plays.

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Speaker 5: Sean Payton passed that off last night.

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Speaker 2: There you go, So you know my rule and content

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Speaker 2: from it. I know it's one of yours too. If

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Speaker 2: you tell us that you don't care, I'm home do

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Speaker 2: the same.

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Speaker 1: But they do care, right, But we need to know

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Speaker 1: what they ca care about, and what they care about.

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Speaker 3: Is no, I'm telling the fans care we do what

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00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 3: what we did it? You yourself had a self imposed

505
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: countdown to football training camp, to preseason, to all of.

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Speaker 2: That, right, But this is in football. Like every time

507
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: we get here and then we're like, oh.

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Speaker 1: Right now it's some football in there.

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Speaker 3: But but you're so clamoring for anything outside of baseball,

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Speaker 3: then preseason is welcome. The Hall of Fame game is welcome.

511
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Speaker 3: Like they won, they won the Raiders, the NFL won

512
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Speaker 3: the summer. When it comes to viewers and watching, you

513
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Speaker 3: know people are rewatching preseason games when they replay on

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Speaker 3: NFL Network.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what the Bears preseason record is coming

516
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Speaker 2: into this game that they're playing the night it's oh

517
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: and one. That tells you right there, how much everybody

518
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: gives a rip about the final score of these four.

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Speaker 3: They don't care about it.

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Speaker 5: You didn't even know they could tie.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a wonderful reference, Steve, thank you.

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Speaker 5: By the way, that is in our benefit, not just

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Speaker 5: the coaches, that they don't go to overtimes.

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Speaker 3: When no one wants to see that of course.

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Speaker 2: And and by the way, how's it working, how's the

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Speaker 2: bubble wrap working? Because every team I know all has

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Speaker 2: twenty injured players.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 5: Well, I could speak to the game I saw last

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Speaker 5: night with the Rams, and as long as they hits

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Speaker 5: to the.

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Speaker 3: Head going flag that wasn't a penalty.

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Speaker 5: No coach is ever gonna play anybody.

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Speaker 1: I get it. I have always wondered this when people go,

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Speaker 1: good lord, we couldn't just play and have it count

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Speaker 1: right away. We can't do that. And I'm alway, like

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Speaker 1: you mean like college.

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Speaker 5: This is CFL in like week eleven at.

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Speaker 3: This point, right, they just okay, it counts go preseason.

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Speaker 1: No, just like your first.

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Speaker 3: Game count preseason.

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Speaker 2: Well, look we're about to go to two instead of three.

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Speaker 2: You agree, right, We're gonna go to eighteen games and

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Speaker 2: then they'll lop a preseason game off.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, you I would.

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Speaker 5: Prefer the world. That's exactly what they're gonna do. And

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00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 5: they'll have everybody play one international game.

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00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: And I bet where we're heading for preseason because again,

550
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Speaker 2: just keep forwarding this, go another five six years down

551
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Speaker 2: the road, and I would bet that everybody you've heard

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Speaker 2: of gets between one and zero preseason series that that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be the window either do one or do none.

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Speaker 5: And you've talked about the NFL has won, and they

555
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 5: have won in so many areas including now Christmas. I

556
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 5: think that's been decided already took honestly.

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00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: And Black Friday. They took Black Friday.

558
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 2: And NBA has got tire tracks on its face on

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Speaker 2: December twenty.

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Speaker 3: I told you that three years ago. I said, oh,

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Speaker 3: Christmas is over. They just lost it. The NBA just

562
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: lost Christmas.

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Speaker 5: So last night one of the shows was breaking up

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Speaker 5: the college football talking about expanding the playoff, which is

565
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Speaker 5: new already, and to which I responded, the NFL still

566
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Speaker 5: play games in December, right, They're still going to be

567
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 5: there in December.

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Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 5: Are you aware of this, college football? Because nobody was

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Speaker 5: watching your playoff game on TNT opposite an NFL game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but how's this sound, Steve? Wednesday Night football? And

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Speaker 2: that's what college can do in December.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Own Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Take Wednesday. It take Tuesday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is yours.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: And once we get to winter break, you can start

577
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: playing games at nine in the morning and just play them.

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00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: All day long every Tuesday and Wednesday every week.

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00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 3: Do it Eastern or Pacific Standard time.

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00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 2: I was thinking Pacific, But do us out here in

581
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Speaker 2: the West with these London games. We're starting to get

582
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: used to that early wake up call, you know what

583
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: I mean. But you got to wake up because you're, like, dude,

584
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 2: am my guys healthy? You know what I mean it.

585
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 2: Every fantasy league has that guy who will text you

586
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 2: at seven am and be like, I don't know my

587
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 2: guy was inactive.

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Speaker 1: I was asleep. Well that's a sorry, bud, that's a

589
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Speaker 1: you problem.

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Speaker 2: I told you this story. My my uh my father

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Speaker 2: in law lives in Hawaii. Yeah, how about that wake

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Speaker 2: up call.

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Speaker 1: In the morning.

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Speaker 2: You want him to set his alarm for three point

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Speaker 2: fifteen to see if Alvin Kamara is active.

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Speaker 3: You just got to stay up and that probably exactly. Yeah,

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00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 3: make it a bonfire night on the eaches of Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: I mean the man is three years old.

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00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, he on fire.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, you know that idea college expansion, I'd love to

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Speaker 2: let let's talk about that a little bit more, and

602
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 2: in these Fox Sports Radio studios we'll do that. Coming

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00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: up next with e from Salama Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio radio. These are

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Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 2: And in ten minutes, something fun that I think is

607
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Speaker 2: developing but not a lot of people have thought about yet.

608
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: And it has to do with Netflix and big name

609
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 2: quarterbacks and receivers and it's gonna be fun for us,

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Speaker 2: but not fun for everybody. So that's coming up in ten.

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Speaker 2: Steve was just talking from about that idea of college

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Speaker 2: football expansion of the playoff. The Big Ten reportedly pushing

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Speaker 2: for maybe twenty four or maybe even twenty eight teams

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Speaker 2: in a college football playoff, up to eight automatic bids

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Speaker 2: for the Big Ten and for the SEC because they're

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Speaker 2: the big dogs.

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Speaker 1: And as we know, the Big Ten is not the

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Speaker 1: Big Ten.

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Speaker 2: It's like the Big I don't know, thirty two, whatever

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Speaker 2: the hell it is or wherever it's heading.

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Speaker 1: First, what's your initial reaction to the idea? Then?

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Speaker 3: Why play a college football season?

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Speaker 1: Okay, fair question? Just put all the.

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Speaker 3: Teams in the college playoff.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've got the time.

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Speaker 3: I would argue, are there twenty two teams worthy of

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Speaker 3: fighting it out for a national championship?

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Speaker 1: You love college basketball? Are there sixty eight?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? You can play games a week?

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Speaker 2: I understand, I understand, but but I mean in the NFL,

631
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Speaker 2: are there fourteen teams worthy of super Bowl conversations?

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00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 3: See? The difference is.

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00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: There's no.

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Speaker 3: So you have what what are the big five conferences?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Good lord?

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: Just like you know the Big this and the big

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00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: big big.

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00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 3: That one over there and right, not this one so much,

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00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 3: and it's the big maybe not that one, right, you

641
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 3: say the big and then you put a number in

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00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 3: there that's not the accurate number, right, that's the kind

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00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: of the Big seventeen whatever of whatever, the big, the

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Speaker 3: Big twenty. Yeah, it's becoming more and more about money

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00:37:53,800 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 3: and not about actual good football. Number one. How many

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00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 3: of these playoff games that we have with this twelve

647
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: team field that were pretty much unwatchable.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean to fine, unwatchable just meaning

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00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 2: that nobody one team was way better than the other. Yeah,

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00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 2: Like it's like, I don't know, when the Bills play

651
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: the Jags, do you watch?

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Speaker 3: That's see, that's a different there's different ramifications there. There

653
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Speaker 3: is no college no fantasy college football. Is there fantasy

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00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: college football?

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00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I mean there is, but yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not that you get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Like, you know, if even if the Bills are playing

658
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Speaker 3: the Jags and you have Josh Allen, okay, you're watching

659
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 3: Josh Allen.

660
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: Okay, But I mean again, then the ball from college basketball,

661
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: we let the one seeds play the sixteen seeds and

662
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: we make a thing out of it.

663
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, because college basketball is something that you can play like.

664
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 3: You don't have to live with that that game for

665
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 3: a week, right because that same number one seed is

666
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 3: playing that's fair the day after tomorrow.

667
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: That's fair.

668
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 2: Look can I I mean real quick, I don't care

669
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: how many teams it is.

670
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: I just want all of the qualifiers to be automatic.

671
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 2: I am done with at large and dudes with opinions

672
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: on who should be going.

673
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 3: So it's like, every conference champion.

674
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: Make it, make it whatever the hell you want. I

675
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: don't care.

676
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 2: If the third place team in the SEC is automatic, great,

677
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: you're the third place team. You're in, just like we

678
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: do wild cards in all of the other legitimate sports.

679
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 3: How many how many conferences are there in Division one?

680
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, more than you think, probably.

681
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 3: So we'll find out that answer.

682
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just realigned then blown it up already anyway,

683
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: right right.

684
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 3: So the whack becomes the PAC twelve or the PAC

685
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 3: eighteen or PAC twenty along with the Mountain West.

686
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean you call them conference three, four, five, and six.

687
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 7: Ten conferences in the FBS ten conferences, okay, great, So

688
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 7: that's ten teams anyone who wins their conference championship automatic bid.

689
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 3: Great, and then you take ten at large.

690
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 2: Oh, let's talk about that phrase. We're not done with

691
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: this conversation at large. Next, don't listening to Fox Sports

692
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 2: Radio Radio. Yeah, moving in to Sunday night just a

693
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 2: little further and we're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

694
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 2: Radio studios.

695
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: Promise your fun and we'll have it.

696
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 2: But also not done with that conversation with regard to

697
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 2: college football expansion which is being pitched apparently reportedly by

698
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: some inside.

699
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: The Big Ten, which is the Big one hundred and

700
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Speaker 1: thirteen or whatever the hell it is at this hour.

701
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: Again, Mark Willardy from Salam Fox Sports Radio Studios, and

702
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 2: very thankful that you're with us. When we last left you,

703
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: my least favorite phrase in the sports language was brought up.

704
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 2: It's called at large. I'm out, I'm out on at large.

705
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: Do you notice the way that other sports have been

706
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: able to define at large? We use words like wild

707
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: card or a play in team or whatever. And I

708
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: would be all in favor of that. In other words,

709
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: if the SEC is bigger and badder than the ACC,

710
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: then I don't care if you like. Tell me that

711
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: one of the out large team is the second place

712
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: team in the SEC. Tell me that one of the

713
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 2: out large teams is one of the is the third

714
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 2: place team in the SEC. Fine, I'm cool with it. Yes,

715
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 2: there's bad luck in sports. We watch for the last

716
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 2: I don't know how many years. Whoever wins the NFC

717
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: South is nine and eight, and then they get to

718
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 2: host a game the next week against somebody who's twelve

719
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: and five, and we don't argue.

720
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: We do we think that's.

721
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: Too Oh no, we're annoyed, but we don't argue. We

722
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: just we just do it. We do it, and we

723
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 2: might say, hey, they should do this differently. Great, here's

724
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 2: the game, eat it, watch it, make some food, bet

725
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: on it, have fun, on to next week.

726
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: We don't do this whole like, but my team and

727
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: Boise State and you're just, oh god stop, there's no answer.

728
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: Everybody's wrong.

729
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: I love that everyone walks out of those conversations.

730
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: Thinking that they won the argument. You're all wrong, me too.

731
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 2: Everybody who's ever had an opinion on this college football

732
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 2: team from the Southeast versus this collge football team from

733
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 2: the Northwest that plays two completely different schedules, but one

734
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 2: of them's ten and two and the other one's eleven

735
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 2: and one.

736
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: This one's got history. Vegas is that you're all wrong.

737
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: Those are all flimsy arguments.

738
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 2: That's all I would ask for from I don't care

739
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 2: if it's twelve teams or one hundred and twelve teams.

740
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: Define it, go get it, and then play. That's all

741
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: I've ever wanted for college football.

742
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 3: I get it, and I think the top twelve teams

743
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 3: in the country should play for the national championship. Actually,

744
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 3: I think the top eight. I don't think the top twelve.

745
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 3: But we're at twelve, so I don't think it should

746
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 3: be expanded. I don't think anything. I think you have

747
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 3: all year, all season to get yourself in position to

748
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 3: be ranked in the top twelve, to have an opportunity

749
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 3: to win a national championship. You know, you don't want

750
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: a bunch of three, four or five lost teams vying

751
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 3: for a national champion shot. Well, except I don't care

752
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 3: what conference you're in.

753
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 2: But the rankings themselves are produced by human beings and

754
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: their opinions.

755
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but those records, you know, stand up, like, if

756
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 3: you're undefeated, you're you're not gonna be outside of the

757
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 3: top twelve.

758
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: Understood, but again, we're all playing one loss.

759
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 3: You're not going to be outside of the top twelve.

760
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: But we're all playing different schedules.

761
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: So somebody in the the you know, the Whack or whatever,

762
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 2: is going to end up at twelve and zero and

763
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 2: go let them run it.

764
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: We deserve a shot.

765
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 3: Let run it.

766
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: That's fine, they get a shot.

767
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe they will or maybe somebody who's ten and

768
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 2: two in the Big ten will get a shot. I

769
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: don't know, and I can't tell you who's going to

770
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: win because it's sports.

771
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

772
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 2: If you're gonna do twelve teams and there are ten conferences,

773
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 2: then all the ten conferences, their champs all get to go.

774
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 2: And whoever the two top conferences are. If we want

775
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 2: to do that SEC Big ten, you both get an

776
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: extra squad.

777
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 3: Whoever that mayes the top conference.

778
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 1: Well yeah, then you're still in an opinion phase, right,

779
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: So you know somebody and that, But but I don't care,

780
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.

781
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 2: I just wanted to find It's just like I said before,

782
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 2: like if the Bucks go nine to eight and they

783
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: host the eleven and five Packers, I'll live because I

784
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,240
Speaker 2: know from the beginning of the season that's what those

785
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 2: teams are chasing. You're chasing an NFC South Crown and

786
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,919
Speaker 2: if you win it, you're gonna host a playoff game.

787
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: I know. But that to me.

788
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 3: They're trying to change that.

789
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: Well, and maybe.

790
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 2: They will, but I don't think the NFL will ever

791
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: get to a spot where they're like, we fixed it.

792
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to the end of the year, and

793
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: then we're gonna huddle and then there will be white

794
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: smoke that comes out of the building and will come

795
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 2: out and tell you who's in the playoffs. They'll never

796
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 2: do it, do it because it is a flimsy political

797
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 2: way of doing business. And I just I hate it.

798
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 2: I've always hated it. I don't even understand how that's sports. Like,

799
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 2: you don't get to do everything and then have people

800
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: just decide if you won, unless you're a gymnast in

801
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 2: the Olympics.

802
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 3: That's a good reference.

803
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's like I and I've never understood college

804
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: football's fear of moving toward this.

805
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: They've made bajillions of dollars for years, and so.

806
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: They want everybody to, you know, kind of get there,

807
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 2: be seen and heard and all of that, and then

808
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: they'll start worrying about things like but the calendar and

809
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: the travel and It's like, I'm sorry, the calendar and

810
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 2: the travel Stanford and calor in the acc What exactly

811
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 2: are you telling me about travel that you're worried about.

812
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: Play some games.

813
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: Everything on the field always, that's how you decide who moves.

814
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: Forward on the field.

815
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: I think it would make the sport even more popular

816
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 2: than it already is.

817
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 3: It's funny how we're already trying to change the already

818
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 3: change that we just had, right like, we just had

819
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 3: the change. This last year was the first year of

820
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 3: twelve teams. Correct, Now we're already trying to change it.

821
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, why because people didn't love it?

822
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: And I actually didn't. I mean I didn't support that change.

823
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: I didn't get change either. I like more teams.

824
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 3: I didn't think twelve was the one. Yeah, I don't

825
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 3: think that was the number.

826
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 2: Again, as I said, you could sell me on eight

827
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 2: twelve four million.

828
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: I don't care the number.

829
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: Please just make everybody have an assignment, and whoever achieves it,

830
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: that's who gets to go play.

831
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: That's who gets to go play.

832
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 3: Really, we just cut no more conferences. You just cut

833
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 3: them into regions west fully in favor, right, west, east Central.

834
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: I mean I said this a bunch of years ago. Bike,

835
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: you have about the correct number of teams about.

836
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: You might need to expand it a little bit, maybe

837
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: to eight or something.

838
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 2: But there was a time where if you had just

839
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 2: created six super conferences maybe at times, I mean, depending

840
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: on how big you want to make them, you can

841
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 2: make four.

842
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 3: Like the top four teams in each uh well each conference,

843
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 3: which would be the three.

844
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 2: Or what if each conference was split into two divisions

845
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 2: and they were very large, and therefore you have four

846
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 2: conferences with two divisions each. That's eight divisions and everybody

847
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: who wins a division, you.

848
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 1: Go, that's it.

849
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: And I don't care if your wreck is uh, you know,

850
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 2: nine and three and somebody else who's in second place

851
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 2: in the other division is eleven and one.

852
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's the way it went. Boo hoo.

853
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: Win your division and then you get to play.

854
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: I get it, man, I see what I would do.

855
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 3: No one's listening to us to solve this, so.

856
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 1: Well, I hope some people are listening to the radio.

857
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: I know not.

858
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 3: They're not listening to us to solve this like that.

859
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 3: The powers that be aren't listening's going well, those guys

860
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 3: have a great idea.

861
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: I think they would if you could make it financially work.

862
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 3: Oh, they could make anything. More games. They can make

863
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 3: that work and a heartbeat exactly.

864
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 2: More games that more people are interested in because you

865
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 2: know the dirty secret.

866
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 3: But when will they be played?

867
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 2: My man, you have the entire month of December just

868
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 2: sitting there with people playing the Ohak Bowl with eight

869
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 2: people there.

870
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 3: That's true.

871
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: What do we doing? Bowl season? What are we doing?

872
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,280
Speaker 2: And then somehow they'll come back around the other side

873
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: and be like, what do you want us to play

874
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: it on February? No, I'd like you to not take

875
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 2: a five week break and then come back and play football.

876
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: Again, Like what are you doing?

877
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, because and you're pitching to us that, it's like, well,

878
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 2: they're college students.

879
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 3: The bulls, the Bowls committee will will have a problem

880
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 3: with that.

881
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: Why turn those into the ball games they can.

882
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 3: Turn We can turn some of those off. There's about

883
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: fifteen bowls that don't need to exist.

884
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 2: There's that, and then you could also make about fifteen

885
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 2: other bowls way more enticing.

886
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 3: If they have a seven and fourteen playing in the bowl,

887
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 3: are a six and sixteen? Are a six and seventeen

888
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 3: because you just need six to qualify, right, right, they

889
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 3: should pump that up to eight, at least eight to qualify,

890
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 3: and that will I'm with you, shave some of those

891
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 3: bowls off.

892
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 2: I'm with you, and then they'll go. So how do

893
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: we make up the money? And my argument would be.

894
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 3: That that's the whole thing you just outlined right, that

895
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 3: this is a new way to do.

896
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 2: That exactly, and and and the games would matter more

897
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: and people would travel to see them more, and your

898
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 2: building would actually be full.

899
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 3: Now you got something. See how we did that together?

900
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: December sixteenth does not need to be so boring.

901
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 3: You had an idea which was trash, and then I

902
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 3: added to the idea which made it a viable idea

903
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 3: that that's teamwork. No, that is partnership.

904
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, my trash idea was the whole reality

905
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 2: show for the NFL.

906
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 3: That was trash too.

907
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,760
Speaker 1: No, I believe my college that was trashed.

908
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you needed help, But the college idea

909
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 3: was trash. You needed help.

910
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 2: I don't mind help. Everybody needs a little help from

911
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 2: their friends, but I don't. The base idea was not trash.

912
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 3: Garbage, carbon I reject rubbish, as they say across the pond, rubbish.

913
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 2: I reject the label this particular carvage. But anyway, see

914
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 2: we got somewhere.

915
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 3: Wait, you're welcome. Thank you, you welcome America. You welcome Mark.

916
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, never going to happen in our lifetime,

917
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: of course not no, but.

918
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 3: It makes sense, makes too much sense. That of sense

919
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 3: makes too much sense.

920
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 2: Does anybody else puke in their mouth a little bit

921
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 2: when somebody wins that December sixteenth Bowl and they're all

922
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 2: out there with like some sponsored item in their mouths,

923
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,959
Speaker 2: celebrating at the fifty we won? What did you win?

924
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 2: What did you win? You won the six and six Bowl.

925
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 3: The tire Bowl, the Potato.

926
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: Bowl, And people are actually like handing.

927
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 3: That potatoes safe scissor hand or handle?

928
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: Bowl?

929
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, responsible bowl?

930
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: Be responsible?

931
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 3: Right, be responsible?

932
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: Look at that, Look at us. We're's another good idea.

933
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: You're welcome again.

934
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: Oh lord?

935
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: All right, something I am going to predict right now

936
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 2: that something very funny is going to happen a week

937
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 2: one of the NFL schedule. One person will not think

938
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 2: that it's funny, and he's a very big star. But

939
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 2: the rest of us, if you've got one funny bone

940
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 2: in your body, you will think it's hilarious and I

941
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 2: will unveil that coming up next with you from Salama,

942
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, this is Fox Sports Radio. These are the

943
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios with the iHeartRadio app. You just

944
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 2: dream us wherever you happen to be, and we hope

945
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 2: that you are everywhere all over the place. Catch us

946
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 2: in all of our Fox Sports Radio shows Live twenty

947
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 2: four to seven and the new and with iHeartRadio app.

948
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: You just search Fox Sports Radio in the app. You

949
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: dream us live all day every day, and then be

950
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: sure to select Fox Sports Radio is one of your

951
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 1: presets in the I Heart Radio app.

952
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 2: So then it's just right there and pops up at

953
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: the top of your screen every time you log in

954
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: and open it up. All of that good stuff. Mark

955
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 2: Willardy from Salam. Glad you're with us. Can we hear

956
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 2: a little bit of what happened? It was caught by

957
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 2: microphones by Netflix on the sideline a few years ago

958
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: when they did the.

959
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: Doc on wide receivers.

960
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 2: I think Debo and George Kittle and a'man Ross Saint

961
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 2: Brown and maybe Justin Jefferson and Davante Adams. As a

962
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: member of the Las Vegas Raiders, was one of those profiled,

963
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 2: and as we got through episodes and got toward the

964
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 2: end of the season, it appeared that DeVante no longer

965
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 2: enjoyed playing football for the Raiders, and it was more

966
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 2: than just an insinuation that there was a very specific

967
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 2: reason why he didn't enjoy playing.

968
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: With the Raiders. Can we hear a little bit of DeVante? Please?

969
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 8: I gotta hear fall life.

970
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 7: I never been hit this many times in my career.

971
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: Every game I.

972
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 2: Get all right, I gotta get the bleep out of

973
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 2: here before I lose my bleep in life. And it

974
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 2: does not take a rocket sciences to figure out that

975
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 2: Davante did not much enjoy playing football with Jimmy Garoppolo.

976
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 3: No, you're absolutely right. Oh my goodness.

977
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 2: Now not lost on the crack staff reporters in Los Angeles, California.

978
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago, he was asked, hey, uh,

979
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 2: you signed as a free agent with the Rams. Don't

980
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 2: know if anybody told you backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.

981
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: Here's what Davante said.

982
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 8: I love Jimmy and it was never a personal thing.

983
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 8: And it's been amazing. We got to, you know, catch

984
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 8: up and get on the right page and obviously that

985
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:18,359
Speaker 8: was just.

986
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,280
Speaker 1: A dark moment in all of our lives.

987
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 8: I think all of us were pretty miserable over there,

988
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 8: and we kind of caught up and laughed about it.

989
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 8: And we've been making place since we've been out here,

990
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 8: so it's been fun.

991
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I've been making plays because actually the defense

992
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 2: is only.

993
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: Sort of watching you as of a couple of weeks ago.

994
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 8: But I bring it up today.

995
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: That's real. That's real. The other part's not.

996
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 2: And I bring it up because I am if I'm

997
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 2: a Rams fan super concerned by the second consecutive Saturday

998
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 2: of silence, which is we're gonna put Matthew Stafford through

999
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 2: a workout and then he'll practice on Monday.

1000
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: That's what they said last weekend. He did. Now they're

1001
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: going to put him through another workout again. Yesterday.

1002
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 2: We haven't heard a darn word yet, but we did

1003
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 2: hear one thing, and that was Sean McVay announced that

1004
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo will not be playing anymore in the preseason,

1005
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 2: which tells me that is the week one starting at

1006
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 2: quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams. Davante, would you like

1007
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: to review your free agent choice?

1008
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 3: Goodness, gracious, do you want to talk about. Oh man,

1009
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 3: it's so good.

1010
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: The NFL never fails, dude, this poor guy.

1011
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, heymen, good luck with that. Uh huh, good

1012
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 3: luck with that.

1013
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: I mean it changes the outlook of so much in

1014
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: the NFC, in the NSC West too.

1015
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know, I don't believe that Matthew is

1016
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 2: going to like miss the year or something. But how

1017
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 2: does this Because I did make this comparison three days ago,

1018
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford's August this year feels eerily similar to Christian

1019
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 2: McCaffrey's August.

1020
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 3: That's a good point.

1021
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 2: Remember all August, he's fine, he'll be ready all August long.

1022
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: They played three games.

1023
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 3: That's a really good point. These things getting ugly.

1024
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: How does that change your view of the NFC.

1025
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, this bowl's well for the Niners, you know,

1026
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 3: but yeah, with the healthy Stafford net Rams team, you know,

1027
00:58:55,720 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 3: it's that's formidable. But if if Jimmy Garoppolo is your guy,

1028
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 3: then I think they have the Rams at nine in

1029
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 3: the power rankings. That drops them out of the top

1030
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 3: ten easily easily. Yeah, I think it's five five teams

1031
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 3: from the NFC in there. And if Matthew Stafford's not

1032
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 3: in there. They're definitely not in the top ten teams

1033
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 3: in football.

1034
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 2: Well, this is what I always like to do, because

1035
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 2: when we're searching for answers, I always do what any

1036
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 2: smart human being does, and that is ask Vegas. Years

1037
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 2: ago we used to ask Jeeves. Now we ask Vegas.

1038
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 2: And the reason I do that is because I believe

1039
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 2: that Vegas knows.

1040
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: I think that they know what the real story here.

1041
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: They know something right. So, like I'm looking at the

1042
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: up to the minute.

1043
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 2: Super Bowl odds and I'll actually say they do reflect

1044
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 2: the public being aware that there's a problem, but they

1045
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 2: do not reflect that Matthew Stafford is going to like

1046
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 2: miss the year or half the year, because it remains there's.

1047
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: Three co favorites for the Super Bowl.

1048
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 2: Right now, it's Buffalo, Baltimore in Philadelphia, with Kansas City

1049
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 2: just narrowly right behind. Then there's a little bit of

1050
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 2: a gap, and you find yourself in Detroit, and then

1051
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 2: there's a much larger gap and you find yourself at

1052
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 2: Washington and those forty nine ers. Now two teams have

1053
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 2: kind of fallen down that they were tied with Washington

1054
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 2: and the Niners, and within the last forty eight hours,

1055
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 2: they've fallen behind them. They are the Packers and the Rams,

1056
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 2: but both of their quarterbacks are sort.

1057
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: Of injured here in the preseason. But they didn't fall far.

1058
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 2: You know, the Niners and Commanders are plus nineteen hundred,

1059
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 2: the Packers and Rams are plus two thousand, and the

1060
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 2: Rams are still ahead of the likes of the Vikings

1061
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: and Texans and Broncos and Bengals and Bucks. So I

1062
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 2: would argue that like there's concern, but that doesn't I mean,

1063
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 2: if somebody really thought, dude, Matthew Stafford's back is going

1064
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 2: to dog him all year long, dude, you might as

1065
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:28,440
Speaker 2: well line the Rams right up with the with the

1066
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. That's essentially, in my opinion, who you'd kind

1067
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 2: of turn into.

1068
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly who you turn into. Talented team with

1069
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 3: no signal caller. Mm hm, wow, this is going to

1070
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 3: be interesting. This back issue is a real thing. And

1071
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 3: you got to remember I said it before. He's been

1072
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 3: on the cusp of retirement, that conversation for quite some

1073
01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 3: time now. So it's one of those situations where.

1074
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 2: Did you go through that is is is retirement? Is

1075
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: thinking about retirement? Sort of the same as thinking about divorce,

1076
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 2: because I was like, was like.

1077
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: Dude, as soon as you start thinking, yeah, that's a

1078
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: good if.

1079
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 2: That work comes up, it's like, y'all are done. You're done.

1080
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 2: If you start talking about it like that means.

1081
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 3: You know, because you've already in your mind gave yourself

1082
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 3: an out right, you've already decided hmmm, I can see

1083
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: myself not in this right. And once you start going

1084
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 3: there mentally, you start playing the what if game mentally. Yeah,

1085
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 3: it's hard to pull that thing back.

1086
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: Did you go through that at all?

1087
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 3: No, I was. I really woke up and was like, well,

1088
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 3: I don't want to do this anymore.

1089
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 1: And then that was it.

1090
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 3: That was it.

1091
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the minute you let it in, then that

1092
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: was it.

1093
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 3: Just the pain. It was a lot of pain.

1094
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, man, August, pain sucked for you.

1095
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 3: It just compounded pain. That was the thing, right, like

1096
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 3: you over thirteen years and so many games of an

1097
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 3: off season of just dragging your it was a lot, man. Yeah,

1098
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 3: it was a lot. And I just didn't want to

1099
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 3: wake up feeling like that again. And the landscape for

1100
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 3: me as a player changed. When I went to Detroit

1101
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 3: in nine that was the first time in my career

1102
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 3: that I didn't have an opportunity to play no matter

1103
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 3: what I did. And so once you took, once you took,

1104
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 3: you gotta remember I'm a seventh round draft pick, and

1105
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 3: once you took my chance to compete away, then I

1106
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 3: was as good as gone. That's why you know we

1107
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 3: make sure Steve de Sager gets his time.

1108
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 5: Good evening. So what you're saying is forty nine ers

1109
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 5: with McCaffrey last year and the Rams comments with Stafford

1110
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 5: this year. What they're really saying is to.

1111
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 9: See here, peer, to see here, pease, while there's a

1112
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 9: raging fire in the background, please return to your homes

1113
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 9: and houses of worship.

1114
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 5: Nothing going on. We have two NFL exhibitions on the

1115
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,439
Speaker 5: Sunday schedule. One is going on right now eight first

1116
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 5: half at Chicago. It's on Fox TV and its dominance

1117
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 5: from the Chicago Bears. For what it's worth, twenty eight

1118
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 5: nothing the lead over the Buffalo Bills, and no, Josh

1119
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 5: Allen is not playing for the Bills tonight. Mike White

1120
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 5: the starting quarterback. He's four of eight passing fifty four yards.

1121
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 5: Starting for the Bears tonight. Caleb Williams played two series

1122
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 5: with six ten, one hundred and seven yards in a touchdown,

1123
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 5: Tyson Bagent's come in and three more tds later, It's

1124
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 5: twenty eight nothing for the home team. At New Orleans,

1125
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 5: the Saints ty Jacksonville seventeen all Spencer Rattler, a late

1126
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 5: touchdown pass and two point conversion. The Saints went three

1127
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 5: for three on field goals, including a fifty one yarder

1128
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 5: made by Blake Groupie. The Eagles acquired wide receiver John

1129
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 5: Metchi from the Texans. The Bengals are listening to trade

1130
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 5: offers for pass rusher Trey Hendrickson. Carolina is signing quarterback

1131
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 5: Bryce Perkins, who was the Spring League MVP this year.

1132
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 5: Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton left Saturday's exhibition with an elbow injury.

1133
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 5: Scottie Scheffler was the golf winner in Maryland by two

1134
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 5: Oaksover Robert McIntyre. Sebastian Munos won the live golf events

1135
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 5: in a playoff over John Rahm, who nonetheless defends his

1136
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 5: season points title. Bryceon Deshamba qualified for the US Ryder

1137
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 5: Cup team, and in Major League Baseball, we do have

1138
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:20,439
Speaker 5: a ballgame in williams Port Pennsylvania tonight. The Mets now

1139
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 5: up seven to one on the Mariners, bottom of the fifth,

1140
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 5: Mark Fientos with a three run homer. Philadelphia already won

1141
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 5: today eleven nine. At Washington, the Dodgers got a solo

1142
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 5: homer bottom of the eighth for Mookie Bets and beat

1143
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 5: the Padres five to four. The lost to Robert Suarez,

1144
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 5: first place in the NLS. The Dodgers alone and first again,

1145
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 5: now two games up on the Padres. These two will

1146
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 5: play each other again next weekend in San Diego. Milwaukee's

1147
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 5: fourteen game winning streak is over. In Cincinnati in ten innings,

1148
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 5: the Reds beat the Brewers three to two. The Reds

1149
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 5: were a game and a half out of the last

1150
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 5: NL wild card behind the Mets, and again it's looking

1151
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 5: like the Mets will win. Tonight. The Cubs beat Pittsburgh

1152
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 5: four to three. Texas a ten to four winner at Toronto.

1153
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 5: Baltimore won twelve nothing at Houston, and there's one WNBA

1154
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 5: game going on. They've started the third quarter, third quarter,

1155
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 5: and it's Atlanta twenty seven, Golden State twenty seven. The

1156
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 5: Atlanta Dream from three point range two of seventeen, something

1157
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 5: less than a dream. For their offense performance. We already

1158
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 5: had wins for Washington and Phoenix. Las Vegas got thirty

1159
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 5: four points from Asia Wilson. Yes, she scored more than

1160
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 5: any team has scored in another game so far. The

1161
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 5: Aces beat Dallas, which is nine and twenty six. Indiana

1162
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 5: won in overtime at Connecticut, which is six and twenty

1163
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 5: seven and no. Caitlin Clark did not play. She's missed

1164
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 5: over a month with the Groyd injury. Their regular season

1165
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 5: ends September ninth. Their coach said today, well, we hope

1166
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 5: that's our hope that she comes back before the end

1167
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 5: of the season. Standing by and New York star Breanna

1168
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 5: Stewart isn't due to return till late August. She's been

1169
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 5: out with a bone bruce in her knee. Minnesota All

1170
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 5: Star and Afisa Kalla missing at least a couple of

1171
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 5: weeks with a sprained ankle. Angel Ree Chicago still out.

1172
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 5: In the past month, she's missed most of her team's

1173
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 5: games with a bad back. And we go on to

1174
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 5: football season.

1175
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 1: Back to you. Yeah, and I'm watching this WNBA game

1176
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: right now.

1177
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 2: Uh, they'll guard you, Ephraim, They'll guard you.

1178
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 3: Remember how we couldn't good enough of it last year.

1179
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

1180
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it's the same sentiment. Does

1181
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 3: she mean like there is not like we were doing

1182
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 3: whole shows, we're opening shows. No, just on just the

1183
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 3: league in general, like just the fanfare.

1184
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: In all of it, You know what I mean.

1185
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 5: It's kind of the same point I made an hour

1186
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 5: ago where college football is talking about expanding, not realizing

1187
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 5: that the NFL exists in December. Yeah, like I said,

1188
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 5: they expanded their season WNBA and it's not a summer

1189
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 5: sport anymore.

1190
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,759
Speaker 3: That Yeah, that's you can really get lost in the shuffle.

1191
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 2: Absolutely you can, Absolutely you can. And you also need

1192
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 2: to strike while the iron is hot. That said, I

1193
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:14,799
Speaker 2: might be coming from a little bit of a different

1194
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 2: perspective because I don't have the best global finger on

1195
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 2: the pulse of.

1196
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: All of this.

1197
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 2: But this team that Steve is referencing, and Golden State

1198
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 2: is at home tonight from they have never had one

1199
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 2: empty seat in their building all year long, not once,

1200
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 2: not for.

1201
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: Any game never.

1202
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 3: Not are people watching?

1203
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know about television rating.

1204
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 3: That's where the money comes from. Now, I don't come

1205
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 3: from the tickets. I understand that but I like, man,

1206
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 3: like these games were pulling like you know, three million,

1207
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,719
Speaker 3: two point eight minutes like that, they were really competing. Yep,

1208
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 3: that's what I'm talking about. You know, going to any

1209
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 3: any live sporting event is a is something that it's exciting.

1210
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 3: It's a thing, right like it's you're you're going to

1211
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,879
Speaker 3: an event. It's an event. So I get that, especially

1212
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:19,679
Speaker 3: for fans, but that's not why salaries will increase because

1213
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:20,840
Speaker 3: people are going to the game.

1214
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 2: No, you're right, you're you're You're one hundred percent right

1215
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: about that. But I I like, honestly, I can't even

1216
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 2: speak to it. I don't know what the numbers are

1217
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 2: this year versus last year. It does not help that

1218
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 2: all of the stars that Steve just mentioned, and.

1219
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: That's the whole thing.

1220
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 3: It's our season of you don't get to see your

1221
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:43,799
Speaker 3: favorite player. So if your favorite player is not playing

1222
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 3: on your team, on the team, do you not watch?

1223
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 3: I know, when Caitlyn Clark Clark's not playing, attendance is down,

1224
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 3: viewership is down. I may be the same with Andrew Reize,

1225
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 3: it may be the same with Breonna Stewart. Like all

1226
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 3: of all of the stars, if they're not there Asi

1227
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 3: is you know, out there still cooking, you know, but

1228
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 3: outside of of her, and and and a few others, Like,

1229
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 3: is this a down year in terms of star power

1230
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 3: for the w NBA? Season's almost over, It is be

1231
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 3: over in two weeks.

1232
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I really don't. I don't know.

1233
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 2: I hear a lot more about the actual basketball this

1234
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 2: year than I did last year.

1235
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 1: Last year I heard a lot.

1236
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 2: More about the individuals and like the tidal wave of discussion.

1237
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 2: But like again, I can only speak for the market

1238
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 2: in which I live.

1239
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:45,879
Speaker 1: Like we are, we're.

1240
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 2: Getting closer and closer to average sports fans who actually

1241
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 2: care about the outcome of the game.

1242
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 3: There's a lot of gambling going on on on WNBA.

1243
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 1: Game, I mean, well, what the hell is there not

1244
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: gambling on?

1245
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:12,440
Speaker 2: Sure, but it's also working its way into the consciousness

1246
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 2: of the sports fan.

1247
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. In some markets, it's something.

1248
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 3: I just remember us having a weekly sports talk radio show.

1249
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 3: There's less to talk about this year, sure, Sure.

1250
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 2: Well it's becoming it's becoming something that you know, it's

1251
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 2: been talked out and we are more used to it.

1252
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, if.

1253
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 10: In fact that all these stars have been out this

1254
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 10: long means that that's probably a reason for it too.

1255
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.

1256
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 2: And nobody is, you know, elbowing Caitlin in the face

1257
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 2: and throwing her to the ground and all of these

1258
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 2: things because she's not in the game. That's what sparks

1259
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 2: all the debate. It's what did earlier this year.

1260
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 3: So essentially she's the lynch pin to the I mean

1261
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 3: to the league here. Is that what we're.

1262
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 2: Saying, you know, at this at a certain level, yes,

1263
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 2: at a certain level.

1264
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, let's hope she comes back for the playoffs.

1265
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 2: We got a few quarterback things to discuss. Who's going

1266
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 2: to make it all the way through the year without

1267
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 2: being benched, who's got the most pressure on them? And

1268
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 2: actually coming up next, Ian's gonna hop on here and

1269
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 2: go through a series of quarterbacks and then E from

1270
01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:41,480
Speaker 2: you and I can either buy or sell, like basically,

1271
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 2: we're in on that QB or we're out.

1272
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: So we'll play around with that a little bit.

1273
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're in the Fox Sports Radio studios

1274
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 2: with E from Salama, Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. All

1275
01:13:54,960 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 2: in the Fox Sports Radio Studios, Mark Willerty from Salam Football.

1276
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 2: Three weeks from today, full NFL Sunday. A lot of

1277
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 2: quarterbacks that we're going to be taking a look at

1278
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,200
Speaker 2: that have a lot on the line. Are they going

1279
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 2: to get to week two? Are they going to get

1280
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 2: to Week five, ten, fifteen, etc.

1281
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: You get it.

1282
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 2: Our producer Ian Roddy's going to jump in right now

1283
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 2: and take us on a journey through a series of quarterbacks.

1284
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: Ephram and Eye are either going to be in or out.

1285
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 2: We will buy or sell this QB as being the

1286
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 2: guy for his respective team.

1287
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: Ian take it.

1288
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 10: Away perfectly explained Mark. Let's start with JJ McCarthy and

1289
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 10: then let's start with you, Mark, are you buying or

1290
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 10: selling JJ McCarthy heading into the season.

1291
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: I'm selling I'm selling JJ McCarthy.

1292
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 2: And that might not be fair because I've never even

1293
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 2: seen the man who play football at the NFL level,

1294
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:53,440
Speaker 2: But I am hearing that the Vikings themselves at practice

1295
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 2: are not terribly impressed by what they're seeing, and being

1296
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 2: that while he's a rookie, he's actually a second year

1297
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 2: guy like I would hope that he could hit the

1298
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 2: ground running. I'm selling Viking stock this year. I'm out

1299
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 2: on JJ McCarthy.

1300
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:13,719
Speaker 3: I'm out because he's in a lose lose situation given

1301
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 3: the record and the team that they had last year

1302
01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:22,920
Speaker 3: with a you know of what could have been or

1303
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 3: has been and Sam Darnold, what's the upside right right? Like,

1304
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 3: what's the It's it's only down for him because if

1305
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 3: they're not going to duplicate the record they had last

1306
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 3: year and the team that they had last year, So

1307
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,880
Speaker 3: for him, I mean, I don't even know what the

1308
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 3: upside is they you know, struggle in the division. Like,

1309
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,759
Speaker 3: so I'm selling. I'm definitely selling. There's too much pressure

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01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 3: on him.

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:53,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's under some of the most pressure, too much

1312
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 10: pressure any quarterback, not just of the young guys. But

1313
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 10: next moving on, let's go Drake May. You guys buy

1314
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,559
Speaker 10: selling Drake May into this year. Let's start with you, Ephrom.

1315
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 3: I'm buying Drake May, and I'm buying them because I'm

1316
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 3: buying Mike Rabral And I think that the stability that

1317
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 3: he's bringing back to the Patriots. He's a player coach,

1318
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 3: but he's also a discipline level, he's a culture changer,

1319
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 3: and so I think this bowls well for him. It

1320
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 3: gives him that stability you need as a young quarterback

1321
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 3: with the head coach.

1322
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:42,719
Speaker 2: I'm completely buying Drake May. I'm all in on.

1323
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: Drake May this year. I think New England could be

1324
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:45,719
Speaker 1: a surprising team.

1325
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:48,640
Speaker 2: I agree you from with your comments about Brabel, but

1326
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:51,799
Speaker 2: I also think in sort of what was a quiet

1327
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 2: rookie campaign, there were some signs that Drake can do

1328
01:16:55,920 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 2: some things. Many more touchdowns than interception all I know, yep,

1329
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 2: sixty seven percent almost completion percentage. He's got legs, he

1330
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 2: can move a little bit. I think he learned some

1331
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 2: things now. It's good coaching. They're starting to put some

1332
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:13,560
Speaker 2: receivers around him, playmakers.

1333
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 1: I think Drake May is going to be the guy

1334
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:16,759
Speaker 1: for a while.

1335
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 10: All Right, A former number one overall pick here in

1336
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:22,720
Speaker 10: Bryce Young? Mark, are you buying or selling Bryce Young

1337
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 10: this year?

1338
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm selling. I'm selling, and it's it's probably unfair.

1339
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 2: Like classically, this just didn't He did not end up

1340
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 2: in a great spot. And I think that he had

1341
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 2: some nice moments last year. He got better. He will

1342
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 2: show that. I don't think he'll be a joke or

1343
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 2: a doormat this year at all. But what are we

1344
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:46,680
Speaker 2: really talking about here? We're talking about whether somebody can

1345
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 2: be the dude and win a lot of football games

1346
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 2: and go to the playoffs, and I just don't I

1347
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 2: don't see Bryce.

1348
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,679
Speaker 3: Young as that I'm selling. I think he's too small.

1349
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 3: I thought it was too small call coming out of college.

1350
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 3: And nothing he's done in the league, even his resurgent

1351
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 3: resurgence last year after getting benched, I just don't think

1352
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:13,679
Speaker 3: he's capable of being a sustainable starting quarterback in the NFL.

1353
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 10: All right, moving on, how about Sam Donald first year

1354
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 10: with the Seahawks, Ephim, Are you buying or selling Sam

1355
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 10: Donald's year this year?

1356
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: I'm buying.

1357
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 3: I'm buying Sam because I think Sam understands who he

1358
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 3: can be. I think he's at a place where they're

1359
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 3: gonna love him. I think being up there with the

1360
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 3: twelfth Man, it's gonna bowl well for him. That defense

1361
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,360
Speaker 3: plays extremely well up there. It's very difficult for teams

1362
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 3: to go in there and play. And winning some early

1363
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 3: games there in Seattle, I think will add to the

1364
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 3: confidence that he got and just hopefully forget about the

1365
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 3: last the last two games he played, which cost him

1366
01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:57,639
Speaker 3: about one hundred million dollars. But I'm all in on Sam.

1367
01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 3: I'm buying.

1368
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 2: We finally have disagreement selling Sam Donald's I really am like,

1369
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 2: I think that was such lightning at a bottle last year.

1370
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 2: I think Kevin O'Connell is such a wonderful coach. I

1371
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,719
Speaker 2: think that there were so many good things perfectly happening

1372
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 2: for Sam Donald, weather, controlled environments and whatnot. I get

1373
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 2: that he was finally in a good situation and wasn't before.

1374
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:26,719
Speaker 2: But we've got six years of data on Sam prior

1375
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 2: to last year, and at no point did he look

1376
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 2: anything like that quarterback. And then, as you just pointed out,

1377
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 2: when he got to the playoffs, he looked like a

1378
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:39,360
Speaker 2: jet again. He looked like a panther again. And to me,

1379
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 2: the sample size was not enough last year, in those

1380
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 2: first whatever it was, fifteen sixteen games to then think

1381
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 2: that that's going to carry over to a new city,

1382
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,679
Speaker 2: new franchise, new coach. I do not think Sam will

1383
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 2: play as well as he did last year.

1384
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,200
Speaker 10: All right, we got time for one more here. How

1385
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 10: about Michael Pennix? Mark, what do you think buying or

1386
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 10: selling Michael Pennox this year?

1387
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm buying. I'm buying Michael Pennix.

1388
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily know if he needs to be starting

1389
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,640
Speaker 2: fights at practice, but Pennix is a talented guy, and

1390
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 2: I think the Falcons.

1391
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:12,760
Speaker 1: Are on the way up in a winnable.

1392
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 3: Division because of the division they're in, I'm buying. If

1393
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 3: he was in a tougher division, absolutely not, I'm going

1394
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 3: to sail. But as we know, that division is always up,

1395
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 3: So I'm buying.

1396
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 2: Are you buying Dylan Gabriel's explanation of what he said

1397
01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 2: for the Browns over the weekend? That's next, you're listening

1398
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Radio. Off we go into our final

1399
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:48,480
Speaker 2: hour broadcast in live from the Fox Sports Radio studio.

1400
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: So glad you're with us.

1401
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 2: And it's always interesting whenever we start a new season

1402
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 2: in any particular sport, there is that learning curve, and

1403
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 2: I think as fans, we tend to look at that

1404
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 2: as how quickly can for example, a quarterback read a

1405
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 2: defense and how quickly can they get used to the

1406
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 2: speed of the game, and how quickly can they get

1407
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:13,840
Speaker 2: chemistry with new receivers. But particularly for quarterbacks or any

1408
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 2: player that's going to be in the public eye, how

1409
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 2: quickly can you get used to talking in front of

1410
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 2: a microphone and not saying the thing that your team

1411
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 2: can't have you say? Even if you maybe didn't mean

1412
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 2: it to come out that way. Woof, Once the cat

1413
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 2: is out of the bag, off we go. Especially in

1414
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 2: today's day and age, social media, et cetera, it can

1415
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 2: be very very tricky. And so take a listen to this,

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01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 2: Ephram and everybody listening, and would love to get a

1417
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 2: discussion going with regard to what exactly Dylan Gabriel meant.

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01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 2: Dylan Gabriel is one of the four hundred and thirty

1419
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,080
Speaker 2: three quarterbacks uh huh, vying for the.

1420
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns starting job.

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01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 2: He did some good things in the most recent preseason

1422
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 2: game for the Browns, and then during a sideline interview,

1423
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 2: he said the following.

1424
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 11: You know, there's entertainers and there's competitors, and I totally

1425
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 11: understand that, and my job is to compete and that's.

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01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 5: What I'm focused on doing.

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01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:26,839
Speaker 1: Of course, we're doing.

1428
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 11: This big game, but you know, it's something that I'll

1429
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 11: get used to and just want to be the best

1430
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 11: team that I can and create an environment where we

1431
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 11: can all go do our best work.

1432
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 1: That's all we want to do.

1433
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 2: Okay, very blue collar sound. I want to keep my

1434
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 2: head down. I don't want to get involved in everything

1435
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 2: they are entertainers and then they are competitors. You can

1436
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,600
Speaker 2: all imagine where everybody took that, because it was a

1437
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:52,600
Speaker 2: week removed from when Shador Sanders showed up at the

1438
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:58,080
Speaker 2: stadium having never played NFL football before, with his own entrance, music, entourage, etc.

1439
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: What do you think Dylan Gabriel.

1440
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 3: Meant shots fired? I mean, if you're drafted ahead of

1441
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 3: someone considerably ahead, and you're discounted by the majority of

1442
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 3: fans in public, and you get an opportunity to step

1443
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 3: out there and play well, then you're going to let

1444
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 3: them know. Right, this is an ego thing. You have

1445
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 3: to have an ego as a professional athlete. Now you

1446
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 3: don't have to be conceited and there doesn't have to

1447
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:39,599
Speaker 3: be conceit with it, but you have to believe you're

1448
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 3: better than pretty much everyone in the world to be

1449
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 3: a professional athlete athlete. The bottom line is zero point

1450
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 3: one percent of the world's population can become a professional

1451
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 3: athlete out of the seven point whatever billion people. There

1452
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 3: is rarefied air in those who get there and those

1453
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 3: who get drafted to be there. Now, whether you stay

1454
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 3: or not, your arrogates thinner and thinner. The longer you

1455
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 3: can hold on to that, and Dylan is just letting

1456
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 3: everybody know, right, I can play. I played at a

1457
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 3: high level in college. I'm a third round draft pick.

1458
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 3: I was drafted before someone else, and I'm not here

1459
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 3: to entertain. I'm here to be the best player I

1460
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:32,640
Speaker 3: can be. I'm not even mad at it today. To true,

1461
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 3: I'm not.

1462
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. But if you do agree

1463
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: that it was pointed a should do.

1464
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 3: I think it was?

1465
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,519
Speaker 1: Okay? Now he would like you to believe that it wasn't.

1466
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, why no, you don't want that

1467
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 3: bulls eye, But you say what you say.

1468
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 2: Here's the clarification after the game with regard to the comments.

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01:24:57,080 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 11: You know, all you in this room are entertainers and

1470
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 11: you have a job to do, and I respect it, right,

1471
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 11: and I'm.

1472
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 1: A competitor, so I have a job to do as well.

1473
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 11: And I think you know just understanding that that's how

1474
01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:11,680
Speaker 11: I've lived by And I've said that multiple times, so

1475
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 11: definitely not a new quote, but something that I've definitely

1476
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:16,879
Speaker 11: said before.

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01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 2: Kay, So not the first time I've said it. I

1478
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 2: always say that it's kind of a thing. And if

1479
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 2: you do want to know who I'm pointing at, I'm

1480
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 2: talking about all of you, like columnists who are sitting

1481
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 2: in front of him at a press conference.

1482
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: Sounds to me like you don't.

1483
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 3: Buy it, no, no, no, not. And look he's trying

1484
01:25:42,479 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 3: to clean it up, and it's okay, right, you don't

1485
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 3: want that level of scrutiny as a young quarterback trying to,

1486
01:25:50,560 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 3: you know, find his way onto an active roster opening week. What,

1487
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:07,800
Speaker 3: there's a stiff competition there, and you know, the Browns

1488
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:12,679
Speaker 3: are gonna have one more game to make some real decisions.

1489
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:17,800
Speaker 3: And I'm I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

1490
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 3: I think I think this is what they needed. I

1491
01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 3: think the Browns in order to get out of their

1492
01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 3: much maligned past of quarterbacks, I think they needed this

1493
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 3: level of a quarterback room with competition outside of Flacco

1494
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 3: and and uh, what's the name the no no no man,

1495
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:53,519
Speaker 3: the massage guys outside of them.

1496
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: A massage guy.

1497
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 3: Man, you did it?

1498
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:57,640
Speaker 1: Not me?

1499
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:03,879
Speaker 3: Hey, it's Joe for the rest of your life.

1500
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 1: To that.

1501
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 3: And so you draft two kids at the same position, yep,

1502
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 3: two round from each other.

1503
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 2: I mean that's my initial reaction is, boy, who could

1504
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 2: have seen this coming? That there would be drama problems

1505
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 2: in Washington. I mean, my guysh like, this is you.

1506
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 2: You can't do it this way. You can't get it.

1507
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 3: That's why the coaches didn't want to draft your door.

1508
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 2: Right, you cannot make your quarterback room. Remember I had

1509
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 2: said earlier, I was joking around. Here comes a bad idea.

1510
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,680
Speaker 2: What if we turned preseason games into an episode of

1511
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:41,720
Speaker 2: Survivor and people get cut at the end of it.

1512
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 2: But this is not a joke. This is real. That's

1513
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 2: what the Browns did with their quarterback room. That's what

1514
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 2: they did. Deshaun Watson, Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, Dylan Gabriel,

1515
01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:56,960
Speaker 2: Shador Sanders. You can label each one, each one, right,

1516
01:27:57,120 --> 01:28:00,080
Speaker 2: you got you already. Did you have massage guy, you

1517
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 2: got the old guy, you got the kind of like

1518
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 2: whatever journeyman.

1519
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: You've got.

1520
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:14,120
Speaker 2: Rook one, and then you've got uber, superstar, big name.

1521
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,880
Speaker 1: Here comes the show Rook two.

1522
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 2: And there's no way to navigate that, no, without all

1523
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 2: kinds of drama.

1524
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 3: And I think, like I said, maybe that's exactly what

1525
01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 3: they need in Cleveland. Maybe they need a heightened sense

1526
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 3: and a heightened level of competition. Kenny Pikett is hot

1527
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 3: man out. Obviously well yeah, So you got two rookie

1528
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 3: quarterbacks really competing and vying for to be at least

1529
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:53,240
Speaker 3: the beginning of the season the number two quarterback, the

1530
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 3: backup quarterback. Now, Dylan Gabriel has the advantage because he's

1531
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 3: a third round draft pick. Very few third round draft

1532
01:29:01,520 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 3: picks get cut after training camp. But it's some fifth, sixth,

1533
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 3: and seventh the ones who could let go. So all

1534
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 3: of this, you know, injuries, everything matters. Dylan Gabriel he

1535
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 3: couldn't even be his full best self because of the hamstring.

1536
01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 3: You saw plenty of times in that game where he

1537
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 3: could have extended plays with his legs, and he opted

1538
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 3: not to because the last thing you want to do

1539
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 3: is re injure that hamstring in a way where you're

1540
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 3: just on the shelf for the rest of training camp,

1541
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:41,360
Speaker 3: training camps over the next week, and so he opted

1542
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:48,680
Speaker 3: to not extend drives. Are not making a skate the

1543
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 3: oblique injury right, not serious enough? Maybe should do it

1544
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 3: be ready for next week. And I would do it

1545
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 3: like Art Show did me my rookie year. There was

1546
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:07,760
Speaker 3: a starter, Corey Lucci, there was me, seventh round guy

1547
01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:11,719
Speaker 3: vying four starting job. In this case, they'll be vying

1548
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 3: for the backup job. Hey, Dylan, you'll start. Shouldure, you'll

1549
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 3: play the second quarter. Guinny you'll play the third, should Doure,

1550
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 3: you'll play the fourth. Whoever plays the best is number

1551
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 3: two on the next week on the active roster.

1552
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:34,960
Speaker 2: Why not if I set the over under on players

1553
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 2: to start a game at quarterback for the Browns this

1554
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:40,560
Speaker 2: year at two and a half, what would you say.

1555
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 3: Over yep, easy, over yep easy.

1556
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: And that's that's losing football.

1557
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:52,679
Speaker 3: Yes, now, no one was talking about the Browns being

1558
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,479
Speaker 3: good wow o winning team.

1559
01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing is is, like, that's that's what

1560
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 2: teams do when they know that they would, in the

1561
01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 2: back of their minds, like to be in the running

1562
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:10,639
Speaker 2: for an early quarterback selection the follow next year. Exactly, Well,

1563
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 2: you just used two draft picks on quarterbacks this year.

1564
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:16,800
Speaker 3: They just punt it on this year's quarterback class with

1565
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:19,599
Speaker 3: the hopes of if it works, it works, If it doesn't,

1566
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:23,520
Speaker 3: we got we got action action next year. Yeah, absolutely,

1567
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:26,240
Speaker 3: And now a third and a fifth round draft pick,

1568
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:27,200
Speaker 3: they'll eat that all day.

1569
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. I get that. I get that. That's not just

1570
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:31,439
Speaker 1: any fifth round draft pick though.

1571
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:35,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what I mean, like organizationally, you know,

1572
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:39,040
Speaker 3: if they if the dur moves on, they're still the Browns, right, Like,

1573
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:44,160
Speaker 3: it's not gonna have any no lasting ramification, and it'll

1574
01:31:44,720 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 3: once he's gone, that'll be someone else's uh situation to

1575
01:31:49,439 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 3: do with.

1576
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 2: Correct At the same time, normally, when you have a

1577
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:56,320
Speaker 2: third and a fifth round draft pick at the quarterback

1578
01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:59,759
Speaker 2: position and you got whatever little competition's going on or whatever,

1579
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:05,559
Speaker 2: nobody's really watching, right, nobody's watching. Instead, what we've got

1580
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 2: is your third round quarterback is being interviewed in the

1581
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,680
Speaker 2: middle of the game says something that people think is

1582
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,519
Speaker 2: about the fifth round quarterback. Now he's got to address

1583
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 2: it after the game. These are the things that are

1584
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 2: happening before season even starts.

1585
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: Circus.

1586
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:22,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, which, by the way, like I could argue

1587
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 2: and not to take it to a more serious topic

1588
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 2: like that is apparently apparently why Colin Kaepernick never got

1589
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:33,679
Speaker 2: a job.

1590
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 1: In the league.

1591
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:36,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is correct.

1592
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 2: Not because no one thought he was one of the

1593
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:43,799
Speaker 2: most talented sixty quarterbacks in the world. It was because

1594
01:32:43,880 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 2: nobody wants their QB room to be a media circus,

1595
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,360
Speaker 2: and that would have been a bigger media circus than

1596
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 2: this is I understand.

1597
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:57,799
Speaker 3: Look, but Kevin Stefanski didn't want this to be immediate circus.

1598
01:32:57,840 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 1: Well, but they've willingly signed up for it.

1599
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 3: When the owner calls down and says, Duke, then you

1600
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:08,400
Speaker 3: do this. Sure you saw the draft room, you saw

1601
01:33:08,439 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 3: the coaches. This wasn't in the plan. They just picked

1602
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 3: a quarterback. So now they're stuck with this situation that

1603
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 3: they didn't want, and now they're gonna get the best

1604
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:27,559
Speaker 3: out of it. Whoever plays the best is gonna be

1605
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 3: that guy and gonna get an opportunity to play, and

1606
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:37,559
Speaker 3: you know, essentially for his life or his career because

1607
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 3: a backup quarterback will be called upon, multiple will be

1608
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 3: called upon in Cleveland. So you know, it's it's it's

1609
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:55,639
Speaker 3: one of those things where, yeah, it's coming, it's coming.

1610
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:01,439
Speaker 2: Speaking of rookie quarterbacks, I wonder if you're ready to

1611
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 2: move one of their timelines up. We'll get to that

1612
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 2: coming up next with the from Salama Mark Willard. This

1613
01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:13,040
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Radio, so we're live in the Fox

1614
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:16,160
Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios. Is shortly after the show, the podcast

1615
01:34:16,240 --> 01:34:18,679
Speaker 2: will go up. If you missed any of today's show,

1616
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 2: well that was silly, so don't do that.

1617
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: Again.

1618
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 2: But if you did check it out on the podcast,

1619
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 2: just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts.

1620
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 2: Be sure to follow and review the podcast rated A five,

1621
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,800
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1622
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 2: Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts. You see today's

1623
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:41,880
Speaker 2: show posted right after we get off of the air.

1624
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 2: Mark Willard eight from Salam And I think, I think

1625
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, and you thought this out with me,

1626
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 2: and I thought what you had to say was was

1627
01:34:56,720 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 2: pretty smart. We're talking out Jackson Dart of the New

1628
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 2: York Giants and when he would probably make his first

1629
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 2: start for the team. Russell Wilson is the starter, but

1630
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 2: you also have to weigh a couple things in here.

1631
01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:19,920
Speaker 2: Brian Dayball, the head coach is on the hot seat.

1632
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 2: So if you're Dayball, like I always think about it

1633
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 2: this way, when there's a new quarterback in town, when

1634
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 2: you're a head coach, in a way, you're a little

1635
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:33,000
Speaker 2: bit incentivized to play him, not overly, because if you

1636
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:35,559
Speaker 2: play him a lot and he looks awful, well, now

1637
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:37,240
Speaker 2: you've also made a bad draft pick.

1638
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 1: But if you don't play.

1639
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 2: Him at all, and you're playing a veteran QB who

1640
01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:46,759
Speaker 2: has some cachet and you lose all of your games.

1641
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:49,000
Speaker 1: Well, now it's really easy to fire you.

1642
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,600
Speaker 2: But if you play your rookie quarterback, here's the sweet spot.

1643
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:57,800
Speaker 2: Play your rookie, have him look kind of good, but

1644
01:35:57,880 --> 01:36:02,519
Speaker 2: you lose. Therefore you're gonna get more good draft position.

1645
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:06,600
Speaker 2: And you can kind of explain it away, Well, we

1646
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 2: got a rookie playing quarterback.

1647
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:08,680
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do.

1648
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 2: We're in a tough division, but boy, doesn't he look good.

1649
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 2: Let's build together. That's the sweet spot. That's what day

1650
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:21,759
Speaker 2: Ball wants. You had predicted week ten for Jackson Dart,

1651
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 2: reason being you thought find a soft landing spot, do

1652
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:32,880
Speaker 2: not start him against a really good team, and they

1653
01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 2: got a whole lot of really good team things going

1654
01:36:35,520 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 2: on somehow on their schedule in the first half of

1655
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,400
Speaker 2: the year. First two games at Washington at Dallas. Let

1656
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 2: Russell hand those. Then you come home for the Chiefs

1657
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:50,400
Speaker 2: and the Chargers. Eh, probably let Russell hand handle those.

1658
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:56,120
Speaker 2: But here's my question, because then they'll go to New

1659
01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,599
Speaker 2: Orleans and then after that it's Philly, Denver, Philly again,

1660
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:04,800
Speaker 2: San Francisco. You had guessed week ten you'd like a

1661
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 2: home game, but they don't have it Week ten on

1662
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:12,080
Speaker 2: the road at Chicago. Is there any chance we can

1663
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 2: move that up to Week five in New Orleans. Yeah,

1664
01:37:15,840 --> 01:37:18,360
Speaker 2: with the possibility that the Giants are zero and four

1665
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:18,680
Speaker 2: when it.

1666
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 3: Happens, happens that without a doubt, if Russell can't get

1667
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:28,879
Speaker 3: a game, he will no longer be a starting quarterback

1668
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 3: in week four.

1669
01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:32,160
Speaker 2: And I asked, because Jackson played the other day. It's

1670
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:32,880
Speaker 2: preseason or whatever.

1671
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: But he look good, he looked good, look pretty good.

1672
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:39,640
Speaker 1: He looked good. And those are four crazy games to

1673
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:40,519
Speaker 1: start their schedule.

1674
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. It's tough living right there.

1675
01:37:42,560 --> 01:37:45,360
Speaker 1: Your first three weeks for Russell Wilson as a Giant.

1676
01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:47,559
Speaker 2: You go to Washington, you go to Dallas, you come

1677
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,759
Speaker 2: home for Sunday night football against the Chiefs.

1678
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:56,320
Speaker 3: You know why I'm so high on on Justin Herbert.

1679
01:37:57,040 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear because when he got his first start,

1680
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:03,320
Speaker 3: it was out the blue.

1681
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:05,639
Speaker 1: That's true.

1682
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:09,040
Speaker 3: There didn't have reps with the first team.

1683
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 1: Torod Taylor got the bad shot, and.

1684
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:18,040
Speaker 3: You were playing the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, Tarik Hill,

1685
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:23,040
Speaker 3: Kelsey the whole nine yards and he went out there

1686
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:28,679
Speaker 3: and set them on fire. He was really good, and

1687
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:31,599
Speaker 3: in that moment, the whole world was like, oh, wait

1688
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 3: a minute, huh, because that ideally, you wouldn't want your

1689
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:46,559
Speaker 3: rookie quarterback to run up against that buzzsaw or any

1690
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 3: bussaw of that magnitude. You don't want to have them

1691
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 3: learn like that. And he went out there and he

1692
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 3: just played ball. And I looked at him and I said, oh, oh,

1693
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 3: he's got it. I was like, he's got something.

1694
01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 2: I agree, but my gosh, to borrow something that we

1695
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 2: largely do in golf more than we do in other sports.

1696
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 1: Best player who have never won a major?

1697
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know what I mean?

1698
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 2: This guy, he is so talented and I think has

1699
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:30,880
Speaker 2: largely performed pretty well, but it just it doesn't go

1700
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:36,000
Speaker 2: right in the playoffs and he gets hurt a lot,

1701
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:44,000
Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, that whole just that thing does

1702
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 2: not look like it has clicked to where some of

1703
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 2: the other qbs that feel like, from a physical standpoint,

1704
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 2: they're the same kind of guy, have sort of reached

1705
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 2: that spot where a lot of times it feels like

1706
01:39:57,960 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 2: teams can win football games just because because of their presence.

1707
01:40:02,200 --> 01:40:03,519
Speaker 1: Allen and Borough, et cetera.

1708
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 2: Mahomes like three years ago, people were like, that's where

1709
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:14,479
Speaker 2: Herbert's head and eh, Chargers play a lot of football.

1710
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:20,719
Speaker 1: Games that are like nineteen to sixteen. It's odd.

1711
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:25,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I'm with you, but I don't know why

1712
01:40:25,400 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 2: it hasn't turned into something that feels like it can

1713
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:37,160
Speaker 2: be a little bit more dominant. Four years ago he

1714
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:39,600
Speaker 2: flew from over five thousand yards.

1715
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:45,759
Speaker 3: But you also have to realize he was hamstrung, no doubt,

1716
01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:53,960
Speaker 3: and so that is when there's ineptness at at the

1717
01:40:54,120 --> 01:41:00,559
Speaker 3: highest level for sure. Then I mean, are we blaming

1718
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 3: some things you can't overcome? And for me, it looked

1719
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 3: though that was one of those things. He was Brendan

1720
01:41:10,520 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 3: Staley was so bad yep, yep, Like it was. It

1721
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:19,640
Speaker 3: was to the point where it was it was comical.

1722
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I also like some of this is

1723
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 2: the fantasy football ification of the whole thing.

1724
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: Like last year, Justin was really good.

1725
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:37,240
Speaker 2: He threw three interceptions all year long.

1726
01:41:38,120 --> 01:41:39,120
Speaker 1: The team was good.

1727
01:41:39,520 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 2: Harbaugh's good, but Harball wants to do it a certain way,

1728
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,559
Speaker 2: and Harbaugh does not want to lean on his quarterback

1729
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 2: slinging the ball all over the yard, And so maybe

1730
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 2: that's a good thing for their record, but it somehow

1731
01:41:53,320 --> 01:41:54,800
Speaker 2: lessens the way people are going.

1732
01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:58,360
Speaker 1: To see Justin. I get it, But he didn't even

1733
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:00,000
Speaker 1: throw for four thousand yards last year.

1734
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 3: No, No, and you know he doesn't have to do

1735
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 3: it all himself. That doesn't take away the talent that

1736
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:07,599
Speaker 3: he has.

1737
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: No, it's oh, I get it. It's there. So you know.

1738
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 3: When you're tapped on the shoulder five minutes before game

1739
01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:21,840
Speaker 3: time and say, hey, ugh, I know we you didn't

1740
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:26,280
Speaker 3: practice with the ones all week, but you're the starting

1741
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:29,840
Speaker 3: quarterback against the Kansas City Chiefs defense and you go

1742
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:36,120
Speaker 3: out and throw for over three hundred yards. You got something.

1743
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:41,840
Speaker 3: Never never looked rattled, never looked shaken, just poise and

1744
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:45,040
Speaker 3: look up until this point in his career, he's thrown

1745
01:42:45,080 --> 01:42:48,080
Speaker 3: for more yards than anybody at this point in their career. Yeah,

1746
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:55,400
Speaker 3: that's a real thing. So you know, I'm I say

1747
01:42:55,520 --> 01:43:02,000
Speaker 3: all of that to say that's not the ideal spot

1748
01:43:02,080 --> 01:43:04,040
Speaker 3: to have a rookie quarterback come into.

1749
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: No.

1750
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 3: No, he's revered because he was able to come into

1751
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 3: that spot and show up and show out right. It

1752
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 3: didn't it wasn't too big for him.

1753
01:43:14,160 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 2: Maybe you give Russell that game too, and you let

1754
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:18,839
Speaker 2: Jackson do Week five in New Orleans.

1755
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 1: But I'm with you.

1756
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:23,800
Speaker 2: I'm impressed because Justin was able to do that, not

1757
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 2: overly impressed, because there's something that we do that to

1758
01:43:26,640 --> 01:43:29,120
Speaker 2: every hour. We tap him on the shoulder and we

1759
01:43:29,200 --> 01:43:31,479
Speaker 2: say get in there, whether you're ready or not.

1760
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:35,439
Speaker 1: As always ready, start talking, and that's Steve de Seger.

1761
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:37,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always ready, by the way, And Mark brings

1762
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:40,479
Speaker 5: up only three interceptions thrown by Herbert last year. He

1763
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 5: threw five hundred passes last year. We think like the

1764
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:47,479
Speaker 5: way the first few weeks ago, you know, Harbor's going

1765
01:43:47,520 --> 01:43:49,800
Speaker 5: to run every play for the rest of well, he

1766
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 5: threw five hundred passes. He went eleven straight games without

1767
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:55,560
Speaker 5: throwing a pick. Yeah, last year over three hundred and

1768
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:56,400
Speaker 5: fifty straight.

1769
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 3: Pass That's pretty hard to do.

1770
01:43:57,640 --> 01:43:59,880
Speaker 5: And it also points out to the I don't know,

1771
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:06,400
Speaker 5: or unfairness in general of assigning wins or losses to

1772
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:10,040
Speaker 5: the record of the starting quarterback. It's a little different

1773
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:15,040
Speaker 5: than the starting pitcher in baseball. Because that Charger playoff

1774
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:18,799
Speaker 5: game at Jacksonville a few short years ago, Justin Herbert

1775
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:22,639
Speaker 5: has had no turnovers in the game and scored thirty

1776
01:44:22,680 --> 01:44:25,000
Speaker 5: points in a playoff game. On the road.

1777
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: Yep.

1778
01:44:25,640 --> 01:44:29,839
Speaker 5: And Brandon Staley's defense literally could not get one stop

1779
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 5: the entire second half. The last five drives in a

1780
01:44:34,800 --> 01:44:38,200
Speaker 5: row for Jacksonville. They scored on all of them, including

1781
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:39,599
Speaker 5: a field goal on the final play.

1782
01:44:39,880 --> 01:44:41,040
Speaker 3: Surely I can't blame him.

1783
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:44,479
Speaker 1: Can I add one thing to the conversation. Though he

1784
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:46,200
Speaker 1: played in the playoffs this year?

1785
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and he threw more picks in that game

1786
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:54,160
Speaker 2: than all year. They weren't all his fault, I remember that,

1787
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 2: But he did throw four picks in his playoffs, even

1788
01:44:57,320 --> 01:44:57,759
Speaker 2: if two.

1789
01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 5: Were clearly his fault. I agree with you.

1790
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they lost by three touchdowns.

1791
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:05,000
Speaker 5: I'm just saying the whole conversation. Sure all depends, and

1792
01:45:05,040 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 5: I mean all of it depends on Hey, the Chargers

1793
01:45:08,280 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 5: lost a game at Jacksonville. Well, I'm not sure I

1794
01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 5: would play Justin Herbert first for that night. It je

1795
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:17,960
Speaker 5: probably not. And yet I hear even on this network,

1796
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:23,040
Speaker 5: lazy sports talk hosts bring that up, not remembering the

1797
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:23,920
Speaker 5: game at.

1798
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 1: All, Steve which ones, yeah, plural, oh thank you? Yeah? Names.

1799
01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 3: No, not everybody watches all the games.

1800
01:45:31,840 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's leave it that. Let's leave it at that.

1801
01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:38,320
Speaker 5: Not everybody watches all the games because it doesn't fit narratives. Okay,

1802
01:45:38,400 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 5: we've got NFL exhibition play on Fox TV right now.

1803
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:44,880
Speaker 5: At Chicago, it's Bears thirty one nothing over the Bills,

1804
01:45:44,920 --> 01:45:47,679
Speaker 5: and no Josh Allen did not play tonight. It's mid

1805
01:45:47,760 --> 01:45:51,559
Speaker 5: third quarter. Tyson bagent with a touchdown pass off the bench.

1806
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams led a great opening drive for Chicago, seven plays,

1807
01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:58,639
Speaker 5: ninety two yards and an under four minutes. They were

1808
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:01,960
Speaker 5: on the board on him his thirty six yard touchdown pass.

1809
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,679
Speaker 5: In fact, in the first half tonight, when the Bears

1810
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 5: led twenty eight nothing at the break, it was twenty

1811
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 5: first downs to three advantage for Chicago. At New Orleans today,

1812
01:46:12,120 --> 01:46:16,360
Speaker 5: a tie, Saints seventeen, Jaguars seventeen. Spencer Rattler of the

1813
01:46:16,400 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 5: Saints a late touchdown pass and two point conversion. Trevor

1814
01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:22,400
Speaker 5: Lawrence of the Jags one td pass, one fumble. The

1815
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 5: Eagles acquired wide receiver John Matchi from the Texans WNBA

1816
01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 5: Everything's final. Atlanta has won at Golden State seventy nine

1817
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:34,280
Speaker 5: sixty three earlier wins for Washington and Phoenix. Las Vegas

1818
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:36,760
Speaker 5: got thirty four points from Asia Wilson in a win

1819
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:40,679
Speaker 5: against Dallas. Indiana won in overtime at Connecticut to Major

1820
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 5: League Baseball. Seattle's Cal Rawley Is hit his forty seventh

1821
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 5: home run of the season. The Mets lead over the

1822
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:48,840
Speaker 5: Mariners is seven to three in the bottom of the

1823
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 5: eighth in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Mariners are going to start

1824
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:56,000
Speaker 5: a series in Philadelphia, PA on Monday night. The Phillies

1825
01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 5: did win today eleven to nine at Washington. The Dodgers

1826
01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 5: first in the West two games over the Padres, edging

1827
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:05,240
Speaker 5: San Diego five to four. This afternoon. Munki bets ait

1828
01:47:05,280 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 5: a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth. Cincinnati

1829
01:47:08,120 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 5: in ten innings edge Milwaukee three to two. The Brewers'

1830
01:47:11,120 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 5: fourteen game winning streak is over because the Red scored

1831
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:15,760
Speaker 5: one and the ninth to tie and one in the

1832
01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:18,320
Speaker 5: tenth to win. The Cubs with a run bottom of

1833
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 5: the eighth beat Pittsburgh four to three. Baltimore was a

1834
01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:25,280
Speaker 5: twelve nothing winner at Houston. And yes, there was golf today.

1835
01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 5: We are nearing the end of the golf season for

1836
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:32,879
Speaker 5: both the PGA and Live Golf. Scottie Scheffler was today's

1837
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 5: golf winner in Maryland by two strokes over Robert McIntyre.

1838
01:47:36,760 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw the clip, but when

1839
01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:41,560
Speaker 5: I noticed this on the news last night, Robert McIntyre

1840
01:47:41,680 --> 01:47:44,960
Speaker 5: hits a putt and immediately shushes the crowd that I

1841
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:49,800
Speaker 5: guess had been on him near the green. I immediately thought, oh, oh,

1842
01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:52,320
Speaker 5: this is not the final round, dude, you should not

1843
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:58,000
Speaker 5: be doing that. And with Scottie Scheffler chasing him, McIntyre

1844
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:02,360
Speaker 5: shoots a final round seventy three and Scheffler, at one

1845
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 5: point in the span of five holes, erased a four

1846
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:08,720
Speaker 5: shot deficit. Scheffler gets his fifth Tour title this year.

1847
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:11,880
Speaker 5: Scheffler now leads those thirty players who advanced to the

1848
01:48:11,880 --> 01:48:15,439
Speaker 5: finale in Atlanta next week, where the first place check

1849
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:19,479
Speaker 5: will be ten million dollars.

1850
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:19,960
Speaker 1: Come on.

1851
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:24,920
Speaker 5: The top thirty for next weekend was finalized today. We

1852
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:29,040
Speaker 5: thought Ricky Fowler was going. He had himself safely inside

1853
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:31,479
Speaker 5: the top thirty at one point, but couldn't close it

1854
01:48:31,520 --> 01:48:35,519
Speaker 5: out last eight holes today he was three over par.

1855
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 5: Michael Kim thought he had a chance to go in

1856
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:41,400
Speaker 5: the top thirty. He was projected at number thirty in

1857
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 5: fact as he played the final hole today. But it

1858
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 5: turns out. Victor Hovlin, who was his playing partner, made

1859
01:48:49,200 --> 01:48:51,840
Speaker 5: a birdie putt on eighteen which moved him to a

1860
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 5: tie with Kim on the leader board, and that took

1861
01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 5: away just enough FedEx cup points knocks Kim down to

1862
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:01,920
Speaker 5: number thirty one. Congratulate the way to go. But it

1863
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,639
Speaker 5: is a playoff event. So it's the full twenty million

1864
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 5: dollar perse that they doled out for the weekend, which

1865
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:10,200
Speaker 5: is the equal to any live golf perse. But Scottie

1866
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 5: Scheffler gets another three point six million dollars for taking

1867
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 5: this McIntyre about two point one million dollars. The PGA's

1868
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:22,679
Speaker 5: Tour Championship starts Thursday, Live Golf. The season has ended.

1869
01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 5: As far as individual stuff, we've got next weekend's team

1870
01:49:26,479 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 5: Championship in Michigan. Sebastian Munyos won the live golf event

1871
01:49:31,360 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 5: today in a playoff over John ram Rom shot an

1872
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 5: eleven under sixty to tie it. This is Munyos, though,

1873
01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 5: who shot a first round fifty nine in Indianapolis this weekend,

1874
01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:46,360
Speaker 5: a fifty nine despite a double bogie in the round.

1875
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:49,840
Speaker 1: Oh the hell kind of a course where they playing that?

1876
01:49:53,400 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: What are we doing on the Live Tour.

1877
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say, but I thought I saw on

1878
01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:59,280
Speaker 5: fifteen John rams Putt went through a windmill.

1879
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:02,559
Speaker 1: I'm just then he wins a prize.

1880
01:50:03,080 --> 01:50:05,600
Speaker 2: By the way, Mooney gets a spider ring just like

1881
01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:06,479
Speaker 2: everybody else.

1882
01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 5: Munyos gets the four million dollar first place prize. Yeah,

1883
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 5: and if you make that punt on the eighteenth holl

1884
01:50:12,360 --> 01:50:14,439
Speaker 5: your ball you don't get it back. It goes straight

1885
01:50:14,479 --> 01:50:15,280
Speaker 5: into the clubhouse.

1886
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:15,840
Speaker 1: Oh god.

1887
01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, Munos also banks more money because he was part

1888
01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:22,000
Speaker 5: of the team champions for the weekend. So that's another

1889
01:50:22,479 --> 01:50:26,160
Speaker 5: chi ching seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bonus. But

1890
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:30,519
Speaker 5: you want bonuses. John Rahm defends his season points title

1891
01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:33,720
Speaker 5: despite not winning a tournament this year. He lost in

1892
01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:36,240
Speaker 5: a playoff last week, he lost in a playoff today,

1893
01:50:36,280 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 5: but he was very good overall. So he gets too

1894
01:50:39,479 --> 01:50:41,719
Speaker 5: and a quarter million for his three days of golf

1895
01:50:41,720 --> 01:50:45,160
Speaker 5: this weekend. By finishing with the most points for the season,

1896
01:50:46,120 --> 01:50:49,040
Speaker 5: he wins eighteen million dollars.

1897
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:55,120
Speaker 3: Wow eight Oh my goodness.

1898
01:50:55,160 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 2: So the FedEx Cup winners got to go through this

1899
01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:01,919
Speaker 2: whole thing, I'm bob that goes multi weeks and somehow

1900
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:04,719
Speaker 2: at the end of it, you you get ten million,

1901
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 2: which is a lot of money. Sure, John Rum for

1902
01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:13,760
Speaker 2: the whole season never wins, and for his efforts he

1903
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:15,120
Speaker 2: gets almost double.

1904
01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:18,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was just very good all the time. Eighteen

1905
01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 5: million dollars. Oh my god, for playing a series of

1906
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:25,080
Speaker 5: live golf tournaments, so none of which are four rounds.

1907
01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:28,440
Speaker 1: So worthy, Saudi Arabia ladies and gentlemen.

1908
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:29,240
Speaker 3: So worthy.

1909
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:31,200
Speaker 5: And there's your golf of day.

1910
01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:36,080
Speaker 1: Woo awesome, Steve Hey. Ricky Fowler.

1911
01:51:36,360 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 2: I love Ricky Fowler, but my god, it's disappointing, right,

1912
01:51:42,479 --> 01:51:43,519
Speaker 2: it just never this.

1913
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:46,120
Speaker 5: Was the big name, talk about your uh has never

1914
01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:49,000
Speaker 5: won a playoff type of name some years and golf

1915
01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:50,960
Speaker 5: it was Ricky Fowler was on that list.

1916
01:51:51,280 --> 01:51:54,479
Speaker 2: Ricky Fowler for like for years, Like you could go

1917
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:57,600
Speaker 2: as Ricky Fowler for Halloween and people would be like,

1918
01:51:57,680 --> 01:51:58,439
Speaker 2: I know who you are?

1919
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:02,479
Speaker 1: How many golf first? Do you know? Like how you

1920
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:06,960
Speaker 1: could be Tiger and Ricky. That's about it. That's about it,

1921
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:09,720
Speaker 1: and it just it just never hit.

1922
01:52:09,920 --> 01:52:13,640
Speaker 3: It's like Kova, Yeah, that's a good.

1923
01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:16,040
Speaker 5: Except Rickey Fowler finished second a lot and he wasn't

1924
01:52:16,040 --> 01:52:16,800
Speaker 5: a model.

1925
01:52:16,840 --> 01:52:20,880
Speaker 2: No, no not, I mean I'm sure like that. Plenty

1926
01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 2: of people think Ricky is wonderfully handsome.

1927
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:26,639
Speaker 5: I don't know, not like her, sure, hair, I mean

1928
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 5: they not like her, like her, they not like her.

1929
01:52:29,920 --> 01:52:34,240
Speaker 3: You made more money modeling than she? Oh yeah, ever

1930
01:52:34,400 --> 01:52:42,720
Speaker 3: did right? Dennis Brand sponsorships? Bye, I mean one hundredfold,

1931
01:52:42,760 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 3: one hundred times more.

1932
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:45,160
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

1933
01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:47,720
Speaker 3: Hey, well, what are you gonna do?

1934
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:53,200
Speaker 1: What are you gonna Doha? Man? Amazing? That's awesome. Yeah,

1935
01:52:53,360 --> 01:52:54,200
Speaker 1: appreciate it.

1936
01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:58,439
Speaker 2: And we we are live in the Fox Sports Radio

1937
01:52:58,560 --> 01:53:03,320
Speaker 2: studios and not done working our way through some.

1938
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:04,480
Speaker 1: Of those quarterbacks.

1939
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:07,280
Speaker 2: Maybe we ask it in a little bit of a

1940
01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:11,840
Speaker 2: different way coming up next with regard to who is

1941
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:18,360
Speaker 2: really facing the most pressure, who is facing a potential

1942
01:53:18,520 --> 01:53:22,000
Speaker 2: benching the soonest. We'll get to all of that as

1943
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,000
Speaker 2: we roll on our way out the door and make

1944
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:27,000
Speaker 2: room for Plank and Spaniard with me from salam I

1945
01:53:27,040 --> 01:53:32,720
Speaker 2: am Mark whether this is Fox Sports Radio? Okay, these

1946
01:53:32,840 --> 01:53:37,920
Speaker 2: right here are the Fox Sports Radio studios, Mark with

1947
01:53:38,040 --> 01:53:45,280
Speaker 2: Aty from Salam. So earlier tonight, Ian took us through

1948
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:48,639
Speaker 2: a handful of quarterbacks and we were kind of doing

1949
01:53:48,640 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 2: the are you in and are you out?

1950
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:50,599
Speaker 1: Thing?

1951
01:53:51,479 --> 01:53:55,320
Speaker 2: Are you buying or selling them? As the team's QB

1952
01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:57,920
Speaker 2: for now and into the future and making it through

1953
01:53:57,920 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 2: the season, and I actually think we might and not

1954
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 2: saying this was or wasn't by design. There's probably a

1955
01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:12,320
Speaker 2: couple quarterbacks that weren't even on the list who I

1956
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 2: think are facing the most pressure. And here's kind of

1957
01:54:16,040 --> 01:54:20,719
Speaker 2: how I define pressure. You arrive at a spot where

1958
01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:28,880
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, we've already paid you, but if you

1959
01:54:28,920 --> 01:54:35,840
Speaker 2: don't do it this year, we have a problem, and

1960
01:54:36,600 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 2: we may not be able to get out of that

1961
01:54:38,400 --> 01:54:43,040
Speaker 2: problem anytime soon. If you're a rookie, if you're on

1962
01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:47,040
Speaker 2: a rookie deal even and you're expected to show out

1963
01:54:47,120 --> 01:54:54,440
Speaker 2: and you don't. Bryce Young and JJ McCarthy, Okay, we'll

1964
01:54:54,440 --> 01:55:00,000
Speaker 2: go do something else. But what about these two from

1965
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:03,400
Speaker 2: What on earth do you do? If this isn't the

1966
01:55:03,520 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 2: year for Trevor Lawrence?

1967
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:09,360
Speaker 1: What do you do? Oh?

1968
01:55:09,400 --> 01:55:14,600
Speaker 3: It's time. It's been far too long. If Trevor Lawrence

1969
01:55:17,440 --> 01:55:20,800
Speaker 3: cannot summon up any.

1970
01:55:20,720 --> 01:55:21,160
Speaker 1: Of that.

1971
01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:29,640
Speaker 3: Juju that the world thought he had or was going

1972
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:32,760
Speaker 3: to be able to possess, then you have to move on.

1973
01:55:35,880 --> 01:55:42,600
Speaker 3: You've changed the program, you've changed everything coaching. You know,

1974
01:55:42,720 --> 01:55:46,920
Speaker 3: the Urban Meyer thing wasn't fair, but you've fixed that,

1975
01:55:48,560 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 3: and he's consistently underperforming. So at a certain point you

1976
01:55:56,640 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 3: have to figure out if the Jacksonville Jaguars can't compete

1977
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:10,040
Speaker 3: in the division, then you have to ask yourself, is

1978
01:56:10,080 --> 01:56:13,760
Speaker 3: this the year we go get another quarterback? Because if

1979
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 3: they start off and they're you know, saying oh and three,

1980
01:56:19,320 --> 01:56:28,879
Speaker 3: then you're looking at the quarterback class next year saying, okay,

1981
01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:37,560
Speaker 3: who fits. Now it was a mistake and it happens.

1982
01:56:37,720 --> 01:56:42,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the problem though, is that ooh, that money. Yes,

1983
01:56:42,560 --> 01:56:46,400
Speaker 2: that contract. They did not build a potential out in

1984
01:56:46,480 --> 01:56:53,840
Speaker 2: that brand spanking new deal until twenty twenty nine. Yikes,

1985
01:56:54,160 --> 01:57:00,920
Speaker 2: it's twenty twenty five. So look, you know he's only

1986
01:57:00,960 --> 01:57:03,560
Speaker 2: twenty six years old. It's not like he's been awful

1987
01:57:04,240 --> 01:57:08,880
Speaker 2: his entire career. But you know, his next year with

1988
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 2: a quarterback rating over ninety five will be his first.

1989
01:57:14,280 --> 01:57:17,680
Speaker 2: He had one year right at ninety five in twenty

1990
01:57:17,720 --> 01:57:20,240
Speaker 2: twenty two. Outside of that, he's never had a year

1991
01:57:20,280 --> 01:57:27,240
Speaker 2: where he's even at ninety so to me, and now

1992
01:57:27,360 --> 01:57:33,760
Speaker 2: you're starting to also, you're putting pieces around him, Brian Thomas.

1993
01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:38,640
Speaker 2: Now you got Travis Hunter, got some things going on there,

1994
01:57:39,640 --> 01:57:43,680
Speaker 2: and it's.

1995
01:57:43,560 --> 01:57:45,760
Speaker 1: Got to go well this year. It's got to go

1996
01:57:45,840 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 1: well this year, you know.

1997
01:57:48,200 --> 01:57:52,640
Speaker 2: And then on a flip side, from a statistical standpoint,

1998
01:57:53,400 --> 01:57:57,480
Speaker 2: I think this guy has already sort of proven his

1999
01:57:57,600 --> 01:58:01,640
Speaker 2: worth consistently. The issue with him is health and apparently

2000
01:58:01,680 --> 01:58:05,360
Speaker 2: the issue is also just sort of the mysterious things

2001
01:58:05,680 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 2: going on around him.

2002
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:09,000
Speaker 1: But how are you feeling about Tua right now?

2003
01:58:09,360 --> 01:58:16,760
Speaker 3: It's the healthying. I think Tua showed he can play

2004
01:58:16,800 --> 01:58:20,920
Speaker 3: at a high level, but if he can't stay healthy,

2005
01:58:21,080 --> 01:58:23,080
Speaker 3: then that doesn't even matter anymore.

2006
01:58:23,400 --> 01:58:25,600
Speaker 1: Sure, And so.

2007
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:31,800
Speaker 3: You know, they've got the weapons on the outside, they

2008
01:58:31,840 --> 01:58:35,280
Speaker 3: got the running game, they got all of these things,

2009
01:58:35,320 --> 01:58:39,120
Speaker 3: and he's taking them to the playoffs when he's healthy. Now,

2010
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:44,480
Speaker 3: they're not a cold weather team, right, So going to

2011
01:58:44,480 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 3: play in the negative eight degrees, Yeah, it's not gonna

2012
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:51,600
Speaker 3: bode well for you if you're a team for Miami.

2013
01:58:52,120 --> 01:58:54,880
Speaker 1: Doesn't something feels weird there this year?

2014
01:58:55,200 --> 01:58:55,560
Speaker 3: It does?

2015
01:58:55,680 --> 01:58:58,880
Speaker 2: It doesn't feels weird like I I something in my

2016
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 2: gut is like, dude, they might be awful, like really awful,

2017
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 2: right Tyreek?

2018
01:59:05,720 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 1: Is something's about to burst there?

2019
01:59:09,880 --> 01:59:12,880
Speaker 2: Like are you gonna come back and be awesome or

2020
01:59:12,920 --> 01:59:16,200
Speaker 2: are you gonna turn into Antonio Brown. I can't tell

2021
01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:19,640
Speaker 2: because you're out here like you're arriving at camp and

2022
01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:21,920
Speaker 2: being like, yeah, our lead running back shouldn't be our

2023
01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 2: goal line back anymore.

2024
01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:27,800
Speaker 1: It's like, what it just feels weird.

2025
01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,919
Speaker 3: A lot of dysfunction going on, the whole.

2026
01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:31,200
Speaker 1: Thing feels really weird.

2027
01:59:32,600 --> 01:59:35,200
Speaker 2: And to his dead cap number next year is fifty

2028
01:59:35,320 --> 01:59:37,000
Speaker 2: six point four million dollars.

2029
01:59:37,520 --> 01:59:45,280
Speaker 3: Man, So that's bill right, payment to due now.

2030
01:59:46,760 --> 01:59:48,360
Speaker 1: So those are those are my two.

2031
01:59:48,720 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 2: Those are my two where it's like something is going

2032
01:59:51,760 --> 01:59:55,480
Speaker 2: to have to be right this year or it's just wrong.

2033
01:59:56,600 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: Those are those are my two.

2034
01:59:59,400 --> 02:00:03,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get you on that. That's a hoof. We've

2035
02:00:03,200 --> 02:00:05,400
Speaker 3: got a lot to watch for. It's gonna be it's

2036
02:00:05,440 --> 02:00:07,720
Speaker 3: gonna be an exciting, exciting time.

2037
02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:08,440
Speaker 1: We are.

2038
02:00:08,480 --> 02:00:11,160
Speaker 2: We are one week closer, my friend, we are one

2039
02:00:11,160 --> 02:00:13,680
Speaker 2: week closer. Great talking to you tonight is all week.

2040
02:00:14,360 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 2: We're doing again next week for it from Salam. I'm

2041
02:00:17,480 --> 02:00:20,080
Speaker 2: Mark Willard. This is Fox Sports Radio.