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Speaker 2: from selection Sunday. You'll be g looted in front of

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Speaker 2: it's simple. We're a society infatuated with sports. We go

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Speaker 2: to games, we watch them on TV. We compete well

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Speaker 2: into our later years. We don't have royalty in this country,

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Speaker 2: and March Madness is a huge part of Americana. You

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Speaker 2: ever wonder why we are so passionate about sports? What

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Speaker 2: people such strong feelings. We crave more, we want more. Look,

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Speaker 2: nothing exemplifies this more than March Madness. Sixty eight teams enter,

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Speaker 2: only one remains. Twenty gut wrenching days later later on

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Speaker 2: the show, I will give my annual perspective on how

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Speaker 2: March madness. Frankly, well, March madness is life and the

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Speaker 2: truth of the matter is we're all here for in America.

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Speaker 2: May be part of our midnight hour topic as well,

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Speaker 2: so we'll be ready for that coming up at twelve

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Speaker 2: we'll talk a lot of March madness tonight. Mark Medina

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Speaker 2: and we got a lot of stuff to go over

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Speaker 2: with him. I haven't forgotten. I'm gonna give you a

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Speaker 2: recap on what happened an NFL Free Agency this week,

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Speaker 2: the highlights and the takeaways, the quarterback carousel. Yes, we

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Speaker 2: One man holds his fate. One man and I'll give

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Speaker 2: of that. But what takes center stage right now, that's

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Speaker 2: simple selection Sunday. It's upon us starting to take shape.

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Speaker 2: And look, even though Auburn lost to Tennessee and the

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Speaker 2: the Tigers to get the number one overall. See when

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Speaker 2: the bracket's unveiled, and at this point, I think that's

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Speaker 2: tonight given their respective tournament hopes. Colorado State they did

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Speaker 2: what they needed to do. They're what you call a

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Speaker 2: bracket steeler, whatever the new term you're hearing this year,

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Speaker 2: but the final spot's still up for grabs. The final

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Speaker 2: Tennessee will face Florida, and you know the tournament committee

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Speaker 2: One of the big losers Sunday was Boise State. They've

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Speaker 2: what went wrong? Basically, Michigan State couldn't stop Tanji. He

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. He says, Well, Michigan State will

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Speaker 2: have one potential fatal flaw. But Donaldson hits a clutch

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Speaker 2: and then the arena goes sald. Everybody knows wonders what happened.

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Speaker 2: So now teams like Xavier, Texas, North Carolina and everyone

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Speaker 2: that's what these teams hold for. Finally, give it up

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Speaker 2: to Houston. They started out four and three. They're twenty

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Speaker 2: one seed with an impressive eight point wins seventy two

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Speaker 2: Good evening, How are you? Another rockous week in the NBA?

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Speaker 5: Another crazy week? I think last week weren't shouting the

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Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna address that. But I want to

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Speaker 2: Well, Mark, you're spot on, and I want to take

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Speaker 5: I really factor in the Warriors. I mean they, like

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Speaker 5: think they get Phoenix tomorrow. They play San Antonio Monday

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Speaker 5: on a back to back. But then here's where it

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Speaker 5: gets tough, playing Denver Milwaukee Again, those are tough games.

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Speaker 5: I think it goes to Denver Milwaukee, they get Chicago.

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Speaker 5: Chicago is going to be barely a playing team if that,

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Speaker 5: so they get Chicago. So when you look at this week,

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Speaker 5: it could be three and two. Next week they then

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Speaker 5: play Orlando, Indiana, Chicago, and Memphis. I think all those teams,

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Speaker 5: with exception of Chicago, are all tough outs. So this

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Speaker 5: is very much a thing where it's a coin flip

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Speaker 5: because Lebron James is at obvious of a game changer

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Speaker 5: on where the Lakers' fortunes are going to lie these

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Speaker 5: next two weeks.

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Speaker 2: All Right, you mentioned in Phoenix Suns and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to get to them in a minute to have a

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Speaker 2: whole other different question. They're fighting for their playing lives

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Speaker 2: as well, and they're only one game back and the

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Speaker 2: lost column against Dallas, and I think Dallas is just

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Speaker 2: going to skid off the rails. I can't see Dallas

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Speaker 2: as a playing team. So I expect Phoenix to give

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Speaker 2: an effort in a last ditch effort. Do they have

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Speaker 2: one last hurrah in them starting Sunday at twelve thirty

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Speaker 2: against the Lakers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they have one last surah, probably because of what

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Speaker 5: you said that Dallas, even though they're technically tenth right now,

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Speaker 5: they're going to continue to implode. They only have a

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Speaker 5: one and a half game lead over the Suns. The

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Speaker 5: Suns are going to make the play in tournament. Yes,

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Speaker 5: they have what it takes to catch lay in a

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Speaker 5: bottle to get into the first round of the playoffs

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Speaker 5: because they have Kevin Durant. He's still playing a high

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Speaker 5: caliber level went on the floor. He's an efficient shooter.

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Speaker 5: I think Devin Bookers also play well. But it's not sustainable.

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Speaker 5: You know, they grated use of Nurkics before the trade

461
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Speaker 5: deadline for a reason. He's not great as a defender.

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Speaker 5: But they really haven't picked up the slack Outside of that.

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Speaker 5: Mason Plumbley great backup big, but it's unfair to him

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Speaker 5: to you know, give him starters minutes. So yeah, they

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Speaker 5: could win a playing game, but that just sets themselves

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Speaker 5: up really to you know, you either get slept or

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Speaker 5: you know, losing five games Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 2: Aren't you a little baffled by Phoenix? They have talents

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Speaker 2: and my question, aren't they if memory serves, aren't they

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Speaker 2: the highest paid team in the NBA?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's two hundred and thirty million dollars.

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Speaker 5: I am baffled because I had a lot of questions

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Speaker 5: about them defensively at the beginning of the season, but

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Speaker 5: they started off really well. And I think one of

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Speaker 5: the key things is obviously the big three were healthy

477
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Speaker 5: Kevin Duran and Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. But you

478
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Speaker 5: know they had some sneaky, underrated offseason editions. Tyas Jones

479
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Speaker 5: great point guard. He added Claire to the Suns. Who's

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Speaker 5: going to be man handling the ball. He also was

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Speaker 5: going to be addressing one of the Sun's primary weekends

482
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Speaker 5: his last season, that's Turnoversias Jones is the king of

483
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Speaker 5: assist a turnover ratio. But the Suns are just so

484
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Speaker 5: bad defensively. Kevin Durant had an injury at the beginning

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Speaker 5: of the season and they just spowed after that. Bradley

486
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Speaker 5: Deal wasn't able to be healthy, and it's just wow.

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Speaker 5: But this just really illustrates that they're a top heavy roster.

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Speaker 5: Even though that to a man, they have decent rotation

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Speaker 5: players like Tyas Jones, it's still not enough when you

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Speaker 5: don't have elite defenders. It also shows that you know

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Speaker 5: they're shuffling with coaches. Isn't the answer. Frank Vogel did

492
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Speaker 5: a really great job last season on the defensive side

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Speaker 5: of the ball. It's just he can only do so

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Speaker 5: much on offense when their main guys aren't healthy. And

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Speaker 5: so Mike Bornhole's are a great coach, but we've seen that,

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Speaker 5: you know, coaches, how they succeed or fail fail is

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Speaker 5: largely dependent on just roster instruction and how available guys are.

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Speaker 2: Paging Paul Westfall, what do you think of that? Can

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Speaker 2: they bring him back? That's a little humor, a little

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Speaker 2: levity on a Saturday night, all right, wrapping it up

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Speaker 2: with Mark Madina, last thing I understand that the NBA

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Speaker 2: is launching maybe I don't want to over dramatize this

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Speaker 2: an investigation of sorts into the Oklahoma City Thunder for

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Speaker 2: sitting all five stars in a game the other night.

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Speaker 2: What can you tell us about that?

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know what there is to investigate. Yes,

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Speaker 5: they've sat all five of their guys against Portland last

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Speaker 5: week and they still won the game. Yeah, the NBA

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Speaker 5: doesn't take kindly when they're such blatant this regard for

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Speaker 5: the player participation policy. I think you know, when you're

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Speaker 5: looking at Oklahoma City, they're not the most egregious offender.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're first in the West. You know, they

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Speaker 5: had a stretch of games, you know, three and four

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Speaker 5: nights they're playing the percent Johns Portland. Even though they've

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Speaker 5: improved lately, there's still not you know, a serious contending

516
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Speaker 5: type team. So they just try to think a big picture.

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Speaker 5: They still won the game, you know. I think the

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Speaker 5: bigger offenders are all the teams that are tanking to

519
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Speaker 5: try to improve their odds to get Cooper Flag in

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Speaker 5: the lottery. So that's why the Utah jaz has also

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Speaker 5: got one hundred thousand dollars. Fine, first sing Laurie Market

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Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, Now he said.

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Speaker 2: For multiple games, though not just one game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's too Yeah. But what I'm saying is

525
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Speaker 5: all of a sudden, after that one hundred thousand dollars, fine,

526
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Speaker 5: he was miraculously back in the line up, fully healthy.

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Speaker 5: So well, I think that I think that bigger offender.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned just we'll wrap this up quickly.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned the league's player participation policy. The

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Speaker 2: question is that, okay, see really violated. It's my understanding

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Speaker 2: that Shay Gil just that's only the second game he's

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Speaker 2: missed all season. I think this is I think I

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Speaker 2: think our commission are our venerable Commiss Adam Silver. He's

534
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Speaker 2: maybe his ears are burning from people ripping on him

535
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Speaker 2: from being too soft in the league. That's what I think.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And here's the other thing. I mean, teams, especially

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Speaker 5: at this time of the year, all players technically have injuries.

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Speaker 5: No one's fully one hundred percent. So when you look

539
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Speaker 5: at injury reports, a lot of teams list so many

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Speaker 5: players just to cover themselves, you know, in case they decide,

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Speaker 5: you know what, we're going to fit someone because we're

542
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Speaker 5: trying to take the long game, or if that player

543
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Speaker 5: actually has you know, one of his injuries turn for

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Speaker 5: the worst where it is a catastrophic thing. So it's

545
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Speaker 5: a game of chess. And you know, sometimes the league

546
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Speaker 5: office allows, you know, the teams to move their chess pieces.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes they put them in check made and then they

548
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Speaker 5: see what happens.

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Speaker 2: All right, great stuff. Let's see what the Lakers do

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Speaker 2: this week. And I know some people see why do

551
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 2: you guys talk about the Lakers as much? Come on,

552
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: he's serious. I mean, the storylines around this team right themselves.

553
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Speaker 2: It's one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports,

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Speaker 2: and I think we're all waiting, watching and wondering to

555
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Speaker 2: see what happens in the Luca Lebron Act. There's no guarantees, mark, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, Lakers are global franchise. Lebron James is

557
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Speaker 5: one of the most iconic players ever. They've just made

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Speaker 5: the biggest trade of this season with game Luca doncers.

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Speaker 5: Of course we'd be talking about the Lakers. Oh and

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Speaker 5: you know, prior to this week, they were playing really

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Speaker 5: good basketball.

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Speaker 2: Listen, They're they're in the mix. I mean, there are

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Speaker 2: there are odds to win the champion. We know they're

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Speaker 2: not going to do that. I don't even think they're

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Speaker 2: gonna get the NBA finals. I think they're gonna start

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Speaker 2: to sink under their own way. I think we already

567
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Speaker 2: see it happening. But you know what, they're relevant. We're

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Speaker 2: paying attention fair of course.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we play the hits.

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Speaker 2: That's what radio is all about, exactly right, Mark, great

571
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Speaker 2: stuff as always, and uh, we'll see what happens next week.

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Speaker 2: Between now and next week, and if not nothing else,

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Speaker 2: let's see where the Lakers are, Lebron's energy injury, and

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Speaker 2: we'll get to Wenby and a few other things next

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Speaker 2: week as well.

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Speaker 5: Looking forward to Thank you.

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Speaker 2: come on, we have to be talking about March Madness, right,

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Speaker 2: But where am I going with this? I want to

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Speaker 2: at sixty eight, now would you like to see it expand?

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Speaker 2: but I think it's a virtual certainty it's going to expand,

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Speaker 2: But I think they would be in the form of

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Speaker 2: know you do it gets you, It gets you, A

642
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 2: little jump doesn't get you. Those aren't official bracket games,

643
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 2: but you're you're kind of in the tournament at sixty eight, right,

644
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 2: they're talking about going to seventy six. Do you like

645
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 2: that or not? Do you think that the Thursday. There

646
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 2: are sixteen games on Thursday from Stem to Stern. It'll

647
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: start about nine to fifteen am Pacific. They won't to

648
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 2: wrap up for thirteen hours non stop. I know, Vegas

649
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: is bananas. The people are already started to descend. Is

650
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 2: Thursday the greatest sports day that first day or not?

651
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: I mean? Where does it rank in your world? How

652
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 2: does it compare to the World Series? How does it

653
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 2: compare it to the Super Bowl? So I want to

654
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 2: get your thoughts on March Man. It's take it anywhere

655
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 2: you want. Would you like to see them expand not expand?

656
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 2: Good idea, bad idea? Where does the Thursdays you know

657
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 2: extravaganza rank in your world? You know, how's it compared

658
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 2: to the World Series? Super Bowl? Any of the other

659
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: great events I have to talk about Miles Garrett. Miles

660
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: Garrett was absolutely roasted by fans this past week for

661
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: good reason. A week ago we were on this show,

662
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett not only reiterated his desire to be traded

663
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 2: from the Cleveland Browns so quote he could go to

664
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 2: a winner. But and this all started on February third,

665
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: he issued a statement, but he wants to play for

666
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,919
Speaker 2: a chance and play for a team with a chance

667
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: to contend for a Super Bowl. Then Garrett reportedly threatened

668
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 2: to quote take drastic steps if the team did not

669
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 2: accommodator's request. His request was to be traded. Okay, then

670
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 2: what does Cleveland do? They give him one hundred and

671
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 2: sixty million dollars contract, He says, oh yeah, I think

672
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 2: I can hand with you guys for a while, and

673
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: then he goes on to state what it's never been

674
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: about the money. You will see my heart's in the

675
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 2: right place. It's about winning. What excuse me? They offered

676
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: you the money. You could have said no, thank you,

677
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: thank you, but no, please trade me. I want to

678
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 2: go to a winner. What we you know?

679
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 7: What?

680
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: Do you all right? I'm gonna let the callers deal

681
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 2: with that. I want to get your thoughts because I

682
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: want to also here, do you think the Browns did

683
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: the right thing? I don't. They're not gonna win now

684
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 2: they were. If they weren't winning with him, forget it.

685
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: Get the biggest call you can get for the guy

686
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: to be rid of him. I'm not saying he's not

687
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: an elite player. How's that work? O, Cleveland? You can't

688
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 2: find your ass with both hands. By the way, there

689
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 2: was a very unflattering report put forth by a gentleman

690
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: named Jason Lloyd to the Athletic, and I'm quite sure

691
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: that he had his ducks in a row before he

692
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 2: made these accusations. I'll quote him. It's well known within

693
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: the Browns that Garrett is frequently late to the facility.

694
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 2: He's skipped mandatory team activities on multiple occasions. Veterans typically

695
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: police the locker room on those types of things and

696
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 2: create a culture of accountability. But here it's the best

697
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: player of breaking the rules. That has to change. Now, obviously,

698
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 2: the Browns don't have very significant concerns about any of that.

699
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 2: They completely reset the market when they gave Garrett a

700
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: deal forty million annually. Now, how are they're going to surround?

701
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: I mean, they weren't going to be outdone by the

702
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 2: crazy Deshaun Watson contract, so why not double down. They're

703
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 2: not winning with him. This isn't about Jason, this isn't

704
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: about Miles Garrett. It's about logic and running a business.

705
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: You want of the Browns have never been to a

706
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Come on, man, And to be fair, Garrett

707
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: has one hundred and two sacks in eight seasons. He's

708
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 2: had fourteen each of the last two and he's kind

709
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 2: of a game changer on Defix, except they don't win.

710
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: So did the Browns make the right decision? And when

711
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: you saw, oh, it's never been about the money. Meanwhile,

712
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 2: the only reason he stayed was because of the money.

713
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: That kind of stuff, you know, I just that makes

714
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: my teethhitch. Finally, we have to talk about Aaron Rodgers.

715
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: Yes we do. This is a story. This is a

716
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 2: future Hall of Famer. He is currently holding up the

717
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, a quality franchise. Boy, that would be a

718
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: great fit. I think Tomlin in that system, you got

719
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Speaker 2: George Pickens, you got DK Metcalf. Now you got a

720
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: running game, you got a defense, you got a culture.

721
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Speaker 2: But Aaron Rodgers has a different preference. And there's one

722
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 2: man that actually holds that fate. He could he could

723
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: snap his fingers and with a stroke of a pen,

724
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Speaker 2: Rogers could be with that team. We're gonna get to that.

725
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: But what is your take on Rodgers making it all

726
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 2: about him again, milking it all for all it's worth.

727
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 2: If you're Pittsburgh, this has to be a bit of

728
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: a cautionary tale that if you do get this guy,

729
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 2: he may he may or may not help you win.

730
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you are gonna have drama because

731
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: this dude just doesn't ever take a break from his

732
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: me first mentality. So I want to hear about that

733
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Speaker 2: from you, folks. March madness? All right? Should they expand

734
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 2: to seventy six? I think they're gonna do it seventy

735
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: six teams? What does the Thursday Big Day mean to you?

736
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: Or was it Rank World Series? Super Bowl? You know?

737
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, The fans roasted him, a reporter roasted him.

738
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 2: To Cleveland do the right thing by breaking the bank

739
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 2: and putting themselves in salary cap hell again. Finally, finally,

740
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers serving notice that I hope to sign with

741
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Speaker 2: a certain team. And meanwhile, the Giants they wait, the

742
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: Steelers they wait. Midnight hour eight seven seven nine to

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Speaker 2: nine six six three. Let's hear from you. It's the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: nine to nine on Fox. I want you coming from

756
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 2: the top rope tonight. Give me your thoughts on March madness?

757
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 2: Should they expand to seventy six?

758
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 3: No?

759
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 2: Yes?

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00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 8: No?

761
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 2: The Big Thursday sixteen games? Is it the greatest sports day?

762
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: Or used to lect the World Series? Super Bowl? Better? Whatever?

763
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 2: You know? College football? Miles Garrett, you know what I

764
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: feel about that. I want your thoughts on that. And

765
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get deep into Aaron Rodgerson because it's gonna

766
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: come and go. But you need you. You deserve to

767
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: know what's happening. And by the way, we have a

768
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: thing called the rant too. If you want to call

769
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: in and talk about something else, anything else ta get

770
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 2: off your mind. This is your hour, your our eight

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Speaker 2: seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine. If

772
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: those three topics don't crack a crank your tractor. Well,

773
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: then uh, let's let's get something that you'd like to

774
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: talk about. But we go to our mainstay, Glad. He

775
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: always leads us off. Jim in Massachusetts. Jim, we got

776
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 2: three topics where you want to.

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00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 8: Start, Buddy, Well, let me start with Aaron Rodgers. There

778
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 8: ain't no way that he's going to go to the Steelers.

779
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 8: The Steelers are a football team or a team of character,

780
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 8: you know, and in their trench, the trench warfare, he's

781
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 8: not going to sit in there. So I think that's but.

782
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Speaker 2: You know, they offered him, Jim. You just to be clear,

783
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: you know they've offered him. That's happen.

784
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you know, just because they offered him, it

785
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 8: doesn't mean that he's gonna go there.

786
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Speaker 2: And that's that's that's the problem. They're in line, that's

787
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 2: the problem.

788
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 8: But that whole team, that whole team in their history,

789
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 8: a guy like that's the nuts fit in there. It's

790
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 8: gonna be it's gonna be nasty, and I just don't

791
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 8: see him going there.

792
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 2: There's one thing, Jim, just before you get to the

793
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 2: next topic. Uh, Over the years, Pittsburgh has had their

794
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 2: share of guys that you would call, you know, putting

795
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: the load in the shorts category, if you just managed

796
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 2: to keep it under wraps because there's such a dignified

797
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Speaker 2: organization continue on.

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Speaker 8: Well, then again, I could be running. He could go

799
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 8: there and won a couple of Super Bowls. Who knows,

800
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Speaker 8: But I don't think so not right, fair enough, just

801
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 8: too He's just too smug and arrogant as an individual.

802
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 8: I don't think that it's like vinegar and water in

803
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 8: the locker room, ain't gonna happen. I don't think on

804
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 8: Gerick on Garrett. He's one of those guys that I

805
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 8: want for me and the heck with the rest of you.

806
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 8: And football is a team game, you know more than

807
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 8: any of the others. So you got three facets, you know,

808
00:42:55,719 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 8: your offense, defense, special teams. He is just now. But

809
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 8: that's Cleveland. You know, they like that stuff. So if

810
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 8: I was, I'd be turning in my season tickets, you know,

811
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 8: or something like that. He's just going to destroy that team.

812
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 6: You know.

813
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 2: That's well, he's not going to help him win. He's

814
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 2: going to have some personal statistics, but we already see

815
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 2: they don't win with him. And he said he wanted

816
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: to go somewhere to win, and now it's the you know,

817
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: why do you you know, why do you come out

818
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 2: and say it's not about the money when it was

819
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: clearly not about the money. It's so stupid anyway, continue on.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know that's bad.

821
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Speaker 8: All you heard was kachin kaching, and now everybody else

822
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Speaker 8: is going to want it, you know, on that team,

823
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 8: and now you can't. It's just but their ownership and

824
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 8: their management has problems. It all send them, man, you know,

825
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:43,439
Speaker 8: it all flows down.

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Speaker 6: Still.

827
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Speaker 8: The other thing on March madness, No, I don't want

828
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Speaker 8: it opened up. I didn't even like when they opened

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00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 8: it up, the four more teams and went from sixty

830
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 8: four to sixty eight or whatever. And indeed, we're talking

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Speaker 8: about kids nineteen twenty twenty one years old. Ninety nine

832
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 8: percent of them want to go to the NBA and

833
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 8: ninety nine point nine percent of I'm gonna make it

834
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 8: in the NBA, and they're just trashing their young body.

835
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 8: They're just treated like me. I mean, all the sports

836
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 8: on the callege, it's all about money now ever since

837
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 8: gambling gone into sport, it's just ruined, ruined everything. And

838
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 8: I just I just feel bad for him. And from

839
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 8: what I've seen rest and everything, I just in the

840
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 8: in the peer pressure, that's a you know what I mean.

841
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 8: And the peer pressure is just every parent out there

842
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 8: thinks they got the next Michael Jordan's, you know, the

843
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 8: next Ted Williams, you know, on the next Lawrence Tale

844
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 8: and hey, no it's no. I just feel bad. It's

845
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 8: really taking a turn for the worst us as a

846
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 8: nation towards sports.

847
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Speaker 6: I really do.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in, Jim. I always appreciate it, and yeah,

849
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Speaker 2: you're at It is always about the money, unless it's

850
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett. His heart's in Cleveland. It was never about

851
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: the money. I think the fans will see that. Let's

852
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: go up to Seattle. Zach joins this. Welcome in, Zach,

853
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: you're on the Bernie Frattle.

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Speaker 3: Show y, longtime listener, first time caller. I appreciate it.

855
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: Welcome in, don't be a stranger.

856
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll listen to you a lot when I'm

857
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 3: driving around doing Uber eads store dash for my little

858
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 3: side hustle for my two young daughters.

859
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 6: So I appreciate it.

860
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice.

861
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 6: Yeah.

862
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 3: So the Aaron Rodgers thing, right, first off, it's like

863
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 3: I don't understand why NFL teams can still potentially have

864
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 3: any interest in him. It's like when he was there

865
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: was a floor. They what did three straight NFC championship games?

866
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 2: Right, I gotta tell you a big fella. It's and

867
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: someone who covered the lines for ten years, up close

868
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 2: and personal. Yeah, quarterback is the thinnest position in all

869
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 2: of sport. And if you can play it, they'll put

870
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 2: up with a lot. And he might have a little

871
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 2: gas in the tanking. Look they got All they do

872
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 2: is rave about Justin Fields, and I do too, except

873
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 2: when he's under center. I like, everything does except play

874
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 2: a quarterback. They've bring in two stud wide receivers. Oh well,

875
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 2: hell let's get rid of Justin Fields. We don't want

876
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 2: him throwing the ball. But that answers your question. You'd

877
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 2: be you'd be amazed, Go ahead, go ahead.

878
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 3: Well I get so like you look at the Packers'

879
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 3: history that they had Brett Favre and Aaron Ruggers and

880
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 3: combined over what twenty two twenty four years whatever it

881
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 3: was consecutive they won two Super Bowls, fair and so

882
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 3: many opportunities, and it's like, Okay, then he goes to

883
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 3: the Jets. I understand that the Achilles thing was not

884
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 3: his fault, but but all the drama that he brings

885
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 3: and the divisiveness, I just don't get. My teams are

886
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 3: still like would even consider.

887
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 2: Him, you know, So that's I don't so the fair

888
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 2: The bottom line is, and I want to get to

889
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 2: all the other callers. Everybody hanged tight. There you stand

890
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 2: on line, Zach, but Poppy and Berto Gunner Mark you

891
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: hang tight. We're getting to all you. What I wanted

892
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 2: to say to you, Zach was do you at least

893
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 2: agreed that if Rogers were to go to Pittsburgh set

894
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 2: us sat or personal feelings, which is not always easy

895
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 2: to do. Is it not an upgrade over justin fields

896
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 2: or for either to go to the Giants? Is it

897
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 2: not upgrade?

898
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Being a Seattle fan, as you know,

899
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 3: I call call him from Seattle. So DK goes over there,

900
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh signs him five years. You know, one hundred and

901
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 3: fifty mils and Russell Wilson was there, which played with

902
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 3: DK for three years. They have a connection and they're

903
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 3: not signing in Russell. It's like, what are they doing?

904
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: It's so unlike Pittsburgh like, I don't understand what they're doing.

905
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 2: Well, they know what that actually looks like, and so

906
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 2: they're trying to they're trying to see you.

907
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, and it shouldn't be Rareon Rodgers and

908
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 3: it shouldn't be Russell Wilson. But I was just amazed

909
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 3: that they traded for DK and did what they did,

910
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 3: because that's not the Steeler way. The second topic he

911
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 3: talked about March madness. Yeah, uh, there there was a

912
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 3: six eight year period of my life where it was

913
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 3: it was better than the Super Bowl. Now, I didn't

914
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: have the fortune of going to the Super Bowl when

915
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: the Seahawks won it in New York against Denver, I

916
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 3: was very fortunate to be at that game and watch

917
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 3: that happen. And you know, we'll never forget it.

918
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: But if you're they rode him like a stick horse

919
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 2: man that came was over the first five minutes.

920
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Oh no, you're spot on.

921
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 3: I was in the a quarter end zone where the

922
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 3: safety happened the opening play of the game. I'll never

923
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 3: forget it. But March madness, it's like, even if you

924
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 3: don't have a dog in the game, but you're like

925
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 3: into sports and you're into betting, especially if you get

926
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 3: down to like Vegas or somewhere like that. That that vibe,

927
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 3: that that three four five day vibe with that opening round,

928
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 3: there's nothing like it.

929
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 2: Now, agree real quickly anything, buddy on Miles Garrett.

930
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 3: Oh man, he sleep, he fleeps the Browns.

931
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 8: He knew that.

932
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 3: If he's he knew how to work them, just like

933
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson massage them. Miles Garrett, massage brown.

934
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 2: You're on fires. Act all in a color next week, Buddy.

935
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 2: I mean, first, the Michael Vick reference, if you caught it.

936
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: I know he didn't mean to, but you get that.

937
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: See what he did their little wordplay with Zach and

938
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: Seattle strong Poppy in San Diego, Hi, Poppy, welcome in, Hey,

939
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 2: Bernie no.

940
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 9: Great and not here at San Diego into San Diego side.

941
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 9: But you know, a Miles Garrett, what I was gonna

942
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 9: say over here, like before preseason? I would always talk

943
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 9: when I was back into college, what team's gonna do

944
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 9: good each season? Like where are things going to go?

945
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 9: My sleeper team was every year with the Cleveland Browns,

946
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 9: and you or later they made it to the playoffs. Right,

947
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 9: But now it's like they're just a clown show. Miles Garrett.

948
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 9: You know, I think it was just like a setup

949
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 9: and like, yeah, this and that, that tension the headlines,

950
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 9: and he's just a clown, like what.

951
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 3: You know, like a circame.

952
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, the circuit might as well put Aaron Rodgers right

953
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 9: there as a quarterback and they have a whole circuit

954
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 9: show right there.

955
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 2: Right, So, so I think Garrett's a clown. Not too

956
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: good defensive end, but clown. I'm going to do thoughts concurrently.

957
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 2: The question I have though primarily is did the Browns

958
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,720
Speaker 2: do the right thing? Because they are hamstrung themselves payroll wise,

959
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 2: what are they going to do now? I mean, he's

960
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 2: the highest non paid quarterback in the history of the

961
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 2: NFL paid non quarterback if you like to speak English,

962
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: go ahead.

963
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, I did it a bad job. I don't agree

964
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 9: with the management, but hey, the Browns are who we are.

965
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 9: They make horrible decisions, and I it's the thread, the thread,

966
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 9: you know. The the analytics, my poppy analytics is going

967
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 9: the same direction.

968
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 8: They're going to keep on making the.

969
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 9: Same mistakes over and over and.

970
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 6: On to the college.

971
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 9: Mark Martinez, I love my madness. So I think it's

972
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 9: gonna it was good.

973
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 10: It did to sixty eight.

974
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 6: I thought it was good.

975
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 9: But now extending it, do I want that?

976
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 6: Nope.

977
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 9: But for the business, they are going to do that

978
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 9: because money talks, and they want these networks and everything.

979
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 5: They want more.

980
00:50:54,840 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 9: Blank blank blan guys, and uh for uh did you

981
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 9: talk about.

982
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers yet? We'll call Aaron Rodgers.

983
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 9: Look, I don't know where he's going to go. If

984
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 9: I had to make a crazy prediction, I wouldn't be surprised.

985
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 9: Why not to him in there with the Browns.

986
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 2: He's down there, he won't. It won't be the Browns.

987
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: That's there's zero chance they have no There are three

988
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 2: teams that are on the docket and at the top

989
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 2: of the R one a m unlet's some Carlors fill over.

990
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 2: Everybody's getting in. I'm going to talk about the three

991
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 2: teams and the pluses of minus is but go.

992
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 9: Ahead, and the other thing I want to talk about

993
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 9: Indian Wealth and is my hometown, Coachella Valley. The champion,

994
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 9: you know, Carlos Alcatrack. He lost, So I think tomorrow

995
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 9: it's going to be a good game at the finals.

996
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 9: So everyone listening to tennis, I think Daker's gonna went

997
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 9: from England and the woman who got Tobick Sabanska. We're

998
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 9: they're playing against a seventeen year old kind of reminds

999
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 9: me of Serena Williams, but it's not Serena Williams. And

1000
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 9: she's actually seventeen years old and her name is and

1001
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 9: she's rocking.

1002
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 2: All right, Poppy. I appreciate you, Poppy. I got to

1003
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 2: get your other callers, big failure.

1004
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 11: You know.

1005
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 2: I love you like a fat kid loft cake. But

1006
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 2: those clicking sounds across the nation where radio is being

1007
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 2: turned off because no one wants to hear about tennis. Well, Poppy,

1008
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 2: the tennis, I don't know, man. Unfortunately this ain't nineteen

1009
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 2: seventy five anymore. Just no one cares about it. But Poppy,

1010
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 2: good stuff as always. You know, you're always welcome. Let's go,

1011
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 2: Let's stay in San Diego. On Berto, where have you been? On? Berto?

1012
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: We haven't heard from you in a minute.

1013
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 10: I've been listening to you, but I kept waiting for you.

1014
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 10: On Fridays you don't come up, and I don't know

1015
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 10: what happened. And I hear you obviously.

1016
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 2: And on Saturday with well, I made a personal family decision,

1017
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 2: and I've been some time in coming or my wife

1018
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 2: and I are traveling the world. I got a giant

1019
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 2: family that I missed a lot of events, and so Saturday,

1020
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 2: I'm here for the next thirty five years. But Friday

1021
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 2: I had to I had to make way. And you

1022
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 2: just can't climb two mountains in life. Humberto and a

1023
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 2: family is very important.

1024
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 10: Definitely is definitely, Bernie, and I'm happy for you, and

1025
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 10: listen on your topics, my friend, don't the nc lebl

1026
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 10: A eventually is gonna go to one hundred and twenty

1027
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 10: eight gay teams?

1028
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 2: Okay, because I'm not gonna say you're wrong, We don't know.

1029
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 2: The question is do you want they're gonna go to

1030
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 2: I won't predict they'll be at seventy six within two years.

1031
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: Do you want that? Yes or no?

1032
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 4: No?

1033
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 10: Definitely not because there's a lot of bad teams, a

1034
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 10: lot of bad products.

1035
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 12: But who cares.

1036
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 10: They want MTV time, They want the money, and that's

1037
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 10: what they're gonna do. And regarding Garrett, yes.

1038
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 5: What did you expect?

1039
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 10: What did you expect from the Browns administration and the

1040
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 10: ownership with the Hackets.

1041
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 2: You know you're not wrong. You're not wrong. So how

1042
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 2: does that make them win more games next year? They've

1043
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 2: just hands strung their peril.

1044
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 10: They didn't They don't care but winning. I mean, they

1045
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 10: gave two hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed to watch

1046
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 10: them for nothing. They had their quarterback, Baker Mayfield, and

1047
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 10: they tweeted him back and now karma, you know what

1048
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 10: it is, and he's coming back to them, and I'm

1049
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 10: happy forgetting hold on.

1050
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 2: That's a great point in Berto, And I'm gonna tell

1051
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 2: you why everybody forgets that Baker Mayfield took over a

1052
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: team that had been one in thirty one the prior

1053
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 2: two years and got onto the playoffs in year two.

1054
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 2: So you're not wrong. Continue on anything on Aaron Rodgers, Well, what.

1055
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 10: Else can we say? I just hope that he goes

1056
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 10: to the Steelers tomally has a mulligan because he could

1057
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 10: be facing his first losing season. That's what he's gonna

1058
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 10: get because I don't right Jos about himself, and I

1059
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 10: think they already made the big mistake of getting the

1060
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 10: Meca Medicas because they have nobody to throw the wall

1061
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 10: to him, so they started with that and I'm really

1062
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 10: surprised the Steelers went that way, But don't be surprised.

1063
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,959
Speaker 10: Like you called it last year, the Cowboys are gonna

1064
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 10: have a bull loosing season. I remember when you called it.

1065
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 10: I'm telling you the Steelers might have their first loosing

1066
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 10: season on the Tomlin if they could right, It's entirely possible.

1067
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Embaritot, appreciate you, buddy. What I think

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Speaker 2: would be ironic is you know, there's really no deadline

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00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 2: for this to happen. There isn't. And by the way,

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00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,959
Speaker 2: speaking us money, Rogers costs the Jets forty nine million

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00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 2: dollars in a salary cap hit when they let him go. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think it would be ironic as hell if Tomin

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00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 2: woke up Thursday and said, Okay, Eron, you have made

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00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 2: up your mind, don't let the door hit in the

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00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: ass in the way out. Okay, we don't want you anymore.

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00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 2: We wanted you, but if you're going to play that

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00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 2: game with us, we're the Pittsburgh Steelers, not the Hoboken

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00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 2: Zephyr's good luck. And at top of the ar I'm

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00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 2: going to reveal the one guy that holds Aaron Rodgers

1080
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 2: faith facts is a highly respected guy and an offensive

1081
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 2: gene and if he decides he wants him, it's game,

1082
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 2: set match, and this is where Rogers will We'll end

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00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 2: up a Gunner. Please hang tight, Mark in Los Angeles,

1084
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 2: please hang tight. We're getting to you. We want to

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00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 2: hear from a lot more at eight seven seven nine

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Speaker 2: nine six six three six nine and the midnight Hour.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, for the best pregame show every weekend,

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Speaker 2: be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio's Countdown presented

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Speaker 2: to noon Eastern six am to nine Pacific. We will

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Speaker 2: count you down for all the biggest games. There is

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Speaker 2: how to complete your upcoming bracket. Tune into Countdown, presented

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. Coming up, Gunner

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Speaker 2: and Minnesota, Mark and Los Angeles and the rest of

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Speaker 2: your calls. Eight seven seven nine nine six six three

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Speaker 2: six nine, It's the midnight hour. Keep it locked. Listen

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fril Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Fratter Show Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We are in the throes of the midnight hour, coming

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Speaker 2: to you live from the TEK dot Com studios here

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00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas eight seven, seven nine, nine six six

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Speaker 2: three sixty nine eight seven, seven, nine and nine on Fox.

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00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 2: We want to hear from you. We're talking March Madness Tournament.

1110
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 2: Do you think it should expand? What does it mean

1111
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 2: to you? And I'm gonna believe it or not, some

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00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,919
Speaker 2: very intelligent people in high places gave three very good

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00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 2: reasons intellectually why they think it should expand I'll get

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00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 2: to that later among the Roger thing and the Miles

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00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 2: Garrett thing. Let's go back out to the phones. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Gunner in Minnesota, thanks so much for your patience. You

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00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 2: are up next.

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Speaker 12: I got it.

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00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 2: Hello Gunner, Hey.

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Speaker 13: Mary, how's it going good?

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00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 5: That's good.

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00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 13: I'm thinking I hope that March Madness expands because I'm

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Speaker 13: a fan of that.

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Speaker 9: I want to see more games.

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Speaker 13: I want to see more team get in.

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Speaker 12: I want to give a chance a chance.

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00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 2: I'm going to not only predict what's gonna happen within

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00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 2: two years. But Gunnar, this isn't the first time that

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00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 2: there's been a proposal. It wasn't until two thousand and

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00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 2: one that they got to sixty fifteen because that was

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00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 2: added when the Mountain West Conference was created. But believe

1132
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 2: it or not, in twenty ten they tried the NCAA

1133
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 2: wanted to go to ninety six teams will the negotiating

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00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: the new TV contract, and that's where they settled on

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Speaker 2: sixty eight. We're still there.

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Speaker 13: Go ahead, all right, Yeah, that would be way too

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00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 13: many ninety sixteens.

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Speaker 5: That'd be way too many.

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00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: And about Rogers, I.

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00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 9: Hope he going to mannsta complete the far thing. That'd

1141
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 9: be just hilarious.

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00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 13: I would just flap at that because I have a

1143
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 13: lot of people up here that are not Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 13: Hands and be funny, just blasher Facebook all it.

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Speaker 9: Hi, you guys got Rogers.

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00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 13: Now, I'm not a fan of the bikers anyway, Well.

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00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 2: You hang on with us tonight. I'm going to be

1148
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 2: in the air for two and a half hours, but

1149
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 2: within the next hour I'm going to talk about the

1150
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers situation, where he might very well, could end

1151
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 2: up at one person holds his fate. And I guarantee

1152
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 2: you've heard of this guy's name. Any thoughts on Miles Garrett, Oh.

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00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 3: I think he's delusional.

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Speaker 2: It's all right. We had a little bit of I

1155
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 2: think a cell phone pneumonia there, but good stuff. Appreciates you, Gunner.

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Speaker 2: I think you know Miles Garrett is delusional, and you

1157
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: see I like you know. I've always said the most

1158
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 2: boring conversations when everybody agrees, and that's why they've been

1159
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 2: that Colleins Beensico. We have a gentleman here who hopes

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Speaker 2: they expand hang tight. You know, some very intelligent websites

1161
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 2: to do this for a living. Gave three very good

1162
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Speaker 2: reasons and why they think they should and will expand.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to that in just a second. Mark

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00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show. How

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Good, Barnie. Bernie. I want to tell you, I'm

1167
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 7: not trying to kiss anything, but I think you're awesome

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00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 7: and I agree with you nine what you have to say.

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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. I guess I got to work

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Speaker 2: out the other ten percent exactly now.

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Speaker 7: I wanted to say, bellfore I talk about Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 7: Why would Minnesota want Rogers when they've got McCarthy, and

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01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 7: don't they want to get him going?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Certainly, certainly, but this is a clear and we don't

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Speaker 2: know that Minnesota wants him. We know that they're talking

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Speaker 2: about it. But with Daniel Jones departing, And I said,

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Speaker 2: watch this last week on my show. If Daniel Jones departs,

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01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,919
Speaker 2: it's a game changer, all right, So they let Sam

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Speaker 2: Darnold go. You've got to get McCarthy on the field

1181
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Speaker 2: this year. You don't want to him not on the

1182
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Speaker 2: field for two years. But you got to win too.

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01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 2: This is a win now team. It's not a win

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Speaker 2: now team this year. It's a win nine team for

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Speaker 2: the next two or three years. So to answer your question,

1186
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 2: here's a guy wh's minue Super Bowl was an MVP.

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Speaker 2: You still don't know what you have with JJ McCarthy.

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01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 2: I think a lot of him, and I think he's

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Speaker 2: probably gonna do well, but you don't know that. It's

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Speaker 2: all theoretical, Mark No, No, I understand that.

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Speaker 7: Okay, So the deal with Yeah, the Browns are just

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01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 7: they're a joke. It's just it's pathetic and I don't

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01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 7: want to get too emotional about it, but they need to, Okay,

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Speaker 7: if Miles Garrett had any character or respect when they

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01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 7: made that offer, he'd say, no, I want out of here.

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Speaker 7: And the Browns never make the right decision phrase him

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Speaker 7: and get as many first or second round picks as

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Speaker 7: you can't. Like you said, they're not going to win

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Speaker 7: with him anyway. What's the point of giving him all

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Speaker 7: that money. It's just insanity completely.

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Speaker 2: I could have said it better trade op season, get

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01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 2: out Dual Carter. You want to address you're so bad? Finally,

1203
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 2: so March Madness. You want to see him expand.

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01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I make the most money when I

1205
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 7: bet on March Madness, So I don't give a damn

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 7: how many teams are in there, as long as I'm

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Speaker 7: making as long as I'm making money.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate hearing from you up there in Minnesota, Gunner

1210
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 2: as always or check that you're Mark apologize, I haven't

1211
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 2: been drinking, honest, Mark and Los Angeles, thanks so much

1212
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 2: for checking, and you've been a regular. Greg and Texas,

1213
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 2: welcome back into the Bernie Frale Show.

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Speaker 6: How are you hey, How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: First?

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Speaker 3: Of all, I just want to comment and.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for bringing over the midnight hour into the

1218
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 6: Saturday show. I really appreciate that it gets everybody to

1219
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 6: get a little bit more insight how the whole nation

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01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 6: is feeling about things.

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Speaker 2: But fair enough, he's here to stay.

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Speaker 6: Yep, yep, oh great, okay, So okay, First of all,

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Speaker 6: I'm a lump. Aaron Sanders, Aaron, Aaron, there you go,

1224
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers and Miles Sanders in the same group. I

1225
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 6: think they're both living They're they're very egotistical. I think

1226
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Speaker 6: Rogers is living through Tom Brady vicariously trying to get

1227
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Speaker 6: another you know, trying to keep up with him or whatever.

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Speaker 6: I think Miles Garrett, you know, just finally said, well whatever,

1229
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Speaker 6: just give me the money. And that's where I feel

1230
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 6: about that. I don't think either one of them are

1231
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 6: interested in winning as far as right now, I think

1232
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 6: they're interested in me.

1233
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Speaker 2: Oh, you're right. I do think they both want to win,

1234
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: especially Rogers known he's the clock's taking big time. Miles Garrett.

1235
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Speaker 2: If Miles Garrett after what I saw last week and

1236
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Speaker 2: some of the and I hear, he is a nice

1237
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 2: guy and he's a good player. I get all that.

1238
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 2: If he told me he was going to be eighty

1239
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Speaker 2: and sunny tomorrow, buy three top coats.

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Speaker 6: You got the floor, Okay, going to the brackets. I

1241
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 6: was disappointed when win from sixty four to sixty eight.

1242
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Speaker 6: I think it's nothing more than the money grab. You know,

1243
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Speaker 6: if you're not going to let these other sixteen teams

1244
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:52,439
Speaker 6: in on this whatever on the original sixty four, why

1245
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 6: let give them a chance. It just waters down the

1246
01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 6: whole field. I understand the reason is miss midweek Basketball.

1247
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 6: It's numbers and it's eyes and it's all money. But

1248
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 6: I'm just not a big fan of it. But it

1249
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 6: is what it is, and I'll watch it when it

1250
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 6: comes on.

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Speaker 2: All right, anything else, but we're good.

1252
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 6: I think we're good because I live in Dallas, so

1253
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 6: I don't think I want to go anywhere from here.

1254
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 2: We'll see how those cowboys do next year. You got

1255
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 2: a few heigh paid players. Well, thanks, Greg, don't be

1256
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:29,600
Speaker 2: a stranger. Doug in San Diego joins us. Doug. Welcome

1257
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 2: into the Bernie Frawder Show.

1258
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Speaker 6: Bernie Burn, Baby Burn.

1259
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Speaker 2: How you doing doing well, sir?

1260
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Speaker 5: You God love you.

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Speaker 14: I'm doing great. March badness. Okay, three of very important

1262
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 14: words about March badness. Less is more. I don't want

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Speaker 14: them to add another team. I think your prior caller

1264
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Speaker 14: called a good thing there. Sixty four teams was fine.

1265
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 14: Sixty eight with all these playing games and whatnot. I mean,

1266
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 14: don't get me wrong, I'd like to have a game on.

1267
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 14: But I really think less is more when it comes

1268
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 14: to March madness. And I want to put a shout

1269
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Speaker 14: out to UCSD. The Tritons get it.

1270
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they got their ticket punch, great school, you know what.

1271
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Speaker 14: I'm a huge Aztec fan, said he was stayed and

1272
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 14: we're on the bubble big time. But to see UCSD Gideon,

1273
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Speaker 14: it's really unbelievable.

1274
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 5: First year of eligibility.

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Speaker 2: They earned it. They earned it, you know what. They

1276
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 2: earned it. There's there's no large deal there. They earned it.

1277
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Speaker 14: And uh, Aaron Rodgers, oh my god, this guy's unbelievable.

1278
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 14: I don't know what's going to happen when no one

1279
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 14: else does either.

1280
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 6: I don't think Aaron knows at this point.

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Speaker 14: He really is a He's a basket case, is what

1282
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 14: he is.

1283
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 6: And frankly, there's not.

1284
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 10: Many teams who want him.

1285
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 14: I guess the Giants and the Steelers maybe, but after

1286
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:58,000
Speaker 14: that it's pretty slim pickings for the guy.

1287
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 2: Now that's it. There are three teams in the mix,

1288
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 2: the Giants, the Steelers, and now my brain has gone dead, Vikings.

1289
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 2: But I'm going to get to they're all. They're the

1290
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 2: only ones being talked about the top of the hour

1291
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 2: here coming up in twenty six minutes. I'm going guys

1292
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 2: behind the curtain a little bit, all right, So anything

1293
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 2: on Miles Garrett, Well, you.

1294
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 14: Know what, the guy I thought was sincere about wanting

1295
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 14: to win, and I still think he wants to win,

1296
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 14: but he wasn't good to turn down that kind of money.

1297
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 5: I don't have.

1298
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 8: Anything against that.

1299
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 2: I understand see that. I get somebody sticks one hundred

1300
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 2: and sixty million in front of you, it's pretty hard

1301
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 2: to turn down. But he's the one that ran his

1302
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 2: mouth and said he was threatening drastic measures, including missing games.

1303
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 2: Where the hell's that.

1304
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 14: Guy is putting his mouth a little bit? But overall,

1305
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 14: he's such a great player, and I believe that he

1306
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 14: has a great competitive spirit and wants to win. And

1307
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 14: money comes along when you're a great player.

1308
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 2: All right, All true. I can't disagree with with that

1309
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 2: part of it. Everything has a context, Everything has a subtext.

1310
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 2: I look at it this way. Look, you know the

1311
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 2: great branch tricky One said, hey, we finished laught with you,

1312
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 2: we can finished last without you. I would have moved on,

1313
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:19,479
Speaker 2: got as many draft picks as I can. He would

1314
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 2: have had a huge market. You got, you know, six

1315
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 2: weeks here to make heay for yourself start over. Cleveland

1316
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 2: needs all kinds of help, and all this does is

1317
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 2: hamstring them and their ability to get the kind of

1318
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 2: help that will, you know, certainly perhaps allow them to

1319
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 2: at least make an attempt to overcome teams like you know,

1320
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 2: Cincinnati and their division and Pittsburgh and their division. So

1321
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 2: it's it's not a picnic. And he I wouldn't have

1322
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 2: done it, big mistake eight seven seven nine ninety six

1323
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 2: six three six nine eight seven seven ninety nine On Fox,

1324
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 2: The Been That Hour continues. One of the topics that

1325
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 2: it's gotten a lot of more run night. A lot

1326
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 2: of folks really don't want to see the tournament expand,

1327
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 2: and I don't know if I do or I don't,

1328
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to still watch it anyway. But there's been

1329
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 2: some very intelligent journalistic reportage on this recently and shared

1330
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:24,719
Speaker 2: some facts that I think are worth worth noting. Okay,

1331
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 2: first of all, there are a couple of narratives that

1332
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 2: always raise their head when you know they talk about

1333
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 2: doing this, for instance, diluting the tournament. All right, they've

1334
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,799
Speaker 2: been using that same argument every time the field got bigger.

1335
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 2: The first time they expanded was nineteen seventy five. They

1336
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 2: went to thirty two, then they went to forty eight

1337
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 2: and sixty four. It's been changed multiple times. And one

1338
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 2: of the things I bet people didn't know is that

1339
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 2: in the last thirty five years, since the tournament was

1340
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 2: expanded significantly, the number of teams in Division one has

1341
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 2: grown from two eighty two to three sixty four. There

1342
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 2: are now eighty two more Division one teams. That means

1343
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 2: we've gone from twenty three percent of the teams making

1344
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 2: the tournament, we're actually now down to eighteen percent. So

1345
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 2: if you add eight more, that would bring it back

1346
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 2: to twenty two percent twenty three percent. Right now they're

1347
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 2: talking about going from sixty eight to seventy six, that

1348
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 2: would get it back to twenty three percent. Again, people

1349
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 2: who will expose oppose the expanse. You'd argue that it

1350
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 2: would dilute the field, it would devalue the regular season

1351
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 2: and admit too many mediocre teams. But again every time

1352
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 2: they every time the tournament expanded, they said that keep

1353
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 2: this in mind. Okay, because that argument doesn't really hold up.

1354
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 2: Between nineteen seventy nine and two thousand and five, only

1355
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 2: one double digit seat, that's LSU. In nineteen eighty six,

1356
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:57,560
Speaker 2: they were an eleven seed made the final four. But

1357
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 2: since then then the tournament's been expanded significantly. Five double

1358
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 2: digit teams have done it. Before two thousand and six,

1359
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety six U MASS team was the only

1360
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 2: mid major team to make the Final four since Indiana

1361
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 2: State and Larry Bird did it in seventy nine. But

1362
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 2: guess what since then, since two thousand and six alone,

1363
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 2: and this is after expansion, and everybody said it was diluted.

1364
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:27,759
Speaker 2: George Mason, WICHITAF State, Butler, VCU, Gonzaga, Loyola Chicago, Florida Atlantic,

1365
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 2: and San Diego State have all made it to the

1366
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 2: final four. Gonzaga, Butler, San Diego State all made it

1367
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,599
Speaker 2: to the final game. And in the first thirty two

1368
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 2: years after the tournament expanded to sixty four teams, a

1369
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 2: number one. I checked out at number sixteen seed, had

1370
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 2: never defeated at number one. Now it's happened twice in

1371
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 2: the last seven years. And by the way, in just

1372
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 2: two three years ago, Saint Peter's became the number. Check

1373
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 2: that the first number fifteen seed to reach the Elite eight.

1374
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,720
Speaker 2: So and by the way, the first four you know

1375
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 2: the plan. Some people complain about it's only been around

1376
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 2: twelve years, believe it or not. Okay, but two at

1377
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,560
Speaker 2: large teams played in the final game or played in

1378
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 2: the final four. Check that VCU and Shock as smart

1379
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 2: and twenty eleven and then UCLA three years ago they

1380
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 2: made the final four. So the second thing is a

1381
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 2: reason that people are saying this is a good idea.

1382
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 2: It would spice up Tuesday and Wednesday. Believe it or not.

1383
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,600
Speaker 2: If you've watched, some of the best games over the

1384
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 2: last twelve years have happened during the first four, especially

1385
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 2: the ones between the number sixteen seeds. But people aren't

1386
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 2: watching as much and a lot of people don't care

1387
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 2: because they don't think it's the real tournament. They're not wrong,

1388
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,719
Speaker 2: but they're not exactly one hundred percent right either either.

1389
01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 2: So if you add eight teams That means Tuesday and

1390
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,560
Speaker 2: Wednesday would pack a lot more punch. One of the

1391
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 2: proposals floating has twelve games taking place those first two

1392
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 2: days and then fifty two teams would receive buys into

1393
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,160
Speaker 2: the first round. That would draw a lot more eyeballs.

1394
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 2: The committee believes, and the tournament directors believe.

1395
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 8: Do we know?

1396
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 6: We don't know.

1397
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: The question is whether or not they expand, or whether

1398
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 2: or not they should expand. Who would play in those games? Well,

1399
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:26,759
Speaker 2: you don't know. That's under discussion. One of the models

1400
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 2: is that, you know, you want the Power Conference folks

1401
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 2: to get more preferential treatment, as it were. You know

1402
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,919
Speaker 2: who wants expansion more than anybody else, the Power Conferences.

1403
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 2: For those who say growing in the field by you know,

1404
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 2: eight teams or four teams would ruin the NCAA tournament.

1405
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is the Power Conferences have

1406
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 2: talked about blowing up this tournament and creating a tournament

1407
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,680
Speaker 2: on their own. Do I think that will happen, No,

1408
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 2: But it's being talked about. Things change in this country.

1409
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 2: I mean, we once shot fought wars with a single

1410
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 2: shot rifle. Anything is under investigation or under possibility, but

1411
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 2: it would take away the similar Ella stories. And don't

1412
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 2: think for a second that a basketball tournament involving, you know,

1413
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:19,919
Speaker 2: Cinderella stories isn't valuable, it's valuable property. Okay, Athletic directors,

1414
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 2: commissioners of the Power conferences, they've been the most vocal

1415
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 2: proponents of that expansion. And it's not necessarily because they'll

1416
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 2: make more money, because they won't, but they want more

1417
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 2: of their teams to play in the tournament. They believe

1418
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:35,799
Speaker 2: their teams are better than some of the mid majors

1419
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 2: when you have all season to prove it. So they

1420
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 2: haven't expanded in forty years. And it may sound crazy,

1421
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 2: but it's not as crazy as you think when you

1422
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 2: start to listen to intelligent journalists who have brought this

1423
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 2: to the forefront, and you know they're sort of revisiting

1424
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 2: this because at the end of the seventies, college basketball

1425
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:01,600
Speaker 2: was kind of at a crossroads. But they got a

1426
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 2: lucky spark when Magic Johnson played Larry Bird in March

1427
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 2: is seventy nine. That got a twenty four point one

1428
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 2: Nielsen rating, the highest for any college basketball game or

1429
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 2: pro in history. And what did the NCAA do. They

1430
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 2: capitalized on that and they expanded, so as crazy as

1431
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 2: it may sound to some people, it's not on the

1432
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 2: realm of possibility. Do I think it's gonna happen. Yeah,

1433
01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 2: I do. Actually, I'm just not sure when. But I

1434
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 2: think you'll see seventy six teams coming up. We wrap

1435
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 2: up the Midnight Hour. Man, Will you will be next?

1436
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:39,000
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1437
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1449
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Speaker 2: Hour continues, Manuel and Guardina, you will be up next.

1450
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 2: Keep it lock. You're listening to the Bernie Fratle Show

1451
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back of the Bernie

1452
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 2: Frawdle Show, Fox Sports Radio. We are wrapping it up

1453
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 2: on the midnight hour. Let's go out to our men

1454
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 2: in Guardina. Manuel, Manuel, always good to hear from me.

1455
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 2: What do you got for us tonight?

1456
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 12: Saatisfaction came in the chain reactions because I just want

1457
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:49,560
Speaker 12: to selebrace Hey, Bernie so first off, and I'm with

1458
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 12: him Bartel, When is enough already? I mean, what are

1459
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 12: they gonna start doing? Hanging giving out participation trophies, hanging

1460
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 12: out banners for the Sweet sixty four?

1461
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 2: Come on, man, where it is sweet sixty four.

1462
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:10,560
Speaker 10: It doesn't need to get any more diluted.

1463
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 12: When does the greed end?

1464
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 11: You know?

1465
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 1: So?

1466
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:14,680
Speaker 6: No?

1467
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 2: Never, the had never ends. Oh that's hard. No, that's

1468
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 2: you know. I got you. Okay, you can go to

1469
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers or Miles Garrett next poison.

1470
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 15: I'm gonna well another one of the callers sentiments with

1471
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 15: Aaron Rodgers.

1472
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 12: First off, who in their right mind.

1473
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 15: Is gonna give this guy the fifty million that he wants.

1474
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 15: I mean, he's not Aaron Rodgers one point zero anymore.

1475
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 12: He's he is, He's done. Man. I mean, I think

1476
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 12: his best knit honestly, and I know people are not

1477
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 12: gonna agree with this.

1478
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: Would be New York because of the Giants Ball.

1479
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 12: Yeah, because pain ball had some successful Josh Allen and

1480
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 12: Aaron Rodgers has a rocket arm like Allen, and if

1481
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 12: the Achilles were to.

1482
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 15: Heal, he has a little bit of mobility like Josh Allen.

1483
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 12: So I think that would be his best fit per se.

1484
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 9: Plus they got that stud receiver.

1485
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 12: But everybody knows he's trying to get Minnesota to bring

1486
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 12: him in, you know.

1487
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna talk about that on top of

1488
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 2: the hour I am. And look, I don't think he's

1489
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 2: gonna command fifty million. I don't, nor do I think

1490
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers would offer him that, nor do I think

1491
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 2: any of the other teams would offer him that. But

1492
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 2: to your point, you know, can he really be worth

1493
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Speaker 2: whatever money they offer him? Continue on?

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01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean at this point, he's worth what Russell

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01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 12: Wilson got last year from Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, they got him for.

1497
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:50,839
Speaker 2: A hot talk and a coke because of the contract.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 15: And Miles Garrett, Hey, man, I'm gonna go with an

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01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 15: old Jim Romanism.

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Speaker 12: Whenever anybody says it's not about the money, it's about

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01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 12: one thing.

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01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 2: So money, what a million percent?

1504
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:07,559
Speaker 15: He did, and he wasn't lying.

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01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 12: He was going for winning, and he won that negotiations.

1506
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 12: He pulled the wall over the Brown's eyes, and God

1507
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 12: bless him. Man, he conda be laughed in all the

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01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 12: way to the bank.

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01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 8: Bernie, keep up the good work.

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01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 15: Is always Love you, my brother.

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01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 2: Thanks, Manuell, appreciate you, appreciate Manuel and all the callers. Tonight.

1512
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:29,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna close by saying I still believe the Browns

1513
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 2: should have traded Miles Garrett rather than signing to this

1514
01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 2: ridiculous historic extension. Not because he's not a good player,

1515
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 2: but you're not gonna win with him. You're not. And

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01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 2: I know there are cap complications if you trade a

1517
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett, tough, you gotta do something. The Browns are

1518
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 2: not even close to a Super Bowl to Deshaun Watson.

1519
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 2: Trade wreck the contention window. This group of veterans, they're stuck.

1520
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 2: They're in denial. The Browns are absolutely in denial. The

1521
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 2: question is, can the Browns find a veteran quarterback this month?

1522
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 2: Maybe grape into the playoffs next years a seventh seed.

1523
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the NFL teams at the bottom rotated annually,

1524
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 2: but there is a very wide gap between playoff contender

1525
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 2: and Super Bowl contender. The Browns are not even realistically

1526
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 2: contending for a playoff, not much much less as Super Bowl.

1527
01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 2: A lot of things have to go right for this

1528
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 2: team to be a playoff contender, much less as super

1529
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 2: Bowl contender, and Garrett seemed to realize what he initially

1530
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 2: made his trade request. Nothing's changed, Jimmy haslim. Look, they

1531
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 2: got money. They throw money at all their problems, but

1532
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 2: it doesn't work, and it just hasn't worked. The Browns

1533
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:40,639
Speaker 2: restructure contracts or create caps base. They do a good job,

1534
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 2: but we have one play don't have one playoff victory

1535
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 2: to show for all that spending in the last five years.

1536
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 2: They just have a lot of receipts coming up. I'm

1537
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 2: gonna take you behind the Aaron Rodgers curtain. Keep it locked,

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Speaker 2: and you'll see the show posted right after we get

1555
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Speaker 2: off the air. You know, the opposite of love is

1556
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 2: not hate, it's indifference. People hate Aaron Rodgers, some love

1557
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. One of the earlier callers really brought up

1558
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 2: a great point. I wish I could remember who did it.

1559
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 2: I'd be happy to give you credit having to do

1560
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 2: with liking. Would like to see Rogers go to the

1561
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 2: Vikings like Brett Farvre did. And maybe it was a

1562
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 2: different caller or that same caller referenced the fact that

1563
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 2: d Rogers is still very protective of his legacy. Okay,

1564
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 2: and much the same, And there's no doubt in my

1565
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:22,760
Speaker 2: mind Travis Kelsey wasn't going to retire after that Super

1566
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 2: Bowl debacle. He didn't want to go out that way.

1567
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 2: Didn't want that to be the last one. I don't

1568
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 2: think Rogers wants the Jets stop to be his last

1569
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 2: one because if you look at Tom Brady's legacy, yes,

1570
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 2: he left New England and they can say it was messy,

1571
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 2: but he goes to Tampa Bay, wins his Super Bowl,

1572
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 2: his legacy secure. Brett Farvre, if you recall, left Green Bay,

1573
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 2: went to the New York Jets, got into the playoffs,

1574
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 2: then went to the Vikings and was very close to

1575
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 2: get into the Super Bowl. They threw an ill advised pass,

1576
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 2: to which Paul Allen said, why do you pond or passing?

1577
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 2: Probably find that great sun by somewhere from two thousand

1578
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 2: and nine so far went to other franchises, helped make

1579
01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 2: them a winner. Green Bay has gotten better since Aaron

1580
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,560
Speaker 2: Rodgers left and the Jets not so much. So I

1581
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 2: think Rogers wants to clean this up. So all of

1582
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 2: a sudden now here we go once again in Rogers's

1583
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 2: Milknness for all it's worth, we're talking about Aaron Rodgers again.

1584
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 2: The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference. You

1585
01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:25,600
Speaker 2: didn't care, you wouldn't care. What is that? That's not

1586
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 2: real profound, but you get my point. Loving hate watching

1587
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:35,599
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is provocative for people as the people who

1588
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 2: do rut for Aaron Rodgers and I do the Gisson fans. Okay,

1589
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 2: so the most likely destinations are the New York Giants

1590
01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:45,719
Speaker 2: and the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the Minnesota Vikings also remain

1591
01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,560
Speaker 2: in the market for a veteran quarterback to pair with

1592
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy. In a minute, we're gonna break down all

1593
01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 2: three of these destinations, why each one potentially makes sense,

1594
01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:02,599
Speaker 2: and why each one doesn't makes sense. But it appears,

1595
01:23:02,720 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 2: and I've been teasing this for an hour and now

1596
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers has a clear preference where he wants to

1597
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 2: play next year. The question is is it mutual? You see,

1598
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:15,280
Speaker 2: it's pretty clear to me Aaron Rodgers hopes to sign

1599
01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:17,799
Speaker 2: with the Vikings, and I think has since been reported

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01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 2: by the athletic. Meanwhile, the Steelers and the Giants who

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01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 2: I think are a distant third in this conversation, are

1602
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 2: waiting for him to make up his mind. Now, who's

1603
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 2: the one guy that I've been talking about for the

1604
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 2: last forty eight minutes that holds technically Aaron rodgers fate

1605
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 2: in his hands if he wants to be a Viking.

1606
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 2: That would be Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell, who I

1607
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 2: have an immense amount of respect for. Kevin O'Connell holds

1608
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 2: the cards. He has the biggest influence over whether or

1609
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 2: not Minnesota will in fact actually pursue Aaron Rodgers. The

1610
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:58,320
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is Rogers might be the biggest

1611
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 2: nominal in free agency. Look all these teams traded for quarterbacks,

1612
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,200
Speaker 2: signed quarterbacks, move quarterbacks around, And I'm going to get

1613
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 2: to some of the free agency stuff at bottom of

1614
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,560
Speaker 2: the hour because it was a very active week. The

1615
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is it is the thinnest position

1616
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 2: in all of sport. And does Rogers have one more

1617
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 2: in him? You don't know what you do, not know

1618
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 2: what you have in JJ McCarthy. Now, I realized that

1619
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 2: his numbers weren't fabulous at Michigan, but he wasn't asked to.

1620
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 2: But when he needed to. He came up with the

1621
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 2: big throw, but he had him to the keys of

1622
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 2: the car. I'm inclined to think JJ McCarthy is going

1623
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 2: to be an above average quarterback in the NFL. I

1624
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 2: believe that, but you sew it after Sam Darnold was

1625
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 2: great during the regular season. I think those two postseason

1626
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 2: games are checked out. It was just one postseason game

1627
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 2: and then a debacle against the Rams left a bad

1628
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 2: taste in their mouth. All right, So we know the

1629
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 2: Vikings have JJ McCarthy. They drafted number ten overall. He's

1630
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 2: on the roster. Missed all of his rookieyear due to

1631
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 2: two separate meat knee surgeries. And by the way, I

1632
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 2: didn't mention that, that's another what a huge question mark.

1633
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 2: You know, where is his you know, recovery at this point?

1634
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 2: Then you let Sam Donald go. He enjoyed a career

1635
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:11,639
Speaker 2: renaissance here with the team. He walks out in free agency,

1636
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 2: but to Seattle Mariner or Mariners. Seattle Seahawks gave him

1637
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,400
Speaker 2: a hundred million reasons to sign. We know the Giants

1638
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 2: are in desperate need of a quarterback. They met with

1639
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, they met with Russell Wilson. So far, no news.

1640
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 6: Now.

1641
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,719
Speaker 2: Rogers spent the last two seasons in New York, although

1642
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 2: it was with the Jets, and then of course, you know,

1643
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 2: he only had four snaps two years ago to really

1644
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 2: just last year the Jets. Here's here comes the bad news.

1645
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 2: They were five and twelve with Rogers under center. But

1646
01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:42,919
Speaker 2: he did throw for thirty nine hundred yards, twenty eight touchdowns,

1647
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 2: eleven interceptions. Numbers are funny. Everybody's raving about Geno Smith

1648
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 2: coming to the Raiders. He's so much better than Sam Darnald. Really,

1649
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 2: he threw twenty ten touchdown passes and had fifteen interceptions

1650
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 2: last year. He got a boat load. He's six years

1651
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 2: older than Sam Donald. They say you can play another

1652
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 2: five more years. Gino can maybe, but I'm off on

1653
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:04,200
Speaker 2: a tangent. Signing with the Vikings would be eerily similar,

1654
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 2: obviously to the trajectory Brett Farvad that was Rogers predecessor

1655
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 2: with the Packers, and you know what that went from there.

1656
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 2: You know, had stints with the Jets and Vikings. Just

1657
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 2: like I said a minute ago. After spending seventeen years

1658
01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 2: with Green Bay, Rogers spent eighteen years with the Packers

1659
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 2: So could the Vikings be Aaron Rodgers next stop? It's

1660
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 2: up to Kevin O'Connell. Why would it make sense? Okay, first,

1661
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 2: let's make this clear. The Vikings thoughts on JJ McCarthy

1662
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 2: have not changed. They do believe he is the franchise's

1663
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:41,760
Speaker 2: quarterback of the future. They do not want to slow

1664
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 2: down his path to the starting job. So how could

1665
01:26:44,439 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 2: Rogers still make sense? Because the Vikings have said they

1666
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,880
Speaker 2: want a veteran quarterback to pair with McCarthy, and right

1667
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 2: now Rogers is the best veteran available. Now head coach

1668
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:01,600
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell knows what can happen quarterback plan goes sideways

1669
01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:06,720
Speaker 2: just two years ago Kirk cousins story's Achilles. By the way,

1670
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:09,840
Speaker 2: Cousins will be back with Atlanta once he crossed a

1671
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 2: date this past week. He got a ten million dollar bonus.

1672
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 2: They're not paying him the ten million dollars bonus to

1673
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 2: release him. He'll stay in Atlanta. Okay. That injury in

1674
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three completely torpedo the Viking season. McCarthy is

1675
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 2: coming off of torrim moniskus that forced him to miss

1676
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:28,280
Speaker 2: his entire rookie season, and while the Vikings have spoken

1677
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 2: very positively about the progress that McCarthy has made in

1678
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 2: his rehab. They stuff to prepare for the worst, so

1679
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 2: Rodgers would at least provide insurance for a team that

1680
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 2: spent a ton on players like Justin Jefferson, and they

1681
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 2: are a win now franchise. They have the talent to

1682
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:49,679
Speaker 2: win now. Rogers is also close and this is important

1683
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:54,639
Speaker 2: with former Packers running back Aaron Jones and safety Harrison Smith,

1684
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 2: so he wouldn't be walking into a completely unknown situation.

1685
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 2: And Kevin O'Connell knows what Rogers can do when he's

1686
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,200
Speaker 2: on his game. But for this to work, I know

1687
01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:06,759
Speaker 2: one of the callers said, fifty men, I think Manuell,

1688
01:28:07,479 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 2: I don't think Rogers will get that. He may want it.

1689
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 2: People in hell on Icewater, so they're looks like they're

1690
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,840
Speaker 2: both thought of luck. Rogers would be willing to sign.

1691
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:16,880
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to be willing to sign for this

1692
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 2: to work for a minimum amount. That's just a fact.

1693
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 2: And the Vikings would also have to be okay with

1694
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 2: the ramifications. And it starts at the top on down,

1695
01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 2: just like the Hardball situation a few years ago, when

1696
01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 2: he thought he was getting hired by the Vikings. There

1697
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 2: are a lot of land mines here. But if Rogers

1698
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 2: priority is shifted from being a mentor and supporter in

1699
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 2: the quarterback room, I think that could go a long way.

1700
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 2: And the Vikings seriously considering this, but he's got to

1701
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:45,680
Speaker 2: get reps. Why would it make sense. There's a lot

1702
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 2: of reasons it wouldn't make sense in Minnesota. How might

1703
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:53,960
Speaker 2: it affect JJ McCarthy's confidence. How would the addition of

1704
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers affect the culture that Kevin O'Connell has built.

1705
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 2: The Vikings have a fact this culture. I don't you know?

1706
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 2: All the callers are so good tonight. Rogers just like

1707
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 2: to fly in the ointment for he's doing it again.

1708
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:11,560
Speaker 2: He's making Pittsburgh. I don't even have to justify or

1709
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:14,759
Speaker 2: lay out the specifics. You know what Aaron Rodgers is about. Okay,

1710
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 2: So what would happen if McCarthy struggled in training camp

1711
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Rogers look like five years ago.

1712
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 2: These are all hypotheticals, but they could happen right now.

1713
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,640
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, You've got questions, and you've got distractions,

1714
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 2: and you've got conversations, and all of a sudden, The

1715
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:37,200
Speaker 2: Vikings are at the center of you know, the water

1716
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 2: cooler NFL talk, and they don't like that. The Vikings

1717
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 2: have a good culture. Any if McCarthy struggles in the

1718
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:46,360
Speaker 2: least all of a sudden, now you're gonna have Kevin

1719
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:50,320
Speaker 2: O'Connell having asked ten answer ten questions today, whether or

1720
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 2: not Rogers is an option to start, which I think

1721
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:56,040
Speaker 2: you bring him in to start. You want to win now.

1722
01:29:56,680 --> 01:30:00,160
Speaker 2: But the other dilemma you have is if Aaron, if

1723
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 2: jj McCarthy doesn't play at all in twenty twenty five, geez,

1724
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 2: you've got two full years now, and did you waste

1725
01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 2: a draft pick now? I can't say he wasted it,

1726
01:30:12,439 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 2: but he ain't off to a good start. He still

1727
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 2: has a rookie deal. I know you can point to

1728
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 2: Jordan Love, but that's an outlier. That's an outlier. He

1729
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 2: was there for three years when Rogers was still there.

1730
01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 2: And the Vikings, by the way, they've spent three full

1731
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 2: years trying to get to this point. They are a

1732
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 2: respected organization around the league. They have a quarterback that

1733
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 2: looks like he's got all the potential on the world,

1734
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 2: that's likable, won a national championship in Michigan and he's

1735
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:39,920
Speaker 2: on a rookie contract, and they spent a lot of

1736
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:43,200
Speaker 2: money around that young quarterback, which they can't do in Cleveland.

1737
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 2: Now on a roster that can compete in what might

1738
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 2: be the toughest division, the NFC North with you know,

1739
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:52,599
Speaker 2: of course the Lions and the Packers and the Bears

1740
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 2: would be better. So if you add Rogers, who a

1741
01:30:55,960 --> 01:31:00,599
Speaker 2: player has not been a backup since what two thousand

1742
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 2: and eight? He would that could throw a major wrench

1743
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 2: just into the hole, you know, zeitgeist around the facility.

1744
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:12,680
Speaker 2: Let's go to the New York Giants. Why would it

1745
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:14,439
Speaker 2: make sense for Aaron Rodgers to go to the New

1746
01:31:14,520 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 2: York Giants. Well, hell, they don't have a starting caliber

1747
01:31:17,479 --> 01:31:20,679
Speaker 2: quarterback on the roster. I got no beef with Tommy DeVito.

1748
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 2: They might be better off with Danny de Vito at

1749
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 2: this point because he's not going to get you to

1750
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I like Tommy DeVito des there being an

1751
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 2: NFL roster. They need someone. Tommy DeVito is not going

1752
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:38,760
Speaker 2: to get them to the playoffs. So why might it

1753
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 2: make sense? What the hell Rogers did win a Super Bowl?

1754
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:47,920
Speaker 2: He's a four time MVP. Now a very respected writer

1755
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,560
Speaker 2: who covered the Jets last year's name is Zach Rosenblack.

1756
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 2: He's talked about the pros and cons Rogers Giants. You

1757
01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:01,360
Speaker 2: know connection because he sat there, watched Rogers up close

1758
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 2: and personal two years with the Jets, and what Girls

1759
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 2: in Black wrote quote was Rogers was probably bad to

1760
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:09,599
Speaker 2: terrible in a little more than half the Jets games,

1761
01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:12,840
Speaker 2: average for a handful and good to great for the others.

1762
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 2: It was a mixed bag, but there were still flashes

1763
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 2: of the old Rogers in there, even if they didn't

1764
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 2: show up as frequently. Mike the Vikings talent around him

1765
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 2: bring that out. It's worth noting, Okay, the season doesn't

1766
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 2: start for almost six months, a little less than six months.

1767
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 2: It's worth noting that by the time August rolls around,

1768
01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 2: July rolls around, Rogers should be his healthy, as by

1769
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:42,120
Speaker 2: far it had been two full years since tearing his achilles.

1770
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:45,080
Speaker 2: But why would Rogers choose the Giants? Well, they do

1771
01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:47,960
Speaker 2: have some things going for him. Malik Neighbors is an

1772
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:51,880
Speaker 2: emerging star receiver. And then there's a location. Maybe you

1773
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:54,639
Speaker 2: don't feel like moving again. Luckily for Rogers, he wouldn't

1774
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 2: even have to pack up his home. He already knows

1775
01:32:56,360 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 2: his way around MetLife Stadium. That's been his office the

1776
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:03,240
Speaker 2: last two years. So why wouldn't it make sense. Well, look,

1777
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:08,680
Speaker 2: because this feels all this waiting feels like Rogers is

1778
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:11,400
Speaker 2: dissing the Giants. He has a giant and I'll get

1779
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 2: to the Steelers in a minute. He's got him kind

1780
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 2: of on standby, you know, waiting. You wait over here

1781
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 2: and I'll let you know if I'm interested. And he's

1782
01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:21,880
Speaker 2: not even on their roster yet, he's not even you know,

1783
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 2: the Giants are desperate to find the starting quarterback. But

1784
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:29,400
Speaker 2: the last five days, what I believe is this has

1785
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:31,920
Speaker 2: given us an odds preview of how business will be

1786
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 2: conducted when you have Aaron Rodgers on your payroll. You

1787
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:37,760
Speaker 2: know I'm right on this one. Not to be fair

1788
01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:40,800
Speaker 2: to Rogers, I'm not advocating that anybody has to make

1789
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 2: a rush career decision. You always want to make the

1790
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,720
Speaker 2: most informed career choice you can. But having been in

1791
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:50,679
Speaker 2: the New York market the past two years, Rogers, well,

1792
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 2: you know what that media does. You know that how

1793
01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:59,439
Speaker 2: Rogers didn't necessarily I don't know that he was being

1794
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 2: publican to me. Number one, like a lot of people

1795
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:04,519
Speaker 2: make them out to be. But you've got a Giants

1796
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:07,719
Speaker 2: regime head coach right on to They're on the hot seat.

1797
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you're gonna bring us all this smoke,

1798
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:12,360
Speaker 2: all this baggage, and you're gonna have to cater to

1799
01:34:12,439 --> 01:34:15,000
Speaker 2: Karen Aaron Rodgers. And what if he starts insisting on

1800
01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 2: certain roster choices. Thank god, he can't have Davante Adams.

1801
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 2: The Rams mark my words, overpaid for him. Prove me wrong.

1802
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 2: You don't like what I said, don't tell me, show

1803
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 2: me now. The GM for the Giants, Joe Shane said

1804
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 2: at the combine, he's looking for, quote, the best player

1805
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 2: that can help us win games in twenty twenty five.

1806
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,720
Speaker 2: You may swallow hard, you may hold your nose, but

1807
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:41,519
Speaker 2: Rogers right now the available players is probably that best

1808
01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:44,600
Speaker 2: player that could help them win games. But you know,

1809
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 2: it's the potential for all the stuff that comes along

1810
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:50,679
Speaker 2: with it, the off field storylines. That is what's gonna

1811
01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:53,320
Speaker 2: make your teeth itch if you're a Giants fan, because

1812
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:58,559
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers brings, you know, baggage. Finally, the Pittsburgh Steelers,

1813
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:02,320
Speaker 2: why would it makes sense? Well, at the combine in

1814
01:35:02,320 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, the Steelers General manager Omar

1815
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:08,559
Speaker 2: Kahn said all options are on the table to address

1816
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 2: the quarterback situation, which I don't believe they ever were.

1817
01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 2: They could have kept Justin Fields. You brought in two

1818
01:35:13,439 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 2: more weapons for him, and obviously the last guy they

1819
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 2: wanted to throwing to DK Metcalf and George Pickens was

1820
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:23,800
Speaker 2: Justin Fields. Sam Donald may have kind of been in

1821
01:35:23,880 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 2: the mix, but not anymore so. Donald Fields has gone

1822
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:34,919
Speaker 2: to New York. Donald's gone to Seattle. So considering the circumstances, well, Rogers,

1823
01:35:35,880 --> 01:35:38,639
Speaker 2: he may be the best chance to give the Steelers

1824
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:42,599
Speaker 2: to win this year. Okay, I mean the Steelers already tried,

1825
01:35:43,600 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 2: you know, Russell Wilson. I think they know what they

1826
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 2: got there that didn't do kind of with a collapse

1827
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 2: down the stretch. And then I from what I'm hearing

1828
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 2: that you know, Russell Wilson, I don't know if it's true,

1829
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:55,920
Speaker 2: but it's what I heard, had some real issues with

1830
01:35:56,000 --> 01:36:00,320
Speaker 2: their offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. But the Steelers are table

1831
01:36:00,439 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 2: environment and guess what they have the NFL's highest paid defense.

1832
01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:08,160
Speaker 2: They have a very good offensive line that they've invested

1833
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 2: a lot of money in the last few years, and

1834
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:13,040
Speaker 2: they commit to running the ball, and there's no question.

1835
01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 2: I don't think i'd get much argument on this. Then

1836
01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:24,280
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers would be a lot more successful in Pittsburgh

1837
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:25,599
Speaker 2: than he was in New York. Now, I know em

1838
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:29,919
Speaker 2: Berto thought it could be Pittsburgh's first losing year. That's possible,

1839
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:33,599
Speaker 2: certainly possible, depending on how things But he's not even

1840
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:35,719
Speaker 2: on the team yet. We got to see what happens. Okay,

1841
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:40,560
Speaker 2: this feels a little bit. You may accuse me of

1842
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 2: this being a stretch, like Peyton Manning going to Denver. Okay,

1843
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 2: an aging veteran, his arm strength was gone, but he

1844
01:36:50,680 --> 01:36:53,880
Speaker 2: was a guy that used his brain, his experience, and

1845
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:57,360
Speaker 2: his influence in the locker room to really help that

1846
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:01,360
Speaker 2: Denver team win a Super Bowl what was it twelve

1847
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 2: years ago. Now that's the kind of hope that the

1848
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 2: Steelers would have. And then you still got the twenty

1849
01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:10,080
Speaker 2: twenty six draft class. Next year. I don't think the

1850
01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 2: Steelers are gonna draft shoo Door Sanders at twenty one.

1851
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 2: He may not be available there, but even if he is,

1852
01:37:14,360 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 2: they'd be crazy. And this is not the quarterback draft

1853
01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 2: class to bring one in the Steelers can win now too,

1854
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 2: Maybe not with Super Bowl, but they could make some noise.

1855
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 2: So finally, Pittsburgh, why would it make sense. Look, you've

1856
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 2: heard me say it a couple of times because you

1857
01:37:32,479 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 2: can't tell the story without narrating this. Rogers is a

1858
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 2: four time NFL MVP, he is a Super Bowl champ,

1859
01:37:40,479 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 2: He will be a Hall of Famer. But you have

1860
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 2: to think here and now, what is he right now?

1861
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,160
Speaker 2: He's gonna be forty two years old, eighteen months from

1862
01:37:50,160 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 2: a torn achilles. The Jets found out they failed to

1863
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:57,519
Speaker 2: score a touchdown in three full games this year, including

1864
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:00,400
Speaker 2: two of the eleven games Rogers played along side his

1865
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 2: buddy that he wanted to get DeVante Adams. Okay, so

1866
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:08,560
Speaker 2: you know future what do they say? What are those disclaimers?

1867
01:38:09,160 --> 01:38:12,880
Speaker 2: Future performance? That is not predicated on path performance? You're

1868
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 2: on your own good luck. He takes your chances. So

1869
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:20,240
Speaker 2: those are real concerns. And then there's a scheme. In

1870
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 2: his prime, Rogers was able to use his mobility a

1871
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 2: lot to extend plays and create outside of structure when

1872
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 2: the play broke down. But last year Rogers was a

1873
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:34,519
Speaker 2: little bit more Timmy timmid. Excuse me, he was far

1874
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 2: less willing to take shots downfield, so that right now

1875
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:45,080
Speaker 2: doesn't mesh with the Steelers current roster construction. They got

1876
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:48,760
Speaker 2: two elite wide receivers I think, in DK Metcalf and

1877
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 2: George Pickens, they're explosive deep threats. I don't think Rogers

1878
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 2: armstrings the issue, but Rogers gets real pissy when receivers

1879
01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:02,599
Speaker 2: don't run the proper routes, and DK Metcalf and George

1880
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:04,720
Speaker 2: Pickett's have been known to be free lancers a little bit,

1881
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:08,720
Speaker 2: all right. The other thing, too, is I think Mike

1882
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 2: Tomlin wants to play old Pittsburgh Steeler football ground and pound.

1883
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 2: They got a new offensive line, or certainly an upgraded

1884
01:39:18,360 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 2: offensive line, and you have a situation where you know

1885
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 2: they want to ball, control field position, don't commit stupid penalties,

1886
01:39:28,360 --> 01:39:32,200
Speaker 2: don't blow assignments, and grind teams down. All right. And

1887
01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 2: by the way, you know, the Ben Roethlisberger thing is

1888
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 2: rearing its head because he got old and Pittsburgh Steeler

1889
01:39:39,080 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 2: fans remember that. So there I have it. We'll see

1890
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:47,839
Speaker 2: what happens. The Aaron Rodgers saga continues coming up. NFL

1891
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:51,080
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1892
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Speaker 2: presented by BETMGM every Saturday and Sunday morning right here

1910
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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. Well.

1911
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 2: The NFL Free Agency began in earnest this past Monday,

1912
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:13,920
Speaker 2: and boy took off like a rocket and continued. Some

1913
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 2: people were quick to crown the Bears his offseason champs,

1914
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:23,320
Speaker 2: but the Vikings fans had, you know, a say in that,

1915
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:28,680
Speaker 2: believing they really liked what they did. And you know,

1916
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 2: I guess you could say that Minnesota has almost addressed everything.

1917
01:41:35,200 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 2: But the things they did address were things that they

1918
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:43,080
Speaker 2: were very decisive about. They you know, a lot of

1919
01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 2: folks anticipated the possibility of a Sam Donald departure. I

1920
01:41:47,280 --> 01:41:49,400
Speaker 2: was wrong on this. I thought they might franchise him.

1921
01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:53,040
Speaker 2: They didn't. They were decisive. They made a decision. But

1922
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 2: they did resign their cornerback star Byron Murphy Jr. They

1923
01:41:56,560 --> 01:42:00,360
Speaker 2: did resign their running back Aaron Jones, and theyocused on

1924
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:02,599
Speaker 2: improving the interiors of both lines. That's how you win

1925
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:06,040
Speaker 2: in football, your block and tackle. So Donald's in Seattle,

1926
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:09,080
Speaker 2: that's according to plan. Murphy and Jones are back. The

1927
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:12,320
Speaker 2: Vikings bolster their interior line. They bring up a top

1928
01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 2: rank GARB by the name of Will Freeze, who reunites

1929
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:18,879
Speaker 2: with another former teammate from the Colts, Ryan Kelly. On defense,

1930
01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 2: they added two excellent interior players, a defensive tackle Jonathan

1931
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:29,360
Speaker 2: Allen and Javon Hargrave the only thing missing. They still

1932
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:32,400
Speaker 2: got to get that quarterback to pair with JJ McCarthy.

1933
01:42:34,120 --> 01:42:40,760
Speaker 2: But look, the scouts love JJ McCarthy now that they've

1934
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:44,880
Speaker 2: really looked at him. And here's one. Here's one from

1935
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 2: an unnamed scout. Coot did not expect him to look

1936
01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:52,040
Speaker 2: that good. His anticipation throws were excellent. His athleticism is

1937
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 2: in the in the pocket is excellent. Willingness to throw

1938
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 2: over the middle was very impressed. See Justin Fields can't

1939
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:00,719
Speaker 2: do that. Guys wide open over the middle. I'm sorry,

1940
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 2: I love you, Justin just don't like when you play quarterback.

1941
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:08,720
Speaker 2: But the timing and anticipation that McCarthy has shown from

1942
01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:14,160
Speaker 2: sideline to sideline shows his potential. But no one's told

1943
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 2: me what his health is this year, so that's looming

1944
01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:19,439
Speaker 2: over as well. Give it up to the Buffalo Bills.

1945
01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 2: They added some real weapons. They signed two ex Chargers,

1946
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 2: wide receiver Josh Palmer. He's only twenty five years old,

1947
01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,040
Speaker 2: but he's a guy that can take the top off

1948
01:43:29,080 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 2: a defense. He can get enough separation. Josh Allen can

1949
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:35,800
Speaker 2: throw a freaking ball eighty yards. And by the way,

1950
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 2: I've always thought the world of Joey Bolsa. You just

1951
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,240
Speaker 2: wish the guy could stay healthy. His numbers are through

1952
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:45,080
Speaker 2: the roof. I talked about how great Miles Garrett is.

1953
01:43:45,160 --> 01:43:48,760
Speaker 2: Bosa has better numbers when he's healthy. He's still a

1954
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 2: strong pass rusher when he's available. He's thirty now, he

1955
01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:54,880
Speaker 2: needs to stay healthy. But Buffalo gana for a tidy

1956
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:58,120
Speaker 2: twelve million that could be a real value. They also

1957
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:01,800
Speaker 2: got Steelers defensive tackle Larry Ogan Joby one year, eight

1958
01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:06,040
Speaker 2: million dollar deal and a former Ram Michael Heckt, a

1959
01:44:06,160 --> 01:44:10,080
Speaker 2: defensive lineman three years twenty four million. Why look what? Okay,

1960
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:12,880
Speaker 2: So what did Buffalo struggle with last year getting pressure

1961
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 2: on the passer, especially in the latter half. They addressed it.

1962
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 2: Joey Bosa, Larry Ogan Joby, Michael Heckt, and they got

1963
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:24,120
Speaker 2: themselves a nice wide receiver. Buffalo very active and very

1964
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:31,040
Speaker 2: productive in NFL free agency. Looky here, Kyle Shanahan finally

1965
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:34,880
Speaker 2: got Mac Jones. Remember back in twenty twenty one, when

1966
01:44:34,920 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 2: everybody was saying, you know, they were gonna draft Mac

1967
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 2: Jones in the first round, and I believe he was,

1968
01:44:39,520 --> 01:44:41,720
Speaker 2: and I believe he got talked out of it. They

1969
01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 2: trade three first round picks to get the legendary Trey Lance.

1970
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:49,160
Speaker 2: All due respect to Trey Lance, he's not a major

1971
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 2: league quarterback. Do you ever figure that out? By now?

1972
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 2: You could pick on mac Jones all you want. In

1973
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:58,560
Speaker 2: the right system, he could do just fine. Now, you

1974
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:02,640
Speaker 2: wondered if Kyle Shanahan would finally ever get his day

1975
01:45:02,720 --> 01:45:09,200
Speaker 2: in court, and he with with with mac Jones and

1976
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:11,439
Speaker 2: then Brock Purdy fell on their lap. It was amazing

1977
01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:15,519
Speaker 2: by the way. Trey Lance afore mentioned Trey Lance. He's

1978
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:18,080
Speaker 2: still only twenty four years old. He started whopping five

1979
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 2: games in four years since being drafted. He has not

1980
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 2: looked impressive at all. You can pick on mac Jones

1981
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 2: all you want, but he's got a much higher ceiling.

1982
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:29,320
Speaker 2: And they got him on a song mac Jones two

1983
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:31,360
Speaker 2: year deal up to seven men. He'll back up Brock

1984
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 2: Purty and in that system, in that system, you do

1985
01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:39,719
Speaker 2: just fine. Remember he got to help get the Patriots

1986
01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 2: to the playoffs two years ago. He's not that bad.

1987
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 2: He's got His ability to process between the years is

1988
01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:51,280
Speaker 2: off the charts. He's walking into the line of scrimmage

1989
01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 2: making pre snap reads that veterans don't make. So you know,

1990
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:58,599
Speaker 2: it's a smart move by Kyle Shannehan. You really got

1991
01:45:58,680 --> 01:46:01,639
Speaker 2: to have two quarterbacks in this league. Anything can happen.

1992
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 2: The Saints actually improved. They were very active in free agency.

1993
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:11,479
Speaker 2: They have a pretty good cap situation, so resigning players

1994
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:14,880
Speaker 2: to larger extensions, truth of the matter is, is cheaper

1995
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 2: than actually letting those players leave. But that's what you

1996
01:46:17,479 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 2: got to do sometimes. Okay, their new coach Kellen Moore

1997
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 2: and Mickey Loomis, they put their heads together. They resigned

1998
01:46:25,120 --> 01:46:28,200
Speaker 2: their tight end Juwan Johnson and Chase Young. I always

1999
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 2: had great expectations for Chase Young out of Ohio State

2000
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 2: as a defensive end. I don't know if it's injuries

2001
01:46:33,360 --> 01:46:34,880
Speaker 2: or what. He hasn't really quite lived up to what

2002
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 2: I thought. But maybe he's maybe he can find the

2003
01:46:37,479 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 2: fountain of youth this year, like you know Gino Smith

2004
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 2: did sort of. They also signed Justin Reid, a very

2005
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 2: talented safety away from the Chiefs on a three year

2006
01:46:47,120 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 2: deal for thirty one million. And you know he'll play

2007
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:56,760
Speaker 2: alongside Tyron Matthew. He's only twenty eight years old, so look,

2008
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:01,759
Speaker 2: Justin Reid is actually consider one of the best open

2009
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:07,240
Speaker 2: field tacklers in the National Football League. And in case

2010
01:47:07,320 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 2: you missed it, the Saints finished last season with the

2011
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:17,320
Speaker 2: seventh highest missed tackle rate. So they improved. They did.

2012
01:47:17,439 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. The Colts now have their quarterback competition.

2013
01:47:21,360 --> 01:47:24,479
Speaker 2: Like they said they wanted to give for Anthony Richardson,

2014
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:28,000
Speaker 2: they got Daniel Jones a fourteen million dollar one year deal.

2015
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:31,160
Speaker 2: It's a proven deal. It's a little bit more money

2016
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:34,400
Speaker 2: than the Vikings gave Sam Darnold last year ten million.

2017
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:37,720
Speaker 2: Jones is only twenty seven years old. He does have

2018
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:41,559
Speaker 2: one road playoff win to his credit that he actually

2019
01:47:41,600 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 2: beat the aforementioned Vikings in Minnesota. And look, let's be

2020
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 2: honest about this. I think Daniel Jones will win the job.

2021
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 2: Could I be wrong? Sure, and be wrong. I think

2022
01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:57,400
Speaker 2: he'll unsee Anthony Richardson from the number one role. But

2023
01:47:58,080 --> 01:48:00,640
Speaker 2: the real goal, because Daniel Jones, I doubt, is a

2024
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:03,080
Speaker 2: long term solution. They really want to try to somehow

2025
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:05,800
Speaker 2: get what they can out of Anthony Richardson. He's only

2026
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:12,160
Speaker 2: twenty two. Their hope is that Daniel Jones pushes Anthony

2027
01:48:12,280 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 2: Richardson to improve. And if he wins the job, outright,

2028
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,360
Speaker 2: so be it. But if he were to pitch, if

2029
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:24,080
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones were to push Anthony Richardson to improve to

2030
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:27,760
Speaker 2: the point where he actually wins the job, that's a

2031
01:48:27,800 --> 01:48:32,600
Speaker 2: bonus for the Colts. I don't have hope given Richardson's

2032
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:35,920
Speaker 2: age and inexperience. He's only started fifteen NFL games. He

2033
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:39,479
Speaker 2: needs to jump dramatically. He needs to have dramatic improvement.

2034
01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:43,519
Speaker 2: He actually completed forty seven percent of his passes last

2035
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:47,960
Speaker 2: year in the NFL, last among anybody who started a game. Okay, regardless,

2036
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:52,320
Speaker 2: if Richardson can't beat out Daniel Jones for the starting role,

2037
01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 2: then guess what The Colts have found out that Richardson

2038
01:48:55,360 --> 01:48:58,280
Speaker 2: was never going to be the franchise quarterback that they

2039
01:48:58,320 --> 01:48:59,880
Speaker 2: hoped they were getting when they selected in a back

2040
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:05,080
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Right, don't. I don't think he's

2041
01:49:05,120 --> 01:49:09,759
Speaker 2: getting great reviews across the league. Another reunion I talked about,

2042
01:49:10,360 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 2: you know, Kyle Shanahan getting his guy Mac Jones. Sort

2043
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:15,880
Speaker 2: of he did get him that sort of, he did

2044
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:18,920
Speaker 2: get him. The Chargers brought back one of Justin Herbert's favorites,

2045
01:49:19,200 --> 01:49:22,680
Speaker 2: wide receiver, Micha Williams. Remember him. He got a very

2046
01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:25,040
Speaker 2: team friendly deal worth up to six million. He just

2047
01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:28,120
Speaker 2: he was gone only one year. He got released to

2048
01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:30,880
Speaker 2: avoid a twenty million dollar cap hit. And I think

2049
01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 2: you'll see more signings from the Chargers. They have about

2050
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 2: thirty three million dollars in remaining cap space. They really

2051
01:49:37,240 --> 01:49:39,360
Speaker 2: got to approve the interior of their offensive line.

2052
01:49:39,439 --> 01:49:39,800
Speaker 6: You saw.

2053
01:49:40,760 --> 01:49:44,080
Speaker 2: I mean in some of those games, especially in the

2054
01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:47,280
Speaker 2: playoff game against Houston, give the Texans credit. You know,

2055
01:49:47,640 --> 01:49:49,679
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert got hit more than a Rocky Bell ball.

2056
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:53,439
Speaker 2: And so you know they've got the Ryan Mackay, Beckton,

2057
01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 2: Brandon Schurf. We'll see what the Chargers do, but they're

2058
01:49:56,520 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 2: looking to bolster their offensive line. Some running actually found

2059
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:05,839
Speaker 2: some homes, you know, Javonte Williams and the Cowboys, Najie

2060
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:11,080
Speaker 2: Harris goes to the Chargers, Rico dadel At the Carolina Panthers, JK. Dobbins,

2061
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb, Gus Edwards, Rohe Mostert. They're still available for

2062
01:50:14,240 --> 01:50:16,840
Speaker 2: teams that need running backs. You know, And I've never

2063
01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:19,800
Speaker 2: at some point I'll give my commentary again, I've never

2064
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:25,559
Speaker 2: once believed that running backs were expendable or diminished. They're

2065
01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:28,680
Speaker 2: very important. What we found out is that they're interchangeable.

2066
01:50:29,560 --> 01:50:31,639
Speaker 2: You had a guy out of the seventh round Rutgers

2067
01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 2: take over for a first round pick and led the

2068
01:50:35,200 --> 01:50:36,920
Speaker 2: Chiefs to a Super Bowl two years ago, rest for

2069
01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty one yards. He had the same

2070
01:50:39,080 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 2: thing with the Rams right years ago. So you take

2071
01:50:45,120 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 2: one guy'll plug at another. I don't know that Taquon

2072
01:50:47,360 --> 01:50:50,400
Speaker 2: Barkley would be so easily replaceable, but he's an outlier,

2073
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:55,400
Speaker 2: all right. Finally, Cooper Cup, he was earlier in the

2074
01:50:55,479 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 2: week became the top receiver available, but that you know,

2075
01:51:03,040 --> 01:51:05,120
Speaker 2: he's since signed with the Seahawks, and I don't know

2076
01:51:05,640 --> 01:51:08,120
Speaker 2: why the Rams gave up on him so quick, honestly,

2077
01:51:09,240 --> 01:51:12,000
Speaker 2: would I Maybe I'm just not that smart or I'm

2078
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 2: not inside the four walls, and I don't see what

2079
01:51:14,040 --> 01:51:17,599
Speaker 2: the Rams sy. I wouldn't much rather have Cooper Cup

2080
01:51:17,640 --> 01:51:21,840
Speaker 2: than DeVante Adams for a thousand reasons. Okay, it's it's

2081
01:51:21,880 --> 01:51:25,439
Speaker 2: a great landing spot for Cooper Cup in Seattle because

2082
01:51:26,439 --> 01:51:32,840
Speaker 2: he's replacing basically DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. Okay, you know,

2083
01:51:33,200 --> 01:51:36,439
Speaker 2: basically Cup, would you know, become the He'll become the

2084
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 2: Lockett replacement. Okay, he doesn't have to be a downfield threat.

2085
01:51:40,200 --> 01:51:41,679
Speaker 2: He still hasn't been in the past.

2086
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:42,360
Speaker 8: Right.

2087
01:51:42,840 --> 01:51:44,719
Speaker 2: By the way, there's still some guys out there available.

2088
01:51:45,080 --> 01:51:48,519
Speaker 2: Happy go Lucky, Stefan Diggs, so Darius Smith who flop

2089
01:51:48,680 --> 01:51:51,840
Speaker 2: with the Lions in my opinion, m Guy, Beckton, Lamark Cooper,

2090
01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:54,519
Speaker 2: Keaton Allen. We'll see what happens. They're not done yet. Well,

2091
01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:58,200
Speaker 2: by the way, quarterbacks, Okay, Daniel Jones wasn't the only

2092
01:51:58,240 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 2: one who got paid. Jacobeid a guy always like, consummate professional.

2093
01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 2: Two years twelve and a half million with Arizona Cardinals.

2094
01:52:05,479 --> 01:52:10,120
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers two years,

2095
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 2: eight million dollars. He was the recipient of the swinging

2096
01:52:13,120 --> 01:52:15,920
Speaker 2: helmet by Miles Garrett. Those two teams get to play

2097
01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:18,800
Speaker 2: each other twice next year. We'll see what happens if

2098
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph's he's on the field. Josh Dopps a company man.

2099
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:25,639
Speaker 2: Two years with the Patriots eight million dollars. Mac Jones

2100
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:29,400
Speaker 2: two years seven million, Nick Mullins two years six and

2101
01:52:29,439 --> 01:52:33,080
Speaker 2: a half million. He signs with the Jacksonville Jaguars. And

2102
01:52:33,760 --> 01:52:37,519
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson, Remember Zach Wilson. He goes to the Miami

2103
01:52:37,600 --> 01:52:42,320
Speaker 2: Dolphins one year, six million dollars.

2104
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Speaker 8: Coming up.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to a little bit of March madness,

2106
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Speaker 2: because I've said earlier that I think there are only

2107
01:52:50,680 --> 01:52:53,240
Speaker 2: eight teams that can win it all, maybe seven. I'm

2108
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Speaker 2: gonna give you, though, what I think the Achilles Heel

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Speaker 2: is for all of them. I'm Bernie Fronower, Kemy laf

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Speaker 2: for the lost Figgas Fox Sports Radio, tire Wrap dot

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. How We're back on

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Come you live

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Speaker 2: You know like basketball, Tractor Supply knows that a winning

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Speaker 2: season takes practice, team work in a can do attitude.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: I was all set to predict a Duke Blue Devils

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Speaker 2: would win at all. They're an elite roster of highly

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Speaker 2: talented players period. But what worried me? In addition to

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Speaker 2: having their rotation being the youngest in the country, you

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Speaker 2: had two veterans dealing with injuries. I think Malik Brown

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Speaker 2: is done. He was sidelined with a dislocated shoulder. He

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Speaker 2: came back the other day and redislocated the shoulder. I

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Speaker 2: think he's done. Look Tyrese Proctor building on the bone bruise,

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Speaker 2: and now Cooper Flag. I don't know the extent of

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Speaker 2: his injury. I don't know their saying's going to be

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Speaker 2: available for the tournament. What does that mean? I doubt

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Speaker 2: he'll play Thursday. It's presumed Duke would be to you know,

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Speaker 2: sixteen seed, they're gonna be a number one seed. They

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Speaker 2: aren't it? Okay, they moved through the a SEC tournament.

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Speaker 2: What is there? You know? Bugaboo the youngest rotation in

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Speaker 2: the country, that's all. And now they're down two really

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Speaker 2: good starters. And over six games, you gotta win six

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Speaker 2: games of oral. So who do trust when heat gets

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Speaker 2: hot and it's hard to breathe? I trust coaching. I

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Speaker 2: trust backcourts. Look the SEC teams. The SEC is gonna

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Speaker 2: get thirteen teams in there. They're gonna be a bear.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean they're gonna win it. The ACC got eleven

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Speaker 2: teams in back in twenty eleven. They didn't win it.

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Speaker 2: They had one of the eleven get to the final four, Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: That was a year Yukon beat Butler. Anything can happen

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Speaker 2: in a one game of fair guard play will be important.

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Speaker 2: They can control the game. Isaiah Thomas once told me

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Speaker 2: he believed point guard was the most important position in

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Speaker 2: all sports. Why because one man with the ball in

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Speaker 2: his hands could control the actions over eleven check that

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Speaker 2: nine other people. All right, So can Michigan State win it?

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Speaker 2: They're one of the seven? What's their bugaboo? You saw today?

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Speaker 2: They actually allow more three pointers three point attempts. They

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Speaker 2: typically defend it well. The last time they played Wisconsin,

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin attempted three two three pointers, only made five. Saturday,

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin got off the bus and started shooting threes. Michigan

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Speaker 2: State melted down. They couldn't stop John Tanji and Trey

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Speaker 2: Holloway made a big mistake and it turned the tide

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Speaker 2: of the game. That's their bugaboo. Florida. Everybody's gaga about Florida. Hey,

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Speaker 2: they should be, They're good. I don't like Florida's inconsistency.

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Speaker 2: If you're down to Georgia by twenty six points, you're

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Speaker 2: down to Missouri by nineteen and down to South Carolina

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Speaker 2: by three thirteen, that tells me you might have a

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Speaker 2: few holes in your game. Florida can win it, but

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Speaker 2: that's their bugaboo. How about Alabama. I love what Nato

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Speaker 2: has stud is done. I love what he did at

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Speaker 2: Buffalo Alabama. Ironically, they're two reliant on threes and they

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Speaker 2: actually rank outside the top one hundred on threes, and

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Speaker 2: you're gonna need those Tennessee. They're tough. Then we'll see

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Speaker 2: if they They're playing Florida Sunday later today in a

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Speaker 2: few hours for the SEC Tournament Championship, and I think

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Speaker 2: the winner of that game is going to get a

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Speaker 2: number one seed. Tennessee could get a number one seed.

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Speaker 2: But Rick Barnes gets to the tournament every year. He

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Speaker 2: has a tendency to go at a slow pace, which

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Speaker 2: doesn't really bode well sometimes in the tournament, and dares

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Speaker 2: to beat you with threes. I don't know what it

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Speaker 2: is with Tennessee and Rick Barnes. And I'll say the

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Speaker 2: same thing in a minute about Bruce Pearl and Auburn.

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Speaker 2: You just get to that juncture in the road in

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Speaker 2: the tournament and they can't quite get over the hump.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if Tennessee can make a liar out of me.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they will. I like Auburn a lot.

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Speaker 2: What's not to like, even though they got beats Saturday,

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Speaker 2: But their ceiling actually is not as high as Duke's

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Speaker 2: when it comes to talent on the floor. As a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact, I'll share this with you, the last

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Speaker 2: fifteen champs had at least one NBA first rounder. I

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Speaker 2: don't think Jani Broom is a first rounder. He may

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Speaker 2: sneak into the first round a hell of a player,

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Speaker 2: but I don't think he's a first rounder. Just something

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Speaker 2: to think about. How about Houston. This is the best

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Speaker 2: version of the Houston Cougar's we've ever seen in the

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Speaker 2: terms of the way they play. It's too bad Jamal

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Speaker 2: Shed went down last year. They would have been a

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Speaker 2: final four team. I believe they might have even gotten

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Speaker 2: to the finals. Will never know. But their offense always

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Speaker 2: struggles in crunch time against quality opponents, and they have

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Speaker 2: more offense this year. They've answered every challenge. Started out

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Speaker 2: four and three, gone twenty six to one. But they're

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Speaker 2: going to have to prove it to me. You already

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Speaker 2: know how I feel about Duke. I still think they

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Speaker 2: can win it. I just don't know what the situation

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Speaker 2: is going on with Cooper Flag. So these are the

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Speaker 2: teams Michigan State, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, Houston, or Duke.

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Speaker 2: Those are the only ones I think can win it. No,

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Speaker 2: I don't think Wisconsin, Perdue or Michigan can't. And I

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Speaker 2: know you're saying, why didn't I mention Saint John's hell Man.

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Speaker 2: I love Rick Patino, I love what they've done, but

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Speaker 2: did you know they rank outside the top seventy and

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Speaker 2: offensive efficiency that's going to catch up at some point

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Speaker 2: in the tournament. They're tremendous defensively, and how much were

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Speaker 2: they really tested in the Big East This year? The

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Speaker 2: Big East was down. It was not a great conference.

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Speaker 2: When Saint John's gone on the floor against Georgia, they

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Speaker 2: lost sixty six sixty three. When they got on a

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Speaker 2: floor against Baler they lost ninety nine to ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: I'm not holding that against him. I'm just saying I

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Speaker 2: want to see what they look like when they get

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Speaker 2: into this six game. Gonelin, this is, you know, not

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Speaker 2: Rick Patino's first barbecue. He knows what he's doing. But

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned by the fact that Saint John's ranks outside

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Speaker 2: the top seventy in offensive efficiency. It's gonna be fun

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Speaker 2: to watch. We're gonna follow it all week all during

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Speaker 2: the three weeks on my show up next, What kind

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Speaker 2: of brand new fool? What my name? Keep it locked?

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Speaker 2: day people engage in activities. And sometimes these activities they're

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Speaker 2: silly and stupid and innocuous but not very smart. Other

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Speaker 2: times they become far more serious. You run to follow

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Speaker 2: any way you describe it, these activities always leave us

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Speaker 2: scratching our head and asking ourselves, what kind of brand

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Speaker 2: new fool are you?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 1: What kind of brand new fool are you?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: This one's got a lot of moving part. And I

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Speaker 2: wanted to be the only times on what kind of

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Speaker 2: branding fool of you? That I may use the word

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Speaker 2: allegedly allegedly because if this person did this, you're fool

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Speaker 2: if Okay, apparently they're two sides of the story. But

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Speaker 2: we take you to lynch Virginia on what looked like

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Speaker 2: a routine track meet, a women's track meet, and what

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Speaker 2: happened when viral and is all over YouTube because one

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Speaker 2: of the teenagers on the track team at Norcombe High School, Portsmouth, Virginia,

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Speaker 2: excuse me not Lynchburg was seen allegedly bashing an opponent's

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Speaker 2: head with a baton during a high school track meet. Well, uh,

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Speaker 2: what's interesting is this individual had a rally supporting her,

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Speaker 2: and she delivered a tearful speech and thanked her supporters

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Speaker 2: and said thank you for supporting me. Her side of

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Speaker 2: this story is no one wants to hear my story

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Speaker 2: except the people that know me. I would never do

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Speaker 2: anything like that. I would never harm anybody. I'm not

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Speaker 2: a fighter, I'm not even confrontational. I wouldn't do that

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Speaker 2: on purpose. Thank you all for believing in me. And

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Speaker 2: she got a lot of loud applause. Okay, here's where

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Speaker 2: I say if and allegedly, because if that were the case.

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Speaker 2: The day before the rally, the young lady was served

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Speaker 2: with a misdemeanor charge battery and assault. Now full disclosure.

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Speaker 2: I have not seen the video, but I've read about it.

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Speaker 2: And apparently they were rounding the bend. You know, in

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Speaker 2: these relay races and track meets, you carry a baton,

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Speaker 2: and somehow the baton was allegedly raised up and smashing

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Speaker 2: somebody over the head. And she's got supporters. It was

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Speaker 2: a championship meet. But why if she didn't do it

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Speaker 2: or whatever, or didn't me, I don't know what. I

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Speaker 2: don't even know how to describe this. Then why was

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Speaker 2: the whole team disqualified? They disqualified the whole team, and

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Speaker 2: the individual who was on the recipient's end of the

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Speaker 2: whacking over the head with the baton was diagnosed with

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Speaker 2: a concussion impossible skull fracture because and then the you know,

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Speaker 2: footage of the incident went viral and the young lady

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Speaker 2: said the hits were accidental. That was the official statement. Now,

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Speaker 2: the Virginia High School League is not common on individuals

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Speaker 2: or disciplinary actions and those types of things. And all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, now you know, he eats. Look, she's

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Speaker 2: she's got defenders. She says she's not an attacker, she's

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Speaker 2: an honor student star athlete put The video again, which

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen but I've read from credible writers, tells

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Speaker 2: a much different story. So if track Runner in Virginia

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Speaker 2: actually hit, if you'd did this, I gotta ask you,

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Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool you? All right, Brianna?

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Speaker 16: Alrighty.

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Speaker 17: So diamonds are forever indigestible. So shout out producer Shay,

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Speaker 17: We're going to head to Florida. You know, always always Florida, guys,

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Speaker 17: and Jay.

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Speaker 2: Was always that was always his favorite state for doing

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Speaker 2: a brand new fool.

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Speaker 16: Yes, So I saw this and I was like, I

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Speaker 16: think we should honor him today. So this is for him.

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Speaker 16: So Jaython Gilder so kind of like a Jonathan and

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Speaker 16: a j I guess is like his name. He's kind

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Speaker 16: of in between.

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Speaker 17: He told employees at Tiffany and Company at the Mall

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Speaker 17: in Orlando that he was a representative of an Orlando

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Speaker 17: Magic basketball player before he was taken to a VIP

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Speaker 17: room and shown several high end pieces of jewelry. He

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Speaker 17: was shown a pair of four point eight carrot diamond

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Speaker 17: earrings worth one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 16: A pair of eight carrot.

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Speaker 17: Diamond earrings is worth six hundred and nine thousand dollars,

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02:05:03,440 --> 02:05:08,760
Speaker 17: and then a four carrot ring that was worth seventy

2328
02:05:08,800 --> 02:05:14,240
Speaker 17: five thousand dollars. He then grabbed the three pieces of

2329
02:05:14,320 --> 02:05:17,280
Speaker 17: jewelry and struggled with the employees, dropped the ring, and

2330
02:05:17,360 --> 02:05:20,320
Speaker 17: then just fled the store. I think he wondered if

2331
02:05:20,320 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 17: they were going to like kind of think he was

2332
02:05:21,560 --> 02:05:25,280
Speaker 17: a little suspicious before he like ran. So the security

2333
02:05:25,360 --> 02:05:29,440
Speaker 17: cameras captured him leaving in a blue Mitsubishi and then

2334
02:05:29,720 --> 02:05:33,400
Speaker 17: they found him on inter State ten in Tallahassee, and

2335
02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:35,560
Speaker 17: he was going back to Texas because that's where he

2336
02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:39,920
Speaker 17: came from. As he was being taken into custody, he

2337
02:05:40,240 --> 02:05:47,680
Speaker 17: swallowed that all those ear rings did diamond ear stomach

2338
02:05:47,680 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 17: a little bit, Oh my gosh, Yeah, seven hundred thousand

2339
02:05:50,320 --> 02:05:52,960
Speaker 17: dollars worth of earrings, just swallowed them.

2340
02:05:54,120 --> 02:05:54,560
Speaker 3: And so.

2341
02:05:57,240 --> 02:06:01,320
Speaker 17: The the Affidavid said, these fourign object are suspected to

2342
02:06:01,400 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 17: be the Tiffany and Company earrings, but will need to

2343
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:08,400
Speaker 17: be collected dot dot dot dot dot after they passed

2344
02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 17: through Gilder's system digestive system. While he was sitting in jail,

2345
02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:17,960
Speaker 17: he spontaneously asked the police staff, Am I going to

2346
02:06:18,000 --> 02:06:20,400
Speaker 17: be charged with whatever is in my stomach?

2347
02:06:21,720 --> 02:06:21,760
Speaker 14: Like?

2348
02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:24,640
Speaker 16: Okay, that's just like come on, bro, Like, am I

2349
02:06:24,680 --> 02:06:25,320
Speaker 16: going to be charged?

2350
02:06:25,360 --> 02:06:25,720
Speaker 10: What do you know?

2351
02:06:26,040 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 16: They're going to let you go just because you digested it.

2352
02:06:28,920 --> 02:06:31,680
Speaker 17: So he was booked on suspicion of grand theft and

2353
02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:34,400
Speaker 17: robbery with a mask and he is still in custody

2354
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:35,480
Speaker 17: at this moment.

2355
02:06:35,720 --> 02:06:40,080
Speaker 16: So, Jathon, whatever kind of name that is? Gilder? What

2356
02:06:40,280 --> 02:06:41,400
Speaker 16: kind of brand new fold are you?

2357
02:06:41,560 --> 02:06:41,760
Speaker 14: Dude?

2358
02:06:42,560 --> 02:06:46,680
Speaker 2: Well, that's our food on multiple accounts, on multiple accounts. Now,

2359
02:06:46,760 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 2: mister Ramsey, I know you're a very busy man. You're

2360
02:06:49,840 --> 02:06:52,640
Speaker 2: under no obligation to do this one of these nights.

2361
02:06:52,720 --> 02:06:54,760
Speaker 2: Just for posterity, we should have you do one. Do

2362
02:06:54,800 --> 02:06:56,360
Speaker 2: you might any chance to have one for tonight?

2363
02:06:57,240 --> 02:06:57,680
Speaker 1: I do not.

2364
02:06:58,320 --> 02:07:01,880
Speaker 2: Okay, hopefully in the future. Hopefully in the future, one

2365
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:05,480
Speaker 2: time or not, it's all good. You're busy man. All right, Well,

2366
02:07:05,520 --> 02:07:11,000
Speaker 2: that will conclude another arousing edition of what kind of

2367
02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:13,160
Speaker 2: brand new fool You, which now opens the door and

2368
02:07:13,240 --> 02:07:16,040
Speaker 2: allows us to our second favorite bit, which we refer

2369
02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:22,240
Speaker 2: to as what my name? And we will be employing

2370
02:07:22,320 --> 02:07:26,320
Speaker 2: my wife's suggestion to give us clues. I was wrong.

2371
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:31,640
Speaker 2: I'm glad the clues have gone over well because it

2372
02:07:31,760 --> 02:07:34,160
Speaker 2: wasn't my ideas my wife's, and we're gonna it seems

2373
02:07:34,200 --> 02:07:36,600
Speaker 2: to be working. So we're even gonna add a second

2374
02:07:36,640 --> 02:07:40,520
Speaker 2: step tonight. If I'll give three choices, if I sense

2375
02:07:40,560 --> 02:07:43,000
Speaker 2: after I asked for the name, there's a little bit

2376
02:07:43,040 --> 02:07:47,120
Speaker 2: of hesitation, no problem, These aren't always easy, then then

2377
02:07:47,720 --> 02:07:51,000
Speaker 2: we'll have clues and then perhaps three choices. So let's

2378
02:07:51,040 --> 02:07:57,839
Speaker 2: start with this one. I am currently or currently will

2379
02:07:58,400 --> 02:08:03,560
Speaker 2: the oldest NFL coach to ever Grace a NFL head

2380
02:08:03,600 --> 02:08:09,040
Speaker 2: coach to Grace a sideline in the NFL, Mark Ramsey?

2381
02:08:09,120 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 2: What my name?

2382
02:08:11,560 --> 02:08:12,760
Speaker 1: Could you please repeat it?

2383
02:08:13,560 --> 02:08:13,760
Speaker 8: Yeah?

2384
02:08:13,800 --> 02:08:15,520
Speaker 2: I know I didn't do a good job there. I'm

2385
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:17,640
Speaker 2: the oldest coach in the history of the NFL, the

2386
02:08:17,680 --> 02:08:21,880
Speaker 2: oldest head coach to Grace's sideline, Mark Ramsey, what my name?

2387
02:08:25,400 --> 02:08:29,240
Speaker 2: And just be coaching this year. It's it's it's just

2388
02:08:29,320 --> 02:08:31,840
Speaker 2: a manner of speech. He's still working, basically, he's the

2389
02:08:31,920 --> 02:08:36,080
Speaker 2: head coach still working this year. All right. The choices

2390
02:08:36,560 --> 02:08:41,600
Speaker 2: are Don Shula, Pete Carroll, Vince Lombardi.

2391
02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:43,760
Speaker 16: I'm gonna go with Pete Carroll.

2392
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:51,440
Speaker 2: He just got hired you got it, Pete Carroll all right,

2393
02:08:51,640 --> 02:08:54,040
Speaker 2: in the history of the National Football League, I was

2394
02:08:54,120 --> 02:08:58,000
Speaker 2: actually the youngest coach to ever be a head coach

2395
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:00,800
Speaker 2: in the NFL. In gracing the sidelines, Brianna, what my name?

2396
02:09:00,920 --> 02:09:01,600
Speaker 16: Sean McVay.

2397
02:09:02,320 --> 02:09:02,600
Speaker 1: Got it?

2398
02:09:02,720 --> 02:09:06,240
Speaker 2: Sean McVay. He beat out. He was thirty years old.

2399
02:09:06,320 --> 02:09:09,440
Speaker 2: He beat out a couple of other coaches, just just

2400
02:09:09,560 --> 02:09:13,600
Speaker 2: by a very slim margin, guys like, believe it or not,

2401
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:18,840
Speaker 2: John Madden, and I think Josh McDaniels is down on

2402
02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:21,960
Speaker 2: that list too, many many years ago, also a Raider, Okay.

2403
02:09:23,160 --> 02:09:27,480
Speaker 2: I was the head coach of last year's NCAA champion

2404
02:09:28,360 --> 02:09:35,720
Speaker 2: basketball team. Brianna, what my name? He's still coaching this year?

2405
02:09:35,840 --> 02:09:37,040
Speaker 16: He's still coaching this year?

2406
02:09:37,920 --> 02:09:38,520
Speaker 17: Why am I even?

2407
02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:40,840
Speaker 16: I don't even remember who won last year?

2408
02:09:41,880 --> 02:09:44,600
Speaker 2: Sorry, so I'll give you three choice, thank you. It's

2409
02:09:45,840 --> 02:09:53,240
Speaker 2: Rick Patino, Mick Cronin or Danny Hurley. Danny hur It

2410
02:09:53,360 --> 02:09:56,720
Speaker 2: is Danny Hurley going for a three p Danny Hurley

2411
02:09:56,880 --> 02:09:58,960
Speaker 2: going for the I don't think he's gonna get up

2412
02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:01,440
Speaker 2: a boy going back to back. That was John Wooden Territory.

2413
02:10:01,520 --> 02:10:04,080
Speaker 17: Those press conferences were so legendary last year I don't

2414
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:04,680
Speaker 17: know why I missed that.

2415
02:10:06,720 --> 02:10:12,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, all right, we're gonna switch gears here.

2416
02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:16,600
Speaker 2: I'm a legendary Major League baseball player, and I'm not

2417
02:10:16,800 --> 02:10:19,560
Speaker 2: in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but I'm actually in

2418
02:10:19,680 --> 02:10:23,440
Speaker 2: the wrestling Hall of Fame. Mark Ramsey, what my name?

2419
02:10:25,800 --> 02:10:29,200
Speaker 2: I've talked about him many times on my show Wrestling,

2420
02:10:29,440 --> 02:10:32,880
Speaker 2: but he's not passed away recently. Pete Rose, it is

2421
02:10:33,000 --> 02:10:34,360
Speaker 2: Pete Rose. Good job.

2422
02:10:34,440 --> 02:10:34,680
Speaker 5: Mark.

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02:10:36,320 --> 02:10:37,960
Speaker 2: All right, there's a little bit of a tricky one.

2424
02:10:38,000 --> 02:10:40,800
Speaker 2: But if you think I'll just blurt it out, Okay.

2425
02:10:41,720 --> 02:10:47,600
Speaker 2: I spent twenty years in the major leagues and only

2426
02:10:47,680 --> 02:10:50,840
Speaker 2: struck out four hundred and thirty four times. I spent

2427
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:55,160
Speaker 2: four years playing college basketball. In only four years, I

2428
02:10:55,200 --> 02:10:58,480
Speaker 2: had five hundred and ninety assists. Brianna with my name.

2429
02:11:00,080 --> 02:11:04,160
Speaker 2: Tony Gwinn, Tony Gwyn, the clue was going to be

2430
02:11:04,240 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 2: a player in the same city. Tony Gwyn was a

2431
02:11:06,480 --> 02:11:09,160
Speaker 2: great basketball player at San Diego State. Was actually drafted

2432
02:11:09,200 --> 02:11:12,120
Speaker 2: by the old San Diego Clippers, and he was tremendous,

2433
02:11:12,800 --> 02:11:17,280
Speaker 2: tremendous passer and great first step. Yeah, Tony Gwyn, all right,

2434
02:11:17,560 --> 02:11:24,440
Speaker 2: last one. Uh, I am still the all time leader

2435
02:11:25,560 --> 02:11:30,160
Speaker 2: in n c A basketball national Championships. No one's won

2436
02:11:30,240 --> 02:11:32,680
Speaker 2: more than me. Mark Ramsey, went my name.

2437
02:11:34,080 --> 02:11:35,520
Speaker 16: And we're talking player or coach?

2438
02:11:36,360 --> 02:11:38,920
Speaker 2: Oh? I'm sorry? Did I not apologize? I am the

2439
02:11:39,000 --> 02:11:43,880
Speaker 2: all time leader as a head coach in NCAA basketball Championships?

2440
02:11:44,200 --> 02:11:48,400
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey? What my name? I coached at u c

2441
02:11:48,640 --> 02:11:48,760
Speaker 2: l A.

2442
02:11:50,600 --> 02:11:53,560
Speaker 1: Uh not Walton?

2443
02:11:53,760 --> 02:11:59,720
Speaker 2: I coach Bill Walton? All the hints is it? Is

2444
02:11:59,800 --> 02:12:03,000
Speaker 2: it Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski or John Wooden?

2445
02:12:03,240 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 16: Woulden?

2446
02:12:04,200 --> 02:12:07,200
Speaker 2: It is, in fact John Wooden. All right, A clean

2447
02:12:07,360 --> 02:12:11,840
Speaker 2: sweep across the board by everybody. Great job. That will

2448
02:12:11,960 --> 02:12:20,040
Speaker 2: conclude another rousing condition of brand newfool and what my name? Excellent?

2449
02:12:21,040 --> 02:12:23,880
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2460
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2461
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2462
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2464
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2489
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Speaker 2: I want to let everybody know I want to get

2490
02:14:38,720 --> 02:14:43,720
Speaker 2: into this Pete Rose thing. Here's what I mean. His

2491
02:14:43,840 --> 02:14:47,120
Speaker 2: family reached out, The Commissioner met with him January eighth.

2492
02:14:47,200 --> 02:14:51,040
Speaker 2: He has the power to reinstate him. Once he reinstates him,

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2494
02:14:56,440 --> 02:14:58,440
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2496
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Speaker 2: years and I go back over at but I really

2497
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Speaker 2: want the cars the way in next week. I'm just

2498
02:15:04,680 --> 02:15:09,040
Speaker 2: giving you a preview because some people I respect think

2499
02:15:09,280 --> 02:15:12,200
Speaker 2: think that if Rob Manfred does it, he's just given

2500
02:15:12,240 --> 02:15:14,200
Speaker 2: the family, the middle Finger, wait until he was dead.

2501
02:15:14,680 --> 02:15:16,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll ever do it. Why not

2502
02:15:16,840 --> 02:15:18,200
Speaker 2: do it, believe it or not. There're one hundred and

2503
02:15:18,280 --> 02:15:22,800
Speaker 2: seventeen major League players major League Baseball players that have

2504
02:15:22,880 --> 02:15:26,160
Speaker 2: been elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously, including Dick

2505
02:15:26,240 --> 02:15:28,520
Speaker 2: Allen just a couple of months ago. My good buddy

2506
02:15:28,560 --> 02:15:31,400
Speaker 2: Andy Furman knows all about that. So look, the bottom

2507
02:15:31,480 --> 02:15:34,920
Speaker 2: line is I want to get into this because I

2508
02:15:34,960 --> 02:15:37,040
Speaker 2: don't know what's taking Rob Manfred. It's coming up on

2509
02:15:37,080 --> 02:15:38,960
Speaker 2: three months. It's going to be part of Manfred's legacy

2510
02:15:39,000 --> 02:15:42,160
Speaker 2: and now he handles this situation. So just some food

2511
02:15:42,200 --> 02:15:45,320
Speaker 2: for thoughts speaking of baseball. If you're here on the

2512
02:15:45,400 --> 02:15:50,280
Speaker 2: Pacific time zone as I am Tuesday, or check at

2513
02:15:50,320 --> 02:15:55,120
Speaker 2: March eighteenth, at three ten am, the Dodgers have their

2514
02:15:55,280 --> 02:16:00,680
Speaker 2: season opener in Japan against the Cubs. Yo Chernobylma will

2515
02:16:00,680 --> 02:16:03,760
Speaker 2: start on the mound for the Dodgers, and you know,

2516
02:16:04,160 --> 02:16:05,840
Speaker 2: this is a real game. This is part of the

2517
02:16:06,440 --> 02:16:11,000
Speaker 2: Japan World Series, not World Series, but there's a there's

2518
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:18,040
Speaker 2: a name for it, the the World Tour Tokyo Series

2519
02:16:18,200 --> 02:16:20,160
Speaker 2: is what they're calling it. And so they'll play a

2520
02:16:20,200 --> 02:16:22,000
Speaker 2: two games series with the Cubs, and they'll come back

2521
02:16:22,040 --> 02:16:23,760
Speaker 2: and the rest of the spring training resum so the

2522
02:16:23,840 --> 02:16:25,680
Speaker 2: Dodgers will have two games under their belt. You can,

2523
02:16:25,800 --> 02:16:28,680
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, watch it at six o'clock

2524
02:16:28,680 --> 02:16:31,400
Speaker 2: in the morning and Eastern time ort three o'clock Pacific time.

2525
02:16:31,480 --> 02:16:33,760
Speaker 2: But you might not see one of the big superstars

2526
02:16:33,760 --> 02:16:37,000
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers have playing. That would be Mookie Betts.

2527
02:16:37,040 --> 02:16:39,080
Speaker 2: He's at risk of missing the team's opening series in

2528
02:16:39,120 --> 02:16:42,040
Speaker 2: Tokyo against the Cubs. He's been dealing with an illness

2529
02:16:42,080 --> 02:16:44,800
Speaker 2: while in Japan this past week. Apparently missed a few

2530
02:16:44,959 --> 02:16:47,880
Speaker 2: Cactus League games before they left for Japan. He's still

2531
02:16:47,959 --> 02:16:50,400
Speaker 2: under the weather. He's lost some weight. According to Dave Roberts,

2532
02:16:50,800 --> 02:16:52,280
Speaker 2: he has a couple of days to get back at

2533
02:16:52,320 --> 02:16:56,160
Speaker 2: full strength to March eighteenth, that's considered opening day, but

2534
02:16:56,400 --> 02:16:59,400
Speaker 2: he's very much a question mark. Bets is going through workouts.

2535
02:16:59,400 --> 02:17:03,039
Speaker 2: They're going to re valuate Bets Monday. They're off day.

2536
02:17:03,480 --> 02:17:06,560
Speaker 2: I had a Tuesday's first game. So by the way,

2537
02:17:06,680 --> 02:17:09,039
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are also playing two exhibition games in Japan.

2538
02:17:09,160 --> 02:17:12,800
Speaker 2: Bets isn't playing in either one of those. Remember this

2539
02:17:12,920 --> 02:17:16,120
Speaker 2: guy's a key guy. Number two hitter and starting shortstop

2540
02:17:16,200 --> 02:17:19,400
Speaker 2: and I kind of, yeah, I kind of expected Dodgers

2541
02:17:19,440 --> 02:17:21,199
Speaker 2: to repeat. I really do, because they have the DNA

2542
02:17:22,200 --> 02:17:25,280
Speaker 2: and everybody's pissing him on about Garrett Cole getting hurt

2543
02:17:25,320 --> 02:17:26,760
Speaker 2: in New York and it's not fair.

2544
02:17:27,440 --> 02:17:28,880
Speaker 8: You know, you know where.

2545
02:17:29,320 --> 02:17:31,240
Speaker 2: But hey, the Dodgers at one point last year had

2546
02:17:31,280 --> 02:17:35,080
Speaker 2: four or five starters out and they still won it.

2547
02:17:35,200 --> 02:17:37,560
Speaker 2: So look, I'm not necessarily a Dodger for I don't

2548
02:17:37,640 --> 02:17:40,840
Speaker 2: root against him either. I respect excellence and that's that's

2549
02:17:41,040 --> 02:17:45,280
Speaker 2: what that organization is and that's what they've shown. Finally,

2550
02:17:45,320 --> 02:17:47,440
Speaker 2: another bit of business that took place this week might

2551
02:17:47,480 --> 02:17:49,280
Speaker 2: have been a letter under the radar, you know last

2552
02:17:49,360 --> 02:17:52,720
Speaker 2: week that you know, Brownie James continues to be a

2553
02:17:52,760 --> 02:17:56,920
Speaker 2: hot NBA storyline because his dad, Frankly, drives most of

2554
02:17:57,000 --> 02:17:59,879
Speaker 2: the drama. That's just the fact. Okay, when you're draft

2555
02:18:00,120 --> 02:18:02,280
Speaker 2: in the second round and you got a little help

2556
02:18:02,320 --> 02:18:05,040
Speaker 2: from your dad and you know you're having to defend him.

2557
02:18:05,680 --> 02:18:08,000
Speaker 2: So we know what happened last week On March sixth,

2558
02:18:08,480 --> 02:18:11,600
Speaker 2: Lebron stepped up to Stephen A. Smith, you know, in

2559
02:18:11,680 --> 02:18:14,320
Speaker 2: mid court there in front of God and everybody, and

2560
02:18:16,080 --> 02:18:17,920
Speaker 2: we really don't know what happened, and Smith kind of

2561
02:18:17,959 --> 02:18:20,240
Speaker 2: downplayed it and then was kind of silent for a

2562
02:18:20,280 --> 02:18:21,960
Speaker 2: few days. And I like Steven Ay, I think he's

2563
02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:27,040
Speaker 2: very misunderstood guy. Look, what was interesting is that it

2564
02:18:27,120 --> 02:18:30,720
Speaker 2: appears that Lebron tried to intimidate him during that confrontation,

2565
02:18:31,360 --> 02:18:35,360
Speaker 2: and so all of a sudden, a few days went by,

2566
02:18:35,760 --> 02:18:40,120
Speaker 2: and then on March eleventh, Stephen A. Smith went on

2567
02:18:40,160 --> 02:18:45,400
Speaker 2: the Gilbert Arenas podcast. I think and decided, I think

2568
02:18:45,440 --> 02:18:48,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the last laugh, Okay, because when you

2569
02:18:48,920 --> 02:18:52,320
Speaker 2: looked at the cameras and you got Lebron with that

2570
02:18:52,520 --> 02:18:55,080
Speaker 2: look on his face, and he didn't come off so

2571
02:18:55,240 --> 02:18:57,800
Speaker 2: well in front of the cameras, and he looked like

2572
02:18:57,920 --> 02:19:01,600
Speaker 2: he Smith was temporarily humble, certainly taken aback by the

2573
02:19:01,640 --> 02:19:04,160
Speaker 2: whole thing. I thought it was inappropriate the way it

2574
02:19:04,240 --> 02:19:05,200
Speaker 2: was handled. But what are you gonna do?

2575
02:19:05,320 --> 02:19:05,560
Speaker 6: Okay?

2576
02:19:06,720 --> 02:19:09,800
Speaker 2: We we we report, you decide. Long and short of

2577
02:19:09,800 --> 02:19:13,440
Speaker 2: it is this apparently what what what Stephen A said

2578
02:19:13,600 --> 02:19:17,400
Speaker 2: to Lebron on the Gilbert Arenas show says quote, I

2579
02:19:17,560 --> 02:19:20,440
Speaker 2: was not talking about your son. I'm talking about your

2580
02:19:21,840 --> 02:19:25,720
Speaker 2: it rhymes with grass. I'm talking about your grass. All

2581
02:19:25,800 --> 02:19:28,160
Speaker 2: of us reporters as a league had to sit back

2582
02:19:28,240 --> 02:19:31,080
Speaker 2: and be quiet to capitulate to your ish.

2583
02:19:32,200 --> 02:19:32,880
Speaker 8: You did that.

2584
02:19:34,200 --> 02:19:39,480
Speaker 2: Now, both sides were somewhat dismissive of the beef after

2585
02:19:40,200 --> 02:19:45,240
Speaker 2: it happened, but now five six days later, stephen A.

2586
02:19:45,360 --> 02:19:49,000
Speaker 2: Smith took the first big swing during that podcast with

2587
02:19:49,120 --> 02:19:53,560
Speaker 2: Gilbert Arenas's former NBA player. Smith on the podcast said quote,

2588
02:19:53,600 --> 02:19:57,640
Speaker 2: I thought it was weak. I thought it was Bull's hit.

2589
02:19:58,800 --> 02:20:03,200
Speaker 2: That's what Smith said. Steven A's retelling of the confrontation

2590
02:20:03,400 --> 02:20:08,080
Speaker 2: included a very profane speech by Lebron. In other words,

2591
02:20:08,520 --> 02:20:13,959
Speaker 2: he divulged what Lebron said, and stephen A. Smith made

2592
02:20:13,959 --> 02:20:18,600
Speaker 2: it very clear that Lebron Lebron had vented his frustrations

2593
02:20:18,600 --> 02:20:23,200
Speaker 2: as a father rather than a player. And obviously this

2594
02:20:23,440 --> 02:20:26,800
Speaker 2: is radio and you gotta be careful, but I will

2595
02:20:26,840 --> 02:20:28,680
Speaker 2: get my point across and you'll get the flavor for

2596
02:20:28,760 --> 02:20:32,800
Speaker 2: what Lebron actually said. Apparently he got in Smith's grill

2597
02:20:33,320 --> 02:20:37,000
Speaker 2: and said, quote, yol, you got to stop talking ish

2598
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:40,800
Speaker 2: about my son. You got to stop effing with my son.

2599
02:20:41,760 --> 02:20:46,280
Speaker 2: That's my son, that's my son. End quote. And I

2600
02:20:46,320 --> 02:20:49,920
Speaker 2: guess stephen A. Smith was like, what nah f that

2601
02:20:51,560 --> 02:20:54,400
Speaker 2: and Smith allegedly said to him, Yo, let's talk later.

2602
02:20:54,959 --> 02:20:58,480
Speaker 2: That's what stephen A told Lebron, and Lebron said, nah,

2603
02:20:58,879 --> 02:21:02,080
Speaker 2: f that f that. You got to stop effing with

2604
02:21:02,280 --> 02:21:08,480
Speaker 2: my son now. I Steven A. Smith went on to clarify,

2605
02:21:08,560 --> 02:21:11,240
Speaker 2: I wasn't talking about your son quote. I'm talking about you.

2606
02:21:11,920 --> 02:21:14,000
Speaker 2: I know he's the fifty fifth pick. I'm talking about

2607
02:21:14,040 --> 02:21:15,959
Speaker 2: your rhymes with grass.

2608
02:21:16,840 --> 02:21:17,360
Speaker 8: You did this.

2609
02:21:17,520 --> 02:21:19,480
Speaker 2: You're the one who had us reporters sit back and

2610
02:21:19,560 --> 02:21:22,680
Speaker 2: be quiet. You did that. Smith admitted during the podcast

2611
02:21:22,760 --> 02:21:25,400
Speaker 2: he'd held his tongue on certain matters like Brownie getting

2612
02:21:25,440 --> 02:21:28,640
Speaker 2: first quarter minutes against the Sixers, which is very generous

2613
02:21:28,640 --> 02:21:31,800
Speaker 2: for the player who's really a G League type of guy, right,

2614
02:21:31,959 --> 02:21:35,120
Speaker 2: and so look, stephen A. Smith went on to say,

2615
02:21:35,640 --> 02:21:37,480
Speaker 2: they put him in, he gets stats, he gets on

2616
02:21:37,560 --> 02:21:41,880
Speaker 2: Sports Center, and he believed Lebron was overreacting and that

2617
02:21:42,080 --> 02:21:43,880
Speaker 2: he believes that chips it away to this prestige in

2618
02:21:43,920 --> 02:21:46,680
Speaker 2: the public eye. Duh, that's what Lebron does. Scores a

2619
02:21:46,720 --> 02:21:49,199
Speaker 2: lot of points. I get it, but you get the picture,

2620
02:21:49,240 --> 02:21:49,560
Speaker 2: all right.

2621
02:21:50,080 --> 02:21:50,840
Speaker 6: So there you have it.

2622
02:21:51,200 --> 02:21:54,119
Speaker 2: We'll see how this continues. Bronnie actually had seventeen minutes

2623
02:21:54,640 --> 02:22:00,440
Speaker 2: against Denver the other night. We'll see. Okay, we covered

2624
02:22:00,480 --> 02:22:05,200
Speaker 2: all on this show. We've talked a lot of football tonight.

2625
02:22:05,320 --> 02:22:07,680
Speaker 2: That's American football, but we also talked to the other football,

2626
02:22:08,080 --> 02:22:13,480
Speaker 2: which is spelled futbol. It is time Chris Purfetts World.

2627
02:22:13,320 --> 02:22:26,520
Speaker 18: Of Soccer, the greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama.

2628
02:22:31,800 --> 02:22:35,200
Speaker 1: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2629
02:22:35,720 --> 02:22:36,600
Speaker 1: Load management.

2630
02:22:36,680 --> 02:22:39,760
Speaker 11: It's a very heavy term in North Americans sports, especially

2631
02:22:39,840 --> 02:22:44,199
Speaker 11: around basketball, where it has become the forefront of conversations

2632
02:22:44,240 --> 02:22:50,000
Speaker 11: about rest, about optimum health for players, and specifically about.

2633
02:22:49,760 --> 02:22:51,640
Speaker 1: What matters most in play.

2634
02:22:51,720 --> 02:22:54,760
Speaker 11: Does it matter to play regular season games or should

2635
02:22:54,800 --> 02:22:57,720
Speaker 11: you only be focused on the championship? And trust me

2636
02:22:57,840 --> 02:23:01,000
Speaker 11: when I say this, Burnie, that soccer is no stranger

2637
02:23:01,080 --> 02:23:03,280
Speaker 11: to this at all, although it may indicate in a

2638
02:23:03,360 --> 02:23:07,560
Speaker 11: different way, not be about load management as much as

2639
02:23:08,160 --> 02:23:10,680
Speaker 11: match management. This is to say that the biggest teams

2640
02:23:10,680 --> 02:23:13,720
Speaker 11: and most important teams across soccer tend to end up

2641
02:23:13,760 --> 02:23:17,360
Speaker 11: playing a lot more matches in a given week than

2642
02:23:17,640 --> 02:23:20,840
Speaker 11: some other clubs, especially as the soccer calendar continues to

2643
02:23:20,920 --> 02:23:23,640
Speaker 11: crowd more and more. We haven't really talked too much

2644
02:23:23,640 --> 02:23:26,400
Speaker 11: about it, but there is a FIFA Club World Cup

2645
02:23:26,680 --> 02:23:29,200
Speaker 11: that will be coming up. As FIFA tries once again

2646
02:23:29,520 --> 02:23:32,359
Speaker 11: to dip its ink and try to drink the milkshake

2647
02:23:32,640 --> 02:23:35,600
Speaker 11: of YUEFA Champions League. There is the UEFA Champions League

2648
02:23:35,640 --> 02:23:38,760
Speaker 11: and all of Europe if you play over there. MLS

2649
02:23:38,920 --> 02:23:41,120
Speaker 11: is splitting its time between its season right now with

2650
02:23:41,480 --> 02:23:45,160
Speaker 11: the Conker Calf Club Champions Cup, and even a premier

2651
02:23:45,280 --> 02:23:48,920
Speaker 11: team like Inter Miami is not immune to this. Where

2652
02:23:49,480 --> 02:23:52,000
Speaker 11: once again Lionel Messi is at the forefront of some

2653
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:58,240
Speaker 11: consternation as he has been being load managed. The manager

2654
02:23:58,360 --> 02:24:02,040
Speaker 11: for Miami, Mascherano, chose to rest my Messi for three

2655
02:24:02,160 --> 02:24:05,560
Speaker 11: matches after a very busy start to the twenty twenty

2656
02:24:05,600 --> 02:24:11,199
Speaker 11: five MLS campaign had three games in seven days. Messi

2657
02:24:11,280 --> 02:24:15,200
Speaker 11: has failed to appear against Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and

2658
02:24:15,520 --> 02:24:19,760
Speaker 11: Cavalier FC in a CONKCAF Champions matchup, before he was

2659
02:24:19,800 --> 02:24:22,360
Speaker 11: able to appear in that second leg of the Capellier

2660
02:24:22,879 --> 02:24:25,800
Speaker 11: Champions Cup. Now Messi is old, there's a lot of

2661
02:24:25,840 --> 02:24:28,280
Speaker 11: injuries he's had to deal with and this is part

2662
02:24:28,320 --> 02:24:28,720
Speaker 11: of one of the.

2663
02:24:28,800 --> 02:24:29,280
Speaker 1: Issues of it.

2664
02:24:29,400 --> 02:24:33,560
Speaker 11: However, it has led MLS teams struggling to really figure

2665
02:24:33,560 --> 02:24:38,680
Speaker 11: out the disappearance of Messi in these games after they

2666
02:24:38,760 --> 02:24:42,320
Speaker 11: had been selling their fans on extremely marked up prices

2667
02:24:42,400 --> 02:24:45,600
Speaker 11: and tickets to see Messi, scrambling to try to figure

2668
02:24:45,600 --> 02:24:49,199
Speaker 11: out what exactly to do. But three games in seven

2669
02:24:49,280 --> 02:24:51,800
Speaker 11: days is a lot for a soccer club and it's

2670
02:24:51,840 --> 02:24:54,160
Speaker 11: a lot for a player. Even some of the best

2671
02:24:54,200 --> 02:24:57,080
Speaker 11: clubs out there that have to play in multiple competitions

2672
02:24:57,360 --> 02:25:00,840
Speaker 11: have to really ration how they use their players because

2673
02:25:00,959 --> 02:25:01,959
Speaker 11: otherwise they're just.

2674
02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:03,240
Speaker 1: Going to run them into the ground.

2675
02:25:03,600 --> 02:25:06,920
Speaker 11: On a season that goes for over nine months out

2676
02:25:06,959 --> 02:25:09,320
Speaker 11: of a year, it becomes a case where sometimes I

2677
02:25:09,400 --> 02:25:13,520
Speaker 11: believe less is more. For instance, Liverpool happened to lose

2678
02:25:13,800 --> 02:25:16,040
Speaker 11: in the Champions League they were knocked out by Paris

2679
02:25:16,040 --> 02:25:19,320
Speaker 11: Saint Germain. However, it has now allowed them to focus

2680
02:25:19,400 --> 02:25:22,680
Speaker 11: on their remaining targets. They are fifteen points clear of

2681
02:25:22,879 --> 02:25:25,480
Speaker 11: winning the Premier League right now with about I would

2682
02:25:25,520 --> 02:25:28,200
Speaker 11: say nine matches to go, or so they play in

2683
02:25:28,280 --> 02:25:32,520
Speaker 11: the Carabao Cup final on Sunday. It's a feature and

2684
02:25:32,640 --> 02:25:35,640
Speaker 11: not a bug, of soccer being allowed to set multiple

2685
02:25:35,720 --> 02:25:38,520
Speaker 11: goals for yourself. It also means that losing in one

2686
02:25:38,560 --> 02:25:41,520
Speaker 11: such contest isn't really the end all be all, and

2687
02:25:41,640 --> 02:25:45,160
Speaker 11: thus you can continue to pivot. However, the calendar still

2688
02:25:45,640 --> 02:25:48,400
Speaker 11: clogs up with more and more of these contests. On

2689
02:25:48,520 --> 02:25:52,040
Speaker 11: top of that, friendlies, especially in places where you're trying

2690
02:25:52,080 --> 02:25:55,560
Speaker 11: to grow your fan base or appeal to international fan

2691
02:25:55,640 --> 02:25:57,720
Speaker 11: base not in your country, do take up a lot

2692
02:25:57,760 --> 02:25:59,760
Speaker 11: of this time as well, and cuts further and further

2693
02:25:59,800 --> 02:26:03,040
Speaker 11: away from rest for players. One club has had enough.

2694
02:26:03,600 --> 02:26:08,480
Speaker 11: On Saturday, Real Madrid escalated complaints. Manager Carlo and Salati

2695
02:26:08,560 --> 02:26:10,640
Speaker 11: confirmed the team will refuse to play in the future

2696
02:26:10,879 --> 02:26:14,720
Speaker 11: if players aren't given a minimum seventy two hours rest

2697
02:26:15,000 --> 02:26:19,560
Speaker 11: between matches. On Wednesday, Real Madrid played their crosstown rivals

2698
02:26:19,560 --> 02:26:22,280
Speaker 11: at letty Co Madrid in a Champions League Round of

2699
02:26:22,320 --> 02:26:25,560
Speaker 11: sixteen second leg. It kicked off at nine pm local

2700
02:26:25,600 --> 02:26:28,120
Speaker 11: time and last one hundred and twenty minutes plus a

2701
02:26:28,200 --> 02:26:32,480
Speaker 11: penalty shootout ended close to midnight imagine, which Real Madrid

2702
02:26:32,600 --> 02:26:36,360
Speaker 11: ended up losing on penalties. Then on Saturday, they played

2703
02:26:36,600 --> 02:26:40,240
Speaker 11: Villa Reale in Laaliga play, which with the match starting

2704
02:26:40,280 --> 02:26:44,600
Speaker 11: at six thirty local time. Anclati said that he had

2705
02:26:44,720 --> 02:26:46,960
Speaker 11: asked LaLiga to change the time of the game twice

2706
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:50,120
Speaker 11: and they didn't do anything but quote, this is the

2707
02:26:50,320 --> 02:26:53,080
Speaker 11: last time. And if asked to confirm the team just

2708
02:26:53,120 --> 02:26:55,320
Speaker 11: won't show up to a game without seventy two hours rest,

2709
02:26:55,400 --> 02:26:58,440
Speaker 11: he said, no, of course not. This is a very

2710
02:26:58,480 --> 02:27:01,720
Speaker 11: tricky tight rope for everyone involved to walk. Real Madrid

2711
02:27:01,879 --> 02:27:03,600
Speaker 11: is one of the most successful clubs in the world.

2712
02:27:03,840 --> 02:27:05,840
Speaker 11: It is one of the most popular clubs in the world.

2713
02:27:06,360 --> 02:27:08,440
Speaker 11: Thus it means they end up playing a lot of games.

2714
02:27:08,680 --> 02:27:11,080
Speaker 11: It also means that because they play a lot of games,

2715
02:27:11,160 --> 02:27:13,520
Speaker 11: they have the stress to manage all of these players,

2716
02:27:13,760 --> 02:27:15,879
Speaker 11: to make sure that they are healthy, to make sure

2717
02:27:15,920 --> 02:27:18,640
Speaker 11: that they keep continuing to win. On the other hand,

2718
02:27:19,000 --> 02:27:22,320
Speaker 11: leagues like the Champions League and La Liga both want

2719
02:27:22,879 --> 02:27:27,520
Speaker 11: Real Madrid available for primetime audiences. In Europe, FIFA itself,

2720
02:27:27,720 --> 02:27:30,720
Speaker 11: the arbitrator of the game itself, recommends a minimum of

2721
02:27:30,800 --> 02:27:34,080
Speaker 11: seventy two hours rest between games. This has not been

2722
02:27:34,200 --> 02:27:37,520
Speaker 11: honored in many cases as the game continues to chase

2723
02:27:38,080 --> 02:27:41,000
Speaker 11: more and more games, for more and more viewership, for

2724
02:27:41,200 --> 02:27:42,080
Speaker 11: more and more money.

2725
02:27:42,640 --> 02:27:43,680
Speaker 1: It's curious to see.

2726
02:27:44,120 --> 02:27:46,400
Speaker 11: I am curious to see if Real Madrid has the

2727
02:27:46,560 --> 02:27:49,880
Speaker 11: power to actually change things here by putting their foot

2728
02:27:49,959 --> 02:27:52,520
Speaker 11: down and if they do, maybe it might be a

2729
02:27:52,640 --> 02:27:55,440
Speaker 11: signal to the rest of the world. Maybe seventy two

2730
02:27:55,520 --> 02:27:59,080
Speaker 11: hours even that isn't enough. Maybe we're pushing this way

2731
02:27:59,160 --> 02:28:01,920
Speaker 11: too much. It's time to scale things back. That'll do

2732
02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:03,440
Speaker 11: it for us, Bernie. We'll see you next time on

2733
02:28:03,480 --> 02:28:04,160
Speaker 11: the World of Soccer.

2734
02:28:04,840 --> 02:28:08,480
Speaker 2: Always news on football, no matter what country it's played in.

2735
02:28:08,680 --> 02:28:12,280
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, this just in when Larry

2736
02:28:12,400 --> 02:28:17,039
Speaker 2: Brown Sports is reporting, and you know the the lovable

2737
02:28:17,160 --> 02:28:21,560
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers may make a shocking decision. Turns out he

2738
02:28:21,640 --> 02:28:24,720
Speaker 2: really wants to play for the Vikings, even though the

2739
02:28:25,280 --> 02:28:29,720
Speaker 2: Steelers and Giants are in hot pursuit. But what is

2740
02:28:29,840 --> 02:28:33,520
Speaker 2: Larry Brown Sports reporting that Rogers is considering? Well, if

2741
02:28:33,560 --> 02:28:35,960
Speaker 2: the Vikings don't want him, he made you snub the

2742
02:28:36,000 --> 02:28:41,400
Speaker 2: other two and retire. Okay, all right, the soap opera continues.

2743
02:28:42,200 --> 02:28:43,360
Speaker 1: Do with that what you will.

2744
02:28:43,520 --> 02:28:46,160
Speaker 2: We'll see if that goes anywhere. Remember last week he

2745
02:28:46,200 --> 02:28:51,760
Speaker 2: had Miles Garrett threatened to sit out games. Maybe those

2746
02:28:51,760 --> 02:28:53,720
Speaker 2: two can put their heads together and make a rock pile.

2747
02:28:54,520 --> 02:28:57,640
Speaker 2: Coming up, we wrap up the show, and I want

2748
02:28:57,680 --> 02:29:01,760
Speaker 2: to give a tribute to John Einstein, a man who

2749
02:29:01,800 --> 02:29:04,640
Speaker 2: wrote forty eight books, twenty three made the New York

2750
02:29:04,640 --> 02:29:07,880
Speaker 2: Times bestseller List, and of course, his first book, The

2751
02:29:07,959 --> 02:29:11,240
Speaker 2: Season on the Brink, made him a household name and

2752
02:29:11,360 --> 02:29:14,200
Speaker 2: spent seventeen weeks on the Times the bestseller list. He

2753
02:29:14,280 --> 02:29:16,200
Speaker 2: also wrote a good walk Spoiled about the year he

2754
02:29:16,240 --> 02:29:18,080
Speaker 2: spent on the PGA Tour in the nineties.

2755
02:29:19,360 --> 02:29:19,680
Speaker 12: The Guy.

2756
02:29:20,560 --> 02:29:24,040
Speaker 2: He was brilliant, one of the best sports writers of

2757
02:29:24,080 --> 02:29:26,800
Speaker 2: all time. A brilliant author. They don't make them like that.

2758
02:29:27,720 --> 02:29:31,680
Speaker 2: He told stories. You know, there's an old saying, share,

2759
02:29:32,000 --> 02:29:35,879
Speaker 2: give me a fact, I'll believe it, Give me the truth,

2760
02:29:35,920 --> 02:29:38,320
Speaker 2: I'll accept it. But share a great story. He lives

2761
02:29:38,360 --> 02:29:40,080
Speaker 2: in my heart the rest of my life. So I'm

2762
02:29:40,120 --> 02:29:43,200
Speaker 2: going to give a tribute to John Feinstein coming up,

2763
02:29:43,240 --> 02:29:45,600
Speaker 2: and I want to tell a great Bobby Knights story

2764
02:29:46,080 --> 02:29:49,560
Speaker 2: that has to do with John Feinstein's inner workings with

2765
02:29:49,760 --> 02:29:54,560
Speaker 2: Night during the year the team won Night's final national

2766
02:29:54,640 --> 02:29:58,120
Speaker 2: championship in nineteen eighty seven. That team had Steve Alfred,

2767
02:29:58,560 --> 02:30:01,320
Speaker 2: Darryl Thomas, Dean Garrett Smart, all played in the NBA.

2768
02:30:02,320 --> 02:30:03,920
Speaker 2: And when I tell the story, and I know my

2769
02:30:04,000 --> 02:30:06,640
Speaker 2: buddy Andrey Furman, I'd be shocked if he doesn't bring

2770
02:30:06,720 --> 02:30:08,920
Speaker 2: up John Feinsteins, and no one's talked about him a lot.

2771
02:30:08,959 --> 02:30:11,600
Speaker 2: But we're going to You're gonna really like this story.

2772
02:30:11,879 --> 02:30:13,600
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fratto. We're coming to a line from the

2773
02:30:13,640 --> 02:30:16,840
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tirack dot com studios. Keep

2774
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2775
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2776
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Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Come to your

2777
02:30:26,080 --> 02:30:29,400
Speaker 2: life from the tarat dot com studios here in Las Vegas.

2778
02:30:29,480 --> 02:30:30,880
Speaker 2: Where I go any further, I want to thank my

2779
02:30:30,959 --> 02:30:34,360
Speaker 2: broadcast team back in Los Angeles, Mark and Brianna turning

2780
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Speaker 2: all the dials, keeping usclude together, brand new fool what

2781
02:30:37,200 --> 02:30:42,400
Speaker 2: my name? Appreciate all the efforts tonight. By the way,

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2793
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Speaker 2: Supply for Life out Here Rest in peace. John Feinstein

2794
02:31:23,680 --> 02:31:26,640
Speaker 2: died the other day at sixty nine years old. He

2795
02:31:26,760 --> 02:31:29,000
Speaker 2: was a regular sports columnist for The New York Post

2796
02:31:29,440 --> 02:31:33,640
Speaker 2: wrote forty eight books, twenty three bestsellers. His most notable

2797
02:31:33,680 --> 02:31:36,640
Speaker 2: book was The Season on the Brink, which chronicled the

2798
02:31:36,760 --> 02:31:40,080
Speaker 2: eighty five eighty six Indiana University basketball season. It made

2799
02:31:40,120 --> 02:31:44,400
Speaker 2: him a household name well the following year. John Feinstein

2800
02:31:44,560 --> 02:31:48,240
Speaker 2: was still very close to the Indiana team the following year,

2801
02:31:49,000 --> 02:31:52,480
Speaker 2: which actually went on to win the national championship. But

2802
02:31:52,680 --> 02:31:57,879
Speaker 2: John Feinstein the exquisite storyteller. He was told the story

2803
02:31:57,959 --> 02:31:59,960
Speaker 2: that probably a lot of people don't know about it

2804
02:32:00,879 --> 02:32:04,400
Speaker 2: because heading into the season, Bobby Knight knew he had talent.

2805
02:32:04,480 --> 02:32:06,879
Speaker 2: He had four players on that team that got drafted

2806
02:32:06,920 --> 02:32:11,279
Speaker 2: into the NBA four Steve Alfred, Dean, Garrett Key Smart

2807
02:32:11,800 --> 02:32:15,080
Speaker 2: and Darryl Thomas. This was a quality team that had

2808
02:32:15,080 --> 02:32:17,280
Speaker 2: all the potential in the world. But Bobby Knight felt

2809
02:32:17,360 --> 02:32:22,879
Speaker 2: there was just something missing. So back then, the season

2810
02:32:22,959 --> 02:32:25,680
Speaker 2: didn't start till the end of November. So one of

2811
02:32:25,720 --> 02:32:29,920
Speaker 2: the Boosters had a Thanksgiving dinner at their house and said, guys,

2812
02:32:29,959 --> 02:32:33,000
Speaker 2: instead of going on for Thanksgiving, I want everybody Thanksgiving

2813
02:32:33,080 --> 02:32:39,280
Speaker 2: dinner at the Booster's house. And all the players attended,

2814
02:32:39,560 --> 02:32:41,320
Speaker 2: and they all had their dinner, and they stayed and

2815
02:32:41,400 --> 02:32:45,400
Speaker 2: then they had dinner and left, And Bobby Knight lotted

2816
02:32:45,440 --> 02:32:47,119
Speaker 2: that in the back of his brain because he saw

2817
02:32:47,160 --> 02:32:50,400
Speaker 2: a fatal flaw with this team that could prevent them

2818
02:32:50,440 --> 02:32:54,440
Speaker 2: from winning the national championship. Sure enough, four games into

2819
02:32:54,480 --> 02:32:56,680
Speaker 2: the season, they lost to Vanderbilt, a team they never

2820
02:32:56,760 --> 02:32:59,760
Speaker 2: should have lost too, but they did, but in the

2821
02:32:59,840 --> 02:33:03,160
Speaker 2: end righted the ship. They did have one loss at Iowa,

2822
02:33:03,280 --> 02:33:05,640
Speaker 2: who at that time was ranked number one in the country,

2823
02:33:05,720 --> 02:33:07,480
Speaker 2: so you'd forgive them for that, but they got blown

2824
02:33:07,480 --> 02:33:11,040
Speaker 2: out by thirteen points at Carver Hawkeye Arena. And then

2825
02:33:11,040 --> 02:33:14,400
Speaker 2: the season was going swimmingly well. Okay, they were like

2826
02:33:14,640 --> 02:33:19,280
Speaker 2: twenty six and twenty five and two, and then all

2827
02:33:19,360 --> 02:33:24,520
Speaker 2: of a sudden, their final two road Big Ten Conference

2828
02:33:24,600 --> 02:33:30,480
Speaker 2: games at Purdue they lost by eleven and at Illinois

2829
02:33:31,240 --> 02:33:34,960
Speaker 2: they lost by They lost sixty nine to sixty seven

2830
02:33:35,280 --> 02:33:39,640
Speaker 2: two days apart, and Bobby Knight blew a gasket, slammed

2831
02:33:39,680 --> 02:33:42,520
Speaker 2: the door, held a team meeting and says, it's coming

2832
02:33:42,560 --> 02:33:45,520
Speaker 2: out now, and we're getting ready to go to the tournament,

2833
02:33:45,720 --> 02:33:49,439
Speaker 2: and it's coming out. You guys bug me. You're all selfish.

2834
02:33:50,280 --> 02:33:55,080
Speaker 2: You're all selfish people. You've been that way all season.

2835
02:33:55,440 --> 02:33:58,800
Speaker 2: You've probably been that way your whole life. And then

2836
02:33:58,959 --> 02:34:05,440
Speaker 2: Bobby Knight reiterated or checked that he reminded them of

2837
02:34:05,520 --> 02:34:08,800
Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving dinner that they'd had prior to the beginning

2838
02:34:08,800 --> 02:34:11,840
Speaker 2: of the season, because I watched you guys. You all

2839
02:34:11,920 --> 02:34:15,920
Speaker 2: went there, you ate your meal, and you got up

2840
02:34:15,959 --> 02:34:20,240
Speaker 2: and left. Did you any of you one of you

2841
02:34:21,240 --> 02:34:24,680
Speaker 2: thank the host who went to all the work to

2842
02:34:24,760 --> 02:34:27,039
Speaker 2: prepare the dinner? Cleanup? Did any of you offer to help,

2843
02:34:27,080 --> 02:34:29,360
Speaker 2: Did any of you offer to clean up? Did any

2844
02:34:29,400 --> 02:34:32,720
Speaker 2: of you, you know, bring a gift? None of that

2845
02:34:32,920 --> 02:34:35,600
Speaker 2: happened because you're all a bunch of selfish people, and

2846
02:34:35,680 --> 02:34:38,080
Speaker 2: all you do is really care about yourself. And Night

2847
02:34:38,120 --> 02:34:42,360
Speaker 2: went bananas and told him that this is what bothers

2848
02:34:42,440 --> 02:34:45,000
Speaker 2: me about you, that if you weren't selfish, you can

2849
02:34:45,040 --> 02:34:50,240
Speaker 2: win a national championship, and that message must have really worked. Now,

2850
02:34:50,320 --> 02:34:52,959
Speaker 2: this is John Feinstein, one of many thousands of stories

2851
02:34:53,000 --> 02:34:57,120
Speaker 2: he told. Five days after losing to Illinois, they beat

2852
02:34:57,160 --> 02:34:59,760
Speaker 2: Ohio State by nine, and then they opened up the tournament.

2853
02:35:00,360 --> 02:35:04,199
Speaker 2: They crushed Fairfield by forty. They beat Auburn by eighteen.

2854
02:35:05,000 --> 02:35:07,040
Speaker 2: Then they ran into a very tough Duke team in

2855
02:35:07,080 --> 02:35:10,440
Speaker 2: the sweet sixteen but prevailed eighty eight eighty two. Then

2856
02:35:10,480 --> 02:35:14,440
Speaker 2: they had the one surviving advance game against LSU with

2857
02:35:14,560 --> 02:35:17,480
Speaker 2: a very good team back then. This game was played

2858
02:35:17,480 --> 02:35:19,920
Speaker 2: in the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati. I bet my buddy

2859
02:35:19,920 --> 02:35:24,959
Speaker 2: Andy Furman remembers this. They beat LSU seventy seven seventy six.

2860
02:35:25,800 --> 02:35:28,200
Speaker 2: The following week in the Final four, they beat a

2861
02:35:28,320 --> 02:35:34,080
Speaker 2: very plucky Jerry Tarcadian coach UNLV team ninety seven to

2862
02:35:34,160 --> 02:35:36,640
Speaker 2: ninety three. And that got to that famous game against

2863
02:35:36,640 --> 02:35:41,120
Speaker 2: Syracuse in the Louisiana super Dome where Deans Smart the

2864
02:35:41,200 --> 02:35:44,119
Speaker 2: key Smart excuse me. Keith Smart hit the last second

2865
02:35:44,200 --> 02:35:48,120
Speaker 2: shot to beat Syracuse seventy four to seventy three, and

2866
02:35:48,280 --> 02:35:53,640
Speaker 2: Knight had his national championship. For the record, that team

2867
02:35:53,760 --> 02:35:56,360
Speaker 2: was thirty and four. It would be the last national

2868
02:35:56,600 --> 02:36:01,800
Speaker 2: championship Bobby Knight would ever win. Obviously, he was unceremoniously

2869
02:36:01,920 --> 02:36:06,480
Speaker 2: removed from Indiana and the faculty a few years later,

2870
02:36:07,640 --> 02:36:11,000
Speaker 2: and that's that. But give it up to John Feinstein,

2871
02:36:11,080 --> 02:36:15,280
Speaker 2: an exquisite writer. He also wrote books about the Civil War.

2872
02:36:16,040 --> 02:36:21,480
Speaker 2: He was honored, you know, by lots of organizations, and yeah,

2873
02:36:22,320 --> 02:36:24,160
Speaker 2: I don't have enough time to really go through what

2874
02:36:24,280 --> 02:36:25,920
Speaker 2: he did. But if you get a chance to read

2875
02:36:26,440 --> 02:36:29,440
Speaker 2: a season on the brink, that takes you behind the

2876
02:36:29,480 --> 02:36:31,880
Speaker 2: scenes and Bobby and I still holds up today. He's

2877
02:36:31,879 --> 02:36:34,360
Speaker 2: written movies about everything from minor league baseball to the

2878
02:36:34,400 --> 02:36:36,920
Speaker 2: Civil War. Again, forty eight books, twenty three were New

2879
02:36:37,000 --> 02:36:42,720
Speaker 2: York Times bestsellers. Rest in Peace, John Feinstein, a couple

2880
02:36:42,800 --> 02:36:44,959
Speaker 2: of other things. Again, I want to reiterate the Aaron

2881
02:36:45,040 --> 02:36:47,160
Speaker 2: Rodgers thing. I want to be fair about this, all right,

2882
02:36:47,800 --> 02:36:52,040
Speaker 2: because we took a fair amount of time in multiple

2883
02:36:52,120 --> 02:36:56,640
Speaker 2: midnight hours, bashing him for good reason. But all of

2884
02:36:56,680 --> 02:36:59,119
Speaker 2: a sudden, there's a theory emerging that the reason he's

2885
02:36:59,120 --> 02:37:02,520
Speaker 2: holding up the steel and the reason he's holding up

2886
02:37:02,560 --> 02:37:05,320
Speaker 2: the giants, it's not that he's trying to get a bittymore.

2887
02:37:05,400 --> 02:37:09,600
Speaker 2: This is a theory now reported by two reputable agencies. Okay,

2888
02:37:11,720 --> 02:37:15,080
Speaker 2: the reason Rogers has been so deliberate taking his time

2889
02:37:15,959 --> 02:37:20,120
Speaker 2: and not having a situation where he's giving answers right

2890
02:37:20,160 --> 02:37:24,119
Speaker 2: away and meanwhile the you know, the Steelers wait limbo

2891
02:37:24,200 --> 02:37:26,280
Speaker 2: and they're kind of twisting in the wind, and the

2892
02:37:27,280 --> 02:37:30,480
Speaker 2: Giants wait limbo. One of the theories that's coming out

2893
02:37:30,560 --> 02:37:33,680
Speaker 2: now that if the Vikings don't want Aaron Rodgers, and

2894
02:37:33,760 --> 02:37:36,440
Speaker 2: they very well might not, or they might. I don't know.

2895
02:37:36,520 --> 02:37:39,200
Speaker 2: It's going to be up to Kevin O'Connell. Rogers may

2896
02:37:39,360 --> 02:37:41,280
Speaker 2: just retire. So maybe he doesn't want to go when

2897
02:37:41,280 --> 02:37:44,120
Speaker 2: he was or play anywhere else, you know, because he

2898
02:37:44,240 --> 02:37:46,200
Speaker 2: dome a great offense, a team that could win.

2899
02:37:46,320 --> 02:37:46,440
Speaker 8: Now.

2900
02:37:47,560 --> 02:37:49,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, the guy. This is how he's

2901
02:37:49,640 --> 02:37:52,480
Speaker 2: managed to, you know, live his professional life. He kind

2902
02:37:52,520 --> 02:37:53,920
Speaker 2: of gets what he wants. He did this at the

2903
02:37:54,000 --> 02:37:55,360
Speaker 2: end of his tenure in Green Bay. He did it

2904
02:37:55,360 --> 02:37:57,280
Speaker 2: with the New York Jets. I don't know if the

2905
02:37:57,320 --> 02:37:59,520
Speaker 2: act's going to play now, but that could very well

2906
02:37:59,680 --> 02:38:04,720
Speaker 2: be the reason Aaron Rodgers is so deliberate, taking so

2907
02:38:04,840 --> 02:38:07,720
Speaker 2: much time and all the above. All right, we are

2908
02:38:07,879 --> 02:38:10,039
Speaker 2: twelve hours away, a little over twelve hours away now

2909
02:38:10,680 --> 02:38:13,880
Speaker 2: from the full sixty eighteen bracket for the men's tournament

2910
02:38:14,360 --> 02:38:18,840
Speaker 2: to be revealed. There will be five final automatic qualifiers

2911
02:38:18,920 --> 02:38:22,680
Speaker 2: determined later on today on Sunday. What's interesting is the

2912
02:38:22,720 --> 02:38:26,760
Speaker 2: big tit championship game doesn't even until like three thirty

2913
02:38:26,760 --> 02:38:29,000
Speaker 2: Eastern times, well at a couple hours for selection. Stidy,

2914
02:38:29,040 --> 02:38:30,920
Speaker 2: so lott know what they're gonna do. I'll tell you

2915
02:38:31,080 --> 02:38:32,840
Speaker 2: some teams that are gonna be nervous. One of them

2916
02:38:32,959 --> 02:38:35,640
Speaker 2: is gonna be North Carolina. They're sweating it out. The

2917
02:38:35,720 --> 02:38:37,800
Speaker 2: poor kid. They had a lane violation. They're a lane

2918
02:38:37,840 --> 02:38:40,760
Speaker 2: violation away from tying the game, potentially tying the game,

2919
02:38:41,000 --> 02:38:43,640
Speaker 2: potentially taking Duke to overtime in the a SEC tournament,

2920
02:38:44,200 --> 02:38:47,280
Speaker 2: and then UNC outscored the Blue Devils by eighteen in

2921
02:38:47,360 --> 02:38:49,280
Speaker 2: the second half. They showed game. I don't know if

2922
02:38:49,320 --> 02:38:51,440
Speaker 2: it's gonna be enough to get in the tournament. Texas

2923
02:38:51,560 --> 02:38:54,280
Speaker 2: is also gonna sweat it out Colorado State. They stoleed

2924
02:38:54,280 --> 02:38:56,880
Speaker 2: their bid, They took care of business. West Virginia is

2925
02:38:56,879 --> 02:39:00,200
Speaker 2: hoping they're safe, Xavier's hoping they're safe. And again we'll

2926
02:39:00,200 --> 02:39:03,400
Speaker 2: have five more automatic qualify our bids, and what we

2927
02:39:03,560 --> 02:39:07,560
Speaker 2: call March madness it is upon us. Thanks for listening,

2928
02:39:07,680 --> 02:39:10,160
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show. I'll be back in these airwaves next

2929
02:39:10,200 --> 02:39:13,039
Speaker 2: Saturday night, eleven pm. Keep it locked. The Great Andy

2930
02:39:13,080 --> 02:39:14,640
Speaker 2: Furman up next. Fox Sports Radio