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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: CARMEI and me. Happy March madness. Oh my god, we've

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Speaker 2: gotten it all. We're gonna dive into all of it

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Speaker 2: in just a moment. The upsets, the big games, you love,

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Speaker 2: bracket updates, who's in your final four?

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Speaker 3: The women's tournament. Really we saw like the two biggest

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Speaker 2: You come Paige Becker this morning, like you comes absolutely

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Speaker 2: dominating USC playing right now. Juju walkins like absolute superstar.

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Speaker 2: It's such a fun time of year because Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball season like kind of like it kicked off in

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Speaker 2: Tokyo earlier this week, but like opening day is on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Over in the final stretch of NBA NHL soccer is

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Speaker 4: Like my favorite part of this is like seeing people

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Speaker 4: at the bar with their laptops open on fidays. Take

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Speaker 4: That because I've done this, so where you have your laptop,

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Speaker 3: I'm like this, I mean, that's living. That's living, right, That's.

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Speaker 4: That's my favorite thing about the tournament is like everybody,

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Speaker 3: And guys, we've got a great show for you today.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have Dodgers' host, Broncos team reporter at Lisa

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Speaker 3: She was in Tokyo with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: What a time.

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Speaker 2: Then we have ESPN Steelers reporter Brooks Pryor an hour

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Speaker 2: two and we have so many questions with what's going

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Speaker 4: She probably has more questions for like, I know she

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Speaker 4: has more questions than answers too, because we.

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Speaker 2: All like like six hour meeting with Rogers yesterday and.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get We're gonna get what she knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which hopefully a little more than we know.

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Speaker 2: We've got executive producer Ryan with us today. Technical producer

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Speaker 2: Chris and Martin was at the news desk.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna keep you updated on all.

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Speaker 2: The March Madness scores as they go down the big plays.

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Speaker 4: It's been pretty ideal scenario too, because we have four

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Speaker 2: March Mountains here, you guys, But it's one of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Thursday when these games kick off, is one of

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Speaker 4: I skeated this out on Blue Sky because Lady Gaga

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Speaker 2: Snack I can give myself little snacky poo. I still

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Speaker 2: It's it's like her most like critically acclaimed album yet.

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Speaker 4: Which is crazy, but it's like pure pop.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited for that. I am so excited for that.

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Speaker 2: You guys, You guys. We got madness Day one in

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Speaker 2: the NC Double A Tournament, and like the biggest upset

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Speaker 2: first ever NC DOUBLEA Tournament game that make Nie had won.

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Speaker 2: They lost to Purdue this morning, but this team is

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Speaker 2: He walks out with the team with a boom box

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Speaker 2: He walked Yeah, the buff he had Buffalo wild Wings.

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Speaker 4: That's his nickname is Aura.

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Speaker 4: It's like, well, more than the whole NIL thing, like

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, but now we're a couple of years

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Speaker 2: It's definitely wild West, but we're seeing a little, like

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Speaker 2: But dude, after that upset, less than two percent of

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Speaker 4: that upset, okay, And so like my bracket survived quite

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Speaker 4: don't think there's really been like yes, McNee silver Clemson

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, in my contract, I going

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Speaker 2: So like the fact that dude in my final four, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Okay, but like I my my champion is still there,

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Speaker 4: so okay. But the contrast to these this ACC performance though,

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Speaker 3: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, But I mean we also kind of saw that,

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Speaker 4: Lost to a ten seed, which isn't a crazy.

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Speaker 2: Upside, No, no, no, I think it was more the fact that,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's what you That's what you're supposed to

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Speaker 3: So I feel pretty darn.

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Speaker 4: No, we have twenty seven, right, and then I have

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Speaker 4: And then but outside of Memphis, like that, other other

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Speaker 2: Get Yeah, Okay, I see what you mean, because my

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: I've twenty six out of thirty three correct so far.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have I have Michigan State beating Memphis to

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Speaker 3: I Can State beating Ole Miss.

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Speaker 4: Well Miss is out.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so that was no, They're still in.

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Speaker 4: They beat are they? Yeah? They right now. I was

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Speaker 2: I have Michigan State against Auburn. That's where I have

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Speaker 3: Okay, we have the same way, the same final.

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Speaker 2: We both have Michigan State Duke and you and I

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Speaker 3: Okay, I love this. I love this for us. That's

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Speaker 3: actually pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Another Okay, I'll actually save that for another segment here.

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Speaker 3: But then let's let's talk about the women real quick.

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Speaker 2: Here, because we got two of the players putting on

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Speaker 4: Just like.

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Speaker 2: They absolutely just they just went off. That was That

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Speaker 3: Wasn't even like the highest half time score they've had before.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee Tech.

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Speaker 4: That was Yeah, that was absolutely I feel like in general,

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Speaker 4: There hasn't been There hasn't been an upset. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 2: This is going to be fun. This is just like

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Speaker 2: such a fun weekend. We're gonna take a quick break here,

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Speaker 4: We've also had a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of action in free agency, but there's still some big

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Speaker 3: A few teams that got a good bargain. That's next

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, let's talk some free agency because it's

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Speaker 4: That's like, of the guys that have like the biggest

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Speaker 2: So that's the thing too. It's like at one point

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Speaker 4: I don't think Amar has any interest in doing that. No,

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Speaker 3: So who can pay that? Who wants to pay that?

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Speaker 4: of that upfront to kind of free up some cap

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Speaker 4: space if they want to restructure existing deals that are

442
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Speaker 4: already on the roster. But it's doable. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like, you have Tyler Lockett out there too,

444
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Speaker 4: who I still think has some juice. Like, there's a

445
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Speaker 4: lot of veteran receivers, and I think the most interesting part,

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Speaker 4: the most interesting part of this is like this kind

447
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Speaker 4: of tells you what teams think of them the draft class,

448
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Speaker 4: because there's not like a Marvin Harrison junior in this

449
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Speaker 4: draft class, but there are a lot of guys and

450
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Speaker 4: it's a pretty deep draft for wide receivers. There's guys

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Speaker 4: that are going to go in the first couple rounds

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Speaker 4: that will be starters, are capable of being role players

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Speaker 4: on your team. So I feel like when faced with

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Speaker 4: the decision of all right, these guys who are all

455
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Speaker 4: over thirty, they're gonna give you a certain level of production.

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Speaker 4: It might be a little bit higher than a rookie,

457
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Speaker 4: but it's only gonna decline theoretically, whereas with a rookie

458
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Speaker 4: you're gonna get kind of the same amount of production.

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Speaker 4: But now that's an ascending player who you have on

460
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Speaker 4: a rookie contract. You don't have to pay nineteen million

461
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Speaker 4: dollars a year like you would with a Mari Cooper.

462
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Speaker 4: And I feel like that's where teams are kind of

463
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Speaker 4: finding themselves of like do I want a veteran right now?

464
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Speaker 4: And like if you're ready to win, perhaps you do. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I just think it's so important if you do have

466
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Speaker 2: a rookie to have a veteran there. I mean, we

467
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Speaker 2: saw with Pukinakua and Cooper Cup him talking about what

468
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Speaker 2: he meant to him and everything he did to help

469
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Speaker 2: him to become a number one wide receiver and have

470
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Speaker 2: the rookie and sophomore year that he did with the

471
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Speaker 2: Rams like it, like you you hear those.

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Speaker 4: I think it has to be a but it can

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Speaker 4: be a veteran though quarterback, Like I think going to

474
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Speaker 4: the Chargers, like, you don't need a rookie. You don't

475
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Speaker 4: need a veteran wide receiver there, although it would help it, Like,

476
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Speaker 4: but you have justin Herbert and at this point, Justin

477
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Speaker 4: Herbert the better. Justin Herbert who better.

478
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Speaker 2: Is who still hasn't had the success that we've been

479
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Speaker 2: hyping at all about.

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Speaker 4: Postseason postseason, But he's still a really good quarterback, and

481
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Speaker 4: you have a good offensive line, and you should have

482
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Speaker 4: a good run game to compliment it all. So like

483
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Speaker 4: legendary co having all of that in that ecosystem, it

484
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Speaker 4: should make things easy on Justin Herbert. And then therefore

485
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Speaker 4: any of the skill players that come to LA I

486
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Speaker 4: just I hope so I like, I think that a

487
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Speaker 4: lot of these guys, they're over thirty, and their their

488
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Speaker 4: price tag is still pretty rich.

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Speaker 3: It is, it is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, We're gonna save the latter part of this for

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Speaker 2: the next hour. So right now, let's check in with

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Speaker 2: Martin Wise. How are the games going.

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Speaker 7: On the women's UH In the women's March Madness Tournament,

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Speaker 7: Number one USC has a forty five to fifteen lead

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Speaker 7: over sixteenth UNC Greensboro.

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Speaker 4: Juju Watkins has twenty points.

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Speaker 7: She just like in the last minute and a half

498
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Speaker 7: left the game, limping went to the locker room.

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Speaker 4: But again all of this in the last ninety seconds.

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Speaker 4: He is now back out.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so she lived off very quickly, but is now

502
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Speaker 7: back on the bench.

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Speaker 3: Oh they're showing it.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 7: She rolled the ankle there going up for a yep

506
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Speaker 7: the time as someone who.

507
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Speaker 3: Rolled their angle a B.

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Speaker 4: That was like my all, yeah, yeah, when you're up

509
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Speaker 4: forty five fifteen, I feel like you can probably sider yeah,

510
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Speaker 4: probably rested her up.

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Speaker 7: They had a game coming up in a few days

512
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Speaker 7: that will be to what after tomorrow. Earlier today, we

513
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Speaker 7: saw Yukon beat Arkansas State one oh three to thirty

514
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Speaker 7: four in the first round tournament. NC State, Alabama, Iowa,

515
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Speaker 7: and West Virginia all advanced to the second round of

516
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Speaker 7: the women's March Madness Tournament. On the men's side of things,

517
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Speaker 7: just under sixteen minutes left in the second half between

518
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Speaker 7: Arkansas and Saint John's forty four and thirty six to

519
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Speaker 7: score with the ten seeded Razorbacks in the lead. John

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Speaker 7: Calipari's team has been really just shooting much better points

521
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Speaker 7: in the paints just about equal, but Saint John's has

522
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Speaker 7: been shooting abysmally from the floor from from deep. Couldn't

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Speaker 7: ass that's the word. Fifty per due b twelfth seed

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Speaker 7: McNee State. Earlier today, seventy six to sixty two. The

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Speaker 7: Boilermakers advanced to the Sweet sixteen and we'll played the

526
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Speaker 7: winner of the eighth seed Gonzaga and one seed Houston.

527
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Speaker 7: That game with tip off later on today.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, guys, talk you're listening to Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Saturday and Alex Curry Here at Carmen Vitali.

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Speaker 3: We are broadcasting live from the TIA Talk Up Studios in.

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and it is time for our first guest.

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Speaker 4: She is a.

533
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Speaker 2: Broncos team reporter and a host for the Dodgers. She

534
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Speaker 2: just got back from Japan for the Tokyo Series. Please

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Speaker 2: mack up, Elise Hernandez.

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Speaker 5: Hey guys, thee hasn't hit me because I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 5: I can't.

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Speaker 4: There'll probably be a matter of time.

539
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Speaker 5: As soon as the radio hits over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just did you just get back today? Yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Last night?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, last last night?

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Speaker 3: Oh okay.

544
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Speaker 2: So let's talk about this like the Tokyo Series, Dodgers

545
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Speaker 2: Cubs this week before we get into the games. You

546
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Speaker 2: were there, We saw like the fandom, the fanatics, the lines,

547
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Speaker 2: the excitement all over social media and TV.

548
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Speaker 3: But how rad was Japan? And describe what that environment

549
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Speaker 3: was like real life.

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Speaker 5: Man. I honestly, it was an experience I'm definitely never

551
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 5: gonna forget. Tokyo Dome was just it was ready for

552
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball, like the field, the pregame show, the anthem,

553
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 5: the like, the like the lights or being dim down.

554
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Speaker 5: Everyone had like these risk lights that were unison just

555
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Speaker 5: like playing all kind of lights. I think the most

556
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Speaker 5: impressive thing for me was the different experience that I was.

557
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Speaker 5: What I mean by that is, you know, when Schoe

558
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Speaker 5: Hay is up to bat, you know, everyone's cheering, and

559
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Speaker 5: the second he gets in his stance to actually that ach,

560
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Speaker 5: it's it was silent, like as if I'm watching golf, right,

561
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Speaker 5: And so it was funny because on the big streen,

562
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Speaker 5: they're like, let's get loud, and we're looking around like

563
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Speaker 5: we're like can we like yeah, Like it was very interesting,

564
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Speaker 5: uh to kind of see that dynamic and it's just

565
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Speaker 5: a matter of respect and like hearing the ball hits

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Speaker 5: the bat like that Chris sound was just was so

567
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Speaker 5: beautiful to hear. Obviously it's this side of dome, so

568
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Speaker 5: it's very echoed, and honestly it was it was such

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Speaker 5: a good experience. I mean, the dargist did what they

570
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Speaker 5: had to do. They took care of business on the field,

571
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Speaker 5: and you know, just every every second of it, every pitch,

572
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Speaker 5: every hit, you know, whether it's the Cubs of the Dodgers, like,

573
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Speaker 5: it was such an exciting environment and the fans were

574
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Speaker 5: just really intwoed. They were hungry for some baseline. It

575
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 5: was great that you know, the Dodgers of the Cubs

576
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Speaker 5: served it up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it's funny.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned, like they go quiet when there's a pitch

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Speaker 2: or they're at the back. So I remember watching the

580
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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic and I thought like my TV volume

581
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Speaker 2: like broke or something was wrong with my TV because

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Speaker 2: it was like wild, like crazy cheering and then literally

583
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Speaker 2: dead silent.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, what's what the hell?

585
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you know you have you know, you

586
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Speaker 5: had those fans or were going to just randomly script

587
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Speaker 5: we need.

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Speaker 4: I I appreciate it because nothing like grinds my gears

589
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Speaker 4: more than whatever sport it is. It was when these

590
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Speaker 4: like when when fans don't know when to shut up.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, if your team's on offense, if your teams whatever,

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Speaker 4: like let the dudes concentrate, like you don't want like

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Speaker 4: you don't want to create an opposite environment, like that's

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Speaker 4: the visiting fans. And speaking of that, Alisa, because you

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Speaker 4: were in the stands, yes, yeah, so was there are

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Speaker 4: like how many people would you say were local versus

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Speaker 4: how many people traveled over there to see this matchup.

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Speaker 5: I mean I think the people that traveled definitely were

599
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Speaker 5: at like local bars and restaurants watching the game.

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Speaker 8: Because it was funny.

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Speaker 5: During the game, they actually did a sign, right, and

602
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Speaker 5: it was like tourists and it was like some cheers

603
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Speaker 5: and they said they put the fund set locals and

604
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Speaker 5: the entire arena erupted like it was. It was awesome,

605
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Speaker 5: like I got I got children now, just remembering the feeling.

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Speaker 5: And then they were just like baseball fans that everybody cheered, right,

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Speaker 5: and so it was really cool to see like a

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Speaker 5: high local cawn people coming out and having, you know,

609
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Speaker 5: show hail Tani merchandise. I mean, he he is. You

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Speaker 5: could not escape that man out there.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, he's a face of Japan. He is a

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Speaker 3: face of Japan.

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Speaker 5: He is he is. And obviously we have Rokie and

614
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Speaker 5: we had Yomoto and a couple of guys in the Cubs.

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Speaker 5: But you know something about being there and this is like,

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Speaker 5: this is their guy, you know, this is there, this

617
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Speaker 5: is there. I made a guy and now he's a

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Speaker 5: world champion. And for him to come back and play,

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Speaker 5: you know, in Japan after he does won the World Series,

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Speaker 5: I mean, you can't you can't even write the script

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Speaker 5: better than that. So it was really cool to kind

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Speaker 5: of see the locals come out, young kids out there,

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Speaker 5: you know, just this young you know, Japanese boys watching

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Speaker 5: baseball and just seeing themselves out there. I think there's

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00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 5: there's a lot of power in that, right, Like seeah,

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Speaker 5: someone that looks like you make it on the biggest level.

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Speaker 2: And theations, Yeah matters that in like every possible level.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It's insane.

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Speaker 2: I mean they set MLB records that there was like

630
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Speaker 2: twenty three to twenty five million average viewers and watching

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Speaker 2: these first two games across one platforms.

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Speaker 5: One thousand percent. It was the most attended MLB fans

633
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Speaker 5: festival ever, was over four hundred and fifty thousand visitors.

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Speaker 5: By merchandise sales forty million international. Yeah, it was the

635
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Speaker 5: biggest merchandise of any MLB international event or All Star game,

636
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Speaker 5: and it was the most MLB, like the most watched

637
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Speaker 5: MLB exhibition game in Japan with eighteen million viewers, Like

638
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Speaker 5: those are just exhibition games, even the actual Game one

639
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Speaker 5: and Game two that actually counted, so they definitely broke

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Speaker 5: records there. I mean, it just shows how big this

641
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 5: game is growing, and how the International Series it's just

642
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 5: going to get bigger and bigger. And you know, that's

643
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 5: that's what you want to see, right, Like baseball and

644
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 5: such a beautiful sport, and once you really kind of

645
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Speaker 5: get into the nitty gritty of how many international players

646
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Speaker 5: are there, how many homegrown players are there, I mean,

647
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 5: it just makes baseball so much. But I think that's

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Speaker 5: going to add to the World Baseball Classic as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's gonna be wild.

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Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned Otani being everywhere, and then they

651
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Speaker 2: also have Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Like these are three

652
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Speaker 2: of Japan's biggest stars all on the Dodgers. How did

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Speaker 2: you see the other Dodgers players really like follow suit

654
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Speaker 2: and really take in the culture, this Japanese culture from

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Speaker 2: those three Japanese superstars.

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Speaker 5: Oh Man, First of all, the Dodgers social did a

657
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 5: great job because they did a whole series of those

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Speaker 5: guys teaching their teammates how to you know, certain words

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Speaker 5: in Japanese, right, and so you definitely you definitely saw

660
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 5: them really into the community. I was at one of

661
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Speaker 5: the local markets and like a lot of fans were

662
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 5: just like, oh, Chris Taylor was just here, and we're

663
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 5: like what, and they showed us like polaroids, like like

664
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 5: we saw him, and we're like, oh, like that's really cool,

665
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,719
Speaker 5: like you know, kicking her Nana's out in the community,

666
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 5: just walking around, you know. And so obviously, like these

667
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 5: guys are famous, so it was kind of cool that

668
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 5: thirteen mates could go out and obviously they were recognized,

669
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Speaker 5: but maybe made it took him like two seconds, you know,

670
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Speaker 5: more than if you know, Phani's walking around. So it

671
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 5: was really cool to see the locals be like, oh, yeah,

672
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 5: like they just came to our shop, They just came

673
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 5: to our food and work like and so I think

674
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 5: adding that experience was really great. You know, a lot

675
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 5: of the guys really embraced it. A former Dodger, Justin Turner,

676
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 5: actually right into him at Disneyland, and so it's funny.

677
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Speaker 5: My one of my friends has a tattoo of turnaround

678
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 5: his on his wrist, and so when we saw him,

679
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 5: he was like like, Kenner, look and turn luck. He's like,

680
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 5: he's like, that's really cool, all right. I had to

681
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 5: take a picture with you, and he actually put in

682
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 5: his little Japan recap story and the fact that he

683
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 5: met my friend with a tattoo. So it was really

684
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 5: cool just seeing them really out in the community embracing it,

685
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 5: you know, we'ing, you know, eating drinking Davine food cuisine,

686
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 5: I'm wearing the kimonas, like just kind of being out there.

687
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: They had a blasting to learn about Stumo wrestling exactly.

688
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 5: A video went viral with they got Insani when he

689
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 5: was teaching of Spanish. So it's kind of nice to

690
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 5: see them reciprocate that the year later.

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Speaker 4: That is cool. And then I just I do feel

692
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 4: like Japanese fans just take it like they they want

693
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: to be true to the spirit of baseball, to the

694
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Speaker 4: game itself, and like you mentioned, they're silent when a

695
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 4: guy's up to bat, they're silent when a guy is

696
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 4: trying to pitch. Did you see people like I mean,

697
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Speaker 4: one of the biggest things and one of my best

698
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 4: memories as a kid growing up in Chicago, was getting

699
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 4: to go to games and sit there with a scorecard

700
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Speaker 4: with my dad and like start scoring the game. I

701
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 4: always scored. Did you see did you see kind of

702
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 4: all of that kind of take hold? I feel like

703
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 4: they're trying, like people in Japan and a lot of

704
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 4: these places where these these guys are coming from, they'd

705
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 4: really try to stay true to what baseball has always been.

706
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 5: No, I definitely saw a couple of that at where

708
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 5: it's like to keeping score and things like that. I

709
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 5: will say, if you learned how to keep from a

710
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 5: baseball game, it opens the game up in a whole

711
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 5: different way. It sure does. But you know what I did,

712
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 5: I saw a lot of people just being the moment,

713
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 5: which I loved, you know what I mean, Like, you know,

714
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 5: most time we're at the games, we're trying to film everything,

715
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 5: you know, trying to make sure we're post for social media. Like, yeah,

716
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 5: you had some of that, but there was some moments

717
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 5: where people were just watching the game, and I thought

718
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 5: that was really great because like there was something so

719
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 5: captivating about the Tokyo Dome and the fans being there

720
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 5: and like the drums and like all the theatric Pikachu

721
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 5: was on the field. I mean it was it was

722
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 5: it was a party. It's what I mean. I think,

723
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 5: like sometimes you just have to be in those moments, right,

724
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 5: Like the last thing you want to do is like,

725
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 5: oh yeah, I think I recorded it, Like no, you

726
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 5: want to say, no, I remember watching it, you know,

727
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 5: And so I think having that experience that you know,

728
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 5: you see these young kids and their parents and the locals,

729
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 5: and it's like sometimes it's the only baseball MLB baseball

730
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 5: they're ever going to go to for some of these people, right,

731
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 5: So I think soaking in that moment along with like

732
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 5: keeping the tradition of like the scorecar and make sure

733
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 5: that you guys are falling the game. Plus see, it

734
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 5: was a mixture of all those things. But it was

735
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 5: definitely a dope experience. So yo, don't like I was like,

736
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 5: I hope you guys host more games there because it

737
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 5: was definitely a watch event.

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Speaker 3: Okay, before we let you go.

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Speaker 2: I've heard multiple people who have gone to games at

740
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: the Tokyo Dome talk about the the keg, the cargreators

741
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: on the back back of like all like literally they're

742
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: like your beer is never empty. The moment that they

743
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: see an empty beer. There is a beer girl right

744
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: there with a keg wriger on her back filling up

745
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: your beer. Like immediately, is it as rad in real life?

746
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: That like is it really that like incredible?

747
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 4: It is.

748
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 3: They're literal and they're like athletes.

749
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not little beer ghostbusters, you know, roll up

750
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 5: your cup like I mean, if they were on it,

751
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 5: they were on it. And they're so nice. They're not pushy,

752
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 5: they're not like yeah, but like they're just but the

753
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 5: second you're like, man, I should probably get it, Oh.

754
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 3: Here you are, like beer out of nowhere is what

755
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 3: I heard you?

756
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 8: Out of nowhere?

757
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 5: You know, And it's like, you know they had coke

758
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 5: and Petsy.

759
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,760
Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, that's that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

760
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 3: And there it is.

761
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 4: I'm like, I can I can get, I can get,

762
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: Like the pair stuff makes sense like to me, but

763
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 4: like wow, like.

764
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 9: That anything on tap it's like and PEPSI like usually

765
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 9: ballparks have to choose one and like they're really territorial

766
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 9: about things and whatever, like that's wild.

767
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 5: It was awesomes for sure, they would disappear and that

768
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 5: thank you.

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00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 3: So much for joining us and for that inside.

770
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm so happy you got that experience, and let's go Dodgers.

771
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dodgers, Let's go baby.

772
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 3: All right, have a great one, get some sleep. I'm

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00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 3: on my way, all right when we come back.

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Speaker 2: You guys, the dudes and the Dunton Sports. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Coury here

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00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,160
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Speaker 2: dot Com studios in Los Angeles.

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784
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Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app and it will always pop up at the

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Speaker 4: top of your screen.

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Speaker 2: Love that all right, guys, it is time for the

792
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 2: dues and the don'ts in sports.

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00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: This highlighting the dues.

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00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 6: Oh, I love that, and putting us spotlight on the don't.

795
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: The subject brings me no joy.

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00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: Don't do that, that's insane.

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00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 6: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: Okay, do have fun with your postgame interviews? Have you

799
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 2: seen Okase's postgame interview tradition yet?

800
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 3: Okay?

801
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: So I guess it started with Chet wanting his teammates

802
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: to be with him in his postgame interviews, and now

803
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 2: it's grown into how many items of clothing, towels, cups,

804
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: basically anything that they have can they put on the

805
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 2: teammate that's getting interviewed, and their team reporter, Nick Gallo,

806
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 2: who's interviewing the players. And I don't know if it

807
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: was last night or the night before, but they literally

808
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 2: put an entire jacket on Nick Gallo, their team reporter,

809
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: and he like the straight face and the like the

810
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 2: concentration that he kept in this interview, and the player

811
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 2: too that he was interviewing, like not laughing. He started

812
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: by putting his jacket over Nick and they take his microphone,

813
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: but they still hold it so he can talk, so

814
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 2: he can put his arms in. They put a jersey over.

815
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: His head, they put up on his head, they put

816
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 3: towels all over him last Yeah.

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00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 2: And they do it for every winning game, like walk

818
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: off interview, and it was just beautiful. They're so young

819
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 2: and you can tell that the vibes are just immaculate,

820
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 2: and they're having so much fun.

821
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: Which is such a big key to.

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00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 2: Success that I've seen an All championship teams like the fun.

823
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got to have fun. They have the MVP

824
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 4: on that roster. Yeah, if you believe, it'll happen, and

825
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 4: they have one of the they're gonna be a team

826
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,959
Speaker 4: in the West that contend with they are I would

827
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 4: do and it's you established yourself.

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00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 4: We'll get into this topic, I think a little bit

830
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 4: more later on in the show. But JJ McCarthy, the

831
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 4: Vikings are rolling with him and he's taking that responsibility

832
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 4: on not just on the field, but in the community.

833
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 4: Him and the Vikings Foundation just hosted a meal distribution

834
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 4: with Viking's Table food truck for the Youth Link in Minnesota,

835
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 4: which is a local, non province put sports homeless youth.

836
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 4: So McCarthy was on site delivering the one hundredth thousandth

837
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 4: meal through the Vikings Table since its inception in twenty nineteen,

838
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 4: and he it would like they take the food truck around.

839
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 4: I think they do about three thousand meals a month. Yeah,

840
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 4: they distribute. And so J J. McCarthy like, if you

841
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 4: want the face of your franchise to be your quarterback

842
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 4: and you want him to be your quarterback, he's not

843
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 4: only taking that to heart on the field, but he's

844
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 4: doing that in the community, which I think is really great.

845
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 3: That is really great.

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00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 2: And we are going to dive into his in the

847
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: Viking situation at the top of the hour. So in

848
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: a little over ten minutes, Lato unpacked there. Okay, I

849
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 2: have another dude, do shout out your heroes. Tennis champ

850
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: Mira Andreva one in the Desert last weekend and in

851
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 2: her like one of her postgame interviews, she was at

852
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: the desk talking about where she drew her motivation from,

853
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 2: and she said she drew it from Lebron James and

854
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: a quote that he was talking about where even if

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00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: you don't feel like you're one hundred percent physically, I'm

856
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: going to choose to be one hundred percent mentally. And

857
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 2: that's some great life advice, you guys, because like even

858
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: if you don't feel like you can do it, if

859
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 2: you mentally come in to the best of your ability,

860
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: you could still bitch. You can still be the best

861
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: at you can in your job, in life, friend, family, Like,

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00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: it's just it's such a good it's such a good

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00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: quote motto to ros By.

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Speaker 4: I love that. Yeah, I have another dude, but it's

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00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 4: doing on your own terms. Because this just happened. Actually, Okay,

866
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 4: before the Chicago Blackhawks took on the Saint Louis Blues

867
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 4: Pat Maroon, who is from Saint Louis. It was his

868
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 4: last game in Saint Louis because he is currently Chicago Blackhawk,

869
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: but he announced he will be retiring at the end

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00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 4: of this season. Knowing it was his last game in

871
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 4: Saint Louis and wanted to make sure people knew that

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00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 4: I know, so before the pregame interview, he announced that

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00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 4: he will be Pat Maroon. Patty Maroon. I got to

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00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: know him a little bit in Tampa. He is now retiring,

875
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 4: hanging it up after a really long career and has

876
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 4: had a lot of fun in it. So congratulations to

877
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Speaker 4: Pat Marion. I love that.

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00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a quick do you always take your

879
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: shot and take time for fans. Luga Dancic was in

880
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: the tunnel signing jerseys for fans when he took a

881
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 2: behind the basket from the tunnel shot mid signing and

882
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: witshed it and made it and then went turned around

883
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 2: and then immediately went back and kept like signing for

884
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: the kids. It was just like, that's that's some legendary

885
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 2: iconic stuff right there.

886
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Speaker 3: We're gonna take a quick break here when we come back.

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Speaker 3: Quarterback carousel almost complete.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our two of Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Carmen Vitalite. Thank you for spending your

892
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with CARMEI and me. Happy March Madness. We

893
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: have gotten it all. We just watched USC just absolutely

894
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 2: destroy on the court. But Juju walkins, this is kind

895
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: of the story of the game. Left the game after

896
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: rolling her ankle. She came back out on the bench

897
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Speaker 2: and we just watched them kind of give the handshakes

898
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: after the game, and she she looked like she was

899
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: in pain. She was limping.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, more than even in pain. She was just she

901
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 4: looked really, really mad I hate ankles because like they

902
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: can lean.

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00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: That's what I had in soccer. Like I ended up

904
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 2: after like tearing the ligaments to my ankle. I played

905
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: the rest of my college career with ankle braces. It's

906
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: just any anything can happen after that.

907
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Speaker 4: But yeah, but ooh ooh, Saint John's is now within

908
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 4: two of Arkansas and the men's. It's like everybody's bracket.

909
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 4: I feel it's like rides on. Yeah, Saint John's advancing here,

910
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 4: so we'll see.

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00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 3: It's gonna be big.

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Speaker 4: Detractors ply, too bad, we don't.

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Speaker 3: Get that, Yeah, you're saying, we have right now.

932
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: Steve Hartman, who's in the house right now coming on

933
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: after us, is still strongly in first. We got Brady

934
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: Quinn right behind him, CARMEI and me tied for third.

935
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 2: Carmen's right above me. I'm in fourth.

936
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 3: We're doing good. We got we got four. We got

937
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 3: three of the top four leaders. I have eighty in

938
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 3: the house right now, I have.

939
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 4: I have eighty six points still left on the table

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00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 4: for myself, So that could gode well, Yeah, we'll see.

941
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's more than Hartman's got eighty one.

942
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think eighty five.

943
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got seventy eight. You definitely, I'll see. That's exciting.

944
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 4: Could it could all go off the rails really quick.

945
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of March, that's the fun of it all.

946
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 3: But it's like, go us like I like what we do.

947
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 4: I would say, like, I like, I'm not going to

948
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 4: present this as anything other than luck. Like I do know.

949
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 3: It's okay, it's it's fine, it's great, but it's fun.

950
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 3: It is a brag.

951
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 2: Brag while you're there, bag while you're I'm just just

952
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: do it. Okay, let's let's get to NFL free agency.

953
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 2: We kind of talked about last hour some of the

954
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 2: the wide receivers that are still on the market, but

955
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: we're gonna figure story is the quarterbacks. We're maybe the

956
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 2: little quarterback carousel is almost complete. But let's start with

957
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. All Right, he just went and had a

958
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: six hour meeting with the Steelers yesterday, which are one

959
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: of the two big franchises that were reportedly going hard

960
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 2: after him. But he's still I don't know if he's

961
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: still deciding if he's going to play next season or

962
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: if he wants to play with the Steelers.

963
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 4: I'm so confused at this whole thing.

964
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not that many options.

965
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did this two years ago when he joined

966
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 4: the Jets. Yeah, he dragged it out, Yeah for maximum

967
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 4: whatever liked Did any of us actually think this was

968
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 4: gonna come to like a tidy and neat and official asolutely, like, oh,

969
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 4: what's he waiting? All of them?

970
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 3: He does.

971
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 2: He likes the drama, he likes the spotlight. He's going

972
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: to announce at the perfect time when he can take

973
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 2: over the media headlines. It just it feels a little

974
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: selfish at this point, like there's not that many.

975
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 3: Like it was different. I guess maybe.

976
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: Two years ago that time around, different Aaron Rodgers not

977
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:35,240
Speaker 2: coming off Achilles injury and then going five and twelve

978
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 2: with the Jets last season. He's just not the same guy.

979
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 2: He's not that same MVP caliber Blair. He's still, i

980
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: would say, in the middle of the pack, top middle

981
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: of the packs quarterbacks in the right now.

982
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Speaker 4: Being at the NFL combine was very interesting because you're

983
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 4: talking to people about this about him specifically, and I've

984
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 4: never seen people be so it be such a polarizing

985
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 4: topic because there were some people I talked to in

986
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 4: like league offices that were like, yeah, dude, I'm sure

987
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 4: he still has juice. He needs to be in a

988
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 4: better situation he'll be a one more year removed from

989
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 4: that Achilles injury, like he still has it, and then

990
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 4: other guys are like, I wouldn't touch him with a

991
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 4: ten foot pole, and I'm like it was so it

992
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 4: was either one of the other two. Interesting, but there

993
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 4: was there was a significant contingent of people that still

994
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 4: believe and I see where they're coming from in that

995
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 4: you don't just drop off and when you have an

996
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 4: injury like that, it really does take multiple years to

997
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 4: get back from it, no matter what Aaron Rodgers says,

998
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 4: and especially if you are forty one going on forty

999
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 4: one years old. The biggest thing that came out this

1000
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 4: week though, is not only that he had those meetings

1001
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 4: with the Steelers, but that the Vikings are taking themselves out,

1002
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 4: and that it's not even that they're taking themselves out,

1003
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 4: because according to Diana Orsini, it's just that they're deciding

1004
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 4: not to make a decision right now. Yeah, and they understand,

1005
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 4: they understand that Aaron Rodgers could end up signing elsewhere,

1006
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 4: And it's not that they're not necessarily interested, is what

1007
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 4: the reporting said. It's just that they're okay with not

1008
00:45:58,360 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 4: making the decision out and if that means that he

1009
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 4: goes somewhere else.

1010
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: So be it okay.

1011
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: Interesting, So it's not off the table, but they're just

1012
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 2: not going to be aggressive.

1013
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're not making the decision right now. So

1014
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 4: like if he's still there in like a month or two,

1015
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 4: maybe they'll think about it.

1016
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 2: Interesting because JJ had he had another surgery.

1017
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 4: He had so he had he had the mcl injury,

1018
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 4: which happened in his first preseason game, Yes, and then

1019
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 4: later on in the season he had to have another

1020
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 4: surgery to reduce the swelling that had happened in the knee.

1021
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 4: So it was technically it was a setback. And you

1022
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 4: do wonder if Minnesota is included in these reports, like

1023
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 4: how do they actually feel about JJ, because they like

1024
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 4: they haven't ultimately deviated from the plan that they set

1025
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 4: up when they signed Sam Donold to a bridge contract

1026
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 4: and drafted JJ McCarthy, Like this is not this is

1027
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 4: still the same plan, and I still ultimately think that

1028
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 4: they will follow through on it. Yeah, but where there's smoke,

1029
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 4: their their spire. And I heard my friend Nate Tice

1030
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 4: talking about on his fooball three oh one podcast on Yahoo,

1031
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 4: where when you hear a team included in this. Yeah,

1032
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 4: there's something to that, And that's just really interesting to

1033
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 4: me because no part of that makes sense for the

1034
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 4: Minnesota vikings to me, to attign a guy like Aaron

1035
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 4: Rodgers who clearly thinks that he should still be a starter. Yeah,

1036
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 4: and then you're going to kind of like he's not

1037
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 4: a notorious mentor. Although I will say that Jordan Love

1038
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 4: has said a lot of good things about who he was,

1039
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 4: but at the same.

1040
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: Time of his jets like tenure, he said, I'm ready

1041
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 2: to be that guy.

1042
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 4: I don't care what he says. I don't care what.

1043
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 3: He's not going to.

1044
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 4: Be a backup.

1045
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 2: He's not going to be a backup. He's not going

1046
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: to be on the bench. That's not who Rogers is.

1047
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 4: And do you like it? Just I really think that

1048
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 4: maybe Minnesota kind of muld this sober because they aren't

1049
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 4: sure exactly where where JJ's injury is going to land

1050
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 4: when the season starts, and he's missed all this time

1051
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 4: that he could have been developing with rehab. That's the

1052
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 4: issue here. But now with Rogers facing this decision between

1053
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 4: the Steelers the Giants.

1054
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean John even kind of did a contingency

1055
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 2: plan signed Jameis Wins into two years an eight million

1056
00:47:58,680 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: dollars right.

1057
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 4: Which I feel like was kind of their own like, well,

1058
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 4: we're not gonna wait around for you.

1059
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, which they needed to do something.

1060
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 4: They have something, especially in a year where I mean,

1061
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 4: Joe Shane and Brian Dables job are on the line

1062
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 4: rides this next year, which is such a tough position

1063
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 4: to be in if you're the Giants because you have

1064
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 4: so many needs. Still too, that offensive line in New York, Yeah,

1065
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 4: is not good. Your best player, Andrew Thomas isn't always

1066
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 4: healthy either. You can't even rely on that. So wanting

1067
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 4: to or like wooing a free agent quarterback who's forty

1068
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 4: or close to it, if you're talking Rogers or Russell Wilson,

1069
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 4: how are you gonna do that when you're gonna be like, ah,

1070
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 4: we don't really have the best guys in front of you.

1071
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 4: And like, Russell Wilson is more mobile than Aaron Rodgers is,

1072
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 4: but he's still not you know, the Russell Wilson of

1073
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 4: five years ago. No, as far as mobility goes.

1074
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 2: It's interesting too, like where obviously Steelers reportedly made a

1075
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: low ball offer to Justin Fields over.

1076
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 4: Over Russ. So they were willing to go because Field

1077
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 4: gives you more upside. Yeah, which, because we talked about

1078
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 4: this last week. The first round pedigree just does not

1079
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 4: leave you. It was two weeks ago, but the first

1080
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 4: round pedigree does not leave you to the point where

1081
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 4: everybody will always be chasing your potential. Yeah, And Jesne.

1082
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 2: Field was saying, oh, he was a first round pick.

1083
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 2: It's like, you don't want that to be what sticks

1084
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 2: with you. You want to be like, this was a

1085
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 2: great this is a great player.

1086
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 4: And if you say former first round pick, it usually

1087
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 4: means they didn't have any sort of thing that that

1088
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 4: really helped. They didn't do much in the in the

1089
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 4: league itself. But I mean, Justin Fields is a jet now.

1090
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 4: Yes he's going to be He's a New York for

1091
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 4: all we know, he's going to be the starter. Yes,

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00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 4: So and again we went over I went over it.

1093
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 4: If you want to look on my Instagram, it's on

1094
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Speaker 4: there about why I believe that that was. It made

1095
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 4: a lot of sense for Aaron Glenn taking Justin Fields.

1096
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Speaker 4: But this whole situation with Rogers too, if he does,

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Speaker 4: and I'm so interested to get Brooks take on this

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Speaker 4: Brook prior he she's going to be joining us at

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Speaker 4: two thirty Pacific, five thirty Eastern. She's the Steelers beat

1100
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 4: reporter for ESPNU. I'm so interested to get her take

1101
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Speaker 4: on all Right. Hypothetically, if this goes through, you now

1102
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 4: have DK Metcalf, so many George Pickens, and you're gonna

1103
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 4: throw Aaron Rodgers, like Mike Tomlin is already a Hall

1104
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 4: of fam coach for what he's done.

1105
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 3: You can handle it. It's Mike Tomlin.

1106
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: It's literally why I could handle that, the.

1107
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 4: Wild stuff that comes out of Pittsburgh once these guys

1108
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 4: leave the es and you're like, how did Mike Tomlin

1109
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 4: keep a lid on that for so long? Like he

1110
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 4: deserves Hall of Fame right out the gate just for

1111
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 4: dealing with the personalities in the day. I know. But

1112
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 4: it also it's like it's kind of a problem of

1113
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 4: your own making Steelers, because if you're gonna put yourself

1114
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 4: in this position and you're gonna take these guys and

1115
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 4: you're not going to value whether or not they have

1116
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 4: like they have character concerns, then can you kind of

1117
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 4: rape what's so?

1118
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's feeling that that's going to be

1119
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 2: the best bet for Aaron Rodgers where he could have

1120
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 2: the most success, kind of have the best situation.

1121
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Speaker 3: He's gonna have the weapons, you have one of the

1122
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 3: best coaches.

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Speaker 4: More than that, you have you have a defense that

1124
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 4: you can rely on to you So especially like when

1125
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 4: you're getting used to the system and all that kind

1126
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 4: of stuff, like you absolutely have a defense that's gonna

1127
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 4: win you games. Because that's how the Steelers haven't had

1128
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 4: a losing season under Mike Tomlins. It hasn't been because

1129
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 4: of offense. They haven't been able to address the offense

1130
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 4: or the quarterback position since Ben Roethlisberger. Yes, this has

1131
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 4: been an ongoing issue for the Steelers, and yet everybody

1132
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 4: just kind of shrugs it off.

1133
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 2: Because the last three years has been like a quarterback

1134
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 2: carousel for the Steelers.

1135
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: No, it has.

1136
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 4: But I'm saying people don't really like press the panic

1137
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 4: button with the Steelers because they've had good defenses that

1138
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 4: have gotten into the playoffs and they've gotten they've had

1139
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 4: winning records, but they don't go beyond that. So it's

1140
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 4: it's they're like stuck in this cycle of mediocrity, where

1141
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 4: with any other offense with any sort of stability there

1142
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 4: that defense paired with that would mean a perennial playoff

1143
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 4: team that gets wins and has runs and really is

1144
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 4: a super Bowl contender.

1145
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 2: So who needs two more Steelers? Need Aaron Rodgers or

1146
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 2: Rogers need the Steelers?

1147
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 4: Has it? Didn't say anybody needs the problems that Aaron

1148
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 4: Rodgers springs don't?

1149
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: Where do you think he's good?

1150
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 4: We are? But you've shut the door basically on Russell Wilson. Yes,

1151
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 4: and who else is out there at this point?

1152
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, so what if they didn't? And then no,

1153
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 2: it's hard because you've already kind of said do you

1154
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 2: want to move on? Do you really want to be like, oh,

1155
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 2: let's let's try it again and bring it back, even

1156
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 2: though we made an offer to the other.

1157
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 3: Quarterback we had here last year?

1158
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 4: I mean, and like, who would you roll the dice

1159
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 4: with the Trey Lance? Trey Lance is still out there

1160
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 4: as far as quarterbacks go.

1161
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 3: What is Lance? Though nobody knows?

1162
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 4: Two teams now have given up on him.

1163
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 2: So like, you can't anything that's going to so well,

1164
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 2: apparently Falcons are calling everyone to try to trade Kirk

1165
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 2: Cousins and that's just such a tough situation, because I

1166
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 2: think his best bead is going to be if a

1167
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 2: quarterback gets hurt in camp early or beginning of the season,

1168
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 2: where a team still feels like they can be a

1169
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 2: contender and they need someone. It's just that that's a

1170
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 2: really hard I.

1171
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 4: Mean, but the thing is, Atlanta, the tough part is

1172
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 4: like you still have to pay him this year regardless,

1173
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 4: Like you're gonna have dead a lot of dead cap

1174
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 4: if you part ways with Cousins. So it's like you

1175
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,280
Speaker 4: almost might as well keep him on the roster unless

1176
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 4: you're getting unless you're getting a really pre like if

1177
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 4: you're actually getting a third for Kirk Cousins, yeah, sure,

1178
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 4: go out and do that. I don't know that you are. Yeah,

1179
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 4: And so it in in in that context, I feel

1180
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 4: like it makes a lot more sense to keep Kirk Cousins,

1181
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 4: even like doing that guaranteeing him one hundred million dollars

1182
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,879
Speaker 4: and then turning around and drafting Michael PENNOCKX junior with.

1183
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 2: The Also, the writing was on the on the wall.

1184
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 2: That was an insane that was an insane behavior, and.

1185
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 4: Like nothing that happened lastly, I get that Kirk Cousins

1186
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 4: did not look good and Michael PENNOCKX Junior like looked

1187
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 4: like he could be the guy.

1188
00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 3: But again he's also coming off of an achilles.

1189
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 4: But that doesn't justify what Atlanta did. Like, I feel

1190
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 4: like so many people absolved and Lana like, see it

1191
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 4: was a good thing that they ended up drafting Michael Penix. No,

1192
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 4: it wasn't. No, because you're still attached to Kirk Cousins

1193
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 4: contract that even if you trade him, you have dead

1194
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 4: money to contend with this year, and so you might

1195
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 4: as well keep him. But then are you keeping I'm

1196
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 4: so interested to see I didn't get to it the

1197
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 4: Jews and don'ts. The new quarterback season cast was announced. Yeah,

1198
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 4: and Kirk Cousins is on it again again. But I

1199
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 4: think it's good that he's on it again because now

1200
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 4: we get to see how this all unfolded and what

1201
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 4: he really thought about Atlanta drafting Michael Penix and how.

1202
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 2: It was last year. I forgot about that. I'm like, oh,

1203
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 2: it's gonna be this year. It's gonna be weird, no

1204
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 2: coming out. So this was this was all everything that happened.

1205
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 3: Last year's toy.

1206
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,439
Speaker 4: So you have that, and then you have Jared God,

1207
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 4: you have Jared God which I feel like people are

1208
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 4: going to uh all in love with the lines all

1209
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 4: over again. And then you have Joe Burrow, who was

1210
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 4: so mysterious as is, like he doesn't do much on

1211
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 4: social media. You don't really hear him talk that much.

1212
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 4: That's actually great, and you're especially after last season where

1213
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 4: the offense and individually he had an incredible season and

1214
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 4: he's trying to fight for Jamar and teeth contract the

1215
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 4: whole the whole time. I got it, and I mean

1216
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 4: got it done. But like all last season, he was

1217
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,479
Speaker 4: campaigning for those guys, not only like off the field,

1218
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 4: but like on the field too.

1219
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 3: Which is crazy.

1220
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 4: He was trying.

1221
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: An office kept saying, we can't pay them all. We

1222
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 2: can't keep everybody, but it's.

1223
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 4: Going to cost you your quarterback, you Dan Well Camp.

1224
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 4: And then they did and they and they did, and

1225
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 4: they can still pay money. Like again, it's just a

1226
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 4: matter of how much it want to.

1227
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 3: They will, this is what we were saying.

1228
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 4: Just a matter of how much owners are willing to put,

1229
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 4: like upfront.

1230
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 3: Life lesson if they want to, they will, they will.

1231
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be so interesting to see

1232
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 4: those three guys. But I'm very interested to see Kirk

1233
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 4: Cousins because uh, it's gonna be I cannot wait to

1234
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 4: get what like what do you do? Like, it's I

1235
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 4: cannot wait to see how that actually went down and

1236
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 4: how Kirk Cousins actually felt.

1237
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be brutal, but he's so kind.

1238
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 2: Like I fell in love with Kirk Cousins on on.

1239
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 4: The last quarterback.

1240
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, like he's just.

1241
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 4: He's so kind.

1242
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 3: He's a dad and he's so reasonable.

1243
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 4: He's a dad, but he means really well, he's.

1244
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 3: Gonna be so hurt. I'm gonna like, is he gonna

1245
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 3: make me cry?

1246
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 4: Like see him go down? So Okay.

1247
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 2: The three names that are like really out there are

1248
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 2: like older quarterbacks Rogers, Russ like.

1249
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 4: You got, but like outside of Rogers the rest. I

1250
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 4: think this is where it gets even more bleak because

1251
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,919
Speaker 4: you talk about Trey Lance, Yes, Drew Low and then

1252
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 4: you have another old quarterback, Joe Flacco, who at times

1253
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 4: has still looked like he hasn't but he's he's just

1254
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 4: gonna kind of be your game manager. Yeah.

1255
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 2: Two years ago he won Comeback Player of the Year

1256
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 2: Off the Couch, right, because it was literally.

1257
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 4: Off the couch, off the couch. It's not as if

1258
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 4: he propelled his team to the end of the AFC

1259
00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 4: title game or anything like that. So it was like

1260
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 4: he's gonna kind of keep your ship afloat, okay, which

1261
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 4: could be enough. Honestly, when you're talking like game manager,

1262
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 4: if you're talking about who the Steelers stuff in the tank,

1263
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 4: if you're talking about who the Steelers could sign and

1264
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 4: it's not Aaron Rodgers, Like, what better situation for a

1265
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 4: guy like Joe Flacco where you don't have to do much.

1266
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be great for Joe. I just I don't

1267
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: think that would be like to get them over the hump.

1268
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 4: No, but they're none of these guys. Let's be let's

1269
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 4: be crystal clear about this. Even if they signed Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,

1270
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a hot take this, it's

1271
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 4: not gonna get the Steelers over the hump.

1272
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 3: No. No, But like you can't.

1273
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 4: Year that's gonna get you over the hump. This is

1274
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 4: a bad year to need a quarterback and it's not

1275
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 4: the Steelers year yet again. Brutal, brutal.

1276
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,240
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Speaker 2: run in the second game, he had the most incredible,

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00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 2: heartwarming home welcome, and it was just like the numbers

1302
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 2: speak for themselves.

1303
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 3: Like on top of.

1304
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: What if you watched any of it on TV or

1305
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 2: saw the social media, Like the fan response was absolutely

1306
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 2: insane and incredible. I mean, the Tokyo Dome was packed

1307
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 2: during their practices and then Game one average twenty five

1308
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 2: million viewers, Game two average twenty three million viewers. Like

1309
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 2: Fanatics sold forty million dollars worth of merch for the

1310
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 2: Tokyo series. Like Shoyotani is I think already the greatest

1311
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 2: baseball player. Careful, we're getting close of our time. Definitely,

1312
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 2: he is getting close to all time if he continues

1313
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 2: on this trajectory, Like he's already a three time MVP

1314
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 2: as a two way player when he was pitching and

1315
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 2: hitting first ever DH to win the award. He is

1316
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 2: must watch TV. He rises to every single occasion. If

1317
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 2: he is playing, you want to watch because you know

1318
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 2: he's going to do something special. He's always smiling, he's

1319
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: having fun, He's on a stat team, like the Dodgers

1320
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 2: are the World Series champs. We haven't had back to

1321
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 2: back since the Yankees in two thousand and then. One

1322
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 2: of their weaknesses last year was their pitching staff.

1323
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 4: And what did they do.

1324
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 2: They went out and they basically got every big pitcher available.

1325
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 4: On the market. It's have and have not.

1326
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 3: It's insane.

1327
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 4: It's a luxury tax. And yeah, teams want to spend,

1328
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 4: they will. I have a question. Should show Hey go

1329
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 4: back to pitching?

1330
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 3: Yes, he wants to. If he wants to, he should.

1331
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 2: He's not going to be back though, on the mound

1332
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 2: until mid season, like maybe end of May.

1333
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 4: Jus like, so it's all right, let me let me,

1334
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 4: let me go, let me go this season. Yes, should

1335
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 4: he go back to pitching this season? Yes, he should

1336
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 4: push it.

1337
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 2: It's not pushing for him because I was there watching

1338
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 2: like his first season with the Angels when everyone was questioning,

1339
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 2: like are you I can't believe you're gonna let him

1340
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:02,959
Speaker 2: do both. He should not be a two way player.

1341
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 2: It's gonna take away from one or the other. When

1342
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:09,919
Speaker 2: you watch Sho Heeyo Tani's daily workout routines, this man

1343
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 2: is so disciplined and so well trained and if he

1344
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 2: wants to do it, he dictates his schedule, like he

1345
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 2: literally goes up to the managers like, this is what

1346
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do today. I know my body can handle this.

1347
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 2: I know my body can handle that. So again, like

1348
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: he's not gonna be it's not gonna be a but

1349
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be like hurt, I'm wrong. This is though, No,

1350
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 2: this is sucond Tommy John Well non Tommy John, non

1351
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 2: Tommy John, Tommy John. It's the same as a ucl TEIR,

1352
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 2: but it was like in a little different area, so

1353
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 2: they're not like labeling it Tommy John, but it's basically

1354
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 2: a Tommy John. The good thing for the Dodgers is

1355
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 2: they don't need him right away. They signed Blake Snell,

1356
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 2: who's a cy Young winner, Roki Sasaki Japanese superstar. They

1357
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 2: get Tyler glassn now back Otani if he wants to

1358
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,479
Speaker 2: come back. They also have Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dustin May, Bobby Miller,

1359
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 2: Tony Glassan Clinton Kershaw, Gavin Stone. Like they are so

1360
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 2: stacked it's insane. Like the one like Knock last year

1361
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 2: is like they don't have pitching. It's like, oh, what

1362
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 2: about now insane. I'm absolutely insane.

1363
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 4: Again, if they wanted to, they would, Yeah, and.

1364
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 2: They did, and they did, and you It was funny

1365
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 2: because there was a lot of player reactions. If you're

1366
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 2: not a Dodgers fan, it was like, wtf is happening

1367
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 2: right now?

1368
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 4: Like again because it's it's the house and the have nots,

1369
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 4: But like, at the same time, you are you really

1370
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 4: gonna fault owners for spending up anch of money? Like

1371
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 4: it's not a coincidence that the two teams with the

1372
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 4: highest payrolls made the World Series last year. That's just

1373
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 4: what happens. And if you're if you're you just get

1374
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 4: mad at your owners. Then guys, you're not spending enough

1375
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 4: money because they can in baseball, it's not a hard gap. No,

1376
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 4: you can't do it. You can. You can spend money.

1377
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 2: All right, let's check it with Martin Wise. Check on

1378
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 2: these games. See what's trending.

1379
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 7: You got getting ready for Michigan and Texas and then

1380
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 7: the tip off to five in the four sheet, we

1381
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 7: just saw Arkansas advance to the Sweet sixteen. They beat

1382
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 7: Saint John's seventy five to sixty six.

1383
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 4: Cars busted.

1384
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 3: Did that mess you up?

1385
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 7: I had no I had John Calipari and Arkansas going sixteen.

1386
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 7: I did, I did Saint John's can't shoot, but also too,

1387
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 7: I watched forty five minutes of college basketball before filling

1388
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 7: this out, so.

1389
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 4: I know that's why I said, like, this is all

1390
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 4: how buff did? Can it be fun?

1391
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 7: Fifth seed perdue be twelve seed McNee State seventy six

1392
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 7: and sixty two. The boiler Makers advanced to the Sweet

1393
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 7: sixteen and we'll play in the winner of eight seed

1394
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 7: Gonzaga and one seed Houston has produced six Sweet sixteen

1395
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 7: appearance in the last eight tournaments, and the women's first

1396
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 7: round two sed ucon beats fifteenth seed Arkansas State by

1397
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 7: sixty nine points one O three to thirty four. Chuessey

1398
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 7: USC beat you C Greensboro seventy one to fifty to

1399
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 7: twenty five. Rather Juju Watkins roller w ankle did not

1400
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 7: finish the game, but injury is not believed to be serious. Oklahoma,

1401
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 7: North Carolina State, Alabama, IOWA in West Virginia all join

1402
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 7: Yukon and USC in the second round of the women's tournament,

1403
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 7: and per Syracuse dot com, Colorado Football Shyracuse Football have

1404
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 7: sought permission to hold joint practices next month, which eventually

1405
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 7: culminating in a scrimmage to take place some of the

1406
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 7: spring games that have been canceled across campuses.

1407
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 4: Bank to you, guys, Ranks, Thanks Martin.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday.

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01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 5: Am.

1410
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 3: Alex curryhe Carmen Vitali.

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01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the tarat dot Com Studios

1412
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. It is time for our next guest,

1413
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 2: and I am so excited for her right now, we

1414
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 2: have so many questions. She is the Steelers beat reporter

1415
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 2: for ESPN. Please welcome Brook Pryor.

1416
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, it is shockingly I am not still camped

1417
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 8: outside the Steelers' facility Aaron Rodgers's sn So I'm allowed

1418
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 8: to be back in my house for a little bit.

1419
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

1420
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 2: We have to start with that, though, because all eyes

1421
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 2: are on the Steelers right now and what they're gonna

1422
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 2: do at quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

1423
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 3: There for what like six hours?

1424
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 2: You, I mean, if you're camped out, tell us everything

1425
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 2: that you saw and that you're hearing from that Aaron

1426
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 2: Rodgers Steelers meeting yesterday.

1427
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 8: So this is incredibly ironic and was unintentional. But I

1428
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 8: lived near the Steelers facility. I was out for a

1429
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 8: walk yesterday morning, trying to get some fresh air before

1430
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 8: I sat on my couch for hours on end watching basketball.

1431
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 8: And I was, no joke, maybe two blocks away when

1432
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 8: I got news that Aaron Rodgers was at the Steelers facility,

1433
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 8: and I thought, Oh, my gosh, you're kidding me. Usually

1434
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 8: news finds me in the most inconvenient place, So I

1435
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 8: turned around and went right back to the facility to art.

1436
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 8: I had already walked past it twice yesterday, so I

1437
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 8: went back. Didn't see Aaron Rodgers. There was a lot

1438
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 8: of activity, though, once news started to spread that Aaron

1439
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 8: Rodgers was there, there were a lot of newsvans that

1440
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 8: drove by, photographers starting to camp out. Eventually, though, my

1441
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 8: editors told me to go home because if something did happen,

1442
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 8: if they did come to an agreement, I was than

1443
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 8: no position to write or do TV. I was in

1444
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 8: my workout clothes, so I left, as did Aaron Rodgers. Eventually,

1445
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 8: he was at the facility for about six hours and

1446
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 8: met with coaches. I would love to know what his

1447
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 8: impressions were, because what I did notice is that the

1448
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 8: Steelers were in the process of re sotting their practice

1449
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 8: fields out behind the practice facility. So maybe not the

1450
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 8: best time. It's like having somebody to your house when

1451
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 8: it's being renovated, like, look, it's gonna look better, I promise,

1452
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 8: exactly exactly. So, yeah, he was there, left without a

1453
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 8: deal and we are all still on Rogers watch now

1454
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 8: going into week three.

1455
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, like did we really expect anything else? Like did

1456
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 4: we learn nothing from the whole drawn out process before

1457
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 4: he signed with the New York Jets. The biggest thing

1458
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 4: for me is, all right, hypothetically, Brooke, this happens because

1459
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 4: the options outside of Aaron Rodgers aren't great either for

1460
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 4: the Steelers at this point. If they've effectively shut the

1461
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 4: door off Rus, how did they officially shut the door

1462
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 4: on Russ? And if this happens, what does that do

1463
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 4: to the dynamic of this team? I mean when you

1464
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 4: have like Cam Hayward going on podcasts saying like, well

1465
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go on a darkness street. Either you're

1466
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 4: here you're not listen.

1467
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 8: I mean, like Sabrina Carpenter said, it is slim Pickens

1468
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 8: out there.

1469
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 4: Fack.

1470
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 8: So it's it's really turning into Rogers or you draft

1471
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 8: somebody took care with Mason Rudolph. I mean, I don't

1472
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 8: think that they have officially shut the door on Russell Wilson.

1473
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 8: But the thing that I think about is both Art

1474
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 8: Rooney and Omark Hahn said right when the off season

1475
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 8: was starting that it was their preference to re sign

1476
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 8: either Russ or Justin Fields. They obviously went after Justin

1477
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 8: Fields that didn't come together. He goes to New York,

1478
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 8: Russ is still out there. If he was truly their

1479
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 8: preference all along, I think they would have had something

1480
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 8: done at this point. But it does kind of seem

1481
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 8: like Russ is still interested in coming back to the Steelers.

1482
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 8: But I don't get this that that is necessarily reciprocated.

1483
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 8: But as far as how Aaron Rodgers is perceived in

1484
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 8: the building, if it does come together, if he does

1485
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 8: come to Pittsburgh and actually stays longer than six hours,

1486
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 8: I think that. You know, Kim Heyward has kind of

1487
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 8: done some appearances since he said on his podcast that

1488
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 8: he wasn't going to go into a darkness retreat and said, look,

1489
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 8: I wasn't saying that I don't want him here. It

1490
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 8: was only like I wasn't going to go to a

1491
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 8: darkness retreat. I wasn't going to go above and beyond

1492
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 8: to get this guy. But if he comes to Pittsburgh

1493
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 8: and he wants to win, I want to win. That's

1494
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 8: all we need. And so I think that if Aaron

1495
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:40,799
Speaker 8: Rodgers can come into Pittsburgh and kind of leave Aaron Rodgers,

1496
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 8: the larger than life persona at the door, and kind

1497
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 8: of check his ego and really be there to win,

1498
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 8: it works. But I haven't seen him be able to

1499
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 8: do that. But you know, maybe people change. I don't know.

1500
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 8: It's it is going to be fascinating to see how

1501
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 8: it unfolds. But realistically, the other thing is Russell Wilson

1502
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 8: is actually better for their offense than Aaron Rodgers in

1503
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 8: their current forms as far as throwing the tight end

1504
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 8: stretching the ball down the field. The thing that Aaron

1505
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 8: Rodgers wants to do is get the ball out of

1506
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 8: his hands quickly, get it to the hands of his playmakers.

1507
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:20,839
Speaker 8: The Steelers have guys that can do that, with Roman Wilson,

1508
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 8: Calvin Austin, Jalen Warren, some of those guys. But you

1509
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 8: just traded for Deaky Metcalf. You've still got George Pickens,

1510
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 8: do you not want a quarterback that wants to throw

1511
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 8: the moonball, that wants to stretch the ball down the field.

1512
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 8: It's not really Aaron Rodgers game right now. So that

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01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 8: gives me some pause.

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01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 2: So let's talk about those three guys, because if Aaron

1515
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 2: Rodgers does come on this team, he's not checking as

1516
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 2: he go at the door.

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 3: He is going to be Aaron Rodgers, the MVP.

1518
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 2: He's gonna come in and he's deserved, like he's earned that, right,

1519
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:48,679
Speaker 2: That's just you.

1520
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 3: Get what you get if you get Aaron Rodgers.

1521
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 2: But you have a lot of other big personalities on

1522
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 2: that team, as you just mentioned. How do you see

1523
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 2: all three of those guys meshing together?

1524
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 8: I mean, I really wish that, and I'm sure Hard

1525
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 8: Knocks feels the same way that they were running it

1526
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 8: back with another in season Hard Knock series this year,

1527
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:14,839
Speaker 8: because he will be fascinating and you know, in some ways,

1528
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 8: I think it could help to have someone like Aaron

1529
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 8: Rodgers at quarterback. Who if because he's been there and

1530
01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 8: he's done it, and he only has one super Bowl,

1531
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 8: but he has these MVPs. He's played at a high

1532
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,679
Speaker 8: level for a long time, and he demands a level

1533
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 8: of excellence that might be something that a receiver like

1534
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 8: George Pickens needs to hear. He needs to have someone

1535
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 8: holding him accountable. If Aaron Rodgers can't get through to him,

1536
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 8: then I don't know who can. I think that one

1537
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,799
Speaker 8: thing that would be fascinating to see how it works

1538
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,839
Speaker 8: is that Aaron Rodgers is someone that really appreciates technical

1539
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 8: route running and he wants to see these crisp browse.

1540
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 8: He wants you to be where you are supposed to be.

1541
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 8: And George Pickens is not a technical route runner, and

1542
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 8: I can really see them butting head heads in that way.

1543
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 8: Maybe this is something that makes him a better route

1544
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 8: runner because he has a quarterback that is demanding it.

1545
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 8: I think that dk Metcalf for as explosive of a

1546
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 8: player as he can be, as volatile player as he

1547
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 8: can be on the field, I think that he ultimately

1548
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,719
Speaker 8: is going to be a good presence for George Pickens

1549
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 8: because I just don't think that there has been anyone

1550
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 8: that Pickens will listen to in that room or on

1551
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 8: that offense that is trying to or that they want

1552
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 8: him to be better, to be more consistent, and so

1553
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 8: far that message hasn't gotten through. Maybe Aaron Rodgers and

1554
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 8: DK Metcalf are the two that can really make that

1555
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 8: sink in and help him reach his full potential.

1556
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 4: That's certainly it's an ideal.

1557
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1558
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 4: But here's my thing with Pittsburgh too, and why we

1559
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 4: know that Rogers is just taking us time to take

1560
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 4: us time because of the options that perhaps Aaron Rodgers

1561
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 4: has With the defense that the Steelers have, this is

1562
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 4: by far and away the best and most ready roster

1563
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 4: that Aaron can possibly go to.

1564
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 8: Absolutely, it's and I think the Steelers know that too.

1565
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 8: I think the Steelers feel like they probably have the

1566
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:19,640
Speaker 8: edge over the Giants in that regard. I don't know

1567
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 8: what the financial offers are from either team, but I

1568
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 8: get the sense that money is not a factor here.

1569
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 8: I think the Steelers do have the best roster. They

1570
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,680
Speaker 8: have the roster that is most ready to compete, especially

1571
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,719
Speaker 8: since that DK Metcalf trade adding Darius Sleigh is huge.

1572
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 8: There's still some issues on the defensive side that I

1573
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 8: think they need to take care of. They've got to

1574
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:43,719
Speaker 8: draft defensive tackles, they need to shore up the middle

1575
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 8: of that defense, maybe add another corner, another safety. They

1576
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 8: need some help in the secondary still, But even though

1577
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 8: a lot of free agency for the Steelers will boil

1578
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 8: down to what Aaron Rodgers decides to do. I still

1579
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 8: think that they've made some good under the radar signings

1580
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 8: that makes this team ready to contend, depending on Aaron Rodgers,

1581
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 8: depending on the quarterback situation. And I think the other

1582
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 8: sneaky position to watch is the running back because they

1583
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 8: let Awgie Hears go in free agency. Jalen Warren has

1584
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 8: been good when he's had opportunities. They add Kenneth Gain well,

1585
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 8: but I still think that that run game is missing something,

1586
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 8: whether that's drafting a running back in the first round.

1587
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,759
Speaker 8: People around here might riot if that happened, maybe heading

1588
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 8: somebody in the second round, but I think that they

1589
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 8: need another running back, and they also need to see

1590
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 8: this offensive line come together and play better than it

1591
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:38,919
Speaker 8: did down the stretch.

1592
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 2: How complete do you think this team is minus the

1593
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 2: quarterback situation right now? With what you have right now,

1594
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 2: and obviously you have a lot of options coming up

1595
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 2: in the draft making some big moves. Where do you

1596
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 2: think this team sits right now? How far away are

1597
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 2: they from a playoff run?

1598
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 8: You know, I think that they were a more complete

1599
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 8: team this time A year ago. It felt like at

1600
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 8: that point they were just a wide receiver away from contending. Obviously,

1601
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 8: that didn't happen. They were pursuing Brandon Nayuk and that

1602
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 8: didn't come through, and the quarterback situation looked like it

1603
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 8: was gonna pan out for a while, and then the

1604
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 8: wheels just came off at the end. I think that

1605
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 8: this team is not as complete as they were this

1606
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,759
Speaker 8: time a year ago, even though they have decame MECAP,

1607
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 8: just because of some of those question marks in the

1608
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:32,840
Speaker 8: run game, because this team does still want to be

1609
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:36,719
Speaker 8: a run first team despite their pursuit of Aaron Rodgers,

1610
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 8: and I think that they have the potential to be

1611
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 8: more complete, but they have some question marks on the

1612
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 8: offensive line, particularly at tackle, because they let Dan Moore go.

1613
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 8: It looks like they're gonna move Broderick Jones to left,

1614
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 8: have Troy fiutanho it right, Troy Fotan who only played

1615
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 8: a couple of games before he was lost for the season,

1616
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 8: and Broderick Jones really underperformed at right tackle. He's a

1617
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 8: he's a natural tackle, so maybe things pick up once

1618
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 8: he gets over there. But Mason McCormick two at guard

1619
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 8: has a lot of promise, but I don't think it

1620
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,400
Speaker 8: is full potential as a rookie, and so I kind

1621
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 8: of want to see how he develops before feeling like, yeah,

1622
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 8: this team is capable of contending, depending on the quarterback situation.

1623
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 4: Brook.

1624
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:21,640
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming up and coming on

1625
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 2: and giving us that inside and the best of luck

1626
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:26,599
Speaker 2: for you and Rogers watch.

1627
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 4: I hope if there's Rogers news to be had, I

1628
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 4: hope it comes at another a convenient time.

1629
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. I send Celsius and nerds gummies.

1630
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 4: That's that's what I asked.

1631
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:41,759
Speaker 3: What is what the nerd gummy?

1632
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 4: I don't know why you're not on, Alex. I've been

1633
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 4: on this ran. Thank you so much. Brook. We'll talk

1634
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 4: to you later.

1635
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna take one more break here when

1636
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 2: we come back our feel good story of the week.

1637
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1638
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1639
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday and Alex Career with

1640
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,639
Speaker 2: Carmen Vitali. We were broadcasting live from the Tart dot

1641
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 2: Com studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your

1642
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 2: March Madness Saturday with Carme and me.

1643
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,160
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1644
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:10,680
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1645
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:12,840
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1646
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:15,280
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1647
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1648
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1649
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1650
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:26,519
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1651
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:28,440
Speaker 3: Time for our feel good stories.

1652
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 4: Of the week.

1653
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 2: KRMEI and I each have one or two here, and

1654
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,599
Speaker 2: mine is around March Madness, because it's more than a game,

1655
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 2: you guys. Mount Saint Mary's head coach Donnie was crying

1656
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 2: and his postgame presser, I think it was yesterday or

1657
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 2: the day before, sharing how hard this game is when

1658
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,640
Speaker 2: you're a dad and you're away from your family. And

1659
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,600
Speaker 2: one of the big storylines around his team and the

1660
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 2: success has been his nine year old son's involvement with

1661
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:00,200
Speaker 2: the team. He took his son and his kids out

1662
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 2: of school and they've been along for this entire ride

1663
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 2: right now, and his son has been on the court

1664
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 2: with him during warm ups and his son was also

1665
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 2: in that presser with him and he cried, when you

1666
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 2: like move the mic over, He's like, I'll let my

1667
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 2: son answer what this experience has been like for him,

1668
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 2: and he said.

1669
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 3: It's been the best weeks of my life. That's sweet,

1670
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 3: and it's just like, oh.

1671
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 4: I mean there's hard. There's so much that comes with

1672
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:24,320
Speaker 4: being not that I'm not one, but I have a

1673
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 4: lot of friends who are coaches kids. Yeah, and it's

1674
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,600
Speaker 4: incredibly difficult and you have to be incredibly adaptable, not

1675
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 4: only because you don't see your mom or your dad,

1676
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,600
Speaker 4: but because you're often moving at like the drop of

1677
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 4: a hat, and you're spending your entire childhood in different

1678
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 4: places and it makes you like every coach's kid I know, though,

1679
01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 4: is like one of the kindest, like wonderful people that

1680
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 4: make friends so easily have to. You have to, and

1681
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 4: they spent they spent their whole lives doing it so

1682
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 4: to have. But like the payoff then is moments like that, Yeah,

1683
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,759
Speaker 4: which is really really cool, so cool, I have another

1684
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 4: feel good story, yeah, because this was like I so

1685
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 4: my fiance is very very into international soccer, whether that's

1686
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 4: Premier League, whether that's like the Kopa, whether that's you know,

1687
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 4: World Cup is is you know his jam, but the

1688
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 4: cocka Calf Cup was here in Englewood. At so far,

1689
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 4: the semi final was played between Panama and the US,

1690
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 4: and the US lost, which is a tremendous upset because

1691
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 4: this tournament has only been going on since twenty nineteen

1692
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 4: and the US has won, so this is the first

1693
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 4: time that the Cup will not stay in the United States. However,

1694
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 4: I instantly felt better about it because Cecilia Waterman, who

1695
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:42,760
Speaker 4: scored the game winning goal for Panama extra immediately, yes,

1696
01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 4: in extra time, it was it was a historic goal

1697
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,679
Speaker 4: like that in of itself is just a career making

1698
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 4: like what you look back on, that's incredible. But then

1699
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 4: he goes and he hurdles the advertising wall and then

1700
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,760
Speaker 4: he jumps onto the broadcast set and he wraps his

1701
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 4: armors around Terry on Ree, who was calling the game

1702
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 4: as part of CBS's coverage, and the entire team then

1703
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 4: comes rallying around, and he's just shouting at Terry on Ray,

1704
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 4: you're my idol, You're my idol, You're my idol, You're

1705
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 4: my idol. And obviously Tyran Ray Arsenal great, yes, all time,

1706
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 4: one of the all time great footballers in the world.

1707
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 4: And you kind of lose sight of that because now

1708
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:25,320
Speaker 4: he's on this broadcast team with Michael Richardson and with

1709
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 4: Kate Atto now.

1710
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 3: And you're so great to get there, so great together.

1711
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 4: It's like, I again, I'm not a huge soccer person.

1712
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 4: I love watching their studio show.

1713
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 2: It feels like it's like probably to the NBA with.

1714
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:43,759
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, no, that's that's absolutely event.

1715
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 3: It's equivalent to that for soccer.

1716
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 4: And I just I can't even imagine this happening in

1717
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 4: any of our North American sports, Like where you get

1718
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 4: this player who is just so unabashedly worshiping like one

1719
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 4: of the greats, and get to go over and like

1720
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,879
Speaker 4: hug him and celebrate with him. Terry's face was absolutely

1721
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 4: priceless because if you if you've ever watched Harry on

1722
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 4: Ree in his broadcast career, he's very dry, yes, and

1723
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 4: he's hysterical, and the whole thing is just so hard.

1724
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 4: It meant so much to ce Celia Waterman, and I

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Speaker 4: just I really loved that for him, and I loved

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Speaker 4: that whole exchange, and I thought it was really great,

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, you know what, I don't think we

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Speaker 4: have any equivalent of this in our That's why.

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Speaker 3: The most popular I love it so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for spending your March Madness Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: CARMEI and Me. We'll see you next week, same time,

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Speaker 2: same place,