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Speaker 1: One of the surprises has been this year at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting because my primary complaint about the Steelers

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Speaker 1: for the last several years is they can't get the

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Speaker 1: on line right and they can't consistently run the ball.

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Speaker 1: And then Aaron Rodgers shows up and the pass pro's good.

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Speaker 1: And I thought Sunday was as progressive, as smart, as capable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they lost Nausee Harris, they lost their left tackle,

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Speaker 1: and Brian ball Dringer is going to join us. He

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Speaker 1: played in the NFL for thirteen years NFL Network. And

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Speaker 1: as I watched them, I thought to myself, Baldy, this

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Speaker 1: is something you would know that I wouldn't. Is that

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Speaker 1: I do think guys like Sean Payton and Sean mcvahan,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid have a greater sense of the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and they had been able to rebuild offensive lines very quickly.

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Speaker 1: I think offensive coaches tend to see that world better.

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Speaker 1: But there is something about Aaron coming to Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 1: I finally I watched that run game and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is a twenty twenty five offense. I mean, canna

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Speaker 1: quarterback help a run game a veteran quarterback?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you know ran it.

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Speaker 4: They only threw it twenty two times the other day,

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Speaker 4: but they had to go all the way to Dublin

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Speaker 4: to find the run game. They'd struggled. But Kenneth Gainwell

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Speaker 4: got his first start. It was an underrated signing. Andy Wider,

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Speaker 4: who's wing the Pittsburgh front office now with Omar Khan.

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Speaker 4: I mean he helped draft Kenneth game Ball out of

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Speaker 4: offseason to be a backup and special team player. But

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Speaker 4: he's always been a good player. He just played behind

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Speaker 4: Saquan last year. He didn't notice him, but I mean

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Speaker 4: he gave one hundred yards rushing, made you know, some

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Speaker 3: But they got the running game going. And then Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was like Ali Jabs out there, like

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Speaker 4: you know, this is a z N right here West

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Speaker 4: Coast offense. But he hit it, hit DK right there

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Speaker 4: and stride he goes eighty yards. I mean they did

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Speaker 4: that to Jerry Rice, they did that to Sterling Sharp.

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Speaker 4: I mean that play has been around for a long time.

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Speaker 4: And short pass, long run, that's kind of what it is.

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Speaker 4: But look out quickly, he's getting rid of the football.

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Speaker 4: He just doesn't want to get hit anymore. But he

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Speaker 4: still has that ability to just hit these pop passes

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Speaker 1: So there's been kind of an unsolvable dilemma with the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers, who now play on a

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a team this banged up for four

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Speaker 1: up again. I thought the CBA limited practices. Is it hitting?

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Speaker 1: skis I mean, what explains this.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean you could you could say, okay, Fred

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Speaker 4: Warner never misses the game in eight years, he started

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Speaker 4: Perdy has got a bad timmy. You go through all

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Speaker 3: And so that's an issue.

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Speaker 4: Right now, and that you know that that catches up

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is?

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Speaker 3: Is it not?

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Speaker 1: I made this argument earlier today. Aj Brown's got a

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown and they're trying baldy, but nine targets in

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Speaker 1: a trophy? Could you move me? Would you be shocked?

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Speaker 1: And is that a bad teammate?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would be shocked.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's a good situation in Philly. I mean,

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Speaker 3: He was a difference in the game, but.

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Speaker 4: That was because it was dictated by the situation being

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Speaker 4: The thing about AJ is this, it's different than other

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Speaker 3: Is like an offensive tackle.

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Speaker 4: He wants to absolutely obliterate the opponent in front of them.

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Speaker 4: He wants to take every corner the way Lane Johnson

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Speaker 4: then that's what frustrates him. It's not the it's not

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Speaker 4: that he can't use his physical skills to beat Marshawn

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Speaker 3: And that's what Iri I've talked to AJ about it.

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Speaker 4: He's not a me me guy, but he doesn't get

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Speaker 3: That frustrates him.

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Speaker 1: So there's always been this since that you can't fool

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Speaker 1: It looks like they have great spirit. I think they're

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Speaker 1: But if you may lose the room and Shottenheimer's not

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, I don't see it. I don't see an

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Speaker 4: See that defense give up forty Yes, Sunday you see

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Speaker 3: Give up thirty seven to the Giants.

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Speaker 1: But they were bad with him.

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Speaker 4: No, they weren't that bad. They weren't giving up thirty

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Speaker 3: Look, when you.

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Speaker 4: Have star players, like sometimes you got to kiss their ass,

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Speaker 4: pass rushers are different They're just different. They're not your

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Speaker 3: The trash at night.

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Speaker 4: Like. These guys are different animals, and so you gotta be.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Jimmy Johns wouldn't get rid of Mike Parsons,

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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that's why they got rid of it.

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Speaker 3: Because they have no pass rush right now.

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Speaker 4: And that's one of the reasons why Russell Wilson could

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Speaker 1: The It's funny this week Baker plays Sam Donald. They

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Speaker 1: you think you know what? He's overwhelmed, his delivery slow,

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Speaker 4: But you know, if you spend a year, you know,

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Speaker 4: Luxury of having Deebo and Ayu Can Kittle and Mcat. Oh,

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Speaker 4: this is what it's like when you have, you know,

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Speaker 4: How brock Perry played like he saw some other places

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Speaker 4: coaching Clint Kubiak, got a good system, he's got a go.

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Speaker 4: He's got enough pieces around him in the run game

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Speaker 3: I believe in Sam and he's he's a good athlete.

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Speaker 4: He's smart, and he's diligent, and so he's got everything

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Speaker 3: Baker was a walk on at Texas Tech. He all

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Speaker 4: He walked on at Oklahoma, you know, like, yes, he

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Speaker 4: was a number one pick, but he took Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: To a playoffs and won a playoff game.

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Speaker 4: Like Baker's just a fiery, fiery competitor that just refuses,

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Speaker 4: like what he did last weekend's Philadelphia. He made those

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Speaker 3: They just came up a little short.

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Speaker 1: Finally, Caleb Williams, there is no questioning the horsepower, but

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Speaker 1: Can you be really successful multiple playoff wins if the

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Speaker 4: Well, he was playing with two you know, rookie backup

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, there are there are organizations in sports

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Speaker 3: This is the headline news, right.

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Speaker 5: Let's start with the Buffalo Bills Collin four and oh

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Speaker 7: Everybody's was away for he just needs to get break

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Speaker 5: So of course we have here's the images genty kind

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Speaker 5: Final story is very spicy. NBA Media Day was yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Colin and Yannis talked kind of openly about demanding a

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Speaker 1: Is that still a thing? I didn't know?

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Speaker 5: So he was on Zoom. I mean, listen, Milwaukee Bucks

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Speaker 8: Well, the team that loves me and kiss me in

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Speaker 8: I had the same thoughts Last year, I had the

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Speaker 1: So it gets even worse.

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Speaker 5: So one of the owners of the Bucks afterward was like, hey, well,

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Speaker 5: I don't recall that conversation. Listen, I know you're mister

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee, I do, Colin.

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Speaker 5: They better get rid of him now, like just get

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Speaker 1: I'm going to a Milwaukee Bucks game this year, just one. No,

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Speaker 1: Their thing is we're never going to get another Yannis,

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Speaker 5: Are you following this instow.

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Speaker 5: Nine on my mix, they gotta be the favorites in these,

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Speaker 1: The Celtics kind of out and the past is playing

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Speaker 5: I mean, let's not worse than the Bucks, but they've

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Speaker 5: Can the Lakers find a way to get Yannis in

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Speaker 1: Of my new neighbor, Luka Dancic. He's not your neighbor,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like I said at the top of

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Speaker 1: the Hour of Miami, I mean Tyreek Hill, there's no

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Speaker 1: value now, I said last year. He's banging on your coach,

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Speaker 1: he's banging on your quarterback. Nothing against him, but he

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Speaker 1: has a market. Somebody needs him. They waited. You know

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Speaker 1: the old saying strike when the iron's hot, and you know, Tua,

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Speaker 1: If you could get a third round pick for him,

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Speaker 1: a couple of fours or something like that, then you

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Speaker 1: could trade up and get your next quarterback. He's got

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Speaker 1: a bigger cap hit next year, I think than Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing so, Mike McDaniel, I do think.

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Speaker 1: I do think it's a really good offensive coach. But

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Speaker 1: I you know, it's like, if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: do it. What you want to do in sports is

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Speaker 1: you want to be ahead of stuff. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to be behind stuff. There is an NFL team right

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Speaker 1: now that this past draft. It's not public, but they're

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Speaker 1: going to move off a really really high end defensive

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Speaker 1: player and everybody and they drafted a position that they

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Speaker 1: didn't need and they sold it like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: he just jumped off tape. They're a year out for

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Speaker 1: moving a pretty good player, not a great player, but

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Speaker 1: a pretty good player. That's what you have to do.

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Speaker 1: And I think Miami keeps being incredibly patient and they're

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Speaker 1: getting burned. Tyreek Hill now has no market. You could

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Speaker 1: have gone out and gotten a third round pick for

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. And now you know you cross your fingers

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Speaker 1: if you hope he has more games in him.

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

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Speaker 1: So Philadelphia and AJ Brown became a big topic today.

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Speaker 1: So I've said I usually am a big believer in

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Speaker 1: don't chase the money, you know, chase good management. There's

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Speaker 1: a sea of money if you're talented, but pro athletes

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Speaker 1: are different, especially football players. They don't their careers don't

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Speaker 1: last long. And so if you look at the two

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Speaker 1: worst halves of throwing the football in the NFL this year,

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Speaker 1: we have a graphic for our TV audience. Philadelphia has

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Speaker 1: both of them. That is with the best offensive line

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Speaker 1: in football, that is with Saquon Barkley, that's with an

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Speaker 1: offensive leaning staff, that's with Jalen Hurts. And my take

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Speaker 1: is AJ Brown's got a ring, He's got his money.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's playing for legacy here. I would understand

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Speaker 1: if he said, quietly, if you want to trade me

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Speaker 1: at the deadline, I get it. I mean, the Eagles

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Speaker 1: started twenty twenty three ten and one. Remember they had

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Speaker 1: new coordinators Stich and Laugh. They ended up falling apart

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Speaker 1: down the stretch and losing six of seven. They have

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Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, and is part of the problem

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Speaker 1: that now they're so gifted that they can kind of

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Speaker 1: win games where they have horrible halfs. But in back

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Speaker 1: to back weeks they have been dreadful offensively rams first half,

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Speaker 1: buck second half. I mean as bad as the Titans

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Speaker 1: like cannot pick out first outs. Pun punk up and

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Speaker 1: Nick right earlier on a potential under the radar tell

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Speaker 1: the bosses, don't tell anybody else, AJ Brown trade.

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Speaker 9: Something is off right now about their offense, but they're

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Speaker 9: winning anyway. If they're not going to change that, then

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Speaker 9: I would not begrudge if AJ Brown were like, Hey,

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Speaker 9: you know a team that wants to throw the ball,

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Speaker 9: that needs a star receiver that my former head coach

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Speaker 9: is the head coach of in New England. Why don't

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Speaker 9: you see if you can work something out. He's been

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Speaker 9: very honest. He wants to be a dominant individual player

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Speaker 9: and he feels correctly that will help his team.

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Speaker 1: So Nick Sirianni's been better than I thought. But he's

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Speaker 1: not known as a schematic genius. Remember when Nick Sirianni

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Speaker 1: took the job, he called plays, it was awful. He

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Speaker 1: handed it off to Shane Steichen. Then they got hot.

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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni is a vibe, he's a CEO. He's a

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Speaker 1: culture guy. Dan Campbell the same. Dan Campbell's not a

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Speaker 1: scheme guy Schottenheimer scheme guy, Andy Reid scheme guy, Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton scheme guy. A lot of guys are culture builders.

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Speaker 1: A lot of that is like Mike Vrabel is a

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Speaker 1: really smart guy, but he's going to build that toughness

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Speaker 1: and that culture that Sirianni. So Sirianni is very dependent

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Speaker 1: on his offensive coordinator Steich in home run, Brian Johnson

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Speaker 1: had to fire him. So he's got a new coordinator

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Speaker 1: in there, and you're seeing and there's absolutely no excuse

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Speaker 1: for this team having the two Think about this the

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Speaker 1: entire league. The Titans haven't had two halves as bad

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Speaker 1: as the Eagles. Is it the coordinator? Whatever it is?

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Speaker 1: But I get, I mean, I don't think it's selfish. Again,

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Speaker 1: if you know, it'd be one thing if you were,

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Speaker 1: you know, a lawyer and you were twenty nine years

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Speaker 1: old and you're like, hey, I want I want to

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Speaker 1: be a partner in the firmer. I'm out of here.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, Bro, you're twenty nine. You just got

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Speaker 1: out of you know, law schools five years ago. You

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Speaker 1: got sixty years to practice law. But it's different for

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Speaker 1: football players. Again, a golfer can golf forever. The basketball players,

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Speaker 1: even ones that have serious injuries, can play fifteen twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger was talking about AJ Brown earlier and his

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Speaker 1: mentality that makes them such a unique player.

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Speaker 4: The thing about Aj is this, He's different than other

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Speaker 4: wide receivers in that his mentality is like an offensive tackle.

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Speaker 4: He wants to absolutely obliterate the opponent in front of him.

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Speaker 4: He wants to take every corner the way Lane Johnson

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Speaker 4: end and wants to drill him into the dirt, into

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Speaker 4: the dirt and how to meet grass. That's what AJ

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Speaker 4: wants to do. But if he doesn't ever get that chance,

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Speaker 4: then that's what frustrates him.

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Speaker 1: So you know, listen, AJ Brown's right, he's a good teammate.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even reading the book things, he's been a

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Speaker 1: little nuanced with it. He's not tried to blow up

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Speaker 1: the locker room, but you know, I get the frustration.

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Speaker 1: So Major League Baseball postseason officially starts this afternoon. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs and the Podres. That's a good series. If the

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Speaker 1: Podreys gotta lead, good luck, great bullpen, we can put

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Speaker 1: up the postseason bracket. I I have no idea. Detroit

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Speaker 1: was really good and fell apart. Probably take Guardians. Red

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Speaker 1: Sox are going to miss one of their top pitchers.

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Speaker 1: That's not good. Probably take Yankees Mariners jays By. I

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Speaker 1: think the Mariners are going to get out of the

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Speaker 1: American League. I don't think the Yankees have good enough

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Speaker 1: starting pitching National League. I think the Reds are pesky.

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Speaker 1: I take the Dodgers, but the Dodgers have a bad

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Speaker 1: bullpen blew twenty six saves, so I think the Reds

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Speaker 1: compete with them. Probably take the Dodgers. Philly's brewers get

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Speaker 1: a buy Podreys Cubs. That's go either way. Who's the

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Speaker 1: favorite in that series? Padres they got some big sticks,

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Speaker 1: so do the Cubs. Padres have probably the better bullpen.

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Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia beats the Dodgers after the Dodgers beat

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Speaker 1: the Reds. I'd probably take Philly again. Philly's got the sticks,

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Speaker 1: They've got solid starting pitching in a better bullpen. I

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Speaker 1: think the Brewers are gonna they can hit for power.

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Speaker 1: Led the Baseball National League in singles. Great, good enough staff,

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Speaker 1: good manager, great bullpen. I don't know, Cubs Padres. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of dudes in that series. That is a

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Speaker 1: good series. There is a lot. I mean, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: low this. You've got small market Cleveland, smaller market Seattle,

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Speaker 1: a Canadian team, two legendary Eastern brands, Boston, New York.

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Speaker 1: You've got the one hundred million dollar Reds budget, the

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Speaker 1: The Cubs are favored to win over the Podrays. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very close. That's what it feels like. I've said before,

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Speaker 1: it's impossible to win a Super Bowl with a bad

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Speaker 1: offensive line. The Kansas City Chiefs twice, once against Brady

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Speaker 1: and once against the Eagles, had Andy Reid, Mahomes and

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Speaker 1: a great defense. Go to the Super Bowl and get crushed.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can win the World Series with

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Speaker 1: a bad bullpen. I think you're talking about the best

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Speaker 1: situational hitters, the best sticks and if you're bleeding runs

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Speaker 1: eighth ninth Dodgers, I mean, Dodger fans will tell you

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Speaker 1: they could have won with a not even a great bullpen.

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Speaker 1: With a good bullpen, they could have eighteen more wins.

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Speaker 1: Not with a great bullpen. Even great bullpens blow leads

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Speaker 1: like they lost twenty six leads late. So I think

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams. I think the Podrays are dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Although the Dodgers have had their postseason number, I think

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Speaker 1: the Phillies are good enough to win it. In Chicago,

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Speaker 1: they're going crazy for the Cubs. I'll take Milwaukee. You

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Speaker 1: know they say everybody says, well, the salary gap in baseball,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter in the postseason, but it does help

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Speaker 1: you in the regular season. Well, it can't help that

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Speaker 1: much because Milwaukee has been the best team in baseball

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Speaker 1: and a Canadian team got in. It can't help that much.

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Speaker 1: San Diego's not major market, so we have a history

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Speaker 1: of salary distortion not mattering in the postseason much. Go

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Speaker 1: look at the last thirteen World Series champs. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter much. It may help in the regular season, but

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Speaker 1: who cares. We watch baseball tonight on that's when we

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Speaker 1: watch it, see them on