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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bas friend Mike Harmon. John coming up in

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes. We got Mark Stein stopping buy NBA Insider,

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Speaker 1: and look, we could spend twenty minutes talking about how

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Speaker 1: sweet the magic uniforms look tonight back in the shack.

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Speaker 1: Pinstripe Dennis Stotts three d days. Yeah, looking really sharp,

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Speaker 1: although down to the Lakers by ten, but uniforms are

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Speaker 1: usually worth between ten and fifteen points. So if you

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Speaker 1: look good, you feel good, you play good. It's basically

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Speaker 1: a tie game, right now, That is what we're saying.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's it, But yeah, I forget how many of

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Speaker 1: the pit Once in a while, the pinstripe. Nothing says

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Speaker 1: nineties more than pinstripe. Stuff like whether it's on hats

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Speaker 1: a bottle of beer here, So again, mark Stein coming

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Speaker 1: up in twenty minutes, got a big NFL story coming

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Speaker 1: your way. But this story tonight took a lot of

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Speaker 1: us by surprise. We all knew that the United States

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Speaker 1: Olympic hockey team was going to be at the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union address. A lot of talk about it

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days. And I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that when when the President invited invited the team, they

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Speaker 1: pick us up in Miami on Tuesday? Exactly went straight

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Speaker 1: to it, Oh hey great, Yeah, listen, we got this

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Speaker 1: huge party in Miami on Monday night. Can you pick

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Speaker 1: us up on a plane on Tuesday? Not like hey,

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Speaker 1: Hey great, can you pick us up on Tuesday? And

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Speaker 1: we had plans before then. I here's the coordinates, can

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Speaker 1: the majority of the team went.

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Speaker 3: Some went back to rejoin their teams because the NHL

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Speaker 3: does resume had family. You know, they hadn't seen family,

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Speaker 3: so they want to go see their family before they

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Speaker 1: So, you know, just a small contingent that didn't come.

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Speaker 1: So Okay, we knew they were going to be talked about.

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Speaker 1: We knew they're going to be honored, right, Calshi had

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Speaker 1: the big odds. That was the number one thing, like

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Speaker 1: you could bet on tonight, the state of the Union,

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Speaker 1: like when the Olympic team was going to get mentioned. Right,

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Speaker 1: Like that was like the.

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Speaker 3: Short you start going into the Yeah, the specificity of

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Speaker 3: the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: So in mentioning the Olympics, one very special player for

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Speaker 1: the United States. It's got an honor that six hundred

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Speaker 1: have gotten. Connor HELLIBUOK, welcome to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Speaker 4: But I just want to tell you that the members

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Speaker 4: soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which

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Speaker 4: many athletes over the years.

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Speaker 2: Would I say many?

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Speaker 4: It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the

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Speaker 1: Going to Connor Hellibook. I've been when he says, you

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Speaker 1: which one of the players isn't voting for hellibuk right?

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Speaker 1: Who is not voting for hellibuk as as a guy

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Speaker 3: But confused, though you do have like one of those

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Speaker 1: He just said Connor. Though, yeah, he said Connor. He

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Speaker 1: McDavid does not win awards like that. He was I

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Speaker 1: of Freedom. So Hellabook greater than Connor McDavid. I remember

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Speaker 1: greater than Connor mc Mcconnor McGregor, who says, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's broke, I don't know, but I'll fight Connor.

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Speaker 1: I will say his whiskey's pretty good. Uh.

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Speaker 3: The reward is an especially meritorious contribution to one the

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Speaker 1: Now by security of the United States. Who was in

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Speaker 1: Connor Hell.

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Speaker 3: He made him the Secretary of Defense this afternoon, and

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Speaker 3: then I obviously gonna get a metal after.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure. What do you think, Connor?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know stop them all. I

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Speaker 1: think the I think our air defense should be Paul

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Speaker 1: Schemes and a bucket of balls. That's what we should do.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad. Go get them, Paul, Yeah, I'm firing

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Speaker 1: the Presidential Medal of Freedom to be given out. Some

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Speaker 1: of the athletes that Simone Biles won a couple of

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Speaker 1: It's not like the Presidential Medal of Freedom is something

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Speaker 1: Maybe not, And maybe we got caught up in the

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Speaker 1: And you know, Mike Ruzione's going to be ninety five

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Speaker 1: forty one saves against the best team in the world. Right,

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Speaker 1: And their defense was so good, their penalty kill was

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Speaker 1: because the first few games it was, yeah, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: thing with Celebrini. That's what McDavid does. I'm in this

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Speaker 1: It doesn't all of a sudden, Hey Canada stinks and

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Speaker 1: why are they taking these shots. It's Hellabook is cutting

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Speaker 1: and if he's gonna come out and challenge, we can move.

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Speaker 1: But Hellibrook always made the right play and in those

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you Nathan McKinnon when he missed that wide

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live. Lakers lead

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Speaker 6: I thought you lost my number.

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Speaker 3: I really believe that, which will be absolutely insufferable for me,

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Speaker 1: I want to be able to talk about the Pistons

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Speaker 1: That's the absolutely most fascinating the year that he may

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Speaker 3: it become the whoever can get to sixty games?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's unfortunately.

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Speaker 6: I mean the reality is that Jannith and Steph are

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Speaker 6: already out there ineligible, and then when you no matter

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Speaker 6: almost no matter who else you look at entering Monday's play,

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Speaker 6: so you know, and that's only it's you know, Shay's

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Speaker 6: still out. So entering Monday's play, Shay was right on

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Speaker 6: pace for sixty seven games, and then Jokic, Wemby and Doncic,

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Speaker 6: we're all on pace to fall below sixty five. But

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Speaker 6: as Shae continues to miss time, you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: he's flirting. They're all in double digits of games missed,

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Speaker 6: So really cave Hunningham. He's you know, he's not in

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Speaker 6: danger of falling short of sixty five games, and that

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Speaker 6: obviously is going to give him a great advantage. And

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Speaker 6: I think Jalen Brown will factor in to the top

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Speaker 6: five somewhere. He is going to end up in the

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Speaker 6: top five because he's he although he didn't play tonight either,

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Speaker 6: But that's it.

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Speaker 1: It's the MVP.

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Speaker 6: Race is going to as if the NBA doesn't have

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Speaker 6: enough to deal with with all the talk about, you know,

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Speaker 6: the incessant talk about tanking, the way injuries have just

452
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Speaker 6: plagued this whole season, star player injuries, all the gambling stuff.

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Speaker 6: On top of all those things, the sixty five game

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Speaker 6: rule is going to become a huge headline in April

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Speaker 6: if the likes of Jokic and Doncic and Shay join

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Speaker 6: Giannis and Steph as not being eligible to win MVP. Like,

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Speaker 6: that's going to be crazy. If all of these MVP

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Speaker 6: candidates are not even eligible to win the award.

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Speaker 1: NBA insider Mark Stein, our guest Jason Smith, Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, All right, now,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned tanking, and you know we had a big

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Speaker 1: update on and that today. PACER's head coach Rick Carlisle

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Speaker 1: not happy. He said, hey, when the NBA fined us

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Speaker 1: for us not playing our guys, no one talked to

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Speaker 1: any of our doctors. No one talked to us. This

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Speaker 1: is getting really petty back and forth. Where the NBA

467
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Speaker 1: knows they have to do something, it seems like teams

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Speaker 1: are saying, we're going to continue to do our thing.

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Speaker 1: What do you think happens from here on out? Mark?

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Speaker 6: Well, look, Adam Silver has told the teams he had

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Speaker 6: a conference call with all the gms late last week

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Speaker 6: and he you know, we don't know what the change is,

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Speaker 6: but he has promised them that the system is going

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Speaker 6: to There is going to be some sort of tweak

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Speaker 6: before next season. How dramatic it's going to be will

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Speaker 6: have to wait and see, because what you what, Look,

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Speaker 6: the lottery started in nineteen eighty five with your Knicks

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Speaker 6: after the Rockets, who already had Ralph Sampson, tanked their

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Speaker 6: way to Achem Eliza. Once the lottery is more than

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Speaker 6: forty years old, they've already I think Adam Silver, by

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Speaker 6: his own count, said they've made five tweaks to the

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Speaker 6: lottery system over those forty plus years. They brought in

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Speaker 6: flattened odds. In twenty nineteen, they added a play in tournament.

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Speaker 6: They've been trying to find the fix, and every fix

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Speaker 6: that gets proposed will bring new issues with it, like

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Speaker 6: there is just there's no clear cut fix that's going

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Speaker 6: to solve everything. So it's it's really a difficult thing

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Speaker 6: to tackle. And then you know, you have some people

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Speaker 6: proposing the really radical proposal of let's just do away

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Speaker 6: with the draft and turn this into free agency for

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Speaker 6: players coming out of college or coming over from Europe? Real,

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Speaker 6: is that really what we want? Like, don't, don't the

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Speaker 6: small market teams? Aren't they at enough of a disadvantage

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Speaker 6: as it is? And beyond it, even if you just

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Speaker 6: agree with that, even if you think there should be

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Speaker 6: free agency for the best college players, like the draft

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Speaker 6: is what team You know, a lot of fan bases,

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Speaker 6: that's what they hang on to between April and June

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Speaker 6: when their team's not in the championship mix. And then

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Speaker 6: what does it do to trades if we don't have

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Speaker 6: draft picks to put in trades? And you know the

502
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Speaker 6: NBA loves its trades. So the really radical approach I

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Speaker 6: think is too radical. I don't. I don't think that's

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Speaker 6: anywhere near consideration. But they're going to have to do something.

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Speaker 6: They promise that they're going to do something. They want

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Speaker 6: teams chasing wins somehow at this time of the season,

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Speaker 6: because think about where we are, Like the Super Bowl

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Speaker 6: comes and goes, and the NBA is finally in the spotlight,

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Speaker 6: and for two weeks now it's just been tanking headline

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Speaker 6: after tanking headline.

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Speaker 3: On the plus side, they did take over a week

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Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl about tanking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure you know you've had time to

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Speaker 1: think about it and think about what could work, what

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Speaker 1: could what's one idea that you had that you think

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Speaker 1: might work.

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Speaker 6: Not to say I don't want to take credit. I

518
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Speaker 6: don't want to take credit that this is my idea,

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Speaker 6: but this is this is an amalgamation of some stuff

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Speaker 6: that Bill Simmons has proposed on his podcast. And I

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Speaker 6: had a reader, a pop culture writer named Daniel Zoyu,

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Speaker 6: write me a billion word email, you know, And so

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Speaker 6: I've kind of adapted the two things. And my best

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Speaker 6: answer is to get maximum. To get your maximum shot

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Speaker 6: at the number one pick, you have to win twenty

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Speaker 6: seven games you have, which is basically a third, you know,

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Speaker 6: which is basically winning a third of your games. You

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Speaker 6: have to win at least a third of the game.

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Speaker 6: So like if you go twenty seven and fifty five,

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Speaker 6: you know you're eligible for you know, you get the

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Speaker 6: highest possible odds. If you fall short of that, you

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Speaker 6: go to the bottom of the lottery order. So a

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Speaker 6: team like Sacramento, which is one what thirteen games, We

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Speaker 6: have so many teams that have not even won twenty

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Speaker 6: games yet those teams would have to be chasing wins

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Speaker 6: now to be eligible for the number you know, the

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Speaker 6: best shot at the number one pick like that. They

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Speaker 6: need something like that that gets teams chasing wins at

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Speaker 6: this point in the year. Like you know, you guys know,

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Speaker 6: I live in Dallas. The MAVs are in this stretch

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Speaker 6: right now. It started Sunday at Indianapolis Sunday against the Pacers,

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Speaker 6: Tonight against the Nets, Thursday at home against the Kings,

543
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Speaker 6: Friday at home against the Grizzlies. Straight games. Neither team

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Speaker 6: wants to win. Neither team wants to win. And that's

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Speaker 6: that's the problem. Like that is just corrosive for a

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Speaker 6: league that you know, and the ticket prices don't come

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Speaker 6: down in those situations. So, like you know, tonight you

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Speaker 6: had the MAVs and the Nets, and the truth is

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Speaker 6: they both wanted to lose. That's the truth. And you

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Speaker 6: know what, I don't blame them under the current system,

551
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Speaker 6: that is the best thing for those teams. And that's

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Speaker 6: why the NBA needs is so desperate to try to

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Speaker 6: find that system tweaks, because that's not a good situation

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Speaker 6: when losing is the best thing for your team.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at the steinline, that is at the Steinline.

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Speaker 1: Check him out on substack as well, Mark, as always,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon, man, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. As always. All right, guys, be good

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Speaker 1: mart There goes Mark Stein. Now, look, now that's a

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Speaker 1: great idea to have to win a certain number of games,

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Speaker 1: maybe twenty seven. Now you're throwing it out there. That's

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Speaker 1: a third. Okay, that's a third. That's a lot for

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Speaker 1: a team that really stinks. Right, we talk about there's

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Speaker 1: always one team a year after the first couple months ago.

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Speaker 1: Are they gonna win ten games? Are they gonna win

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Speaker 1: ten games? Twenty sevens a lot so And and if

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Speaker 1: you if you have injuries, you have bad luck. Twenty

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Speaker 1: seven is tough to get to. But if you wanted

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Speaker 1: to make it a say, if you wanted to lower

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Speaker 1: it a little bit and make it and make it

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Speaker 1: twenty make it whatever you wanted to make it. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great thing to win a certain number

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Speaker 1: of games, to have a shot at the number one

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Speaker 1: overall pick. Ye. I don't know, Like I said, twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: if it look that's really bad, it's a bad year.

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Speaker 1: But if you wanted to make it something around that,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like that idea and at.

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Speaker 3: Least rewards effort and make sure that when you walk

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Speaker 3: into an arena on on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night, whatever

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Speaker 3: midweek game, it's not just all right, it's full on

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Speaker 3: B team.

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 3: You know we talked about the top four protections and

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Speaker 3: all of those kind of things. Well, we don't have

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Speaker 3: this iteration of the spurs if the if all of

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Speaker 3: those parts of the proposal came.

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Speaker 1: I don't think draft picks are finding draft picks, losing

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Speaker 1: draft picks, losing whatever it is. And protect I don't

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Speaker 1: think the protected part of it is something that's that

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Speaker 1: big a deal. It's big for teams that don't want

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Speaker 1: to lose a pick that they have, but overall to

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Speaker 1: stop it from tanking, I don't know that that's well.

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Speaker 1: Or you don't get to pick inside the top four

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Speaker 1: was one of the other parts of that proposal. Right,

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Speaker 1: So for the Spurs, three straight years, three straight top four,

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Speaker 1: now you have to hit on them, right, It's what

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Speaker 1: we always talk about. You can have a lot of

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Speaker 1: draft picks and a lot of opportunities. You could be

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Speaker 1: the Jets and get them all wrong. Oh now, you know,

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Speaker 1: I wish I slacked you like Harden did Jalen earlier.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could say I disagree, but I don't

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Speaker 1: because you were right about that. Okay, thank you. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna keep your car instead. You get the you

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Speaker 1: get and I'll keep your bottom bumps. Sorry, people have

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Speaker 1: beating up that car. I'm gonna write stuff on there.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Jets yo, I kind of know I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep it and do and write def Leppard because

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Speaker 1: they have it in that Like key Weight, I could

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Speaker 1: just do the one down, one over, one down, one down,

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Speaker 1: one over, one down. Why does it always go straight

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Speaker 1: to the car keying? Because I really did this because

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Speaker 1: it's something I can do, like right after the show

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Speaker 1: is over, before shops. What about you? That's all you

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Speaker 1: do is key cars?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, mind, mind, I'm giving information fifteen for

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Speaker 3: a conversation.

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Speaker 1: You're a felon. And on his fifteenth birthday he said

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Speaker 1: that car wasn't his time not to find out what's

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Speaker 1: trending in the wide world of sports. From chrispherfet CEEP three,

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Speaker 1: what do you got for us?

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm still here, not off to Germany just yet.

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Speaker 7: So let's get you some scores. But first big story

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Speaker 7: of the night coming. Connor Hellabuck, the goaltender, stood on

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Speaker 7: his head for Team USA's gold medal foray in Italy,

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Speaker 7: saw them defeating Canada in the final round. He's going

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Speaker 7: to be the first hockey player ever to receive the

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Speaker 7: Presidential Medal of Freedom, joining many other athletes out there,

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Speaker 7: including Michael Jordan Simone Biles. But this is the first

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Speaker 7: time a hockey player will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Speaker 7: Seems big around the association.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 7: The final seconds are ticking off. The Minnesota Timberwolves are

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Speaker 7: cruising to victory over the Portland Trailblazers one twenty to one,

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Speaker 7: fifteen final score appending here five minutes to go between

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Speaker 7: the Lakers and the Magic. The Lakers down ninety eight

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Speaker 7: ninety five, trying to regain the lead as they marched

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Speaker 7: down the court. Earlier in the day, the Sixers took

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Speaker 7: care of the Pacers one thirty five to one fourteen

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Speaker 7: Tyrese Maxey with thirty two points, nine rebounds, and eight

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Speaker 7: assists at the NBA. At the NFL scouting Combo, Bye,

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Speaker 7: we had several gms open to discussions. Omar Kahan, general

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Speaker 7: manager for the Steelers, said the door's open for Aaron

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Speaker 7: Rodgers to return to the team for next year. Falcons

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Speaker 7: general manager Ian Cunningham said that Kirk Cousins will be

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Speaker 7: released by Atlanta on March eleventh, the start of the

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Speaker 7: new league year. And in baseball, Chris Sale was signed

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Speaker 7: to a one year, twenty seven million dollar extension with

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Speaker 7: the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 1: Back to Jason and Mike, Thanks a bunch, Chris coming

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Speaker 1: up next. There is no team and star player in

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Speaker 1: more need of a divorce than what we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about next, especially after the news today that home wrecker.

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Speaker 1: That's straight ahead right here, Jason.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm during seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Carmon. Oh, cold Play, it's Notill Fix You. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's Donill Fix You. It's still cold Play. No, I

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Speaker 1: got a hot take for you. Oh cold Play is

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Speaker 1: pop Nickelback. What did you say, Nickelbacks?

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Speaker 2: That was actually Metallica.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Coldplay is pop Nickelback. It's not photographs, photographs

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Speaker 1: take more of the Metallica's deep cuts. This it is.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty good, but pretty do do do do Do

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Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do do do do do

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Speaker 1: do do do you? But uh, just think about that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you think, oh you know you're right, Coldplay is

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Speaker 1: pop Nickelback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my world, in my mind has been blown.

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Speaker 1: I actually almost wore that Nickelback fan or liar today. Dude,

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Speaker 1: that was Metallica. We uh yeah, so I forgot. That

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Speaker 1: was when the cameras are on, man, Yeah no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that was when Chad krueger let left. Dude. Congratulations on

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Speaker 1: asking the worst question ever, man, I mean congratulations. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, dude, the cameras are on. Come on.

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Speaker 3: He's got an eight point lead right now, UCLA over

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Speaker 3: USC here twelve minutes remaining.

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Speaker 1: He has plenty of time for Mick Cronin to get mad.

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Speaker 1: Has he thrown any of his players out of the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so they're still playing with a full

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Speaker 1: roster as far as I'm aware. Yes, it seems like

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Speaker 1: everything has kind of flown. Look, it's a defensive battle,

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Speaker 1: as it always is. How many catches for McKay lemon fourteen? Hey,

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Speaker 1: don't bring him up because I don't want anybody to remember.

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Speaker 1: He's in the draft of the Jets. Going to the Jets.

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Speaker 1: He likes to win. We're getting him at sixteen. We're

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Speaker 1: getting him. Do you think he's going to sixteen years?

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Speaker 3: He likes to be one play away from I am

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Speaker 3: an undefeated, putting rvil.

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Speaker 1: Reese and mkay Lemon out in the universe for the Jets,

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Speaker 1: putting it out there for them. Uh. File this under

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Speaker 1: the category of we're still talking about this, but uh

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Speaker 1: earlier today some some of the big headlines going on

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Speaker 1: at the NFL combed. We have under the headles Power

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Speaker 1: Hour of NFL Talk for you next. So many gms

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Speaker 1: and head coaches making headlines of what they're saying. Nick

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Speaker 1: Sirianni couldn't guarantee that AJ Brown would be an Eagle

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Speaker 1: this season. Doesn't mean he's not. They want great players,

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Speaker 1: they love AJ, but you know, hey, is he gonna

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Speaker 1: be on the team. Couldn't be guaranteed. We're still talking

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Speaker 1: about this. This obviously is not working. It's obviously not working.

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Speaker 1: Both sides would benefit from a divorce. AJ Brown is

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Speaker 1: still a sought after wide receiver who can still put

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Speaker 1: up numbers. It's just not working in this offense. And

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Speaker 1: you can see the lack of life and creativity in

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Speaker 1: the Eagles when they're worried about getting him the football,

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Speaker 1: when he's not running the routes it seems like he's

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Speaker 1: supposed to. When he and Jalen Hurts decide, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: talking again for five minutes, why don't we run some

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Speaker 1: sort of crazy ad lib play where I throw it

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Speaker 1: deep to you and I shouldn't. This is not working.

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Speaker 1: You got away with it and you won the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl two years ago. Awesome, he was reading on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Great story didn't fix itself this year. You could have

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Speaker 1: fixed a trade deadline. You did not, And what happened?

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Speaker 1: You went home? You went home early. Right, I don't

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Speaker 1: understand how we're still having this conversation that Aj Brown

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Speaker 1: can still be an Eagle. I don' undersany he needs

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Speaker 1: to be somewhere else. The Eagles need to move on,

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Speaker 1: Go get another wide receiver. There'll be other guys out

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Speaker 1: there to go get. But this is a divorce that

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Speaker 1: absolutely needs to happen, and I don't know why we're

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Speaker 1: still talking about it.

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Speaker 3: I think at some point you got to stop the

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Speaker 3: musical chairs of your offensive coordinator position too. As Sean

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Speaker 3: Mannon takes over this year, AJ Brown. If you haven't

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Speaker 3: seen it, he did a clip in the wake of

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Speaker 3: all the news they've had in the NFL, Rondell Moore

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Speaker 3: and others over the last week. So, I mean that's

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Speaker 3: seven minutes of just great audio about you know, checking

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Speaker 3: in with your people and getting yourself right. As far

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Speaker 3: as it relates to Siriani, I mean he said a

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Speaker 3: lot of the same things that Spy Tech did over

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Speaker 3: in in Raiderville. It's like, yeah, we want good people,

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Speaker 3: we need good players in this building.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, football one oh one, you need good players,

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Speaker 1: but you also need a system that works, and you

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Speaker 1: need to have a relationship that isn't always freed uh, and.

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Speaker 3: That's what it is year after year with Sirianni. There's

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Speaker 3: a common element to all of this. Nick Sirianni has

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Speaker 3: a liking.

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Speaker 1: Look, I get it, I got it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: nicking problem and they they bathe in dysfunction. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about this with the Eagles. They bathe in it. But

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Speaker 1: like this is this is the couple you know that

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Speaker 1: you say to yourself every time and out they go,

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Speaker 1: they really need to break up. They really, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're sniping at each other at dinner and it's really awkward,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's all all all the people

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Speaker 1: walk away going, yeah, I didn't really have fun hanging

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Speaker 1: out with it. They need to break up. They're both

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Speaker 1: great people. I love both of them, but they're just

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Speaker 1: not together. They should not be together, and we see

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Speaker 1: we see evidence of it all the time. Sometimes they

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Speaker 1: have good nutt nights out together sometimes, but most of

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Speaker 1: the time it's they just seem like they can't believe

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Speaker 1: you didn't know the answer question, why are you going

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Speaker 1: through all this difficulty? I don't understand how are you

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Speaker 1: still now? Are you still together after all of that?

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Speaker 1: Did you not know that was sgay? Come by what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with you? Gut out now? But he made us

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Speaker 1: lose again. But that's that's that's this whole thing is

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Speaker 1: that this is a relationship that has seen its best day.

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Speaker 1: They've tried. No one can say they haven't tried, and

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Speaker 1: yet the furthest they can get in the conversations, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's not gonna be I don't know. We want

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Speaker 1: to keep him, but maybe you know, you just forget this.

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Speaker 1: This trial separation counseling, it's just justs Aquentin Tarantino from

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Speaker 1: pulp fiction. If Bonnie comes home and sees a dead

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Speaker 1: body here, we're getting divorced man, No trial separation, no

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Speaker 1: couple counseling. We're getting divorced. And I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get divorced. I love my wife. I would like this

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Speaker 1: is where. That's where you need to go, right to

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Speaker 1: the divorce. No trial separation.

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Speaker 3: At least do the saying he's not going anywhere. We're

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Speaker 3: going to figure this out. We've got opportunity and then

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Speaker 3: you know what things can change.

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Speaker 1: But to just be like, I don't know, I think

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Speaker 1: he wants to be here. Time I want to It's

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Speaker 1: time man cut the cordish like him it's time to

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Speaker 1: move on. Now there's Jalen Hurts going, you're gonna you're

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it up to Sean Manning to decide if

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Speaker 1: a J. Brown stays or not. Just saying he's a

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Speaker 1: new guy at that. That's like saying, Okay, the couple

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Speaker 1: I talked to about everybody knows they shouldn't be together. Hey,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna leave the decision should we be together

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Speaker 1: to someone that doesn't even know us the first time?

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Speaker 3: And I called them to tell them to listen to

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Speaker 3: the radio while you're giving advice about their about their

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Speaker 3: relationship on air, I can help you out here. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna let somebody just work through this on air a

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports radio.

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Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna decide our faith that doesn't even know us.

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Speaker 1: But we're okay.

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Speaker 6: You love it.

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Speaker 1: No, you want people, You want people to know the situation.

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Speaker 3: If we can be relationship judges on the radio, that

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Speaker 3: could be a new pit.

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Speaker 1: You got a problem? What are you fighting over? You

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Speaker 1: had a problem? Call us, we'll solve He doesn't cut

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Speaker 1: his toenails. Maybe, I mean, there's lots of things. It

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Speaker 1: would go like this, Hi, I have a problem with

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Speaker 1: my break up but I have breakup. If you say yeah,

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Speaker 1: good run break up, I don't need to know anymore. Breakup,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go to somebody else. Call it your next.

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Speaker 3: I think Friday Nights just solve the Friday Night advice line.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, It's just gonna be breakup. That's all in

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Speaker 1: the breakups, Okay, the breakup line. Straight ahead, Our power

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Speaker 1: hour of big quarterback stories, coming off a day one

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