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Speaker 1: two conference tournaments, ramping up selection Sundays around the corner.

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Speaker 1: Next week the tournament begins Duke Arizona, Michigan State, Michigan, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Ukon don Zaga. So there's still a few moves being made.

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb got picked up by the Bills. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a decent He's gonna get you about nine

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Speaker 1: to ten sacks a year. I thought that was a

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Speaker 1: pretty good get by Brandon being the GM. They got

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Speaker 1: DJ Moore, Bradley Chubb. Those good pickups, especially DJ Moore,

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Speaker 1: So I thought I would give you these are my

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Speaker 1: five favorite moves of free agency. These are the five

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Speaker 1: that jump out to me that are like game altering.

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Speaker 1: Number one. I think Tyler Linderbaum and Jalen Naylor, the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver from Minnesota. I think the Raiders nailed it.

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Speaker 1: I think Linderbaum is second best center in the sport.

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Speaker 1: This is what the Bears did. Go get your young

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Speaker 1: quarterback and the elite center. I also think Jalen Naylor

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Speaker 1: was the fastest Vikings wide receiver last year under the radar,

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Speaker 1: signing to go along with the brock Bowers Ashton Genty.

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Speaker 1: I thought the Raiders nailed it. Number two. The Rams

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Speaker 1: getting two corners including Trent McDuffie, made them literally in

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Speaker 1: Vegas Super Bowl favorites. So Jalen Watson's a good, solid corner,

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Speaker 1: arguably better than anybody but McDuffie now on the Rams.

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Speaker 1: But the Rams are not paying anybody on that defense

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Speaker 1: up with the top Niner, Arizona and Seattle receivers in

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Speaker 1: division and beyond. I love that move. Number three Milik Willis.

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Speaker 1: I know it's only six starts, but last season he

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Speaker 1: Really accurate. Jeff Hafley, the head coach at Miami, was

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Speaker 1: two years. Twenty two million makes him the seventeenth highest

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis is at least the seventeenth best quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I feel very confident saying that the number

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Speaker 1: four team. I think Dj Moore is a good get.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a very good player, never miss his starts,

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Speaker 1: five years, really durable, smart guy. I think sometimes late

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Speaker 1: in the year, with the explosion of Luther Burden for

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Speaker 1: the Bears in Colston Loveland, he felt a little lost

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Speaker 1: So he's gonna get twelve targets a game. He can

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Speaker 1: a great move by Brandon Bean and I like Tarik

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Speaker 1: Woollen to the Eagles on a one year deal. Listen,

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Speaker 1: they've already got two great corners. No other team in

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Speaker 1: I loved all five of these moves. Those were as

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Speaker 1: good as it gets to me. And I will say this,

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Speaker 1: I do think Bradley Chubb coming in late Trey Hendricks

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Speaker 1: Those are good plays as well. So you know, if

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Speaker 1: They've been tanking forever. They think it's dynasties. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I could not agree more. Change the three point line.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the exact remedy. I would move the lineback,

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Speaker 1: So it used to be the three point shot was

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Speaker 1: Hawks against Hornets. So last season, here's something I just

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Speaker 1: about thirty five percent from threes, thirty five percent. So

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Speaker 1: It would slow the game down. Your hit rate for

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Speaker 1: anything in sports has to be higher than thirty five percent.

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Speaker 1: If the NFL decided summarily, the league decided, no more screens,

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Speaker 1: Everything has to be twenty yards plus down the field.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what the completion percentage in the NFL

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Speaker 1: better if quarterbacks were completing thirty five percent of their throws?

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Speaker 1: It would be unwatchable, it would be awful. It's excellent

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Speaker 1: when it's at sixty five to sixty eight percent, right,

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Speaker 1: we want offense to succeed. It's great that baseball pitchers

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Speaker 1: force batters to swing. So listen to these numbers. So

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Speaker 1: last year, three hundred and ninety six games, there were

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Speaker 1: at least eighty threes. Again at a thirty five percent

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Speaker 1: a game. Do you believe watching an NBA basketball game? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I watched fifty two clanks. If you have any more bricks,

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Speaker 1: you can join a union. I mean, at some point,

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Speaker 1: NFL's always understood aesthetics matter. I've said it many times

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Speaker 1: on this show. When you go to a nice restaurant,

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Speaker 1: tastes appealing. Because you eat with your eyes first. That's

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Speaker 1: why there's no blue food. You don't eat with your mouth,

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Speaker 1: anybar in the country. It looks appetizing. The problem of

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Speaker 1: know what's beautiful. Michael Jordan's mid range game. That's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: The sound of the swish, the aesthetics of the swish.

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Speaker 1: It looks cool. So we don't talk about this at all.

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Speaker 1: Baseball had this issue too. Home runs were everything, well

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Speaker 1: baseball is first to third, second to home, stealing bases,

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Speaker 1: athletes on the base pass. You eliminate that. It's not

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Speaker 1: the same game. And Rob Manfred got it, and the

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Speaker 1: catch and moving the kickoffs NFL got it. Forget the

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Speaker 1: math may work on the three, but you're asking teams

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Speaker 1: And so I got tell you that eight out of

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Speaker 1: it's boring and bad to watch. So I don't buy

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Speaker 1: Teams were tanking during Jordan's era and magic and birds.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think dynasties are a problem if they

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Speaker 1: happen to happen. I mean in college I mean college basketball.

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Speaker 1: give you somebody to root four, and somebody to root against.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, here's another one. Wemby's seven foot six

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Speaker 1: Wemby took four hundred and three three point shots last season.

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Speaker 1: Do you really think that's aesthetically pleasing. But if you

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Speaker 1: cut off the corner three, okay, Now, it's easier to

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Speaker 1: I don't think of that compelling. And what's amazing Wenby

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Speaker 1: some point, guys, it's just the same. Everybody's playing the

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Speaker 1: same game. The other thing I've always thought about basketball,

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Speaker 1: it's our most artistic sport. I mean, Magic didn't play

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Speaker 1: it's artistry, Like there's a real artistry to basketball. Why

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Speaker 1: would you sap and reduce the artistry by asking everybody

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Speaker 1: to shoot threes. I want Ant driving to the basket.

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Speaker 1: I want Kobe and MJ. I want them being artists.

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Speaker 1: Go look at it, Go look at Doctor J's highlights.

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Speaker 1: They're I watched Vince Carter and Doctor J highlights last night,

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Speaker 1: not a three, but it's incredibly The artistry is insane,

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Speaker 1: and I think the threes are formulaic. I do. I

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Speaker 1: just watched The Great Movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.

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Speaker 1: It was the opposite of formulaic. I didn't know what

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Speaker 1: I was getting that when you watched MJ and Doctor J.

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Speaker 1: the floors, Like, I got no idea what MJ's do.

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Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm getting from everybody. Every possession

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Speaker 3: I mean you said a lot there, Colin. You seem

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Speaker 3: a little combative on this, NBA. First it was tanking,

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Speaker 3: everybody's outraging, I'm out, and now it's like, well, too

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Speaker 3: many threes. I mean, artists are changing over time. It evolves, right,

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Speaker 3: What was awesome art wise in the fifteenth century changed

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Speaker 1: I I like the NIL and like anything that's new.

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Speaker 7: I look at it through a very honest lens, And

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Speaker 7: to be honest, I look at situations now in life

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Speaker 7: from not only my perspective, but from how this may

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Speaker 7: affect somebody else, or if this decision has made, what

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Speaker 6: This or that?

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Speaker 7: And look, I hold myself to my own own standard.

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Speaker 7: I was raised in a church. I feel like I

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Speaker 7: have more religion in my life. I have better friends

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Speaker 7: in my life of things that I want to do

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Speaker 7: moving forward that get me out of bed every day

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Speaker 7: and that move me. I'm in a great place in

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Speaker 7: every sense of the way, work wise, family wise, where.

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Speaker 6: I live, what I have going on in my life,

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Speaker 6: and I'm proud of those things.

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Speaker 7: And there's one thing about me is I appreciate Hasselback

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Speaker 7: and what he had to say that got me here

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Speaker 7: last week. I appreciate you for having the perspective that

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Speaker 7: you had on things. And I'm a writer for my friends.

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Speaker 7: You have always been good to me. I appreciate you

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Speaker 7: having me come on the show. And more than anything,

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Speaker 7: like I said, I want to spread a great message

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Speaker 7: of when you come into my life and you have

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Speaker 7: me on your show, I want you to feel like, man,

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Speaker 7: that guy is doing better in life. He has grown up.

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Speaker 7: And if you come into my life and interact with

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Speaker 7: me in the streets. I want you to leave with

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Speaker 7: a you know, interaction with me that was funny, that

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Speaker 7: was fun, and that made you feel good and have

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Speaker 7: a good time. And that's what I'm going to continue

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Speaker 7: to do for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: Wow, great perspective. Good for you. Hey, you know what,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you a football question before we go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza not a great athlete. People say he's a

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Speaker 1: little dorky, whatever, so was Andrew Luck. What do you

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Speaker 1: make of him just as a player? What do you

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Speaker 1: make of him?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I think he's going to continue to get better.

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Speaker 7: I think he throws, as I was watching him at

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Speaker 7: the National Championship game, throws a really good ball, has

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Speaker 7: a lot of zip on.

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Speaker 6: His passes, reads coverage very well.

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Speaker 7: He obviously had some good help at the receiver point,

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Speaker 7: and the team that they had last year in Indiana.

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Speaker 7: The situation he's going into is going to call for

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Speaker 7: a lot of patients.

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Speaker 6: But Rock Bauers, you know, gent rebuild.

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Speaker 7: Some of the offensive line, get a defense, you keep

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Speaker 7: Max Crosby, like, have some patients with it, and I

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Speaker 7: feel like this kid is going to be very good.

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Speaker 7: He more than impressed me being around him at the Heisman.

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Speaker 7: We have continued our relationship since then and I've talked

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Speaker 7: to him, you know, a lot, through this period of

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Speaker 7: the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 6: He's a great kid. I wish him nothing but the best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, Johnny, Really appreciate it. You gave us

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes you didn't have to, and God speed. Good

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Speaker 1: luck to you. You're always welcome on the show. If

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Speaker 1: you want to promote something, call us, we'll put you on.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to have you on during the season. You

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Speaker 1: got great insight.

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Speaker 6: For for sure. For sure.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, anytime. Thank you guys, Thank you to your staff everybody.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for letting come on the Herd.

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Speaker 1: Much love you, bet Johnny Manziel, Johnny Football, who has

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Speaker 1: really turned his life around. And good for him.

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Speaker 6: Good.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was funny when I reached out. I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've been critical of him. You know, this

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Speaker 1: is I talk. He's an athlete, I talk. I try

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Speaker 1: to be fair, and I thought, yeah, he probably not

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Speaker 1: going to be comfortable. Boom, he said, you absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about it. So good for him. Kind

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Speaker 1: of transformational to listen to him from ten years ago, right,

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Speaker 1: like wow, you know, put his head down, got some therapy,

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Speaker 1: looked in the mirror. Different dude. He'd be you know,

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Speaker 1: he'd be a I'm telling you, if you didn't see

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Speaker 1: him play at Texas, A and m like he was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been a handful of college quarterbacks Johnny Manziel,

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Tommy Fraser at Nebraska, you know, Tim Tebow

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Speaker 1: that you're just watching them and you're not sure it's

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Speaker 1: gonna work at the next level, but it really works

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Speaker 1: at the college level. And I mean, he was just dude,

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Speaker 1: he was just different. He was one of the first

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that Nick Saban put his hands in the airs, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't I can't stop this guy. Johnny Football. That

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Speaker 1: is a great nickname of all the of all the

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Speaker 1: football nicknames, Johnny Football's pretty damn strong. We'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: Jmack herdline next.

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Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 4: and Noone Eastern non a em Pacific on Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Here we Go, it's hour two. It's a Friday. We

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Speaker 1: got good stuff. World Baseball Classic has been amazing. I'm

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Speaker 1: still gonna defend bam outa buy you gotta that guy

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Speaker 1: get ripped apart by the NBA fraternity. I don't get

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Speaker 1: it at all. And he's got a hysterical bite on that.

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Speaker 1: Bam outa buy you is you know, he reminds me

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Speaker 1: a little bit of another former Miami Heat player, you

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Speaker 1: Donnis Haslam. Good guys, low profile, work their butt off,

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Speaker 1: just perfect Miami Heat culture guys. And I mean just

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Speaker 1: the NBA savagely went after him, and I don't buy

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Speaker 1: any of it. I'm gonna get to that in about

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Speaker 1: five minutes. I'm gonna support bam gonna buy You's eighty

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Speaker 1: three point spectacle in a couple of minutes. But all right,

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Speaker 1: the draft's coming up in April. A draft can absolutely

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Speaker 1: change a franchise if you get the right quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: the Raiders getting Fernando Mendoza, that's gonna be a big deal. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But I think, really, when I look at teams after

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Speaker 1: a season ends, I look at the coaching hires, I

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Speaker 1: look at free agency, and that's about seventy five to

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Speaker 1: eighty percent of what the new league is going to

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Speaker 1: look like. And maybe I'm being optimistic on some of

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Speaker 1: these free agent signings, but a lot of GMS made

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Speaker 1: moves I agree with. So here's my top ten pre

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Speaker 1: doubt it does a lot. And here we go number ten.

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Speaker 1: Number ten, I would say Detroit. I thought they had

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Speaker 1: a coordinator issue last year, not a personnel issue. Drew

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Speaker 1: Petsing new Oc. I think it's going to be fantastic. Listen,

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Speaker 1: They've had a top five offense in four straight seasons

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Speaker 1: and last year they had a coordinator issue or Dan

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Speaker 1: Campbell had to take over play calling and they were

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Speaker 1: still viable nine to eight. So I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to improve by two or three wins. I love their

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Speaker 1: front office, you know. I like Jared Goff, respect Dan Campbell.

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Speaker 1: Lions at ten, number nine Patriots, Now why do I

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Speaker 1: bring him down? Well, they go from the historically easiest

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Speaker 1: NFL schedule in fifty years to the sixth toughest. They

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Speaker 1: lose to Von Diggs, they add Romeo Dobbs. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of a wash to me. They had Kevin Byern in

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Speaker 1: the back end of their defense, who's an interception machine.

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Speaker 1: I love the coaching, the owner, the culture. I just

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Speaker 1: think the AFC had a down year. Lamar's back right,

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Speaker 1: like Mahomes won't get hurt again. The Chargers will be better.

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Speaker 1: Denver bo nicks another healthy offseason. So I think New

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Speaker 1: England at nine, number eight. I think Sean mannon the

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Speaker 1: New OC is going to work. I thought Tarik Woolan

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Speaker 1: grabbing him at corner, I didn't think it was a

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Speaker 1: position of need. The Eagles now have the best cornerback

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Speaker 1: troika a trio in the league by a lot, so

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Speaker 1: it's not like they didn't need didn't have enough talent defensively.

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Speaker 1: Now they added an elite, pro Bowl level corner I

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Speaker 1: think Manyon Listen, Nick Sirianni is very coordinator dependent. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's just a reality. He needs a Kellen Moore, he

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Speaker 1: needs a Shane st I think Manion could be good.

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Speaker 1: I have Philly at eight, number seven. Listen, the smart

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Speaker 1: bet take the Houston Texans to win their division again.

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Speaker 1: They added David Montgomery the running back. I think that

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Speaker 1: is a sneaky addition. So David Montgomery and Woody Marx,

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Speaker 1: that is a above average running back tendem and they

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Speaker 1: just couldn't They couldn't produce consistent run totals last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's worrisome that CJ. Stroud has regressed, but they're still

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Speaker 1: winning their division AFC South. Their favor to win it

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Speaker 1: for a fourth year. They won twelve games last year.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be around that this coming year. Number

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Speaker 1: six probably lower than a lot of people think. I

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Speaker 1: like the Chargers. Listen, they had the worst O line

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Speaker 1: in the league due to injuries and won eleven games

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Speaker 1: in a good division. They're going to win eleven plus

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Speaker 1: this year. They get Rashawn Slater and Joe alt Beck

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Speaker 1: at tackle. They have a ton of caps face, so

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Speaker 1: they've addressed the interior OH line. They also added Mike McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: who I think is one of those coordinators like Detroit's

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Speaker 1: Drew Petz that's going to be worth a win or three.

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Speaker 1: And they got a kind of a sneaky Keaton Mitchell

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Speaker 1: the running back. The speedback from Baltimore comes over with

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Speaker 1: Amarion Hampton. So I like what I see. I think

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a team that's offense leads

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Speaker 1: the way, unlike last year where defense had to lead

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Speaker 1: the way. I have the Chargers at six. Number five Broncos.

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Speaker 1: People may forget this, but in that divisional round loss

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Speaker 1: to the Patriots. They were missing Bonnicks. They're number one

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Speaker 1: back JK. Dobbins and their number two and three wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: They were banged up at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: The NFL, as you well know, is a league of attrition,

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Speaker 1: and they just picked a bad week to be playing

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Speaker 1: in the divisional round. Team won fourteen games. They don't

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Speaker 1: allow sacks, and yet they led the NFL in sacks.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that changes. Great head coaching, great line play.

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Speaker 1: Denver at five, number four, I'll put Josh Allen an

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Speaker 1: inch ahead because he's Josh Allen. I think Bradley Chubb again,

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Speaker 1: nine ten to eleven sacks. And Dj Moore because the

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Speaker 1: Colston Lovelan and Luther Burden exploded last year at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year for the Bears, people think, well,

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Speaker 1: DJ Moore's numbers drop. DJ Moore is still a number one,

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Speaker 1: to me are some really nice b plus added elements.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo at four, number three the Seahawks. I think it's

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Speaker 1: almost impossible to win back to back. I think Kenneth

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Speaker 1: Walker leaving is a real thing. Now, if it was

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Speaker 1: a great running back draft, I wouldn't worry much. It's

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Speaker 1: not Zach Sharbonay comes back. They've got kind of a

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, Gray's Abel Nick Harm and worry. They've got

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Speaker 1: really good leadership on this team and really good players.

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Speaker 1: But they had to move off some really nice football players.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you win a Super Bowl. Guys

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Speaker 1: want to eat Seattle. I have them at three, number two.

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Speaker 1: The Bears, to me, first round pick is going to

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Speaker 1: be a corner. Second round picks. They're going to go

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Speaker 1: and get a pass rush. I like what I see again,

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Speaker 1: a really sneaky stat with the Bears. They were the

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Speaker 1: third best rushing team in the league last year, and

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Speaker 1: you think it's about Caleb and the aerial circus. They

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Speaker 1: ran the ball really well. Now they have to replace

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Speaker 1: Drew dolmen at center. They did with Garrett Bradbury from

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Speaker 1: solid pro in the middle anchoring your O line. Again,

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Speaker 1: They're probably not going to lead the league in takeaways

643
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Speaker 1: like they did last year. They'll probably drop to somewhere

644
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Speaker 1: in the upper half of the NFL. But I have

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00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: the Bears at number two, number one. The Rams, they

646
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: solved their dilemma corner Trent McDuffie top five corner teammate

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Speaker 1: Jalen Watson. There was an argument the Rams were the

648
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: best team last year, but in the NFL, you don't

649
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: have to be great anywhere. You can't be bad anywhere.

650
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: And last year the Rams really had issues in their secondary.

651
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: So they've gone out solved it. Trent McDuffie is an

652
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: elite corner And there you go. There's my post coaching hires,

653
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: post free agency Top ten. Baltimore eleven, Jacksonville twelve. Jacksonville

654
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: lost a couple of key pieces. Don't love that ETM

655
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: the running back who'd been there with Trevor Lawrence forever.

656
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: So I got Baltimore eleven, I got Jacksonville twelve, and

657
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: that's where we stand today. Okay, So I got to

658
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: defend Bam out of Byo. So Bam out of Bayou

659
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: is a pros pro All NBA defense five times, two

660
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: time Olympian, very much a heat culture guy, plays on

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00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 1: both ends. Excellent pro and a couple of nights ago,

662
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: he drops eighty three and I defended him. I said, okay,

663
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: got a little doctored at the end, but he had

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Speaker 1: thirty one points in the first quarter, he had sixty

665
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: two after three. If he just played a normal fourth,

666
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: he scores seventy one. But he scored eighty three. That

667
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: surpassed Kobe, and people didn't like it, and the pitchforks

668
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: and the knives came out, and I'm like, guys, this

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00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: is not a this is not a random guy that

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00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: you know. He scores, he defends, he's an Olympian, He's

671
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: a legitimate player, and Spoilster was not a guy that

672
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,439
Speaker 1: doctors stuff up. Here was Bam on his critics after

673
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: an eighty three point performance.

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00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 6: First of all, y'all are blaming me. You should be

675
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 6: blaming their hair. Coach. Get that first. I was not

676
00:36:58,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 6: the one, let me go.

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00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 4: I want to won the whole game until I started,

678
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 4: until I had seventy, and then you started to sending

679
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 4: double At that point I got seventy with like what.

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00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 6: Nine minutes left to go in the game. You think

681
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 6: I'm not going for it?

682
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, you got seventy one points nine minutes.

683
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: Everybody knows the Kobe number. I'm gonna go after the

684
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: Kobe number. I don't have any problem. Spo could be

685
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: my favorite coach in the NBA. Spose like, get over it, people.

686
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 8: I apologize to absolutely no one, period. I'm not losing

687
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 8: any sleep over what other people are saying about it.

688
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 6: What's ethical, what's not? All this stuff happened under.

689
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Speaker 8: Two minutes, Like I said, like he had already broken

690
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 8: a bunch of records. Uh, and we're we're going to

691
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 8: go for it. It was just an amazing moment, you know,

692
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 8: to be a part of that, and I would do

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 8: it ten times out of ten.

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Speaker 1: By the way, when people say that's not basketball, was

695
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: hacking Shack not basketball? Of course I was. Shack was

696
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: a bad free throw shooter. Mike Dunleavy. I was in

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00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: that arena when he began the hack a Shack with

698
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: his Portland Trailblazer team. They couldn't stop him. They started

699
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: fouling him. Fans hated it. It's real basketball, Okay. When

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00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: I was a kid growing up, Dean Smith used to

701
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: get a lead in North Carolina and they would run

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00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: four corners offense. And they would freeze out the other

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00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: team's offense. There was no shot clock. Was that basketball?

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Speaker 1: It was allowed. There's a lot of stuff in sports

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00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 1: that it's almost like being an accountant. You're always looking

706
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: for loopholes and how to manipulate I have. I mean,

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00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: you see sometimes in the NFL you bring in like

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00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: a third tackle and he's an eligible receiver. Well, that's

709
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: not real football. Yes, under the rules it is. What

710
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: they did in the last couple of minutes of the

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00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: game is legal. By the way, right now, I've defended tanking.

712
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: Tanking today, you can say it it's not allowed. I

713
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: watched it all year with Indiana. I watched it with Utah.

714
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: It's allowed. So you can try to shut off accountants.

715
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna find loopholes. And I just don't have any

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00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: problem with a pros pro, a great organization, a great

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00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: coach saying Okay, we got nine minutes left, he's at seventy.

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Speaker 1: We're going for the Kobe number. I'm not losing any

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Speaker 1: sleep over that. I mean, James Harden for years was

720
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: falling down taking threes. The NBA had to step in

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00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: and go, Okay, that that's not gonna work. I can guarantee.

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00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: Adam Silbers not sitting there thinking, hey, listen, the next

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Speaker 1: time a guy gets to seventy with nine minutes left,

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Speaker 1: we've got an outlaw. What they did. Nobody cares. I

725
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: was reading this the other thing because I said I

726
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: watched it on YouTube, but I didn't watch it live.

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00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero and Norman Powell, the Heat's other two leading scores,

728
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: were out of the game. So who's gonna shoot. I

729
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: don't know. The guy was seventy, I'm going to probably

730
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Speaker 1: give him the ball. I love BAM's reaction, and I

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Speaker 1: love sposed even more