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Speaker 1: happy birthday at some point, But we have huge, huge

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Speaker 1: news out of Los Angeles, huge news, huge news out

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what how to contain myself, has to.

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Speaker 1: Deal with one of sports biggest stars, legend, the biggest

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Speaker 1: even sometimes transcending the world of athletes. We are going

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Speaker 1: to get to that news momentarily. Jason Stewart's our executive

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Speaker 1: producer Today, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Jason, Hello, Every Monday.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Smith, our technical producer. What's going on? Ryan? Hello?

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Speaker 5: Hello?

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Speaker 1: And Isaac Lowin at the news.

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Speaker 1: You want to get to the news.

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Speaker 4: Let's get to the news. This is so big out

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Speaker 4: of LA. You know a goat? Should I dare say

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Speaker 4: a goat?

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Speaker 1: I think?

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Speaker 4: Can I say a goat? I think goat's birthday.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's it's apropos. The enormous

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Speaker 1: news out of LA has nothing to do with Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: It has everything to do with Tiger Woods.

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Speaker 7: Final thing with you in regards to your recovery is

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Speaker 7: the Master's off the table for you?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what a day?

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Speaker 1: Okay? That was that was?

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Speaker 8: That was the news I have been waiting to hear.

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Speaker 8: It is not out of the possibility that we could

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Speaker 8: see Tiger Woods at Augusta in two months.

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Speaker 4: Father time, what time? He don't care, he don't care.

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Speaker 1: No, we may have exaggerated the time of the drama.

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Speaker 1: I think you could hear a little of it. Do

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Speaker 1: we have the shorter one Ryan where Tiger was asked

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Speaker 1: this question by Golf Channel's Todd Lewis earlier today.

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Speaker 7: Final thing with you in regards to your recovery is

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Speaker 7: the Masters off the table for you?

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Speaker 1: No, okay, first magnificent. It's just short and sweet, but

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Speaker 1: I loved the drama of it. The pause made it

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Speaker 1: so much better. How long can this pause actually get?

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Speaker 1: Ryan Smith?

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Speaker 7: Final thing with you in regards to your recovery is

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Speaker 7: the Masters off the table for you?

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Speaker 4: And everyone's just waiting, Yeah, where's Oh what is it?

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Speaker 1: Say?

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Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, that is what we wanted to hear.

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Speaker 5: Tiger.

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Speaker 1: Fifty year old Tiger Woods has not ruled out playing

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Speaker 1: the Masters. Who knows what it's his back's gonna do

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Speaker 1: recovering from the Achilles tendon. I don't care. I do

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Speaker 1: not care. Tiger hasn't finished top twenty in a major

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Speaker 1: since he won the Masters in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 5: Well that's hey, that far away.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm gonna give you some stats. I

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Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care what I'm about to say.

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Speaker 1: He was cut from the PGA Championship the following month

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Speaker 1: the US Open in twenty nineteen at Pebble Beach and

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Speaker 1: then at the Open Championship was cut the next year,

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Speaker 1: tied for thirty eight at the Masters that was the

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Speaker 1: Funky COVID Masters. The PGA Championship, tied for thirty seventh.

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Speaker 1: Was cut from the US Open that was played in September.

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Speaker 1: There was no Open Championship. Didn't participate in any of

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Speaker 1: the majors in twenty twenty one after his car accident.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, finished forty seventh in the Masters,

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Speaker 1: withdrew from the PGA Championship again I don't care, was

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Speaker 1: US Open at Brookline in twenty twenty three, had to

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Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty four finished for the players that

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Speaker 1: But he finished sixtieth of the players that made the cut,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us were saying, all right,

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Speaker 1: this is it for Tiger Woods. I don't care. We

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Speaker 1: didn't see him at all last year he had the

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Speaker 1: achilles tendon injury. If Tiger Woods is giving us hope

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Speaker 1: I am all for it.

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Speaker 5: I love this so much, in particular because of you.

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Speaker 5: You're usually so logical with your sports.

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Speaker 1: I try to be the little.

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Speaker 2: Boy comes out out here just is so excited about

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Speaker 2: Tiger Woods.

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Speaker 4: So I love seeing this side of you.

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Speaker 5: I also think this is awesome.

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Speaker 2: This is awesome that it's still on the table, because

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Speaker 2: I think you and I sat here wondering what was

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Speaker 2: going to happen with Tiger Woods, what would he do,

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Speaker 2: whether he should just call.

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Speaker 4: It an awesome career.

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Speaker 5: But he's still out there and that's that.

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Speaker 4: No, that's it. That's all we needed to hear.

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Speaker 1: Think of the think of the alternative. I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: Todd Lewis ask me the question. We may want to

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Speaker 1: do the long pause so he can pause it ryns,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to give you the flip side of

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Speaker 1: what could have happened, all right, Todd Lewis, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: play the role of Tiger Woods. Todd Lewis asked me

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Speaker 7: Final thing with you in regards to your recovery, is

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Speaker 7: the Master's off the table for you?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Wah wah, Wah, what a downer, right, What an

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Speaker 1: absolute downer that would have been.

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Speaker 4: But that also would have maybe not many people I

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Speaker 2: Have been would have been surprise, But it would have

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Speaker 2: been a downer because this whole time, we don't know,

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Speaker 2: we don't know if he's calling it a career. We're

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Speaker 2: hoping that he hasn't called it a career. But if

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Speaker 2: he would have said yes, it would have been a downer.

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Speaker 2: But I just don't think people would have been that surprised.

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Speaker 1: Okay, one more time on the real one, not with

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Speaker 1: the long pause. This, this is the real reaction.

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Speaker 7: Final thing with you in regards to your recovery, is

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Speaker 7: the master's off the table for you.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a tiger fistbump right there. We're not on video,

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Speaker 1: so only Manzi saw. Jason was looking down. Isaac's paying

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Speaker 1: attention to something else. That was a tiger fistbump right

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, the only thing that would have

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Speaker 2: made that better if you would have like twisted your

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't more athletic than that.

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Speaker 4: No, I just didn't know what you were doing.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't sure where you were going with it that, Yes,

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Speaker 2: that this is this is very very exciting.

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Speaker 1: If he doesn't play, okay, that's fine, right, but doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen him in the TGL, the simulator golf.

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Speaker 4: Nobody needs to see any of that.

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Speaker 1: I like that. It's entertaining. You may not.

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Speaker 4: I not like it.

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Speaker 1: Okay. That is what I think was the big news

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Speaker 1: of the day from LA. There's other news out of LA,

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Speaker 1: and this coming from a report from Dave mcminnimon of ESPN,

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Speaker 1: Lebron James his future with the Lakers may not be

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Speaker 1: as short lived as we would have thought. The reports

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Speaker 1: from Dave mcminnimon is that the Lakers would be open

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Speaker 1: to welcoming Lebron back after this season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, are we surprised by that?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I am surprised.

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Dan, everyone's anticipating that Lebron has a year,

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Speaker 2: Like if he agrees to one more year, I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to be his retirement tour and that he

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Speaker 2: ends with the Lakers, and the Lakers see the money

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Speaker 2: that would come in on a retirement tour with Lebron

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Speaker 2: James on your team and Luka Doncic, they're not they're

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Speaker 2: losing Lebron next year all of a sudden.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't make the Lakers contenders.

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Speaker 2: They would have to make other moves, in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: So I feel like they're doing this because they're like,

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Speaker 2: are you gonna do this and retire, because we will

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Speaker 2: happily be a part of your retirement tour.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that they're having this conversation for him

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Speaker 5: to do one more in LA and then go to Cleveland.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that's the conversation.

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Speaker 1: You think that they would put up with all.

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Speaker 5: Of this stuff for a farewell tour?

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Speaker 1: You think so. I if Genie Buss was still fully

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Speaker 1: To me, it doesn't make a lot of business sense,

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Speaker 1: and you're putting off the inevitable. You're putting off the

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Speaker 1: and maybe even JJ Reddick's role for that matter. I

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Speaker 1: think it. I don't think that the Lakers have any

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Speaker 1: interest in Lebron coming back. I think this report was

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Speaker 1: the message that we got this past off season was that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Lebron is going to play out this final year of

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Speaker 1: his contract. And it's Lebron's messaging of will I be back,

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Speaker 1: will I not be back? Is all for his thoughts,

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Speaker 1: but for the Lakers, I think they've already I think

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Speaker 1: the Hayes in the Barn, I don't think they want

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Speaker 1: Lebron back, and whether he retires or go somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: that's his choice. But I don't believe in ounce that

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are open to it unless this is just

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Speaker 1: too and I believe that this is what it is

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Speaker 1: is to save face, not make waves for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season and into the playoffs so it doesn't

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Speaker 1: become distracted, the distraction for this team as they enter

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Speaker 1: the postseason.

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Speaker 5: I think what you're saying makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think this is coming from a position

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Speaker 2: of loyalty like with Jeanie Buss how you pointed out right,

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Speaker 2: I think this comes from a business perspective where again

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Speaker 2: they're having those I think the conversation is, well, we'll

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Speaker 2: take you one more year, but you're announcing that this

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Speaker 2: is it.

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Speaker 4: This, that's the deal here.

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Speaker 2: We don't want you, we don't want you again. If

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Speaker 2: this is it, if we don't make this announcement before

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Speaker 2: the season starts. So I feel like there's truth. The

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Speaker 2: truth is somewhere.

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Speaker 5: In the middle.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they could trust him? Do you think

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Speaker 1: that they could trust him that this would be his

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Speaker 1: last season?

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Speaker 2: I think the only way we would they would make

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Speaker 2: that announcement hand in hand, we've extended Lebron James one

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Speaker 2: year for his final year in the NBA.

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Speaker 4: That would be the announcement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then.

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Speaker 5: Let's say he decides to not retire, and let's.

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Speaker 4: Say he did that.

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Speaker 1: But I finish it with you, guys, I don't want

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'd welcome him back if he retires.

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Speaker 2: That's just the part I think of the conversation they're

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Speaker 5: That is soul Lebron.

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Speaker 2: Look at what he's done where it's like he at

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Speaker 5: Because he wants the Hollywood life. He thinks, you know,

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Speaker 1: There's there's also something of I mean, you're a native here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: You're a native Southern Californian Ryan Smith, San Jose, California. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, so he's not. He's Californian. But so he's oh, yeah, Raiders,

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Speaker 1: It's tough to embrace La as your city when you're

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Speaker 1: that you still couldn't trust him to actually retire when

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Speaker 1: So it's figuring out what's best for everyone involved right now.

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Speaker 1: It's best for the Lakers to lie saying they want

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Speaker 2: Off the top of your head, because you're good with

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Speaker 1: He's been a Calve the most? He's been a most

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Speaker 4: How many years was he a Calve? So between the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's been eight years with the Lakers.

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Speaker 5: Eight that's okay, eight years out of twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not to put you on you just usually I

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Speaker 1: The easiest way of it. Just gives you the exact eleven.

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Speaker 5: Huh huh? Was that long between the two stints? I

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Speaker 4: With you.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was.

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Speaker 2: Coming up to like eight and nine years. You know

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Speaker 2: I think there is a legit possibility that he is

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Speaker 1: Jason Stewart's voice was heard, Jason, what do you got?

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Speaker 6: So it sounds like you guys disagree on at least

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Speaker 6: Dan doesn't believe the Lakers' response to this right. So

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Speaker 6: let me remember a few weeks ago when Baxter Holmes

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Speaker 6: the Russell Westbrook thing, how that he wasn't what he

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Speaker 6: I put this comment by the Lakers in that same refrain.

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Speaker 6: They're going to say all the right things publicly behind

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Speaker 6: the scenes, I don't think they're going to make this

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you it has to be tied to him retiring.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like it's just purely a business standpoint

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the amount of people, the amount of

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Speaker 2: it's a business standpoint. And also seeing like the late

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Speaker 5: I feel like seeing all that, it's kind of like,

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Speaker 4: We don't want to.

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Speaker 5: But if he wants to do it one more year, fine,

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Speaker 5: bring in the money.

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Speaker 1: I I don't know if they want a statue of

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Speaker 2: Of well they have a lot, so it's fine.

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Speaker 1: I know got the Oscar de la Hoya. I know

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Speaker 1: that the bar is low, but I also don't know

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Speaker 2: You're saying that one more year makes a statue or not.

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Speaker 2: I think the statue is coming no matter what.

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Speaker 1: I know. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying that

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Speaker 1: have that warm and fuzziness. And maybe he will. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a black. But for the for the Lakers of the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they really want him to be

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Speaker 4: He thinks he's already there.

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Speaker 1: He does. Yeah, so do many.

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Speaker 4: Fans think he's you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Like and so by allowing him to have that like

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Speaker 1: and almost rival is Cavaliers time and go out as

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Speaker 1: a Laker lends to all of that stuff of Lebron

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Speaker 5: All Right, this is gonna happen, guys.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna sign an extension with the Lakers for one

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Speaker 2: year and it's gonna be a he's gonna retire and

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Speaker 2: he's gonna take a year off and in three years

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Speaker 2: when I'll be talking that he's coming back to Cabs.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 1: What would you what do you think, Luka donc just

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Speaker 1: wants oh bye, think you so? I think that's the

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Speaker 1: that's the answer. That's the answer. That's what the Lakers want.

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Speaker 1: It's not what anybody. That's what Luca wants.

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Speaker 6: I also Monsei's looking at this from the standpoint of

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Speaker 6: what's the best business for the Lakers or retirement tour.

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Speaker 6: Lebron or James is all about what's in what's in

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Speaker 6: the best interest for me, what's gonna be my best

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Speaker 6: Calves No, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I I think so.

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Speaker 2: But I also think that Lebron has surprised us and

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Speaker 2: I do think that there is something where he does

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Speaker 2: do think he wants that whatever happens with Cleve, he's

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Speaker 2: always going to be the guy from Cleved Like you

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, the cat him going to the

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Speaker 2: Caves would be really nice, Yes, but.

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Speaker 5: Cleveland, the Cavaliers already love him whether he comes back

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Speaker 4: I think he's trying to cement himself as a Laker.

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Speaker 4: He needs that.

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Speaker 1: Lebron has always loved the love of other greats. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that pat Riley doesn't love him anymore, that he spurned

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Speaker 1: pat Riley, and that there really is never a path

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Speaker 1: to go back to the Heat. I think it would

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Speaker 1: be better for Lebron. I think he would rather go

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Speaker 1: back to the Heat than go back to the Lakers

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Speaker 1: next year. I think that that's that's what Lebron would

447
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Speaker 1: want to do, like to patch things up. He always

448
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Speaker 1: wanted to be liked by Kobe. He did, he did, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he did. And so I think when pat Riley and

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Speaker 1: the Heat are like, Okay, you're dead to us. You

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Speaker 1: left us for Cleveland and still have pretty much bend

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Speaker 1: that way. If there was a if there was a

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Speaker 1: mending of the fences or a happy way out, he

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Speaker 1: would go to Miami before he would be a Laker

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Speaker 1: next year.

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Speaker 2: Which if you truly think that, then why do you

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Speaker 2: think he wants to go to Cleveland to wrap up

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Speaker 2: the career, Because.

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Speaker 1: I think that's Numero uno, Like that's the perfect bowl,

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Speaker 1: the final, the final straw. At the end of Lebron's

461
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Speaker 1: time in Cleveland, I think the Calves were even kind

462
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Speaker 1: of like, Okay, all right, we're probably not gonna win

463
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Speaker 1: one with you here, and Warriors are like, let's just

464
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Speaker 1: move on. Everybody knew what was going to happen. He

465
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Speaker 1: signed right away with the Lakers in that offseason. Now

466
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Speaker 1: enough time's gone away, you can appreciate him and have

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Speaker 1: them right off into the sunset. But I think Miami

468
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Speaker 1: would be more of a better option for Lebron than

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Speaker 1: actually coming back to the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: But Miami just doesn't finish the story. The story can

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Speaker 2: be wrapped up in Cleveland or La.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Heat is almost a better ending.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think there's anything. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: That was just a shot at me for saying reside.

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Speaker 9: Six on the shot clock Taman Bavis Jefferson over to

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Speaker 9: the corner of three by Heisey.

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Speaker 1: Yes, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 9: Right at the shot clock buzzer sixty nine sixty seven

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Speaker 9: Iowa State and he fires and a short the rebound.

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Speaker 9: The plumb Egsy fires from the distance and it won't

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Speaker 9: go at Iowa State has knocked off number two Houston.

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Speaker 1: How about that?

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Speaker 9: Seventy to sixty seven the final the cycle peat number

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Speaker 9: nine Kansas. They followed up with a win over number

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Speaker 9: two Houston.

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Speaker 1: John Walters from lear Field on the call, a good

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Speaker 1: night of college hoops. A good game on last night

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Speaker 1: between the Big twelve now rivals, as you could say,

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Speaker 1: but when there's no NBA, NHL as their stars at

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Speaker 1: the Olympic Games, college hoops take center stage. So you

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Speaker 1: have Duke routing Syracuse and then you had the good

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Speaker 1: one between Iowa State and Houston down to the wire,

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Speaker 1: no matter whether there were bad calls or not. Sure

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Speaker 1: it's been a week of bad calls with Doug Gottlieb

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Speaker 1: and Green Bay on Sunday, and we had Doug on

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Speaker 1: the network yesterday. And now I'm Houston fans a little

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Speaker 1: frustrated from last night, but oh well, still and tournament

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Speaker 1: time less than a month away from selection Sunday, I

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Speaker 1: did it say?

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Speaker 2: It feels like it's around the corner March madness.

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Speaker 1: It's eleven days away according to the calendar, and again

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Speaker 1: the brackets released I believe March Sunday, March fifteenth. A right,

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the other news that's happening and the

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Speaker 1: NFL offseason this year.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: The games are no longer being played. A new league

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Speaker 1: year starts in a couple of weeks. And there is

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Speaker 1: one team that's under the microscope this offseason, according to

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Speaker 1: one Monty Beilagios. And who would that team be?

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Speaker 2: I think that the Las Vegas Raiders have the most

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Speaker 2: pressure this offseason. And I know there's tons of teams

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Speaker 2: where it's like, what are you gonna do? In Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Vikings with your quarterback situation?

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Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 5: Detroit Lions has your window? Has your door completely closed

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Speaker 5: on the super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: All of the I know every team there's something that

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Speaker 2: you can say, what are you gonna do this offseason?

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Speaker 5: But the Raiders not only have the number one.

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Speaker 2: Pick in a in a draft where it's either your

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Speaker 2: I think Banana Mendoza is maybe your quarterback, nobody else

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Speaker 2: maybe that you're looking into, and you need a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: but you also need an O line because if you

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Speaker 2: get Nana Mendoza a and you don't beef up your

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Speaker 2: own line, then this is pointless?

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Speaker 5: What are we doing? Then it's just gonna be Joe

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Speaker 5: Burrow point two. Over there, we saw Ashton genty literally

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Speaker 5: could not run the ball.

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Speaker 2: And you have Max Crosby, who teams would want and

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Speaker 2: teams would give you something for him, and he has

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Speaker 2: said I don't want to be here anymore. And even

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Speaker 2: though you and I have sat and been like but

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Speaker 2: he's such the definition of a raider, like he is

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Speaker 2: a raider. How could you get rid of Max Crosby.

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Speaker 2: They have so much power in this offseason to actually

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Speaker 2: make some moves, to do a big jump.

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Speaker 5: But we've seen the Raiders have the number one pick

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Speaker 5: in the past and that not goes so well.

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Speaker 2: We've seen these them ye not make the right choices,

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Speaker 2: but they just have so much It's not just that

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Speaker 2: you have the number one pick.

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Speaker 5: You have power with the number one pick. And Max Crosby.

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Speaker 1: I looked at teams like Green Bay, like Houston are

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Speaker 1: thinking of big things happen next year, things straighten out.

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Speaker 1: Those types of teams talk about playoff teams, teams that

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Speaker 1: were in the playoffs, maybe not super contenders. So when

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Speaker 1: you say Raiders, I said, what is she talking about?

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Speaker 1: And then when you explain your ways with Mendoza, I

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Speaker 1: saw it. But the kicker is Max Crosby. Because Max Crosby.

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Speaker 1: That's not the easy decision. The difficult decision sometimes is

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Speaker 1: the right decision. And when Quink Kubiak was introduced, he

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Speaker 1: was asked about Max Crosby and the conversations, just like

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Speaker 1: he should. And it is a story that I think

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Speaker 1: is it's that move Manci that I think is so important,

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Speaker 1: that Mendoza going number one, or if they were to

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Speaker 1: trade the picker, which I would be shocked if they did,

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Speaker 1: but that's kind of easy. It's what do you do

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Speaker 1: with Max Crosby that is so difficult. And I think

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Speaker 1: you're spot on because it's that trade. Even we think

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Speaker 1: toa you know, it's going to be on the move

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Speaker 1: playing somewhere else. We expect Kyler Murray as well to

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Speaker 1: be dealt from the Cardinals. Wherever they go is going

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Speaker 1: to be intriguing. But there is no player that represents

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Speaker 1: who their team is more than the Raiders. So when

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Speaker 1: you brought it up at first, I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I thought of other teams, and then when you brought

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Speaker 1: up the Crosby aspect, I think you're onto something I really.

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Speaker 4: Do, And so it's like, what what can you do?

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Speaker 2: Because I know it sounds crazy, but what if you

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Speaker 2: were to trade the number one pick and you still

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Speaker 2: trade Max Crosby for way more picks than you need

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Speaker 2: and make a decent move Because Malik Willis, for example,

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Speaker 2: I know he's like a hot name, right, He's a

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Speaker 2: hot name that provided with the Packers needed. But the

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Speaker 2: Packers are a good team. You put Malik Willis on

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Speaker 2: a team that doesn't have an O line or is

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Speaker 2: not a good team all around, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get. So it's like you need to make

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Speaker 2: the other You can't just have a good quarterback. That's

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Speaker 2: not We've seen it. It's not enough, correct, it's not enough.

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Speaker 2: So even if they were to trade the number one pick,

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Speaker 2: just I feel like it would be crazy. But they

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Speaker 2: have so much power with both of those in their hands.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you are trying to avoid if you're the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: another year of in kling Kube not going to be

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Speaker 1: one and done. But you have to have some sort

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Speaker 1: of foundation. You have to have something to build off of,

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Speaker 1: and I think the frustrating thing with the Raiders last

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Speaker 1: year was how little they played their young guys, even

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Speaker 1: with Ashton Genty having the role that he did. The

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Speaker 1: Patriots I think were one of the teams that like

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Speaker 1: maybe the most young snaps in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders were one of the fewest. They just because

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll wanted to win. He wasn't trusting rookies. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't trusting those guys, and so they have a lot

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Speaker 1: of young guys on their team that maybe don't have

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Speaker 1: as much experience as other players in similar spots on

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Speaker 1: the other thirty one teams, and you have to have

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Speaker 1: something to build forward. I do think their offensive line

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Speaker 1: was when you decimated by injuries is an easy excuse,

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Speaker 1: but then you have to wonder, is our offensive line

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Speaker 1: always hurt? Like are these guys that are always getting

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Speaker 1: hurt that we can't necessarily do anything out of Tyler

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Speaker 1: linden BOM's going to be a free agent. The Raiders

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Speaker 1: are a top target for him. So there's another you

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Speaker 1: in if they try to go after the top free

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Speaker 1: agent center available this offseason. Yeah. I don't think I

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Speaker 1: thought you were crazy at first, but when you lay

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Speaker 1: it out very least, I can very much see it,

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Speaker 1: especially it being so weird because we think the other

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Speaker 1: three teams in the division are so much better.

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Speaker 2: Than they are right, and as a you know, we

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Speaker 2: have a Raiders fan here, but it's like you want

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Speaker 2: to feel like your ownership is doing everything they can

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Speaker 2: to win and if it doesn't work, at least you tried.

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Speaker 4: This is coming from somebody.

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Speaker 2: As a Clippers fan who had a terrible owner who

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Speaker 4: Now we have an owner that tried. He tried, you

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Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Even if you want to call it that he try

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Speaker 2: to buy a championship, at least he tried and it

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Speaker 2: didn't work.

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Speaker 5: So like the Raiders have to try.

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Speaker 2: This is the off season to do that, make the

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Speaker 1: Even from you Weebel. I want the basketball in Seahawks Land.

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Speaker 1: There's headlines uh making waves as the Seahawks will not

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Speaker 1: be using the franchise tag on running back Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 1: the third. Not necessarily a shock in fact, Manci, not

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Speaker 1: even a surprise. Yeah, and this is the levels of

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Speaker 1: off season where there are teams that are a full

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Speaker 1: month into their off season. The Seahawks are about a week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right after the parade on Wednesday. Maybe they were trying,

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Speaker 1: but they're just getting everything set up. Not that they

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Speaker 1: aren't prepared as a front office, but the news that

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker the third likely would not get the franchise

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Speaker 1: tag is not surprising, and it's not surprising considering what's

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Speaker 1: happened over Kenneth Walker's first four years in Seattle. The

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Speaker 1: tough part for them is the timing of it, for

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Speaker 1: how great he was for them in the playoffs, especially

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Speaker 1: when Zach Charbonnay went down. But again we talk about

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Speaker 1: the easy decisions not always being the right decisions, and

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Speaker 1: that's the situation with Kenneth Walker. The third because the

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Speaker 1: easy decision is he's the Super Bowl MVP. He just

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Speaker 1: had one hundred yards in the Super Bowl rushing that

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Speaker 1: hadn't been done in almost thirty years in a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: This is this is the guy. We're gonna take care

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Speaker 1: of him. That is not how things work in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: fair or unfair. The fairness or the good news at

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Speaker 1: least for Kenneth Walker is that there may be a

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Speaker 1: team that sees what he did in the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and says, we will reward you because that's what we

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Speaker 1: want you to do for us. However, during his time

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Speaker 1: in Seattle, in and out of the lineup because of injuries,

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Speaker 1: it was a true split workload that they had this

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Speaker 1: year was Zach Charbonay when they needed him the most,

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Speaker 1: he came through. Unfortunately, you can't reward that in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League, especially especially at the running back position.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks basically have to take his four years, and

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Speaker 1: unless he wants to take a hometown discount, he's likely

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Speaker 1: gonna be somewhere else next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a tough decision for the Seahawks because

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Speaker 2: of what he did after the injury to Charbonay, like

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, and also what he did in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: But if I said one word when I thought of

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Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker.

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Speaker 5: Injured, he's just you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: He's injured a lot, and so it's a risk that

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Speaker 2: at this point I don't think it's worth it. But

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Speaker 2: what he did is great because there may be another

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Speaker 2: team that wants to take a chance on him, and

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Speaker 2: if he does go on and have a great next

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Speaker 2: two to three years, I wouldn't blame Seattle for letting

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Speaker 2: him walk anyway, you know what I mean. It's a

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Speaker 2: risk you're willing to take because if you do take

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Speaker 2: him on for the next four years and all you

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Speaker 2: have is an injured running back.

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Speaker 4: Once again, then you're gonna you're gonna be like, well,

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Speaker 4: I knew this This isn't new. This is what it's been.

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Speaker 5: So I don't blame him for letting him maybe walk

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Speaker 5: and go to another team.

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Speaker 2: And if a team gives him a chance and he

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Speaker 2: does have a great you know, two to three years,

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Speaker 2: then more power to you.

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Speaker 4: But the history has not shown.

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Speaker 1: This isn't earth shattering either, because it's something that the

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Speaker 1: front office has to prepare for and obviously understands. And

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Speaker 1: please don't take my me being flippant in saying that

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks front office wasn't paying attention to the future

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Speaker 1: during their playoff run. You have other things going on,

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Speaker 1: but obviously they are. The other part of this is

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Speaker 1: it's what is now happening this offseason for the guys

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Speaker 1: that they do want to keep. And at no point

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Speaker 1: during this past season, honestly, even before the start of

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Speaker 1: this past year, when Jackson Smith and Jigbut didn't have

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Speaker 1: the breakout year that he had that Devin Witherspoon while

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Speaker 1: he was a pro bowler, you're still trying to decide

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Speaker 1: how you're going to move the future now. Devin Witherspoon

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Speaker 1: two huge sacks in the Super Bowl, the one that

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Speaker 1: ends up sealing the deal, forcing the Drake may fumble

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Speaker 1: slash interception. He's going to be up for a new contract,

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Speaker 1: as is JSN. So those are the guys you're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to take care of. I think they're gonna take

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Speaker 1: care of JSN first, just because receiver salaries can get

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Speaker 1: so high. When you have other guys wanting contracts, you

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Speaker 1: kind of want to pay your guy first. With Devin Witherspoon,

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Speaker 1: to think there's a little bit more more wiggle room,

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Speaker 1: even though he's been great. But those are the guys

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Speaker 1: that you were focusing on. You weren't focusing on keeping

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker the third or saying that he has to

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Speaker 1: be a piece of your future. And now to pay

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Speaker 1: him fourteen and a half million dollars, which is what

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Speaker 1: the franchise tag number would be for next year, just

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Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think, didn't like the after the

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Speaker 2: Washington Nationals won the World Series, didn't they like extend

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Speaker 2: a bunch of players and then it just didn't go.

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Speaker 4: The way that they thought.

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Speaker 2: Don't pull the trigger just because you won the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, think it through and

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Speaker 2: take care because the Seahawks were so good, because they

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Speaker 2: were so good everywhere, not just in one department, So

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Speaker 2: you got to make sure that you take care of

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Speaker 2: the other more important.

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Speaker 1: They threw out the names. He was done by an insider,

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Speaker 1: But Boy and mafe and Tarik Woollen are free agents

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Their name was out around the trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: Mafey could be getting a big deal as an as

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Speaker 1: an edge rudger rusher this offseason. So they're not you know,

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Speaker 1: they're not stuck to everybody, and they knew that these

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Speaker 1: were moves that they were going to have to make.

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Speaker 1: And at no point did I think that they were

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Speaker 1: willing to pay Kenneth Walker the third fourteen and a

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Speaker 1: half million dollars for next time. And I'm not surprised

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Speaker 1: that they aren't going to do that. She's Manze Belanios,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Byer, Happy Lunar, New Year. It's Marty Gras

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Speaker 1: and what are you willing to give up? It's all

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Speaker 1: next year on Cavino and Rich