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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside hour two The Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my best friend David Stearns, live from the Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio Studios. It is an NBA E Cup night. Someone's

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Speaker 1: got to tell the Lakers wake up. The Spurs without

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Speaker 1: Wemby lead the Lakers right now fifty seven thirty nine

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Speaker 1: at the Crypt midway through the second quarter. Luka Doncic

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Speaker 1: has checked back in. It is still an eighteen point

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Speaker 1: lead right now for the Spurs with about five and

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Speaker 1: a half to go before halftime. Again, we're in the

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Speaker 1: final four. Yeah, after tonight, who will join the Knicks

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Speaker 1: and the Magic and the Thunder in the Final four?

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Speaker 1: Invase lid on the basket.

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Speaker 3: Second quarter, the Spurs four of ten, the Lakers four

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Speaker 3: of fifteen. I gotta say Wenby just standing on the

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Speaker 3: sideline might be the most imposing figure ever. It's like

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Speaker 3: when you walk through Universal Studios Hollywood and they got

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Speaker 3: the guys on the stilts outside of the Mummy Ride.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, he's about that tall. Yeah, how you got

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Speaker 1: up there? Just him standing there? Crazy? Yeah, he's just

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Speaker 1: him standing there? Does that? You know? It's just a

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Speaker 3: I think if you're coming down the course, like out

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Speaker 3: of your peripheral vision, he's there.

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Speaker 1: Sir, sir? Can you move please? But I'm just I know,

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Speaker 1: but you're just obnoxious standing there with that dight that

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Speaker 1: you have. Can you just move back a little bit, sir?

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Speaker 1: But I'm not doing it. Just move, just move, okay.

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Speaker 1: Do be a person that's a little favorite. Just move

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Speaker 1: a personal favor, you know, for a personal favor. You know.

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Speaker 1: That reminds me of a funny story. Like there was

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Speaker 1: our arch rivals in softball, the youth teams I coach,

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Speaker 1: the all star teams, and the and the tournament teams.

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Speaker 1: Our arch rivs couldn't stand him, couldn't stand playing them

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Speaker 1: because it just everything about them just rubbed me the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. And they had this coach who liked to

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Speaker 1: coach would coach third base, and he did this all

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Speaker 1: the and every time we played, I'd have to I'd

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Speaker 1: was always moving around. He was like a younger. He's

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Speaker 1: always moving around and clapping and everything. And he would

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Speaker 1: And I couldn't stand that. I know it, and I

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Speaker 1: sure he stays near his box because all he's doing

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Speaker 1: is is moving down to try to get in my

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Speaker 1: guy Empire would say, okay, I'll take a look at it. No,

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Speaker 1: And the next thing he would have to say, uh no,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even went to my picture with it. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to put that in her head. So

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Speaker 1: I just like said, you know what I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: you get in my picture's eyeline again, I know what

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Speaker 1: you're doing. You've been doing it for years. Stop doing it, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what he was doing. What do you mean I was.

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Speaker 1: I was so I couldn't stand that guy, couldn't stand him.

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Speaker 1: And when we wanted to talk to after you stopped

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Speaker 1: I didn't know the guy's name. I just know what

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Speaker 1: what so when you tell that story about Wemby just

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so. I mean he may be even taller.

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Speaker 1: Michigan Sharon Moore story, it just gets nuttier and nuttier

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of speculation that he uns rampant,

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Speaker 3: trying to corroborate what's real, what's imagined, and what's coming

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's good and you know, one of the big

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Speaker 1: things is how old was this story? Was this known?

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Speaker 1: Was this known in November? Was this known earlier than that.

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Speaker 1: How long has this been going on? Like that? There's

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Speaker 1: lots of stuff that needs to come out that I

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Speaker 1: find out and I you know, And here's here's how

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Speaker 1: fast it happens. In college football twenty twenty three, Michigan

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Speaker 1: Football Playoff semi final and they lose. They but they

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Speaker 1: They get to the National Championship and they win. Right,

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Speaker 1: Michigan's a great job. It's you know, like we talked

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Speaker 1: blew himself up on it. Right, So that so that's

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Speaker 1: what he did. But now you look at where Michigan

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest pieces of coaching malpractice I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: is following the National Championship? Like, come on, man, Like,

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Speaker 1: that point, it's been a slower backing up of Michigan. Right,

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Speaker 1: they beat Ohio State last year in a real shocking game.

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Speaker 1: So hey, even though Michigan didn't have a great year,

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Speaker 1: fans that would trade the National championship a year ago

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Speaker 1: It meant we could go back in time and beat Michigan.

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Speaker 1: But then this year Michigan's nine and three Bryce Underwood's

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Speaker 1: was supposed to come in. He is the highest paid

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Speaker 1: he was just okay, never really flash the point that

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Speaker 1: be the next great quarterback and one of the next

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Speaker 1: great players in college football. Was never that guy. Michigan

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Speaker 1: simply beat the teams they were supposed to and they

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Speaker 1: a two year sort of a downtick. But then again,

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Speaker 1: Off the field, you go from Michigan the Michigan job

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Speaker 1: It's like we're back in the in the late aughts

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Speaker 1: the world, and you know, winning seven eight games was

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Speaker 1: going to be a big achievement for us, and we

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Speaker 1: of scandal here with what went on with Harborne, now

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Speaker 1: again with Sharon Moore, Like the Michigan job went from

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Speaker 1: this is an amazing opportunity. Look at this one of

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Speaker 1: the top jobs and all of college football, top five

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Speaker 3: Well, but that beauty of it is that you saw.

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Speaker 3: Remember Harball, we talked about it for years. We've been

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Speaker 3: thought he couldn't coach and needed to be fired at Michigan,

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Speaker 3: and we had all those discussions about recognizing builds and

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Speaker 3: Mirror, Shamanga Biakabatuca and all of those guys long in

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Speaker 3: They got over he leaves under cover of night, and

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Speaker 3: you look to just try to fill and replenish. And look,

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Speaker 3: the beauty of where you're at it with Michigan is

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Speaker 3: you have all the assets you could possibly hope to

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Speaker 3: you have, as you lay it out, top five at worst,

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Speaker 3: a top ten job. You talk about the alumni base,

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Speaker 3: you talk about the money that's there to go tap

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Speaker 3: into when you're the new guy installed that. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna be clamored for this. Like immediately the odds, Hey,

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Speaker 3: Caitlin de Boor's name came up, Jed Fish, you got

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Speaker 3: some cleanup to do? We don't know how deep this

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Speaker 3: was known that this was gonna happen, So they've already

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Speaker 3: done a lot of the coaching stuff. The answer is,

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Speaker 3: we just don't know, which is rare like normally, I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's someone that's got this, you know, like the rocks

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Speaker 3: on the yard in Shawshank. We've already got a bunch

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Speaker 3: of the pieces out there. No, no, no, this is this

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. It can't be Lane Kiffin. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. I might

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Speaker 4: Jason, those are all things you use after a Jets game.

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Speaker 3: I just like the potential of the chaos. They Signette's

430
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Speaker 3: even better to google me.

431
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Speaker 1: I win.

432
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Speaker 3: I'd love to see contract negotiations with him. And he

433
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,920
Speaker 3: just pulls up the Google page and does that little

434
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Speaker 3: Denzel Washington you know gesture of up there you go,

435
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Speaker 3: there you go, that's what you got. No, I'm just

436
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Speaker 3: I just throw it out as a if we're gonna

437
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,439
Speaker 3: go big game hunting Mintor's a solid choice, no doubt,

438
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Speaker 3: and certain it's a horrible or whatever.

439
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Speaker 1: Justin wants no part of it. I would just.

440
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Speaker 3: Wonder if again going to the fact that he was

441
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Speaker 3: part of those scandals that you don't just try to

442
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Speaker 3: get away from that era.

443
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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,

444
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. I

445
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: will get to watch trending coming up in a few minutes,

446
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 1: but you know, this is what it's been a couple

447
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 1: of minutes on this tonight because it's it's been a

448
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: big deal today and I know, you know, people are

449
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Speaker 1: starting to really talk about it on social media. The

450
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty ESPN on the Life of Stuart Scott

451
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: is airing tonight and you probably saw a lot of

452
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Speaker 1: people talking about it leading up to it. Stu's life

453
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 1: and it looked gone way too soon, fought cancer so

454
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 1: bravely for so long and one of the guys that

455
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 1: still cuts through his career at ESPN. So many things

456
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Speaker 1: he's able to accomplish, and it wasn't always great, right,

457
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: It wasn't always rosy for him there, and he fought

458
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Speaker 1: against you know, a lot of things, you know, to

459
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Speaker 1: continue to be famous and to have career there at ESPN.

460
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Speaker 1: And you know a lot of people have talked about him,

461
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: and look, there certainly are people that know that knew

462
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Speaker 1: him a lot better than I did. You know, Rich

463
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: Eisen saying a lot of great things about him, like

464
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 1: they were anchors, you know together. But you know, the

465
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: thing is is a couple of things to just talk

466
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Speaker 1: about what Stu was like a little bit because I

467
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: work with him for a long time. When he first

468
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: got his big break at ESPN, when he came to

469
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Speaker 1: ESPN two to host Sports Night with Susie Kolber back

470
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Speaker 1: in the mid nineties. Right, this is when ESPN saying, hey,

471
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Speaker 1: we're branching out now, ESPN two is brand new. We're

472
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Speaker 1: gonna put new shows on. And they put on the

473
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Speaker 1: show called Sports Night, which was the flagship show of

474
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Speaker 1: ESPN two, which was basically, they're going to focus on

475
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: sports that don't get enough attention on ESPN. So every

476
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: show was about like, we had NHL stories, we did

477
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Speaker 1: any kind of college story you could possibly want that

478
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Speaker 1: we had. It's where the X game started, you know,

479
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Speaker 1: bike races, Formula one, Tour de France like this was

480
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Speaker 1: what sports Night was, and Stu Scott was the and

481
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Speaker 1: Stu Scott and Susie Cowber the everyday host. I worked

482
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Speaker 1: on the show with Stu for a long time, and

483
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Speaker 1: to try to tell you what he was like in

484
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: in in the in a way that maybe you haven't

485
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: heard so far, is that Stu really was a guy

486
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Speaker 1: who turns out to be ahead of his time. The

487
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Speaker 1: person that he was. You look at him and say, man,

488
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: he is the conduit that got people to some of

489
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Speaker 1: enjoy some of the careers that they have right now, right,

490
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: you go back, I go back to that line of Moneyball,

491
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: when John Henry wants to hire Billy Bean. He says, hey, Billy,

492
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Speaker 1: I know you're taking the teeth out there, but look,

493
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: the first guy through the wall always gets bloody, right,

494
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: the first guy trying to do things, it's always more

495
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: difficult than people that come after him. It turns out

496
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: to be a little bit better. And you know, Stu

497
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Speaker 1: comes to ESPN in the mid nineties and he you know,

498
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here's an African American sportscaster who

499
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Speaker 1: was anchoring one of the big shows at ESPN, and

500
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Speaker 1: he always knew that. He always knew that I have

501
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: a big responsibility and I need to be able to

502
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Speaker 1: make sure that I'm doing this and I'm doing this

503
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Speaker 1: to the best of my ability, and I'm doing it

504
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Speaker 1: for people that are coming after me, and I'm doing

505
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Speaker 1: it for everybody else, right, Like that was kind of

506
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Speaker 1: what he was like, and he kind of known that's

507
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Speaker 1: what I mean. He's like the conduit. There's so many people

508
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: that enjoying great careers today because it wasn't always easy

509
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: for Sue Scott. Like, yeah, he had bosses at ESPN

510
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 1: telling him like, I don't know what you're talking about.

511
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean. I don't know what

512
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: you're trying to say. When you say things like this,

513
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, man, what the hell? Like this is

514
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that he fought against. And to

515
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Speaker 1: tell you what it was like, tell you what he

516
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: was like, and this is someone that had this kind

517
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Speaker 1: of prescience in the nineties. Okay, going back to the

518
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: nineties now, which is thirty years ago, right, thirty years ago,

519
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 1: when we would do the show every day, we would

520
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: always do fun sketches on the show, right, because that

521
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: was the kind of show. It was was open to

522
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: do anything, and they love putting me on that show

523
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: because I was a lunatic. Yeah go on, yeah, you're

524
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: you're great for sports, like yeah, great, Greg, Right. So

525
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: we always would do fun teases or sketches about something

526
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 1: going on in sports, and so like was, I'd come

527
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: up with some ideas. We'd get to you know, shoot

528
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: stuff over the course of the day, and now just

529
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: to take you in because this is this is this

530
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: is part of the story. Like my job as a

531
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Speaker 1: production assistant associate producer was I would have like seven

532
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: or eight jobs over the course of the day to

533
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: do before we got on the air. Everybody, everybody busted

534
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: their ass to get a lot of jobs done. You

535
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: had a lot heaped on your plate. So when I

536
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,479
Speaker 1: had to do a sketch, it was always Okay, I

537
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: need to be able. I can take an hour to

538
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: do this sketch, and then I got to be done

539
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: with it because I got to go on to other things.

540
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Speaker 1: So whenever we would have an idea for something and

541
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Speaker 1: we needed a production assistant to be in it, we

542
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: needed a security guard to be in it, or somebody else,

543
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Speaker 1: I would just walk and say, hey, can you be

544
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Speaker 1: in this for a couple of minutes we're doing a

545
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: sketch and they would say I really not okay, great,

546
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 1: and I move on to somebody else, right because I

547
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: got to get this done. So the first few skits

548
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: we do I do with stew and he says to

549
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Speaker 1: me after, like after like the second or third one,

550
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Speaker 1: he says, hey, can I talk to you about the sketch? Yeah? Sure,

551
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: what's up? He goes, man was really good and this this,

552
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: and Stu was a great dude. And he goes, I

553
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: just want to say, He goes, you know, whenever I

554
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: do something, when I do a sketch like this, I

555
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: always want to do something and make sure that a

556
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: black person and a woman is in the sketch because

557
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: I want a spotlight that that, you know, that they

558
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: should be sharing the camera to. And I said, wow, okay,

559
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I'm with you. I get it. I said,

560
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: just from my perspective, I'm just trying to get people

561
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: that want to be in it right, like I can't

562
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Speaker 1: take time. He goes, oh, no, no, I completely get it.

563
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: I completely get it. I said, no problem, just so,

564
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Speaker 1: but I'll try to do that. He goes, well, what

565
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Speaker 1: if I help you what if I give you a

566
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Speaker 1: couple of people that would be, you know that I

567
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: think might be good for the sketch. I go, great,

568
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Speaker 1: give me those names. I'll ask him and I'll put

569
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: them in the sketch. Awesome, right, So then so the

570
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: first time he gives me, like three or four names,

571
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: I asked, and these are all again like PA, security guards,

572
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Speaker 1: the producers, everything else. And a couple of people said no.

573
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Speaker 1: So we do the sketch for the day. You know,

574
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Speaker 1: Stu doesn't see it until it goes on the air

575
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, I gotta ask it. You know,

576
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Speaker 1: I gave you some names. I go, Stu, I said,

577
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: I asked all of them and they said no. He

578
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: goes what I said, Stu, I asked, those are the

579
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Speaker 1: first four people that I asked, and they said no.

580
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Speaker 1: So I asked other people to be in the sketch.

581
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Speaker 1: Those are the first four people I asked for you.

582
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Speaker 1: He goes, oh Man, because he goes, hey, I love

583
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Speaker 1: who you had in. It was great. You know you

584
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: put this guy in. This is awesome. He goes, I can't.

585
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: I said, okay, I just wanted to tell you that's

586
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Speaker 1: what it was. So then the next day he comes in,

587
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: he goes, hey, from now on, when I give you

588
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: a name, when when I give you names of people,

589
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: he goes, you don't worry about it, they'll do it.

590
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: And I said, okay. From then on, there wasn't one

591
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: person who said no, well whoever. Stu talked to everybody,

592
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: and every single person I want to say, hey, well yes,

593
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: oh stud yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to be. I

594
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: want to be and I want to be in.

595
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Speaker 3: Well, but how did you sell the sketch? When you

596
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: when you went now and I'm talking about your selling abilities.

597
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: It would be it would be something like it'd be

598
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Speaker 1: something like, hey, we're doing a sketch. It's the anniversary

599
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: of the Vic Wurtz catch off of Willie Mays, and

600
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: we're doing a bit on how Stu is trying to

601
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Speaker 1: find out information and you're going to be your researcher

602
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: that doesn't know what they're doing. Yes, absolutely, hundred percent,

603
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll do it, I'll do it. I'll do

604
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: it like this is kind of stuff that's fun we

605
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: would just do for like thirty forty five. So I

606
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: get that.

607
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 3: But you know, in those pitches when folks turned you down,

608
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: did you really sell the fact that it was Stuart

609
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 3: Scott asking for them.

610
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 6: You.

611
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: Oh no, No. They all knew that we were doing

612
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: sketches like I. Like they knew I would come and ask, hey,

613
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: do you want to be in this? Do you want

614
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: to be in this? Okay, that's great, But now Stu

615
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: was was actually taking it upon himself to go and

616
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: ask people. They had to take. Hey, when Jason does

617
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: this and he asks you, will you be in this sketch?

618
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I swear to God, might not

619
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: one person said no? After that? Like we would have

620
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: an idea and say hey, who do you think for this?

621
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Speaker 1: And we would say a right, try this person, this person,

622
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: this person, every single person stew said, Hey, ask these

623
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: couple of people for this sketch today, they always said yes.

624
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: Like that. That's that's That's how much he was cognizant

625
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: about what he wanted to do, the belief in what

626
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: he was doing was right, and how he felt a

627
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: responsibility that was bigger than just here I am on TV.

628
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: He could have just sat back and enjoyed his career

629
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: and been on TV and on ESPN and all ka.

630
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: But from the beginning he always wanted to make a

631
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: bigger difference. And maybe you know, people didn't get it

632
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 1: as much back then, but but like you think, that's

633
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: what you think about now, Like this is something that

634
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: happens all the time now, right, Like this happens all

635
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 1: the time, and this is thirty years ago, and and

636
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: Stu is trying to do this and and and that's

637
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that he was man when he

638
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: would do that. So I hope you know, I I

639
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: haven't seen the show tonight, but I hope you get

640
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: some stuff like that because that that's kind of the

641
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: guy Stuart Scott was.

642
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly, you know, we know a lot of

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Speaker 3: folks in the business you worked with him personally and

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Speaker 3: hold him in the highest regard for you know, a

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Speaker 3: land a land shifting in terms of how highlight shows

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Speaker 3: were done thereafter. So, yeah, I only had the pleasure

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Speaker 3: of meeting him once. It's very brief, at a well

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Speaker 3: at a Super Bowl event. I think it lasted all

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Speaker 3: about two minutes and then he headed to the dance

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Speaker 3: floor and that was the end of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exit out Vala Fresca, exit swollen delb. He was

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Speaker 1: trying to I'm gonna go to the I don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk to harm anymore. I'm gonna I can't find out, man,

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Speaker 1: Let's find out what's trending right now the wide world

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Speaker 1: of sports of Martin Weiss and what do you got

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Speaker 1: for us?

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Speaker 5: Well, first, I have a report from the Detroit News.

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Speaker 5: Sat police chief confirmed to the Detroit News earlier on

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Speaker 5: Wednesday that the Pittsfield Township Police Department was handling a

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Speaker 5: complaint that involves Charon Moore. Here's the rundown. At ten

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Speaker 5: o'clock on Wednesday, Pittsfield Township Police confirmed it handled and

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Speaker 5: assaw the investigation, without actually naming more. But they did

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Speaker 5: say that investigation started at four ten pm, which was

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Speaker 5: just a few minutes before the University of Michigan had

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Speaker 5: announced Sharon Moore was fired. The Pittsfield Township Police said

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Speaker 5: that the incident does not appear to be random in nature,

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Speaker 5: so they ongoing into investigation. No more further details, so

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Speaker 5: so forth go back to the first press con The

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Speaker 5: first statement released about Sharon Moore today was from ad

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Speaker 5: Ward Manual at the University of Michigan, saying there is

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Speaker 5: credible evidence that Moore had inappropriate relationships with a staff

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Speaker 5: member and for that reason, he is fired with calls

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Speaker 5: from the University of Michigan, Baltimore, Orioles and Pete Loondo

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Speaker 5: agreed to a five year deal with one hundred and

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Speaker 5: fifty five million dollars. Philip Rivers officially signed his practice

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Speaker 5: squad deal today with the Colts. Riley Leonard a full

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Speaker 5: participant in practice, and the team also activated quarterback Brett

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Speaker 5: Rippon from the practice squad. Jayde Daniels likely won't play

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Speaker 5: Week fifteen against the Giants. He's at an elbow. Raiders

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Speaker 5: quarterback Geno Smith not likely to play against the Eagle

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Speaker 5: Sunday with a shoulder injury, lining up Kenny Pickett to

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Speaker 5: get a revenge game start against his one of his

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Speaker 5: former teams. Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans was activated against

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Speaker 5: from ir expected to play tomorrow against tomorrow against the Falcons. Officially,

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Speaker 5: this is questionable. Drake London listed as out for the Falcons.

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Speaker 5: They have NFL solidified Week seventeen. The Texas at Chargers

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Speaker 5: and Ravens ad Packers game is going to be played Saturday,

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Speaker 5: December twenty seventh. NFL is taking the first round draft

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Speaker 5: to pick time between picks from ten minutes to eight

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Speaker 5: minutes in the NBA Maverick Center. Derek Lively will miss

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Speaker 5: the rest of the season. He's got to have foot

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Speaker 5: surgery and the NBA Cup quarterfinals. In the Western Conference,

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Speaker 5: the San Antonio Spurs with an eighty five to sixty

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Speaker 5: four lead over the Lakers. Right the Spurs, I was

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Speaker 5: scoring them at nine points in the third quarter right now,

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Speaker 5: but I'm just under nine minutes left in the third quarter.

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Speaker 5: Stefan Castle, Deer and Fox Harrison Barnes all in double figures,

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Speaker 5: the Lakers being led by Luca Dontis with twenty four points,

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Speaker 5: Lebron James and DeAndre Ayton with twelve and eleven, respectively.

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Speaker 5: Earlier tonight, she saw the Oklahoma City Thunder one thirty

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Speaker 5: eight to eighty nine over the Phoenix Suns. Okay see starters.

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Speaker 5: None of them played over thirty minutes. In fact, yeah,

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Speaker 5: nobody played over twenty eight minutes, with schae Gilders Alexander

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Speaker 5: had twenty eight points in twenty seven minutes and Chad

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Speaker 5: Holger with twenty four and twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 1: So it's just quick work.

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Speaker 5: The Thunder made of the Phoenix Suns without Devin Booker

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Speaker 5: and Grace Noll ended up getting ejected after getting his

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Speaker 5: two flavorfowls back to you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks bunch, Martin Boy. We'll have more on that developing

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Speaker 1: Sharon more story coming up, but straight ahead, a couple

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Speaker 1: of quarterbacks who may or may not play Sunday. I

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Speaker 1: hope neither of them does. We'll tell you why next.

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

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. We'll get back into the new details and

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Speaker 1: I mean new within the last twenty five minutes in

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Speaker 1: the Sharon Moore story in Michigan. Coming up, But two

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Speaker 1: big quarterbacks looking ahead to Sunday and beyond. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is in the mix to start on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. Philip Rivers, who was coaching high school

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Speaker 1: football and on his couch watching the Colts game to

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars on Sunday, watch Daniel Jones's injury happen, and

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Speaker 1: he said, I admitted to myself, I wonder if Shane

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Speaker 1: will call. He did. Rivers worked out, and now he

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Speaker 1: may start Sunday against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 4: Why are you laughing?

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Speaker 1: Dude? Come on, man, this this guy. He's not been

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Speaker 1: near the NFL in five years and he's forty four

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Speaker 1: either of the Jets, and all of a sudden, the

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Speaker 1: Jets are barely in the NFL, they're barely hanging on. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he can come in and start for the Jets right away.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 3: Taylor with a negative performance for fantasy purposes against the

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Speaker 3: Dolphins this week?

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Speaker 1: I mean, all of a sudden, he's gonna start. I

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Speaker 1: really want to see just what the hell the Colts

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Speaker 1: have seen to say, yeah, he's our starter. Rivers look

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Speaker 1: so much heavier than he was, and he said, what

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Speaker 1: did he say today? Yeah, I'm heavy the last time

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Speaker 1: I played, But I wasn't running away from guys back then.

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Speaker 3: That's it man, right, I didn't even do quarterback sneaks.

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Speaker 1: Every day this story goes on, I just feel more.

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Speaker 1: I'm more and more afraid for him coming back on

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Speaker 1: Sunday to what he's gonna see against it. If he

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Speaker 1: plays against the Seahawks. You're gonna throw him out there

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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks when he's been with the team for

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Speaker 1: all of a day and a half. Yeah, you're starting

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. We were putting you right out there.

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Speaker 3: Keep telling you, man, well, I mean, he knows the terminology,

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Speaker 3: he knows the play sheets, doesn't really know his his teammates,

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Speaker 3: but he'll learn fast. And look, the time to release

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Speaker 3: is going. He'll be in shotguns. So it's just another

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Speaker 3: step or two back and then get rid of the

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Speaker 3: ball one.

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Speaker 1: And two with the gone how far is that shotgun

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Speaker 1: gonna be? Like in punt formation legs it be fifteen

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Speaker 1: yards back in the line. If that's what they far

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Speaker 1: be able to with that. Yeah, this is obviously not

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Speaker 1: the team you want to uh to reintroduce yourself to

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Speaker 1: the NFL against Seattle's defense, one of the best and

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Speaker 1: for purposes of fantasy, Yeah, you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: a must dart situation number one with a bullet. And

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Speaker 1: that's and that's saying something because you got Houston going

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Speaker 1: up against Jacoby Brissett and Arizona. You got the Eagles

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Speaker 1: going up against Kenny Pickett for crying out loud, no

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Speaker 1: Seattle far and away.

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Speaker 3: But I'm intrigued, I'm excited. I got my pom poms out, man,

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Speaker 3: Come on, I'm a Philip Rivers guy.

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Speaker 1: Oh it is. It is intriguing, but it's it's also

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Speaker 1: what what are we gonna see? That's I feel like

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Speaker 1: it's not It's like I feel like I'm watching Midsummer

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Speaker 1: I'm in the middle, and I go, this is not

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Speaker 1: gonna end well for anyone. I knew it. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: did not get it yet. I don't know that I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. But have you seen he's not playing for

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. Man. You don't need to You don't need

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Speaker 1: to carry carry the water form.

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Speaker 4: There's no such thing. Why why can't he just go

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Speaker 4: out there and do what he plans on doing?

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Speaker 3: Can't have some positivity? I watched that every night with

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Speaker 3: the little shop girl or the disgruntled executive trying to

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Speaker 3: find the true meaning of Christmas. Why can't we have

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Speaker 3: a little bit of that magic on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: With you, Jason, Because that's been rolling guys out that

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Speaker 4: don't know the playbook for years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look how bad we are for you love

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Speaker 1: him so much? For what if I said, okay, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: Herbert's going to be out and Rivers is going to

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Speaker 1: come back and play for the Chargers and.

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Speaker 4: Has nothing to do with my love for the guy.

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Speaker 1: No, but how would you feel how would you feel

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Speaker 1: about him coming back to the situation?

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Speaker 4: So I don't have feelings for it?

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Speaker 1: So wait, so wait, so you wouldn't be excited about it,

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Speaker 1: but you really just goes back option. He's their best option.

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Speaker 1: Sure that there were other thirds we talked somebody else. No,

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts have no idea what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: I think it said, Hey, I'm calling a guy that

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Speaker 1: I knew to come bail me out of a situation.

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Speaker 1: This is like one of those movies where like, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: the only people I can trust to save the earth

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Speaker 1: are guys that went to college with and drank beer with,

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Speaker 1: you know thirty five years ago.

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Speaker 4: Understands that takes notes. What do you mean they don't

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Speaker 4: know what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: Carl Or say, Gordon has gotten a lot of good

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Speaker 3: will as this season has gone on. Yeah, no, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna say that it's absolutely been torpedoed here.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, both you guys think from a football standpoint,

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Speaker 1: this is the right move. I'm saying, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know how much from these other guys that you.

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Speaker 1: Would know till Sundall standpoint. I I I know, I

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Speaker 1: know how bad it's gonna be. You know how bad

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Speaker 1: it's going to be. I know, I watch it. I

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Speaker 1: watch a lot of bad football. I know how bad

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Speaker 1: this is going to be, especially you're starting off against

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Speaker 1: the Sea. Good luck man on the road this one.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks players right now are sitting here going, hey man,

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Speaker 1: let's bet how many who gets the most sacks? I

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Speaker 1: say I get four, I say I get six.

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Speaker 3: I say I'm getting borderline bounty gate and they should

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Speaker 3: all be suspended.

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Speaker 1: Pre it's just sacks. It's just in un said. It

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Speaker 1: says how many sacks do we get? Every huddle is

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Speaker 1: going to be whatever they call defensively beat you at

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Speaker 1: the quarter? Ready break? Why do you hate Philip Rivers?

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Speaker 1: Why do you hate fun? I would say this for

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Speaker 1: anybody that's forty four, been out of the game for

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Speaker 1: five years, for any that calls you back. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see on Sunday. Another big quarterback story

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Speaker 1: coming up next, as well as the latest on the

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Speaker 1: Sharon War situation in Michigan. New information coming your way next.

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Speaker 1: Right here, This is Fox