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Speaker 2: A greetings and welcome in another beautiful Sunday underway, Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Sunday. Here a lot from the Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: studios in southern California with me this week. Jared Smith

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Speaker 2: at Jared Smith Betts joins me from beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada,

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Speaker 2: as we get ready to look across the vast sporting

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Speaker 2: landscape and set up your big sports day ahead. We

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Speaker 2: got a couple more preseason games a little later on tonight,

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Speaker 2: my beloved Yeah, that's right, the Chicago Bears and the

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Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, two of the you know, six or seven

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Speaker 2: teams we've talked about a lot this preseason getting after it.

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Speaker 2: And while we haven't talked about either of those teams

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Speaker 2: in very glowing fashion, so we'll do more of that here.

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Speaker 2: We've got these Saints and the Chargers later on. Chargers

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Speaker 2: have some issues that propped up over the course of

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Speaker 2: the week themselves. So all of that to say, plenty

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Speaker 2: of activity, and yes, we've got other news here in

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Speaker 2: National foot Ball League as well. But first let me

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Speaker 2: welcome him in. You hear him every week on Countdown

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Speaker 2: Saturday Mornings with Brian and with Rich and you follow

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Speaker 2: all his work in the Twitter verse at Jared Smith

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Speaker 2: beats at Jared Smith, what's going on, buddy?

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Speaker 1: Oh, Mike, we are We're in full full ball mode here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we Yesterday was the first day

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Speaker 1: you get off the We got out there at noon

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Speaker 1: then it was game after game after game after it

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Speaker 1: felt like and I know it was a Saturday, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a Sunday, but it felt like it's finally back,

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Speaker 1: which obviously is amazing and it takes my attention away

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Speaker 1: from some of the other sports, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: it's it's a positive.

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Speaker 2: Well, but it was one of those things, right, I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: spring training for baseball, you head to the desert, you

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Speaker 2: head to Florida, whatever whatever floats you there, whichever team

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Speaker 2: you follow, and you get your month of getting yourself

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Speaker 2: in ready for game shape. Right, ball players, we've won

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Speaker 2: training camp the last couple of weeks. Got your teeth said,

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Speaker 2: Thing's got to happen for your viewing experience. Man, you

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Speaker 2: can't just go zero to ninety on a full college

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Speaker 2: football Saturday and think it's going to be, you know,

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Speaker 2: easy going. You gotta pace yourself. You know, the snacks,

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Speaker 2: the sugar and salt intake, how you slept the night before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it all plays. And I'm not even talking

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Speaker 2: about it if you're actually actively wagering and watching the

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Speaker 2: inline in game betting and such. It's more just a

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Speaker 2: the endurance and marathon that it is. And for all

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Speaker 2: of you that are actually marathon runners out there, good

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Speaker 2: on you. It's never been a thing that has crossed

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Speaker 2: my mind for a minute that would be entertaining in

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Speaker 2: any way, shape or form. But for you, you do

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Speaker 2: that so I don't have to. But I can't sit

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Speaker 2: and watch twelve hours of football back to back to

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Speaker 2: back all the way on those saturdays into Hawaii football.

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Speaker 2: I mean, no matter what you got, you got great

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. And you're right, like, you've got to stretch

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Speaker 1: before you can run. So I am or not marathons,

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Speaker 1: but I am a runner now and I finally unlocked

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Speaker 1: how to stretch properly, and you realize, wow, I actually

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Speaker 1: I actually, if I don't just like bend over for

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Speaker 2: That little lean left lee. Okay, I'm good to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little little torso twist.

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Speaker 2: It's funny how it's evolved, right, you and I the

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Speaker 2: last time we got together here Fox Sports Radio filling

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Speaker 2: a bit about you know, processes and what we're doing,

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Speaker 2: you know, outside of these walls. And part of that

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Speaker 2: is you come to the game. You'll always come back

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Speaker 2: to the game and some some capacity, right you're doing

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Speaker 2: some coaching. But I think back to the way we

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Speaker 2: used to do pre practice, stretching, callisthetics, whatever you want

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Speaker 2: We got to do something for fifteen minutes. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then we actually get into straight into your practices because

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Speaker 2: suppose there were some nebulous rules out there, but I

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Speaker 2: don't know that any guy from the district ever rode

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Speaker 2: it was more just a did you guys stretch out?

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Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, enough, but you're ten. You don't know

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Speaker 2: As I watched the people go to hot yoga here

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Speaker 2: out you know, from the courtyard before I came in here, Jared,

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Speaker 2: it's a different world, man. We know so much more

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Speaker 1: Yeah and listen. I think the two biggest things for

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Speaker 1: how I view my own personal health and fitness. The

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Speaker 1: two things that I've changed the most in that short

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Speaker 1: rest days. Now it's like intentional with how I recover

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Speaker 2: No, it's like fat hydration.

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Speaker 1: And the nutrition are the two things I think that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, diet and sleep.

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Speaker 1: Sleep definitely sleep.

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Speaker 2: Sleep is the big one because I've betrayed myself going

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Speaker 1: We work weird hours. It's hard, right because through mornings night,

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Speaker 1: it's like it's hard to stay consistent. You know what helps? Naps?

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Speaker 1: Naps are so underrated.

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Speaker 2: No that well, as you get older you love them more.

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Speaker 2: It's like you're again, do revert back to it? Well,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about nocturnal activities. I went and saw Weapons

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Speaker 2: last night, so the quick and dirty review coming out

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Speaker 2: of that as one of the popular movies coming out

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Speaker 2: this summer. But talking about health and talking about greatness.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry, plenty of shador talk because it is still

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Speaker 2: the weekend cycle. Nothing else new and exciting is really

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Speaker 2: and Chargers played later. But we've been waiting on some

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Speaker 2: kind of I don't know, wishy wash, he might be

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Speaker 2: the right term to say. Updates from Sean McVeigh and

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Speaker 2: as related to quarterback Matt Stafford and his back that

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Speaker 2: was keeping him out of workouts. Now he's older, we

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Speaker 2: get into the philosophical nature of once you're a long

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Speaker 2: tenured veteran in this league, Jared of I don't really

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Speaker 2: into the full pun intended throws of his normal workouts

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Speaker 2: with sixty passes without limitations and no restrictions going down distance,

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Speaker 2: and so he expects Stafford to resume practice this coming week.

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Speaker 2: forward to progressing him back to practice on Monday, is

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Speaker 2: what he told folks at so far, and it was

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Speaker 2: reported out from CBS Sports. Now we'd gotten the report

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Speaker 2: but that it's always been contended he'd be able to

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Speaker 2: Once we're consistently talking about again guys back and a

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Speaker 2: fantastic run at the back end of the season, they

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Speaker 2: got a bit healthier. His overall stats weren't mind mind blowing,

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Speaker 2: we still look at that game of the Eagles. The

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Speaker 2: IFS has and butts about it all Jared, But for

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Speaker 2: Matt Stafford, I think the Rams have the blessing in disguise.

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Speaker 2: You know what he can do. You need to see

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Speaker 2: what Jimmy Garoppolo could do being put in this offense,

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Speaker 2: incompetent systems. Uh. Past issues with DeVante Adams. Uh. Notwithstanding

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Speaker 2: to McVeigh and I've got to trust the process as

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Speaker 2: that were. But concerning with Stafford, any anything movement movement

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Speaker 2: wise in terms of their totals for the year, while

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Speaker 1: I mean, I bet Stafford under thirty seven fifty and

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Speaker 1: gave how much money to Karen Williams. Yeah, you might

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Speaker 1: then of course the injury factor is just a huge,

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Speaker 1: huge factor. I mean, even if he misses, like and

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Speaker 1: these these bets, these season long bets, I'm a big

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Speaker 1: fan of them, but only if you're willing to bet

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Speaker 1: unders and most people like to bet overs sure. The

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Speaker 1: reason of the shiny toy absolutely, And also there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a psychological factor, Mike. It's like, Okay, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to reach this milestone. Once I get there, I'm done,

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Speaker 1: it's over. But on the other side of that, the

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Speaker 1: reason why the professional gamblers love unders. You are ahead

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Speaker 1: like that you ever see that a little uh promotion

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Speaker 1: they have, but that out of braves games mister Freeze

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Speaker 1: right or like they give the guy a head start.

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Speaker 1: He has to outrun this like sprinter and then mister

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Speaker 1: Freeze wearing this like goofy costume, like chases.

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Speaker 2: Him down on frozone doesn't have a partnership or didn't sue.

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Speaker 2: But that's from the Incredibles exactly, the Incredibles or Silver

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Speaker 2: Surfer takeing stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but but that is the perfect metaphor for betting

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Speaker 1: and under you get the head start. If you're betting

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Speaker 1: under thirty seven to fifty and a half passing yards

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Speaker 1: to Matthew Stafford, he has to match that number. You're

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Speaker 1: ahead when the season starts, fit a short side on

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Speaker 1: And so that's where I think unders make more sense

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Speaker 1: when I'm betting season long prompts because so many things

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Speaker 1: could go wrong. Injuries, teams could have big leads, you

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Speaker 1: have more outs there's more opportunities to win. And then

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Speaker 1: really with Stafford, the biggest part is his number got

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Speaker 1: I think a little bit overinflated because of the Devonte

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Speaker 1: Adams news and he don't get me wrong, that might

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Speaker 2: weeks because like no, no, no, that was all him and

431
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Speaker 2: it was not a point of pride, or so it

432
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Speaker 2: seemed when it was talking about Shador. It's like, I'm

433
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Speaker 2: not answering any questions of that because it was his decision.

434
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Speaker 2: Point at Andrew Berry almost like all right, this is

435
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Speaker 2: on him if this, you know, becomes a circus and

436
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:34,199
Speaker 2: a problem, which he already got a free pass on

437
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 2: all the Shawn Watson stuff. But that's the thing for

438
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Speaker 2: another time. But we've talked about this roster, Jared for

439
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 2: a couple of years. It was, well, they're a really

440
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 2: good roster except for the giant riddler like outfit on

441
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Speaker 2: the quarterback. Even going back to when Deshaun Watson showed up,

442
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 2: because remember he had sat out long before any of

443
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Speaker 2: the allegations and all of that. Right the end from

444
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 2: Houston was odd as well, before he signs the d

445
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 2: and comes over to the Browns. But we look at

446
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 2: it where they sit now, is what are you four

447
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 2: and a half or five and a half, depending on

448
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 2: where and when you got into the marketplace, if you're

449
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Speaker 2: betting the Browns on the season or just observing what

450
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Speaker 2: they are, your top heavy in your salary cap with

451
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Speaker 2: the aforementioned Watson and Miles Garrett, who I appreciate his

452
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Speaker 2: love of team after wanting a trade and all of

453
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Speaker 2: that fun stuff. They paid him a lot of money.

454
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Speaker 2: And what's the first thing he says, the thing you're

455
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 2: supposed to hey man, we got Super Bowl aspirations. Okay,

456
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 2: all right, let's tamp that down a bit. But coming

457
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Speaker 2: out of Friday and just looking at it from the

458
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Speaker 2: larger perspective of at some point you got to figure

459
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Speaker 2: out what you got right. And for Shador Sanders, we

460
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: watched him under fire, some of it caused by himself

461
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 2: trying to extend plays. We watched that a little early.

462
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Speaker 2: I think it's a rite of passage for guys coming

463
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Speaker 2: out of college that you need at least one of those.

464
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Speaker 2: I'm going to try to circle and out run three

465
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Speaker 2: guys that are chasing me down like it's a video game,

466
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Speaker 2: and eventually I'm going to sling the ball at one

467
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty eight miles an hour down the seam,

468
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Speaker 2: and it's a completion bath every time because there's a

469
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Speaker 2: glitch in the matrix there. But you know, beyond that,

470
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Speaker 2: it held himself well, you've got a bunch of guys.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Kenny Pickett was in Pittsburgh and then he's

472
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Speaker 2: a backup and a cup of coffee there gets super

473
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Speaker 2: Bowl ring. So he was always going to be Super

474
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Speaker 2: Bowl champion Kenny Pickett, but he was part of the

475
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Speaker 2: post Ben Roethlisberger. We don't really know what we're doing

476
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Speaker 2: at quarterback Pittsburgh Steelers, so I don't know how good

477
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Speaker 2: or bad the guy really is I'm not gonna say

478
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Speaker 2: he's a world beater, but can he be a serviceable

479
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Speaker 2: NFL quarterback? Maybe? Maybe not. Dylan Gabriel is an unfortunate

480
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: victim of circumstance to be drafted by the Browns and

481
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Speaker 2: kind of be caught in just a numbers game, reps game, whatever.

482
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Speaker 2: But the Amodus proposal is, all right, are you any

483
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Speaker 2: worse off if you let him go out there and

484
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Speaker 2: take the lumps to where you can determine one hundred

485
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Speaker 2: percent that he is or isn't the game?

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Speaker 1: I think Gabriel's trade bait. That's how I would view

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Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel at this point. What like that situation? I

488
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Speaker 1: remember when they drafted him, and I think there was

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Speaker 1: a there was some time, right, I think it was

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Speaker 1: Gabriel first, and then I think yeah, because the second

491
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Speaker 1: in the third round was on one day or was

492
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Speaker 1: it the second round one day?

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Speaker 2: The second day?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so it was the third So we had

495
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Speaker 1: a whole twenty four hours to digest Dylan Gabriel being

496
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Speaker 1: drafted by the Browns before they ended up taking Shador

497
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Speaker 1: and I didn't understand it. And it don't get me wrong,

498
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Speaker 1: I love Dylan Gabriel Absolutely love him, fantastic prospect, understands

499
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: the offense, smart as attack, sharp as attack, but physically

500
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: was never an NFL quarterback. Like he's less than six

501
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: feet tall, he's probably two hundred pounds. Maybe dripping wet

502
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: made probably closer to one to eighty one ninety. He

503
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: doesn't fit the criteria, especially when you're playing outdoors in

504
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Speaker 1: Cleveland in the AFC north of what you want your quarterback,

505
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Speaker 1: the physical traits you want your quarterback to have. Maybe

506
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Speaker 1: if you took Gabriel's humility and some of his intangibles

507
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Speaker 1: and you slapped them onto Shador, you'd have like the

508
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: perfect quarterback prospect. But the stuff that was negative about

509
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Speaker 1: Shador I thought was immaturity. And at the end of

510
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Speaker 1: the day, he's what twenty one years old, Like I

511
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: think that to me is more coachable. Then you're not tall, big,

512
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Speaker 1: or strong enough to play in the NFL. You can't

513
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Speaker 1: coach that. You either have that or you don't. So

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Speaker 1: I thought Gabriel should have been the fifth rounder in

515
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Speaker 1: terms of his physical tools, and Chador should have been

516
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Speaker 1: the third rounder based off of his physical tools. They

517
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: got swapped. Gabriel got put in a difficult spot because

518
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Speaker 1: he now is being paid more, not a lot more,

519
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: but a little bit more, and you have to give

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00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: up a little bit more to get him because he

521
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 1: has that third round pick grade next to him. But

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Speaker 1: I still think Gabriel should be traded. If I'm a

523
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Speaker 1: team with a roster spot open for a third string

524
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: quarterback that has a chance to maybe become a backup,

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Speaker 1: I would consider trading for Dylan Gabriel. I wouldn't give

526
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Speaker 1: up a lot for him, but I would consider trading

527
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Speaker 1: for him. He doesn't fit in Cleveland because unless he's

528
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: going to be the starter or the backup, I would

529
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Speaker 1: rather just give Shador the ret Like, let's be honest,

530
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: And I haven't watched Dylan Gabriel in training campet so

531
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Speaker 1: I guess this is maybe a little bit of back

532
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: dating my opinion, but I think Shador is a better

533
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: quarterback than Dylan Gabriel. I would have drafted Shador first.

534
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Speaker 1: If you took all the intangibles out and he was,

535
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Speaker 1: you know, he was an immature kid in the meeting,

536
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: all that stuff out and you just said, who's the

537
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: better quarterback skill wise, I would say Shador. So you've

538
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: already put him two rounds behind the eight ball by

539
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 1: drafting him in the fifth round. But I think he

540
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: has a chance to maybe be the starter this year

541
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. I honestly do. So Gabriel becomes trade bait

542
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna let Dylan Gabriel sit on the

543
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Speaker 1: third or fourth string bench as a third round pick

544
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: unless you have this grand plan for him. So I

545
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: would try to trade him, and I would allow Shador

546
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: to continue to develop because in my eyes, having Shador

547
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Speaker 1: Sanders as you're starting quarterback, considering what he's paid and

548
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Speaker 1: how talented I think he is relative to what he's

549
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: being paid and what his draft status was, to me,

550
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: that means value. Like you're getting more for him than

551
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: what you paid and what you gave up, which is

552
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Speaker 1: a fifth round pick. So I would try to put

553
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: like That's why the Lewis Riddick quote was crazy. There's

554
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: no way you're trying to set a guy for failure.

555
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,959
Speaker 1: He's a fifth round pick. If he hits, you have

556
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick as you're starting quarterback. That's like

557
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: gold in the NFL. So I think you just keep

558
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: putting the eggs in Shaudor's basket. Put him, give him

559
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: every chance to succeed and maybe you trade Dylan.

560
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 2: Gabriel, you know, the drill, hot take nonsense. Yeah, this

561
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 2: is a guy that wanted to go run teams and

562
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 2: that's what he's putting out there. I'm very curious to

563
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: me in that regard, but we pushed that aside. The

564
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 2: number of folks that really want either extreme or really

565
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 2: took either extreme out of this effort. I appreciate it

566
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 2: because hyperbole sells and excitement, and certainly in Cleveland, you

567
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: know you're looking for hope. That's what the off season

568
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: is all about. Hell, they add a lot of it

569
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: in Chicago. They got their general manager and extension without

570
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 2: anybody having to do anything on a football field. The

571
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 2: difference in pay between Gabriel and schaudor Off a quick

572
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: search is about one point six million dollars over those

573
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Speaker 2: four years. So that's pretty big. Well, when you're talking

574
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: about back end of rosters and we talk about carrying

575
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: four quarterbacks, teams generally don't do it. Look if you

576
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 2: end up putting him on the practice squad, he gets

577
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: snatched somewhere, no question, can he Pickett. It's the worst

578
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 2: of scenarios, him not being available to at least go

579
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 2: through his paces and work, because we know the injuries

580
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: are inevitable. Maybe he would have been a guy that

581
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 2: would have had some substantive value because that tag of

582
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: being a first round pick is long in the rear

583
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 2: view mirror. But all that you know, selling hope and

584
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: dreams and all the dollars that come from a fan

585
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: that's thirsty to see schador is not the worst thing

586
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: of the world either. And once again, you would have

587
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: proof of concept. If it strikes right, you got a

588
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: bargain as a fifth round pick. If it doesn't, you're

589
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 2: going back to the drawing board next year anyway, and

590
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: you can still keep.

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Speaker 1: Your door on your roster is a fifth round pick

592
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: for another two years before you have to even really

593
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: make a decision about him.

594
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: But that's the beauty of it, right If someone else

595
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: is gonna become the shiny toy that he that he

596
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 2: fights with in training camp next year, so be it.

597
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: But you know, that's just kind of where we sit now.

598
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: You're looking at what your expectations are going into a

599
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: year versus you know, putting the potential. You know what's

600
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: behind the door or in the box, what's in the

601
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 2: box as they say, what's on the Well, you can

602
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 2: take that either from the fun of the game show

603
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: world or you can go seven depends how you feel

604
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: on a Sunday morning, folks, I'm gonna give you you

605
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Speaker 2: choose your own adventure. There he's Jared Smith at Jared

606
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: smith Bets. Where you find him on Twitter Find me

607
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 2: over at swollen Dumb. Now it's time to take a

608
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Speaker 2: turn to the news desk for a guy who before

609
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: he gives us the update, I mean, he's got to

610
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: play me his brilliance from last night. You gotta hear this, Jared.

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Speaker 1: This is great.

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00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike, appreciate it. And uh good torning you

613
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: Jared as well.

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Speaker 5: Uh yeah.

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00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 3: This was a National Women's Soccer League arch rivalry match

616
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 3: in San Diego last night, Angel City FC against the

617
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Speaker 3: San Diego Wave in San Diego. Holding a one nothing

618
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 3: lead over Angel City FC in second half stoppage time.

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Speaker 3: I hope you can enjoy the moment despite the patently

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Speaker 3: annoying announcer.

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Speaker 2: You're about to hear it's nudge to the right court

622
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Speaker 2: of the Miyabi. Why did they are?

623
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Speaker 3: Ata Yon's daughter to her left foot sends it across

624
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: headed a Chelseias tied again.

625
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Speaker 6: A lot of Kennedy head to tie the score.

626
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Speaker 2: It's second half stoppage time.

627
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Speaker 3: Just part of a dramatic Saturday evening fellas in the

628
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Speaker 3: world of sports peace and speaking of well, that was

629
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Speaker 3: a header. But speaking of kicks. In the NFL preseason

630
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 3: on Saturday night, Jacksonville's Cam Little and a thirty one

631
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: to twenty five lost to the Steelers, kicked a seventy

632
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 3: yard field goal as time expired to the first half

633
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 3: would have broken the NFL record by four yards that

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00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 3: have been a regular season game. Zampa Bay Buccaneers over

635
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans twenty nine to seven, Number one overall

636
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: draft pick cam Ward five out of eight for sixty

637
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: seven yards at his two drives. Jets quarterback Justin Fields

638
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: three out of four for forty two yards at a

639
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: thirteen yard touchdown run on his only series in a

640
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 3: thirty to ten victory at Green Bay. Kicking off at

641
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 3: the top of the hour, the Chicago Bears hosting the

642
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins and Mike This will be of particular interest

643
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 3: to you. Also trending right now is Soldier Field itself,

644
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 3: because the end zones at Soldier Field have been painted

645
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 3: navy blue, which is apparently a very big deal. They

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00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 3: used to not be painted at all, And that's coming

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Speaker 3: up at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 2: And dady Go Park District.

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Speaker 1: Is that reletive? Like, why is that relevant?

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Speaker 2: We're gonna ferret this out as we continue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So yeah, that's why that's why I think

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Speaker 3: Mike would have more on this, because yeah, people are

653
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Speaker 3: actually making a fairly big deal about it on social media.

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Speaker 3: Baseball Saturday Night, Cal Rawley is forty fourth home run

655
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Speaker 3: to lead the Majors and the Mariners seven to four

656
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Speaker 3: win over the Rays. Show Hey Otani is fortieth on

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers nine to one win over Toronto.

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Speaker 2: Guys, appreciate you Ilo at Isaac Lowancrow where you find

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Speaker 2: him more. The Angel City calls important because they San

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Speaker 2: Diego scored with in the eighty fifth minute and it

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Speaker 2: looked dire, which is why Ilo was like losing his

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Speaker 2: mind because they were love seconds. So now his voice

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Speaker 2: is really ready for well charger talk later on today

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Speaker 2: where he's part of the broadcast team there and he'll

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Speaker 2: take calls after the game ends. So that voice in

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Speaker 2: fine fiddle, no question about it. Jared Smith to be

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Speaker 2: on by Carmen Here Fox Sports Radio. As we continue,

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Speaker 2: whether you're on the beginning of your sports journey or

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Speaker 2: the end. A reminder that the aches and pains the

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Speaker 2: rest of this feel, we're not alone. We're all athletes

671
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Speaker 2: in some way or another. I'll explain what that's all

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Speaker 2: about next here on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Gratis, and welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. It's Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Sunday, My Carbon Jared Smith with you here as

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Speaker 2: we continue. You've got super tone next hour. Maybe you're

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00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 2: waking up, you got you gotta touch to the gout,

681
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: you got something afflicting you, Maybe you took a bad

682
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 2: step getting out of bed. Reminder you're not alone. Professional

683
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 2: athletes feel the pains and aches well in a lot

684
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Speaker 2: of times. It's uh, it's problematic on a whole other level.

685
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: Because we had two stories come out yesterday, Jared that

686
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Speaker 2: really make you remind you of how fragile it all is.

687
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: In terms of our weekend warrior mentality right getting out,

688
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: whether you're taking a run, whether you're just going to

689
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: the gym, when you're on the soccer pitch, fielding balls

690
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 2: from your kids, whatever, that bad step, that gopher hole

691
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: is just out there for you. And we had two

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Speaker 2: instances in the sporting universe that will live in infamy.

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Speaker 2: The first one, well, we had the fun and excitement

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Speaker 2: of Mariano Rivera, one of the greatest of all time.

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Speaker 2: Right the music came in, you knew the game was over.

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Speaker 2: And at Yankees Old Timers Day, well, he tore his

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Speaker 2: achilles trying to shag balls in the outfield. While you

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Speaker 2: were a leaf pitcher, you walked to the mound, you

699
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Speaker 2: did your thing. Occasionally you covered first base instead. Roger

700
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Speaker 2: Clemens goes on Wfan and says, yeah, no, he had to.

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Speaker 2: He went to the hospital seventy seventh Old Timers game

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Speaker 2: and Yankee Stadium and he suffers in a kill. E's tare.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And this is coming from a guy who

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Speaker 1: is a diehard Yankees fan since birth. So Mariano Rivera

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Speaker 1: to me is like, you know, royalty, and for that

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Speaker 1: to happen, it just it made It's a bizarre It's bizarre,

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Speaker 1: and I've heard Derek Jeter openly say now now, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's commented since the rivera thing, but he

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Speaker 1: said in the past, I will never play in the

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Speaker 1: old Timer's state because of that. Like he just doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to be a embarrassed be hurt. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I like Old Teimer's Day is fun, Like it's it's

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Speaker 1: always something I keep an eye on. I actually didn't

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Speaker 1: watch it yesterday. I wish I did now, But it

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Speaker 1: just it's one of those bizarre scenarios that just proves

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Speaker 1: that father Time is undefeated. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I always love the pomp and circumstance of it. All

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Speaker 2: come out wave the cap. I mean, we know a

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Speaker 2: lot of guys make some pretty good coin doing the

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Speaker 2: fantasy camps right out in Arizona, Florida or wherever the

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Speaker 2: anytown USA. For a couple of days, everybody gets a uniform,

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Speaker 2: You get to play with some of your heroes. They

723
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Speaker 2: spend some yarns, make some money, sign some autographs, take photos,

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Speaker 2: and go home. Just like you know your kids can

725
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Speaker 2: go to a camp that a player hosts or whatever else.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's the the adult fantasy camp, and it's

727
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Speaker 2: been putting TV in movies forever. You've probably run into

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00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: it at more than a few circumstances. Certainly Kramer talked

729
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: about getting into it with the Mickey Mantle. Yeah right,

730
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Speaker 2: So you got that on the other end of the spectrum,

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Speaker 2: So we talk about Hall of Famers and greatness. Connors Zilich.

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Speaker 2: He wins the Exfinity Series race at Watkins Glenn, nineteen

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Speaker 2: years old. So he goes to get out of the car.

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Speaker 2: He wants to pump his fists and wave to the crowd.

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Speaker 2: He slips, falls and breaks his collar bone. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: you win. You win a race, right, it's the sixth

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Speaker 2: win of him for the year. So he goes to

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Speaker 2: get out of the car and celebrate it and takes

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Speaker 2: the tumble and fall. The video is one that I

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Speaker 2: watched multiple times, going this really happened. His foot gets

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Speaker 2: caught at the end of a long endurance drive Watkins Glen.

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Speaker 2: You know a little extra on that course. So yeah,

743
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Speaker 2: we've got the double side of Weekend Warrior for you.

744
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: If you're feeling the aches and pains, just to remember

745
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: athletes have these things too, and sometimes they crop up

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Speaker 2: at the most inopportune and odd times.

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Speaker 1: Well, the part about that is nineteen years old, couldn't

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Speaker 1: even celebrate with an alcoholic beverage after winning the race?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not in front of any cameras or.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at least not at least not publicly. No, nineteen

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Speaker 1: years old, I didn't. So I am not a NASCAR guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't remember the last time I

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Speaker 1: watched NASCAR race, nor do I can I name you

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Speaker 1: know anyone who's currently racing. But that is a scenario

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Speaker 1: that is definitely going to live on in infamy when

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Speaker 1: you win a race like I don't know how many races.

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Speaker 1: He's won a six.

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Speaker 2: Six six this year.

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Speaker 1: Wyow, So he's like a product.

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Speaker 2: He's the top. He's the top guy. Right now. You

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Speaker 2: got Justin aldy Are who's got three wins and eleven

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Speaker 2: top fives behind him. Sam Meyer, who he bested in

763
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Speaker 2: this one, is third. But yeah, you're talking about a

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Speaker 2: narrow points lead over those two guys, and now you've

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Speaker 2: got a broken collar bone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the good news is at least

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Speaker 1: it's one of those stories where you're gonna laugh, like

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Speaker 1: hopefully you laugh about it later. And that's frankly, most

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Speaker 1: of the negative things that happen to us in life

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Speaker 1: like there's the spotlight effect is a real thing where

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Speaker 1: like you think everyone's watching you at all times, but

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Speaker 1: in reality, no one really cares. They're just worried about

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Speaker 1: their own, you know, their own stuff. That is a

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Speaker 1: scenario where hopefully you can laugh about it later.

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Speaker 2: That's the hope, and get back out there and maintain

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Speaker 2: that seven point lead he has in the standings. That's

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Speaker 2: Jared Smith. I'm Mike Harmon. It's Fox Sports Sunday. Here,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports. Ready, we'll take another turn back into the

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Speaker 2: National Football League. And yes, the big kick that is

780
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Speaker 2: changing perhaps the complexion of one team's offense. Is it

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Speaker 2: good for football? Certainly good for football. Cards he pulled

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Speaker 2: one of his rookies. I'll explain what the hell that's

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Speaker 2: all about next as we continue on Fox Sports Radio. Hey,

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Speaker 2: Green Eggs, welcome in. It's our two of the program.

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Speaker 2: Here a beautiful Fox Sports Sunday. So much getting ready

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Speaker 2: to go here in our sporting universe, we've had some

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Speaker 2: action on the pitch. They're lining up in pomp and

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00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: circumstance at Saratoga Race Course. If you've never been fun

789
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: little run out in upstate New York, you could do that.

790
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: You got baseball. We've got, of course, a couple of

791
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Speaker 2: National Football League preseason games to go, Bears and Dolphins

792
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: getting ready to get their game underway, and jared a

793
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Speaker 2: little bit of super sleuthing as we had the update

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Speaker 2: from Isaac Lowenkron of something that started to go viral

795
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Speaker 2: last hour is that the Bears have fully painted end zone,

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Speaker 2: which is an a regular thing in the preseason, not

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Speaker 2: something I would have ever noticed.

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Speaker 1: But why does it matter? Is the question?

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Speaker 2: Well, but I think you get if you get used to,

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Speaker 2: you know, a certain level of service to something and

801
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Speaker 2: and suddenly they're better. You know, like you go to

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Speaker 2: your local, uh, I don't know, dive bar and you

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Speaker 2: know it's the grunge look of ripped T shirts and

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00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 2: backwards ball caps. Now to our colleague, I you know,

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00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 2: and and all of that tour. You just say what

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00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 2: do you what are you doing? And then the next

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Speaker 2: day they come in with a tuxedo. I mean you're

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Speaker 2: gonna say, what changed?

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Speaker 1: True?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: But I guess the question is are Bears fans happy

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Speaker 1: or upset that it happened?

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00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 2: I think they're just confused. Yeah, because here's the thing, right,

814
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Speaker 2: you got the long standing battle. Now you're talking about

815
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Speaker 2: Arlington Heights and the eventual move of a squad and

816
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: a new stadium and all of that fun stuff, and

817
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: the long standing cesspool that is what has become a

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00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: Soldier Field one when they put that toilet bowl on

819
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Speaker 2: the top of it, fully Southside Chicago kid editorializing here.

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Speaker 2: Literally the first time I went on and I'd seen

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Speaker 2: the artist renderings Jared, and I was, you know, going,

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Speaker 2: what are we doing right? The columns, yeah, I know

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00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: they're still there, whatever, But the structure, the historic Soldier

824
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 2: Field along Lake Michigan. You walk across that grand area.

825
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: It's a healthy walk getting back to the to the

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Speaker 2: bus lines and the train lines, but you make that

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Speaker 2: walk and it's so regal and historic. And then they

828
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 2: put that well, they put in all the luxury boxes

829
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Speaker 2: and all once you go inside, gorgeous on the outside

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Speaker 2: spaceship landed. To me, it looked like a giant toilet bowl.

831
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Speaker 2: And the first time I got my car rental going

832
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 2: down from Midway, I was gonna go up to Evanston

833
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: see some friends go wandering around the old Northwestern campus.

834
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Speaker 2: I literally had to pull over on Lake Shore Drive.

835
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Speaker 2: I was so overcome with a motion of it, like

836
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Speaker 2: what did you do to my stadium? What do you

837
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 2: do to me? Like history? Now, look, the White Sox

838
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 2: have had their retrofitting, they've done all their things, and

839
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: the name changes every year. Right now, it went from

840
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: guaranteed rate now it's just Rate Field. I'm used to it.

841
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 2: I'm used to the product. I'm used to all of that.

842
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: And certainly what folks haven't understood I don't think with

843
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: the Bears all these years, Jared, is that the park

844
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: district owns the place. It's not theirs interesting. So they

845
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 2: get no revenue when a concert comes in and sells

846
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Speaker 2: out three days, Taylor Swift, they don't see it.

847
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Speaker 1: That's why they want to buy that.

848
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: That's why they want their own, right. That's because the.

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00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: Stadiums are marketing tools more than they are venues for

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00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: football teams. Now, they bring in super Bowls, they bring

851
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: in other events. That's the true value of having one

852
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: of those luxury stadiums.

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00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 2: That's just it being able to have events year round. Right,

854
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 2: So get the dome up or retractable or whatever you're

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00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: going to do. But it's all about the ancillary revenues

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00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: that have seen.

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Speaker 1: The stadium coming up real strong that that's going to

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Speaker 1: be what they said, there's not going to be any

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00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: wind at all. I saw that despite I thought that

860
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: was interesting and that you know, and I know that's

861
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: good for Josh Allen obviously, but is it bad for

862
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: the Bills brand of football in general? They're they're a

863
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: defensive team, and I remember a game against the Patriots

864
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: a few years ago it was like, you know, thirty

865
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: forty mile an hour, we couldn't even Peck throw the ball.

866
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: And that to me is Buffalo Bill's football more than

867
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: Josh Allen throwing at fifty yards in the air because

868
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:21,959
Speaker 1: there's no wind.

869
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 2: Well, that's it, right, becomes the competitive advantages or things

870
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 2: they can change.

871
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: Or teams going out their way warm weather team's going

872
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 1: to cold weather, Like you've removed that element from your

873
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: from your home field advantage.

874
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 2: No, And that's it. And it's also built to make

875
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 2: because Josh Allen's not playing.

876
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: Forever, it's much suf and Josh Allen's strong and big

877
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: enough to cut through the win at least for as

878
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: it is for other quarterback.

879
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: That's it. So yeah, So for Soldier Field, that's a

880
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 2: long been the thing for the McCaskey family and and

881
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: for you know, the generations of like well you know

882
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: in Chicago, you got this that. The other it's like

883
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 2: they're not getting any of that revenue. They got a

884
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 2: monster truck. And that's the other thing is like you

885
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 2: come in and Soldier Field Long has been one of

886
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 2: the most mocked fields for its condition. Well, you might

887
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: have a high school football game on the friday, you

888
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 2: might have a truck content. But like all of those

889
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: things right where it's not just their field to where

890
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: they can schedule in the offseason and not have an

891
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 2: effect the conditions of the field that they're going to

892
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 2: play on, whereas right now they're kind of handcuffed. So yeah,

893
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 2: all of that changes as the kickoff and game is

894
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 2: underway there in Chicago with the Dolphins, two teams that

895
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 2: we've talked about a lot, and we'll get into as

896
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 2: this game goes. Tyson Bagent coming out a lot of

897
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: talk about Okayleb Williams not taking any snaps here, but

898
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: since we're talking about wins and kickers and everything else,

899
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 2: be remiss if we didn't celebrate, denigrade, or at least

900
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: evaluate what's going on. After the cam little seventy yard

901
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 2: er yesterday, our own Bucky Brooks on the call with

902
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 2: that one as he just yells, Holy, he smokes like

903
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 2: he was out of the nineteen sixty six Batman as

904
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 2: they trot him out and eventually the kick. Now, obviously

905
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: in game experience, regular season, what the brush is and

906
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 2: you know, trajectories or whatever else it's you know, the

907
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: would it play the same, Well, maybe maybe not, but

908
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 2: it certainly for Liam Cohen and for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

909
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 2: Changes the math on how you can run some of

910
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,959
Speaker 2: your offense and maybe some of your play calling down

911
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 2: in distance as you get towards midfield, could lend you

912
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 2: a lot of let me roll the dice Brandon Staley

913
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 2: kind of moments for him there, Oh nod back to

914
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 2: the Chargers when it was well, it's fourth down, let's

915
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 2: go for it no matter where you are. But now

916
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 2: you have this circumstance, and it started long ago with

917
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: the game Super tow Yes, you all might remember the

918
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 2: Super Jocks series of toys from the seventies and eighties.

919
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 2: They've been redone and sometimes you can find him at

920
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: the end of the aisle as you're trying to get

921
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 2: those stocking stuffers around the holidays, where you had the

922
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 2: basketball guy had the one handed set shot and the plot.

923
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 2: You know, you'd set their basket up and see how

924
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: far you can make a shot, if you could even

925
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: get the acumen to make that even remotely accurate. You

926
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 2: had a baseball player that would swing eventually, there was

927
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 2: a hockey line a soccer player, but you had super

928
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 2: tow was the most popular, and you had to slam

929
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 2: the top of his little plastic head as hard as

930
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: you can. You know, position the ball just right in

931
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: front of his foot, and you try to see what

932
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 2: you can do.

933
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: Well.

934
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: We watched that with Sebastian Janakowski and the Raiders years ago.

935
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 2: Was the all right, are they anywhere near where it's

936
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 2: a sixty yard attempt? Because you know he's getting trotted out.

937
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: And now the Jaguars may have a little bit of

938
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 2: a help for Trevor Lawrence in that offense and a

939
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 2: guy that has the opportunity for distance. So first, what

940
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 2: did you think of the the cam little boot and second,

941
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 2: you know, take take me into the Jacksonville Jaguars. A

942
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: lot of expectations on Trevor Lawrence this year and what

943
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 2: is the division that seems to be wide open.

944
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, I think first and foremost on the

945
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: little boot awesome that you know, it's exciting, about as

946
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 1: exciting as a field goal will ever be in the NFL.

947
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: But if the Jaguars are playing for seventy yard field

948
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: goals this year, then there's something else wrong like that

949
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: that should not be part of the game plan. It's

950
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: there if we need it, and it's nice to know

951
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: that it's there. But Trevor Lawrence going twenty two and

952
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: thirty eight while playing in the weakest division in the

953
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: NFL since he was drafted, as the main concern that

954
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: I have with the Jaguars this year. Over the last

955
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: two years, he's ten and sixteen as a starter. Last

956
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: year four and thirteen, and the Jaguars went four and thirteen.

957
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,879
Speaker 1: He played in just ten games. So injuries and inconsistencies

958
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: I think are the most important things for this Jaguars offense.

959
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: Like when you look at Lawrence under pressure last year,

960
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: he was a bottom feed or quarterback. When you look

961
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: at downs. Out of thirty six qualifiers last year, he

962
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: was thirty first in efficiency, thirty fourth in yards per tempt,

963
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: Like that's not he was first quarterback drafted overall, Like,

964
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: that's not something that you can bank on year after

965
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: year when third downs and pressure rates are are high

966
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL, Like, you've got to convert third downs,

967
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: You've got to convert when you're facing pressure, and those

968
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 1: are two things that Trevor Lawrence just has not done well.

969
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: I think when you examine what Liam Cohen did with

970
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: the Bucks one year with the Bucks last year, the

971
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: thing I noticed was the pass rate increased dramatically, especially

972
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: the early down pass rate. That's the most important aspect

973
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: of any offense. Third downs can be volatile. Usually the

974
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: defense knows you're passing or they know you're running. It's

975
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: rare you get those third mediums, like you kind of

976
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: know what's coming on third downs, So we throw those

977
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: out when we're analyzing offenses, it's how effective are you

978
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: on early downs? Well, the Bucks last year were not

979
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: only effective on early downs, but they also threw it

980
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: a ton top five pass right on early downs up

981
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: from twenty fifth and twenty twenty three. So I think

982
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen being able to add a level of aggression

983
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: to this Jaguars offense is going to be very important.

984
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: You bring in Travis Hunter, you lose Christian Kirk, but

985
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: you also have Parker Washington and Diamie Brown, and I

986
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: think both of those guys are positives, and I'm excited. Honestly,

987
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: I think there is reason for excitement and optimism in Jacksonville,

988
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But you also have this element

989
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence just hasn't been able to get over

990
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: that last obstacle, which is when he's pressured and when

991
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: he's facing those critical third downs, he's shrunk. So those

992
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: are the two things to look out for this year.

993
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,959
Speaker 1: Is Liam Cohen are they throwing it more in early

994
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: downs and are they avoiding those third downs? And when

995
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: you get to the third downs and the pressure is

996
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: gonna come, is Lawrence staring down the barrel of the

997
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: gun and delivering an accurate football Because if he's not,

998
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars will continue to struggle this year.

999
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. The curiosity also in the run game with the

1000
00:50:55,640 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: bigsb etn whether you get adequate booge out of that. Also,

1001
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 2: you know the tight end position, it's Brenton Strange and

1002
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 2: Johnny munt At a cast of they currently have listed

1003
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: on their depth chart no fewer than seven tight ends

1004
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 2: in camp here Jared, but certainly nobody who's running amuck.

1005
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 2: But you know, curious to see that balance in the

1006
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: run game. Your point. I mean, Brian Thomas Junior was

1007
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 2: an absolute beast last year. Travis Hunter one of the

1008
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 2: giant question marks as we get into the year, we

1009
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: watched ten offensive snaps, a couple of catches. A lot's

1010
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 2: going to be made about the mistackle, like, don't it

1011
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 2: a guy the guys side? Okay, fine, It's more important

1012
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 2: to me. How does he stand up if he's got

1013
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 2: to meet that guy five to ten yards down the

1014
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 2: field in terms of being able to tackle slow things down,

1015
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 2: or whether he makes business decisions in that regard. I'm

1016
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 2: not as concerned about covering I think we need We've

1017
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 2: seen a bit of that. Obviously a step up in class,

1018
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 2: but you know a lot of talk about, you know,

1019
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 2: how much he's going to be utilized, et cetera. And

1020
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 2: DeVante Adams' message from earlier in the week. You know,

1021
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 2: he got asked about it, and I think he got

1022
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 2: the back end of his answer kind of got cut

1023
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 2: off in the process. He was kind of making the

1024
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 2: note that we always did with Cam Newton. If I

1025
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: got six or seven years, like we've done with Josh Allen,

1026
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 2: like we've done with Lamar Jackson. That's the style they play.

1027
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 2: Do you want to more refined, Hey, he can operate

1028
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: from the pocket kind of passer as your quarterback. Absolutely,

1029
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 2: But what makes them special is their field vision, their size,

1030
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 2: their aptitude to get that extra yard, their nose for

1031
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 2: the end zone, et cetera. For Travis Hunter, if this

1032
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 2: is what spurs him to, you know, another level, whether

1033
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 2: it's for five years, seven years, whatever, however judiciously Jacksonville

1034
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 2: does it, if it takes the back end of his

1035
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 2: career off, because that's really where Devonte Adam kind of

1036
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 2: did it, saying, well, long term, it's a problem that

1037
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 2: you know, if it's gonna help spur Jacksonville in some way,

1038
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 2: shape or form, all the better. But for Travis Hunter,

1039
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 2: a decent start to things. But you know, Trevor Lawrence

1040
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 2: even admitted, you know, selfishly, obviously I'd rather have him

1041
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 2: in our room one hundred percent of the time. So

1042
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 2: they've got to get past that first little mental obstacle there.

1043
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to overreact to anything that I

1044
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: see from Travis Hunter in preseason Again, it goes back

1045
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: to the Rams situation too, like what's the goal here?

1046
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: Like why are you wasting bullets in the preseason with

1047
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: a guy that's gonna play both ways? Like that'll be

1048
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: the most intriguing thing is because he's gonna play both ways.

1049
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how much I think he's gonna play

1050
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: more on offense. That's just my thoughts.

1051
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 2: Number two on the depth chart there, and then a

1052
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 2: little further down as a cornerback.

1053
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he offers the most value to

1054
00:53:54,920 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: this team as WR two behind Brian Thomas. And I

1055
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: don't know enough about their defensive rotation to really make

1056
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: that accurate claim on defense yet, but I know if

1057
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: if you have two elite receivers and he looks like

1058
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: he could be an elite receiver, if you have two

1059
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: elite receivers, you really have three because you make the

1060
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: defense decide which one you're gonna which one you're gonna guard.

1061
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: And if you can't double team an elite receiver, go

1062
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: watch one on one drills. When the receivers are going

1063
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: up against corners, the receivers, the good receivers always win.

1064
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: So if you're one on one and you've got Trevor

1065
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: Lawrence and you've got Brian Thomas one on one. That's

1066
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: a win every time for Brian Thomas most times. So

1067
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: I like the idea of having Hunter on offense. The

1068
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: question is is he going to play consecutive drives? Right?

1069
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: That's the one thing we fail to sometimes wrap our

1070
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: head around with just how absurd the Travis Hunter thing is.

1071
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: Playing both ways. You go from running routes on offense

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00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:54,720
Speaker 1: and then you gotta go right back on the field.

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00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 2: We watch it in very small doses with Sho Hao

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00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 2: TONI right questions and then have to go pitch.

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Speaker 1: So my question, but at least in baseball, it's a

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00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 1: slower game sure right where I think the conditioning isn't

1077
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: as And now, don't get me wrong, it's still absurd

1078
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: what he's doing. But are you missing drives? Because to me,

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00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: a good receiver is a guy that gets into a rhythm.

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00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: So you playing like let's say Jaguars get the ball first,

1081
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: Hunters on the field for that entire drive on offense,

1082
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: are you giving him the next drive off defensively and

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00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: then allowing him to kind of mix and match, or

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00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: is he going offense defense then taking a break on

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00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: offense and then going back out for defense, Like you

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00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: have to give him a blow at some point during

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00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: the game. He can't play both ways the whole time,

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00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: So what like times are you giving him off? Are

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00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: you giving him off on offense or are you giving

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Speaker 1: him off on defense. I would prefer to give him

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00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: off more defensive drives than offensive drives. But that kind

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00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: of two step is going to be very intriguing to

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Speaker 1: watch because then all of a sudden, if you take

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00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: his offensive drives away, then you don't get into as

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00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: much of a rhythm with Trevor Lawrence. And I think

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00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 1: that is more important to me than how effective he

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00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 1: is as a corner. Again, that's just my opinion. I'm

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00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: not in camp with them right now, so I don't

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00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 1: really know what his vibe is. But I'll be interesting

1100
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: to see what the cadence is of how they use him.

1101
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: Snap counts and down distance and evanflow of a game.

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00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. We'll also talk some odds because

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00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 2: we'll pull back his old college teammate into a larger

1104
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: discussion as we whip around the National Football League Week

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00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 2: one of the preseason. You've made it, everybody, so get

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00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 2: the last things on those lawn care chores or whatever

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00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: you got going on, because football's coming fast and furiously.

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Speaker 2: He's Jared Smith. I'm Mike Carmen. Hey, reminder, you can

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Speaker 2: the top of your screens. We appreciate you being part

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Speaker 2: of the extended family. However you're listening terrestrial radio the

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Speaker 2: He's Jared. I'm Mike. Will turn to the betting side

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Speaker 2: of things and look at the rookies in a different

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Speaker 2: angle next here on Fox Welcome back in Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: or Radio. Fox Sports Sunday by Carbon Jared Smith with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for being part of the extended family, give it

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 2: us a few minutes of your time. Thanks to Chris

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Speaker 2: Shay making us sound so pretty. Ilo over at the

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00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: news desk, we'll hear from Ilo and a little bit.

1130
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 2: He's getting his voice ready. Chargers football a little bit

1131
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 2: later on today we got the Bears and Dolphins already underway.

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00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. We're watching a horse racing from Saratoga. Jared,

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00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 2: I got it all. I'm king of the world.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I heard you guys are having issues with the

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00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: TVs there in the studio.

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00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, we don't need to lay

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00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 2: out too much much of the technical side of things.

1138
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 2: It's a little glitchy.

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00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: Glad you have it set up.

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00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 2: Well, it's getting me a little bit of I feel

1141
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 2: like I'm in an eight bit video game on one

1142
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Speaker 2: of my monitors.

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Speaker 1: Hey, listen, anything you gotta do to get the job done.

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00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: No, that's just it. I'm gonna stand with like a

1145
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 2: crane for the rest of the show because I think

1146
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 2: I've found the proper angle for me to view it

1147
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 2: in its proper terms. But yeah, it's uh, it's been interesting,

1148
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 2: no question about it. Everybody knows the all the different

1149
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 2: things in nature around the southern California parts and certainly

1150
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 2: heat waves and all of that will have its effects.

1151
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 2: So hopefully that gets remedied as we get ready for

1152
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 2: what is an exciting term in time of year baseball

1153
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 2: Pennant chases. Not that my team knows anything about those things,

1154
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 2: Jared uh, I mean you're yeah, you're trying to figure.

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00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: I'm not very confident that the Yankees are gonna make

1156
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: a run this year. I thought that they had everything

1157
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: in place, and it just seems like the buttons aren't

1158
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: being pushed in the right sequence.

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00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, they made the aggressive moves that the deadline look

1160
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 2: like a bolstered's gonna get healthy. Judge comes back Stanton. Yeah,

1161
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 2: defense a lot of the things that plague them even

1162
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: though they got to the World Series. But we're on

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00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 2: full display that sometimes you can push those to the

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00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 2: side and keep moving on. Like we're talking about our

1165
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 2: favorite football teams, like, well, this is a problem, this

1166
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 2: unit's not very good, but you know what, you won

1167
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 2: succeed and proceed because eventually it'll come due, just a

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00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 2: question of when and how. But yeah, I feel for

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00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: you to a degree because you know, I'd love to

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Speaker 2: be competitive to at least say I'm in the race

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00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 2: for a minute. It's really bad when you know, at

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Speaker 2: the end of April you're saying, hey, we can play

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00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 2: spoiler for the next five months.

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00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: Playing spoiler can be fun, but not for that long

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00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: a period of.

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00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,919
Speaker 2: Time every year, five months a year. That's where we're at.

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00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 2: They did make their bets years years ago, trying to

1178
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 2: go the Braves model and the well they rolled snake

1179
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 2: eyes on pretty touch. Every one of those guys, Lewis

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01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 2: Roberts shows some signs now and again, but no level

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01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 2: of consistency to reward you for your patients. Well, I

1182
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 2: wonder if betting market will be reward people more kindly.

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01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 2: We saw a very brief appearance from Ashton Genty in

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01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 2: that tie game the other night with the Raiders. He

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01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 2: is the favorite to win Offensive Rookie of the Year.

1186
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 2: We're talking about Travis Hunter and projecting and trying to

1187
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: figure out exactly his roll down distance, how many snaps

1188
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 2: will he take on either side of the ball, how

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01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 2: much does he rotate out receiver versus cornerback, and where

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01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 2: they mix between. You got Genty ahead of cam Ward

1191
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 2: who had his debut. He's at plus three point fifty

1192
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: Omarion Hampton of your Los Angeles Chargers, and I say

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01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 2: that collective you are. I mean, I'm trying to make

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01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 2: him America's team because I mean, who can't get behind

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01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 2: the calculating Jim Harbaugh. You know, he's got nearly as

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01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 2: many billboards as several of the ambulance ambulance chasing attorneys

1197
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 2: out here. I believe though, if you drive down the highway,

1198
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 2: it's like you call me if you're hurt, call me

1199
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 2: if you're hurt. Hey, there's Jim Harbaugh. It's pretty cool.

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01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: Omaron Hampton at nine to one right now, I know

1201
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,919
Speaker 2: those odds were much longer, always away, and we'll get

1202
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 2: to why he may have to overcome something big in

1203
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 2: a moment. But Travis Hunter is next on the board

1204
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 2: at ten to one. You got to go down a

1205
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 2: ways for some of the other principles and the guys

1206
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 2: that you would expect. Shdor Sanders at last check thirty

1207
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 2: to one, now fifteen to one to start opening week

1208
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 2: for the Browns after his debut on Friday Nights. So

1209
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 2: at least some movement there. But for Travis Hunter, a

1210
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 2: little bit telling here. He is the fourth favorite, so

1211
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 2: the expectation because he's ahead of McMillan, who we saw

1212
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 2: a little bit of as well. He's at sixteen to one.

1213
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think genty here. I think there's overreaction to

1214
01:01:56,640 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: his lack of carries the other night. Again goes back

1215
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: to the incentive. He is by far and away the

1216
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: best back on the team. You should give him two

1217
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: hundred plus carries this year. Why are you wasting bullets

1218
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: in the preseason? Like I would be giving him the

1219
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: minimal amount of preseason reps needed to make him feel

1220
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: like he did something. And I was actually talking about

1221
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: this with Chris Purphett before the show. The preseason games

1222
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: are irrelevant compared to the joint practices like.

1223
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Speaker 2: Years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like what are Junti's numbers in the joint practices?

1225
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: Like how does he look in those practices? The preseason

1226
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: games are just, hey, we're gonna go through the motions.

1227
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: And I actually talked about this yesterday on Countdown. If

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Speaker 1: I was the head coach of a football team, every

1229
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: single starter would play at least one snap in the preseason.

1230
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: The reason is you're going through the motions in your

1231
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: warm ups. You warm up differently if you're playing compared

1232
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: if you're not playing. Even if you're only playing for

1233
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: one drive, you warm up differently. I want my players

1234
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 1: every week in preseason you have three opportunities to go

1235
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: through the process of playing, which is you get dressed,

1236
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: you'll warm up, you roll out the ball and play,

1237
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: even if it's just the one drive. I want my

1238
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: players going through that process as many times as possible

1239
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: before we do it for real. And the amount of

1240
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 1: reps you get in the game, to me, is irrelevant

1241
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: compared to just the process of going through it. Genty

1242
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: I talked about this. I think we discussed it the

1243
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: last time we did a show together. The Chip Kelly

1244
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: offense is very running back friendly. The Pee Carroll offense

1245
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: historically has been very running back friendly. Look at Marshawn Lynch,

1246
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: look at Lahawn McCoy for chip Kelly, like those are

1247
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: the types of backs those two coaches prefer to have.

1248
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: If Genty has even close to a Marshawn Lynch Lashawn

1249
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: McCoy type of season, he's running away with that award

1250
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year. Now you want to say cam

1251
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: Ward has a chance, because he's going to be the

1252
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: starter from day one. He's probably the only rookie quarterback

1253
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,960
Speaker 1: that I can really pencil into the starting quarterback job

1254
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: day one, maybe at Shad or maybe it's not, probably

1255
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 1: Flacco and then shaudor later in the year. I think

1256
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: you wait on a guy like Shador, I think you

1257
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: wait on a guy like Travis Hunter. Let me see

1258
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: what the rotation will be like before I make this wager.

1259
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: Whereas Genty, I can pretty much, barring injury, of course,

1260
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: I can pretty much pencil him in for two hundred

1261
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 1: plus carries and feel very confident that he's gonna get

1262
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: the workload needed to win that award. That's why he's

1263
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: the favorite. That's why he deserves to be the favorite.

1264
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: I don't love betting favorites in these markets early, but

1265
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: if you have to make a play today, like you know,

1266
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: guy comes up, he says, here's a hundred bucks. You

1267
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: gotta bet the offensive rookie the year market or I'm

1268
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: taking it away. I would put that hundred bucks on genty.

1269
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at genty at plus two sixty plus

1270
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 2: two seventy five. Hampton is curious the loss of Rashaan Slander,

1271
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 2: not only personally, is you know, I don't I don't

1272
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 2: have a lot of Northwestern guys running around in the NFL,

1273
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 2: certainly not guys who are acknowledge it as one of

1274
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 2: the best at their respective positions. But that injury is

1275
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 2: he backpedaled in that practice and went down. I immediately

1276
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 2: threw through a pen at I'm glad it wasn't a

1277
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 2: coffee cup as my initial reaction. Like Gambitt, he got paid.

1278
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 2: And I'm curious because we've got a lot of folks

1279
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 2: like Ilo will talk to him in a minute. You

1280
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 2: know that work in and around the team, and you

1281
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 2: hear that, and you know local squad. Look, I'm a

1282
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 2: Bears guy, but locally you pick up at least watching

1283
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 2: these games. And then when you've got one of the

1284
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 2: guys again from Northwestern, I don't have a lot of guys.

1285
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 2: You're one of those big SEC schools, maybe one of

1286
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 2: the other Big ten schools you graduated from. You've got

1287
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 2: plenty of guys that are representing your squad. I have

1288
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 2: a lot of them, So I was hanging my hat

1289
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 2: on him. Now, Joe Alt move to left tackle with

1290
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 2: his departure, and you shuffle up and deal. So it'll

1291
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 2: be curious to see how much that impacts thing and

1292
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 2: what was supposed to be the big breakout season for

1293
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert and these Chargers.

1294
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm not buying the Herbert stuff. I'll give you some

1295
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: numbers on Herbert that might change your tunes. Let's go

1296
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: Herbert fan. Last year, the Chargers would have had the

1297
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: second best record in the league if the games ended

1298
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: after three.

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01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 2: After three. Sure, It's just you can't.

1300
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: Be taken seriously as a quarterback in this league if

1301
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: you struggle in close games and in the fourth quarter.

1302
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 1: Through four picks against the Texans in the playoffs, I

1303
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: think most of those were in the second half oh

1304
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: to two. In games decided by a field goal, they

1305
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: were zero to five and twenty three. So over the

1306
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 1: last two years, and I know hardball matters here, the

1307
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:31,919
Speaker 1: culture might change a little bit, but over the last

1308
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: two years with Herbert, you're own seven in games decided

1309
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 1: by a field goal. I mean that's that's brutal, absolutely brutal.

1310
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: Six and thirteen overall with Herbert three point games. You

1311
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: just cannot lose close games at that high of a

1312
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: level and still be taken seriously as a starting quarterback

1313
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: in this league. Fourth quarter of one score games out

1314
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: of thirty five qualifying quarterbacks. Herbert was twenty fifth in accuracy,

1315
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: I mean, below average in fourth quarter one score games.

1316
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: You cannot perform at that level and be taken seriously

1317
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback. Now, if you want to just

1318
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: isolate last year because last year was the first year

1319
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: under Harbaugh, okay, sure, sixty six dropbacks last year in

1320
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of one score games out of twenty

1321
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: nine qualifiers twenty fifth and accuracy twenty fifth and success

1322
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:26,479
Speaker 1: rate He's a bottom five quarterback in the fourth quarter

1323
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: of one score games. I'm sorry.

1324
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 2: Change that and then.

1325
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: I'll take you seriously as a team that maybe can

1326
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: compete in the postseason. Now, I think Greg Roman is

1327
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: good at his job. He got Herbert comfortable early in games.

1328
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: The early down pass rate was solid, the first half

1329
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: pass rate was above average. But then you get to

1330
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: that tricky fourth quarter, Mike, and that's when it all

1331
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: goes to crap.

1332
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, the curiosity right, and bring back whatever's left of

1333
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 2: keenan Allen guy that can move the chains. I guess,

1334
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 2: Mike Williams, you were expecting him to be out there

1335
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 2: for those eight games running deep routes because that's about

1336
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 2: what you're gonna get right over under was probably nine

1337
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 2: for the season, and then he abruptly retires. You do

1338
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 2: bring in Trey Harris to bolster the receiving cor McConkey

1339
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 2: was fantastic last year. But yeah, to your point, we've

1340
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 2: watched it and melt down and at some point it's

1341
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 2: no longer the coaches full because you had an easy

1342
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 2: scapegoat with some of the down distance and decision making

1343
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 2: of the prior regime. Look, everybody talks up a big

1344
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 2: game and certainly there's everybody's looking for someone to go

1345
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 2: and upend the Chiefs, and it seemed like the Chargers

1346
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 2: were in the catbird seat to do that. Well, now

1347
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 2: you have Denver and what Sean Payton and bow Nicks

1348
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 2: have cooking. We didn't even talk about. RJ. Harvey is

1349
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 2: one of those deep shot kind of guys. Now, Willy

1350
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 2: get enough.

1351
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: Last year with Gavonte Williams. You take away Javonte Williams's

1352
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,759
Speaker 1: runs and you put r J. Harvey in that spot.

1353
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos rush offense is really good.

1354
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 2: So that he's a curiosity because I think he's like

1355
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 2: thirty to one in terms of Rookie the Year because he's.

1356
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: A guy I would take a little long shot fly

1357
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: on I would you.

1358
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, because you're looking at you know,

1359
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 2: the acumen of what that offense and potency is there.

1360
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 2: It's just always a question of depth chart. And I

1361
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 2: know there was a lot of nod win because he

1362
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 2: was listed as fifth on the depth chart and then

1363
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 2: took the first snaps for the preseason. It's like we've

1364
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 2: seen this with coaches and running backs forever, but Harvey

1365
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 2: looks like he could be that special guy there. But

1366
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:35,719
Speaker 2: and then you got the Raiders, who will be pesky

1367
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 2: enough to be a thorn in the side of everybody.

1368
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:39,640
Speaker 2: How many games they win, I don't know.

1369
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: You know, when they go over six and a half,

1370
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: I'll see there. You leave it there.

1371
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 2: I know that you need to say anything more that

1372
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 2: way right there.

1373
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: So here's another interesting nugget on the Chargers, because you

1374
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: know you want to say, well, their defense is going

1375
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: to be really good this year. Okay, last year they

1376
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: faced the sixty the easiest schedule of opposing quarterbacks. Here

1377
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: are the quarterbacks they faced last year. And I know

1378
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: their defense looked good on paper last year, but again,

1379
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: here's who they were facing Week one, Gardner, Minshew benched

1380
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 1: Week two, Bryce Young benched Week three, Justin Fields benched

1381
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: Week six, Bonnicks rookie Week eight, Hayin Rattler backups Week nine,

1382
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: Winston backup Week ten, Levis terrible Now backup Week thirteen,

1383
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: Cousins benched Week sixteen, bon Nicks rookie, Week seventeen, Drake

1384
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: may rookie Week eighteen, eight O'Connell back up. So over

1385
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: the course of the seventeen games last year, they faced

1386
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: twelve quarterbacks who were either benched, backups, rookies, or Will Levis.

1387
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:39,599
Speaker 1: The six games they played against good quarterbacks Mahomes, Kyler, Murray,

1388
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes again, Baker Mayfield, they

1389
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 1: went one in five in those games. Speaks for itself

1390
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: right there.

1391
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 2: Other than that, how is the play, Missus Lincoln. He's

1392
01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 2: Jared Smith. That Jared Smith. That's where you find him.

1393
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 2: You hear him on Countdown each and every Saturday, alongside

1394
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 2: Brian Know and Rich Ornberger. It would be today Dan

1395
01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 2: Beyer taking a weekend away. As we continue here on

1396
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday, I want to do the schedule game

1397
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 2: with you for another team that people have great hopes

1398
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 2: and aspirations for because we can play that game in

1399
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 2: terms of, well, who did you beat? And I'm looking

1400
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 2: at one of the teams that they beat on my

1401
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 2: pixelated screen right now, I don't know. They beat the

1402
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 2: Bears and that might have been the hallmark to what

1403
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 2: became a fantastic season. We got that. We got a

1404
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 2: couple of coaches looking to return. But first it's our guy,

1405
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 2: Isaac Lohenkron ready to go do Charger work after that

1406
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 2: great breakdown for Jaredsmith.

1407
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 3: Indeed, then the Saints are going to come up marching in.

1408
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 3: It's going to be a branded s Daily revenge game. Yeah,

1409
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 3: Sofi Stadium preseason style. I know a lot of Charger

1410
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 3: fans on social media looking forward.

1411
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 2: To that one.

1412
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 3: When we do have another NFL game going on right now,

1413
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 3: it's Soldier Field, Chicago. The Miami Dolphins of seven to

1414
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 3: nothing over the Bears forty nine seconds into the second

1415
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 3: quarter to a tongue of iloa. One driving went five

1416
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 3: out of six for twenty seven yards.

1417
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 2: Done for the day.

1418
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson just led a touchdown drive that culminated in

1419
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 3: a one yard touchdown run by Alexander Madison.

1420
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:07,640
Speaker 2: We sing the song Isle, there's an alex Alexander Madison.

1421
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 2: Oh right, gotcha to steal it from Hamilton.

1422
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bear down Chicago Bear No, they.

1423
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 2: Gave up a touchdown. What are you talking about?

1424
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 3: Is there gonna be a Hamilton movie? I heard coming out?

1425
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 5: Well?

1426
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 2: They pro shot it in twenty sixteen, oh and are

1427
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 2: finally released. It's the tenth anniversary.

1428
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 1: Oh god, I saw it off Broadway. Fun fact, not

1429
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: with the original crew, but I pretty good on Broadway.

1430
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 3: I saw it here in Los Angeles. It was It

1431
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 3: was awesome stuff. In Major League Baseball right now, the

1432
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 3: Kansas City Royals have a one nothing lead over the

1433
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 3: Minnesota Twins and the bottom of the second and just

1434
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 3: underway at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees and Astros no score.

1435
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 3: In Atlanta, the Braves and Marlin scoreless just underway And finally, guys,

1436
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 3: speaking of Marlon and Marlins, we have big deep sea

1437
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 3: fishing news activity. Let's go at this weekend's fifty second

1438
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 3: annual White Marlon Open in Ocean City, Maryland. Team Catch

1439
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,640
Speaker 3: twenty three is in second place after reeling in a

1440
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 3: seventy one pound Marlin. And the reason I'm bringing this

1441
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 3: up at all is because one of the team members

1442
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 3: of Team Catch twenty three is named Michael Jordan.

1443
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 2: Oh, that guy, the Michael Jordan.

1444
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 3: The team is using his eighty two foot custom fishing boat,

1445
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 3: and the catch of the seventy one pound marlin puts

1446
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 3: them in line for prize money. Of get this, three

1447
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty five thousand dollars?

1448
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: Is that a lot for fisciating?

1449
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:36,759
Speaker 2: See?

1450
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 3: It seems to me the three hundred and eighty five

1451
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 3: thousand dollars for a seventy one pound fish. I mean,

1452
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 3: I'm headed to the pier after the show to start

1453
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 3: practicing that. That's pretty good bang for your buck.

1454
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,639
Speaker 2: Back to you guys, well I get seventy pounds. Yeah,

1455
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 2: and down the shores here you might catch yourself at

1456
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 2: juvenile great white the way they're swimming down to Southern California.

1457
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 2: Might find one of those while you're at it. How

1458
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,679
Speaker 2: about that over in Santa Monica they had a fifteen

1459
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 2: foot that was spotted Jared?

1460
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: Wow? Is that so like I'm I'm not a fishing

1461
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm not a fishing guy. So I don't know if

1462
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: that's is that not normal for southern California? It's that

1463
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: you don't have those things around.

1464
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, they're there. It's it's just now they're uh

1465
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 2: well being more readily apparent. Yeah, so we always know

1466
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 2: the juveniles run, and so that's when they get in

1467
01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 2: like the big debates of you know, trying to ferret

1468
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 2: out where they're spawning and all mating and all of

1469
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 2: that fun stuff in the deep science part of it.

1470
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 2: But you you regularly see juveniles which it's illegal to

1471
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 2: catch and try to take away with you and you

1472
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 2: will be sanctioned. But now you've seen some full grown

1473
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 2: up and down the coast where maybe they're a little

1474
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 2: further north than they have there normally down down south

1475
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 2: towards San Diego and Mexico or up near Alcatraz Island,

1476
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 2: you'll run into stuff there. There's usually a gap in

1477
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 2: the middle where they kind of go out to deep

1478
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 2: sea and you don't see them. They're creeping closer to shore.

1479
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 2: And there is your ecology moment of the day, brought

1480
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 2: to you by Isaac Lohenkron and Michael Jordan at Isaac

1481
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 2: Lohenkron where you find and to catch them with all

1482
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,719
Speaker 2: the chargers action of course, go back and he posted

1483
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 2: and I reposted his highlights from Angel City FC and

1484
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 2: that goal that nabbed them a tie. Yeah, I know

1485
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:23,200
Speaker 2: it's a tie, but you know what, every point counts

1486
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about that. But we've got a couple

1487
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 2: of coaches eye in her returns and I want to

1488
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 2: do one more schedule watching thing of what do we

1489
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 2: take from last year and carry over. We'll explain what

1490
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,679
Speaker 2: it's all about as we continue here on Fox Sports Sunday.

1491
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday at Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Fast two hour sprint, almost like Jared's going to do

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Speaker 2: in the heat of Vegas here as the day gets going.

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Speaker 2: Jared Smith with me on Mike Carbon. Thanks for being

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Speaker 2: with us, being part of the extended family. However you're listening,

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Speaker 2: however you consume the content here Terrestrial radio Serius XM

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Speaker 2: channel eighty three, the iHeartRadio app Curious with you wherever

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Speaker 2: you go. You can also check out the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio YouTube channel a ton of great videos from many

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Speaker 2: of our Fox Sports Radio shows. Search Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: on YouTube see a whole bunch of highlights from the shows.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe, and of course send to family

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Speaker 2: send access to all of our Fox Sports Radio videos

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Speaker 2: on YouTube, and if you watch in the evenings, you

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Speaker 2: may see me lean towards Smith in a threatening way.

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Speaker 2: Not you, Jared Smith, Jason Smith, by the other j

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Speaker 2: Smith seven to eleven weeknights here at Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 2: when the Mets and Jets talk sometimes gets to be

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Speaker 2: a little bit much. We got Hartman and Husky coming

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Speaker 2: up in about ten minutes from now. As we continue

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Speaker 2: here Fox Sports Radio, a brilliant Sunday ahead, Saratoga running.

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Speaker 2: We've got major League Baseball action, Houston and the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Early on, Houston already won nothing. As I know you're

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Speaker 2: keenly aware of. Jared two Day's.

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Speaker 1: Crushed us in this series, destroyed.

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Speaker 2: Still getting it done, still crazy after all these years.

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Speaker 2: We had the great matchup the other night, just in

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Speaker 2: baseball as a whole. When we can get Sureser and

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Speaker 2: Kershaw together, everybody wins. But you know, one of the

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Speaker 2: things I've been looking at, you know, is we talked

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Speaker 2: about the quarterback situation that the Chargers you got last year.

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Speaker 2: I want to go to Washington for a second, right,

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01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:27,919
Speaker 2: great expectation year two, Jaden Daniels, you bring in Deebo Samuel.

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Speaker 2: Eventually things get sorted out one way or another. With

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Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin year two, Cliff Kingsbury, congratulations to him. It

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Speaker 2: didn't fall apart in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if we can make that a trend. But

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Speaker 2: they got to twelve and five and the list of

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Speaker 2: some of the quarterbacks, Daniel Jones, Andy Dalton, Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 2: Daniel Jones again, Cooper Rush. They lost that game, Will Levis,

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Speaker 2: Jake Hayner, Spencer Rattler, Kenny Pickett, Trey Lance, Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 2: and then you get Joe Burrow for a win. So

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Speaker 2: not exactly the murderers Row and one of that was

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Speaker 2: the big tip ball against the Bears that seemed to

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Speaker 2: take them to a whole other level. So for an encore,

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Speaker 2: great expectations are there one of the favorites in the

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Speaker 2: NFC is this one where you look at their over

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Speaker 2: under total and maybe get to your underplay here.

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Speaker 1: Well, you go from hunter to hunted. I think that matters.

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Speaker 1: I think you're facing a really tough schedule. So they're

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Speaker 1: facing three teams coming off a bye. That's tough. That's

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Speaker 1: really tough. Nine games against teams expected to win eight

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Speaker 1: and a half or more. Six of those nine on

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Speaker 1: the road at Green Bay, at the Chargers, at the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: at the Dolphins, at the Vikings, at the Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: they had a really favorable i'll call it luck metric

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Speaker 1: last year, eight and four and one score games against

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Speaker 1: the very easy schedule opponents. You mentioned the quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 1: they converted eighty seven percent of fourth downs and that

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Speaker 1: is obscene the most successful team in NFL history on

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Speaker 1: four downs, So you think some of those bounces of

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Speaker 1: the ball are going to go the other way. The

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Speaker 1: defense really struggled, especially stopping the run. Last year thirtieth

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Speaker 1: in yards per carry against running backs, thirty first in

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Speaker 1: yards before first contact, which is really a metric I

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Speaker 1: look at because it shows how much push your defensive

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Speaker 1: line is getting and just how quickly they're able to

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Speaker 1: make contact with the ball carrier in the backfield. The

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Speaker 1: pass rush was good, not great. I think it's all

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Speaker 1: gonna come down to Jane Daniels continue to play at

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Speaker 1: that high level, and can the defense take a marginal

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Speaker 1: step forward, like instead of thirtieth in yards per carry,

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Speaker 1: maybe go up to like twentieth and then I think

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Speaker 1: they've got a chance to maybe compete for that division.

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Speaker 2: At Jared Smith, That's where you find him on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Here him on Countdown Saturday mornings here Fox Sports. Right now,

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Speaker 2: the Bears are in the red zone. The Bears are

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Speaker 2: in the red zone and Jep Gains, we've got the

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Speaker 2: over there. You go. We will take it as we go.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Jared. Enjoy the rest of Week one

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Speaker 2: of the preseason. Harmin and Husky coming up next year

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports. Right, you go out and do great things.

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Speaker 2: You got another chance to be great. We'll see you