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Speaker 2: How we feeling here? Sticks, I mean, I'm here with you,

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Speaker 3: That's That's all that anybody needs to know, is that

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Speaker 3: we're here together.

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Speaker 4: Brou what up? Bruh?

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Speaker 3: And there and there was no there was no hitting

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Speaker 3: then you windows, They're just we're here, like, I feel good.

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Speaker 4: Let's go right, I'm not, I'm not maybe, so yeah,

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 6: So we had, uh, we had waited, uh to see

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Speaker 6: big news of the NFL offseason, outside of the Shador

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Speaker 6: which we laid out yesterday, the big story was where

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Speaker 6: is Aaron Rodgers going to end up if he decides

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Speaker 6: to play again? And as it turns out, the speculation

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Speaker 6: was right, it is Pittsburgh. And as it turns out

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Speaker 6: the report was true that Rogers did speak with the

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Speaker 2: So let's first hear, let's we are.

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Speaker 4: Going to a question?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we were going to we are we want.

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Speaker 3: To hear the first three questions, because without even hearing it,

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Speaker 3: I'd like to believe that I make very very sound

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Speaker 3: I hit the over or under on the question.

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Speaker 2: So here he was.

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Speaker 6: This was Rogers talking with the media, just discussing the

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Speaker 6: overall general decision making on aligning with Pittsburgh, and also

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Speaker 6: to know, is he married.

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Speaker 7: Let's take a I don't need it for my ego.

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Speaker 7: I don't need it to keep playing a lot of

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Speaker 7: decisions that I've made over my career and life from

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Speaker 7: strictly the ego, even if they turn out well or

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Speaker 7: always unfulfilling, but the decisions made from the soul are

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Speaker 7: best for my soul. And I felt like being here

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Speaker 6: Not any for a ring or anything else.

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Speaker 2: That wedding ring.

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Speaker 7: It's a wedding ring, congratulation, thank you, I love it.

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Speaker 7: It's been a couple of months.

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Speaker 6: I mean, so listen, a couple of months ago, Rogers

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Speaker 6: ended up tying the not as you speculated, you were correct,

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Speaker 6: and so now we.

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Speaker 2: Uh over on?

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Speaker 4: Uh so yeah, the do we have the over under

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Speaker 4: on it? Did Lee hear the press conference? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: So the big debate that we did for those that

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Speaker 6: he does actually talk with the media, how long into

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Speaker 6: The over under was set on this show at three

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Speaker 6: and a half. Lavarn and I both took the under. Lee,

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Speaker 8: Well, he was at the podium for about thirteen and

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Speaker 2: I counted at least eighteen questions.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so basically Lee and Lorena won. But can I

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Speaker 6: Clearly there was a priority.

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Speaker 3: Clearly, Hello, I mean is that not the number one

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 2: Duh?

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Speaker 4: Did you get married?

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Speaker 3: I mean, even and I don't even have to ask.

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Speaker 3: the problem with hearing an older player say those types

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Speaker 3: I don't think any of us know this Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I just selectively made it twelve because I don't

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Speaker 3: double digits turnovers Jonas and it's not it's not I

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Speaker 3: It's it's there's the recency effect of what it is,

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Speaker 4: No, you're not.

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Speaker 3: You're like a superhero. So don't take it as a

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Speaker 3: derogatory term. I'm not making derogatory. I'm saying when you

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Speaker 3: And so looking at listening to you know what he

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Speaker 4: If this is truly indeed a.

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Speaker 3: One year deal. Yeah, But if I'm Aaron Rodgers, do

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Speaker 3: it just ultimately comes down to how I play and

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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I guess you're willing to run into that

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Speaker 2: Up with a circus.

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Speaker 6: He's not going to be a part of a of

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Speaker 2: He got Jets, and it's a.

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Speaker 3: Different very possible. It's very possible. It's a logical conclusion

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Speaker 3: I doubt he'll get a house there, get a home,

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Speaker 6: I mean listen, him and his Brian can enjoy uh,

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Speaker 2: But I will say this, Pittsburgh underrated town.

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Speaker 3: I'm hitting there soon, like in a day or so.

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Speaker 3: Shouts out to my man Brandon Short, the Carly Short Foundation.

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Speaker 6: Go watch a Buccos again, go see the buckles of

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Speaker 3: And I'm just feeling like, at this point in time

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and

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Speaker 1: a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington, and

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Speaker 3: I always pay when I go out. If you had noticed,

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Speaker 3: I never let you pay. I don't let people pay

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you mean when we go?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't ever go out.

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Speaker 2: Have I've paid a couple of times?

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Speaker 4: Have you when.

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Speaker 6: The Well we were at the graduate in State College

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Speaker 4: Yeah you did. I don't remember.

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Speaker 6: Because because I just I was. It was my my

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Speaker 2: Get another one, and.

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Speaker 5: Then it just.

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Speaker 4: Was off. Why can't I drink?

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Speaker 5: Bro?

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Speaker 3: I don't really look like the type that would be

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Speaker 6: You are I'll give you credit for this because you've said,

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Speaker 6: And then in New Orleans, by the way, this is

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Speaker 2: All right, we got off the air at eight am.

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Speaker 6: LeVar went to the bar afterwards to get breakfast, had drinks, and.

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Speaker 2: I am not kidding.

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Speaker 6: You did not leave that area until what ten o'clock

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Speaker 4: It was late.

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Speaker 2: You put in fourteen hours.

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Speaker 4: In the late in the same shot, it.

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Speaker 2: Was midnight, it was to midnight.

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Speaker 4: It was it was really.

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Speaker 2: Why were you up till midnightly?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that night we were that day.

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Speaker 8: That day I took it easy because that was after

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Speaker 3: Which which, by the way, the day you had your

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Speaker 4: At the ball. I think that.

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Speaker 3: I'd start drinking with y'all. Then I went back to

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Speaker 4: So I ended up setting with B Mitch a few times.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't leave.

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Speaker 4: If you notice, I do not leave my hotel.

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Speaker 4: People do venture out. I don't venture out.

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Speaker 6: I'll see if you can find a hotel with a

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Speaker 4: Sitting area, that's it.

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Speaker 5: You can see me.

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Speaker 3: You could see me passed out on if they got

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Speaker 8: And you know what was rough was Vegas year because

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Speaker 2: We didn't even get fresh air all week long.

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Speaker 5: I did not.

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. I treated New Orleans or anywhere

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Speaker 4: When we were in New Orleans, I never left. I

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Speaker 3: The only time I go outside the hotels when we go,

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 6: There's no reason to Food was weird, setup was good, nuts,

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Speaker 3: The first day, the first day I got there, I

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Speaker 2: The best by the way.

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Speaker 6: By the way, I did like cow on So because

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Speaker 2: He's like, I thought it was. I thought it was

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Speaker 6: He goes, So I literally thought, I need to get

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Speaker 2: We went so hard the night before. Brady was we.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we went we went hard, bro We went hard.

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Speaker 3: When I can feel it, like when I can feel

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Speaker 4: That I have drank too much.

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Speaker 3: We have done something extraordinarily and incorrect and irresponsible.

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Speaker 6: How many, by the way, how many meals did you

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Speaker 4: I don't eat well. I mean during the course of

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Speaker 3: I mean, our single handed league had handled breakfast for him.

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Speaker 2: They took off your favorite they took off your favorite.

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Speaker 3: Zo but gave it to me. But didn't they put

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Speaker 3: that was cool. Yeah, that was I want to steak

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Speaker 4: Man. That's my dip.

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Speaker 6: No, well, not paying people is the dip of the

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Speaker 6: Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 4: That's the Bengals dip.

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Speaker 6: Here on two pros and a cup of Joe, so

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Speaker 2: In a little bit of a little bit of a dispute.

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Speaker 6: The way this is being reported is that the contractual

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Speaker 6: have the same contract that every other rookie's gotten in

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Speaker 6: Cincinnati over the past however many years. You want to

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Speaker 6: lump in together. And so Shamar Stewart talked yesterday about

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Speaker 6: the situation and had this to say as.

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Speaker 9: In how far I'll take it, I mean, it just depends.

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Speaker 9: Like in my case, I'm one hundred percent right, I'm

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Speaker 9: gonna ask for nothing I've never done before. But in

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Speaker 9: y'all casey, I just want to win arguments that Winny

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Speaker 9: more games.

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Speaker 7: In my opinion, I know business is business in football

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Speaker 7: is football, but have the veterans said anything.

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Speaker 5: Has there been any reaction at all with your situation.

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Speaker 9: It's made it very easy when the people in air

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Speaker 9: locker room say you're doing the right things, especially the

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Speaker 9: star players.

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Speaker 5: It just puts that so stars in here. I'm not

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Speaker 5: asking names, but stars have said do what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, how many more?

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Speaker 3: I mean, who would sign a contract if if what

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Speaker 3: you're saying is if that's like the accuracy of it,

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Speaker 3: of just making it super simple. What guy would sign

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Speaker 3: a contract where the team is able to avoid all

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Speaker 3: your you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean all your guarantees.

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Speaker 2: And he's not like it's his point.

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Speaker 6: He's not asking for something different than what they've done historically.

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Speaker 6: What they've done historically is what he's asking for. They're

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Speaker 6: trying to do something new this year, and.

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Speaker 3: I just think that if you want to do something new,

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Speaker 3: do what the other Cleveland team does. Just guarantee at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: go in the right direction. I'm going the wrong direction.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you. You want to do something different.

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Speaker 3: You don't want me to hold out, you want me

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Speaker 3: to be happy, you know what, Just fully guarantee the

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Speaker 3: hold entire contract.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and jump, Just go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. It's also I mean, Trey Hendrickson is

481
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Speaker 2: not reported.

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Speaker 4: I'm not like why they don't love their defensive players.

483
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Speaker 4: I don't know their defense.

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Speaker 6: And by the way, they asked Joe Brow yesterday're like,

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Speaker 6: is this a distraction? He's like yeah, He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: all we had two distractions last year.

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Speaker 2: We've got another one this year. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: so we're down.

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Speaker 3: One distractions this year. Yeah, because Hendrickson wanted money last year.

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Speaker 6: Did yeah, Hendrickson, Yeah. The Jamar Chase situation just and

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Speaker 6: I know that it's a mom and pop organization and

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Speaker 6: it's family run and all that, But at some point,

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Speaker 6: do the Bengals not look and go. You know, there's

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Speaker 6: a common theme here. It's we've got players, really good players,

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Speaker 6: and they and they all have the same gripe and

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Speaker 6: complaint over and over and over again. At some point,

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Speaker 6: do the Bengals want to like step up and go

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Speaker 6: Maybe it's us, Maybe we got to adjust.

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Speaker 2: How we're doing have we're operating things here?

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Speaker 3: I mean, when when you continue to do those things,

501
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Speaker 3: you're either insane or you're super successful. Their business model

502
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Speaker 3: must work for them, you know what our business model

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Speaker 3: is for them might not necessarily be what their business

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Speaker 3: model is for them. So that's what I would say.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about a franchise, you know, what is their motivations?

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Speaker 4: What you know? How how do you measure success? I

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Speaker 4: really do be.

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Speaker 3: Wondering that sometimes for some of these these franchises, like

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Speaker 3: how do you measure what you're gauging? If you were

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Speaker 3: to tell thee hundred percent truth to the public, how

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Speaker 3: do you measure success? Well?

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Speaker 5: Would you?

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Speaker 3: Because it always comes to the bottom line. It always

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Speaker 3: comes back to that.

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Speaker 6: If you're ask an owner, would you rather win a

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Speaker 6: Super Bowl or make a bunch of money? And I

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Speaker 6: know they're you know, one and the same.

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Speaker 3: I would say, I was about to say, I would

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Speaker 3: think that you say they're one and the same because

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Speaker 3: if you do win Super Bowls that that probably will

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Speaker 3: lead to you making more money, which is which is

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Speaker 3: weird to me because if you're going to spend the

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Speaker 3: type of money to get to the Super Bowls, win

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowls, like, think about how much money do

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Speaker 3: you the Kansas City Chiefs have earned since Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: has become the quarterback, the starting quarterback of Casey And

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Speaker 3: then you ask yourself.

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Speaker 4: Okay, with the way that.

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Speaker 3: We're running our organization, does it make sense to keep

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Speaker 3: all of these guys happy? And if it's the guys

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Speaker 3: that we're not going to keep happy and we're going

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Speaker 3: to let go, then how do we replace them? And

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Speaker 3: that is generally a great position for a general manager

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Speaker 3: to be in because it's not a hard sale to say, hey,

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Speaker 3: we got to keep Chris Jones, Hey we got to

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Speaker 3: keep Patrick Mahomes. You know, these are the people that

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Speaker 3: we have to keep. Are the other people interchangeable? They

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Speaker 3: have seemingly been so. But think about the value of

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Speaker 3: that franchise.

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Speaker 6: Now, did you when you were in Washington, Because you know,

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Speaker 6: Shamar Stewart's mentioning man veterans here with the team star

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Speaker 6: players are telling me you're doing the right thing. When

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Speaker 6: you're in Washington and like a rookie came in or

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Speaker 6: a new player came in, did you ever pull them

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Speaker 6: aside and be like, hey, just see, you know place

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Speaker 6: a little bit different.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure I did. I'm sure I did, But I wasn't.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't one of those type of guys that was

549
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Speaker 3: actively seeking guys out. Like if you came and sat

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Speaker 3: with me or we were on the practice field or whatever.

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Speaker 3: I was more about just having a good time, just

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Speaker 3: the camaraderie of it.

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Speaker 4: But if somebody had a question.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know about how things were handled or

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Speaker 3: things they should think about, or dues and not to

556
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Speaker 3: do's and stuff like that. Sure I had those conversations,

557
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Speaker 3: but I was never I can I can't recall really

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Speaker 3: ever having like bad mouth conversations, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: Like I, they ain't giving you your money, because I

560
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 3: always stayed away from money with players, Like there are

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Speaker 3: some players that that's all that drove them, like, oh

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Speaker 3: you you make this da da da, or shut up

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Speaker 3: full you don't make enough money?

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Speaker 4: Da da dad?

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Speaker 3: Just that Like I never was one of them dudes,

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Speaker 3: you know. So you know, some guys make it about money.

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Speaker 3: I never made it about that. Some guys, you know,

568
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Speaker 3: like to insert themselves into situation pause in the situations

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Speaker 3: that aren't necessarily theirs. And I just was always one

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Speaker 3: of them dudes that just you know, I'm around, you

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Speaker 3: know I'm around, but I ain't gonna get in your business.

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Speaker 3: So I probably wouldn't have been one of them dudes

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Speaker 3: that was saying you're doing the right thing. Unless he

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Speaker 3: came up to me and been like, you know, Varr,

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Speaker 3: what am I supposed to do? Da da da, this,

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Speaker 3: that and the other, And then I'm like, Okay, explain

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Speaker 3: to me the situation. I want to fully understand the situation.

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Speaker 3: Then I'll, you know, let's come up with solutions.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: But if he were to tell me that they're trying

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Speaker 3: to give me a contract that's different than in any

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Speaker 3: other rookie, and that they're trying to say that I

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Speaker 3: should have my they should be able to avoid my guarantees,

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Speaker 3: I would tell him you you can't.

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Speaker 4: You know, you can't do that. Yeah, I wouldn't tell them.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't advise a guy to do something I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: do myself, and I wouldn't do that deal.

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Speaker 10: You, but the previous, the previous the former was awful,

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Speaker 2: Let's be honest, but yeah, you know it's a little

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Speaker 10: It's not Project Pat Chickenhead. Now, that would be something

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Speaker 11: But I mean that's a good bit. You need a

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Speaker 2: Petros?

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Speaker 6: I got a I didn't know that this was a

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Speaker 6: whether or not the Dodgers Padres is a rivalry.

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Speaker 10: I think it's a certainly a twenty first century deal, right.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Max Mountsey said that the Giants Dodgers is

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Speaker 6: more of a rivalry, that that's a real rivalry, trying to.

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Speaker 4: Dismiss the Padres.

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Speaker 10: I mean, it's like saying, you know, there's rivalries that

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Speaker 10: last the hundreds of years. There's rivalries that go back

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Speaker 10: Notre Dame, something we've been talking about a lot over

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Speaker 10: the last few years. And there's rivalries that are of

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Speaker 10: interest now because San Diego has Manny Machado and Tatis

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Speaker 10: and Jackson Merrill and they're a.

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Speaker 5: Good baseball team.

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Speaker 10: And the Giants just won six straight albeit there playing

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Speaker 10: the Rockies mostly. But it's a great division. The NL

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Speaker 10: West is an absolute fireball right now, and it's fun

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Speaker 10: to watch because, and you know, the talking point from

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Speaker 10: the Dodger people is, well, the only reason the division

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Speaker 10: is this close is because the Dodgers are so beat

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Speaker 10: up and they don't have any pitching and all of

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Speaker 10: their pitching guys are hurt. And now they're slowly coming back.

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Speaker 10: Blake Snell's working out again, Toddi's getting ready to pitch,

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Speaker 10: maybe even before the All Star break.

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Speaker 5: So there's a lot of movement there. But yeah. I

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Speaker 5: mean people go to the.

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Speaker 10: Games in mass the games are all sold out. They're

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Speaker 10: screaming the entire time. There's a lot of social media

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Speaker 10: buzz and excitement and action. They met each other in

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Speaker 10: the playoffs every year, it seems, and have epic battles,

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Speaker 10: and there's vitriol between the managers between from the last

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Speaker 10: year's playoffs.

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Speaker 5: There's all kinds of stuff there.

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Speaker 10: So and Manny Machado remember, used to be a Dodger

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Speaker 10: and ended up with the Padres signing there so, I

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Speaker 10: mean they did the crying Kershaw do you remember that?

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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, from a couple of years ago. They beat

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Speaker 10: the Dodgers, and I don't know why the Dodgers are

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Speaker 10: so but hurt about this, but they did like a

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Speaker 10: meme of Kershaw crying and they're ringing Mission mel up

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Speaker 10: on their JumboTron or their big screens. And there's a

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Speaker 10: lot of meat on the bone between the Dodgers and

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Speaker 10: the Padres. Now, Kirk Boom, Yeah, does it go way

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Speaker 10: back to the nineteenth century?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 10: Does it speak to the expansion to the West coast

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Speaker 10: of Major League Baseball with the Dodger and the Giants

665
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 10: leaving Brooklyn and New York respectively, and then those colors

666
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 10: and the orange and blue being replaced and turned into

667
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 10: the New York Mets.

668
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 5: You know, all of that stuff is.

669
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 10: Endless. It's it's a great rivalry. It's Vin Scully, It's

670
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 10: Willie Mays, It's Tommy Lasorda, it's Juan Marishal.

671
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 5: It's all that stuff.

672
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 10: But there's been a lot of fire and brimstone between

673
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 10: the Dodgers and the Padres for decades. And right now

674
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 10: the Padres, I know they have some financial issues. The owner,

675
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 10: who was a great owner, passed away, and I'm not

676
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 10: sure what the future is. I know their TV deal

677
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 10: is super weird. Like Major League Baseball, they have a

678
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 10: great TV broadcast and Major League Baseball's in charge of

679
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 10: their TV broadcast. They have like the MLB Mike Flags

680
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 10: and stuff like that. But all that being said, I

681
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 10: think Munsy's right. I mean, the real rivalry, the one

682
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 10: hundred and twenty year old rivalry, is Dodgers versus Giants.

683
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 10: Now this, you know, this can change in a lot

684
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 10: of ways. I mean it changed in the nineties for

685
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 10: Washington and Oregon right in the.

686
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 5: Pac twelve or Pac ten or pack whatever you wanted.

687
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 5: To call it.

688
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 10: Back then, it was Washington. Washington State is the Apple

689
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 10: cup Oregon Oregon State is the Civil War. And those

690
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 10: are great rivalries and everybody gets involved. But in the

691
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 10: last twenty years, the bigger rivalry in the Northwest that developed,

692
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 10: that of anger and hatred and Rick Neuheisel doing something,

693
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 10: is Washington versus Oregon and jealousy over who the blue

694
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 10: blood in the Northwest is and Phil Knight and all that.

695
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 10: So these things can change, but it's Giants. Dodgers is

696
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 10: the West Coast Yankees Red Sox, And you know, yes,

697
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 10: it's great when the Red Sox played in Blue Jays

698
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 10: or whatever, but this is a little I mean, Dodgers

699
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 10: Padrez is exciting, but it doesn't have the breadth and depth.

700
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 5: Of the of the history.

701
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 6: Well I'm just gonna ask you that because it does

702
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 6: feel like ESPN still tries to churn out Yankees Red

703
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 6: Sox as if it's you know, twenty years ago and

704
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 6: you got Pedro Martinez assaulting Don Zimmer, like it's like, well.

705
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 10: You know, did he assault Don Zimmer or did don

706
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 10: Zimmer charge it? That's fair, I mean, it's fair grabbed

707
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 10: Don Zimmer by the ear lobes and did a little

708
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 10: bit of an ola.

709
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: I mean, he handled bar his ears.

710
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 10: You know, I don't want to see don Zimmer go

711
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 10: down like that. And then the worst part was he

712
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 10: went down and he didn't yet up. No, you know,

713
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 10: he just went He just dirted it, which.

714
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: Was, by the way, that was wild television back in

715
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: the day.

716
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 5: Oh, it was awesome.

717
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 10: I mean it was like it was it was like

718
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 10: one of those simulations and AI you see, we're like

719
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 10: Trump and sitting in the Oval office and then he

720
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 10: just starts socking some.

721
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 5: World leader Like that's not real, you know, but it

722
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 5: really happened. Uh yeah.

723
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 10: But yeah, Key's Red Sox still means a lot to

724
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 10: a lot of people, you know.

725
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I know ESPN runs it.

726
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 10: Out like like like Big Noon runs out Brady Quinn

727
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 10: versus Liner, and every.

728
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: Year Brady getting ready for that right now.

729
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Oh they're gonna watch the game and go

730
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 5: over it again. At least're have to.

731
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 10: Listen to Reggie anyway. All I'm saying is, all I'm

732
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 10: saying is these things are cyclical. But for centuries we've

733
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 10: had Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers, Giants and all of

734
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 10: those great things and Dodgers Padres is really exciting within

735
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 10: the context of the major League season the last few years.

736
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 10: But I don't know if it has the staying power.

737
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 10: If the Padres have the staying power, then then maybe

738
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 10: it will.

739
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: M I'm gonna switch sports on you.

740
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 5: You do see that? Okay, good with that. I'm fine.

741
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 5: I'm not you know, I'm not really a baseball expert,

742
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 5: believe it or not.

743
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 4: I mean you sounded like you were all in on it.

744
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's that's a testament to how good

745
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: you are at the craft that that you've chosen to

746
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 3: take on, you know, So I'm proud of you, Petros

747
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 3: than you look. That's that moment where it's like, you know,

748
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: two contemporaries that are the same age, you know, compliment

749
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 3: one another because it's like really cool to give a guy,

750
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: you know, his props and his just due. Like you're

751
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: pretty dope dude at what you do. Anyway, let me

752
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 3: let me let me throw this one out at you.

753
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 3: Let me hurrow this one out at you.

754
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 4: Uh U c l A. They they were able.

755
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: To get an offensive lineman that was coincidentally heading to

756
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 3: Penn State to flip and yeah, big time, big time.

757
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 10: Michael Jordan in the documentary and I took that personally.

758
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 4: And I took that person I bet you did.

759
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Johnny Johnny d J. Jones, he's he's out

760
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 3: of Florida, which is interesting because everybody's recruiting nationally now.

761
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 3: And I know the last time we talked, you're like, listen,

762
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 3: they got to rope off Southern Cow and they gotta

763
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 3: get us. See that is has to get the talent

764
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 3: that's local. But I guess my question for you would

765
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 3: be seeing these these types of reports continue to pop up,

766
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 3: how much do you think the NIL is playing a

767
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 3: part in how this goes? And do you think a

768
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: team like UCLA, who has historically not been aggressive and

769
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 3: active in trying to help the football team be able

770
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 3: to be competitive And that could be like taken by

771
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 3: offensively by some people who may say that, but that's true, true,

772
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 3: but it is true they prioritize other things over that,

773
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 3: which isn't a bad thing, but just isn't conducive to

774
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 3: them being a national powerhouse or competitive team to try

775
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 3: to win it. Do you see this becoming the new trend?

776
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: And do you see teams or schools like a Ucla,

777
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 3: you know, comeing to the party and saying, look, NIL

778
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: is going to allow for us to be able to

779
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 3: sign bigger prospects and bigger prospects from around the country.

780
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, well it certainly does basketball wise. I mean UCLA

781
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 10: committed themselves to the NIL basketball wise. Some could say

782
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 10: they even did that under John.

783
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 5: Wooden when it wasn't legal, but those.

784
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 10: Are different stories for different times. But yeah, they paid

785
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 10: a lot of money basketball wise, and they were very

786
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 10: competitive in the NIL basketball wise in the last couple

787
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 10: of years for Mick Cronin, and that's made them nationally

788
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 10: relevant throughout the basketball season, which is very different obviously

789
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 10: from football. If we're talking about UCLA, it's very interesting

790
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 10: because you're right, LeVar. I mean, even when I was

791
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 10: playing and afterwards, there was this big pr push for

792
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 10: UCLA to be like, we have one hundred plus national championships.

793
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 10: We have all these different sports, and that's great, not

794
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 10: necessarily a bad thing. But if you're going to have

795
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 10: a very special football program, you have to treat the

796
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 10: football program in a very special way, and they have

797
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 10: to be treating separate from the rest of the sports.

798
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 5: And I think that has.

799
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 10: Been an issue for UCLA for years. I know for

800
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 10: a fact it's what pushed Chip Kelly out. Now you

801
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 10: can think that Chip Kelly underachieved at UCLA.

802
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 5: You can think that he was a weirdo.

803
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 10: You can say that he lost his offensive touch, and

804
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 10: maybe all of those things are true. But it's also

805
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 10: true that he didn't feel as if he got the

806
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 10: support necessary to compete even in the Pac twelve, let

807
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 10: alone going into the Big ten.

808
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 5: So all of those things are true.

809
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 10: Now this offensive lineman that flipped from that, we're using

810
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 10: it as an example for the discussion. This guy from

811
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 10: Florida that flipped from UCLA to Penn State, Like, when

812
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 10: is this guy going to.

813
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 11: Come to Pence State to Ucla? From Penn State to

814
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 11: Ucla to Ucla? When is this guy allegedly coming to school?

815
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: I mean he's next year, he's a twenty six er exactly.

816
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 10: And this is the same with the USC High there's

817
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 10: a second the USC High train is like, oh my god,

818
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 10: these guys are coming in twenty twenty six. Everything's going

819
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 10: to change and this is going to be a great

820
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 10: recruiting class in twenty twenty six. And that's problematic for

821
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 10: a few reasons. Number one if you're a blue blood

822
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 10: or a competitive college football program and Penn State says,

823
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 10: oh we had this guy, Oh we lost this guy. Okay, well,

824
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 10: or Penn State, we gotta keep on moving on. He

825
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 10: might end up coming back. The point is you can't

826
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 10: these guys. I mean, how many freshmen, even if there's

827
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 10: a great freshman class, especially at today's day and age

828
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 10: where teams use the portal to fill gaps as opposed

829
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 10: to playing younger players, how many freshmen, unless it's Travis

830
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 10: Hunter or something, how many freshmen are really going to

831
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 10: contribute to your roster if you have let's say an eighteen,

832
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 10: which is very high for today's day and age. I

833
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 10: would imagine like an eighteen person from freshman class. Yeah,

834
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 10: how many are going to contribute like twenty twenty six?

835
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 4: Like five?

836
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 5: Six? Five? Yeah, exactly right, six or five?

837
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 10: And that's gonna save USC football a freshman class in

838
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 10: twenty twenty six. And then the crazy thing is is is.

839
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 5: That guy really coming? You know? It's it's one.

840
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 3: That's where I thought you were going with it, Like

841
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 3: are these recruits starting to use this now as a

842
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 3: recruiting a negotiating tool? Like all right, I don't have

843
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 3: any intentions on going to UCLA or wherever the school

844
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 3: may be. But i' musa say I'm gonna go here

845
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 3: because it shows that, well, i'll decommit. You're going to

846
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 3: assume that that decommitting is because of money. I mean,

847
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 3: that's just safe to say that. That's what we're going

848
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 3: to assume. So now that opens the door. Said, well,

849
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 3: if he'll decommit from Penn State to go to UCLA,

850
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 3: then if I'm USC or somebody else, it's like, okay,

851
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 3: let's come in with a higher number and we land

852
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 3: the top recruit like by default.

853
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 10: And is it very different with the d committing and

854
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 10: the committing and I'm taking this trip, I'm not taking

855
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 10: this trip. I mean, there is the money part involved,

856
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 10: and that may be a little bit more above the

857
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 10: table negotiation, But honestly, is it very different than when

858
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 10: we were recruited. Guys will commit, they'll de commit, they'll

859
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 10: say they're coming. And another thing like, and I could

860
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 10: say this as a West Coast guy who doesn't know

861
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 10: his elbow from his ass as a young guy. You know,

862
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 10: it's one thing to live in Florida and be a

863
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 10: junior in high school and be like, yeah, that's right.

864
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 5: When I'm done, I'm going to Westwood.

865
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 10: I'll see you in La, you know, and I pack

866
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 10: up the U haul you know, call you.

867
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 5: Know, she going to UCLA. Shed be trying to party.

868
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 5: I mean all of those things, you know.

869
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 10: But then when it's actually in practice and you've got

870
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 10: to say goodbye to your mom and your East Coast

871
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 10: lifestyle and you live on the West Coast and not

872
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 10: everybody is into football at UCLA and there's fifteen thousand

873
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 10: people at the game hit the Rose Bowl that fits

874
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 10: one hundred, maybe you feel a little differently about it.

875
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 10: It's it's a fluid situation for these young people, and

876
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 10: I don't I feel badly in a way that recruiting

877
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 10: and it happened, I don't know, twenty five years ago,

878
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 10: maybe more thirty years ago, that college football recruiting and

879
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 10: with the NIL and the transfer portal. I guess it's

880
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 10: not as much of a cottage industry as it was,

881
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 10: but it has become a real cottage industry as far

882
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 10: as following where these young men are identifying these people

883
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 10: when they're very young, just like your son LeVar, and

884
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 10: then identifying them and then following where they're going to go,

885
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 10: and it's easy for us to sit here and point

886
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 10: fingers and be like, look at that kid.

887
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 5: He transferred, you know.

888
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 10: Five times, or he committed five transferring five times different,

889
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 10: but he committed five to five different schools.

890
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 5: He said he was going to do this. He look

891
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 5: at his hat dance.

892
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 10: His mom got up and walked out, And you know,

893
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 10: it's really easy to point fingers and laugh at people,

894
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 10: and really that's our job. But at the same time,

895
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 10: these are really young people, they really are, and there's

896
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 10: a lot of scrutiny on them. It is a very

897
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,760
Speaker 10: difficult thing to be told you're a great football player

898
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 10: and you're going to have a great career when you're

899
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 10: a really young person, because you have no idea what

900
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 10: that means or how it's going to play out. There

901
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 10: are so many different variables between you and greatness on

902
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 10: the field. And we really do a disservice to these

903
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 10: guys by the way we follow them. The cat is

904
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 10: out of the bag, there's no going back. But I

905
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 10: wish we gave them a little more grace because it's

906
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 10: hard to be young. It's hard to be young and

907
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 10: sit in a room with a college football coach. You've

908
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 10: seen on television your whole life, and that guy asked

909
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 10: you to commit?

910
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 5: What do you say?

911
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 10: You know, I understand why these guys, you know, tell

912
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 10: five teams that they're going to be their girlfriend. It's

913
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 10: a very difficult thing as a young person to say

914
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 10: no to these people that are on your side and

915
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 10: seemingly want you to be part of what they're doing.

916
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 10: And it's it is kind of interesting. So I try

917
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 10: to give these guys grace when they commit de commit,

918
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 10: go here, go there. I mean, if you really think

919
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 10: about it, what is modern college football recruiting? I mean,

920
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 10: there's a bunch of guys who preach twenty four to

921
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 10: seven about accountability, about keeping your word, about your commitment

922
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 10: to your teammates, about your commitment to living a good life,

923
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 10: your commitment to being a great son or brother or

924
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 10: boyfriend or husband or father, all of these different things.

925
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 10: The lip service that we hear from college football coaches.

926
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 10: Yet all they do in recruiting is just bend their

927
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 10: legs backwards to get a young person to go back

928
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 10: on their word.

929
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 5: Think about that.

930
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 10: I mean, that's the you know, I mean, we use

931
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 10: all these platts dud's about being a great person and

932
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 10: accountable and truth justice in the American way and put

933
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 10: the s on the chest. And really, these guys go

934
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 10: in somebody's room and be.

935
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 5: Like, forget what you said to Kirby Smart, come to

936
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 5: Old mass right, We're gonna take carry of the Kiffins.

937
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 6: Do you guys, Do you guys find yourself because I've

938
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 6: I've found myself getting more and more exhausted by the

939
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 6: storylines surrounding college football to where it's nil transfer portal

940
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 6: college football playoff twelve team sixteen automatic qualifiers. This conference

941
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 6: wants this, this conference. And I don't know if it's

942
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 6: because I just longed for simpler times, but I find

943
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 6: myself worn out by the constant discussion about changes that

944
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 6: need to be made, and I just want to watch

945
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 6: the games.

946
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 5: Do Yeah? And the off season is exhausting.

947
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean really is.

948
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: I just want to get to the games, and that's true.

949
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 10: And we're all striving to get to the games. And

950
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 10: I guess the NFL and the NBA have found different

951
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 10: ways to entertain people in the off season. You know,

952
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 10: even though nothing actually happens at the draft, everybody watches

953
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 10: like nothing actually happens. There's no real competition that you

954
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 10: know that that's not why we're watching. But and the

955
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 10: NBA with their free agency and the way that works out,

956
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 10: and the hot takes from this person and that person

957
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 10: and who said what on a podcast, that offseason is

958
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 10: a lot more easily easily digested than what we have

959
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 10: in college football.

960
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 5: I think it's a good point, Jonas.

961
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 10: But that being said, when the season rolls around and

962
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 10: we have the games, it feels a lot better, and

963
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 10: it feels a lot more natural, and it feels like

964
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 10: all is not lost, which is a good thing. But yeah,

965
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 10: the college football posts, I mean, this new committee that's

966
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,919
Speaker 10: going to really enforce things. You know, it's like the

967
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 10: the NCAA is hanging on by this skin. They're like

968
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 10: the Game Ambling Commission in the song Atlantic City. I mean,

969
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 10: they're barely hanging on. And and now they're gonna have

970
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 10: some new police siaka please. I mean these stories, I

971
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 10: mean Lincoln Riley trying to wriggle out of the Notre

972
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 10: Dame ro I mean, these off season stories are pathetic

973
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 10: and they are they are unsavory, and you can't say

974
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 10: that they don't hurt the sport. I'm positive that they

975
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 10: hurt the sport. But when the season starts and we

976
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 10: have that going, that's good. I mean, I remember calling

977
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 10: a game and it was I forget who it was.

978
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 10: Oh it was Washington State Boise State, and it was

979
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 10: a good game. You know, John Mattier versus Ashton Gent.

980
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 10: I mean, that's a hell of a game last year

981
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 10: for star Power and my play by play guy. Because

982
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 10: play by play guys can't help it. They always they

983
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 10: can't just call the game, you know, they always want

984
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 10: to bring up you know, we look what's going on

985
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 10: in the Mountain Wars, and you know, and and I

986
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 10: just said, look, I'm glad to be calling a game

987
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 10: where the two teams aren't suing each other.

988
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 2: By the way, I think I was watching that.

989
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 10: It's true, right, like you know, I mean, at least

990
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 10: these two teams don't hate each other. They want to

991
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 10: be in the Pac twelve together in a couple of years.

992
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 10: So I mean, and I do feel like we should

993
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 10: dismiss those stories during the season because the season is

994
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 10: special and we still have that competition and the revealing

995
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 10: of virtue with young men working together, which is what

996
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 10: we like about college football. But uh, but I take

997
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 10: your point. The off season is exhausting. And it's like

998
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 10: LeVar said, I mean this kid, I mean, this was

999
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 10: a big story. That offensive lineman that flipped. There was

1000
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 10: a big story that some tight end the tight end

1001
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 10: from not and.

1002
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 4: Modern day that's it's a new day and age.

1003
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 10: Man U CLA's greatest on lineman ever is a Joe

1004
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 10: Wow Jo Yeah Ogden who's from way out east, you know,

1005
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 10: Maryland guy, what Saint Altman's prep?

1006
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 5: I believe so, I mean that's that's Uh.

1007
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 10: They've gotten a lot of a lot of UCLA doesn't

1008
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 10: really build the fence in La the way that sc

1009
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 10: needs to.

1010
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's possible for them to do

1011
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 3: it unless they brought a big old brinch truck.

1012
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 4: They can't even well.

1013
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 10: The one time they tried to do it, Carl Drell

1014
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 10: pulled a few d line types out of Crenshaw, big

1015
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 10: kid named Bryce, remember him from Yeah, And Pete Carroll

1016
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 10: got so mad he did that whole gang outreach thing

1017
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 10: on sixty minutes. Remember he's wearing like a leather jacket.

1018
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 10: Next thing, you know, Pete Carroll was like at at

1019
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,479
Speaker 10: Nickerson Gardens and Watts like.

1020
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 5: Hey, what's up?

1021
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 9: Man?

1022
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 4: That's going, let's compete.

1023
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 5: What are you doing? Hey, what's up?

1024
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 2: Compete?

1025
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 5: Blood, Blood, break yourself. It's like, okay, Pete, I get it.

1026
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 10: You got mad that Carl Drel got one recruit, so

1027
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 10: you bought a buck leather jacket, and now all of

1028
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 10: a sudden you're like cool mode out there.

1029
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 2: Okay, what's up?

1030
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 4: Blood?

1031
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 12: Get him on X at the old p He is Petros,

1032
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 12: the the homie, Hey, strap brother.

1033
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 5: He's the city right now recruiting some pre.

1034
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 6: He's the coast of the Petrous money Show, which you

1035
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 6: can hear on the blow Towards and five seventy l

1036
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 6: A Sports Fox college football analyst pe, we appreciate it.

1037
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 2: We'll do it again next week.

1038
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 5: Thank you, guys.

1039
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 2: There he is. We are great, uh t Papa. Fox

1040
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: Sports guys.

1041
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 4: From US a USC say we are too. Yeah, there

1042
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 4: you go.