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Speaker 2: for America dot Org. Well, the day didn't start well.

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Speaker 1: I backed out.

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Speaker 2: I had Monday off because the World Baseball Classic. I

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Speaker 2: backed out of the garage. The door wasn't all the

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Speaker 2: way open, and I rammed it with Anne's car. So

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Speaker 2: that was just not good for me. That was not

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Speaker 2: and we're going on vacation Saturday. So I got to

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Speaker 2: make amends really quickly.

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Speaker 3: Did the garage door follow you or did the car

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Speaker 3: get the worst of it? Or what happened there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well the garage door stopped working and the car

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Speaker 2: got dinged up, So it's terrible.

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Speaker 1: So I said, all right, I'll go walk the dogs and.

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Speaker 2: Watch them. NFL free agency, so I've made peace with

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Speaker 2: it and had to go with her sister downtown Chicago,

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Speaker 2: so she had.

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Speaker 1: A cool off.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's start with this, okay. I I know

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Speaker 2: he only has six starts NFL free agency. Malik Willis

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Speaker 2: twenty two million a year, three year deal with the Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: He is not to a stop saying that he's a

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Speaker 2: real athlete with a better arm. He's got a much

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Speaker 1: I know he's young. I like him.

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Speaker 2: I you know, John, I've said this for years. I

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Speaker 2: don't know anything about music other than I like it.

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Speaker 2: I can watch these musical shows. I can tell him

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Speaker 2: thirty seconds if somebody has like lounge ACKed, or you

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Speaker 2: know anything about music. I know a little about football.

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Speaker 2: When I watched that kid's escapability arm, he's got I

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Speaker 2: mean he's got again.

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Speaker 1: It's the it's Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: So he was well coached, but there were Packer fans

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Speaker 2: saying they thought he was as good or better than

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love. I think the Dolphins went and found a

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Speaker 2: very interesting player at quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Well, the other thing is the people that just signed

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Speaker 3: him know him. And it's not the offensive coach to

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Speaker 3: the defensive coordinator that went against him forever, because you

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Speaker 3: know in the NFL, when you're the backup quarterback, you

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Speaker 3: run the you know, you run the scout team, you

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Speaker 3: service the defense. So Jeff Hafley had a front row

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Speaker 3: the right hand guy for Gudikins same thing. Right from

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Speaker 3: an evaluation standpoint, do you remember a guy improving this

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Speaker 3: like he was unplayable, and then last year when he

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Speaker 3: had to play, he was basically just a running quarterback.

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Speaker 3: When the floor, remember because he got hurt in Week

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Speaker 3: least something there. I gave Laflor a lot of credit

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Speaker 3: this year to me with his arm was fantastic because

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Speaker 3: he proved two things. One he could come out of

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Speaker 3: got hurt against the Bears that he was not planning

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Speaker 3: on playing. And then, let's face it, Love was kind

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Speaker 3: Dolphins can't play in cold weather? Well, why is that

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Speaker 3: what doesn't pierce the cold in the win? Weak arm strength?

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Speaker 3: Look at the great quarterbacks you know historically in that region,

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Speaker 3: Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick, Patrick Mahomes cold weather quarterbacks. Burrows

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Speaker 3: kind of translates. But I'm with you. I not only

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Speaker 3: like it, I think it's an incredible story of just improvement. Clearly,

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Speaker 3: he was always a high character, interesting human, but the

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Speaker 3: lafleur deserves a lot of credit because that offensive staff

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Speaker 3: improving the player deserves a lot of credit. Incredible story.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you. I think no brainer for him. Miami

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Speaker 3: So I like picking the spot, and you know, the

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Speaker 3: shock me at off. He I don't think he becomes

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Speaker 3: solid career like what we saw last year. There is

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Speaker 3: no disputing he was a really good player in limited action.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it should be noted that Sam Darnold and

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Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield, you know we've seen this before. There's more

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Speaker 2: good offensive coaches, there's more sophisticated schemes. If you're a

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Speaker 2: hard working kid. You're not gobbling up, you know, too

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Speaker 2: much cap space. Although they have to pay two off

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Speaker 2: for two years, so I think we both like it

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Speaker 1: Here's another one.

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Speaker 2: Mike Evans to the forty nine ers, so he is

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Speaker 2: late first round pick. Mike Evans, red zone guy, Kittle, McCaffrey,

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Speaker 2: with Kyle Shanahan quickly a playmaker. It feels like Kyle

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Speaker 2: Shanahan didn't have a ton of patience with young players.

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Speaker 1: He likes guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it feels like to me he likes

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Speaker 2: veteran players. So Mike Evans to the Niners again. This

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it fits their kind of mold, high character, high

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Speaker 3: Jennings is going to get a lot of money. So

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Speaker 3: the IU thing blew up in their face.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they have a major question mark at the

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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers had to do something offensively because

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Speaker 3: you saw in those last couple games against Seattle. Obviously

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Speaker 3: Kittle went down in the second game, but they just

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Speaker 3: had no firepower. And the one thing you have to

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Speaker 3: do the Rams prove this if you have some firepower,

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Speaker 3: that this is not nineteen eighty seven, the rules are

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Speaker 3: on your side as an offensive coach. But they were

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Speaker 3: rolling out practice squad level guys. So you get Mike Evans,

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Speaker 3: a future Hall of Famer, love That move doesn't shock

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Speaker 3: me at all. I mean that the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 3: last couple of years in free agency, but that's a

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Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan tape guy for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just listen, the entire team gets nicked up.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's been stories about some right next to

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's true, but to me, he

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Speaker 2: feels so forty nine ers. All right, let me throw

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Speaker 2: another one at you. We talked about this yesterday. Tyler Lindebaum.

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Speaker 2: they have a Lamar contract renegotiation coming up, renegotiation coming up.

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Speaker 2: Max Crosby's expensive, Kyle Hamilton outside of Creed Humphrey of

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, there's an argument Tyer Linderbaum is the best

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Speaker 2: center in football. I thought they were going to resign him.

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Speaker 2: He was a first round pick out of Iowa. Tough, smart, durable,

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Speaker 2: doesn't miss a lot of starts.

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Speaker 1: I love.

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Speaker 2: This is an A plus move to me by the

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Speaker 2: Raiders because this is what Ben Johnson did with the Bears.

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Speaker 1: You know, they went.

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Speaker 2: Drafted jpj out of Oregon last year. He's more of

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Speaker 2: center for Fernando Mendoza. Now their offense basically, they'll probably

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Speaker 2: this is my favorite signing so far in free agency.

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Speaker 3: Well, look at all the good teams, right, The Ravens

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Speaker 3: The Bills just paid their center. Like, I mean, center

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Speaker 3: And I think if you're a Raider fan, you look

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Speaker 3: at it go. We essentially traded Max Crosby for two

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Speaker 3: he hasn't missed a snap really in the last two years.

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Speaker 3: So this is a very durable classic like Midwest center.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: two years. Like he's not Kelsey or Kittle or anything,

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Speaker 3: but he was a unique player for them and made

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Speaker 3: goal against Pittsburgh on that Sunday night game. Who made

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Speaker 3: the crazy catch Isaiah Likely? How many teams have a

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Speaker 3: six to six guy. I mean, he kind of plays

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Speaker 3: like a little Darren Waller basketball player, elite athlete. You

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Speaker 3: just you don't need to be that accurate. Just throw

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Speaker 3: him a fifty to fifty ball, because it's not a

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Speaker 3: He's not the most durable player. He is a unique player, though,

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Speaker 3: So you tell me the Ravens on offense with this

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Speaker 3: twenty nine year old aging quarterback, new offensive coordinator lose

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Speaker 3: their you know, kind of just stalwart guy at center

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Speaker 3: and this unique chess piece with Likely. You know, Henry

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Speaker 3: still got something in the tank, but he's a little older.

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Speaker 3: Zay Flowers isn't exactly Jerry Rice. Good player, but I

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Speaker 3: mean their offense has some question marks, assuming their defense

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Speaker 3: All their offensive linemen have become, you know, starters for

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Speaker 3: but man, there's just that division to me, has gotten

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Speaker 2: I would say Kenneth Walker from Seattle to Kansas City again,

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Speaker 2: no juice. They're losing backs to free agency. They have

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Speaker 1: They need a corner for McDuffie. They need an edge rusher.

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Speaker 2: They have three big needs now with Kenneth Walker, they'll

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Speaker 2: So I mean to me, Kenneth Walker is more valuable

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Speaker 2: that This sounds weird to say as a Super Bowl MVP,

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Speaker 2: And with Seattle, not that he was disposable, but they

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Speaker 1: I think Kansas City had to do this.

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Speaker 3: think it's pretty clear to them too.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they would have taken Jeremiah of but

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Speaker 3: I think they understand that that wasn't even going to

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Speaker 3: overpay me. They gave him a substantial amount of money

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Speaker 3: three years, forty five million dollars, almost guarantee him thirty

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Speaker 3: Howie Roseman gave Sakquaud Barkley. So these running backs, they've

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Speaker 3: Baltimore and Buffalo have all the fun like Andy Reid.

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Speaker 3: They don't plan on I know a lot of people

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Speaker 3: talk about this, I'll just have an off year and

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Speaker 3: they ain't mailing anything in their game plan is mahomes

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Speaker 3: start in week one. They plan on winning. They get

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Speaker 3: he's gonna have to prove he can do Andy like's

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Speaker 3: So It's like, now, could they maybe want to adapt

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Speaker 3: So maybe they want to take a little pressure off

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Speaker 3: Andy's history. But listen, what do talented people in eddie

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Speaker 3: times his offense? His offense now ask anyone is dramatically

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Speaker 1: So what if you.

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Speaker 3: Tell everyone, I don't think many people in the league

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Speaker 3: would believe you they're a rushing team this year. Right,

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Speaker 3: they got a good guard, they got a good center,

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Speaker 3: they got a young stud left tackle. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: you know what, why don't we do some Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 3: So what if the Chiefs are their game plan this

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Speaker 3: Look at you know, the Bills with Cook. Now Cook's

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Speaker 2: Do you think Travis Kelcey signs with them or somebody else?

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Speaker 3: Well, I thought he was gonna go to the Giants,

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Speaker 3: and then they signed likely and that's not happening. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I undervalue a little bit. This is a unique player

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Speaker 3: we go like five and incentivize that up if I

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Speaker 3: Chiefs aren't just gonna well, Travis, here's the check. You

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Speaker 3: fill it in, like those days are kind of over

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Speaker 3: because he wasn't great last year, Colin, I mean the drops,

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Speaker 3: But this might just be a really tough one given that,

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Speaker 3: I mean, Andy says, well, I might owe some Super

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Speaker 3: We're all human beings. So this is probably really tough

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Speaker 3: Players they'd say, hey, see, godspeed, good luck at what

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Speaker 2: it's like, what, my neighbor in waste management has a

432
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Speaker 2: nicer house than I do this. I don't like this

433
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Speaker 2: at all. It'd be one thing if it was Ben Affleck.

434
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, I tend to think in the

435
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:02,120
Speaker 2: NBA style matters, and I think it's off putting for

436
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 2: Bam to shoot forty three free throws when he averages five.

437
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 2: And I mean Kobe Bryant stayed in a game against

438
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Speaker 2: an awful Raptors team and scored in the last four

439
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 2: and a half minutes eleven points in a route. He

440
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 2: was in the seventies, he was high sixties, seventies, and

441
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 2: he just kept going and people celebrated it. There was

442
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 2: no pushback. I mean, in the fourth quarter, he's one

443
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 2: of only one of the only Lakers that took a shot.

444
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 2: He was like he shot like fourteen to the seventeen shot,

445
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 2: and nobody batter than I. But Bam does it, and

446
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 2: I think I just don't think stylistically, we feel like

447
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 2: he's the guy that should do it.

448
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: So that's that's why I defended it. Could not disagree more.

449
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: I don't personally think it has much to do with

450
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Speaker 1: BAM or his style. I definitely think it has some

451
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,800
Speaker 1: to do with Kobe. But you brought up Kobe. Let's

452
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: just go back to the eighty one. It became a blowout,

453
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Speaker 1: but I just pulled it up, so I have it

454
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: exactly correct. They were down seven after the first, they

455
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: were down fourteen at half, and they were up six

456
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter that game. That game was

457
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Speaker 1: a real game. Now, was Kobe going for the record? Yes?

458
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: Did Kobe take all of the shots late, no doubt

459
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Speaker 1: about it. But Kobe did that all the time, like

460
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Speaker 1: Kobe could be a bit of a ball hog. I

461
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: mean that was literally, at one point in the fourth

462
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: quarter a six point game. I think that Bam is

463
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Speaker 1: a great story, a very very very good player, All

464
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Speaker 1: Star Olympian. He worshiped Kobe Bryant. He clearly has friends

465
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Speaker 1: in the league, respecting the league. I mean, Durant came

466
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Speaker 1: out and supported him immediately. Jannis Lebron, he's a well

467
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: liked pros pro who's one of the best defensive players

468
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Speaker 1: of his era. I thought it was cool that Asia

469
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Speaker 1: Wilson was there. I have a group chat of people

470
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Speaker 1: who really care about the NBA, and BAM having forty

471
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 1: three at halftime hit the group chat. My wife was

472
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Speaker 1: out to dinner. I was watching Wemby against the Celtics.

473
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Speaker 1: So when BAM has forty three at halftime, I'm like, oh,

474
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I'll throw it on the second TV on

475
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: the league pass. Then BAM has over sixty through three

476
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, something's clearly happening here. What's main

477
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 1: TV it with volume? Jalen Brown had been ejected by

478
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Speaker 1: this point from the Celtics. Let's flip the screen situation.

479
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock in on this. So I did not

480
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: watch like highlights of it or box score it. I

481
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: watched the second half of that basketball game. Sometimes the

482
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Speaker 1: story is the record, and I know it's not the

483
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: Wilts is the record, but it's the modern scoring record.

484
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the story is the record. Other times the story

485
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Speaker 1: is how you got the record, how Michael Strahan got

486
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: the single season sack record. It became more about how

487
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: we got it than the record. Doesn't mean he wasn't

488
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: a great player, doesn't mean it wasn't a great season,

489
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: But getting the last one against Farv. When Farv laid down,

490
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 1: we're like, Eh, that doesn't sit right, doesn't look right.

491
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: Don't love it. When David Robinson won the scoring title

492
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,959
Speaker 1: over Shack, the Clippers sat all the starters after five minutes.

493
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Speaker 1: He was clearly gunning for it. He got seventy one.

494
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Speaker 1: We don't talk about it as an all time great

495
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Speaker 1: scoring accomplishment. We talk about it as eh kind of game.

496
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Speaker 1: The system a little bit, but okay, he's the scoring champion.

497
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: The last six or seven minutes of that basketball game

498
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Speaker 1: last night, it was just not basketball. They are intentionally

499
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: fouling to maximize possessions. Up twenty five in the fourth

500
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: quarter against the Wizards, Doctor Spolster is challenging offensive fouls

501
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: on Bam on a charge with four minutes left in

502
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: a twenty point game to try to get him free throws.

503
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: His teammates are intentionally missing free throws to try to

504
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: get him extra possessions. Like I have. It was a

505
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: great game. I have no problem with them going for

506
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Speaker 1: the record. I have no problem with it, but when

507
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: you are manipulating possessions in order to do it, and

508
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: Kobe's yes, he shot all the shots, but it was

509
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: at least a competitive game. Minutes into the fourth quarter,

510
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: it became a blowout because of his dominance.

511
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Speaker 4: I just.

512
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Speaker 1: I didn't like how he got the record. It doesn't

513
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Speaker 1: mean it wasn't an all time great performance. When Klay

514
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Speaker 1: Thompson scored sixty two on twenty nine minutes, he sat

515
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Speaker 1: the fourth. When Kobe had sixty five I think against

516
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks and they were blowing them out, he sat

517
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Speaker 1: the fourth. There's just like there was something about it

518
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: that just didn't sit right if you were watching it,

519
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Speaker 1: because he didn't get it by playing real basketball.

520
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 2: If he'd ha scored he had sixty two at the

521
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Speaker 2: end of three, if he just ended with seventy one

522
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: and they didn't do that, you're saying if he just

523
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Speaker 2: scored sixty eight and didn't do that, it sits much

524
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Speaker 2: better with Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I mean, We've Booker, Lillard, Luca, they all

526
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: have seventy point games. Like it's scoring is going up.

527
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: Teams are tanking, teams are bad like all of those.

528
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Speaker 1: When David Robinson did it, it hadn't happened since David Thompson,

529
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Speaker 1: and there were three guys ever to do it. Then

530
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: after David Robinson did it, there was a long gap

531
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Speaker 1: until Kobe did it. Then there's it's happening more regularly.

532
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Speaker 1: Like I was going back and forth on sound Tariico

533
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: and Reggie during the Celtics game are talking about what

534
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: Bam did and Reggie's like openly opening that someone's gonna

535
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: get a hundred, and he's I mean, he's he's right

536
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: if what happened last night is immediately celebrated when it's

537
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: not basketball, like someone's gonna get hot, a team is

538
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: going to decide to game it and go for it,

539
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: and that guy will be hot from three. Damn took

540
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: a bunch of threes. He only hit like seven of

541
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: them he shot. He shot less than fifty percent from

542
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: the floor. So like, and I know people have been

543
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: in my mentions and comments all day, like all you do,

544
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: all you guys do, is you just want to complain

545
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: about basketball, Like I promise, I love basketball. I was

546
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: watching two games by myself on a weeknight in the

547
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Speaker 1: regular season. I love the sport. I just don't like

548
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: how he got it. And here's a take or a

549
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: theory that I haven't said publicly. I wanted to save

550
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: it for you. I think because he Kobe was his

551
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: favorite player. I think if he would have tied him

552
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: at eighty one, no complaints. I think if he would have,

553
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: I think if he would have done it as a

554
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: tribute to Kobe, it would have been like, oh my god,

555
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: how cool, and like, yeah, the Wizards, and yeah, they

556
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: were gunning for it. But there is something about Kobe's

557
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: eighty one in the flow of a game and BAM's

558
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: eighty three when he is being triple teamed and his

559
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: teammates are passing up layups and they're intentionally following guys

560
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: and challenging calls and missing free throws. It wasn't basketball.

561
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: I have no other way to describe it other than

562
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't basketball. And so I just I don't want

563
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: it to take away from Bam because it was cool.

564
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: But I can't sit here and celebrate it in the

565
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: same way as Kobe Bryant's I can't. I can't do

566
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: it reasonable biens can disagree. Here's another take I had.

567
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: I said, through.

568
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: Lebron's career, you know, it's almost like I used the

569
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: example of David Schwimmer on Friends, he could be a

570
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: mobster in his next ten roles.

571
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: To me, he's ross on Friends. He's been type cast.

572
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of the whiny kind of. He was such

573
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: a strong character on Friends and he played it for

574
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: so long.

575
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: That's what and who he is.

576
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: And so similarly Lebron has been type cast. Is that

577
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: Lebron makes everything work. He and Dwayne Wade were not

578
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 2: a perfect fit. Neither was really a great catch and

579
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: shoot guy. The team had no center or no true point,

580
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 2: but they work because of sheer athleticism. He and Kyrie

581
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: Irving shouldn't have worked. Kyrie needs the ball, Kyrie plays

582
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: no defense, and yet Lebron made that work. Lebron made

583
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 2: Ilguni z Alguscus work in Cleveland, got him to a finals.

584
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: He made him suddenly. We talked about this guy as

585
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: this energy guy without much touch.

586
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: Is just unbelievable.

587
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis had a label as a soft player, didn't

588
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: fight through injuries, not in great shape. No, he wins

589
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: with him too, and it's perfect so every Matthew Delavandoba Jr.

590
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 2: Smith was a broken player everything for twenty years, Lebron

591
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: had been tighte cast.

592
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: It just works. So then when he plays with Luca,

593
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: it's like, of.

594
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: Course, this one is the easy one, and it's the

595
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: one that doesn't because neither wants to be off ball.

596
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: Lucas so much better at this point than Lebron is,

597
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: so Lebron has to play off ball. He's having a

598
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 2: bad jump shooting season, and if you play with Luca,

599
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 2: you have to be good defensively to cover up his flaws.

600
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: That's why the one time he went to the finals

601
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 2: with Dallas Big Athletic, they acquire that trade deadline PJ

602
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: Washington Rim Protectors. Suddenly you're like, oh, Lucas stinks on defense,

603
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. He just pushes people to this, then

604
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 2: takes off, pushes people, runs him off the three point line.

605
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: So there's a way to build around bad defensive players.

606
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 2: Steph Kyrie. Well, Lebron never was that, and so there's

607
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: this belief that Lebron and Luca it will eventually work.

608
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: It's over a year in the net rating, the defensive rating,

609
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: it's atrocious. When Lebron and Luca are together. In fact,

610
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: when Luca and Austin are together, it's fantastic, and nobody

611
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: wants to hear this. Luca and Austin are great Luca

612
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: without Austin, and no, Lebron's great Austin. Just take Lebron

613
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: out of all the plus minuses. Everything works unless you

614
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: put Lebron in it on the Lakers, and nobody quite

615
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 2: knows what to make of it because he's still a

616
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 2: very good player. Yeah, Lebron is still a very good player.

617
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Speaker 2: It's the Laker's fault in terms of the row, their

618
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: construction because to your point, they were together last year,

619
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: and we've watched Lebron and Luca long enough we should know.

620
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: But I think there's a time when Lebron and Luca

621
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 2: could have worked, but not when Lebron's forty one, because

622
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Lebron was first Team All Defense I think

623
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine to twenty thirteen. Like he's not

624
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: he doesn't have as many he doesn't have as many

625
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 2: as yeah, six times all in his twenties. But there

626
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: are no great defensive players in the NBA in their

627
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: mid thirties on.

628
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: They're just not And so that's the thing, like there

629
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: was a point in time when Lebron and Luca obviously

630
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: could have worked, but it is not when Lebron is

631
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: in his forties and everybody should know that. So you know,

632
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: they haven't played a ton of minutes together this year,

633
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: relatively speaking, But we want to make them a story

634
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: because they're good for ratings. It's the Lakers, it's celebrity.

635
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Lebron matters a lot to the league, and like it's

636
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: a good offensive team. They're fun, yeah, exactly right, and

637
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: you and you like when they walk onto the court,

638
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: feels like, oh yeah, it feels big, and it's like

639
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: and I'll admit, like I'm like, damn, that's an impressive five.

640
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: Like you know, like when you like when they when

641
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: they walk onto the cart, You're like, why any given

642
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: night it feels like they could score one and twenty

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Speaker 1: and the Rockets are too good defensively, and the Spurs

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Speaker 1: are way too good defensively, and the Wolves are too athletic,

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Speaker 1: Like they're drawing dead. They're they're they are, they are

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Speaker 1: They'll make the playoffs and they are drawing dead. But

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Speaker 1: they have so much star power and brand power that

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Speaker 1: people like us almost feel compelled frankly to talk about

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Speaker 1: them because it's good for business. But like, I can't

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Speaker 1: tell you how many times I've seen like Lakers contender

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Speaker 1: or pretender. I've been on shows for the questions like Lakers,

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Speaker 1: they are not a contender. They're not a contender. Nope,

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Speaker 1: it's very obvious and like and so, like they're worse

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Speaker 1: with Lebron. Is that Lebron's fault if he is still

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Speaker 1: very good and he's forty one and he's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you guys want me to be Scottie Pippen, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: not that anymore. Like so, I just I guess it's

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Speaker 1: a criticism of Lebron, But at forty one years old,

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Speaker 1: I don't expect him to be a lockdown defensive player,

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Speaker 1: given that that's never happened in the history of the.

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Speaker 2: Sport Bears nine and a half is that the easiest

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Speaker 2: bet of the offseason. Bears have added Kobe Bryant, Devin Bush,

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Speaker 2: by the way they play the NFC South and the

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Speaker 2: the Jets and a.

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Speaker 1: Half, and I love I love it. The the regression

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Speaker 1: case is simple. They had seven comeback wins, they led

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Speaker 1: the league in takeaways, and left guard, center, right guard,

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Speaker 1: right tackle all played over ninety percent of your snaps.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have some offensive line injuries, and obviously

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Speaker 1: the Dolmin injury, you already you've already lost your center

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Speaker 1: out out of that equation. So there's gonna be it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a different offensive line, even if they're bringing

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Speaker 1: the other you know, three pieces back. You know, that's

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Speaker 1: that's the three prongs case for regression is what I

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Speaker 1: just said. Offensive line won't be as healthy as it was,

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Speaker 1: you won't lead the league in takeaways, and you're not

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Speaker 2: And the well Colston loved on Luther Burden at the

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Speaker 2: tight end and correct?

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Speaker 1: And I think so, Yeah, I think the Bears have

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm picking them

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Speaker 1: a good one, and that's the like Caleb's improvement in

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