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Speaker 1: Okay, final hour of the show. Yeah, and uh, Monci

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Speaker 1: Bolano's really entertaining herself with that update a few seconds ago.

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Speaker 1: Just started laughing for no reason in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the update, Like, and it's not like I'm gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna find out you were doing something I was doing. No,

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Speaker 1: none of us were doing anything. You just started laughing

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Speaker 1: and lost control in the middle of the.

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Speaker 3: Update because I had my notes and then I like

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Speaker 3: took off all of the screens with those scores, and

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Speaker 3: I realized as I'm reading my notes that I never

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't have time to go.

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Speaker 4: Look it up now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the scores are. The Islanders snapped

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Speaker 1: the five go.

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Speaker 3: To the review on this one Islanders.

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Speaker 1: Something I'll score the Highlanders Islands. I won five in

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Speaker 1: a row, loose edge of the crack and three to two.

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Speaker 1: A lot people got the Highland, the Highlanders. It's a

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Speaker 3: So funny something something I don't have it.

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Speaker 1: I don't have it.

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Speaker 3: And I knew we were coming to the end of

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Speaker 3: go look to go get it, you know, to pull

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Speaker 3: it up again, because I I just taking off the tabs.

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Speaker 3: So like I clearly was trying to like finish for

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Speaker 3: our news feed that I have to send. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Good times. Five to one was the score. Bial So

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Speaker 1: that's that's what it was, you know, the Highlanders, the Highlanders. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we are the Highland. The Highlanders are a new team.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I just joined the NHL. They cut

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Speaker 1: off the heads of five people, did, right, because that's

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Speaker 1: how that's how you kill the Highland there in the end,

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Speaker 1: there can only be one. Yeah, yeah, okay, right, very

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Speaker 1: good good stuff. I amn't asked me I am. I

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Speaker 1: am Highlanders. That was the initiative. That was the first

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Speaker 2: Hundred all right something. Basically the final score.

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Speaker 1: Was something something something. It's like, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: be honest. Thanks Watson. Now we'll get to Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: in a second, but just something really, you know we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Lou Holtz a few minutes ago. Look one

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Speaker 1: of those famous games in college football history, the rocket

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Speaker 1: national championship. Again, it does not stand, Colorado wins it,

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Speaker 1: right because that happened in the final forty five seconds

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Speaker 1: of the game. But like to understand how how big

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Speaker 1: a deal rocket Ismael was in that he was the

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Speaker 1: best offensive player, most exciting offensive player in college football

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Speaker 1: But the big thing about rod like, imagine something like

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Speaker 1: before the draft, Rocket Ismael decides to sign a record

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Speaker 1: imagine that happening now. I remember ripping CFL cards. Imagine

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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza right before. I want to avoid the Raiders

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Can you imagine the CFL having the

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Speaker 4: It's just amazing because you do the math on this, right,

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Speaker 1: with Rocket is smile finally getting to the NFL. Surprise.

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Speaker 1: The CFL and the Argonauts had money trouble. This is

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Speaker 1: Not that you couldn't see that coming. Oh, the CFLs

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Speaker 4: Raiders, Panthers and Cowboys did play near to ten years

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Speaker 4: as exemplified by that called back return.

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of returning, Aaron Rodgers is out of the darkness.

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Speaker 1: Is his wife with him?

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Speaker 5: Come out?

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Speaker 1: Or no? No, we have not seen his wife. His wife,

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Speaker 1: I wonder why he talked about her today. I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen her. Doesn't like the spotlight, he wants to Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's not real. Aaron Rodgers wants to live

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Speaker 1: his life privately. He said against Pat McAfee, how about

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Speaker 1: what you wanted to, the guy that had a camera

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Speaker 1: crew following him around a year ago to document his season,

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Speaker 1: A guy that goes on television to talk about his career,

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Speaker 1: A guy that is has has spent every moment just

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Speaker 1: because you're doing that now, You're you're doing that now? Well,

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Speaker 1: but it is the kind of thing though, that you

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Speaker 1: his exes today for the attention, you know, the Instagram

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you saw Dana Ka Patrick's not returning

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, dude. Let me just say, when you say

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Speaker 1: means no attention, not just oh I just want attention

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Speaker 1: on the football field. No private life means no attention,

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Speaker 1: not just but football is different. No, it's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's it's still attention. You're still getting attend you still

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Speaker 1: have a camera crew following you. The rumors about you

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Speaker 1: being a vice presidential candidate off RFK Junior ran a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Now, you're still enjoying the spotlight.

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Speaker 1: You're still enjoying that you do.

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Speaker 4: But there are certain things that you know you don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there are things. But he is living a

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Speaker 1: very public life. He justly likes the fact that people

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Speaker 1: want to talk to him and you talk about stuff. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean again, I'll have a camera crew following me

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Speaker 1: I want to live a private life.

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Speaker 4: To this point, he hasn't had them following around with

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Speaker 1: Well maybe now, but maybe now it's different because he's

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Speaker 4: Well, now he's back and ready and loaded for bear

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Speaker 4: here in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: So here is Rogers from today, emerging from his darkness

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Speaker 1: retreat that I believe contain no soap and no indoor plumbing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I believe that that was the case. A choice probably smell.

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Speaker 1: It's like going camping's.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's he just wanted to rustic camp

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Speaker 4: that's not smelling.

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Speaker 1: So you know that's a choice. You're gonna hear Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers big statement from today and from this I will

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Speaker 1: the public eye is here. He is talking earlier on

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Speaker 2: Poop again.

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Speaker 4: That sounds about right, Might might be some of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Retain? After that, he went on with Pat McAfee and said.

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Speaker 6: That I've talked to Mike, I've talked to Omar. There's

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Speaker 6: been no deadline that's been you know, that's been put

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Speaker 6: you know again, I'm I'm enjoying my time with my

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Speaker 6: and you know, I think there's conversations to be had

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Speaker 6: hasn't been any progressive conversations.

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Speaker 1: No progressive conversation. So he's not with flow from progressive.

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Speaker 1: He's not doctor Rick, he's not a young homeowner turning

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Speaker 4: He's not insurance free agent too. Does he still have

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Speaker 4: the endorsement deal?

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Speaker 1: As he said there, I don't have a contract in

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Speaker 1: So what to make of Aaron Rodgers. Number One, He's

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Speaker 1: absolutely playing again this year. If he wasn't, he would

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Speaker 1: have retired. He stars don't get to a point in

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Speaker 1: He wants to pick when he retires. He's not gonna

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Speaker 1: he would have done it already. He wouldn't go through

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Speaker 1: this whole thing. But he wants to say, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: play another year. I had a pretty good year last year,

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Speaker 1: course he's going back to the Steelers. McCarthy wants him.

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Speaker 1: Anything the Steelers do quarterback wise is going to be

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Speaker 1: But his thing when he said I don't have a

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Speaker 1: today we lost Lou Holtz, legendary college football coach and

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Speaker 1: for twelve hours on and off, going back to it

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Speaker 1: because you knew if there was a big thing happening big,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about it. What did Lou Holts

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Speaker 1: have to say about it? Like that was so underrated

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Speaker 1: And that should get a lot more credit for ESPN,

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Speaker 1: keeping with the credit they get for their college football coverage,

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Speaker 1: because it's not just about the games. It's about putting

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Speaker 1: on a show. And I mean it was like inside

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Speaker 1: the NBA for college football.

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Speaker 4: Well, and we look at where college football is now

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Speaker 4: and lawlessness and whatever. We get a lot of headlines

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Speaker 4: about the way the game has evolved. But you go

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Speaker 4: back in time when Lou Holtz and obviously Lee Corso

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Speaker 4: the monster that those properties have been. It was also

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Speaker 4: we didn't have forty seven streaming services. You needed highlights.

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Speaker 4: It's like we show reverence to the George Michael sports machine, right,

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Speaker 4: it's like you'd get your clips. But here you had

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Speaker 4: between Corso and the Holts, two guys that kind of

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Speaker 4: cut to the chase about the good, the bad, the

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Speaker 4: ugly of the game, decisions that were made. And as

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Speaker 4: certainly as he got older, he was even more critical

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Speaker 4: of coaches and their decisions and how tough they were

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Speaker 4: or weren't and all of those looking squarely at at

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Speaker 4: the big ten there. But when we look at it,

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Speaker 4: it was also college football was at a different level,

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Speaker 4: at least to my estimation.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: The NFL is now the eight hundred pound gorilla that

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Speaker 4: everybody's chasing and the biggest thing on the block for

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Speaker 4: us growing up, college football held a lot of that regard, right,

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Speaker 4: So you were looking to the authorities to fill in

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Speaker 4: the gaps on the games you didn't see. And Lou

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Speaker 4: Holtz was one of the pre eminent voices there.

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Speaker 1: An incredible life, incredible career for him, both on the

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Speaker 1: sideline and in the studio. Lou Holtz passing away today

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Speaker 1: at the age of eighty nine. Time now to find

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Speaker 1: out what's trending in the wide world of sports. From

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Speaker 1: Monci Bolangos, who has everything. We don't need the results

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Speaker 1: the Thunder Nick game. Everybody knows. You could just skip

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Speaker 1: by that and go on. You know what, I think

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Speaker 1: they cheated the Thunder. Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah it was something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, something happened that I I I

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Speaker 3: think they cheated.

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Speaker 1: You're right, okay, very good. I don't know if anyone's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna believe us, no, especially especially like the standings.

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Speaker 1: But if I throw it out there, maybe someone will

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Speaker 1: believe it's okay. Maybe maybe.

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Speaker 3: But the Thunder did survive one of three to one

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Speaker 3: hundred against the Mix at Madison Square Garden Shake Gilles

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Speaker 3: Alexander d dropped twenty six points and eight assists, one

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty four consecutive games for SGA with twenty

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Speaker 3: or more points.

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Speaker 1: That's why you get to wear a fox coat like that,

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Speaker 1: is why you can act like that exactly. That's why

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Speaker 1: you can wear like that. Unlike what's that guy?

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Speaker 4: Max?

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Speaker 1: No, what's the Max headroom?

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Speaker 2: Max Clark?

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Speaker 3: Is that the name of the prospect for the Tigers

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Speaker 3: has the five chains and fly balls and left field

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Speaker 3: for the Tigers training well played.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's one of the it's one of those.

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Speaker 3: Carl Anthony Towns did fell out with three minutes left

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Speaker 3: to that one. He did end with seventeen points and

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Speaker 3: seventeen rebounds. Kawhi Leonard had twenty nine points as the

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Speaker 3: Clippers roll past the Pacers one thirty to one on seven.

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Speaker 3: In La Benettict Maathern off the bench twenty three points

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Speaker 3: and eight rebounds against his former team. The Hornets have

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Speaker 3: won six in a row. They defeated the Celtics in Boston,

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Speaker 3: won eighteen to eighty nine. LaMelo Ball eighteen points, seven rebounds,

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Speaker 3: four assists, seventy six Ers outscored the Jazz one oh

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Speaker 3: six to one oh two. Hawks have won five in

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Speaker 3: a row after beating the Bucks one thirty one to

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Speaker 3: one thirteen and the Trailblazers top the Grizzlies went twenty

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Speaker 3: two to one. Fourteen True Holiday thirty five points and

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Speaker 3: eleven assists in the win. In men's college hoofs, number

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Speaker 3: seven Houston was down ten but came back to defeat

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Speaker 3: Baylor seventy seven to sixty four, and number fifteen Produce

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Speaker 3: survived seventeen to sixty six against Northwestern at the World

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Speaker 3: Baseball Classic. Pool play began and Australia shout out Chinese

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Speaker 3: Taipei three zero. USA is going to begin their poll

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Speaker 3: play on Friday at eight pm Eastern Time against Brazil.

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Speaker 3: In the NHL, the Golden Knights beat the Red Wings

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Speaker 3: four to three in overtime. Devil's top the Maple Leaves

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Speaker 3: four to three in a shootout. Maple Leaves have lost

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Speaker 3: five in a row. The Hurricanes defeated the Canucks six

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Speaker 3: to four. Ducks outscored the Islanders five to one, snapping

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Speaker 3: New York's five game winning streak in the NFL. In

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Speaker 3: case you have missed the news, on Wednesday, Patriots are

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Speaker 3: releasing four time Pro Bowl wide receiver Stefon Diggs. The

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Speaker 3: Chiefs traded all Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie to the Rams

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Speaker 3: for four draft picks, including a first rounder. The Vikings

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Speaker 3: are expected to release defensive tackle Jonathan Allen. Steelers are

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Speaker 3: releasing tight end John news Smith and the Chargers have

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Speaker 3: released offensive lineman Mackai Becton and tight end Will Disley.

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Speaker 1: Guys, it's been fun.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much mine, Thank you bye, do great

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Speaker 4: things you too.

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Speaker 1: So Jet, Joe get ready for free agents. Hate to say, Jack,

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Speaker 1: he might have grated the photo shot. I think the

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Speaker 1: Jets are going to get Derek Carr into a Uh.

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Speaker 4: That's good. That's as good as Sanchez versus t Though

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Speaker 4: back in the day, a couple of NFL inside and

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Speaker 4: including Mike Rouffalo, reporting today that the Jets are doing

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Speaker 4: their homework.

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Speaker 1: On t a tongue of Iloa, who is expected to

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Speaker 1: be released by the Dolphins before the start of the

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Speaker 1: league year. Now that's going to happen. The big question

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Speaker 1: for Miami is do they eat all the money this year?

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Speaker 1: Do they spread it out of it two years? But

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Speaker 1: two is gone and the Jets are doing their homework. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me just really, they're really pushing my my es

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Speaker 1: don't do homework. No, no, they're really pushing my my

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Speaker 1: my philosophy of I can get excited about every quarterback

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Speaker 1: because if Sam Darnold can win the Super Bowl, anybody can.

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Speaker 1: Because the only homeworking you know about, too is Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take the guy with the weakest arm in

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Speaker 1: football and we're gonna put him in a stadium with

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Speaker 1: swirling wins. How is that going to work. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be like me throwing a whiffle ball lefty in one

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Speaker 1: of those money machines where all the air goes shooting

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Speaker 1: out the bottom and you gotta grab whatever money you

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Speaker 1: can on some kind of crazy game show. That's the

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Speaker 1: only homework you need to do about too. Can he

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Speaker 1: throw the ball five yards?

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Speaker 4: And you've also played this guy two times a year

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Speaker 4: for the last half a decade. I know his injury history,

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Speaker 4: you know his inability to really connect on anything off

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Speaker 4: script or downfield.

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Speaker 1: I said the other day, we talked about there's destinations

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Speaker 1: for everyone, and the destination for Tua was Minnesota. Why

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Speaker 1: did I say this? I said this because he needs

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Speaker 1: to a get off the map for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: needs to get out out, get go off radar, and

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Speaker 1: give time to just hang out, learn a system, and

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Speaker 1: tackle it in the fall when you find out JJ

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Speaker 1: McCarthy stinks. Also, he needs to be able to be

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Speaker 1: in anvironment where, hey, when I throw the football, nothing's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen to him. Playing in a dome eight nine

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Speaker 1: games a year, that will happen. The Jets are one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty degrees from both of those things. Forget

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Speaker 1: about Oh, Tua goes from Miami to New York. Forget it.

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Speaker 1: Oh throwing the ball in those swirling wins, forget it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's had good game against the Jets. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great. Now he's gonna be playing four the Jets,

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Speaker 1: the games won't be as great, right, I mean, really, again,

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Speaker 1: I want to be excited about him, because again, you

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Speaker 1: can get excited about almost anybody, because Sam Darnold won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and it's not like he was even

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Speaker 1: looked at as being a starting quarterback up until he

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Speaker 1: went to the Vikings. Right, he had flamed out of

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Speaker 1: a bunch of teams. Okay, there are places for Tua,

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Speaker 1: but wow, man, the Jets aren't one of them. The

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Speaker 1: only thing that the silver lining and all of this mic,

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Speaker 1: and I'm being honest with you, is that if the

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Speaker 1: Jets signed Tua, I know they will be close closer

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Speaker 1: to tanking next year than they ever have been and

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Speaker 1: have a better shot at getting Arch Manning or Dante

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Speaker 1: More with the number one overall pick in the draft

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Speaker 1: the number two overall pick in the draft. Right, I

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Speaker 1: know that if they signed to a it's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be a great year. He's not someone that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to succeed. I will, like Garrett Wilson, fantasy wise,

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Speaker 1: is gonna throw them the football five thousand times. But

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Speaker 1: I know he can't win. He can't win in Miami.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to win it. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it. Him playing football in

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Speaker 1: the cold is not a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen, but it will help the Jets tank,

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Speaker 1: and it will help the quote March for Arch next year.

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Speaker 1: And maybe we couldn't get Peyton Manning twenty five years

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Speaker 1: ago and he said, no, no, I'm staying in college football

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Speaker 1: because Bill Parcells won't guarantee me the number one overall pick,

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Speaker 1: or I just want to avoid the Jets. Maybe, Hey,

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Speaker 1: twenty five thirty years later, Arch Manning will wind up

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Speaker 1: being a Jet. They will be closer to tanking if

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Speaker 1: they signed over jas. Of course they will, because it's

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Speaker 1: like Jeff Lawrence. Of course, it's the one game that

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Speaker 1: they never should have been in business. The Dolphins rowing seventeen,

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Speaker 1: the Jets pick second at one in sixteen. Hey, congratulations, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mason Taylor's stock goes up as well, right, the over

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Speaker 1: the middle. If Twood actually goes there. Look, Minnesota, you

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Speaker 1: and I have very do on that one. I think

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Speaker 1: it'd be a hot seat because everybody cares and either

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Speaker 1: loves or hates JJ McCarthy. So if you wanted to exile. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette has that one year deal which paying him nothing.

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Speaker 1: Because Arizona's about as far off the NFL radar as

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Speaker 1: you can go. U. The only other place that is

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Speaker 1: it could be is Atlanta, But I think they want

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Speaker 1: to win, so I don't think they're gonna bring him

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Speaker 1: in there. But the photoshop of to with the Captain

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Speaker 1: c don't forget that. Oh yeah, yeah, no, I love that.

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Speaker 4: Thing that he comes in and he becomes the leader.

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Speaker 4: Yeah good, not great. You're you're running in place like

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Speaker 4: we talked about being a hamster on a wheel earlier.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of where you're going here. And for the Jets,

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Speaker 4: if you're really going down the road of hey, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna give Aaron Glenn the best chance to succeed, is

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Speaker 4: that really it? No, But you also have to have

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Speaker 4: somebody that wants to come and take your money.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing is that you only go to

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Speaker 1: the Jets if you have no other options? What did

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Speaker 1: I say? The Jets aren't getting Kyler Murray because he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have options to him may not have as many options,

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Speaker 1: Which is what scares me about this, that this actually

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Speaker 1: might could happen.

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Speaker 4: Because Derek Carr is not a free agent.

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Speaker 1: We could we can wind up getting Derek Carr and

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Speaker 1: because he's not gonna have options either. I mean I could.

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Speaker 1: What well, Derek Carr and too are gonna No, Geno's

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Speaker 1: actually no, no, Geno's got more options than you think

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of teams in the NFL that say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it was a Raiders system that screwed him over last year.

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Speaker 4: So he's got off leave that. I think that's coming

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Speaker 4: from him, him and his agent. He's got off the

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Speaker 4: fact that Chip Kelly got an as he's got options. No,

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Speaker 4: Derek Kelly didn't throw the ball into triple coverage multiple times.

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Speaker 1: Derek carran to Tumbelowa might not have options. The Jets

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Speaker 1: might get both of them. They're not getting Malik Willis why,

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Speaker 1: because he's got options. He's got plenty of day. Not

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Speaker 1: getting mac Jones why he's got options, and the Niners

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Speaker 1: don't want to trade him, but no to and Derek Carr.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, get ready, get ready, good luck, Thanks

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Speaker 1: appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, wait for the offseason. What you're over under on wins?

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Speaker 4: Like five but again five and a half. But again,

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Speaker 4: if we get arch Manning in a year, I'm all

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Speaker 4: in on that.

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Speaker 1: I'm all in on it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna end up somewhere else. I'm going to

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Speaker 4: force the hand in a trade.

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