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Speaker 1: the fourth of July, maybe that happens. But another day

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Speaker 1: and two big quarterback stories out of the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that, look, every day we're getting

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Speaker 1: closer to the draft. I love when we get quarterback

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Speaker 1: stories and it's not just something where we have to

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Speaker 1: make up a you know, Fernanda Mendoza, is he great?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, let's just stop with that.

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Speaker 1: First you had Mike McCarthy appearing at a big fan

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Speaker 1: Kevin Harland always the I gotta say, always the uh,

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Speaker 1: While they were going on and celebrating the life of

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Speaker 1: Bob Harlan asked Mike McCarthy about the Aaron Rodgers situation.

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Speaker 1: He says, well, you know, I'd love to have breaking

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Speaker 1: world to be able to ask asking that question, what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen now with McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: McCarthy said it would be a great story if Rogers

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Speaker 1: would return to the Steelers. First of all, I want

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Speaker 1: to say again, relax, relax. Aaron Rodgers is coming on

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Speaker 1: Marty l a Number one. He'd have retired already if

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Speaker 1: But I guarantee that he has left bread crumbs already

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Speaker 1: He will be playing football. He'll be starting for the

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Speaker 1: And you know, and the other thing is this for

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Speaker 1: That I understand, but I'm not coming in here. I'm

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Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden things are different for Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: and that's how it's gonna go. So he's being calculated,

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Speaker 1: he's being Aaron. He's enjoying me time. He's doing all

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Speaker 1: be back playing football for the Steelers this year. Be

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Speaker 1: a big love fest with him and McCarthy and oh,

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Speaker 1: there was never any doubt that I was coming back.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited, all the normal stuff. So Aaron Rodgers could

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Speaker 1: I want to, because you know, I'm Aaron Rodgers, and

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Speaker 1: that's how I roll.

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Speaker 5: Now, I took some flack, and I always defended the

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Speaker 5: Packers when they took Jordan Love. Right, Eventually, you gotta

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Speaker 5: start planning for the future. And if a guy's gonna

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Speaker 5: There's been some injury times missed, and some erratic play

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Speaker 5: a very short sample size, a nice lucrative contract for

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Speaker 5: sixty seven million dollars down in Miami. But all that

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Speaker 5: to say for Aaron Rodgers, you know the writing's on

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Speaker 5: the wall. You're not the three to five year answer.

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Speaker 5: So deciding, Hey, I gotta see what you do in

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry if I'm Mike McCarthy and I'm you know,

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Speaker 5: Omar Cohn and all those guys up front. There's no

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Speaker 5: we gotta still be looking towards twenty seven and beyond,

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Speaker 5: I don't think you have that same juice.

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Speaker 1: No, but there's a difference between, Hey, we're drafting a

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers right that the first round quarterbacks always play. Right.

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Speaker 1: They're not ready. They're not ready. But it doesn't matter

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Speaker 5: You know, with the forty one year old, these average

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Speaker 1: Damn it, you do it.

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Speaker 1: But if that, look look at what happened to Russell

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Speaker 1: that's just how it goes. First round quarterbacks always play,

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Speaker 1: a sticky wicket with Aaron Rodgers this year. But hey,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if Aaron Rodgers is great. You talk

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Speaker 1: yourself into stuff. If Rogers is great, he's the starter,

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Speaker 1: and it's fine. If not, we have our guy. It's fine. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great. Everything works. Meanwhile, when you actually do it,

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Speaker 1: Wow, your dad, you just made your dad the happiest

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Speaker 5: just behind the Baltimore Orioles. See Pete Alonso, that guy

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Speaker 5: Jason used to know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Baltimore a little better than many, but

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Speaker 6: I don't like them more than the Tigers this year.

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Speaker 6: I just think that Detroit their path with that rotation.

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Speaker 6: I just I believe in them. I think Baltimore will

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Speaker 6: be a lot better. It is possible that the winner

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Speaker 6: of the Al East has fewer than ninety wins because

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Speaker 6: of how competitive, it's going to be. I think Toronto.

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Speaker 6: I love that roster, love the market, love the city,

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Speaker 6: all those things. I just think they're gonna come back

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Speaker 6: to earth a little bit because Baltimore is gonna be better.

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Speaker 6: Boston gets a whole year of Roman Anthony, the Yankees

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Speaker 6: eventually get Garrett Cole back, and they've got Schlitler and

445
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Speaker 6: a lot of other guys that have emerged. I just

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Speaker 6: I think that I agree Baltimore is gonna be better,

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Speaker 6: but I don't think their chances of winning the World

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Speaker 6: Series are better than Detroit's.

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Speaker 1: John Paul Morose, the MLB Network Insider with us Okay,

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Speaker 1: so in the National League, now, obviously you have the

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Speaker 1: Tigers and the Dodgers. If it's not the Dodge, Dodgers

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Speaker 1: such an overwhelming favor to go to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: If it's not the Dodgers, who's your World Series team?

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Speaker 6: The Cubs. The Cubs, they addressed a couple of their

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Speaker 6: issues from last year. Of course, they bring in Bregman,

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Speaker 6: they make the Cabrera trade to address the rotation. That's

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Speaker 6: a really good team, and I think they've been overshadowed

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Speaker 6: a bit the last couple of years by the Brewers

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Speaker 6: in the same division love Milwaukee as well, but I

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Speaker 6: think that the Cubs are getting better year over year.

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Speaker 6: As much as I want to pick the Mets for you, Jason,

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Speaker 6: I just don't know. I think I still have some

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Speaker 6: rotation questions right now, and I look at the Cubs

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Speaker 6: as being a team that has a little bit more

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Speaker 6: a little bit more certainty the Phillies. The Phillies could

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Speaker 6: go one of two directions. Either with some minor adjustments

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Speaker 6: they're they're right back in the conversation, or if they

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Speaker 6: if they start going the wrong direction. There are very

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Speaker 6: few things that are harder to fixed than an old

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Speaker 6: team that is going in in a in a direction

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Speaker 6: where you're a little bit concerned about the future, and

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Speaker 6: that's what I'm seeing with with the Phillies. They've been

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Speaker 6: doubling down a lot of extensions for their current guys,

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Speaker 6: which which is great, you're standing by your guys. But

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Speaker 6: I think that if they have to pivot, that's gonna

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Speaker 6: be the most awkward pivot since watching me play basketball

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Speaker 6: and junior high. I just don't know how that's gonna

478
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Speaker 6: come together. So that's so I think for that reason,

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Speaker 6: the Mets have a bit of a path. I think

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Speaker 6: the Pirates are going to be better. Wouldn't surprise me

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Speaker 6: if they make the playoffs. Wouldn't surprise me if the

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Speaker 6: Marlins make the playoffs. It's whoa, whoa. Yeah, I I'm

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Speaker 6: a fan of the Marlins. That the other team that

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Speaker 6: I'm and I gonna I'm kind of just handing out

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Speaker 6: flowers left and right. The other team that I really

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Speaker 6: believe has a legitimate shot at the playoffs is the

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Speaker 6: eight the American League. I think that their lineup is

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Speaker 6: one of the best in baseball right now. It's young,

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Speaker 6: it's getting better. I think they're gonna stay healthy and

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Speaker 6: stay connected. That A's lineup, it's gonna be some fun

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Speaker 6: baseball being played in West Sacramento this season.

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Speaker 1: One hundred to one.

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Speaker 5: If you want to go down that path for your

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Speaker 5: Nevada and just the world's athletics, Oh, I.

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Speaker 1: Want, I want the whole parley of the Pirates, Marlins,

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Speaker 1: a's I want. I want to go all three of

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Speaker 1: those teams.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Marlin's one hundred and seventy five.

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Speaker 6: Making the postseason. So I don't I don't gamble, but

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Speaker 6: that's an interesting that's an interesting concept.

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Speaker 5: I will go and figure out what that parlay is.

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Speaker 5: I'll get in touch with my guy Furman and we'll

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Speaker 5: get that all figured out. Now, you mentioned with with

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Speaker 5: a lot of these squads here, JP that you that

505
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Speaker 5: you're pinning as possible, you know, Cinderella kinda Darlings and

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Speaker 5: all this means there's a lot of youth that needs

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Speaker 5: to be served. We mentioned McGonagall, You've got a couple

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Speaker 5: of other prospects that people should be excited to see

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Speaker 5: come opening day here.

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Speaker 6: Well, I've got to give some credit right now to

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Speaker 6: to Jason Smith's team that the New York Mets, that

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Speaker 6: getting Carson Bent up there. Love that great athlete at

513
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Speaker 6: Oklahoma State, of course, the teammate of Nolan McClain's there.

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Speaker 6: I think Bench has a chance to be a really,

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Speaker 6: really good player for them and athletic enough to play

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Speaker 6: in the middle of the diamond. So I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 6: buying stock right now on Bene and his ability to

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Speaker 6: be a mainstay for that team into the future. And

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Speaker 6: then also another team that I like a little bit,

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Speaker 6: the Rays. Carson Williams starting at shortstop we expect to

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Speaker 6: begin the year. He just made the club. He's a

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Speaker 6: name that has been popular in the industry for a while,

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Speaker 6: and now he gets his chance the Rays. Remember, they've

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Speaker 6: got Shane McClanahan coming back, They've got Ronda, They've got

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Speaker 6: a full year of Griffin Jackson at the end of

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Speaker 6: the bullpen. Again that that American League East, that the

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Speaker 6: Jays love him. But they were the beneficiaries of a

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Speaker 6: division that was down a year ago, and the division

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Speaker 6: is back up right now. With Williams in Tampa, with

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Speaker 6: Benge with the Mets, I think those are probably the

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Speaker 6: guys that I look at the most.

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Speaker 1: And then.

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Speaker 6: I think that like Rond in New York with the Yankees,

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Speaker 6: he's a guy to watch potentially to uh to see

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Speaker 6: if he comes back there, and maybe not right away,

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Speaker 6: but around the middle part of the year. I think

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Speaker 6: he's got some electric stuff that can feature for the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think we're onto something here, John Paul. Because

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Speaker 1: of all the teams you have talked about, we've talked

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Speaker 1: about World Series teams, we've talked about surprise playoff teams.

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Speaker 1: You have not mentioned the New York Yankees once in

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Speaker 1: this cont You have not mentioned the Yankees. One that

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Speaker 1: Stan Pat getting Garrett Cole back Yankees Once, what do

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Speaker 1: you think twenty twenty six has in store for them?

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Speaker 6: I believe that they will be very good. I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure they're gonna win the division because I like I

547
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Speaker 6: think Bosk got a shot to win the division Baltimore

548
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Speaker 6: for reasons that we already discussed. If they can stay

549
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Speaker 6: steady through the initial part of the year while Cole

550
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Speaker 6: gets back cut the full strength, then I really like

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Speaker 6: their chances. Bellinger, to me, is a really important piece

552
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Speaker 6: for them, getting him back, Grisham as well, Judge. Obviously

553
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Speaker 6: he's still the sun of the moon and the stars

554
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Speaker 6: for them. Austin Wells maybe some momentum for him coming

555
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Speaker 6: back after the WBC shortstop of the question. Obviously, Volpie

556
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Speaker 6: beginning the year injured after surgery, and then you've got

557
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Speaker 6: Kabiyiro get a lot of starts there to begin with.

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Speaker 6: So I think if they can find a way to

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Speaker 6: get through April and early May and in good shape,

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Speaker 6: I think they've got a chance to be a really

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Speaker 6: good second half team. But Boston, I love Roman Anthony,

562
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Speaker 6: I think their rotations excellent. Crochet certainly stands out to me,

563
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Speaker 6: and then Baltimore is gonna be better. So If the

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Speaker 6: Yankees get off to a stable start, they can challenge

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Speaker 6: in the Al East. But if they stumble early, I

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Speaker 6: think the quality of the division is going to be

567
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Speaker 6: a lot better than what it was a year ago,

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Speaker 6: and I think would would potentially be a a really

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Speaker 6: devastating blow for them if they don't get off to

570
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Speaker 6: who gets start there in the Alias.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John

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Speaker 1: Morosi MLB Network, John Paul as always, Buddy, appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: Enjoy opening Day tomorrow. We'll talk to you season twenty

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Speaker 1: two for you and season one for you picking the Tigers.

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Speaker 1: As far as your dad knows, Uh, thanks much.

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Speaker 6: Funny to be proud. He'll be proud as we have

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Speaker 6: that conversation.

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Speaker 5: Happy opening game, Buddy.

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Speaker 6: Happy opening day, guys, looking forward to all the best.

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Speaker 6: I have a great start of the.

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Speaker 1: Year, all right, boy, I really want to know what

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Speaker 1: that parley would be like Pirates, Marlins and A's in

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Speaker 1: the play? Like would that be a Todd Furman Smith.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you whatever rodd you want on those three

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Speaker 1: teams making whatever rodd you want. I'll give you that.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm gonna send it right now. We'll see how

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Speaker 5: quickly we get a.

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Speaker 1: Response exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike carmon Time,

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio because he's very popular in Sacramento. It's deep

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna say athletic prowess or no. Clearly he did

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Speaker 7: not go in that direction. Major League Baseball's opening game

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Speaker 7: is Wednesday night, streaming only, Yankees at San Francisco. Most

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Speaker 7: teams open on Thursday. That would include Pittsburgh and Paul

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Speaker 7: Skins at the Mets. Mets short stuff Francisco Lindor is

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Speaker 7: due to play in Thursday's opener after hand surgery. He

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Speaker 7: went three for nineteen in spring. Tampa Bay pitcher Ryan

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Speaker 7: Pepio went on the injured list with hip inflammation. Red's

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Speaker 7: pitcher Nick Lidolo is on the aisle with the blister.

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Speaker 7: In the Dodgers' final exhibition tonight, Shoho Tani pitch four

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Speaker 7: plus innings eleven strikeouts against the Angels, who did score

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Speaker 7: three runs in the fifth and won three to nothing

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Speaker 7: to the NBA.

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Speaker 1: The late game is finally underway.

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Speaker 7: They are late first quarter in Phoenix Suns thirty five

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Speaker 7: twenty six over Denver.

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Speaker 1: The next one they were a game starting later. Game

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Speaker 1: starting announced because.

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Speaker 7: The Yukon game went long so fast.

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Speaker 5: Ticket in Tampa, Florida.

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Speaker 7: Tiptime is estimated to be ten ten for you hope

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Speaker 7: you can call.

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Speaker 1: In Arizona and the Miami Heat will be at ten ten.

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Speaker 7: Yes, New York Knicks won their seventh straight game, beating

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Speaker 7: New Orleans one twenty one to one sixteen thirty two

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Speaker 7: points for Jalen Brunson at Cleveland forty two points for

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Speaker 7: Donovan Mitchell in a winno Orlando one thirty six, one

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Speaker 7: thirty one. The Magic had lost six games in a row.

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Speaker 7: They even lost last night at home to Indiana, which

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Speaker 7: had lost sixteen straight. Charlotte beat up Sacramento one thirty

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Speaker 7: four to ninety. The Hornets from three point range were

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Speaker 7: twenty six four fifty five. Grizzlies guard John Morant was

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Speaker 7: out again last night with a sprained elbow. He's been

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Speaker 7: out for almost two months. Tonight, the team announces Morant

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Speaker 7: is out for the season. He'll get an injection in

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Speaker 7: his injured elbow, but Philadelphia's Paul George returns Wednesday after

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Speaker 7: a twenty five game suspension for Peds. North Carolina basketball

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Speaker 7: coach Hubert Davis will not return. After five years, he

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Speaker 7: has been fired. He is still owed over five million dollars.

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Speaker 7: The NIT quarterfinals began this evening. Tulsa a one seed,

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Speaker 7: edge Wichita State eighty three seventy nine, and then New Mexico,

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Speaker 7: a one seed, which trailed at half. Lobos beat Saint

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Speaker 7: Joe's eighty four to sixty nine. Among the fifteen NHL games,

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Speaker 7: Montreal five to two over Carolina. Toronto a four to

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Speaker 7: two winner at Boston. New Jersey won at Dallas six

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Speaker 7: to four. The Bengals free signed quarterback Joe Flacco. New

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Speaker 7: Orleans is signing quarterback Zach Wilson. The Falcon signed running

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Speaker 7: back Brian Robinson. Bucks linebacker Lavonte David retired after fourteen seasons.

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Speaker 7: At the Miami Open, Cocoa Goff won her quarterfinal in

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Speaker 7: three sets tonight, and a reminder Nascars on FS one

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Speaker 7: again this Sunday, three thirty pm Eastern Time from Martinsville, Virginia.

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Speaker 7: Then the Cup series is off Easter weekend back to you.

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Speaker 1: so elsewhere in the NFL today this I thought this

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Speaker 1: was absolutely fascinating to a tongue of I Looap met

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Speaker 1: the media for the first time since signing with the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Right the big move happened right after the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the new league year. We get into free agency to

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Speaker 1: us let go by the Dolphins. They're eating all his

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Speaker 1: money over the course of the next two years. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just picturing goats eating a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: a room, waiting until they finish it. But he meets

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Speaker 1: the media for the first time since becoming the new

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Speaker 1: Falcons quarterback, in which he will ostensibly battle it out

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Speaker 1: with Michael Pennix Junior to be the starter. Now, he

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Speaker 1: did say, hey, I gotta play better if I want

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Speaker 1: to become the Falcons QB one. I'm not shying away

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Speaker 1: from competition. You know. This is where Tuas said all

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Speaker 1: the right things and as far as hey, going forward,

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Speaker 1: we're going to lean on each other. You know, I

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Speaker 1: know what's going on here, and look, I got to

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Speaker 1: play better for I'm be the Falcons QB one. But

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Speaker 1: where things got really interesting was when he was asked

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Speaker 1: about his time in Miami, specifically what twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: was like, and Jua did not want to get into

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Speaker 1: a lot of details on the last year he spent

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Speaker 1: in Miami. Take a listen.

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Speaker 4: If you're looking at last year, my play wasn't up

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Speaker 4: to the standard of the way I've been playing football

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Speaker 4: the past what three years since since the new contract.

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Speaker 4: So just gotta play better football. That that's that's what

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Speaker 4: that that really means. There's no other way to sugarcoat.

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Speaker 1: That or go around that. Jason, are you typing while

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Speaker 1: he's talking?

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Speaker 5: I was actually someone's really hammering the keyboard there, lacka

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Speaker 5: We got to make sure you're transcribing to a while

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Speaker 5: he's while he's talking.

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Speaker 1: What are you tweeting? He was asked about his experience

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Speaker 1: last year and says it was unique. When he was

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Speaker 1: asked in what way, he simply replied, in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways, that's what he had to say about the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins in twenty twenty five. So it's easier forever was

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Speaker 1: typing to type that out. Then it's met much easier

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Speaker 1: to end it on the teletype. Maybe that's what it was,

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Speaker 1: Oh Amy, the teletype I'm getting I'm getting too is

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Speaker 1: talking about right now. It's coming in. I can help

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Speaker 1: you out here. I can explain it to you.

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Speaker 6: To it.

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Speaker 1: I can explain to you about your unique year last

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Speaker 1: year in Miami. I can explain your entire Miami Dolphins career.

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Speaker 1: They liked you, but they never really loved you overall.

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Speaker 1: That's to a tongue of Iiloa. In Miami, he was

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Speaker 1: always at arm's length. They drafted him, thought he was

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Speaker 1: gonna be great, but then saw that a little bit

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Speaker 1: more nuanced. To try to shepherd the guy through his

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Speaker 1: arm is not nearly what we thought it was going

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Speaker 1: to be. We got to move the offense around him.

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Speaker 1: We hope he's gonna be great, But there wasn't a

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Speaker 1: lot of nurturing. There wasn't a lot of helping him

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Speaker 1: grow as a leader, because that's the part that was

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Speaker 1: really awkward for him. Every time two had tried to

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Speaker 1: talk and tried to lead boy, it was kind of cringeworthy.

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Speaker 1: It's just not his wheelhouse. But you have to do

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Speaker 1: that if you're gonna be the face of a franchise.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeay, he got paid, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: that the Dolphins ever really believed in him. There was

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Speaker 1: always the shroud behind him that hey we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a move for Jalen Hurts, or hey we're paying you.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we don't know if he wants you long

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Speaker 1: long term. Your deal is not for seven years, it's

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Speaker 1: for four years. I don't know that they ever really

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Speaker 1: thought he was the guy, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he ever really thought it was his team. Miami kind

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Speaker 1: of failed him in helping shepherd him along as a leader.

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Speaker 1: As a quarterback, you know, you have to figure out

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Speaker 1: your own way. But we saw that he was able

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Speaker 1: to do that.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: Hey, we figured out a way around. He was a

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Speaker 1: four thousand yard passer around a couple of really big years,

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Speaker 1: found a way to get the ball to Tyreek Kill,

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Speaker 1: and we thought he's just gonna underthrow him every time

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Speaker 1: he goes out for a pass. But overall, like I

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Speaker 1: never got the sense Miami was all in on him.

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Speaker 1: You can draft a guy and put him out there

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Speaker 1: and think he's gonna be good, and you can pay him,

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Speaker 1: but there's a difference in believing he is your franchise player.

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Speaker 1: And I never thought the Dolphins believed that in Tua.

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Speaker 1: And this is why, after not even reaching the end

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Speaker 1: of his contract extension. He's out playing for you know,

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Speaker 1: one point three million with the Atlanta Falcons trying to

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Speaker 1: jumpstart his career. Never really threw their arms around him

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Speaker 1: like teams would do that around a franchise quarterback, especially

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Speaker 1: someone who flashed and had had a couple of Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl caliber years. They still never thought he was the guy.

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Speaker 1: Could still got that sense out of Miami.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, to me, the part of it was

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Speaker 5: you're always measuring against the fact that he did have

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Speaker 5: such an extensive injury history. And not just injuries. I

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Speaker 5: mean we're talking multiple concussions, and with the stress and

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Speaker 5: emphasis on that, you're trying to protect him, but you're

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Speaker 5: also now changing how you're operating. He's a guy that

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Speaker 5: you mentioned arm strength. He's not just a guy who's

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Speaker 5: gonna throw you back into games necessarily. Most of what

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Speaker 5: he needed to do was time and down and distance

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Speaker 5: and rhythm, which changes up the complexion. So if you're

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Speaker 5: down big, he's not leading that comeback right Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 5: there or not, you don't get to utilize him the

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Speaker 5: proper way. In terms of ten targets a game, Jalen

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Speaker 5: Wattle regressed, a lot of it ended up becoming the

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Speaker 5: a Chan show and how great he could be. We'll

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Speaker 5: see how quickly he gets traded here before, either before

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Speaker 5: the draft or as that guy who becomes the big

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Speaker 5: piece for a contender in season. But for Tua, you

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Speaker 5: also had a divide between your coach and your front

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Speaker 5: office that which is pretty clear all the way through.

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Speaker 5: So you know, when everybody's kind of pointing fingers a blame,

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Speaker 5: McDaniel's got to go try to wear it in public,

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Speaker 5: and that didn't go over well Oftentimes, as he tried

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Speaker 5: to explain what they were trying to do, the turnovers

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Speaker 5: started to pile up, like a lot of what he

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Speaker 5: could do once upon a time seemed to really go

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Speaker 5: into the rear view mirror.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I felt like they were always looking for an exit, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going down this road, but where's the exit ramp.

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Speaker 1: We're on this road, we want to make sure we

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Speaker 1: have an exit ramp at some point, because yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: just not that true now. We gotta keep him because

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Speaker 1: he's played well enough where we're not just gonna start

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Speaker 1: over at the position. But at some point, it's like

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Speaker 1: when you always feel like you're moving on, eventually you're

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Speaker 1: gonna move on, and that's why they did it. I

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Speaker 1: just never got the sense they ever loved him.

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Speaker 5: You just spoke to a lot of folks and the

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Speaker 5: relationships that they're in right now.

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Speaker 1: Man, I'll tell you, maybe they like you, but maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't really love you. That's the phone number eight

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Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox your love advice right

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Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, a big

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Speaker 1: story out of the NBA that I don't know. The

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Speaker 1: players want this story out there. That's next. Jason