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Speaker 1: the pain nationwide. Let's go well. Thanks to Jay Lazer

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Speaker 1: for joining a few moments ago. Look obviously nine to eleven,

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Speaker 1: a day we will never forget. And it's been a

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Speaker 1: very emotional day. The Yankees, you know, their game earlier

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Speaker 1: about dan Quinn that after nine to eleven, dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: almost left the NFL to join the military, and not

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Speaker 1: many people know that story, and that was that was

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Speaker 1: an amazing a few minutes. It's always a great few

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Speaker 1: minutes fen with Jay Lazer, but sometimes you know when

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Speaker 1: you get you clearly he's the one responsible for them.

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Speaker 1: Michaeh Parson's trade to the Packers, You're welcome, NFL. But

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Speaker 1: that story about dan Quinn was just fantastic. No, we

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Speaker 1: always get the the x's and o's and the inside

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Speaker 1: dope on the league, but then it's the personal relationships

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Speaker 1: why he's been so successful, going all the way back

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Speaker 1: other level. And every week we get some piece of that,

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Speaker 1: and this one as we commemorate the anniversary on nine

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Speaker 1: all these years later, still trying to come together that,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jay Glazer puts it in perspective with what

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Speaker 1: have given Halfley in the Packers a little advice about

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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, you know, tomorrow, and we ended up getting

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Speaker 1: that absolute goal based on those relationships. Now, we spent

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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, and rightfully so right the guy is for

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Speaker 1: every reason you want to say, has vaulted the Packers

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Speaker 1: just because not because well they are the only team

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Speaker 1: Micah Parson's presence has been everywhere tonight. He affected almost

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the final score seems a little bit closer

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Speaker 1: at this time, we're saying, man, Jordan Love is ready

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Speaker 1: He they got it. They got it. Last year was okay,

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Speaker 1: we got to make room that Jordan Love is that

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Speaker 1: When they when they first gave him the gig, it was, okay,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be his number one receiver? Right quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: need got you know, a young guy coming in. Who's

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Speaker 1: it going to be? And the Packers kind of did

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Speaker 1: the same thing the Chiefs have done the last couple

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Speaker 1: after a year, it doesn't matter. We'll go to somebody else. Right,

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Speaker 1: And when you have someone like Patrick Mahomes, Okay, one

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Speaker 1: do that. And Patrick Mahomes can make it work. You

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Speaker 1: a heady thing, that's a tough thing to do. But

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Speaker 1: that's exactly what the Packers have been doing. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: now this year is kind of the same thing. Right, No, Well,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Tucker Craft, who had the best game

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Speaker 1: offense through the first three quarters. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: it matters with the Packers who the number one receiver is.

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Speaker 1: The way this offense is styled, it's one of those

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Speaker 1: every week, it could be somebody different, Right, Jayden Reid,

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Speaker 1: he got hurt early tonight. Didn't matter, right, You say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: look at what happened to the Chiefs a week ago.

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Speaker 1: They lost Xavier Worthy early on in the game and

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Speaker 1: Travis kel said, everything's out the window. We were so XAVI,

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Speaker 1: you're worthy heavy, which I understand that the same time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well you're still playing and myhomes is still playing. You

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Speaker 1: got Hollywood Brown, You still okay, you got my homes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Jayden Reid gets hurt. You think he was going to

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Speaker 1: He still spread the football around and it's maddening for

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Speaker 1: every fantasy owner. I get it, I get it. I

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Speaker 1: don't want anytime someone wants to put a Packers receiver

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Speaker 1: into a trade with me, I go, no, no craft,

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Speaker 1: no well receiver involving craft tonight in Wisconsin. Oh yeah no,

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Speaker 1: that's it flying off the shelves at a buck of box. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there will be shells and white cheddar in a craft party.

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Speaker 5: So what would you do for at Oh dude, I would,

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Speaker 5: I would say things.

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Speaker 1: Would I would stick my head into just eat it

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Speaker 1: with my mouth like it's a pie eating Contestcuse me

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Speaker 1: say what. I love macaroni and cheese. I would just

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Speaker 1: you'd have like a joker smile. How did you get

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Speaker 1: but it really didn't matter because you saw that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: who was the guy? Who's Who's whose matchup? You can

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Speaker 1: exploit tonight Tucker Craft? Because how many times was Craft

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Speaker 1: wide open? It's not like you saw a Craft. Well, boy,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough one handed catch in traffic. This is boy,

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Speaker 1: he's wide open. This is the further development of Jordan

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Speaker 1: Love that maybe hey, okay, we saw guys breakout last year,

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Speaker 1: see who's going to continue their ascension, and we kind

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Speaker 1: of forgot about Jordan Love after last year because okay,

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Speaker 1: you didn't really build so much on twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: The Packers weren't better than they were a year ago.

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Speaker 1: But right now, now you have the defense behind you,

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Speaker 1: Jacob's now over eighty yards of touchdown again every single

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter that the Packers don't have a true number

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Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes has only been kind of doing it

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Speaker 1: of years. But clearly Jordan Love may be better at

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Speaker 1: this part of it, at figuring out, hey, I can

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Speaker 1: I don't know why with the Packers, it's kind of like, well,

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Speaker 1: every week it's somebody different, And I think we kind

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Speaker 1: off of last year. But this may be that time

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Speaker 1: There's a reason why I was next in Green Bay

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Speaker 1: and now this is the best team clearly that they've

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Speaker 1: addition of Michael Parsons to do that to you and

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Speaker 1: three in the league. That's how good they've been so far.

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Speaker 1: And here he is someone completing over sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns, no turnovers, like this might be the best

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Speaker 1: version and the best team that he's had in Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: And this is the big bounce back. You're the big

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Speaker 1: springboard year for Jordan Low. Yeah, absolute complete roster and

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Speaker 1: coming into the year, great expectations. They were one of

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Speaker 1: like no, no, no, like they need you, like you're at

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00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 1: the top of the order in a hotly contested battle

428
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 1: to just stay afloat in the wildcard and you're just

429
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of like, ah, what are you gonna do, Like

430
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: when he said last night, I don't know. We just

431
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 1: haven't able to find that thing. This year we did

432
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: just not we have been able to find that spark. Dude, Jerry,

433
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 1: you're in a wild card position, man, and you have

434
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,159
Speaker 1: fifteen seventeen games left. Find it? Find I keep looking,

435
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: It's like I can't find it. Keep blocking, keep trying

436
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 1: to find it. Your guy clearly spent plenty of coin

437
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 1: to try to build a winner. You've got a top

438
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: heavy lineup when it comes to name recognition in Major

439
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: League Baseball, and down the stretch you're getting a bunch

440
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 1: of blanks. Like all you're getting is juice from the rookies.

441
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: That's what you do if you're in Tampa. That's what

442
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 1: you do. If you're Cincinnati or one of these squads

443
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: trying to just goose a little bit of life into

444
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: the back end of the year. Or Colorado. Hey, look,

445
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,160
Speaker 1: here's Eric Carross's kid, and I hope he does really well.

446
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: But it's like, all right, we're bringing up all the

447
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: guys that are impossible major leaguers to get at least

448
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: give you something to cheer four in September. That's what

449
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 1: it feels like the Mets have done the last couple

450
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: of weeks. It's like, is it strategic for these are

451
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: the guys that are gonna push us to No, no, no,

452
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 1: it's like a fuscation. These are the guys that'll be

453
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: at the top of your rotation in twenty twenty six. Yeah,

454
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,639
Speaker 1: don't look over here anymore this year. I mean, really,

455
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: if they don't, if it's a it's such a bad

456
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 1: thing to miss, it's such a bad guy. And two

457
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 1: or three of the worst seasons and most painful seasons

458
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: and Mets I've seen in my life the two of

459
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 1: the last three years. So but they're sandwich by a

460
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: great year last year. But I mean, really, you still

461
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: got the men? Does is not making it? Mendoz is

462
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: not making it. You know who else is not making it?

463
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: Who's that? Angel Reese is not going to make it

464
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Sky next year? Tonight final night for

465
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,360
Speaker 1: a WNBA for team for the Shanna Appreciation Day. Come on,

466
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 1: they lose tonight and Angel Reese goes from her interview

467
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: where she threw the entire organization under the bus to

468
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 1: not playing again the rest of the season right now.

469
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 1: She sat out the one game because she got her

470
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: eighth technical foul. They decided to suspend her for the

471
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 1: first half of their game Sunday because of her comments

472
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: in which she mentioned her teammates name and who doesn't

473
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,479
Speaker 1: deserve to come back and what she thinks about other

474
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: players trying to come back rip the front office as well.

475
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: And she never wound up playing the rest of the way.

476
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: And how legitimate is this that they said, oh, her

477
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: back injury, Well, she was playing, she was playing. She

478
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 1: played in that game and then she had to sit

479
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: out and now you suspended her for the first half.

480
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: And I said it at the time, and I hate

481
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: to say I told you so. But that day when

482
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: that interview came out and she said what she said,

483
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 1: what did I say? This is where the Chicago Sky

484
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: are going to debate her worth and value to this

485
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: organization and if her talent is worth it. And the

486
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: answer is going to surprise you, because what they've done

487
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: since they've got her is they were bad last year

488
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: and they were worse this year. And and she's one

489
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 1: of the top two players on the team, and yes,

490
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: you look and she's a star, and she's a terrific player,

491
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 1: But you get to the point where is Angel Reece

492
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 1: worth it? And I've seen a lot of people having,

493
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: you know, coming to her defense the last couple of

494
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: days ago. If you knew the Chicago sky and how

495
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: how and how bad that is in the front office,

496
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: you'd agree with Angel rees No, I'm with you on that.

497
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: That's not that's not the that's not the point. I

498
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: can hope thou any parallel. We've seen players rip the

499
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: front office because they didn't put a good product on

500
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: the floor or on the field. We've seen that many times.

501
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: Let me said many times, and many times, hey, it's

502
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: great players say that. But she went on and took

503
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 1: on her teammates, the women in the locker room with

504
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: her who wanted to have a meeting with her because

505
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: of what she said. You think, Courtney Vanderslut is too old.

506
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: We can't come back with her. The only two people

507
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: that should be definitely coming back next year me and

508
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: Camilla Cardoso, like, how do you go back into the

509
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: locker room after that? And that's just that. I can't

510
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: believe she wasn't suspended for the whole season. I can't

511
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: believe they they're not gonna announce she's gonna sit for

512
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the year, right, But she wound up

513
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: not being not playing at all. She was with the team.

514
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: Uh you know, they said she tried to come out

515
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 1: for warm ups and and and couldn't go the last game.

516
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: So she sat today. She didn't even come dressed. Obviously,

517
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: end of the sea. You're not going to the playoffs.

518
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: But this is Angel Reese and you would want her

519
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: to go into the offseason with Hey, if she's gonna

520
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: be part of this team, we have some repairing to do,

521
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: right if she would beat out there if they felt

522
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: that she's gonna be part of the team going forward.

523
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 1: So probably, and not very quietly, they will shop her

524
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a team that say, yes, we

525
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: love Angel Reese. As young as she is talented, look

526
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: at what she does. She's the best rebound of the

527
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: league has seen, maybe in the last twenty five years. Yeah,

528
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: maybe change of pace, But she's got to understand that

529
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: she's part of a team here. They will be able

530
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: to deal her and get something good for her. But

531
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: this is where the Chicago Sky are saying is her

532
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: talent worth it? And the answer is gonna be no.

533
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: The fact that she has not really been part of

534
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: this team over the course of the past week and

535
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: a half tells you everything you need to know. I

536
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: don't know who it's gonna be. Maybe it's gonna be

537
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: a bottom feeder team in the league that needs a

538
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: player for some kind of identity. Maybe they train her

539
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the wings, you know, for a player they're already a

540
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: bottom feater. Maybe, but what I'm saying is they're not.

541
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like the Liberty or the Aces

542
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: are gonna say, yes, hey, we're really good. We're gonna

543
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: bring in a play or who was really good. But

544
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: she is she worth the trouble and the attention that

545
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: she brings off the court. Maybe it's as simple as saying, hey,

546
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 1: you know what, you're going to Dallas. You're gonna work

547
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: with Paige Becker's and we're gonna get a Riko gunbalwalle Right,

548
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: who now is not getting the shots that she's normally

549
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: used to. I don't know, because Page Beckers gets all

550
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: the shots in Dallas now right. I'm just I'm just

551
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: throwing this out there. It's gonna be teams that need

552
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: a fresh start, that need a different mix to try

553
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: to go forward. So I wouldn't be surprised if that's

554
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: the kind of trade that happens. But judging by the

555
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: last week and a half, yeah, Angel Reese is not

556
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna be in Chicago.

557
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of things that have to go on.

558
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: First off, you do the examination front office, whatever grains

559
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: of truth might be unearthed in a full review of

560
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: your processes, procedures, evaluations, et cetera. Right, you changed the

561
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: coaches was that was clearly not popular with Angel Reese

562
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: when they got rid of Witherspoon this offseason, So that

563
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: was already a latent issue waiting waiting to come up.

564
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: You see, she showed up right at final home game today.

565
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: Crowd loses their minds, and that's where we start getting

566
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: into the business, the business of this all of Well,

567
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna change out a lot of players, Like

568
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have the data in front of me,

569
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: but it seems like the rosters kind of bounce quite

570
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: a bit. We don't have the same level of continuity

571
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: necessarily with a lot of these squads, particularly on the

572
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: As we said, the team's on the bottom end of

573
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 1: the standards. Like it's the shuffle up and deal kind

574
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: of thing, so you're looking at shoe deals and everything else.

575
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: She's box office. Yeah, and the crowd loves it and

576
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: Chicago loves her. So all of that to say, you're

577
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: gonna go with whatever Cardoso and whoever else is your core.

578
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, is this a situation that can win?

579
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: Because the way this worked, I think it played out.

580
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: I really would have thought she would have tried to

581
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: give it the old college try, if for nothing else,

582
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: maybe anybody that's a fenced straddler would have slid over

583
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: to her side, even if just meekly. All right, she

584
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: gave it the old college try for the fans in

585
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: the final game instead, she had a really good looking fit.

586
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: She did come out, She signed a bunch of atographs,

587
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: took photos, whatever, So she knows she knows the game

588
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: like she she's playing the game. Well, but it's the

589
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: I didn't expect them to push her away because again

590
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: it was only a game and a half. Yeah, so

591
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: like whether she played or not, Like here she shows

592
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: up and clearly you got a lot of salty folks,

593
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: but you recognize that sometimes. Look in our business, in

594
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: most businesses, people are on teams and work with people

595
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: they don't particularly like. No, but you can make it work, right,

596
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: But it's always something. It's always something to the extent of, hey,

597
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: you go your way, I go mine. We're with each

598
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: other on the court. She has always been about herself

599
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: and everything she does is about herself. And so I

600
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: don't know how if she comes back play it out.

601
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: Let's say she comes back, there's gonna be changes, right, Sure,

602
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: she's gonna come back. You will have elevated her into

603
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: being bigger than the team, bigger than the head coach,

604
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: bigger than the organization because she says what she says

605
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: about her teammates and she gets to stay and you

606
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: have to figure stuff out around her. That's a difficult proposition.

607
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: And again I would get it if she was such

608
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: a big star and they won, right. I understand that.

609
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: If she was such a big star and they won

610
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: butt in two years with her as one of the

611
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: focal points of the team, they've been bad.

612
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 5: Now.

613
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: One of the things she did say is she she

614
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: openly opined as she did all the stuff with the

615
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: team was I don't know if this is long term,

616
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm obviously encapsulating and summarizing it whether this is the place.

617
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: So she's got to put it out there. Not quite

618
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: going James Harden, She's got one foot out the door,

619
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: all right, right, James Harden had in the back.

620
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: Did you hear that?

621
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. I'd say Darryl

622
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: Morey is a lot. But that's you know, she kind

623
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: of wants it as well. It feels like she wants it.

624
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: She wants to get to someplace else. It's it's it's

625
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: I if the Chicago skuy think going forward, we're going

626
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: to be a better team and this can work everywhere.

627
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: But when you break it down again, I'm sure they

628
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: thought about it. Is Okay, she's always going to be

629
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: a tough fit in the locker room. If she says

630
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: this at the age of twenty three about her teammates,

631
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: she's been the league for all of five minutes. Is

632
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: it gonna get better? Is she gonna mature as a

633
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: leader if she gets older? She hasn't. Okay, what about

634
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: our team on the floor. Team was bad last year,

635
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: we're worse this year. Okay, what about the coaching staff,

636
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: front office? Well, you know she doesn't like it. So

637
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: if we bring back the same people, who knows if

638
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: she's gonna buy in. Who knows if she's gonna she

639
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Speaker 1: likes to say, she likes to talk, so who knows

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Speaker 1: if what she says is gonna be something that's gonna

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Speaker 1: reflect on us, and is her talent and is her

642
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Speaker 1: star power worth all of that? When if you start winning,

643
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Speaker 1: if you make a trade and you bring in a

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Speaker 1: gun bar to somebody, whoever else you want to bring in,

645
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Speaker 1: because it would be star players coming in, and you

646
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Speaker 1: start winning, guess what that's gonna get people to come

647
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Speaker 1: to right, that's getting everybody to come. You're bringing star player.

648
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Speaker 1: That's gonna get people to come watch the games. So

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Speaker 1: it's not that suddenly it's a I don't even know that.

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Speaker 1: It's a really difficult decision at this point, it's we

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Speaker 1: she she If we keep her, this holds back the

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Speaker 1: entire franchise. We don't know what the future the franchise

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Speaker 1: is gonna be. And then you know what, it's easier

654
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Speaker 1: to start over. We tried it for a couple of years.

655
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not working for you. Clearly you're making it

656
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Speaker 1: not work for us. So let's let's figure something you

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen thousand impressions one fourteen hundred retweets an

658
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: hour ago on Twitter, I love y'all with a heart

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Speaker 1: exit out about a fresco. They may have been her

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Speaker 1: Goodbye to the Chicago Sky. She should have done seth

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Speaker 1: Rawlins theme song burn it Down. Tell him how to

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Speaker 1: find out what's trending from someone who's been called the

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Speaker 1: seth Rawlins of Fox Sports Radio ampion because I watched

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Speaker 1: her burn a car down the other day.

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Speaker 7: Who I did not burn down, burn it I did

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Speaker 7: not burn a car down, burned.

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Speaker 1: Tyshirt's car down. You even did the whole movie thing where

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Speaker 1: you turned in slow motion, walked away and through the

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Speaker 1: match Tyshirt's car went Why.

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Speaker 7: I gonna tell people what I do on my free time?

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Speaker 2: And why my car?

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Speaker 1: Because it was really cool, like the way you could

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Speaker 1: walk in Here's went up until that. Yeah, well, well

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Speaker 1: you ever read a car so it matches and you

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Speaker 1: have all that firewood in the back seat.

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Speaker 2: It was just went right up. I was gonna go camping.

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Speaker 2: You have the wood car.

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Speaker 7: You can still go camping.

679
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: The wood paneling on the slide went up right away.

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Speaker 6: Too any anyway, Packers meet the Commanders for Thursday Night

681
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 6: Football twenty seven to eighteen.

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Speaker 7: A couple of injuries in this one though.

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Speaker 4: For Green Bay wide receiver Jaden Reid broke his collarbone

684
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 4: from Matt Lafleur.

685
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 7: He's headed to injured reserve.

686
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 4: He's going to be out for the foreseeable future, but

687
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 4: they do expect him back this season. For the Commander's

688
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 4: running back, Austin Eckler went down on a non contact

689
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 4: injury was carted to the locker room. They believe he

690
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 4: tore his achilles no official word, but it is believed

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Speaker 4: to be an achilles injury. Jordan Love controlled the game,

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Speaker 4: put on a show nineteen of thirty one for two

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Speaker 4: hundred and ninety two yards and two touchdown passes. One

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Speaker 4: of them went to Romeo Dobs the other one the

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Speaker 4: other one went.

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Speaker 7: To took A Craft.

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Speaker 4: Craft had six catches for one hundred and twenty four

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Speaker 4: yards and one touchdown. Jade and Daniels quarterback for the Commanders,

699
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: was twenty four and forty two for two hundred yards

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Speaker 4: and two touchdowns. In baseball, we've still got one game

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Speaker 4: going on. Angels and Mariners are tied at four a

702
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Speaker 4: piece bottom of the ninth inning in Seattle. Kenley Jensen

703
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Speaker 4: on the mound for the Angels, trying to close this out,

704
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 4: but the Mariners now have a man on first base

705
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 4: and they are down to their final two outs. Earlier today,

706
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Speaker 4: the Padres defeated the Rockies two zero, Phillies over the

707
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 4: Mets six to four. Mets have lost six in a row.

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Speaker 4: Guardians edge of the Royals three to two. Aaron Judge

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00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 4: homer twice for the Yankees, bringing his total to forty

710
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Speaker 4: six on the season, and they beat the Tigers nine

711
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Speaker 4: to three, while the Astros shut out the Blue Jays

712
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Speaker 4: earlier today six zero.

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Speaker 7: And you were talking.

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Speaker 4: About the WNBA, Well, the WNBA playoffs are set.

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Speaker 6: So the one seed it's the Links and they're taking

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Speaker 6: on the eighth seed Valkyries, two seed Aces taking on

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Speaker 6: the seven seed Storm, third seed Dream taking on the

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Speaker 6: sixth seed Fever, and the fourth seed Mercury taking on

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Speaker 6: the fifth seed Liberty.

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Speaker 7: Those are the WNBA playoffs set.

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Speaker 1: Officially Liberty Liberty, Liberty, Liverty, liberty, liverty. Just I've been

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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: seen Monty throw that match, go ty shirt's cargo up,

723
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Speaker 1: yet I don't care I don't make heavy metal riff

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Speaker 1: going on in the background.

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Speaker 7: Ye, I don't give a Can we actually do that

726
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Speaker 7: and tape that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

728
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Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, that's you probably have AI do that.

729
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Speaker 7: I don't think we really want to do the real thing,

730
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Speaker 7: big home.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I can get the permits for that.

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Speaker 1: And we'll apologize after coming up next, get into Thursday

733
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Speaker 1: Night Football, not one but two big injuries to break down.

734
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: Likely you've seen the last of one of the great

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00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: running back careers and maybe now a little bit more

736
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Speaker 1: trouble ahead for the Green Bay Packers after what we're

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Speaker 1: going to say. That's coming up next right here, Jason

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Speaker 1: and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

740
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

741
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend

743
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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. So, a couple of big injury notes coming

744
00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: off of TNF and uh the Command do believe that

745
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler did indeed tear's achilles in the second half

746
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: of tonight's game, a really awful looking play which he

747
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, he peels off the line of scrimmage into

748
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: the flat. He's wide open, but Jayden Daniels goes over

749
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: the middle and untouched without a player within ten yards

750
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: of him. Austin Eckler looks to go, hey, be a

751
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: great team, and I'm fifteen yards away from anybody, but

752
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get in the play and

753
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: throw a block Like That's I want people to focus

754
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: on that that he is fifteen yards away from everybody,

755
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: but here's a play over the middle and he is

756
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 1: trying to bust his ass to get to the middle

757
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: of the field to throw a block and just takes

758
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: one step and crumples and you could see it. We've

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00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: seen achilles injuries like that, you know, for you know,

760
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: for the last few years in sports. Unfortunately they're getting

761
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: too easy to diagnose. And the commanders do believe that

762
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 1: he tore his achilles, and being thirty, injury prone, likely

763
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 1: obviously missing the rest of this year and who knows

764
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: after that. I just want to say, you talk about

765
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: success stories in sports, and Austin Eckler is the original

766
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: success story. This is a guy that went undrafted right

767
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: out of Western Colorado, Western Colorado.

768
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 5: There that night in San Francisco in twenty seventeen, Week

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Speaker 5: four of the preseason, when Austin Ecklin made the team.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you were like you were there.

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Speaker 5: When he doesn't have that game in San Francisco against

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00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 5: the Niners that night week four to the preseason, he's

773
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 5: not in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean he he gets in. He has a you know,

775
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: a somewhat of a decent rookie year, runs for a

776
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: couple hundred yards, he's a he's a good part of

777
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: the Chargers offense for a couple of years, third down back.

778
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: Then the door really opens for him when Melvin Gordon

779
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: holds out five years ago, six years ago. Now, I

780
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: remember that, Melvin Gordon got mad at it. He did, Yeah,

781
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: he texted, he tweeted at me, Yeah yeah, what are

782
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: you saying? Uh, go get your money. That's when his

783
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: that's when the door opened for Austin Eckler, and all

784
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it was Wow, this guy's the best

785
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: two way running back in the NFL. He's who everybody wants. Now,

786
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,479
Speaker 1: a guy that can stand the field three downs, catch

787
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield, and run the first

788
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: two downs. That's a huge advantage. Gets a big twenty

789
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Speaker 1: five million dollar contract with the Chargers again, undrafted guy

790
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: out to Western Colorado, who you think, Okay, he's as

791
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: low as it can be on the depth chart, and

792
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: he works his way up and he's one of the

793
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: best running backs for a good four to five year span.

794
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: In the NFL second team All Pro year ago right

795
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: with a You know when he goes to the Commanders,

796
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: when you think, ah, maybe this is the end of

797
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: his career. But it's been some run. You want to

798
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: talk about a success story about how not giving up

799
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: and continuing on. It doesn't matter where you go to school,

800
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: it matters what you do when you get that invite

801
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: to an NFL training camp like Austin Eckler. Is that

802
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: story you want to start singing the real American heroes,

803
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: Real American heroes. Now four hundred and seventy eight career

804
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: receptions and seventy three total touchdowns averaged four yards four

805
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: and a half yards of carry for his NFL career.

806
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: It's the the ultimate in the sporting universe of just

807
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: keep battling, you will be found. You know, not to

808
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 1: go all dear Evan Hanson on you, but that you

809
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: will find your space. And you know it's the lesson

810
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: I know you you talk with your daughter in athletic pursuits,

811
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: certainly with mine is like all you can do is

812
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: control what's in between the white lines. For Austin Eckler

813
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: took advantage of an opportunity thirty five million dollars later

814
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: on this career and hopefully he can battle back and

815
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: get himself back into another locker room. But if this

816
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: truly is it, and we know how the running back

817
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: situation works across the NFL, and certainly once you hit

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00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: thirty that you know people get a little nervous about

819
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: it all. But for him, one hell of a career.

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Speaker 1: He's one of our favorites to watch here. During his

821
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: year with the Chargers.

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Speaker 5: He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

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00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: Hey, well, what would didn't he have like a like

824
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards of offense that game? I

825
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: remember to talk about yards rushing and fifty eight receiving

826
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: yet and it was, oh, hey, maybe this Austin Ekeler

827
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: is something. And his twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two

828
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: was just insane. Right, this guy he's averaging four and

829
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: a half yards of carry, led the NFL in touchdowns

830
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: twenty a double digit touchdowns. Also his receptions ninety two

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Speaker 1: seventy one hundred and seven. Like, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: somebody that did have heavy usage, right, So there is

833
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: that for Austin Eckler. But Fantasy MVP a twenty touchdown

834
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Speaker 1: season and eighteen touchdown many years? Was he a top

835
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: three pick? Like three four years he was a top

836
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: three picking fantasy. You were taking off that hoping he

837
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: would stay healthy, And for the most part he had.

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Speaker 1: One year in twenty twenty he wasn't He wasn't the

839
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: healthiest obviously, but other years, yeah, he was dinged up,

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00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: but he still played fourteen sixteen games. It's not like

841
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: he was he was out a ton. Yeah, it's one

842
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: of those fantasy heroes, right, And certainly you and I

843
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: have been doing this and the fantasy side long enough.

844
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: The guys come and go, and you have a lot

845
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: of one year wonders whether they showed up on a

846
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: cover of a Madden game or whatever it was. But

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00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy puts a yeah, the one hell

848
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: of a career and the way they used him for

849
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: all of the misgivings and issues that people have had

850
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: with coaching staffs for the Chargers low these many years,

851
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: they knew how to utilize this guy. Uh, and and

852
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: he did the did the best and on both ends

853
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: as a running back and became one of the prototypical

854
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: guys that you want at the position.

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Speaker 5: Jason, knowing him, you should probably pump the brakes on

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Speaker 5: the whole.

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Speaker 1: Uh. His career is over well only because look he's

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Speaker 1: been injured. Yes, he has been And.

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Speaker 5: This is anybody that has the will and the termination.

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Speaker 1: Wait, oh, I know I'm with you one night, because

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Speaker 1: there's no way you want to go out like this.

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Speaker 5: Just look, don't think the Jets are gonna sign him

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Speaker 5: at one lay fair point.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get rid of Breese Hall and Braylan Allen. Hey,

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Speaker 1: come on in Austin Eckler. No, I'd love to see

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Speaker 1: him come back in a year and be a third

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Speaker 1: down back somewhere else to do it. But it's just

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Speaker 1: it's really hard when here's a torn achilles that's going

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Speaker 1: to take you into next season. Maybe, I mean, when's

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Speaker 1: he gonna be healthy enough to get back on the field.

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Speaker 1: Being over thirty, it gets really it's it's real. It's

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Speaker 1: just really difficult. She'd get the one of the few

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Speaker 1: benefits of getting hurt in week two.

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Speaker 2: You got a full season?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no ish. I mean, I'm trying to look

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Speaker 1: silver linings man, because we're celebrating the guy's career and

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Speaker 1: his stick to itness and battling from the bowels of

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Speaker 1: a depth chart to have the career that he did.

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Speaker 1: Who's to say he can't do it again, but he's

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Speaker 1: got a long ramp up to do it. Exit out

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Speaker 1: about at Fresca, exit swollen Dome. So hey, best wishes

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Speaker 1: to Austin Eckler. What an incredible success story he has

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Speaker 1: been throughout his career. Coming up next, We've said some

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Speaker 1: glowing things about the Packers and maybe they're the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl favorites right now. However, looks like they're gonna spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of time without a big important piece of

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Speaker 1: their offense. That's next, right here, Jason and Mike, this

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Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Radio.