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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire Fan, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: March twenty nine, and I gotta say, interesting response to

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Speaker 1: the Monday Pod where it was heavy on the Will

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Speaker 1: Smith Chris Rock slap heard around the world, just a listen.

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Speaker 1: I thought I changed it up on the pod to

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Speaker 1: start the start the week, and I think I made

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Speaker 1: a good choice because you guys seem to like the pod,

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Speaker 1: a little change of pace, going a little entertainment for you,

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Speaker 1: and people did not stop all of yesterday talking about

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Speaker 1: Will Smith Chris Rock. I must have got so many

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Speaker 1: memes sent my way. My brother probably sent me half

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Speaker 1: a dozen on Instagram. My buddy Jeff, who you know,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers season ticket holder, sent me the funniest one,

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Speaker 1: which was an image of Will Smith and then little

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Speaker 1: less of Will Smith and then he morphed into Juwe

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Speaker 1: Howard by picture six and it's they both have the goatee.

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Speaker 1: Very funny stuff and overall it's just like you know.

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Speaker 1: Will Smith did apologize Monday afternoon on Instagram, of course,

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Speaker 1: to Chris Rock and the Academy and blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he huddled up with his team and was like,

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Speaker 1: we need damage control and all this stuff. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say. People will try to cancel Will Smith

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Speaker 1: over this. That's silly. You can't cancel the fresh Prince.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. He made a grave mistake. He

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Speaker 1: realizes it. Come on, it's not like this guy is

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Speaker 1: a history of being an ask clown for the last

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Speaker 1: thirty years when he's been in the spotlight. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, as an aside, being in the spotlight for

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Speaker 1: a long time, it's tough. It wears on you, okay.

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Speaker 1: And Will Smith is able to basically hide out. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't have cameras in front of him all the time.

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Speaker 1: And I will say this when you think about athletes

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm gonna mention Lebron being in front of

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Speaker 1: the camera every day, microphones in your grill every day

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Speaker 1: during the season. For some of these stars to not snap,

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Speaker 1: it's quite impressive. And I know you're probably like, come on, JA,

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Speaker 1: for thirty five million, I'll deal with the media every day,

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Speaker 1: will you? Will you? Really? Because remember, not only do

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Speaker 1: you have to deal with the media, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: play and for a goot, like Russell Westbrook who's playing awful,

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Speaker 1: and then having the media in your grill every day,

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Speaker 1: and then going on the internet, uh every day because

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Speaker 1: you can't. Everybody's on the internet all the time. That's

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Speaker 1: where we are now in society. Got the internet in

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Speaker 1: your pocket, You've got an encyclopedia in your pocket. By

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Speaker 1: the way, turn off all notifications except for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Of course. It's I'm surprised more people don't snap, right.

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Speaker 1: Britney Spears pretty famously snapped. Um went back when I

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Speaker 1: was at US Weekly. You know, she had the moment

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Speaker 1: where with the head shaved and then went after the paparazzi.

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Speaker 1: Very ugly stuff. Listen, it happens to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: They just there's a breaking point. Everyone has a breaking point.

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Speaker 1: And anyway, Will Smith apologized. Still not much from Chris Rock.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty clear that it was not scripted. It was

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Speaker 1: very real. I'll say. The one thing I don't like

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Speaker 1: and we can move on, is anytime something huge happens sports, entertainment,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, you see these people laying in the

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Speaker 1: cut waiting to say okay, we meaning they're like side

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Speaker 1: their tribe that they signal to they are going to

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Speaker 1: politicize this, and they're gonna pick this side because the

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Speaker 1: perceived left or right is on the other side. So basically,

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Speaker 1: you know, Will Smith all of a sudden was a

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Speaker 1: a signal to a lot of people. Now, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: all these people who are defending Will Smith are wrong.

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Speaker 1: And the next thing you know, within a couple of hours,

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Speaker 1: you've got this massive pool of people on one side

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Speaker 1: defending Will Smith. He was right. And then basically, just

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Speaker 1: as with politics, left and right, everything is a divisive issue,

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Speaker 1: You've got this massive side on the other side making

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Speaker 1: this a political issue. And next thing you know, it's

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Speaker 1: critical race theory and and and whatever that Bill lives

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Speaker 1: in Florida and all this nonsense. And that's where I

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Speaker 1: the internet all the damn time. I do hate being

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Speaker 1: when big news breaks, I gotta be ready. Fox is

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Speaker 1: You can just get everything from Twitter and Instagram, and

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Speaker 1: I don't really go to Facebook, but at any rate,

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Speaker 1: I get texts anytime something big happens. I don't have

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Speaker 1: notifications for anything. Sometimes this is a very small Sometimes

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Speaker 1: right around the NBA Free Agency, if there's like a

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Speaker 1: I don't want notifications. I don't want to be like

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Speaker 1: a better job of that, but it is tough. So

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna talk about today? Well, there is

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Speaker 1: the NBA. I do want to push that down a

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Speaker 1: little bit and save some of that for later. There

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Speaker 1: is no real NFL stories that happened the Jets. I'll

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Speaker 1: just say this because I'm gonna talk about the Jets.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Rob G's not here to snack me,

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Speaker 1: but he'll when he edits this and listens to it

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Speaker 1: to make sure I don't say anything that's gonna incriminate myself. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be like, why did you talk about the Jets?

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Speaker 1: So it's on the wire. The Jets on Monday signed

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Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas to a one year deal. Does that name

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Speaker 1: ring a bell to anyone? Solomon Thomas? He was the

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Speaker 1: number three pick in the draft five years ago? Can

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Speaker 1: you guys believe that five years ago? Solomon Thomas, that

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Speaker 1: then has done absolutely nothing. Fifth pick in the draft

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Speaker 1: let me see what he What has he done lately?

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Speaker 1: happened to him? Now? He went to San Francisco. He

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with Solomon Thomas. And now I've

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Speaker 1: was the anniversary of Christian late nurse epic shot against

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Speaker 1: Duke Verne Lundquist. On the call, I'm sure you've seen

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Speaker 1: the video, Kentucky made the critical, critical mistake of not

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Speaker 1: from my area. Yes, he was just a great athlete,

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Speaker 1: incredible through the past. Verne Lundquist, there's the past. A

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Speaker 1: lightner puts it up. Just an epic moment in college basketball,

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Speaker 1: about this college basketball March madness stuff that like, I

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Isaiah Roby, Oh, Nebraska. That stings.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Wiggins is Maryland? Not not exactly a resounding night

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. I'll just add quickly on

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Speaker 1: the NBA and tanking, I'm at the place where I've

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Speaker 1: got my mock draft. I have it coming out Monday.

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Speaker 1: I can just give you guys a tease. I'm going

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Speaker 1: Ben Caro first over chat Homeward, and I've given a

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Speaker 1: lot of thought. I'll break it down much further much later,

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Speaker 1: and we did just talk about it a little bit yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and that is going to be a flash point in

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Speaker 1: the final four, especially if Ben Carroll wins, you know,

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Speaker 1: most outstanding Player. You look at some of the impacts

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna win Rookie the year

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Speaker 1: he probably was the leader. Scotty Barnes is making a

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Speaker 1: huge push. Mobilely got hurt and they're not sure how

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Speaker 1: stay hurt on that team. Mobile has been amazing. And

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Speaker 1: Jalen Green, you know, these guards and Kate Cunning him

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Speaker 1: played well, but they're not winning any games. Janalen Green

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Speaker 1: played well, They're not winning any games. I just think

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Speaker 1: a guy like Bank Carroll, that Jalen Green was the

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Speaker 1: G league kid who was just flashy and putting that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't like no basketball. He's just a great athlete.

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Speaker 1: He can just scoring get buckets. But like Bank Carroll,

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Speaker 1: like you watch him play and he is so fluid.

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Speaker 1: Somebody could over text compared to Blake Griffin. As I'm

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Speaker 1: fishing around, you know, my league contacts and agents and

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Speaker 1: scouts on some of these guys are saying like there's

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Speaker 1: some Blake Griffin in him, but Blake Griffin with playmaking ability. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously Blake Griffin was a jumping jack dunking machine out

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Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. Ban Carroll can create Like He's not a

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Speaker 1: great three point shooter yet. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: know he's gonna be great, but a free throw shooter

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Speaker 1: from three, got a good looking stroke. He's a player

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Speaker 1: and chat Home groom. I'm just starting to worry. He

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Speaker 1: got pushed around a little in the WCC. He will

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Speaker 1: be good. I'm not doubting him. Just some of these

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Speaker 1: big guys with the you know, foot injuries. When you're

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Speaker 1: like look at porzingis seven three. Guy looked amazing when healthy,

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Speaker 1: and then he can't stay healthy because you know what,

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Speaker 1: like that's not normal size. You know, it's tough to

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Speaker 1: walk around like chat Home can get some you know,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna add some weight his body. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a little you know, imagine running at seven one. You know,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't gain much weight in the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years you've seen him, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: two years from now, he's gonna be like thick put pounds.

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Speaker 1: Can the body handle that that quickly? Like it's just

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Speaker 1: natural that when you're huge like that, It's just it's tough,

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Speaker 1: especially with the foot injuries. Now he hasn't had any, thankfully.

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Speaker 1: The kid Griffin from Duke has had some injuries. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that you he's a lottery pick for sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how high, but he's got the injuries.

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Speaker 1: But some of these some of these impact rookies coming

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Speaker 1: from major conferences, you know, Jalen Suggs, I thought you'd

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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I'm not bashing him. I do

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Speaker 1: have a ticket on the doing Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: He's not sniffing the award. But a guy like Scotty

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Speaker 1: barnes Um in the A c C which was good

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Speaker 1: last year. I mean Mobley from the Pac twelve which

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Speaker 1: was incredible last year, Like they're having major impacts. Kate

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Speaker 1: Cunningham Big twelve we'll see. As you can tell, I'm

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Speaker 1: in full on NBA playoffs and draft mode. Mark madness

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Speaker 1: has gotten me there. NFL starting to not quite going

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Speaker 1: off balls. And it's funny because I talked to a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys and I'm like, there's still a lot

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Speaker 1: of good free agents out there, Like nobody's grabbed Bobby Wagner.

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Speaker 1: Was he not one of the like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: seven best linebackers in the league last year. It's weird, like,

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Speaker 1: how is Bobby Wagner still out there? And there's still

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Speaker 1: several other good players on the market that I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: they haven't gone anywhere. Um, But that's the NFL for you.

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Speaker 1: I guess people want to go, Yeah, they don't want

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Speaker 1: to back up the brins. Like Wagner was slated to

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Speaker 1: make what nineteen million with Seattle and he got offered

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Speaker 1: hold out for what who's playing a linebacker? Like fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars or twelve or thirteen? Like if you got eleven,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm just shocked you didn't jump at that

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Speaker 1: at any rate. I've rambled long enough that's it for today.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow