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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in What's Right with the Great episode

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Speaker 1: three fifty three. In this episode of What's Right when

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Speaker 1: the Grid is brought to you by boost Mobile, a

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Speaker 1: ton to get to today, some very fun topics, a

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Speaker 1: very serious topic right off the top before we get

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Speaker 1: to any of that, however, let me welcome in demonse. Demonse,

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Speaker 1: great to see you. The major development, it feels like

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Speaker 1: in the ongoing saga of your soon to be a

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Speaker 1: Snake family, which is you added a surveillance camera to

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Speaker 1: the to the incubator. YEP, that's pretty cool. So like,

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Speaker 1: can you watch it from your phone when you're at work?

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Speaker 2: I can watch it for my phone when I'm at work.

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Speaker 2: The motion sensor things a little messed up. It just

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Speaker 2: it shows motion when I'm looking for egg motion. But

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Speaker 2: it's like the lighting has changed in the background. So

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Speaker 2: we got to figure out you got a too sensitive. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I mean since it was probably good.

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Speaker 1: Quick question and then we'll get to the important stuff.

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Speaker 1: Now that this isn't important. Do if you check your

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Speaker 1: phone and there is a snake being don't hatching? I

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Speaker 1: guess you'll leave work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Will you leave work? Here's the thing really close enough

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Speaker 1: that you could just be like, oh, you got to

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Speaker 1: go out for a second, go in and then come

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Speaker 1: back whatever is. I'm very excited about.

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Speaker 2: It too, I think. But yeah, no, I would leave

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Speaker 2: it there. I wouldn't leave just because it would need

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Speaker 2: time to come all the way out. If there was

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Speaker 2: a problem, Yeah, there was a problem, I'm leaving like

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Speaker 2: if something Yeah, of course, yeah.

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Speaker 1: It'd be it'd be almost criminal if you didn't. And

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Speaker 1: what do we think another like two more weeks?

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Speaker 2: Like what's it June August fifteenth, Yeah, so two weeks

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Speaker 2: at the latest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last last question, So you spent time this weekend

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Speaker 1: getting the surveillance set up, checking on the snakes, all

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Speaker 1: of that. Did you write your little sister a letter?

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Speaker 3: Why did you do this? On the podcast?

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Speaker 1: I know nobody's written her letters. I send her emails.

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Speaker 1: The only person who's written her letters is my mom,

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Speaker 1: who's written her letter every day. But that's not so.

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Speaker 1: It is what it is. She hasn't written us letters,

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Speaker 1: so you know what, Yeah, it's all good. All right,

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Speaker 1: time now for straight the voicemail. Brought to you by

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Speaker 1: this entire episode of What's Right in the great. Here's

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Speaker 1: a serious but uplifting note. Deon Sanders found out while

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Speaker 1: he was being checked. So Deon Sanders has like some

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Speaker 1: vascular issues, which is why he's lost some toes. So

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Speaker 1: he gets checked on that regularly. In the check on that,

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Speaker 1: they noticed something maybe a little amiss, so they sent

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Speaker 1: them to a urologist. They did a check there, they

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Speaker 1: noticed something really amiss and they're like, you have aggressive

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Speaker 1: reason to entertain and inspire and teach, and he really

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Speaker 1: life Diana is led which is one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: and then re en venting what's possible in collegiate coaching

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, posted that he got hot Cheeto

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Speaker 1: would be the worst tattoo I've ever seen in the world.

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Speaker 1: The worst. It would be tattooing all five of your

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Speaker 1: the Raiders just cut Christian Wilkins and they're trying to

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Speaker 3: Shape for him. I just sat.

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Speaker 1: I just can't like, I don't know what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, the tattoo artist said, I was trolling.

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Speaker 1: I did give Lamello a leg sleeve, but I was trolling.

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Speaker 1: I just want to be on the record that I

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Speaker 1: hot Cheeto tattoo tattoos. Saw the reaction to the tattoo

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Speaker 1: LaMelo is your guy, He's gifted.

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Speaker 1: address right off the top of the shooting in New

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Speaker 1: There were obviously a handful of innocent people who were killed.

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Speaker 1: And I am not I always feel conflicted to the

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Speaker 1: wrong word. But the guy who the murderer here is

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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna be talking about the NFL later.

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Speaker 1: did five minutes on hot cheetos tattoos? Probably, but you

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Speaker 1: know what work in progress on the pot at times, Demonse.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the boat picture heard around the world.

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Speaker 2: Jokic's agent was posted with Maverick Carter and you're you're

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Speaker 2: guy Lebron James on a boat in France. The photo

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Very specific you said, this is a

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Speaker 3: Why is that? Why can that not okay?

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Speaker 1: Because it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little NFL before we get

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Speaker 1: to Skinny Luca Demanse.

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Speaker 2: In a recent interview with Aaron Rodgers, Kyle Brandt called

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Speaker 2: him the best quarterback to ever play the position. So

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Speaker 2: you've had some opinions on Aaron Rodgers in the past. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if you ever thought of him as the best quarterback ever?

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Speaker 1: Well, so this I there was a point in time

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Speaker 1: where I thought Aaron Rodgers was the most talented quarterback ever,

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Speaker 1: and I still think he's probably the second most now

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Speaker 1: to Patrick. And there certainly was a point in time

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Speaker 1: where I thought Aaron Rodgers at his apex was the

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Speaker 1: highest level the position had ever been played. So I buy, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I buy that, But that is such a huge delta

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Speaker 1: between that and the best quarterback to ever play the position.

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Speaker 1: And this is and I thought, listen, credit where it's due.

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Speaker 1: I thought Kyle did a really nice job in that interview,

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Speaker 1: and I thought Aaron came across as downright charming, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, it doesn't change my opinion on what

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Speaker 1: the Steeler season is going to be like, but I

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Speaker 1: thought that was a really good ten minutes of media.

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Speaker 1: With all that said, this is one of those opinions

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Speaker 1: demon's that I think is not an allowed opinion, And

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Speaker 1: I know people don't like when I say that, So

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Speaker 1: like everyone's entitled to their opinion, certain opinions, like you,

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Speaker 1: there are certain opinions that are so far outside anything

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Speaker 1: that is legitimately arguable that you can't have it.

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Speaker 2: So like there is go ahead, God no, I mean

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Speaker 2: you thought he was like the most like why can't

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Speaker 2: how was that one? How can you not even make

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Speaker 2: that argument, it's a take that you can't have. It's

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Speaker 2: I don't wonder you were saying he was the best.

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Speaker 2: You thought he was the most skilled, skilled, skilled player at.

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Speaker 1: A point in time, but then someone more skilled came along.

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Speaker 1: So the one guy, right, So you can't be the

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Speaker 1: So here's the problem. The problem is in order to

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Speaker 1: make an argument that someone is let's say basketball for

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Speaker 1: a minute, Okay, there are six people that you are

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Speaker 1: allowed to have the opinion are the greatest of all time,

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Speaker 1: And it might just be five, but I'll extend it

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Speaker 1: to six. And those six are. And the reason that

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Speaker 1: I'm saying there's only six you're allowed, I really think

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Speaker 1: it's only three. But I'm trying to be as liberal

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Speaker 1: as possible with this here is because there is you

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Speaker 1: can point to something as their thing that they were

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Speaker 1: just the best at head and shoulders, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Like, that's that's what I'm hanging it on.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to say Bill Russell's the greatest ever,

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Speaker 1: you can just kind of start and end with the

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Speaker 1: twenty one to zero in elimination games throughout his career,

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Speaker 1: you know, and winner take all games, eleven championships, eight

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Speaker 1: in a row. It's like, okay, simple, you want to

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Speaker 1: argue Wilt, It's just like, dude, average fifty a game

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Speaker 1: and more than forty eight minutes a game in a season,

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Speaker 1: scored one hundred points in a game.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like the intuitively you understand the argument for it. Kareem

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Speaker 1: greatest high school, greatest college player ever, most MVPs of

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Speaker 1: anyone ever, you know, had the super long career success at.

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Speaker 3: All of it.

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Speaker 1: The Jordan Lebron arguments we've all had before. We don't

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Speaker 1: have to get into him right now. It's obvious what

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Speaker 1: those guys are. And then the sixth that I would

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Speaker 1: add if you really want to squint hard enough, Magic

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Speaker 1: greatest passer ever changed the game, career cut short due

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Speaker 1: to a virus that you know they had nothing to

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00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: do with basketball, the instant impact as a rookie being

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Speaker 1: the best player in the deciding game of the championship round. Like,

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Speaker 1: those are the guys. But if someone tries to like

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Speaker 1: make the argument and I'm not, like, I'm not picking

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Speaker 1: let me not even start with him. Someone tries to

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Speaker 1: make the argument Larry Birds the greatest player of all time.

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Speaker 1: The problem is there is not a single thing you

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Speaker 1: can say, Larry Bird's the greatest, not one thing, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. If somebody tries to make the

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Speaker 1: argument Steph is the greatest of all time that there

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Speaker 1: is now there is something you can say is the greatest,

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Speaker 1: greatest shooting. But the other gaps in the resume compared

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Speaker 1: to the guys he's competing against, prevent it with Kobe,

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Speaker 1: who some people try to make the case for, the

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Speaker 1: problem is it's very very hard, if not impossible, to

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Speaker 1: make the argument that Kobe was better than the guy

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Speaker 1: that he modeled himself after. And Michael, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Michael hasn't kind of clocked in every category.

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Speaker 1: So how are we you know, how are we getting there?

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Speaker 1: So when it comes to the greatest quarterback ever, what

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Speaker 1: is in twenty twenty five the argument for Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: There isn't one anymore. His regular season accomplishment with Peyton's

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Speaker 1: got him killed. It's certainly not the winning And if

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Speaker 1: it's just like I tell I test rawability creativity, Mahomes laughed,

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Speaker 1: So like there he has nothing to hang his hat

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Speaker 1: on anymore.

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Speaker 3: So it's just.

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Speaker 1: Just the world again. Dan Marino might have him in

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Speaker 1: that there's not there. They're for real, like you just

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Speaker 1: have to have there's got to be something that is

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Speaker 1: ironclad about your case, and then the rest you can

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Speaker 1: massage if you want to have a viable opinion. And

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Speaker 1: so I just thought calling Aaron, who doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: greatest stats of any quarterback ever. They're great, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the best. Doesn't have the most MVPs of any

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Speaker 1: quarterback ever. It's the second most. It's not the most

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Speaker 1: certainly doesn't have the wins, doesn't have the raw athleticism

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00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: of any the most wrow leticism of any quarterback ever,

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Speaker 1: doesn't and no longer holds the title for you know,

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Speaker 1: most natural ability. So how could if you weren't ever

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Speaker 1: the best of anything, how could you be the best? Ever?

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Speaker 1: This is not a viable opinion. And so I know

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Speaker 1: that's gonna sound dismissive, but it's just not allowed opinion. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: there has to be some standards. We live in a

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Speaker 1: As I said to the guy two years ago who

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Speaker 1: was walking his dog, watched his dog go to the bathroom,

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Speaker 1: look at it, and then walked away. As I said

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Speaker 1: to him, I will say, now we live in a society.

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Speaker 1: You have to do your part. Uh, Like there is

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Speaker 1: what are you shaking your head of?

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Speaker 3: Help the want this guy society?

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Speaker 1: This guy hold on this, I know the that that

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Speaker 1: incident that I'm discussing there is this guy would every

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Speaker 1: day walk two blocks from his house to the block

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Speaker 1: we live on, have his giant or so use the bathroom,

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Speaker 1: and then and then walk back home. And I finally

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Speaker 1: caught him and I was like, you know what, We're

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00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: just gonna have it out, man, and uh he apologized

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: and then pretended to clean it up and then hurriedly

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Speaker 1: walked away when he thought I was gone. So I did.

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Speaker 1: I chase him down and say, hey, man, we live

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Speaker 1: in a society. I did. I didn't know what else

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Speaker 1: to say. I'm not gonna say like I'm gonna fight you.

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00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to just guild you. You live in

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Speaker 1: a society. Do your part well, do your part man.

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00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: And in the sports take game, we live in a society.

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Speaker 1: We all have. We can't you can't just come out

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00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: there with takes that are indefensible. I'm not saying the

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Speaker 1: takes have to be right, but you have to be

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00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: able to defend them. That's all, all right. Speaking of indefensible.

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Speaker 1: I guess this is semi defensible, but I hate it.

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Speaker 2: The Madden rating go ahead, So I don't know about indefensible,

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Speaker 2: but the ninety nine club came out for Baden twenty six.

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00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 2: Your guy Mahomes was snubbed. Josh Allen Lamar Jackson are

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Speaker 2: the two eight both have ninety nine ratings. How do

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Speaker 2: you feel about this as this legit? I think it's

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Speaker 2: pretty fair. I think that Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen

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Speaker 2: are much more Madden type quarterbacks than Patrick Mahomes is. Like,

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes is more of an improviser. Lamar Jackson's obviously

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Speaker 2: like super fast, and Josh Allen's like a freak athlete.

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Speaker 2: He's huge running through dudes. So it's like, as far

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Speaker 2: as games, like, if you want to play Madden, like

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Speaker 2: you're thinking, like you want to play, you would rather

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Speaker 2: play with Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's really interesting way to look at it.

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Speaker 1: And if that's the argument, that so be it. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Mahomes coming into this year in the six Maddens post

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Speaker 1: his rookie post, his first year as a starter, he

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Speaker 1: was a ninety nine to four times he was the

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Speaker 1: highest rated quarterback five times. The one time he wasn't,

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Speaker 1: he was the third highest rated quarterback behind Brady and Rogers,

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Speaker 1: and that was after the AFC Championship Game loss to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: And he responded by having more yards than any player

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Speaker 1: in the history of the league, winning the Super Bowl MVP,

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Speaker 1: winning the regular season MVP, and having arguably the greatest

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Speaker 1: quarterback season anyone's ever had. So I'm I'm not even

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Speaker 1: mad at Madden. Maybe they motivated him. I actually I

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Speaker 1: want to use this as an opportunity and listen, Josh

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Speaker 1: just won Super Bowl. I'm sorry, regular season MVP had,

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Speaker 1: you know, for a team that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: think thought was not going to be good. Some people

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Speaker 1: who had always been called a Bill's hater for just

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Speaker 1: being right about the Bills then last year thought the

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Speaker 1: Bills could be really good and that person was me,

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Speaker 1: but that it was because of Josh Allen. So it's fine.

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Speaker 1: And Lamar has had basically back to back perfect regular season,

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Speaker 1: So you want to give him a ninety nine rating,

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Speaker 1: it's fine. I actually want to use this time here

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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about Lamar and the Ravens

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Speaker 1: because I was on Mina's podcast, and she was a

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Speaker 1: gog that I was skeptical of the Ravens, and Mena,

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Speaker 1: you know, said Lamar didn't play poorly in the playoff game,

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Speaker 1: which I find unbelievable, and said that basically she thought

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Speaker 1: I was being unfair to Lamar or the Ravens by

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Speaker 1: not I guess chalking up the same exact thing happening

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Speaker 1: every single year to just dumb luck and said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you were a Ravens hater. And this

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Speaker 1: is where as I said with her, I will break

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Speaker 1: k fabe for a moment. I adore Mena times. I know,

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Speaker 1: I call her my rival that I want to vanquish.

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Speaker 1: I think she's outstanding. It's the only reason I went

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Speaker 1: on a podcast with her at seven o'clock New York

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Speaker 1: City time on the night before I was going to

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Speaker 1: the Bahamas for a few days. And I think she

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Speaker 1: does great work.

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Speaker 3: But I.

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Speaker 1: There are two major points I want to make here.

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Speaker 1: The first one is this, at what point does someone

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Speaker 1: stop being a hater if they are constantly one of

652
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: the only people provencorrect at what I'm just curious for

653
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: the for the media and internet at large. At what

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00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: point does hating transition to accurate skepticism, or is the

655
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: answering never is the answer? Nope, if the whole world

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00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: acknowledges this guy is just you know, Dan close to

657
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: a perfect player, who's had a couple perfect regular seasons,

658
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Speaker 1: who's just bad timing for these awful moments. And now

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, for Lamar, it was an awful game.

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00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four, it was not an awful game. It

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00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: was a couple really awful moments that ruined an otherwise

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Speaker 1: really good game by him. But I am and so

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Speaker 1: because I didn't think Lamar was terrible in the Divisional

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Speaker 1: round game against Buffalo. What I did think was a

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Speaker 1: guy who was historically good all year about protecting the

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Speaker 1: football having two turnovers in the first twenty minutes of

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00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: that game made it to where the best grade he

668
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: could get for the games like a C plus, and

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Speaker 1: especially because they end up losing.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 1: The question I truly have, and the question I truly

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Speaker 1: have for the audiences, is that hating.

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Speaker 3: Is.

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Speaker 1: And I'll use the Bills thing as an example. Every

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00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: single year people called me a Bill's hater. Now I

676
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: was a Bill's troll to a degree, and I said,

677
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Speaker 1: drop the banner, and I poked fun and I did

678
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But I was also right every single time.

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Speaker 1: And then this past year when I thought the pendulum

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Speaker 1: had swung too far in the other direction, and I said, I, actually,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna be excellent. I think they're once

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Speaker 1: again the biggest threat to the chiefs uh. And that's

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Speaker 1: the opposite of hating, And it was just correct, right.

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Speaker 1: So then the and yes, guys, when I say Mahomes

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Speaker 1: at the most yards in the single season ever, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that is exactly the It's exactly what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: It's total yards for the full season, everything all put together.

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Speaker 1: The most yards any players ever accounted for was twenty

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00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: twenty two Patrick Mahomes. So the Lamar stuff, to me

691
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: is interesting because I it's not only that I don't

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Speaker 1: think I'm a hater, but I think a lot of

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00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: other really smart people who cover this league are in

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00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: willful denial because they like him and because they want

695
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: it to be different than it is, and because and

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00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: this part I really empathize with, because they detest so much.

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00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: So many of his original actual haters, the people who

698
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: said he should change positions coming in the league, or

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00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: he'd never be any good or any of that stuff,

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Speaker 1: And so all of that has created this very odd

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00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: world where folks patronize him a bit in a way.

702
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 1: They discuss what is the only hole on his resume,

703
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: but it's the hole that matters the most, which is

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00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: in that league for that position, how you play in

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00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: the postseason. And so this is the question that I

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00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: would just have to everyone, Folks on Raven's Twitter who

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00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: are mad at me because they think the team is

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00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 1: absolutely stacked, and I have questions about its receiver position,

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00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: and folks in the media that think I'm unfair in

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Speaker 1: my skepticism. Because one of the other things that happened

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Speaker 1: when I was talking again I think mean as that

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Speaker 1: standing with Mina was Stafford came up and I talked

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Speaker 1: about how if I were like I kind of impromptu

714
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: was talking about how he might be my third pick

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Speaker 1: of any quarterback in the league to have in the

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00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: postseason that would go Mahomes Alan Stafford, and she seemed

717
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: legitimately a ghast that I was not including Lamar in

718
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: the math for that, and I was legitimately aghast that

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00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: she possibly could include Lamar in the math for that

720
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Speaker 1: specific question. You could have any quarterback for a playoff run, like, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pick the guy who's literally never like

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00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: shown us that he can do that. It would seem

723
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: that would seem silly to me. You might be like, well,

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00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: Josh hasn't shown it. Josh has had plenty of playoff

725
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: runs where he's played excellent throughout. Just the team wasn't

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Speaker 1: good enough from Lamar. But that's fine. This is kind

727
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: of an old hat. We've talked about this each the

728
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: last few years because each of the last few years

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00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: it has gone exactly like this unbelievable regular season that

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Speaker 1: I look at with a quizical eye because I want

731
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Speaker 1: to see how it works in the postseason. Then Lamar

732
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: has one of, if not his downright worst game in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, and then everybody has this moment of clarity

734
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: for about three days where after the year people are like, damn,

735
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: Nick was right, without saying Nick was right, and then

736
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: come this time of year, it's like, no, this will

737
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: year will be different. So this is my question because

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00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: Raven's Twitter, Raven's Twitter thinks the team is absolutely loaded,

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00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: so obviously, like there shouldn't be any excuses there, But

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Speaker 1: my question in the media is this, if it were

741
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: to happen again, same be to the last couple of years.

742
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: Is Lamar gonna win MVP. He is the MVP's top

743
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: two MVP, all of it, and then once again the

744
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: Ravens don't play to their seed, or don't play to

745
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: their talent or you know, and it's because of massive

746
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: quarterback mistakes early in a playoff game that puts them

747
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: in a hole that they can't quite dig themselves out of.

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Speaker 1: Will this year then be enough? Is it like before

749
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: the sample is too small or will it still just

750
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: be ah randomness dumb luck of the playoffs? I find

751
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: it really fascinating because it is absolutely true that the

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Speaker 1: only thing standing between Lamar and being in the discussion

753
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:48,919
Speaker 1: demanse as one of the six or seven greatest quarterbacks

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00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: of all time is one great playoff run. That's all

755
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: that's standing between. It's just one because the regular season

756
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: stuff is so unbelievable. But the only thing standing between

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00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: him and being in a very unique class of all

758
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: time athletes in a in a not great sense is

759
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: deja vu all over again one more time, and it

760
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: makes this year one of the most fascinating. It makes

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Speaker 1: it makes the Ravens and Lamar one of the most

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Speaker 1: fascinating stories of the season.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it also I am I'm really excited to watch it,

765
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Speaker 1: and I am really excited to see how people react

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00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: myself included to how this full season plays out. And

767
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: so like it was, it's back to back years. It's

768
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: all been right there, all been. And that's one other

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00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: thing I want to say, because one of the things

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Speaker 1: Mena pointed out was DVOA has over the last quarter

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Speaker 1: century demand the two best teams, the two best five

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00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 1: year stretches by any team to not make a Super

773
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Speaker 1: Bowl are the last five years of the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: and the last five years of the Baltimore Ravens. And

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Speaker 1: the point there that Mina made was, you know, basically,

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00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: that's an Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes stat and it's

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Speaker 1: that these two teams were good enough to be all

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Speaker 1: time greats. They were just blocked by one of the greatest,

779
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Speaker 1: if not the greatest duo in NFL history. And I

780
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: pushed back on that too, because I think the Bills

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00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: being on that list is a Andy Reid and Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes stat because the Bills have lost to the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: five times in this stretch. All r I'm sorry, four times.

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00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I feel the Ravens being on

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00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: that list is a chief stat because only one of

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00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: those years have the Chiefs been the team to block

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00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: the Ravens got They haven't gotten to that level yet.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see, and I listen, you believe in the

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00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: Ravens this year.

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00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 3: NFL is wide open this year. See what he does.

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00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we'll see.

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00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 2: Uh.

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00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: I have a feeling it will be like every year, unbelievable.

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00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 1: In the regular season, they lose a couple of games

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00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: they probably shouldn't lose that are a little odd, but

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00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: the it is jaw dropping. And then come the playoffs,

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00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna be like, Wow, this team sure looks different,

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00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: wonder why? And then but listen, maybe I'll be wrong,

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Speaker 1: skinny Luca Demanse.

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Speaker 2: Luca was on the cover of Men's Health magazine looking

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Speaker 2: very slender. He came out with a quote saying, just visually,

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Speaker 2: I would say that my whole body looks better. How

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Speaker 2: are you feeling about Luca's transitions?

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Speaker 1: So a couple things. One is, first, sorry to I

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Speaker 1: pointed this out on TV, and I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: pick on anybody, but this, to me is one of

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Speaker 1: the main takeaways from the article. Remember I told you

834
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Speaker 1: guys Ai doesn't know sports and that Ai hallucinates sports.

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Speaker 1: This article got marred a bit by the fact that

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Speaker 1: the author and in it an anecdote about how Luka

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00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: when he came into the league, had a forty two

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00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: inch vertical that was measured at the NBA Combine. The

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Speaker 1: problem with that is twofold. One is anyone that's watched

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00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: ten minutes of Lukadanic at any moment of his career

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00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: knows he never had a forty two inch vertical. The

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00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: other problem is Lukadancic did not go to the combine,

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00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: so there is no place to measure his vertical. So

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00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 1: what happened there? The most obvious answer is figured out

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Speaker 1: by some Internet sleuths was if you googled Lukdancich vertical,

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Speaker 1: the top AI result was that Lukadanciic had a forty

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Speaker 1: two inch vertical measured at the NBA Combine, which then

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00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: links you to an article about Dante Divincenzo's forty two

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00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: inch vertical at the NBA Combine. But AI hallucinated it.

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00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 1: I guess they saw the chu in both names, white guys,

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00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: the same draft class, and they just made it up.

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00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not saying AI can't be used for things.

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00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not you know, the next, the future,

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00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: all of that. I am saying, for some reason, AI

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Speaker 1: does not know sports and can't figure it out. That's

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00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: first thing. Second thing is this my other takeaway from

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Speaker 1: that article demands. I'm gonna read you a line in

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Speaker 1: it which I found fascinating. The facility which is located

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Speaker 1: in the town where Doncic is vacationed every summer since

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00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: he was a teen. That's important. The facility, which isn't

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Speaker 1: located in the town where Doncic has vacationed every summer

862
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: since he was a teen, didn't have weights until earlier.

863
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: This month when he had dumbbells, barbells, weight plates and

864
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: med balls trucked in. So here's why that's noteworthy to me.

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00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: Luke every summer goes back to this town in Slovenia

866
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: and trains. But his training has always just included hooping,

867
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He plays ball and does drills,

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00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: all of it. Weight training was never a big part

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00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: of it for him. And so now you guys know,

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00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: I feel like the go ahead.

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00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 3: Oh it's just so cool just being able to get

872
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 3: a bus of uh weights.

873
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, of course. But the the I felt

874
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: that the whiplash effect of you know, Luca's fat, out

875
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: of shape drinking problem was far too strong, considering that

876
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: without ever being in peak physical condition, he had one

877
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: of the greatest opening six year stretches of a career ever.

878
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: This is where I am contractually obligated to remind the

879
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: audience that Luka Doncic already has made more first team

880
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: All nbas than either Steph Curry or Chris Paul and

881
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: only has one less than Kevin freaking Durant. He's twenty

882
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: six years old, that's how great he's been. Now, he

883
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: did have a down year and part of it was

884
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: he was a little out of shape. He was also sad,

885
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: he also got hurt, he also got traded, and all,

886
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, all of those things. So I think that

887
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: is I think that is important. It's not giving him

888
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: an excuse. But I just thought twelve months ago today,

889
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: before Luca got hurt, before Luca got traded, when Luca

890
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: coming off of finals appearance, nobody thought and he had

891
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: beaten in round two Shay and in round three Anthony Edwards,

892
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: and had averaged thirty four to nine and ten in

893
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: the regular season, nobody thought Shay or Anthony Edwards was

894
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: better than him. Now I think it's like conventional wisdom

895
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: that those guys are better than him, and Shae certainly

896
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: has earned it. I guess Anthony I don't think quite has.

897
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: But whatever the point I'm making is this, Luca, in

898
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: non tip top physical condition was already well on his

899
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: way to being one of the greatest players ever. Luca

900
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: like this should be the early favorite for League MVP.

901
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 2: Well you don't, and you don't think of his play

902
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 2: style that him being a little bit thinner might affect it.

903
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's going. Yeah, but I think

904
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: I think that if he is, I don't think he's

905
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,479
Speaker 1: going to be skinny. I think he's gonna be lean,

906
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think if you just

907
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:06,439
Speaker 1: replace some of what was fair with the Lakers, yeah,

908
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I would bet he

909
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: weighs about the same.

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01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 2: But look, I mean if not more, Yeah, I mean,

911
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 2: muscle weighs more than fat. Right, so he looks a

912
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 2: lot thinner than he.

913
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: Looks a lot thinner, you know what I mean. So

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01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 1: I just, yeah, I don't think you want actually skinny Luca,

915
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: but thinner Luca. I think what is helpful. And I

916
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: think that he has taken this You know what happened

917
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: last year at a heart And this was the thing

918
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: that I warned the MAVs about after the trade that

919
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: even if they were going to be right, they're going

920
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: to be wrong. Even if they were right, that if

921
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: they didn't trade him and they signed him to an extension,

922
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: he was just gonna get fat and out of shape

923
01:01:54,080 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: and all these things. He by trading him and motivating

924
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: him and insulting him, they then put this extra chip

925
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. Now people can say, why didn't he

926
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: do it during the year. I don't think you can

927
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 1: do this type of thing during a season, you know

928
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: what I mean, I think you have to this. You

929
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: need an offseason. And he's about to be playing a

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01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: ton of ball at euro Basket at for Slovenia and

931
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: I right now he would be my early season pick

932
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: to win League MVP next year.

933
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 2: And if he just torches Dallas every single time they

934
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:34,600
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Speaker 1: God, I just can't wait if that were to happen. Also,

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Speaker 1: by the way, shout out to Marco in the chat

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Speaker 1: watching from Slovenia. Yes, shout out Marco. Very cool. All right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Matt Everett has been dealing with some backstre on

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01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 2: this and is set to miss another week of camp.

969
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 2: You've been high on the rams. Does this affect it

970
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 2: at all? I think the guy just doesn't want to

971
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 2: go to training camp.

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Speaker 3: He's old. Oh old.

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01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 1: I hope that's it. That would be great, that would

974
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: be an awesome result. Here if it's just an old

975
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: guy doesn't want to practice. So here is Before training camp,

976
01:04:56,560 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: there was one story of potential contender that hit my radar,

977
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: and that was the CJ Stroud's shoulder soreness. I was like, ooh,

978
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: that's something to watch CJ Stroud, you know, like that

979
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to do full throwing practice or whatever,

980
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: like that's something watch. That seems to have subsided. Okay,

981
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: but it was it hit my radar. In training camp.

982
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: We've been lucky so far, fingers crossed. There hasn't been

983
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: the like devastating superstar injury, and there hasn't been the

984
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: contender that has just been hit with a bunch of

985
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: you know, contributor injuries, at least not yet. So there

986
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: have been to me, two major stories out of training

987
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: camp so far for contenders. One is a positive one.

988
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: One is a worrisome one. The positive one and people

989
01:05:55,640 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: can say this is, you know Chiefs colored glasses, But

990
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm not wrong about this. The Chiefs rookie first round

991
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: pick get who was considered a top ten talent, who

992
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: fell because people thought his knee was not right and

993
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: he might not be healthy for a good portion of

994
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Not only being healthy the first day

995
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: of camp, but being slotted as the starting left tackle,

996
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 1: not competing with Jalen Moore, who they signed to be

997
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: the left tackle for that spot, and just being their

998
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: left tackle from day one of camp today to right

999
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: now is one of the biggest positive stories for any

1000
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 1: true contender this training camp because if they have that

1001
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 1: spot locked down, and then you have Jalen Moore, the

1002
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: guy they signed from San Francisco, and Juwan Taylor, the

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01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: right tackle who's been a bit of a disappointment with

1004
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: Kansas City since they signed him from Jacksonville, competing on

1005
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: the right side, then all of a sudden, the Chiefs

1006
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: offensive line is totally different. So and there was everyone

1007
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 1: agreed that Josh Simmons had the talent to potentially be

1008
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: the number one tackle in his draft class, but the

1009
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 1: injury was so worried some he slid. If the knee

1010
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: is at really right, then the Chiefs dealing at taking

1011
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: care of one of the most important and one of

1012
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: the most expensive spots in football by drafting a guy

1013
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: at thirty two is a game changer that's in the

1014
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: positive direction for a contender, in a negative direction for

1015
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: a contender. It's this Stafford story because aside from confidence

1016
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: for your team's secondary, there is nothing positive that comes

1017
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: out of Jimmy G practicing and playing in training camp.

1018
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 3: And you need.

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01:07:53,960 --> 01:08:00,080
Speaker 1: Desperately a healthy Matt Stafford in order to contend, and

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01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: I ain't the Rams can contend. I liked now for

1021
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: Devonte Adams. Yeah, it was just like, you gotta be

1022
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: kidding me. I got massive, I got Jimmy G throwing

1023
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: me the wall again. I love Puka, I really like

1024
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: their d line. I obviously love McVeigh. I think DeVante

1025
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,560
Speaker 1: is good as a number two with the Rams, but

1026
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: it all comes undone without Stafford, and Stafford is thirty seven.

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01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: He got the shit kicked out of him for a

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01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,759
Speaker 1: decade in Detroit. He has been banged up at times

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01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 1: with the Rams. I am it's not the biggest story,

1030
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 1: but I am not going to ignore it as a

1031
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: potential big story. So it's just something to watch. All right,

1032
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Speaker 1: let's get reminder like rate subscribe review, let's get some

1033
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Speaker 1: listener questions to Monsey.

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Speaker 2: Curtis asked, are the Vikings the NFC's versions of the

1035
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 2: Chiefs great ownership?

1036
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 3: Well run?

1037
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 2: They have their Andy Reid and Kevin O'Connell, and now

1038
01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 2: JJ is looking like the next MA Homes Based off

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Speaker 2: training camp, it is one.

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Speaker 1: Of the worst. I honestly think this might be one

1041
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: of the worst UH listener questions ever. Uh, I'm not

1042
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Speaker 1: yet ready to call Kevin O'Connell Andy Reid. Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: in his first stop coaching, early in his career, early

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Speaker 1: in his tenure in Philadelphia, made four consecutive AFC NFC

1045
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Speaker 1: championship games. Kevin O'Connell UH is zero and two up

1046
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 1: to this point in his career in the postseason. And

1047
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: those losses have come to Daniel Jones. And who was

1048
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: it last year? Was it was it Jade and Daniels?

1049
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: And I don't know that JJ is looking great in camp.

1050
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: So I I I now where they are like the Chiefs,

1051
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: and that they had a solid starting quarterback and Cousins

1052
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: and then I guess Darnold as well. But they want

1053
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 1: a higher upside. So they drafted, you know, they drafted

1054
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: a kid and said we're going to roll the dice.

1055
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Speaker 1: But that's where the comparisons sadly end, all right, MS

1056
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: in round one not not to the.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Brandon asked, Nick, would you say Joker is

1058
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Speaker 2: the player in the NBA in which you changed your

1059
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 2: opinion the most on just in the fact that you

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Speaker 2: were a big time late to the all time great

1061
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Speaker 2: party on him.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, uh.

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Speaker 3: And yeah.

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Speaker 1: I first, yeah, when he just won all the m

1065
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Speaker 1: vps despite having none of the accomplishments, which I still

1066
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Speaker 1: don't love. But but yeah, I mean the he is

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Speaker 1: an all time great and he does have the accomplishments now,

1068
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Speaker 1: and I also find him really endearing. So yes, there's

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Speaker 1: no question is the player I've changed well, and in

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Speaker 1: the other direction, it's hardened because for a long time

1071
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Speaker 1: I was a hardened defender. I was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: it gave and cut him slack because nobody could beat

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Speaker 1: the Warriors, you know what I mean. I thought he was.

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Speaker 1: I thought his regular season dominance was like underrated.

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Speaker 3: But then it was just Lamar Jackson, I know.

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Speaker 1: I So maybe that's one of the reasons I'm so

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Speaker 1: hard on Lamar's because I got burnt by Harden because

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Speaker 1: I was like, he's not gonna fait, It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: happen every year. But then it, you know, then it did?

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Honestly think James Harden's meltdowns in the postseason or worse

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01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 2: than Lamar Jackson's, though I will say that.

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Speaker 3: I said they're the.

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01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: Same thing, probably, but yeah, and there's certainly more of.

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Speaker 3: Them, all right.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Tam Man asked, is there anything Bryce Young can

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01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 2: do this season to change your opinion on him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Be good?

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01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, if he's good, it will change my

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01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: opinion of him, that's all. I just don't think he

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01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: is going to be able to be good for a

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01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,479
Speaker 1: seventeen game season at his size. That's it. I could

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01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: be wrong. Yeah, like the games, the games and results matter,

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01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: so yes, like the guys can change my opinion of him,

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01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: he has to be good next.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Chris ass I was listening to Thursday's episode of

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01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 2: First Things First, and you were talking about your heart

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01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 2: skepticism being because of his great pieces. Why don't we

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Speaker 2: give the same treatment to Burrow?

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01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: Uh? So here's the thing I think that Burrow does

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01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: get a bit of the curve of he has these

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01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 1: great receivers, but not to the same degree that Hurts

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01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: has now, and I think that's fair in this regard.

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01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: Burrow has two great receivers, the best duo in football.

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01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,679
Speaker 1: Hurts has two great receivers, the second or third best

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Speaker 1: duo in football. Burrows, though, I would say, are better.

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01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:55,680
Speaker 1: But then Hurts also has, compared to Burrow, exponentially a

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01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: better offensive line and exponentially a better running game. So like,

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01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But the other piece of it

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01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: is fair or not. Man For a lot of people,

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01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: a huge piece of how they judge a quarterback is

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01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: third and nine. Can he pick it up for me

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01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 1: with a dart? And that is the one piece of

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01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 1: Jalen's game that people still have some question of fair

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01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 1: or not. They have some question of and no one

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01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:23,560
Speaker 1: has any question of it with Burrow. So that's the

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01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: answer to that question.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Next, Noah asked, when you and Danny were doing radio

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01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,759
Speaker 2: together back in the day, did you ever talk about

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01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,639
Speaker 2: one day being on TV together or was that never

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Speaker 2: a thought?

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01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: Never thought? He and I both thought we were radio lifers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we certainly always talked about you know, working

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01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: together and doing stuff and collaborating. But yeah, I mean TV.

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01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: The TV piece of this is one of the more

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01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 1: shocking kind of turn of events of my professional life,

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01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: to be totally honest, all right.

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Speaker 2: Last one Joel asked where did Nick go fish saw

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01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 2: the mahis? And want to and what's the story. I'm

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01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 2: a bit of a fisherman myself saw fishermen to fishermen, So.

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Speaker 1: How did he see the mahis? I'm trying to figure out,

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01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: did your mom post it? Did he put it on

1135
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: the pot?

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01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 3: And I was about to say it might have been

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01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 3: something possible, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I know what it was? The walk in video from

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01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: First Things First yesterday, That's what it was. And I

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01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 1: held up my phone. I was in the Bahamas for

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: a couple of days, uh, and we didn't have the

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01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:33,600
Speaker 1: show Friday, and so I went down. I've got to

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01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 1: tell I'll end the story on this. I have to

1144
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: tell you this. This unbelieving. So I had an amazing

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01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: time in the Bahamas. By the way, shout out to

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01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: the people of the Bahamas who are huge First Things

1147
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:49,560
Speaker 1: First viewers, like the people they couldn't believe it, like

1148
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 1: shockingly popular amongst the workers. It was crazy, but so

1149
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: short version of this story as best as I can

1150
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: because I got cause I'm going on the Herd today

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01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: with Danny actually, which is really cool. A year ago,

1152
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: I won Hanka's Area's charity poker tournament with the Mets.

1153
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: It was at City Field. It's like a one hundred

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01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: people playing. I won it. Top prize was four days

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01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 1: in a super nice suite at Bahamar in the Bahamas.

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01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:20,759
Speaker 3: Okay.

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01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 1: I then kind of forgot about it and then found

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01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: out that that thing was going to expire in like

1159
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: a month, so I reached out to Bahamah. It was like, hey,

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01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: I have this certificate. I'd like to use it this

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01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:41,759
Speaker 1: coming weekend. They're like, oh, that suite that you're supposed

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01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: to have is not available the days you're talking about,

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01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: but a different one might be, and blah blah blah.

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01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: So we go back and forth and ultimately they're like listen,

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01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: they were super nice and super helpful, and shout out

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01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: to them. They're like, we can give you the suite

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01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 1: for Sunday to Wednesday, but I obviously got to be

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01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 1: at work, but your mom and sister could go. So

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01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:08,599
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'll go down Friday and leave

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01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:12,759
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. Your mom and sister can come down Sunday morning,

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01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: have a little mother daughter four days in the Bahamas,

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01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,680
Speaker 1: and they can use the suite anyway. Because there's two

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01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:20,599
Speaker 1: of them, it's just one of me. I'll just get

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01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 1: whatever the cheapest room possible is. And so I went

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01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 1: down there for two days by myself, golfed twice on Friday,

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01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: went fishing. That's where I caught the Mahimi. Gambled eight

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01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 1: by myself, who's great. Met a guy named Alan who

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01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: used to be an investment banker, made a bunch of

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01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: money and now is a literal treasure hunter, like literally

1180
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: like hires cruise to like scour the ocean floor and

1181
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,560
Speaker 1: he's making a TV show about it looking for a

1182
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: thirty billion dollar wreck somewhere. Like it's really cool. So

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01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: I had a great time. I didn't pick your mom

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01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 1: sister up from the airport. Driving back. We have lunch

1185
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:08,720
Speaker 1: and then I go to the airport. Your mom then

1186
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: facetimes me and shows me the room that I won

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01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:17,599
Speaker 1: in this poker tournament. But I did not set foot

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01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: in this room. Demanse So hotel room has a pool, table,

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01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 1: two kitchens, a theater, a peloton, four balconies, three one, two, three,

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01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 1: twenty four hour butlers to help set things up for you.

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01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: It is. I realized after the fact the reason this

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01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: was a prize in the charity poker tournament was someone

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01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,760
Speaker 1: I think who was in the charity poker tournament is

1194
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: a casino whale and gets comps or you know what

1195
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: I mean, like the want you to come down and

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01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 1: gamble whatever, and so they hadn't include it. It might

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01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: be the nicest hotel room I've ever seen in my life.

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01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: I'm not using it. Your mom and sister. It could

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01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: make ten people. It's just your mom and sister. You're

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01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,719
Speaker 1: like your mom to called me, She's like, I texted

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01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 1: the butler. He set up a massage and reservations for us,

1202
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 1: and we're doing this. I'm like, this is unbelievable. They're

1203
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,120
Speaker 1: just living the life. But I do have to say

1204
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: no free ads, but I would do ads for Baha Mar.

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01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: That place was great. I'd never been there. I'd been

1206
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: to Atlantis a few times because that's where the World

1207
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,879
Speaker 1: Series of Poker is. The World Series of Poker Paradise,

1208
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:44,479
Speaker 1: same island, but you know, different part of it. I'd

1209
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:46,760
Speaker 1: never been there. We should go sometime to Monday the

1210
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: next time you come to New York. I because it's

1211
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: a short flight. I'd go again for just two days.

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01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: It was a ton of fun. I really enjoyed it. No,

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01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: we'd never been to the Bahamas.

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01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I thought that was you know, we went

1215
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 3: to a Caribbean.

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01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: Correct, Well, it's all in the Caribbean. We went to

1217
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: what you're thinking of is Grand Cayman. We went to

1218
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: Grand Cayman, but we didn't go to the Bahamas. But

1219
01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: it also has and I didn't take advantage of it,

1220
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:18,679
Speaker 1: like a massive water park, a bunch of slides. Everything.

1221
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 1: All right, no more free ads.

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: Lazy river too. Everything. It was pretty sick all right, yeah,

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01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: uh in short flight from New York. All right, I

1225
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: will say Volume uh and Blue Duck. Folks, let's send

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Speaker 1: one free ad they're getting. I guess they. Let's get

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Speaker 1: a partnership going uh the all right, thank like rate

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Speaker 1: subscribe review, Thank you to Volume, Blue Duck, DraftKings, Boost Mobile,

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Speaker 1: Mando all that. I will see you guys on I'm

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: with Danny Parkins in a little more than an hour.

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Speaker 3: What's right