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Speaker 1: You hear him during the week with Doug Gottlieb and

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Speaker 1: with Cavino and Rich. Good to be with you this

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Action on the Pitch thirty one minutes in

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Speaker 1: and Scottie Scheffler looking to win his fifteenth PGA title.

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Speaker 2: What a what a jam packed Sunday that we've got

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Speaker 2: And for Scotty Scheffler, maybe more importantly, Mike Major number

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Speaker 2: three in his career and redemption off of a crazy

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Speaker 2: PGA championship last year in Louisville when he was in

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Speaker 2: a jail Friday morning prior to the second round. This

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Speaker 2: would be I don't know if it's a turnaround because

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Speaker 2: without that incident last year, as tragic as it was,

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Speaker 2: Scotty Scheffler had a really good chance to win that

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Speaker 2: championship and he played great on that Friday, but I

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Speaker 2: think everything caught up to him on that Saturday where

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Speaker 2: he kind of puckered out, and in the end it

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Speaker 2: was Xander Schoffley and Bryson to Shamba going down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: Victor Hovelin was in the mix, and Mike yesterday we

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Speaker 2: had Bryson to Shamba in the mix. John Rahm shoots

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Speaker 2: up the leader board. There are familiar names that you

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Speaker 2: saw in contention on Saturday until Scotty Scheffler said all right,

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Speaker 2: enough's enough. Five hunder par in his final five holes,

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Speaker 2: including two under on the toughest three hole stretch that

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see in a lot of places in golf,

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Speaker 2: and it's just Scotty Scheffler's world in terms of golf

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Speaker 2: right now. Rory had been the story because of the

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Speaker 2: Masters and because of completing the career Grand Slam, and

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Speaker 2: maybe we forget a little bit about Scotty Scheffler, but

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Speaker 2: he is just on another level.

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Speaker 3: And I don't want.

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Speaker 2: To say that today is just a coronation, but I

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Speaker 2: would be shocked if he doesn't win, even just with

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Speaker 2: a three shot lead, because he's just playing at a

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Speaker 2: different level than anybody else's.

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Speaker 1: Three shot lead. As we get the round started, they're

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Speaker 1: they're on the course now he'll tee off near to

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Speaker 1: three pm Eastern time, so you know, noontime Momsta time

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Speaker 1: through it, but you know, you go back even the

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Speaker 1: last five years, you can actually find a Phil Mickelson

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Speaker 1: win in that time. But to the point, I mean

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Speaker 1: a year ago, you know, we're on air over the

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Speaker 1: arrest and all of that and what's right, what's wrong,

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Speaker 1: already a year So take advantage of every day you

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Speaker 1: got people, because that was a year ago. That does

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Speaker 1: Like that that's how it flies fast, right, and it

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Speaker 1: I speak from personal experience that I believe that is true,

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Speaker 1: I bring up the fifteenth, right, the majors, and we

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Speaker 2: I would I would say with most players, even if this,

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Speaker 3: But he's just been so good statistically.

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Speaker 2: Whether it be on the internet, whether you be watching

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Speaker 2: put compared to when Tiger was doing his things, like

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Speaker 2: Scheffler's numbers rival that in essence, now, I think Tiger

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Speaker 2: And he seemed when he birdied seventeen yesterday and birdied

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Speaker 2: I didn't mention Bryson to Shambo, and in that conversation

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Speaker 2: Scotty just seems to be this and you can't see

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Speaker 1: It's a flat line, the thing they used to talk

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Speaker 1: He can put him up to a heart monitor, great

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Speaker 2: It's just I don't see it happening, and it's not

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Speaker 2: So the US Open is less than a month away,

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Speaker 2: so Scotty wins this. Now you're playing your best golf

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Speaker 2: So he also got heckled, of course, yes from a

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Speaker 2: I am not a fan like of livedolf, and you've

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Speaker 2: known that, and many people have known that your point

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Speaker 1: Hey, if you're going to do a bit, I always

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Speaker 1: And to be clear, for those that have watched Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Action already moving all over the place. We got UFL

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Speaker 2: Schedule prediction in last place with a total of four

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Speaker 2: points when the lowest you could get was three because

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Speaker 2: we knew the Eagles, Cowboys and Lions were playing.

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Speaker 1: The SAT equivalent of writing your name.

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Speaker 3: I finished in dead last with four points. There it was.

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Speaker 2: I had the Eagles correct, Lions correct, Cowboys correct. I

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Speaker 2: did say the Vikings would play on Monday Night Football,

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Speaker 2: so I got that correct. I just thought they would

440
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Speaker 2: face the Seahawks in a Sam Darnold sort of revenge

441
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Speaker 2: game that did not happen. I was wrong on the

442
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Speaker 2: Eagles and Lions that I thought was going to be

443
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Speaker 2: the opener. I had Vikings Lions on Thanksgiving, and I

444
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Speaker 2: had the Cowboys and Chargers on Thanksgiving. Now part of

445
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Speaker 2: the scoring system rewards not only getting a team right

446
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Speaker 2: in that slot, but if you get a game correct

447
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Speaker 2: to get a bonus point. That was good news to

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Speaker 2: Chris Purfetts, who got a bonus point for correctly predicting Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: In Chiefs on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 2: Chris maybe should have gotten a half point because he

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Speaker 2: thought the Monday night game was Ravens at Bills. Well,

453
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Speaker 2: that was the Sunday night game, so he was a

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Speaker 2: pretty good, pretty good sensibility with that matchup.

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Speaker 4: I think I even mentioned I said that this seems

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Speaker 4: more like a Sunday Night Fair when we were talking about.

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Speaker 2: We'll have to check the tape. Maybe Shay can do

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Speaker 2: that during a break. But that was a good prediction

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Speaker 2: just a day off. You thought Lions Steelers on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: That didn't happen, and you were with me with Lions

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Speaker 2: and Eagles. Now also with five points, is Isaac Lohencron

462
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Speaker 2: correctly predicting the Lions versus Packers on Thanksgiving? He thought

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Speaker 2: it was gonna be the Eagles and Rams on Opening Night.

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Speaker 2: Of course we found out it was the Cowboys and Eagles.

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Speaker 2: He thought that the Chargers like me, were going to

466
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Speaker 2: face the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day that did not happen.

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Speaker 2: A different AFC West squad. He had Texans and Ravens

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Speaker 2: as the Monday Night game and also tied for second

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Speaker 2: place with five points. Executive producer Shay who got the

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Speaker 2: Lions and correct on Thanksgiving, he thought it was going

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Speaker 2: to be Eagles Commanders. He also doubled out with Commanders

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Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving and thought it was Cowboys and Raiders on

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Speaker 2: Monday Night Football, which was not the case. But five

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Speaker 2: points for Shay and the winner of our schedule prediction contest,

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Speaker 2: the one and only Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Really six points, Okay, so it was right there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you thought Rams Egos on Opening Night. But again,

478
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Speaker 2: you get the one point for the Eagles, you get

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Speaker 2: the one point for the Lions, and you get a

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Speaker 2: point for predicting that they were playing the Packers on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: You get the bonus point because of the game you

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Speaker 2: had the Cowboys against the Commanders that didn't happen. But

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Speaker 2: you picked the Bears to play on Monday Night Football

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Speaker 2: against the Ravens. You thought they are going to play

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Speaker 2: another team with purple. But it's as I mentioned, earlier

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Speaker 2: than Minnesota Vikings. So your pick of your bears on

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Speaker 2: Monday night football put you over the edge in the

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Speaker 2: winner of our schedule predicting contest.

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Speaker 1: What do I get? No, the fact that we are

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Speaker 1: all bunched up. It just shows while we we have

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Speaker 1: all of the opponents, all of the fun stuff, we

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Speaker 1: don't know what's in the hearts and minds and the

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Speaker 1: minutia of the data that gets into the scheduling algorithm.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into the receding potential for playoff action next hour, Dan,

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Speaker 1: But you know, as the schedule release comes down and

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Speaker 1: we start making travel plans and in local markets, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go through all seventeen weeks. Where's the

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Speaker 1: buy fall and do we like where the buy is?

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Speaker 1: Do we not? Is it too early, is it too late?

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Speaker 3: Whatever?

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Speaker 1: It's one of my I have many problems with the

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Speaker 1: way scheduling goes because immediately my brain gravitates to let's

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Speaker 1: look at the final four weeks of the season and

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Speaker 1: see how many of those sandwich games we get. Right,

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Speaker 1: here's a division game followed by another game followed by

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Speaker 1: that same division opponent, and we've got a few of those,

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Speaker 1: and as we get closer to our fantasy breakdowns and whatever,

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Speaker 1: we'll take it out. But it's also that larger question

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Speaker 1: of division and how much it matters, which is part

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Speaker 1: of our larger conversation of this receding. But it's never

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Speaker 1: going to be perfect. But sometimes you just throw your

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Speaker 1: hands up and say, what do we do?

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Speaker 2: That's why we were I think surprised with the season

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Speaker 2: opener being the Eagles and Cowboys, and I tweeted this

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Speaker 2: out that another people have also said that they felt

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Speaker 2: that this was the thinking of it, but that the

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Speaker 2: NFL wanted to have the Cowboys early because they were

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Speaker 2: afraid egos Cowboys wouldn't matter later on in the secon it.

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Speaker 1: Always matters, like we have not hit the tipic point

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Speaker 1: at least to my thinking, to where like you saw

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Speaker 1: the ratings last year, they stunk, but whenever they were

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Speaker 1: still in a big window, eyeballs still were there.

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Speaker 2: Sure could also be Dak Prescott's health. I think you

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Speaker 2: do that with quarterbacks as well. You should try to

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Speaker 2: cash in your quarterback matchups as fast as you can.

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Speaker 2: But I do think that the Cowboys stinking it could

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Speaker 2: be a possibility, and you don't want to put Eagles

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Speaker 2: Cowboys in Week thirteen and Week sixteen.

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Speaker 3: So what happens?

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Speaker 2: And again this is now that there's been four times

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Speaker 2: in the NFL's history of this kickoff game that they've

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Speaker 2: had a division matchup be the opening game. Three of

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Speaker 2: those have been with the NFC East, and the only

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Speaker 2: time that it wasn't again was Packers and Bears when

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Speaker 2: they were celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the league.

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Speaker 2: That's the only reason why they did it that year

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Speaker 2: was to have that long standing rivalry be the first

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Speaker 2: game in the one hundredth season of the NFL. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: the NFC East for some reason, well we know the

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Speaker 2: reason because of the marquee teams and the markets. But

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Speaker 2: they've had the division matchups. But Mike, the Seahawks my

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Speaker 2: favorite team, and I know that there are other matchups

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Speaker 2: like this. The Seahawks could go the season not playing

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Speaker 2: a meaningful game really against the forty nine ers, meaning

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Speaker 2: game one is opening week obviously meaningful, but it's week one.

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Speaker 2: You have no idea what you are and who you are,

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Speaker 2: and then you don't play them again until week eighteen, right,

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Speaker 2: and so it's just this weird bookend of you're kind

549
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Speaker 2: of breaking yourself into this long season, figuring yourself out,

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Speaker 2: and then you don't see that team again until week eighteen,

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Speaker 2: where maybe one of the teams is out of it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe one of the teams has already clinched their spot

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs and know where they're going to be,

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Speaker 2: so they're gonna rest players. And I just don't think

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Speaker 2: that that's a great way to the schedule. I don't

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Speaker 2: know why you would have seventeen weeks in between a

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Speaker 2: divisional you know, opponents.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the difficult part, right, I go back to

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Speaker 1: what the Bears started last year, right to use the

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Speaker 1: localization of my own fandom. They started the season with

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Speaker 1: three straight games against the AFC South. Tell me how

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Speaker 1: that makes any sense? Right, Like, I'm very much against

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Speaker 1: division games in week one for very much what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: Like you don't know what it is. Give teams timed

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Speaker 1: a round out because those games are supposed to matter, right,

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Speaker 1: we keep talking about winning the division.

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Speaker 3: Fact their rivalry weekends. Now we're going to have rivalry games.

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Speaker 1: Remember the NFL is going to be now more city

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Speaker 1: connects for everybody. But it's the idea of I know,

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Speaker 1: we can't predict injuries.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Part of what is good and bad about the NBA

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Speaker 1: Playoffs is I don't know by the time we get

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Speaker 1: to April, the attrition and what happens. Right, maybe your

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Speaker 1: favorite team loses the stop guy and down you go.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that for Boston. You guys were

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Speaker 1: cooked in that series by when Jason Tatum got hurt,

578
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Speaker 1: like that game was done. But it's the idea of

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Speaker 1: at least in the heart of the schedule we can

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Speaker 1: say we have the best representation of these squads. So

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Speaker 1: if division games really matter, I'm not saying we eliminate

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Speaker 1: them from the back end of the schedule altogether, but

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Speaker 1: being judicious about how that comes to play to where

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Speaker 1: we get the best representation for games that are supposed

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Speaker 1: to mean so much. Right, we celebrate all two seventy two.

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Speaker 1: It's a mantra of the show for me. Whatever, like

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Speaker 1: we because right now we're thirsting for anything football related.

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Speaker 1: The Caleb Williams and Broa party stuff. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: next hour. But when we start off with the division game,

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Speaker 1: you your Seahawks probably the best. It is the greatest

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Speaker 1: example you can have. You don't know what you are

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Speaker 1: new quarterback, new regime, new new everything, and then by

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Speaker 1: week eighteen, what's left of that squad? Yeah, and motivations

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Speaker 1: and et cetera, et cetera. So I there's no perfect formula,

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Speaker 1: but this one clear is a clear outlier of all. Right,

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Speaker 1: explain to me how this had to happen.

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Speaker 2: You don't like, you didn't like how the Bear started

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Speaker 2: out with their AFC South opponents. I'm not opposed to

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Speaker 2: the NFL figuring out a way to do that, to

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Speaker 2: have a segmented schedule. Guess what, weeks one through three

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Speaker 2: or one through four, you're gonna play cross conference, so

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Speaker 2: then you break into the league. It's not gonna hurt

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Speaker 2: you tiebreaker wise, but you play those games, you get

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Speaker 2: them off the schedule. Then you start in weeks you know,

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Speaker 2: five through ten or whatever. Guess what that's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a first wave of division games. If we have buys

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Speaker 2: that we can put, you know, play three of your

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Speaker 2: games there, then separated a different way, and then have

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Speaker 2: another wave of those games and save something else for

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Speaker 2: week eighteen. I think that that would be a way

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Speaker 2: to do it, to make it interesting, to make it

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Speaker 2: fair and competitive.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know if the NFL wants fair, but that's.

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Speaker 1: Where it always comes down to fairness in all of

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Speaker 1: these processes. How much of a fight there really is

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Speaker 1: for that? He's Dan Byer on Mike Carmon. As we

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Speaker 1: continue here, it's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio. Time

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Speaker 1: to take a trip to the news desk get an

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Speaker 1: update on the sporting universe with our guy, Isaac Loewenkron. Guys.

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Speaker 6: Today, Major League Baseball suspended Philadelphia Phillies closer Jose Alvarado

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Speaker 6: eighty games without pay after he tested positive for a

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Speaker 6: performance enhancing substance. Alvarado would also be ineligible for the

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Speaker 6: postseason should the Phillies make it. Alverado tested positive for

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Speaker 6: exogenus testosterone aka testosterone supplied from outside the body. Phillies

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Speaker 6: president Dave Dombrowski told reporters a short time that the

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Speaker 6: positive test was caused by Alvarado taking a weight loss drug. Today,

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Speaker 6: at three thirty Eastern, Game seven of the Western Conference

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Speaker 6: semi Finals from Oklahoma City between the Thunder and Denver

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Speaker 6: ESPN reported today denver Ford Aaron Gordon will need several

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Speaker 6: weeks to recover from his left hamstring strain, making it

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Speaker 6: physically improbable for him to play today, then tonight at

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Speaker 6: seven thirty eastern, Game seven in Round two of the

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Speaker 6: Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Toronto Maple Leafs host the

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Speaker 6: Florida Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Golf.

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Speaker 6: After three rounds of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow,

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Speaker 6: Scotty Scheffler as a three shot lead at eleven under

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Speaker 6: par overall, and we'll see off the final round today

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Speaker 6: at two forty Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Guys, all yours, thanks so much at Isaac Low and

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Speaker 1: Cron again where you find him. Didn't have any Angel

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Speaker 1: City goal calls, so maybe a couple of angsty moments

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Speaker 1: from the goals against in at t nil defeat last night.

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Speaker 1: We love him and he's ready to rally as we

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Speaker 1: get everybody together, Get those thinking caps on because ponder

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Speaker 1: this one. Chew on this as you drink some more coffee.

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Speaker 1: The NFL is are ready for Dion Sanders, but it

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Speaker 1: is ready for prime time next on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Fox Sports or radio here Southern California Studios.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you being with us Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Carman,

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Speaker 1: Dan Byer with you. We've got the PGA Championship rolling along,

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Speaker 1: and Arsenal is broken through in the Premier League. Now

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Speaker 1: with a one nil lead on Newcastle in the sixtieth minute,

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Speaker 1: bad turnover yields a big blast past the outstretched arms

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Speaker 1: of a diving goalie to give the one nil lead.

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Speaker 1: But all of that is just a nice prelimb to

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Speaker 1: what we love to do here on the show. So

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Speaker 1: I turn all attention and the spotlight to my guy

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Speaker 1: Dan Byer.

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Speaker 2: I think our teas may be helpful to our contestants

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Speaker 2: and hopefully our listening audience. Let's get the Fox family

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Speaker 2: together and play the feud. Yeah, we're talking prime time.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking NFL schedule. We could do the

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Speaker 2: easy one. We could do the glass half full. No,

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Speaker 2: we're not going. Why would we do that last half empty?

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Speaker 2: Let's be the pessimist that we all are top eight

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Speaker 2: answers on the board. Teams with the fewest primetime games

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Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty five NFL schedule, fewest primetime games

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Speaker 2: in the NFL schedule. Mike Harmon, Chris Purfett, producer Shay

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Speaker 2: and Isaac Glow and Crown make up our team.

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Speaker 3: Harmon, Let's start with you.

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Speaker 1: The number one pick gives you the number one answer.

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 2: Show me the Tennessee Titans a big fat goose egg.

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Speaker 2: No primetime games. And again, this is night games. These

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Speaker 2: are games at night. This doesn't mean maybe a Black

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Speaker 2: Friday game or Thanksgiving game. This means prime time at

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Speaker 2: night games time. I usually go to Chris Prefet's second,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to Shaye second.

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Speaker 5: I know, I think, I know, all right, Yeah, the

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Speaker 5: Browns baby one PM merchants.

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Speaker 1: Hey, but their schedule release was fire Dan, that magical elf,

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Speaker 1: really captivating.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I know, I thought it was great too. They

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Speaker 5: did also some memes and all that. They did a

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Speaker 5: good job this year, all right job this year we

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Speaker 5: saw the Titans, remember them? Show me the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 5: There they are also with zero zero primetime games. Now

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Speaker 5: over to Chris Prefet.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't be me, although granted a few years ago the

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Speaker 4: Lions were one PM merchants. True, I'm gonna be honest.

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Speaker 4: The only the only release video I ever watched this

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Speaker 4: year was the Chargers. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. You know

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Speaker 4: what I haven't heard from in a while. They're forgettable.

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Speaker 4: What about the Dolphins? Dolphins? Is it the Dolphins? No

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Speaker 4: first strike on the board? In fact, somehow the Dolphins

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Speaker 4: have five rods? Wait, we did.

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Speaker 1: Want five minutes on that Smith and the other day,

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Speaker 1: like I just went off on that whole concept, Like

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Speaker 1: what are we doing?

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Speaker 6: I guess Isaac Glowing Cron you can't go right with

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Speaker 6: the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 3: Show me the Panther one one primetime game.

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Speaker 2: For Carolina in twenty twenty five, subject to change based

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Speaker 2: on flex scheduling, but for the purposes of this exercise,

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Speaker 2: they have won. Back around to Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: No Derek Carr, no primetime games.

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Speaker 2: Show me the Saints. Yes, ain't that correct? The Saints

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Speaker 2: no primetime games?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Our three goose eggs are off the board. Now around

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Speaker 2: to Shay. Teams are the fewest primetime games in the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five NFL schedule.

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Speaker 1: Jags.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like Jaguars, question mark, and I think it

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Speaker 2: should be Jaguars periods.

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Speaker 3: It is Jacksonville off the board. Chris Purfett over to you.

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Speaker 4: I really don't want to be responsible for all these strikes.

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Speaker 4: You know what, Hey, I'm looking at Dan. I'm looking

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Speaker 4: to swear in the face Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Is it the Seahawks? They got four? They got four?

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Speaker 7: Sam?

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Speaker 1: Sam?

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Speaker 2: Sam say yes, everybody wants to watch the Darnold Show.

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Speaker 2: All right, Isaac Glowing Crown. There is a pass available

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Speaker 2: if you need.

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Speaker 6: I'm Ron Burgundy.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Is it New England have a Sunday night game? Oh

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Speaker 2: all right, Mike, game's over. We lost.

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Speaker 3: We only got five of our eight. You guys want

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Speaker 3: to throw a.

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Speaker 2: Colts. Well, Mike just said Jets. He's correct with that.

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Speaker 2: Ye Colts got one. Falcons have five?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Yes, people are in love with Michael Pennix Junior and

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Speaker 2: that high octane offense that they feel the Falcons have five?

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Speaker 2: About a correct, bucks, The Buccaneers actually have four.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense.

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Speaker 2: I sent out a tweet and I thought it was

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Speaker 2: actually funny. I know, I don't want to laugh at

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Speaker 2: my own joke. If the Arizona Cardinals had one of

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Speaker 2: their players do a song to their schedule, and I

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Speaker 2: said the name of.

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Speaker 3: The song, should have been four or five Eastern time

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Speaker 3: like I thought it was. That's what all their games

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Speaker 3: are going to be.

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Speaker 2: The Arizona Cardinals only had two prime time games.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense on the schedule.

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Speaker 4: I just would have completely forgotten about the Cardinals because

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Speaker 4: everyone forgets about that.

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Speaker 3: This is if we did the flip side.

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Speaker 2: If we did the most, obviously, we never would have

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Speaker 2: gotten Dolphins or Falcons unless somebody else answered. But the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs have seven, Cowboys have six. Then these teams with

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Speaker 2: five Dolphins, Falcons, Lions, Eagles, Commanders, Bills, Chargers, and the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, those are your five primetime game teams

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Speaker 2: in the NFL this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the curiosity becomes once we get into flex season,

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Speaker 1: right because the Bears only had three, yes, which I

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Speaker 1: think when we talk about the Dolphins and some of

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Speaker 1: these other squads, you're going, how do you not with

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Speaker 1: all the hype, all the excitement, whatever, not get them

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Speaker 1: into the games.

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Speaker 2: You have a Week one primetime game against the Vikings

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Speaker 2: and then a Week seventeen game against the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 2: like so, then just one throw out the season. And

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Speaker 2: again there could be but this is the Thursday night game.

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Speaker 2: This is the Thursday night on Thanksgiving, but not the

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Speaker 2: earlier games. This is the primetime games and that's what

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Speaker 2: the NFL laid out for us.

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Speaker 1: Fun time, fun time, and we don't normally strike out.

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Speaker 1: We'll get him again next week thanks to Shay and

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Speaker 1: Chris and Ilo. He's Dan Byron Mike Carmen as we

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Speaker 1: come to you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios

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Speaker 1: here in southern California at Dan Byron Fox, where you

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Speaker 1: find him. Find me over at Swollendome. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we stay in the NFL with an imodest proposal that's

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Speaker 1: gaining a lot of steam. We'll do that next here

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Speaker 1: on Fox. Locked in loaded hour two of the program.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in. It's Fox Sports Sunday. Wherever however you're listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being part of the extended family.

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Speaker 1: We ask only this. It is a Sunday, which means

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Speaker 1: you know, churchy, congregation, expansion, community family. You understand that

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Speaker 1: if you saw sinners, So go out and evangelize for

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Speaker 1: the program. Continue to expand this to your friends, family,

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Speaker 1: Tell them you love what you're hearing on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: Mike Carbent alongside my guy Dan Byer full slate of

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Speaker 1: chaos across the sporting universe today on a Sunday, Dan.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun in afternoon Game seven in this

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Speaker 2: playoff window of funky NBA schedule. But this one is

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Speaker 2: an ABC game, so you got a three thirty Eastern

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Speaker 2: time tip. Nix and Pacers don't start until Wednesday. Good,

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Speaker 2: So there was no basketball yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Good. Monday and tuesdayday matter for me.

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Speaker 2: Monday there is no basketball. Tuesday is when I believe

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Speaker 2: the West Finals will begin, either with the Nuggets or

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Speaker 2: Thunder partaking against the Timberwolves. But it is unique in

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Speaker 2: that way, Mike, where I think everybody just assumed. I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of people assume that there would be

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Speaker 2: a game yesterday and that if the Knick Celtics went

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Speaker 2: to Sunday that it would be played today. That wasn't

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Speaker 2: going to be the case Nicks and Celtics Game seven

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Speaker 2: was actually scheduled.

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Speaker 3: For Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the NBA has their way in setting up

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Speaker 2: their schedule, so then their conference finals run in a

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Speaker 2: certain way leading up to the NBA Finals. But an

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Speaker 2: afternoon tilt, I don't think it will change the atmosphere

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Speaker 2: that you get inside the arena in Oklahoma City. But

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Speaker 2: it may not matter because Gordon's injury is such a

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Speaker 2: blow to the Nuggets. I mean it really is. For

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Speaker 2: I know, Julian Strather at a great game six, and

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Speaker 2: so you're looking for other people to step up. But

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Speaker 2: Gordon has just been such a key piece, not only

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Speaker 2: in the series but in these playoffs, and to not

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Speaker 2: have him is so tough to rebound from.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to our NFL receding conversation in a moment.

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Speaker 1: We've got some purty and Caleb Williams Chicago guy, it'd

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Speaker 1: be remiss not to give the two cents to tell

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Speaker 1: everybody to calm down and look into your own father, mother, auntie, uncle,

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Speaker 1: grandma and grandpa and your role as you know, what

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Speaker 1: you're doing with your kid's extracurricular activities. Are you so different?

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a minute. But Oklahoma City

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Speaker 1: eight and a half point favorites line moved about a

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Speaker 1: half a point when the Gordon injury was brought to bear.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Strawther, You look at Brown, Russell Westbrook, and

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Speaker 1: one of the things for this series, Dan is I've

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Speaker 1: never been a more ardent supporter of a random team

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Speaker 1: than what the Denver Nuggets are right now into And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why and see if you can follow

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Speaker 1: this logic America. Yeah, glorious is I love Sga? Right?

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Speaker 1: He was the guy that when he got traded away

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Speaker 1: from the clip is like, nah, I guess pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Like did I think he'd be an MVP guy? No,

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Speaker 1: But you're bringing back Paul George, all that whatever, And

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Speaker 1: now you see what that team's become, how they've built it, whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story, right. Regular season, Like, I get

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Speaker 1: the argument regular season should matter. The fact that you

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Speaker 1: played and balled out and kicked everybody's ass for eighty

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Speaker 1: two games should matter. However, I take the Nuggets for

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Speaker 1: this one. I like Jokic because he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: at any point could just decide he's leaving, he's had

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Speaker 1: enough of the NBA, I'm going home, I'm gonna ride

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Speaker 1: my horses around the track and I'm done. So I

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Speaker 1: like that part of it. But what I loved organizationally

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Speaker 1: is the cronkeys and their brain trust before the end

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Speaker 1: of the regular season said we're not going forward with

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Speaker 1: Michael Malone. Right, He's nuked players at the podium. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of unrest in the background, and then you've

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Speaker 1: got their GM Calvin Booth and they said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's untenable. We're done. And this is the lesson for

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Speaker 1: everybody in your lives, your job, your relationships, the friend

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Speaker 1: that only shows up when he needs something or whatever,

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Speaker 1: is to recognize when you need to cut things, you

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Speaker 1: need to cut things. And the Denver Nuggets did something

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Speaker 1: that when it happened, how could you do that? Michael

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Speaker 1: Malone won a title just two years ago, Like nobody's

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Speaker 1: getting along. Now you've got Nicola Jokic with the whiteboard

865
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: drawn up plays and I don't know what Adamman, whether

866
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: he's just a guy in a suit or if he's

867
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: actually making a difference. But the idea that as an organization,

868
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: right before the playoffs, you said, we're not going with this.

869
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our best shot and we're not gonna

870
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: let this potentially bleed. Because I think it was Josh

871
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: Cronky did an interview where he said, if we win

872
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: a couple of games, all of a sudden, we're that

873
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: much harder in a position of well, can we make

874
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: a tweak here, can we change something here? Whereas you know,

875
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: they had a stretch where they went on a winning

876
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: streak after the All Star break, and that's what he

877
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: alluded to directly. And you look at the teams that

878
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: they beat. They were good teams. They weren't playing particularly

879
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: great baskets were so the fact that as an organization

880
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: they said, you know what, we're ending it at the

881
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: end of the season. However, let's just go into the playoffs,

882
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 1: clean slate, free up whatever mess was behind the scenes,

883
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: and let the chips fall where they may. And I

884
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: respect the hell out of that, because there's not in

885
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: our lives, and certainly in sports. How many times you say, well,

886
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean look, and I'm a Bears guy, I'm a

887
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: Chicago guy. What do they do? They grind out to

888
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: the end of contracts almost every time, no matter how

889
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: poorly everything is going, it's well, he still has two years,

890
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: and you'll watch that guy get the two years consistently. Yes,

891
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: Nuggets said no, we're done.

892
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 2: Ye, absolutely, there's you would think that some in some

893
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: places in the NFL, maybe three and four years when

894
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 2: it came to head coaches, except in New England.

895
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 3: You know, right, well, I don't know.

896
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: I don't know the one it does. I mean, I

897
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: can go back to Arizona and what they did whatever.

898
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I always think of gene Chiswick at

899
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 2: Auburn and they go, they win the national championship with

900
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: Cam Newton, and you think that it buys you five years, right,

901
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 2: and it it doesn't. And in the NBA, which is

902
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: the poster child for moving on quickly from coaches, you

903
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: would think of anybody in the league that you felt

904
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: would have had a comfortable sitting and had security would

905
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 2: have been Michael Malone. But it does take guts, It

906
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 2: takes that you know what's to make that decision, and

907
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 2: they did For that point, I can see what you're

908
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 2: saying to me. For as great as Jokic has been

909
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 2: and how magnificent he's been through so many seasons, I

910
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 2: still as Denver as a team just to me, has

911
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: never met the eye test. Sure, Like I don't. I

912
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 2: don't understand how it gets done. I said two years ago,

913
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: and the seed numbers prove it. It was the easiest

914
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 2: path to an NBA title that we have ever seen.

915
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 2: And I still am not a believer. And so that

916
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 2: is why like and The perfect example is Jokic airball

917
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: three caught by Gordon dunk Tom they beat the Clippers.

918
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: There's a lot of dan.

919
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: It was a calculated under completely wetting their pants in

920
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: Game one and trying to close it out and not

921
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 2: understanding the strategy and when the foul and how it

922
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: breaks down, and then Gordon still has to hit the shot,

923
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 2: like he still has to to make that basket, and

924
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: he did so, tip of the cap to him. But

925
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 2: I just have I've never bend that believer in Denver,

926
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 2: and I want Oklahoma City to do it. And I'm

927
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 2: actually glad that it won seven games because I think

928
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: that these organizations and teams that are not Johnny cum

929
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: Lately's because that's not the right term, but are new

930
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 2: to this level of basketball, like this Thunder team is,

931
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,879
Speaker 2: even though they were at number one seed last year

932
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 2: and a number one seed again this year. You need

933
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: to be like in a game seven improved.

934
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 3: That you can win it.

935
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: I think it completely changed the perception of the Minnesota

936
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 2: Timberwolves going to Denver last year and winning that Game

937
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 2: seven against the Nuggets, coming back in that game after

938
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: an early deficit and winning that game. That to me

939
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 2: tells me that they've arrived and that they've got something

940
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: that not every team has. Now they end up facing

941
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 2: Luca in the MAVs last year in the Conference finals,

942
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: Luca throws daggers at him and they go home after

943
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: what five games. But still it told me that Minnesota

944
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 2: can go on the road and win a game in

945
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: a tough environ and do so with everything on the line.

946
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City has the advantage of being at home. But

947
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 2: you get to you win today, That tells me, all right,

948
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 2: now you're here. It wasn't the regular season top seeds

949
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. It wasn't sweeping through the

950
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 2: Grizzlies with ease, Like you win this game and get

951
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: to a point that you haven't been because last year

952
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: you were ousted in the Conference semis. You get to

953
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: a point this year that you weren't last year, then

954
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 2: tip of the cap to you, like, I want Oklahoma

955
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 2: City to have this situation in a way. I feel

956
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 2: the Pacers got it last year with their win against

957
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: the Knicks in Game seven. But I don't know if

958
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: we even believe in the Knicks as much. And I

959
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: told you last week, I don't even know if the

960
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 2: Pacers are good or not and here there on the

961
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals, but we know that they can win

962
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: those big games. We saw what they did against Cleveland

963
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: in that series, and I think for Oklahoma City today

964
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 2: is their opportunity to arrive.

965
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned Cleveland, Kenny Atkinson, now on the hot

966
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: seat wins coach of the Year in recent history, says

967
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: that may come back to bite you really fast, this

968
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: particularly the way they go down now. I do have

969
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: to ask this, in a week of conspiracies surrounding the NBA,

970
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: the draft lottery, some of the officiating fun and excitement

971
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: and you know, rotations and all, does it strike you

972
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: as odd that we've announced every NBA award except MVP

973
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: and we've got a Game seven against Jokischen SGA today.

974
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 2: So what you're saying, I'm just gonna just kind of funny.

975
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, just even though cast Mike is saying,

976
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 2: whoever wins this game will secretly, well not secretly, but

977
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 2: they will they will either change or keep the results

978
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 2: of the votes done whoever wins Game seven time.

979
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: It's like at WWE belt you get to walk with

980
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: loser leaves town match, you get nothing and if you

981
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: win in advance, you get it all.

982
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 2: I like the presentation before the game. That's why he

983
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 2: hated when the NBA tried to do that award show

984
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 2: for a couple of years, when they did it after

985
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 2: the season, when then everybody was just like, guys, we

986
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 2: just had ten months of the NBA. Now I got

987
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 2: to sit through an award show and find out who

988
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 2: the MVP is. I like the here he is Nicolay

989
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 2: Okitch and then he gets his trophy at mid court.

990
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 2: They may they'll they announce it earlier, but they present them.

991
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: I like that tradition in the NBA.

992
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent with you. I just find it funny.

993
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: It's like, here's all the awards, We've had him for

994
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: a week plus MVP and app now we get game seven,

995
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 1: Like it just seems odd to me. You can stream

996
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: this show all our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty

997
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: four to seven. Then new and improved iHeart Radio app.

998
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: Just search Fox Sports Radio in the app stream US

999
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: live and it's one of the new features in the app.

1000
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: You could sec Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets,

1001
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: just like you would on the radio dial. So be

1002
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: sure to preset Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

1003
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 1: It'll always pop up at the top of your screen

1004
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: coming up next. We have teased it, Boy, have I

1005
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: teased it a long way. We've got the receding proposal

1006
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: for the NFL, the good, the bad, the ugly that

1007
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: fall out of it, because well, we're not done tinkering

1008
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: with this league, no matter how big of ahemoth it is.

1009
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: He's Dan Byer, I'm Myke garment In. This is Fox

1010
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio.

1011
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: It's Fox Sports Sunday. Mike Garmen, Dan Byer and you.

1012
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: As we roll through final moments here Arsenal still with

1013
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: a one zero lead over Newcastle, a lot of activity

1014
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: near the goal mount here in the last couple of minutes.

1015
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: We're getting ready for game seven. We just chronicled that

1016
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay, see and Denver, No Aaron Gordon

1017
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: unless suddenly he's got a herculean treatment for a Grade

1018
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: two handy strain, Suddenly he's superhuman. Just put him in

1019
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: the corner there. He doesn't rotate. You play four on

1020
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: five and then he just sits the corner. Three.

1021
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what the funny thing is is we

1022
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 2: look at it and say, yokicch may need a herculean

1023
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 2: effort today, but usually when he does, it means nobody

1024
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 2: else is involved and so they may not win. So

1025
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 2: that's what makes it so difficult with Denver is everybody

1026
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 2: needs to contribute when they're at their best, and now

1027
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 2: they're not Aaron Gordon, so then somebody else is gonna

1028
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 2: have to step up.

1029
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it all comes down to one guy.

1030
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: Is it good Russ or bad Russ? You get good Russ,

1031
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: he's been really really good. Yes, bad Russ. Go back

1032
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: to Game six.

1033
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, what a revenge, But it's not

1034
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 2: really revenge because he's stuck around for Oklahoma City as

1035
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 2: long as he could and stayed with the franchise. But

1036
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 2: it would be a nice I guess homecoming if you will,

1037
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 2: if he came out and had that type of performance.

1038
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 1: One of if you guys to still get a standing

1039
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 1: ovation in a place that he left. No ill will

1040
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: there not like saying, what was it, mister unreliable? Anyway,

1041
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: Dan Byer, Mike Carmon with you here, Fox Sports Sunday.

1042
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 1: So we've got the proposal that's come up with the

1043
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: NFL and something has been kicked around for a long while.

1044
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: Your Seahawks have been part of it. And go back

1045
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: to a year where you're not a dominant division winner,

1046
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: and the old argument of how much division title should

1047
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,919
Speaker 1: get you right, one home game, multiple home games, or

1048
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: once you're past that for it gets you in. And

1049
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:13,760
Speaker 1: that's the proposal at hand. Right, you get in based

1050
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: on winning your division, and you and I people can

1051
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,919
Speaker 1: find the podcast we did this a couple of weeks ago,

1052
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: from just the schedule as a whole, when we talk

1053
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: about the regular season and division games and does the

1054
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: division still hold a lot of weight when you're playing

1055
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 1: six division games against what's going to be an eighteen

1056
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: game slate. Yes, So put a pin in that. Go

1057
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: find the podcast, Look up Fox Sports Weekends. You can

1058
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: find that discussion from a couple of weeks ago. But

1059
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,879
Speaker 1: now the idea of all right, you get in, say

1060
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: you're you know, eight and eight and nine or nine

1061
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: and eight, But there's another squad coming off of the

1062
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: pack in the wild card round. Who goes and wins

1063
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: thirteen games, fourteen games like we did a year ago

1064
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: in Detroit and Minnesota and some of these teams where

1065
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: you have them Monster season, and we're never gonna solve

1066
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: the inequities of the schedule. And that's where this gets

1067
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: really difficult, right because some years you're going to face

1068
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: an AFC South and be able to maybe rack up

1069
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: four easy wins. You still have to play and win

1070
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: the games. But and we don't know going into the season.

1071
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: We have our perceptions of what teams are going to be,

1072
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: and we did that last hour with the number of

1073
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: primetime games for a few of those squads. What do

1074
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: we expect from these teams that nobody's gonna want to

1075
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: watch them? But now the idea of all right, you

1076
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: win those wild card rounds and you get rewarded by okay,

1077
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: you had a monster regular season. Now what that means

1078
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: for the schedule the next year and all of that

1079
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: is to be ironed out. But in the in the

1080
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 1: short term, I don't have strong feelings on it either way.

1081
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: Like I've always been a division guy, Like, if we're

1082
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: gonna say that it's important, then it should remain important.

1083
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: But I see the other side of it as well.

1084
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: If you dominated and you just happen to, you know,

1085
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: finish second in a dominant season, that you don't get

1086
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: rewarded in some way for that.

1087
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 2: It's funny because I think we all think that it's

1088
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 2: because of the Minnesota Vikings that this is now a conversation.

1089
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 2: And I was bothered when Minnesota goes fourteen and three

1090
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 2: last year and there was really no way for them

1091
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 2: to host a playoff game unless the Eagles made a

1092
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 2: miraculous run to the or excuse me, the Packers made

1093
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: a miraculous run to the NFC championship game, or the

1094
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 2: Commanders and you know, as as it's laid out, and

1095
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 2: all the Commanders did, and so okay, so maybe that

1096
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 2: lessens a little bit. From Minnesota side. You and I

1097
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 2: are talking here about the fairness of the NFL and

1098
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 2: how what is fair and what isn't fair is not

1099
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 2: what the NFL owners are talking about. And Mike, that's

1100
00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 2: what drives me crazy, is you and I have an

1101
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 2: outlook of what is important with these NFL teams and

1102
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 2: should you be rewarded for what you've done in the

1103
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 2: regular season. The NFL is looking at this change because

1104
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 2: they want more bang for their buck. Sure they're not

1105
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 2: doing it to say, hey, Minnesota could have gotten screwed

1106
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 2: last year at fourteen and three by not getting a

1107
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 2: home game. That's what I'm saying. You may not be

1108
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 2: saying the same exact thing, but you're looking at it

1109
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 2: for what is in fairness to how we reward a

1110
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,919
Speaker 2: team for the regular season and does a team get

1111
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 2: over rewarded for not doing as much as another team.

1112
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 2: The NFL is wanting to make a change or is

1113
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 2: discussing a change, not because they feel Minnesota got screwed

1114
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 2: at fourteen and three, where they feel Detroit got screwed

1115
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 2: because of who they had to play in the divisional round.

1116
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 2: They're making a change because the Rams didn't care about

1117
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 2: Week eighteen. The Packers didn't care about Week eighteen, and

1118
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 2: other teams that were in the playoff picture didn't care

1119
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 2: about Week eighteen. Now it affected Green Bay and it

1120
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 2: gave the Commanders a boost. They go and they win

1121
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 2: their final game. In Week eighteen, Green Bay loses to

1122
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 2: your Bears and it changes the seating. The NFL is

1123
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 2: thinking about doing this because they want the Rams to

1124
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 2: care about their game. In Week eighteen, they had the

1125
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: division wrapped up to them. It didn't matter where they

1126
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 2: were three or four and how it was going to

1127
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 2: settle out. So they arrested everybody against the Seahawks, not

1128
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 2: what the NFL is saying. Well, if you're ten and

1129
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 2: seven and Green Bay is a wild card, is eleven

1130
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 2: and six, you may want to play that game and

1131
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 2: win that game because your seating could have gone from

1132
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 2: a six or seven up to a four. You and

1133
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 2: I are looking at the fairness of it. The NFL says,

1134
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 2: how can we get a better product in week eighteen?

1135
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating part to me, Mike, is because

1136
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 2: I actually want to just see a better path and

1137
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 2: teams get rewarded. All the NFL wants to do is

1138
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 2: get more bang for their buck.

1139
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: Well, and it's the hard part, right because for the NFL,

1140
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,479
Speaker 1: they talk out of both sides of their mouth. Because

1141
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: we still have the draft system as it's set up.

1142
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: You've got teams from week thirteen on that aren't playing

1143
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: right right, all right, Hey, you know what we need

1144
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: to see the young guys. No, you're quitting because you

1145
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: know that may mean you go get your quarterback of

1146
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: the future or you got your designs on that six'

1147
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: five behemoth that's going to come and obliterate opposing passers

1148
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: for the next ten, years, right so you can solve

1149
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: it for those two or three instances where a team

1150
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: does operations shut down fairly. Rare, right we didn't have

1151
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: a we don't have a lot Of peyton, manning you,

1152
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: know wave For Jim sorgie to come walking off the,

1153
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: sidelines and because how many years did they? Do that

1154
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: didn't work out for he And dungee too many times,

1155
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: Though no ended up being a foolhardy. Strategy but the

1156
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: point being you get a couple of, those yet you've

1157
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: got what ten teams in the, league maybe a third

1158
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: of your. League then in the final weeks of the, seats, like,

1159
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: yeah let's see if that young quarterback has anything, right

1160
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: he was a seventh round. Pick go throw them out,

1161
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: there see if you got.

1162
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 2: Something, well The rams are, saying why would we Put

1163
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 2: Matthew stafford at risk when we've wrapped up the division

1164
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 2: and we're going to play a wild card team anyway

1165
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 2: that's likely going to Be washington Or Green bay and

1166
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 2: depending on how their games fall, out it may not

1167
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 2: matter with our.

1168
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 3: Game so who.

1169
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 2: Cares we'll either be a six or Seven and like

1170
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 2: that's teams are just they don't care where they're. Seated

1171
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 2: AND i think THAT i think that there would have

1172
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 2: been an argument really For, minnesota Except minnesota actually caught

1173
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 2: a break by facing The rams in that neutral site.

1174
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 3: Game.

1175
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 2: Right so, ultimately when you see a fourteen and three

1176
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 2: team go and lose in the first, round normally you would, say,

1177
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 2: man that stinks for them because they had to go

1178
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 2: on the road and play a team in their place

1179
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 2: that didn't do nearly as much as What minnesota it

1180
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 2: did in the regular. Season but now they have to

1181
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 2: go and travel and they, lost and they're out of.

1182
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 2: It The rams are the ones who were the most

1183
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 2: inconvenienced in that, situation, right they were supposed to have

1184
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 2: the home. Game they were the ones that were Uprooted.

1185
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 2: Minnesota is whether they flat Of la or flat Of

1186
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 2: phoenix didn't. Matter they were going to be flying. Anyway

1187
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 2: and they go and play a game And la runs

1188
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 2: them off the, field completely dominates and kicks The. Vikings

1189
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 2: But vikings only lost to The lions And rams last.

1190
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 2: Year but it's tough for me to talk about fairness

1191
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 2: to reward The Minnesota, vikings even though that was the

1192
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 2: one WHO i.

1193
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 3: Was, championing you, know championing.

1194
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 2: When they go to and they lose a neutral and

1195
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 2: stress absolutely and it shows, like, okay well maybe fourteen

1196
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 2: and three and ten and seven aren't that. Different and

1197
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 2: it's one of the reasons WHY i think that THE

1198
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 2: nfl owners wouldn't make the change because of fairness is

1199
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 2: because of What minnesota. Did BUT i don't think THE

1200
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 2: nfl owners are are voting on. Fairness they're voting on

1201
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 2: how can we maximize, this how can we make more

1202
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 2: of our games? Better WHICH i don't think it's a

1203
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 2: Concern week. Eighteen to, me it's kind of been a

1204
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 2: throwaway week, anyway unless there's something really really on the,

1205
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 2: line Like Vikings lions in that final. Game but THE

1206
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 2: nfl apparently wants more of that and are willing to

1207
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 2: make changes not because of, fairness.

1208
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: Well because that's what we've talked about for as long

1209
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: as you AND i have been doing shows together here At.

1210
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,600
Speaker 1: Fox which is a. Minute for those that have been with,

1211
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: us thank. You if you're, new well thank you as.

1212
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: Well stick. Around we got a lot of good stuff for.

1213
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: You but it's just that idea Of week seventeen was

1214
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: always the, throwaway. Right you AND i can do a

1215
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: fantasy podcast for years and it's always that discussion to

1216
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 1: include or not Include, okay now it's just week, eighteen

1217
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: and eventually it'll be week, nineteen maybe week, twenty depending

1218
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 1: on how they work the bye weeks and whatever. Else

1219
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: but all of that to, say the final week of the,

1220
01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: year very few of those matchups have. Meaning and when

1221
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: we talk about just grab every sport, right wrap them

1222
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: all in a big. Embrace what happens in the final

1223
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: stretches of a regular. Season you're trying to be healthy

1224
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: for the, playoffs, right while we have load. Management you

1225
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: can hate load, management. RIGHT i heard so many long

1226
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: stint you, know getting on their. Soapboxes When greg popovichri

1227
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: tried not, hey what a great, Run i'm sorry he's

1228
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: having health. Issues, now it's like he ruined THE, Nba

1229
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: like what because he was smart realizing that eighty two

1230
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: games on a body was not good for his big

1231
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: men and guys that were in their mid thirties that

1232
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: he was trying to win titles. With i'm sorry he was.

1233
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: Smart johnny And susie didn't get to See Tim duncan

1234
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 1: on a Random tuesday In Oklahoma. City i'm. Sorry they're

1235
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: about winning, titles, correct that's what you're supposed to be

1236
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: trying to. Do, yes it's a show all the way.

1237
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: Through and so When lebron didn't show, UP i did

1238
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: it here IN la With kobe in his final. YEARS

1239
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: i had a small interest in a season ticket. Package

1240
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: you know how many GAMES i got to see him

1241
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: play his final year. Zero BUT i understood the, risk,

1242
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: yes because of what he was trying to do and

1243
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 1: that his body was falling. Apart Matthew stafford's the guy

1244
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: at some of the heart of. This we've been asking

1245
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: for three years whether his body was gonna hold up

1246
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: enough to keep. Playing right this off, season there was

1247
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: a minute of all, right, well, no he's got fifty

1248
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: million reasons to come, Back they've got a pretty good,

1249
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: squad whatever. Else but like all of that to, say

1250
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: you're trying to be healthy for the second. Season so

1251
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: not Playing week eighteen is no different than it's ever been.

1252
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 2: Correct and it's it's funny Because minnesota under this new,

1253
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 2: format AND i used them because they think their fourteen

1254
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 2: and three records stood out so, much when really this

1255
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 2: is about a team like The, rams like that's who

1256
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,479
Speaker 2: this is. About minnesota would benefit from this change because

1257
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 2: they would have gotten a home game last. Year this

1258
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,919
Speaker 2: is essentially THE nfl, said, saying winning your division gets

1259
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 2: you in the, playoffs it doesn't guarantee you a home,

1260
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 2: game which is something That i've felt for a long.

1261
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 2: Time minnesota under the seeding, way if they followed the,

1262
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 2: seeding would have been a three seed in THE nfl

1263
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 2: because The eagles would have got precedent because of their

1264
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,919
Speaker 2: division win as the two, seed but as your a three,

1265
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 2: Seed minnesota would have hosted The rams Or. Buccaneers, however

1266
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker would have shaken out in that, scenario So

1267
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 2: minnesota would benefit from this new way of doing. It,

1268
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 2: Mike i'm if they do it that, Way i'm fine with.

1269
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 2: It i'm fine if they, say you know what we

1270
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 2: want to, do we want to reced but we still

1271
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 2: want to give the division winners one home. Game i'm

1272
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:46,959
Speaker 2: fine with that receed then, afterwards Like minnesota shouldn't go

1273
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 2: fourteen to three in a season and have basically no

1274
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: chance at hosting a home game and having to go

1275
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 2: To tampa or having to go To la depending on

1276
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 2: how the bracket changed. Out they can make money in

1277
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 2: tweaks to. THIS i just don't think that they care

1278
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 2: to because they just want for some. Reason week, eighteen

1279
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 2: to have more.

1280
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: Value this always gets back to the heart of the

1281
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: matter as, Well, dan who are the loudest voices in

1282
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: those rooms in terms, of, hey you cost me gate m, hm,

1283
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 1: Right So minnesota not getting a home, game you cost

1284
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: me gate and millions of dollars of. Revenue, Right so

1285
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: you start getting into those battles as, well, marketplace market,

1286
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Speaker 1: SIZE tv, windows. Whatever but also we've always talked About

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01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: craft And Jerry. Jones well there's other guys at that table.

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Speaker 2: Too And i'll tell you, what If minnesota was proposing,

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01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 2: THIS i think it would look kind of. Weird then

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01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 2: it'd be, like, okay But detroit's the one proposing. It

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01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 2: it's almost Like detroit understood what was at stake in

1292
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 2: That sunday night game in week, eighteen knowing what could

1293
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 2: happen if they don't, win and, said all, right, well

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01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 2: if luckily they won that. GAME i shouldn't say luckily

1295
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 2: they earned that, game but for their sake and all of,

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01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 2: this they won that game and got the number one.

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01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 2: Seed and while it didn't work out for, THEM i

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01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 2: think going In mike the front office and whoever actually

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01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 2: wanted to propose to this, thought, boy this would really.

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01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 2: Stink if we were on the other side of things

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01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 2: Like minnesota, is we would go and we'd win all

1302
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 2: of these. Games and, now because the other team in

1303
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 2: our conference in what THE nfl says is an even

1304
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 2: schedule in divisions and it really isn't goes and has

1305
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 2: a better or has home field, advantage and we don't

1306
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 2: get any home. GAMES i think it helps That detroit

1307
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 2: was the one proposing this as opposed to someone Like,

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01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 2: minnesota where it would look like sour.

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: Grapes, now you just had the ears perk up of

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01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: our technical, Producer chris purphett is prior Of detroit, Podcast,

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01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: chris what do you got on?

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01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 4: It? Yeah SO i think this is basically exactly how it.

1313
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 4: HAPPENED i remember our reporting at the time was so

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01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 4: this all stemmed from Aman Ross Saint, brown who has

1315
01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 4: this broadcast with his Brother, equanimius and they had made

1316
01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 4: a comment going into that game where Aman ra was, like,

1317
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 4: yeah this suck if, we you, know lose this and

1318
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 4: have to go on the. Road and THE nfl basically

1319
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 4: approached an executive from THE nfl basically approached The lions

1320
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 4: and basically, said, hey this sounds like you know your

1321
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 4: player has this, interest why don't you propose this as a.

1322
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 4: Rule so it's kind of like the league like going

1323
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 4: to The lions saying you should put this, forward WHICH

1324
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 4: i find a very, interesting a very interesting development on

1325
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 4: all of this is that the league kind of had

1326
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 4: this interest to you, know either be seen as like

1327
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 4: player for it on this way or this is something

1328
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 4: that maybe some of the league want to, see but

1329
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 4: they would need a team to put it.

1330
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 2: Forward, well that would that would that would, jive that

1331
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 2: would go with what is, saying because, again this isn't about.

1332
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:47,759
Speaker 2: Fairness this is about somebody in the league not wanting

1333
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 2: The packers to rest their players in a division game

1334
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 2: against The Chicago, bears not Wanting Jimmy garoppolo to start

1335
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,719
Speaker 2: a quarterback for The rams in a division matchup against

1336
01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 2: The seahawks at, home right where there was that they

1337
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 2: want those guys to, play and so to sit there

1338
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 2: and Bring detroit in well not for the same, reason because,

1339
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 2: again THE nfl does not care about. Fairness that it

1340
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:16,719
Speaker 2: is not about being. Fair it's about maximizing their dollar

1341
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 2: and their, product and that's the only reason why they're

1342
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 2: thinking about.

1343
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: That, well and getting your television partners probably For week

1344
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: eighteen and ratings did, Right so we probably have some

1345
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,719
Speaker 1: make goods. Advertisers because of as much AS i Love Jimmy,

1346
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: Garoppolo White sox, fan one of five of, us you

1347
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 1: know that kind of, Thing i'll.

1348
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 2: Also say, this it would give them more of an

1349
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 2: option too On Sunday night football and trying to figure

1350
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 2: out what games to, play because remember there was a

1351
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 2: point where, like, man what game are they going to?

1352
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 2: Put like what could be at stake depending on certain

1353
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 2: outcomes as we are winding down the. Season this at

1354
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,440
Speaker 2: least would say to, them, well if home field advantage

1355
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 2: for like a four seed is at, stake at least

1356
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:58,600
Speaker 2: you could play that game or have that game be

1357
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 2: played On Sunday, night BECAUSE i don't think last year

1358
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 2: there were a lot of great options For lions And

1359
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 2: vikings was the. Obvious but if certain things happened where

1360
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 2: The lions had things wrapped, up that wouldn't have been

1361
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 2: a game that you would have put On Sunday night, football.

1362
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: All, Right last two. Points virginia McCaskey passed away in the.

1363
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: Offseason last thing she got to see on the Field

1364
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,720
Speaker 1: bears beating The. Packers she didn't see a lot of

1365
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: that the last thirty plus. Years the other this might

1366
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: be the first time something really big other than show

1367
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: content came out of AN, NFL nba or any player.

1368
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 1: Podcast sure, right actually something of substance if there is

1369
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: you know more than you know a two percent weight to.

1370
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: That yeah, RIGHT i mean like otherwise it's, saying, oh

1371
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: this guy's talking out of, school let's talk about.

1372
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 7: IT.

1373
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:46,919
Speaker 2: X i didn't know the part about THE nfl possibly

1374
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 2: addressing someone with The, lions BUT i guarantee if you're The,

1375
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 2: lions you know what was at stake on That sunday

1376
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 2: night game and why that game was so, important and

1377
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:56,919
Speaker 2: so to have them bring it up instead of The Minnesota,

1378
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 2: VIKINGS i wonder if it would have been vice versa

1379
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 2: if The vikings win that, game and then even if

1380
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 2: somebody hears the comments from Aman Aros Saint, brown somebody

1381
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 2: from THE nfl goes To minnesota and because it would

1382
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 2: look Like minnesota's just got sour grapes if they were

1383
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,800
Speaker 2: the one to propose, It BECAUSE i, mean it looks

1384
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 2: like The packers have sour grapes because they're proposing banning

1385
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 2: the thush push shit.

1386
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: Well as our old colleague here and husband To lakers

1387
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: Owner Jeanie. Buss our Buddy Jay moore would say put your.

1388
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 3: Name, yes so.

1389
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 1: At least The packers did. That, yeah we don't like.

1390
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: It that was all, Right, yeah it's we got no

1391
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: problem with. It as we continue, on we've got a

1392
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: Veritable Pope pourri to close out the. Show He's Dan

1393
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: bayer At Dan Byron. Fox you find me over At Swollen.

1394
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 1: Dome thanks To Chris. Prophett we got our guys Shay

1395
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 1: uh making it sound so pretty as. Well but now

1396
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: it's time to turn our attention back to the news

1397
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 1: desk and our Guy Isaac. Loandron we run to it

1398
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: one more time to get an update on the sporting.

1399
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 6: Universe Hi Abudy real busy, day. Guys Major League. Baseball

1400
01:11:55,560 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 6: today's Suspended Philadelphia phillies Closer Jose alvarado eighty games games

1401
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,879
Speaker 6: without pay after he tested positive for a performance enhancing.

1402
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 6: Substance alvarado would also be ineligible for the postseason should

1403
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 6: The phillies make it. Elsewhere multiple outlets report The Los

1404
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 6: Angeles dodgers have Designated Chris taylor for. Assignment The Baltimore

1405
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 6: orioles have designated Pitcher Kyle gibson for. Assignment right now In,

1406
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 6: BALTIMORE Cj abrams of The nationals hit the first pitch

1407
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 6: of the game for a home run to right, field

1408
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 6: So washington a one to nothing lead At baltimore in

1409
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 6: the top half of the, first hitting The Texas rangers

1410
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 6: And Houston astros, scoreless and the top of the third

1411
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 6: also just getting underway right, now The Red sox hosting

1412
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 6: The Atlanta, Braves phillies hosting The, pirates and The Blue

1413
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 6: jays hosting The Detroit, tigers covering up at three point

1414
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,839
Speaker 6: Thirty Eastern game seven of the NBA's Western conference Semi

1415
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 6: finals From Oklahoma city between The thunder And, denver with

1416
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 6: THE espn reporting today The denver Forward Aaron gordon will

1417
01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:58,759
Speaker 6: need several weeks to recover from his left hamstring, strain

1418
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 6: making it physical improbable for him to play. Today, finally in,

1419
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 6: golf going into the final round THE Pga championship At

1420
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 6: Quail hollow And, Charlotte North, Carolina Scotti scheffler as a

1421
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 6: three shot lead at eleven under par. Overall he shot

1422
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 6: a six under sixty five On, saturday and we'll tee

1423
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 6: off the final round today about one hour from.

1424
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: Now, guys back to, you thanks so. Much. Ilo follow

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01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: him At Isaac Lowandro, kron Find dan At Dan Byron,

1426
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 1: fox find me over At Swollen.

1427
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,400
Speaker 2: Dome just anythink it couldn't get worse for The orioles first,

1428
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 2: pitch top of the, first on the verge of being

1429
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 2: swept by The, nationals fire their skipper yesterday they have

1430
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:40,799
Speaker 2: lost ten to. Twelve actually it's NOT i think eleven or. Thirteen,

1431
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 2: yeah it's it's not.

1432
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: Good it was supposed to be a. Positivity here's the

1433
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: young up and comers instead the last way, long miserably right.

1434
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:53,600
Speaker 1: Now some injuries mixed therein as there always, are but

1435
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: just a rudderless ship and they're battling The White sox

1436
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: And rockies for.

1437
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,719
Speaker 2: Futility hey You're White sox showing some heart though earlier

1438
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 2: in the week almost swept The.

1439
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 1: Reds, yeah and now they'll try to avoid the suite

1440
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 1: against The. Cubs, hated Hated. Cubs also the change of

1441
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,600
Speaker 1: eras he Says Chris, Taylor Austin barnes also, gone that

1442
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: era of The dodgers starting to flow, out you, Know

1443
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: Clayton kershaw back on the hill For, however many times

1444
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: we've got left thirty strikeouts from three. Thousand He's, Dan

1445
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 1: I'll mike coming up. Next we got A Pope, porix

1446
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,479
Speaker 1: we got a great story out of THE, nhl and

1447
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: a couple of football toppers to get us through as

1448
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: we go into a Big sunday here On. Fox, hey

1449
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: welcome back In It's Fox Sports, Sunday Fox Sports. Radio

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1457
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Speaker 1: now you've Got hartman And husky taking you into a

1458
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: big sports. Day we've already had action all. Over we'll

1459
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: See scheffler T off here coming up in about forty five.

1460
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: Minutes dan's going to speed home to try to be

1461
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 1: there for the First, yeah first.

1462
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 2: Team as much AS i think it's a foregone, CONCLUSION

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01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 2: i may not.

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Speaker 3: TODAY i.

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01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: Don't all, right you want to go to the card shop?

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01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 2: Instead, Oh i'll Watch i'll, watch BUT i just may,

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Speaker 2: not may not risk my life to do.

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01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: It there you go at me a game. Seven we

1469
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 1: talked about it With Okay see And. Den we're on

1470
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: opposite sides of things for reasons you may not have.

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01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: Expected and you can find that in the podcast that

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01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: our executive Producer shale have. Up in a couple of

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01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: a couple of, minutes we'll finish with a couple OF

1474
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: nba OR nfl. Stories, dan just really quick, thoughts because

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01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:47,919
Speaker 1: you AND i will we'll get back into the podcast.

1476
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: Studio we'll do more. Shows plenty of time to talk

1477
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: About Caleb williams And Brock purdy in a much larger.

1478
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: Sense but we've been. Remiss we didn't talk about the

1479
01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: The Stanley cup, playoffs one of the great traditions and

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01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 1: all the handshake line at the end and yesterday at

1481
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: the end of the series between The Winnipeg jets And

1482
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: Dallas stars took a whole other meaning to. It as

1483
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 1: you Had, schufley Longtime jets player who has been a

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01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: staple for many of these, years and he learned before

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01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: the game that his father had passed away back In,

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01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: ontario still showed up to play scored their first. Goal

1487
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 1: you want to talk about an emotional moment and the

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01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: resonance in the, arena social media just goes, nuts right

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01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,760
Speaker 1: and all of. That and then in overtime he gets

1490
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: called for a penalty that sets up the eventual game. Winner.

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01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah Mark shifley of The Winnipeg jets is actually

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01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 2: right at the end of regulation of about twenty seconds to.

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01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 3: Go but what they ended up losing in.

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01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 2: Overtime but it's the range of, emotions and there was

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01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 2: a question about whether or not he was going to,

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01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 2: play AND i think, ultimately when you're the competitor and

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01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 2: you mean as much to that team as he, does

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 2: it ends up being a no. Brainer But, mike what

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01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 2: was so heartbreaking to me in this, WAS i think

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 2: we go back to The Brett Favre raiders, game The

1501
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 2: Monday night, affair When Brett farvre's dad passes away and

1502
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 2: the question is Is farv gonna? Play and then he just

1503
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 2: has this career game before all of our. Eyes AND

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01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 2: i know that The farv piece On netflix comes out this,

1505
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,759
Speaker 2: week but when we look back At Brett farvre's, career

1506
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,560
Speaker 2: that game stands. Out it's a top five game and

1507
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 2: maybe a top three game Of Brett farv's career of

1508
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 2: the way that he responded following the death of his.

1509
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 2: Father AND i Think, mike in those, situations we think of,

1510
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 2: man somebody was looking you, know somebody was looking down

1511
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 2: on him and Carried farv through. It we don't realize

1512
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 2: in sports that there's the other side of. It So

1513
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 2: shifeley's penalty could have saved the goal at the time

1514
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 2: because it looked like it was going to be a

1515
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 2: breakaway and they didn't know where to penalty a penalty.

1516
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 2: Shot they just gave them a power. Play but it

1517
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 2: was a two, minor, Yes but it was in that

1518
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,759
Speaker 2: power play on the other side entering the first minute

1519
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 2: fifty of overtime that The stars were able to get

1520
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 2: their game winning. Goal and you talk about the range of,

1521
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 2: emotions like to you score a goal to put your

1522
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 2: team up one nothing and you, think, oh maybe it's

1523
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 2: that far sort, of and then your team's tied up

1524
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 2: at one and you commit the penalty and you're in

1525
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 2: the penalty box and you're not on the, ice and

1526
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they score and your season's. Over

1527
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 2: and then once you leave that locker, room you got

1528
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 2: to deal with real. Life like my heart just, Sank

1529
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 2: like it was JUST i don't, know like What Mark

1530
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 2: schifley is going, through because everybody deals with grief in

1531
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 2: a different. Way BUT i just felt for him last.

1532
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 2: NIGHT i just just really felt for.

1533
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: Him no question about. It Jamie, ben who he'd been

1534
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: in the altercation with In game, six was the first guy,

1535
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: there the, captain, yes and they embraced for quite a.

1536
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,920
Speaker 1: While just the the handshake, line which we'd love as

1537
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: one of the great traditions that lives, on took on

1538
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,600
Speaker 1: so much more meaning as you had that collection of,

1539
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: players and you get emotional just thinking about, it, right

1540
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 1: all the. Stuff they were eight seconds away from killing the,

1541
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: penalty right eight, seconds and that was what they were

1542
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: all focused on in the post game is like we

1543
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 1: couldn't get that eight that extra eight.

1544
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 3: Second i'll just say.

1545
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 2: THIS i think EVEN abc didn't want to make it

1546
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,639
Speaker 2: all About shifley because they would like end up going

1547
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 2: away to maybe a different, shop but then they would

1548
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 2: always come back to, it and it was just a heartbreaking.

1549
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: Moment, yeah we all process in different, ways find your

1550
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: wins as you go out and to make the most of.

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01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: It He's, Dad I'm. Mike thanks for being with us this.

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01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: Morning enjoyed the rest of the day On Fox Sports

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