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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites. I am Jeff Schwartz and this

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Speaker 1: is our parlay show. It is me as usual alongside

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Speaker 1: Paula Duca and black Jack Fletcher. And since obviously college

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Speaker 1: football is over, we'll only have two professional games left

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Speaker 1: to me three but to this weekend in the Conference

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Speaker 1: Championship Kimes, we will cover that, will cover Super Bowl matchups,

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Speaker 1: will cover some Kyler Murray, some Eagles starter as well.

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Speaker 1: All that fun for you guys. I welcome in my buddies.

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Speaker 1: How you guys doing today? How are you doing? Shwartsy,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't be happier. The Chiefs one their playoff game

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Speaker 1: and I will be at the game against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: hopefully and the Patriots dynasty this weekend. Polly, how's your weekend, buddy?

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Speaker 1: It was good? Congratulations Sports See are ready for the

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Speaker 1: Black What was your your biggest takeaway from this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of a lot of favorites one all

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Speaker 1: the favorites one not all of them covered. Uh. Four

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Speaker 1: home teams, four with buys, all winning the games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a big flip from wild Card weekend. We had

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Speaker 1: three three upsets. Really, um, is this weekend kind of

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Speaker 1: went how you thought it would for the most part.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, I mean I had Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: uh in New Orleans that the surprise to me was

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Speaker 1: is New England and just how much they dominated the Chargers. Um.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Jeff, I gotta tell you, the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing that I'm taking away from this is, uh, Kansas

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Speaker 1: if they can do that again next week, I think

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Speaker 1: that bodes very well for them. Yeah. So, so about

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Speaker 1: their defense, it's it's really fascinating. They're statistically they're not

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Speaker 1: very good, um, except rushing the pastor they can rush

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Speaker 1: the Pastor very well. We saw that on on on Saturday. UM,

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Speaker 1: but at home they just played better. And a buddy

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Speaker 1: of mine tweeting me a story that he wrote, and

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Speaker 1: it makes sense. Is you know, if you look at

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Speaker 1: the offenses they played at home, they haven't been very

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Speaker 1: good outside the Charges. They didn't play like a top

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Speaker 1: I don't know the reason why. I mean, they only

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Speaker 1: had one penalty in their secondary all game on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: They leave the National Football League by far in defensive holdings.

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Speaker 1: Pass interference is obviously justin Houston, being able to rush

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Speaker 1: the Pastors back healthy has been huge. And one thing

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Speaker 1: that happens when you play the Chiefs is you have

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Speaker 1: to stick to your game play offense, no matter what

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Speaker 1: the scores. The Chargers did that when they beat them there.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens did that when when when the game was close.

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Speaker 1: You have to run the football even when you're down

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Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. So I expect New England this weekend to

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Speaker 1: come in there with that mindset. Even if they're down early,

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Speaker 1: they will continue to do that. Uh, PAULI, what was

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Speaker 1: your your big takeaway from the games on Saturday, the

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Speaker 1: the Rams and the Child Boys. Well, obviously going into

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Colts game, that surprised me a

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Speaker 1: a touchdown favorite after by but the Colts were on

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Speaker 1: such a role. The power of the bye in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs basically in NFL football, basically a field go away

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Speaker 1: from all four field goal miss away from the New

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Speaker 1: all basically dominating except again just Jason Garrett doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to go for two. But um, I don't know, like

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Speaker 1: nine against the spread in the playoffs. Since the Murger

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Speaker 1: him and Harty Schottenheimer, all this going on, Mahomes made

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys going for two. I I don't understand this

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Speaker 1: You know, they're down there, down nine, Okay, if they

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty to convert two point conversions. They converted one

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Speaker 1: You're not coming back from nine points in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League with with the way we have on side kicks, now, okay,

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Speaker 1: but analects people are like, you gotta do it. You

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Speaker 1: know what you have in front of you. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean, Yeah, you know that you're losing the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand that, Like I understand the concept I

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Speaker 1: but you know you're gonna lose the game. So what's

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Speaker 1: the point of knowing you're going to lose the football game?

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Speaker 1: Play for the cover? Well, that's different. Of course. I

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Speaker 1: was talking about that Pollie talk about General Black. Do

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Speaker 1: that was absolutely the right call. You keep your team

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Speaker 1: If they go for two and miss it, that game

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Speaker 1: would get fans like, don't you love teams that cover?

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Speaker 1: Coaches don't ever kiss you? Or if you have an

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Speaker 1: You gotta win. Jason Garrett hasn't won nothing except he

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Speaker 1: still has his hair, his golden red hair. If he plays,

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Speaker 1: you know fans he would have got if they would

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Speaker 1: We're in a gambling world. Play for the cover, Jason

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Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about the games that happened yesterday. Blackjack,

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Speaker 1: you went against your boy and Tom Brady. You paid

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Speaker 1: for that. I guess the game had classic New England

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Speaker 1: regret that play? Come on, man, I don't regret it

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Speaker 1: The best part about it was like Philip Rivers through

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Speaker 1: game of people kind of underestimating New England's coaching ability

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Speaker 1: again for the thousand time. So Chargers roll in that

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Speaker 1: they played press coverage. They look, they got beat once,

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Speaker 1: That's good. So just it's better coaching. They were prepared

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Speaker 1: Brady is the same way, like I don't know how

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Speaker 1: the Patriots you just explained it right there. How they

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Speaker 1: do the same thing. On offense. They pick one guy,

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Speaker 1: the defense. Now they'll pick on a cornerback. Cornerback sometimes

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Speaker 1: be a heck of a football game. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: that right now, because I really feel like these two

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Speaker 1: all time, You've got this kid that is some kind

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Speaker 1: be a heck of a game. What was your guys

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Speaker 1: Saints did not score it will. That was my favorite

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Speaker 1: other things looking at kind of just some other props

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Speaker 1: around around football and one baseball. One. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: a secon all right, exact matchup for the Super Bowl. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's obviously four matchups. The one I like the best

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Speaker 1: guys and I can read them off. New Orleans, Kansas

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Speaker 1: City plus one, New England, New Orleans to sixty l

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Speaker 1: A Kansas City plus three, and New England and Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles plus four. Seven. I like Kansas City and the

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Speaker 1: Rams at plus obviously one home team one road team

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Speaker 1: win this weekend. Plus I have future bets on myself

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Speaker 1: for New England and UH and the Chiefs to win. Um,

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Speaker 1: I can. I can obviously had just here, but I

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Speaker 1: like the Rams and the Chiefs for the s pet

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Speaker 1: what do you guys like? Yeah, I'm on, I'm on

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Speaker 1: the shop here sports seat. I got the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: the Saints. I think they're the two best teams. I

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Speaker 1: think they've been the two best teams all year. I

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Speaker 1: think that's what we're looking at. Kansas City, New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: I love to see that matchup in that Dome in

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Speaker 1: Atlanta for the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: go chalk to UH did I'll take that bet. Last

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Speaker 1: week and I thought, you know what, I think this

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Speaker 1: is the play Kansas City in in New Orleans because

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Speaker 1: when going into it, everybody loved Indianapolis and light Blackjack said,

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Speaker 1: if you'd just said this like four months ago, it

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Speaker 1: sort of stayed true to form. And then you go

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Speaker 1: look at the four quarterbacks that are in the in

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Speaker 1: the finals and there you know, two pretty good old

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Speaker 1: ones in two very good young ones. So pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: You know. I feel like we have not had a

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Speaker 1: one verse one Super Bowl um in in in quite

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Speaker 1: a long time. Um So I do wonder if if

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Speaker 1: we need to look at that and think to ourselves,

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Speaker 1: um you know, maybe you know, I think twenty If

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Speaker 1: you look here, it looks at like there's no real

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Speaker 1: It looks like, um, I think was the last time

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Speaker 1: that we had that matchup, which was the Panthers, um

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Speaker 1: and uh and the Patriots and then you know what

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Speaker 1: to use, But it does not happen recently, I should say.

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Speaker 1: So I do like the chalk here and get value

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Speaker 1: at plus I'm going anyways with Chiefs and Rams at

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Speaker 1: plus three or another another problem to look at, and

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Speaker 1: this is I think a no brainer in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Got a little juice here. Who will be the eagle

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Speaker 1: starter next year? Week one folds is plus three hundred,

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Speaker 1: wents is minus five hundred. I would have taken wents

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Speaker 1: no matter what happened this week, no matter what happened

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Speaker 1: to Super Bowl. That out there Wentz is the better player,

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Speaker 1: he's younger, he's a franchise's future. Wentz will start Week

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Speaker 1: one for the Eagles, no doubt about it. Black Check,

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Speaker 1: You're right he's going to Um, I'll disagree with what

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Speaker 1: you just said though about you know he should be.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he should be, Jeff, I really don't. UM.

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Speaker 1: He is the better player. You're right, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know that he's the better player for that team. I

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Speaker 1: mean and Nick Foles. Listen, we talked about him being

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Speaker 1: younger and more athletic and all this. Nick Foles is

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Speaker 1: only twenty nine years old. Like, we're not talking about

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Speaker 1: a thirty five year old guy here. He's twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: He's got plenty of football left. And for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: it's it's undeniable that team plays better with Foles under center.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do there. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I know what they're going to do, they're going to

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Speaker 1: go with wins. But I'll be honest with you, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a mistake. I think Folds the better player

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Speaker 1: in that system. So let me explain the best I

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Speaker 1: can gather. And I've asked people round Philly about this.

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Speaker 1: But because I'm with you. I I don't. I can't

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Speaker 1: explain it, like there's no logical explanation. Well there is one,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say what it is. So Carson Wentz is

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Speaker 1: an awesome athlete, right, we know he can. He's built

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Speaker 1: like a like a quarterback, like like you want a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. He's got a canon of an arm, he

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Speaker 1: has mobility, he's got accuracy, he's got everything you want.

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Speaker 1: But that also leads to a little bit of of

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Speaker 1: a detriment and the fact that he thinks he can

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Speaker 1: do everything all the time. He can be the hero

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Speaker 1: every single play. So he doesn't often do what the

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Speaker 1: play calls for, right, And he tries to make he

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Speaker 1: tries to make the big play. Nick Foles does exactly

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Speaker 1: what the coach tells him to do, all right, Nick

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Speaker 1: Cover two hit the tight end. Here, hits the tight end. Here,

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Speaker 1: Nick hit the slam here. Cover three hits the slam here. Right.

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Speaker 1: So that I think, to your point, black check is

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Speaker 1: what is what the feeling of the offense just looks

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Speaker 1: better is because it does it's more efficient with Nick

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Speaker 1: Foles because they do he does exactly what the play

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Speaker 1: tells him to do, and no more and no less,

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Speaker 1: and that's why it looks efficient. So maybe Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: hopefully can take out of this the idea that I

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Speaker 1: need to do a little bit less. Maybe, And I

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Speaker 1: can still obviously take shots when I want to, but

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Speaker 1: let's calm down with trying to make the big play

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Speaker 1: every single time. That's the other part of it. And

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Speaker 1: like the calmness we talked about, Folds is sort of

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Speaker 1: like calm and short and uh and maybe Wentz is

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Speaker 1: a little bit more tense in the huddle. Uh. Possibly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, supposedly, Folds like journals before the game.

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Speaker 1: That's how he gets ready, which is short. Let me

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Speaker 1: let me ask you a question, because I find this.

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Speaker 1: I find this absolutely fascinating. He's, like I said, nine

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Speaker 1: years old. He is a year younger than Kirk Cousins. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like people are talking about Nick Folds

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Speaker 1: pending free agency the way we talked about Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: Like Folds is a better quarterback than Kirk Cuttin. Yeh,

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Speaker 1: where does he land swords? There's definitely it's the way

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Speaker 1: the NFL has always been. I don't wonder, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's the same way in baseball, PAULI, But

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Speaker 1: the NFL is very elitist with the way it views

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Speaker 1: players based on two things. Where you're drafted, so like

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Speaker 1: if your first round draft pick, you basically will always

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Speaker 1: get a job till your body just dies on you.

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's pretty remarkable. Like I was seventh

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Speaker 1: round draft pick and I did never got the benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubt even though I was better than than

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Speaker 1: players drafted ahead of me in my same draft class,

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Speaker 1: because I was a seventh round draft pick. And Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins has looked at as a starting quarterback a right.

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Speaker 1: He took over for for RG three, so A he

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Speaker 1: has an advantage of a starting quarterback. Um, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: that how he drafted, but he was. He was. He

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Speaker 1: was drafted UM and played well kind of early on

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Speaker 1: right in a second year. So the draft status and

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Speaker 1: if you're viewed as a starter or not is a

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Speaker 1: huge deal. And he's viewed as an upper echelon starter,

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Speaker 1: which is debatable. And he got paid. And Nick Foles

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Speaker 1: is viewed as a backup even though I think he

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Speaker 1: was drafted higher. There was a third round draft pick

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Speaker 1: that than Cousins was, but he never was but he was.

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Speaker 1: He was a starter by the way, in gimmick gimmicky

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Speaker 1: offense with with with with chip Kelly, which hurts him,

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Speaker 1: I should say, um. And then he almost like wanted

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Speaker 1: to retire. So add those together, right, He's not viewed

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Speaker 1: as a starter by most NFL. He played a gimmicky

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Speaker 1: kind of offense with chip Kelly. He wanted to retire.

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Speaker 1: He's been a backup for so many years. Cousins On,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, was a backup for one year,

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Speaker 1: took over for r G three, played really well, completes

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Speaker 1: a lot of passes, kind of looks good doing it,

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Speaker 1: and he get paid like he get paid like an

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Speaker 1: upper echelon quarterback. That's where the NFL is very archaic

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Speaker 1: in that manner. They don't really look at the player

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Speaker 1: at times. They look at the things around the player.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy to me, because this guy is a year

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Speaker 1: younger and he's a Super Bowl m v P and

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Speaker 1: does nothing but win games. If I were the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: I'd be breaking his door down to get him there,

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Speaker 1: like the Denver Bronco, the New York Giants, the Black Check.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this movie before. I mean, sometimes you wonder

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Speaker 1: the richest men in the world a are the stupidest

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Speaker 1: people in the world are because that's why you hire

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Speaker 1: a GM that's why you hired we all forget Matt

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Speaker 1: Flynn came in through for five yards, got a giant

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Speaker 1: contract out of football. I mean football is what have

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Speaker 1: you done for me lately? It's the biggest league when

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Speaker 1: it comes to that. I mean like baseball when you

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Speaker 1: mentioned shorts, like a kid can come up from the

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Speaker 1: minor leagues hit nine home runs in seven games. He's

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Speaker 1: not gonna get paid. He's still got four or five

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Speaker 1: more years to prove himself. A guy like Matt Flynn

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Speaker 1: sat on the sidelines two for five yards, boom, got

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Speaker 1: that contract. There's been games that were guys just do

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Speaker 1: this and that. For some reason, people think Nick Foles

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Speaker 1: can't play a fifteen or sixteen game season full season.

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Speaker 1: And there are guys that are like that. There's guys

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Speaker 1: that you play with in baseball, especially that hit like

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Speaker 1: two eight or two ninety with only like Twitter Bazin,

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Speaker 1: people go, well, why doesn't he play every day? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, he hits lefties very well, so he

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Speaker 1: plays against lefties about eighty percent of the times and

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Speaker 1: if you played him against right, he's the other eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of times, he'd probably a two fifty hitters. So

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Speaker 1: he's not an everyday player. He is a a great,

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Speaker 1: you know, spot player here and there. And I think

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Speaker 1: for some reason, Nick Foles has just been labeled that.

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Speaker 1: I guess so I'm glad you brought up Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 1: And that's what scares people away from Nick Foles is

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Speaker 1: we don't often see a a guy who's been a

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Speaker 1: backup as much as Nick Foles has been become a

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Speaker 1: successful NFL starter, right, like Aaron Rodgers. Every one points too,

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Speaker 1: but he was a backup for three years, never really played,

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Speaker 1: and then obviously was allowed to play eventually. You know,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo is the guy that we look at and

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Speaker 1: say that that that's kind of nick foles thing. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're backup quite a few years, and Nick Foles was

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Speaker 1: a starter and then you become it doesn't happen. I

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Speaker 1: think people worry that it could be more Matt Flynn

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Speaker 1: than anything else. He plays with a great offensive line,

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Speaker 1: now good weapons, a great play called, or a great coach.

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Speaker 1: And if you go to Jacksonville with a different offensive line,

641
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: not not not the weapons. Are you going to be

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Speaker 1: the same guy? That's that's, in my opinion, is what

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Speaker 1: people worry about. All right, last last topic, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we have Paul here to talk about this. This

645
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Speaker 1: is pretty wild in my opinion. Kyler Murray, the Heisman

646
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Speaker 1: winning quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners, also the ninth pick

647
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Speaker 1: overall by the Oakland Athletics, has a decision to make

648
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Speaker 1: the NFL draft. Deadline for early entry um is tomorrow,

649
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Speaker 1: um and um. He has to choose between football and baseball.

650
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Speaker 1: Now he in baseball, he had a signing bonus about

651
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Speaker 1: four and a half five million dollars in the National

652
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Speaker 1: Football League. If he's a first round draft pick, he

653
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Speaker 1: will make more money than he would in baseball, at

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Speaker 1: least for the first four years of his NFL wife

655
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Speaker 1: and his first four years of his baseball If that's

656
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Speaker 1: that's that's indisputable. It's and and if he were to

657
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Speaker 1: go to the NFL draft, he would be a first

658
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Speaker 1: round draft pick. He would not leave. He would not

659
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Speaker 1: leave baseball for the NFL if he wasn't a first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick. But here's the interesting part. He told

661
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Speaker 1: Oakland a's I will come back for fifteen million dollars,

662
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Speaker 1: which is great. He's got leverage, used the leverage as

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Speaker 1: you can. But to make that happen, they would have

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Speaker 1: to offer him a big league contract in the mayor leagues,

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Speaker 1: which is very rare. Has to get permission from Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball to do so. Major League Baseball supposedly has

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Speaker 1: granted permission for that. So, PAULI, what I don't understand

668
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: here is he's not like an amazing player in college.

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Speaker 1: He's he's a projection, right. They project him to be

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Speaker 1: a you know, outfielder who's tools and whatnot, not maybe

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Speaker 1: a power guy. Why would they go out of their

672
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Speaker 1: way to pay him a big league contract? Is it

673
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Speaker 1: just because of his star name? Well, there's a lot

674
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Speaker 1: to go in with it. When you sign a big

675
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Speaker 1: league contract and it's still you still can go to

676
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, they still have control over you. So

677
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Speaker 1: you know, he'll probably would start in a ball and

678
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: would he'd probably be buying the spread almost every night.

679
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: Those guys will be making eight hundred and fifty dollars

680
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: to about hundred a month, and he's gonna be making

681
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: about whatever four point something million um in Bakersfield say

682
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: something like that. Be crazy. His his single a team

683
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: by the ways in Vermont to So it's a very

684
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 1: interesting point. I mean because he I always tell people, Um,

685
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Speaker 1: college baseball is probably the equivalent of double A, maybe

686
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: a little bit less. Okay, now you've got to adjust

687
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Speaker 1: to a wooden bat, which now these kids do use

688
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: wooden bats a lot, but they don't use them every

689
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: day against pictures from all over the world. You gotta

690
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: remember now you're entering a world or pictures from Venezuela

691
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: to the Netherlands, the Dominican um from Puerto Rico, from

692
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: countries uh um that you've never faced that are pretty dark, nasty,

693
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Speaker 1: and all of them throw over ninety. So for me,

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Speaker 1: his struggle would be a lot harder to get to

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Speaker 1: the big leagues. Um, I've seen a lot of first

696
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: round draft picks not even get out of a ball

697
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Speaker 1: or double A. So throwing his hat and a ring

698
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Speaker 1: and to be a top five draft pick in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a no brainer for him to go

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Speaker 1: to the NFL, even with his size. Um that he

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Speaker 1: might not succeed, I think the money will be there.

702
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: But here's the other part about d MLB, the money

703
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Speaker 1: is guaranteed either way, and if he goes to the NFL,

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Speaker 1: baseball could always be there for him. Where if he

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Speaker 1: goes to the the MLB, I don't know if NFL will

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Speaker 1: always be there for him, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: PAULI really quick before we get to Blackjack's comments on this. So,

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Speaker 1: so you're you're in the minor leagues, you come to

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Speaker 1: the big leagues. How many years but in the big

710
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Speaker 1: leagues before arbitration starts? And then how many arbitration years

711
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Speaker 1: do you have? And then when do you get the

712
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: free agency? If you could give like a quick summary

713
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Speaker 1: on that, well, it depends along even but usually it's

714
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Speaker 1: like three or four years. It was the reason why

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Speaker 1: I signed a contract early before. Some guys try to

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Speaker 1: wait it out and go year by year. And so, um,

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Speaker 1: even if he went straight to the big leagues, they

718
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: have control over him for two or three years. And

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Speaker 1: that they're they're called options, and you can get sent

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Speaker 1: down up and down, um and this and that. So

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00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: space all just has more control over you. And like

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00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: I get it, his leverage with with this and that

723
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Speaker 1: maybe his love is baseball. And listen, you're still a

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Speaker 1: first round pick, you have to have a ton of

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00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: talent um. Maybe he is that good, but you still

726
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: need as a hitter. It's different as a pitcher. Okay,

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00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: if he was a talented pitcher as a first round pick,

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00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: you can make the transition straight to the big leagues.

729
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: Where an outfielder and you need to learn a lot

730
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Speaker 1: of different things and learn the wooden bat. It just

731
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: takes longer as a as a position player. That's a

732
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: great question, Blockchack. What do you think you should do.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough call for me, Jeff, because you know

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Speaker 1: my my initial instinct in these spots is to say

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Speaker 1: play baseball, because you know you can usually have a

736
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: longer career. There's no salary cap. If you're really good,

737
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: I think your career earnings can be higher. It's obviously

738
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: probably better for your health. But there's a difference. Tip

739
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Speaker 1: you're going to be a first round quarterback, then you

740
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna be uh some guy drafted in

741
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Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth round. Concern with Tyler Murray going

742
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,479
Speaker 1: to the NFL is his size. I mean we're talking

743
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Speaker 1: about the smallest quarterback since Doug Flutie. I mean five

744
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: is this isn't six ft, saying, you know, Baker Mayfield

745
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees are short, this is really short. I

746
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: mean that What do you think is is that is

747
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: a five quarterback a legit player the NFL time outwards?

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Speaker 1: Is he five nine in the program? Well, that's the question.

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Speaker 1: So because I'm five five ten in the program my

750
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: whole life and I'm not right, So that that's the question.

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00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: So most people believe he'll be five eight to combine, Um,

752
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: it's it's not It's not even the way, and it's

753
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: not even the height. It's his weight too. He's all

754
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: like like like Russell Wilson, by the way, is short,

755
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: right at least five eleven five ten. He's also like

756
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: he's built very well. Kyler Murray is not. And so

757
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: the question is will he get hurt the National Football League?

758
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: I I think he would. Now the question when smaller

759
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks you get to is how do you see the

760
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: passing lines with big offensive linement At Oklahoma? He was

761
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: fine with that. They have big hosses to Oklahoma. Look

762
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: and Riley found windows for him, um to to you know,

763
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: to to throw the ball. But you have to basically

764
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: be in shotgun the whole game, which a lot of

765
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: teams do now anyways in the NFL, Like the Chiefs,

766
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: by the way, are like seventy shotgun now that that's

767
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: basically their offense. Um, so I think he would get hurt. Um,

768
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: But if he is a pocket guy, if he can

769
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: stay in the pocket, that's less chance to get hurt. Right,

770
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: You You only hurt when you run the ball for

771
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: the most part. But if he's five eight, I don't

772
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: know if he's a first round draft pick? Yeah right,

773
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: I mean like that's the other part about it. Now

774
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: you talked about does he do this? Does he do that? Now?

775
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: Does he have to go through the combine? Or would

776
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: he didn't even go through the combine? No? He got

777
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: now does now? Does his draft status go down? Now?

778
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: Does he play with like black jack? And saying now

779
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: is he's messing around with the contract? He's he's already

780
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 1: been the first round pick. He's he's already a first

781
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: round picking baseball. So that's almost like having the girl

782
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: in the corner that's sort of hot, but you're going

783
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: for the hotter girl over there in the other corner,

784
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: but you already got the girl that's really that's sort

785
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: of hot already locked up. It does sound very much

786
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: what I mean, Yeah, it does sound very much like

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Speaker 1: like if he like if he were to get if

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Speaker 1: he were to end up getting, um, the fifteen million

789
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Speaker 1: dollars from UM the a C played baseball. That's what

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00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: it feels like it's happening. I mean, it'd be tough

791
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: to pass it, really would. I mean, and and the

792
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: A's given him that much money. UM. It might not happen.

793
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: He might not be in the big leagues in a

794
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: year or or two years, but they're going to give

795
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: him every opportunity. And here's the thing. I would think

796
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: the major league contract is gonna have in the contract

797
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: that he will get called up every September. So regardless

798
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: of he's hitting one A D and a ball, he's

799
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: gonna get called up and be with the A's at

800
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Speaker 1: the end of the year. UM, which will help him.

801
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: UM saying he's going to get pushed to the big

802
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: leagues no matter what because they're investing that money in him,

803
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Speaker 1: so eventually he'll get there. Any last words, fellows, Blackjack,

804
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: Paulie and he and he bets you on this week,

805
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Speaker 1: any any words of wisdom before we got out of here.

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Speaker 1: How the Knights champion. Yeah, I took a hundred of

807
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: Chad Noman dollars this weekend. It was the best thing

808
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: you must do. You must do. Uh took took him

809
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: away from the podcast. He doesn't like me and Schwartz anymore. Yeah,

810
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: he's he's just he's he's too busy. He's really his

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Speaker 1: manch in Connecticut. He's just enjoying another quiet morning, just

812
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Speaker 1: probably sepping his coffee on Block's Knights at Aquanette. He

813
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Speaker 1: puts in his hair. Probably. What are you guys gonna

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Speaker 1: do for your show Friday? You gotta, you gotta. We

815
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: have two games to argue about. You have to find

816
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: something to argue about props. You's gonna argue about props

817
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes, Jeff, we could argue about the weather,

818
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: that is true. Does he like I mean, when he

819
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Speaker 1: takes off his glasses fear? Does he think he's fierce

820
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: when he takes him off to every He's done with

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00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: his argument. I don't know what he thinks. He thinks

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Speaker 1: he's intimidating or funny, You're witty or intelligent? He's none

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Speaker 1: of those. All right, let's let's in there. Thank you

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