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Speaker 2: Well, nowhere else i'd rather be, and talking to no

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Speaker 2: one else would I rather as well. The NFL Draft

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Speaker 2: is now in the rear view. The Lakers season is

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Speaker 3: Jumping to that. Good listen exactly just just we're exactly

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Speaker 4: with violence, okay, since you want to you don't want

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Speaker 3: Violence for sweep, I didn't say, sweet, what.

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Speaker 4: I said to you. The last thing I said to

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Speaker 4: the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: And he was like, could be, could be? Could be? Well,

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Speaker 3: we're not. I will where not.

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Speaker 2: I remember saying there would actually be no four game

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Speaker 2: to have a conversation that you should be ready to have.

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Speaker 2: And it's not even about this series, and we'll get

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Speaker 2: to it in a second, but I actually I'm so

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Speaker 2: questions that popped up into my mind this week, and

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Speaker 2: I really love the perspective of someone who's been through

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Speaker 2: this process. We'll get to all of it. Don't you

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Speaker 3: I know you're not. I know you're not.

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Speaker 2: buying should be. You know this, I know this. We've

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Speaker 2: got kids. You look at your kids differently than you

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Speaker 2: look at other kids. If you hear about a fight

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Speaker 2: at high school, you're thinking, good lord, I mean.

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Speaker 3: These kids, these kids these days.

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Speaker 2: If they call and it's your kid in the fight,

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Speaker 2: you immediately start thinking about, well, what did the other

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Speaker 2: wasn't there to help out.

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Speaker 3: That's natural.

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Speaker 2: I get it, different rules for different people, different players.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk for a second about what the Atlanta

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Speaker 2: Falcons did in this draft a few nights ago, because

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Speaker 2: my question and I don't want the obvious answer. I

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Speaker 2: know quarterbacks are different, but ephraim the entire draft, literally

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Speaker 2: the point of its existence is for NFL teams to

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Speaker 2: go in there, find all the good college players and

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Speaker 2: get ready, at least get ready to replace the players

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Speaker 2: they can't have, or at minimum create competition.

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Speaker 3: Nobody bats an eye.

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Speaker 2: If you've got good receivers and you draft a receiver,

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Speaker 2: people are like, we need more good receivers. If you've

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Speaker 2: got a good offensive line, you draft to tackle, well,

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Speaker 2: you know what, lots of injuries there got to get ready.

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Speaker 3: Can never have too many big guys. You'd say that

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Speaker 2: If you draft a quarterback when you've already got a

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Speaker 3: One, it's like offensive.

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Speaker 2: We immediately run to the highly paid quarterback and go,

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Speaker 3: Are you mentally stable enough to handle?

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Speaker 2: I know we're paying you one hundred million dollars, but

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Speaker 3: Because this team just offended you.

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Speaker 2: They just picked someone else who also plays your position.

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Speaker 2: The horror, Why do we do that only with quarterbacks?

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Speaker 2: We would never do that with anyone else. Well, because

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Speaker 2: we make quarterbacks more than just NFL players. We've designed

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Speaker 2: the league. It's the best quarterback in the league. Systematically,

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Speaker 2: throughout the years, we've made the quarterback more important than

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Speaker 2: This is the worst thing ever.

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Speaker 4: This is the perfect thing, not only for the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 4: About quarterbacks going early in the first round is what

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Speaker 4: I think JJ McCarthy is also in a great situation.

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Speaker 4: Number one of the team around him is so much

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Speaker 4: it's it's it's gotten into a situation to where teams

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Speaker 4: not going to answer any questions about why they aren't

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Speaker 4: So I think teams are now not filling the pressure

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Speaker 2: Look, I think there are situations where there's no other

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Speaker 3: Learn on the job.

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Speaker 2: Look at the two names we bring up, even though

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Speaker 4: You said twenty teen, one team twenty years.

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Speaker 2: About fifteen twenty years now. They've never gone through a

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Speaker 4: Let me see, who would that be outside of what

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Speaker 4: the Patriot's been doing the last two years. We're counting those, right.

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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're rightbe Packers right?

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Speaker 2: And why because their quarterbacks sit there and stare at

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Speaker 2: they're adults now. Their superstar quarterbacks when you draft someone

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Speaker 3: And I guess I'd respond to that by saying, so

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 2: Why are we so worried about the mental health of

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Speaker 2: Cousins is worried. I remember an interview this is going

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Speaker 3: Philip Rivers was asked, how would you feel if the.

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Speaker 2: Chargers took a QB openly said, well, I wouldn't like that.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't like that at all. Yeah, criticize for it

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Speaker 2: that's the seventh pick in the draft. I want someone

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Speaker 2: it's for the year beyond. There's all kinds of reasons

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Speaker 4: Too, Yeah, because now the pressure's not on him. I

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Speaker 4: with Kirk Cousins, build up a winning culture. So when

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Speaker 4: win the division absolutely, and that should.

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Speaker 3: Be your goal.

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Speaker 4: Michael Pennix Junior should be thrilled to be in the

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Speaker 4: Hey man, this is not You're not going against Arizona State.

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Speaker 4: You're not going against you know, as good as Utah's defense.

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Speaker 4: at Carolina, everybody got Pro bowlers. So not having that

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Speaker 4: think Caleb Williams, especially because of what the Bears have done.

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Speaker 4: The one knock on the Bears is we've continued to

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Speaker 2: All right, we're livingthtyreg dot com Studios. That is e

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Speaker 2: from Salama. Mark Willer, Glad you're with us. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm mindful of the quarterback draft three years

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Speaker 3: This was an epic quarterback draft.

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Speaker 2: Five qbs are going in the top half of the

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Speaker 2: first round. Oh my goodness, which one do you want?

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to see it all play out. Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 2: Zach Wilson dumped Trey Lance dumped, Justin Fields dumped, Mac

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Speaker 4: That's five right, that's that's.

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Speaker 2: More out of the five are no longer they have

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Speaker 2: And yes, each of them had a little bit of

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Speaker 3: Lance is with a good team.

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Speaker 4: Imagine if none of those young men had to play

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Speaker 4: we won't be Melik Neighbors. The Giants, won't hinge on

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Speaker 4: won't be talking about Marvin Harrison Junior. Right, But if

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Speaker 4: Oh god, Drake maybe got another Matt Jones here. That'll

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Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt. And the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I think that the root of it is impatience. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I want to see Pennix now too bad?

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Speaker 4: Why too bad?

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Speaker 3: You don't get to you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like the team The bad teams are the ones who

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Speaker 3: Those are the bad teams.

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Speaker 2: They maneuver because of public pressure or what the fans think,

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Speaker 2: The good ones, I think are the ones. This is

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Speaker 2: on draft grades now, No, no, no, don't don't. Don't

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Speaker 2: you get me started on every single platform out there,

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Speaker 2: It should be thirty two consecutive sentences that say the

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you think somebody was a reach

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Speaker 3: That we know, we don't know, we don't know.

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Speaker 2: The kids gotta fit, the kids gotta get the head

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Speaker 3: The kids gotta handle the money. The kids got to

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Speaker 2: The fame, the pressure, and I don't care if he

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Speaker 4: you address a need. That's what they did offensively through

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Speaker 4: But did they address the need? Of course they did

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Speaker 4: You know who, maybe Taylor Williams's gonna come in and

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Speaker 4: play Roma Doomsday. He's a stud. Everything you think that

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Speaker 4: Bas just based on just his film right like he Okay,

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Speaker 3: Yep, he can play. So I just know if he

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Speaker 4: But he can play, well, hey, look he's there.

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Speaker 4: They got a quarterback with talent. They got a top

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Speaker 2: And another top twenty receiver. I know he's starting to

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Speaker 4: That Keenan Allen is gonna come in as a perfect

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Speaker 4: Won the award that they could win at the end

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Speaker 4: Rookie and Defensive Rookie of the Year. Did they win

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Speaker 4: So yeah, they won the draft. We be saying this

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 4: But they did address the need with the talent that

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Speaker 4: Steven d the Seger.

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Speaker 7: Why, thank you very much, and good evening, gentlemen. I

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Speaker 7: assume you saw a little of that Clippers game. Wow,

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Speaker 7: what happened there? Clippers were at Dallas and leading the

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Speaker 4: I thought they were at home Philadelphia.

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Speaker 7: The late game in a couple hours will be in La.

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Speaker 7: The Kings hosting Edmonton Oilers lead that series two games

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Speaker 7: to one. Denny Hamlin took the NASCAR Race at Dover,

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Speaker 7: his third win of the season. Kyle Larson finished second

444
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Speaker 7: in Major League Baseball sixth inning at Boston Red Sox

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Speaker 7: two nothing leaders against the Chicago Cubs. There was a

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Speaker 7: game yesterday and in Mexico City, Major League Baseball. Houston

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Speaker 7: and Colorado went there and Houston won again today eight

448
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Speaker 7: to two, the final from Bervaldez the winning pitcher. The

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00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 7: Twins have won seven in a row and the Angels

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Speaker 7: continue to slump Twins eleven to five, the final to

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Speaker 7: win to Pablo Lopez. Victories this afternoon for Arizona, San

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Speaker 7: Francisco and Philadelphia, which sent the Padres to a fourth

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Speaker 7: straight loss eight to six. Atlanta in ten innings, edge

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Speaker 7: Cleveland four to three, the Mets in eleven innings beat

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Speaker 7: Saint Louis four to two, and the Yankees pounded the

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Speaker 7: Brewers in Milwaukee fifteen to five.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, Steve, great stuff. Appreciate that so much.

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Speaker 2: It is Mark Worthardy from salam Live ti rack dot

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Speaker 2: com Studios. Love sitting here talking about the draft. Can

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Speaker 2: I ask you a question? So start with this, because

461
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 2: you went in the seventh round.

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00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 3: What was that day like for you? Where were you?

463
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 4: I literally was on my way to the movies. Well,

464
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 4: because once the seventh round hits, then you start getting

465
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 4: calls from not from teams who want you to sign

466
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 4: as a free agent.

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00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 3: Hey, this is perfect for you.

468
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 4: You have an opportunity to play wherever you need to

469
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 4: pick where you want to go. Now it's this is perfect.

470
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 4: And I was just like I just started just now.

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00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 4: I'm good click hanging on him phone. So I was like,

472
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 4: I turned the draft off and I'm on my way to.

473
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: The movies. My brother and.

474
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 4: I I get a phone call and I'm like, here

475
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 4: we go.

476
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 3: It's Art Shell. He's like hey from my doing. I

477
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: say hey.

478
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 4: He was like, well, I was just calling in for

479
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 4: me that we're getting ready to draft you. And I said, well,

480
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 4: what round is it? He was like the seventh round.

481
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 4: I said what, I said, what pick was it? And

482
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: he said one hundred and ninety ninth pick. And he

483
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 4: was like, you're not watching the draft. I said, now,

484
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 4: I turned that stuff off and and he was like

485
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: a okay, And he's like, look, I've been trying to

486
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 4: draft you for you know, since the day began. And

487
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 4: I finally saw you still there and I was like,

488
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 4: you got to bring this kid in and I said I.

489
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 4: He was like, well, how do you feel? I said,

490
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 4: I'm pissed off? He said good. He said good, he said,

491
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 4: because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you

492
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 4: an opportunity to come compete, come compete for a job,

493
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 4: and show every team, including us, while they messed up

494
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: and not drafting you earlier.

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00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 3: Okay.

496
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Speaker 4: And I said, that's all I asked for a coach,

497
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 4: and the rest is history. So for me, my draft experience,

498
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: I've always looked at the draft like, well, to me,

499
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 4: it doesn't really matter because I've been on teams where

500
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 4: first round draft picks couldn't start, couldn't play, and get

501
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 4: cut yep. I've been trying. I've had teams try to

502
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 4: replace me with first round draft picks. It didn't pan out.

503
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 4: So I never look at the a draft like, oh,

504
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 4: this is this is the the work happens now. The

505
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 4: work happens now. The draft is for the accomplishment of

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00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 4: a lifelong dream to do the impossible. That's what the

507
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: draft is. Every person drafted in the NFL has done

508
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 4: the impossible. So now what's not Because you know, you

509
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 4: don't get a credited season just because you got drafted.

510
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 4: You don't get a credited season for being drafted. You

511
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 4: get a credited season for being in the league for

512
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 4: three years on the active roster, so that that's how

513
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 4: you get vested. You need three games per year on

514
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 4: the active roster for that year to count, and your

515
00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 4: draft position that doesn't matter. And so the work really

516
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 4: starts now for these young men, it's important for them

517
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 4: to focus and realize. I've seen first round draft picks

518
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 4: wash out.

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Speaker 5: M h.

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00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: I've seen it. You get a bunch of money, but

521
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 4: that's all the money you're getting. And I've seen six

522
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 4: seventh round draft picks and free agents play over a

523
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: decade and have a career and bill real generational wealth

524
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 4: for themselves and their families. So my approach to the

525
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 4: draft is while I'm happy for them, they've done something amazing,

526
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 4: what are they gonna do now? What are they gonna

527
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 4: do now?

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00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 3: I tell you what?

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Speaker 2: Man, and watching the whole thing play out, and even

530
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: though you were in the seventh round and you were

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Speaker 2: at the movies, I bet that you can answer this

532
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: question because I, like, I just had a functional question.

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00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 3: You told me the phone starts ringing? What round? Fifth? Sixth,

534
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 3: sixth round? Right towards the end of the sixth round.

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00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 2: And this is back when it was all in one day,

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Speaker 2: two days.

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00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 4: Three rounds were on Saturday and four through seven were

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00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: on Sunday.

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00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 3: Okay, okay?

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00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: Because I always wondered why, like, and maybe you could

541
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: answer this coming up, coming up next, But I wondered why,

542
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: Like when we see the video of the kid who's

543
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 2: at the house and he's surrounded by thirty five family

544
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: members and the phone rings and they're all sitting there

545
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 2: like kind of waiting for I'm like, does the phone

546
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: ever ring and it's not a team saying that.

547
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 3: We're gonna draft you? Are there other other kinds of

548
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 3: phone calls? Oh? Yeah, that came in.

549
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: I would love to hear what this whole thing's like,

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00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: so yeah, let's do that. Coming up next. Mark Wellerty

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553
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554
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555
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556
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: We're live on the tyrag dot com studios. I'm fascinated

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00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 2: by stupid stuff sometimes, so so tell me. We got

558
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: that camera we're looking at We're looking at forty people.

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00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 3: Is mom, is dad?

560
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: Siblings, you got the girl, you got cousins, aunts, uncles, neighbors,

561
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 2: hangers on, whatever the hell is going on back there?

562
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: And then there's like a little table in front of

563
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Speaker 2: the kid with a phone on it. Talk to me, now,

564
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: what is actually happening? As this kid sits there and

565
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: waits for an hour or two or three or sometimes in.

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Speaker 4: The next day. Yea, how often is this thing ringing?

567
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Speaker 4: You do have people who are calling hey man when

568
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 4: you're getting drafted, or you got friends who are calling

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Speaker 4: and playing hey, this is uh Todd Willoughby from the

570
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns. We want to draft you in the It's

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Speaker 4: just me junior, right, you got You've got a lot

572
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 4: of that a lot of that. You got relatives kidding me? No, no, no, seriously, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know if I could continue to be friends if

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00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 2: something n you can lose.

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Speaker 4: Since you can lose, you should lose some friends in

576
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 4: that situation.

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00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I'm about to maybe I'm I'm looking at

578
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 2: millions of dollars with every pick. And you're calling because

579
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: you think you're funny because you're impersonating the GM of

580
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Speaker 2: the Browns or something like that.

581
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, man, Okay.

582
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 4: You know, and then you have relatives like older relatives,

583
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 4: aunties and grandma's baby. What did you did the draft?

584
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 4: Did they put you on the you? Did they put

585
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 4: you in the military?

586
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 3: Baby? Did the draft? You know?

587
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 4: You got to go to war now? And it's like, no,

588
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 4: big Mama, it's not war draft. It's the NFL draft.

589
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 4: Oh well, baby, did I is it time? Tell me

590
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 4: what's going on?

591
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 3: Big Mama.

592
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 4: I got to go. I got to keep them. I'm

593
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 4: trying to do the phone. Oh okay, oh the baby,

594
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 4: just call me. Okay, that's what you get. You know,

595
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 4: It's it's a lot, It's just not you know, it's

596
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 4: a lot. Now most of the guys and agents have said, agent,

597
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 4: keep this line. Fear a lot of the times it's

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00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 4: the agent's phone, Like that's what agents start doing. Hey,

599
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 4: we give all the teams my number, so you don't

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Speaker 4: have to worry about it, you know, and I'll give it.

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00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 4: I'll give you the phone when.

602
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 2: Except for the agent might have eighteen guys in the draft.

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00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 3: He knows where the agent is.

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00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know you got the agent, you have

605
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Speaker 4: the agent assistant, you have all of the and you

606
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 4: know you can have a line dedicated to you and

607
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 4: stuff like that. Now you know you can get a

608
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 4: million phones.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is.

610
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 4: Only the draft phone. Right beforehand, it was the house phone.

611
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 4: And you if it's somebody you on the phone, it's busy.

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00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 4: You don't even got call.

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Speaker 3: Wait right, all right?

614
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Speaker 2: But are there team Like, are there teams calling who

615
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 2: aren't about to draft you? They're trying to get info?

616
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 2: You mentioned that late that happens. Does it happen early?

617
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: I got a call from the Jets at the end

619
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Speaker 4: of the second round and the scout that I had

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Speaker 4: been you know, I guess he lived in San Diego

621
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Speaker 4: because we spend a lot of time together, and that's

622
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Speaker 4: why I thought I was getting drafted by the Jets

623
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Speaker 4: in the third round. He was like, Hey, how you doing.

624
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 4: You know our picks coming up in the third round,

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Speaker 4: and just want you to know. You know, you're a

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Speaker 4: guy and you know all of this stuff. So I'm

627
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 4: thinking I'm going to the Jets the first day, and

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00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 4: you know that pick comes up with the so and

629
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Speaker 4: so pick in the third round. I'm like, man, my

630
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 4: phone didn't ring yet. The New York Jets select Jason Fabini,

631
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 4: tackle from I can't remember where Jason went to school,

632
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 4: and I was just like, oh gosh, By the way,

633
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 4: how did Jason's career go? Jason played a long time.

634
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: He was a good player. Jason was a good player.

635
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: That I mean, they it happened the way it was

636
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 4: supposed to happen, right, because if they take me, I

637
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 4: don't go to the super Bowl.

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00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 3: Good point, right, I.

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00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 4: Don't you know, I don't you know, have the career

640
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 4: that I had. And so everything works out the way

641
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 4: it works out, and so that's just you know, after

642
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 4: that happened, you get dejected because now I got the

643
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 4: whole night to think about it. The whole next day.

644
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 4: You wake up early in the draft was like a

645
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 4: nine am.

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00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that second day before they started, especially if you're.

647
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 4: A West coast. Oh yeah, it maybe eight. It may

648
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 4: have been started at eight.

649
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: It was early, brother, Yeah, they had four rounds to

650
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 3: get through.

651
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was you know, it wasn't you know,

652
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 4: it was on ESPN, but it wasn't like it is now.

653
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: It wasn't a spectacle.

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Speaker 4: So they had, you know, on Sundays, they got all

655
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Speaker 4: kind of they got golf, NASCAR, they got all kinds

656
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 4: of stuff to basketball games, all sorts of stuff to

657
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 4: go through.

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Speaker 3: So it was early.

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Speaker 4: They got it out the way, and you know, it

660
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Speaker 4: just was it just it was miserable until it wasn't.

661
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Speaker 3: After I got drafted.

662
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 4: It felt good that I got drafted, you know, I,

663
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 4: you know, someone who'd only been playing I started playing

664
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 4: football in the ninth grade, right, So for someone who

665
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 4: you know, essentially had been playing football for nine years,

666
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 4: I ended up being drafted it eight years, end up

667
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 4: being drafted into the NFL and achieving not a lifelong

668
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 4: goal but a goal that I set for myself in

669
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 4: high school. And look, it's just one of those things

670
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 4: that you try to accomplish as many goals in life

671
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 4: as you can and that was really a big.

672
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Speaker 3: One for me. That's amazing. It's amazing. But I like,

673
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: does that stuff happen even in the first round.

674
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: I guess the reason I'm asking is just because you

675
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 2: see these guys on the phone and then they hang

676
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 2: up and they're like going to the.

677
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 3: Bills, and everyone's like super surprised.

678
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, right, the bills are on the clock,

679
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 2: and your son was just on the phone for three

680
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: and a half minutes just going yes, yes, sir, yep,

681
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 2: you got a dog, yep, thank you, sir. Yeah, can't wait,

682
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,479
Speaker 2: can't wait to be yep, thank you sir. Okay, sure, yep,

683
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: I'll hold okay, Hey coach, yup, thank you.

684
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 4: Well you also have got a dog like you a right?

685
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 4: You also have teams that will call you before, like

686
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 4: so say Green Bays on the clock and then uh

687
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 4: you know, you know Cleveland it is after them, and

688
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 4: Cleveland calls was like, hey, with this next pick, we're

689
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 4: gonna take you right, So it's you get it a

690
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 4: little bit different, you know what I mean, Like it's

691
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 4: it's not as direct as they're on the clock, so

692
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 4: you must be going there.

693
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: Okay, I got you, I got you.

694
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Mark Willy from Salam you mentioned that

695
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Speaker 2: I chose violence right off the top of the show.

696
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: I have a different word for it, but well, we'll

697
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Speaker 2: discuss it coming up next. Don't worry, brother, I'm gonna

698
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: ease into this one. I promise. I promise you're going

699
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 2: to ease into this one. This is as broad as

700
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: it can be, but I think we can all agree.

701
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: This is one of those things that we can all

702
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: agree on, and that is change is hard, Transition is difficult.

703
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 2: This happens in families, in jobs, in geography, it certainly

704
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: happens in sports. And it looks to me like it

705
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 2: has crystallized in the NBA, or is at least about

706
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Speaker 2: two And we'll get to that. We're broadcasting live from

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711
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Speaker 2: and foremost thing I'm gonna say is there are three

712
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 2: stars in the NBA I'd like to use as an

713
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: example here, and the one that plays for the Lakers

714
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: is going to be the is likely. I should say

715
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 2: there's a chance that as we're doing this show tonight,

716
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 2: he kind of becomes the last one of the three standing.

717
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: So that's good. But let me start with a question.

718
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about the series between the Lakers

719
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: and Nuggets so far?

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00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: Obviously I'm irritated.

721
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 4: That game really took it out of me, like I

722
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 4: was physically ill. And then I went to the game

723
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 4: on Thursday, game three, and almost went to jail. I called,

724
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 4: I text my wife. I said, hey, I said, hey,

725
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 4: maybe I'm going to jail tonight. I said, they lose

726
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 4: this game, I'm going to jail, so you need to

727
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 4: build me out.

728
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 3: And what was her response? You have kids at home? Yes,

729
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 3: I said, never mind, call someone else.

730
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Speaker 4: But I went to the movies. I went to like

731
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 4: a ten forty five movie to just.

732
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 2: I'm starting to gather that the movies are like your meditation.

733
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 4: I don't drink, I don't smoke out any of those

734
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 4: things with something stick going.

735
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 2: Like if I run into you in a movie, the

736
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 2: first thing I'm going to say to you is not hello,

737
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say what's wrong?

738
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Speaker 4: The first I'm a movie fan, but now I get

739
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 4: it that's my happy place. That's my happy all right.

740
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 4: So them coming out Saturday and playing like when you

741
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 4: look at it, they've played the Denver Nuggets extremely well,

742
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 4: except for the last four minutes of a game.

743
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first halves have been unbelievable.

744
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 4: So can you finish? Can you finish? You have the talent,

745
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 4: you have the ability. The thing I don't like, speaking

746
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 4: as a fan, I don't like our talent our starters

747
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 4: being not available Cam Reddish, uh, Vanderbilt, like all of

748
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 4: them like to me, that gives us the advantage because

749
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 4: those are our six, A, six, nine, wing, three and

750
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 4: D guys. And I was upset with Darvin ham on

751
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 4: Thursday because that lineup he had with Austin Rivers guarding

752
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 4: Michael Porter Junior was ridiculous, so much so when I

753
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 4: was at the game, I get a text from my

754
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 4: wife and she says, this is from your son. He

755
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: said he's mad that we're playing a small ball defense

756
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 4: and that Austin Reeves is guarding Michael Porter Junior for

757
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 4: half of the game. They have three point guard, three

758
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 4: point guards and on one lineup, so they're just going

759
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 4: to bullyball us. That was from a nine year old

760
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 4: from a nine year old a nine year old.

761
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Speaker 3: And I imagine you immediately uped his allowance. I mean,

762
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 3: first of all, I'm so proud that his basketball breakdown

763
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 3: right there, Mark, We're.

764
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Speaker 4: On our way, just so you know, because you know

765
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 4: eventually he'll wake up six a sixty nine and we're

766
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Speaker 4: on our way.

767
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Speaker 3: We got business, okay.

768
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Speaker 4: But I say that to say, if a nine year

769
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 4: old can see that, how come a coach of an

770
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 4: NBA franchise doesn't realize that that was it? Could I

771
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 4: couldn't even believe what was going on. And so the

772
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 4: fact that the lack of adjustments that were being made

773
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 4: in that game in Game three, they just bothered me.

774
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 4: Seeing those guys over there in them shiny outfits, just

775
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 4: hanging out not playing. I'm like, bruh, come on now,

776
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 4: I just didn't like it.

777
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 3: Now.

778
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 4: I love the effort that they came out with in

779
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:41,959
Speaker 4: the in game four.

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Speaker 3: Can they match that effort in Denver?

781
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be tougher because in the third fourth quarter

782
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 4: it's hard to breathe up there.

783
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 2: Man.

784
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 4: You get tired real fast.

785
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 3: Yep.

786
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Speaker 4: Someone who played there, and I knew we took advantage

787
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Speaker 4: of teams in the third and fourth quarter, especially in

788
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter when we played because do you just

789
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 4: get to but can you can? Can you can you

790
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 4: keep that up? Can you bring that energy to the

791
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 4: table and stave off elimination? And I think they can

792
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 4: because they have the talent too, And of course we've

793
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 4: got to make shots. But look, I'm optimistic because we're

794
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 4: still playing. The reality of it is no team has

795
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 4: come back to in a series down three to zero

796
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 4: in a seven game series. So I'll leave it at this,

797
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 4: I hope.

798
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 2: So fair enough, fair enough, And there is probably a

799
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham conversation. Lebron had a real nice conversation with

800
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 2: Darvin Man during the game the other day.

801
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Speaker 3: Fun.

802
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what he's talking about. Well

803
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 4: he's right, Yeah, yep.

804
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: He's right.

805
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 2: And I like there are certain people, by the way,

806
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 2: Draymond does that a lot. But it's been proven that,

807
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 2: you know, Draymond is is a crazy person. Sometimes if

808
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 2: Lebron James shows that cop kind of energy.

809
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 3: With regard to review that.

810
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 4: Like you do it, whether it's you just do it,

811
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Speaker 4: do it, do it.

812
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: I have a hard time with hold on, Lebron, we

813
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 2: see your energy. Let's go to the iPad. Hey, Bobby,

814
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 2: what's the too late?

815
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 3: Dude? Too late?

816
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 2: And obviously it didn't lead to anything bad, but it's

817
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 2: interesting video and it brings us kind of inside maybe

818
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 2: the vibe on the Laker bench. And I know there's

819
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 2: a lot of heat right now for Darvin Ham. Okay,

820
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 2: as it should be fair. All right, let's go to

821
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 2: fantasyland though for just a second, and let's pretend. Let's

822
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: pretend that the Lakers are not going to become the

823
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 2: first team in the history of the NBA to rally

824
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 2: from down three. Oh, I'm just asking you to go

825
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 2: on a I'm good. We're gonna go on a metal

826
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 2: journey together. Okay, carpet ride through the air. The Lakers

827
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: don't rally in this series. And the Phoenix Suns, who

828
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 2: clearly appear to hate one another. I don't know if

829
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 2: you've watched this team play basketball. I don't know what

830
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 2: the hell's going on there. But like, whenever you see

831
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 2: something look like that, advise them to not get married.

832
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 2: If a couple looks like that, be like, look, can

833
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: we talk before you send out the wedding invitations. I

834
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 2: don't know what happened there. Too much talent really ineffective.

835
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be surprised if they go home in three and

836
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 2: a half hours here from all right, that's Kevin Durant.

837
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 2: Steph Curry's already got a fishing pole in the water. Yeah,

838
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: and Lebron again. Fantasyland might join soon. And if that happens,

839
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 2: then we head to the second round of the NBA

840
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 2: playoffs without any of the three guys. And I'm doing

841
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant quite frankly a favor even putting him on

842
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 2: this list, because he's not the ratings driver that Lebron

843
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 2: James and Steph Curry have been. But I do think

844
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 2: he's been represented in that era of basketball when people

845
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 2: start talking about the most effective people on the court

846
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 2: one frame or another, those three guys, for the better

847
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: part of a decade have been the people you would

848
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 2: consider taken first if you could pick anyone in the

849
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 2: NBA around whom to start your team. So these guys

850
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 2: for a long time now have been driving ratings in

851
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 2: the NBA. And should they all be gone in the

852
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 2: second round, I really do you have questions about who

853
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 2: that next person is or who those next people are and.

854
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 3: How it's going to perform.

855
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 2: I think basketball fans are very comfortable going, well, Yo

856
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 2: kich is the baddest man on the planet right now?

857
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 4: Cool? Yeah, but that's not okay?

858
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 3: Great?

859
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: Is that going to bring people to the yard? Lucas

860
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 2: almost averaging his triple double? Is that going to bring

861
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 2: people to the yard. We're standing right now looking at

862
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: a final four on both sides, both conferences, and you're

863
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: asking Yo Kicic and Luca and Tatum and Jalen Brunson.

864
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 3: To carry the mail. It doesn't feel to me like

865
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 3: they're ready to do it.

866
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,919
Speaker 4: No, it's going to be a cold day for it

867
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 4: be a fewership.

868
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 2: Well not like how about cold years? Like in other words,

869
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 2: what do they what do they do about that?

870
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 3: This is the end? My only friend the Okay, So

871
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,439
Speaker 3: who are the draws? Right?

872
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 4: I would say, question? I would say, the joker isn't

873
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 4: the draw? I mean he plays the most boring brand

874
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 4: of basketball, which is the most excellent form of basketball

875
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 4: to be played, super quirky and not exciting times.

876
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's fun, but yeah it's fun.

877
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 2: But in doses, okay, right, I would I would say,

878
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: right now, if I had to pick someone that's not

879
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 2: the three guys that we're talking about right now, who's

880
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 2: in the playoffs and looks like he could really excite people.

881
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 3: I would say, Anthony Edwards.

882
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 4: I love Anthony Everts. He gotta get out of Minnesota.

883
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 4: Markets matter, got to get out of Minnesota, right. People

884
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 4: forget Kevin Garnett was that Minnesota. We only talk about

885
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 4: him when he went to the Celtics. But the last

886
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 4: time Minnesota was relevant was Kevin Garnett. I mean he

887
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 4: I think he just tied or passed him for thirty

888
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 4: point playoff games in franchise history. Edwards did just tied

889
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 4: our passed Kevin Garnett. I mean, he was raw business

890
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 4: that the number one seed ran to the Lakers in

891
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 4: the conference finals. Didn't get past that. But when Kevin

892
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 4: went to the Celtics and they created, you know, the

893
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 4: Big Three, that's when the lord and everything in the

894
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 4: attention in the eyes took off, and he would I mean,

895
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 4: could you imagine a young Kevin Garnett at THET in Boston, Mike.

896
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 3: That's gracious.

897
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 4: So it's it's really the market, like the is the

898
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 4: Minnesota market ready for the spotlight?

899
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 3: Like that?

900
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:29,280
Speaker 4: Tell me what other small market team like even Joannice

901
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 4: in Milwaukee. You know who is cooking and who could

902
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 4: be the face of the front of the NBA, who

903
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 4: the world is getting to see for a second year

904
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,959
Speaker 4: in a row. Jalen Bronson. Oh, he putting on the show,

905
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 4: putting on a show. He putting on the show. I mean,

906
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 4: this kid is unreal.

907
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 3: He's very good. He's unreal.

908
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 4: Now he's not superhuman like Lebron, and he's not shooting

909
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 4: like Steph. Like Steph and Lebron had two things that

910
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 4: no one else had sure, and that's hard to replace

911
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 4: that when those other guys don't have it right, Like

912
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 4: Steph's the greatest shooter we've ever seen, it's people won't

913
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 4: tune in to see it. Lebron James is a physical

914
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 4: specimen like we had never seen before. Move, control the ball,

915
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 4: handle le ball, do all those things. We just weren't

916
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 4: privited that in that frame six nine two sixty two seventy.

917
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 4: So those are outliers, those are special things. Those were

918
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 4: We passed a manto from Kobe to Lebron and too Steph,

919
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 4: and they took it and ran with it. I mean,

920
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards is what sixt' six six ' seven athletic.

921
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 3: If you if you're lucky.

922
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 4: Right, six four or sixty five. If Athletic will put

923
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 4: you on a poster, But is it enough to carry

924
00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 4: the league in viewership? That's a tough.

925
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 2: One, no, no doubt, And in fact, I got a

926
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 2: very uncomfortable question to ask about all of this coming

927
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Speaker 2: up next.

928
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Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. All right, these are the

935
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Speaker 2: Tyraq dot Com studios. Efram and I will not be

936
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Speaker 2: with you all night long, but a good portion of

937
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 2: it another hour and a half or so. Plank and

938
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Speaker 2: Spaniard will take over, then Mark with Itty from Salam.

939
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us whatever you are doing tonight, including basketball,

940
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 2: which appears to be the potential downfall of the Milwaukee Bucks.

941
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 2: Before like, like, I want to continue the conversation we're having,

942
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 2: but uh, forever Pacers go up three to one. Here

943
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 2: they're up by thirteen, with under four minutes to go.

944
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 4: On on on, oh sorry, go ahead, no, no, no,

945
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna get away.

946
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 3: Last thing I ever want to do is be the

947
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:24,760
Speaker 3: fun police.

948
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,879
Speaker 4: Remember at the beginning of the playoffs, we were talking

949
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 4: about this last Sunday, I was getting ready to start.

950
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 4: It's getting ready to go down, and we were talking

951
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 4: about this series, Milwaukee and Pacers series, and I was, I.

952
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 3: Said, the Pacers are gonna get They're gonna lose.

953
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I retorted with this is a dangerous series

954
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 4: from Milwaukee, especially with the Yiannis injury. But wow, but

955
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 4: on yeah, but on top of that, the brand of

956
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:03,280
Speaker 4: basketball all the Pacers play, They're up and down the court,

957
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 4: and I and I said, the Milwaukee has one of

958
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 4: the oldest teams in the league. Now we didn't know

959
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 4: Dame Janni's correct was gonna be heard and body was

960
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 4: gonna get itself ejected.

961
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 2: Milwaukee was was winning Game one, and my assumption was

962
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 2: Giannis was gonna be back in Game two.

963
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well it wasn't. He wasn't. Because now that lends

964
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 4: to just how serious that injury was. When you get

965
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 4: that calf injury like that, and that thing drips down

966
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 4: into that Achilles. What you don't want to do, as

967
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 4: as kd. Uh huh as KD. What you don't want

968
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 4: to do is come on out there and push through it.

969
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 4: And so it's one of those situations where Indiana's dangerous

970
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 4: because they shoot a high volume of threes, and they

971
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 4: shoot them fast and they're up and down. Best thing,

972
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 4: best thing Indiana did was Pascal Siakam got him from Toronto.

973
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 4: Now that gave them an attacking wing to go with

974
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 4: their outside shooters. And so it's a you know, it's

975
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 4: a it's a it's a perfect storm for Milwaukee to

976
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 4: run into this team in the first round.

977
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 3: This thing about to get ugly for.

978
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 2: Him, it's probably about to get ugly. I'm still like,

979
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 2: of course Indiana's dangerous. Pascal Siakam brings up a different dynamic.

980
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 2: I am not yet bullish on their future unless everybody

981
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 2: else in front of them keeps getting hurt as well.

982
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 4: Well, well, I'm just talking about this series. Yep, that's

983
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 4: just this one, because for this is good. Miles Turner, man,

984
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 4: you remember when we almost had Miles Turner and Buddy

985
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 4: Hill and Lebron and didnt wanted to keep Westbrook remember.

986
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 3: That that's a mare.

987
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 2: Hey, ash your boy, you sign him, You're you're getting.

988
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 3: You're getting a guard, a forward, a center, a GM,

989
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 3: a coach, you got everything.

990
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,479
Speaker 4: Well he better coach all of it beta his next

991
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 4: one tomorrow.

992
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 3: All of it. Well.

993
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 2: You brought up an interesting thought a little bit ago

994
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 2: with regard to Anthony Edwards.

995
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 3: He's got to get out of Minnesota.

996
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 2: And I know that there's a healthy portion of America

997
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 2: that whenever someone says something like that, it lands not offensive,

998
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 2: but it's it's difficult to hear if you root for

999
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 2: a team that's not one of the teams that people

1000
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 2: try to go to to become a star. And when

1001
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 2: it comes from a Laker fan, I know how that resonates.

1002
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 2: Of course, Oh gosh, you's got to get out of Minnesota. Well,

1003
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 2: well let me ask you this.

1004
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 4: Well I did say where you had to go? I

1005
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 4: just said, well, that's.

1006
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,959
Speaker 3: The implication is clear.

1007
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 2: There's only a handful of organizations where where that player

1008
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:26,959
Speaker 2: wants to go and be a star.

1009
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 3: And is it l A or is it New York?

1010
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 3: There there are a few others.

1011
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 2: I get it, but like sometimes I look at it

1012
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 2: and I go, okay, chicken of the egg. Is it

1013
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 2: the city or is it the is it the generational player?

1014
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 2: I mean the Spurs had a dynasty. I don't know

1015
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 2: if they ever drove ratings.

1016
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 4: No, they just won. They just want so you can.

1017
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 4: You could have it either way and Milwaukee, right, league

1018
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 4: MVP wins championships. Yeah, but wellamionship, champ championship, champion championship right,

1019
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 4: So okay, yeah, that's that's good. That works. But if

1020
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 4: you're somewhere and you're not winning championships, are playing in

1021
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 4: the finals, then yeah, that star that meteor to face

1022
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 4: of the league. It doesn't go quite as fast.

1023
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 2: Well, of course, but couldn't Aunt respond right now and

1024
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 2: be like, what if maybe we're about to win a

1025
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 2: championship if none of us, none of us believe that's

1026
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,439
Speaker 2: gonna happen right now, but we might be wrong.

1027
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 3: You're you're right.

1028
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 4: They could shock everybody, and they can win it this year,

1029
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 4: then they got to win it next year, and then

1030
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 4: he's got to be in the MVP conversation, which is

1031
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 4: not we're talking about taking over the face of the league.

1032
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 3: Well, right, Lebron.

1033
01:01:55,120 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 4: James, Right, Lebron James, Steph Curry, Sure, and you threw in, uh,

1034
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant, who.

1035
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 2: Once upon a time did make Oklahoma City, Oklahoma pretty cool.

1036
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 4: Until it wasn't until they all left. Everybody left. Well

1037
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 4: you know why they all left, right, they all left. Yeah,

1038
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 4: but that and they all went on to be MVPs

1039
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 4: after they left.

1040
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 3: This is true.

1041
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 4: So look, I get it. They were all there, they

1042
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 4: were doing this and doing that, and then he he

1043
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 4: was like, I'm out. They all went to bigger markets.

1044
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: But that wasn't about Oklahoma City. Russell Westbrook won the

1045
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 2: MVP in Oklahoma City exactly, and and duran.

1046
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 4: Should just right, what if what if Russ would have

1047
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 4: just been like, I'm here, what if the market is

1048
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 4: too small? Whatever, That's what I'm telling you.

1049
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 3: They weren't very good. He's not able to be a one.

1050
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 2: I think it has a lot to do with why

1051
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 2: Kevin left in the first place.

1052
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 4: I mean, look, they were already mad because they had

1053
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 4: to get you know, they didn't re sign James, which

1054
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 4: was impossible.

1055
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 2: And listen, this is a bad example because Lebron is

1056
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,919
Speaker 2: so transformational if you want to call him second best

1057
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 2: player all time whatever, like, but what the heck was

1058
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:23,919
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers organization. I just think if you are

1059
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 2: in today's day and age, if you're that good, you

1060
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 2: would be well, you can be the chicken.

1061
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 4: Well just look at it, like la Lebron was in

1062
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 4: Cleveland and everybody loved Lebron, but everybody respected Lebron after

1063
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 4: he won the championships in Miami. Now most people didn't

1064
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 4: like that he went and had to do it that way.

1065
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 4: But if Lebron James would have just stayed in Cleveland

1066
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 4: and they didn't win a championship, what will we be

1067
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 4: talking about, Well, it would be highly disappointing.

1068
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 3: But I'm right, don't I don't know if that's face

1069
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 3: of the league stuff.

1070
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 4: Face of the league, MVP regular series, Hold on, listen,

1071
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 4: listen to what I'm saying, face of the face of

1072
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 4: the league, MVP Finals, MVP champion.

1073
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1074
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 4: Name one face of the league that didn't have any

1075
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 4: of those. Oh, I can't and won't. So what I'm

1076
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 4: saying is Anthony Edwards. Right, if he goes and they

1077
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 4: win the championship and he's Finals MVP this year and

1078
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 4: then he's the league MVP next year in Minnesota, now

1079
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 4: we can talk about it. But until those things happen,

1080
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 4: which we don't think they will there right now this year?

1081
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 4: Then what are we talking about?

1082
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 2: Well, you're you're not wrong, but your first response was he's.

1083
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 3: Got to get out of there.

1084
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 2: Well, I'm like they got they got a better record

1085
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 2: than all the teams you think he should joy.

1086
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they don't play on national television.

1087
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 3: They will if they start winning the rings.

1088
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 4: So that's what I'm talking into you about that.

1089
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 2: But he doesn't have to leave. Why does he have

1090
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Speaker 2: to leave them? Okay, well we'll just see. Well we'll see.

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Speaker 4: First of all, Minnesota is not a free agent destination.

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01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 4: Just f YI, when you need to, when you need help.

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01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 4: Why do you think the teams that Lebron played with

1094
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 4: in Cleveland didn't have it? Nobody was going to Cleveland? Wow,

1095
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 4: nobody went to Cleveland.

1096
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 3: They did the second time around, but they knew when

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01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 3: Kyrie was already there.

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01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 4: Who went?

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Speaker 3: Who went to Cleveland?

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Speaker 2: Everybody Richard Jefferson wanted he had his pick of the

1101
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 2: litter every year.

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01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they didn't go to believe right that those

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01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 4: are the guys I'm talking about, guys who are stepping

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01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 4: into their prime. Right when he went, when when he

1105
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 4: joined d Wade Chris Bosh was like, I'm coming right,

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01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 4: That's that would have never happened in Cleveland. Guess what.

1107
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 4: D Wade wasn't leaving Miami to go to cleve Eveland.

1108
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 4: Chris Bosh wasn't leaving Toronto to go to Cleveland.

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01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 2: That was the team that had the financial wherewithal to

1110
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 2: do that though.

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01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is nobody was coming at that

1112
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 4: level in their prime to play in Cleveland with Lebron.

1113
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 4: That's why he had to leave. As great as Lebron

1114
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 4: was taking Booby Gibson and Mario Chalmers and all, no,

1115
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 4: he wasn't even there. Some of those guys that he

1116
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:33,919
Speaker 4: took to the finals all those years, they were just guys.

1117
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 2: Right, But you're not going to get the stars of

1118
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 2: the league to join a star like they want to

1119
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 2: be the one themselves.

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Speaker 3: They don't want to go join Lebron.

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01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 4: I think now, No, nobody was going to Cleveland. Nobody

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 4: was going to Cleveland championship. Guess who want to get

1123
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 4: out of Cleveland right now? Donovan Mitchell. So I mean

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01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 4: nobody's nobody's going. So when I'm talking about markets, that's

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Speaker 4: what I'm talking right destination. Oh look, you about to

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01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 4: get me in trouble.

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Speaker 3: When I'm talking about stars in the league.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Steve, I'm talking about Steve to say exactly like

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01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 2: I mean, right.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Steve. Yeah, he got me round up and

1131
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 4: I completely.

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01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 7: Forgot providing an off ramp there.

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01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 4: Happy to help.

1134
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 7: By the way, you guys talked about the greatness of

1135
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 7: Jalen Brunson. We do have an Indiana Final, by the way,

1136
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 7: they've just won, and we had road wins for the

1137
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 7: Clippers and Knicks. But Jalen Brunson was not a first

1138
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 7: round draft pick at a Villanova, but he started in

1139
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 7: Philadelphia in this ninety seven to ninety two win today,

1140
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 7: Jalen Brunson's in his second year with the Knicks. Last season,

1141
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 7: he was at twenty four point six assists per game.

1142
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 7: This year, playing more games, twenty nine points seven assists

1143
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 7: per game. And then there's this from AP regarding this

1144
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 7: game tonight, And yeah, we mentioned earlier. Technically it was

1145
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 7: a road game, it sounded like a next home New

1146
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,600
Speaker 7: York wins ninety seven to ninety two, so neither team

1147
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 7: scores one hundred points and Jalen Brunson had forty seven

1148
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:12,560
Speaker 7: with ten assists to generate that many points in your

1149
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 7: team's playoff game where your team does not score one

1150
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 7: hundred in that game. Incredibly rare AP looked it up

1151
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 7: once again in the play by play era, So going

1152
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 7: back twenty five plus years, the only guy that had

1153
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:28,839
Speaker 7: a better game when his team scored under one hundred

1154
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 7: was Allen Iverson himself for Philadelphia when he generated seventy

1155
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 7: two out of ninety eight points. Brunson generated seventy out

1156
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 7: of ninety seven in that Nicks win at Philly today,

1157
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 7: and the Knicks are leading three games to one in that.

1158
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 3: First round series.

1159
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 7: Pacers are up three games to one after a home

1160
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 7: victory over Milwaukee. It's just gone final one twenty six

1161
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 7: to one thirteen. The Bucks were without the injured Jannisontenacumpos

1162
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:58,560
Speaker 7: strain CAF and Damian Lillard out with a strained achilles,

1163
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,920
Speaker 7: and Bobby Port for some reason got kicked out in

1164
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 7: the first quarter. That doesn't help the team either. Just

1165
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 7: for the record, the Bucks were shooting well for much

1166
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 7: of the day, but it winds up the home team

1167
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 7: winning the game. Over in the Western Conference, we've got

1168
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 7: Minnesota up three games to none playing at Phoenix in

1169
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 7: a few minutes. The Clippers blew a thirty one point lead,

1170
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 7: but still won at Dallas one sixteen to one eleven.

1171
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 7: That series tied at two games apiece. I will add,

1172
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 7: by the way, the Milwaukee Bucks actually missed five free

1173
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 7: throws in this loss tonight. The Bucks had only missed

1174
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 7: three free throws in the first three games of the

1175
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 7: series combined to the NHL Playoffs. The number one New

1176
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,719
Speaker 7: York Rangers are tied two to late second period at Washington.

1177
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 7: Vancouver came back for an overtime win four to three

1178
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 7: at Nashville, and it was Colorado five to one over

1179
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,679
Speaker 7: the Jets the late game in an hour in La,

1180
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 7: We'll have the Kings hosting Edmonton. Danny Hamlin took the

1181
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:59,120
Speaker 7: NASCAR Race at Dover his third win of the season.

1182
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 7: Kyle Larson finished second to Major League Baseball. The Cubs

1183
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 7: were down four to nothing going to the seventh. It's

1184
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,680
Speaker 7: now four to four at Boston. In the bottom of

1185
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 7: the ninth, Cubs tied it out of nowhere with a

1186
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,799
Speaker 7: three run homer in the eighth inning of play. Earlier

1187
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 7: in Mexico City, Houston was a winner over Colorado eight

1188
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 7: to two. Minnesota won at seventh straight game. It came

1189
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 7: against the slumping Angels eleven to five. San Diego's lost

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01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 7: four straight. Philadelphia won at San Diego eight to six

1191
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 7: in ten innings. Atlanta edge Cleveland four to three, Toronto

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01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 7: beat the Dodgers three to one. Kevin Gosman had been

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01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:35,599
Speaker 7: zero and three but got the win, and Oakland defeated

1194
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 7: Baltimore encloser Craig Kimberl seven to six, mets An eleven

1195
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 7: innings over Saint Louis four two.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, good stuff, Steve. That leaves

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01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 2: you one more, at least one more. Soare with us

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01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 2: where you can bring up the millions and millions of

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01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 2: dollars the ballfers make okay where you were in.

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 3: Fact more than you.

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Speaker 7: It's a good comparison to even more interesting, I should say,

1202
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 7: because of course PGA had the team event. It was

1203
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 7: a pair of winners at New Orleans today and a

1204
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 7: regular golf well, if if you can call live golf

1205
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 7: a regular tournament, it was regular championship golf.

1206
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, put that in quotes in Australia.

1207
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 2: I love golf and I didn't even understand what it

1208
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 2: was saying, Like, can you explain this.

1209
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 3: Why yeah, McElroy and Lowry team up for a win.

1210
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 7: That's correct, and they both mean they both get credit

1211
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 7: for a victory to add to their career totals. So

1212
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 7: for Rory McElroy, he has twenty five PGA Tour wins.

1213
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 7: Now he got some help in this one.

1214
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 3: That's odd. I don't even understand how it works. How

1215
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:41,759
Speaker 3: did it work?

1216
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:44,839
Speaker 7: I would like to see them actually not just trade shots,

1217
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,760
Speaker 7: but trade clubs. Then you are really a team.

1218
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay boy, this this transformation has been has

1219
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 2: been something else the last few years.

1220
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 3: But anyway, thank you Steve, and look forward to that

1221
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 3: coming up. For sure.

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Speaker 2: We are in the tire rack dot Com studios and

1223
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:07,559
Speaker 2: we are full on wait till you hear this coming

1224
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 2: up next.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about you, Ephrom.

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01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 2: I find this for all athletes done mat of the sport.

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01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 3: This is the cardinal sin that you can't do this.

1228
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:21,759
Speaker 3: It never works.

1229
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 2: I know it's hard sometimes to not do it, but

1230
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 2: you gotta buck up and never do this at a

1231
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 2: major NBA star did it today. We'll let you hear

1232
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's e from Salama Mark Willard livety rack

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 3: I bet you never did this in your whole career.

1236
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 3: That'd be my bet.

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01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 2: I bet you never did this in your entire professional career.

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01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 3: Take take a listen to this.

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01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 2: Joe Lmbid and the Sixers lose to the Knicks in

1240
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 2: Philly today, and this was part of what Joel had

1241
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 2: to say postgame.

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Speaker 5: Disappointed. You know, I love our fans. I think it's

1243
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,600
Speaker 5: unfortunate and I'm not calling them out, but it is disappointing.

1244
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 5: Obviously you got a lot of Knicks fans and that

1245
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 5: down the road that I've never seen it, and I've

1246
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 5: been here for ten years. Yeah, kind of pisces me off,

1247
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 5: especially because Philly is considerce falstyle, so you know, they've

1248
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 5: always shown up and I don't think that should happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not okay.

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01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So he's talking about how many Knicks fans were

1251
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:40,800
Speaker 2: in attendance. We were talking about this earlier. It was overwhelming.

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01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 2: It was crazy. This is one of my This is

1253
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 2: one of my favorite phrases that people people do. If

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01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 2: someone says to you, hey, no shade, but what do

1255
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 2: you thinks about to happen?

1256
01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:56,839
Speaker 3: Okay?

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01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 2: So I'm not calling out Philly fans, but well, that

1258
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 2: pissed me off and it's totally disappointing. Well, what is

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01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 2: it you think you just did? And I'm not saying

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01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 2: he's wrong, I'm just saying them's the rules. You don't

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01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 2: get to do that, and it's only going to get

1262
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 2: worse through the years because the more money and the

1263
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 2: more public money, the more it's known, we'll all go

1264
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 2: to spot track and figure out what your contract says.

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Speaker 3: And the more we know that you make.

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Speaker 2: Forty or fifty or sixty million dollars, the more talking

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Speaker 2: about fan behavior to me is totally off limits unless

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01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 2: you're talking about a fan getting into a fight or

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01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 2: saying something inappropriate direct to a player. When you're talking

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Speaker 2: about how a fan behaves with their money, I'm sorry,

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01:14:55,200 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 2: Joel Hard, No, there's no win there for him.

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Speaker 3: I think it means the fact that.

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01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 4: You know, allowing Knicks fans to buy it, like the

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 4: only way you get those tickets like that is retail market.

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01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 4: So if you're a Philly fan and you put your

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01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 4: tickets on one of the sites, yep, you don't get

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 4: to pick who buys the tickets, you know what I mean?

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01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 4: So yes, I guess he's pointing out the fact that, look,

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01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 4: Philly's steep in tradition, great fan base, so come to

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Speaker 4: the game and be there. It literally I was sitting

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01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,360
Speaker 4: and watching the game with my son and my nephew,

1282
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 4: and for an instant, I I forgot that they were

1283
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 4: in Philly. I literally was like, man, this is New York.

1284
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, because Bronson was getting ready to break

1285
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Speaker 4: the all time playoff points record, and I was like, man,

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01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 4: the garden about to go crazy. And I was like,

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01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 4: oh my god, this isn't the garden. They're in Philly.

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Speaker 4: But it had that same type of energy that the

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Speaker 4: Knicks have when they're playing in the Garden, and that

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01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 4: blew my mind. I was not expecting that today.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you.

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01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 2: I'm with you, but I think the sort of reasoning

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01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 2: that you just laid out is a accurate. But b

1294
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 2: for me, it's off limits. If Sixers fans put their

1295
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 2: tickets up because they are disinterested in a seven seed

1296
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 2: and another EMBIID injury, then that's what they get to do.

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Speaker 2: And I like, I just find this. It happens once

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01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 2: or twice a year in every sport. It's guys, not

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Speaker 2: wanting to get booed, or or it's guys talking about,

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01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 2: you know, a stadium being empty, or it's guys talking

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Speaker 2: about like what Joel did today, which is don't sell

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Speaker 2: your tickets. And you know you can encourage people not

1303
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 2: to do that, but after the fact to say that

1304
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 2: the look of your building pissed you off. By the way,

1305
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 2: y'all want to not wait till tomorrow morning on Philadelphia

1306
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 2: Sports Radio to know what the call of reaction will be,

1307
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 2: because I can give it to you right now. Hey,

1308
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 2: bleep you Joel, stay healthy and win fifty games next year,

1309
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:32,760
Speaker 2: maybe we'll be there.

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01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 3: Fair, No, doesn't matter, doesn't matter.

1311
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 2: Like I just it's interesting to me when people fall

1312
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 2: into the same trap over and over again. You're not

1313
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 2: gonna win talking about fame.

1314
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 3: You're not.

1315
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:55,800
Speaker 4: But the sport and the supports and nature is emotional. Yes,

1316
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 4: And I've been on the other end of a heart

1317
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 4: fuck game, an emotional and physically draining game.

1318
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 3: It's one of the craziest feelings ever. Man.

1319
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:12,440
Speaker 4: It really takes it out of you as a performer,

1320
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 4: and it is very emotional. I remember my wife and

1321
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 4: I were first starting to day. She was like, Wow,

1322
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 4: this is crazy because of the just after a loss,

1323
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 4: it just even after a win, you put so much

1324
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 4: physically and emotionally into the game, you wear it, right.

1325
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 4: It takes hours to decompress, especially in football because of

1326
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 4: the the sheer nature and the sheer violence of the game,

1327
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 4: Like you have to make yourself another person and just

1328
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 4: to snap back into reality. It's tough to do, especially

1329
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 4: after the emotional loss where you felt like you didn't

1330
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 4: have home field or home court advantage at home. You know,

1331
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 4: it's like oof, that's tough, and so you lash out

1332
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:17,120
Speaker 4: and look, you're right, and you're absolutely right when you say,

1333
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 4: you know that's a that's a lose lose situation for

1334
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 4: an aw but the emotion of it is the emotion

1335
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 4: of it, right, So it hurts home court advantage. Home

1336
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:37,719
Speaker 4: field advantage means something to an athlete because it can

1337
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 4: give you that boost you need. Right And whenever we

1338
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 4: whenever we would play the Stealers like they were in Jacksonville,

1339
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 4: we played the Steelers, we were at a disadvantage because

1340
01:19:55,520 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 4: the Steeler fans would be they would fill up the stadium.

1341
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,679
Speaker 4: And that is when you have to go silent at home.

1342
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:07,679
Speaker 4: Silent count at home because you can't hear when your

1343
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 4: offense has the ball.

1344
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 3: That's that's demoralizing. Yes, yes, so you feel the rams

1345
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 3: have to do it offense.

1346
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 4: Yes, so I get it. You know, I understand Did.

1347
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 3: You ever do it? You never did it?

1348
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:28,760
Speaker 2: Never talking about fans, Yeah, so I understand it. Then

1349
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 2: again I don't understand it. Speaking of which, I got

1350
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 2: a text after the draft for some friends. I got

1351
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 2: to tell you about coming up next, My man, I

1352
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 2: got to read something to you so you could help

1353
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 2: me with how to respond, because to me, there's just

1354
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 2: a head scratcher.

1355
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 3: And I get it. The NFL draft has turned into woodstock.

1356
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 2: I don't know what you know what I mean, I'm

1357
01:20:55,800 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 2: all for a good time, but a billion p people

1358
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:03,799
Speaker 2: are whatever shown up to watch. Roger Goodell read names

1359
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 2: like as a slow graduation. Is you know, new and

1360
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 2: an interesting Let's talk it out. We're broadcasting live from

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1365
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:29,000
Speaker 2: say this, I actually really enjoy the draft. The draft

1366
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 2: has some aspects of the Olympics to it, which is

1367
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 2: to say that there is enough time for us to

1368
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 2: get to know these people and some of their situation.

1369
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 2: As this whole thing unfolds, we get to go into

1370
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 2: their homes in certain cases and see them and see

1371
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 2: their family and the reaction and the tears and the hugs,

1372
01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 2: and that's tremendous. It's great content. There's also the excitement

1373
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 2: the unknown, especially if you're a college football fan, you

1374
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 2: get to see where some of your favorite players end up.

1375
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 2: It's a little bit like Christmas or Honkikah. You're opening presents,

1376
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 2: you don't know what's in them, and then you open

1377
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:17,759
Speaker 2: them up. But as I tried to remind people last week,

1378
01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 2: it is very much like Christmas or Honkkah in that

1379
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,560
Speaker 2: there's presence waiting for you, but there's a fifty to

1380
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 2: fifty shot you're gonna return what's in there. So I

1381
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 2: know it's exciting, but it's also filled with delusion, and

1382
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 2: so there's nothing I can do with the way my

1383
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 2: brain works other than be amused by this. And I

1384
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 2: wonder if you if you feel the same way.

1385
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 3: So the draft ends yesterday, and.

1386
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,679
Speaker 2: I've got a big thread with all of my closest buddies,

1387
01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 2: and one of them just last night at about dinner time,

1388
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 2: rights not very excited about our draft class.

1389
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 3: And then has the little yawn emoji.

1390
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:17,639
Speaker 2: Now we're forty nine er fans, Not that that matters

1391
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 2: for almost every NFL fan this weekend was a list

1392
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 2: of somewhere between fifteen to twenty players, and you're lucky

1393
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 2: if you've heard of one of them.

1394
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,719
Speaker 3: You're lucky if you've heard of one.

1395
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:39,200
Speaker 2: Of them, maybe two, and you've actually seen them play.

1396
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 2: So how am I to respond to just average Joe

1397
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 2: fan who goes, huh saw those nine names?

1398
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 3: Who yawn? What's the response there?

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01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,719
Speaker 4: The only response would be we got to wait and see.

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01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:07,719
Speaker 4: That's it. That's the only response.

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01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:12,599
Speaker 3: I did appreciate Another one of my buddies who who who?

1402
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 2: Simply because the first the first one who text back

1403
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 2: and goes, I agree.

1404
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 3: And I'm just looking at this, I'm like, what are you?

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01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 2: Did you want them to come to your house and

1406
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 2: introduce themselves to you? They they they picked up people

1407
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 2: at every position. What did you think this was gonna be?

1408
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 2: Did you think maybe you would know one of the

1409
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:40,639
Speaker 2: people who they picked or like, so the third person

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01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 2: the text goes, why don't we revisit this in three years?

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01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 3: And I just wanted to stand up, and of course I.

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01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 2: Mean, thank you, thank you for saying what what I

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01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 2: wanted to say, so that I didn't have to say it.

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01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 4: You don't You don't know, right like you, You don't

1415
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:07,719
Speaker 4: know who's going to do what and how they'll develop

1416
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 4: and how they'll help you.

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01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 3: And it's.

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01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 4: Across the board every team, right you may be hopeful

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01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:26,759
Speaker 4: on the one name you do know normally the first

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01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:28,800
Speaker 4: first round draft pick.

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01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 3: I don't think the Niners had one. They did they

1422
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,759
Speaker 3: did they? Okay, they took they took Ricky Piersoll.

1423
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 4: The uh, it's gonna be he's a good receiver that's

1424
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:40,040
Speaker 4: fit in.

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01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's gonna that's that's that's a good pick

1426
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 3: by you guys. Well, but we don't. You don't know.

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01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 3: You look what you know? Is he going to be that?

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01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

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01:25:51,160 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 2: This is what's so funny is you'll talk about it

1430
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 2: and and in in pooh poohing the idea of knowing

1431
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 2: what's going on, we all fall into ooh, but but

1432
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 2: I do you like that one?

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01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,640
Speaker 3: Now? You already told me that Roma Dune say that

1434
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:07,879
Speaker 3: now he's gonna play. Yeah, he gonna play. I agree

1435
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 3: with you, but I also know I have no like.

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01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 3: Do you know Rome, No? No? Do you know how

1437
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:17,799
Speaker 3: he's wired? Nope? Is he built for this? Not sure?

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01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 4: There you go, there you go, not sure, And none

1439
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 4: of us are right. We don't know how to think.

1440
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:32,720
Speaker 4: We just went over there a little bit early on

1441
01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 4: the show, we went over the five qbs that were

1442
01:26:36,320 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 4: drafted what three years ago? Three years ago, and there's

1443
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 4: one viable quarterback left in that draft.

1444
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,639
Speaker 2: Right, and one of the teams that had to dump

1445
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 2: the receiver of the quarterback they picked responded by getting

1446
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 2: someone as mister irrelevant the following year, and he's probably

1447
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 2: to make fifty million dollars in eleven months per year.

1448
01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 3: What what? What? What do we know today that we

1449
01:27:10,280 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 3: didn't know on Thursday?

1450
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 4: We know where these kids are going to play. Thursday

1451
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 4: morning we woke up and outside of Caleb Williams, we

1452
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 4: didn't know anybody was gonna play.

1453
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 2: Now we do pretty good idea about where Jayden Daniels

1454
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 2: was gonna you know, pretty good idea, pretty decent idea

1455
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 2: about where Drake May.

1456
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 3: Was going to play. But but yeah, that that's that's

1457
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:38,599
Speaker 3: about it.

1458
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm looking at NFL Networks draft grades, and uh I

1459
01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 2: am proud to pass along that every single team in

1460
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:55,040
Speaker 2: the NFL got a C plus or better. I have

1461
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:58,880
Speaker 2: taught a lot of classes in my day, and uh

1462
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:03,960
Speaker 2: I long for the day when every student gets a

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01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 2: C plus or better. That would be amazing.

1464
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 4: You're you're you're on fire in there, You're on fire.

1465
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 2: In fact, there's only two teams that got a C plus.

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01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 2: Everybody else gotta be minus or better. God's NFL. You've

1467
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:25,120
Speaker 2: all crushed it. You did it, y' all did it.

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01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:29,759
Speaker 3: Congratulations. I don't know what they did. We'll see.

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01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:33,360
Speaker 4: Man, this is the end of the season conversation.

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01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 3: It's not even an end of it. It's the end

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01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 3: of two or three seasons.

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01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you get to conversation sh out of the

1473
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 4: guys who play, who were drafted this year. You get

1474
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 4: like pooking the cou.

1475
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, let's talk about pooking the CoA. Right?

1476
01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 4: You like when that what's happened?

1477
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 3: You like?

1478
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:55,719
Speaker 4: Oh man, they had right. I don't know if anyone

1479
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 4: had ever heard of him before.

1480
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 3: Of course not. That's not an a that you hear

1481
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:02,800
Speaker 3: once and then forget that's the name.

1482
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 2: The first time you hear it, I'm like, I'm gonna

1483
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 2: remember that one.

1484
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 3: Pukka.

1485
01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:11,680
Speaker 4: Like Mark Michael Parsons with his rookie year, we were like,

1486
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,040
Speaker 4: oh when it was happening, you were like, okay, there's

1487
01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:15,800
Speaker 4: something there here.

1488
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 3: C J.

1489
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 4: Stroud, we were like, oh, all right, well we got

1490
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 4: something here. So during the season you'll be able to

1491
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:35,040
Speaker 4: identify the special ones. Maybe no, you will. You will

1492
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:38,559
Speaker 4: because it is tangible. It's now as tangible.

1493
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 3: But there are some guys who will pop too. In

1494
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 3: year two.

1495
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:48,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm talking about you can start commenting on

1496
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 4: these some guys won't play, some guys, right, You can

1497
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 4: start the conversation now after you have a sample size.

1498
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 4: Like halfway through the the year, we were like this

1499
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 4: kid poking the cool go to c J. Strau is

1500
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 4: like he's been in the league ten years. Like you

1501
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:11,840
Speaker 4: start having these types of conversation and handing out halfway

1502
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:16,000
Speaker 4: you know, through the year, grades and things like that.

1503
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:26,719
Speaker 3: But until then, That's why I like the strangest thing.

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01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 2: Is what I think at least most people do, because

1505
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 2: at a certain point in every draft, especially now that

1506
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:38,679
Speaker 2: it's three days, you go away. I think round one

1507
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 2: put up an amazing rating. Rounds two and three obviously lesser,

1508
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,160
Speaker 2: but like, okay, you know, people kind of into it.

1509
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 2: I think by yesterday most people went on about their

1510
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 2: business and just heard about it later. Yes, that's probably

1511
01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:56,879
Speaker 2: the cadence for most NFL fans.

1512
01:30:57,600 --> 01:30:58,880
Speaker 3: And what we do is.

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01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 2: We judge the draft by the little letters that are

1514
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:07,200
Speaker 2: next to the player when we pick up uh, you know,

1515
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:10,840
Speaker 2: we pick up a tablet or a phone or a laptop,

1516
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:13,720
Speaker 2: and we'll look at, well, okay, let's see what my

1517
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:17,559
Speaker 2: team did. Oh oh, they got a they got a

1518
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 2: corner back in the fifth round.

1519
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:21,400
Speaker 3: I like that.

1520
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 2: I like that, all right, Yeah, we got a corner

1521
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:29,120
Speaker 2: back in the fifth round. From ooh, in the sixth round,

1522
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 2: we took an we took an offensive tackle. That's good.

1523
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 2: We've got to fortify the offensive line. And so people

1524
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:40,240
Speaker 2: will cruise around at a good draft because of little

1525
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 2: letters that are next to these people's name. You got

1526
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 2: no clue who these people are, absolutely none.

1527
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 3: So I'm here for the I'm here for the fun.

1528
01:31:52,040 --> 01:31:55,439
Speaker 2: I get that the pageantry of the whole thing has

1529
01:31:55,520 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 2: been expertly crafted by the NFL.

1530
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:02,720
Speaker 4: You know what I'd like to I would like to know. Yeah,

1531
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 4: and maybe in the you know, about fifteen or so

1532
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,479
Speaker 4: minutes when when we welcome our very own Steve, he

1533
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 4: can give us some insight in terms of viewership because

1534
01:32:13,479 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 4: the NBA games were on when the draft was on.

1535
01:32:16,520 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 3: Yes, so I'd like to to know you were watching

1536
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:23,839
Speaker 3: the Lakers. You were watching the Lakers.

1537
01:32:24,040 --> 01:32:28,599
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was at the game. So yeah, so that's different,

1538
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 4: that's you know, but I would just like to know

1539
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 4: in terms of, you know, the Thursday Friday of the draft,

1540
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 4: how did that stack up against the NBA playoff games.

1541
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 2: I'd be very interesting to know. I do know the

1542
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 2: Thursday night. I can't tell you how it stacked up.

1543
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 2: I can tell you put up a very big number.

1544
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:51,639
Speaker 4: Oh the draft, the draft, Oh yeah, put.

1545
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 3: Up a very charge. Yeah.

1546
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 4: Well pick at the NFL. The NFL, man, that's just

1547
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:01,560
Speaker 4: what it is. Well, it's fun, it's drama. It's unfolding

1548
01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 4: as we speak. We're going live to different rooms. We

1549
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:07,799
Speaker 4: don't know what's gonna happen while there's a trade right. Plus,

1550
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:10,919
Speaker 4: the first round is largely populated by players.

1551
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:13,880
Speaker 3: We do we do know at least a thing or two.

1552
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:17,800
Speaker 4: You know what I love. I love the old girlfriend.

1553
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:22,040
Speaker 4: I love the old player's girlfriend who's trying to get

1554
01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 4: some of the shine in the spotlight, and the over

1555
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 4: protective mother like back on up, now, girl, get on.

1556
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:30,719
Speaker 3: Back now, this ain't about you.

1557
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 4: I mean I look forward to that every year, and

1558
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 4: we had a couple of those this year, man, and

1559
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:38,120
Speaker 4: it is just hilarious.

1560
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:42,639
Speaker 2: Cat was it Ceedee Lamb who who four years ago?

1561
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 2: The girl trying to grab an get your It's like,

1562
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 2: get my gas off my phone.

1563
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:56,840
Speaker 4: Man, it's been, it's been been a bunch of I

1564
01:33:56,880 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 4: love that, man, Like that to me is funny.

1565
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 3: Those dynamics.

1566
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:04,960
Speaker 2: Yes, that's why the whole thing is great. It's got

1567
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:08,919
Speaker 2: the unknown twist turns. You're taking us inside people's homes.

1568
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 2: We're getting to know people. Teams are moving and shaking

1569
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 2: and doing surprise things like that's what you're actually watching

1570
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 2: And I'm here for that. I just think it's really funny. Anybody,

1571
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:24,599
Speaker 2: if you're an expert or not, I don't care if

1572
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:29,000
Speaker 2: you've got a draft book. It's hysterical that you show

1573
01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:31,280
Speaker 2: up this morning and you're like, so, here's everybody dead.

1574
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:35,240
Speaker 3: We think, I'm like, what are you talking about.

1575
01:34:35,680 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 4: I think it's just based on need, right, like you

1576
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 4: don't know, you don't know what, Doug. It's based on need.

1577
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 4: Like the Raiders used to fill the draft because they

1578
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:47,600
Speaker 4: wouldn't draft on need. They draft speed. Right, They're just

1579
01:34:47,680 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 4: like sod. They just like he's fast. To get him.

1580
01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:53,360
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, but you didn't need him, you needed.

1581
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:55,839
Speaker 3: This and he's not good by the way, right.

1582
01:34:55,760 --> 01:34:59,479
Speaker 4: So that I think that's what the grades are about,

1583
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,439
Speaker 4: in terms of addressing your knee. Now, whether that knee

1584
01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:07,680
Speaker 4: can be filled or fulfilled with the player, that's a

1585
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 4: different conversation.

1586
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these people are also going

1587
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 2: I like, like I like this guy.

1588
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,360
Speaker 3: I don't like that guy. That was a read.

1589
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 2: You took him in the fourth, You could have got

1590
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 2: him in the fifth. All of that stuff, which I

1591
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:23,880
Speaker 2: think is just crazy. I think, like, go get your guy,

1592
01:35:25,280 --> 01:35:27,680
Speaker 2: Go get your guy. I don't care if you took

1593
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 2: him in the second. And somebody, man, it's like one

1594
01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:33,759
Speaker 2: big dating app.

1595
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 4: There you go, right, you don't know, you swipe r

1596
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 4: You didn't know you you know, swiped into a toxic

1597
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:42,719
Speaker 4: relationship ship.

1598
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:46,479
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god. Well our draft grades

1599
01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:49,880
Speaker 2: are coming up next. I'm kidding. Shortly after the show,

1600
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,840
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1601
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:55,480
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1602
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:58,480
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1603
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:00,800
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1604
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1605
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1606
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 2: this show posted right after we get off the air.

1607
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 2: But nowhere near done yet. That's e from s. I'm

1608
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio Live, tyrack dot com Studios,

1609
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:21,360
Speaker 2: Mark Willardy from salam All knotted up at thirty seven

1610
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:24,439
Speaker 2: right now between the Suns and the Wolves, about halfway

1611
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 2: through the second quarter.

1612
01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:30,679
Speaker 3: What's your read on the Suns this year? I think.

1613
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:38,960
Speaker 4: I think they gave away a lot of their defensive

1614
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:48,080
Speaker 4: intensity on the wings. I think when you go to

1615
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 4: a a three score mentality, a type of deep type

1616
01:36:56,280 --> 01:37:04,680
Speaker 4: of offense, our type of team, it's difficult to in

1617
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 4: a series to play the type of defense you need

1618
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:15,880
Speaker 4: to win because the onus on Booker, Durant and Bill

1619
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 4: being on offensively it's too much, and it's hard for

1620
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:25,040
Speaker 4: all three to be on because there's not enough balls

1621
01:37:25,120 --> 01:37:25,679
Speaker 4: to go around.

1622
01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 3: To be on.

1623
01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 4: I think that's why the Clippers play better and have

1624
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:36,680
Speaker 4: been playing better this playoffs without Kawhi. And because if

1625
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:38,599
Speaker 4: we watched you watch that game and watch the first

1626
01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:42,120
Speaker 4: game coming down, it was either PG or it was.

1627
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:46,320
Speaker 3: Harding.

1628
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 4: But game two, Okay, we're gonna go through Kawhi, and

1629
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:58,240
Speaker 4: it just kind of slowed things down when you look

1630
01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:02,679
Speaker 4: at Dallas and and it's either Kyrie like Lucas starts

1631
01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:05,640
Speaker 4: it out always. The reason they got back into that

1632
01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:08,599
Speaker 4: game was because Kyrie went bonkers in the second half.

1633
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 4: What if you have to appiece a third score, that's

1634
01:38:18,200 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 4: a difficult task and it throws things off a little bit.

1635
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:25,280
Speaker 4: And so I think when they got Bradley Beal, I

1636
01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 4: think it put the Suns in that situation. Plus what

1637
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:30,880
Speaker 4: they gave up, they gave up their their their their

1638
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 4: wing defenders. Uh they're three and D guys as I

1639
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:39,040
Speaker 4: like to to to call them. And so it's it's

1640
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:43,920
Speaker 4: it's just a difficult thing to overcome in a year.

1641
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 3: I get that.

1642
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 2: I also think that things happen really really fast in

1643
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:58,680
Speaker 2: the world of roster construction in the NBA, and the

1644
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 2: Suns feel like a team that built themselves based on

1645
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:07,280
Speaker 2: what was happening a decade ago in the NBA.

1646
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's not happening.

1647
01:39:10,439 --> 01:39:13,600
Speaker 4: No, no, no, you can't. That's not the recipe anymore.

1648
01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:16,679
Speaker 2: Right, You're not just hey, let's grab three really cool

1649
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 2: players and we're going to overwhelm everybody. The examples of

1650
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 2: that are are quite frankly, I think they're fake for

1651
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:28,680
Speaker 2: the most part. In other words, if people want to

1652
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 2: look at the Miami Heat and go, well, Bosh, Wade

1653
01:39:31,560 --> 01:39:35,280
Speaker 2: and Lebron, Sure, but did you notice the way they

1654
01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:36,759
Speaker 2: filled in the rest of the roster.

1655
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:42,400
Speaker 4: But even in that sense, two of those twenty five

1656
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:47,720
Speaker 4: twenty seven point a night players took a back seat

1657
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:48,759
Speaker 4: to Lebron.

1658
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:49,519
Speaker 3: Worst.

1659
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:53,280
Speaker 4: Bosh was no longer Chris Bosh was a once. Absolutely

1660
01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 4: the offense ran through Chris Bosh. Now he was a rebounder,

1661
01:39:57,400 --> 01:39:59,480
Speaker 4: it was a role player and a rim protector.

1662
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 3: Yep. Absolutely.

1663
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 2: But if you look at what's succeeding in the NBA

1664
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 2: right now, I know that you have to have a

1665
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:10,799
Speaker 2: second and a third and a fourth like good player

1666
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 2: Like I totally get Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Junior

1667
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 2: and Aaron Gordon.

1668
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 3: I understand, but that's not a big three or a

1669
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:20,800
Speaker 3: big four.

1670
01:40:21,320 --> 01:40:25,639
Speaker 2: No, it's not that we've gone back and I love

1671
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:29,120
Speaker 2: this about where the NBA is right now. We've gone

1672
01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 2: back to continuity. We've gone back to fit, We've gone

1673
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:40,519
Speaker 2: back to smarts, Like basketball has got.

1674
01:40:40,400 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 3: To be smart.

1675
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 2: And even for instance, when the Warriors were at the

1676
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:47,240
Speaker 2: height of their powers six, seven, eight years ago, what

1677
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:51,759
Speaker 2: people never understood about those teams. Sure, they were overwhelming everyone,

1678
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:54,120
Speaker 2: they had the best players, but they were one of

1679
01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 2: the top defensive teams and they were one of the

1680
01:40:56,520 --> 01:40:58,040
Speaker 2: best ball movement teams.

1681
01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 3: You look at what the Nuggets and the Celtics are doing.

1682
01:41:01,080 --> 01:41:05,719
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah there's a one, there's a two, and maybe

1683
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 2: a three, and then there's just smarts. There's smart stuff

1684
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 2: happening all over the floor. And the Phoenix Suns. I

1685
01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 2: want to be very careful here. I'm not saying this

1686
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 2: about any of the people on the roster, but they

1687
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:24,200
Speaker 2: are constructed in a very dumb way.

1688
01:41:25,400 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 4: I would agree with that. I would agree with that.

1689
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 4: Now you get your offensive firepower, but then that's it, though,

1690
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 4: that's it, And they are running into a team that

1691
01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 4: has been constructed from the inside out. All Right, you

1692
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:47,640
Speaker 4: got Minnesota with possibly the Defensive.

1693
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 3: Player of the Year.

1694
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:53,720
Speaker 4: You have another big who's a stretch four, and you

1695
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 4: have one of the most dynamic players in the league,

1696
01:41:59,080 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 4: and Anthony Edwards, and then you got uh Dyalen Daniels

1697
01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 4: who's a who's the three and D guy.

1698
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:08,719
Speaker 3: And and nas Reed never missed.

1699
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:12,120
Speaker 4: He comes off the bench and I mean he's he's

1700
01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:13,200
Speaker 4: probably gonna be the sixth.

1701
01:42:13,040 --> 01:42:13,599
Speaker 3: Minute of the year.

1702
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 4: He and you have Mike Connelly as the floor general.

1703
01:42:19,040 --> 01:42:24,519
Speaker 4: That's why you construct the team like there's depth there.

1704
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 4: And when the bench players come in, when slow Mo

1705
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:36,599
Speaker 4: comes in, Kyle Anderson, he's just doing his thing, moving

1706
01:42:36,600 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 4: at his own speed. Guys know their roles and that's

1707
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:46,360
Speaker 4: that's a comfort level. When guys know their role. WHOA,

1708
01:42:47,200 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 4: when guys know their role, that's a comfort level. So

1709
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 4: it's it's one of those situations where you know it

1710
01:42:59,280 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 4: this is a bad matchup for them, But I would

1711
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,599
Speaker 4: think anybody in the West would be a bad matchup

1712
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:12,599
Speaker 4: for him. They're not gonna overpower anybody with their size.

1713
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 4: And yeah, they got big Nurkice in there, and you

1714
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:22,759
Speaker 4: know he's trying, you know, but you're going against two bigs,

1715
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:26,200
Speaker 4: one specializing and shot blocking and the other one was

1716
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 4: gonna pull you all the way out away from the

1717
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 4: basket to nullify your ability to rebound. There's a science

1718
01:43:33,600 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 4: to this, right, when Rudy goes to the bench and

1719
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:45,599
Speaker 4: Nurkic has to come out and guard Carl Anthony, you

1720
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 4: take him out of the ability to rebound. So the

1721
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 4: Sons are constantly being out rebounded. Right, It's chess, not checkers.

1722
01:43:57,080 --> 01:44:00,120
Speaker 4: So you know, it's one thing to construct the team

1723
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:03,879
Speaker 4: with popping pizzazz and headlines, but it's another to construct

1724
01:44:03,880 --> 01:44:05,760
Speaker 4: a team.

1725
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:06,720
Speaker 3: It's tangible.

1726
01:44:08,920 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 2: Our team, i'd like to think has been constructed. Well,

1727
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:13,519
Speaker 2: it was the last one of the night, so there's

1728
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Speaker 2: no way in hell I'm doing this. This is your

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01:44:16,040 --> 01:44:16,679
Speaker 2: your runway.

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01:44:16,760 --> 01:44:18,799
Speaker 4: I mean, when when you talk about putting a team together,

1731
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 4: you got to start with with the with the guy

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01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 4: who's the glue You ever heard of coach to say

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01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:25,559
Speaker 4: he's our glue guy.

1734
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:28,000
Speaker 3: Of course, Derrin Fisher used to be a glue guy.

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01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 3: Well that's exactly the right.

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01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:31,479
Speaker 4: We have a glue guy on our team and that's

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Speaker 4: one Stephen g de Sega.

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Speaker 7: Good evening, once again, gentlemen, we have an update from

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01:44:37,120 --> 01:44:40,000
Speaker 7: the NBA playoff game the action at Phoenix has the

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01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 7: Suns leading forty two to forty one over the Timberwolves.

1741
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:45,479
Speaker 7: We got five minutes to go in the second quarter.

1742
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:48,439
Speaker 7: Three seed in the West, Minnesota is up three games

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01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:51,400
Speaker 7: to none in this first round series. The Clippers blew

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01:44:51,439 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 7: a thirty one point first half lead, but still one

1745
01:44:54,360 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 7: at Dallas today one sixteen to one eleven. That series

1746
01:44:57,960 --> 01:45:00,240
Speaker 7: tied at two games apiece. By the way, Okale Alma

1747
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 7: Citi's Mark Dagnault was named the NBA Coach of the Year.

1748
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:06,000
Speaker 7: He's thirty nine years old. He had been Okase's G

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01:45:06,200 --> 01:45:08,840
Speaker 7: league coach for five years in the past. New York

1750
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:11,400
Speaker 7: Knicks are two seed in the East. They won at

1751
01:45:11,439 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 7: Philadelphia in front of the home crowd question mark ninety

1752
01:45:14,479 --> 01:45:18,600
Speaker 7: seven to ninety two the final Jalen Brunson forty seven points,

1753
01:45:18,640 --> 01:45:23,160
Speaker 7: ten assists, one turnover. Nicks lead the series three games

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01:45:23,160 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 7: to one. Josh Hart was ozh of seven shooting from

1755
01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:31,479
Speaker 7: the floor, but still seventeen rebounds in this game.

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01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:34,160
Speaker 3: Everywhere he was everywhere.

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01:45:34,360 --> 01:45:37,280
Speaker 7: He keeps putting up numbers like this. In fact, this

1758
01:45:37,479 --> 01:45:39,960
Speaker 7: is the most rebounds by a Knicks guard in a

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Speaker 7: playoff game. The previous record held by Walt Fraser himself

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01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 7: from nineteen seventy sixteen in a playoff game, and Indiana

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01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:51,000
Speaker 7: beat Milwaukee tonight to go up three games to one,

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01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 7: one twenty six one thirteen center Miles Turner of the

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01:45:54,120 --> 01:45:57,479
Speaker 7: Pacers twenty nine points. Giannis Antenakoupo was out again with

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01:45:57,520 --> 01:45:59,800
Speaker 7: the straining caff, Damian Lillard of the Bucks out with

1765
01:45:59,840 --> 01:46:02,360
Speaker 7: a strained achilles, and Bobby Portis was kicked out of

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Speaker 7: the game. Early in the NHL playoffs, Colorado five to

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01:46:05,800 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 7: one over Winnipeg. Vancouver came back for an overtime win

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01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 7: at Nashville four to three, and currently the number one

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01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:14,439
Speaker 7: New York Rangers lead with four minutes to go at

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01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:17,360
Speaker 7: Washington three to two. The late game starts in just

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01:46:17,400 --> 01:46:20,840
Speaker 7: a couple minutes, with La hosting Edmonton. Denny Hamlin took

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01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:23,559
Speaker 7: the NASCAR Race at Dover his third win of the season.

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01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:27,240
Speaker 7: Kyle Larson finished second in baseball at Boston tonight with

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Speaker 7: a run bottom of the ninth. The Red Sox beat

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01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:32,599
Speaker 7: the Cubs five to four. Houston beat Colorado again in

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01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:36,080
Speaker 7: Mexico City, eight to two. Minnesota has won seven in

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01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:38,960
Speaker 7: a row and eleven to five victory at the Angels

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01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:41,320
Speaker 7: Oakland with a two run home or top of the

1779
01:46:41,439 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 7: ninth won at Baltimore seven to six, the loss to

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Speaker 7: closer Craig Kimbrel. In ten innings, Atlanta edge Cleveland four

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Speaker 7: to three. The Mets, on an eleventh inning home run,

1782
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 7: beat Saint Louis four to two. Washington trailed seven nothing

1783
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 7: in the second inning, but they were playing Miami, so

1784
01:46:57,560 --> 01:46:59,799
Speaker 7: they came back to win twelve to nine. The Marlins

1785
01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:03,479
Speaker 7: lost six in a row. And yes, there was golf

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01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:08,559
Speaker 7: this weekend team event in New Orleans. Live Golf tournament

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01:47:08,960 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 7: in Australia. Come to find out, the PGA Tour has

1788
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:18,000
Speaker 7: this loan official team event, Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

1789
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:20,920
Speaker 7: Every year it's eighty two man teams, so one hundred

1790
01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:26,080
Speaker 7: and sixty players competing. The Thursday Saturday is four bowl

1791
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:29,839
Speaker 7: format best Bowl and then the Friday Sunday is alternate

1792
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:32,760
Speaker 7: shot in force. So we have the winner of the

1793
01:47:32,800 --> 01:47:37,000
Speaker 7: team event in a playoff, Rory McElroy and Shane Lowry.

1794
01:47:37,040 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 7: The winners earned just under one point three million dollars each.

1795
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 7: Every Live Golf winner gets four million dollars plus any

1796
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 7: money your team earned for the weekend So, for example,

1797
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:51,160
Speaker 7: Brendan Steele in Australia, a guy who hasn't had a

1798
01:47:51,240 --> 01:47:54,400
Speaker 7: victory anywhere in seven years, won the Lift Golf event

1799
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 7: and takes home four million dollars plus good lord wins

1800
01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:01,240
Speaker 7: by one stroke over Louis Houston and live golfs in

1801
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:03,840
Speaker 7: Singapore next weekend, but then it has a month long

1802
01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:07,960
Speaker 7: break on its quote tour. The third place check at

1803
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,839
Speaker 7: the PGA event by comparison, third place in New Orleans

1804
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:15,400
Speaker 7: about three hundred forty thousand dollars, a tie for third

1805
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 7: at the live tourney got nine hundred twenty thousand dollars,

1806
01:48:19,680 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 7: and final comparison on the PGA event in New Orleans

1807
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 7: a tie for nineteenth thirty seven thousand dollars. Last place

1808
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:31,760
Speaker 7: in live golf gets fifty thousand dollars. Fifty fourth and

1809
01:48:31,920 --> 01:48:35,120
Speaker 7: dead last. Anthony Kim, a guy who, well, let's put

1810
01:48:35,120 --> 01:48:37,760
Speaker 7: it this way, the winner of the live event was

1811
01:48:37,840 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 7: eighteen under par. Anthony Kim was six overpar and got

1812
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:45,360
Speaker 7: fifty thousand dollars for three three days.

1813
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:47,720
Speaker 3: Of golf, twenty four shots off the list, and.

1814
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:50,320
Speaker 7: I'm sure a nice, nice trip to Australia and no

1815
01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:54,759
Speaker 7: doubt onto Singapore as well, back to you, good lord,

1816
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 7: where's this going?

1817
01:48:56,360 --> 01:49:00,200
Speaker 2: By the way, while we got like two minutes on it, this, yeah,

1818
01:49:00,200 --> 01:49:02,760
Speaker 2: we're not doing this for the rest of days.

1819
01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:05,680
Speaker 7: It is a fairly endless bag of money.

1820
01:49:05,360 --> 01:49:11,839
Speaker 2: Though, right right, But with like professional golf, eventual golfers

1821
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:13,920
Speaker 2: are going to be like, wait a minute, what am

1822
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:14,559
Speaker 2: I doing here?

1823
01:49:14,680 --> 01:49:15,599
Speaker 3: What am I doing?

1824
01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 2: Well, but you're watching the PGA Tour is really starting

1825
01:49:20,439 --> 01:49:23,400
Speaker 2: to now concede a lot.

1826
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 4: Yes, well, yeah, because they don't control the majors, so

1827
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 4: you can live in majors.

1828
01:49:28,040 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 3: So it's going to.

1829
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 4: Be like, well, right, let me go play one less day,

1830
01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:37,800
Speaker 4: make three times the amount sometimes and.

1831
01:49:40,080 --> 01:49:40,920
Speaker 3: Just keep it moving.

1832
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 7: It's a little like the NCAA not controlling the college

1833
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:46,920
Speaker 7: football playoffs and then the conferences can do what they

1834
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:48,920
Speaker 7: want and the playoffs make all the money. And by

1835
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:50,440
Speaker 7: the way, they're still an NCAA.

1836
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 2: That's where we're And you could laugh at these guys.

1837
01:49:54,080 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 2: Tiger and Rory are are the two faces of it.

1838
01:49:57,120 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 2: But I believe that they believe Eve that they're going

1839
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:05,920
Speaker 2: to win out in the end by being compensated in

1840
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:09,639
Speaker 2: all kinds of new ways by the PGA Tour and

1841
01:50:09,680 --> 01:50:13,800
Speaker 2: then being lauded as those those who decided to.

1842
01:50:13,720 --> 01:50:16,599
Speaker 3: Stay and and there will.

1843
01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:20,600
Speaker 2: Be some sort of penalty, if you will, for the

1844
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:23,920
Speaker 2: guys who went live when they want to come back,

1845
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:27,000
Speaker 2: if there is some sort of a merger. I don't

1846
01:50:27,040 --> 01:50:28,920
Speaker 2: know if they're right, but I think that that's what

1847
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 2: they think.

1848
01:50:30,479 --> 01:50:33,160
Speaker 7: So it's going to be like the businessman who robs

1849
01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 7: for three million dollars and is fined a million dollars.

1850
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:37,760
Speaker 4: Mm.

1851
01:50:38,479 --> 01:50:41,640
Speaker 2: Probably yeah. I mean, I mean, what, Steve, you may

1852
01:50:41,720 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 2: know this off the top of your head. What did

1853
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:44,760
Speaker 2: DJ get to go over there?

1854
01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:47,320
Speaker 7: Oh? Well, weren't they all just reports?

1855
01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:53,439
Speaker 2: Sure, but I think they're pretty correct.

1856
01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:55,759
Speaker 3: Dustin Johnson, maybe one hundred and fifty million.

1857
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:03,160
Speaker 2: It's just astounding, and so sure find me.

1858
01:51:04,479 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 7: That's in addition to actual winnings. It was thirty five

1859
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:08,479
Speaker 7: million the first half a year.

1860
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,160
Speaker 2: Correct, that was that was just to go And that's

1861
01:51:12,240 --> 01:51:14,680
Speaker 2: you saw that announcement last week the PGA Tour is

1862
01:51:14,720 --> 01:51:15,280
Speaker 2: going to start.

1863
01:51:15,479 --> 01:51:17,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, there were the nine figure stories.

1864
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:20,920
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, yeah, I mean, like, oh, no doubt.

1865
01:51:21,040 --> 01:51:23,800
Speaker 2: And then there's the the PGA Tour is going to

1866
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:28,679
Speaker 2: start giving out what amounts to appearance fees, which quite

1867
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:31,000
Speaker 2: frankly I think that's what this was really, if I

1868
01:51:31,080 --> 01:51:33,960
Speaker 2: really want to whittle it down, that's what this was

1869
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:37,400
Speaker 2: based on. Is there's no sport in the world that

1870
01:51:37,520 --> 01:51:40,360
Speaker 2: doesn't pay their people to show up when they're the

1871
01:51:40,439 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 2: draw track. And yeah right, so, uh pucat, I wonder

1872
01:51:47,240 --> 01:51:49,640
Speaker 2: where it's all going. We're not going to just do

1873
01:51:49,720 --> 01:51:50,680
Speaker 2: this forever.

1874
01:51:51,160 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 7: Except the w NBA. By the way, there's no such

1875
01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 7: thing as an appearance fee.

1876
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 1: We know who.

1877
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:58,920
Speaker 3: Ciche? Yeah what Steve?

1878
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 4: Who won the ratings last week between the NBA playoffs

1879
01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:09,920
Speaker 4: and the NFL Draft. Do you know what those numbers are?

1880
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:12,240
Speaker 7: Well, in that the draft, we only know the first

1881
01:52:12,320 --> 01:52:15,599
Speaker 7: round of the draft because the whole weekend, you know,

1882
01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:17,240
Speaker 7: they don't give ratings out up.

1883
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:20,040
Speaker 3: What was that number on Thursday?

1884
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:24,040
Speaker 7: It was not like baffo as they say in the business.

1885
01:52:24,080 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 7: It was like eleven million if you add up all

1886
01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:28,840
Speaker 7: the channels for the first round of the NFL Draft.

1887
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:31,280
Speaker 7: So's it's great compared to anything in TV.

1888
01:52:31,680 --> 01:52:38,720
Speaker 4: Okay, still got a stranglehole on the thing.

1889
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:44,280
Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, we're gonna put a little

1890
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Speaker 2: ball on this. Get you ready for plank and span

1891
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Speaker 2: your as well. Thoroughbred racing has a new independent regulator

1892
01:52:52,320 --> 01:52:57,040
Speaker 2: HISA that is implementing comprehensive reforms, and the sport is

1893
01:52:57,080 --> 01:53:00,760
Speaker 2: combining hands on care with cutting edge technology to help

1894
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Speaker 2: keep athletes safe. To learn more of his Safety runs

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Speaker 2: First dot Com That Safety runs first dot Com, Tyreq

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios with Mark Willard to Need from Salam

1897
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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, it's Mark Willer to

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Speaker 3: I mean, I meant what I said.

1900
01:53:22,280 --> 01:53:24,240
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I know

1901
01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:27,720
Speaker 2: what these quarterbacks are gonna do. I will tell you

1902
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:31,519
Speaker 2: this though, take the names out of it and you

1903
01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 2: can find some information. So there were six quarterbacks taken

1904
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:38,040
Speaker 2: in the first twelve picks. Let me say that I

1905
01:53:38,280 --> 01:53:43,080
Speaker 2: can there were six qbs that went in the first

1906
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:49,640
Speaker 2: twelve picks. I know people who obviously think Caleb Williams

1907
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:52,439
Speaker 2: or Jaden Daniels best one out there. I know people

1908
01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 2: who think it's Michael Pennix. I think that there's something

1909
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:59,479
Speaker 2: to be said for UH players who have had a

1910
01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:02,439
Speaker 2: lot of in college. I think that's on the rise.

1911
01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:04,880
Speaker 2: I think teams that are able to kind of tuck

1912
01:54:04,920 --> 01:54:09,519
Speaker 2: guys away and also be in a good offensive system.

1913
01:54:10,040 --> 01:54:13,400
Speaker 2: Something to be said for that, but of all six

1914
01:54:13,439 --> 01:54:16,120
Speaker 2: of these quarterbacks e from it. It has nothing to

1915
01:54:16,200 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 2: do with my evaluation of the player. Do you want

1916
01:54:19,320 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 2: to know who I think has the best chance to

1917
01:54:22,439 --> 01:54:29,040
Speaker 2: show something that's going to matter and have the quickest

1918
01:54:29,080 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 2: start to the NFL career. I would pick JJ McCarthy,

1919
01:54:34,480 --> 01:54:38,920
Speaker 2: And it has nothing to do with JJ McCarthy. It

1920
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 2: has everything to do with the fact that he's going

1921
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:44,920
Speaker 2: to be with O'Connell, who is a very good offensive mind.

1922
01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:46,960
Speaker 2: It has to do with the fact that if you

1923
01:54:47,120 --> 01:54:51,840
Speaker 2: do things right, you do things right with that contract.

1924
01:54:52,440 --> 01:54:58,240
Speaker 2: You're going to have Justin Jefferson on one side, and

1925
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 2: the young receivers who came up through that system, Jordan

1926
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:04,840
Speaker 2: Addison on the other side.

1927
01:55:05,640 --> 01:55:08,120
Speaker 3: Like, that's just a healthy situation.

1928
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,840
Speaker 2: And you also have Sam Darnold, who I would bet

1929
01:55:12,920 --> 01:55:15,680
Speaker 2: is going to start the year as the quarterback, and

1930
01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:21,240
Speaker 2: it allows everybody to ease in to a situation and

1931
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 2: play good football. That's the way that I look at

1932
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:26,960
Speaker 2: this stuff. I don't look at why I saw them

1933
01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:32,520
Speaker 2: play Ohio State and great ball skills and plus arm

1934
01:55:32,720 --> 01:55:37,800
Speaker 2: like whatever, Man, these kids can all play football. The

1935
01:55:37,920 --> 01:55:41,680
Speaker 2: first round draft picks for crying out loud, But what's

1936
01:55:41,720 --> 01:55:45,560
Speaker 2: going on between the ears where they got drafted, who

1937
01:55:45,600 --> 01:55:46,680
Speaker 2: puts them under their wing?

1938
01:55:46,800 --> 01:55:49,440
Speaker 3: What's their accessibility to good play?

1939
01:55:50,040 --> 01:55:52,800
Speaker 2: That's what I think is especially for quarterbacks, is gonna

1940
01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 2: is gonna bring someone to a fast start?

1941
01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 4: Well yeah, and situation is everything. If you can get

1942
01:55:59,400 --> 01:56:02,960
Speaker 4: as a young quarquarterback, get to a situation where the

1943
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 4: world isn't on your shoulders when you're just trying to

1944
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Speaker 4: figure out how to get to the complex on time,

1945
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Speaker 4: where to live, I think it's conducive to being successful,

1946
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Speaker 4: having a successful career. But when you come in and

1947
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:26,960
Speaker 4: you step in from day one, they're saying, Hey, the

1948
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Speaker 4: world's on fire, here's a garden host.

1949
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Speaker 3: That's a lot to ask. That's a lot to ask.

1950
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Speaker 3: And I think.

1951
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Speaker 4: Having a structure, having a foundation, a culture where you

1952
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Speaker 4: can bring a young player in. Look at the young

1953
01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:53,440
Speaker 4: the young quarterbacks who walked into a culture.

1954
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Speaker 3: And have had success.

1955
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Speaker 4: Right when you look at Patrick Mahomes and and that

1956
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Speaker 4: Andy Reid culture, and you look at uh, you know,

1957
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Speaker 4: the funny thing is the outlier which kinds of throw

1958
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Speaker 4: throws things off. Is how Damiko Ryan was able to

1959
01:57:16,120 --> 01:57:18,920
Speaker 4: create that culture at at a place where there was

1960
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Speaker 4: now it was, it was. That's that's when you get

1961
01:57:23,040 --> 01:57:25,480
Speaker 4: it right, when you can get the coach that can

1962
01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:29,440
Speaker 4: set that tone immediately and then you get the right

1963
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Speaker 4: guy to come in and echo that and build that.

1964
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Speaker 4: But you look at Jordan Love and going to Green Bay,

1965
01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:40,080
Speaker 4: there was a culture set there, and now you have

1966
01:57:40,240 --> 01:57:48,960
Speaker 4: a situation where you know, in Minnesota JJ McCarthy come

1967
01:57:49,040 --> 01:57:52,640
Speaker 4: from a strong culture and a strong minded coach, and

1968
01:57:52,680 --> 01:57:55,879
Speaker 4: you come into a team that has a set culture

1969
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Speaker 4: and and and and has an appetite for Yeah, he's

1970
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Speaker 4: going to benefit greatly from that.

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Speaker 3: Yep, greatly.

1972
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Speaker 2: I mean I look at Pennix and the likelihood is

1973
01:58:12,200 --> 01:58:14,680
Speaker 2: he's not going to be asked to even really play

1974
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 2: or carry the load this year. The top three guys

1975
01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:22,960
Speaker 2: are and they're all on really bad football teams and

1976
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Speaker 2: situational We'll see kind of how that plays out. I

1977
01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:30,800
Speaker 2: know you like what's around Caleb in Chicago, and I

1978
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Speaker 2: tend to agree with you. I also know that I'm

1979
01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:36,920
Speaker 2: just sort of used to that. I'm conditioned the Bear's

1980
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:40,600
Speaker 2: quarterback struggles. That's just how it works. I've been alive

1981
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Speaker 2: for forty nine years. It's never not been the case.

1982
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Speaker 3: So maybe this is it. Maybe this is it for

1983
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Speaker 3: crying out loud.

1984
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Speaker 2: Bow Nicks is interesting, but they're probably you know, look

1985
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Speaker 2: at that quarterback room. Jared Stidham is there, Zach Wilson

1986
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:57,520
Speaker 2: is there. There's a lot of chaos, yeah, going on there,

1987
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Speaker 2: and there's going to be a lot asked of him

1988
01:58:59,480 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 2: right away. JJ McCarthy's the one who has a chance

1989
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:06,920
Speaker 2: to actually both play this year, but do so without

1990
01:59:06,960 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 2: being surrounded by chaos and pressure.

1991
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

1992
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Speaker 4: And and look, this thing is gonna play on three years.

1993
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Speaker 4: We'll be having this conversation just like we talked about yep,

1994
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Speaker 4: the Trevor Trevor Lawrence draft and where those guys are now.

1995
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Speaker 4: It's going to be extremely interesting just in three short

1996
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Speaker 4: years to find out how this thing really shook out

1997
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Speaker 4: and if we were right, which I pretty.

1998
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Speaker 2: Much think we are, But I don't even know what

1999
01:59:32,640 --> 01:59:36,120
Speaker 2: we're saying. What do we right about? I know you like,

2000
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:40,080
Speaker 2: I know you like Caleb. I do like cam Yeah,

2001
01:59:40,160 --> 01:59:40,800
Speaker 2: I do like Cale.

2002
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Speaker 4: I like calab because I like what the Bears are

2003
01:59:43,600 --> 01:59:46,040
Speaker 4: trying to do around him. They didn't do that with

2004
01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:48,680
Speaker 4: Justin Fields right right, And.

2005
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Speaker 2: I mean I like all the players. I like Poe Nicks,

2006
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Speaker 2: I like Michael Pennix. Not the good football players. But boy,

2007
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Speaker 2: there's a lot more that goes into that cocktail before

2008
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Speaker 2: it tastes good.

2009
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Speaker 3: I do know that.

2010
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Speaker 2: Good to be with you tonight always, brother. We'll do

2011
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Speaker 2: it again. We'll do it again real soon.

2012
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Speaker 4: Hopefully Lake is still planning next week.

2013
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Speaker 2: Come on now, let's not be crazy. I can dream,

2014
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Speaker 2: plank and span your more crazy thoughts next