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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome in episode one thirty four, What's Right

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Speaker 2: with Nick Wright? After the let's call it mixed reviews

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Speaker 2: of my sweatsuit from yesterday from uh Thursday's show, I've

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Speaker 2: decided I'm just gonna wear I'm gonna wear as many

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Speaker 2: shows in a row some type of sweatsuit or tracksuit

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Speaker 2: until I run out of it. They won't all be

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Speaker 2: exactly coordinating, monochromatic. I should say the way the first one,

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Speaker 2: the way the one on Thursday was. However, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be like this. Also, before we even get intoday Today's show,

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Speaker 2: I'd like to say something about the local radio business.

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Speaker 2: If I will, if I may, and I may. So

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Speaker 2: I'm a radio guy through and through. I've done television

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Speaker 2: now for amazingly God. I got hired by Fox April

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Speaker 2: twentieth of twenty sixteen, so almost seven years. I'm a

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Speaker 2: month away from seven years at Fox. But I did

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Speaker 2: radio in college in Syracuse. I did radio for five

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Speaker 2: years in Kansas City. I did radio for four years

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Speaker 2: in Houston. During the TV show, I did two years

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Speaker 2: of mad Dog Radio. And that's why I like doing

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Speaker 2: this podcast. This podcast has a radio feel to it,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes the local radio industry is just maddening. So

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Speaker 2: on two different coasts, in two different, drastically different sized markets,

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Speaker 2: there were two I don't even know if you'd call

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Speaker 2: them firings, but two guys were let go and both

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Speaker 2: are indefensible for different reasons. One guy I know, one

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Speaker 2: guy I don't. And I just want to spend ninety

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Speaker 2: get to the NFL free agency and everything. So in Syracuse,

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Speaker 2: New York, Brent Axe, who has been the voice of

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Speaker 2: Syracuse sports on a sports talk in a sports talk capacity,

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Speaker 2: was let go yesterday or was it Sunday. It was

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Speaker 2: announced yesterday, and they're not hiding what happened. The guy,

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Speaker 2: the owner of the station, said he was too critical

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Speaker 2: of Syracuse. Jim Beheim also happens to be an equity

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Speaker 2: owner of the station. They're doing a lot more stuff

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Speaker 2: with Bayheim now the BAM's retired. And the guy put

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Speaker 2: quotes in the newspaper saying he bleeded Syracuse Orange and

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Speaker 2: thought Brent was too critical, which would be an embarrassing

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Speaker 2: quote to give for anyone. It's particularly embarrassing when you're

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Speaker 2: talking about a region or a city, most notably a

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Speaker 2: school that is supposed to have the best journalism program

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Speaker 2: in the country, and saying you wish Brent Axe covered

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Speaker 2: Syracuse the way he covered is the Buffalo Bills. Will

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Speaker 2: the Bills my poking at them? Notwithstanding are going through

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Speaker 2: the best period they've had in thirty years, while Syracuse football, basketball,

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Speaker 2: let go by my former employer, and best I can tell,

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Speaker 2: and I haven't talked to Damon, but best I can

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Speaker 2: tell he was a victim of longevity and success. Damon

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Speaker 2: just crushed in the ratings. He worked for the game

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Speaker 2: the other station had been there a decade. And these

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Speaker 2: generate the ratings, to generate the success, they were like,

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Speaker 2: well we got a cup budget. And again I haven't

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Speaker 2: talked to Damon. It's just my guest. He probably was

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Speaker 2: they're like, well, you get rid of him and Ray

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Speaker 2: He had probably outgrown that local radio anyway.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not.

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Speaker 2: But it's just as a guy who when I got

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Speaker 2: Tough business. Tough business where one guy in a smaller

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Speaker 2: here's what's not on the show today. My Kansas City

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Speaker 2: Chiefs signed Juwan Taylor to a huge deal. Well, in

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Speaker 2: rumors they still might trade for Laramie Tunzel, which would

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Speaker 2: give them far and away one of the best offensive

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Speaker 2: the Chargers, Austin Eckler's eyeing a trade, and the Oscars

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Speaker 2: did not make the show. Does Nick watch movies? Is

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Speaker 2: on the screen? I do? I love movies. One of

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Speaker 2: I watched Rihanna's performance, and then other than that, I

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Speaker 3: All right, man. So it's about ten forty five am

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday, and we still don't know if Rogers is

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Speaker 3: going to the Jets. Yeah, this is pretty low, even

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Speaker 3: by his standards of always making everything about him. Uh huh. Well,

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Speaker 2: been consistent on is I won't drag this out. I

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Speaker 2: but the Packers and whomever else. They need to know

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Speaker 2: what I'm doing before free agency starts. Free agency started yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and we all know he's not retiring. Listen, if Aaron

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Speaker 2: a torturous and difficult decision. Yeah, oh, you were watching

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Speaker 2: because then all understanding. But I don't think there was

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Speaker 2: for playing this year. By the way, we'd get another

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Speaker 2: forty million for playing next year, but sixty million guaranteed

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Speaker 2: this year. So I believe this is just a bit

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Speaker 2: of look at me, the Packers don't want it. You

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Speaker 2: know that essentially said they don't want him. Did say,

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Speaker 2: R mug uh. The Packers said they're ready to turn

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Speaker 2: What sucks, that just.

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Speaker 3: Sucks with him that they ended up, you know, going

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Speaker 2: Well, I know, I think they are choosing that. I

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Speaker 2: exactly right. Uh when I say free agency opened, yes yesterday, guys,

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Speaker 2: We saw big deals by a lot of teams. Now,

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Speaker 2: And that's it. You know why those teams haven't done

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Speaker 2: I suppose that's his prerogative, but I don't think that's

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Speaker 3: What if he's waiting to announce his decision when he

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Speaker 3: shows up on Pat McAfee's show on Tuesday, So see

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Speaker 3: him doing something like that.

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Speaker 2: I that would be That would make what I'm saying

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Speaker 2: the Jets. Gotta know, do we have Aaron Rodgers? If

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Speaker 2: we do, do we? I don't think they would? But

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Speaker 2: do we want trade for DeAndre Hopkins? Would they have

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Speaker 2: wanted to trade for Jalen Ramsey? Jalen Rams went for

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Speaker 3: That was drew S's question, By the way, I mean.

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Speaker 2: I think some people are speculating that, even by Rogers standards,

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Speaker 3: Next, all right, so a lot of people like the

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Speaker 3: to go there. But Miami made a big splash over

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Speaker 3: and they got to an insurance policy in Mike white

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Speaker 3: Er usual. You can never count out Bill Belichi.

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Speaker 2: You can count him out out Beligium. The team says, okay,

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Speaker 3: I say, we'll see. Okay, but none of this matters

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Speaker 3: Is Jimmy g cheaper than Derek Carr. He's got to

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Speaker 2: The thing is Brad that Eric I said this on

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Speaker 3: You don't think that Russell's gonna have. Like, I know,

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Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, the draft isn't for a

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Speaker 3: Now they're definitely winning eleven games again this season.

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Speaker 2: What are we showing?

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Speaker 3: Well, flashback one of your hot takes. Oh, okay, see this,

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Speaker 3: this is so misleading and unfair. This was you see

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Speaker 2: I do a I do a thing every year where

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, everybody's saying the Bears won the trade.

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Speaker 3: But this means that they're choosing fields over the number

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Speaker 3: Will this Will this end up being a huge missed opportunity?

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Speaker 2: No, I think it's smart because if they are, they

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Speaker 2: Right, Welcome back in what dry with Nick? Right? Episode one?

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Speaker 5: Four?

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Speaker 2: Uh, demand before we get to the game or whatever

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Speaker 2: game we're playing today. I think it's right or wrong.

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Speaker 2: Talk a little wall, NBA.

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Speaker 3: All right, the MVP debate is front and center, no

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Speaker 3: pun intended. That's boring since obviously Yokic should win.

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Speaker 2: I don't think yok is gonna win.

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Speaker 3: You think it Beat's gonna win.

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Speaker 2: I think is gonna win. I you know, if you

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Speaker 2: have a boat, you're not allowed to gamble on it.

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Speaker 2: The NBA, egregiously won't give me a vote. I don't

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Speaker 2: understand why. I don't understand how am I not one

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Speaker 2: of the one hundred most qualified people, probably the way.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about the future three time MVP.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well okay maybe uh But because I don't have

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Speaker 2: right now it's a coin flip. Right now, I think

430
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Speaker 2: it's like forty five percent EMBIID forty five percent, Jokic

431
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: ten percent, Yarns and I got embid at three to one.

432
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Speaker 2: I also bet the Lakers to win the title. What

433
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Speaker 2: do you you're laughing at me? What do you think? Okay,

434
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,959
Speaker 2: you're laughing. Just wait a second. What do you think?

435
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 2: I got him at.

436
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 3: What's sixteen to thirty two to one, forty nine to one?

437
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, forty nine to one, forty nine to one

438
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Speaker 2: to one. Say, this is this is the old Adam?

439
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 3: Uh?

440
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 2: What's the Adam Sandler? This is how I win? Meme?

441
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: Seeing that Oh from have you not seen Uncut Gyms?

442
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 3: No?

443
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 2: Oh, you would love that movie now that you're a gambler. Oh,

444
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: you got to go watch it on Netflix as soon

445
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: as you get home today. Kevin Garnett's in it. It

446
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: was really good. It's stressful. That movie is stressful. But

447
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: you know how I was this close to winning that

448
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: fifty thousand on the Chiefs Niners Super Bowl exacta.

449
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 3: As you were drunk at two in the morning on

450
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 3: some random what do you mean me? No, the how'd

451
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Speaker 3: you come from?

452
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: No, that's how you lost you? No, the Chiefs Niners

453
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: Future from before the year. I picked it and I

454
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 2: wouldn't hedge out of it. Our whole season long bet. Yeah,

455
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 2: I put a thousand bucks on the Lakers at forty

456
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 2: nine to one, So that's not that's forty So I'm

457
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: just letting you know, and I won't hedge out of it.

458
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 2: But I like the Lakers chances right now. But that's

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Speaker 2: either here or there. Let's get at the All NBA stuff.

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Speaker 3: The more interesting debate may just be the All NBA debate. Yeah,

461
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 3: you released your ballot on Twitter. Do your best rationalize

462
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 3: having Lebronz, Steph and Katie on there while all while

463
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Speaker 3: missing half the season.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's go. Let's go through. Uh, let's go

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Speaker 2: through the list here of what we've got the for

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Speaker 2: the All NBA. What my tweet was? Okay, so my

467
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: tweet what was a lot can change in the final month.

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Speaker 2: As of now, my All NBA teams would be So

469
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Speaker 2: I am going to go with the traditional rules that

470
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: a center is a center. So I'm not putting Jokic

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Speaker 2: and in Bid both on my first team. I know

472
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Speaker 2: they pardon me. They changed the rules last year so

473
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 2: you could. But that's ridiculous, Jokic, you'r All NBA teams

474
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 2: should theoretically be able to take the court together, and

475
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: Jokic and Embiid would never be on the court together.

476
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 2: Neither one of them will forward, so you have to

477
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: choose between them. So I went Embiid center. Some of

478
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: these are obvious. Tatum's got to be a first team forward,

479
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: Giannis has to be a first team forward, Embiid or

480
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: Jokic have to be a first team center, and Luke

481
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: has to be a first team guard. So that then

482
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 2: leaves one guard spot available. I'm rewarding winning how clutch

483
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 2: he has been. Daron Fox gets my last first team

484
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: guard spot. As of now, they are are they still

485
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: the two seater? Did they fall technically to the three line?

486
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: Last night? They're the three seed by a game. He's

487
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 2: been outstanding. I don't think there's gonna be a lot

488
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Speaker 2: of argument there. Now we get to second team, so

489
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 2: Jokicic is the center. It's either Jokic, Embiad and Beaid.

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Speaker 2: Jokic is the center. We'll get to Lebron the forwards

491
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: in a moment. Durant, well, so here's the problem, So

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Speaker 2: well let me get there. Okay, So this is where

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Speaker 2: I say it can change, because right now, when it

494
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Speaker 2: comes to games play, So the Lakers have played sixty

495
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Speaker 2: six games, right, sixty eight games. Lebron's played forty seven, okay,

496
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 2: Steph has played forty three, Durant has played forty two.

497
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: All right, you out of six forty seven forty five

498
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: forty two out of sixty six is barely enough, but

499
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Speaker 2: enough forty seven forty five, forty two out of eighty

500
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: two is not enough. You gotta play at least a

501
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: little more, you know, more than half the season, So

502
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 2: Durant could fall off it. If Durant doesn't come back

503
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,959
Speaker 2: at all, Steph is healthy and playing, we'll see how

504
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: much longer Lebron's gonna miss? Can we throw that back

505
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: on the screen though the All NBA ballot right now?

506
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 2: Though all of those guys have played enough in my

507
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 2: opinion to qualify. So Lebron was underrated, how exceptional he

508
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 2: was despite the roster being fully broken to start the year,

509
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 2: despite the fact that Anthony Davis was out injured. Lebron

510
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 2: for the season is thirty points, eight rebound, seven assists

511
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: on better than fifty percent from the field. Now Durant

512
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 2: is similar numbers, worst passing more efficient. However, Durance missed

513
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: more time and I am flatly and I think it's

514
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 2: fair gonna ding you a bit for demanding a trade

515
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 2: from a team you built like. So there's that. Plus

516
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 2: he's played less, so that's Lebron over Durant. Jimmy Butler,

517
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: Lauri Markinin. Lari Markinin's numbers are better. I have Jimmy

518
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: Butler's second team. Lauri markin in thirteen numbers are better.

519
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: Jimmy is such a winning player and if you watched

520
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: last night, a defensive play to help win the game

521
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: he hit. He never shoots threes. He had huge three

522
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 2: last night. To me, he's just one of the fifteen

523
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: best guys in the league. And now there really and

524
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: then guys big men who missed or frontcourt guys who missed.

525
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 2: Kawhi missed. Kawhi is close. Kawhi has only played forty

526
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 2: one games and his numbers are only twenty four points

527
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: per game. But since mid January he's been unbelievable. But

528
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: because he's played so little and a lot of those

529
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 2: games who's on a minute restriction, he just misses and

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00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: Bam misses. Because I think the Kings deserve two guys,

531
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Speaker 2: and Demontes Sabonis has been awesome, so Demontes gets my

532
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 2: final center spot.

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Speaker 3: So Kawhi could take Durant's spot in a few get

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Speaker 3: more games.

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00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Kahi absolutely could take Throw that back on

536
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: the screen again, guys, Sorry, Kawhi absolutely could take Durant spot.

537
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: In fact, I would anticipate he might take Durant spot.

538
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: And then there's the guard stuff and it's the hardest.

539
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 2: So Steph has been unbelievable for a bad team. He's

540
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: carried them. I know he's missed time, but he's one

541
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: of the greatest players ever. He's having an awesome season.

542
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: He's averaging thirty a game. He's shooting forty four percent

543
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: from three. He's averaging thirty six and six. Donovan Mitchell

544
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: has been the difference for the Cavs this year. He's

545
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: giving you also around thirty a game and then Dame

546
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: his team stinks is the problem. But he is averaging

547
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 2: thirty to a night and shooting thirty eight percent from three.

548
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: And I think James Harden's been underrated in what he's

549
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: done with Philly, and Philly could win the title. Harden

550
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: this year. I think people are discounting him. His scoring

551
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: is down, but he's twenty two point six rebounds eleven

552
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: assists on four and three, and the Sixers deserve two guys.

553
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 2: But that does leave Sga off it entirely, which feels unfair,

554
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: but they also are now losing a lot. Jalen Brown

555
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 2: doesn't make it and Anthony Edwards doesn't make it. Sga

556
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 2: was the hardest one to leave off. Maybe I end

557
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: up taking Dame off for him, but I do think

558
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: Dame's better than him. But that's my all NBA as

559
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: of now. It can James, there's a month left.

560
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 3: Can you bet on all NBA?

561
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 2: Maybe I've never seen it, but maybe you can't. Oh sure,

562
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the game.

563
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 3: All right, today we're playing right or wrong? First up,

564
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: we got with Rogers assumedly going to the Jets and

565
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 3: the Dolphins signing Mike White to an Inevita in that place.

566
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 3: Yeah to At some point, where does that leave Mac

567
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: Jones right or wrong? Back? Jones is the fifth best

568
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 3: quarterback in the AFC East.

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually think right, but not because of Mike White,

570
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: because I think Zappi is better than him. I think

571
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 2: it's Josh Allen, Tua Well, Josh Allen, Rogers and Tua Zappi.

572
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 2: Mac Jones, So I think that's right. Fifth best quarterback

573
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: in the AFCs. Next, jeez, with uh.

574
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 3: With Rogers and Brady out of the NFC, the conference's

575
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 3: quarterback situation is looking pretty dicey, right or wrong? The

576
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 3: second best quarterback in the NFC is Jared Goff.

577
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah so no, no, no, no, no, he's not so if

578
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 2: we're just gonna say, Jalen Hurts is one, DA's gotta

579
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: be two. Yeah, Stafford's gotta be three. He was out

580
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 2: injured this year. Stafford's gotta be three. And then and

581
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 2: then I don't know. Golf is in the gino. Golf

582
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 2: fields are all in the discussion. I'm leaving someone out

583
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: that you want to include Daniel Daniel, your guy Dan?

584
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: All right? Next?

585
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 3: Uh? The forty nine ers signed the top defensive lineman

586
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 3: and free agency and stayed away from the quarterbacks. That

587
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 3: means that they have full belief in Lance party right

588
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 3: or Lance or party yep, right right or wrong? Trey

589
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: Lance will hold back to forty.

590
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: Nine Ers wrong. If he's healthy, They're gonna be really

591
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 2: good guys. They went to a Super Bowl and an

592
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: NFC championship game with Jimmy Garoppolo. They then went to

593
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 2: an NFC championship game with Brock Purty, the final pick

594
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Speaker 2: of the draft as a rookie.

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Speaker 3: The idea, I think Rock Party would nice though, Wait no.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think he was very good

597
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: Rock Party. I think he played well because Shanahan's offenses

598
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: quarterback proof. I think Trey Lance will be an upgrade

599
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 2: for them if Trey Lance is healthy. That's why I

600
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 2: picked them to go to the super Bowl. If Trey

601
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: Lance is healthy, I believe, well, I just I mean,

602
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 2: he's played fine in his opportunities except for the Monsoon

603
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 2: game against the Bears to Week one this year, He's

604
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: had very limited opportunities. I believe in the talent, and

605
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: I believe a mobile, mobile running quarterback in Shanahan's system

606
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: could be unbelievable.

607
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Speaker 3: Next I'm excited to see it. Yeah, all right. Reports

608
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 3: out that Tom Brady's replacement in Tampa could be your

609
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 3: old Powell Baker Mayfield. Ready to buy a bit of right,

610
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,479
Speaker 3: ready to buy a bit more Baker's dock right or wrong.

611
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 3: Baker will be the start the Bucks starter week.

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Speaker 2: One, so that's interesting one. I think he will be,

613
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 2: and they do still have good receivers, and I think

614
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 2: that's a good buy low Chris Godwin, I think it's

615
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: a good by low opportunity. I don't think they'll be

616
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 2: very good. They're you know, they're slowly trying to rebuild.

617
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: They just traded Jack Mason. But I think I think

618
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 2: Baker could be fine there if he can stay up right.

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Speaker 3: Next, all right, your crusade against the Saints cap decisions

620
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: and Derek Carr may have made you public enemy number

621
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Speaker 3: one in New Orleans. Right or wrong, Saints fans are

622
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: now the number one nick right haters.

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Speaker 2: Well, I Saints fans are being misled by Saints media.

624
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: I I and the Saints media. Guys, we all know

625
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 2: what's happening here. And I'm not going to name names,

626
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: but I had three separate prominent national media people DM

627
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: me yesterday when I was in this tet, a tet

628
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 2: with Saints media, saying to various degrees, get them. These

629
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: people are insufferable. Uh. And guys, we all know what's happening.

630
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: Mickey Loomis and or Dennis Allen feed you information so

631
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: you feel beholden to them, so you defend what is indefensible.

632
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 2: And these guys acting like oh, you just don't understand

633
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: what the Saints do with the cap. Yes, I do,

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00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: pardon me that. It's very simple what the Saints do

635
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: with the cap. Let me explain it briefly. What the

636
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 2: Saints do with the reason they can owe they're in

637
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: terrible cap shape, but now they're okay, is they convert

638
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: salary into signing bonus. Salary must hit the cap that year.

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00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: Signing bonus can be pro rated over the life of

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Speaker 2: a contract. So if a guy is scheduled to make

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Speaker 2: twenty million dollars in salary this year, he's a twenty

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Speaker 2: million dollar cap hit. Okay, But if you turn that

643
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Speaker 2: into one million in salary and a twenty million or

644
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Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars signing bonus, you can then divvy that

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Speaker 2: up over the remainder of the contract. Say he has

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00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: four years left on the deal million five million, five million,

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Speaker 2: five million, and now this year, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: he's a six million dollar cap your salary plus this

649
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Speaker 2: year's signing bonus. The problem is the bill comes due.

650
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Speaker 2: The problem is eventually every dollar you pay a player

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Speaker 2: must be accounted for in some year's cap, and the

652
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Speaker 2: same thing like, oh well, the cap goes up and

653
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Speaker 2: we add void years. So void years are too nerdy

654
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Speaker 2: to get into, but it's essentially fake years on the

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Speaker 2: end of a deal that you can tack that signing

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Speaker 2: bonus pro ration onto. But the player when those years come,

657
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Speaker 2: they're not on their they're not under contract anymore, so

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Speaker 2: then they hit your cap that year. I understand it

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Speaker 2: very very well. It is of the many things you

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Speaker 2: could try to gotcha on me? Gotcha nick on me

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Speaker 2: is understanding the finances and the mechanisms of salary caps

662
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Speaker 2: is not one of them. It's not astrophysics, guys. It's

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Speaker 2: basic accounting practices. And what the Saints have done is

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Speaker 2: continually kick the can down the road, so this year

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Speaker 2: they can feel the most competitive team possible. The problem is,

666
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Speaker 2: as they're walking down that road, they keep stumbling over

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Speaker 2: previous kicked cans, and those Once a player is no

668
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 2: longer on your roster, that pro ration hit you instantly,

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Speaker 2: so you have what's called dead money, which is salary

670
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Speaker 2: cap space allocated to players who are not on your team.

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Speaker 2: It hits you that season, so two years ago, because

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Speaker 2: they had done I understood them doing all of this.

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Speaker 2: By the way, when you have a Hall of fame

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Speaker 2: quarterback at the end of his career. You should go

675
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Speaker 2: for it. You should say I'll pay this bill later.

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Speaker 2: Let's get as many great players on the team right

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Speaker 2: now as possible. That's what they're with Breeze. But then

678
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Speaker 2: Breeze retired, and they had all these bad contracts and

679
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Speaker 2: most notably Breeze's money came on the books, so they

680
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Speaker 2: had forty million in dead money. So the salary gap,

681
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Speaker 2: call it two hundred million, you're operating with one sixty.

682
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Speaker 2: It puts you at a disadvantage. You have twenty percent

683
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Speaker 2: of your cap not available to you. What they should

684
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Speaker 2: have done is take their medicine and say, Okay, we're

685
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 2: not gonna we missed our window. Drew retired, Let's clean

686
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Speaker 2: up our books. Do what the Bears did. Bottom out

687
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 2: for a year, clean up our books and move forward. Instead,

688
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 2: they pretended they could win a Super Bowl with Jameis Winston,

689
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Speaker 2: and then they saw they couldn't. And they did it

690
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: again last year, and they saw they couldn't even win

691
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Speaker 2: or come in second, maybe they tied for second, or

692
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: remember the worst division in recent Infel history. And then

693
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: they went and signed Derek Carr to pretend they could

694
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Speaker 2: do it this year, and I understand the mechanisms. I

695
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 2: understand what they're doing. I also understand that it is

696
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 2: not a sustainable model, and the only way to justify

697
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Speaker 2: it is if you are in a true win now,

698
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Speaker 2: super Bowl window for a great quarterback at the end

699
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Speaker 2: of his career. So right now the Saints actually have

700
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Speaker 2: legit cap space. It's unbelievable, but they do. But next year,

701
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Speaker 2: for the contracts they have on the books again, the

702
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: solar CAP's at two hundred and twenty million. Next year

703
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 2: they're at three hundred and forty four million, So they're

704
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Speaker 2: more than one hundred million over next year's cap. Why

705
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 2: is that, Well, they just restructured Jamis, so Jamis has

706
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 2: those void years after this year that that hit the cap.

707
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Speaker 2: Derek Carr this year's cap hit seven million bucks, next

708
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Speaker 2: year thirty five million dollars and then forty five and

709
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Speaker 2: fifty five. So you know what they'll do next year,

710
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Speaker 2: They'll turn Derek Carr's salary into signing bonus and again

711
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Speaker 2: have it inflate long term. What about Alvin Kamara this

712
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 2: year eight million, next year eighteen million. Michael Thomas this

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Speaker 2: year fourteen million next year sixty million dollars for receiver

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Speaker 2: that doesn't even play anymore. Now will they actually pay that, No,

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Speaker 2: of course not. But then all that bonus money pro

716
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Speaker 2: ration comes due. Let's go to their Taysom Hill. This

717
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Speaker 2: year seven million for Taysom Hill, which is an abomination,

718
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Speaker 2: Next year fifteen million, the year after that fifteen million,

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Speaker 2: and then void years of five million. A third string

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Speaker 2: tight end who's two million this year, seven million next year,

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Speaker 2: and then five million dollars avoid years that are going

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Speaker 2: to hit their cap. We can go up and down

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Speaker 2: the list. Ryan Ramchick, their their right tackle. Eleven million

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Speaker 2: this year, twenty seven million the following year. Guys Cam

725
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Speaker 2: Jordan who needs a new deal. Cam Jordan's on the

726
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 2: last year of his deal. He's only fifteen million on

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Speaker 2: the cap this year, He's twenty three million on their

728
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Speaker 2: cap next year. To not play for them, that's a disaster.

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Speaker 2: And so you guys can say, I don't understand what

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Speaker 2: I'm telling Saints fans. One of my favorite cities in

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Speaker 2: the country, New Orleans. Your local media is misleading.

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Speaker 3: Someone someone said the Saints sound like degenerate Cambler's.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's just they Oh there's the This is

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Speaker 2: how I win. It is the Saints operate the salary

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Speaker 2: cap the way I would expect someone to operate their

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Speaker 2: America an Express card if the doctor just gave them

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Speaker 2: a terminal diagnosis, like you have six months to live, Like, well,

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Speaker 2: screw it. I'm never paying this bill by everything I want.

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Speaker 2: But assuming the Saints believe the NFL is going to

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Speaker 2: exist over the next decade, they are not operating smartly

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Speaker 2: or correctly. Quick break answer your questions. Talk a little

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright

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Speaker 2: Episode one thirty four. Before we get to your questions,

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Speaker 2: demant say you had a March madness thing you want?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's the Sea Block ye the week of

755
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Speaker 3: the tournament, and we still haven't talked about March madness. Man,

756
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Speaker 3: what is this? All right?

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Speaker 2: Well, so listen. I think it is my, particularly on

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Speaker 2: this show, my responsibility to talk about things that either

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00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: I am passionate about or I know a ton about.

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Speaker 2: Going into the NCAA Tournament, I'm not the guy to

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Speaker 2: get your college basketball placks from. I'm not watching a

762
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Speaker 2: ton of regular season college basketball, and I unlike and

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Speaker 2: I won't name names, but many of my colleagues across

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Speaker 2: national sports media, I'm not going to pretend that I

765
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: have real insight on who the sleepers are. So, like,

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Speaker 2: what you're going to see is this from folks that

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Speaker 2: are not watching any Now. Obviously a lot of people

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Speaker 2: do watch college basketball. Listen to them. But you know

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Speaker 2: what you're gonna hear. You're gonna hear a lot of this. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you be careful. Utah State little sleeper

771
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Speaker 2: team over Missouri in the Southern bracket for someone that

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Speaker 2: couldn't name half a player on Utah State or on Missouri. Oh, guys,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you, Let me tell you what my

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Speaker 2: final four is okay. You know, in the South, I'm

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Speaker 2: going with I'm going with Alabama despite all the controversies

776
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 2: around in their program, too much talent. I like Alabama.

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Speaker 3: In the Midwest, yeah, I think they do too.

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Speaker 2: In the Midwest, we're going Houston. So top of the bracket,

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Speaker 2: we're going Chalk. But it's gonna get a little crazy

780
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Speaker 2: out West. Kansas upset they didn't get, you know, the

781
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Speaker 2: Midwest brag where they get to play in Kansas City.

782
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Speaker 2: I think Bill Self's tendency of losing to lower seated

783
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Speaker 2: teams continues. You can upsets Kansas and the Sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 2: but making it out of that bracket. You know what

785
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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I like Gonzaga. People think they're

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Speaker 2: no good because of the soft schedule. I like the

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Speaker 2: the veterans on that team. And then out East. So

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Speaker 2: we've got two ones in a three and out eas

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Speaker 2: This is where your brackets get busted. Everybody in a year,

790
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 2: everyone rode them off. Coach cal and Kentucky rally get

791
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Speaker 2: it together at the end of the year and come

792
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Speaker 2: out of the East. So we've got Alabama, Houston. We've

793
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Speaker 2: got a minor upset out West with Gonzaga making another

794
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Speaker 2: final man Mark Few, never underestimate Mark Few, and then

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Speaker 2: out East coach cal Is a one seed he under

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Speaker 2: achieves in a year where they say is on the

797
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Speaker 2: hot seat, he makes his twelfth career Elite eight makes

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Speaker 2: another Final four. There it is, it's all fake. You

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Speaker 2: know who watches college basketball and you know who doesn't. Now,

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Speaker 2: I will be locked into the tournament because it's the tournament,

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Speaker 2: and after this weekend, I might have some opinions once

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Speaker 2: I've watched these games, all of them, and watched all

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Speaker 2: these teams, But right now I don't have a take

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Speaker 2: other than my take every year, which is, if you

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Speaker 2: want to be able to brag about your bracket, you

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Speaker 2: are only allowed to fill out one. You can't have

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Speaker 2: six different final fours, an upset bracket. Talk bracket of

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Speaker 2: this bracket, and then tell me about how good your

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Speaker 2: bracket is. Now, let's get to the listener questions.

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Speaker 3: All right, First we got Ryan Fitzgerald. He asked, how

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Speaker 3: is Rogers to the Jets not another version of Russ

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Speaker 3: to the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not going to give him a new contract

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Speaker 2: and they're not going to trade all those picks. So

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be as devastating for them. But

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Speaker 2: with the latest news, Schefter said they might be signing

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Speaker 2: Randall Cobb two, So that's what that. Evidently what's taking

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Speaker 2: so long is Rogers is making them sign as friends

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Speaker 2: before he goes and plays for him next.

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Speaker 3: Alix Fries said, is it possible teams are waiting until

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Speaker 3: after the draft to make Lamar an offer so they

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Speaker 3: can keep this year's draft pick, assuming next year's pick

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Speaker 3: will be later in the first round.

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Speaker 2: That's possible, and I think that might happen with the Colts.

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Speaker 2: So the Colts want a Bryce Young. They were talking

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Speaker 2: about trading up for the number one pick. They didn't.

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Speaker 2: Now they're sitting at four. If it goes Stroud Young

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Speaker 2: one to two, the cults of the fourth pick. If

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Speaker 2: they were to try to sign Lamar now and the

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Speaker 2: Ravens were to not match, they give up the fourth

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Speaker 2: pick and next year's pick. They wait until after the draft,

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Speaker 2: they give up next year's pick in the year after,

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Speaker 2: and you would think with Lamar it's not gonna be

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Speaker 2: the top four pick. So I do think that's absolutely

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Speaker 2: in play. I also think Detroit is a sneaky Lamar contender.

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Speaker 2: They could wait till after they have two first round

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Speaker 2: picks that there are sixteen and eighteen I think, or

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Speaker 2: six and eighteen, pardon me, wait until after the draft,

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Speaker 2: and then trade Golf for probably two get Lamar. It

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Speaker 2: could happen next.

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Speaker 3: All right? Aurora Robriguez said, what's one player you want

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs to sign or trade for?

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Speaker 2: I think Odell might go to the Chiefs, and I

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Speaker 2: think that is hard leaving Hardman's gonna be gone. Juju

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Speaker 2: might be back if they let Juju walk. I would

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Speaker 2: sign Odell, and there seems to be a little bit

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Speaker 2: smoke around them trading for Laramie Tunsell. It would be

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Speaker 2: surprising to me after they just signed Jawan Taylor to

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Speaker 2: four years eighty million. But that your tackles, I guess

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Speaker 2: would be set. All right.

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Speaker 3: Next Negative four and two said, do you think the

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Speaker 3: forty nine ers getting Sam Donald is a further hit

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Speaker 3: that they want to trade Trey Lance?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I think Sam Donald is a hint that

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Speaker 2: they're not certain Brock Purdy is going to be healthy

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Speaker 2: for Week one and they need a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Next Ryan Patierano, Nick, what are your thoughts on the reports?

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Speaker 3: That players will need to play a minimum number of

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Speaker 3: games to qualify for NBA awards.

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Speaker 2: I think that's one solution. You got to figure something out, guys.

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Speaker 2: You can't. I'm not trying to sound like old man here,

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Speaker 2: but and it's a lot of the teams doing it,

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Speaker 2: imposing it on the players rather than the players asking

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Speaker 2: how the games. But it's it's reached a tipping point.

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Speaker 2: There's too many. Either you turn on Sunday Night ABC

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Speaker 2: and Gyannis isn't playing. I know he has a wrist injury,

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Speaker 2: but Warriors bucks like it's too much of a crap shoot.

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Speaker 2: And the tickets are two weeks defensive for fans to

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Speaker 2: not know who's gonna play. That has to get tightened up.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. That's an idea

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Speaker 2: Coward's been big on that you gotta do something. We

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Speaker 2: gotta have because the other reason is this. You can't

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Speaker 2: even be like, well, the bright side is because of

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Speaker 2: load management, guys are suffering less injuries. That's not the case.

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Speaker 2: So it's not even we don't even have data that

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Speaker 2: load management is working. All right, we'll be back on

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Speaker 2: Thursday talking to you guys. Right as the before the

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Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament tips off. We will talk to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Then have a wonderful day. See on TV today, what

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Speaker 2: trick