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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: Greetings, Welcome in side final hour tonight Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 2: with My big friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Well Dressed Hobo.

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Speaker 2: Day one of NFL Free Agency is in the books.

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Speaker 2: Late breaking signing tonight. Elijah Vera Tucker goes to the

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Speaker 2: New England Patriots. Okay, he'll be great for them for

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Speaker 2: five games. Awesome. They might be able to coax great

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Speaker 2: things out of him. Yeah, okay, x Jet now adequate

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Speaker 2: Yeah okay, yeah, don't let your hatred in memories of

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Speaker 2: bad things with with your team. I loved it when

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Speaker 2: they signed him. I love getting via Tucker. And he

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Speaker 2: can't stand on the field. Man can't stay on the field. Man,

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Speaker 2: Look man, look man, you can't say on the field.

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Speaker 2: I love it, but he can't sit on the field.

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Speaker 2: Mike Rabel's got the magic potion. Oh, I'm sure he does.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll turn into a Pro Bowl Garden now right.

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Speaker 2: Oh he's gonna be great. Oh boy, we just had

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Speaker 2: to get through him. It's gonna extend the arms of

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Speaker 2: the guy next to him, and everything's gonna work out great.

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Speaker 2: So a big frenetic day in free agency. One of

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Speaker 2: those days where it's weird, but I feel like everybody

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Speaker 2: went out and got someone. Like it's not some days

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Speaker 2: where you go, oh, look who sat out the first

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Speaker 2: day in X, Y and Z.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I don't read anywhere social media today.

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Speaker 2: One fan base that would really now, we didn't do this,

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Speaker 2: We didn't do that because any team that didn't do anything,

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Speaker 2: it's like, we understand because we're tanking. So yeah, we

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Speaker 2: understand not doing anything because we're tanking. So that dot's

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Speaker 2: just just get that that's what we're doing this year.

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Speaker 2: Be curious between trades, the last couple of days obviously

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Speaker 2: waiting for the new league year to start, and the

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Speaker 2: free agency. I think you're probably right.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that there's anybody I got left at

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Speaker 2: the doorstep. I like that some teams, uh are are

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out where it all went. Yeah, well

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Speaker 2: that is true. That is true. Like people in Baltimore

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Speaker 2: just to put uh, you know, the larger thirty thousand

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Speaker 2: Wonderbaum went to the Raiders. They lost seven guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thirty five hundred snaps. Yeah, it's a lot of snaps.

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Speaker 2: But you are a new head coach. You need a

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Speaker 2: lot of new things. You can't just say, hey, let's

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Speaker 2: let's run it back.

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Speaker 1: No, that's it.

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Speaker 2: You need a new code of paint. That's the right move.

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Speaker 2: Some new appliance is being installed. Or you already went

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Speaker 2: out got the best guy you could. You made the

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Speaker 2: big trade for Max Crosby. Man, you've won. You've won

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Speaker 2: free agent, You've won the off season already. You know

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Speaker 2: was a really free agency because you traded, you went

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Speaker 2: out and got the best defensive play. We don't got

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Speaker 2: an all pro who's got at least three years left

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Speaker 2: of being an all pro defensive player. And he's got

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Speaker 2: good tattoos. Yeah, he seemed to be a really great guy.

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Speaker 2: Like all of these things. Now, the quarterbacks flew off

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Speaker 2: the board pretty quick, and let's deal with a couple

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Speaker 2: of them. Play a little love it like it hated. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the Dolphins today started off the day. The very first

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Speaker 2: story of NFL free agency was they told to a

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Speaker 2: tongue of Iloa, we are releasing you today. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: we knew to what was gonna what's gonna happen? Sure

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Speaker 2: they are breaking the cap hit up over two years,

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Speaker 2: which we'll get to in a minute. Put a pin

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Speaker 2: in that. But they decide to let to a tongue

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Speaker 2: of Iloa go very quickly, he reached a one year

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Speaker 2: deal with the Atlanta Falcons. This I like it. I

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Speaker 2: don't love it. I like by Mike Chris Brussard. I

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Speaker 2: don't love him. I like him, but I don't look.

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Speaker 2: Spit a minute. So for those that don't steph the warriors, look,

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Speaker 2: the warriors, look, look, look, I get it. I get it.

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Speaker 2: Grayson Allen is a look look, look, look, look I look.

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Speaker 2: I don't look. So that's my that's my. That's not bad.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he's had to stop saying I like him.

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Speaker 2: I don't love him, but I like it. Right, So

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Speaker 2: I like the move. I don't love it because to

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Speaker 2: going to Atlanta, in theory, is what I liked about

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Speaker 2: the Vikings as a landing point for him, somewhere he

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Speaker 2: can go, be a little bit off the radar and

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Speaker 2: learn the system and potentially take over sometime in the fall.

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Speaker 2: But Tua works best when he has elite weapons around him.

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Speaker 2: He is someone who His strength as a quarterback is

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Speaker 2: make plays. There's not been one throw in his entire career.

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Speaker 2: Someone said, boy, look at the arm talent on Tua.

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Speaker 2: He made that throw happen. No, he knows where to

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Speaker 2: get the ball to his playmakers. Most of the times

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Speaker 2: it's three yards past the line of scrimmage. But when

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Speaker 2: did it work best for Tua When he had Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 2: Right when he had Jalen Wattle was a little bit

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Speaker 2: younger and didn't have to worry about being the number

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Speaker 2: one guy. A chan shows up who's incredibly fast. When

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Speaker 2: he had the white when he had the weapons, Tua

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Speaker 2: the football, got the ball out quickly. That was his strength.

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Speaker 2: I like Minnesota because their weapons are really good. Good

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Speaker 2: number two, You're pretty good tight end. The weapons there

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Speaker 2: So these three yard passes to be Jean Robinson will

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Speaker 2: out there, Drake London is good. You know, they went

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Speaker 2: out today and signed Johan Dotson. Okay, he's you know,

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Speaker 2: been underachieving Kyle Pitch. You're unsure is he really good?

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Speaker 2: Did he finally? And you know, his thirteenth year in

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Speaker 2: So I'm not as sold on the weapons in Atlanta

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Speaker 2: they think, okay, maybe can win the job. But if

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Speaker 2: doesn't work, that's what we're going back in and getting

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Speaker 2: a quarterback next year. So it's not like they extended

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Speaker 2: So they went out and said, yeah, this is a

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Speaker 2: I like to I just don't love it because I

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Speaker 2: I mean I liked Murray to Minnesota, and maybe that'll

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Speaker 2: best out of you. And we watched as Stefanski wins

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Speaker 2: the ball out on time. Used to be able to

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Speaker 2: outrun people. It's just throw it as far as you can,

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Speaker 2: not necessarily throwing a pass to any level of specificity

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Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts can be. Yeah, in theory, right, they brought

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Speaker 2: Zakias back from Chicago. We had thirty nine catches, made

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Speaker 2: go to the Christian McCaffrey route where he has to

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Speaker 2: some of this, you still need to fortify the offensive line,

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Speaker 2: but you're not paying to anything. And Michael Pennicks junior

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Speaker 2: as much as the Colts like Anthony Richardson. Yeah. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: that is why going back sign signing Kirk Cousins, drafting

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Speaker 2: Michael Pennicks. What was the worst decision. The impact on

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Speaker 2: They let to a go and they signed Malik Willis

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Speaker 2: three years, sixty seven million, dollars. I love the move

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Speaker 2: he actually had time where he took snaps and anger,

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Speaker 2: sixty seven million dollars. Like I loved him going into

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Speaker 2: to get it on him for you know, thirty million

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Speaker 2: one's getting great quarterbacks in the offseason. So I'm happy

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Speaker 2: for him he's able to do it. But for the Dolphins,

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Speaker 2: I hate this move. They should tank the Dolphins coming

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Speaker 2: into this seat, they should have eaten all of to

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Speaker 2: his money right away. They should have said, hey, the

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Speaker 2: ninety nine million dollars. Let's eat it all for this year.

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Speaker 2: Why we're not gonna be good this year? Why are

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Speaker 2: we breaking it up over two years? Let's just tank.

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Speaker 2: We're eating all this money. And you could easily defend

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Speaker 2: tanking to anybody who says anything, Well, we know this

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Speaker 2: year is gonna suck. We're decided to get to eat

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Speaker 2: for next year. Okay, what are you gonna say? Nothing

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Speaker 2: we can do. You can't go out and sign great players,

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Speaker 2: so they tank, and then you get your franchise quarterback

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Speaker 2: in Arch Manning or Dante More whoever it is. That's

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Speaker 2: how you succeed in the NFL. Everybody knows this. But

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Speaker 2: And are you gonna move on from him after one

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Speaker 2: year if you don't win enough games? But maybe helps

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Speaker 2: you win a few more games. But maybe you go

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Speaker 2: from a team that, hey, you could have won two

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Speaker 2: games and picked first, and you win five or six

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Speaker 2: games and you're picking twelve, What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: You still convinced that this is your quarterback? Like I

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Speaker 2: don't get the Dolphins. It was ready made for them

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Speaker 2: to tank, made from the tank, easier than anybody else,

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Speaker 2: and they decided, no, we're gonna go out and try

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Speaker 2: This should have never happened. Either you say you're staying

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Speaker 2: It's been hey, we're focused on this year. Tarik is here.

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Speaker 2: But we know he's going to go, and we're ready

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Speaker 2: a I love Detroit, I want to stay, we love you,

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Speaker 2: like the Paul Skins, we're renting you. But Paul Skins

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Speaker 2: And I really wonder if the Tigers are like, you

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Speaker 2: and this is where you get end up in the

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Speaker 2: conflict of For all I know, Tarik Schoogle, the guy

427
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Speaker 2: really just wants to pitch, yeah, and be left alone.

428
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Speaker 2: Problem is you sign with Boris, which means now it's

429
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Speaker 2: a much more complicated thing where you're squeezing every time

430
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Speaker 2: you win our betray which the Tigers are gonna be

431
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Speaker 2: mad about because that what do they want nineteen million

432
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Speaker 2: or thereabouts? You got thirty two? Yeah, Yeah, a little

433
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Speaker 2: difference there as you go in and you know that

434
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Speaker 2: the price of poker is somewhere at a minimum three

435
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars for a pitcher who's already done some

436
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Speaker 2: of the great high Now they're the slight favorite in

437
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Speaker 2: the in the division ahead of Kansas City as it

438
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Speaker 2: stands right now with Valdez coming on board. But do

439
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Speaker 2: you want to be in it long term? You know,

440
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Speaker 2: the like pitchers, it's inevitable right that at some point

441
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Speaker 2: the breaking point is there? Oh yeah, do you want

442
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Speaker 2: to be on the hook because it's all guaranteed money?

443
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Speaker 2: Like that's the other part the good and the bad

444
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Speaker 2: of the baseball world. It's like, if you're the Tigers

445
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Speaker 2: and you're generally pinching pennies on about a lot of things,

446
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Speaker 2: you paid Valdez to come in thinking that they the

447
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Speaker 2: two of them, could lead you to a big first

448
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Speaker 2: half to where you say, Okay, we're gonna ride this

449
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Speaker 2: out and let the chips fall where they may in

450
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Speaker 2: the postseason. But in the interim, you've got this uneasy thing.

451
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Speaker 2: We talked about it with Steve de Sager last week

452
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Speaker 2: about the insurance and all of that that people were

453
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Speaker 2: having the issues with Major League baseball of whether things

454
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Speaker 2: are gonna be covered and bad Bunny's stepping in, and

455
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Speaker 2: you got all these guys saying I'll cover it, I'll

456
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Speaker 2: do this, I'll do that, And for scoopl going all right,

457
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Speaker 2: all this money still waiting for me. Now, Skims a

458
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: different guy, right. He was part of the Academy and

459
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Speaker 2: had done two years of service in the Air Force.

460
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Speaker 2: Academy wrote a big thing for the player's tribute, so

461
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Speaker 2: he's coming at it from a much different mindset. And look,

462
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Speaker 2: as soon as he went to Pittsburgh, he knew the

463
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Speaker 2: writing was on the wall. I can only do what

464
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Speaker 2: I can do every fifth day and be the best

465
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Speaker 2: teammate and representative in Pittsburgh that I can't Eventually, I'll

466
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Speaker 2: want to go win. That time is not now here.

467
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Speaker 2: I can go do it with the US. Right. He

468
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Speaker 2: was talking about what a great crowd it was in Houston,

469
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Speaker 2: forty two thousand people for this game against Mexico just

470
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Speaker 2: next week. I forgot what it's like with a crowd

471
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Speaker 2: like this. Yeah, you and I looked at each other

472
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Speaker 2: and just started cackling.

473
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Speaker 1: Come rescue me.

474
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Speaker 2: Because his eyes were wide like saucers. Blink his eyes

475
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Speaker 2: in the sos, come get me, Come get me, Come

476
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Speaker 2: get me, come get me. Almost there, almost there. And

477
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Speaker 2: that's the whole thing about team control and whatever else

478
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Speaker 2: you want to fight about that. But for schoobl I

479
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Speaker 2: can understand where you're conflicted. And you thought I'd be

480
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Speaker 2: the mercenary. I come in, get him through the first round,

481
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Speaker 2: eat a few innings, had the experience, and go away.

482
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Speaker 2: And then you see the espresso machine, you see the

483
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Speaker 2: luchador mask, you see all of the pageantry from all

484
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Speaker 2: these other nations, and how much it meant for a

485
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Speaker 2: lot of your guys there. Right. Bryce Harper might have

486
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Speaker 2: decried a little bit the World Baseball Classic relative relative

487
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Speaker 2: to the Olympics, but he didn't denigrate what it meant, right.

488
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Speaker 2: And then I think that's getting lost in some of

489
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Speaker 2: his comments the last couple of days. And that's and

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Speaker 2: for all of these guys, the opportunity to step out

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Speaker 2: of the normal doldrums of spring training, still, get your

492
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Speaker 2: reps in, get your work in, and have it be

493
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Speaker 2: on a bigger stage with bigger cachet. Yeah. For Scoobay,

494
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Speaker 2: I think he got himself caught into a bad situation.

495
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Speaker 2: And then by waffling in his postgame comments, just put

496
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Speaker 2: him put the bull's eye on himself. What he didn't

497
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Speaker 2: need to All you had to say was it was

498
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Speaker 2: a great experience. I'm really glad I did this. I

499
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Speaker 2: look forward to baseball in twenty twenty eight in the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I gotta go back to work. Just head

501
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Speaker 2: joined Showy and the Dodgers. Yeah, just head scratching. I'll

502
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Speaker 2: be just head scratching. But speaking of head scratching, yeah,

503
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Speaker 2: we go from WBC head scratching to NFL head scratching,

504
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Speaker 2: where Day one of NFL free agency brought a lot

505
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Speaker 2: of things. We loved a lot of things. We just

506
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Speaker 2: liked some stuff we hated. Yeah, of course the move

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Speaker 2: I hated the most. Okay, and I can't I I.

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Speaker 4: Know.

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Speaker 2: I knew that he was gonna get paid. I'm happy

510
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Speaker 2: for him because, just like Malik Willis, who took advantage

511
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Speaker 2: of a really bad quarterback crop to turn a game

512
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Speaker 2: and a half into a sixty seven million dollar contract,

513
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Speaker 2: he gets to go to Miami, no state income tax,

514
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Speaker 2: all that. Yeah. Alec Pierce re signs with the Colts

515
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Speaker 2: for four years and one hundred and fourteen million dollars

516
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Speaker 2: don't be jealous. He was the best receiver on the market,

517
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Speaker 2: which tells you how bad of a market it was.

518
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Speaker 2: All right, now, I understand what kind of plow. I've

519
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Speaker 2: been waiting for him for three years in fantasy on

520
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Speaker 2: my dynastyly been waiting two leagues and been waiting for him,

521
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Speaker 2: like Alec Pierce is a deep threat. He is a

522
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Speaker 2: deep threat. That's what he does. And he makes headlines

523
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Speaker 2: once a week when he catches one pass for sixty

524
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Speaker 2: yards or fifty yards whatever it is. But they paid

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Speaker 2: him like you pay a number one receiver. Alec Pierce

526
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Speaker 2: is not that good. And the Colts just completely screwed

527
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Speaker 2: themselves today. They got rid of their best receiver in

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Speaker 2: Michael Pittman. Yes, they saved money, but the money they

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Speaker 2: just had to give to Alec Pierce because Alec Pierce

530
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Speaker 2: in a career year for him, right, it's been only

531
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Speaker 2: four years now. What he is is a deep threat.

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Speaker 2: He works well with the Colts when they had that

533
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Speaker 2: deep stable of wide receivers Pittman and Downs and him

534
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Speaker 2: and Ty Warren. But now you've got rid of Michael Pittman,

535
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Speaker 2: so you have to replace him. Josh Downs maybe is

536
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Speaker 2: not the guy you thought he was when he was

537
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Speaker 2: a rookie. But you went out and paid a deep

538
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Speaker 2: threat money you would pay to Jamar Chase like that's

539
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Speaker 2: what they did. And to look at it from this perspective,

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Speaker 2: Alec Pierce in a career year last year caught forty

541
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Speaker 2: seven passes for three yards in a row. Forty seven

542
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Speaker 2: passes for one thousand yards, six touchdowns. Right, that's out.

543
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Speaker 2: Now you can't even say, well, he had fifteen touchdowns,

544
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Speaker 2: six touchdowns, so once every three weeks he found the

545
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Speaker 2: end zone. You paid a guy twenty eight million dollars

546
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Speaker 2: a year who in a career year averaged three catches

547
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Speaker 2: for sixty three yards a week. Yeah, that's who you paid.

548
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Speaker 2: That's who you paid, Jackson Smith. The JIGBT is gonna

549
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Speaker 2: get like a five hundred million dollar contract for half

550
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Speaker 2: a season, Like you paid a guy three years or

551
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Speaker 2: three three catches for sixty three yards a week. You

552
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Speaker 2: paid him one hundred and fourteen million dollars for four years.

553
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Speaker 2: You can't do that. You can't pay a number three

554
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Speaker 2: receiver high end number one money like I mean, I mean,

555
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Speaker 2: I knew he was gonna get a decent contract. Most

556
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Speaker 2: years when Alec Pierce becomes a free agent, you would say, well,

557
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Speaker 2: if I got him for three years and thirty five million, okay,

558
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Speaker 2: you know he's a deep threat, number three receiver ended

559
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Speaker 2: a year where okay, he's the best receiver oute that

560
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Speaker 2: maybe gets a three years and fifty million or sixty

561
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Speaker 2: minis No, no, no, no, no, four years, one hundred

562
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Speaker 2: and fourteen million dollars. What are you doing? That is

563
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Speaker 2: that is the worst move by far? I can't. I

564
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 2: know he's the best in his position, but sometimes you

565
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Speaker 2: just got it back off and go all right, I'll

566
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Speaker 2: get my wide receiver via trade or in the draft.

567
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Speaker 2: I'll do it there instead. Because this is just ridiculous.

568
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Speaker 2: But that's why you like the Malik Willis signing even more.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have to go top of market down to Miami.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Again, they don't have a plan short term, but for him,

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Speaker 2: you know, they at least got him a little bit

574
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Speaker 2: cheaper than you expected. For Pierce, I'm curious to see

575
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Speaker 2: if change with Pittman gone, they envision that he can

576
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Speaker 2: become a more complete receiver than just a deep burner

577
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 2: route kind of guy. You know, I brought up the

578
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Speaker 2: comparison to when Jacksonville made the big play to bring

579
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Speaker 2: in Christian Kirk. That's pretty much all he had been

580
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: with Arizona number three, occasional deep shot. And then he

581
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Speaker 2: moves to Jacksonville and has a big year that maybe

582
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Speaker 2: Pierce in a new look to the offense with with

583
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Speaker 2: Pittman gone to Pittsburgh, that that might open things up.

584
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Speaker 2: But it's all predicated on having the signal caller to

585
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Speaker 2: do it. And when you now have to spend no

586
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 2: less assuming he agrees to terms than thirty nine million

587
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: dollars on Daniel Jones coming back out of an injury,

588
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: that it leads an awful lot on the table that

589
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 2: you still need to do with this roster and a

590
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: lot of money tied up to those positions. Right. Who

591
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Speaker 2: knows how fast hell Jones is coming back healthy? Right,

592
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 2: that was a pretty devastating injury to end the season,

593
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Speaker 2: and he played well enough towards like, all right, they'll

594
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Speaker 2: bring him back. But then they put that transition tag

595
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Speaker 2: on him. So you're you're doing that and doubling down

596
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: with a big contract to Pierce Hey bold strategy and

597
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Speaker 2: good for him for being the number one guy in

598
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Speaker 2: what's otherwise a veteran leyden Or. I haven't proven anything class,

599
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Speaker 2: but yeah, good for him. I mean, I guess you're

600
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Speaker 2: spending three hundred million somewhere. Yeah. They like the cut

601
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Speaker 2: of his jib. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm happy for him,

602
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: he got paid, but wow, come on man.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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