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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in side hour too, the Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: And uh here we are for another.

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Speaker 1: Eight pm Pacific eleven pm Eastern time tip off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for the NBA on Peacock. It's fantastic. This game's in Hawaii, right, No,

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Speaker 1: it's actually it's actually in Russia where it's actually tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: It's so far behind Miss Travia, the Nugget, the Nuggets

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Speaker 1: and the Kings coming at you on Peacock. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I really want to see what the metrics were for

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Speaker 1: viewership at you know, eleven o'clock at night, eight o'clock

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Speaker 1: on the coast, West coast.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, again, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you want to start things as late

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Speaker 1: as possible. I think you think you're okay starting something

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, so you get people on the

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Speaker 1: East coast stap and watch. Man, I mean you want

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Speaker 1: you want people to watch the game. That's number one.

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Speaker 1: The opens are great and round ball rock is great,

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Speaker 1: and Marv Albert back doing voiceovers for games. Put the

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Speaker 1: voiceover for the Sixers and the and the Celtics today.

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Speaker 3: Like that's great. But man, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't you want to say, hey, we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: as late as possible. I don't know that that's a

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Speaker 1: great business model.

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Speaker 4: Well, the stars actually gonna play in this one because

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Speaker 4: that was something that was also missing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say I was missing it. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: not missing at all. So coast to coast Tuesdays on

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Speaker 1: uh game, that's gonna this game?

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Speaker 3: Are they gonna talk a.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's over before we get off the air, but

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Speaker 1: you never know. I mean it's kind of fun for

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Speaker 1: us that, hey we start do an hour and now

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Speaker 1: we got an actual line. Absolutely, we've got goods, yeah,

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Speaker 1: with good players that are playing it.

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Speaker 4: But where we get some they roll of our vetus

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Speaker 4: back when he was on the NBA on NBC.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just just think about this. Where the push

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Speaker 1: the last few years, with the changes in television viewership

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Speaker 1: and habits, has been, hey, let's start stuff early. Right,

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Speaker 1: We're starting World Series games at five point thirty on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast, right, like Dodger games are wow, man,

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Speaker 1: but they want you want the West coast to watch,

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Speaker 1: you want people to see it. Okay, so we're sucking

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Speaker 1: it up for that, right. Okay, if you're going to

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Speaker 1: the Dodger, gave me. I'm getting off work early, going

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Speaker 1: to going to see the Dodger World Series game or

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Speaker 1: whether it's the forty nine ers in the playoff, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is on Thursday night football, Monday night football. But

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Speaker 1: I don't know a world where where they set They

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Speaker 1: sat down in the meeting and said, yeah, coast to coast,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? East coast, West Coast game?

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Speaker 3: Great?

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? We're gonna start the East

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Speaker 1: coast game at four thirty five?

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Speaker 3: Great?

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Speaker 1: What about the West Coast game eight o'clock?

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's uh, that's pretty late. Yeah, it's all right.

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Speaker 1: We've looked at some metrics that the viewership in the

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Speaker 1: East go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you.

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Speaker 1: Still want people to watch, and I know the average

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Speaker 1: person if a game starts at ten, oh, I'll watch

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Speaker 1: some of the game before I go to bed. If

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Speaker 1: it's a great game and Yokic is going nuts, you'll

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Speaker 1: watch more of it. But if I know, oh, the

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Speaker 1: game's not starting till eleven, Yeah, I'm going to bed.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a shower, I'm gonna watch the local news.

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Speaker 1: do crossword puzzle. I'm gonna go to bed, like just

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Speaker 1: the mental the how much, how daunting it is to

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Speaker 1: go from Yeah, ten o'clock, I'll watch a little bit

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Speaker 1: of it too. Oh eleven o'clock, forget it. I'm not

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Speaker 4: I really want Tom taking deeper dive into the metrics

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Speaker 4: in the demographics of who watches in the because we

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Speaker 4: want to make sure we take care of the second

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Speaker 4: shifters and third shifters too, So we want everybody to

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Speaker 4: get involved as we're watching this, because this might be

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Speaker 4: work on the overnight. I mean, I don't know. You know,

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Speaker 4: you're trying to serve all audiences, and I wonder what

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Speaker 4: percentage you're you're talking about that gets sluffed off as well,

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Speaker 4: because they may just say we've got critical mass. Oh,

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Speaker 4: and they offered us a lot of money, because you

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Speaker 4: always gotta remember that in terms of the it gets

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Speaker 4: paid for at this point. So if proof of concept

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Speaker 4: is wrong, that'll be worked out in the next television deal.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, it won't because the next company's gonna come

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Speaker 4: by and bid even more.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: Uh, okay, so there is no problem. Okay, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see how this goes. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: we'll see how long this coast to coast eleven pm

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Speaker 1: start gost We'll see how long the coast We'll see.

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Speaker 4: But we get to watch Nikola jokicch at eight o'clock

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Speaker 4: Pacific time.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't care, but I get it.

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Speaker 1: But the West coast you're gonna watch seven thirty eight o'clock,

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Speaker 1: East eight o'clock. There's no difference.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but East coast. This gets you past the bat

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Speaker 4: had comedians. You don't have to watch late night dvate.

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Speaker 1: Is Nate Bergott's on with uh with Jimmy fallon tonight?

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Speaker 3: No that I'll watch the game.

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Speaker 4: Guys that are gonna laugh at themselves and move on.

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Speaker 4: I know here you watch live Sports, should have it

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Speaker 4: twenty four to seven. So there's a random college basketball

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Speaker 4: when's it tipping off?

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Speaker 3: One?

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Speaker 4: Am?

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Speaker 1: Well, college basketball games are over in like seventy five minutes,

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Speaker 1: so it's okay, you know it most a little bit longer,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, but we'll have more on this game

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Speaker 1: throughout the show. You got jokicch tipping off here at

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's great. He's got the little van Dijke going.

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Speaker 1: But how about a hot take on the Luka Doncics

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Speaker 1: trade due to the fact that, Hey, Nico Harrison got

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Speaker 1: fired today as general manager of the Mavericks.

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Speaker 4: I got a good run.

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Speaker 3: Nobody, Well, he's.

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Speaker 1: Gonna get paid, Yeah, but getting paid and having a

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Speaker 1: good run forever? Did Barry's he doo have a good run?

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Speaker 1: Or did Barry's he don't get here? He plays a

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Speaker 1: good guitar? Did Mike Hampton have a runner? Did Mike

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Speaker 1: Hampton get paid?

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Speaker 4: Both? Like Mike Hampton was a good picture, Yeah, and then.

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Speaker 3: He was done. But he had to be good but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But you say good run meaning a run is

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Speaker 1: you start and then you finish. There's no finishing. Midway

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Speaker 1: through the running. We're done, but you still got more

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Speaker 4: It doesn't got picked up by a private car and

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Speaker 4: off he went. Harrison, he's gonna be in He's edged

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Speaker 4: an NBA history dude. The guy is never going to

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Speaker 4: get a job again. Incorrect, He is never Okay, he

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Speaker 4: is never going to get a job where he has

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Speaker 4: any control over personnel decisions. A disagree and.

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Speaker 1: When they when you're a GM, you can't just show

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Speaker 1: up and go how many how many copies do you

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Speaker 1: want for the meeting, mister Smith? Oh you better double

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Speaker 1: side at four copies?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Greg, I'll go down because you're gonna be able

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Speaker 4: to go and make the argument of why you made

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Speaker 4: the move and why it was proved.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Now, Jason.

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Speaker 4: The guy's getting a statue. He is, I'm telling you right,

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Speaker 4: which means he'll get another job so he doesn't need

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Speaker 4: all that other garbage. And I want it to just

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Speaker 4: stand outside the statue pictures with Nicos.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be like an Avengers, where like there's

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Speaker 1: a big fight and and and like the scarlet Witch

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Speaker 1: can animate the Nico statue to fight the bad guys,

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Speaker 1: like like like ant Man turns in the Giant Man

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Speaker 1: and he falls down. We talk, but like cause the

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Speaker 1: fight is in downtown LA. Like the Scarlet Witch rest

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Speaker 1: in peace. The Scarlet Witch can come back and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: did you know, Well, well she's dead now right, but

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Speaker 1: she'll go be back. That's what I'm saying. She's coming back.

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Speaker 1: She showed an anime animates the Nico Harrison statue to

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Speaker 1: go fight. That would be really cool. But how about

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Speaker 1: this take on the Nico Harrison trade. It's going down

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Speaker 1: as the worst trade that many of us have seen

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Speaker 1: in the NBA in the last twenty years, But look

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Speaker 1: at it from this perspective, Nico Harrison, this might be

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Speaker 1: instead the gutsiest trade we've seen in the NBA in

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Speaker 1: twenty years because Nico Harrison had to know this could fail.

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Speaker 1: Likely it's going to fail from the perspective of we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna trade Luca away and he's gonna fade out right. Normally,

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Speaker 1: when you make trades like this, the GM person in

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Speaker 1: charge of the deal is someone who says, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: doesn't put the work in anymore. He's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: the same stor he was with us. But go back

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Speaker 1: to why the Dallas Mavericks made this trade. The relationship

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Speaker 1: between Luca and the Mavericks wasn't great, right, go back

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Speaker 1: to the Michael Finley, I'm taking the beer away from

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Speaker 1: you after you make it to the NBA Finals. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't great. Was Luca gonna sign a big extension with

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Speaker 1: them for three hundred and fifty million dollars?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Was it gonna be worth it for the Mavericks because

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks are worried that we're gonna give him all

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Speaker 1: this money and he's just gonna stay out of shape.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to play. He's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be healthy. His body is going to break down. They

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Speaker 1: know Luca better than anybody. Do you really think after

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Speaker 1: getting them to an NBA Finals they wanted to trade

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Speaker 1: Luka Doncic. No, of course not. But so i'm i'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm willing to give the benefit of not the

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Speaker 1: Digo Harrison knew going in. This is where Luca is.

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Speaker 1: He's extremely powerful in this franchise. He's not taking care

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Speaker 1: of his body. He's missing a lot of games. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna sign him to a big extension, and who knows

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Speaker 1: how healthy he's gonna be. And it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: pit of money that we gave to this guy and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna rue this. So I'm gonna trade him away now,

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Speaker 1: knowing full well that what's gonna happen is because Luca's

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Speaker 1: twenty five, it's gonna get his attention. He's gonna go

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Speaker 1: someplace new. He's going to understand that, Wow, I've been

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Speaker 1: giving my career away. I gotta get healthy. I gotta

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Speaker 1: be someone that stays in shape. I gotta stay on

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Speaker 1: the court. I want that three hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollar extension at some point. I gotta make sure I

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Speaker 1: But you think about the trade, it's incredibly gutsy because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, first with your sliding doors thing. Have you never

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Speaker 3: You're gonna try. You're gonna trade local front.

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Speaker 3: But all of that.

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Speaker 4: For for Nico Harrison's like you did the calculus and

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Speaker 1: but I want to get get to this for a

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Speaker 1: One of the big headlines in the NBA legend Michael

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Speaker 1: Ray Richardson, former Knicks Nets All Star. Many players of

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas said, Dad, he passed away today at the

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Speaker 4: Hell of a career. I mean you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously he had difficulty. He

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Speaker 3: But he was the Knicks big.

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Speaker 1: Star when I first started watching basketball, right late seventies,

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Speaker 1: it's just a couple of times. And who did I

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Speaker 1: Like he was the best player the Knicks had. Man,

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I said it last night. And today

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Speaker 1: I can't get over that that. I'm again, I don't

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Speaker 1: I really don't, but I brought it up last night

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna call Michael Ray and distance him from

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Speaker 1: Well that was a whole thing because that was Sugar

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Speaker 3: I'm calling him Michael Ray.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm remembering him as the basketball and then

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Speaker 4: he spelled his name differently, like he wanted to go first,

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Speaker 4: he went back to the A and then you know, see,

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Speaker 4: I think secretly some of the teachers that I encountered

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Speaker 4: spell Michael the other way. Well I don't spell it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fine, whatever, But yeah, man, you're talking about a

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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Uh, your my bulls, your nicks not not very good.

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Speaker 4: But when they got together, boy, yeah, they'd fight like

434
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Speaker 4: kats and dogs.

435
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Speaker 1: No they're not, they're not. They're they're not good.

436
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,959
Speaker 4: Now, they were good, which is why everybody gravitated to Lakers'.

437
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: Hey, the Celtics are in the playoffs, let's watch. I

438
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:11,000
Speaker 1: just remember a drunken family member running way after we

439
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Speaker 1: advanced in the playoffs. We went to the old Stadium

440
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Speaker 1: and he's chanting beat Boston and suddenly had more fans

441
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Speaker 1: and friends around him than he ever did before. But

442
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:22,120
Speaker 1: your Knicks, yeah, they were.

443
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Speaker 4: They were not good.

444
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:23,639
Speaker 3: You know what did good things.

445
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Speaker 4: I mean he was one short, terrifically watts and.

446
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Speaker 1: He could do everything. He did it, He did it all.

447
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 1: It was great defensively. This is who the Knicks were

448
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 1: in the early eighties. You know how the Clippers put

449
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 1: out that season ticket package few years ago. We still

450
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Speaker 1: talk about where it was. Hey we stink, but come

451
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 1: see the best teams in sports. They did all the time.

452
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Speaker 1: The advertisement in the newspaper.

453
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Speaker 3: That's what it was. For the Knicks.

454
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Speaker 1: It was, Oh, the Knicks are playing the sixer tonight.

455
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Speaker 1: Doctor Jase, Doctor j Oh, Doctor Jay's on Channel nine.

456
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 1: I gotta watch the nixt night because they're playing. They're

457
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Speaker 1: gonna get killed, but I can see doctor j play

458
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Speaker 1: all right, great, Like that's what it was. Oh, they're

459
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 1: playing the Celtics again tonight. They're gonna get killed. But man,

460
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: you get to see McHale and Parish do their thing

461
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: like That's what it was to watch the Knicks in

462
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 1: the early as until they got you ing, That's what

463
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Speaker 1: it was.

464
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Speaker 4: The Patrick man when he came in to put it

465
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Speaker 4: in perspective, he so loved the game of basketball and

466
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 4: traveled the globe to do it. Nineteen seventy eight was

467
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 4: when he made his debut. Finished in two thousand and two. Yeah,

468
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,000
Speaker 4: it's a long time, stops across continents and many a

469
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Speaker 4: country guy saw.

470
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Speaker 1: A lot of basketball. Rest in peace, Sugar, Ray Richardson,

471
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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh,

472
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Speaker 1: now to a time where you know a head coach

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Speaker 1: continues to be in over his head today because you

474
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Speaker 1: know the Jets can have nice things, Oh you coach, No,

475
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 1: no Jets can out No Fran Brown. Come on, man,

476
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,360
Speaker 1: he's a whole kind of stu. Aaron Glenn not happy

477
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Speaker 1: that certain injury information is led out to the public

478
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Speaker 1: before the Jets have had a chance to talk about it.

479
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Speaker 1: Specifically Garrett Wilson. We know he's now out for at

480
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Speaker 1: least a month after a knee injury on Sunday, and

481
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Speaker 1: Rich Samini, longtime Jets beat reporters, been I think with

482
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Speaker 1: the Post for forty years.

483
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Buddy and j Cole back and forth all the time.

484
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Speaker 1: It was he was the guy that had the story.

485
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Speaker 1: And when he does his weekly press conference today on Tuesday,

486
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Speaker 1: and he's asked about injuries this week for certain players,

487
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Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn so upset figures that, well, don't ask me,

488
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Speaker 1: ask Rich Samini, our new insider, because apparently he's got

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Speaker 1: all the answers.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to pass on talking about the injuries since

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Speaker 5: you're Rich.

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Speaker 3: He's not here.

493
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Speaker 5: He has all the answers, so you can, guys can

494
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Speaker 5: get all the injuries from Rich.

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Speaker 3: So I go right into this gang candidate for I

496
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Speaker 3: or or is that not something you.

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Speaker 5: Want to ask Rich? Well, I'm telling you that's Rich here, boy,

498
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Speaker 5: you better call him.

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Speaker 2: No disrespect to you or like we want to hear

500
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Speaker 2: it from you, you know, like you.

501
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 5: Guys have been here, you guys have been hearing from me.

502
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 5: But now since we're just reporting stuff you know that

503
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Speaker 5: I haven't said and maybe you should ask you.

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Speaker 1: Ask Rich, just as Rich to me, he's got all

505
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Speaker 1: you got it all shouldn't get you. And Woody Johnson

506
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: fired this man just insider. You know, here's here's the thing. Okay,

507
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Speaker 1: So here's Eric.

508
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Speaker 4: That's the heat you're that mad about that.

509
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Speaker 1: He was someone who the job was too much for him.

510
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Speaker 1: And I said at the beginning of the year, when

511
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Speaker 1: you're not going for it, when you're not when you're

512
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Speaker 1: not throwing a Hail Mary and deciding to go to halftime,

513
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Speaker 1: you do it a couple of times and some of

514
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Speaker 1: your decision making. I know the job is too much

515
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Speaker 1: for you, but like some other coaches, they grow into

516
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Speaker 1: the job. And I knew I had no choice because

517
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Speaker 1: he has the backing of Woody Johnson and Darren Moogie. Right,

518
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Speaker 1: he's the They're gonna allow him to make whatever personemos

519
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Speaker 1: they wanted. They didn't make any of these trades of

520
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Speaker 1: Sauce Gardener and Quentin Williams without getting his blessing because

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Speaker 1: right or wrong, and a lot of it's wrong. He's

522
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Speaker 1: got carte blanche right now because he's the head coach

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Speaker 1: that Woody Johnson likes.

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Speaker 3: So I can.

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Speaker 1: Dislike it, but I have I gotta get used to it,

526
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Speaker 1: because apparently he's here now. The last couple of weeks,

527
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Speaker 1: I thought he's turning the corner a little bit. Some

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Speaker 1: of his game management's been a little bit better. Some

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Speaker 1: things he's done. Some of the play calling that they

530
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Speaker 1: have has been a little bit better. You know, they

531
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Speaker 1: won a couple of games in a row, and then

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Speaker 1: you get this here, which is just such elementary knucklehead

533
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Speaker 1: first year coach. I don't know. We have leaks in

534
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Speaker 1: the building and reporters know things. Dude, is this your

535
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Speaker 1: day one? Are you, Frankie? First year in the NFL?

536
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Speaker 1: This is the first time you hear and you've got

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Speaker 1: a report that a reporter has out there. I mean,

538
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Speaker 1: this shouldn't surprise you. This shouldn't be something that you

539
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Speaker 1: want to You want to go to war on and

540
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: stand on this hill on. Yeah, once in a while,

541
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get things that are gonna get said that

542
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Speaker 1: are broken that you don't want broken. This is injury

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Speaker 1: information that's out there. Sometimes it gets out there how

544
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Speaker 1: it goes. I'm sure it happened with the Lions. I'm

545
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Speaker 1: sure you've seen it when you played for the Jets.

546
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen it all your coaching stops throughout

547
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Speaker 1: your life. But now, oh, I'm gonna be mad and

548
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it combative with the media. Just ask

549
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: Rich Rich has Rich Samani's been there for forty years.

550
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: He has outlasted every Jets head coach and will outlast you.

551
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: That's Rich Samani. This is how this is how it goes.

552
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: And I see this and I go, dude, you know

553
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Speaker 1: this is how it goes.

554
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Speaker 3: In the NFL.

555
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Speaker 4: You want to be mad about it, I get it.

556
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Speaker 1: But to be petulant and to act like a like

557
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Speaker 1: a kid like Aaron Glenn, Come on, man, just when

558
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Speaker 1: you start getting a couple of weeks under your belt

559
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Speaker 1: where I think, okay, maybe it's not completely out of

560
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Speaker 1: his depth. Though, let's go back here and let's watch

561
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Speaker 1: him have a fit because Rich Semini had an injury ISSU.

562
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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes sometimes agents say things, sometimes players say things.

563
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Speaker 1: I get you want to control the message. Guess what

564
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to. This is not the

565
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: Patriots of the early two thousands, where there's one voice

566
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: and it's Bill Belichick and that's all you got.

567
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Speaker 3: That's not this case.

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Speaker 1: I know you're trying to be the guy in charge

569
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: of the entire operation. That's not gonna happen. Man, you

570
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: gotta I see this, and I'd say, you gotta just

571
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: understand what it means to be a head coach and

572
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: pick your battles. This is why you see I see

573
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Speaker 1: guys like Ben Johnson succeeding because like, okay, he's learned

574
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Speaker 1: his lessons the first two three weeks, like I've seen it,

575
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Speaker 1: that's been he's been terrific. He has learned this is

576
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Speaker 1: what I can do, this is what I can't do.

577
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Speaker 1: In the last six eight weeks has been a huge

578
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Speaker 1: adjustment for him, and this is why the Bears are good.

579
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: Like you gotta be able to understand, pick your battles.

580
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Speaker 1: Don't go crazy over stuff like this all the time.

581
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this one.

582
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Speaker 1: You want to address the team, You want to address

583
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Speaker 1: different personnel and try to talk to them about Hey,

584
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Speaker 1: anything where we can maybe gain a little bit of

585
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Speaker 1: an advantage by not letting all of our our injury

586
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Speaker 1: issues out into public, all the better. But the reality

587
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Speaker 1: is Rich Simdi was there.

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Speaker 4: You know what, he started five years before Aaron Glenn

589
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Speaker 4: he gan his fifteen year career as a player. Okay,

590
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 4: he was there to welcome you in when you are

591
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Speaker 4: fresh face rookie for the Jets all those years ago

592
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety four, already was going into his sixth

593
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 4: year with the team and covering the team at that point.

594
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 4: So Rich and maybe he's got beef with Rich going

595
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 4: all the way back to his playing days. I don't know,

596
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 4: But we talked with Jay Guizer all the time about

597
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 4: it being how big a relationship business it is. Everything

598
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 4: is right, no matter what you do for a living,

599
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 4: whatever you're doing out there making your ways on the

600
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 4: highways and byways. We appreciate you being part of the family.

601
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 4: But you recognize it right, you know, the kill him

602
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 4: with kindness, you know, a lesson that we sometimes forget.

603
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 4: But in this business, if you've got someone inside the building,

604
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Speaker 4: and let's face it, a lot of the players do

605
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Speaker 4: it themselves, going to social media or telling a jackass

606
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Speaker 4: buddy as they walk out, guess what, there's a reporter

607
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 4: standing there.

608
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: Because you know.

609
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Speaker 1: Who's learned that lesson is Mike Tomlin, right, Mike Tomlin

610
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: used to hate the fact that stuff would get leak.

611
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Speaker 1: Rotha Burger telling the postcase atte Ned Bouchette like he would.

612
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Speaker 4: Hate that good old.

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Speaker 1: But after a while he is tamped it down because

614
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Speaker 1: he gets, Okay, I'm not going to win this war.

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00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: Once in a while I have a snarky comment about

616
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Speaker 1: the median injuries, but he gets it. This is not

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Speaker 1: a battle that should that I should be fighting.

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Speaker 3: This is not.

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Speaker 1: So this is where you can know that I'm displeased

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Speaker 1: about it, but this is just how it goes in

621
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And Aaron Glenn, who was fighting so much

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Speaker 1: of a war, I'm like, dude, you gotta understand that

623
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Speaker 1: this is not If this is your first day in

624
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Speaker 1: the NFL, I get it, but it's not. And I

625
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,239
Speaker 1: just look at this and I go, oh, man, I

626
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 1: really thought we were getting somewhere. I really thought we

627
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Speaker 1: had progress, and now we don't have progress.

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Speaker 4: No, but make your statement about Rich, But then you've

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Speaker 4: got all these other working media that are asking you

630
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Speaker 4: for your quote, for your information whatever. Being a petty

631
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 4: child doesn't help your cause because guess what, the next

632
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 4: sixth game losing streak is right around the corner.

633
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Speaker 1: Exit up about a Fresco exit swelling dome. Jason Smith

634
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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports radios, Too time

635
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: how to find out what's trending in the wide world

636
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: of sports. So someone who's been called the Aaron Glenn

637
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio, if you ask me a question,

638
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't know. He's going to tell you to ask

639
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: Rich too. It's Steve the saga.

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Speaker 6: I do think that's funny and you know, a little repulsive.

641
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: At the same time.

642
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Speaker 6: Actually, the NFL jet Steve Well like I said, same thing.

643
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Speaker 6: It's a little funny and a little repulsive at the

644
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 6: same time. Jaguars rookie Travis.

645
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: Is a little bit country.

646
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 3: It's a little bit rock and roll.

647
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Speaker 6: Sure, okay, Donny Marie reference kids. Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter

648
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 6: is out for the year after knee surgery. He was

649
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Speaker 6: injured in practiced a couple of weeks ago. Three agent

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Speaker 6: defensive back as Sante Samuel Junior will sign with the

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Speaker 6: Steelers practice squad. Packers offensive lineman Elgton Jenkins was hurt

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Speaker 6: last night. He was placed on injured reserve today with

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Speaker 6: a broken leg. The ten game suspension of former Ravens

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Speaker 6: kicker Justin Tucker was lifted he ad violated the league's

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Speaker 6: personal conduct policy, and defensive back JayR Alexander, now with Philadelphia,

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Speaker 6: is stepping away from football to get right physically and mentally.

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Speaker 6: In the new college football Playoff rankings tonight, the top

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Speaker 6: five stayed the same, led by number one Ohio State.

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Speaker 6: Texas Tech is up to number six. Texas importantly is

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Speaker 6: up to number ten. It's looking like anyone in the

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Speaker 6: top ten goes to the playoff, but currently number eleven

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Speaker 6: Oklahoma would not make the College Football Playoff. Instead, the

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Speaker 6: ACC's highest ranked would that's number fifteen Miami right now

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Speaker 6: and also number four twenty four South Florida would get

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Speaker 6: in as the best of the group of five teams.

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Speaker 6: BYU fell to number twelve this evening. Utah still number thirteen,

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Speaker 6: Virginia is down to nineteen, Louisville down to twenty. Louisville

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Speaker 6: basketball at home be rival Kentucky tonight, ninety six to

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Speaker 6: eighty eight. Number six Michigan played in Detroit and won

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Speaker 6: in overtime against Wake Forest eighty five eighty four. Tenth

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Speaker 6: ranked Florida at home edge Florida State seventy eight, seventy six,

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Speaker 6: Illinois at home be Texas Tech eighty one seventy seven

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Speaker 6: in a top twenty matchup, And currently we've got a

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Speaker 6: top twenty matchup of Gonzaga hosting Creighton, each in the

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Speaker 6: top twenty five. I should say Zags lead sixty three

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Speaker 6: forty five with twelve minutes to go. Among the nine

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Speaker 6: NHL games wins for Washington and LA on the road,

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Speaker 6: Boston won at seventh straight Dallas an overtime winner, at

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Speaker 6: Ottawa three to two, and at Colorado end of two

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Speaker 6: Avalanche two to one over the Ducks. The NBA this

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Speaker 6: evening announced a new format for this season's All Star Game,

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Speaker 6: the US against the World in LA in February. Two

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Speaker 6: teams of American All Stars, one team of international players, and.

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Speaker 1: We get to play all of the both teams at

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Speaker 1: the same time, and we get ten on the floor.

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Speaker 1: They get five.

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Speaker 6: There's not even gonna be ten on a roster.

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Speaker 1: It's still going to be close because they're going to

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Speaker 1: play Wenbyn Giannis at the same time and we're going

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Speaker 1: to get cooked.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that might be happening. Actually, round robin format. So

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Speaker 6: a total of four twelve minute games that day at

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Speaker 6: the Clippers Arena, twenty four total All Stars, twelve selected

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Speaker 6: from each conference. The Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison.

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Speaker 6: He'd been the GM for Dallas since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 6: You may have heard he traded Lukadansich to the Lakers

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Speaker 6: last February. In the NBA's late game, they're winding down

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Speaker 6: the first quarter at Sacramento and it's the Kings thirty

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Speaker 6: four to thirty three over the Nuggets, although Denver did

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Speaker 6: get twelve points in the first twelve minutes from Nikola Jokic.

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Speaker 1: Utah has just.

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Speaker 6: Won its home game one fifty two to one twenty

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Speaker 6: eight over the Indiana Pacers, or what's left of him.

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Speaker 6: The Pacers are one and ten. Brooklyn no such excuse

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Speaker 6: one in ten after losing it home to Toronto. Knicks

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Speaker 6: won their fifth straight Philadelphia edge Boston and Oklahoma City

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Speaker 6: as eleven and one after beating Golden State one twenty

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Speaker 6: six to one oh two. Shake Giljis Alexander in twenty

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Speaker 6: eight minutes had twenty eight points eleven assists. The Golden

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Speaker 6: State Warriors record is six and six. American League Manager

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Speaker 6: of the Year Cleveland Stephen votes n OL Manager of

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Speaker 6: the Year. The Brewers Pat Murphy each repeat winners.

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Speaker 1: Back to You, Thank You, Steve. The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next, an

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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, big time in the news the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, and it's a it's free. He hasn't made

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Speaker 1: news in a while, hasn't made news in a while.

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Speaker 1: But you talk about being ahead of the curve on

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Speaker 1: this story, I'll tell you why. Coming up next right here,

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: So a day after really not saying anything nice about

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin decided to step to the mic

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Speaker 1: today and say, I better say some good things about him. Rogers,

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Speaker 1: who was abysmal on Sunday against the Chargers. Abysmal or

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Speaker 1: is my neighbor like to put it? Because I R

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Speaker 1: there's a big Steeler house around the corner from me,

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Speaker 1: and they have the Steeler flags out everywhere. You know,

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Speaker 1: a big Steeler fan. I was out walking rocking Benny

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Speaker 1: and Bailey after the game on Sunday night. We're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go out walk the dogs. It's like it's a

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Speaker 1: husband and wife and the dad and they all went

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Speaker 1: to the game, and they were getting back the same time.

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Speaker 1: We were walking the dogs and they're getting out of

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Speaker 1: the car and they're, you know, wearing their their Steelers

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Speaker 1: jerseys and stuff and everything. I go, hey, tough game,

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Speaker 1: and they go, oh yeah yeah. The guy goes yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the dad goes every Rodgers just blanked all of us.

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Speaker 1: I was like, sums nice. I said, well, the charges

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Speaker 1: have a pretty good defense. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, he just blanked all of us.

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Speaker 4: Man, he was not.

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Speaker 3: Happy spending all that money going to say no, look,

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Speaker 3: I looked at tickets.

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Speaker 4: I ended up having a soccer game for my daughter

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Speaker 4: in the city, so it ended up being a non starter.

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Speaker 4: But when I looked at tickets early Sunday morning, the

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Speaker 4: get in was near to two hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Because of the way Steeler fans travel, you're getting towards

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Speaker 4: the holidays. You had a holiday weekend Veterans Day. Thank

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Speaker 4: you to all of those who serve and their families

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Speaker 4: that support them. We appreciate you more than we could

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Speaker 4: possibly say. But like all of that, it was an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to come to southern California. Yeah, so it was

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Speaker 4: an expensive ticket. I did the evaluation before they moved

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Speaker 4: my daughter's soccer game to an evening game, which then

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Speaker 4: ended up not being able to be finished because of lights.

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Speaker 3: But that's a whole other thing.

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Speaker 4: And then to watch that, to spend all that money,

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Speaker 4: I really hope you got a day at Disney or

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Speaker 4: Universal or just sat on a beach or whatever you

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Speaker 4: did to really get yourself a value proposition, because otherwise, boy,

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Speaker 4: you would be salty if you were a Steel fan.

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Speaker 4: Not that you couldn't see it coming, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: that's a bigger part.

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Speaker 3: Of the conversation.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, what a dreadful, dreadful game between that the

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Speaker 4: Thursday night and the Monday night game Primetime suck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't remember we got Jets Patriots on pat so

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Speaker 1: we get four in a row, baby, but they're close.

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Speaker 1: But you know who's not gonna suck?

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Speaker 3: The Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah there's Yeah, it'd be thirty nine to three. That'll

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Speaker 1: be your final score. We'll geta we're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: score Adami in the NFL scoring. But uh, you know

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Speaker 1: you talk about being ahead of the curve. And congratulations

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Speaker 1: to everybody who has jumped on this take following the game.

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Speaker 1: This is something we said, not just in the spring,

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Speaker 1: but Friday night going into this game. Right, congratulates to

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Speaker 1: all of you. I mean again, just send us money.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna take what we say, just send us money.

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Speaker 1: But we told you in the spring, when or in

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Speaker 1: the summer, when Aaron Rodgers finally signed with the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: what kind of year was it gonna be? And I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the beginning is gonna be good. Right, Roger's

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Speaker 1: gonna get out, He's gonna look okay. But then midway

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Speaker 1: part of the year, things are gonna start coming apart

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Speaker 1: a bit. Because it's a longer season. He's forty. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna see some bad habits resurface, and he's gonna throw

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Speaker 1: the ball early, and he's gonna get rid of the

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Speaker 1: ball at the times and you're gonna see throws it

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Speaker 1: into the ground. You're gonna say, what the hell happened?

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Speaker 1: Biology is gonna catch up with Aaron Rodgers once you

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Speaker 1: get into the teeth of the season, because he knows

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Speaker 1: this is the end, and how well prepared is he

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Speaker 1: for this? When you know it's the end of you're

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Speaker 1: really going crazy with workouts and everything else. You know,

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Speaker 1: what's your last season. Midway part of the season, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna see the Aaron Rodgers Jets version show up right.

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Speaker 1: You saw it on Sunday night when he throws the

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Speaker 1: ball when he feels like it, which is, hey, you

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Speaker 1: gotta let DK Metcalf break open. No, but I can

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Speaker 1: hear footsteps, so I'm getting rid of the football on

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Speaker 1: this fade way early and the play has no chance.

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Speaker 1: That's the Aaron Rodgers was gonna come back. We even

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Speaker 1: said it again on Friday night. This is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the beginning of his decline. This game against the Charges,

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Speaker 1: against a great defense, you're gonna see the bad habits

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Speaker 1: come in. And because the season so long and he's

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Speaker 1: near the end, this is who Rodgers is. Skittish in

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Speaker 1: the pocket, I throw the ball too early, I throw

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Speaker 1: the ball into the ground. That's what Rodgers was. We

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Speaker 1: told this is gonna happen in the spring, to happen

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Speaker 1: on Friday night. Now everybody wants to jump out this week.

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Speaker 1: Go it's the beginning of the end for Aaron Rudd. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great, but remember this is what I mean when

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Speaker 1: I say we're ahead of the curve. And I only

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Speaker 1: say this because somebody really prominent who said this also

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Speaker 1: had to be someone that tried to steal a game

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Speaker 1: from us that we play.

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Speaker 3: All the time.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm falling and say, Okay, but really,

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Speaker 1: this is this is what we saw for Aaron Rodgers coming.

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Speaker 1: When you get to this part in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: you're this close to the end, you don't finish with

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Speaker 1: a flourish Tom Brady near the end was a guy

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Speaker 1: that wasn't quite the same quarterback he was. He could

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Speaker 1: have played another year, but he decided, you know what,

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Speaker 1: before I really look like I've lost some skill, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna leave. Right the playoff game against Green Bay where

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Speaker 1: he could barely throw the football thirty yards, I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is this is not the same

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. This is not the same time. This is

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Speaker 1: Aaron rodd didn't want to go out the way he

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Speaker 1: did with the Jets. But boy, I'm really rolling the

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Speaker 1: dice on this and what I've said all along. By

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Speaker 1: mid December, who's playing quarterback for the Steelers, Because this

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Speaker 1: is how it goes when the long season catches up

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Speaker 1: with a forty year old quarterback who knows he's near

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Speaker 1: the end. There's a lot too it because coming into

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Speaker 1: the season there was the expectation, based on money spent

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Speaker 1: and the big names, that the defense would rise up,

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Speaker 1: and in a couple of games this year they have. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: they don't run the ball consistently enough to really let

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Speaker 1: Rogers operate effectively with the age. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: chronicled for the last year plus of what Caleb Williams

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Speaker 1: was in the Bears offense a year ago. His shot

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Speaker 1: chart five yards behind the line of scrimmage, five yards

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Speaker 1: ahead of it. Guess what you can overlay Aaron Rodgers'

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Speaker 1: pass attempts for this year with the very rare outlier

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Speaker 1: like that missed opportunity with DK Metcalp. Otherwise it's short

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Speaker 1: and hoping that you get a bit of yack. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: they don't have the horses and the receivers to go

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 3: No, you don't have them.

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Speaker 1: Like last year when it was a little bit different

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Speaker 1: because he was coming back from the injury, they went

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Speaker 1: out got DeVante Adams of the deadlines. Now you had

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Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson and DeVonta Adams to throw tooth those things

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Speaker 1: weren't so so bad.

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Speaker 4: You don't have that nowaday guy you could trust to

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Speaker 4: go that you needed to.

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Speaker 1: Right have DK Metcalf who was But there's a reason

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Speaker 1: why the Seattle Seahawks said, yeah, we're okay with moving

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Speaker 1: on from a guy who's in is still in his

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Speaker 1: mid twenties.

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Speaker 3: We're okay with it. So I understand that.

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Speaker 4: And even with all those tight ends and everything else,

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Speaker 4: you don't have a good enough offensive line. Jalen Warren's

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Speaker 4: a solid but unspectacular back who moves the chains to

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Speaker 4: a bit, but you're not running like the Steelers of Olds.

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Speaker 4: So all of that leads to what will be a

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Speaker 4: dismal second half exit ob out a Fresco exit Swallen Dow.

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Speaker 4: That's why we say ahead of the curve, right, We're

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Speaker 4: not going to say, look at the curve, lets, we're

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Speaker 4: ahead of the curve. We are ahead of the curve.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we ask an answer the biggest issue

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Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff is going to have after the

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