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Speaker 2: as we get ready to start this show. As we

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Speaker 2: are starting the show right now, Mary Mack was beside

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Speaker 2: herself a little bit earlier. I don't blame her, So Marymack,

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Speaker 2: taking time off last week. I was think you were,

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Speaker 2: You're not feeling well, but you're feeling better now. In fact,

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Speaker 2: you were almost delirious as you came in here today.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about your connection with South Sudan.

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Speaker 3: Well, my parents are from Sauthsindana'm a first generation in

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Speaker 3: Sautsindan American actually, so it's very hard for to see,

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Speaker 3: you know, my country play against USA.

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Speaker 2: It is an incredible thing. This is a very young country,

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Speaker 2: just celebrating thirteen years of existence.

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Speaker 3: July nine eleven was when we claimed independence.

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Speaker 2: And they were forty three and a half point underdogs,

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Speaker 2: understandably with a couple at best marginal NBA players that

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Speaker 2: they had on their team. And here they were pitted

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Speaker 2: up against the superstar team of the United States in

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Speaker 2: an Olympic warm up game, so to speak. And it

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Speaker 2: came down to literally the end of the game. And

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Speaker 2: I'll get into what happened on those last moments. But

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Speaker 2: for Team USA to.

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Speaker 4: A s that's the word.

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Speaker 2: Well, the one point win over South Sudan, YEP is unreal.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's more about South Sudan or

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Speaker 2: it's more about, Wow, what's going on with Team USA.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to not look at it, what's

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Speaker 5: going on with Team USA. But I watched the second half,

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Speaker 5: I don't watch the first half. I looked at the

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Speaker 5: halftime scoring and I was like, well, let me sit

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Speaker 5: and watch this, see how it goes. I thought salth

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Speaker 5: Sudan did a really good job in adjusting every time

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Speaker 5: Team USA tried to adjust, because Team USA was down

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Speaker 5: by what fourteen fifteen points and then they came back.

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Speaker 5: I think they got up by like seven eight points

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Speaker 5: at one point, and then Seal Sidan still hung in there.

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Speaker 4: They never gave up. They adjusted right.

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Speaker 5: I don't know why Team USA went away from Anthony

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Speaker 5: couldn't stop him. He seemed to be the guy that

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Speaker 5: was keeping them afloat in that situation.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why they went away from him.

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Speaker 5: Curry hit a couple big threes, Lebron had a big

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Speaker 5: layup in there. But I'm going to give more of

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Speaker 5: the credit of more like good for you to South Sidan.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 2: Bill Raftery was one of the announcers on the game.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big Bill Raftery fan. He's been around forever.

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Speaker 2: I think he literally announced the first basketball game ever played.

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Speaker 2: I feel like he's been around that long. But when

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Speaker 2: the Team USA went down by a point after the

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Speaker 2: three point shot by South Sudan, it basically gave the

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Speaker 2: ball a little Lebron who used his right arm to

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Speaker 2: clear out a guy who was I don't know, a

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Speaker 2: ball in and Raftery it was like, now that's impressive, and.

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Speaker 4: It was like, I'm glad you brought that up.

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Speaker 2: I was like, how is that impressive? I mean, you're

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Speaker 2: telling me that Lebron James going against a complete nobody

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Speaker 2: As he used his right arm to clear the guy

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Speaker 2: So that left eight seconds left and obviously South Sudan

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Speaker 2: unfortunately for South Sadan, they had two players go up

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they moved on real quickly from that moment. They

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Speaker 5: didn't replay a lot. They replayed it once and they

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Speaker 5: were like, don't show that again. Because Anthony Edwards won

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Speaker 5: per hacked him going up. They did not want to

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Speaker 5: dwell on that. They just wanted USA to win.

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Speaker 2: That was embarrassing. Honestly, if it were me, I would

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Speaker 2: fire Steve Kerr right now. Wow, his mismanagement this team

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Speaker 2: is already evident. And by the way, I've said this,

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Speaker 2: I've been saying this the last couple of weeks since

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Speaker 2: this team was put together. This is the oldest team

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Speaker 2: we've ever put to the Olympics. Defensively, they are They

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Speaker 2: have Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 4: They have Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: Lebron James does not play any defense anymore. So he's

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Speaker 2: an absolute zero on the defense.

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Speaker 5: He just tried just defensively, Okay, Drew Jason Tatum, who

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Speaker 4: I believe today he didn't even have.

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Speaker 2: A very many Basically, the three Celtic players are the

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Speaker 2: ones that play any defense. I'm telling this this, this

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Speaker 2: could be a problem for Team USA coming up in

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Speaker 2: the Olympics. And I've said this. Look back in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and four, we stumbled at the Summer Olympic Games.

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Speaker 2: You know, after dominating Team you know, obviously the dream

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Speaker 2: team of ninety two, ninety six, two thousand, everything seemed

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Speaker 2: that US Olympic team, which by the way, included a

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Speaker 2: Tim Duncan, they lost three games during that Olympics. So

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Speaker 2: they got blown out by Puerto Rico by nineteen in

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Speaker 2: And I just have a feeling this could be that

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Speaker 2: not a Steve Kerr guy.

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Speaker 4: I know you don't say, yeah, you don't say.

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Speaker 2: I am not a Steve Kerk guy. I smelled trouble

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Speaker 2: here for Team USA.

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Speaker 5: So something that you just said that this team is

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Speaker 5: give you a paraphrase of what he said, but they

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Speaker 5: asked him if he thought Team USA was going to

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Speaker 5: And he says, the talent on this team is equal

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Speaker 5: to other teams in the field. Right, But then he

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Speaker 5: goes on to say that this US team is older.

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Speaker 5: The Lebron now is not the Lebron that was a

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Speaker 4: It's a big difference. You can see for yourself.

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Speaker 5: The athletic Lebron dominant that he was a couple of

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Speaker 5: years ago is not the same that he is now.

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Speaker 5: This is Joelle Embiid talking to the New York Times.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean here, here is a game. This is

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Speaker 2: forty three and a half point favorites against Sal Sadan.

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Speaker 2: This is not a game where you want to see

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Speaker 2: Lebron playing until the very end of this game. This

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be. You know that last you know,

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Speaker 2: they had a nice win against Serbia, and then you

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Speaker 2: come in against Sal Sadan. You play the starters for

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Speaker 2: a few minutes, you're blowing them out by forty and

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Speaker 2: then you walk off the court and get ready to

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Speaker 2: go to Paris. Yeah, instead, you realize that if you

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Speaker 2: lose this game, it resonates across the world. You've got

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Speaker 2: to win this game.

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Speaker 4: You do have to win this game.

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Speaker 2: Officials helped on that last nine call. But now, all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you have a older US team that

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Speaker 2: had to use up valuable minutes in a game that

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Speaker 2: should not have had to use a fatal minutes as

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Speaker 2: you are now heading to Paris for the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the final lens that I'll give you

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Speaker 5: here from Joelle Embaid is that he put I think.

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Speaker 4: People get fooled by the names on paper.

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Speaker 5: Is that what's happening doesn't make.

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Speaker 2: A good team. Am I Again, you've got offensive weapons

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Speaker 2: on this team. Goalre Obviously I agree with you. As

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Speaker 2: far as Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis is the X factory. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if you watch Laker basketball season long, he was the

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Speaker 2: was certainly healthy this year. You know, this brings up

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Speaker 2: a much bigger question than I'm going to raise a

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Speaker 2: little bit later. On in terms of the Olympic Games

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Speaker 2: and how much this actually means, and it just stays

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Speaker 2: But as an NBA player, yeah, he played a long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: if you counter by saying, wait a second, he won

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Speaker 2: three Olympic gold medals, You're like, that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: It really doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's never included.

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Speaker 6: So it's funny you bring this up with Josh Allen.

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Speaker 6: hinted the time to trade him. If you're going to

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Speaker 6: to entertain that trade talk, we'll be doing the draft

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Speaker 6: so you can get a first round pick or compensation

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Speaker 6: for this year's draft. That's out the door now. Now.

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Speaker 6: One thing I would tell you, folks, and I could

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Speaker 6: tell you for a fact, Ricky Piersoll their first round pick. No,

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Speaker 6: he's on the non FOOTBA injury list. He came in

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Speaker 6: to training camp with something. They are super high on him.

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Speaker 6: He had a very good off season. Someone's going to

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Speaker 6: have to go after the season, whether it's Brandon Ayuk

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Speaker 6: after or debocam that you can't a first round pick

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Speaker 6: must play. Something's going to have to give. And the

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Speaker 6: Niners could easily get out of Deebo's contract there for

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Speaker 6: the season. There's really there's no guarantee money not they

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Speaker 6: cut him. I could see him being traded. Something's going

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Speaker 6: to have to happen. You can't keep all these guys.

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Speaker 6: And that's the situation. To answer your question, if I

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Speaker 6: holds out and is not there by mid mid August,

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Speaker 6: I could tell you what the Raiders told me with

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Speaker 6: clil Mac. They weren't trading him. Everything fine. That John

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Speaker 6: Gruden who had personnel control. Then in twenty eighteen, he

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Speaker 6: got bad information thinking that that clail Mack would hold

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Speaker 6: out into the season. He never was going to do that,

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Speaker 6: and they traded him. They got good compensation, but you

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Speaker 6: never want to trade a Hall of Fame player. Khlil

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Speaker 6: Mac probably will be a Hall of Famer someday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, getting rid of a valuable receiver.

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Speaker 2: I know I was one of those. I went on

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Speaker 2: the record, Adam saying, when the Chief said bye bye

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Speaker 2: to Tyreek kill see you later.

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Speaker 6: Chief, You're done. I was wrong.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree you and I both They went back

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Speaker 2: to back super Bowl since his departure. All right, Adam,

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Speaker 2: we're getting ready. No more, no more weddings.

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Speaker 6: I'm no fact I I'll be announcing some of my

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Speaker 6: work stuff soon in the next week or so. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: I got it. I gotta get on the road. I

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Speaker 6: look forward to it. I love traveling the country.

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Speaker 2: This it's always enjoyable, I know, And this is the

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Speaker 2: absolute best time of the year. Everyone's optimistic because we

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Speaker 2: know every year, in fact, next week we're going to

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Speaker 2: get into those because every year we I mean, anyone

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Speaker 2: have the Houston Texans being a playoff.

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Speaker 6: Team year ago?

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Speaker 2: Nobody it's gonna happen again this year. We have to

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Speaker 2: figure out which teams are going to come up. Adam

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Speaker 2: great stuff is always We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 6: Good.

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Speaker 2: That's Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's find out what is trending right now. Look who's

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Speaker 2: in the house? Smart is here?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Guys, Hi hanging out today? I am Hard's always like

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Speaker 2: he was like, why are you here so early? I

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Speaker 2: was here really early today?

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Speaker 4: Were you like extra early, like earlier than your early?

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Speaker 2: I was here at about an hour forty five before

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Speaker 2: our show.

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Speaker 4: Oh, yes, that's extra early for you.

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Speaker 2: But I always want to hang out with Martin, even

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Speaker 2: if he doesn't want me to. Hang out. He's just

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Speaker 2: he's got a lot of things you're doing there.

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Speaker 9: I mean, you know, it's not just hanging out having fun.

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Speaker 9: You do have to pay attention as monster though. So

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Speaker 9: the various scores and games going on.

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Speaker 2: We were watching the end of that US South Sudan game. Man,

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Speaker 2: that was unreal.

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Speaker 9: How about that Monsei? All the TV's in here, he

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Speaker 9: picks the twenty seven inch right here.

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Speaker 4: You got the little idea?

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Speaker 2: Yes, turning out the sound. We had to hear the

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Speaker 2: end of it. Did you see the hatchet job on

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Speaker 2: that last I did? Wendyon Gabriel has a complaint. I

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Speaker 2: don't know who he files it with. Yeah, it's International Waters.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why he's going with it. But uh,

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Speaker 2: Team USA probably should have lost this game. They probably

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Speaker 2: should have lost this game.

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Speaker 9: Much of the Chagrina Mary Mac Team USA hangs on

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Speaker 9: the beat Saucer.

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Speaker 8: Dan one on one to one hundred.

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Speaker 9: Hey, it's lovely, we're doing it your team, team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a good thing. The conversation.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what the money line was on this game?

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Speaker 8: I believe it was one hundred one Wow?

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Speaker 2: Yes, wow? If you bet one thousand dollars wel Sedan

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Speaker 2: to win straight up, you could have won thousand dollars.

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Speaker 9: Lets'ten know if you bet one thousand dollars on Southdan straight.

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Speaker 8: Up to win this game.

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Speaker 9: You were in the field of position sick and crying

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Speaker 9: because that was a year's salary right there.

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Speaker 8: They should have paid out.

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Speaker 4: Oh, you're right, so right.

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Speaker 2: You're sick.

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Speaker 8: They almost had it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and they had a chance with eight seconds left.

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Speaker 9: A Lebron James hit the game winning layup with eight

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Speaker 9: seconds left. He finished with twenty three points. But us

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Speaker 9: how Dan, as Steve mentioned, had an opportunity at the

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Speaker 9: end of the game winning Gabriel got the rebound.

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Speaker 8: By my eye, he was fouled.

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Speaker 9: Apparently the referees disagreed. A team, you will say, hanging

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Speaker 9: on one oh one to one hundred and what which

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Speaker 9: probably should have been the biggest upset in basketball history.

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Speaker 9: Major League Baseball's back from the All Star Break. The

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Speaker 9: Braids beat the Cardinals three to two and ten innings.

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Speaker 9: That's the first game of a double header. The Rays

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Speaker 9: beat the Yankees nine to one. Raindy Rose Arena had

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Speaker 9: two homers and nef their Cortes gave up eight hits

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Speaker 9: and two walks in four and one third. All six

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Speaker 9: of the runs that he gave up were earned, but

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Speaker 9: gim Carlos Stanton could be available as soon as next week.

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Speaker 9: He's been on the injury list for the last month

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Speaker 9: with a hamstring injury. Tigers when they're second straight up

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Speaker 9: the Blue Jay seven to three, despite starter Reese Olsen

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Speaker 9: leaving in the second inning due to shoulder soreness. The

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Speaker 9: Jaguars have placed Eric Armstead on the pup list, and

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Speaker 9: Tampa Bay linebacker Sequille Barrett announced his retirement from the NFL.

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Speaker 9: Brown three of the Open Championship wrapped up this morning.

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Speaker 9: Billy Horschel the lead at four under. Big group tied

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Speaker 9: for second at three under that includes Anderschoffleet and Justin

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Speaker 9: Rose and Sam Burns and Russell Henley. Scottie Scheffler the

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Speaker 9: favorite going in He's two under, and Shane Lowry is

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Speaker 9: one under.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you all right, Martin, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much. We'll check in with you a little

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Speaker 2: bit later on once again, Steve Harbin, Montcy Belanios Here Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Saturday. We are live from the tire rack dot

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Speaker 2: Com studios. I want to bring up something that needs

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Speaker 2: a lot more time than we actually have on the

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Speaker 2: show today, but maybe a little bit during the course

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Speaker 2: of a long football season we can touch upon this.

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Speaker 2: Mike Florio, a Pro Football Talk, brought up a very

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Speaker 2: interesting story about the NFL's sudden infatuation with flag football.

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Speaker 2: As you know are the Pro Bowl now is a

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Speaker 2: flag football here now.

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Speaker 4: It's just for funzies.

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Speaker 2: And if you haven't heard, flag football is going to

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Speaker 2: have a major presence in the Olympics, the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: eight games, which are here where we are in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: We'll have flag football men and women. If you think

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Speaker 2: about it, flag football is a sport that boys and

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Speaker 2: girls can play, men, women, all ages.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm so jealous. It wasn't an option when

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Speaker 4: I was in high school.

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Speaker 2: I know my boys both played flag football. I think

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Speaker 2: my daughter would have been the best flag football player ever.

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Speaker 2: She was that kind of an athlete. But you say, okay, well,

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Speaker 2: that's fine, that's flag football.

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Speaker 8: I know that.

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Speaker 2: My dear friend Eric Dickerson, hall of Famer, he played

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Speaker 2: flag football as a kid, said he never put on

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Speaker 2: pads until he was like thirteen or fourteen years old.

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Speaker 2: He always would recommend that he was not a big

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Speaker 2: proponent of the top morner like eight nine, ten year olds,

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Speaker 2: you know, putting on the pads. But I mean, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to play eventually tackle football, it's a much

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Speaker 2: different sport obviously than flag football. The point that Floria

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Speaker 2: was making though, is it just seems like, Okay, the

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Speaker 2: NFL is really really behind this whole flag football thing,

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Speaker 2: and what does this actually mean for the future of

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Speaker 2: tackle football. And once he gets featured on the Olympic

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Speaker 2: stage and goes worldwide, the NFL will be monitoring this

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Speaker 2: oka to see how much interest is actually generated. As

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Speaker 2: you know, the NFL is facing all kinds of lawsuits

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Speaker 2: in terms of injuries, long term injuries of former NFL players.

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Speaker 2: Right now, they have a fourteen billion dollar price tag

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Speaker 2: on some of the settlements on that and that number

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Speaker 2: is only going to go up over time. So this

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Speaker 2: is a big question that we could discuss over many, many, many.

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Speaker 4: Weeks, and over I think a couple of years, because on.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years, yes, yeah, it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 4: It happened right now, but could you.

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Speaker 2: Because I was telling Patrick, our producer, our young producer here,

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Speaker 2: I said, two things are going to happen in your lifetime.

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Speaker 2: One human beings will be walking on Mars, and two

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Speaker 2: you will see the elimination of tackle football. Could you

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Speaker 2: ever see the day? And could there be enough of

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Speaker 2: a market for flag football for the NFL to survive.

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Speaker 5: I don't know the answer to will flag football have

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Speaker 5: enough of a market? I actually don't know. I'm curious

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Speaker 5: to see where we are in five years with this topic.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if people are going to be as

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Speaker 5: into it, but I do agree with you that I

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Speaker 5: think tackle football may be coming to the end in

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Speaker 5: a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: I have friends that have kids, and their kids play sports,

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Speaker 5: and the first thing they tell me is like, oh,

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Speaker 5: I hope my son doesn't want.

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Speaker 3: To play football.

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Speaker 5: I really am going to steer him away from playing

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Speaker 5: tackle football. I rather him go play soccer, baseball, basketball,

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Speaker 5: Like that is the thing I hear amongst my friends

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Speaker 5: who have young kids. They don't want them to play

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Speaker 5: tackle They it's if it's already starting. Tackle football eventually

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Speaker 5: will be a thing of the past.

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Speaker 2: I can say this. I worked in the NFL, as

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Speaker 2: you know, the Raiders during the eighties, and I was

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Speaker 2: a playing age. Obviously, I've worked there from ages twenty

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Speaker 2: six to thirty, and the number of players from those

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Speaker 2: teams that have since passed is quite alarming. Contemporaries of

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Speaker 2: mine and the athletes of today, bigger, stronger, faster, The

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Speaker 2: collisions are more violent, and again you watch it on TV,

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Speaker 2: it's hard to explain the perspective when you're actually on

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Speaker 2: a field, even on the sidelines, the veracity of the sport.

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Speaker 2: It's my numbing. I've said this many times. Anyone that

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Speaker 2: has the guts to actually walk on a football field, right,

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Speaker 2: that's what we're talking about. So I have a healthy

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Speaker 2: respect for anybody. Oh yeah, the walks between those lines.

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Speaker 2: And it's even punters and kickers. I mean, anybody can

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Speaker 2: be hit and hit hard and their career can end

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Speaker 2: on a single play. But that being said, it's so

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Speaker 2: big the NFL, and could you accept a sport without

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Speaker 2: the violence.

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Speaker 5: I feel like people are already turned off by the

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Speaker 5: way football is now in comparison to what it was

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Speaker 5: just ten years ago.

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Speaker 4: I hear about it, you know.

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Speaker 5: Because it's a softer It is a much softer and

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Speaker 5: I'm not even just talking about protecting the quarterback just

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Speaker 5: in general. Now they're they're changing the way football was

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Speaker 5: played for so long and people are being turned off

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Speaker 5: by it. I already see it, I hear it now.

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Speaker 5: The younger generation doesn't know any better. So it's like,

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Speaker 5: will the younger the younger generation keep the NFL afloat

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Speaker 5: if it's not like the way it was twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: One other aspect to this, and a big part of

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Speaker 2: the growth of the NFL to where it stands today,

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Speaker 2: is the gambling aspect.

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Speaker 4: Right, you can gamble on anything, doesn't have to be tackle.

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Speaker 2: Well, I understand that, and people say, well, other sports

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Speaker 2: are gamble not like.

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Speaker 5: Football it is, but you know, gambling literally you can

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Speaker 5: gamble on anything nowadays.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so user friendly.

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Speaker 2: Well, like I said, it's not going to happen anytime soon.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but it seems like we're trending that way.

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Speaker 2: But this push for flag football and the NFL's support

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Speaker 2: of flag football is something to keep an eye on. Yes,

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, we're going to get to some heavy

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Speaker 2: hit going on, all right, coming up on the other side.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, it's that time again.

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Speaker 4: It is that time again.

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Speaker 2: Who's your daddy gonna be firing questions of me? I

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Speaker 2: don't know how this started. Listens to you, Mark, This

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Speaker 2: is all me. You're the genius behind this. It has

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Speaker 2: become the rage of all sports talk radio. Who's your daddy?

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Speaker 2: Coming up here on Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 1: dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 1: listen live.

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Speaker 4: It is Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 5: I am Monty Belano's here with Steve Harmon and we

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Speaker 5: are coming to you live from the tyreg dot com studios.

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Speaker 4: And it's time for our favorite segment of the week.

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Speaker 4: All right, So it's time to test your knowledge, Steve,

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Speaker 4: as we do every week.

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Speaker 8: Last week.

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Speaker 2: Last week, of course, if I remember Anthony Bennett, ah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: which I could not for a life of me remember

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Speaker 2: his name.

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Speaker 4: Just remembered all the other details.

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Speaker 2: He went to UNLV in the first pick in the draft,

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Speaker 2: and his name completely just evaporated from my head.

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Speaker 6: That's out that.

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Speaker 2: I think I ran the table.

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Speaker 4: You did, You did, h So we're gonna see what

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Speaker 4: we can do this time around. We've all got questions

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Speaker 4: for you all. Start things off here, all right, what

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Speaker 4: college basketball teams have had the most first round draft picks.

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Speaker 4: What school time all time?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would say how many? How many schools are

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Speaker 2: we talking about?

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Speaker 4: All of them? Who do you think?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Ucla would obviously be one. North Carolina.

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Speaker 4: North Carolina's in the top three.

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Speaker 5: Clas not in the top top three, So fours round

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Speaker 5: draft picks?

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Speaker 2: Okay, North Carolina, Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky's the top y. Good talk, he's the top.

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Speaker 2: There's not Ucla in the top three. So who would

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Speaker 2: be the other team in the top three? I mean

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Speaker 2: you would think something like, I'm going to go with Kansas.

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Speaker 4: No, not in the two.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to see. I didn't want to say Duke.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's pretty good. Okay, all right? Ben Roethlisberger in

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Speaker 4: his career, through five hundred and fifty four touchdown passes,

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Speaker 4: seventy eight of them went to Antonio Brown for the most.

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Speaker 5: The next two players do you know they are? And

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Speaker 5: I'm bringing the next two because they have the next

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Speaker 5: most by a lot, forty seven and forty five touchdowns

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Speaker 5: and then everybody else catches like one or two for him.

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Speaker 5: So who are the other two players that he threw

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Speaker 5: the most touchdown passes to?

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Speaker 4: In his home.

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Speaker 2: Well, I would think heinz Ward it would be one

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Speaker 2: of them.

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Speaker 5: Correct, that is second he threw in forty seven touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: And then forty five touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: Wow, give you his position, but I think you would goe.

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Speaker 2: You think it's a running back? Is it a tight end?

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Speaker 2: It's a tight end. Why am I missing their tight ends?

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Speaker 2: I am completely going blank. I'm going to give on this.

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Speaker 4: Heath Miller.

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Speaker 2: Heath Miller, let's go.

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 2: You got me on that last time?

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Speaker 4: All right, Patrick, our producer, what you got for him?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 10: Hey, everybody, I got one for you, and says we

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Speaker 10: were kind of talking about some Olympic stuff today, Steve,

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Speaker 10: or at least pre Olympic. We're gonna stick with the Olympics. Here,

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Speaker 10: I got one for you. Who has scored the most

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Speaker 10: points in Olympic basketball history? Most points? Oscar Schmidt?

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Speaker 2: D I thought it was. I was so confident too.

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Speaker 2: We didn't even hesitate, did not Oscar Schmid? The Brazilian?

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Speaker 10: How many of how many points?

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Speaker 6: Was?

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Speaker 8: I do know?

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Speaker 2: Oscar Schmidt scored the most?

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Speaker 4: So okay, of course he knows that. All right, Martin

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Speaker 4: coming in.

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Speaker 9: There's been one player to wear the number ninety nine

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Speaker 9: in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Who is he the I would say George Michah No,

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Speaker 2: George Michael wore ninety nine was seventy seven? I believe

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Speaker 2: was he seventy seven?

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Speaker 8: Ninety nine?

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Speaker 2: Ninety nine? Okay, you're right, he might be right. I

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Speaker 2: don't know, George. I don't know why he said George

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Speaker 2: Michael ninety nine, ninety nine. There's a ninety nine ninety nine. Wow,

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Speaker 2: that's a good one, ninety nine. I think he is

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Speaker 2: a player that you know, Steve, he's a player. I know. Oh,

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Speaker 2: you know a lot of players that doesn't really saying.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if you know personally, you guys, you know.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you guys really want to stump

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Speaker 2: me on a regular basis, like almost every time ask

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Speaker 2: me uniform numbers, it's really I am a numbers fanatic,

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Speaker 2: as everyone knows, but for whatever reason, uniform numbers are

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Speaker 2: definitely my achilles heels.

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Speaker 9: So you want to I'll give you another hint his

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Speaker 9: Twitter account. I know you're super on the on the

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Speaker 9: online tweets. Yes, exact boss Man ninety nine bot nine.

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Speaker 2: I serious. If it's a current player, I have no

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Speaker 2: clue you got me play Jay Crowder Jay. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know what it is about uniform I mean you

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Speaker 2: could ask me famous uniform numbers and I would be

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Speaker 2: still like like people say, well, what's what what number

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Speaker 2: did Tom Brady wear? Do you want to think about it?

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Speaker 4: You're like A maybe you want.

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Speaker 8: Another one, Steve, A little redemption for you, Pops.

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Speaker 9: Who's the first player in the n b A to

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Speaker 9: average tenor more assists per game.

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Speaker 2: For a season, ten or more assists for an entire season?

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Speaker 2: Good one, That's a good one. I'm gonna say, Guy Rodgers,

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Speaker 2: that's okay, son, You'll do better next time. Oscar Robertson,

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Speaker 2: the big O, the big O, get that with his

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Speaker 2: triple double season. Thought, I know, Guy Rodgers did it

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Speaker 2: a couple of times, led the NBA and assist with

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Speaker 2: double digits, but Oscar Robertson did it before him.

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Speaker 4: I feel I thought it was like a trick question.

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Speaker 2: So I got a.

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Speaker 8: Look at it.

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Speaker 5: You know, I just feel obligated here to say that

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Speaker 5: George Miken is wearing ninety nine in these.

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Speaker 2: Pictures, So I get I did got George Mike in

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Speaker 2: ninety nine?

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Speaker 9: Well, you know what the ultimate basketball trivia book must

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Speaker 9: be inag Was that before the formation?

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Speaker 2: Was before the NBA started. George Micah was the first.

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Speaker 8: No, No, I'm not trying to you got it. You

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Speaker 8: got it.

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Speaker 2: You know you got it.

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Speaker 8: You got it. I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I think that might be okay, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I get dead at him and right, Mikeen did wear

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Speaker 2: ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: He did.

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Speaker 8: Let's take that up with the person.

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Speaker 2: Who wrote a semi may semi makes sam Amico you're

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Speaker 2: on watch pal. Yeah, oh there. Believe me. I have

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Speaker 2: seen a lot of record books over the years that

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Speaker 2: are very wrong. But that's what it feels. It sounds

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Speaker 2: like I'm holding one in the way. Look up a

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Speaker 2: book called Great, The Great Book of the Great Book

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Speaker 2: of Los Angeles Sports List, co written by yours truly.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and the voice of the Chargers, Matt money Smith.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good book. Took a lot of work

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Speaker 2: to put that book together. So yeah, that's out there,

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Speaker 2: and you can still get it for like fifty cents,

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Speaker 2: you know, on Amazon Books or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Will you sign it for me?

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Speaker 2: I will. I'm on the cover.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever seen I'm gonna get it right now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Great, book of the Los Angeles Sports List. You'll see

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Speaker 2: me on the cover there. All right, Well, good stuff, guys.

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Speaker 2: I got Oscar Schmidt, I had George Miken. A couple

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Speaker 2: of things though, But uniform numbers, yeah, I don't really

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Speaker 2: pay attention to all that. Coming up on the other stow,

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Speaker 2: I know not a lot of people listening out there

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Speaker 2: care about golf. I'm sort of into it, especially during

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Speaker 2: the Major Golf Championship. The weather conditions today at Royal

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Speaker 2: Troon were something to behold. What's interesting The last time

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Speaker 2: the Open Championship was at Troon, Henrik Stenson won with

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Speaker 2: a score of minus twenty. That was his final score

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Speaker 2: minus twenty. Right now Billy Horschall going into the final round,

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Speaker 2: has the lead at minus four.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You talk about how weather conditions, especially on those courses,

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Speaker 2: can change the whole dynamic of a course. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm watching Shane Lowry. Yeah, and he unraveled on that

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Speaker 2: back nine, five bogies on the back nine. As he crawled,

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Speaker 2: he blew a he had a three shot laid now

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Speaker 2: three shots back. But it's amazing on those courses because

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Speaker 2: they play through.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was my next question.

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Speaker 2: They do play through, right, They just play through unless

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Speaker 2: there's such a downpour that it affects the greens. But

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Speaker 2: that drizzle, the wind, it can change the whole dynamic. So,

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Speaker 2: like I said, the last time that they played, which

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Speaker 2: was eight years ago, it was Henrik Stenson holding out

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Speaker 2: Phil Mickelson twenty under par. Same course. Now the leader

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Speaker 2: going to the final round is at four eider Park.

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Speaker 5: I would be such a terrible like like team Golfer,

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Speaker 5: because if I start at a time when the weather sucks,

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Speaker 5: but you started three hours before.

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Speaker 4: Me and you had an easy day, I would be

870
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 4: so mad.

871
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 2: And that's and that's really what happened today. The weather

872
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 2: early on, some of the guys came up the board.

873
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: There were some pretty good scores six hundred, couple sixty six,

874
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 2: sixty five. But the guys this went late. Wow, it

875
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: was a quagmire and they did not survive. So we'll

876
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 2: see find around of the Open Championship. And of course,

877
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: the good thing about the Open Championship is because it's

878
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 2: over there. You know, you wake up early in the

879
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 2: morning if you're into it, yeah, and it's on right,

880
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 2: you know, you get up early on a Sunday and

881
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: you get to watch the rest of the round.

882
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 8: All right.

883
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: So that's what happened earlier today, coming up here at

884
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: about an hour and a half, tip off of the

885
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: w NBA All Star Game. And let me applaud the

886
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 2: WNBA for thinking about, let's how do we make this

887
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 2: game interesting because, let's face it, the Baseball All Star

888
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 2: Game once again was forgettable.

889
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's just because there's so many of them.

890
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 5: It's kind of what you hit last week on there's

891
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 5: just so many.

892
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: Well, and you have a lot of All Stars and

893
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 2: everything else. But this year, with the Olympics happening obviously

894
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: coming up here next week in Paris, it's going to

895
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 2: be Team USA. Obviously, all you know w NBA All

896
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: Stars taking on Team WNBA, which is the rest of

897
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 2: the All Stars. Now, all of a sudden, you're like, well,

898
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: how is it that Caitlin Clark and Angel rees didn't

899
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 2: make the Olympic team. Well, now it sets up for

900
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 2: a really attractive w NBA All Star Games.

901
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they both want to win, they both want

902
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 5: to prove something both sides. This is gonna be competitive.

903
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna be fun to watch.

904
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 2: So you haven't heard it from Caitlin Clark and Angel

905
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: Reese in terms of being snubbed for the Olympic team.

906
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 2: Neither one of them have said anything along the lines

907
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: their day will come, so to speak. But now they're

908
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 2: going to be teammates. Yeah, and you know, Kaitlyn Clark

909
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 2: made some reference. I think Angel Reese agreed. Look, it's

910
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 2: it's not the last time we're going to be teammates.

911
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: We're going to be teammates on All Star teams, Olympic

912
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: teams down the road, no question about that. But it's

913
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 2: still a little weird. I'm just thinking, like the locker

914
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: room conversation, Like, if you're Caitlin Clark, and you're, you know,

915
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 2: getting ready for the game and there's Angel sitting there,

916
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 2: wouldn't you be sort of tempted, like, you know, hey, Angel,

917
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 2: you know what's up? Man, what's going on?

918
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 4: I really don't think that's what's going on.

919
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 5: I think Angel Reese, you know, go it leans into

920
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 5: it because of the media.

921
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 4: And then I think behind closed doors are like, hey man,

922
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 4: can you believe how much people are talking about it is?

923
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 4: That's so crazy And I think it's really that easy.

924
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 5: They have now an NBA JAM shirt, you know, with

925
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 5: both of them, And then Angel Reese made a comment

926
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 5: everyone can wear there we get along shirts for this event,

927
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 5: like we can get along together. It's okay, I'm on

928
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 5: that one. I'm going to buy that NBA JAM shirt

929
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 5: with both of them on it.

930
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it.

931
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 2: But do you really want them to get along part

932
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 2: of the storyline.

933
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 4: Right way, right in this situation, Yes, get along and

934
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 4: beat Team USA. That would be so great. Now, after this,

935
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 4: I want you to go and I want you to sell

936
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 4: that you hate each other. I want you to tell

937
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 4: me that.

938
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 2: See this is the one thing about sports in general

939
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: now that if you're a fan of Caitlin Clark. If

940
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 2: you're a fan of the Indiana Fever, you you don't

941
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: just dislike Angelice and Chicago Sky, you hate.

942
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 4: Them, yes, yes, and vice versa exactly.

943
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 2: And you always want to believe as a fan that

944
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 2: that that energy that hatred I hate it is yes,

945
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 2: it comes from fans is shared by the members.

946
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 4: Of your team, right right.

947
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: And this idea of everyone, you know, high fiving before

948
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: games and hugging before I'm like, no, no, no, no, no

949
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 2: no no no no no no no no, no.

950
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I hear you, and I agree with you.

951
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 4: Just be friendly behind closed doors.

952
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: And I think I don't want to see any of

953
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 2: that friendly.

954
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet you they are really friendly though behind

955
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 5: closed doors.

956
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 3: I really believe that.

957
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear them.

958
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 4: But right now they're on the same team, right, this

959
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 4: is the time to hear about it.

960
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 6: This is it.

961
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 4: They're gonna take down Team USA. It's gonna be great.

962
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: I would just I would love to see this game

963
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: to add to this friction. Right, Like angel Reese has

964
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: the ball and he oh, shooting is not her forte.

965
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 2: I mean, her thing is rebounding and doing all that.

966
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: But she's got a shot and there's Caitlin Clark.

967
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 5: She's open when.

968
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: Not only does he give her the balls, he sort

969
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 2: of gives her a look like.

970
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that would be.

971
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 2: Really rows up a brick and that's not good.

972
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 4: But that would be great. That would just be pairs.

973
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 2: And then they go back to the bench and they

974
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 2: start jawing each other and they have to be separated.

975
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 2: That's all we want.

976
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen today.

977
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 3: No.

978
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 4: No, They're gonna come together and they're gonna take down

979
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 4: Team USA and it's gonna be great.

980
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 2: Oh so you're taking Team w NBA.

981
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 4: I am, I am.

982
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: Well, that would not be good for Team US.

983
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 4: No, it's not, which is why I'm going see you're

984
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 4: wanting that drama between Angel Reese and Kaitlin Clark.

985
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 5: I'm wanting the drama between the two teams. How great

986
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 5: would it be if Team USA lost?

987
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 2: Well, Team USA is a six and a half point favorite.

988
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 4: Yes, so it's not even a lot. That's not a lot.

989
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: I'm not not a terrible I like this though on

990
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 2: the over.

991
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 5: On Alsidan was not favored by forty forty three.

992
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not that kind of a mismatch, not even

993
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: close exactly. By the way, the over runner on total

994
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 2: points and we've seen now the NBA All Star Game

995
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 2: crack the you know, everyone's scoring one hundred, yeah, four hundred.

996
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just ridiculous what they're doing over on

997
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 2: one ninety and a half. Okay, yeah, I mean that

998
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 2: doesn't seem that many points. Right, They're gonna play. There

999
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: will be more defense play in this one yeap, in

1000
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 2: two minutes of this game than the entire game. Remember

1001
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 2: this year's NBA All Say the best staff from the

1002
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game this year was this There were

1003
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 2: three fouls called in the game. In the entire game

1004
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 2: were three fouls.

1005
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 4: It's just not taken seriously anymore. The players don't care.

1006
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 4: The players don't want to play. These gals want to

1007
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 4: play today.

1008
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.

1009
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,919
Speaker 5: Like, Team USA cannot lose, Like what you just said,

1010
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 5: they cannot lose.

1011
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 2: No, they're not so bad. Do you want to get

1012
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 2: some momentum going the right? We're heading off to Paris.

1013
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 4: The WNBA is gonna win.

1014
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 5: They're gonna go out there and they're gonna they're gonna

1015
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 5: run circles around them.

1016
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't I don't know, do you. Are you

1017
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 2: feeling continued momentum right now in the interest in the

1018
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 2: WNBA has just slowed down? Where are you on that

1019
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 2: right now?

1020
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 4: I think I am still interested. I am, but I

1021
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 4: do think it has slowed down in general a little bit.

1022
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 6: Well.

1023
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 2: I heard our dear friend Jonas Knox say earlier on

1024
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 2: his show that people are faking it with their interests

1025
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 2: in the WNBA, like they're not being honest, like of

1026
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: their real interest in the WNBA.

1027
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 5: I guess the real test will be in a month.

1028
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 5: What's gonna happen in a month? Will the numbers can

1029
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 5: anyone a month? Or is it going to be out

1030
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 5: of sight, out of mind and you've lost momentum?

1031
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? And then there are other people saying when you

1032
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 2: say that, you know Caitlin Clark is valuable because we

1033
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: were talking last week about Rookie of the Year and

1034
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 2: I was bringing up the fact that I think Angel

1035
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 2: Reeves has done more in her rookie season. Now, right now,

1036
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark is playing her best basketball this season. But

1037
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 2: if I were to say who's the most valuable player

1038
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,399
Speaker 2: in this league, it has to be Caitlin Clark. Even

1039
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 2: if she's not the best player. If you're going to

1040
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 2: say who's the most valuable player this year in the

1041
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 2: WNBA in terms of interest, in terms of putting butts

1042
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 2: in seats, I'm not saying she's anywhere near the best,

1043
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 2: but value to the league it is. And then people

1044
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 2: are saying, well, maybe she's not as valuable to the

1045
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: whole league as you think. Obviously, she's valuable to the

1046
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 2: Indiana Fever because wherever they play, they sell out arenas.

1047
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 2: They're not selling out arenas all over the WNBA.

1048
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 5: No, it's where she goes, right, It's where she goes,

1049
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 5: And definitely I think Angel recently Sky are also selling now.

1050
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're moving to bigger arenas like

1051
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 5: other teams are when the Fever come to town, which

1052
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 5: is a big part of it. But I think it's

1053
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 5: interesting that Caitlin Clark could really be in the MVP conversation,

1054
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 5: something that I don't think people are expecting. But there

1055
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 5: is no clear cut MVP because the Aces are not

1056
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 5: playing the way everyone expected them to play. So even

1057
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 5: though Asia Wilson is kicking ass and taking names, the

1058
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 5: team itself is not winning the way I think they

1059
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 5: were expecting them, so that MVP conversation is definitely intriguing.

1060
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 2: Well, I do. I mean, I'm going to be watching.

1061
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,439
Speaker 2: I'm very interested to say. I like Like I said,

1062
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 2: I like this dynamic of Team USA going against Team WNBA.

1063
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Olympics on the other side, the Olympic

1064
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 2: Games start next Friday. Yeah, we are getting ready for

1065
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 2: the Summer Olympic Games. And I have an observation as

1066
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 2: someone that has followed the Olympics for a log and

1067
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 2: I want to see if you are in step or

1068
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: out of step with where I stay at. This is

1069
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:05,120
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1070
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 2: coming to live from the Tirack dot Com studios now.

1071
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1077
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,080
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1078
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Speaker 2: the air. Mark Medina, our NBA insider, is going to

1079
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 2: be joining us, coming up here in about twelve minutes.

1080
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 2: As we got a lot to talk about summer leagues

1081
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 2: continuing to roll along and getting ready for another NBA season.

1082
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 2: But first we got the Olympics. So we have the

1083
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 2: Summer Games coming up. And I said this about sports

1084
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Speaker 2: that continuously are being added to the Olympic Games. We

1085
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 2: mentioned that coming up in the next Olympics, we're going

1086
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 2: to see flag football, fight football, man and women flag football.

1087
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 2: We got break dancing in the Olympics, so they keep

1088
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 2: expanding the roster. But here's the way I look at

1089
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 2: these Olympic Games in terms of evaluating an athlete's career.

1090
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 2: There are only three sports that I can think of

1091
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: in which performance in the Olympic Games trump's everything else,

1092
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 2: which are track and field, swimming, gymnastics. Those to me

1093
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 2: are the three sports where the stars are born at

1094
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 2: the Olympics. I mean, there's World track and field championships,

1095
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 2: there are World swimming championships, are World gymnastics championships, but

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00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 2: they don't measure up to the Olympics. Now on the

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00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 2: other side, in soccer or football, the World Cup is

1098
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 2: much bigger than the Olympics. Oh yes, and then you

1099
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 2: have like we have Olympic tennis. No one ever talks

1100
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 2: about any gold medals won by the way it's the

1101
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: Grand Slam tournaments. We even have Olympic golf. In fact,

1102
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 2: I saw this the other day. Justin Rose is going

1103
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 2: to be eligible for the Golf Hall of Fame along

1104
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 2: with Adam Scott and Sergio Garcia very similar resumes. They

1105
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 2: all won one major, been in contention for years, won

1106
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 2: a lot of tournaments over the year. And they're talking

1107
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 2: about this whole thing with Justin Rose, right, and his

1108
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 2: whole resume. They never mentioned the fact that he actually

1109
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 2: won the gold medal. Does anyone remembers Xander Schoffley win

1110
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 2: he a gold medal?

1111
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 4: No, not at all, No, not even a little bit.

1112
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 2: And I'm and basketball is the same. I mentioned Carmelo Anthony.

1113
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 2: Nobody cares that he won three Olympic gold medals. All

1114
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 2: they know is that he never won an NBA championship.

1115
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 2: So when we talk about the impact of these Olympics, yeah,

1116
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 2: track and field, swimming, gymnastics.

1117
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 4: You're right, you're right.

1118
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 2: But what I mean, I'm not going to even talk

1119
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 2: about some of these totally off the wall sports, you know,

1120
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 2: But I'm just serious. I mean, what other sports is

1121
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 2: your magnitude as an athlete measured beyond the Olympics.

1122
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe you could go to the Winter Olympics.

1123
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,760
Speaker 5: I think for snowboarding and things like that, those gold

1124
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 5: medals may actually weigh more than X Games.

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00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh man, X Games.

1126
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 5: Well, when I think of X Games, I think of

1127
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 5: like BMX and bike riders. I don't think of snowboarding.

1128
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,439
Speaker 5: With the Winter Olympics, I think of snowboarding and bob

1129
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 5: sledding and skiing.

1130
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: Well, scheme for sure, for sure, but I'm talking Summer Games.

1131
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1132
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 2: I mean to me, look, I'm old schooling. I mean,

1133
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 2: you're doing gymnastics. Really, I'll tell you gymnastics for sure.

1134
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy two, Olga Korbett from the Soviet Union was

1135
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 2: this little girl and she stole the show. She was

1136
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 2: the one. And then four years later he had Nadia

1137
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 2: komen Each and eight years later he had Mary lurettin

1138
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 2: and obviously gymnastics and now some o Bios obviously is

1139
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 2: as big a star athlete as there in the world.

1140
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of interest in gymnastics. Stars come

1141
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 2: out of these, uh, But it wasn't always that way.

1142
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 2: The first week was swimming and the second week was

1143
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 2: track and field and everything else. To me, was sort

1144
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 2: of like, okay, filler.

1145
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, is it because they don't have like a professional

1146
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 5: league year round, so they.

1147
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: Do have professional but it's not track and field is

1148
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 2: much bigger in Europe.

1149
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 4: It is in the gymnastics league.

1150
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: I don't know about gymnastics. I don't know what the

1151
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 2: deal there is. I mean, I mean, seriously, when you

1152
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 2: how much time are you going to be sending watching

1153
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 2: the Olympics.

1154
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, not a lot.

1155
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 8: Not a lot.

1156
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 4: I'll tune in here and there, but not I'm not gonna.

1157
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big comeback for someone Biles, Yes,

1158
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 2: I'll tune.

1159
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,399
Speaker 5: In for her, but I'm not gonna I guess plan

1160
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 5: my day around it, like and do I do other sports?

1161
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?

1162
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 4: Like an All Star Games.

1163
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 2: When you're doing Olympic updates, yes, knowing that it's happened

1164
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 2: hours before the actual TV coverage is going to be seen. Yeah,

1165
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 2: they still do that right when it's in Paris.

1166
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 4: Are you going to do the like, am I gonna

1167
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 4: get about two in the morning?

1168
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 11: Yeah?

1169
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 2: Are you gonna You're gonna say, uh spoiler alert alert.

1170
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, if I'm on the update desk, I'm gonna

1171
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 4: keep you upted in a timely matter. Yeah spoiler yeah, yeah, yeah,

1172
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 4: But aren't they gonna show it live at like two

1173
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 4: in the morning, three in the morning.

1174
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: I'm sure they are, but I mean, who's who's awake

1175
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. You know how they

1176
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 2: do this? They do basically packages uh right in like.

1177
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 4: Uh maybe even a short version of it, right the

1178
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 4: highlights of it exactly.

1179
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you know, it's still amazing to me, speaking

1180
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: of all time moments, when you had the Nancy Kerrigan

1181
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 2: Tanya Harding situation, which is still one of the most

1182
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 2: mind boggling occurrences ever were Tanya Harding's boyfriend took a

1183
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 2: mallet to the knee of Nancy Kerrigan. That is still

1184
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 2: even though it wasn't live, that is still the highest

1185
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 2: rated night ever to watch Olympic coverage. Was that playing

1186
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 2: of them taking the ice the same night in what

1187
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 2: lily Hammer wherever they were for these Winter Olympic Games,

1188
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 2: and it wasn't even live, huge numbers, so much interest.

1189
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 5: Well yeah, because when have you ever seen a story

1190
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 5: like that? Even even now, like nobody just does that

1191
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 5: straight up going to take out the competition, just straight up.

1192
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 2: Like take the lead pipe to the knees. Yeah.

1193
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 5: That that story is just so incredible because you don't

1194
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 5: see that very often, blatantly taking out the competition.

1195
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 2: You don't want to see a lot of it, do you.

1196
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 2: The writing sent to speak for themselves, as I always

1197
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 2: love to the condemn it. You know, it's like it's horrific.

1198
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 2: You know, how is Tanya Harding still on this team?

1199
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 2: And she claimed that she had nothing, had nothing to

1200
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 2: do with it and everything else, and everybody was watching.

1201
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 5: Yep, I mean, how do you again, It's just we

1202
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 5: don't see a straight out attack like that to take

1203
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 5: out the competition.

1204
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 2: I feel like with these Olympics and it's it's going

1205
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 2: to be interesting because in four years, the Olympics are

1206
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 2: coming to Los Angeles. Right when the Games were here

1207
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four, I had just started working for

1208
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 2: the RAIDO organization and people say you must have gone

1209
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 2: to all the events. I didn't go to any events.

1210
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 2: I mean I watched it. It was a weird year

1211
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 2: because there was a boycott of the Soviet Union the

1212
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 2: East Germans. So we were winning, The United States was

1213
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 2: winning everything, like there was no competition. It was you know,

1214
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 2: it was really great. Carl lewis a big star. I'm

1215
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 2: going back. This is before you're born.

1216
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 4: Definitely, But I know the names.

1217
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 2: I know it wasn't around for maybe maybe, you know,

1218
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 2: if I'm around here four years from now, maybe maybe

1219
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 2: I should go are you are you going to.

1220
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 4: Go to the be here?

1221
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 5: I would be interested if baseball, if they let MLB

1222
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 5: players play in the Baseball Olympics in twenty twenty eight,

1223
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 5: that's still a possibility.

1224
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,959
Speaker 2: I watch that. Yeah, I mean again, who cares about

1225
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 2: Major League Bay? You want to win a world see him?

1226
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 4: I mean you do. You're right. It would have no

1227
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 4: way if Mike Child have the World.

1228
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 2: Baseball Classic Baseball Classic. You know, we have John Paul

1229
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 2: Morosi on every week and he is such a fan

1230
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 2: of that World Baseball Classic. Yeah, and of course the

1231
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 2: way it ended with show Hey Otani striking out Mike.

1232
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:31,439
Speaker 4: Troud and everything else better.

1233
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 2: I mean, that was an amazing finish to that.

1234
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 5: No, yeah, you're right, if there is baseball in LA

1235
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty eight, is it really going to matter?

1236
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 2: But all right, well, coming up on the other side,

1237
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 2: we're going to talk some basketball NBA basketball with our

1238
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 2: dear friend Mark Medina. But first let's find out what

1239
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 2: is trending right now.

1240
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 9: I'm sure you guys will ask Mark Medina about this.

1241
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 8: But Team USA hung on to be South to.

1242
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 9: Dan by one point one hundred and one to one

1243
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 9: hundred and what should have been one of the biggest

1244
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 9: upsets in basketball history. Lebron James scored the game winning

1245
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 9: label eight seconds left. He finished for twenty three points.

1246
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 9: Major League Baseball, the Brads beat the Cardinals three to two,

1247
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 9: win ten in the first game of a doubleheader. Rays

1248
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 9: beat the Yankees nine to one. Randia Rose Arena win

1249
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 9: yard twice. Nefster Cortes give up eight hits, two walks,

1250
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 9: and four and one thirds innings, But Jim Carlos Stanton

1251
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 9: could be available for New York as soon as next week.

1252
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 8: He's been on the angel list for the last months.

1253
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 9: With a hammy, Tigers win their second straight up of

1254
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 9: the Blue Jay seven to three. Reese Olsen left in

1255
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 9: the second inning due to shoulder swords. We'll see how

1256
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 9: that plays out for the Detroit pitcher. The Jaguars have

1257
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 9: placed Arek Armstead on the pup list. Tampa Bay linebacker

1258
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 9: Shaquille Barrett announced his retirement from the NFL and the

1259
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 9: third round of the Open Championship, like you were just

1260
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 9: talking about, Steve wrapped up this morning. Spoiler alert, Billy

1261
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 9: Herschel is in the lead at four under. Big group

1262
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 9: tied at three under, including xandersawfle A gold medalist, Justin Rose,

1263
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 9: Sam Burns, and Russell Henley. Scotti Scheffler was the favorite.

1264
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 9: Go He's two under and Shane Lowry is one under. Moncey, Steve, here.

1265
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 2: You Shane aughty, everyone thought he was, but you looked

1266
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 2: like he was gonna run away with this thing, and

1267
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 2: then the weather got the best of him. So he's

1268
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 2: got a three shot deficit to make up. And scottis

1269
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 2: Cheffer very much in the media.

1270
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's so.

1271
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 2: Don't I wouldn't. I wouldn't bet against Scotti Scheffler. Once again,

1272
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 2: this is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harvey, Montcy Belanios. We

1273
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 2: are live from the Tirak dot Com studios and now

1274
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 2: join us to explain everything NBA, NWNBA. Well, he's our

1275
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,479
Speaker 2: NBA insider. The great Mark Medina is joining us right now.

1276
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 2: So Mark, I know you laid down a boatload of

1277
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 2: money on South Sudan to win straight up against Team

1278
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 2: USA is a forty three and a half point underdog.

1279
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 2: My takeaway from that game was I would fire Steve

1280
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 2: Kerr on the spot. I mean, the fact that you

1281
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 2: had to exhaust the oldest Olympic team ever assembled in

1282
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 2: a game like this with the Olympics next week, to

1283
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,959
Speaker 2: me doesn't bode well for this team as they head

1284
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 2: into the Olympics. But what did you make of today's game?

1285
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 11: Well, let me ask you a question, what would you

1286
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 11: fire Steve Kurr exactly? For as far as what decisions

1287
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 11: he made or didn't make?

1288
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 2: Well, I think all of that. For all the decisions

1289
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 2: he made, it didn't make I don't.

1290
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 11: Believe what were the decisions though?

1291
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 2: Well, I you know, Monsie and I were talking about this.

1292
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: She was like, why was Anthony Davis not getting the ball?

1293
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 3: More?

1294
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 2: I mean, what we're talking about an undersized SASDAN team

1295
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 2: where someone like Anthony Davis could literally score one hundred

1296
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 2: points if he wanted to in this game. But the

1297
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Speaker 2: fact that you had to use Lebron to the final

1298
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 2: second after a full NBA season, that's not what you want.

1299
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 2: This was supposed to be like the throwaway game to

1300
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 2: get ready for the Olympics. He had everyone well rested

1301
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 2: for what I think is going to be a challenging

1302
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 2: run for this team. So the idea of getting your

1303
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 2: team to peak at the right time obviously due to

1304
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 2: Steve Kurr.

1305
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, look, it was disappointing, but I do

1306
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 11: want to give some caveat South Sudan isn't a random

1307
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 11: Olympic team, Like they have international players and NBA players.

1308
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 11: They're not obviously the calper USA, but they didn't come

1309
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 11: out of nowhere. They have, you know, institutional NBA influenced

1310
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 11: structure where Lou Abdeng oversees it. They have coaching staffs

1311
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 11: that are NBA head coaches in the league or assistant coaches.

1312
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Speaker 11: I mean, but to your point about USA and them

1313
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 11: having to exhaust everything, I think what we saw was

1314
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 11: that Joel Embiid's not going to start anymore. The thought

1315
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 11: is was before this game was that even for his imperfections,

1316
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 11: his size presence was going to at least allow USA

1317
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 11: to dictate things against feb opponents that have traditional centers,

1318
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 11: and even with his foul trouble, it would be almost

1319
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 11: like he's eating minutes, eating any and then Anthony Davis

1320
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 11: and dam Audibaut come in to your point. Things were

1321
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 11: so dire that Steve Kurt decided, you know what, we're

1322
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 11: emptying the bench. We're not having the starters. They led

1323
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 11: the third quarter comeback, and so yeah, this shows they're

1324
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 11: not untouchable. It's disappointing, but I don't think it's as

1325
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 11: apocalyptic as maybe the final score indicates.

1326
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Speaker 5: Mark, Let's move on to summer league. Okay, So Brownie,

1327
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 5: James Dalton connect. All these young guys need rest. That's

1328
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 5: why they're not playing in their final roll, don't They don't.

1329
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Speaker 11: They don't need rest. This is a normal thing for

1330
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:42,919
Speaker 11: any draft pick, first round, second round. They don't play

1331
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 11: in the final game, okay, just for that one percent

1332
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 11: chance there's an injury. And then it's like, why what

1333
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 11: was the point of That's a summer league game?

1334
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Speaker 3: All right?

1335
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Speaker 11: Well, with the there's a load management, don't worry.

1336
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Speaker 5: Okay, because the way it was worded it was like, oh.

1337
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 4: They're going to get rest. Are really they need rest? Okay?

1338
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Speaker 4: Right now? With summer league? Who has impressed you the most.

1339
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Speaker 11: Mark, Yeah, I would say Ron Holland from Detroit. Really yeah,

1340
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 11: he's a gamer, he's a great defender. I love how

1341
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 11: aggressive he is. Look, the Pistons have a lot of

1342
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 11: holes in the roster. They're one of the worst teams

1343
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 11: in the NBA. But I think that he is a

1344
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 11: player that could be in a Rookie of the Year contention.

1345
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 11: I think you know, he was talking to me in Vegas.

1346
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 11: Oh they're a playing team. I think that's a stretch,

1347
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 11: but I think that he is going to help bolster

1348
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 11: that team because not only is a good wing player,

1349
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 11: he has old school habits as far as his work ethic.

1350
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 11: The other player, it's a very interesting contradiction because he's

1351
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 11: been struggling offensively, but defensively, Alex Sar with Washington's really good.

1352
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 11: He's a great rim protector, very mobile. You know, there's

1353
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 11: a lot of projections from people I talk to around

1354
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 11: him and as well as around the end that he

1355
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 11: could be having the same kind of defensive impact that

1356
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,959
Speaker 11: Seuck Holmgren did with Washington or with the Oklahoma City

1357
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,880
Speaker 11: last season. So yeah, he's got to shoot, though it's

1358
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 11: a lot better, and he's got to be an offensive threat,

1359
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 11: but his rim protection and his rotations or something else.

1360
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Speaker 11: So I would take those two players as well as

1361
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 11: Reed Shepherd, like great shooter back shooter in the draft,

1362
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,439
Speaker 11: has such sharp instincts. So yeah, I know you asked

1363
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 11: me for two and I chose three. Star Reed Shepherd

1364
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 11: would be one, Rod Holland will be two, and Alex

1365
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Speaker 11: Star will be three.

1366
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Speaker 5: Why do you think Star is struggling offensively? What did

1367
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 5: he go zero for fifteen?

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Speaker 11: Yeah? Part of it is good shots aren't following. Part

1369
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 11: of it he needs to make it the skill set.

1370
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 11: He's a really great passer, but you know the mL

1371
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 11: on him from people around him is that he needs

1372
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 11: to be a stronger finisher at the rim and he

1373
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 11: needs to develop his outside shots. So you know, some

1374
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,120
Speaker 11: of it will happen naturally with more time, but he's

1375
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 11: got to also put on some more strength. He's got

1376
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 11: to be more aggressive. But the least the encouraging thing

1377
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 11: is he has a defined skill set where everyone knows, okay,

1378
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 11: he's going to be an elite defender. So that's great.

1379
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 11: You know, none of these guys are projected to be

1380
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 11: generational players, but you know, someone like Alex Sar or

1381
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 11: even Ron Hyland, there is a pathway for them to

1382
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:25,520
Speaker 11: be at least second tier All Star Calaber putters.

1383
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 2: So, Bronnie James obviously has been the most talked about

1384
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 2: player and a lot of people went out to see him.

1385
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 2: It was a mixed bag, some good, some bad, some

1386
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 2: really bad. But I mean, let's let's talk about what's

1387
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 2: going on behind closed doors with the Lakers. I don't

1388
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 2: think anything that's going on in the Summer League is

1389
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 2: affecting their ultimate decision on how they're going to handle

1390
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 2: Ronnie James and his rookie season. How are they going

1391
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 2: to handle this?

1392
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 10: Yeah?

1393
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 11: See, I think you outlined it really well that nothing

1394
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 11: really changed. I think it just crystallized how they're going

1395
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 11: to handle it. Is that he's going to be for

1396
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,839
Speaker 11: the South Bay Lakers for the most part this season

1397
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:06,719
Speaker 11: with the G League team. So I'm with Jalen Brown

1398
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 11: when he got caught on camera. Ronnie James is not

1399
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 11: an NBA player, but he can develop into an NBA player. Now,

1400
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 11: what does that mean. It doesn't mean he's going to

1401
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 11: be a star like his dad. It means he could

1402
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 11: develop into becoming a rotation caliber player, but that's down

1403
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 11: the line, certainly not short term. Don't think he's ready,

1404
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:32,759
Speaker 11: nor will he you know, likely get rotation minutes outside

1405
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 11: of you know, preseason action. I think the majority, if

1406
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 11: not most, of his time next season will be in

1407
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 11: the G League because he needs to develop and for

1408
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 11: all the weaknesses, and there's a lot you know, we

1409
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 11: saw with his shooting and just his readiness, there are

1410
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 11: a few qualities that do leave some NBA talent people out,

1411
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 11: even outside of the Lakers. Encourage is that he's resilient,

1412
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:59,720
Speaker 11: like he overcame a cardiac arrest. He will competes through

1413
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 11: high and lows. He doesn't lack confidence. He's a team guy,

1414
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 11: and he's willing to defend. The challenge. Short term is

1415
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 11: he doesn't have a defined skill set. There's no lane

1416
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 11: for him to fall back on. And I think it

1417
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 11: is a stretch when dej Reddick saying, oh, yeah, he

1418
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 11: could be Lou Door or Drew Holliday, I don't think

1419
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 11: that's his ceiling. I do respect the Lou Door comparison,

1420
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 11: just of the idea that you know, Lou Door was

1421
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 11: undrafted and he's become, you know, one of the best

1422
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 11: defenders in the league. I don't think that's how his

1423
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 11: career will turn out, but I think that you know,

1424
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:37,679
Speaker 11: his value will be just in tangibles and defense and

1425
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 11: being a good teammate and with that, you know, sometimes

1426
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 11: those are all the qualities you need to be a

1427
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 11: rotation player. But he's got even developed into that.

1428
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 4: So Brownie James is not favored to win the Rookie

1429
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 4: of the Year at all.

1430
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 11: Vegas are I'll putting some bets on it.

1431
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 4: They are putting some bets on him, like a lot.

1432
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 5: Is this just because everybody's like, well, Lebron and Clutch

1433
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:04,719
Speaker 5: control the league, so you'll probably win it anyway.

1434
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 11: I think it's about always close to Vegas. A lot

1435
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 11: of very very optimistic Laker fans, a lot of people

1436
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 11: with disposable income with the ability to make some dumb decisions.

1437
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 11: And that's that he's not ready in a Rookie of

1438
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 11: the Year. He's not getting first team, he's not getting

1439
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 11: second to So.

1440
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Russell Westbrook stay in Utah was very short. He

1441
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 2: got released.

1442
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 11: Yeah for the second time. You do wonder will there

1443
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:37,799
Speaker 11: ever be a video tribute for him in Utah?

1444
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 2: So is this the end of the line? Is anybody

1445
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 2: else interested in picking up Russell Westbrook to extend his career?

1446
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:49,560
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, this deal is tied together where Denver is

1447
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:52,639
Speaker 11: expected to pick him up and I think that when

1448
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 11: it looks when you look at Denver for a very

1449
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 11: short term, this is a good pickup. They've lost a

1450
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 11: bunch of their supporting cast death and Tato Viscot of

1451
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 11: Pope this past summer. You look at last summer after

1452
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 11: the championship, losing Bruce Brown, Fish Smith, they do need

1453
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 11: additional role playing help to make life easier for Nikola Joki,

1454
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 11: Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Junior. He can provide that off

1455
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 11: the bench. I think the short term it can be good.

1456
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 11: I think the long term it seems like it's always

1457
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 11: our thing with Russell Westbrook where he'll embrace his role

1458
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:26,920
Speaker 11: just again in the foot in the door, but naturally

1459
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 11: he'll want to have a bigger role like he was

1460
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 11: during the prime of his career. But when you look

1461
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 11: at the Nuggets, they don't need a starting point guard.

1462
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 11: Starting point guard is Jamal Murray, and he's a much

1463
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 11: better player, much better shooter, much better play maker with Jokic,

1464
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 11: so I think that he can do things with the

1465
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 11: second Union. I think Michael Malone can imagine because he's

1466
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 11: a good head coach, knows how to match personalities, knows

1467
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 11: how to empower people, while also holding them accountable. But

1468
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 11: I think Westbrook has to have it in his head

1469
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 11: that he's in a different stage in his career, and

1470
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 11: I think the biggest thing and Monsey hope he can

1471
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 11: back me up on this. There's kind of a narrative

1472
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 11: with Ay. The Clippers brought the best out of Ross.

1473
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 11: I appreciate him on like the Lakers and Russ eurly

1474
01:13:12,479 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 11: embrace that role. All those things are true, but here's

1475
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 11: what's also true. Russ became less effective in the playoffs

1476
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 11: and less enthusiastic with coming off the bench as time

1477
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 11: warred on. So I do wonder if the same scenario

1478
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:28,759
Speaker 11: happened in Denver.

1479
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 2: I'll never forget this. I took my boys, young boys

1480
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 2: to a UCLA basketball game, and what was Westbrook's freshman

1481
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:40,599
Speaker 2: year at UCLA. He wasn't playing at all, and so

1482
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,719
Speaker 2: after the game, I was going to see Ben Hallen,

1483
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 2: who was a friend of mine and introduce him too

1484
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:49,639
Speaker 2: my boys. And I was standing there with my younger son, Garrett.

1485
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 2: He was maybe I don't know, six years old at

1486
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 2: the time. I said, so, who's your favorite UCLA play?

1487
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 2: He goes, I like number zero, And when he said

1488
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm like numbers zero, the hell's number zero, and he

1489
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:05,679
Speaker 2: pointed him out. My go Westbrook, the guy didn't even

1490
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 2: play all right, Well, if you like, if you like

1491
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 2: a guy who wants to sit on the bench arrest

1492
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 2: of his lefe, go ahead. To have gone from that

1493
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 2: a year later, to be the fourth overall pick in

1494
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 2: the draft and then do I have a Hall of

1495
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:21,280
Speaker 2: Fame career still blows my mind. Yeah, it still absolutely

1496
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:22,520
Speaker 2: blows my mind.

1497
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 11: I mean, look, Russell Westbrook's career is come full circle.

1498
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 11: He overachieved and no one ever doubts his competitive will

1499
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 11: and desire to win. But that's also been his shortcoming.

1500
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 11: Just because you work hard doesn't mean it gets good

1501
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:42,320
Speaker 11: great results, and you can't always will yourself to great performances.

1502
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 11: As your athleticism wags down, and even if it's still high,

1503
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 11: you gotta play smart. It's not just about working hard

1504
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 11: and working smart, and Russell has struggled doing that and

1505
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 11: it's created a lot of challenges in the latter part

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Speaker 11: of his career.

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Speaker 2: No question mark has always tremendous stuff. And Joey, I

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 2: know you'll be watching every second of the WNBA All

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01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 2: Stars going against Team USA, so enjoy that game tonight.

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Speaker 11: Montse Steve, appreciate you guys are great at radio and

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:12,639
Speaker 11: love the debate.

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Speaker 2: There you go, great, Mike Madina, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: All Right, what kind of week is it going to

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Speaker 2: be leading up to these Olympic Games. We're gonna tell you.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Hartman, Montzi Belagios. Here,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday. We are live from the tai Iraq

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Want to thank the crew today, Martin

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01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 2: jumping in, yes, updating us on everything and then finding

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01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 2: out himself that indeed, George Miken did wear ninety nine.

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01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to use a different book to ask

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Speaker 2: me questions, as that doesn't have that.

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Speaker 4: You would tell a book that they're wrong.

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01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, t I was like you were ninety nine. Didn't

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01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 2: as it turned out a good Patrick obviously. Just try

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01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,719
Speaker 2: to throw me with the Oscar Schmidt question. I got you, Yeah,

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01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 2: but uh I got that one. That one I got,

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01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 2: I'll do better. Yeah, that's okay. I think I've gotten you.

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01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:04,799
Speaker 2: The last three weeks you were kidding me Early.

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01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 10: I believe there was one time where you did actually

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01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 10: call me stepdaddy for.

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Speaker 2: One time only, Yeah, for one time only and then

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01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 2: of course we are so happy to have Marymack back.

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01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's back.

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01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 2: We missed her. She was under the weather last week.

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01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 2: We missed you, Mary mac and uh. Obviously it was

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01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 2: an unbelievable day for South Sudan. Even if they lost,

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01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 2: they were robbed at the end. There was a hatch.

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01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 2: It should have been a foul at the end of

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01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 2: the day.

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Speaker 3: Agree, So yeah, well yeah, watch this in Paris.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting though. Mark Medina is saying that, no,

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Speaker 2: South Sudan is yeah.

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Speaker 1: No.

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01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 3: The president of their their national league is Louell Dang

1545
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:41,759
Speaker 3: who played for it the Bulls.

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01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 4: Yes he did.

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01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 2: So are they in the Olympics? Are they going to

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01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 2: be Yeah, they're in the Olympics. Okay, well, maybe there'll

1549
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 2: be a remat would that be something?

1550
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 3: And if it is where we're coming back for that point.

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01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 2: That would be unli I guarantee you this, if there

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01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 2: is a rematch, they're not going to be forty three

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 2: and a half point underd dollars.

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01:16:57,800 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 3: It was a little bit personal because Paul Pierce was

1555
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 3: talking crap about our team like two days ago.

1556
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 4: All Piers likes to talk a lot of crap.

1557
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he does, all right. So we do have

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01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 2: the Olympics coming up this week. We had the w

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01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game coming up here shortly. But I mean,

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01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 2: you know, as we said, we can sit here and yeah, okay,

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01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,719
Speaker 2: there's some interest obviously in this WNBL Star Game because

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01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 2: of the format and the Olympics of the Olympics. But

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01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 2: you mentioned it during the show, and I'll mention it

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01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 2: once again. We're ten days away from the Hall of

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01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 2: Fame game. That's Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 5: No football is here, Yeah, it is here, and a

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01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 5: great Hall of Fame game to start because Caleb Williams.

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01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 2: So Caleb and I agree. Adam Kaplan said, expect them

1569
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:49,759
Speaker 2: with this offense, especially since eber Flutes their coaches favored

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01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 2: to win Coach of the Year. Well, the only way

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01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 2: that's going to happen is if they make the playoffs

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01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 2: with a rookie quarterback. So I would imagine they want

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01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 2: to get Caleb Wood, and I'm sure he wants to play.

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01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 2: I mean, give me out there. I got to learn

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Speaker 2: this system. I got to get comfortable.

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Speaker 5: With this jitters out because he's got to have jitters.

1577
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 2: Sure, I get him all out, Like, yes, I don't know,

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01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 2: you know, I it was such a hard year to

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01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 2: evaluate Caleb Williams because when you're giving up fifty points

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01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 2: a game. Yeah, I mean, I'm not exactly that. It

1581
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 2: was one of the worst defensive teams I have ever

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01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 2: seen ever I at the collegiate level. They were literally

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01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 2: putting hip like forty two forty every single game. It's

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01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure in your quarterback saying, oh, by

1585
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 2: the way, you're gonna have to score fifty for us

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01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 2: to have a chance to win a gata Yes, right, yeah.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 2: And they didn't have their full complimentary of players that

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01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 2: they had the year before when he won the Heisman Trophy.

1590
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 2: So I know this, I know what my I see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I trust my eyes. I'm not looking at

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01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 2: the numbers, okay, And when I look at Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 2: I see a star.

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Speaker 6: Do you.

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Speaker 4: I do see a star, A generational star.

1596
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 2: But I also recognize that the Bears have been a

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01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,680
Speaker 2: graveyard for quarterbacks. You know, They've had a lot of

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01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:07,640
Speaker 2: guys over the years. I thought maybe maybe in this

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 5: Adam Kaplan has said that he doesn't see it, that

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Speaker 5: he doesn't think it's a generational star in Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: I know that, and a lot of people think maybe

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01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 2: Janie Daniels will be there. Yeah, he's on another bad

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01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 2: team though, I'm telling you right now. I remember I

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01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 2: mentioned that Pro Football Focus off air to you. They

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01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 2: had the ranking, and last week I was really pumping

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01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 2: up bow Nicks in his rookie season with the Denver

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01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 2: Broncos and he's going to shock the world and lead

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01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 2: the Broncos the playoffs of the thirty two teams they

1610
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 2: had Bonix last I'm like, no, that's not true. Sean

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01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 2: Payton will find a way because it'll be his guy, right,

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01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:52,639
Speaker 2: But these are all the storylines going in.

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Speaker 4: That might be the team that sneaks up on Everybodyron.

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01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 2: Well, I'm the only one that believes that.

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01:19:58,080 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that you you are.

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Speaker 6: But I I think.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a rough first year for Jim Harbaugh. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I believe Harbor will get the Chargers.

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01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,360
Speaker 4: Back, just not right away, not immediately.

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01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 2: The Raiders are not. I'm putting faith in Sean Payton

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01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 2: that he's going to figure this out, even if it's

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01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback. But Boni's played five years of a

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Speaker 2: start in college.

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01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 4: He's not a kid it's gonna go a long way.

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01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your plans? You're gonna watch this WNBA.

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01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 4: I'm going to watch this game. I'm looking forward to.

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01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get some food, I'm gonna watch it.

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01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about the same thing. I have to hit

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Speaker 2: the freeways here, and that's not gonna be easy. Right now, HI,

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01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. We got much more coming up. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Radio.