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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome man, What driving Nick great? Episode two

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Speaker 2: twenty four A ton to do Today? The NFL officially

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Speaker 2: changed it's kickoff rule. I'm actually fascinated by that. I

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Speaker 2: think it's a good change. We do need to get

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Speaker 2: into the gambling scan doles now plural encircling our sports leagues. Also,

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Speaker 2: since you've last seen me, I had surgery on my arm.

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Speaker 2: I have a steel plate there, so that's why you

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Speaker 2: see this rat. But otherwise I'm doing great. Before we

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Speaker 2: get to any of that, though, this is not a

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Speaker 3: This is just a.

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Speaker 2: My thoughts on something that just happened so overnight. If

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Speaker 2: you haven't seen it, a ship crashed into the Francis

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Speaker 2: obviously thoughts and if you're the prayerful type, prayers with

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Speaker 2: the missing people and with anyone in the moment directly impacted.

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Speaker 2: But the reason I'm starting the show with that is

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Speaker 2: this year. I don't think people have fully yet. It

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Speaker 2: what it means for commerce, what it means for trade,

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Speaker 3: But this is.

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Speaker 2: A type of worldwide event that I don't know if

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Speaker 2: But the impact of it and the import of that

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Speaker 2: sure they weren't on the bridge, anything like that. But furthermore,

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, I don't want to say it's

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Speaker 2: And so there's that. It is an odd way to

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Speaker 2: for the entire world, particularly for the United States, and

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Speaker 2: Official Sports Show. I know it's an awkward transition, but

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Speaker 2: Oh, Brian Callian. Okay, he just got his first head

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Speaker 2: the looming story involving Missahara before the interpreter talked to

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Speaker 2: Right it's it's not it. The only way you're gonna

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Speaker 2: become a more and more even prior to this real thing,

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Speaker 2: which is how compromised a lot of us opinion makers

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Speaker 2: are because all of us are either making money off

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Speaker 2: the gambling sponsors used to will in the future whatever

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Speaker 2: it is. And so you the question is do you

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Speaker 2: want to be forthright and honest with your audience or

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Speaker 2: do you want to make sure that you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean the money faucet turns on. It's a tough one, right,

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Speaker 2: And so we talk a ton of gambling on this show.

437
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Speaker 2: We have Enduring Football Season, a specific gambling show. I

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Speaker 2: personally am incredibly proud of how we do it. First

439
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Speaker 2: of all, I've been gambling my whole life. It is

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Speaker 2: something I enjoy. It is something that I know a

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Speaker 2: lot about. But also on this show, what do we do?

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Speaker 2: We pick games we do at the end of each

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Speaker 2: gambling episode. We do one like silly Long you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. We will do Demand's teaser, which is

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Speaker 2: a straightforward bet, and we do the offer, which is

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Speaker 2: I think the way we position it as hey, look

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Speaker 2: at this as a likely losing wager, but that you

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Speaker 2: can have fun on. And I'm not telling people not

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Speaker 2: to do it. But the distinction between that and having

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Speaker 2: the vast majority of your gambling content be here is

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Speaker 2: this no brainer? Same game parlay about player props feels

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Speaker 2: a little different. And from the limited data we have

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Speaker 2: about places where gamblings become legal, what folks are betting

454
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Speaker 2: are parlays and player props. Because the upside's higher, it

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Speaker 2: feels more fun. I get all of that. We have

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Speaker 2: to be honest with the audience, which is those are,

457
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Speaker 2: in the long run, guaranteed losing wagers. Now that doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean you shouldn't make them.

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Speaker 3: It is it's.

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Speaker 2: A losing financial proposition to go to Dave and Busters.

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Speaker 2: But if you spend one hundred bucks and have a

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Speaker 2: ton of fun in the afternoon, you're not like, gosh

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Speaker 2: darn it, I thought I was gonna win money. It's like, no,

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Speaker 2: I was paying for my entertainment. And so I am

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Speaker 2: not saying people shouldn't do this or shouldn't be allowed

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Speaker 2: to do that. I have odd feelings about whether or

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Speaker 2: not it should.

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Speaker 3: Be playing for the Xbox on the top shelf.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, yeah, that is a different level of gambling.

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Speaker 2: I guess sure, So maybe David Buster's was the wrong example,

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Speaker 2: but miniature golf or whatever it is positioning it as uh,

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Speaker 2: this is you know, smart money making is not honest.

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Speaker 2: It's just not And the reason we do the reason

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Speaker 2: we do it the way we do it on this show.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to pat myself on the back.

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Speaker 2: It's just how I've always done it. Is we are

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Speaker 2: picking five games a week. We are incorporating the viig

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Speaker 2: into our plus minus, and we are keeping a ledger,

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Speaker 2: and we are letting you know throughout the year and

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year where we plus or minus,

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Speaker 2: and that way the audience knows where we're at, what

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Speaker 2: we're doing. And if you remember last year, I forget

483
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Speaker 2: which team it was, but there was, Oh it's the Jags.

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Speaker 2: My one belief in the Jags swung my entire year

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Speaker 2: from being plus a few thousand to where it ended

486
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Speaker 2: up being minus a few thousand because of the way

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Speaker 2: those bets worked and how many And so that I'm

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Speaker 2: not acting as if there is a writer or wrong

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Speaker 2: way to do it, but there is an honest way

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Speaker 2: to do it. And for the sports leagues, if you

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Speaker 2: are going to have be in bed fully with gambling,

492
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Speaker 2: companies that are offering more different ways to bet on

493
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Speaker 2: individual performance than any time ever before. If you do

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Speaker 2: all of that, the Johntay Porter story or something similar

495
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Speaker 2: is inevitable and it will not stop. It will not

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Speaker 2: go away, and it will not stop. And if they're

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Speaker 2: okay with that, they're okay with that. But let's not

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Speaker 2: act like we couldn't see this coming. Now. I don't

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Speaker 2: see the story of NBA star big name X, you know,

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Speaker 2: throws a game. I don't think that's coming because I

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Speaker 2: don't think the financial incentives are there. But I guarantee

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Speaker 2: you it has already happened in college sports multiple times

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Speaker 2: and folks just haven't caught it yet. And the ref

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Speaker 2: stuff would concern me because there are real financial incentives there.

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Speaker 2: All right, there's our gambling, our gambling and bridge collapse

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Speaker 2: portion of the show. Let's take a very quick break

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Speaker 2: and do our regular a bloc as scheduled. Take a

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Speaker 2: quick break, come back, and we'll do the regular show next.

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Speaker 2: What's Right?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Dry with Nick Wright? Episode two

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Speaker 2: twenty four. We had some breaking news before today's show,

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Speaker 2: demands about an NFL rule change. Let's get into that

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Speaker 2: before we get to Lugerius snead go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the NFL just changed their kickoff rule. What do

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Speaker 3: you think about that?

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Speaker 2: So tentatively I like it. Let me explain to the

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Speaker 2: audience what it is. So you're still kicking off from

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Speaker 2: the thirty five, but everything else is wildly different. The

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Speaker 2: team that is kicking off will now have all other

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Speaker 2: ten guys lined up at the opponent's forty. The team

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Speaker 2: that is receiving will have everyone else except for their

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Speaker 2: return man, lined up between the thirty five and thirty,

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Speaker 2: so they will be five to ten yards apart, all right,

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Speaker 2: and then the return man will be somewhere between the

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Speaker 2: goal line and the twenty. Okay, so envision it. The

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Speaker 2: kickers in the normal place, The kicking team is moved

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Speaker 2: forward twenty five yards to the opposing team's forty. The

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Speaker 2: returning team is moved all the way back to between

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Speaker 2: the thirty and thirty five, and you have one or

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Speaker 2: two return men in between in the red zone, essentially

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Speaker 2: between the goal line and the twenty. No one can

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Speaker 2: move other than the kicker until the return man gets

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Speaker 2: the ball or the ball hits the ground. Okay, once

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Speaker 2: that happens, go play, go as far as you can.

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Speaker 2: Here are the unique, the really unique angles to it.

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Speaker 2: If the kick you kick it too short and you

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Speaker 2: don't get it too inside the twenty, the receiving team

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Speaker 2: gets the ball at the forty. If you kick it

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Speaker 2: too far and you kick it into the end zone,

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Speaker 2: the receiving team gets the ball at the thirty. So

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Speaker 2: there might be some teams that just say, you know what,

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Speaker 2: screw this, We're just gonna bomb this thing into the

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Speaker 2: end zone and give the other team the ball at

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Speaker 2: the thirty. That probably won't happen. There will be teams

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Speaker 2: that screw it up and you end up getting the

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Speaker 2: ball at the forty they kick it too short. But

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Speaker 2: what's mostly gonna happen is there's gonna be a kickoff.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna you know, land around the five to ten

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Speaker 2: yard line, and then you're gonna have ten blockers, ten

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Speaker 2: you know, attempted tacklers, the returnment and the kicker go

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Speaker 2: after it. So there will be way, way, way more

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Speaker 2: return That is a guarantee. The only potential negative is

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Speaker 2: the surprise on side kick is dead. Now. Now, if

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Speaker 2: you want to do an on side kick, you have

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Speaker 2: to do you have to tell people and then do

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Speaker 2: the onside kick. What I think is good about it is, uh,

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Speaker 2: the on side kick, I think, and you guys can

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Speaker 2: look this up. You see if I'm wrong, goes back

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Speaker 2: to the old on side kick formation where you had

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Speaker 2: a better chance of receiving it, the one that was

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Speaker 2: in place forever before, like five years ago. So in

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Speaker 2: general I like it. It will obviously reward this season

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Speaker 2: smarter teams that figure things out, quicker, better special teams,

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Speaker 2: things like that, and then once one or two smart

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Speaker 2: teams figures out the way to do it, everyone will

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Speaker 2: copy them. But I like this rule change, and I

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Speaker 2: also speaking of rule changes, then we can move on.

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Speaker 2: Don't really the hip drop tackle hyperventilation that was happening

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Speaker 2: yesterday I think is way overwrought. I think there will

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Speaker 2: be mark this for me. I'm gonna go ahead and

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Speaker 2: say fewer than one hip drop tackle penalty a weekend

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Speaker 2: league wide. I bet there are fewer than twenty called

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Speaker 2: over the course of the season. Players will adjust and

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Speaker 2: they're not gonna call I don't think the in between ones.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going to Monday.

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Speaker 3: All right, So some other news.

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Speaker 4: Lugerius sneak got sent to the Titans for a twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty five draft pick or a twenty twenty five third

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Speaker 4: run pick.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, we know that you and the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Kingdom wanted to run it back so you guys can

583
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Speaker 4: get the three peat, But this was destined to happen.

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Speaker 4: Can't keep all those stars? Yeah, but doesn't this kind

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Speaker 4: of scare you? How many more good players do you

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Speaker 4: think you can? You can lose until you start to

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Speaker 4: worry about it.

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Speaker 2: So, I here's the thing I was. I'm not. I

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Speaker 2: never thought it was realistic that Chris Jones and Sneid

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Speaker 2: were both gonna be back under long term contracts. I

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Speaker 2: did start to think that Chris once Chris got signed,

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Speaker 2: that Snead might play under the tag. And obviously you

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Speaker 2: lose an excellent player, the team gets a little bit worse.

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Speaker 2: Lagarius Sneid is the one who punched out this A

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Speaker 2: Flowers fumble in the AFC title game. He didn't allow

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Speaker 2: a single touchdown in coverage in the regular season all year.

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Speaker 2: He was an excellent player. He also is sneaky older

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Speaker 2: than people think. Chris Jones is twenty nine, Lagarius Sneid

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Speaker 2: is twenty seven. He also has dealt with some slight

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Speaker 2: knee issues. Because of those two factors, giving him twenty

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Speaker 2: million dollars a year, Titans Game nineteen would not have

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Speaker 2: been smart in my opinion. And the Chiefs have shown

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Speaker 2: secondary is a spot they believe they can draft and

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Speaker 2: develop and they will move off guys. Kendall Fuller they

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Speaker 2: let go in free agency for a bunch of money.

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Speaker 2: Schavaria's Ward they let go in free agency for a

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Speaker 2: bunch of money. Honey Badger they let go in free agency.

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Speaker 2: And now Sneid they traded. Now folks are upset that

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Speaker 2: they only got a future third. Why did they not

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Speaker 2: get more? And the answer they didn't get more is

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Speaker 2: because because of Sneed's contract demands, which he earned and

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Speaker 2: I am happy for him. The market people were not

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Speaker 2: super excited about giving up a premium pick and paying

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Speaker 2: Lagarius Snead, and so because of that, this was about

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Speaker 2: as solid of a return as they were going to get.

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Speaker 2: And here's why there is a tangible benefit to this season.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's enough to offset losing Sneed,

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Speaker 2: but that twenty million that you opened up, they still

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Speaker 2: need to sign a tackle, They need to extend Creed Humphrey,

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Speaker 2: they might extend Tray Smith. That money you open up

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Speaker 2: right now is super valuable. Even though free agency has

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Speaker 2: passed its first couple phases. So if you told me

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Speaker 2: they could only keep one Snead or Chris Jones, I

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Speaker 2: feel like they kept the right one. They are gonna

625
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Speaker 2: have to pay Trent McDuffie a king's ransom in a year,

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Speaker 2: so they are preparing for that, and for all those reasons,

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Speaker 2: I'm not thrilled about it, but I don't think this

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Speaker 2: is a devastating blow for Kansas City, and I am

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Speaker 2: super happy for Lagarius Sneed, who has went through massive

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Speaker 2: life tragedies, has never made real NFL money, and now

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Speaker 2: gets paid based on his great work. All right, demons,

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Speaker 2: h what's the next we've got?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: So Dallas is reportedly gonna let Dak's contract play out

635
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Speaker 4: instead of extending him. You said you would like that move,

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Speaker 4: but don't you. It's probably better to have an established

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Speaker 4: quarterback to be looking around for one.

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Speaker 3: Of this time.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, despite that, hold on, I'm sorry, go ahead, yeah, no, no, yeah,

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Speaker 4: So what do you what do you think about that move?

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Speaker 3: And why you talk?

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Speaker 2: I'll take some notes, Okay, Oh, that's why you were

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Speaker 2: grabbing your notepad. So yeah, the thing, you're fine. Uh.

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Speaker 2: The Cowboys are in a really rough spot. Dak Prescott

645
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: at sixty million a year as a disaster. Not having

646
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 2: a quarterback obviously is a potential disaster. I would not

647
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 2: pay Dak Prescott top of the market money. I would

648
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 2: prefer see how this year plays out and roll the dice.

649
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 2: I don't know that they're actually gonna have the guts

650
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: to do that, but very clearly demanse uh, I think

651
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 2: we know. You cannot win a Super Bowl with a

652
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 2: good ish quarterback paid like a great one. You can

653
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl with a bad quarterback and a

654
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 2: great events. You win a Super Bowl with a young quarterback.

655
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: You win Super Bowl with a great quarterback paid like

656
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 2: a great one. We have never seen under the current

657
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 2: salary cup cap construct a quarterback in that eight to

658
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 2: fourteen range, where Dak is eight to twelve range, paid

659
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: like he's the best and the team's good enough to

660
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 2: get to the super Bowl. So the Cowboys put themselves

661
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 2: in this position by giving Dak the no franchise tag,

662
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 2: no trade clause, so it's not they're not operating from

663
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 2: a position of strength. But what I wonder is if

664
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 2: they could take the strength back from Dak prep, if

665
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: they could regain leverage, if they do let this play

666
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: out and then say to Dak's agent, hey man, you

667
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: really want to go from being the quarterback of the

668
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys to the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. Is

669
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 2: that what you want to do? The quarterback of the

670
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys to the what's another team that might be

671
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 2: in the quarterback market right now? The quarterback the New

672
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: York Jets. That's well, the commander is probably gonna draft

673
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 2: a kid it too. But is that what you want

674
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 2: to do? Or does it make more sense for you

675
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 2: to take a Kirk Cousins type of deal which pays

676
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 2: you good but not very top of the market and

677
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: continuing quarterback for the Cowboys. So if they actually can

678
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: stand true to this demanse, I think it would be

679
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 2: a gutsy good move. What are you drawing? What are

680
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: you doing?

681
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 4: I was making notes, taking everything that you were saying

682
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 4: in about you know, future sure quarterbacks.

683
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 3: And oh you're.

684
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 2: Oh, I get it now. Oh it's because Jerry Jones

685
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 2: was doodling. I saw Jerry in the Rundown, and I

686
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 2: forgot the Jerry Jones thing, and I was like, what

687
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: do they have my guy demanse doing? Why are they

688
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 2: having him doodle for no reason? But it's because Jerry

689
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 2: Jones just had pages and pages of doodles when he

690
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: was being interviewed at the owner's meetings. Okay, now I

691
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: understand it. Speaking of things I don't understand. Demon's a

692
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy.

693
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

694
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 4: So the JJ McCarthy I trained is obviously really crazy.

695
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 4: Right now, Folks like Jim Harbaugh saying JJ is even

696
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 4: better than Caleb Williams.

697
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 3: It's really crazy.

698
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 4: Some reports are some reports are Washington is considering taking

699
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 4: him as high as number two. All it took was

700
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 4: that and Zach Wilson pass at Pro Day. Which team

701
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 4: is gonna get sucked in? And why is it the Giants?

702
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he's gonna be gone before

703
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 2: the Giants can pick. I have six Listen, man, this

704
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy thing. I'm willing to open up the possibility

705
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 2: that I'm wrong, but I do not get it. I

706
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 2: admit I don't watch a ton of college football, but

707
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: last year I did watch a ton of Michigan because

708
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 2: they were the best team in college football. I didn't,

709
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 2: so like, did I watch a ton of Drake May

710
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 2: during the year? No, did I, by happenstance, watch a

711
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: ton of JJ McCarthy. Yes, and I'm acting like I

712
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 2: get these right every time. But at no point watching

713
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: Michigan play was I like, Oh, that guy future top

714
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 2: five pick. But he legitimately could go number two. He

715
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 2: absolutely could go top three. And if he doesn't, someone

716
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: is going to trade with either the Cardinals or Jim

717
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 2: Harbaugh's Chargers to move up to number five and get him.

718
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 2: So I don't get it. I flatly do not get it.

719
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: So WI question here, demon's is interesting.

720
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, why if Harball is so high on him,

721
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 4: would he not just trade Herbert away to get a

722
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 4: war chest and get him.

723
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I actually thought about this exact thing, And

724
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 2: the answer to that is because of the contract. First

725
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 2: of all, it would be crazy. But let's just say

726
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 2: Harball's adamant that he thinks JJ McCarthy is the best

727
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 2: quarterback in the draft, that he's awesome, and you would

728
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 2: have him obviously super cheap for four years. If all

729
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 2: those things were true, then trading Justin Herbert for like

730
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 2: four first round picks or you can't get four, but

731
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 2: three first round picks theoretically would make sense. The problem

732
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: is the contract Herbert signed is untradeable because of how

733
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 2: they structured it. So because of the bonuses that have

734
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 2: already been paid. Right now, if you were to trade

735
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert, you would take on ninety five million dollars

736
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: in dead cap, so you just can't do it. So

737
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 2: trading Justin Herbert is not like financially possible. It also

738
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 2: would be crazy unless you believe JJ McCarthy's the best

739
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 2: quarterback in the draft, in which case it would make sense.

740
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 2: But it's not if he hadn't been signed to a

741
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: deal yet. It would make sense if he was under

742
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 2: the circumstance too, was under where it's like, oh, we

743
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,439
Speaker 2: could trade him and then draft our guy. That would

744
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 2: be fine, But because of the contract Herbert signed, at

745
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: least according to the people at spot rack, he's not tradeable.

746
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 2: All right, quick break right back, wrap the show with

747
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 2: a game of freak outer, chill out, What's right?

748
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 3: All right?

749
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick right real quick.

750
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 2: Shefter just tweeted the NFL is planning to play another

751
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: game this year on Christmas Day, which is on a Wednesday.

752
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: So a Wednesday Christmas Day game is coming. Mark me

753
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: down as someone that says that is a bad idea.

754
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 2: The NFL, I is, I think trying to grab up

755
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 2: too much real estate last year because of where Christmas

756
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 2: fell on the calendar, you could like the day of

757
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 2: the week. You could justify and explain it. Because let

758
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 2: me make sure I'm right on this. I think last

759
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: year Christmas was Christmas either on a Sunday or a Monday.

760
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 2: But let me just look, I have he right in

761
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 2: front of me. Christmas last year was on a Monday. No,

762
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 2: it was on a Monday, but there's usually football games

763
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 2: on Monday. It made sense with the schedule all of it.

764
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 2: Wednesday is the one day football are never played. It's

765
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 2: gonna be it's good. I don't even know scheduling wise,

766
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 2: how you're gonna do it. And putting games on Christmas Day,

767
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 2: I know it'll do a big number. I think. I

768
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 2: think long term it's a bad decision. All right, demand

769
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 2: let's keep going because the show's gone long. I know

770
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: that shocks everybody.

771
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, Houston is now only one game behind

772
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 4: the Warriors and Draymond says that he's not scared, and

773
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 4: Steve Kurr is already arresting Stephen.

774
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 3: Curry for the playoffs.

775
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 4: Uh do you think that this Curry era will end

776
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 4: up ending in an eleven seed?

777
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,439
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that the Curry era is over,

778
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: but I do think the Warriors are gonna miss. I

779
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: think that if you look at what the Warriors, and

780
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 2: if we're gonna talk about why they're gonna miss, you

781
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 2: have to you have to talk about the fact that

782
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: Draymond Green was suspended for twenty one games and how

783
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 2: that impacted them. But what the Warriors have left. It's

784
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 2: not a gauntlet by any means. I understand that. But

785
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 2: here is what the Warriors have left on their schedule.

786
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 2: The following four on the road Miami, Orlando, Charlotte, San Antonio,

787
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 2: only one guaranteed victory Charlotte, then home for Dallas, then

788
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 2: back to Texas for at Houston, at Dallas home for Utah,

789
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: then at the Lakers at Portland Easy home for New

790
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 2: Orleans home for the Jazz. The Rockets, on the other hand,

791
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 2: have a slightly tougher schedule, but they are rolling. The

792
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 2: Warriors are I'd be really worried right now, and we'll

793
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 2: talk about the Suns in a minute. Right now, I

794
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 2: think the nine to ten play in game demanday is

795
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 2: gonna be Sun's rockets. I think the Warriors are gonna

796
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 2: fall out entirely, and I the Suns are gonna keep

797
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 2: collapsing or keep falling.

798
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 4: All right, next, All right, we're playing freak out or

799
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 4: chill out. My Celtics blew a thirty point lead last

800
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 4: night against the Hawks. Yeah, I know it's just one game,

801
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 4: But do you think it's a time for me to

802
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 4: freak out or chill out?

803
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's just one games, So go ahead.

804
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 2: I'm what's you're a yeah?

805
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 4: I mean they're they're already getting into their post postseason function.

806
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 4: They blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks. I

807
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 4: don't I'm not like one of those crazy fans. That's

808
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 4: just like like if if I'm very realistic, the Nuggets

809
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 4: are gonna kick your ass. If you're gonna do stuff

810
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 4: like that, you blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks.

811
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 4: I mean no, I'm just very realistic and I'm not

812
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 4: gonna do that. Oh you can be no, dude. If

813
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 4: they're gonna do that type of stuff not gonna be

814
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 4: I mean, you're not even gonna be able to get

815
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 4: away from the Bucks let on the Denver nights.

816
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: But uh, right, so that's the problem. The problem is

817
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,959
Speaker 2: I don't think you should freak out about one game

818
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 2: you had won nine in a row. Uh, they took

819
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 2: your third off the gas and weren't able to put

820
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 2: it back on the gas. That's it. Thirty points is bad,

821
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: but that happens. But I just don't I don't like

822
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,479
Speaker 2: the Celtics as much as I like the Bucks right now,

823
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 2: and there is a very real possibility that round one

824
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 2: Boston has to play Miami or Philly. Right now, the

825
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 2: seven to eight seed is Miami Philly, meaning the loser

826
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 2: of that game would then go into the next play

827
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 2: in game and then have to beat either Chicago or

828
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 2: Atlanta to then be the one seed or to play

829
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 2: be the eight seed. I wouldn't love that path at

830
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 2: all if I were Boston, and so I wouldn't freak

831
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 2: out about last night, But would I freak out in

832
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 2: general a little bit? All right? Next?

833
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 4: Uh, the Suns dropped to the to the player in

834
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,879
Speaker 4: lucas their number, and they need to beat Lebron or

835
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 4: Steff it's not a long shot. Since it's not a

836
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 4: long shot to say they could be bouncing the postseason,

837
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 4: Katie is stuck with no outs. If you can't make

838
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:07,439
Speaker 4: this work, should Durant freak out or chill out freak out?

839
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 2: You just lost to the Spurs without Wimby, which is

840
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 2: a travesty, a total travesty to lose that game. You

841
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: are now if you are Phoenix, you are in the

842
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: eighth seed. Now you're a half game out of being

843
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 2: in the sixth seed. You're also the only two losses

844
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 2: up on the Lakers in the nine seed. And we

845
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: were talking schedules the Suns. It's not only that they

846
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 2: have the hardest remaining schedule in the league by far,

847
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 2: it's that they have This is what the Suns are

848
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 2: about to start is the hardest ten game stretch demons

849
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 2: any team has had at any point all season. Here

850
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 2: are the one's final ten at Denver, at OKC, at

851
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 2: New Orleans, Home for Cleveland, home for Minnesota, Home for

852
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 2: New Orleans, Home for the Clippers, at the Clippers, at

853
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 2: the Kings, at the Timberwolves. So you play one, two, three,

854
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 2: four games against the West. One two, three, another one three,

855
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 2: four games against New Orleans and the Clippers, and then

856
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 2: Cleveland and Sacramento, and so I think the Sons are

857
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 2: going to drop to the nine spot. And folks killed

858
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 2: me when I said I didn't like the Bradley Beal. Addition,

859
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 2: when I said I don't buy into it, I that

860
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 2: that using all your chips, I'm getting Bradley Beal. They

861
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 2: just keep I've said it for I'll say it again.

862
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 2: They just have a slight They have Kevin Durant and

863
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 2: then a slightly worst version of Kevin Durant and Devin Booker,

864
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 2: and then a worst version of Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.

865
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 2: They have the same like archetype of player, just three

866
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 2: times over, and they have no moves to make moving forward. Yeah,

867
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 2: I'd be freaking out if I were Durant next.

868
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 4: All right, the Clippers have fallen off since Rusk got hurt,

869
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 4: James Harden win from closing out on Kawhid, putting a

870
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 4: Maxie in a headlock. Would once look like a serious

871
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 4: contender now looks like an unserious team. Should the Clipper fans,

872
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 4: if they exist, freak out or chill out.

873
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 2: Well, you got to freak out. If only someone had

874
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 2: warned you this was coming. So James Harden in his

875
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 2: last eight games, he's missed two, so it's the last

876
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 2: ten Clippers games. In his last eight games since March ninth,

877
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 2: he is thirteen points on thirty nine percent from the

878
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 2: field and thirty percent from three. It's that time of

879
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 2: year again.

880
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 3: It's that time. Okay, it's just.

881
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 2: That time of year. Uh and his post All Star

882
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 2: breaks swoon. At this point you can set your watch

883
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: to it. And the Clippers aren't good enough. And so

884
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 2: the now they're there, I expect them to stay out

885
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 2: of the play in and then I expect them to

886
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 2: get rolled in round one, either by Minnesota or who

887
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 2: could they be playing in round one? If they stay

888
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,919
Speaker 2: the five, they could play New Orleans. They could beat

889
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 2: New Orleans, I suppose, and then just get annihilated in

890
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 2: round two. But Minnesota would beat them, Oklahoma City would

891
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 2: beat them. If they fall to the six. Obviously Denver

892
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 2: would beat them. And by the way, Laurie Reyes are

893
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 2: wonderful uh producer, social medium. She's a Clippers fan. She says,

894
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 2: I exist, so demands a u O Laian apology.

895
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 4: All right, sorry, all right things will look it up

896
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 4: for the Lakers. Eighty is playing out of his mind.

897
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 4: D Lo just broke the Lakers single season three point record.

898
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 4: It seems that they are peaking at the right time.

899
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 4: Should the West freak out or chill out?

900
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 2: So let me get Can I give you my Galaxy

901
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 2: brain Lakers take because listen, the West obviously goes through Denver. Okay,

902
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 2: we all know this. I'm gonna give you my The

903
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 2: whole idea for the Lakers has been if you're a

904
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 2: Lakers fan, like, well, maybe someone can beat Denver for us.

905
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 2: That's not really a plan, right, hoping someone else upsets Denver.

906
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 2: Here's now sneaky what I'm rooting for Lakers Denver? Round one?

907
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 2: Here's why. Let me explain. How is round one different

908
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 2: than all the other rounds? The games are so spread out,

909
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 2: so much time between them. Is the Lakers' only path

910
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 2: the beating Denver? Lebron being able to play like forty

911
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 2: two to forty four minutes a night along with ad Yeah.

912
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,959
Speaker 2: Probably now I'm seeing Denver's beating the Lakers like nine

913
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 2: straight games. Daniel right now is yelling in the control room.

914
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 2: I get all of it. Denver is the far better team,

915
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 2: but they can't beat Denver. Playing them every other day

916
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: is their only hope. The spread out first round where

917
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 2: you have two and sometimes three days between series. Maybe.

918
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 2: Now here's what I do think. I do think that

919
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 2: the Lakers can beat anyone in the West in a

920
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 2: series other than Denver, and so Denver, we could have

921
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 2: the same scenario as last year where the Lakers are

922
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 2: the seven and they played Denil the one they played

923
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 2: Denver in the conference finals. Like that absolutely could happen again. Uh,

924
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily what I'm predicting, but I do think

925
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 2: the Lakers are dangerous. Uh. And the Lakers as opposed

926
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 2: to when we were talking about tough schedules, the Lakers

927
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 2: have a tough one tonight against Milwaukee that Lebron's probably

928
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 2: gonna miss. After that, here's what the Lakers got Memphis Pacers, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Cleveland, Minnesota,

929
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 2: Golden State, Memphis, New Orleans, So Memphis, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Memphis.

930
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 2: That's five games you've gotta win. Could the Lakers right

931
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 2: now because they if they want to get out of

932
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 2: the ninth spot, they let's say Phoenix is gonna go

933
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 2: four and six the rest of the way. Can the

934
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 2: Lakers go seven and three? I think they can and

935
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 2: catch them all right, Listen, We're not gonna do listener

936
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 2: questions because we this show went too long on a

937
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 2: million different things. Today thirty minute TV show. Today, I'm

938
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 2: gonna be on with Colin in about an hour and

939
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 2: a half. You want to check me out there? Demanse

940
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 2: looks like, how'd you feel with the shades? Is this

941
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 2: gonna be the new look? Because I like it?

942
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I need to get some I need

943
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 4: to get a different pair. This was the mock the

944
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 4: mock sunglass trot.

945
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, get some all right, good.

946
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 3: Some better ones, but yeah, all right, definite.

947
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,160
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948
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950
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