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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Monzy Bilanios. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: Monsy and me. And yeah, okay, yeah you got the

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Speaker 2: You're the little spicy Margarita today. Do you know you

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Speaker 2: called me that? I know. The first time I saw you,

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is I love this girl. She's

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Speaker 2: bringing the spice, she's bringing the energy. And today introduced

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Speaker 2: I was like, my spicy Margarita's my co host, my

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Speaker 2: spicy Margarita, Moncy. But today it's like even more so

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Speaker 2: it is true. I'm here for it and like, what

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Speaker 2: a fun day of sports. Yes, Moncy, if you're a

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Speaker 2: baseball fan, we have some insane playoff races coming down

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Speaker 2: to these last two days tonight and tomorrow, no one

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Speaker 2: wants to win the AO Wes. I'm just gonna throw

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Speaker 2: that out there. Texas had it, they blew it. Houston

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be exciting. We got so much coming on that.

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Speaker 2: We just got a great college football morning USC just

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Speaker 2: like way closer than we thought, just beating Colorado. We're

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Speaker 2: they happen the moment, we get some postgame sound from

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Speaker 2: this USC Colorado just incredible game really that we just saw.

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Speaker 2: that's what we do here on Fox Sports Saturday with

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Speaker 2: Monsey and me, and we got to get started with

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Speaker 2: the game we just witnessed Colorado against USC number eight

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Speaker 2: and a half coming into this game and they won

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Speaker 2: forty eight to forty one. There was a lot of doubt,

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of question marks for Colorado heading

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Speaker 2: into this game after getting blown out by Oregon last week.

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Speaker 2: And I gotta say this was a great loss for Colorado,

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Speaker 2: and it's not often you can say something like that,

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Speaker 2: but they only lost by seven. It was a huge turnaround,

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Speaker 2: not only from last weekend but from the first half

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Speaker 2: for Colorado. Like USC all, the pressure was on us

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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams has now had three or more touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: He is that dude.

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Speaker 2: He is everything and more. I mean he's the reigning

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Speaker 2: with Kayleb Williams, they just completely turned this USC program around.

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Speaker 1: They are.

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Speaker 2: Leaps ahead of Colorado, especially coming in and having that

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Speaker 3: I am surprised at the final score, and like you

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Speaker 3: be completely honest with you, I didn't think those words

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Speaker 3: I thought not that it was going to be exactly

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Speaker 3: And then something happened and Colorado was like, all right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, typically you don't.

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Speaker 3: Typically, Actually you want to see what's being said in

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Speaker 2: They can't be that proud of themselves, right, No, I

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Speaker 2: mean you have to remember this was a star studded battle, right,

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Speaker 2: not only the head coaches. You have Lincoln Riley, one

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Speaker 2: this season already, and everybody went to work. Everybody went,

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Speaker 3: That's a good way to put especially no Shiloh Sanders. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah on SC again, great job at SC. You're still undefeated. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think this is where though the coach prime effect

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Speaker 2: But again, I gotta talk. We got to talk about

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Speaker 2: He is doing things that we haven't seen a college

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Speaker 3: But his dad said he's not playing. So that leads

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Speaker 2: Next conversation, because not only have we heard Caleb Williams father,

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Speaker 2: But the bottom line is the NFL draft system right

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Speaker 2: I can see your face, Monci, you're ready to express.

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Speaker 2: Just get it out, listen. There's just so much to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So what is the other option?

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Speaker 3: You want Caleb Williams to go to the best team

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Speaker 3: and sit behind Patrick Mahomes for how many years?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, right, that would be not to go

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Speaker 3: The problem is that people are not seen is that

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Speaker 3: there is a big jump, if you I mean, I

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Speaker 2: Moncy Belano's we are broadcasting live for the Tyrek dot

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen that. It is madness. It is mad

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Speaker 2: I mean, these fans are ride or die for anything.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful because it's two of my world's colliding, which

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Speaker 3: Which is huge for him. I mean this is huge

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Speaker 3: I just don't get what everything is going for the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I love all of these like young Swifty fans are

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Speaker 2: Were inside? Is this cloud chasing my guy? Listen?

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Speaker 3: You dated him in twenty sixteen after a reality show

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Speaker 2: You're doing an interview. Do we have sound? Do we

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Speaker 7: Can we put sound?

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Speaker 1: Please?

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Speaker 2: Fellas please?

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Speaker 8: Michael Saying goes, Once a cheater, always a cheater. Certain

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Speaker 8: Swifty are aggressive, very negative, very hypocritical. It's really crazy

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Speaker 8: to me that someone that I think is you know,

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Speaker 2: Oh girl, girl, I feel sorry for you right because

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Speaker 2: Don't get involved, don't insert yourself into a situation. You

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Speaker 2: I don't care, I don't I didn't hear her name.

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Speaker 4: How are you guys?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: You know, great, great wild day, living the dream. But

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Speaker 2: Ben we've got some wild playoff races these last two

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Speaker 2: days of the regular season. Let's start in the AO

440
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Speaker 2: West because it's still up for grabs with Texas losing

441
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Speaker 2: last night, the Astros and the Mariners winning. Your brother

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Speaker 2: justin Berliners on the on the mountain tonight, right for Astro? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: how you feeling?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're doing Okay, I'll be it, I'll do all right.

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Speaker 4: We'll see when it happens.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, who is who in the AO West

447
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Speaker 2: is making the postseason? What's your prediction?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, the Mariners have ended up winning serious so if

449
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Speaker 4: they win one more, if they can win three or four,

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Speaker 4: and the Astros win two of three, I'm starting to

451
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Speaker 4: feel like the Rangers might be on the outside looking

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Speaker 4: in here, and that was a long shot, but they've

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Speaker 4: lost the first two games. I think if I had

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Speaker 4: the guests right now, I'll go Mariners and As just

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Speaker 4: need to win one of the next two, and they

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Speaker 4: hold the tiebreaker. They hold the tiebreaker over the Rangers,

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Speaker 4: so uh, it'll get it'll get really interesting. We'll see

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Speaker 4: what happened. The Mariners and Rangers series is the big

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Speaker 4: one and the Astros just need to win so yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'll be a nervous wreck this evening for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I'm so glad I'm not a fan

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Speaker 3: of any of these teams because I don't know how

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Speaker 3: the fans are handling it.

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Speaker 2: It is up and down, up and down, no one,

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Speaker 2: No one wants to lay it take a hold of

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Speaker 2: the AO West.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's crazy, all right, Ben, listen, I get it,

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Speaker 3: your brother, future Hall of Famer, you have, you know,

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Speaker 3: a soft spot for the Astros. But I'm a Dodgers fan,

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Speaker 3: and we can easily say across the country Astros are

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Speaker 3: so probably hated.

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Speaker 2: What did you.

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Speaker 3: Make on Wednesday when Hector Nevis struck out Julio Rodriguez

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Speaker 3: and walked up to him like he wanted to.

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Speaker 2: Beat him down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't love it. I just felt it was

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Speaker 4: a little bit much. And I get its heat at

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Speaker 4: the moment, and look, I love Julio. Julio is one

479
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Speaker 4: of my favorite guys in the league. Yeah, he didn't

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Speaker 4: do anything there, and There's just struck him out and

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Speaker 4: kind of walked right off, started mouthing off to him.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I didn't love it. It definitely got

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Speaker 4: the team going a little bit, but I feel like

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Speaker 4: there's other ways need a picture, like charging after a

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Speaker 4: batter to charge the team up. But you know, I

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Speaker 4: apparently the drama and sued after I think he reached

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Speaker 4: out to Julio and Julio is basically like, yeah, my

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Speaker 4: guy again. So yeah, I didn't love it. I've never

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Speaker 4: seen it. I've never seen a picture go after a

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Speaker 4: batter and I but you know, it's not really in

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Speaker 4: my nature anyways now.

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Speaker 2: But I think one of the coolest stories. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you'd call them a Cinderella, if it would

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Speaker 2: be considered that, but the Orioles clinching the Al East

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Speaker 2: this week. They became the first team in baseball to

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Speaker 2: have a one hundred and ten plus law season and

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Speaker 2: then one hundred plus win season within three seasons. What's

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Speaker 2: been the biggest turning point for Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: I think it's Adlie Rutchman. You can point to the

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Speaker 4: day Adley came up last year for when it all

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Speaker 4: turned around and they tried to get in the playoffs

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Speaker 4: last year and it came down to the last weekend

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Speaker 4: and they just kind of ran out of time. And

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Speaker 4: this year that young core is I mean, Adley's at

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Speaker 4: the forefront of it. But it's really that young core

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Speaker 4: of guys that they have and there's just more and

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Speaker 4: they just keep coming and keep coming. And to see

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Speaker 4: the turnaround they've had is awesome. I've talked about it

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Speaker 4: all year long, the bird bath that they have going

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Speaker 4: on there in the outfield. We're now just a couple

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Speaker 4: of games away from me getting to go out in

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Speaker 4: Camden yards and sitting the bird baths while people pray

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Speaker 4: water in the air. And yeah, so yeah, the turnaround

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Speaker 4: has been historic, historically great. And I hope if they

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Speaker 4: can get to the ALCS, I hope we can end

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Speaker 4: up there. It's back close to home, so just be

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I love Baltimore, I love that area.

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Speaker 4: I love what the Orioles are doing. And yeah, I

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Speaker 4: don't I don't think this is you know, you don't

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Speaker 4: win one hundred games as a fluke, Like this is

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Speaker 4: the real deal. And they have some pitching question marks

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Speaker 4: heading into the playoffs, but uh, they're they're really good.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the Orioles come out of the.

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Speaker 4: Ale Oh tough.

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Speaker 3: Answer, logically, not with your heart.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know, Ben has the astros, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was this prediction of the me.

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Speaker 4: To be fair, Yeah, take the Astros to get to

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Speaker 4: the World Series, far before my brother ended.

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Speaker 2: Up back on the same Yeah, he was on the.

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Speaker 4: Heart. Look, I'm gonna the Oriols pitching scares me a

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Speaker 4: little bit to starting pitching it. They're unproven in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: It's a very very young team. I think they can

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Speaker 4: get to the Alcs and then I think it's going

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Speaker 4: to be a quite the match up there when it

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Speaker 4: does happen. Look, bias aside, obviously I want my brother

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Speaker 4: in the World Series again, But bias a side, I

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Speaker 4: would love to see the Orioles in it. Uh, they

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Speaker 4: deserve it. They are a lot of fun and I

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Speaker 4: think if we could end up there in the World Series, Uh,

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Speaker 4: it'd be it'd be awesome to see Camden Yards rocking

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Speaker 4: in all the orange.

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Speaker 2: That'd be wild. All right, Well, let's go to the

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Speaker 2: n O wild Card race because that's also wild. Right now,

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Speaker 2: you have the d Backs lose to the Astros last night,

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Speaker 2: Cubs lost again, Miami won last night. Who's making it in?

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Speaker 4: I think I think the Marlins are going to get in.

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Speaker 4: It's the Cubs have kind of I don't the Cubs

549
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Speaker 4: just blew it. There's no way around it. In a

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Speaker 4: boor in a row at the worst time of the year.

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Speaker 4: I think the Marlins are getting going to get in.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's going to be the Phillies, the

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Speaker 4: d Backs, and the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: Now we saw that Miami Mets game get canceled in

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Speaker 2: the top of the ninees on Thursday night, What are

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Speaker 2: the scenarios that they might have to go back and

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Speaker 2: make up that one inning on Monday, because that's wild.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So basically I was looking and I was looking

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Speaker 4: at it today. I think they're going to have to

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Speaker 4: even if they even if they are are clenched, But

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Speaker 4: then there's a scenario in which they just don't go

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Speaker 4: and they would technically take like a four feit loss

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Speaker 4: and it'd be a one nothing lost. Okay, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're they're technically to play one sixty two. They're going

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Speaker 4: to need to go back and finish that game. But

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Speaker 4: if they're you know, if if it ends up mattering

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Speaker 4: for seeding, if they clench the playoffs, but it matters

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Speaker 4: for seating, you'd rather the sixth seed than the five

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Speaker 4: seed anyway. So there's really like they wouldn't want to

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Speaker 4: go back to win the game. It really is going

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Speaker 4: to be weird what they decide to do. Yeah, I've

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Speaker 4: never really seen anything like it, but it's it's going

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Speaker 4: to be interesting.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday with Alex Curry and

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Speaker 3: Montcy Millennials and we have Ben vera Lander talking all

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Speaker 3: things baseball.

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Speaker 2: It gets wild, It's true, But I want to know, what.

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Speaker 3: If you were in charge of the San Diego Padres.

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Speaker 3: They were up and down one of the biggest payrolls

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Speaker 3: this season, but kind of ended on a positive note.

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Speaker 3: You know, like they were in it up until about

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Speaker 3: a few days ago. They still had a chance, telling

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Speaker 3: me there's a chance. So do you take that with

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Speaker 3: you going into the season or do you make all

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Speaker 3: the changes because it didn't work when it mattered earlier

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Speaker 3: in the season.

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Speaker 4: I think there's got to be changes. I mean, who

588
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Speaker 4: cares if you're playing well when it's too late. You know,

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Speaker 4: like they gave it a chance at the end, but

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Speaker 4: you know, they said they're going to reduce the payroll

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Speaker 4: big time. I think we could see Juan Soto gone.

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Speaker 4: Even without like some of the superstars, they can still

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Speaker 4: be a very good team. It just didn't work the

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Speaker 4: way it is. So Yeah, if I were in charge,

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Speaker 4: I feel like i'd probably, I don't know, I'd want

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Speaker 4: to keep the team in place because it's just fun

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Speaker 4: thing having all those stars on the But at the

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Speaker 4: end of the day, it didn't work. You got to

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Speaker 4: make some changes, and I do think they're going to

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Speaker 4: do that. I think they're gonna I think we're going

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Speaker 4: to see some pictures gone and I think Soda is

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Speaker 4: going to be gone too.

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Speaker 2: Wow, more on more for you, Ben, even missing the

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Speaker 2: last month of the season and still the ale MVP favorite.

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Speaker 2: Where do you see show Heo Tani playing next season?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Man, I think if I had to pick right now,

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Speaker 4: I think show He is going to end up with

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers, Meaning, guys, I am going to be at

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Speaker 4: a lot more Dogs and those.

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Speaker 2: Fans love you, Ben. They might be your biggest hater fans.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, that is absolutely true. So next year it'll be

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Speaker 4: fun if show He is there, and I'll be there

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Speaker 4: a lot more, And I don't know, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 4: excited about the thought of it.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 3: I'll go around with you around the stadium and I'll

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Speaker 3: protect you.

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Speaker 9: Ben.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I need that he's going to need a bodyguard.

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Speaker 2: I got you, Ben, Thank you so much for coming on.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow where we will talk so much

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Speaker 2: more and I'll be playoffs on Flipin' Bats on MLB

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Speaker 2: on Fox. You can find that anywhere you listen to

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Speaker 2: your podcast. We're on all social media platforms, so make

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Speaker 2: sure you come hang out with Ben and me throughout

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Speaker 2: the entire postseason. It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, thank guys, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thanks man, thanks for joining us. All right, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: take a quick break when we come back. The Dues

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Speaker 2: Just inside the Nebraska twenty yard line, Wolverines go heavy

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Speaker 2: set Klel Mullins in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: He'll take the handoff. He's got a big hole and

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Speaker 1: he's in the clear. Colele Mullings to the end zone. Touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Wolverines Dot.

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Speaker 3: Doug carsh from lear Field is who you just heard

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Speaker 3: as the Michigan Wolverines are just all over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

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Speaker 3: Twenty one. Nothing is the score. Four minutes to go

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Speaker 3: in the first half. This is why I'm standing because

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Speaker 3: how would I dance to the song if I was sitting.

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Speaker 3: I'm also dancing just in my chair.

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Speaker 2: No, I couldn't. I would have already fallen off the chair.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, I'm here for the energy today. Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Currey alongside Monty Bilanios,

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Speaker 2: studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your Saturday

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Speaker 2: afternoon with Moncey and me. And it is time for

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Speaker 2: the dues and the don'ts in sports.

653
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Speaker 1: Highlighting the dudes. Oh, I love that putting a spotlight

654
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Speaker 1: on the don't.

655
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 2: The subject brings me no joy?

656
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 4: Are you on?

657
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 2: Crack?

658
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports?

659
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 7: Crack?

660
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: Don't you all right?

661
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start. I got a lot of dudes, you

662
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: got a lot of I had a lot of don'ts

663
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: last week. I'm gonna start with the topical you do okay?

664
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Speaker 2: Because we just finished the Colorado USC game Colorado's two

665
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: way player Travis Hunter went bowling with Colorado State player

666
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: Henry Blackburn, the guy who took him out in the

667
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: game the hard hit. They said, everything's good between them,

668
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 2: no hard feelings, and that is what you do. You

669
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: mean a situation like that and we move on. It's

670
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: part of the game. I love that story.

671
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 3: I agree with you. That was such a great way

672
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 3: to tell everybody and their mom Yeah, we're fine, like

673
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 3: everybody chilling, We're good.

674
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: We're good. I've got a good ADU for you. I'm

675
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: super petty. I'm petty. I know.

676
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: James Harden, NBA player apparently had a party.

677
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: I don't know what the party was for Rager of.

678
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 3: Course, of course, let's the goal is to get invited

679
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Speaker 3: to one.

680
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: Of these James Harden parties. Okay.

681
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 3: And he had women with signs that said Daryl Morey

682
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 3: is a liar again.

683
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 2: Yes, Like they were just walking around.

684
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 3: With signs that said, like think of like a like

685
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 3: a like a scorecard and a fight.

686
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: I don't like that. I think it's hilarious. For me

687
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: is if you're gonna do this, then die on the hill.

688
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: You gotta say like keep it. Yeah, Like I'm all

689
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: about what doesn't get moved. I mean, clearly he doesn't care.

690
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 2: That's a separate Clearly he doesn't care.

691
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 3: I think it's hilarious and if you're gonna stick your

692
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 3: guns to it, do it.

693
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go with a happy due. Okay, do

694
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: cry for your son's major league baseball debut. I don't

695
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: know if you saw Orien's Cookering's dad crying for the

696
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: entire inning that his son was pitching for the Phillies.

697
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 2: I mean, it was heartwarming. I was tearing up watching it.

698
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 2: He was smiling with just tears. You could tell he

699
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 2: was just trying to hold back, like the full water works.

700
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 2: Like that's when you realize the time and the commitment

701
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: that goes into really having an athlete child, because it is,

702
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: it's year round. It's until they like the moment they

703
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 2: start playing, to the moment they get into college. Like

704
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 2: that was Do that show your emotion and how proud

705
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: you are? Of course, yes, I agree, I'm with you.

706
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: I gotta don't for you, Okay, I gotta don't.

707
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: All right, the hot Atlanta Braves, they've got a picture

708
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 3: a good one. Spencer Schreider, Yeah, do you hear his

709
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 3: hot take recently what he doesn't want fans in the stadium,

710
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 3: what he wants it like twenty twenty, that was horrible.

711
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 2: I worked, I worked baseball games, and let me tell you,

712
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 2: that was the worst season I have ever covered in

713
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 2: baseball because there's no energy. He's just getting like nervous

714
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: about what fans throwing things.

715
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: No, he just I from what I from what I read,

716
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 3: because I had to do a dive.

717
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: I was like, why would he say this?

718
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: He's a little bit like I guess, anti social, like

719
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 3: introvert a little bit.

720
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 2: So I think that's what it comes from. But he

721
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 2: says that the fans are what ruins it.

722
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: No, and that is to him, he will at least

723
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 3: eliminate the the first bullet and that you could only

724
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: have lim in the likeall outfields.

725
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 2: That's horrible. But don't say that because now in the playoffs,

726
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: whatever team you're gonna play, the fans are gonna go No,

727
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna go hand.

728
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: Don't say that.

729
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: Gave every single a poe using teams fans Hamilton board material.

730
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: Oh that topic, Okay, I got it. Don't for you, Okay,

731
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 2: go uh, don't bring an alligator to a game. As

732
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 2: a service animal. A Phillies fan legit tried to bring

733
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: an alligator to a Phillies game with a service animal

734
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 2: vest on. It was on a leash. I got it, Like,

735
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: is that even street legal?

736
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 3: Right?

737
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 2: What is going on? People? So dumb? So you can't

738
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 2: why do we entertain stupid?

739
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 3: You did not think you were going to get in

740
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 3: with an allegat.

741
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: Walked up to the stadium and tried to bring an

742
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 2: alligator into the game. This doesn't make any sense. All right?

743
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 2: When we come back, we got a lot to talk

744
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Speaker 2: we've got still a great second hour lined up for you.

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Speaker 2: We have NFL Networks Cowboys insider Jans Slater join it,

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Speaker 2: joining us at the bottom of the hour. We're going

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Speaker 2: to keep you updated on all the college football highlights

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00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 2: as they happen. But Monsey, we are a week out,

778
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Speaker 2: less than a week out at this point from the

779
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Speaker 2: NBA preseason. Oh Girl on this week we got a

780
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: blockbuster three team deal with the Blazers dealing Damian Lillard

781
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 2: to the Bucks in a three team deal. Now, this

782
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 2: whole situation started back in early July when Day made

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Speaker 2: it very public that he wanted out of Portland and

784
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: only wanted to go to Miami from the outside looking

785
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 2: in before we got all the information. This is where

786
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 2: I have a little issue with stars in the NBA

787
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 2: and the control they have or think they have when

788
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: they are under contract. Now we've seen this with James Harden.

789
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: He's done this three different times now with three different teams,

790
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: trying to do it again right now to get out

791
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 2: of Philly to trade him even though he's under contract.

792
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: But back to Dame. Dame decided to sign an extension

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00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 2: last summer to stay in Portland. Therefore forfeiting any control

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00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 2: over where you want to play. Okay, July of twenty

795
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: twenty two, he signed that two year extension through the

796
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six twenty seven season. Those two additional years

797
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 2: he would make fifty nine million, and then the twenty

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00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: six twenty seven season sixty three million. Yea'm mnna throw up.

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Speaker 2: You make your bed with that decision. You went for

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00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 2: the money. But honestly, Dame has said from the beginning

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00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 2: he believed that he could bring a championship to Portland,

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00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 2: and I truly believe that he believed that. He bought

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00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 2: in and he thought that Portland was going to surround

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Speaker 2: him and give him the weapons that he needed in

805
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: order to to obtain and reach that goal. That didn't happen,

806
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: and then a year later made a huge switch, demanded

807
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: that he wanted out of Portland and only wanted to

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00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: go to the Miami Heat. But unfortunately, once you commit

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00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 2: those years and you sign that contract, you don't have

810
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 2: a one hundred percent say on where you go. Now,

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Speaker 2: Dave will go down as a Portland legend. Right he

812
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: leaves Portland after eleven seasons. He made seven All Star

813
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: All NBA teams, brought the franchise to eight playoffs, including

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00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: a Western Conference final appearance in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen.

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00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: He ranks first in team history and points and three

816
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 2: pointers and second in assists. That being said, I believe

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00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 2: he ended up in a great spot with the Bucks.

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00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 2: Team wise, it's looking great. You get to play with Gannis,

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00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: one of the best players in the league, arguably the best,

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00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 2: and the Bucks became instant title favorites once he was traded. Now,

821
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 2: you didn't go to your number one choice of where

822
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 2: you wanted to go. But if your goal is to

823
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 2: win a championship, truly, that is your number one and

824
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: only goal. You landed in a good spot totally. He

825
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 2: should be very stoked.

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Speaker 3: So so much has come out in the last couple

827
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 3: of days of everything that happened when Damian Lillard. I

828
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: hate the way that the NBA is like player driven.

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00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: You mentioned James Harden, but let's be real. This all

830
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: started with super teams being created Labron James asking you,

831
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean.

832
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: Like little by little, I think the one right and

833
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 2: that can do something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he started, and maybe he didn't think this

835
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 3: was gonna end up the way it is now. Maybe

836
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 3: that was never the goal, but this is where we are,

837
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 3: and players are doing this. The bigger the player, the

838
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 3: more they get away with. And I agree that I

839
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 3: don't like that either. It's just this is the way

840
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 3: the league is right now in this moment. I never

841
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 3: I'm the type that I wanted.

842
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 2: Dami Aller.

843
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 3: I've been a Damiel Luller fan for years. I wanted

844
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 3: him to stay in Portland, and when he demanded the trade,

845
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, well, you know some things, all.

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00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 2: Good things must come to an end. It hasn't worked out.

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00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 3: That sucks, but okay, let's get him to another team,

848
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 3: give him a chance to compete, because it's almost like

849
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 3: the Mike Trout thing, like you just want him to

850
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: go be able to compete right somewhere else.

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00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: You want to see them consistently playing in the postseason

852
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: right across any sport when you have a star player,

853
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: it's better for the league, yeah, and it's better for viewership.

854
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 2: It's better for everybody when you have your star players

855
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: playing in the postseason right, right.

856
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: And I never thought that Portland needed to do anything

857
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 3: that was not going to be good for them. I

858
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 3: also didn't think that either, right. But Chris Haynes, who

859
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 3: is a bleacher rapport n Beyond TNT, has some stories out.

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00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: I read this on Sports Illustrator, but it comes from him.

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00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 2: So apparently Lillard told.

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00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 3: His agent that if he couldn't go to Miami, that

863
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: he didn't want to be traded, that he would just

864
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 3: stay in Portland, and then the team said nope, doors closed,

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00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 3: which is fair. I disagree. This guy was with you

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00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 3: for eleven years and you just gave all the list

867
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 3: of accolades that he did to put your team in

868
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 3: a small market on the map, So I disagree there.

869
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 2: Then then they said that at the end of the season.

870
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: Lillard was approached by the team and was like, hey,

871
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 3: don't play the last ten games. Let us get a

872
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: better draft pick that we can trade for a veteran

873
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 3: player to support you.

874
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 2: He did not want to do this.

875
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 3: He agreed reluctantly to not play the last ten games

876
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 3: the Blazers won one to nine, get a high draft pick.

877
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 3: They get Scoot Henderson, a point guard.

878
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 2: He's still there. Are you kidding me?

879
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 7: Blazers.

880
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: I did not have any negative feelings towards the Blazers organization.

881
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 2: Now I do. Now I'm like, well, screw you guys.

882
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 3: Then this is how you treated your best player ever.

883
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 3: Like you said, he is a Hall of Fame Blazer,

884
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 3: There's no question about it. Once he was traded to

885
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 3: my I'm sorry to Milwaukee, Damian Lillard kept retweeting tweets

886
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 3: random ones. One that he retweeted from a Blazers fan

887
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 3: page was I truly believe Damien is gonna go win

888
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 3: a championship and he's gonna come back, put on a

889
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 3: Blazer's uniform again and retire. And he retweeted that, and

890
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 3: then in his goodbye he even said, this isn't a goodbye,

891
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,439
Speaker 3: this is a i'll see you later, Like he's gonna

892
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 3: come back.

893
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 2: That's his Homebler to what Lebron did.

894
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 3: Sure, back to Cleveland, but now Lebron's in, you know,

895
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 3: and as a Laker like he's he's everywhere.

896
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he did. He went back like he couldn't,

897
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,919
Speaker 2: he couldn't bring Cleveland a championship his first round there,

898
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 2: goes to Miami, then comes back and wins them a championship.

899
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 3: Right, And so I don't think he's gonna come back

900
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 3: and win them a championship, but he's gonna come back

901
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 3: and end as a.

902
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 2: Blazer as it should.

903
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 3: I I don't care that he asked for a trade,

904
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 3: and then you you don't, but you gotta look at

905
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 3: you gotta look.

906
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 2: At this organization, right, Yeah, let's look at it. That

907
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: just paid Dame millions of dollars a huge contract. He

908
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: decided to stay, Okay, and then very publicly, this is

909
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 2: where once you air out things that are going on.

910
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

911
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: You leak some information and it's outside internal conversations. If

912
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 2: he kept this internal and just was talking with Portland,

913
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 2: was like, hey, I see what you're doing. I respect

914
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: the fact that you guys are in a semi rebuild.

915
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 2: It it's not a win now. I would like to

916
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 2: be traded. And if it was kept internally and he

917
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 2: just talked to Portland about it and then they couldn't

918
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: bring him to Miami and he wanted to come back,

919
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 2: that I understand because you respected the fact that you

920
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 2: kept it between you and the team. The fact that

921
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 2: he made it a very public, extremely public situation and

922
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: kind of like, don't I don't want to use like

923
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,479
Speaker 2: the expression kind of had him up against the wall.

924
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 2: I only want to go to one team. I only

925
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: want to go to Miami. It's the only place I

926
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: want to go. You don't have that freedom after you

927
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: you sign a contract, you are under contract with Portland.

928
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: You made that decision, and you know what it was

929
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 2: at the time, it was a great decision for you. You

930
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 2: got paid, you got your extension, but you made the

931
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 2: decision to sign on the dotted line and sign over

932
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 2: that freedom to choose where you want to go. So

933
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 2: if you wanted to move, you could have very respectively,

934
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 2: behind closed doors, had that conversation with the franchise that

935
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: you have been with for over a decade.

936
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 3: How do you know those conversations didn't happen. We don't know,

937
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 3: So how do.

938
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 2: You How do you but the fact that it became public?

939
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 5: Right?

940
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 2: But how do we d and it was messy already.

941
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 2: The moment you come public and you demand a trade,

942
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: forcing someone's hand because you're talking about it publicly and

943
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 2: you only want to go to one spot. The moment

944
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: you turn around and go, well, the deal doesn't get

945
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: done in Miami, I want to come back to Portland.

946
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 2: Uh ah. They have every to say. There's no coming

947
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 2: back from this. The damage is done.

948
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 3: How do you not know that the disrespect to Dame

949
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: didn't happen when he made it publicly.

950
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 2: We don't know the private conversations that.

951
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 3: He don't know the point, We don't know what was

952
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 3: said behind closed doors. Dame has never stepped out of

953
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 3: line when it came to the team that he represented

954
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 3: and literally put on a map. We have no idea

955
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 3: where the disrespects started, but I will tell.

956
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: You didn't just happen. What went on between the two

957
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 2: of them. So if Portland goes not right now, we

958
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: need some time. You wanted a trade, We're gonna give

959
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 2: you a trade. It's not gonna be to your number

960
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 2: one spot, but hey, guess what, in the long run,

961
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 2: this might be an even better spot for you. They

962
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 2: did him right. They did do that do him. They

963
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: did not send him to a team that is not

964
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: in the conversation. They are now immediately the Bucks with

965
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 2: Dame and Yannis are immediately a title favorite. They did

966
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 2: him well. Sure, considering the situation that we don't know

967
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 2: what went on behind closed.

968
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 3: Well, no, But we do know is that they benched

969
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 3: him when he didn't want to be bench told them

970
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: this is what we're gonna do, and then didn't do it.

971
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 3: Unless Chris Hanes is lying, we do know that that

972
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 3: happened last year, so this has been for years.

973
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things coming out now that the

974
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: deal is done. We saw Jimmy Butler claiming tampering, which

975
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: is a lot when he's also just upset. But it

976
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 2: was a shrybody in this trade. In this three team

977
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: trade did well. The Bucks are better. Portland has a

978
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 2: bright future. Sons got rid of what they needed, yeah,

979
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: what they needed to get done, and Miami got like

980
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 2: nothing in this deal. But they thought they were gonna

981
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: be in this deal, and it's just they're just the

982
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: same and they're gonna be fine. They just didn't get Dame.

983
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 3: One thing for sure is the biggest loser is Miami here.

984
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 3: But there's mixed stories that they didn't seem to really get.

985
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 3: There's a story that they seem to not really care

986
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 3: that there wasn't a lot of talks after the initial

987
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 3: talks after Damien came out and said.

988
00:48:59,360 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: This is what I want.

989
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 3: Apparently Miami and Portland had initial talks and then they

990
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 3: didn't continue. So I don't know if it was that

991
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 3: Miami just didn't want to. I don't know who knows, right.

992
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 3: But the whole thing with Jimmy Butler was obviously a joke.

993
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 3: You can't tamper if the Blazers gave permission to Damian

994
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 3: Lillard to seek a trade, If they gave him permission,

995
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 3: you can't tamper.

996
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: It's just it's all entertainment.

997
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 3: I love Jimmy Butler. I thought it was super funny.

998
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 3: I thought it was super funny. Just some people took

999
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 3: it seriously and it was like it was a joke.

1000
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 3: You guys, they can't tamper. They literally gave him permission.

1001
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 3: But I think what I'm saying my point is that

1002
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 3: I think Damian Lillard was disrespected and we just didn't

1003
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 3: know about it, and that's why he demanded the trade.

1004
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: Also, which could be a public as Portland felt a

1005
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 2: disrespect to the franchise. So it was both. It was

1006
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: it wasn't going to work out. The damage was done

1007
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 2: on both sides, as we are now finding out. And

1008
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 2: if that cryptic retweet is something that ends up coming

1009
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 2: to Fruition after his time with the Bucks and he

1010
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: comes back to Portland and finish his career in a

1011
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 2: Trailblazers Jersey, than great. But right now it wasn't gonna

1012
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: work between the two and he needed really there needed

1013
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 2: to be separation and space. I think they did him well.

1014
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 2: I think he is going to succeed and be great

1015
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 2: with the Bucks, and you're honest, and this is gonna

1016
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 2: be fun. It's a new era, a new era, a

1017
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 2: new era, and NBA seasons right around the corner. Too excited.

1018
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 3: I just hope Kawhi Leonard and Paul George play more

1019
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 3: than three games together.

1020
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking for, guys. That's it. It's a

1021
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 2: hard ask. I know about under three. That is a

1022
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: hard ask. All right, we're gonna take a quick break here,

1023
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 2: but when we come back, we have NFL Networks Cowboys

1024
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 2: insider Jane Slater joining us at the bottom of the hour.

1025
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:48,880
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1026
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,040
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1027
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,440
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1028
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1029
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:00,439
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1030
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 7: He's just a kid that we all knew in a

1031
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 7: multitude of our fans, you know, and some of you

1032
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 7: wonderful with brilliant writers, know that if we would have

1033
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 7: got that ball last we were going to go down

1034
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 7: the score.

1035
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: We knew that.

1036
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 7: We know that, everybody in here knows that his teammates

1037
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 7: knew that. And that's just what he brings to the table.

1038
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 7: He's unflappable. If you can't see what's coming, would see

1039
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 7: you football, You've lost your man. You just a flat

1040
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 7: out hater. If you can't see what's going on and

1041
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 7: what's going to transpire over the next several months. Something's

1042
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 7: wrong with you.

1043
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 3: We were wondering what Deon Sanders was going to say after.

1044
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: That good loss. We got it, We heard it. Yeah,

1045
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 2: I mean it was insane. They only lost by seven, like,

1046
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 2: and they easily if they had another opportunity, and as

1047
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 2: he mentioned, if the ball was in shod Or Sanders' hands,

1048
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 2: they could have had a possibility to tie it up,

1049
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 2: maybe take that game. USC beat themselves in that second

1050
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 2: mainly fourth quarter right there. But that was a great game,

1051
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 2: great game, and that was a great game. Two big

1052
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 2: players were out for Colorado.

1053
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's another thing to keep in mind. Yep, yeah, No,

1054
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 3: it's great.

1055
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 2: That was some great adjustments from coach Prime in Colorado.

1056
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry alongside

1057
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 2: Moncy Belanos. We are broadcasting live from the Diirec dot

1058
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: Com studios in Los Angeles. We have NFL Networks Cowboys

1059
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 2: insider Jane Slater joining us at the bottom of the hour.

1060
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 2: But as we head into week four of the NFL,

1061
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 2: let's take a look around the NFL at who is

1062
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 2: overperforming and who is underperforming? Now, I want to say

1063
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 2: overperforming is a good thing, just to just to make

1064
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 2: sure everybody, Okay, yeah, there's a lot of hype and

1065
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 2: you're living up to the hype. So I'm going to

1066
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 2: start in Miami, all right. I love it the Dolphins.

1067
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 2: I will continue to say that I am extremely impressed

1068
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 2: to see what Tua has done this season. Now, there

1069
00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 2: were a lot of questions, still can he stay healthy

1070
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 2: this offseason? That was kind of the main focus with

1071
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 2: all of the concussions that he had last season, and

1072
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 2: if another one happens like that really has to come

1073
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 2: into question. What is his future? But you cannot deny

1074
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 2: how well Tua is thriving in Mike McDaniel's offense. They

1075
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 2: put on a clinic against Denver last weekend, scoring seventy

1076
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 2: will also not having their top two weapon in Jaln Wattle,

1077
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 2: who wasn't on the field. But offensively, you guys, their

1078
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 2: numbers say it all. They are first in points per game,

1079
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 2: they are first in total yards per game, they are

1080
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 2: first in passing yards per game, they are first in

1081
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 2: rushing yards per game. Tua's numbers, he's fifth in completion percentage,

1082
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 2: first in passer rating, and they have a huge divisional

1083
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 2: rivalry game this weekend against the Bills in Buffalo. Right now,

1084
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 2: they're the best team in the AFC East. They are

1085
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 2: the only three to zero team in the AFC. I'm

1086
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 2: feeling good about Miami. So this is what I'm gonna say.

1087
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 3: I don't think they're overachieving. I think they're doing what

1088
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 3: a lot of people thought. Did you know that through

1089
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 3: the first three games.

1090
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 2: I said overperforming?

1091
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 3: Oh, overperforming even even so, Yeah, so I still I

1092
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 3: don't I don't think so. I think they're doing what

1093
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 3: people thought they were gonna do.

1094
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 2: It's a good thing. Yeah, But to a Togo my loa,

1095
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 2: through the first three games, this.

1096
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,439
Speaker 3: Is a crazy stat Yeah, is the exact same as

1097
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 3: last year through the first three games, exactly the same, identical,

1098
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 3: identical sonmbers are identical, right, It's insane.

1099
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 2: And they have the numbers of Yeah.

1100
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 3: So seventy two out of one hundred and one attempts,

1101
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 3: eight touchdowns, two interceptions over the first three game exactly

1102
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 3: the same.

1103
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 2: There was like a couple more more stats that were

1104
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 2: exactly were like exactly the same, and you're like, oh

1105
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 2: that wait, so there's a similar Oh here we go. Yeah,

1106
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. First

1107
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 2: three games, he's three and zero, one hundred and one

1108
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 2: pass attempts correct, seventy two pass completions, and then the

1109
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,959
Speaker 2: past touch yeah, touchdown the interceptions into crazy, right. Yeah,

1110
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 2: So they had this last year and then you just

1111
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: mentioned it.

1112
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 3: Injuries a huge part of it, like the Wildcard round

1113
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 3: against the Bills where they lost by three, but.

1114
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 2: Remember what the quarterback was, Skyler Thompson.

1115
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, because at that point Teddy Bridgewater was also under

1116
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 3: concussion protocol.

1117
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 2: So like they they've had it, they've had the weapons.

1118
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,399
Speaker 3: But I will say where they are overperforming is that.

1119
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 2: Right, over achieving overperforming.

1120
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 3: What you're saying where they are overperforming is their run game. Specifically,

1121
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 3: through the first three games, the Dolphins have rushed for

1122
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 3: five hundred and sixty five yards. Last year they had

1123
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 3: a total of sixteen hundred and eighty six. So if

1124
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 3: you want to know what the math is, they're on

1125
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 3: track for three thousand, three hundred and ninety rushing yards. Obviously,

1126
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 3: having Raheem Moster also on the roster is a big

1127
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 3: part of it. So that's where I think they're overperforming.

1128
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 3: But I think they're really delivering what a lot of

1129
00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 3: people thought.

1130
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 2: Ye, it's just last Sure, they're living up to the hype.

1131
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 2: They're living up to the hype.

1132
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year they had it and then unlucky, unlucky.

1133
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 2: Why three concussions? No, yeah, in a couple months. That's

1134
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 2: that's life changing. That is life.

1135
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 3: But even the fact that Teddy Bridgewater doesn't get to play,

1136
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 3: your initial backup doesn't get to play in that wild

1137
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 3: card round against the Bills and you lose by three

1138
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 3: y like it was there, it was there, it was

1139
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:25,720
Speaker 3: you know, so good for them.

1140
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 2: I know, good for them. And then putting seventy up

1141
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 2: on Denver. You're just like, so, I wht to talk

1142
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 2: about that teams that are underperforming. Let's go back and

1143
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 2: let's go back and forth. Yeah, yeah, we can't have

1144
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 2: this conversation without addressing the elephant in the room. That

1145
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 2: elephant is Denver. You have a super Bowl winning coach,

1146
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 2: a super Bowl winning quarterback and they cannot figure it out.

1147
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 2: You also gave up a hell of a lot to

1148
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 2: get both of them in the building and it's not working.

1149
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 2: But the crazy thing is Russ isn't doing that bad

1150
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 2: right in the first half. His first half numbers are great,

1151
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: but then the defense figures them out in the second

1152
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 2: and he can't adjust. It's literally the tail of two quarterbacks.

1153
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 2: Russ is one of the better quarterbacks in the first half.

1154
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 2: He has the best passer rating among all quarterbacks in

1155
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 2: the first half, and he is tied for first for

1156
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 2: most passing touchdowns in the first half, tied with Ma

1157
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 2: Homes in golf. That's crazy. It's crazy. But then, like

1158
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 2: I said, tailor two quarterbacks. In the second half, Russ

1159
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: is thirty second out of thirty four qualifying quarterbacks in

1160
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 2: passer rating in the second half. He went from the

1161
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 2: best to the worst from the first and the second half.

1162
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: And then obviously, Denver's defense has taken a heat after

1163
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 2: giving up seventy points to Miami last weekend, as they

1164
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 2: should because their defense is bottom of the barrel. There

1165
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 2: are thirty first in red zone defense, last in points allowed,

1166
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 2: last in scoring and rushing defense, twenty ninth in past defense,

1167
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 2: and twenty seventh in sacks.

1168
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1169
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 2: No, that game, I was like, did y'all.

1170
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: Just give up?

1171
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 2: I'm so confused here.

1172
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,439
Speaker 3: And remember last week when we when we talked about

1173
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 3: the Broncos, and I told you I was like, there's

1174
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 3: moments that I see Russell Wilson and I see it.

1175
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 2: It's there.

1176
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just like you just said, Staff, it does.

1177
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 3: It's not enough. It's not enough, and it's not working.

1178
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 3: So I agree with you under achieving, But obviously the

1179
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 3: big team for me that's underachieving.

1180
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 2: As a Chargers fan is them. Yeah, dude, Like, and

1181
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. It's I can't figure

1182
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 2: it out. They're there, there's close. They're close, right, They're

1183
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: scoring a lot of points, but then their defense is

1184
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 2: giving up a lot of points. And they had their

1185
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 2: defense and they have a defensive coach which is alarming, alarming,

1186
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: and they have good players.

1187
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 3: So I like sit here and wonder. I'm like, Okay,

1188
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 3: is it the coaching. I know we want to put

1189
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 3: it on Brandon Staley because he is a defensive minded

1190
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 3: coach and the defense seems to just lose it at

1191
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 3: the worst times.

1192
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 2: But it's not just him.

1193
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: J C.

1194
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 2: Jackson.

1195
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 3: Week through two, you had a penalty that made no sense,

1196
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 3: and then the Miami hits a field goal and we

1197
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 3: lose by dough Yeah, like, like you've been close, but

1198
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 3: these decisions, these brain farts.

1199
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 2: It's like there's no discipline.

1200
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna use that no discipline, and then I wonder

1201
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 3: maybe they don't like each What is it that's not clicking?

1202
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1203
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 3: They're not click clicking, clicking like you and I, Alex, like,

1204
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 3: I just don't understand what it is with the Chargers.

1205
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 2: Is it the coach? Is it discipline? Is it that

1206
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 2: you don't like each other?

1207
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 3: I can't figure it out, and it's annoying as a

1208
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 3: Chargers fan.

1209
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 2: They can't like I.

1210
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 3: Don't but losing by points, by three, by two, and

1211
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 3: this isn't last year, like guys, we can't. It's the

1212
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 3: same story, different day, same story, different.

1213
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: I'm sweating, but you just but you just paid your quarterback.

1214
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 2: All right. You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex

1215
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 2: Curry alongside Mancy Bilano's We are broadcasting live from tyrock

1216
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 2: dot Com Studios in Los Angeles, and our next guest

1217
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 2: is one of the best insiders in the NFL. She's

1218
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 2: got all the scoop on a Erica's team that's the Cowboys,

1219
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 2: and I have been trying to get her on our

1220
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 2: show since day one. So please welcome NFL Networks Jane later, Jane,

1221
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 2: we did it? Are you kidding me?

1222
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 5: I've been trying to get on the door shore, So Alex,

1223
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 5: thank you for fitting me ed too much. I love you,

1224
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 5: Hi Hones, do you.

1225
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 2: Want to hear you so much? I know when you're here.

1226
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 2: I'm just everybody. Everybody needs to know and fall in

1227
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 2: love with Jane Slater. She is the best today.

1228
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 5: Alex is like small queen, Like if you're having a

1229
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 5: bad day, just take your energy, bottle it up and

1230
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 5: take it wherever else you're going. So thank you for

1231
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 5: having me on your show. Can't waste talk Cowboys?

1232
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 2: I right, I love this love pest. Okay, let's talk

1233
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 2: about your cowboys because tough and really kind of surprising

1234
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: loss last weekend. What was the biggest issue that you

1235
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 2: saw with the Cowboys?

1236
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 5: I truly don't think it was just the absence of

1237
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 5: Trayvon Diggs, right, Like Jordan Lewis has been gone, he's

1238
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 5: been coming back from a list Frank injury, he moved.

1239
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 5: He Ron Bland had a really impressive rookie season. But

1240
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 5: I think ultimately what happened is they I think they

1241
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 5: maybe slupped on the Cordiners a little bit. The fact

1242
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 5: that Josh Dobbs and Biershue on the road in Glendale.

1243
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 5: I don't think the Cowboys have lost back to back games,

1244
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 5: and like, I think it's twenty six games, so I

1245
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 5: anticipate they're gonna win this one. But I do think

1246
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 5: that the Patriot's gonna make it tough. It was Ceedee

1247
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 5: Lamb who talked about it this week. He said, Bill Belichick,

1248
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 5: when he seems things up, he's gonna drop three safeties

1249
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 5: on you. He might put a safety on the edge

1250
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 5: for you. So they've got to just be prepared for

1251
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 5: anything and everything. And I don't know if you guys

1252
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 5: saw this. They went viral. Built Belichick's scouting report of

1253
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 5: the Cowboys. Most coaches will call out numbers, right, Yeah,

1254
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 5: he knew names, he knew assignments, he knew alignments.

1255
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 4: I as a reporter.

1256
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 5: Found myself intimidated by his scouting report of the Cowboys, like,

1257
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 5: oh my god, Patriots last thousand. But I just when

1258
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 5: I look at these teams on paper, they literally don't

1259
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 5: have enough passing threats. In other words, they're gonna lean

1260
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 5: on the running back, which I think is dko Ol.

1261
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 5: It's gonna have a very inspired game, but they're going

1262
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 5: to lean on their tight ends. You know, you've got

1263
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 5: Mike Casecki get there, You've got Hunter. I just I

1264
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 5: don't think that they have that many receiving threats. So

1265
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 5: this is truly on the defense and shut this down.

1266
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 5: But the Cowboys, they have absolutely need to get their

1267
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 5: red done going and they need to get their wide

1268
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 5: receivers going.

1269
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hi Ja, thanks for joining us on this Saturday.

1270
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 2: I'm going to take you back a couple of weeks.

1271
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 2: You're there, You're in the middle of it.

1272
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 3: What was the vibe, the atmosphere when the Cowboys got

1273
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 3: Trey Lance?

1274
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 2: What was the ceiling?

1275
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 5: Here's what I will say about this locker room. It's

1276
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 5: strong enough to handle it. And I love Dak's almost

1277
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 5: his vulnerability in the sense that he said, this is

1278
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 5: Dallas Cowboys. Business is business. Nothing surprises him. That's how

1279
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 5: I feel. I've covered this team for eight years' NFL network,

1280
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 5: thirteen years outside of it. I worked locally, I worked

1281
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 5: in radio, you name it. Nothing surprises me. And what

1282
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 5: shocked me. And I've talked to people close to this situation.

1283
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 5: Demon Jones and these guys made this decision unilouterly. They

1284
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 5: felt they needed to pull the trigger without even talking

1285
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 5: to Mike McCarthy. So Mike didn't have a say in this,

1286
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,919
Speaker 5: Dak didn't have a say in this. They literally just said,

1287
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 5: we want to put this guy on our roster. And

1288
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 5: if you think about it, they got it for a

1289
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 5: pretty good price. And the big thing about the Cowboys

1290
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 5: is and I thought this was interesting. Mike McCarthy pointed

1291
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 5: out this week he really builds in young He calls

1292
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 5: it young guns, young guns assignment periods. In other words,

1293
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 5: most young guns like Trey Lance. Because Koop of Russia

1294
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Speaker 5: is the obvious stock of quarterbacks, they're not getting a

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Speaker 5: lot of reps. Mike McCarthy is going out of his way,

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Speaker 5: not just Trey Lance, not just on offense, but also

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Speaker 5: on defense. Knowing the use of this roster, you've got

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Speaker 5: to be prepared for some of the turnover and honestly

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Speaker 5: and against steering the way. Even just from that conversation,

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Speaker 5: the offensive line was we can get into that in

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Speaker 5: a second. He went out of his way this summer

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Speaker 5: to make sure that they dealt with in practice multiple

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Speaker 5: offensive line combinations because it bit them last year. So

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Speaker 5: Trey Lance, everyone I've talked to said that he sort

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01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 5: of got burned in San Francisco. He looked good, he

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Speaker 5: had the injury, but it was almost like he needed

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Speaker 5: a new message, he needed a new voice. They kind

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01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 5: of sowered on him internally, but a lot of people

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Speaker 5: haven't soured on him in terms of his potential and

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Speaker 5: his ability to play. And I don't think this is

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Speaker 5: going to affect Dak moving forward. But I do think

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Speaker 5: this is going to affect Dak in the sense of

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Speaker 5: he may not have as much leverage as he had before,

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Speaker 5: making contract negotiations interesting.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Dak because he had a costly fourth

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Speaker 2: quarter turnover in the end zone. Is there concern surrounding

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Speaker 2: Dak this week, especially facing one of the best defensive

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Speaker 2: coaches this weekend of Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: You know, I.

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Speaker 5: Actually reached out to someone that I know inside the building.

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Speaker 5: I said, is there any chance you guys are playing

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Speaker 5: a little bit more conservatively offensively? In light of all

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Speaker 5: the interceptions he had last He said, Look, we've talked

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Speaker 5: about this ad nausea. Every interception has a story, not

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Speaker 5: all of it's on Dak. Some of it is the

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Speaker 5: timing with his receivers, some of it was the protections

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Speaker 5: on this offensive line. We can go on and on

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Speaker 5: every it's evan flow of the game, but it has

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Speaker 5: felt like they have been more cognizant of that and

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Speaker 5: mitigating that. And I thought it was interesting that Dak

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Speaker 5: last week said, if I've got to use my legs

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Speaker 5: more to make place happen, I'll do it. And if

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Speaker 5: you guys will think back to last season, they kind

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Speaker 5: of heart off flow as well. And thank god they

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Speaker 5: brought in this young kicker, Autrey because he's been prior

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Speaker 5: for them, so was Mahert. Mahert obviously let him down

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Speaker 5: in the postseason, but bringing him in, it felt like

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Speaker 5: most of their offense was on the kicking legs. It's

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Speaker 5: feeling very similar to that. But one of my buddies,

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Speaker 5: Patrick Walkert Dellsawboys dot Comedy, is this is really interesting

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01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 5: to dive into stat and he knows is the cob.

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Speaker 5: We literally are not throwing any passes of twenty or

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Speaker 5: more in the middle of the field. Why is that?

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Speaker 5: I thought that that was so not one game. Now,

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Speaker 5: granted there's been a lot of outside conditions. You had

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Speaker 5: the weather in New York, et cetera. But the person

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Speaker 5: reached out to me, and they said, no, Jane, that's

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Speaker 5: not it. You know, we're just every game has a

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Speaker 5: different story, you can tell me that, But it still

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Speaker 5: feels like you're playing very conservatively.

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Speaker 2: Now, this game's going to have an emotional story attached

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Speaker 2: to it. As you mentioned, Zeke will be back in Dallas,

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Speaker 2: but on the visitor side, I'm sure there's going to

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Speaker 2: be a lot of emotion for Zeke. Do you expect

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Speaker 2: Jerry and Dallas to do any kind of tribute for

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Speaker 2: him when he's back in the building, right, I don't think.

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Speaker 5: He's going in the Ring of Honor before Jimmy Johnson,

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Speaker 5: so everyone like everyone to calm down. That would cause

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Speaker 5: all sorts of ways, huh. But I do think that

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Speaker 5: they'll probably do some inspired video of him leaping over defenders.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I always think of him in a

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Speaker 5: Salvation Army kettle drive, you know, jumping in the bucket

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Speaker 5: and yeah, you know it was. The area code in

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Speaker 5: Dallas for people that aren't familiar, is two and four,

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Speaker 5: and Zeke is obviously twenty one, doc is four, so

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Speaker 5: it's always a two and four. And you do miss him,

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Speaker 5: like when he's got in the locker room, you missed

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Speaker 5: the levity, you missed the fun. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 5: he should have come back, but I was shocked when

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Speaker 5: I taught to him this week. He said there was

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Speaker 5: minimal conversations about him attorney, and I found that a

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Speaker 5: little bit unfortunate. Do I think that he would help

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Speaker 5: with their red zone woes?

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, right now, they're six or fifteen,

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Speaker 5: which is tough. They keep going to Jake Ferguson. Jake

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Speaker 5: Ferguson has more looks inside the twenty than Brandon Cook's,

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Speaker 5: Tony Pollard and Stevie Lamb combined, which is wild to me.

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Speaker 5: But I do think that people had to We talked

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Speaker 5: about this couple years ago. You yet to pick your poison.

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Speaker 5: When Zeke is on the field, and last week seeing

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Speaker 5: him go for eighty yards on sixteen carries, I anticipate

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Speaker 5: he's gonna have a very inspired game based on again,

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Speaker 5: going at what he said to me, minimal conversations. It's

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Speaker 5: almost like dating guys, right like, you know, I liked her,

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Speaker 5: but I wasn't serious about her. When do you level up, ladies?

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Speaker 5: What a man says, I don't know if you're the one.

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Speaker 5: You're like, Oh, I'll show you that I'm the one, right,

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Speaker 5: I anticipate that from Zeke this week and this run events,

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Speaker 5: by the way, didn't look that great against the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: block weekend. So Jonathan Hankins, Mazzie Smith trying to step up,

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Speaker 5: give some book at the middle.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday with Alex Curry and

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Speaker 3: Moncie Belanjielsen.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to NFL Networks.

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Speaker 3: Jane Slater, all things Cowboys. They have a tough season.

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Speaker 3: The rest it's a tough one. I was just looking

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Speaker 3: at their schedule. What is it a realistic number you

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Speaker 3: think they're gonna end with? What do you what's their goal?

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Speaker 5: It's a great question, Alex. But here's where I would say,

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01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 5: like they ended up going twelve and five last season

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Speaker 5: and the season before that, right, and they always have

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Speaker 5: one of these like lay an egg games. You know

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Speaker 5: they had it with the Broncos a couple of years ago.

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01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 5: That Cardinals game was embarrassing, and I hope that that

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Speaker 5: Cardinals game doesn't invite them at the end. I do

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Speaker 5: think it's going to haunt them a little bit. Yep,

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Speaker 5: that's that game they should have won. But I also

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Speaker 5: think maybe we should give the Cardinals a little bit

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Speaker 5: more credit, right, Are we overlooking them a bit? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean they're not following the script. No, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: But to your point, it is a very, very tough

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Speaker 5: schedule for the Cowboys moving forward. Now there's a lot

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Speaker 5: of room for error, and this injury bug has been significant.

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Speaker 5: Losing all three of your like all pro offensive linemen. Yes,

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Speaker 5: that was incredible. I tend to think that this week.

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Speaker 5: I still don't think you're sty Tyler Smith. It's not

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Speaker 5: feeling very confident from some of the courses I've talked to.

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Speaker 5: But I do think if you can get Tyler Biattish back,

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Speaker 5: which is huge your center, and if you can get

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Speaker 5: Zach Mark back to your right guard, that's big. Replacing

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01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 5: those guys last minute, that was a big deal last week.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be tough. You got Patriots forty

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01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 2: nine ers, Chargers by Rams, Eagles that who Jane always

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Speaker 2: I know, but uh, this is gonna be great. This

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Speaker 2: is gonna be a must watch game this weekend. Jane,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us Insane Cowboys Insight.

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Speaker 2: We love you. We can't wait to have you back on.

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Speaker 5: Always love you guys. I will be on anytime you

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Speaker 5: ask me.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Jane, taking advantage of that. All right, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: take one more break when we come back Monty and

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Speaker 10: Two tight ends on the right, Bakes and Dingle shift

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Speaker 10: over to the left and there's.

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Speaker 1: A handoff for Davis. But hold on side by thirty five.

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Speaker 1: Welcome bye, He's across the thirty hory ten fine touchdown

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Speaker 1: two seventy four.

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Speaker 3: Yards, seventy five yards.

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Speaker 2: That was wild Wildcats Radio Network.

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Speaker 3: This player Ray Davis twenty six carries two hundred and

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Speaker 3: eighty yards, three touchdowns. Kentucky beat Florida twenty two Florida

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Speaker 3: number twenty two, thirty three fourteen.

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Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry alongside Moncy Belanos.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Tirek dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, and it is time for some NFL

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Speaker 2: game pick. So Producer Leeve lead us through.

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Speaker 10: Well, Alex, nothing to sneeze at last week you went

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Speaker 10: two and two?

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01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 2: But hey, are we bringing in? Are we bringing the

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Speaker 2: week before?

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Speaker 3: But but but Monsey went four and oh last yeah yeah, Fortunately,

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Speaker 3: just text Brandon and he doesn't remember the full total.

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Speaker 2: They have it next week. I think we're either tied

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Speaker 2: or I'm in the lead here for you. That's a covenient,

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Speaker 2: convenient covenia. Bo I did go four and all. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you well.

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Speaker 10: Moving on to week four, we got a Battle of

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Speaker 10: the AFC East to kick it off.

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Speaker 1: A few time. Dolphins at Bills.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Dolphins at Bills. What you got? All right?

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna roll the Dolphins here. The offense has

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Speaker 2: been red hot. They're getting Jayleen waddleback, he cleared concussion protocols.

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Speaker 2: This is me jumping on the Fins bandwagon. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a huge showdown. But I'm going with Dolphins to dooa.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'm jumping on that bandwagon. If you they literally

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Speaker 3: for fantasy football. They're like, do you have a Miami player?

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01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 3: Play them all? All of them, play them all, is

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Speaker 3: what they're saying. Yeah Dolphins, Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 10: Game said Cowboys Jerry's World. We got Patriots at Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm calling a bounce back game for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: But it's gonna be close. Obviously. We just talked to

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Speaker 2: Jane Slater. They have three big olne guys that are out.

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01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 2: Dak was struggling and he's going up against the best

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Speaker 2: defensive coach in the league. But Jane said, they're they're

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01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 2: looking good, they're figuring it out. They are having an emotion,

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Speaker 2: probably an emotional game from Zeke who's on the Patriots

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Speaker 2: now coming back into the building. But I am taking

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Uh, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I don't like to agree with you to the t,

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Speaker 3: but I agree with to the te that it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be close.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be close, and I do think

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be the Cowboys. Yeah. Yeah, Like it's it's

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01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 2: not gonna be easy. It's not, but I do think

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Speaker 2: Dallas bounces back.

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Speaker 10: Game three, we have a battle between the O and

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Speaker 10: three is the one everyone's looking forward to Broncos.

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Speaker 1: It bears a.

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Speaker 2: Dumpster fire matchup. But it's something that it's so bad

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Speaker 2: you can't look away. These are the two worst defensive

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Speaker 2: teams in the NFL. So I don't know, maybe we

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Speaker 2: see a shootout. Maybe. I mean, like we just talked about,

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Speaker 2: Russ is the best first half quarterback. This is a

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01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 2: must win for Denver, and Russ needs to come out

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01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 2: and be that best first half quarterback and just put

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01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 2: up a ton of points. So hopefully it's so much

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01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 2: so that the defense can maybe hold on to a

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01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 2: win for them. Yeah, yeah, no, it's yeah, Broncos need

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Speaker 2: this one.

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Speaker 3: I just recommend that Taylor Swift go to this game

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Speaker 3: so somebody watches it.

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01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 2: Oh no, people might RECOMMI watch it because it's like,

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01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 2: you know, when you drive by, like an accident, you

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01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 2: can't look away. It's one of these I think this

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01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:39,799
Speaker 2: is just like it's so bad you can't look away.

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Speaker 10: Somehow the NFL got all the and three teams together

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01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 10: to face each other off the game.

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Speaker 1: Four Vikings said Panthers.

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Speaker 2: All right, both, as you mentioned, both own three teams.

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Speaker 2: Someone's gonna get their first win. I think it's the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: I have the pieces, Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson are going

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01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 2: to get it done this week. Yeah. Yeah, I don't

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01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 2: like it. I don't like my answer with Vikings. I

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01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't like gay colf Minnesota all right,

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01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 2: And finally, Chiefs are Jets. It's Chiefs. It's the tailor,

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Speaker 2: it's a Taylor Swift Sunday night football. That's it. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you next Saturday, guys,