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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. You weren't ready for

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Speaker 1: this level of chaos to come at you on a Sunday,

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Speaker 1: But that's exactly what's about to happen for the next

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Speaker 1: three hours. Buck Risey, Jason fitz hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. It's the final day of the Masters.

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Speaker 1: It's coming down to the wire. We've got all the drama.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's glued to their TVs. Rory McElroy is coming all

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Speaker 1: the way down to Justin Rose, who looks like he's

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Speaker 1: collapsing in front of our very eyes. The world's just

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Speaker 1: glued to it. Buck Rising, you are the ultimate elitist.

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Speaker 1: So I have to go straight to you, my friend,

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Speaker 1: like you went on this Like are you? Are you

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Speaker 1: just glued and gravitating to all things Masters on Masters Weekend?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? You kidding me. I'm the waspiest guy.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: This is my favorite week of the year. That's outstanding.

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Speaker 3: I love the Masters. I'm watching Rory McElroy after a

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Speaker 3: really tough outing yesterday in which he had a twelve

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Speaker 3: quickly gave up that lead in a way that felt

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Speaker 3: reminiscent of Rory McElroy collapses in the Masters of years past,

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Speaker 3: but to see him and Justin Rose in a situation

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Speaker 3: late into the final round battling it out for Birdie

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Speaker 3: for the co lead, potentially with Henley there at the

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Speaker 3: getting the opportunity to try and put one in. I

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Speaker 3: am so locked in two Masters every year. I think

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Speaker 3: this is it's a great It's it's not even I'm

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Speaker 3: not even a golf guy like I don't I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: say that I play. I occasionally get out on the

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Speaker 3: hideous and I'm gonna lose a million balls along the way.

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Speaker 2: I don't watch golf year round.

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Speaker 3: I really just dial in for the Masters, even though

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Speaker 3: I know all the figures who are participating in all

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Speaker 3: the live golf drama that's been around the sport, and

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Speaker 3: having guys like Brooks Koepka back in in the for

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Speaker 3: these different things, these dramatic points that make the characters

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Speaker 3: in this game fun and the characters in this tournament fun,

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Speaker 3: and also the golf itself It's just it's a great tradition,

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Speaker 3: the Masters. And I'm not one of these people that

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Speaker 3: was Pearl clutching over Jason Kelsey and Bert Kreischer being

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Speaker 3: I'm not one of those people. I get why they're mad.

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Speaker 3: I don't really care. I just enjoy the spectacle of

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Speaker 3: it and that we get a dramatic final round today

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Speaker 1: So this is the thing, and I'm not here to

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Speaker 1: yuck anybody's yum. I love Caroline Fenton, my co host

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Speaker 1: and Yahoo says that all the time. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's really important too. If people love the Masters, great

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Speaker 1: and good on you. I get it. I don't actually,

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Speaker 1: but if you love it, then great. I want you

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Speaker 1: to be happy and I want you to absorb every

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Speaker 1: oance this. I genuinely came in because not just because

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Speaker 1: we're doing radio today, We're also going to be in

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Speaker 1: for two Pros and a Cup of Joe tomorrow and Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and you know, hosting daily content for Yahoo, I knew

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Speaker 1: So I, you know, I hunkered down over the course

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Speaker 1: of the last couple of days. And I'm trying, like dude,

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Speaker 3: My god, can I get Do we have any world's

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Speaker 3: smallest violin lawyers in the background.

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Speaker 1: By the way, our smallest violin would be very difficult

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Speaker 1: to play, by the way, I would rather listen to Soldier.

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Speaker 2: Through the Master's coverage with the.

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Speaker 1: You this sucks.

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Speaker 3: I don't care like story. We now have the violin

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Speaker 3: music in the background. Tell your sad story.

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Speaker 1: Just I don't connect any of this, like genuinely. I

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Speaker 1: I said, if they interrupted this coverage and decided they

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Speaker 1: I'm watching a bunch of super rich dudes play golf

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Speaker 1: one percent event. And then there's a whole other group

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Speaker 1: just a bunch of super rich elitists that somehow find

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Speaker 3: Didn't you start this whole diatribe by saying I'm not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I don't care if you like it, that's great,

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Speaker 3: what did you just do? I just explained why I

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Speaker 3: don't like it. No, no, no, you yucked everybody'syell. That's exactly

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Speaker 3: what you did. Said I'm wanting to do a thing,

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Speaker 1: Like, look, I don't like toppings on my pizza. I

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be more for everybody knows I hate pie.

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Speaker 1: We talk about that all the time, Like I hate pie.

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Speaker 1: You want to go to the Golden Corral with me? Buck,

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Speaker 1: because I'm not gonna get in the way. When you

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Speaker 1: I'll go for the cake. Like, hey, look, everybody can

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Speaker 1: watch The Masters, and that's cool. I'm genuinely I've spent

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Speaker 1: this to be dramatic. I'd rather watch you in a

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Speaker 2: This, buddy.

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Speaker 3: There's a four way tie for second place right now

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Speaker 3: At this point, it just it's it's do you care

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Speaker 3: about drama and sports? That's what this is?

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Speaker 1: Is it is it? None of it really is a

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Speaker 1: very dramatic for a final round of golf. This doesn't

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Speaker 2: How am I supposed to feel the dramatic?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. It doesn't whether it's the whispering. Like you

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Speaker 3: Cares, a lot of people care, A lot of people

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Speaker 3: are better. And I'm I understand what you're saying. It's nonsense.

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Speaker 3: that because I know it's not a position, right, it's

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Speaker 3: an opinion. You're not You're not trying to win anybody over.

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Speaker 3: at this point, because God doesn't translator, how the hell

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Speaker 2: I mean, it is golf.

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Speaker 3: It is pretentious, so this is my lane, but like,

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Speaker 3: come on, like I anyway, for the audience's purposes, Fitz

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Speaker 1: I mean, we set look, as you well know, I

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Speaker 1: to be the food for everybody. So like I watch,

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Speaker 1: but everybody's making this huge deal about, oh, the sandwiches

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Speaker 1: a thousand dollars for the sandwich, Like who can. It's cute.

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Speaker 3: It's cute that they're only charging a dollar fifty for

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Speaker 1: It's like complaining about a five dollars beer when you

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Speaker 1: Fits on Fox Sports Radio, hanging out with you a

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Speaker 1: Master Sunday, It's gonna come down to the wire. There's

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Speaker 1: Oh sorry, thank you, thank you so much, Buck Rising

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Speaker 3: not saying that it's the job of the team any

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Speaker 3: of these other team sources to feed local people versus

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Speaker 3: national people or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I was.

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Speaker 3: It'd be like, okay, well, how did that end up

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Speaker 3: out there in the national newscape? And people do jump

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Speaker 3: to conclusions. Right for me, because I know both of

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Speaker 3: them really well, I understand, and nor would I defend

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Speaker 3: the way that it looks okay, But I will say

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Speaker 3: that I personally can't get to a place where what

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Speaker 3: is being alleged is true, no matter what that looks like. Okay,

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Speaker 3: now that's me, that's just me personally. I understand that

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Speaker 3: the rest of the world is, you know, calling me

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Speaker 3: an idiot or saying that I'm caping up for my friends.

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Speaker 3: And Diana is a friend, Mike is somebody who I've

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Speaker 3: covered for a long time and don't cover on a

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Speaker 3: day to day basis anymore. But obviously this is a

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Speaker 3: talking point here in Tennessee. So we talked about it.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what is true or not.

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Speaker 3: Because the Athletic is now conducting an internal investigation on

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Speaker 3: Diana's reporting. There will be additional reporting on this story,

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Speaker 3: even if the Athletic just put it out on their website,

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Speaker 3: what today, yesterday, within the last twenty four hours, and

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Speaker 3: this has been out there in the news cycle or

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Speaker 3: TMZ cycle.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Actually this was too that this was too taboo or

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Speaker 3: too open ended for TMZ to want to buy the pictures.

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Speaker 3: That that's the reporting on this, that the New York

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Speaker 3: Post bit on something that even TMZ was kind of like, No,

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Speaker 3: that's too icky for us. That's jumping to too many

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Speaker 3: conclusions without verifiable facts. Now it's everywhere, right, So we

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Speaker 3: will find out what the truth is now. I personally

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Speaker 3: have talked to Diana about this, understanding that this was

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Speaker 3: going to be a talking point for us here in Nashville,

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Speaker 3: and that you and I do a national show together,

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Speaker 3: and we both have known and worked with Diana for

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Speaker 3: a long period of time. Basically, just to sum up

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Speaker 3: the conversation, she told me she trusted me to be

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Speaker 3: fair on this and That's about as fair as statement

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Speaker 3: as I can say. Until we know something definitively, I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to jump to inclusions. If my friend is saying, no,

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Speaker 3: I didn't do this thing and these were the circumstances,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna believe her until I have a reason not to.

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Speaker 3: Now whatever. If that makes me ninety naive, We'll find

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Speaker 3: out find out more information as information becomes available. Because

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Speaker 3: the Athletic very quickly, the managing editor of the Athletic

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Speaker 3: came to her defense very quickly, and now all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden, they're conducting this internal investigation, and nobody with

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Speaker 3: the Athletic, including Diana or this managing editor, are giving

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Speaker 3: quotes in the Athletics.

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Speaker 2: On peace on their website. So you know, I mean

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Speaker 2: this is this is messy.

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Speaker 1: It is messy, and it is complicated, and unfortunately we

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Speaker 1: don't allow things to be complicated so often like this

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Speaker 1: is where people just like to take something they see

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Speaker 1: and turn it into a definitive statement. To your point,

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Speaker 1: I have struggled to figure out the right way to

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Speaker 1: cover this because I've certainly never seen anything like what

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Speaker 1: you know Diana and Mike are being accused of in

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Speaker 1: my time working with Diana certainly never never saw any

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Speaker 1: sort of impropriety at all at any level, and so

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Speaker 1: neither for what it's worth. Yeah, and so for me,

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I've heard the rumors. Everybody said the rumors,

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Speaker 1: and I've I've laughed at the rumors for a long

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Speaker 1: time because you know, certainly rumors fuel so much of

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Speaker 1: sports media in general. And when I was asked on

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Speaker 1: y'all Who's Sports Daily whether or not we were going

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Speaker 1: to cover this, my answer was, what are we covering?

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of people have said, well, why isn't

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Speaker 1: you know this network talking about it? Why hasn't this

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Speaker 1: statement been made? Well, I think we have to understand

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Speaker 1: what we're covering. Let's get an update from Moncy Belanos,

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Speaker 1: and then I want to explain more of what I

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Speaker 1: mean when I say I think the coverage of this

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Speaker 1: has actually, in many ways been done the right way.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, but first Monci, get us caught

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Speaker 1: up on the scoreboard. What's going on to the Masters?

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Speaker 6: Guys, so happy to be hanging out with you. It's

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Speaker 6: been a long time since having both of you on

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Speaker 6: the show.

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Speaker 7: As you mentioned, Fitz, how is it going with the indoor.

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Speaker 1: Football that you're covering indoor football league ball.

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Speaker 6: It is awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's so much fun. I keep working Chili's into my

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Speaker 1: touchdown calls, but they have not given me any endorsements yet.

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Speaker 1: Chili's call me. I'm trying here, David Busters is about

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Speaker 1: to take your seat. More calls for Chili's, No more freebies.

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Speaker 7: I love it, and you know I loved also that

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Speaker 7: but called you at the start of the show that

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Speaker 7: you were like, no, I'm not trying to talk smack

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Speaker 7: on this, and then proceeded to talk smack on the

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Speaker 7: Masters for five minutes.

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Speaker 6: I loved it, loved it.

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Speaker 7: But yes, Rory McElroy, guys, he's at the top of

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Speaker 7: the leader board, the defending champion of the Masters. He

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Speaker 7: is one under through twelve holes on the day, twelve

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Speaker 7: under four the entire tournament, two shots ahead of everybody.

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Speaker 7: Tyrrell Hatton, He's done, Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Cameron Young,

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Speaker 7: they're all two shots back of McElroy, while Colin Morrikawa

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Speaker 7: and Scotti Scheffler they are three shots back of McElroy again,

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Speaker 7: final round here at the Masters. We also have a

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Speaker 7: NASCAR Cup series going on right now. You can catch

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Speaker 7: all the action on FS one. After three hundred and

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Speaker 7: eighty eight laps, Ryan Blaney is still in the lead,

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Speaker 7: Kyle Larson following Blaney.

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Speaker 6: It comes to base a ball.

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Speaker 7: The White Sox and the Royals were on a weather delay,

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Speaker 7: but they're officially under way and Chicago is up to

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Speaker 7: two zero bottom of the second inning. Padre is holding

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Speaker 7: onto a three to two lead over the Rockies. At home,

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Speaker 7: it's the bottom of the fifth inning. The Mariners are

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Speaker 7: shutting out the Astros for zero top of the fifth

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Speaker 7: inning there, while the Rangers lead the Dodgers two to

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Speaker 7: one top of the fifth inning. In LA, the Yankees

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Speaker 7: loss and the Mets loss. Both those New York teams

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Speaker 7: have lost five in a row, and the Nationals had

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Speaker 7: an eight to six win over the Brewers. It is

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Speaker 7: their first sweep of Milwaukee since two thousand eleven. In

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Speaker 7: the NHL, the Capitals are trying to keep their season

553
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Speaker 7: alive with hopes of making it to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Speaker 7: They lead the Penguins right now to zero late in

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Speaker 7: the third period, less than four minutes to go, but

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Speaker 7: the only clinching scenario in the.

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Speaker 6: NHL, it's for the Ducks if the Ducks win.

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Speaker 7: Later today they are in They're hosting the Canucks with

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Speaker 7: the puck dropping at eight pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 6: And lastly, here guys out.

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Speaker 7: Of college hoops, Oregon guard Jackson Shelstead and Kansas big

562
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Speaker 7: man Flory Badunka have both committed to Louisville.

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Speaker 6: Back to you, guys, no that it.

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Speaker 1: Does it better than Moncie Belanias be appreciate it, hanging

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Speaker 1: out with that ship. It's just the best.

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Speaker 3: You was just like just said there last week and

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Speaker 3: Martin got so butt hurt. Martin got so butt hurt

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Speaker 3: of me.

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Speaker 6: And Mark Martin knows it's true. Martin knows it.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we finally got.

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Speaker 3: Him at too admitted on area yesterday would be at

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Speaker 3: Bridget like just just say it.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't on me, It's not on me.

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Speaker 1: Monzi's got a spirit like the way Monsey just says

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Speaker 1: anything just makes me smile. I'm just I'm gonna stop it,

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Speaker 1: stop it, thank you. It makes me happy. As opposed

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Speaker 1: to Buck Rising, he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitzpucking. Vint's

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Speaker 1: taking over Fox Sports Radio. Uh So it's interesting to

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Speaker 1: me because what about ism is such a huge thing

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Speaker 1: anytime there's a controversy. So the minute there's some sort

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Speaker 1: of a you know, a statement or you know, in

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Speaker 1: this case, maybe a lack there of everybody starts presuming something.

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Speaker 1: So as the news broke last week, and I say

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Speaker 1: news as the pictures circulated last week from the New

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Speaker 1: York Post of Diana Rossini Mike Rabel, again, I want

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Speaker 1: to stress, like, you know, we sat down when we

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Speaker 1: were prepping you out who Sports Daily that I host

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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and the question was do we want

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Speaker 1: to talk about this? And my my response to that was,

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Speaker 1: what exactly are we talking about? You know, are we

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Speaker 1: talking about pictures between a writer and a coach? Because

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Speaker 1: if we are, what's our twelve minute conversation? That's so

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Speaker 1: much of what we do in this business is you know,

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Speaker 1: when you think about radio, it's we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: twelve or fourteen minute conversation. What are we actually talking

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Speaker 1: about for the duration of that? Now, if your concern

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Speaker 1: is journalistic integrity, then I would just say to that,

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Speaker 1: whether you you know, two adults, I'm not here to

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Speaker 1: talk about whatever Diana and Rabel may or may not

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Speaker 1: be doing. Like again, from my my dvantage point and

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Speaker 1: Diana She's never been anything other than awesome and I've

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Speaker 1: never seen anything inappropriate from her in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form. But frankly, if two grown ass adults are

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Speaker 1: having an affair, that's really not my business, all right.

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Speaker 1: So then if you come in and say, well, what

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Speaker 1: about the integrity of the writing blah blah blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: I just I look at that and say, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: get informed all the time by people I genuinely can

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Speaker 1: I genuinely can think are friends. Like I've got people

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Speaker 1: in different NFL buildings that I've created friendships with and

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Speaker 1: it helps inform me. So at some point, if your

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Speaker 1: friendships help inform you, I mean, that's like I've watched

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Speaker 1: the best insiders in the business use their friendships. Is

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Speaker 1: it the same?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: But like again, I just why do we care? Do

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Speaker 1: we care because we're really worried about journalistic integrity or

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Speaker 1: do we care because it's really salacious to think about

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Speaker 1: a reporter having an affair with a very prominent head

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Speaker 1: coach and everybody just loves that sort of celebrity drama.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's cute that now the general public cares or

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Speaker 3: acts like they care about journalism.

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Speaker 2: Right, like, no, now are you now? As journalism falls

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Speaker 2: down all around us?

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying, you know, media media by far

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Speaker 3: and away is not blameless and why there is a

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Speaker 3: deg gradation of the journalistic atmosphere. Okay, that this is

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Speaker 3: the thing that's going to bring people out banging the

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Speaker 3: drums for journalism is kind of a crazy It's a

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Speaker 3: crazy turn of events. So forgive me if I take

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Speaker 3: those people a little less seriously on it.

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Speaker 2: Now, for me, let me let me ask you.

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Speaker 3: I I do care, Okay, I care like that, but

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Speaker 3: I'm not you know, I'm not the average sports fan.

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Speaker 3: I'm somebody who does sports journalism for a living, and

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Speaker 3: do I do it to the perfect ethical standards every

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Speaker 3: time my entire career.

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Speaker 2: No, I've definitely made.

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Speaker 3: Mistakes that would put me in less than ideal situations

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Speaker 3: or compromise some of the things where I might not

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Speaker 3: have realized that I have biases or blind spots, like yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's it's nobody's perfect at their job. You get better

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00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 3: by learning from mistakes and growing from them. So but

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Speaker 3: I personally don't think there's any reason, any explanation, even

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Speaker 3: if the allegations are incorrect for the two of them

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Speaker 3: to be in the situation that they're in. There's no

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Speaker 3: reason for that, and I think that that is where

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Speaker 3: we start to see a level of blurred lines because

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Speaker 3: the statement from Diana and I read it, and like

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, I talked to her about this, was that

652
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Speaker 3: journalists talk to sources outside of stadiums and arenas all

653
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Speaker 3: the time, which is accurate. It's like the reporting in

654
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 3: the New York Post was that they had breakfast together

655
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: at ten thirty in the morning, completely normal for a

656
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Speaker 3: journalist and a coach, or a journalist and a source

657
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 3: to have a meal or something like that, you know,

658
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 3: under the right guidelines, as long as it's okay, I

659
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Speaker 3: paid for my side, you paid for your side, type

660
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 3: of situation, and we're here to have a conversation about

661
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 3: a story that she could be working on, on the

662
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Speaker 3: New England Patriots or what you know, anything else rabel

663
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Speaker 3: adjacent in the world. Yeah, there's plenty of good explanations

664
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Speaker 3: for that situation. The images. It almost doesn't matter whether

665
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: the allegations are true or not, because now the image

666
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: is you've put yourself in a compromising position to where

667
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: the entire world thinks that this is what happened, whether

668
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 3: or not that's the truth, and that sucks. I mean,

669
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 3: if you're the two people in that compromise situation, Oh now,

670
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Speaker 3: I think it's curious as to who was not no

671
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: shade on that. I am, like, I don't think the

672
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Speaker 3: average sports fan is recognizing Diana reciding on the street.

673
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Speaker 2: And these these pictures that were picking.

674
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Speaker 3: Are certainly not iPhone quality, right, Like, somebody knew that

675
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 3: these two individuals were going to be in the place

676
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Speaker 3: that they were over the course of multiple days and

677
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 3: with their photographed them and then sold them to the

678
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 3: New York Post reportedly eight thousand dollars these pictures. So

679
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Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of different layers to the story

680
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 3: that make it enticing for the average person. Right it

681
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 3: reads like some kind of like some again male soap

682
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 3: opera type of situation with all the all your favorite

683
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 3: elements of coach that just in Super Bowl, a reporter

684
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Speaker 3: that is that is high some previous allegations in her background,

685
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Speaker 3: and oh my god.

686
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Speaker 1: Here it is the thing that we all knew was happening.

687
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: Here it is plain his day in front of us.

688
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: When it's still not as a clear cut as people

689
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Speaker 3: are trying to make it, no matter what rumors preexisted

690
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: or pre dated this.

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Speaker 1: So let me be deep for a minute. Okay, I'm

692
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: not a journalist, and I say that all the time.

693
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Speaker 1: I do not pretend to be a journalist. I didn't

694
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Speaker 1: go to journalism school. I'm an opinion guy in sports,

695
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Speaker 1: and for that I take my reputation seriously. With the

696
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Speaker 1: opinions that I give out, I try and become as

697
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: informed as possible. I'm not a journalist. Like when I

698
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: look at our business, Seth Wickersham is a great example

699
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: of a journalist, right, Like Seth is doing Don van Noyana,

700
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: I should say Don is doing good, like those guys

701
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: are doing deep dive pieces about something truly important. Ross

702
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: Dellinger that works at Yahoo Sports is a journalist, right.

703
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 1: He's working on congressional stories about football and what it

704
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: means for the future of college sports. Like these guys

705
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: are journalists, are insiders journalists. And I think that part

706
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Speaker 1: of what really bothers me here is that I get

707
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: this all the time on Twitter, where people are like, oh,

708
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: modern journalism, y'all are too stupid sometimes to understand what

709
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: you're asking for. When you're asking for a journalism because

710
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: journalism is totally different. Like there are people that sit

711
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: in front of a mic every day to give their

712
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: opinions that are never, were, never, and will never be journalists.

713
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is not meant to be a journalist

714
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Speaker 1: at this point in his career. I know at one

715
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: point he was a writer, and I'll even say that

716
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: I think writer is different than journalists. At one point

717
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: he was a writer. He is now an opinion guy.

718
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: Pat mcaveee is not a journalist, right, I would argue

719
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: Colin Coward is not a journalist, right, Like two pros

720
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: and a cup of Joe, we're going to be filling

721
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Speaker 1: in for a couple of days. They aren't journalists, their

722
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Speaker 1: opinion guys. So to me, part of what I just

723
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Speaker 1: roll my eyes at is this concept of like where

724
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: is modern journalism? If she's out with Rabel, she's not

725
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Speaker 1: a journalist. Like, she's not here doing deep dive pieces

726
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: on ct and the ramifications of lawsuits. She's not here

727
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: doing deep dive think pieces about the future of the league,

728
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: sourcing all of these different things, trying to figure out

729
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: what's She's an insider, she's breaking trades, she's breaking coaches,

730
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: she's breaking movement like and to me like, look I personally,

731
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: I'm again, I'm not here to condemn one way or

732
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: the other. Whether or not she is or isn't sleeping

733
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: with Rabel not my business. I've been to the Senior Bowl.

734
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Speaker 1: I have watched noted insiders get so tanked with head

735
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: coaches that none of them can function. And we have

736
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: no problem with the concept of a guy going out

737
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: and being at the bar until four you were at

738
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Speaker 1: the scouting combine, in the bar until four thirty in

739
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: the morning, getting hammered with coach. That's like everybody's out

740
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: there getting drunk. So it's okay for the journalists air

741
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: quote who are actually insiders to get drunk with everybody,

742
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: to party with everybody, and to know the affairs half

743
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: these coaches are having on the side, know about their

744
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: side pieces on the side. But it's not okay the minute.

745
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: This is the line that.

746
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: Well, FITZI if and I don't know how she like,

747
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: how she would react to what you're what you're posing there,

748
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 3: but I'm willing to bet that Diana would would would

749
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Speaker 3: identify herself as a journalist.

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Speaker 1: That's fair, and that that's one hundred percent fair. It is,

751
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: and I'm not here to speak for her on that.

752
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: As much as I love Diana and know Diana, I'm

753
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: not here to speak for how she is perceived. I

754
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: just think sometimes we use the big J word as

755
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: a weapon when we look at things we do and

756
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: don't like. More to come on this and we'll get

757
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: you updated on the masters. It's coming down to the wire.

758
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: Buck and Fits hanging out with you. I'm Fox Sports Radio,

759
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitzen the Bucket fitz Takeover.

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00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,840
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764
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: agree with this, especially if they're mine. And if you

765
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: don't like bucks takes, be sure to fire off on that.

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00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube and subscribe. Look,

767
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: the news cycle has been a little overtaken obviously, as

768
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: we've been talking about the controversy around the athletics, DIY

769
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: and never see the and Mike Vrabel. But Buck, I

770
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: think we can all agree that there's one thing that

771
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: will solve all of this for everybody involved, and that's

772
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. The NFL drafts a week and half away,

773
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: Like it just feels like part of the reason there's

774
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: been so much obsession is that there isn't a lot

775
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: out there, and like, look, we expected AJ Brown, for example,

776
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: to be traded, but for anyone that hasn't stuck their

777
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: heads into the minutia of the salary cap, congratulations, never

778
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: do it. It's pouring. But when you do do it,

779
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: you'll find that AJ Brown can't be traded till after

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00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: June first. It's that simple, So like he's not going

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00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: anywhere till after June first. I talked to Mike Silver,

782
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: also of the Athletic last week on the Yahoo and

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00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: I asked him if there was a big move coming in.

784
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: He said, look, I don't think we're subtly hinting at it.

785
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: AJ Brown can be traded after June first to the Patriots.

786
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: So like most people, it feels like in league circles

787
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: expect AJ Brown to end up a Patriot after June first.

788
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: Those are the sorts of things that will distract us

789
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: because all like there's just this element buck of news

790
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: will overtake news when we actually have news about the league.

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00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, but even then, and this is the complication of this,

792
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 3: right because this has layers and there are football reasons

793
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 3: to talk about it. When that happens, it's not going

794
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 3: to it'll take some spotlight off the u Vrabel and

795
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 3: Diana Russini story. But Philadelphia fans are very upset with

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00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 3: the idea that they've They basically feel that the person

797
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 3: who's done the bulk of the AJ Brown trade reporting, Diana,

798
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: has bit a Patriots mouthpiece in the middle of this circumstance.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that that impacts the trade market

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Speaker 3: for AJ Brown or whatever like it's it's a given

801
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 3: on a number of different fronts. That not just because

802
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 3: they traded for Dontavian Wis on Friday. I think it

803
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 3: was to bolster their receiving depth. That can just be

804
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 3: a smart business move no matter who's on your roster,

805
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Speaker 3: Dntavian Wicks is not there to replace AJ Brown. That's

806
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: not not saying that you could just find another AJ Brown,

807
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 3: but that's not what's That's not a one to one

808
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 3: correlation there.

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00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 2: It will it will.

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Speaker 3: Be interesting to see what can take the spotlight off

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Speaker 3: of the of the salacious story for the purpose of

812
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 3: actual football. But if that in that specific transaction, given

813
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 3: that it involves the Patriots and Mike vrabel is not

814
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Speaker 3: participating in the Pat's pre draft press conference, reportedly, they're

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00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 3: just going to send Elliott Wolf out there to deal

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Speaker 3: with the Boston media instead.

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Speaker 2: God bless him. That's a tough spot.

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Speaker 1: That's a tough look.

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Speaker 2: It's tough, right.

820
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Speaker 3: So you've already got the coach who's not going to

821
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Speaker 3: be a part of the pre draft press conference for

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Speaker 3: at least this reason, right, And so if that player

823
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 3: gets traded to the Patriots, and Diana Russini, for example,

824
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Speaker 3: I know the athletics basically put her on ice. She's

825
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: not reporting right now, so she can't break the AJ

826
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Speaker 3: Brown trade.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I just don't think that it completely that specific transaction

829
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Speaker 3: takes much attention off this particular story.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is that it's sort of damned if you do,

831
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Speaker 1: and damned if you don't. If Diana wants to just

832
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Speaker 1: go about move about the cabin, you know, I always

833
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Speaker 1: say that, like she just wants to get back to

834
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Speaker 1: normal life.

835
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Speaker 3: And she tweeted something about the replacement refs the other

836
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Speaker 3: day right.

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Speaker 1: I saw her tweet that, and it's like, man's that's tough,

838
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Speaker 1: because the only way that she can get anybody to

839
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Speaker 1: move past this is if she continues to go back

840
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Speaker 1: to business as usual but also really going to be

841
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: difficult to go back to business as usual, but also

842
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: she disappears for a long time. That's only gonna feel

843
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: more conversation that isn't necessarily right or fair depending on

844
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Speaker 1: what happens like, It's just it's all very it's very

845
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,720
Speaker 1: murky right now. And that's part of why, no matter

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Speaker 1: what we think of all of this, you have to

847
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: be careful. If there was nothing, if everything was innocuous,

848
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have put yourself in this situation in the

849
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Speaker 1: first place. If everything wasn't innocuous, you certainly shouldn't have

850
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: put yourself in this situation. We will catch you up

851
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: on the Masters. Rory's trying to pull away. Canny will

852
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: answer that next Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. It's

853
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: coming down to the wire. I'm telling you, all eyes

854
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: are on a bunch of unrelatable rich dudes walking around

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00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: on a beautiful golf courses. Supposedly this is the suspense

856
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: we need. Look the Masters has come down to this.

857
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy two stroke lead late in this thing bucket

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Speaker 1: fits on Fox Sports Radio, we've already established I don't

859
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: get it. I don't really understand it. Buck give me this,

860
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: give me this. Would you rather see Rory McElroy go

861
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: back or Scheffler complete the wild comeback and turn this

862
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:05,919
Speaker 1: into an epic win?

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00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: Ooh, I think I man.

864
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Speaker 2: Scotti.

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Speaker 3: Scheffler is excellent, but he has no personality, So I

866
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 3: mean his excellence is in his game, right, he is

867
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 3: an assassin, but on the course, but in these press

868
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 3: conferences he's just basically like your buddy's dad, even though

869
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 3: what is he twenty eight and he's not very he's

870
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 3: not very old, but he has the behavior of somebody

871
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 3: who's sixty five. Rory won last year, and it would

872
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 3: be cool to see him go back to back given

873
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 3: what the lead up to last year was for him,

874
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 3: and basically a good chunk of his career had been

875
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 3: all right. He just seems to fall short or has

876
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 3: these epic collapses, not quite like Jordan Speith where he

877
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 3: never comes back from it. He's always still hovering around

878
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 3: the top level of the sport. But he hadn't been

879
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 3: able to get the job done truly, and then last

880
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 3: year to see that culminating moment for him, especially in

881
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: a playoff, was awesome to see Scheffler come back, especially

882
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 3: if it gets down to the wire here with Rory

883
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 3: at thirteen under and Scheffler just two strokes behind him. Man,

884
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 3: Justin Rose, for what it's worth, also tied for second

885
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 3: with Scotty Scheffler.

886
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Justin Rose. I can't figure out which

887
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: collapse we're going to talk more about over the course

888
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: in the next twenty four to forty eight hours, because

889
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: it certainly looked like Rose was in a really good

890
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: situation until he wasn't in a really good situation. But

891
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: let's also acknowledge that Rory started this thing so on fire,

892
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: right like when you start talking about historic lead after

893
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 1: thirty six holes, that has to mean something. I think

894
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: Rory is just proving to be a stabling force. And

895
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: to your point, maybe the whole monkey off your back.

896
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: You know, you can't break through, You always find a

897
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: way to choke. Then you get the big win. Now

898
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you go back to back. Maybe

899
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: it forces us to see Rory differently. None of these guys.

900
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: Not a single one of these guys that I've been

901
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: watching all day have that level of gravitas that I

902
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: think makes the entire world stop and say, oh my god.

903
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: Scheffler would be the closest thing to that as a golfer,

904
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: but you're right as a personality, he sort of lacks

905
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: some of that fire. I don't think any of them

906
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: necessarily have that it factor the same way that just

907
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: makes the whole world stop. And that's part of what

908
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: every time we talk about Tiger, and that's just talking

909
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 1: about replacing Tiger's greatness. I think part of what that conversation,

910
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: the part of the crux of that conversation is destination watching.

911
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: Can you be destination watching simply by being great? Or

912
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: do you also have to be the type of personality

913
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: people want to see and hear more from in order

914
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: to have that same level of I don't know, spark

915
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: every time you tee off.

916
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it's an upsick that we made

917
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: in an hour and four minutes into the show with you,

918
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 3: especially on this broadcast talking about the Masters before we

919
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 3: mentioned Tiger Wood. So well done by you. You avoided

920
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 3: the lowest common denominator. Thank him Golf conversation by instill

921
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 3: instead just choosing to tell the world how much you

922
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 3: hate this sport that everybody else.

923
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: I mean, this sucks, like all of this sucks. I'm

924
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 1: completely disinterested in it. But we'll keep going. We'll keep going.

925
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 3: Again, very noble of Jason Fitz to persevere broadcast this way.

926
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: So from my standpoint, I.

927
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 3: Think that as far as this goes, and as far

928
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 3: as the sport of golf goes, we keep waiting for

929
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 3: somebody to fill that Tiger Woods esque void.

930
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 2: Right.

931
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 3: I mentioned Speth earlier in the show, and Justin Speith.

932
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not a bad golfer by any stretch

933
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 3: of the imagination, but he was anointed as essentially the

934
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: second coming for the hot start that his professional career

935
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 3: got out to, and he's just not gotten any We're

936
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 3: close since he had one of those epic meltdowns that

937
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 3: I mean you make. You make TV shows like what's

938
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 3: what's the the Owen Wilson Golf Show on h or

939
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 3: on Apple TV.

940
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about. You haven't seen it?

941
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: No, you missed me. You can miss me on both

942
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: of those Owen Wilson and Golf.

943
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 8: It's just.

944
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:24,959
Speaker 2: Whatever.

945
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 3: But it's about a crash out golfer who you know,

946
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 3: was an excellent pro had this had this pivotal moment

947
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 3: where he had a terrible loss in his personal life

948
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 3: and now he just takes the booze and he's a

949
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 3: golf coach and it's a redemption story in all these

950
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 3: different things. Right, Stick Stick very well named, so it's

951
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 3: not like the plot line of Stick for Justin's pith, Right,

952
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: But it does feel like we just keep waiting and

953
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 3: wishing and hoping that one the tiger Woods will just

954
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 3: magically reappear in our golf lives and that everybody will

955
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: go back to placing the most amount of interest in

956
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 3: the most popular figure in this sport, no matter what

957
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 3: he seems to do in his personal life, which obviously

958
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 3: is the biggest talking point in these last few years.

959
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 3: Scheffler is excellent, Rory is always going to be a

960
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: popular figure. I don't know that there's I just feel

961
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 3: like we have to stop chasing that Tiger Woods high

962
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 3: until we get it organically again, if that's even possible.

963
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 3: Because again, it was unlike anything we've ever seen in

964
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 3: that sport, that level of dominance, that young, that sustained.

965
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it ever is possible, and I

966
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: think it's great for everybody when we just get out

967
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: of the cloud. For me, I mean the cloud that

968
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: sort of Tiger can can be over everything. Like, I

969
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: think it's actually a huge win for the Masters that

970
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: Tiger's nowhere near it this week, right, I think these

971
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: are great opportunities. To me. What's surprising because as we

972
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: open the show and I explained to the world that

973
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: I don't really love this event the way many people do.

974
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: But you talked a little bit about, you know, the

975
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: Live storylines. I thought Live was gonna give us what

976
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: you need more than anything in the world to have

977
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: great casual interest in your sport, which is heroes and villains.

978
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: Like the best Batman movies are never about who plays Batman.

979
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: It's about Heath Ledger playing the Joker, right, Like it's

980
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: about Bane. It's about great villains. So I think when

981
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: you talk about these stories, you need good guys and

982
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: bad guys on both sides that everybody's rooting for. That's

983
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: one thing that you know. The Warriors run was interesting

984
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: until KD became a Warrior and then all of a sudden,

985
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: now you've got this huge you know, good guys, bad guys,

986
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: you love them, you love to hate him. It's the

987
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 1: Howard Stern effect. You're paying attention to it. I truly

988
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: hoped that Live would give us enough of a lasting

989
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: divide that there would be this sort of like up

990
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: yours to everything, a different level of aggression between the

991
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: good guys and the bad guys clearly defined in a

992
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: way that we would end up with that sort of

993
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: Avengers topic sort of feel to all of it. That

994
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 1: just hasn't happened. There's no question that the level of

995
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: golfer is absolutely incredible. Much like in the music business,

996
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: rarely do the best musicians rise to the top, the

997
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: best performers rise to the top, right Like, I'm just

998
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: waiting for that personality that is infectious that the whole

999
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: world just says, Oh my god, I don't I don't

1000
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: really care. I want a rock star. I want a

1001
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: rock star on a golf course. And I don't I

1002
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: don't really care which one of these guys it is.

1003
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,439
Speaker 1: I think that I just want to see that level

1004
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 1: of personality that the whole world buys into.

1005
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 3: Okay, but Tiger was never that Like Tiger Tiger the

1006
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 3: personality of your shoes.

1007
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: Well, okay, but he he didn't have to be because

1008
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: he was actually and b he did have like the fish.

1009
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 3: Pump and the yeah okay, but like that, that's just

1010
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 3: a little fist pump.

1011
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what golf, it's golf like gold.

1012
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 3: No, That's what I'm saying to you, Like you keep

1013
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 3: waiting for something that's never existed in that sport and

1014
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 3: the one time it does, I mean, what's the closest thing,

1015
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 3: like Dustin Johnson dating Paulina Gretz and having you know,

1016
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 3: a bit of drug scandal in his background, Like that's

1017
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 3: as close to a rock star that that sport is

1018
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 3: probably no. Okay, who's John Daily, John Dayly, John Daely? Yeah, yeah,

1019
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 3: we've had John Daly. When when has that sport ever

1020
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 3: allowed for another John Daily to exist?

1021
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: I mean you're right, like golf is so buttoned up

1022
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: that somebody wearing a red shirt instead of just a

1023
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: normal one became a phenomenon like, oh my god, he's

1024
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: wearing the red shirt.

1025
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 4: What do we ever going to do?

1026
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 2: Like that's I just want to be clear.

1027
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 3: You're not moving me off my position that this is

1028
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 3: enjoyable just because it's elitist and pretentious, but your points

1029
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 3: are well made about the lack of flare that this

1030
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 3: sport goes out of. Like we talked about this on

1031
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 3: the Local Show this week, FITZI, because it's always, you know,

1032
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 3: a sports radio or a sports media bit to do.

1033
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 2: What would your master's order be based on this?

1034
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: And we went through this exercise on the Local Show,

1035
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 3: which is basically just an excuse for Robert and Lucas

1036
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 3: to sit and think what a think about what they

1037
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 3: want for lunch, to kill fifteen minutes of a radio segment. Fine, whatever,

1038
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 3: But we go through this menu and I'm like, oh

1039
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 3: my god, this is the most bland men you've ever

1040
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 3: heard in my life, Like this is this is It's

1041
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 3: as if dan Orlovsky and everybody with dan Orlovski's food

1042
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 3: sensibilities came up with the masters men of Like okay,

1043
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 3: like the big you know, the big jazz hands thing

1044
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: is the peach peach ice cream because they're in Georgia.

1045
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 3: Like that's about as that's about as funky as we're

1046
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: getting with it. No, I mean, golf is the way

1047
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 3: that it is for a very particular reason, and that's

1048
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 3: why people who love this thing, who are peerist of

1049
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 3: the sport get upset at things like ESPN's coverage of

1050
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: the par three competition. That's Golf is trying to figure

1051
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 3: out ways and Golf's partners are trying to figure out

1052
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 3: ways to broaden that appeal. And to your point about

1053
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 3: Live Golf, I mean we were trending in that direction

1054
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 3: no matter what you thought of the Live Golf, like

1055
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 3: how live golf came to be, right, because there's obviously

1056
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 3: always going to be a talking point about the level

1057
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 3: of Saudi government investment in this and all the different

1058
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 3: things that that leads to, even though it's infecting everything

1059
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 3: in sports, right, the term sports washing by foreign entities

1060
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 3: that have that have human uh uh human rights violations

1061
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: basically uh. And that's probably putting it pretty diplomatically. So

1062
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 3: even if you put aside all of the geopolitical stuff

1063
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 3: around live and that you had figures like you were describing,

1064
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 3: like these these anti hero types Brooks Koepka and for

1065
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 3: different reasons, Patrick Reid a part of the Live tour,

1066
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 3: what they do they defected. They're like, no, this isn't

1067
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 3: really for me. I took your money on the front end,

1068
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 3: but now this isn't actually what we This is not

1069
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 3: what you aspire to. It's just this cheap, knock knockoff

1070
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 3: thing that's throwing money with the means of being the competitor.

1071
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 3: It's it's like what happened to the USFL with the NFL.

1072
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: I look, I admit I'm not the target audience. I

1073
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: just I would kill for a golfer to come out,

1074
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: rip the sleeves off his shirt, have you know tattoos

1075
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: that are running all the way up his sides, like

1076
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: wearing short shorts like that show way too much thigh

1077
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: and then he's got like the tattoo who's going down

1078
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: his legs. You know, maybe he takes a couple of

1079
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: lines off a mirror and then goes out in place.

1080
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for. I just want chaos. Everything

1081
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: I want out of this is chaos. It's too buttoned

1082
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: up for me. As we sit right now, Rory sitting

1083
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: at thirteen under, he just completed the fifteenth hole. Scottie

1084
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: Scheffler nipping at his heels as seventeen holes in at

1085
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: minus eleven. Also justin Rose at minus eleven. We will

1086
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: keep you updated on all that that means. But in

1087
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: the meantime, it's the last day of the NBA regular

1088
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 1: season and maybe, just maybe there's finally gonna be something

1089
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: worth paying attention to. We'll tell you about it next.

1090
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: Bucking Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio

1091
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: and it's an actual payoff. That's pluck rising. I'm Jason

1092
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: fitz Bucket Fits hanging out with you Fox Sports.

1093
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 3: Radio and Mary Mary's here. That's how you know we

1094
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 3: got our rejoids.

1095
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 1: Oh, Mary Mack doing got'sworth? Oh that makes me happy.

1096
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,919
Speaker 1: Scotty Scheffler done for the day at minus eleven, so

1097
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: eleven under for Scottie. Rory McElroy right now is on

1098
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: the fifteenth hole at thirteen unders who he has a

1099
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: two stroke lead. We will see if he can hold

1100
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 1: it and become a back to back Masters champion. We'll

1101
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 1: keep you updated on all of the chaos here. Also

1102
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: the end of the NBA regular season, which to me,

1103
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: Buck is such an exciting time. You know why it's exciting.

1104
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: It's not exciting because I'm sitting here saying huzzah the

1105
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: regular season finale. Oh my god, it's so exciting. It's

1106
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: exciting because we can finally stop talking about things that

1107
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: people don't really care about Like everybody sits here and

1108
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: complains about load management without acknowledging the nuance to that conversation,

1109
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: by the way of how many people this year are

1110
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: actually injured. Then you have all the people that say, well,

1111
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: in the nineties they played every minute without acknowledging the

1112
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: nuance of the conversation of how many more miles are

1113
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: run in the pace play and what it does to

1114
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: the bodies, And you know, nobody really cares about any

1115
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 1: of that because people just want to complain all year long.

1116
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: People just want to complain constantly about the NBA. So

1117
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: it's load management sucks, it's I hate the way the

1118
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: game is played. Then it's now it's the how could

1119
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: they possibly have sixty five games? Is the cap? It's

1120
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: going to ruin the game? And yeah, now I think

1121
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty stupid. I think it's okay, it's

1122
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: pretty stupid. But realistically we get the great distraction we

1123
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: need when the playoffs start, because now people will actually

1124
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: pay attention to NBA basketball just being NBA basketball. It's

1125
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: like a cycle. Every year people can plain about load management,

1126
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: then every year can people can plain about injuries. Then

1127
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs start and everybody stops complaining.

1128
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 3: So how do we rectify them? I mean, I'm not

1129
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 3: saying that we can solve all the NBA's problems. And

1130
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 3: this I can't remember. Somebody smarter than me made this point,

1131
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 3: and I want to give proper credit, but I'm not

1132
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 3: remembering off the top of my head. So forgive me

1133
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 3: if I'm co opting an idea. I'm not trying to

1134
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 3: steal it. I just can't remember who said it first.

1135
00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 3: But the idea that the NBA's regular season has now

1136
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 3: gotten to a place where we used to, where we

1137
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 3: used to talk about baseball and fixing baseball.

1138
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 2: Have you watched much baseball so far to the start

1139
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 2: of the suit.

1140
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: It's it's it's electric. Baseball is so much fun right

1141
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: now to watch the pace play. Yeah, I've actually.

1142
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 2: Okay, facetious or.

1143
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: So like in fairness. A couple of years ago, one

1144
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: of my buddies, Geo, a massive Dodgers fan, right and

1145
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: so a couple of years ago when the playoff run

1146
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: started and he was a heartbroken Dodgers fan, he was like,

1147
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: you gotta come and hang out with me. So I

1148
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: hung out with you at the dive bar, and I

1149
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: watched the Dodgers win a World Series, and last year

1150
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: I watched the Dodgers win another World Series. And now yes,

1151
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: like I find myself casually putting baseball on in the background,

1152
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: and it makes me happy. The pitch clock abs like

1153
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: all of it has worked really really well for me.

1154
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: I love going to minor league games. Hartford Yard Goat's

1155
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: gonna go next week. I am all in on the

1156
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: fun of what pace plays become. I think baseball has

1157
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,959
Speaker 1: done a better job than any modern sport at true

1158
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: listening to the feedback and fixing itself. How's that for

1159
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 1: a hot take?

1160
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 2: I mean.

1161
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 3: So, I ask in the sense that it now feels

1162
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 3: like the NBA and the conversation around the NBA during

1163
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 3: the regular season outside of whatever Pablo Tory is investigating,

1164
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 3: has become what baseball's used to be before they added

1165
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 3: the pitch clock and all the different adaptations to adjust

1166
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 3: the pace of play and make baseball a far more

1167
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 3: understanding that the inventory is still ungodly it's one hundred

1168
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 3: and sixty two games, the number of the number of

1169
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 3: games in the NBA, and the way that the players

1170
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 3: themselves handle the regular season. It has pivoted now to

1171
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,760
Speaker 3: what we used to talk about with baseball, which is

1172
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 3: not even about the sport itself, not the storylines in

1173
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 3: the sport itself, And they're still all manner of Lakers conversation.

1174
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 2: When the Knicks are more competitive.

1175
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 3: It feels like the Knicks are overwhelming in the coverage

1176
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,399
Speaker 3: as they werelast year when we were talking about their

1177
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:03,280
Speaker 3: run through the Eastern Conference playoffs.

1178
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 2: But as far as as far as the.

1179
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 3: Regular season in the NBA goes, and I've got the

1180
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 3: NBA tip off on right now on ESPN, I think

1181
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 3: that it they have to find a happy medium between

1182
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 3: a reduction in inventory and them them making sure that

1183
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: they're made whole, or them being made whole by their

1184
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 3: broadcast partners. For the reduction in inventory, understanding that they

1185
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 3: are operating at a certain price point, and the only

1186
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 3: reason I think that they're still holding firm other than records.

1187
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 3: I do think that I understand that that might be

1188
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 3: silly to some people to say, well, for the purposes

1189
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:53,919
Speaker 3: of historical clarity and upholding these these benchmarks and these

1190
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 3: historical great moments in whatever sport it is, whether it

1191
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 3: be baseball, basketball, football, what have you. The NFL is

1192
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 3: more comfortable being like, Okay, so what the passing record

1193
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 3: was this when we were only at sixteen regular season games.

1194
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 3: Now we're going to eighteen weeks of the regular season,

1195
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 3: and how that affects the record books? Come what may

1196
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 3: Baseball is, you know, more rigid when it comes to that.

1197
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 3: Basketball has mentioned that as an idea of not wanting

1198
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 3: to reduce the amount of inventory to sixty four games

1199
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 3: or whatever the suggested number has been in years past.

1200
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 3: I really think it's the only way to up the

1201
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 3: interest level in what's happening in the regular season. I

1202
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 3: think it's the only way to find the compromise with

1203
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 3: the players. I just don't know that it will ever happen.

1204
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 3: Happen unless you know, some network is very benevolent in

1205
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 3: their negotiations. It said, yeah, okay, so you're cutting your

1206
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 3: games by twenty What do I care. I'm just going

1207
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 3: to have to figure out something else to put on

1208
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 3: for twenty weeks of the year.

1209
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: The only so I've always agreed with you and Tom

1210
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: Haberstrow actually opened my eyes to the concept of limited

1211
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: inventory means more money. And I think sometimes because what

1212
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: we all say, we all say, well, you can't have

1213
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: less games because nobody wants to make less money. But

1214
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: the argument is ratings will go up with less games,

1215
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: because less games means the games that we have will

1216
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: mean more, and an increase in ratings will mean an

1217
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: increase in ad revenue. And Tom is a big believer,

1218
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure he's wrong that. Frankly, by eliminating,

1219
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: you know, twenty games out of the season, you'll create

1220
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: more urgency for the games that you have, which will

1221
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: create a larger audience, which will then create more revenue

1222
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: for those games, which will make up for the shortfall

1223
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: that we would anticipate from having less revenue. And I'm

1224
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: not sure he's wrong about that. And Frankly, you know,

1225
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: I hear you when we talk about the records, But

1226
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: I think there's a very clear and obvious answer to

1227
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: the records, and that is who cares. Like right now,

1228
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: this year, nikol Jokich is going to lead the NBA

1229
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: in rebounds per game and assists per game. For anyone

1230
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: that hasn't seen this, this is an important historical nugget.

1231
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: No player has ever led the NBA in rebounds per

1232
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: game and assists per game, not just in the same season. Ever,

1233
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: so no player one year has led the league and

1234
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: assists and another year led the league in rebounds, like

1235
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: Jokic is doing things that are physically impossible night in

1236
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: and night out, and best case scenario, he's gonna finish

1237
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: third in the MVP best case scenario. So to me,

1238
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 1: there is this moment here where I keep looking at

1239
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: it saying, you know, at some point, as much as

1240
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: we're talking about records, I don't care about the records because, frankly,

1241
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, records at this point

1242
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: are just being broken all over the place. Yeah, and

1243
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: people are numb to it. So for me, I just

1244
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: I think that we just needa have.

1245
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 3: An eighty three point game and everybody can bitch and

1246
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 3: moan about it after the fact because how dare he

1247
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 3: get that close to Kobe Bryant?

1248
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And then even in that eighty three point game,

1249
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, look at how much it was fouled,

1250
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: And I will I will thank historians that reminded us

1251
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: that that is not the first time that happened. We

1252
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: need to get you caught up on the masters, figure

1253
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: out what we've got going on right now, as it

1254
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: is just absolute chaos. Chris Purfett is in to give

1255
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: us the update, Chris, what do you got for us?

1256
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 9: Chaos is right, but Rory McElroy looks like he's holding

1257
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 9: a firmer and firmer grip on to become the first

1258
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 9: repeat Green jacket winner since Tiger Woods in two thousand

1259
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 9: and two. There's only three men who have repeated at

1260
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 9: Augusta Jack, Nicholas Woods and Nick Faldo in the nineties'

1261
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 9: that's the list, and Rory, of course has got his

1262
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 9: first one last year, so this would be something He's

1263
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 9: been even the last three holes at par. But he

1264
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 9: holds a two stroke lead at thirteen under over Scotty Scheffler,

1265
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 9: who's in the barn right now. He shot sixty eight.

1266
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 9: He's done for the day, so all he can do

1267
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 9: is watch Terrell Hatton also done at ten under. But

1268
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 9: we got this big pile up at ten under. Justin

1269
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 9: Rose and Cameron Young both out there on the course

1270
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 9: right now, Young of course in that group with Rory

1271
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 9: as they're coming down there. Justin Rose is on eighteen,

1272
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 9: Rory is on seventeen, so it's it's getting late early

1273
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 9: and I think at this point the fates all in

1274
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 9: Rory's hands at this point, I would say, so we

1275
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 9: will see. By the way I've been trying to check

1276
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 9: on him, Haltung Lee had a very good, very good

1277
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 9: first three rounds, but he's dropped to tide for thirty

1278
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 9: eighth and I kind of had to look up why

1279
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 9: on thirteen. On twelve, which is a par three, he

1280
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 9: shot six. On thirteen, which is a par five, he

1281
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 9: shot ten, So he has completely collapsed. He has now

1282
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 9: won over for the tournament. He has finished with a

1283
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 9: two eighty nine on the scorecard in eighty on the day.

1284
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 9: So a very very epic collapse there By the way,

1285
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 9: Scotty s Sheffler, I've got to mention this, he becomes

1286
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 9: the first ever golfer at Augusta to have a bogie

1287
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 9: free weekend since nineteen forty two. So a remarkable performance,

1288
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Speaker 9: right him. Regardless that he I don't think he's gonna

1289
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 9: Rory is just not gonna let him in. Meanwhile, in

1290
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 9: other sports out there NASCAR Cup Series, Ty Gibbs took

1291
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 9: victory at Bristol in Major League Baseball three to two

1292
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 9: lead for the Rangers over the Dodgers at the top

1293
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 9: of the eighth inning. The Rockies and Padres tie. I'm sorry,

1294
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 9: Padre's got a seven to two lead over the Rockies.

1295
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 9: Right now, bottom of the seventh in the NBA. Watching

1296
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 9: a couple of playoff scenarios. The one to watch right

1297
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 9: now is what's gonna happen with the Magic and the Raptors.

1298
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 9: The Magic have a twenty three eighteen lead over the Celtics,

1299
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 9: while the Raptors are holding a twenty three fourteen lead

1300
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 9: early in the first quarter over the Nets. The Magic

1301
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 9: would need a win and a Toronto loss to slip

1302
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 9: into the sixth seed and get out of that play

1303
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 9: in tournament. Hawks and Heat twenty six thirteen heat over Atlanta. Earlier,

1304
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 9: Baseball Rays got the sweep on the Yankees. New York

1305
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 9: has lost five in a row. Red Sox beat the

1306
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 9: Cardinals nine to three, and in the NHL. Something to

1307
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 9: watch out tonight for for a playoff scenario. Capital shut

1308
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 9: out the Penguins three zero, which means for the Anaheim

1309
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 9: Ducks win and they are in. They will be hosting

1310
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 9: the Vancouver Canucks at eight pm Eastern. Back to Bucking

1311
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 9: fits for a very thrilling finish to the Masters.

1312
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 2: You're that fitsy thrilling, thrilling.

1313
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 8: No, this is this is fun.

1314
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 2: You jerk.

1315
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 9: Look, I think you're I think you're ever selling how

1316
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 9: snooty it is, just because I think we need to

1317
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 9: get you to the Waste Management Open just to see

1318
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 9: how the rest of the ninety nine percent party with

1319
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 9: with golf as well.

1320
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: The waste Management Open does sound like a good time. Also,

1321
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm right down the road from Travelers and every year

1322
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: Travelers is like they used to do and all you

1323
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: can drink tent at Travelers. I was interested in that,

1324
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: but I think they've stopped the all you can drink tent,

1325
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: which you know is a mistake. Let's just be honest

1326
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: about that. The Buck Rising Jason Fitzbucket fits hanging out

1327
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: with you on Fox Sports Radio. Obviously, this is this

1328
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: is coming down to the wire. And you know for

1329
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: Rory that you chants to go back to back. I

1330
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 1: know that I've spent much of this showbuck sort of

1331
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: under selling the Masters because it's not something I personally

1332
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: connect to. But anytime you can go back to back,

1333
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: it's such a historic moment for the sport, for the individual,

1334
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: for everybody involved. It does cement sort of a different

1335
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: level of superstar status, like to be handling the pressure

1336
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 1: in the moment the way that Rory is, even with

1337
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: a charge that came over the course of the day

1338
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: from Scheffler. Now who's now done in eleven under, I

1339
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: have to tip my cap to Rory, who so far

1340
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: just I mean, even watching on the screen, just doesn't

1341
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 1: look at all like he's stressed through the moment.

1342
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 3: No, And it's very vindicating I'm sure for Rory, especially

1343
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 3: given his career and what a moment that was for

1344
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 3: him last year, and to see him walking, you know,

1345
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 3: with his head held high down the green at Augusta

1346
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 3: National it's a really cool, really cool moment for him.

1347
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 3: I mean, he's always been one of the best in

1348
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 3: his sport, but now with the opportunity to close this

1349
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 3: thing out, uh, and to to solidify himself among one

1350
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 3: of the greatest to play the game. I think it's uh.

1351
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 3: I think it's a really it's a it's a special

1352
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 3: opportunity for him. Again, we are talking about, like Fitzy,

1353
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 3: what would I have to do to get you interested

1354
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 3: in this sport? Because Chris brings up a good point about,

1355
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 3: you know, the idea of you with the waste management

1356
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 3: or something like that, but you don't drink like I mean,

1357
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 3: not not that you not that you need to to know.

1358
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 3: You're not somebody personally who I think needs to partake

1359
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 3: to have a good time.

1360
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, I mean, look, I can find fun

1361
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: anywhere we go.

1362
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 4: Uh.

1363
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: I would go off the wagon for a like for

1364
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: anyone that doesn't know I'm not on the wagon for

1365
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: for any reason other than personal choice. I feel so

1366
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: weird sometimes when people that you know, people that are

1367
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: so nice to come up and and talk to me,

1368
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: that consume the work, are like, oh, congratulations, I'm not drinking,

1369
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I just made a help decision couple

1370
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: of years ago that sort of avalanched into a life

1371
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: or an addict. Yeah. It's like, yeah, the number or

1372
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: if I go to a bar and I'm like, I'm like,

1373
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: I'll order a non alcohol or drink and the number

1374
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: of times somebody comes up there like, oh, you know,

1375
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: how long have you been sober? A couple of years? Congratulations?

1376
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: I smoke a lot of weed? Like, no need to

1377
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: congratulate me, Like, I'm just but I come off the

1378
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: wagon for a weekend with buck at at the waste Management.

1379
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: You know, come on like that, you know, I say that,

1380
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: but I would probably have like one drink and then

1381
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: be like I like this anymore.

1382
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I think that's the reaction to a

1383
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 3: lot of people will give it. But like what I'm

1384
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is is there anything? Is it just

1385
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,800
Speaker 3: the sport itself where you're you're out on it no

1386
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 3: matter what, Because like some people in this country are

1387
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 3: like that with soccer, right, there's nothing that you can

1388
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 3: do to get certain people who are hell bent against

1389
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 3: any interest level in soccer, no matter if Messi is

1390
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 3: playing in MLS, no matter Like in Nashville anymore, the

1391
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 3: best team by a mile here is Nashville. See the

1392
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 3: soccer team, They're excellent. The interest level has not yet

1393
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 3: latched onto the general sports consuming public in Nashville, Tennessee. Now,

1394
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 3: I think it's possible. The Nashville Predators were able to

1395
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 3: do that. They made the Stanley Cup a couple of

1396
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,560
Speaker 3: years ago. What was that twenty seventeen against the Pittsburgh

1397
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 3: Penguins when they lost in six games, And for for

1398
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:24,640
Speaker 3: hockey to have that kind of a grip over a

1399
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 3: Southeastern audience was not something terribly common. Kind of like

1400
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 3: Atlanta with Atlanta, Atlanta united with the MLS team and

1401
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 3: the success that they were all able to have.

1402
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1403
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's if it's just right market,

1404
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 3: right time, right place type of situation. But I would

1405
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 3: say that the larger portion of people here in Nashville,

1406
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 3: Tennessee have not yet gravitated towards what is the best

1407
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 3: team in this city by miles and miles. So is

1408
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 3: it just golf for you and it's never gonna happen

1409
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 3: for you, or is it just the fact that it's

1410
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 3: a bit started and stiff.

1411
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, And this is why I was interested.

1412
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: Did you know full Chaine Spanish? If you pull back

1413
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: the curtain, you know? Buck and I when we were

1414
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: texting earlier today, I said, let's talk about the Masters

1415
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 1: because I'm so open about the fact that I don't

1416
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 1: connect to it. And for me today, the goal was

1417
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: not to turn it on and poopoo it the whole time.

1418
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 1: The goal for me was to turn it on and

1419
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: connect to it. And I just personally don't like and

1420
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: no discredit again to people to do like. I love hockey.

1421
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: I loved hockey my entire life. When I was a

1422
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: little kid, my dad would get because we didn't have cable.

1423
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: My dad would get a box from one of his

1424
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: buddies that had all the VHS tapes of Edmonton Oiler games.

1425
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: So when I was a little kid, we would watch

1426
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 1: Gretzky and the Oilers in the playoffs. Like a month

1427
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: after the playoffs were over, we watched the whole run.

1428
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 1: I just I love hockey. I've always loved hockey. Not

1429
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: everybody loves hockey. And I'm the first to admit that

1430
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,759
Speaker 1: I think hockey on TV at times.

1431
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 2: You know.

1432
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 3: Again, I don't care about hockey at all. I love

1433
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 3: going to games, but like I'm not gonna watch it

1434
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 3: on TV.

1435
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: So for all I know to that point, as I

1436
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, I've been to Augusta, but I haven't been

1437
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: to the Masters. So maybe being in the crowd and

1438
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 1: the thick of it, and maybe maybe what I lack

1439
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: is connective tissue to the game, right, And I think.

1440
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 3: Like the twenty nineteen Tiger thing didn't do anything for.

1441
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 1: You, No, no, no, not at all.

1442
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think at that point you're lost.

1443
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 4: You.

1444
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 1: Know, And it was funny because I came in.

1445
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:28,680
Speaker 3: That's as broad appeal as golf is ever going to have.

1446
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 2: Buddy, Like, I.

1447
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 3: Hate to be the one to tell to tell you that,

1448
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 3: you know, it's thea this this potential interest, this potential

1449
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 3: affair with golf. But no, I think if that was

1450
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 3: the moment, if that moment passed you by and you

1451
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 3: felt not even an ounce of whatever, joy, excitement, help,

1452
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 3: a little bit of patriotism, whatever, whatever, you know, whatever

1453
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 3: was flying through the air at that particular point in time,

1454
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 3: if that can't do it.

1455
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 2: For you, golf is not for you.

1456
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: I distinctly remember because I was working at the time

1457
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 1: Trey Wingo was was obviously it was God with a Window,

1458
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: and so I was working on that show, and Trey

1459
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:06,720
Speaker 1: is such a massive golf fan, and I knew we

1460
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: were going to spend the next day on it, and

1461
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: I was so bothered because I was sitting there trying

1462
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: to do all this draft research for the draft show

1463
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 1: that I had to host right after that, I was

1464
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: just I just remember distinctly being like, you know, so yes,

1465
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: I think that just speaks to the fact that you know,

1466
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: so often when you have a great connection to the

1467
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: sport is because you have some sort of connective moment,

1468
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, you sat down and watched with

1469
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, your friends or your family, Like you know,

1470
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,600
Speaker 1: I'm a Raiders fan and because when I was a

1471
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: little kid, my dad would go get a dozen donuts

1472
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 1: and we would sit down and watch the Raiders together

1473
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,040
Speaker 1: every Sunday. That's why I love the Raiders like it's

1474
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: a simple thing that's been part of my life since

1475
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: before I can remember how old I was. So I

1476
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: lack that connective tissue with golf, and so it's hard

1477
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: now because you know, I think sometimes what you need

1478
01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:59,600
Speaker 1: is whether it's your at an event, or whether you

1479
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: connect to one of the athletes, whether it's like something

1480
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: about that athlete you see a little piece of yourself.

1481
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: And I don't. Country club lifestyle is not something that

1482
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 1: I really find resonance with. So I think all of

1483
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 1: those things together just sort of leave me on the sidelines.

1484
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm not the target audience for and I try to

1485
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: respect it. But it took me a long time to

1486
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 1: connect to baseball. Honestly, it took me a long time

1487
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:28,639
Speaker 1: to connect to baseball. So you know, maybe there will

1488
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 1: be this moment or this one particular golfer that makes

1489
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: it all connect differently, But for me right now, I

1490
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 1: watch it and I know that our audience cares about it,

1491
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: so that makes it important, But it doesn't. It doesn't

1492
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: connect with me. That being said, it is coming down

1493
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: to the wire. We will keep you updated this thing,

1494
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: no interest in whatsoever. It's almost over, thank god. Look

1495
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: it's not just about me, all right, It's about everybody listening.

1496
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: Everybody listening right now is on pins and needles trying

1497
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,080
Speaker 1: to figure out if Rory can go back to back.

1498
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll give you the answer to that.

1499
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Speaker 1: He is almost dumb for the day with the two

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Speaker 1: stroke lead. Can he hang on and become back to

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Speaker 1: back Masters Champions? You'll find out Bucking Fits Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's Master Sunday Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio, Buck

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Speaker 1: Rising Jason Fitz. If you missed any of today's show,

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Speaker 1: catch the pod. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcast. Right after the show, Today's pod I'll

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Speaker 1: be posted. Be sure to follow the podcast rating five stars.

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Speaker 1: Radio wherever you get your podcasts. You'll find today's show.

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Speaker 1: Post it right after we get off the air. You

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01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:35,839
Speaker 1: don't you never like my whisper?

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01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 3: You never liked crap with Oh, by the way, we

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01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:40,599
Speaker 3: had a nark. Mary, you want to talk about the nark?

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01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,719
Speaker 6: Why are you doing you You're messing up the scene,

1514
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 6: You messing up the vibe. What's going on?

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm this is this is real, hard fact

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01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 3: based sports talk radio that we're doing. We gonna talk

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01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 3: about this nark.

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Speaker 6: Yesterday for the past. Bro, it's a new day.

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01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know. I don't approve of avoidance.

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01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 1: Hold what what what happened here? What happened?

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01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 2: Correct? That's what I was waiting for.

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01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 6: That's the record show.

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01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 8: I didn't even nark.

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you didn't nark. One of the listeners knarked

1525
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: on me and I did see that on Twitter. Somebody

1526
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: said you were just getting handed handed by it. Like

1527
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: I heard. It didn't go well for you yesterday.

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01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 3: Bridge and Mary took me for a walk for two

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01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 3: hours yesterday basically.

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01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 6: You and it was true.

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01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: Wow wow.

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01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 3: So did I say anything nasty about Bridge of Condon

1533
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 3: the last time you and I were on the air.

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01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:33,560
Speaker 2: No.

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01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:34,560
Speaker 1: Nor.

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01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 3: A listener texted Bridget apparently somebody who has their number

1537
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 3: and said, hey, the guy that you filled in with

1538
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago on Fox Sports Radio is

1539
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 3: saying how much he didn't like having you as a

1540
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 3: co host.

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01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 2: So we have a note.

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01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: You did say you liked having me back on, but

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01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: but I don't remember you saying anything negative about Bridge.

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: I thought you were just kind of, you know, fluffing

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01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 1: my feelings a little bit when I came back.

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01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 3: And I'm certain I was saying in a sarcastic way,

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01:14:57,920 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 3: because I would never say that to you.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 1: That is correct, that is that is very correct. But

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01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: then I mean, what the records straight? Okay? Okay, So

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 1: as a result, you got dragged for two hours?

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01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 3: Well yeah that Mary, Mary sells me out to Bridget

1552
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 3: anytime the Bridget steps in, And that's fine, Like, that's

1553
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 3: fine if I've got to be if I gotta be

1554
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 3: the punching bag for two hours, I can play that

1555
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 3: role if need me. Turns out pretty good at it,

1556
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 3: especially because Bridget and Marry a much smarter.

1557
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 2: Than I am.

1558
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 3: So I'm just kind of from actual and dock and

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01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 3: dip and dive the entire time.

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01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:34,200
Speaker 1: Is it a roll? Or are you just a punching bag? Mary?

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01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: How did I mean? If you had to grade his

1562
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: boxing performance yesterday? Was he simply all the.

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01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,719
Speaker 2: Defense of the entire time. No, I was Floyd Mayweather

1564
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 2: out there.

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01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: Against the ropes the entire time.

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01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 8: Mary Mack, I'm not gonna lie.

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01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 6: All I was saying yesterday was that Buck turned into

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 6: you and we turned into Buck.

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: Oh oh does that? Wait? Does that mean I'm usually

1570
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: the punching bag? Come on?

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01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 3: Belief to him?

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01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 2: You know what?

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01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 1: You know what, I that's fine. I don't mind. I

1574
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: don't mind taking that role if that's.

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01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 2: What about driving where people just want to fight with you.

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01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 6: But that's why, you know I come and defend Jason

1577
01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 6: because you know that's my dog.

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01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: Sat doesn't nobody ever comes in.

1579
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 2: I just want that. I want that known to.

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01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because I mean you've got to you've got

1581
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: a SaaS problem. I mean I said gently, like you're

1582
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 1: a bit of a sashole. I mean I mean I

1583
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: think I think we could say that right like, I

1584
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: think you better Damn No, I think you've got a

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01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 1: bit of a sass problem.

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01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 3: How scared than everybody in the l I s.

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01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: Oh, we always wonder when we'll find the line. I think,

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01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: you know, gradually, Congratulations to me, I guess we finally

1589
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 1: did it. Uh, spectacular. Also will be on two Pros

1590
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,599
Speaker 1: and a Cup of Joe maybe Monday and Tuesday, hanging

1591
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: out Buck Rising, Jason Fitz, Rory McElroy trying to close

1592
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: this thing out third under on seventeen right now, trying

1593
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: to figure out or seventeen down, I should say, trying

1594
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:11,720
Speaker 1: to complete the victory here. So a big moment for

1595
01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: Rory is he's taking a look at it. He got

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01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:16,320
Speaker 1: himself into a little bit of trouble, shot it into

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01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 1: the trees and then manage to get from the trees

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01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: to the sand and now the sand to the green.

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01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: So he's handling all of this chaos as well as

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01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 1: can be expected, but trying to close it out with

1601
01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: the two stroke lead over Scotti, Scheffler, Scheffler, don't for

1602
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: the day. Nothing else he can do to apply any pressure.

1603
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of can Rory finish this thing out?

1604
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:41,600
Speaker 3: Yes, and Rory's family looking on everybody anticipating that.

1605
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 2: I mean, this would be not that you're rooting for it,

1606
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 2: but this would.

1607
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 3: Be one of the most catastrophic collapses of all time.

1608
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 3: As he gets ready to round out this final round

1609
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 3: here at Augusta National, if he were to slip up

1610
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 3: in any way, shape or form, because that two stroke

1611
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 3: lead man, that is not something to feel comfortable about,

1612
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 3: especially if you're Rory.

1613
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 2: With Rory's past.

1614
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh, he's sitting back and getting emotional. So

1615
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: I feel like he's, uh, it's done everything he needs

1616
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 1: to do at this point, He'll go back to back

1617
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: and we'll hope do the menu is a little better

1618
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: next year. I think you were right.

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01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 2: His dinner menu was excellent.

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01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 1: No, no, no, fine, what dinner menu was fine?

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01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 2: Are you insane?

1622
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 4: It was?

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01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:30,919
Speaker 1: Okay? You shut up right now. That's the most ignorant

1624
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 1: thing you've ever said.

1625
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 3: Just okay, it was okay, yellow fit carpaccio.

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01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 2: Just okay.

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01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: I mean I can get that at ten places down

1628
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: the road from here.

1629
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it's good.

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean it was fine. It's fine. I got kid.

1631
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 1: I have the the the sensibilities are offended for Buck

1632
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: Rising because I did not. I didn't fallna grow up

1633
01:18:56,400 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: one time. Look, I have elite like I can be

1634
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: of foodie likes he of a.

1635
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 2: Five year old. You're with your with your with your

1636
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:05,839
Speaker 2: grilled chicken and your your broccoli.

1637
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,360
Speaker 1: I have the ability to eat like a five year

1638
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 1: old and enjoy it. But I also have the ability

1639
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: to eat exotic foods all over the world and also

1640
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: enjoy them. Rory enjoying now, letting out just a guttural yell.

1641
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: It is his year. He has won the masters. It

1642
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 1: has done. They're hugging congratulations, Rory Vaceleroy. Back to back

1643
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: with the green jacket, even if the menu was just

1644
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: mid We'll get you caught up on what it means

1645
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: and some NFL Draft news that's broken today. We'll tell

1646
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: you about it next. Bucking Fits Fox Sports Radio. We

1647
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: are about a week and a half away from the

1648
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, which means we're right at that sweet spot

1649
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: where suddenly stories will start to come out, research will

1650
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:51,559
Speaker 1: start to be made public, and opinions will start to shift.

1651
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: We're seeing that today as we get a story out

1652
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:57,840
Speaker 1: on one of the hot prospects in this year's draft,

1653
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: Rubin Bain, that has everybody wondering why now and what

1654
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: it means? Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio, Hanging out

1655
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: with you, Ali Connolly tweets out news Rubin Bain was

1656
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,880
Speaker 1: cited for careless driving after a March twenty twenty four

1657
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,919
Speaker 1: crash in Miami that left a passenger in a coma.

1658
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: That passenger, a twenty two year old student, died three

1659
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: months later. NFL teams are aware and investigating, per sources.

1660
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 1: I want to stress the last portion of that, because

1661
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:27,599
Speaker 1: Ruben Bain is somebody that before the draft process many

1662
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: people thought would be in contenent to be a top

1663
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:32,599
Speaker 1: five pick, and then goes into the scouting combine his

1664
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: arms now famously short, very short for an NFL prospect,

1665
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: and that has meant that he's fallen on some draft boards.

1666
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: And now with the week and a half before the draft,

1667
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: what we end up with is a story coming out

1668
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,640
Speaker 1: about an incident from twenty twenty four, an incident that

1669
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 1: was fully investigated, an incident that the police looked at,

1670
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: but an incident that was not necessarily publicly talked about

1671
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 1: until now. But Buck, that doesn't mean that teams weren't

1672
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: already well aware of this incident. So it's curious to

1673
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,720
Speaker 1: me that this comes out when, frankly, as you well know,

1674
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: teams have been doing their research. This was not a

1675
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 1: surprise to any NFL organization.

1676
01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 3: Yes, and the thing I mean, you hear rumors right

1677
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 3: in the off season cycle and some things get confirmed,

1678
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 3: some things you follow up on, some things you don't.

1679
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 3: This has been and I'm sure somebody else has said

1680
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 3: it on social media, but since we're live on the

1681
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 3: air talking about this story, this has been something that

1682
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 3: teams have been aware of for at least two weeks,

1683
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 3: if not more. Obviously, the story itself dates back to

1684
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:39,200
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, but at least for me, the first

1685
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 3: time that I heard any mention.

1686
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 2: Of it was two weeks ago.

1687
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 3: So now Ali Connelly has done the reporting on this.

1688
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 3: I do subscribe to his sub stack so I can

1689
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 3: read some additional details here. It's called the read Optional.

1690
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 3: For what it's worth, he and John Ledger do a

1691
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 3: very good podcast scouting, film analysis, draft prospect research. I

1692
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 3: find it invaluable this time of year and well worth

1693
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 3: the subscription.

1694
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 2: No, no, not a plug. I don't know.

1695
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 3: I mean, I know Ledyard well, but just saying really

1696
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 3: really good stuff. They do a good job. So the

1697
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 3: details of this, the incident itself, one of four passengers

1698
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 3: in Reuben Bain's car that was driving on Interstate ninety

1699
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:22,400
Speaker 3: five in Miami at four am on seventeenth On March seventeenth,

1700
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, his vehicle struck another car before careening

1701
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 3: into a concrete barrier on both sides of the highway,

1702
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 3: According to the police crash records, which ally connolly reviewed,

1703
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 3: one of those four passengers in Bain's car, a woman

1704
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 3: named Destiny Betts, a twenty two year old college student

1705
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,759
Speaker 3: from Georgia who was visiting Miami for spring break, suffered

1706
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 3: incapacitating injuries, was rushed to the Writer Trauma Center from

1707
01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 3: the scene. She never regained consciousness. She died on June

1708
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 3: the thirteenth of that same year, So June thirteenth, twenty

1709
01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 3: twenty four, after a March seventeenth incident.

1710
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 2: She spent three month Sinacoma.

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01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 3: Leading up to that, Apparently there was a second passenger

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01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 3: who was also hospitalized with injuries to Other University of

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01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,880
Speaker 3: Miami players were in the car at the time of

1714
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 3: the crash. Linebacker Wesley ba Saint forgive me if I'm

1715
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 3: mispronouncing that, and nygelac Kelly again, I apologize if I've

1716
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 3: just butchered that. Nyja l ik Kelly. That player later

1717
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 3: transferred to UCF, both teammates of Ruben Bain at Miami,

1718
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 3: both eligible, ironically enough, for this year's draft, so It's

1719
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 3: essentially a two year old story, more than two years

1720
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 3: old as the time of this reporting, and it does

1721
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,719
Speaker 3: beg a million different questions ten days before the NFL Draft,

1722
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 3: Who put this out there now and why? Because it

1723
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 3: has been out there in the ether, at least the

1724
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:46,719
Speaker 3: rumors of it have been out there in the ether

1725
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 3: for a while. And I'm not saying that journalism can

1726
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,759
Speaker 3: be done overnight and that you can't spend the additional

1727
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,679
Speaker 3: two weeks vetting and reporting and making sure that you've

1728
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 3: got your facts straight. Because this is a This has

1729
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 3: the potential to impact him financially. How much it will

1730
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 3: versus what we were already talking about. I'm sure people

1731
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 3: will say as we get to the draft itself and

1732
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:13,880
Speaker 3: he potentially slides, well, this story immediately hurt him. But

1733
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 3: again I would remind you teams have known about this

1734
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,720
Speaker 3: story for quite some time. They have a number of

1735
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 3: different resources. This is the first that this story in

1736
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:26,799
Speaker 3: particular has been out there in the public, and I wonder,

1737
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 3: I don't know if the audience cares about, like, does

1738
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 3: Miami have a responsibility to disclose this information, especially since

1739
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 3: one of the passengers in the vehicle that Reuben Bain

1740
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 3: was driving passed away after being in a three month kona.

1741
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 3: Does the University of Miami have any responsibility to publicly

1742
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:47,680
Speaker 3: put this out there, at least in the ballpark in

1743
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 3: the vicinity of when this happened. Again, we're more than

1744
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 3: two years removed from the incident itself, almost two years

1745
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 3: removed from this woman's death, the twenty two year old

1746
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 3: college student from Georgia. So I think that it's going

1747
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 3: to be about a number of questions, ruben Bain. I mean,

1748
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:05,719
Speaker 3: you hate to turn it immediately to business and say, well,

1749
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 3: does this hurt his draft stock or those kind of things.

1750
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 3: It's worth digging into, right, Why were you in that position?

1751
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 3: Why were you going at that rate of speed? Were

1752
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 3: you operating under the influence of any kind like This

1753
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 3: begs a million different follow ups of which will have

1754
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 3: already been asked again, because teams have known about this,

1755
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 3: and ruben Bain has continued to go on thirty visits,

1756
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 3: which are the allotted number of visits that teams have

1757
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 3: in the post combine process leading up to the draft,

1758
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 3: where they can bring a player in where they can

1759
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:37,800
Speaker 3: visit with him throughout the duration of a day, where

1760
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 3: they can ask him in a more team centric setting

1761
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 3: these kind of questions as opposed to the fifteen minutes

1762
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 3: that they get to the combine, which is basically speed dating.

1763
01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 1: You mentioned the thirty visits, and I think it's important

1764
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:53,280
Speaker 1: to stress to everybody there are no constraints on what

1765
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: teams can use and how teams can utilize their own

1766
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:02,640
Speaker 1: resources to investigate every single player they're considering drafting. So

1767
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: that's why some teams famously for high draft picks have

1768
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 1: hired private investigators that have followed people, that have gone

1769
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:12,639
Speaker 1: around and talked to people from their lives. Like, if

1770
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: your team you can choose to investigate as much about

1771
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 1: every one of these human beings you're considering drafting as

1772
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:21,759
Speaker 1: you want, even outside your thirty visits, you can hire

1773
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: firms to go out and find out everything there is

1774
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: to know. So I would be stunned to see any

1775
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:31,120
Speaker 1: team select Ruben Bain in the first round of the

1776
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:35,280
Speaker 1: draft and be even remotely surprised. Right, Like, whatever they're getting,

1777
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:38,360
Speaker 1: they understand exactly what they're getting. Now. I think the

1778
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: immediate comp for some people, in the minds of some

1779
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,839
Speaker 1: is going to be the Jalen Carter incidents driving at Georgia.

1780
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 1: What we don't know is is this a one off?

1781
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: This was a random night, This was a random moment.

1782
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: To your point, we don't know the full details of

1783
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,599
Speaker 1: what may or may have not impacted Ruby Bain as

1784
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: a driver. Was it just a mistake? Were there any

1785
01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:00,280
Speaker 1: other things at play? We don't know. Was this one

1786
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 1: incident of many? Is this one incident of one? These

1787
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 1: are all things that teams are gonna have to factor in.

1788
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: I just don't think more often than not, teams are

1789
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: not surprised by these things. So really, when it gets released,

1790
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: it's about the court of public opinion more often than not,

1791
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 1: because teams should If a team's doing their job well,

1792
01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,719
Speaker 1: then they shouldn't be finding anything out of Ali Connolly.

1793
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1794
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 3: Again, some additional details from on Ali Connolly, who has

1795
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,840
Speaker 3: this report up at the read optional. It's a sub

1796
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 3: stack that he and John Ledyard operate. Ruben ban The

1797
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 3: story is Ruben Bain, the Miami edge rusher who's of

1798
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 3: course talked about as a first round pick in this

1799
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,440
Speaker 3: year's draft, linked to a twenty twenty four Miami crash

1800
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,679
Speaker 3: that left a passenger fatally injured. A woman did pass

1801
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:49,040
Speaker 3: away months after the initial incident. So what Ali continues

1802
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:53,479
Speaker 3: to report on as far as the police record shows.

1803
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 3: The police crash report states that Bain operated his vehicle

1804
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 3: in a careless or negligent manner following the collision with

1805
01:28:01,320 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 3: the second vehicle. Bain's car owned by a company named

1806
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 3: Miami Sports twenty seven Incorporated. Okay, so, who's giving him

1807
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,639
Speaker 3: the right to use this car? How does that factor

1808
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:15,719
Speaker 3: in from a liability standpoint? Additional questions there This vehicle

1809
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 3: struck the east concrete wall before being redirected into the

1810
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 3: west concrete wall, so basically pinballed where it came to rest.

1811
01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 3: It was later towed after sustaining disabling. It damage no

1812
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 3: field sobriety test was administered at the scene. Bain was

1813
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:33,479
Speaker 3: cited for careless driving. That charge was dismissed approximately two

1814
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 3: weeks before the twenty two year old passenger passed away

1815
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 3: while she remained in a coma. Multiple league sources confirmed

1816
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 3: that they are aware of the incident and are continuing

1817
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:47,679
Speaker 3: to investigate. It remains unclear if it will affect Bain's

1818
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 3: draft stock.

1819
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:51,559
Speaker 1: I want to quickly chime in there. I have a

1820
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: very close friend that has a national prominence and was

1821
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: in a car accident by himself, and he was cited

1822
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: for careless driving. Was he driving carelessly? No, but he

1823
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 1: lost control of his vehicle on the highway and careened

1824
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: off the cement walls and into another cement wall, and

1825
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:12,600
Speaker 1: automatically that carries with it reckless driving, careless driving, It

1826
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: carried an immediate This is what you know because somebody

1827
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:20,240
Speaker 1: is held accountable for the damage to the wall. Obviously,

1828
01:29:20,280 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 1: the argument was even though he was driving in the rain.

1829
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: The argument was, had he been driving slower, he would

1830
01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: have been able to control his car. So when we

1831
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:29,600
Speaker 1: hear reckless driving, we think that that means somebody is

1832
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 1: driving like a moron. I learned, you know, from my

1833
01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: own personal experience to my body, that that can be

1834
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:40,559
Speaker 1: something assigned to almost any any driving incident. So again,

1835
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm just not jumping to a bunch of judgment on this.

1836
01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: I think teams at this point it all becomes how

1837
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 1: comfortable are they with the entire body of work of

1838
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:52,479
Speaker 1: everything they're discovering on ruben Bain, And then how comfortable

1839
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 1: are they with his arm length. Let's be honest, if

1840
01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 1: his arm length were absolutely spectacular, most people wouldn't care about.

1841
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 3: This report that's that's that's what it really boils down to,

1842
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 3: is if if he was, if he was a prospect

1843
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 3: without any kind of physical or you know, tangible questions

1844
01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:13,799
Speaker 3: about his ability to do the job at the next level,

1845
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 3: would there be you know, much concern from NFL teams,

1846
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:20,160
Speaker 3: Because for what it's worth, this feels important to add,

1847
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 3: no finding of criminal liability has been made in connection

1848
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:28,080
Speaker 3: with the crash or the victim's death who passed away

1849
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:32,000
Speaker 3: as a result of the crash, so no no charges brought.

1850
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 3: The reckless driving charges dismissed. Trey Wallace of OutKick is

1851
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 3: also adding that Bain was again cited for careless driving

1852
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five, but that case was also dismissed

1853
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,880
Speaker 3: because of something called a defective citation, which I've.

1854
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:46,719
Speaker 2: Never heard of before.

1855
01:30:46,920 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 3: So what is the like did the did the cop

1856
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:51,640
Speaker 3: forget to sign the citation or something like that, Like

1857
01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:54,679
Speaker 3: what constitutes a defective citation? I've never heard of that term.

1858
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: That is now, all of a sudden, that's just curiosity,

1859
01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: right because now you have two reckless drives I means

1860
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,760
Speaker 1: stacked together. This is going to create a conversation. And

1861
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 1: again the timing, like we all remember waking up on

1862
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:09,680
Speaker 1: draft day and suddenly videos of Lerryman Tunsil out there

1863
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:12,840
Speaker 1: smoking weed and absolutely plummeted his draft stock. Right we

1864
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:16,799
Speaker 1: world we see much of nowadays. People be like, yeah,

1865
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 1: I know he smoked weed right on, brother, but one

1866
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:22,040
Speaker 1: hundred percent, well it keeps it keeps him, you know,

1867
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:25,439
Speaker 1: it keeps him level headed. So let's see what this

1868
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 1: all plays a week and a half away from the draft,

1869
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: something like this leaking, you know, this is a moment.

1870
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, every team has private investigators. Sometimes I

1871
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 1: wish agents used their same resources because they certainly have

1872
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:39,439
Speaker 1: the wealth to do it, to find out who leaked

1873
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:40,960
Speaker 1: these things, so that we get a sense of why,

1874
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:44,280
Speaker 1: because this certainly from the outside looking in, it feels like, yes,

1875
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 1: it could just be a really good, really important news story,

1876
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:49,920
Speaker 1: I should say. It also could be somebody trying to

1877
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: make sure that you know, Ruben Bain falls on the

1878
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:52,799
Speaker 1: draft boards.

1879
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:54,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, for what it's worth.

1880
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 3: The reporting of Olie Connelly at the read Optional, which

1881
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:02,840
Speaker 3: is where this story is emanating from, does have multiple

1882
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 3: quotes from the victim who passed away. The twenty two

1883
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:08,439
Speaker 3: year old college student from Georgia has multiple quotes from

1884
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:12,760
Speaker 3: her family about basically seeking a resolution in this So

1885
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:17,720
Speaker 3: it may not even necessarily be a team pushing this

1886
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 3: story forward. It's that it seems that the family has

1887
01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 3: been trying to get this out here, and it could

1888
01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 3: be I mean, it could be a team that did

1889
01:32:26,240 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 3: because again, teams have known about this, so somebody could

1890
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 3: have let it slip, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and said

1891
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 3: too much. I mean, we just don't know the full

1892
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:37,800
Speaker 3: scale of how this report came to be put out

1893
01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:39,880
Speaker 3: in the universe. But based on reading some of these

1894
01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 3: quotes from the victim's family who passed away after that

1895
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 3: period of months in a coma, it does sound like

1896
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:48,040
Speaker 3: this is a story that they have been trying to

1897
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 3: get to the forefront for quite some time. No graceful

1898
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 3: way to transition into a read. But if you missed

1899
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Speaker 1: With the NFL Draft right around the corner, one of

1907
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:23,719
Speaker 1: the most important players in last year's draft is speaking

1908
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:26,599
Speaker 1: out and it could impact this year's draft. We'll tell

1909
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 1: you about it next. Bucket Fits hanging out with you

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01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

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01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:33,759
Speaker 1: Bucket Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.

1912
01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:37,000
Speaker 1: I know, sorry, excuse me, got a frock on my throne.

1913
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 2: Have a co parton to do that.

1914
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't have a cop button and just came out

1915
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:42,719
Speaker 1: of nowhere. I got nothing. I did it. My fault. America,

1916
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: the whole world.

1917
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:46,520
Speaker 2: Really swiming all over America.

1918
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Buck. I know you are not

1919
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: a movie guy. You don't go to the movie theater.

1920
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:54,880
Speaker 1: I know you don't go to the movie theater. Let

1921
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:59,000
Speaker 1: me say, but can I just implore you speaking of

1922
01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:02,639
Speaker 1: popcorn of a horror movie that you need to see.

1923
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 1: I know, but it's just shot.

1924
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Speaker 2: You're getting me to a horror movie.

1925
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,679
Speaker 1: Well, you can rent it. It's called Dolly. It's called Dolly,

1926
01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:14,720
Speaker 1: all right, and it's got Nashville ties. The filmmaker is

1927
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:16,800
Speaker 1: a Nashville guy, and.

1928
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Speaker 3: Which is not the conclusion that most people jump to.

1929
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Speaker 3: When they say there's a horror movie about Dolly.

1930
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Speaker 1: But it's not about Dolly. It's called Dolly. Uh you know,

1931
01:34:25,280 --> 01:34:29,040
Speaker 1: I know, but uh yeah, it's If you for anyone listening,

1932
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 1: if you love seventies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, like old

1933
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: school seventies horror movies, this is it's one of the

1934
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:40,640
Speaker 1: most disturbing, uncomfortable, incredible horror movies I've ever seen in

1935
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:45,040
Speaker 1: modern horror cinema. Like it is absolutely I had to

1936
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:46,640
Speaker 1: I had to stop it at one point because I

1937
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm not ready for this, and then

1938
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:51,080
Speaker 1: I had to go back into it. Worth It makes you.

1939
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: It makes your entire hebe GB's run up and down

1940
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:56,640
Speaker 1: your spine the entire way. I hope it becomes a franchise.

1941
01:34:56,840 --> 01:35:00,360
Speaker 1: It is Uh, it is wild, So Dolly check it

1942
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 1: out bookt Like, you know, just pop some popcorn, watch

1943
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:05,519
Speaker 1: a scary movie. I'll come over, we'll cuddle on the couch.

1944
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:07,680
Speaker 1: I'll be there to be, you know, big spoon for

1945
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: you see you don't feel vulnerable, and you'll watch a

1946
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 1: very demented horror figure wearing a porcelain doll mask, and

1947
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 1: it will it'll rock your world.

1948
01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 3: What would be scarier me and fits cuddling on the

1949
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:21,439
Speaker 3: couch or the horror movie both.

1950
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 1: I mean, no, the scary part is the fight for

1951
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:27,479
Speaker 1: Big spoon because I never win. But I'm gonna put

1952
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 1: up enough of a fight that you're just gonna have to.

1953
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm wiry, You're gonna have to deal with a lot

1954
01:35:31,200 --> 01:35:36,920
Speaker 1: of that. So a lot of positions rather the worst

1955
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 1: would you rather have all time? No, Imagine a very

1956
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 1: scared buck rising and I'm big Spooner and I just

1957
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 1: lean and goes It's gonna be okay, buddy.

1958
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:48,799
Speaker 3: That's just funny because you would be like a koala.

1959
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 3: You're like four foot five and I'm six to I'm

1960
01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:52,759
Speaker 3: five nine.

1961
01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 1: Five nine and one hundred and fifty nine pounds of.

1962
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:58,719
Speaker 2: Pere some inches eight and some quarters of inches.

1963
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:01,240
Speaker 1: You know, I was five nine and a half. I'm shrinking,

1964
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 1: all right. So much taller than five to nine and

1965
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,759
Speaker 1: a half is one Travis Hunter. Now you may remember

1966
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: just a year ago in the draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars

1967
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:13,200
Speaker 1: traded up to the number two overall pick to select

1968
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:15,799
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter. That was a massive deal with the Browns.

1969
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: They sent the five to thirty six their second round

1970
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:20,519
Speaker 1: pick one hundred and twenty six and a first rounder

1971
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 1: this year to move up to acquire Travis Hunter. And

1972
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:26,439
Speaker 1: the justification at the time was they weren't just getting

1973
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: one star, they were getting two because Travis Hunter had

1974
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: the ability to impact the game as a corner and

1975
01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:34,280
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver. Right, So, all of the concept

1976
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 1: here was Travis Hunter is going to be worth it

1977
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:41,679
Speaker 1: because he does so much for the Jags. So now

1978
01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:44,120
Speaker 1: the question is what are we gonna do because we

1979
01:36:44,200 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 1: are getting all sorts of reports. We're getting all sorts

1980
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: of reports out there that he's gonna be a full

1981
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: time corner, that the Jags after one season, one season

1982
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 1: that he only played a few games in due to injury,

1983
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:57,840
Speaker 1: have decided to move into full time corner. And he's

1984
01:36:57,880 --> 01:37:00,000
Speaker 1: out here in the streets on social media say, way

1985
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 1: to hear that from what do we make of this?

1986
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 1: Because it feels like this is the toughest part buck

1987
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: because they gave up so much that now there's this

1988
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 1: expectation that in order to justify that value, he has

1989
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,559
Speaker 1: to be great at two positions, not just one, and

1990
01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: it feels like they're giving up on that before they

1991
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:17,360
Speaker 1: even got started.

1992
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:21,640
Speaker 3: Well, and the question becomes, okay, does he know like

1993
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:24,920
Speaker 3: his has his organization made him aware that this is

1994
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,640
Speaker 3: their plan for him? And Ian Rappaport gave up the

1995
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:29,680
Speaker 3: goods before Travis Hunter got to hear it from the

1996
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:33,160
Speaker 3: powers that be, because that would also be a really

1997
01:37:33,240 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 3: poor way to handle an already complicated situation with a

1998
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:40,320
Speaker 3: very talented player. And here's the thing, all right, you

1999
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:46,280
Speaker 3: you have done significantly more like draft night coverage. Well,

2000
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:48,920
Speaker 3: you do different draft covers than I do. You are

2001
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 3: on air usually, Are you doing a draft show this year?

2002
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:54,439
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I'll be hosting the Day two of the

2003
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:58,240
Speaker 1: draft Siciliano stepping in for Day one, but yes, And

2004
01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:00,760
Speaker 1: I'll be doing the Day one stuff with some but yes.

2005
01:38:00,760 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: I've covered the draft every year of my professional career

2006
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 1: for ESPN, now for y'all.

2007
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:07,400
Speaker 3: But you're doing a draft show, like yes, during the

2008
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:10,040
Speaker 3: process of the draft, whereas me, I am covering the

2009
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:14,240
Speaker 3: draft at an organization, at an organization's practice facility, the

2010
01:38:14,280 --> 01:38:16,880
Speaker 3: Titans specifically, that's the team that I cover for three

2011
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 3: days and I do press conferences and they put the

2012
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:20,760
Speaker 3: kids on a zoom call with us afterwards, and like

2013
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:23,000
Speaker 3: that's my version of draft coverage. So we both do

2014
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 3: draft coverage, we just do it differently. The component of well,

2015
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 3: when I was studying for last year's draft and Travis

2016
01:38:35,920 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 3: Hunter obviously one of the top prospects, and the whole thing.

2017
01:38:38,120 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember the news cycle the

2018
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 3: Titans president and general manager both saying that they would

2019
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 3: take a generational talent with the number one overall pick,

2020
01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 3: which felt like a little bit of Okay, Are they

2021
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:50,600
Speaker 3: talking about Travis Hunter because he is in fact a

2022
01:38:50,680 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 3: once in a generation type of college player.

2023
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 2: Is he a generational player at the NFL level?

2024
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 1: I don't know.

2025
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:59,160
Speaker 3: Are they talking about Oh, I'm blanking Adual Carter, the

2026
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:01,400
Speaker 3: pass rusher ended up going to the Giants. Are they

2027
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 3: in fact talking about cam Ward with the number one

2028
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:06,679
Speaker 3: overall pick? Is cam a generational talent in that sense?

2029
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 3: I mean it's almost like reading too much into something

2030
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:12,120
Speaker 3: that a team with the draft the top draft pick says,

2031
01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:14,759
Speaker 3: which nobody would ever do that, right, especially in a

2032
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:17,599
Speaker 3: slow news cycle with months and months of draft coverage

2033
01:39:17,680 --> 01:39:23,440
Speaker 3: in lead up to this thing. The Travis Hunter conversation,

2034
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, was that he was a

2035
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 3: better corner as a prospect than he was a wide

2036
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 3: receiver correct, and despite that being the case, the wide

2037
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:37,719
Speaker 3: receiver snaps for Travis Hunter, especially after Brian Thomas Junior.

2038
01:39:38,080 --> 01:39:40,000
Speaker 3: Whatever the hell was going on with Brian Thomas Junior

2039
01:39:40,080 --> 01:39:41,200
Speaker 3: last year, I don't know if it was.

2040
01:39:41,160 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: A weird year.

2041
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 3: Yeared weird year where he looked like almost sometimes he

2042
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 3: was avoiding contact while not even really attempting to make

2043
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:55,400
Speaker 3: some of these contested catches, catching contested catch opportunities that

2044
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 3: he had. And then prior to Travis Hunter being placed

2045
01:39:58,439 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 3: on IR, it felt like we were on track for

2046
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,639
Speaker 3: him to be their top receiver option. I'm not saying

2047
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,040
Speaker 3: that he was a wide receiver one proper, but that

2048
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:07,679
Speaker 3: we seem to be on that course. And so now

2049
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 3: the course correction reported course correction is now you're gonna

2050
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:13,880
Speaker 3: play majority corner. We'll give a we'll give them a

2051
01:40:13,880 --> 01:40:16,760
Speaker 3: few snaps here or there. And Travis Hunter has not

2052
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 3: yet been informed of that plan or how does how

2053
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:23,880
Speaker 3: does something like that fall through the cracks. That's a

2054
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 3: very specific thing that RAP Reports not just putting out

2055
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:31,280
Speaker 3: there into the ether. That's not RAP Report's opinion that

2056
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 3: that's what they should do with Travis Hunter. He is

2057
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:34,720
Speaker 3: saying that that's their plan.

2058
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:42,320
Speaker 1: And that raises so many difficult questions because how good

2059
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:45,760
Speaker 1: does a corner have to be to make it worth that?

2060
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:49,639
Speaker 3: He's got to be Dion And even then it's it's,

2061
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 3: you know, at least a conversation.

2062
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:55,599
Speaker 1: That's the hardest part about draft day trades.

2063
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:55,720
Speaker 10: There.

2064
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,640
Speaker 1: There's there's something I think we all forget when it

2065
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 1: comes to the NFL Draft. I'll say what it is,

2066
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:02,920
Speaker 1: but first, Chris Prophet's gotta get us caught up. Chris,

2067
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:04,599
Speaker 1: what's going on on the scoreboard, my friend?

2068
01:41:05,400 --> 01:41:08,639
Speaker 9: Well, let's wind back a little bit and talk about

2069
01:41:08,720 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 9: your twenty twenty six Masters winner, Rory McElroy becoming just

2070
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,799
Speaker 9: the fourth person ever along with Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods

2071
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:19,440
Speaker 9: and Jack Nicholas, to go back to back at Augusta

2072
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 9: for the Masters tournament. He does it with a twelve

2073
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:24,800
Speaker 9: under and it was a bit of an adventure on

2074
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 9: that eighteen hole where he went from the tee to

2075
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 9: shanks it into the pine, to hits it into the bunker.

2076
01:41:31,400 --> 01:41:33,719
Speaker 9: But he gets it clean onto the green one tap

2077
01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:36,240
Speaker 9: right there. He's got a stroke despair and to stay

2078
01:41:36,240 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 9: ahead of Scottie Scheffler, who went bogey free for the weekend.

2079
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 9: Nobody's done that since nineteen forty two. He taps it

2080
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:47,200
Speaker 9: in and afterwards on CBS talked with Jim Nance Hello friends,

2081
01:41:47,560 --> 01:41:48,879
Speaker 9: on what it means to repeat.

2082
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 10: I just can't believe I waited seventeen years to get

2083
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 10: one green jacket, and you know, I get two in

2084
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:55,200
Speaker 10: a row.

2085
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 8: It's just sort of the way.

2086
01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:57,040
Speaker 1: I don't know.

2087
01:41:57,360 --> 01:42:01,240
Speaker 10: I think all of my perseverance this golf tournament over

2088
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:03,520
Speaker 10: the years has really started.

2089
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:03,719
Speaker 8: To pay off.

2090
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 10: It was a tough weekend. I did the bulk of

2091
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:11,519
Speaker 10: my work on on Thursday and Friday, but just so

2092
01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 10: so happy to hang in there and get the job done.

2093
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:16,679
Speaker 9: This also makes a two for two for me being

2094
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:20,280
Speaker 9: here around this time period where Rory McElroy wins at

2095
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 9: Augusta and there's a certain viral tweet post out there.

2096
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 9: I think about that white men of a certain age

2097
01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 9: have very strong emotions for Rory McElroy, and I am

2098
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 9: absolutely in that camp.

2099
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 8: I am one of the millennials.

2100
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 9: Weeping very very great for the struggles of Rory McElroy,

2101
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 9: which is Sissyphian in nature to go all this time,

2102
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:44,960
Speaker 9: as he says, before getting these these wins, you get

2103
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 9: emotional about it. I don't know what else to say. Huh,

2104
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:49,720
Speaker 9: you to shut up?

2105
01:42:50,439 --> 01:42:56,920
Speaker 3: You know, reader update would dismiss your feelings for them.

2106
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,559
Speaker 9: I appreciate that, and I will try to We'll try

2107
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:01,280
Speaker 9: to find some fun and golf for you. Anyway, Let's

2108
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 9: get you on that NBA score board, because there was

2109
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 9: a couple of games that matter here. The Magic have

2110
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 9: a sixty one to fifty two lead at the half.

2111
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 9: If they win in Toronto loses, they'll take the sixth

2112
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:14,719
Speaker 9: seed and avoid the play in tournament. Unfortunately, the Raptors

2113
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:18,719
Speaker 9: right now, middle of the third quarter seventy five sixty

2114
01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:21,240
Speaker 9: three over the Brooklyn Nets. We'll see how that all

2115
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:25,599
Speaker 9: plays out. I think most of the other scenarios really

2116
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:27,040
Speaker 9: keep an eye on, are going to be in the

2117
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:30,679
Speaker 9: West later tonight. I think the Hornets can maybe move

2118
01:43:30,720 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 9: around a little bit. And but you know, sixty nine

2119
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:35,599
Speaker 9: to fifty nine Hornets over the Knicks. Knicks aren't really

2120
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 9: playing anybody. So what am I gonna talk about here?

2121
01:43:38,120 --> 01:43:39,720
Speaker 9: Am I gonna talk about them beating up on some

2122
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:42,800
Speaker 9: tin cans? No? No, We're gonna talk about how the

2123
01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:45,400
Speaker 9: Yankees got swept by the Rays. They have now lost

2124
01:43:45,479 --> 01:43:48,920
Speaker 9: five straight. The Dodgers end up falling to the Rangers

2125
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:51,960
Speaker 9: five to two to end the weekend. Here over there,

2126
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:56,280
Speaker 9: Ty Gibbs picks up your victory for NASCAR at Bristol

2127
01:43:56,360 --> 01:43:59,360
Speaker 9: in the NASCAR Cup Series, and keep an eye again.

2128
01:43:59,400 --> 01:43:59,759
Speaker 8: Tonight.

2129
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:04,000
Speaker 9: HL Capitals defeated the Penguins three zero, which sets up

2130
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 9: a situation for the Anaheim Ducks hosting the Vancouver Canucks

2131
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:10,080
Speaker 9: at eight pm Eastern. Win and the Ducks are in

2132
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 9: for a tournament that everyone likes to talk about.

2133
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:15,599
Speaker 8: But to be quite honest, if I may.

2134
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:17,800
Speaker 9: Throw my own little shade, I can't remember last time

2135
01:44:17,800 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 9: I watched the Stanley Cup.

2136
01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 6: Facts confets, everyone's as crazy?

2137
01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:24,200
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you people?

2138
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:27,479
Speaker 9: I'm and I'm from like detrim I'm from Toledo. I

2139
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Speaker 9: I grew up as a Red Wings fan too. But

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Speaker 9: I just I don't know. I think ice belongs in drinks,

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01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:34,880
Speaker 9: which I will drink then at a US Open hospitality

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Speaker 9: hut while enjoying golf.

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Speaker 1: I would I would watch a hockey preseason game before

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Speaker 1: I would watch the Masters if I had a choice.

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01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it doesn't have to be a contest.

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Speaker 2: And who could dismiss great moments in sports?

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01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:55,800
Speaker 1: More. It just speaks. It speaks to the fact that

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01:44:55,880 --> 01:44:58,719
Speaker 1: people different people like different things, and that's that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's like love like different things.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Okay, okay, Buck hates everything that see.

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Speaker 1: Buck is universally anti everything but also pro everything all

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Speaker 1: at once. It's it's it's really spectacular work crisis. Well,

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01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:17,920
Speaker 1: but it's just a bit. So you mentioned earlier, or

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Speaker 1: we were talking a second ago, I should say about

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Speaker 1: the draft, and I think part of what we we

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01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: become so infatuated with somebody every year that we just

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01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:28,559
Speaker 1: have this concept we want our team to go out

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01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 1: and be aggressive and get more and more and more

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Speaker 1: because right now, we want our team to get better

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01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:33,840
Speaker 1: right now. I tell you all the time, I think

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Speaker 1: we live in this sozimpic society where people want some

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01:45:36,800 --> 01:45:38,759
Speaker 1: sort of an injection that's going to make their favorite

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01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:42,639
Speaker 1: team better immediately overnight. And the real way to sustainable success,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, is doing the right thing the right

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Speaker 1: way a very long time, so it takes a minute,

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Speaker 1: and I think we're seeing that. Like, look, Jacksonville had

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Speaker 1: a better season last year than many people, myself included,

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Speaker 1: expected that they would have. And it looks right now

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Speaker 1: like they're riding hot in a division that's very winnable. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's that's all true. You want to tell me the

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01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:04,200
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wouldn't be better off right now having their first

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01:46:04,280 --> 01:46:07,000
Speaker 1: round pick, Like, did they get so much out of

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01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter in his limited time and now in his

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Speaker 1: much more clearly defined role. Are they getting enough that

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Speaker 1: it was worth a first round pick, a second round

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01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 1: pick whatever that won something, was the third or fourth

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Speaker 1: and then also this year's first round pick, Like this

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01:46:22,320 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: is still a team that long term needs an injection

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Speaker 1: of talent if they want to be competitive with the

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Speaker 1: best of the best in the AFC. They're not a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. I think they wish they had their

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01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:36,080
Speaker 1: first round pick right now instead of the Travis Hunter

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Speaker 1: simply because they gave up so much to move up

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Speaker 1: to get him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean it's it's it's opportunity cost, right,

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Speaker 3: especially like you could justify it by saying, well, yeah,

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01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:53,719
Speaker 3: this is a player that nobody's ever seen before, really,

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01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 3: and he's going to do things that nobody's ever seen before. Okay,

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01:46:57,400 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 3: And it looked like he was on track to do

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01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 3: exactly that, and by then by that.

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Speaker 2: Metric, you could justify it. Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm also the belief because I don't know if we

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01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:09,040
Speaker 3: talked about this last week when you were on Fitzy

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01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 3: last Saturday when you were on But while I was

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Speaker 3: at owners meetings, I went around and asked a number

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01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:17,720
Speaker 3: of different coaches basically how you balance a player with

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01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 3: versatility versus needing to find a home for that player

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01:47:23,280 --> 01:47:27,040
Speaker 3: first and foremost, and then expanding their skill set. As

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Speaker 3: a result, I got a number of different interesting answers

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01:47:29,240 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 3: from a bunch of different coaches, NFC and AFC, and basically,

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Speaker 3: almost to a man, it was you got to start

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01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 3: them someplace first. So maybe is it justifiable if Jacksonville says, Okay,

2203
01:47:45,200 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 3: maybe we did too much last year, maybe we'd be

2204
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,320
Speaker 3: a little too extra. Maybe we're trying to justify the

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01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:52,600
Speaker 3: trade in real time, but we think it's best for

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01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:55,840
Speaker 3: the player that we start him out in one specific

2207
01:47:55,880 --> 01:48:00,440
Speaker 3: home and we give him an occasional package of plays doing.

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01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:00,720
Speaker 2: The other thing.

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Speaker 3: And if down the road, should this player become the

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01:48:04,280 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 3: player that we think he's going to be, then we

2211
01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:11,080
Speaker 3: can expand that role, that side role, that uh, you know,

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01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 3: that party trick. Basically, we can expand that further and

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01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,559
Speaker 3: turn it into a more full time skill set once

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01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:20,880
Speaker 3: we've properly studied all the different metrics that need to

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01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:23,840
Speaker 3: be studied, all the different strains and stressors on a

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01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:26,360
Speaker 3: player's body. If he was to do what he did

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01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:29,160
Speaker 3: in college at an unbelievable rate at the NFL level,

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01:48:30,520 --> 01:48:33,479
Speaker 3: maybe it's making an excuse for Jacksonville, who doesn't deserve one.

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01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:36,280
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I do think whatever is best

2220
01:48:36,280 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 3: for the player needs to be the approach here first

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01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:41,360
Speaker 3: and foremost. And so if this is ultimately what they

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01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:48,120
Speaker 3: discover is the best best developmental track for Travis Hunter, Okay,

2223
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:49,800
Speaker 3: so be it. The question is is he going to

2224
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:52,400
Speaker 3: buy in because he thinks he can do both?

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01:48:53,360 --> 01:48:56,040
Speaker 1: But the also, but also everything you just said is

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01:48:56,160 --> 01:48:58,559
Speaker 1: very true and very right, and it's part of the reason.

2227
01:48:58,680 --> 01:49:01,320
Speaker 1: Like look as a Raiders fan, and I'm so happy

2228
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:04,759
Speaker 1: that my favorite team has signed Kirk Cousins because, frankly,

2229
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,439
Speaker 1: if Fernando wins the job, great, let him play. If

2230
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:09,760
Speaker 1: Fernando doesn't win the job, if he's not ready, you

2231
01:49:09,800 --> 01:49:11,640
Speaker 1: don't have to rush him. I love the concept of

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01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:15,719
Speaker 1: development of players. I'm all in for long term development.

2233
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:19,479
Speaker 1: Of players. The only thing I would say this sort

2234
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: of counters the Travis Hunter thing is this is the

2235
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:25,760
Speaker 1: same regime that drafted in, so they had to see

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01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 1: this coming. Like what did they see in their limited

2237
01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: time having him out there that surprised them versus what

2238
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,960
Speaker 1: they expected to now have that measured approach, Like if

2239
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:36,960
Speaker 1: they had come out the day they drafted him and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna worry about making him a great corner, and

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01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:41,519
Speaker 1: once he's a great corner, we'll start adding the wide

2242
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:44,120
Speaker 1: receiver position to him. If that had been the case

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01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: from the get go, I'd say, Okay, that makes sense.

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01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 1: If this was a new coaching staff there have been

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01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:49,960
Speaker 1: wholesale changes to the way they do business, and the

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01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:51,960
Speaker 1: new staff comes in and says, hey, we're going to

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01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 1: really focus him. Okay, that makes total sense. This is

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01:49:54,800 --> 01:49:56,920
Speaker 1: a player that was drafted by this regime and this

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01:49:57,000 --> 01:50:00,120
Speaker 1: coaching staff to be something, and now all all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, it feels like the coaching staff has decided

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01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: they need to centralize their efforts and he doesn't seem

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01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 1: to be aware of that. Like, that's just a lot

2253
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:11,000
Speaker 1: of missteps along the way by the same group of

2254
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 1: people that brought him in the building. And that's for me,

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Speaker 1: the most accountability you'll ever have is did I draft him?

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01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:18,920
Speaker 1: Was I part of the coaching staff or the front

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01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 1: office when he was drafted? Was I part of the

2258
01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: conversation to bring him in? I would love to know

2259
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 1: what changed in their conversation that they saw, because everything

2260
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:27,840
Speaker 1: you just said, I think is the right way to

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01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:30,320
Speaker 1: bring Travis Hunter along. It's just that was the right

2262
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:33,639
Speaker 1: thing last May when he had just been drafted. Why

2263
01:50:33,720 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 1: is it now the right thing but it wasn't the

2264
01:50:35,400 --> 01:50:36,320
Speaker 1: right thing a year ago?

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01:50:36,800 --> 01:50:37,599
Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure.

2266
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 3: It puts James Gladstone, who last year was a first

2267
01:50:41,400 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 3: year general manager, squarely on the spotlight, especially given that

2268
01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:48,200
Speaker 3: he's taken the same tact that the Rams take where

2269
01:50:48,240 --> 01:50:51,559
Speaker 3: he doesn't go to the combine. They feel secure enough

2270
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 3: in their scouting and research and development process that they

2271
01:50:56,160 --> 01:50:59,680
Speaker 3: don't have to spend time that they consider to be

2272
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:02,559
Speaker 3: friv us doing what everybody else in the league does.

2273
01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,920
Speaker 3: They may still be right about that, I'm not. I'm

2274
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:06,880
Speaker 3: not here to question their process. That was playoff team

2275
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:09,080
Speaker 3: last year. I could have made the argument if I

2276
01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 3: wanted to, for James Gladstone as executive of the year

2277
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:14,519
Speaker 3: with the Travis Hunter situation. So I don't want to

2278
01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:17,439
Speaker 3: just completely turncoat and say, no, this guy's a bomb.

2279
01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 3: He doesn't know what he's doing because they've screwed up

2280
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 3: the developmental plan for this. It can be though, that

2281
01:51:22,400 --> 01:51:24,640
Speaker 3: the coaching staff said, no, we can handle this. We

2282
01:51:24,640 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 3: can we can we can manage this situation. We can

2283
01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:30,640
Speaker 3: turn him into exactly what you think he is with

2284
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:33,040
Speaker 3: the kind of draft capital that you just gave up

2285
01:51:33,080 --> 01:51:34,600
Speaker 3: to get him. And then the coaching staff spends a

2286
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 3: year doing and I was like, oh, okay, this is

2287
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:37,960
Speaker 3: not gonna meet it as easy as.

2288
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:41,720
Speaker 2: We thought of it, right. You know, that's on me.

2289
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:44,519
Speaker 3: You know, they do the thing after receiver drops the

2290
01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:46,240
Speaker 3: ball on third and five, they tap their tests, say

2291
01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 3: that's my bad, my bet, you know, okay, but still

2292
01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 3: still drop the pass.

2293
01:51:50,880 --> 01:51:51,320
Speaker 2: Uh.

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01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:53,320
Speaker 3: We will see what happens with Travis Hunter. I never

2295
01:51:53,360 --> 01:51:57,040
Speaker 3: got a chance to see him in person last year

2296
01:51:57,040 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 3: because he was hurt by the time the Titans played

2297
01:51:59,840 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 3: the Jags at the back half of the regular season.

2298
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:08,559
Speaker 3: Both of those Jags games were late here where I

2299
01:52:08,600 --> 01:52:11,600
Speaker 3: am covering an AFC South team for every game, so

2300
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:14,360
Speaker 3: I never actually got to watch Travis Hunter up close

2301
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:16,840
Speaker 3: and personal the way that I was looking forward to.

2302
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:20,320
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'll get that opportunity in twenty twenty six. Whether

2303
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:22,559
Speaker 3: it be a wide receiver or quarter maybe potentially both,

2304
01:52:22,560 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 3: by the time the Titans play him, I don't know.

2305
01:52:24,680 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: And to that point, it is also possible they got

2306
01:52:27,479 --> 01:52:30,759
Speaker 1: him in the building, they're working it, he gets injured,

2307
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:32,400
Speaker 1: and now they're sitting there saying, well, what we don't

2308
01:52:32,400 --> 01:52:35,360
Speaker 1: want to do is slow down any more development. He's

2309
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:37,800
Speaker 1: already lost a lot of time to injury. We need

2310
01:52:37,840 --> 01:52:39,680
Speaker 1: to fast track what we think he's going to be

2311
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:41,880
Speaker 1: best at first, and then we'll worry about it. So,

2312
01:52:42,280 --> 01:52:45,080
Speaker 1: in fairness, as you're talking, there is another side to this.

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01:52:45,120 --> 01:52:47,599
Speaker 1: I should give it credit. And you know, right now,

2314
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:50,360
Speaker 1: as opposed to what we're used to from an entire generation,

2315
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:54,439
Speaker 1: right now, the Jags deserve a heaping amount of benefit

2316
01:52:54,479 --> 01:52:56,360
Speaker 1: of the doubt. Like it looks like they have turned

2317
01:52:56,360 --> 01:53:00,800
Speaker 1: the corner. Let's see if that's sustainable. Right now, it

2318
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:04,479
Speaker 1: all looks really smart. In twelve months, we'll be talking

2319
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:07,920
Speaker 1: about Jacksonville the same way. Here's one thing I'm sure

2320
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:11,040
Speaker 1: of coming up next. The greatest game show in the

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01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:15,720
Speaker 1: history of Sports Talk Radio. Would you rather coming into

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01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:19,000
Speaker 1: next Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're welcome, America,

2323
01:53:20,640 --> 01:53:23,200
Speaker 1: Bucket Fits Fox Sports Radio. Just I mean, that's just

2324
01:53:23,240 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 1: had a vibe. I just watched bucks eyebrows raised to

2325
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:28,480
Speaker 1: a level that made me a little uncomfortable.

2326
01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:30,799
Speaker 2: They can't they got too much botox in my forehead.

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01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 2: What do you mean?

2328
01:53:31,640 --> 01:53:37,960
Speaker 1: Wow? Much younger than I am, but he's the one

2329
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:40,160
Speaker 1: that's had botox. I'm just just throwing that shade right

2330
01:53:40,200 --> 01:53:42,120
Speaker 1: after the BAF. You look good? You do you look really?

2331
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:45,639
Speaker 1: You look like you look well, I mean good. We're

2332
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:48,400
Speaker 1: gonna go with good, not great. If you're just tuning in,

2333
01:53:48,680 --> 01:53:51,320
Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow morning on two pros and a

2334
01:53:51,320 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 1: cup of Joe. That's right there. They're letting us sit

2335
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:56,280
Speaker 1: in the big boy chairs and have some fun early

2336
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 1: in the morning. There's a couple of things I can guarantee.

2337
01:53:58,200 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you number one, Buck's not gonna work close.

2338
01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 1: And I can also guarantee you it's too early in

2339
01:54:02,880 --> 01:54:05,280
Speaker 1: the morning. I can also guarantee you that we'll we'll

2340
01:54:05,360 --> 01:54:06,880
Speaker 1: end that show the same way we're about to end

2341
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:08,800
Speaker 1: this one. It's time for the single greatest game show

2342
01:54:08,840 --> 01:54:11,679
Speaker 1: in the history of sports talk radio. It is time

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01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:19,000
Speaker 1: for wood you rather we just nail in front of

2344
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 1: you guys. That was so good?

2345
01:54:22,439 --> 01:54:24,080
Speaker 6: Would you rather bucket?

2346
01:54:24,280 --> 01:54:27,200
Speaker 3: That's good, That's accomplished as I've ever felt in my

2347
01:54:27,240 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 3: life that.

2348
01:54:28,640 --> 01:54:30,559
Speaker 1: He's not wrong. This is where Bo's gonna give us

2349
01:54:30,560 --> 01:54:32,400
Speaker 1: some questions. We're gonna figure out would we rather this

2350
01:54:32,560 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: or that? And we'll go through it. We we I

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01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:36,280
Speaker 1: feel good now, But what do we got?

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01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:39,400
Speaker 8: Yes, there is a theme. There's a theme today, so

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01:54:39,440 --> 01:54:40,880
Speaker 8: we'll see if you guys can figure it out. But

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01:54:41,160 --> 01:54:44,440
Speaker 8: you guys were talking, yeah, yeah, fuck was talking about

2355
01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:45,960
Speaker 8: Coachella in the break, So I do need you guys

2356
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:47,960
Speaker 8: to settle a fake argument between my wife and I.

2357
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:52,000
Speaker 8: Would you rather see Katsaye at Coachella or Turnstile at Coachella?

2358
01:54:53,960 --> 01:54:54,840
Speaker 2: What the hell are those?

2359
01:54:54,960 --> 01:54:55,680
Speaker 1: Oh? My god?

2360
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:59,480
Speaker 8: Katsai is like a K pop kind of girl group.

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01:54:59,600 --> 01:55:02,720
Speaker 8: Turns to I is a hardcore band. My wife and

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01:55:02,720 --> 01:55:04,680
Speaker 8: I absolutely would have fought over which one we're gonna

2363
01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 8: go see? Were we at Coachella? Thankfully? Would just watch

2364
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:10,000
Speaker 8: them on the live stream in separate rooms?

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01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:11,160
Speaker 2: Are we are we idiots?

2366
01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 3: Because both Fitzy and I looked at each other, like,

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01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:14,040
Speaker 3: what the hell is he talking about?

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01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:17,800
Speaker 1: Cats? I've have at least heard of Turnstyle. I've not,

2369
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 1: so I'd like. I'm gonna just be honest, I've.

2370
01:55:20,280 --> 01:55:22,120
Speaker 2: He's talking about like different kind of drugs that you

2371
01:55:22,160 --> 01:55:22,839
Speaker 2: do a Coachella.

2372
01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 8: I mean you could there's problems or nothing like that.

2373
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:28,280
Speaker 8: I guess. Go listen to Turnstile and get back to me.

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01:55:28,440 --> 01:55:30,360
Speaker 8: Kats Ice trash, there you go.

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01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:32,400
Speaker 1: Look, I like K pop up. I'm not afraid of

2376
01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:34,800
Speaker 1: some K pop. I'm not afraid some bouncy, high pitched pop.

2377
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: Let's go.

2378
01:55:35,480 --> 01:55:37,760
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's what Mary just called trash spitting the way.

2379
01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:39,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, so I do.

2380
01:55:39,720 --> 01:55:40,760
Speaker 1: I like trashy pop.

2381
01:55:41,080 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 2: I'm in for trash pop.

2382
01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,280
Speaker 8: Guys, would you rather play in and win?

2383
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:45,640
Speaker 1: Wait?

2384
01:55:45,640 --> 01:55:47,680
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait, you're going before the wheel is

2385
01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:48,640
Speaker 3: landed on a topic?

2386
01:55:48,680 --> 01:55:49,080
Speaker 1: What the hell?

2387
01:55:49,160 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're just gonna go.

2388
01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:52,400
Speaker 1: We're up. Basically, this is like people are supposed to

2389
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:54,040
Speaker 1: think that the wheel is giving you a quick but

2390
01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:55,240
Speaker 1: that's it's fine, that's fine.

2391
01:55:55,480 --> 01:55:57,400
Speaker 8: Would you guys rather play in and win super Bowls

2392
01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 8: or get traded somewhere?

2393
01:55:58,800 --> 01:55:58,920
Speaker 1: Uh?

2394
01:55:59,280 --> 01:56:01,080
Speaker 8: That picked third? Or for all just two years.

2395
01:56:00,880 --> 01:56:04,080
Speaker 2: Ago, duh play and win super bowls?

2396
01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:05,680
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?

2397
01:56:06,120 --> 01:56:08,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty obvious. What's what's the appeal of the other one?

2398
01:56:09,040 --> 01:56:12,720
Speaker 8: Okay? Would you guys rather trade a mail content to

2399
01:56:12,760 --> 01:56:14,200
Speaker 8: a team that he wants to go to or trade

2400
01:56:14,240 --> 01:56:15,600
Speaker 8: him somewhere else out of spite?

2401
01:56:16,520 --> 01:56:18,320
Speaker 1: I think this is all gonna lead us to a

2402
01:56:18,320 --> 01:56:21,480
Speaker 1: certain player. Uh, I like I would rather trade somebody

2403
01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 1: out of spite? Yeah. No, I'm gonna trade somebody out

2404
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:26,160
Speaker 1: of spite the whole way. I'm gonna trade you to

2405
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:27,760
Speaker 1: the plice you don't want to go, and then I'm

2406
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:30,480
Speaker 1: gonna text you all the time and say how's it going?

2407
01:56:31,800 --> 01:56:33,880
Speaker 3: Why for what? What did this person do to you?

2408
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 3: And also why is Chris talking about a J?

2409
01:56:35,720 --> 01:56:35,960
Speaker 2: Brown?

2410
01:56:36,280 --> 01:56:38,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? One hundred percent, like this is this is all

2411
01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:39,600
Speaker 1: ag Like, this is all a J.

2412
01:56:39,720 --> 01:56:40,160
Speaker 2: Brown? Right?

2413
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:44,200
Speaker 1: Like that's that's where where were you're The first question

2414
01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:47,080
Speaker 1: was would you rather play in a Super Bowl team

2415
01:56:47,120 --> 01:56:48,800
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl or team that just had the third

2416
01:56:48,840 --> 01:56:52,920
Speaker 1: overall pick not acknowledging that the Patriots just played in

2417
01:56:52,920 --> 01:56:53,480
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl.

2418
01:56:53,520 --> 01:56:55,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that goes into the next one though, Would

2419
01:56:55,280 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 8: you guys rather catch passes from the Super Bowl MVP

2420
01:56:57,400 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 8: or catch passes from someone who looked lost in the

2421
01:56:59,160 --> 01:56:59,720
Speaker 8: Super Bowl.

2422
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:05,160
Speaker 1: I would rather catch passes from Drake May than Jalen Hurts.

2423
01:57:05,640 --> 01:57:06,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that.

2424
01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:09,920
Speaker 3: This feels like, this feels this feels like bias this

2425
01:57:11,080 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 3: a little bit, This feels like a lack of journalistic

2426
01:57:13,720 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 3: integrity with these questions.

2427
01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:18,800
Speaker 2: I feel like relating the witnesses, we like, are.

2428
01:57:18,640 --> 01:57:20,680
Speaker 1: We working through something here, buddy with aj Brown?

2429
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:23,960
Speaker 8: How we feel I'm in like I'm in the acceptance stage,

2430
01:57:24,360 --> 01:57:27,520
Speaker 8: like it's gonna happen. I just don't get it, truly

2431
01:57:27,560 --> 01:57:28,440
Speaker 8: don't understand it.

2432
01:57:28,640 --> 01:57:31,000
Speaker 1: But what if what if this? What if you want

2433
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:31,720
Speaker 1: to keep him?

2434
01:57:31,720 --> 01:57:33,960
Speaker 2: He's got bad k needs and he didn't try last year.

2435
01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:36,280
Speaker 8: I mean that's the part of the acceptance. I've come

2436
01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:37,280
Speaker 8: around to that.

2437
01:57:37,400 --> 01:57:39,880
Speaker 1: I guess, what if it's better for everybody. What if

2438
01:57:39,880 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 1: he goes somewhere and it's like, hey, he can be

2439
01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:44,320
Speaker 1: re energized and have a good time in New England, which,

2440
01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:46,200
Speaker 1: by the way, was playing above their skis and they're

2441
01:57:46,200 --> 01:57:47,960
Speaker 1: not going to be back in the Super Bowl. And

2442
01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:51,240
Speaker 1: at the same time, just by not being in Philadelphia anymore,

2443
01:57:51,280 --> 01:57:53,760
Speaker 1: maybe there's just a light in all of this, and

2444
01:57:53,840 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: the Eagles feel less pressure to pass the ball, which

2445
01:57:55,800 --> 01:57:57,800
Speaker 1: isn't really what they need to do anyway, and then

2446
01:57:57,840 --> 01:57:58,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles get right back.

2447
01:57:59,120 --> 01:58:01,560
Speaker 8: What about the Yeah, no that that helped?

2448
01:58:01,680 --> 01:58:01,840
Speaker 1: Uh.

2449
01:58:01,880 --> 01:58:04,320
Speaker 8: Have you guys heard about the chimpanzees fighting a civil

2450
01:58:04,320 --> 01:58:05,120
Speaker 8: war in Uganda?

2451
01:58:05,760 --> 01:58:07,880
Speaker 2: Yes? I saw this was on my algorithm the other

2452
01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:08,839
Speaker 2: day that GEO.

2453
01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:11,600
Speaker 8: Would you rather fight in that chimpanzee civil war or

2454
01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:13,640
Speaker 8: fight in the emu war of nineteen thirty two.

2455
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:16,440
Speaker 1: I don't know.

2456
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:20,360
Speaker 3: I feel like, uh, Emu's a scary I feel like

2457
01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:23,360
Speaker 3: I got I got a better chance against a bird

2458
01:58:23,400 --> 01:58:24,120
Speaker 3: than I do a chimp.

2459
01:58:24,640 --> 01:58:27,520
Speaker 1: I just saw that horror movie about the chimp with

2460
01:58:27,640 --> 01:58:29,840
Speaker 1: the rabies, and that that scarred me. So I'm gonna

2461
01:58:29,840 --> 01:58:33,080
Speaker 1: take on the EMU because I'm wildly scared of the

2462
01:58:33,120 --> 01:58:36,040
Speaker 1: concept of having my face ripped off by a chimpanzee. Like,

2463
01:58:36,280 --> 01:58:38,600
Speaker 1: I'll take on the EMU and then I'll just hope

2464
01:58:38,640 --> 01:58:41,280
Speaker 1: that they're all as nice as the ones in the commercials.

2465
01:58:41,320 --> 01:58:43,680
Speaker 1: All right, he's buck rising got Jason Fitz will be

2466
01:58:43,760 --> 01:58:45,480
Speaker 1: back here tomorrow for two pros and a cup of

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01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:47,760
Speaker 1: Jael Thanks for hanging out with us on Fox Sports Radio.