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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is the hour of Belichick.

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Speaker 1: The Hour of Belichick has upon us, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: But that's where we're going to start, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: where we go. But the Hour of Belichick. Our lead

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Speaker 1: is from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick made his much anticipated,

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Speaker 1: those years in the NFL. Here's Bill Belichick on a

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Speaker 1: random Labor day in twenty twenty five, out there all

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Speaker 1: the buzz. North Carolina sold out all of their tickets,

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Speaker 1: So they sold them all out. They raised the prices

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Speaker 1: And don't if you watch the game or not, it

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Speaker 1: got a lot of attention. Perhaps you missed it. We

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Speaker 1: report that you didn't miss anything. You did not miss

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Speaker 1: any of you did not watch. You did not miss

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Speaker 1: a damn thing. Let me explain hauling smokers. Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: His first run as a college coach at North Carolina

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Speaker 1: started fast. Opening drive, sliced up TCU. They get a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: forty eight to fourteen. It could have been worse than that.

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Speaker 1: It was a laugher. North Carolina on defense watching as

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Speaker 1: So I've got biblical, a bugs, life, and m behold,

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Speaker 1: So hey, we'll start with this North Carolina. North Carolina

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Speaker 1: I want a car crash. Well we got a car crash.

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Speaker 1: But it was supposed to be excitement, huge explosions and

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Speaker 1: North Carolina pulled off that openly drive seven plays, eighty

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Speaker 1: The real movie for North Carolina. That was a low budget,

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Speaker 1: I mean real low budget horror flick. And Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 1: he starred as the clueless babysitter that had no idea

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Speaker 1: as the horn Frogs appropriated. A guy who's Belichick, very horny,

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Speaker 1: the first drive, the first drive, that was the trailer.

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Speaker 1: What followed was not so much football. It was biblical

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Speaker 1: in nature. It's a biblical flood, is what happened. Again,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned forty one point avalanche, a forty one point

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Speaker 1: is what they did. So Texas Christian turned Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: All right, now, page two, So how would you describe

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Speaker 1: In the Belichick debut at North Carolina? He might know

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Speaker 1: Belichick's son. So there's really no sugarcoat this. I have

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Speaker 1: two words to describe, two words to describe Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: and the job that his coaching staff did for North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Coaching malpractice. Those are the two words. That was malfeasance,

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Speaker 1: It's not about that. It's about the essential components of football,

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Speaker 1: the line which I believe in is you're either coaching it.

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Speaker 1: not work. Impossible. But this was it was a bugs life.

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Speaker 1: They were splattered. And now it is a full on

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Speaker 1: BELICHICKI and dog pile, dog pile, dogpile, dogpile. It is right.

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Speaker 1: He's being mocked, teased, humiliated, all of that. The hoodie

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Speaker 1: who once tortured, absolutely tortured rookie quarterbacks and when he

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Speaker 1: And now he is being emotionally waterboarded on national TV,

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Speaker 1: unloading on Bill Belichick. I don't feel bad for Belichick,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick because when I listened to Tom Brady talk,

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Speaker 1: like Belichick influenced what Tom Brady became. Now you could

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Speaker 1: not like Tom Brady is not using BELICHICKI in lines

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Speaker 1: he learned from Bill Belichick. And he's just repeating the

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Speaker 1: a counovol. It does. It tastes good. Cotton candy tastes

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Speaker 1: good for about three seconds, about three seconds, uh, and

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Speaker 1: then you're just left sticky and annoyed and it gets

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Speaker 1: all over your hands. You gotta wash your hands, and

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Speaker 1: then it's like you can't get it off with it.

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Speaker 1: You need a lot of soap to get the stuff off.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Anyway, So today we

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Speaker 1: do the show today, and so today Sequon Barkley is

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Speaker 1: the king of the mountain, NFL mountain. Congratulations, You're at

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Speaker 1: top of the NFL mountain tomorrow. Who knows, because the

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Speaker 1: NFL world life comes at you pretty pretty fast, pretty

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Speaker 1: just football world in general, but the NFL specifically. Know

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Speaker 1: what's my evidence? Ask the Cheetah, ask the chie Let's

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Speaker 1: go on the hot tough time machine. We were having

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Speaker 1: this conversation last year, around this time last year, around

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Speaker 1: this time. Do you know who was number one? Last year?

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Speaker 1: Do you know who has voted the top player in

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Speaker 1: the NFL last year, according to the prop the news

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Speaker 1: service of the NFL, ding Ding, Ding, ding Ding, that

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Speaker 1: would be the Cheetah, tyreek Kill Tyreek Hill was voted

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Speaker 1: the top player in the NFL. The bell of the ball,

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Speaker 1: the bell of the pigskin ball, tyreek Hill. Twelve months later,

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Speaker 1: he's hanging out down at number forty seven, from number

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Speaker 1: one all the way down to number forty seven. Forty seven, yes,

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Speaker 1: forty seven. We don't have a jingle for that to

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Speaker 1: left down there like the dust from failed lottery tickets,

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Speaker 1: just down there at the bottom. And this is another

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Speaker 1: reason why I can't stand list now. I did a

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Speaker 1: rant about this on my podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. Maybe it's been a couple months.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just one thing after another. But

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Speaker 1: the gist of it, and this is my position on

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing, is the late great La Times

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Speaker 1: columnist guy I considered a friend, T J. Simers once

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Speaker 1: taught me lists are the ultimate, the ultimate brain fall

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Speaker 1: got their brain fag. They tap into the lizard part

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Speaker 1: of the human brain, and we're logic. Logic goes on

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Speaker 1: a nice vacation, right that part of the brain. Lists

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Speaker 1: are nothing but opinions. They're nothing but opinions. They're dressed up,

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Speaker 1: though in a nice tuxedo. So you've got a nice

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Speaker 1: tuxedo pretending to be the gospel truth. And it is

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of people saying, well, here's what I think, right,

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Speaker 1: here's what I think, and pretending it's science because you

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Speaker 1: put some numbers near it and all that it's the

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Speaker 1: illusion of authority. And my favorite thing is when people

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Speaker 1: take these lists and they take them seriously, and it's

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Speaker 1: a proven fact. I have talked to enough people over

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Speaker 1: year to work in the media. It's like, this is

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Speaker 1: a this is a little cheat code that you're dumb,

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Speaker 1: and you will fall for this every time. You will

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Speaker 1: react to it, and that's why they do it, and

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Speaker 1: it's gold. It's the easiest thing to do. You have

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Speaker 1: to throw a couple of curveballs in there, right, a

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Speaker 1: couple of curveballs unusual. You'll move somebody down who should

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Speaker 1: be higher, and move someone higher who should be down.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of moving parts to it. There's

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Speaker 1: so many people that take this stuff seriously because the

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Speaker 1: lizard part of the brain. It's like, you know, stone

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Speaker 1: tablet from the mountaintop and you know, it's like four

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Speaker 1: hundred or something football players that vote on this thing,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, that guy's kind of good.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll vote for him. I see him on

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Speaker 1: the highlights a lot. I see him on the click

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Speaker 1: you know, things I click on on Instagram or whatever,

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Speaker 1: So why not? And what what it does tell you

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Speaker 1: is perception. It tells you perception. Like right now, players

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Speaker 1: because of the highlights and the attention, perceive Sakwon Barkley

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Speaker 1: as the top player in the NFL. And that lasts,

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Speaker 1: you know, how long does that last? We'll ask again.

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Speaker 1: We brought up the Cheetah Tyreek Hill lasts about as

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Speaker 1: long as one of those snapchat messages, you know, just

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Speaker 1: kind of self destruction all that, but one injury, one

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00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: bad stretch for Barkley and he's falling down, down, down, down,

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Speaker 1: down down down the mountaintop, all the way down to

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Speaker 1: the bottom like an old school Tom and Jerry cartoon

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Speaker 1: back in the day. And you're yesterday's news. What have

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Speaker 1: you done for me? Late? You peaked? You're done now,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And that's that's the way this works.

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Speaker 1: That's the way this particular thing works. At one year,

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Speaker 1: you're the Ribi steak. Everyone wants the Ribbi steak, butterfly

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Speaker 1: cut well done. That's the proper way to eat steak,

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00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: butterfly cut well done. And then the next year your spam.

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Speaker 1: Your can spam, that's what you are. And so you

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Speaker 1: know that's fine, good luck. State sponsored media can announce

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Speaker 1: this thing and that thing, and all they want and congratulations.

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00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: So moving on from that, the the other part of this.

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Speaker 1: As we move on, how about to Los Angeles where

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Speaker 1: Chargers running back Nase Harris, somebody we've talked about a

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Speaker 1: decent amount, considering he's not that good. Nase Harris has

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Speaker 1: been a toss up toss up to start the NFL season.

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Speaker 1: The backfield Charges open up in a few days here.

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Speaker 1: Suffered an eye injury playing with fireworks on the fourth

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Speaker 1: of July. Accident. Harris gave an update Naji Harris, saying

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Speaker 1: that his vision was not affected by the firework incident.

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Speaker 1: He again called it a superficial injury. Now, Harris also

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Speaker 1: said that he's working towards being on the field for

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Speaker 1: the charge of season opener against the Chiefs in Brazil.

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Speaker 1: That'll be on Friday. On Friday, So what is your

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Speaker 1: read here's the question, what is your read on running

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Speaker 1: back Naji Harris doubling down, doubling down that his eye

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Speaker 1: injury was just superficial. Okay, So my position on this,

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Speaker 1: my read on this is a lot of sugar, a

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Speaker 1: lot of sugarcoating. You know, you bake cookies and you

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Speaker 1: put them wrap them in the sugar there and they

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Speaker 1: taste really good, but it's a lot of sugarcoating. This

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Speaker 1: thing is not only got sugarcoating, it's it's got marshmallow

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Speaker 1: fluff in it. It really does. So we're supposed to

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Speaker 1: believe Najee Harris missed pretty much all of Chargers training

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Speaker 1: camp other than walking laps around the field, right, other

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Speaker 1: than that, and we're supposed to believe that was a

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Speaker 1: superficial eye injury, that what he got great is by

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Speaker 1: a sparkler, and that's that's what happened. Was it a

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Speaker 1: rogue confetti cannon? That's some gender reveal gone wrong. No,

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Speaker 1: it was a fourth of July. The math ain't mathing

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Speaker 1: on this. It's just not It doesn't add up. You

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Speaker 1: don't miss almost all of training camp because of a

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Speaker 1: superficial eye injury. You don't have to have a medical

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Speaker 1: degree to know that's not the way it works. That's

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Speaker 1: not not a hangnail, you know, it's not a paper cut.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not a grain of sand in the eyeball.

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Speaker 1: It's not that. That is a Roman candle in the wind,

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Speaker 1: Elfton John style, a Roman candle in the wind, and

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00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: it blew up close enough to your eye to cause

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Speaker 1: you to miss almost all of training. So don't be

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Speaker 1: confused that this was some sweet Norman Rockwell Fourth of

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Speaker 1: July apple pie mom lawn shares fireworks type of event.

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00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: This was Florida man meets fireworks caught boom is what

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00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: it was. And so you don't sideline yourself for months months.

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00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: This happened back in July. Here we are now in September,

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00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: unless something went really wrong right near your cornea, right

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00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: near your cornea there, So Harris trying to shake off

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00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: the firework injury like he had a bad burrito from

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Speaker 1: a food truck. And now I do love the optimism,

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00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: you know, Benny Brightside, this is an optimistic person. He's

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00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: very optimistic. That's going to work out there. And we'll

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Speaker 1: just not pretend that he hasn't been lifting weights and

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00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff and working out with his teammates. He's

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Speaker 1: I guess he should have been better at dodging bottle

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00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: rockets on the fourth of July, but it was all

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00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: so superficial. If it was superficial, he would not have

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00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: been back in pads for a few days. He would

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Speaker 1: have been back in pads by day three. But I digress.

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Speaker 1: So we hope, we do hope that Najie Harris gets

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Speaker 1: out there and plays. We really do. I'm not making

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00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: that up. I'm not just saying, oh you just saying

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Speaker 1: that at the end, No, I would like to see

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Speaker 1: him play, right, Just do not insult our intelligence that

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Speaker 1: it was a superficial thing. Now, a buddy of mine's, well,

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Speaker 1: he's got to say that because the Chargers if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't actually play, and this is no guarantees is going

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Speaker 1: to play this week, and if somebody else usurps him

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Speaker 1: as the top back for the Chargers and then the

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Speaker 1: Chargers end up getting rid of him, they're going to

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Speaker 1: say it's with cause because of the injury. And then

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00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: he'll say, well, no, it's superficial. So he's got to

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00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: kind of say that. But it definitely was not a

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00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: speck of dust. We've all gotten that in the eye right,

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, man, I gotta water wash my eye

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Speaker 1: out and all this stuff. It was a fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: It's like a PSA waiting to happen, is what it is,

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Speaker 1: all right. Now, final point to Jersey. We go not

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Speaker 1: the Jersey Show, we go to Northern New Jersey. Just

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00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: across the way from Manhattan, and that is where coach

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Speaker 1: Brian Dayball, the formerly rot Ton coach, refusing refusing to

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Speaker 1: reveal whether or not rookie Jackson Dart or veteran famous

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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston will serve as the giants backup quarterback the

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Speaker 1: season opener on Sunday against the team formerly known as

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Speaker 1: the Redskins. So question, what is your reaction? What is

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Speaker 1: your reaction to Giants coach Brian Daboles depth chart deception.

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00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: We'll call it the depth chart deception refusing the name

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00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: his backup quarterback between Jackson Dart and Jameis Winston. So

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00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: in this one, it is a raspberry, it is a

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00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: raspberry beret. It's the prince of paranoia, Brian day Ball,

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00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: the prince of paranoia here going with the psychological warfare. Dude,

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00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: your team blows doing seriously, like, can someone let Brian

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Speaker 1: Dable know that it's not amusing, it's rather stupid what

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00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: you're doing. Uh it is. It's like, well, I mean

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Speaker 1: we got to use deception here. I me know, spider

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00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: out Art, you're not guarding the nuclear codes. I don't

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00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: believe it's a backup quarterback on a dog food NFL team,

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00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: just say the name, say my name right. Uh. And

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00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: and by the way, if the commanders know the playbook

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00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: of the Giants, it wouldn't change the outcome. Like the

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00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: Giants could telegraph all the plays. It doesn't matter whether

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00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: the commanders know the players that don't know the plays,

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00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't really change the outcome of the game. So

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00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: stop that, right, Like do the Giants think, do they

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00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: have this neurosis where they're like, well, if we tell

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00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: the we tell Washington or backup quarterback, then they're they're

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00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: gonna know, and they're gonna change their entire defense scheme.

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00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: Give me a break, Okay, just stop now. Russell Wilson

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00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: is thirty six. He is brittle, right, kind of like

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00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: a bread stick. He's like a breadstick from Olive Garden.

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: You can kind of rip him in half there and

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00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: all that. And little Marinera on the side, and and

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00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: you know, the Giants likely know that Russ is if

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Speaker 1: you were to bet on quarterbacks likely to get hurt

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Speaker 1: in Week one of the NFL, which is something I'm

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00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: not against doing. Injury bingo. We have done injury bingo

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00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: in the past. You'd put Aaron Rodgers in the one spot.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson would be pretty close behind Matthew Stafford. I

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00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: would have a number two, but you'd have Russell Wilson

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00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: somewhere in the mix. There the on the again, not

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00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: a list, but a big board of who's likely to

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00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: get hurt at the quarterback position early in the season,

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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: and so you're gonna need a backup. And Brian Dayball

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00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: is acting like it's a state secret here and you

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00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: just roll your eyes at this, like what's going on?

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Speaker 1: So this is either Brian Dayball the coach of the Giants,

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Speaker 1: coddling the Jackson Dart fanboys. He played so well against

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Speaker 1: guys who are now going to be joining our friend

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Speaker 1: Tree working for ups. He played so well, right, they

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Speaker 1: don't want to hurt his feelings or their feelings the

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Speaker 1: Jackson Dart fanboys. Or he's covering for Jamis who might

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Speaker 1: have thrown maybe three picks in some kind of closed

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Speaker 1: door team building exercise and now he's persona non grata

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But it's Brian day Ball being

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Speaker 1: Brian day Ball. It's he learned under Belichick, so it's

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Speaker 1: hoodie cosplay. You know, we didn't have the championships and

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Speaker 1: all that, and just just say who the backup is.

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Speaker 1: And you're not fooling anyone. It's not cute. It's rather dumb,

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Speaker 1: like if you're good, that's one thing, but you suck.

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Speaker 1: So if you suck, just say the names. Okay, it's

646
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Speaker 1: not going to change the fact you suck. It's just dumb.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Here we go here, we got here, We go here,

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Speaker 1: we got here, we got here. We got about that

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Speaker 1: degree next two days.

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Speaker 2: This is one big tent gets cried good vote.

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Speaker 5: DJ Hawkinson was able to play ten games last season

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Speaker 5: after suffering a torn ACL and MCL the year before,

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Speaker 5: but he didn't make much of an impact had zero touchdowns.

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Speaker 5: Hawkinson said he's one of the best route running tight

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Speaker 5: ends in the league and this year he'll make a

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Speaker 5: clear impact. Bet are you up or down on Hotell?

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Speaker 1: I think we should play a place for the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings to play with the Lions for long time, been

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota a little bit. It's important for the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: And here's why. When things get tough in Minnesota and

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Speaker 1: who knows what JJ McCarthy's gonna do. They think he'll

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Speaker 1: be good, but normally the safety blanket is the tight end.

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Speaker 1: So in order for this to work in Minnesota, they

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Speaker 1: need him to be good. So I am optimistic. I'm

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Speaker 1: Benny Brightside. Howkinson will be okay next.

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Speaker 5: Tom Brady said in an interview on Sunday that the

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Speaker 5: league has shifted towards emphasizing physical attributes in a quarterback

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Speaker 5: rather than mental ones.

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Speaker 3: Is he right?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? It is all about they call him. I hate

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Speaker 1: this term measurables at the combine. It's all about the

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Speaker 1: raw and greed. It's same thing in baseball. Like baseball,

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Speaker 1: if you can pitch, they don't want you. If you

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Speaker 1: can throw ninety eight miles an hour and can't pitch,

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Speaker 1: they want you. In football, they want the biggest, strongest, fastest.

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Speaker 1: But if you're actually mentally sharp and know how to

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Speaker 1: play the game, you don't throw it that well, eh,

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Speaker 1: or you're not as strong.

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Speaker 5: Next poll of NFL coaches and executives put Joe Burrow

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Speaker 5: as the leading candidate to win MVP this season. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson still has the best odds in Vegas. Who

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Speaker 5: do you think has the better shot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like Burrow. The Bengals sucked last year.

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Speaker 1: They weren't a playoff team. The Ravens have been consistently good.

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Speaker 1: There's also voter fatigue for Lamar Jackson. Even though he

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Speaker 1: didn't win last year. He has won multiple MVP Awards,

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Speaker 1: so he would have to go above and beyond to

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Speaker 1: win another one. I like Burrow. I don't like the

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Speaker 1: fact that everyone else kind of likes Burrow too. That

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Speaker 1: bothers me. That means that's probably not gonna happen. But

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Speaker 1: I would pick Burrow over Lamar. How did we do?

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Speaker 1: It's Mallard of the third degree.

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Speaker 3: You pass it? That is a win.

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Speaker 1: I wont go right up.

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Speaker 2: That's a win.

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Speaker 1: Put that on my store card, right down.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: We will have Mallard's Mount of Money US. Welcome in, Aiden,

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Speaker 1: really don't play the imaging. Aiden's gonna play? Hello, Aiden,

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Speaker 1: welcome are good, You're gonna play. You're in Boston and

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Speaker 1: you're working right now. Yeah, I'm okay. You want to

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Speaker 1: part it with me, Ben or Coop. I'll be all right,

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Speaker 1: very good, We're in it. Don't hang up, don't hang up.

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Speaker 1: And we've got Andrew and Bakersfield. Andrew, Hello, what's up? Ben?

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Speaker 1: You're with Coop? Okay, sounds good? Good luck, Coop, God speed.

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Speaker 1: We will have mouth that works. We have Mallard's amount

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Speaker 1: of money. We'll get how about you and you can

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Speaker 1: play with James and In and how about that we'll

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Speaker 1: play with both. We'll get to that. We will do

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Speaker 1: it next.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now

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Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it

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Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?

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Speaker 1: All right? Right to Aiden and Andrew Cooper categories quickly, quickly, the.

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Speaker 5: Very GiB edition he turns seventy nine on Monday. Category

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Speaker 5: is are first of May night fever staying alive and

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Speaker 5: you win again?

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Speaker 3: Eight in which category do you like? I'll do the

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Speaker 3: first one, first of May?

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Speaker 1: May?

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Speaker 3: All right, Andrew, how about you staying alive? All right?

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Speaker 1: Okay, very good. These athletes were all born on May first, Aiden,

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Speaker 1: May first, you ready Jesus was not born on May first.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We'll put forty five seconds

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Speaker 1: on the clock. We need the first and last name.

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Speaker 1: We're on our way go. A center for Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 1: He looks like a skeleton for Oklahoma City in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: All right. Running back for the Patriots and the Jets

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Speaker 1: in the nineties and the two thousands. Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Running back with a generic name. No idea, okay, A

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Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Patriots. A slot guy not Julian Edelman,

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Speaker 1: but prior to Edelman, Freddymond no slot receiver okay?

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Pitcher released by the Yankees a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Played was an All Star with Toronto starting pitcher, right hander,

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Speaker 1: African American starting pitcher. You do you watch sports? Aydan?

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Speaker 2: Or like birthdays? I got no idea?

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Speaker 1: Who cares about that? All right?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: Good job, Ben, good job, great clues.

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Speaker 5: All right, Andrew, Andrew, our category is staying alive. These

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Speaker 5: athletes all had near death experiences. Andrew, are you ready?

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Speaker 1: Category of America?

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Speaker 5: All right, Andrew? Forty five seconds see begin. His nickname

751
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 5: was the Truth for the Celtics. Yes, this guy was

752
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 5: big Poppy for the Red Sox. That's right, let's go.

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00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 5: This guy almost died in a whorehouse. He was on

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Speaker 5: the Lakers. Yes, this guy was a Tennessee Titan. He

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00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 5: ran for two thousand yards. Not Derrick Henry, but before him, George, no,

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Speaker 5: after him?

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Speaker 3: All right.

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00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 5: This guy almost died on the field a Buffalo bill's safety.

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00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 2: I don't have that path. All right.

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Speaker 5: This guy is a talking head right now. He was

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Speaker 5: a Pittsburgh Steeler. He had sickle cell.

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Speaker 1: Was this two minutes here? What are we doing here?

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Speaker 1: Unlimited time? All right, my god, Laurada, I hurry up, Aiden,

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Speaker 1: what do you want? What do you want here? Night fever?

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Speaker 1: Or you win again?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Guard for the Rockets in the eighties, nickname Mad Blank.

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Speaker 1: Let's tell me way to android God, and you're everyone

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Speaker 1: in Boston screaming, what do you