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Speaker 3: Here we go, hour two. It is a Monday.

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Speaker 1: We are live, and it's the Hurt. Wherever you may

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Speaker 1: be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making

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Speaker 1: us part of your day. My buddy John Middle Talk,

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Speaker 1: part of the Volume three and Out podcast, is joining

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Speaker 1: us this week. Jane mackins, I think he's doing a

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Speaker 1: volleyball tournament in Scottsdale, down in your home.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'll switch spots. Yeah for warm.

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Speaker 1: It's a little warm. So I want to be mister buzzkill.

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Speaker 1: I know, I stay off the phone right like, but

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Speaker 1: I'm probably getting crush today because I just think we

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Speaker 1: have to be honest, and I do think Oklahoma City

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Speaker 1: is become another one of these teams where I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of left watching it thinking, yeah, yeah, I guess they're

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Speaker 1: the champ. It's roster construction it's defense, it's depth, and

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Speaker 1: I just got when Halliburton got hurt last night, it

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Speaker 1: just was a gut punch. I felt so bad for him,

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Speaker 1: I felt bad for me as a consumer. Just wasn't

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Speaker 1: that interesting. So we do it every Monday. Where Colin

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Speaker 1: was right, where Colin was wrong, and here we.

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Speaker 2: Go where Colin was right.

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Speaker 1: I said last week, five things I trust will happen

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Speaker 1: in Game seven, and they mostly did. Oklahoma City's defense

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Speaker 1: bench was very good. Young benches usually are at home,

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Speaker 1: so I think this game Game seven. I don't know

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Speaker 1: who would have won without Halliburton's injury, but I thought

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Speaker 3: Of the winner.

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Speaker 1: Where Colin was raw. I don't trust young playoff teams.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the Bubble is the only time in my

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Speaker 1: road playoff team, but they remained healthy. They were good

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Speaker 1: at home. They won the games they had to against

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Speaker 1: a wrong where Colin was right Kevin Durant to the Rockets.

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Speaker 1: To me, this was the obvious fit. You know, Houston

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Speaker 1: sixty sixty five games, but because of the construct of

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Speaker 1: KD where Colin was raw Team USA. How about this

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Speaker 1: So I am surprised as the competition ratcheted up that

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Speaker 2: This competent where Colin was right well.

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Speaker 1: Multiple sources in an ESPN story reported around the NBA

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Speaker 2: Where Colin was raw well.

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Speaker 1: Shador Sanders immaturity and bad judgment. I'm selling my stock.

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Speaker 1: It's not the end of the world, and nobody's saying

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Speaker 1: where Colin was right. Dodgers Padres. We've been on this

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Speaker 1: a proximity geographically. Machado, the former Dodger, is now a Padre.

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Speaker 1: This not the Yankees in Red Sox, is must watch television.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about that. Caitlyn Clark isn't part of the moment.

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Speaker 3: She is the moment.

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Speaker 1: Last week, Sophie Cunningham, who's been in the WNBA seven years,

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Speaker 1: hard in support of Caitlin Clark. Sophie Cunningham's been around

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Speaker 1: That is the definition of a transformative basketball player. Caitlyn

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Speaker 1: It is a Taylor Swift tour. I don't care who

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Speaker 2: He's still moving, so.

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Speaker 1: A lot of things going on. Rick Patino will join

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Speaker 1: us tomorrow. I am told it is a very good draft.

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Speaker 1: Last year was very international. You know my take on this,

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Speaker 1: I think going forward, college basketball players will mostly dominate

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Speaker 1: the draft, where it's been very internationally driven many times.

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Speaker 1: And my theory is is that then not that it's

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Speaker 1: Now American colleges are able to go buy the best

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Speaker 1: The drafts going forward are going to be more It's

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Speaker 1: not that they're going to be more domestic, but there's

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Speaker 1: I think Dallas of healthy will be the second best

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Speaker 3: John, you're looking at me, You ready to go?

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Speaker 2: I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just a gab fest over here.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna do AF seed today, We're gonna do

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Speaker 3: These are our surprises.

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Speaker 1: These would be surprising moves and big headlines if they

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Speaker 6: have said two years ago. Baker Mayfield leads Tampa to

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Speaker 6: the playoffs, no chance. Last year, Sam Darnold leads the

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Speaker 2: Obviously the girls are now in charge.

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Speaker 1: It's a life preserver offensive situation and Daniel Jones may

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Speaker 1: So yesterday we did the AA John's a former NFL

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Speaker 1: I bought all of yours because I think Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: Here are the surprise moves number one. This is the

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Speaker 1: Brian Schottenneimer is a one and done. Jerry will know

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm gonna go with the Packers win the North.

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Speaker 6: I don't think it's inconceivable they get ten to eleven wins.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears will make the playoffs. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I think Minnesota's gonna regress. I don't think Detroit will

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Speaker 1: be as good because I don't know what the coordinators are.

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Speaker 1: And green Bay could be good, but they're not dominating.

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Speaker 1: They don't have dominating personnel. First of all, I think

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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson's got a Sean McVay field first thing attacks

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Speaker 1: is the offensive line. Sean Payton, first thing he attacks

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Andy Reid's done it multiple times. Fixed the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. The Bears offensive line was awful. Some of

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Speaker 1: that's Caleb absolutely, but young quarterbacks, even Jaden Daniels, it's

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury. They need a mentor, they need a king,

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Speaker 1: a guide iber flus defensive staff. Your passing game coordinator

448
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Speaker 1: becomes your head coach. Jonah Jackson, Drew Dolman, Joe Tooney.

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Speaker 1: That's a really good guard center guard combination. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a nine to a ten win team. Detroit's good,

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Speaker 1: not dominating, because, as Philadelphia showed us, you can get

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Speaker 1: to a super Bowl if you lose good coordinators or

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Speaker 1: replace him with B and c's. Things get ugly by Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bears make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Donate it.

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Speaker 6: Kyler Murray, he's one of the best athletes we've ever seen.

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Speaker 6: Is he a good quarterback? I think this will be

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Speaker 6: his last season on the Cardinals. This GM and head

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Speaker 6: coach did not draft him. He's never won a playoff game.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they're gonna make the playoffs this year.

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Speaker 6: How many years can you go with a high priced

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Speaker 6: quarterback and not win? Usually those guys get moved. He

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Speaker 6: still has value. You could put a highlight tape together

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Speaker 6: just ten twenty plays at Kyler Murray. He's as good

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Speaker 6: as anyone.

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Speaker 7: In the league.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 6: But when you watch him over the course of a game,

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Speaker 6: over the course of a month, he leads leaves.

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Speaker 2: A lot he does.

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Speaker 1: I think he can always see receivers like two has

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Speaker 1: talked about because of size's.

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Speaker 6: Five to nine, but he can move. He's got a

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Speaker 6: huge arm. I still think he'd have a market. He's

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Speaker 6: not a bad player. He's if anything. He's a frustrating

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Speaker 6: player because the talent's there. He's pretty accurate down the field.

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Speaker 6: Obviously his speed is pretty special. But can he slice

478
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Speaker 6: and dice the good teams when he has to in

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Speaker 6: the third and fourth quarter, down the stretch of a season.

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Speaker 2: I don't see it happening.

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Speaker 6: So I would expect Kyler Murray in twenty twenty six to.

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Speaker 2: Be in a new home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he will have a market because he's doing his

484
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Speaker 1: athletic prime. So I have Dallas blows out the coaching

485
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Speaker 1: staff after one year. Niners close but missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: A little too old offensively, there'll be injuries. I think

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Speaker 1: the NFC North is very even, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: Detroit's coaching is as good. And John has the Packers

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Speaker 1: win the division, Niners do make the playoffs, and Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray gets moved. I think in over the course of

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Speaker 1: two days, the one that people go WHOA is dan

492
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Speaker 1: Neil Jones makes the playoffs last year C J. Strout

493
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Speaker 1: pulled back. They blamed the offensive coordinator, they blamed injuries

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Speaker 1: to receivers. That one, if that's the crazy one, I

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Speaker 1: think that's got legs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: To me, we've seen it in recent you know with

498
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Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald high picks resurrecting their career and

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Speaker 6: to me, the Alex Smith coomp He's going to hand

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Speaker 6: the ball off, They're going to play defense. They're not

501
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Speaker 6: looking for forty touchdowns, they just need like twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Like, yesterday there was you know, sometimes you just shouldn't

506
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Speaker 1: bring stuff up. You could be on a date, you

507
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Speaker 1: could be in a business meeting, you could be in

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Speaker 1: the back of an uber like, certain things just don't

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Speaker 1: bring up into the conversation. There's trigger words, there's things

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Speaker 1: that frighten people. So Stan Kronky owns the Rams, great

511
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Speaker 1: owner Josh Kronky also owns the Nuggets. Josh Cronky's is

512
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Speaker 1: he's he's kind of running day to day, the Nuggets president,

513
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Speaker 1: he's running things. So he was talking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: this was pre draft and he had this to say.

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Speaker 7: Frightening for us as an organization going into that second

516
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Speaker 7: aprit is not necessarily something that we're scared of. I

517
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Speaker 7: think that there are rules around it that we needed

518
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Speaker 7: to be very careful of with our injury history. The

519
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Speaker 7: wrong person gets injured, and very quickly you're into scenario

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Speaker 7: where that I never want to have to contemplate.

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Speaker 2: And that's the trading number fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Don't bring that up in front of a microphone, not

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Speaker 1: for like nine more years. He's the best player in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. That's one of those things. Don't even complict.

525
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Speaker 1: You just gave sports talk radio and Denver four weeks

526
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Speaker 1: of off season chatter Broncos and jo kids just getting traded, like,

527
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Speaker 1: don't say that, And I was saying this. So I

528
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Speaker 1: was talking to the staff yesterday after the show and

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Speaker 1: I said, only you'd be amazed how few players are

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Speaker 1: completely untradeable. So I have the significant seven cannot trade them.

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Speaker 1: Number one is Caitlin Clark. Literally moved merchandise up five

532
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent.

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Speaker 3: For the league.

534
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Speaker 1: She is not only the face of the WNBA, she's

535
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Speaker 1: the greatest face, the most popular face ever. If Indiana

536
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Speaker 1: moved off her, and I'm not joking here, I think

537
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Speaker 1: the fan base would absolutely revolt. She's turned the fever

538
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Speaker 1: in the league around untradeable. Number two Patrick Mahomes. It's

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Speaker 1: not that he's just talented. He's the only guy in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years. You're gonna surpass Brady here like

541
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Speaker 1: the worst serious here, like Brady picked up the greatest

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Speaker 1: of all time a long time ago, right like?

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Speaker 3: Is he the guy unbelievably marketable?

544
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Speaker 1: Kansas City was swooning an average even with Alex Smith

545
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Speaker 1: and Andy Reid A one and dinner.

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Speaker 3: Can't trade him.

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Speaker 1: Most talented quarterback probably and come from behind quarterback, even

548
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Speaker 1: better than Lway. Second most untradable American athlete and a

549
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Speaker 1: good guy. Number three show Heyo Tani. I'm sorry his

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Speaker 1: connection to the Pacific rim. He drives road attendance. He

551
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Speaker 1: is better than Babe. He is the best, most talented

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Speaker 1: baseball player in the history of the sport in a

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Speaker 1: market that has I think is Dodger Stadium the biggest

554
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Speaker 1: stadium in baseball? It's certainly close. It's like fifty six

555
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Speaker 1: fifty seven thousand. He makes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We

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Speaker 1: live in an event era. He makes every Dodger game

557
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Speaker 1: an event, completely untradable.

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Speaker 3: Show Heyo Tani.

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Speaker 1: Number four is the world's best basketball player.

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Speaker 3: The joker listen. Denver's a football town.

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Speaker 1: The fact that they have the best basketball player in

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Speaker 1: the world, can't trade him. I mean, best passing big,

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Speaker 1: best shooting big, one of the best scoring bigs. Elevates

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Speaker 1: your roster and when your coach got fired. He became

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Speaker 1: sort of a surrogate coast for the Nuggets. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they took Oklahoma City seven, and they had no bench

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Speaker 1: outside of Russell Westbrook, so untradable. Number five is Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: I know he doesn't have a ring outside of Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: outside of Patrick Mahomes. Privately, if the Bills called every

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Speaker 1: single team in the league and offered him, everybody except

571
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Speaker 1: Kansas City should take him. I don't care. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if it's Cincinnati. Girl's been hurt multiple times. He

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Speaker 1: is the most physically gifted quarterback in the league's history.

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Speaker 1: And I was an l Way Zealot. Nothing like him.

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Speaker 1: Six six, two point fifty, all about team jumps over linebackers.

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Speaker 1: He's more talented than Mahomes. He is, he's bigger, he's stronger,

577
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Speaker 1: his arms as strong. Number five, Josh Allen. Number six

578
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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is so great that if the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers called and said, you want o Tawni for Judge.

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't do it. They wouldn't do it, and they shouldn't.

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Speaker 3: He is so unique.

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Speaker 1: He's a mountain man. He's six six sixty seven. He's

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Speaker 1: a great guy. He's by far and away. He's the

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Speaker 1: only guy outside of Otawni that a casual baseball fan

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Speaker 1: would probably pay to see. He's got a Paul Bunyan

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Speaker 1: esque kind of gravitas. Most home runs, He's already a

587
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Speaker 1: record center most home runs in American League history for

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Speaker 1: a season, sixty two.

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Speaker 3: And I'm serious.

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Speaker 1: If the Dodgers said we'll give you o Tawni for Judge,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't move off him. He is a beloved player

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Speaker 1: and number seven. You're gonna think this is crazy. I

593
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Speaker 1: think it's Jaden Daniels. I think he is our next

594
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Speaker 1: superstar in the NFL. I thought last year was the

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Speaker 1: greatest rookie season by far.

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Speaker 3: He took over a lap stock.

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Speaker 1: For fifteen twenty years of franchise, relevance, maturity, arm movement to.

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Speaker 3: The nation's capital.

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Speaker 1: There is an argument over the next twenty years they're

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Speaker 1: gonna become Kansas City in the NFC that kid was

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Speaker 1: bizarrely good as a rookie. You cannot trade him. So

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Speaker 1: J Mackham only and seven you're gonna bring up? I

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Speaker 1: do think there's a number eight that you're gonna jump on.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put it in there. Who's the first

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Speaker 1: one that jumps out.

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Speaker 3: To It's not on it?

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Speaker 8: Okay, So I'll throw a bunch of guys at you.

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Speaker 8: We got some time here. Let me just start with

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Speaker 8: the guy who just won the NBA title, right with

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Speaker 8: the MVP of the league scoring leader finals MVP wanted

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Speaker 8: to he's in.

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Speaker 2: Hallo territory, SGA. I'm just gonna start.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's tradable?

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Speaker 1: If the Denver Nuggets called and said, we'll trade you

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Speaker 1: nice title, Jo Kicch for SGA, you would be a moron.

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Speaker 1: I get eleven and a half, a better passer, a

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Speaker 1: mountain man, the only guy in the league. Draymond green

618
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Speaker 1: Is said in his career wave the White Flag, there

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Speaker 1: is no way Anthony Davis can't defend him. Draymond can't do.

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Speaker 1: SGA had three bad games in the fire.

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Speaker 8: Fine, I want to lay up good. I would largely agree.

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Speaker 8: SGA is non on this list. Okay, But if that's

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Speaker 8: your measure, Jokic, would you do the trade Onondan Yama?

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Speaker 8: You do that in Hartbe's twenty one or so, fifteen

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Speaker 8: years of winning?

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Wemby has already missed forty games with the blood clue,

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Speaker 1: so what forty some more interesting? That's what people said

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Speaker 1: about Chris bosh. Oh he went from an All Star

630
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Speaker 1: to out of the league. Big guys get hurt, blood

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Speaker 1: clots for taller players. Do I think Wemby's going to

632
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Speaker 1: be great? Yeah, he's seventy four. Nobody is really supposed

633
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Speaker 1: to be built to be seven to four and play

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Speaker 1: the style and pace of the NBA. I think he's

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Speaker 1: going to be great. But if I told you he

636
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Speaker 1: had another injury this year, he is seven to four,

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Speaker 1: So you say, well, well, well, yo, hitch, you seven feet,

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Speaker 1: he's two hundred and seventy five pounds.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: Caitlin Clark's hurt for the second time in two weeks.

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Speaker 8: Maybe maybe we had her to the list because.

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Speaker 3: There is no history of guards being heard.

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Speaker 2: Let's go, Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me that read one more injury and you

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Speaker 1: have to draft a quarterback in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Are you serious?

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Speaker 8: Yes, you think the Bengals would actually trade Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: Second game of the year acl Tel for Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: You are drafting another quarterback.

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Speaker 8: I got a big list here. Janis He does that injury.

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Speaker 8: So what other caurter are you gonna play?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and can't hit a free throw late? No, I

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Speaker 1: mean does not have a jump shot. And what if

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Speaker 1: they can't get out of the first round. Since his

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Speaker 1: best teammates left can't get out.

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Speaker 8: Of the first round, they waited forty years after Jabbar

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Speaker 8: to win a title.

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Speaker 2: Jannis brought it to him. He makes them relevant and

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Speaker 2: you can't.

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Speaker 3: Get out of the first round in the East.

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Speaker 8: Let me hit you with Lamar Jackson, who's kind of

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Speaker 8: a divisive player.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen There's lost playoff games, but has played brilliantly.

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Speaker 1: The criticism of Lamar is totally fair. He has struggled

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. If Buffalo called today and said, hey, Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: you want Josh, you make.

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Speaker 3: The deal immediately.

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Speaker 1: And I love Lamar, you make the deal immediately.