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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot to get to today.

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Speaker 1: We have some of the greatest press conference sound in

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Speaker 1: the history of press conferences. Bellinger is back with the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: It's a big day for Taylor and Mike Ye. The

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Speaker 1: coaching carousel continues to uh move round around Izzy. But

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Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about this last night because rarely

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Speaker 1: does a radio show get thrown We haven't said hello

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Speaker 1: to the audience.

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Speaker 3: They have no idea who we are.

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Speaker 1: We haven't introduced ourselves, and there has to be so

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Speaker 1: many people out there that are very confused.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of people just piecing things together. It's

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Speaker 4: like I know two or three of those voices.

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Speaker 1: Yes, But rarely does a radio show get thrown on

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Speaker 1: the air in over two hundred and twenty markets across

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Speaker 1: the country. On the Monday after the divisional round of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Playoffs, the day of the college football National

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Speaker 1: championship and right in the middle of the craziest coaching

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Speaker 1: carousel we've ever seen. So I figured, today on a Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: maybe take a break here, take a deep breath, news

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Speaker 1: that seemed to slow down, and perhaps just introduce ourselves.

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Speaker 3: To the audience to tell them who we are.

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Speaker 5: You sure we don't have Bear on the line.

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Speaker 1: There's no Bear. I've cleared all the guests out. I

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Speaker 1: told listen. I told the Giants general manager Joe Shane not.

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Speaker 3: Today, what a great guess they would have been today.

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Speaker 1: And he said why And I said, eight seven seven

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Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox. That's why, eight seven seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. I need to take some phone calls.

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Speaker 1: I need to get to know my audience. They need

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Speaker 1: to need to get to know us. That's what I

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Speaker 1: told Joe. So tomorrow for the Giants general manager.

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Speaker 5: I hope hopefully he doesn't sound nervous.

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Speaker 3: Well, hopefully, I still don't want to take phone calls.

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Speaker 3: He was very nervous.

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Speaker 6: And just to be clear, we're not getting to Cody

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Speaker 6: Bellinger right now.

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Speaker 3: Oh my, oh jesus, you.

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Speaker 1: And Bellingery, jeez, save it for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: So we're a group here. We're based out of South Florida.

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Speaker 1: We're probably twenty minutes if you know South Florida at all.

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Speaker 1: We are doing the show from the iHeart Studios here

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Speaker 1: in Pembroke Pines, which is about twenty minutes west of

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Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale if we know the area at all. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the best I could do. We've been doing this show

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Speaker 1: as a podcast since what has it been, Taylor since June?

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Speaker 1: Basically June first? All right, since June first. Taylor's keep

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Speaker 1: a track because he wants to get paid. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mikey is shaking his head in agreement invoices. We've gotten

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Speaker 1: better at that though. Yeah, we're baby steps, okay. But

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Speaker 1: Mikey A is someone I've worked with for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I are really good friends, in large part because we're

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Speaker 1: the same age. But Mikey A is someone and it's

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Speaker 3: Air terrible, you said it on air. He's about twenty

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Speaker 1: Yes, yikes, But in this industry it's funny because mikey

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Speaker 1: A has become someone that I trust, and seeing his

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Speaker 1: It relaxes me on a daily basis. When I see

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Speaker 1: mikey I am happy. I am made to be happy.

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Speaker 3: I am your proverbial gummy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we are both Jeff fans, unfortunately, but Mikeyya is

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Speaker 1: someone who's been doing this for a long time, who

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Speaker 1: between Mikeya Israel and Taylor, Israel is the person I've

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Speaker 1: And Izzy has recently become a great friend. We were

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Speaker 1: Taylor is crazy. So Taylor was working with me at

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Speaker 1: and Taylor's Great. Taylor came up to me one day

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Speaker 1: he said, hey, let me take something off your plate,

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Speaker 1: the Weekend Observations. Go ahead, Taylor, He's good. That is

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Speaker 6: What happened is I walked by him and said, hey,

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Speaker 6: this would be a good observation. And then one became three,

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Speaker 3: That's exactly how it went down, and I'm thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So Taylor is He's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: And again, I'll explain this whole story here as we

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Speaker 1: But then there's me. I've been doing this for a

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Speaker 1: and quite frankly, if I'm being honest, it's a show

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Speaker 3: And so that's what happened.

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Speaker 5: You had to experience that like Collin.

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Speaker 1: Whatever went down with me and Dan was deeply hurtful

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Speaker 3: My mom was very big on.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's God, whatever you believe in, there are angels

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Speaker 1: Taylor has been that angel for me. He really has,

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Speaker 1: because what I see in Taylor is someone who really

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Speaker 1: I care about him. And we had discussions. We did

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Speaker 1: and I have spoken about that, and Taylor reminded me

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Speaker 3: You're still guts. Let's go. Let's go do this.

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Speaker 1: So Taylor had already been let go by Metal Lark.

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Speaker 1: I was never let go. I was not let go.

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Speaker 6: I don't think I could do both of these right now.

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Speaker 3: We had a slack.

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Speaker 6: We did, you were just slacking.

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Speaker 1: Ah, he's in a control room. I sent him out

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Speaker 3: So the more I got to know Taylor, the more

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Speaker 1: Yes, to talk about Bellinger, and I'm gonna try not

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Speaker 1: Like Taylor said, who the hell I am? And so

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Speaker 1: here we are. We started out doing a podcast, The

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Speaker 1: I am very proud of that, and I'm very proud

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Speaker 3: Now. We got thrown in on the two busiest sports

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Speaker 5: Also in national holiday.

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Speaker 4: Is that not pronouncing it correctly? Or is that not

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Speaker 3: That's just Dog being Dog, That's what it is.

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Speaker 5: That sounded right, stick them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the better name there? In fact, Taylor put

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it kids, it's a big hit like hit stick.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, guys, Sam's having a really good year.

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Speaker 3: All right, guys, play it.

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Speaker 3: That was a big play in his game.

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Speaker 5: That was just so everybody understands.

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Speaker 3: Because I want to do it.

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Speaker 1: I have to start shifting my attention to something, and

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Speaker 1: Perhaps March Madness, definitely Augusta. But so I do want

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Speaker 1: to play this game today. Mikey has his mid out.

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Speaker 1: Why do you have a glove out? A catcher's glove?

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Speaker 3: A p's and c's. Yes. So I do want to

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Speaker 1: So we will play this game, and I promise you

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Speaker 5: We didn't. Then I don't believe we're gonna do it today.

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Speaker 9: But we'll see.

444
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Speaker 1: All Right, Taylor, you're gonna let him play this game.

445
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Speaker 1: I'm begging you to let him play this game with us.

446
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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, we could get to the Freddy perraulta trade.

447
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Speaker 1: After that, Stevie Cohen finally spending some money. Met fans

448
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: are finally happy. I think I have no idea, but

449
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Speaker 1: I maintain that I know Colin Cowhor disagrees. The Dodgers

450
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: awful for the sport of baseball, just terrible. They're terrible

451
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Speaker 1: for the sport of baseball. It is not good to

452
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Speaker 1: have that much in balance. I know, once you get

453
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Speaker 1: to the postseason, things are random, but that team is

454
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Speaker 1: guaranteed to make it to the postseason every single season,

455
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Speaker 1: and they've won the World Series the last two years.

456
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: It's unfair, and they keep adding on players. It's ridiculous.

457
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 1: It's absurd. And I don't care who the Mets ad.

458
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Speaker 1: They have no chance of beating the Dodgers at the

459
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Speaker 1: best time semesteries.

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Speaker 3: But I digress.

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Speaker 4: This whole front page of notes is just Mets editions,

462
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Speaker 4: and you're still just killing the Dodgers for adding too

463
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Speaker 4: many people.

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Speaker 3: I want you to understand something.

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Speaker 1: The show sheet that Taylor puts together would be for

466
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Speaker 1: Taylor if he were hosting this show.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that is so true.

468
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Speaker 4: Because I circled something or not to get us off

469
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Speaker 4: on a tangent here, but I circled something in here

470
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Speaker 4: that it just feels like he just wants us to

471
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Speaker 4: ask what his deal is with this particular subject because

472
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Speaker 4: it says is it time for the SEC to retire?

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Speaker 5: It just means more. I don't think that's a very

474
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Speaker 5: long conversation.

475
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Speaker 4: I just think that's Taylor an acc guys saying, you

476
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Speaker 4: know what SEC.

477
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Speaker 5: Take that you don't deserve that anymore?

478
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Speaker 3: Am I right?

479
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Speaker 6: Taylor, Well, I'm glad you brought that up because the

480
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Speaker 6: SEC was four and ten in ball season this season. Yes,

481
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Speaker 6: but two of those four wins were against other SEC teams.

482
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Speaker 6: The third was Ole Miss beating two Lane, and then

483
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Speaker 6: the fourth was Texas beating Michigan and Texas Texas has

484
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Speaker 6: Johnny come lately when it comes to the SEC. So, SEC,

485
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Speaker 6: if you're gonna say it just means more, start winning

486
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Speaker 6: when it actually matters. Because three straight years the Big ten.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you easy for letting me get that off.

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Speaker 4: You just check that out the list that one's done.

489
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Speaker 4: I'll see if there's a couple more in there that

490
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Speaker 4: we should chime in on later of the show.

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Speaker 1: So, Izzy, I am having a hard time, which is

492
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Speaker 1: rare for me, at least, getting excited.

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Speaker 3: About Championship Sunday in the NFL.

494
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Speaker 1: Now, there's a tinge of sadness that comes with Championship Sunday.

495
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Speaker 1: You're excited for it, you can't wait to watch the games,

496
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Speaker 1: but you also realize we have three football games left

497
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Speaker 1: before mikey A pulls out his catcher's glove and starts

498
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Speaker 1: thinking about p's and c's pitchers and catchers reporting the

499
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Speaker 1: spring training.

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Speaker 5: That glove looks like it's from eighteen hundred.

501
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Speaker 3: It is just bought it. Did you really how much

502
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 3: is a glove these days? Yeah? They're expensive, right, Yeah?

503
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 3: I talked I talked him down to about forty dollars

504
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 3: on this one. I just want it easy to know.

505
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Speaker 3: This is where my head's at.

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Speaker 1: Okay, when we play the NBA game, have that love

507
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Speaker 1: on the entire time.

508
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Speaker 3: Please.

509
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Speaker 1: So I'm having a hard time getting myself excited for

510
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Speaker 1: Championship Sunday because the storylines to me, just aren't that interesting,

511
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Speaker 1: and I'm wondering if you're experiencing the same thing.

512
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Speaker 3: Let me elaborate for just a second.

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Speaker 5: Please.

514
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold winning his first Super Bowl like that's not

515
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Speaker 1: a big that's it's not a big enough storyline for me.

516
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Speaker 1: Seattle great teen fourteen and three, they're the one seed,

517
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Speaker 1: they're a home game away from making it to the

518
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Speaker 1: super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Apologies to Seattle.

520
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Speaker 1: I just don't care about that team enough, Okay, I

521
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Speaker 1: really do. Then you have you know, you have Denver

522
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Speaker 1: with Jared Stickham, great cornerback, and maybe there's a storyline

523
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Speaker 1: there with Sean Payton winning his second Super Bowl, which

524
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Speaker 1: puts him in an entirely different category when you're talking

525
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Speaker 1: about the greatest coaches of all time, especially if you

526
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Speaker 1: win one with your backup quarterback Jared Stickham.

527
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Speaker 3: So you have that storyline.

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Speaker 4: I had a whole lot of people sitting at home saying, wow,

529
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Speaker 4: I really want to coach to win number two.

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Speaker 3: Right, and that coach in particular, Sean Payton.

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Speaker 1: And then you have Matthew Stafford, who was going for

532
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Speaker 1: his second Super Bowl since leaving Detroit, and Stafford that

533
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Speaker 1: would put him in a different category of quarterbacks in

534
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Speaker 1: terms of how we kind of look back at these things,

535
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Speaker 1: and a guy with two Super Bowl rings, And I

536
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Speaker 1: guess a lot of people are probably rooting for the

537
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Speaker 1: veteran Matthew Stafford because he seems like a good guy,

538
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Speaker 1: very popular guy, and I think people are rooting for

539
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Speaker 1: him to pull it off. And then you have the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and can they kind of turn it around this

541
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Speaker 1: quickly and be the most dominant team in the NFL again?

542
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Speaker 5: None last the last Patriots Super Bowl win? What year

543
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Speaker 5: was that?

544
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Speaker 3: Taylor would know and he'll look it up.

545
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Speaker 5: Well, he's a new new Patriots fan. So I don't

546
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Speaker 5: know if you was right off.

547
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Speaker 3: The long six years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's oh my No. They've done a remarkable job.

549
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: They have a Gibbob Kraft. Credit got the right coach

550
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Speaker 1: in there, they got the right quarterback in there, and

551
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Speaker 1: they have a really good shot because they're taking on

552
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Speaker 1: Jared Stickham in the AFC Championship Game.

553
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Speaker 3: So they have a good shot of advances in this game.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, guys.

555
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Speaker 1: But I really just I really just have none of

556
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Speaker 1: the storylines that I just kind of laid out for you.

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Speaker 1: They mean nothing to me, and I'm not certain they

558
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Speaker 1: mean anything to anyone nationally unless you live in one

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Speaker 1: of those four markets, you know.

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Speaker 4: And it's funny because normally the NFL just transcends all

561
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 4: there's always enough there there seems to be. And you know,

562
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Speaker 4: most people would say, I don't need storylines to show

563
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Speaker 4: me good football, and I think that's not true, especially

564
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Speaker 4: when it comes to, you know, the biggest game of

565
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Speaker 4: the year that you have two weeks of build up for,

566
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Speaker 4: so it's yeah, I think you can cheer for the

567
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 4: best Super Bowl possibility, which would probably be Rams Patriots,

568
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Speaker 4: and that's what you're pulling for. And I think the

569
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Speaker 4: Rams and the way their offense runs. I think Puka

570
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 4: Nakua just as a football player is just phenomenal to

571
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Speaker 4: watch because it feels like any the ball anywhere in

572
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 4: his vicinity, he can always get there. So there's enough

573
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Speaker 4: entertainment to where it's like, all right, I'm good for

574
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Speaker 4: these two games, but in comparison to most conference championship weekends,

575
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Speaker 4: it feels a little empty.

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Speaker 1: It does, by the way, if Sean Payton did win,

577
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Speaker 1: Like of the coaches who have won this is interesting,

578
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Speaker 1: of the coaches who have won multiple Super Bowls who

579
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Speaker 1: have done it with the worst quarterbacks, because I would say,

580
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Speaker 1: like Drew Brees great obviously, Jared Stickham not so great,

581
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Speaker 1: And if he wins this one, that's that's fairly impressive.

582
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Speaker 1: Winning two games, the AFC Championship Game and the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl with your backup quarterback. If people are comparing it

584
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Speaker 1: to Jeff Hostetler, it is not that is not the

585
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: same situation.

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Speaker 4: I would like Jared Stidham to survive a quarter before

587
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Speaker 4: we start talking about him winning two games and one

588
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 4: of them being the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Let's just see how he survives a quarter. But I'm

590
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: just wondering of the coaches. I think it's Parcels now

591
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking about it. Parcells won one. Now, Phil

592
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: Simms was a good quarterback. A lot of people feel

593
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: like he should be in the Hall of Fame. Chris Sims,

594
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: his son, will join us later on the show. But

595
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Speaker 1: Parcells won with Phil Simms and Jeff hostetlerm Now Hostetler

596
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: Sims got hurt. I think twelve games into that season,

597
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: Hostetler had four games to ramp up get ready for

598
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then took that team to the Super Bowl.

599
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: They beat the Buffalo Bills in that Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to think of the coaches who

601
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Speaker 1: have won Super Bowls with the worst quarterbacks, of the

602
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: coaches who have won multiple Super Bowls, because I think

603
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Speaker 1: if we just said one super Bowl would be Trent dilferd.

604
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 2: Right, Belicheck, one with a backup Tom Brady.

605
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 3: That first year it was Drew Bledsoe.

606
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Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, but didn't win with anyone else. That's

607
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Speaker 1: the problem, you know, it was just Brady. So I

608
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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just having a hard time getting myself

609
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: excited for uh and it seems weird.

610
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Speaker 3: It's such a weird feeling.

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Speaker 1: It's Championship Sunday, and I can't get myself excited because

612
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Speaker 1: I don't care about Seattle and Sam Darnold, Yes, so.

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Speaker 4: Much so that I spent that entire time wondering if

614
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Speaker 4: it was tinge of sadness or twinge of sadness. And

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00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 4: it is tinge of sadness technically, but if you look

616
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Speaker 4: at the definition, they both work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they do. How about that you don't look

618
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Speaker 3: up the quarterbacks?

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 3: I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I looked at the show sheet. Taylor wasn't in there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, information not there. Thank you for your contribution.

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Speaker 6: What do you got, Taylor stud What if you look

624
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 6: at it from the angle of right now? Matthew Stafford

625
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Speaker 6: in the Club of the Hall of Fame Matthew Stafford's

626
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 6: probably fifteenth twentieth in line. His stats are a little

627
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Speaker 6: underwhelming in comparison to other Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Yes,

628
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Speaker 6: but if Stafford is able to win a second Super Bowl,

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Speaker 6: I think he goes to the front of the line.

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Speaker 3: So what you why is he in line?

631
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Speaker 5: By the way, he's not in line.

632
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 4: He already has the bracelet, he's guaranteed in He's about

633
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: to win MVP at age thirty seven.

634
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Speaker 1: No, so I think what Taylor's trying to say, if

635
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: if I can correct you, here is Matthew staff and

636
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: is he is?

637
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Speaker 9: Right?

638
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: Stafford's already in the Hall of Fame, but he's in

639
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: a different room. He's in the room of people with

640
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 1: one ring. Okay, so you're saying, what happens to him

641
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: if he wins a second ring? He goes to a

642
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: very special room, Taylor. He does like to use your

643
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: analogy or however you laid it out for us. He

644
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: is technically if he was waiting to get into this

645
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: lame club in Canton called the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

646
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, if you've never been

647
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: to Canton, wow, there's the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

648
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: Surrounded by strip clubs. It's a weird place, it really is.

649
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,959
Speaker 1: But what Taylor is saying is how much would this

650
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Speaker 1: move Matthew Stafford up? And it would move him up

651
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: drastically in my opinion, because now you're talking about a

652
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: quarterback that has multiple Super Bowl championships. He's going to

653
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: be a first ballot Hall of Famer and he's going

654
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: to go into a very special room if he does

655
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: have two rings.

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Speaker 5: Now, it was Taylor, is that what you meant?

657
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

658
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 6: And also Ricardo here in the VIP room with me,

659
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 6: he pitched that maybe Joe Gibbs winning with Rippin and

660
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 6: thisman should be in consideration.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. And Campbell it was Doug Williams.

662
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Speaker 6: Williams, Doug Williams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who's Campbell? I mean Jason Campbell?

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Speaker 5: Who's Ricardo?

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Speaker 3: Put it on the Paul Taylor, who's Ricardo? Yes? Or no? Oh?

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Speaker 9: God?

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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven

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Speaker 3: seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company

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Speaker 2: live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.

671
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Speaker 1: Mark Dominic could have joined us here in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Dan Byers here, who is still working

673
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Speaker 1: out his Denver pick. Dan, take it away with the update.

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Speaker 10: All good, stud Do you want to quick go back

675
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Speaker 10: to what happened? Yeah, as I was sitting here at

676
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Speaker 10: the news desk, it was no lie that the line

677
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Speaker 10: cut as soon as you tried to talk football. Is

678
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Speaker 10: he tried to put you back on the main road.

679
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Speaker 10: This is how it sounded on our end.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thanks?

681
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Speaker 4: What are you excited about this cutfort championship weekend? Because

682
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 4: I mean that trash tag had to get your juices

683
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Speaker 4: flowing a little bit, right.

684
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to know. I'm trying to get there. I am.

685
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Speaker 1: It's a weird, weird final four, weird Championship Sunday.

686
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Speaker 9: And that was it.

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Speaker 1: Can you guys just isolate whatever that digital sound was.

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Speaker 3: Can I hear that again? To your best efforts? You

689
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Speaker 3: tried and that's all we can ask. Thank you, buddy.

690
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Speaker 3: All Right.

691
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Dan, you do a great job

692
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Speaker 1: of making me feel better about myself.

693
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Speaker 3: That is well done.

694
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Speaker 1: Mark Dominic has spent over twenty years in NFL front

695
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Speaker 1: offices at Scouting, former general manager of the Tampa Bay

696
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: Box and a very handsome man.

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Speaker 3: He's going to join us right now. Mark, thanks for

698
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 3: joining us.

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Speaker 1: First question here, what are the keys to remaining as

700
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Speaker 1: good looking as you are? Because I think you're a

701
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: year older than me, and you look about ten years

702
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Speaker 1: younger than I did.

703
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know what to say. I don't feel

704
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 9: older than I want to. You know, this is kind

705
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 9: of a crazy thing, right, you actually always still younger

706
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Speaker 9: than you actually really are. And you know, I think

707
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Speaker 9: it's my three kids and my wife and everything keeps

708
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Speaker 9: me moving.

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Speaker 1: Right, Just keep moving, that's good advice. Yes, have you

710
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: ever seen this is insane? Honestly, Mark, have you ever

711
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: seen a coaching carousel like this like the one we're

712
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: going through right now?

713
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 3: No?

714
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Speaker 9: Never, In thirty years being in and around the league,

715
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Speaker 9: I can't remember anything. Weird thing was right before we

716
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Speaker 9: got to the you know, the final weekend, I thought,

717
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Speaker 9: you know, it might be four coaches, you know, and

718
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 9: this might be the lowest one in forever because next

719
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 9: year will be really bad. And then it turned out, well,

720
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Speaker 9: this is ten and that's insane, and so yeah, I mean,

721
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Speaker 9: the nice thing is it's a really a good pool

722
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Speaker 9: of opportunities. The hard thing is is, uh, it's a

723
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Speaker 9: lot of work for these clubs, and when new people

724
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Speaker 9: get added to the mix, you know, it kind of

725
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 9: throws the shift off. And you can also see when

726
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 9: you have this many people, you know, obviously you might

727
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 9: think you're getting a head coach and suddenly they signed

728
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 9: somewhere else or they cancel the visit. So's it's just

729
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 9: very tricking. It's a lot of work front office wise,

730
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Speaker 9: it's a lot of work for GM right now. It's

731
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Speaker 9: actually you know, wanting to be focused on you know,

732
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Speaker 9: the Senior Bowl and East West Shrine Game and instead camp.

733
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark, I think a lot of people were shocked

734
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Speaker 6: that the Bills are interviewing Philip Rivers. You were you

735
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Speaker 6: got to Tampa Bay in ninety five, you left in

736
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Speaker 6: twenty thirteen. Who's the strangest guy that you brought in

737
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Speaker 6: for an interview where it's like, maybe we shouldn't bring

738
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Speaker 6: this guy in, but let's just hear out.

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Speaker 9: You know. I bought in a couple other college coaches

740
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 9: back in twenty twelve that was, you know, wanting just

741
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Speaker 9: to hear them out. And so I thought that that

742
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Speaker 9: was interesting because they'd had some success and they were

743
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Speaker 9: just different character or different type of personality, So i'd

744
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 9: say that, I can't really you know, I don't want

745
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Speaker 9: to really say because when we did it.

746
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I put you in a bad spot.

747
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. You really did. Yeah, you say it, Mark, Mark,

748
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: don't be so nice around here. We're not professional. I

749
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: just say, tailor put you in a horrible spot.

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Speaker 9: You're good, But yeah, there was I've done that when

751
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 9: I did a coach in search that was like, I

752
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 9: know I'm not going to hire them, but I just

753
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Speaker 9: want to understand what this guy's thinking. The other thing

754
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Speaker 9: that a lot of these clubs can do, you know,

755
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 9: right now is really hard because there's so many people

756
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 9: trying to secure stuff because don't forget, you hired that

757
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Speaker 9: coach and now you got to probably put an entire

758
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 9: staff together, and you got ten staffs of ten different

759
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Speaker 9: coordinators and offensive defense and positional coach. I mean, it's

760
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Speaker 9: convoluted right now in terms of the amount of like

761
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Speaker 9: who's going where and who's getting what job. But there

762
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Speaker 9: are also teams that will use this to find out

763
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Speaker 9: information about upcoming unrestricted free agents. So you know, maybe

764
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Speaker 9: you're you know, you know that you like a player

765
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Speaker 9: from the whatever the Los Angeles Rams and so therefore,

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Speaker 9: you're going to interview one of their coordinators to find

767
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Speaker 9: out more fish about the free agent. You don't want

768
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Speaker 9: to miss and spend eighty million dollars. You want to

769
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Speaker 9: make sure you're getting the right guy. So there's a

770
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Speaker 9: lot of stuff going on besides just the hiring of

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Speaker 9: the head coach.

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Speaker 4: There's some retired coach in Iowa somewhere whose highlight of

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Speaker 4: his career was interviewing for the Tampa Bay Bucks job,

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Speaker 4: and now he's listening to his AM radio saying, wait

775
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Speaker 4: a second, was that just a cursory Thanks for that,

776
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Speaker 4: Taylor Mark.

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Speaker 3: Did you want to ask.

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Speaker 4: What the actual coaches interviews entail, like, what are you

779
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Speaker 4: looking for in that time frame that says, Okay, this

780
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Speaker 4: gentleman definitely is the guy that's going to run my organization.

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Speaker 9: You know, there's lots of situations you'll put them through.

782
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Speaker 9: You'll talk to him about situational football outside of the game.

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Speaker 9: You'll certainly talk to them a lot about, you know,

784
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Speaker 9: the overall fundamentals of what they believe in, what's their philosophy,

785
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Speaker 9: who are the coaches that they know they can get

786
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Speaker 9: or think they can get, and how much of the

787
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Speaker 9: staff is can they put together? But a big part

788
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Speaker 9: of it is just letting them. They don't have a

789
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Speaker 9: ton of time to actually evaluate your team, so you

790
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 9: can't just sit there and go, well, tell me about

791
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 9: my team and outlooks. So these guys are running around too,

792
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 9: and so it's more about just the feeling you get.

793
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Speaker 9: Does the person motivate you, do you see what they

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Speaker 9: stand for, what they believe in, and do you have

795
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Speaker 9: that same fundamental belief And then you spend as much

796
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 9: time in that coaches interview as you do trying to

797
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 9: be on the phone around that coach, trying to understand

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Speaker 9: the people that have been around that coach. What's you

799
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Speaker 9: been like from players, coordinators, assistants, and then also the

800
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 9: success of their program where they've been you know, are

801
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 9: they developing maybe an NFL are they're developing players and

802
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 9: keep growing as the offense or defensive coordinator or the

803
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 9: position of coach or same with college, what kind of

804
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Speaker 9: the success that they do in recruiting, bringing people through

805
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Speaker 9: the system and get into the NFL. And so you're

806
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 9: looking at all those different things. We're in the middle

807
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Speaker 9: of an interview talking about the different players, especially maybe

808
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 9: players from their team, that they know so that you

809
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 9: already know, so that way you can kind of get

810
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Speaker 9: a sense of where their evaluation tip tendencies are as well.

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Speaker 6: Mark Fernando Mendoza just declared for the draft today. If

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Speaker 6: you were the Raiders front office, what would your level

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Speaker 6: of confidence be when it comes to Mendoza as a

814
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Speaker 6: quarterback prospect?

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Speaker 9: Oh? I think, I mean, I think it's it's almost

816
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 9: to the point where regardless you're taking him, so it

817
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 9: doesn't you want to spend some time with him. I

818
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 9: know he's a quieter guy, but he also seen you

819
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Speaker 9: know that he's fight the gamesman and and tries to

820
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 9: do the right thing after every game. Go find me

821
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Speaker 9: whether it's the you know, opposing head coach or he's

822
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 9: trying to do everything the right way. You can't underestimate,

823
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Speaker 9: you know, what he's been able to accomplish. I think

824
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 9: you were going to spend time with him, but I

825
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 9: think you know, he decided he wanted to be a Raider.

826
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Speaker 9: I mean, that's basically what it is. I mean, I

827
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Speaker 9: understand why it came out and certainly going number one

828
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Speaker 9: over but that's your team. You picked the team. There's

829
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Speaker 9: no way the Raiders aren't taking him, and so this

830
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 9: is just it's going to be more of pick number two.

831
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Speaker 9: But it's exciting to watch Mendoz and kind of get

832
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 9: to learn who he is a little bit more as

833
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Speaker 9: where you start to go through the process.

834
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Speaker 1: Mark, if you have a quarterback of Josh Allen's caliber,

835
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Speaker 1: do you bring him in? Because it's clear that they

836
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Speaker 1: have do you bring him in? Is that the norm

837
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Speaker 1: in the NFL to bring him in on the decision

838
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Speaker 1: making and in terms of who the next head coach is.

839
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Speaker 3: Going to be?

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Speaker 9: You know, I don't think so, and I don't think

841
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Speaker 9: it's the norm, And I don't you know, I think

842
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Speaker 9: I would have brought Josh in and set him down

843
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 9: and just talked about the coaches on our staff. I

844
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 9: think that, to me makes more sense than anything else.

845
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 9: Is like, you know, what do you think of our

846
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 9: coaches on our staff, like specifically obviously on the offensive

847
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 9: side of the ball. I think that, to me is

848
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 9: more critical than thinking that, you know, let's have him

849
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Speaker 9: be part of the interview process, that he fits, the

850
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 9: right guy fits him or vice versa. I don't think

851
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Speaker 9: that that's I don't think that's the best way to

852
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 9: handle that. And so therefore I'm not as big as

853
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 9: a fan in that capacity. I think it's more of

854
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 9: the guys that are on staff. Yes, totally understand that.

855
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 9: And if you want to talk about you know, you're

856
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 9: offen the cordiner, Josh, Let's have a real honest discussion

857
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 9: about that, because I think that's a real possibility or

858
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 9: potential higher for them because it just makes sense. And

859
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 9: so you know, we'll see. But in terms of hey,

860
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 9: why don't you be part of the Philip Rivers interview,

861
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Speaker 9: you know, I just don't. I don't think that I

862
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 9: would do that. I think he could certainly say hi

863
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 9: to him, but I don't want to put him in

864
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Speaker 9: the room with it because I just think that's different.

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Speaker 3: Just a quick helloh, I love that.

866
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Speaker 4: Yes, but if it's Mike McDaniel, let's just say, and

867
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Speaker 4: you know, as the offensive minded guy that he is,

868
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Speaker 4: that he will be implementing as much of his offense

869
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Speaker 4: or trying to find an offensive coordinator that he could

870
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Speaker 4: you know, vibe with and toss a lot of similar

871
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 4: ideas that way.

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't you want your franchise quarterback.

873
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Speaker 4: To at least know or at least discuss this so

874
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 4: he could say right off the bat, Hey, I don't

875
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Speaker 4: think that really works with my skill set.

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Speaker 5: I have a difference of opinion then you do.

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Speaker 9: I think what I would do is to go through

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Speaker 9: the first round unless the guy's horriball like, Okay, we've

879
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 9: got to figure out whether we're hiring him or not,

880
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 9: right but the McDaniels of the world or things like that,

881
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 9: I think what you do is you do the first

882
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 9: club interview with ownership and whoever's a part of the

883
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 9: head coaching hiring, and then I think if you're like, Okay,

884
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 9: that was pretty good. You know, he checks our box,

885
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 9: then I think that's when you kind of get You

886
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 9: can bring the quarterback in, especially when you have an

887
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 9: elite quarterback, and see how that vibe feels between them.

888
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 9: But I don't think it's around one. I think that

889
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 9: they can know about it or say hey, like I said,

890
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 9: but I think I wouldn't really spend a lot of

891
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 9: time making sure you know that in the first level,

892
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 9: but the second level, when I bring the candidate back in,

893
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 9: then I think it's critical that you your quarterback or

894
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 9: whoever's you know, the big part of that team, whether

895
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 9: it's the defensive you know, linebacker, three technique outside Russia

896
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 9: or whatever it is corner that they would meet him

897
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 9: to kind of get a vibe how that goes. I

898
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 9: mean I did that when you know, I drafted my

899
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 9: first quarterback I took when we brought him into town,

900
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 9: I brought my offensive line and I had them go

901
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 9: out to dinner with him and just telling me what

902
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 9: you guys think that kind of thing.

903
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: So, how would you handle what is going on with

904
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman right now? And I'm wondering in terms of

905
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: AJ Brown And I'm wondering Mark, how you would handle

906
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: that situation.

907
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 3: And how do you think Howie is handling that situation? Yeah?

908
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 9: I think when you when you look at this one

909
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 9: and you you you see what the Eagles have been

910
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 9: or what they've been able to do, I think you're

911
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 9: you're trying to really more so look at your entire

912
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 9: roster figure out what can you handle in terms of

913
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 9: this off season? What's it going to be like? And

914
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 9: you know, where's where's our money and what kind of money?

915
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 9: What what do we actually have that we can spend

916
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 9: out there? And then you look at your own team

917
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 9: and you talk about like the fit, but I think

918
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 9: until they get the coordinator set, whether that's Matt Magie,

919
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 9: whoever it might be for the Eagles. I think you

920
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 9: just play it low key right now and you just

921
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 9: you just let days go on. And then I think

922
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 9: when you get if you and how he's probably going

923
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 9: to Sea Bowl. I know scouts will be there, but

924
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 9: certainly by the time you get to the combiner before that, uh,

925
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 9: you know, you find out whether it's interest. That's where

926
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 9: you know what I did before I was GM, I

927
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 9: was director of pro and one of my jobs was

928
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 9: to call around to thirty one of the clubs of

929
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 9: the course of you know, especially right around now, and say, hey,

930
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 9: I'm just kind of curious who are the guys that

931
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 9: are on the market for your team, Like who's an

932
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 9: so I can start watching them because it's not just

933
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 9: free agency, it's also those opportunities. And I got to think,

934
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 9: how he's exploring that mark.

935
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 6: If you could have one of these final four rosters

936
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 6: from from conference championship weekend, which team would you take?

937
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 9: That's a fun question. I think, you know. The truth

938
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 9: for me would probably be the use of the RAMS

939
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 9: defense is very exciting. My scare is that I don't

940
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 9: know how much more I've got Matt Stafford left comparatively

941
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 9: to all the other rosters, So that's that's a really

942
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 9: that's a hard one for me to not take the

943
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 9: Rams because just there's so many pieces there that I

944
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 9: think are very exciting. I think probably Seattle's probably second

945
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 9: because it looks like Sam Darnold has done everything they

946
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 9: can ask. And I would shout out to John Schneider.

947
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 9: If there's a a GM that knows when to part

948
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 9: with quarterbacks better than John Schneider, I'm not sure wh

949
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 9: it is right. I mean, he obviously got Russell Wilson

950
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 9: and everybody's like eh, and he had Genal Smith he's

951
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 9: like and now he finds Sam Darnold. He knows how

952
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 9: to figure out that quarterback room, and boy, that's critical.

953
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 9: But I would say I would say Rams, Seahawks truthfully,

954
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 9: Broncos and Patriots, which is really exciting for Patriot fans

955
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 9: because I think there's still a lot of potential upside there.

956
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 3: Mark.

957
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: Did Taylor redeem himself or no? It seems like he did.

958
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 9: Oh yes, much better, much better spirit.

959
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 3: Yes, he's learn.

960
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and he's so excited that you answered with

961
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: a fun question. I have another fun question if you're

962
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: an owner, I make you an NFL owner. Who are

963
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: you hiring to be your general manager?

964
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 9: You know, at this point I would probably go after

965
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 9: somebody that's had a shot but it didn't work out.

966
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 9: And I'm not saying that for any other reason, but like,

967
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 9: I think Joe Douglas is a good general manager. I

968
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 9: just don't think things went the right way for him.

969
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 9: But knowing Joe and how Hardy works and what he's about,

970
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 9: he's a guy that he's like, boy, you know, maybe

971
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 9: just wasn't the cookie. I mean, you look at Robert Soley,

972
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 9: he's got another chance to be head coach. But yet

973
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 9: you know, it's like, why wouldn't Joe Douglas get another

974
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 9: shot to be GM? So I would really probably lean

975
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 9: towards Joe first, as I see he's interviewing, which makes

976
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 9: logical sense. But Joe seems like a guy that I

977
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 9: think he just needs a different circumstance and I think

978
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 9: it might have turned out differently for him.

979
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 4: Well, last thing before we get you out of here, Mark,

980
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 4: you hear a lot about Lamar Jackson and people getting

981
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 4: excited about him possibly moving.

982
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 5: When you see that even as.

983
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 4: A possibility, how realistic does it seem I'm not talking

984
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 4: about this particular move, but I'm saying a quarterback in

985
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 4: his you know, twenty nine thirty year old prime, how

986
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 4: realistic is one of those guys changing teams.

987
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 9: I just don't think it's very realistic at all. I

988
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 9: think when you go down that rabbit hole, you better

989
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 9: have a hundred an answer for what you're doing next.

990
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 9: And it's not Cooper Rush, and it's not Tyler Hunting right,

991
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 9: And it's just it's just not and so uh in

992
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 9: this draft class is not bringing with young quarterback talent, right,

993
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 9: It's it's it's it's got quite a few gaps as

994
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 9: you go down. And I think there's really interesting stuff

995
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 9: in the third, fourth, and fifth round, but first and

996
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 9: second round, it's after Mendoza, it's it's pretty quiet in

997
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 9: my opinion, you know, so overall, So I think for

998
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 9: the Ravens, to me, it's it's let's go another year,

999
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 9: Let's get the new coach in here, Let's see how

1000
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 9: everything feels, and then make a decision like if you

1001
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 9: want to, you know, consider another avenue. But I just

1002
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 9: don't think there's anything out there that really makes sense

1003
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 9: other than staying with Lamar Jackson.

1004
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 4: Because teams don't punt, right, there's no scenario you could say, Okay,

1005
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 4: I'll take that great offer, even if it means next

1006
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 4: year is going to be just a wasted year. You

1007
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: try to find the happy medium.

1008
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 9: There, right, Yeah, and the grass isn't always greener, as

1009
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 9: we all know, and and you know it's so it's

1010
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 9: so easy to say, well, just you'll just you know,

1011
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 9: you get all these draft picks, you'll draft quarterback in

1012
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 9: twenty twenty seven or whatever. Okay, that sounds all good,

1013
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 9: But if your team goes three and fourteen, I mean,

1014
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 9: I didn't you know, we saw the head coaches that

1015
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 9: got fired. You know, only a couple of gms got fired.

1016
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 9: I think gms are in a lot more trouble next

1017
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 9: year than head coaches are, just because at some point,

1018
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 9: you know, that's going to call in the other way

1019
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 9: and it's gonna be like, what, let's look at the roster.

1020
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 9: So my point in all that is, yeah, you can

1021
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 9: have draft picks, but you might not get to use them,

1022
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 9: or just because you draft the quarterback as we see,

1023
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 9: you know, not every everyone's going to work out. I

1024
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 9: mean this time last year, I think people are all.

1025
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 9: You know, no one was very very excited about uh,

1026
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 9: you know, Drake May, and everybody's like, I can't wait

1027
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 9: to see more of Michael Pennix. And now it's like,

1028
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 9: well now Drake May's got the lead, and so you know,

1029
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 9: it's just just because it sounds good on paper and

1030
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 9: it seems like, yeah, just draft a quarterback. Okay, he's

1031
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 9: got to pan out and that's that's such a hard

1032
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 9: job to play.

1033
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 3: One more quick one. We'll get you out of here.

1034
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time Mark Dominic with us, Mark, what

1035
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: is what is getting rich? Can you explain to the

1036
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,720
Speaker 1: audience we're in South a lot of Dolphin fans listening,

1037
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: can you explain what cutting Toua would mean to the

1038
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins in ways that we would understand?

1039
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I think the main thing when you

1040
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 9: look at Tua is trying to, you know, really kind

1041
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 9: of work through what that contract implication will be right,

1042
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 9: and how does that all come hitting your club of

1043
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 9: financially and and and what's the burn? And I think

1044
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 9: when you look at what it could be if they

1045
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 9: get rid of to A, it's a massive hit. But

1046
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,240
Speaker 9: you know, but his base salaries, I'm trying to remember

1047
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 9: in my mind, I know his base ally's almost forty

1048
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 9: million dollars right in twenty twenty eighty six, and so, uh,

1049
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 9: you know, it's it's a it's it's a heavy number.

1050
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: Uh.

1051
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 9: And at the same point, I think it's not fully

1052
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 9: guaranteed right now, I think it. Let me see if

1053
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 9: I remember, right, I was right longed.

1054
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 3: By dead Yeah, a dead caphit of ninety nine million

1055
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 3: dollars of the yet.

1056
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 9: Right, and then in the cap the natural cap hit

1057
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,959
Speaker 9: is fifty six. I mean it's it's to the point

1058
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 9: where it's it's Deshaun Watson, you have to move. What

1059
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 9: you'd have to do is handle it this way that

1060
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 9: the Cleveland Browns handled to Shawn Watson. Meaning we're going to

1061
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 9: have to, you know forward, think a lot of salary

1062
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 9: cap places. We're going to have to create, you know,

1063
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 9: lower as many players on our team based salaries, replace

1064
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 9: that with signing bonus. And what that means is that

1065
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 9: ownership has to be willing to write a lot of

1066
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 9: checks this offseason. And so like a guy that's making

1067
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 9: a say, ten million dollars in our team, you can

1068
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 9: take him down to the minimum salary and give him

1069
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 9: a signing bonus and pro rade his contract out, you know,

1070
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 9: a little bit longer, and now suddenly his cap salary

1071
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 9: kept lower. You're gonna have to do with a lot

1072
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 9: of players to be able to absorb this. But that

1073
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 9: means mister Ross has to write a lot of checks

1074
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 9: to a lot of veteran players right now, which makes

1075
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 9: them a little more guaranteed money.

1076
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, we appreciate the time. This was great.

1077
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing it. We hope to have you

1078
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: on again if you're willing to deal with Taylor and

1079
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: his bad questions.

1080
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, sir.

1081
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 9: I know why you guys put me on radio not TV.

1082
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 9: I get it. Still I.

1083
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 3: Want to see you on TV. Yes, okay, thank you.

1084
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,800
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1085
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,240
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1086
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,480
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