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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitali. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: carme and me, and Happy International Women's Day to us.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, when's.

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Speaker 4: Lebron coming over to tell to tell us Happy International

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Speaker 4: Women's Day?

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Come on, Alex, you've seen that. It was a video

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Speaker 3: from like either you.

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Speaker 2: Last time when he was with Genie and everybody in

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Speaker 2: the front row. Okay, did I miss something that happened?

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Speaker 2: Like now, that's what.

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Speaker 3: He was saying. He was like, Happy National Women's Day.

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Speaker 3: I thought that's what you were going for it. But

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Speaker 3: I love it. I'm here for it.

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Speaker 2: Also happy like NFL free agency Frenzy. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: about who's locked up some of the big trades. Geno

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Speaker 2: Smith to Vegas was the big one yesterday. I think

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Speaker 2: that was actually yesterday. Who got released? Where will they land? Lakers?

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Speaker 2: Also in Boston tonight, you guys, is this the finals preview?

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Speaker 3: I've got something we got thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna talk about all that today. But all so,

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Speaker 2: I'm really interested in this moment, Carmi, you went to

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Speaker 2: Harry Potter last night?

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Speaker 3: Did chirst Child the play at the Pantages.

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Speaker 2: At the Pantages, I've been hearing amazing things about it.

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Speaker 2: We're both Harry Potter stands and not. Carmie's like next level,

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Speaker 2: like way bigger than me.

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Speaker 4: So I actually, after seeing the people that were at

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Speaker 4: the show yesterday, I leaned over to my fiance and

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Speaker 4: I was like, You're.

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Speaker 3: So lucky that I'm not.

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Speaker 4: Like this, ah, but you I mean, like I I

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Speaker 4: wore like a burgundy fur coat because I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I know that I'm Gryffindorhouse, but like I didn't I

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Speaker 4: didn't go so far as to like wear cloaks and

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Speaker 4: robes and whatever.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, I brought my wand when I went,

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Speaker 2: I went to.

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Speaker 3: Martin's nodding like he do you wear ropes?

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Speaker 6: I don't wear rose.

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Speaker 3: But I also went to the show.

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Speaker 6: I wentday night.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so rating do we need to go see this

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Speaker 2: in real life? Because I'm hearing just the special effects

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Speaker 2: for a play are in sane?

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Speaker 3: You're insane?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's absolutely you kind of you kind of take

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Speaker 4: for granted that, like you're not watching a screen because

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Speaker 4: there's so much stuff that's happening on the stage that

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Speaker 4: like you're like wait a second, Like things.

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Speaker 3: Are floating, there's like pyrotechnos.

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Speaker 4: I read the book for that, but I never I

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Speaker 4: can't even remember if I like, No, so it's it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's like the next like a kids. It's about it's

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Speaker 2: Harry's kids.

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Speaker 4: It's the script of this story about Harry and Hermione

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Speaker 4: and Ron's kids and Genny by the way and their kids.

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Speaker 4: But like I forgot about it because I read it

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Speaker 4: when it first came out. I was I did the

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Speaker 4: whole thing where I stood in line and got it whatever.

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Speaker 4: I was like really excited, and I do remember being

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Speaker 4: disappointed in the plot, and then I when I saw

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Speaker 4: the show, the special effects were incredible. The plot sucks,

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Speaker 4: like the plot is not. There's so many holes in it.

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Speaker 4: They take for granted so much stuff.

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Speaker 2: Do we need to go see it?

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Speaker 3: Though? One like a performance, it's incredible.

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Speaker 7: I was there to watch, like to me, when I'm

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Speaker 7: watching a Broadway show or something of that nature, I'm

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Speaker 7: there to like kind of watch the same reason I

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Speaker 7: watch basketball.

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Speaker 3: It's like the the oreography.

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Speaker 2: I'm entertainment.

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Speaker 4: We love a multifacetted man right now, just like I

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Speaker 4: love a nex theater, I love Broadway plays, I love

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Speaker 4: basketball here that's how they're similar.

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Speaker 2: That was my life growing up.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 6: There was a lot of athleticism on stage.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the changing of scenes really especially thanks.

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Speaker 6: For worth that. I'd sit close close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so out of mine.

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Speaker 3: Go see it's mezzanine.

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Speaker 2: We've got a great show for you guys today. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: if Harry Potter is involved, we're going to go off

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Speaker 2: the rails for a little bit here, But we have

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Speaker 2: the founder of the Sportings Tribune, Rosch Markazi joining us

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Speaker 2: in about thirty to talk all things NBA, especially Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Then we have NFL dot com writer Nick Shook in

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Speaker 2: our two to talk all the free agency. We have

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Speaker 2: executive producer Ian with us today Technico co producer Chris

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Speaker 2: Martin wise at the news desk. But let's we're gonna

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Speaker 2: start real quick with a leading up to the big

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Speaker 2: trade that happened yesterday, who got locked up this week

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Speaker 2: and Eagles signing Saquon Barkley to an extension. Already, he

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Speaker 2: was one year into his current three year, thirty seven

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Speaker 2: point seventy five million dollar contract with the with the

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Speaker 2: Eagles with twenty six million guaranteed. They agreed to a

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Speaker 2: two year, forty one point two million dollar extension, so

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Speaker 2: he's under contract through twenty twenty eight and it includes

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Speaker 2: thirty six million guarantee, most ever by a running back

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Speaker 2: more in incentives. He's going to be a twenty point

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Speaker 2: six million dollar new money average. Barkley deserves this and

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Speaker 2: so much more. He is a huge reason that the

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Speaker 2: Eagles got to the super Bowl. I argue he should

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Speaker 2: have been way closer, possibly the MVP favorite. But after

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Speaker 2: this year, once again we all know this is a

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Speaker 2: quarterback award, but this is a good starting point for

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Speaker 2: other teams to take notice and take note. This is

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Speaker 2: how you take care of your star players. You show

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Speaker 2: them their value, show them that you value them, and

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Speaker 2: you pay them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, these guys are now there's there's multiple huge

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Speaker 4: contracts that came down as far as locking guys up

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Speaker 4: so they don't hit free agency. Saqua wasn't even part

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Speaker 4: of free agency this year. They're like, that's not even

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Speaker 4: part of this. I'm interested to see how much, don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna be able top this season,

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Speaker 4: but he's still going to be an incredibly high end

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Speaker 4: running back, especially when you're running behind that line. Don't

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Speaker 4: forget though the Eagles lost Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore is

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Speaker 4: now a head coach. He was the offensive coordinator last

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Speaker 4: offense around Saquon. I think that he did a wonderful

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Speaker 3: Comes in and and and it does.

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Speaker 4: Does that affect Saquon as far as how much he's featured,

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Speaker 4: how much he's utilized the season he just had.

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Speaker 3: I we talked about it at length.

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Speaker 4: When we were talking about MVP conversations to uh, if

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Speaker 4: there was ever a time where non quarterback deserved MVP,

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Speaker 4: Sequan was absolutely and I was like, that was that

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Speaker 4: that there. I don't think we're gonna see another season.

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Speaker 4: But that doesn't mean that he's not worth the money.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean that he's not worth investing in in

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Speaker 2: I just it's the first time he's been on a

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Speaker 2: up for Saquon. Will he match these crazy record breaking numbers.

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Speaker 2: Time will tell. And again, like there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: I think that's kind of like, I don't, I don't,

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Speaker 4: I don't know how you do that, because like that's

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Speaker 4: almost cheapening this year, it's not cheaping.

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Speaker 2: It's just like he finally had the ability to be

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Speaker 2: As we saw, it was never about personal stats for him.

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Speaker 2: We saw him come out when he could have could

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Speaker 2: have broken like numerous records this season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the the he is in the right place from

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Speaker 4: the sense of the Eagles aren't afraid to spend money,

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Speaker 4: They're not afraid to keep retooling. They're absolutely in contention

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Speaker 4: every year because of what how how Howie Roseman has

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Speaker 4: built this roster. But your offensive line, part parts of

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Speaker 4: forward if you're the Philadelphia Eagles, that are going to

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Speaker 4: be some tough decision, whether that's this year, next year, whatever,

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Speaker 4: wasn't banking on Saquon matching last year and seeding it.

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Speaker 2: This kind of came out of nowhere. I was like,

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Speaker 4: It was investing in a core part of your offense

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Speaker 4: that you want to be part of it for the

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Speaker 4: long term. No matter who's the offensive coordinator, no matter

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Speaker 4: New York. But yeah, no, I mean this was this

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Speaker 4: surprised by the Eagles. The Eagles and Howie Roseman know

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Speaker 2: They did a great job. They also resigned one of

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Speaker 2: Because he had that bit, he had one of the

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Speaker 2: big interceptions in the Super Bowl. He was an All

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Speaker 2: Pro this year, three year, fifty one million dollars. The

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Speaker 2: Eagles are taking care of their guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was making three point five million dollars

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Speaker 3: He was not making anywhere near that With the Saints.

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Speaker 4: They figured out a system, and the thing is they're

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Speaker 4: not losing Vic Fangio, their defensive coordinator who was the

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Speaker 4: one that kind of unlocked Zach Bond so.

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Speaker 2: They won the Super Bowl. Investing won the Super.

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Speaker 4: Bowl, investing in a linebacker, in a linebacker like that,

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Speaker 4: who was a chess piece for Vic Fangio.

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Speaker 3: Again, kudos to Howi Roseman.

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Speaker 4: And if we're going to take away anything from the

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles, it's the same thing you take.

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Speaker 3: Away from when you're dating.

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Speaker 2: If he wants to, he will thank you.

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Speaker 3: If they want to, they will. Don't let any team gaslight.

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Speaker 4: You and think they don't have money, or they can't

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Speaker 4: There's so many holes on that roster. And John Spytech,

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Speaker 4: And we're starting to see though that he's not shy

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna give you Max, no, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: These are the free agent quarterbacks that are on the

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Speaker 4: You know, DK is apparently on the on the trading block.

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Speaker 4: There's no clear upgrade to Gino Smith. No, and not

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Speaker 4: I mean I really think that they're they're trying to

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Speaker 3: Other stuff, do you get a holdover?

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Speaker 3: So we'll see how that all goes. But but he.

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Speaker 3: They still have a lot to do on that offense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well still have the top draft pick.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, they retain that and it's and he just

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Speaker 2: All right, so we kind of ended the last segment

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Speaker 3: I really thought that it was going to be more.

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Speaker 2: So now off the table.

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Speaker 4: We have quarterback needy teams we do and maybe some

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Speaker 2: And there's two names that are really floating around this

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Speaker 2: And since the combine, there's been a lot of talk

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Speaker 2: of cooling on Sanders for a number of reasons. He

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Speaker 2: showed little to no improvement in his game last season,

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Speaker 2: made some poor choices. They were also turned off by

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Speaker 2: his antics. Since January, he didn't participate in the drills.

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Speaker 2: A Shrine Bowl was sighted for one instant, I just

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Speaker 2: he was viewed negatively. And here's this is hard because

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Speaker 2: so was his dad. This is kind of like the

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Speaker 2: brand of Dion Sanders. So this is the family brand.

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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you want your quarterback to have confidence? Well,

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Speaker 2: here's that's that's what it feels like. It's just it's

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Speaker 2: just over confidence that people are taking the wrong way.

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Speaker 4: Here's my if you're gonna be brash, nobody cares if

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Speaker 4: you're brashing confident if you can back it up. And

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Speaker 4: that's the issue that teams are having because Shaudi Sanders

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Speaker 4: isn't the top quarterback in this class, if this class,

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Speaker 4: he's honestly a beneficiary of the fact that this is

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Speaker 4: such a weak class because.

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Speaker 3: If he came out last year, he is not a

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Speaker 3: first round him.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely not.

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Speaker 4: And so you have to be able to back up

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Speaker 4: what you're saying. And to be this high maintenance and

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Speaker 4: to be this confident in your skill set, you have

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Speaker 4: to back it up. That's not something we've seen from him.

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Speaker 4: Like you just talked about, he didn't take a step

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Speaker 4: forward last year. And yes, there were protection issues around

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Speaker 4: him at Colorado, there's no denying that, but a lot

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Speaker 4: of those sacks that he took were also on him

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Speaker 4: for holding the ball too long. He is not a

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Speaker 4: guy that I think the end vogue thing in the

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Speaker 4: league right now is having these mobile, very athletic quarterbacks

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Speaker 4: that can create in the backfield, that can get themselves

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Speaker 4: out of issues or whatever.

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Speaker 3: That's not Shadar Sanders.

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Speaker 4: Janry Sanders is a pocket passers saying he has to

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Speaker 4: stay in the pocket. He operates the best when he

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Speaker 4: has a rhythm and timing offense, and that's something that

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Speaker 4: is very specific and it's also not kind of where

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Speaker 4: the league is trending right now. He doesn't have above

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Speaker 4: like he has just above average as far as like

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Speaker 4: athleticism and size, like size, arm strength, all of those

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Speaker 4: things that you're looking for in a quarterback to invest

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Speaker 4: in in the long term.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't have it.

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Speaker 4: At an elite level. He has it at an above

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Speaker 4: average level, and he can operate very very well in

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Speaker 4: an offense that he himself is very familiar with. It's rhythm,

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Speaker 4: it's timing based, it's all of these things. And there

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Speaker 4: have been plenty of examples across the league in NFL history,

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Speaker 4: especially too of guys that didn't like Drew Brees comes

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Speaker 4: to mind, where he didn't have any of those things

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Speaker 4: at an elite level, but his timing, his rhythm, and

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Speaker 4: with his the way that he operated mentally made him

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Speaker 4: such a good player.

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Speaker 2: So do you think having his dad as his coach

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Speaker 2: helps or hurt them both?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Okay, because that's fair. There's no way for Dion to

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Speaker 4: separate himself. As much as he wants to say that

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Speaker 4: he can be objective when it comes to his kids,

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Speaker 4: it can't.

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Speaker 2: You can't. But real quick like, when you look at

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Speaker 2: the top ten teams in the draft that need a quarterback,

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Speaker 2: and this will probably change because there's going to be

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Speaker 2: trades and people are going to move around. You got

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Speaker 2: Titans need a quarterback. Browns most likely need a quarterback

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Speaker 2: because mister Badman reinjured his achilles. Giants need a quarterback. Patriots, No, Jags,

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Speaker 2: Raiders just got their quarterback, Jets, Nomah, Rogers need a quarterback, Panthers, Saints, Bears,

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Speaker 2: those are your top ten. There's a lot of quarterback needs, yeah,

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Speaker 2: a lot of Do you see him going to any

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Speaker 2: of those teams.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's a top ten pick.

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Speaker 4: Now, quarterbacks always rise and there's always a demand.

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Speaker 3: And like I said, this is not uh, this is not.

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Speaker 4: But this is not a strong quarterback class and it's

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Speaker 4: not on and to only see one quarterback go in

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Speaker 4: the first round that happened just a few years ago.

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Speaker 4: And so cam Ward to me is by far in

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Speaker 4: a way like the gap between cam Ward and Schadur

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Speaker 4: Sanders to me from a football standpoint is massive.

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Speaker 3: It's cam Ward, He's.

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Speaker 4: Singularly on his own at the top there, and then

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Speaker 4: you have to take a step down into the next

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Speaker 4: tier to get the rest of the guys. And I

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Speaker 4: do think that Sadure Sanders is the best of those, Yes,

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Speaker 4: but it wouldn't I do. I still do also think

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Speaker 4: I said he's not a top ten pick, I still

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Speaker 4: think he's a first round pick.

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Speaker 3: Again, because this class is so weak, because there's so

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Speaker 3: many quarterbacks me.

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Speaker 4: But the strength of this draft lies elsewhere, and so

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Speaker 4: many of these teams have pass rusher needs, offensive line needs.

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Speaker 4: Running Backs are creeping up the board because now that

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Speaker 4: we've seen what Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley being paid.

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Speaker 2: For it and the values coming back up for the

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Speaker 2: running I would hope so.

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Speaker 4: But it also it also there's a whole other conversation

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Speaker 4: there about how you need other pieces.

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Speaker 3: It can't just be the running back.

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Speaker 2: You need protection.

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Speaker 3: So does that keep the value down a little bit? Whatever?

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Speaker 4: The point I'm making is there is a lot The

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Speaker 4: strength of this draft is not the quarterback class. There

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Speaker 4: are needs on so many other rosters that aren't quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: Even rosters that do need quarterbacks probably need something else. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so I think he's still.

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Speaker 3: A first round pick.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I will not.

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Speaker 3: I will not if he's a top ten pick.

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Speaker 2: Somebody overpaid or they got influenced a little bit. It's

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Speaker 2: going to be interesting to see. But let's check in

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Speaker 2: with Martin Wise now and see what's trending.

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Speaker 6: Chief wide receiver.

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Speaker 7: Savy Worthy was arrested on Friday night in Williamson County,

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Speaker 7: Texas on a charge of assault of a family member

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Speaker 7: or a House member by impeding breathing our circulation. The

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Speaker 7: Bengals and tightened Mike the Seki agrees to a three

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Speaker 7: year deal to stay with to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 6: The Chiefs and Hollywood.

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Speaker 7: Brown have grew to a one year contract for the

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 6: Number sixth Saint John's.

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Speaker 7: Beat twenty th rank Marquette eighty six to eighty four

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Speaker 7: in overtime. Nineteenth ranked Kentucky beat Missouri.

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Speaker 6: Ninety one to eighty three.

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Speaker 7: Arkansas will be twenty fifth ranked Mississippi State ninety three

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Speaker 7: to ninety two, and Alabama, the seventh thrand team in

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Speaker 7: the nation, has a sixty seven to sixty four lead

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Speaker 7: over Number one Auburn with seven to forty five left

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Speaker 7: in the game. Yukon, it's not even close to Seaton

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Speaker 7: haul fifty seven to twenty six with about fifteen minutes

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Speaker 7: left there. Maryland has a four point lead over Northwestern

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Speaker 7: the terror finser thirteenth ranked team in the nation, fifty

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Speaker 7: to sixty fifty to forty six with nine to thirty

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Speaker 7: four left in the second half. At the half, Winthrop

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Speaker 7: and unc Asheville is forty six to thirty with Winthrop

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Speaker 7: in the lead in the Big South Championship semi final,

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Speaker 7: and in the SEC finally, Texas A and M with

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Speaker 7: a nineteen to fifteen lead over LSU. Earlier today we

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Speaker 7: saw Iowa State beat Kansas State, Tennessee Beach, South Carolina,

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Speaker 7: and Louisville beat Stanford Ladies.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you Martin. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitally.

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

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Speaker 2: with carme and me. It is time for our first

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Speaker 2: guest owner and CEO of The Sporting Tribune, Friend of

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Speaker 2: the show, please welcome rash Marcazi. Happy birthday, a.

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Speaker 9: Rage hid rank you so much.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 2: We're doing fabulous And what a great birthday week and

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Speaker 2: present you've had from the Lakers because they have been

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Speaker 2: red hot really since January fifteenth and playing even better

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Speaker 2: since the edition of Luka Doncic. Do you believe they

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Speaker 2: are real contenders to win a championship this season?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Listen, I think anytime that you're in the top four,

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Speaker 9: if you're number two, seed in the West. Yeah, you

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Speaker 9: are certainly in contention. And listen, I keep telling people

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Speaker 9: that I really like the Thunders are the reason that

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Speaker 9: they're tend to a little heaven games above the rest

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Speaker 9: of the West. But see them in Las Vegas in

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Speaker 9: that Cup final game where they had a lot of

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Speaker 9: money at stake, get a championship at stake and everything,

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Speaker 9: and they lay to agg.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm under pressure.

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Speaker 9: I want to see the Thunder in the conference finals.

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Speaker 9: And so like, Luca's been there obviously, Little Lebron's been

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Speaker 9: there several times. So yes, they're a championship contender, and

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Speaker 9: I think that they have a real shot this year.

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Speaker 3: I want to know specifically what you have observed.

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Speaker 4: Slash think going forward that Luca the biggest thing that

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Speaker 4: he's doing for Lebron because at forty years old, I

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Speaker 4: have to imagine Lebron is like taking a big exhale,

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Speaker 4: being like, all right now, I don't have to do everything.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing is that

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Speaker 9: Lebron has been hoping to have a complimentary, not even

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Speaker 9: accomplished ship player. I thought he thought that Anthony Davis

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Speaker 9: would take the reins and become the guy on the Lakers,

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Speaker 9: and there were several fort he was, but there was

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Speaker 9: obviously more often than not where he was obviously hurt

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Speaker 9: or wasn't capable of being the main guy. He loves

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Speaker 9: the fact that they have a quarterback now, like Luka

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Speaker 9: Doncic who was the guy, and Lebron had this great

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Speaker 9: quote where he's like, I want to be the receiver

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Speaker 9: and I want Lucan to be the quarterback. And we've

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Speaker 9: seen that several times already for Luca, you know, to

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Speaker 9: put up a thirty five point fifteen assist performance. Again,

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Speaker 9: we've not seen that since Lebron did it or the

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Speaker 9: Magic did it. It's what's the most surprising thing is

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Speaker 9: how well they've played together so far.

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Speaker 2: It really is incredible. Like Luca cannot stop throwing touchdown

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Speaker 2: passes to Lebron James, like cross Court, Now, you've been

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Speaker 2: covering the Lakers for decades, does this Luca Lebron team

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Speaker 2: remind you of any of those championship Lakers teams.

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Speaker 9: It's a little bit different in the sense that there's

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Speaker 9: normally a guard and a big man. I mean, you

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Speaker 9: go even historically, you know Jerry West and Will Chamberlain

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Speaker 9: and Magic and Kareem and Kobe.

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Speaker 5: And Check and Kobe and Pout.

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Speaker 9: This would be a unique one where it's Lebron and Luca.

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Speaker 9: But what it does have is two generational Hall of

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Speaker 9: Fame players, And so whenever the Lakers have won the championship,

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Speaker 9: they got two of those players. But where this scene

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Speaker 9: would be unique is that you don't have that guard

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Speaker 9: big man component. And again, even Lebron and Danthony Davis

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Speaker 9: when they won, had that. So it's a little bit different.

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Speaker 9: But I think this is the way like the game

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Speaker 9: is played now. You know, you go to the Warriors,

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Speaker 9: I mean they didn't have the superstar big man. It

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Speaker 9: was Steph and it was Clay and it was Draymond,

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Speaker 9: and like they found the way to make it work.

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Speaker 9: So this would be a unique championship historically speaking for

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Speaker 9: the Lakers. But this is a historical pairing between two

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Speaker 9: of the best minds, two of the best playmakers that

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Speaker 9: we've ever seen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but does that leave holes that come when you

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Speaker 4: know things matter a little bit more, when come the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: come the postseason, that the Lakers are going to be

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Speaker 4: vulnerable for undred percent.

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Speaker 9: I think that is certainly the biggest question mark with

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Speaker 9: this team, and we're going to see it tonight. No

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Speaker 9: Jackson Hayes, or at least he's doubtful to play. I

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Speaker 9: mean he's not even, to be honest with all the respect,

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Speaker 9: like not a great big man. He's been kind of

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Speaker 9: thrust into this role of having to play, so that

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Speaker 9: is a problem. But I guess the only kind of

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Speaker 9: pushback would be no with no one is stopping Nikola

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Speaker 9: Jokic from doing what he wants to do. So it's

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Speaker 9: not like you're going to have like a head to

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Speaker 9: head to battle. We do have to change things up.

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Speaker 9: And so that was really the moment that I thought

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Speaker 9: this team was a contending team When they went into

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Speaker 9: Denver and won the way that they did. That gave

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Speaker 9: me some hope of like, listen, they've they've gone up

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Speaker 9: against Denver the past two years and it hasn't worked.

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Speaker 9: Maybe going small ball, maybe that will help them.

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Speaker 2: So they're in Boston tonight facing the reigning champs. We

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Speaker 2: all know the history between the Lakers and the Celtics,

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Speaker 2: and it's been it's been a minute since we've had

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Speaker 2: that kind of greatness on both of these teams. How

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Speaker 2: much are you taking stock in this game tonight.

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Speaker 9: It's a huge team. I think anytime you have them

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Speaker 9: going up against the contending team. Again, like I said,

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Speaker 9: when they went up against the Nugget, that was a

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Speaker 9: big barometer test for them. This is a team that

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Speaker 9: has beating them in the postseason the past two years.

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Speaker 9: Now you go up against the Celtics team, the defending champions,

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Speaker 9: the number two seeds in the East, if they're a contender,

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Speaker 9: and again it's not gonna be an easy matchup, of course.

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Speaker 9: I mean they're going to Boston, they're they're they're not.

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Speaker 5: Favored to win.

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Speaker 9: But I want to see how they're going to perform

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Speaker 9: tonight and if they win, and and like even if

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Speaker 9: it's a close game, these are the kind of barometer

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Speaker 9: tests where we see are they truly a contending team.

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Speaker 9: But to your point later Celtics, that is the league's dream.

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Speaker 9: No disrespect to the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Cleveland Tavaliers.

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Speaker 9: For the number one season, the league is hoping that

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Speaker 9: the number two seeds from the East of the West,

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Speaker 9: they meet up in the finals this year.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about it, but that's I have some

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Speaker 4: thoughts for us about why we're spending so much time

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Speaker 4: on these guys.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I agree, So okay a rash.

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Speaker 2: You're around this team a lot, take us into that

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Speaker 2: locker room, and I mean we see the chemistry on

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Speaker 2: the court and in the social media videos the Lakers

708
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: keep posting, but it just feels like there's a really

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00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 2: deep respect and understanding between Lebron and Luca. And is

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Speaker 2: that the case when you're seeing it up close every

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Speaker 2: single day?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? And I think the great thing is because of

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Speaker 9: social media, like you're really brought into the locker room

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Speaker 9: when even the reporters are up there. So when Luca

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Speaker 9: gets a birthday cake and when JJ Reddick Esaki to

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Speaker 9: the team, I mean, there's a different vibe around this group.

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Speaker 9: But even if you kind of do one of these

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Speaker 9: deep guys, if you have some time and you go

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Speaker 9: on YouTube. When Luca was on JJ's podcast, the connection

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Speaker 9: that they had when Lebron was talking about Luca before

721
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Speaker 9: the they were like teammates, Like there is a bomb there.

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Speaker 9: There's a connection there that I don't think we thought

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Speaker 9: would happen this quickly. When the trade was made, it's like,

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Speaker 9: well maybe, but it'll take time. There was a lot

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Speaker 9: of question marks. The fact that they've become the hottest

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Speaker 9: team in the league, and to your point, the best

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Speaker 9: team in the league is January fifteenth. It's surprising, but

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Speaker 9: when you go into that locker room and when you

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Speaker 9: talk to the guys, I don't know how it happened

730
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 9: so quickly, but there's a bomb that's been formed. And again,

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Speaker 9: this road trip's going to be really key. I mean,

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Speaker 9: if they can find a way to win tonight at

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Speaker 9: Boston Playoff Atmosphere and all that stuff, I mean, you're

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Speaker 9: really gonna see, you know, does this team go on

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Speaker 9: a run and they're already on an amazing run currently.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now we talk a lot about Lebron and Luca, but like,

738
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Speaker 2: how much credit do you have to give JJ Reddick

739
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Speaker 2: right now to all of this too, especially since he

740
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Speaker 2: has that history in that connection and that friendship with

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Speaker 2: Luca from when they played together.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's the buy in that's been so

743
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 9: amazing with these guys. They really trust JJ. He is

744
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 9: a psychopath. He does homework. I saw him at the

745
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 9: usc Uli and he's watching game film while he's at

746
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 9: that game. Just they know that this guy knows what

747
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 9: he's talking about and the biggest testament to him is

748
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 9: they're playing defense. And in twenty twenty five in the NBA,

749
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Speaker 9: certainly if you watch the Sun and gave me a say,

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00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 9: there's no defense now, the Lakers every night are playing defense,

751
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 9: which is why they're in the position today are right now.

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to watch. I'm excited for tonight, a Rash.

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00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us. Happy birthday weekend.

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00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: I hope you have an amazing time tonight. All right,

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Speaker 2: thank you, and we come back. It is the dues

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00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 2: and the don'ts in sports. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: with Carmen Vitali. We are broadcasting live from the tartak

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Speaker 2: Com Studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon at carme and me, and it is time

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

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 8: I love that putting a spotlight on the.

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Speaker 2: Don't The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 5: Don't do that.

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00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: That's insane.

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Speaker 1: Next time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I go, I gotta do in a don't That

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00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: kind of goes both ways. Do confront people, but don't

771
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: do it publicly. This week went viral. Lebron James confronted

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: Stephen a while he was courtside at the Lakers next game,

773
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: and it looked like he said something along the lines

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00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: of like, keep my son's name business out of your mouth,

775
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: something along, though Stephen addressed it on a show the

776
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 2: next morning, saying that that was a father and a parent,

777
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 2: not a basketball player confronting me. And this is hard

778
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 2: because I understand kind of both sides of this. It's

779
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: our job in the media to talk about players, and

780
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: when you are the son of one of the greatest

781
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: of all time, you're going to get a lot of

782
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 2: attention and expectation, and you're a criticism player. It comes

783
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 2: with the job. Now, do I think it's right sometimes

784
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 2: for these young, vulnerable athletes, No, it's not easy. It's hard,

785
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: but it's a part of the job. It's even for us.

786
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: We get picked apart daily being on TV or radio,

787
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: and even if you know things you're hearing are not true,

788
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: we're all human and something stick with you and it's

789
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 2: really hard and it's the negative part of our industry

790
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: and it sucks. And I understand how that could be

791
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: hard for a parent to see that. But your son

792
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 2: also chose this career and to be in this industry,

793
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 2: and this is what we do. People make a livelihood

794
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 2: commenting on what he's going to do in the league.

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00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of th where I understand both sides. Yeah,

796
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 4: but I also am like, you need to have a

797
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 4: little more self awareness.

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Speaker 1: Lebron.

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Speaker 4: You're a Lebron James, Lebron James, and your son is

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Speaker 4: also Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Yes, so you did that.

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00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 4: You did that, but he did that, y'all. Major's decisions,

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00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 4: y'all are grown.

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00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we're talking about it because it's his son,

805
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 3: but like his son is a grown man. Ronnie is

806
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 3: a grown man.

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00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: Yes, and he's not He's not a great player.

808
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 3: He's not a great comes with the territory you.

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's tough, Like I just I wouldn't

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00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: have done it that way confront people if you have

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00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 2: something to say, but like you will do it to

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00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: make a seat to also do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it in private too.

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Speaker 4: It's just like if you're going to give your energy

815
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 4: to that publicly, that kind of stuff publicly.

816
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: Like you would be exhausted.

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00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, I've got a I've got a do Actually, no,

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Speaker 3: it's do not. Don't do not.

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Speaker 4: Underestimate London Tipton. If you ever watched Sweetlight of the

820
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: Zach and Cody On has a channel. The actress Brenda

821
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 4: Song who played London, who was this princess princess kind

822
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 4: of like trust fund kid on the show.

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Speaker 3: I actually didn't watch a show. I know Brenda's from

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Speaker 3: a lot of other stuff.

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Speaker 2: But she's also dating Macully.

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Speaker 3: She was married to Macaulay married Yea.

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Speaker 2: That kid's great.

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Speaker 3: I love them. They're a great couple. Anyway, this week

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Speaker 3: she was on a podcast and it wasn't a sports

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Speaker 3: podcast by the way, guys, I loved it. It was

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Speaker 3: hilarious because.

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Speaker 4: Clearly the host didn't even know what he was asking her,

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Speaker 4: and he was just given the given the I don't

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Speaker 4: know direction. He asked her about the Los Angeles Rams.

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Speaker 4: Turns out, my.

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Speaker 2: Girl, those ball dude she does.

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Speaker 4: She went on a rant about how the ram's biggest

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Speaker 4: issue and why they couldn't stop Saquon Barkley and the

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles in the playoffs is because they lack a

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Speaker 4: run stopper and she's dead on.

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Speaker 2: It's true that she was great.

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Speaker 4: She went on a whole rant, you guys to check

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00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 4: it out. It's been all over social media. But don't underestimate,

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Speaker 4: you know, just looks can be deceiving, guys. She played

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Speaker 4: a princess on you know, on television, like a trust

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Speaker 4: fund princess.

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Speaker 3: Turns out, yeah, she'll take the suprin ball nower.

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Speaker 4: I saw somebody say it was a meme, like most

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Speaker 4: surprising ball knower since Timothy Shallamay, and I'm like.

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love that.

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Speaker 3: Go Brenda, go Brenda.

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Speaker 2: Okay, do get your Dodgers tickets and swag early. The

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00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: Dodgers are kicking off their season in Tokyo, Japan very soon,

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Speaker 2: and they have three of their superstars on the team

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Speaker 2: that are from Japan, Yoheyatani, Yeshinobu Yamamoto, and ro Kasasaki.

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Speaker 2: Ticket prices for that Tokyo series, you guys, right now,

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Speaker 2: starting at fourteen hundred dollars and go up to twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Madness. Dodgers also dropped a jersey collab with

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Speaker 2: You're a Kami. Yesterday for the Tokyo series, over one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand fans downloaded the Fanatics app just to be

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Speaker 2: able to have a chance to get the drop. There

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Speaker 2: were fans lined up twenty four hours before their La

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Speaker 2: pop up yesterday. Lines wrapped around the street with over

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Speaker 2: four thousand people twenty four hours before the story even open.

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Speaker 2: They sold out immediately. But just like this is going

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Speaker 2: to be pandemonia, like insane of.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of thing that have gone for a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: I just saw it and do share the well. Adriane

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Speaker 4: watching Kowski, Yes, quoat, Yes, all this credentials.

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Speaker 3: The auction to walk made a bunch of money for

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Speaker 3: charity was great.

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Speaker 2: Oh we love that. Hour two coming up next day're

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Speaker 2: listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Hour two of Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with carme and me. Happy NFL Free Agency Frenzy.

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Speaker 2: Last hour we talked about kind of who got locked

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Speaker 2: up the Gino Smith and Vegas trade. This hour we'll

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Speaker 2: get into too some other big names where we think

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Speaker 2: they'll land some other trades. We're also like Carmen and

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Speaker 2: I just realized, like we're like a week and a half,

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Speaker 2: two weeks away from March Madness.

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Speaker 4: Starting well week tomorrow is selection Sunday?

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Lakers also in Boston tonight? Is that a finals preview?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Also on their way to the East Coast. I love this.

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Speaker 2: A bunch of the Lakers players shared their favorite like

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Speaker 2: long flight movie selections. First one off, Gabe, Harry Potter,

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Speaker 2: Lebron Godfather too. What would be your go to like

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Speaker 2: long flight movie selection?

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's always Harry Potter when I like when I

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Speaker 4: do long hauls.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I even asked. That's your sleeping

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Speaker 2: comfort movie?

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Speaker 3: It's my Yeah, exactly like it'll it'll put me to sleep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Also, actually, weirdly enough, Me and Girls is a plane

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Speaker 4: movie for me?

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Speaker 2: My plane movie every single time, crazy rich Asians. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that is my go to.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say that's like I just saw a

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Speaker 4: meme where it was like, what's the perfect plane movie?

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Speaker 4: And why is it crazy rich Asians?

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's every single time you get excited because she's going

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Speaker 2: somewhere new and she's on a plane and it's like

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Speaker 2: so new and exciting that you kind of get that

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Speaker 2: same exciting.

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Speaker 3: It's a very shared experience, according to the memes.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea why it happened, but it is

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Speaker 2: every single time I am on a plane and if

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Speaker 2: I don't have some thing like queued up, that's what

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Speaker 2: I'm watching.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I always look through the movie section to

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Speaker 4: see if there's something.

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Speaker 3: That like I wanted to see but I didn't.

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Speaker 4: Want to like make the investment to go see it

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Speaker 4: in a theater, yes, or like and I haven't seen

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Speaker 4: on streaming, yes, Like that's how I've seen. Like actually

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Speaker 4: that's how I saw Ady for Brady, which actually turned

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Speaker 4: out to be a really cute movie. Uh that with

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Speaker 4: like because they had all like you know, changed Honda

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Speaker 4: and like what just legends in it and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I love all of these actresses and like the whole

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Speaker 4: concept is funny.

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Speaker 3: Uh, And it was.

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Speaker 4: It was a great plane movie. Like would I have

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Speaker 4: gone to a theater to see that? Probably not as

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Speaker 4: much as we love Tom Yes, but I like that

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Speaker 4: wouldn't have been something that I would have invested or

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Speaker 4: paid money to go see and now I'm like, well,

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Speaker 4: but if I've.

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Speaker 2: Got nothing else to do, why not load them up?

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I'm usually working on planes too.

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Speaker 4: But if it's a long haul flight, long flight, hall flight,

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Speaker 4: it's all Harry Potter all.

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Speaker 2: Put in like three to four movies, all back to

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Speaker 2: back to back to back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but like even then, sometimes you're you're not told

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just know you just all right, let's we're

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Speaker 2: off today, but let's get back to the NFL because

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Speaker 2: a lot of movement happening this week, and my first question,

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Speaker 2: are the forty nine ers offloading right now? Because they

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Speaker 2: traded Deebo Samuel to the Commanders this week basically kind

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Speaker 2: of dumped his contract for a fifth round.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was a salary dump. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And chef to reported this week they're also open to

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Speaker 2: trading Brannan Ayuk or just about anybody. So do they

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Speaker 2: know that they're Super Bowl window with this group is

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Speaker 2: now over? And are they just trying to make room

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Speaker 2: for Rock Parties contract because that's the going to come

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Speaker 2: up too.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's Brock Parties contract to think of. Again,

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Speaker 4: the forty nine ers are getting old.

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Speaker 2: They all were, I mean they all like they had

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Speaker 2: two they had a two. Every one of their top

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Speaker 2: players had two years left on their contract.

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Speaker 4: And then they're just like and you look at their

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Speaker 4: current the way their current cap is set up, and

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Speaker 4: you have guys like Trent Williams, who just signed the

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Speaker 4: three year revised deal right before this season. He's hitting

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Speaker 4: the cap this year for twenty one million dollars. What

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Speaker 4: I haven't heard enough about. Yeah, And this is where

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Speaker 4: I think I'll know what the forty nine ers think

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Speaker 4: of themselves.

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Speaker 3: Is George Kittle.

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Speaker 4: He's entering the last year of his deal and he's

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Speaker 4: scheduled to hit the cap for about twenty two million dollars,

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Speaker 4: which is insane for a tight end McCaffrey.

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Speaker 2: And the second like the last year of his extension too.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the last year, but he's

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Speaker 4: he's hitting the cap for like nine million, which is

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Speaker 4: pretty standard for your number one running back, especially given

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Speaker 4: who m Chris McCaffrey can be if he's healthy.

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Speaker 3: We don't know he was tough.

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Speaker 4: But it'll be interesting to see what the forty nine

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Speaker 4: ers do with George Kittle, because I mean, I know

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Speaker 4: everybody wants him to retire a Niner, and that's all.

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Speaker 3: That's a whole thing.

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Speaker 2: But so when they say they're open to trading just

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Speaker 2: about anybody, do you think he's on there.

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Speaker 4: If they release or trade him post June first. This

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Speaker 4: can't This is not part of the free agency. This

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Speaker 4: is not the cycle right now. You can also designate

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Speaker 4: him as a post June one trade and trade him

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Speaker 4: before that. Okay, if they release or trade him post

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Speaker 4: June first, they would save fifteen million dollars off the cap,

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Speaker 4: and for a guy that's in his thirties.

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Speaker 3: Although, like I said, George Kittle was on one this

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Speaker 3: last year.

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Speaker 4: He especially yes and has become just like a maniac

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Speaker 4: of the blocking game.

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Speaker 2: But he's also a leader. You could tell in that

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Speaker 2: locker room. He is like the heart and soul and

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Speaker 2: like personality that brings everybody together on that team.

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Speaker 4: I know that Niners fans want him to retire a Niner,

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Speaker 4: and I want that for George Kittle too, honestly, for

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Speaker 4: what he's meant to that franchise. But this is the

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Speaker 4: reality of the situation where you need to figure out

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Speaker 4: what you think you're actually capable of if you're San Francisco,

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Speaker 4: and I think that we're going to get that answer

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Speaker 4: with do they extend George Kittle because they can, or

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Speaker 4: do they doing something June again? You can again, you

1046
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Speaker 4: can do something now and then just designate him as

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Speaker 4: a post June one trade once the new league year starts.

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Speaker 4: So that has to that has to happen the the

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Speaker 4: new league year starts.

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Speaker 2: March twelfth, and that's what the Bears what what about

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Speaker 2: the trades?

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Speaker 4: All of the trades that have happened cannot go through

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Speaker 4: until the new new league year starts. And the Bears,

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Speaker 4: we also haven't talked about that either because it's not

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Speaker 4: sexy and I and I'm I've made my career over trying.

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Speaker 3: To make the big sexies sexy. On the national scale,

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Speaker 3: the Bears traded for two Pro Bowl yards.

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Speaker 2: It's huge though, because that's exactly what Caleb Williams needed.

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Speaker 3: And it's not something that the Bears have done. Like

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Speaker 3: we have been begging.

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Speaker 4: Chicago has been begging the Bears, and we thought that

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Speaker 4: Ryan Pol's coming in instantaneously being a former offensive lineman

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Speaker 4: himself was going to mean that you were going to

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Speaker 4: solidify the line.

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Speaker 3: That has not happened yet.

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Speaker 4: No, and so now they're like Ben Johnson comes in

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Speaker 4: and he's like, you won't.

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Speaker 2: Making moves, and like with like big time Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 2: like two time All Pro guard Tony Jackson from the Rams, they're.

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Speaker 4: Getting up there in age. Joe Toney, however, played some

1071
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 4: really good football. He clearly had He has tackle flexibility.

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Speaker 4: As much as that didn't quite work out in the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl, having that flexibility is paramount when you're talking

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Speaker 4: about the offensive line. You're trying to keep as much

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Speaker 4: continuity as possible, but injuries are going to happen. Joe

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Speaker 4: Toney is also a tone setter, and that's the biggest

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Speaker 4: reason why I loved that move. Kansas City needed to

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Speaker 4: make some really tough choices, and after they franchise tagged

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Speaker 4: Trey Smith and had to pay him a bunch of money,

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Speaker 4: there was no way to really make that math work

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Speaker 4: with everybody else they needed to pay. So Joe Tuney

1082
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Speaker 4: was a salary cap kind of casualty for them, and.

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Speaker 2: Bear just had to give up a fourth round pick,

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Speaker 2: yes in twenty twenty six, Yeah, next year.

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Speaker 3: So that was a no brainer.

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Speaker 4: But they do have to take on the contract too.

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Speaker 4: So but the Bears have the money to do that,

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Speaker 4: and they're finally acting like it, which tells me that

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Speaker 4: they really Bears really do believe, and Ben Johnson really

1090
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Speaker 4: does believe that they can turn this team around quickly.

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Speaker 4: He said it at the combine when we were there.

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Speaker 4: He talked about how he does think it's possible to

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Speaker 4: remake the entire interior of an offensive line and after

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Speaker 4: and like say, in one off season, and I was like,

1095
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 4: guess that was a plan, not just a possibility, because

1096
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 4: he's already got two of the three spots and now

1097
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 4: you look at center. I think they have to get

1098
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 4: creative with that. I would like to see a veteran.

1099
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 2: Center an anybody of your eyes on, and you think

1100
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 2: they're going to go after.

1101
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 4: It's not a good free agent class for centers really,

1102
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 4: So that's why I say they have to get creative.

1103
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 3: I don't know who's like this is they have beauty of.

1104
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: Free agency at the tenth round or the tenth But

1105
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 2: like I'm.

1106
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 3: Saying, I want a veteran.

1107
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 4: I want a guy that's done it before, that can

1108
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 4: take work off of Caleb Williams plate, that can make

1109
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 4: the checks and the different pre snap decisions that can

1110
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 4: do for young players. Which is why I want a

1111
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 4: veteran to come in. And I've been saying that since

1112
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 4: they got Caleb Williams. That didn't quite work out this

1113
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 4: last year. This year, however, they're gonna have to get creative.

1114
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 4: And that's the beauty of free agency is you never

1115
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 4: really truly know who's available.

1116
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 2: Who do you want them to take? Then what position

1117
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: do you want them to go after?

1118
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 4: Which that takes the Joe Toney like the Jonah Jackson,

1119
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't want to undermine that either that

1120
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 4: that was a great pickup too. I really like Jonah Jackson.

1121
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson worked with him, and Detroit clearly liked him too.

1122
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 4: He was a cap casualty in Detroit, so that makes

1123
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 4: a lot of sense to me. But I think what

1124
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 4: the Joe Toney move did for the Bears was allow

1125
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 4: them more flexibility. I don't think it precludes them from

1126
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 4: taking another offensive line. I'm then with that tenth overall pick,

1127
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 4: So if someone that they like, if no one they

1128
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 4: really love falls to them at that position, now they

1129
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 4: don't have to take it.

1130
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 3: They can go defensive line. They can go pass rusher

1131
00:50:58,960 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 3: like I need.

1132
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 4: I need interior and edge rusher as on that defensive

1133
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 4: line for the Chicago Bears. They can go running back

1134
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 4: even we're seeing these running back stocks go way way up,

1135
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 4: and we know what Ben Johnson likes to do with

1136
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,720
Speaker 4: running backs. So Detroit Lions two years ago took Jamir

1137
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 4: Gives the twelfth overall pick and it worked out pretty

1138
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 4: darn well for them. So they already have DeAndrea Swift

1139
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 4: on the roster. The Chicago Bears do who Ben Johnson

1140
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 4: is familiar with. It doesn't look like they're going to

1141
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 4: do anything with him, and they're going to keep him

1142
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 4: on the roster because he's still under contract. I don't

1143
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 4: think Ben Johnson is satisfied with just DeAndre Swift, because

1144
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 4: if you also look at what he did in Detroit

1145
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 4: and what his offense was, what the base of his

1146
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 4: offense was was David Montgomery and Jamiir Gibbs. It wasn't

1147
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 4: just Jamir, and I think a lot of people thought

1148
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 4: that was a luxury pick for them to take Jamir

1149
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 4: that high and then to go out and sign David Montgomery.

1150
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 4: But it worked out and you kind of saw the

1151
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 4: vision and so not that the Bears offense is going

1152
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 4: to look exactly like Detroit's, but I do think that

1153
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 4: the run game, in particular, it all starts with the

1154
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 4: offensive line. With Ben Johnson, That's why I've loved him

1155
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 4: for years. He understands that he's a proponent of that.

1156
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 4: He gets fun and creative with offensive linemen. He goes

1157
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 4: into those jump up packages and he does all these

1158
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 4: really fun things. But his offenses rely on the run

1159
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 4: game and a very diverse run game, and in order

1160
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 4: to do that, DeAndre Swift can't do that alone. So

1161
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 4: I would love to see the Bears take I don't

1162
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 4: know that Ashton Genty will even be there at ten,

1163
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 4: but that would be kind of fun. I kind of

1164
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 4: expect them to go after a running back at some

1165
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 4: point in this draft, whether it's tenth at the tenth

1166
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 4: overall pick, that would be kind of rich. If it's

1167
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 4: not Ashton genty, But I don't know, go out and

1168
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 4: get my guy camp Scatabo in the third round from

1169
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 4: Arizona State Ball for you.

1170
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's it's like the landscape.

1171
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 4: Has now completely changed for Chicago. It's changed for a

1172
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 4: lot of different teams. To go back to the original

1173
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 4: point of the forty nine ers. I really I'm looking

1174
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 4: to see what they do with George Kittle, and I

1175
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 4: think that's gonna tell you everything you need to know about.

1176
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: Where rebuild, complete rebuild or are they just make in

1177
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 2: room for party or both? Right, Yeah, but he also

1178
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 2: needs weapons. He needs important like veteran weapons. It's all

1179
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 2: he's ever had. He's having the best of the best.

1180
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I wrote I wrote a whole article last

1181
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 4: week about like trade potential trade candidates, and.

1182
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,720
Speaker 2: Let's repost that. Yeah, to bring that up so everyone

1183
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 2: can like do a deep guy.

1184
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 4: Some some of it is kind of moot now, but

1185
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 4: I did talk about another guy who has been made

1186
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 4: available on the trading block dk Metcalf going to the Chargers.

1187
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 4: Oh and I did that before, Like that was even

1188
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 4: kind of like I think that marccle published last Tuesday.

1189
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 3: Okay, so it makes a lot of sense to me.

1190
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 2: It does make sense. I know there's a lot of

1191
00:53:54,080 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 2: like good offensive veteran players of DeVante Adams being another

1192
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 2: one of those wide receiver they have him. I mean

1193
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 2: he was said to make what thirty eight point two million? Yeah,

1194
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: it's a salary cab.

1195
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 4: I mean the Jets huh, yeah, they they they made

1196
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 4: sure they had an out.

1197
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to. And he checks in at NFL

1198
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 2: dot com did their top one hundred and one free

1199
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 2: agents the agency list, and he ranks it number ten.

1200
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,919
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of there's a lot of need

1201
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:29,760
Speaker 2: for wide receivers where like where could he land?

1202
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 8: Where?

1203
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 2: Who needs wide receivers? I had? Yeah, Patriots Packers? Would

1204
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 2: he go back to the Packers? Like have you have

1205
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 2: you been hearing anything there?

1206
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 5: Like?

1207
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean I know that he loved his time

1208
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 4: in Green Bay. I think it would be weird to

1209
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 4: go back there without Aaron and I That's what I'm

1210
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 4: curious to see, just from a personal standpoint, he's trying

1211
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 4: to go where Aaron goes.

1212
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, because he's also available, he's also looking.

1213
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 4: For any and he also knows that Aaron Rodgers is

1214
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 4: going to throw in the football. Yeah, Like and that's and

1215
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 4: that's like a system in and of itself. It's clearly

1216
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 4: not a entire offense, but like that's a leg up wherever.

1217
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 2: What franchise though, would take the package deal? Yeah, I'd

1218
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 2: want the package deal.

1219
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 3: That is, I don't know at this point. I like

1220
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 3: you thought Vegas he would go back. Yes, Steelers is

1221
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 3: an interesting one.

1222
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 2: They haven't like Giants yet. Giants have been Yeah, obviously

1223
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 2: the front runner for Aaron Rodgers.

1224
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 4: Right, and so like when they would need I mean

1225
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 4: having like they have a league neighbors, they have a

1226
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 4: league neighbors, but it would be he would have a

1227
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 4: veteran guy.

1228
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1229
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 4: I don't know if they they split up, if they don't,

1230
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 4: that's kind of one of the There's a lot of

1231
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 4: receivers that are available or should be available for free agency. Yeah,

1232
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,760
Speaker 4: And like DeVonta Adams was officially released, so like he's

1233
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,479
Speaker 4: he's all well and good, But then you talk about

1234
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 4: guys like dk Metcalf who haven't been but have been

1235
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 4: granted permission to seek a trade. Y Brandon, I you

1236
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 4: beingand like that's saying that he could potentially be on

1237
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 4: the trader well.

1238
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 2: Welling to trade.

1239
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 4: And then you have guys like Tyler Lockan who have

1240
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 4: already been released also that are older.

1241
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 3: But like if you just kind of need a guy

1242
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 3: to lead.

1243
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 2: That room, pick it up.

1244
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, it's gonna

1245
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 3: be very very interesting.

1246
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 2: There's a lot of quite.

1247
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 3: A few names that are floating around.

1248
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 2: Godwin, Chris Godwin. We still don't know because Tampa would

1249
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: love to keep and sign him. It's the only team

1250
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 2: he's known. Him and Mike Evans have been like one

1251
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 2: of the most productive. I thought it was very interesting,

1252
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 2: but like there could still be a chance that he

1253
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 2: wants What do you hear it's one of your teams?

1254
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 2: Are you hearing?

1255
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 3: Like if I have one team, okay, Bucks still okay,

1256
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 3: have my heart? They always work, So what do you hear?

1257
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 2: On the inside? The thing is are they going to

1258
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: try everything they can to try to know?

1259
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 4: The thing is that they I thought it was interesting

1260
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 4: how they locked up Lavonte David David instantaneously after Bobby

1261
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 4: Wagner signs his deal. Yes, so if you don't know,

1262
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 4: Bobby Wagner and Levonte David are like neck and neck

1263
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 4: as far as how much like they're their stats and

1264
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 4: like what kind of player they are, and everybody kind

1265
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 4: of compares them against each other to see, like which

1266
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 4: one is gonna go in the Hall of Fame or

1267
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 4: they're both going to go on the Hall of Fame.

1268
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 4: YadA YadA, YadA. Yeah. Literally, as soon as the Bobby

1269
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 4: Wagner deal breaks, it's like Bucks are bringing back Levonte

1270
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 4: David too, And it's like, you know that he was

1271
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 4: waiting to see what Bobby Wagner was going to get

1272
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 4: and compare off of that.

1273
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 3: Also, Leavante was.

1274
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 4: Very much considering retirement, so it was like is he

1275
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 4: is he not? Like it wasn't a question of if

1276
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 4: they were going to bring him back, it was how

1277
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 4: much and is he or is he going to retire?

1278
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, And since.

1279
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 4: He didn't and they now know that number, that clears

1280
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 4: the way to figure out Chris Godwin's contract. Now, I

1281
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,959
Speaker 4: think Levante was the first one. I think that they're

1282
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 4: still working on Chris Godwin. They do want to keep him.

1283
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: They need to.

1284
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 3: They they honestly.

1285
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 4: They draft so well, Okay, they have a lot of

1286
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 4: young talent on that roster and it now kind of

1287
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 4: goes through the run game.

1288
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 3: Although now that Liam.

1289
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 4: Cohen is no longer there and he's the head coach

1290
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 4: of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they promoted from within and

1291
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 4: so they grizz So keeping this should I was gonna say,

1292
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 4: the system should be not exactly the same, but it

1293
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 4: should be very similar in that it goes to the

1294
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 4: one game family. So you still have Mike Evans, Uh,

1295
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 4: you have guys like Jayalen McMillan, Trey Palmer, like some

1296
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 4: of these younger receivers that haven't made household names for

1297
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 4: themselves but are still very very productive for them. Kate

1298
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 4: atten At at the tight end position, durm Pain I

1299
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 4: believe also, So like there's there's there's still a lot

1300
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 4: of talent, and then you have that wonderful offensive line

1301
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 4: still in in Tampa. So like, do they absolutely need

1302
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 4: to keep Chris No?

1303
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 2: But also like for him, like if he walks, where

1304
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 2: are you gonna go?

1305
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 4: Like all right, the issue is that he's coming off

1306
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 4: of another injury, so he has the like it was.

1307
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 4: It was heartbreaking this year because this season you finally

1308
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 4: felt like he had gotten over the ACL injury from

1309
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:58,479
Speaker 4: two seasons ago, and like last season, the season before

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Speaker 4: this one, like he wasn't quite him and you're like,

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00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 4: is this just who Chris is as a player? Now

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00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 4: that's not the case, because this last season he was incredible.

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00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 4: He was back to the Chris Godwin that we had

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Speaker 4: kind of gotten to know in those Super Bowl years

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00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 4: and all of that kind of stuff, And so it

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00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 4: was heartbreaking to see him then suffer another injury. Yea,

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00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 4: Now it's not as serious of an injury as the

1318
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 4: ACL was. It knocked him out of the last part

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00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 4: of the season and the playoffs, but can he come

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00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 4: back and be more like the guy he was at

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00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 4: the beginning of last season than whatever? So that's what

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00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 4: you have to bank on. The Bucks are going to

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00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 4: be the team that's going to give him the most grace. Yeah,

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00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 4: So do you want to stick with that if you're

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00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 4: Chris and maybe you don't take the most money you

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Speaker 4: can get because you're comfortable there and you know that

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00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 4: they're going to give you some leeway.

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Speaker 2: When you've seen that it can work. You've seen the

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00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 2: system work, and you know that it works with Baker.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the two teams that have been like kind

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00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 2: of Chris loves Baker exactly. So the two teams that

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Speaker 2: have been rumored that would like go hard are Patriots

1333
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 2: and Broncos. Patriots they still there's still not a win

1334
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 2: now team, Like they're still rebuilding.

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01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 3: They're getting there.

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01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 4: I really think Vrabel is going to change that entire

1337
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 4: team very quickly.

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01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 2: That will help Broncos also getting there. Bonux is only

1339
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 2: going to get better with Sean Payton as a head

1340
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 2: coach and could be a good situation for him. So

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Speaker 2: it's just it would.

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Speaker 4: Be and I mean Chris has gone against Sean Payton's

1343
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 4: Saints for years and years and years as part of

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01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 4: his career, so they are familiar. But again, I think

1345
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 4: that when you're coming off of an injury and you're

1346
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 4: looking at all, right, which team is going to give

1347
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 4: me the most grace, It's going to be the takeaway Buccaneers.

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01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 4: It's going to be the team that you've spent your

1349
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 4: entire career with. And I know that Bucks fans again

1350
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 4: want Chris Godwin to stay a Buck. It's just a

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01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 4: matter of I do think that that the conversations and

1352
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 4: the negotiations and all that have obviously ramped up a

1353
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 4: because you've got a deadline with the new league year

1354
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 4: starting next week. And you also know now have gotten

1355
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 4: all of like got the Lavante David stuff out of

1356
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 4: the way. Yeah, you can now focus solely on that,

1357
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 4: you know, one thing at a time, the bucks boshead

1358
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Speaker 4: of time.

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Speaker 2: All right, we went a little long here. We're going

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Speaker 2: to take a quick break here when we come back,

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Speaker 2: whom I continue this free agency conversation before we get

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Speaker 2: to our next guest. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: with Carmen Vitale, coming to you live from the Tart

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Speaker 2: dot com studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending

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Speaker 2: your Saturday afternoon with Carmeie and me. If you missed

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Speaker 4: the show is over.

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01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're else.

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Speaker 4: Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 4: I get them on Spotify, you get them on Apple

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01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 4: wherever wherever.

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Speaker 2: You get from Spotify. Person too, it plays twenty four

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Speaker 2: seven and they.

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Speaker 4: Were they were a thing before Apple Music. Wise, I

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01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 4: was not about to learn a whole new thing. So

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01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 4: like I'm stuck. I've written with Spotify.

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01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 3: My whole right, like this whole time.

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Speaker 2: Also since the napsterday. You no, g dang no. My

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01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 2: husband's a musician, so we have like the musician like

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Speaker 2: profile of it. I don't know what that means, but okay,

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Speaker 2: it's sure.

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Speaker 4: Well it helps if you have any version of Spotify

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01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 4: or Apple Music or anything.

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Speaker 3: Just starts. Fox Sports Radio will have a podcasts that

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01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 3: for you right after we're off the air.

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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's check in with Martin Wise and

1394
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Speaker 2: see what's trendy.

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Speaker 7: NFL's re signings Mike the Seki He's agreed to a

1396
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 7: three year deal to stay in Cincinnati, and the Kansaity

1397
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 7: Chiefs have agreed to a deal with Hollywood Brown for

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Speaker 7: a one year contract for the next year. Sixth th

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Speaker 7: ringth at Saint John's be twentieth ranth to Marquette eighty

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Speaker 7: six to eighty four, and overtime nineteenthree Kentucky a Victoria's

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Speaker 7: over fifteenthrank Missouri ninety one to eighty three in Arkansas

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01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 7: be twenty fifth rank Misssippi State ninety three to ninety

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Speaker 7: two earlier today in overtime, this one just wrapped up.

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01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 7: Mark Sears at the buzzer for seventh rank Alabama to

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01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 7: beat number one ranked Auburn at home ninety.

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Speaker 6: Three to ninety one.

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Speaker 7: Auburn was the home town there, so they end up

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Speaker 7: getting upset at the crib. Tennessee victorious over South Carolina.

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01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 7: Thirteenth Maryland beat Northwestern seventy four to sixty one.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm wearing my Northwestern basketball t shirt.

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Speaker 6: To the hut for a couple of good years, a

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Speaker 6: couple of years ago. Yeah, good West, A couple of

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Speaker 6: years ago, A couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Ago, A couple of good years, a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 6: Don't listen when I say the LSU score either. It's

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Speaker 6: been a tough day in your house over there. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: tenth thrank.

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Speaker 4: I don't care about the men's, just give me women's.

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Speaker 4: Did the women win that's all I care.

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Speaker 6: I got you, I got you real quick. Let's see

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Speaker 6: these basketball I haven't played yet. They play in about

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Speaker 6: an hour and a half. One Yeah, USC winners basketball.

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Speaker 2: All right, that just sounded I looked up and that

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Speaker 2: was yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 7: They'd beat Michigan eighty two to two. Seventy see twenty

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01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 7: eight and two on the year. Let's go the Trojans

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Speaker 7: women's basketball. Twelfth ranked Wisconsin men's lost to Penn State

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Speaker 7: eighty six.

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Speaker 6: To seventy five.

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Speaker 7: Louisville beat Stanford by twenty sixty eight to forty eight.

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Speaker 6: Kentucky over Missouri. I already said that one, and you

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Speaker 6: know what. Back to you guys. Thanks rereading myself.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, all right. You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday

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01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 2: Amlex Court here with Carmen Vitali. We are broadcasting live

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Speaker 2: from the Tart dot Com studios in Los Angeles. It

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Speaker 2: is time for our next guest. He is a host,

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Speaker 2: he is NFL dot com writer, he's a football analyst,

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01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 2: and he is our friend, Nick Shu.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining the show.

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Speaker 4: Ooh love a little more say I collect former offensive line?

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Speaker 2: Those are those are your people?

1443
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 3: Those are my guy's carreer out.

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01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 5: Get along. We get along even through the.

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Speaker 1: Friend Look, yeah, yeah, we're doing great.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you were actually the first person before Carmen became

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01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,919
Speaker 2: my co host that we were talking about this being

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01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 2: a possibility. You were with us at that Super Bowl.

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01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you were the friend that heard about this

1450
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 2: before it actually happened, before like.

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Speaker 3: Ice came up, right, yea, yeah, you.

1452
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 4: Never remember what happens at those hotel bars at the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Existence we did, okay, Nick? Another quarterback Domino fell yesterday,

1455
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 2: Gino Smith to Vegas for a third round pick in

1456
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:30,720
Speaker 2: this year's draft. I saw your article right when it broke.

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this trade?

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01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 5: Well, it came out of left field. First off, shocked

1459
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 5: me in the end of a Friday evening, But that's

1460
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 5: that Friday news thump. I had two reactions. One, Okay,

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01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 5: Pete Carroll gets Gina. The Raiders have a stable solution

1462
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Speaker 5: for right now, even though it's not a long term.

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01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 5: And two, I think Sam Darnold's deaftined for Seattle. If

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Speaker 5: that's the case, why would they make this move unless

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Speaker 5: they had a plan up their sleeves to find a replacement.

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Speaker 5: Because this is a team that's on the verge of

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Speaker 5: the playoffs. Thede the playoffs a couple years ago. They

1468
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 5: finished just painfully short in the last two years, and

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01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 5: they have a new coach, but it felt like when

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01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 5: the trade, you know, news came down that they wanted

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01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 5: to turn over a new leaf they needed the Gino

1472
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 5: wasn't extremely long for them, and he also a little

1473
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 5: bit inconsistent down the stretch contributed to some of the

1474
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Speaker 5: losses and why they missed the playoffs. Not a knock

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Speaker 5: on him, because he's been you know, very good, above

1476
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 5: well of expectation with the Seahawks, but yeah, I thought, okay, well,

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Speaker 5: that creates a new opening, and that's going to make

1478
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 5: things even more interesting, and it also solves the raiders

1479
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 5: you know, exhaustive search for an immediate answer quarterback. And

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Speaker 5: I still think they could draft one too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think the surprising part about this to me was like,

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Speaker 4: are you really going to upgrade from Gino for the

1484
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 4: long term right now? So that's kind of my question

1485
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:46,959
Speaker 4: is if Seattle isn't trying to rebuild at this point

1486
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Speaker 4: and they do believe that they're that close, because they

1487
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 4: have been that close the last couple of seasons and

1488
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 4: you've got your defense under Mike McDonald and all this

1489
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 4: other stuff. Do they then, if they do end up

1490
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 4: with Sam Darnold, do they think that he's the long

1491
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 4: term solution here? And I don't know the answer to

1492
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:01,479
Speaker 4: their question, what do you think?

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01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 5: I think the contract tells you that answer. And I

1494
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 5: think that based on the position, I mean, it's obvious, right,

1495
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,120
Speaker 5: so you know, don't want to stay at the obvious,

1496
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 5: but it is obvious. But I think the position in

1497
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 5: which Sam finds himself after the way that Susan ended

1498
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 5: also speaks a lot to how teams are going to

1499
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 5: go about pursuing him. I don't think he gets the

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01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 5: multi year lucrative deal. Maybe it takes a couple of

1501
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 5: years on a deal to convince him to sign, but

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Speaker 5: I think it's Seattle's pitching it to him. They're like, look,

1503
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 5: starting opportunity right here, right now, with a team that's

1504
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 5: you know, essentially a playoff contender, why not come over here?

1505
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 5: And so yeah, let's say like he gets two years

1506
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 5: sixty five, sixty five, seventy five, and they get to

1507
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 5: test it out and they frontload that contract, or they

1508
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 5: at least like give them an out after year if

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01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 5: it's a complete disaster and it's a bit of a

1510
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 5: trial with you know, lower risk in higher potential upside

1511
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 5: and you know it goes one of two ways. We've

1512
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 5: seen teams make much more drastic moves of the position

1513
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 5: than that. So it makes a lot of sense. We'll

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01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 5: see though, because all that stuff gets going, you know,

1515
01:07:59,040 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 5: tomorrow essentially.

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01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's still twenty seven years old, so like

1517
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 2: not old, not young, but he's kind of in that

1518
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 2: like Tweeter spots.

1519
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 4: The biggest thing with Sam Donald is, all right, Clint

1520
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 4: Kubiak is now the offensive coordinator in Seattle, So is

1521
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 4: he going to be Is that system going to get

1522
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 4: the same out of him as Kevin O'Connell's system.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a big question because Kevin O'Connell earned a

1524
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 5: ton of you know, deserved praise for the work that

1525
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 5: he did.

1526
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 6: With Sam Donald.

1527
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 5: I think the Viking's gonna be good spot, but it's

1528
01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 5: a it's a big question mark in Seattle where you know,

1529
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 5: offensively they simply weren't good enough last year and you

1530
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 5: can't bank on Sam coming in and being you know, spectacular.

1531
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 5: But if he can be the guy that he was

1532
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 5: for most of the season, and that was a guy

1533
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 5: who was calm under pressure, who usually had some time

1534
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 5: to throw, played in a balanced offense, had weapons at receiver. Seattle,

1535
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 5: by the way, I don't know about receiver. I was

1536
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 5: going to say, question that Tray Jackie Smith and Jigba

1537
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 5: is suddenly the most important guy at this company. And

1538
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 5: so I think that makes a little bit les attracted.

1539
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 5: But again, a starting opportunity for a team that has

1540
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 5: slurred with the playoffs the last couple years and made

1541
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 5: it a few years ago and looks to be, you know,

1542
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 5: on the rise. I don't know how you turn that

1543
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:09,719
Speaker 5: down if you're.

1544
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 2: Saying there's a handful of quarterbacks on the market right now.

1545
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:18,639
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is another obviously big name. He's he's getting

1546
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:22,679
Speaker 2: up there. Now where do you think he lands? Does

1547
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 2: he learn if he's still a plant up there?

1548
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,559
Speaker 5: Yeah? So, when when the news came down, this was

1549
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 5: just the hours for the Super Bowl, I'm sitting in

1550
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 5: the super Dome and that they're going to move on

1551
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 5: from him, you know, I decided to put out some

1552
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 5: landing spots and the second on my list was the

1553
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 5: New York Giants, And would it be hilarious that Aaron

1554
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 5: just has to take this stuff from one side of

1555
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 5: MetLife Stadium to the other side of MetLife Stadium and

1556
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,599
Speaker 5: just trade green and white for you know, red and blue.

1557
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 5: That would be hilarious. But if there's anybody who's built

1558
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 5: who's essentially impervious to the New York media, it's Aaron Rodgers,

1559
01:09:56,360 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 5: who has his own I don't know of a player. Yeah,

1560
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 5: and I think that like Brian Davil had this moment

1561
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 5: late in the season when Drew Locke had his career

1562
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 5: best game against the Colts and they win in a shootout,

1563
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 5: where he told reporters after the game, you know, yeah,

1564
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 5: this is possible. Is he a good quarterback? Play almost like,

1565
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 5: you know, a bit of a nod to the front office, like, Hey,

1566
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:18,479
Speaker 5: give me somebody who's actually worth something that I can

1567
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 5: work with here and stop putting all the pressure on

1568
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 5: me in my job. I think Rogers would do that.

1569
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 5: It's just that you also know the baggage that comes

1570
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 5: with it and his age. So it's a short term solution,

1571
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 5: but they're not quite in a position to find a

1572
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 5: long term solution as it stands right now. So that's

1573
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 5: my first match with him, and now the Raiders job

1574
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 5: is solved, it feels like the best option for him.

1575
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean you also have to take into

1576
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 4: account too, though, that Joe Shane and Brian dabl are

1577
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 4: coaching with our jobs and is Aaron Rodgers going to

1578
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 4: be the one to save your job when he just

1579
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 4: got his last head coach fired and all of that

1580
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 4: baggage like you're talking about. But I want to talk

1581
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 4: about this free agency quarterback is like the best example

1582
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 4: of how much the draft and the strengths in this

1583
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 4: draft kind of mirror what you need done in free

1584
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 4: agency and how these kind of two work together.

1585
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 3: Nick, you were at the combine all week, you were

1586
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 3: at drills in.

1587
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 4: Lucas Oil for all of them, and you look at

1588
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 4: obviously Shuder Sanders didn't throw, cam Woard didn't work out.

1589
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 3: I don't believe.

1590
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 4: So when you look at the quarterback situation, is there

1591
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 4: anybody that we're not giving enough credence to when we

1592
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 4: talk about this class and saying, oh, it's a down

1593
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 4: quarterback class for this draft class, you.

1594
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 3: Should probably solve your quarterback issues in free agency.

1595
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 5: If you can't know, I honestly, this is going to

1596
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 5: sound hyperbolic. Okay, okay, but this is my seventh or

1597
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 5: eighth combine. I've been in the stadium for pretty much

1598
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 5: all of them and watched the drills every year. I've

1599
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 5: never felt more dejected and sad than I did watch

1600
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 5: these quarterbacks and receivers for four on Saturday. The most

1601
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 5: consistent guy out there was Brady Cooks from Missouri, who

1602
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:53,919
Speaker 5: had some injuries in his final year with the Tigers.

1603
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 5: And you know, Quinn youwers underwhelmed. Will Howard was probably

1604
01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 5: the worst one out there. Unfortunately, Jackson dark I didn't

1605
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,839
Speaker 5: put together a complete performance, but I think he improved

1606
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 5: his stock a little bit. I was very excited to

1607
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 5: watch him throw, and I wasn't quite you know, blown

1608
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 5: away or anything like I was at CJ. Stroudsborg out

1609
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 5: but that was a special one. So nobody really did much.

1610
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 5: Some guys were good in some areas and bad and others.

1611
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 5: Jalan Norro is great on deep passes, little inconsistent in

1612
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 5: the intermediate throws. So no nobody did anything to help

1613
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 5: their stock. And I think, if anything, had justified what

1614
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 5: we all thought about this quarterback class, which is that

1615
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 5: there's one guy who is clearly the best one in

1616
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 5: a scam ward and some people are going to get

1617
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 5: intreat by Shador in the first round and then after

1618
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 5: that we see where the chips fall and maybe the

1619
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 5: next half the board is dart and that option really

1620
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 5: isn't there for the teams that are looking to solve

1621
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 5: their problem with one pick.

1622
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 2: Okay, so questions about Shador Sanders because there have been

1623
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,559
Speaker 2: some negative reports coming out since combined that he was

1624
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 2: reportedly called arrogant and brash, and they don't think that

1625
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 2: he's a first round draft pick. What are you hearing?

1626
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 2: What did you see and where do you actually realistically

1627
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 2: see him going?

1628
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't know. You know, neither him

1629
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,639
Speaker 5: or Cam, you know, participated in any of the field stuff.

1630
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 5: And yet there was this like consensus opinion when everybody

1631
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 5: left in Danapolis that Cam had actually separated himself from Sor.

1632
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:12,600
Speaker 5: And the only way that you do it is the

1633
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 5: sad Or did something to kind of tank a stock

1634
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:15,799
Speaker 5: er at least drop.

1635
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 6: It a little bit.

1636
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 5: But the thing is is I could understand why he

1637
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 5: would be perceived that way. You know, the NFL is

1638
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 5: an ego driven business, right, and you walk into a

1639
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 5: room with a lot of powerful.

1640
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 2: It's kind of the family exactly.

1641
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you walk in the room with a lot

1642
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 5: of powerful people and you don't kiss the ring. Maybe

1643
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 5: that's been wrong, you know people the wrong way. But

1644
01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 5: I'll tell you guys this. I was taken by him,

1645
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 5: like very quickly in his prep conference, and I'm hard

1646
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 5: to convince.

1647
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick, and I've had this conversation, so I'm glad.

1648
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 5: Okay, exactly Like I'm hard to impress because I am

1649
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 5: very skeptical about most people. It took me about three

1650
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 5: minutes to be like, oh, I like this kid.

1651
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 9: He is.

1652
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:53,879
Speaker 5: He's brash, but he's confident.

1653
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 2: You want that in a quarterback, don't you. You You

1654
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 2: want them to be confident and be able to lead

1655
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 2: a team and not take things the wrong way and

1656
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 2: know how great they are. Like, that's an attitude you

1657
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 2: need in a leader.

1658
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 5: And I think he's going to walk into a locker

1659
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 5: room and win his team teammates over very quickly. The

1660
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 5: difference will be can he do it with his play

1661
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 5: on the field as well? That had but I think

1662
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 5: he's intrigued enough that a team is going to take

1663
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 5: a swing on him and they may end up hitting

1664
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 5: a home run.

1665
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 2: What do you think.

1666
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 5: I think that it's still going to be in the

1667
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:24,800
Speaker 5: first round. I just don't think it's going to be.

1668
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,879
Speaker 2: You have you done like a mock possible landing s platform?

1669
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 3: Where would be?

1670
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,920
Speaker 5: I don't he mocks because I do enough other stuff

1671
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 5: that ends up my time. But in my head, I

1672
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 5: still see the Raiders as a fit. And even with

1673
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 5: them getting Geno Smith, I know that they've you know,

1674
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 5: their fan base has been all about him for a

1675
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 5: long time, and it's the profile of the franchise.

1676
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 2: I mean, and now getting Raiders fans.

1677
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 3: That's what.

1678
01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 5: We drafted. The big play. We love the arrogance and

1679
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 5: everything else, but I think that he's it's a good

1680
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 5: stick ring because he doesn't have to play right away

1681
01:14:57,800 --> 01:14:59,959
Speaker 5: with you know there and he can kind of acclimate

1682
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 5: and I think that it's probably the best out of

1683
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 5: the teams. Then cordacktally, we'll be drafting the first round.

1684
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 2: We love it, Nick. We appreciate you. You were awesome.

1685
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming on.

1686
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 5: We I always appreciate you guys.

1687
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: You're the best.

1688
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 2: Thanks, Shiki, love it. Have a great weekend. We're gonna

1689
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 2: take one more break here when we come back. Are

1690
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 2: the Lakers a legit championship team? And is this going

1691
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 2: to be tonight a finals preview? Dun, dun du. You're

1692
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:29,799
Speaker 2: listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday.

1693
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 2: I'm Alex cort here with Carmeen Vitally. We are broadcasting

1694
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 2: live for the tartalk Com studios in Los Angeles. Thank

1695
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 2: you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us National It's

1696
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 2: just Women's Say or Women's in Sports Day.

1697
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 4: No, it's it's just National Women's Day.

1698
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,719
Speaker 2: Every day should be International Women's Day.

1699
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 3: It is if you want it to be. It is.

1700
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 2: Okay real quick, because we didn't get to this topic

1701
01:15:57,760 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 2: in the show because we just again we had a

1702
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 2: heavy free agency conversation, which we love because that's what

1703
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:06,719
Speaker 2: we're in Routtown. That's what's happening. It was very busy

1704
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 2: this week, very busy, but also tonight, you guys, the

1705
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 2: Lakers are in Boston and could this be an NBA

1706
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 2: Finals preview? I mean, we got the Dodgers Yankees World

1707
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 2: Series last year, so why wouldn't you hope for like

1708
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 2: a Lakers Celtics Finals this year? Be im, I know, okay,

1709
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 2: but the Lakers are red hot right now, eight straight wins,

1710
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:32,719
Speaker 2: fourth best record in the NBA. They've had the best

1711
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 2: record since January fifteenth, twenty and four in the last

1712
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 2: twenty four games. Something has unlocked, you guys in Lebron

1713
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 2: James these last few months. Like he's forty years old

1714
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 2: but also having like the same numbers that he had

1715
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve and twenty thirteen his MVP season, And

1716
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 2: he's forty years old. He just became the oldest player

1717
01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 2: to ever win Player of the Month. It's it's been

1718
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 2: fun to work thousand points. Fifty thousand points this week.

1719
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 2: That was huge. Like he's making history every single time

1720
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 2: he plays. Tuesday Night, it was first player with fifty

1721
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 2: thousand points.

1722
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 3: But it's just.

1723
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 2: Haters keep falling back on, you know what about their defense.

1724
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen? But since January fifteenth, the Lakers have

1725
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 2: had the best defense, allowing the fewest opponent points per game.

1726
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 2: They've had the best record in the league since that

1727
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 2: time too, Like I I don't know, I don't know

1728
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 2: what the haters are keep gonna like coming up with

1729
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: right now, because they're just proving everybody wrong and they

1730
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 2: just be getting better.

1731
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 4: My concern with their defense doesn't kick in until the postseason.

1732
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 4: Like right now, playing defense all well and good, but

1733
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 4: that's not that doesn't impress me.

1734
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 2: I'm saying playing defense and like, no, it really is.

1735
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 3: No my whole thing.

1736
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 4: Did you get everything out about the Lakers that you

1737
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 4: wanted to because I have a whole thing right.

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Speaker 2: Now, go off. We only have a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 3: I stand with sir Charles.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw this this week, say

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01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley went on this whole rant, and I completely

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01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:04,680
Speaker 4: and utterly agree with him, talking about how no, like

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01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 4: the Luca trade essentially gave everybody the go ahead to

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01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 4: then just just we're only like national media is just

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01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 4: talking about the Lakers and the Warriors, and the Luca

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01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 4: trade validated that. And I get that whole point. But

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Speaker 4: I am here to talk about the other things that

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01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,600
Speaker 4: are happening in the NBA. Because the Cleveland Cavaliers have

1749
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 4: the best record in the East, the Oklahoma City Thunder

1750
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 4: have the best record in the West. Oklahoma City Thunder

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01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 4: have the MVP of the league on their team right

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01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 4: now in Shae Gildas Alexander No one is talking about

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01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 4: that Nikolay Jokic last night recorded the first thirty twenty

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01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:44,800
Speaker 4: twenty ever in NBA history, and we are talking about

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01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 4: the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: That is my issue. I want to talk about the

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01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 3: rest of this kind of stuff too across the league,

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Speaker 3: because there is a whole mess of stuff going on.

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01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 3: There is.

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Speaker 2: But the Lakers also have been the best team in

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01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 2: the NBA since January fifteenth, so there is.

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Speaker 4: That's yes, and I'm not I'm not taking anything away

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01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,519
Speaker 4: from the Lakers by saying like they're doing well, but

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01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 4: there are other teams that are doing better. They are,

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01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 4: but they're not better records, that are setting better that

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01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 4: are setting bigger things. Nikola Jokic is a three time

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01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 4: MVP and he just did something no one in the

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01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:20,800
Speaker 4: league in league history has never done, and we're not

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01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 4: talking enough about it. And this was the whole thing

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01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 4: that the Charles Barkley went on about, where this is

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01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 4: this is, you know, this is dominating the news cycle

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01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 4: and it's all about the Lakers and and the Warriors,

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01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 4: which I think is even less defensible given the fact

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01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 4: that the thunder are the best team in the West.

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01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 4: So they have the league MVP on their roster, who

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01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 4: hopefully actually gets League MVP. So that's my whole thing

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01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 4: with and and and this is a national radio show,

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01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 4: so I want to make sure that we are not

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01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 4: just talking about We're in LA, Yes, but I need

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01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 4: to talk about more than the Lakers, because we just

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01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 4: did this last week too, where we talked about are

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01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 4: the Lakers contenders?

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01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 2: They probably are.

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01:19:57,840 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 2: It just keeps getting longer and better though. And this

1787
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 2: is what sells tickets, This is what pushes ratings. These

1788
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 2: are the names, and these are the franchises that push

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01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 2: the NBA to where they need to be because they

1790
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,879
Speaker 2: were struggling for ratings, they were struggling for viewership.

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01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they aren't cutting.

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01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 4: It, but they're they're giving you performances that absolutely are

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01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 4: cutting it. We just need to pay more attention and

1794
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 4: we need as the media, we have a responsibility to

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01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 4: shine light on stuff like that. And so I wanted

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01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 4: to do that with this segment because doing something doing

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01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 4: thirty twenty twenty, like

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Speaker 2: Here's all the way, baby, thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon, if this will see you next week,