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Speaker 1: And we welcome you to episode two off the two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty two edition of the Best podcast available, presented

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Speaker 1: by our great friends at Cross Country Mortgage. I'm Jason

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Speaker 1: Gibbs alongside senior staff writer Andrew Gribble. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: right into it. NFL NFL Draft analyst, he covers the league.

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Speaker 1: He covers the draft as well as anybody. Eric at

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Speaker 1: Home from Yahoo Sports joins us from his palational studio

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Speaker 1: inside his home. Eric, appreciate it. You continue to work

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Speaker 1: from home, and I'm assuming for the foreseeable future that's

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Speaker 1: where you will be as well. I've been locked up

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Speaker 1: for two years pretty much. I don't know if some

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Speaker 1: of it, you know, obviously things are kind of opening up,

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Speaker 1: are opened already, but uh, I'm still in exile. Guys.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride, uh with this approach and see how

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Speaker 1: it takes me. You know. Well, the positive is they

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Speaker 1: did let you out to go over the Senior Bowl

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Speaker 1: and we'll see at the Combine coming up in just

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Speaker 1: a few weeks. But let's get right down to it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: some normalcy, coming back to the pre draft process leading

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Speaker 1: up to the draft. At the end of Mark at

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Speaker 1: the end of April. Pardon me, but uh, your takeaways

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Speaker 1: from the Senior Bowl. You've got to go down to

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Speaker 1: fabulous Mobile, Alabama, and I will say the people down

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Speaker 1: there know how to do it, and they do it right.

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Speaker 1: But your thoughts and takeaways from a week in Mobile, Alabama. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: first Senior Bowl I had missed was last year for

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Speaker 1: good to see other media members, and good to see

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Speaker 1: this draft class. Uh, you know, eyes on the prize

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Speaker 1: for the first time in person. I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 1: attend the college football game either this fall, and that was,

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Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of a change from pre Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, everybody starts with the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a terrible group. I don't think

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Speaker 1: to your listeners a little bit. As the talent up

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Speaker 1: probably my biggest takeaway from the week. Another one might

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Speaker 1: Receiver was pretty good as well. Um, but yeah, overall,

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Speaker 1: lot of Senior Bowl names. I think that's really kind

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Speaker 1: of where that, you know, the meat and potatoes of

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Speaker 1: also some first rounders as well. Eric, did you come

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Speaker 1: away thinking that there will be two quarterbacks taken before

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Speaker 1: the Browns pick a thirteen in this traft? Maybe three?

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I know it sounds ridiculous and people

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Speaker 1: group pales in comparison to what we had last year.

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Speaker 1: You know, five in the top fifteen and four in

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Speaker 1: all that. But I'm Here's how I how I view it.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers may not be available. You know, Tom Brady's retired.

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Speaker 1: We think, um, you know, Russell Wilson may not go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has legal issues. You know, there are so

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Speaker 1: gonna be a run at some point. Absolutely, And I've

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Speaker 1: and before the Carson Wentz trade happened. You know, those

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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that, you know, quarterbacks tend to go

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Speaker 1: Browns at thirteen is Jermaine Johnson and Florida State? What

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Speaker 1: what what? What? What's there to know about him? And

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Speaker 1: only because I'm right when when we connected here for this,

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but these are guys who had

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Speaker 1: seems like everyone we talked to as a different favorite

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Speaker 1: follow up by asking about if Trailon Burks remind you

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Speaker 1: more of a J Brown or Deebo Samuel, which is

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Speaker 1: the one we keep saying about everything everything here. Those

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Speaker 1: core of your team, even though the stars get all

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Speaker 1: the attention that one. What the Rams did, I think

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Speaker 1: requires a lot more faith. Faith in ownership not firing

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Speaker 1: you for for these outside the box thoughts. Faith in

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Speaker 1: your scouting department to be able to mind through the

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Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsam of of you know, the lower round

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Speaker 1: prospects and the less heralded guys, you know, faith in

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're gonna have enough depth to to

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Speaker 1: to buttress your stars and enough supporting cast. That's a

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Speaker 1: I love what they've done. Don't get me wrong. I

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Speaker 1: wrote a lot about it leading up to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like that's the that's the tougher cell.

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Speaker 1: It's great in theory, but in practice, it takes some

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Speaker 1: guts and it takes some some faith, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know that every GM is gonna have it, so I'll

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Speaker 1: be fascinating to see. It's a it's a great existential

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Speaker 1: team building question that we may not be able to

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Speaker 1: answer until June. You cover the NFL, an amazing postseason

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Speaker 1: and a Super Bowl, Uh that I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it was a great super Yeah, but it was. I

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Speaker 1: mean it brought to the drama at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game that you wanted your thoughts on the whole

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Speaker 1: two season and the postseason especially. Yeah, I mean just

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Speaker 1: bringing it back to the idea of some semblance of normalcy.

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Speaker 1: Last year felt weird to me throughout. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was football, it was great. You guys obviously had some

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Speaker 1: you know, some some tremendous success that I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: thoroughly exloited, uh enjoyed excuse me, but in the whole

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Speaker 1: year had a bizarre feel to it. This year felt

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Speaker 1: a little bit more normal. But as you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: I mean so many thrilling finishes, you know, the first

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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs a little bit of a dud.

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Speaker 1: Everything from then on thrilling. The regular season had some

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Speaker 1: wild moments. We had unexpected teams, you know, kind of thriving.

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Speaker 1: We had some struggle that that didn't meet expectations. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was the final year for Tom Brady. You know,

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Speaker 1: we saw Heyon Rogers come back and have his m

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Speaker 1: VP campaign. It was a pretty great year overall, all

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Speaker 1: things considered. Um, but yeah, I mean you're right, I

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Speaker 1: I I I don't know what to to kind of

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Speaker 1: make of these these teams going forward. We can see

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Speaker 1: McVeigh and Aaron Donald retired, c O B O B

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Speaker 1: J and Von Miller leave, you know, and that kind

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Speaker 1: of opens up the flip side of that question, which

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Speaker 1: is you have to be willing to let some of

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Speaker 1: these big name players walk because you can't afford them all.

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Speaker 1: And that's the risk of this strategy. But it shows

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Speaker 1: that you know, outside the box thinking can be rewarded,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that was you know, evident with a

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Speaker 1: number of teams this year and the way they constructed

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Speaker 1: their rosters. So yeah, you're right. It was a good

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Maybe not a classic, but but it did

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Speaker 1: come right down to the final plays. And that's all

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Speaker 1: you can really ask. I think Erica appreciate the time,

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Speaker 1: and you can follow him on Twitter at Eric Underscore

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Speaker 1: at Home E D H O l M. From Yahoo Sports.

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Speaker 1: You can also check out his great work at Yahoo

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Speaker 1: dot com. Before I let you go Super Bowl Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you're in the Yahoo control room, You're you're doing the

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Speaker 1: live blogging, and yeah, I think what is the go

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Speaker 1: to food in that situation? Yeah, usually what I do

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Speaker 1: if I'm not at the game, if I'm at home,

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Speaker 1: which I have been the last obviously a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: I usually will put something in, uh, you know, some

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Speaker 1: some you know park shoulder or something like that, and

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Speaker 1: I'll let it kind of cook slowly all day and

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Speaker 1: then have it ready at like five o'clock Central, right

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Speaker 1: gate kickoff is thirty minutes away. Didn't have that kind

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Speaker 1: of motivation this year, right, so I went with the standard,

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Speaker 1: the fallback. I make a pretty good guacamole. You guys

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Speaker 1: for you know, I mean I gotta say, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just even I have some some Mexican relatives and

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Speaker 1: they've tried it and they're like, all right, that's pretty

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Speaker 1: good man like. So they stay in the family exactly

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Speaker 1: I I have. I have retained my place, so I

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Speaker 1: went guac. My wife appreciates it. Everybody wins, you know.

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Speaker 1: Good for you, man, appreciate it. Uh, Safe travels in

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Hopefully the weather continues to hold

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Speaker 1: out and we don't have any more winter storms, although

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's one coming yep today or tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: so but hopefully that won't happen in the week of

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Speaker 1: the combine. Look forward to seeing you in Indie. Continued

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Speaker 1: success and all the best to you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Keep keep those keep those kids and that dog under

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Speaker 1: wrap as best you can. Like the rest of us.

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Speaker 1: Gribble's fighting a never ending battle with his Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: made the halftime show this year. Oh there you go.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that always happens. Yeah, my kids wanted

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. They just wanted football, but

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Speaker 1: it was Yeah, I believe me. We're hanging on for

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Speaker 1: dear life here. But we love them. They're great and

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you guys in a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. Eric, look forward to it. Thanks a lot

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Speaker 1: and continued success. Thank you thanks to Eric at Home,

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Speaker 1: Yahoo Sports Yahoo dot com. Make sure you follow them

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Speaker 1: Country Mortgage and Gribbs. I am very happy that you

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Speaker 1: do not make Zagura and I do mock draft this early.

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Speaker 1: I don't know too, you're not off the hook, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and and it's it's one of those things

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Speaker 1: to where you know, let's let's be honest. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we work in the NFL. It's hard for us to

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Speaker 1: be watching this stuff every Saturday. That's our our one

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Speaker 1: kind of day to kind of not being engrossed in football.

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Speaker 1: So I do a lot of my learning at this

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Speaker 1: time of year, and I think it's it's tricky, especially

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Speaker 1: when you've got so many different opinions, especially on these

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Speaker 1: positions of need for the Browns. I mean there wide

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Speaker 1: receiver depends on who you talk to on on a

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Speaker 1: given day, who their favorite one is. So it's gonna

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Speaker 1: come down to have the front office sas. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: like you said that, there's not really this is this

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Speaker 1: is a weird draft to there's not a consensus top guy.

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Speaker 1: It's always different when you don't think of quarterbacks going

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Speaker 1: number one, And I think that's that's what makes this

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Speaker 1: real unpredictable because you can never you can never know

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Speaker 1: for certain who's gonna be the number one pick if

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Speaker 1: it's not a quarterback. Like even seen down to that

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Speaker 1: last minute, he thought it was gonna be mild, but

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Speaker 1: there was like brown Sony the quarterback. You know that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like a slam dug until you heard the pick.

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Speaker 1: So that's the way we'll be doing this draft the

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Speaker 1: entire way. Yeah, the more quarterbacks that can move up,

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Speaker 1: I need a couple of good showings at the combine

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Speaker 1: move up because then people start following to us, and

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Speaker 1: then we have more and more options at pick number thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Todd mcshae, his latest mock draft dropped yesterday, the Best

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Speaker 1: Fits Best picks for each team post Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: at pick number thirteen pick, I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people will like Garrett Wilson, the wide receiver from Ohio

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Speaker 1: State falling. Uh, what's interesting about that is at pick

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Speaker 1: number eight. As I go through my my pieces of paper, here,

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Speaker 1: Drake London wide receiver, USC first wide receiver off the

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Speaker 1: board at number eight. Right, Totally fine with that and

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Speaker 1: it'll be something to watch. It's a deep wide receiver class.

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Speaker 1: But I think Ohio State fan Browns fan would be

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Speaker 1: quite pleased with Garrett Wilson at number thirteen. Yeah. Among

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Speaker 1: my favorite wide receivers in the draft, I think I've

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Speaker 1: yet to like make my decision on who I like

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Speaker 1: the best, but it's basically for me, it's between Wilson

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Speaker 1: and Burke's from from Arkansas. I mean, those are the

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Speaker 1: two that I think, not just from what they've done

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Speaker 1: in college and I think just fit in this offense.

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Speaker 1: I think that both would thrive and have some success.

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Speaker 1: Clearly Wilson is going to be your fan favorite among

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Speaker 1: here that the crossover between Buck Eye and Browns fans

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Speaker 1: is pretty strong. Uh, and so it would it seems

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Speaker 1: like it would make a lot of sense. It's just

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Speaker 1: gonna be one of those things now where we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get You're gonna see what happened in the free agency

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Speaker 1: and that could change what you think about the positions.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's it's almost it's hard to make a

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Speaker 1: case against wide receiver at thirteen. But it's also hard

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Speaker 1: to make a case against anyone on the defensive line

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Speaker 1: of thirteen. And that's the Those are the two positions

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Speaker 1: where I look at where it's like you can't appointment

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Speaker 1: even I know, the defensive tackle class this year is

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Speaker 1: probably not number thirteen pick worthy, but certainly pass rushers

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Speaker 1: if you can get one at thirteen. That with the

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Speaker 1: situation you have it at at the at the position

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Speaker 1: not knowing what Jadadian Clowney is going to do here

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of months, but you certainly wouldn't

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Speaker 1: turn that down either number. I mean, it almost comes

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Speaker 1: down to and again this is this is February, this

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Speaker 1: is mid February work two months out from all this

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Speaker 1: really coming to fruition. But which position will still be

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Speaker 1: the strongest in the second round? Right? I mean that's

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if we know the answer to that.

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Speaker 1: The answer every year over the last few years has

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Speaker 1: been wide receiver, and that might be the answer this

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Speaker 1: year again. I mean, because it's just it's it's a

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Speaker 1: deep class, and it's just the thing that always makes

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Speaker 1: you worry is like pass rushers go so high in

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Speaker 1: the draft and you're wondering if they're falling to third team,

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with them? Because it's like you've got you've

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Speaker 1: got your top tier guys. But usually you can get

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Speaker 1: someone that's really good at that number thirteen spot. This

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Speaker 1: isn't like picking at number twenty six last year. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's you can get an elite player that

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Speaker 1: if if you if you're just bringing back Myles Garrett

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Speaker 1: next year, you don't know what's going on in free

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Speaker 1: agency with Colonie, you feel good about potentially putting someone

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Speaker 1: in there that could be plug and play. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: in the Todd mcshade mock, he does have the Steelers

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Speaker 1: moving up in a trade with the Chargers to get

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Speaker 1: in the leak Willis quarterback out of Liberty. Uh and

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Speaker 1: and really it appears the quarterback run would happen in

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Speaker 1: the teams according to Todd mcshade, which could make for

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Speaker 1: an interesting late first round, especially if someone falls at

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, maybe even an edge rusher, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden late first round in the twenties,

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Speaker 1: of that extra ambo that they've got. It's so weird

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Speaker 1: because I feel like maybe I'm just not paying up attention.

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Speaker 1: But the Steelers have a actual quarterback need, but I

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Speaker 1: feel like they're being about less than other teams with

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Speaker 1: ambiguous quarterback situations instead of blatant needs, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like the Steeler's legitimate. Their quarterback just retired, like and

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Speaker 1: he's not coming back. So it's like the that that

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Speaker 1: they have a legit need. But we talked more about

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Speaker 1: the teams that like Green Bay or Minnesota or Seattle

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Speaker 1: who were they've got a quarterback, but it may not

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Speaker 1: be either. So it's very strange. But I won't mind

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Speaker 1: if they don't address the position. I mean, there would

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Speaker 1: be great, great news for us. But they're definitely someone

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Speaker 1: that could be making a movie here, all right. Factor fiction,

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray will be playing baseball for the Oakland A's

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Speaker 1: when the NFL season starts. Fiction. I mean, I I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of one reason that that would makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that things aren't going well right

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Speaker 1: now in Cardinals Land with this stuff, but they had

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Speaker 1: an amazing season I think on the field, I think

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Speaker 1: they were the best team the Browns faced this year

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Speaker 1: in terms of how they played in that game. Like

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals were played at such a high level in

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Speaker 1: that game that they beat the Browns in Week six.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were awesome, and he was great. He

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Speaker 1: didn't even have to run that much. He's a really

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Speaker 1: good quarterback. And you know, baseball isn't playing right now,

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Speaker 1: and they we don't know when they're gonna start playing.

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Speaker 1: He but he is, I mean, he's I would say

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Speaker 1: he's a top ten quarter I think I think he's

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Speaker 1: the top ten quarterback right now. I mean, things are

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Speaker 1: gonna be fine. Losing his heart, I get it, Like

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Speaker 1: the Cardinal season that did not end the way they

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Speaker 1: thought it should, but he'll be back. Like there, I

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Speaker 1: don't I'd be stunned if he's anywhere but Arizona. I

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Speaker 1: know there's all this stuff that has come up over

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Speaker 1: the last week, but I mean, they they already gave

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Speaker 1: up on a number one first round quarterback after one

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Speaker 1: year for this guy. I mean, there's there's clearly he's

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Speaker 1: he's their future and he's by the way, that was

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Speaker 1: a really well yeah it was a practication, but he's

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Speaker 1: really good and I think like there's no there's no

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Speaker 1: move that makes Arizona better without Kyler Murray at the center.

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Speaker 1: He's a great player. I have no idea where this

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Speaker 1: is coming from. I don't know what it stems from.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some hurt feelings. I'm not quite sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, with Mortenson was reporting on Sunday, if that's

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Speaker 1: coming out of Arizona's house, I'm not really sure what

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Speaker 1: the thinking or what your end game is by by

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Speaker 1: saying the things that you said about him. But it

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Speaker 1: just it is flat out mystifying. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's looking for a contract extension already, you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: that's the case. Uh, none of it makes any sense.

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Speaker 1: And frankly, I felt like that team won in spite

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Speaker 1: of their coach, So they were really I said that

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Speaker 1: that team if they played the Super Bowl after they

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Speaker 1: the Browns, they're when they're beating Annie team. They were

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Speaker 1: so good that that at that in that game, and

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Speaker 1: it just didn't they just couldn't sustain it. I don't

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00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: think it's like they peaked. They definitely peaked too early.

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Speaker 1: They peaked a little too soon. Factor fiction. You will

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Speaker 1: not attend another Super Bowl party again until your kids

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Speaker 1: are old enough that you don't have to worry about

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Speaker 1: figuring out what to do with it. That is a fact.

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Speaker 1: I missed large portions of this game. I got to

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Speaker 1: hear uh Kevin Harlan and Kurt Warner on the radio,

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00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: great call of the game. They were doing a great

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Speaker 1: job with that while navigating some snow in Cleveland while driving.

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Speaker 1: And then I still have not watched the half time show.

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Speaker 1: I need to sit down and carve out fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: to watch this halftime show that was geared towards me,

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00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: the target Democrat for the first time ever, I was

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Speaker 1: the audience that they were seeking out for the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl hand sent show. I need to watch it. I

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Speaker 1: adapt to do it. But yeah, I mean I it

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Speaker 1: was probably I still saw the majority of the game.

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Speaker 1: It was. I've definitely seen less of the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: in previous years because of being at Super Bowl parties.

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Speaker 1: But if your goal is to consume the game, this

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Speaker 1: is my like ultimate hot take. Super Bowl parties are

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Speaker 1: not something you should do. Like if you want to

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Speaker 1: just watch the game and be like engaged with the game,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do it by yourself, or you gotta do

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Speaker 1: it with like maybe one or two people. Like, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's not something that can be unless you're in

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Speaker 1: like a movie theater, like you're you're in that weird

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Speaker 1: living room standing and sitting on dining room chairs instead

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Speaker 1: of couches, you know, like you've got the temporary chairs.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just a tough it's it's just a weird,

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Speaker 1: weird place that I'm at with super Bowl parties. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that it happened to me nine years ago.

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00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: Nine years ago, I went to a party great friends

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Speaker 1: of ours. There were probably fifty people, there was one TV.

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Speaker 1: I was about two miles from the TV. Couldn't hear

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Speaker 1: anything thing, could barely see it. And the halftime show ended,

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Speaker 1: and my wife looked at me and said, we need

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Speaker 1: to go home, like the kids have to go to bed.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting tired. I was like, that's it, no more,

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Speaker 1: I don't care going forward. You can do whatever you

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Speaker 1: want on Super Bowl Sunday. I will be at my

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Speaker 1: couch if someone wants to join, great. Otherwise, I'm making

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Speaker 1: the food that I want to make. I'm just sitting there.

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Speaker 1: I'm being lazy. I'm drinking beers. I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: care to talk to anybody. I don't want to all good.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the moment where one of my

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Speaker 1: kids asks to watch the Super Bowl with me. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that will ever happen, but we certainly

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Speaker 1: are not there yet. My youngest on the way home

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Speaker 1: cried and what did not enjoy that we had Kevin

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Speaker 1: Harlan on the radio instead of been conto. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was just it was a tough, tough scene. Uh.

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Speaker 1: She did not understand why we were listening to what

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Speaker 1: we're listening to, but hard less and learned. So well, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll try to avoid that situation moving forward. It was

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Speaker 1: unforced are on our parts, but we'll we'll be better

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Speaker 1: in hopefully we're at the game three. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: that I can avoid that altogether by actually being at

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Speaker 1: the game in all right. NBEL Combined two weeks away.

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Speaker 1: Next week on the Best Podcast Available, we will preview

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Speaker 1: You can watch us as well. Keith Malla and doing

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Speaker 1: a fantastic job. Anthony Bacco with the assist this week

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Speaker 1: for the vacationing Jeff McDaniel. Hopefully he's enjoying his time away.

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Speaker 1: We are all back together next week. Eric at home

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Speaker 1: shout out to him. Appreciate all of his time from

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