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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to The Two Pros and a

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Speaker 2: Let's give this. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Every single day right now. In sports I keep hearing

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Speaker 3: the same thing. The NBA has a tanking problem. Oh

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Speaker 3: my god, what are we gonna do to stop it?

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Speaker 3: Adam Silver now saying they're gonna suggest ways they're gonna

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Speaker 3: look at implementing rules to stop the tank.

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Speaker 4: Everybody keeps screaming.

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Speaker 3: But the real answer is the NBA doesn't have a

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Speaker 3: tanking problem. It has an image problem. And that's what's

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Speaker 3: creating all of this chaos. It's bucking fits on Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio. He's buck rising out, Jason Fitz, don't Jinger Dials.

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Speaker 3: It's not Saturday night. We're usually week the six to

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Speaker 3: eight pm Eastern on Saturday nights. But no, the boss

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Speaker 3: has decided that it was fine to give us the

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Speaker 3: shit again. To sit down in the morning's buck if

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Speaker 3: you had your waffles? Do we feel good this morning? Like, oh,

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Speaker 3: you look at me like you're too good for waffles?

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Speaker 3: Good sir, waffles.

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Speaker 5: I feel like that's the worst way to start your day,

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Speaker 5: Like I don't want something heavy and sweet when I'm

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I.

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Speaker 5: Got I have a little green juice this morning, had

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Speaker 5: one of these little protein bars with what is this

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Speaker 5: god in an almonds and egg whites and cashews and dates.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling good, baby, Get out of here with your waffles. Buck.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a green juice house? No?

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Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a waffle house?

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Speaker 3: Yes? There's a reason, like look, yes, every day I

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Speaker 3: started life is very boring, as you know, like I

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Speaker 3: eat very monotonously because I'm on a fitness journey that

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Speaker 3: you know well about, right, But I start every single

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Speaker 3: morning with two literally two cups of egg whites and

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Speaker 3: a protein chine. That's every single morning in my life.

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Speaker 3: I would give anything to start with waffles with a

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Speaker 3: little bit.

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Speaker 4: Of whip cream on it.

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Speaker 3: Like you're over here being too good for waffles on

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Speaker 3: a Friday morning.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand this and a mile cool.

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Speaker 2: I listen. All I need is.

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Speaker 5: The great, the great crew that we got at LA

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Speaker 5: making has happened this morning to give me juice with this,

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Speaker 5: with the with the imaging and all the different things

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Speaker 5: tips and tricks that they've got to keep us awake

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Speaker 5: and keep the audience engaged throughout the course of the

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Speaker 5: next three hours. I'm happy to be here, happy to

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Speaker 5: talk about this tanking problem that you think the NBA

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Speaker 5: doesn't have, and yet Adam Silver is informing thirty general

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Speaker 5: managers yesterday that the NBA plans to make anti tanking

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Speaker 5: rule changes for next season, which encompasses a variety of

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Speaker 5: different things. ESPN did some reporting on this yesterday. Seam

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Speaker 5: Sharania first round draft picks can be protected only for

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Speaker 5: top four or top fourteen plus selections. Lottery odds freeze

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Speaker 5: at the trade deadline or a later date, no longer

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Speaker 5: allowing a team to pick in the top four in

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Speaker 5: consecutive years and or after consecutive bottom three finishes. So

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Speaker 5: you're alleging that they're doing this not because there's an

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Speaker 5: actual issue, but because enough people are talking about an

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Speaker 5: issue that you don't think that they actually have, that

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Speaker 5: they just need to get out there and handle some

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Speaker 5: pr correct.

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Speaker 3: This is really simple to me too, honestly. So look,

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Speaker 3: by the way, we've got plenty of time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Every one of those proposals is damned and will absolutely

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Speaker 3: fall apart. So if those are Adam Silver's great ideas

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Speaker 3: to stop tanking, there was a great tweet yesterday from

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Speaker 3: an NBA reporter that.

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Speaker 4: Literally ripped every single one of them apart.

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Speaker 3: So if your answer is you can't pick in the

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Speaker 3: top four two straight years, well, now, what you're really

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Speaker 3: doing is incentivizing people to tank to get to the

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Speaker 3: taking people out. Like, if tanking is really a problem,

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Speaker 3: you're not going to fix it. But here's here's the

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Speaker 4: Right now, you and I, you.

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Speaker 3: Are sitting in Nashville, Tennessee, where you cover the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: You and I talk a lot of football. Everybody knows

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Speaker 3: that I'm a lifelong, diehard Raiders fan, right, I would

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Speaker 3: love everybody just take a second sometime today and go

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Speaker 3: to tankathon dot com, a site that I reference office,

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Speaker 3: that will tell you the current draft order in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: Ten teams.

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Speaker 3: Ten teams in the NFL last year finished with a

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Speaker 3: win percentage of thirty five percent or less. Ten teams.

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Speaker 3: We watched the NFL last year, give us a Raiders

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Speaker 3: Giants game where both teams were actively sitting literally everybody

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Speaker 3: like we were looking at practice squad guys that were

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Speaker 3: suddenly starting days after being signed. Max Crosby was shut

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Speaker 3: we're talking about ten teams and we're talking about real

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Speaker 3: viable answers for the first time in NFL history of

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Speaker 3: undeniable tanking. Absolutely, and that outrage lasted for I don't know,

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Speaker 3: twenty four hours. If you look at the NBA right now,

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Speaker 3: for all of the conversation about how bad the NBA is,

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Speaker 3: than the NFL. The NBA doesn't have more bad teams

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Speaker 3: by any percentage than any other pro sports league other

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Speaker 4: The NBA has an image problem. Think about it. If

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Speaker 3: Hockey, and I'm talking to like all three of you

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Speaker 3: But if you're a hockey fan and somebody walks up

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Speaker 3: this year, you laugh and you just say, no, the

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Speaker 3: Canucks suck.

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Speaker 4: Why would I possibly watch the Canucks.

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Speaker 3: If you're a baseball fan and you were sitting around

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Speaker 4: Nah, they suck. They lost one hundred and nineteen games.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to go watch the Rockies. They stink.

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Speaker 3: That's the end of the conversation. The thing of it

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Speaker 3: is that in a content conflict world where people just

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Speaker 3: love to yell, the thing that people have decided they

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Speaker 3: want to yell about is the NBA. So NBA heads

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Speaker 3: and then people that don't want the NBA to be

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Speaker 3: successful that will tell you I hate the NBA, yet

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Speaker 3: they haven't watched a single game of it for four

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Speaker 3: even like modern basketball? That guy is so loud on

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Speaker 3: not unique to the NBA. A team trying to get

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Speaker 3: teams that are trying to figure out how to better themselves,

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Speaker 3: and that's the best path to do it in all

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Speaker 3: of sports, not just the NBA.

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Speaker 5: Enough, I don't think you laid it out that well

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Speaker 5: because I don't agree with you. I don't agree that

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Speaker 5: tanking is the most proven path to improve your team.

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Speaker 5: Like I understand that it ups your percentage, chance to

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Speaker 5: have higher draft capital, better draft capital, better chance of

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Speaker 5: better players, and all these different things, but it's not

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Speaker 5: you know. I mean, to your point, people operate in extremes.

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Speaker 5: You either think that's it's the only way to improve

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Speaker 5: your football team. Like, look at Pittsburgh Steelers fans, right,

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Speaker 5: playoffs and then you know, they get dusted by whomever

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Speaker 5: just don't lose enough to get game changing players and

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Speaker 5: truly great championship caliber Pittsburgh Steelers football. And they're probably

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Speaker 5: They're probably going to get Aaron Rodgerson Mike McCarthy in

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Speaker 5: but I don't think that the Pittsburgh Steelers fans actually

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Speaker 5: the basement, if you're one of these teams, it is

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Speaker 5: damn hard and the NFL is different than the NBA, right,

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Speaker 5: The NBA is a much more correctible, course correctable thing

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Speaker 2: And to me, Fitzi.

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Speaker 5: It speaks to what you are alluding to, which is

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Speaker 5: an optics problem that they're trying to fix, to show

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Speaker 5: need you to fix this. At a silver you're a puppet.

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Speaker 5: You're not doing your job properly. You don't handle your

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Speaker 5: the player empowerment era so overtake what the league actually is.

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Speaker 5: That you've let the thing get a bit out of hand.

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Speaker 5: This is a lot of the dialogue around the NBA

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Speaker 5: But what it really speaks to FITZI, to me is

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Speaker 5: a lot of the same things that I used to

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Speaker 5: give you all these different fixes for baseball, right for

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Speaker 5: how they're going to improve the game, and how this

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Speaker 2: All that means to me is.

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Speaker 5: That basketball is going the way of Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 5: which is your regular season games don't matter, and I'll

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Speaker 5: chime in during the playoffs when all the games actually

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Speaker 5: the field. In this particular situation, I it's a struggle.

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Speaker 5: It's a struggle for me because I don't want to

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Speaker 5: the dialogue has so shifted away from the actual sport

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Speaker 5: and that sucks because I'm a basketball fan, and I

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Speaker 3: And again, I read that ESPN report every single It

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Speaker 4: We're doomed.

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Speaker 3: Right, Like, close games do not go your way when

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Speaker 4: So when I'm watching this, I'm just thinking.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying. This Olympics has been very It's been.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not wired that way, you know. But so

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Speaker 4: But it's been a weird Olympics.

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Speaker 3: historic figure skinning competition.

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Speaker 4: So we have some of those moments.

439
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Speaker 3: But then we have a forty one year old you know,

440
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,960
Speaker 3: mom and Bob's leedding that takes some gold, and we

441
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Speaker 3: have a fifty four year old curling guy that's out

442
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Speaker 3: there just suddenly try to help his team. Like, there

443
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,800
Speaker 3: have been so many cool stories in the Olympics, but

444
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Speaker 3: they're not the cool stories we expected.

445
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Speaker 4: So it's been a very in that sense. It's been

446
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Speaker 4: kind of a strange Olympics.

447
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Speaker 3: I think that's why the numbers have been huge on

448
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 3: it though, Like it has been a very unpredictable Olympic

449
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Speaker 3: game so far.

450
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Speaker 5: Well, and that's what made yesterday so thrilling. Right, they

451
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Speaker 5: USA women an absolute wagon all the way through this tournament.

452
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Speaker 5: Before playing came, they had only allowed one goal all

453
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Speaker 5: tournament before I believe the Canadian players Kristin O'Neil scored

454
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Speaker 5: that shorthanded goal early in the second period yesterday. So

455
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Speaker 5: you had been you had been getting those comfortable victories

456
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Speaker 5: you maybe you didn't expect I don't know what the

457
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 5: expectation was. I would I would I would be lying

458
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Speaker 5: if I said that I paid very close attention to

459
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 5: women's hockey and national teams and how much Canada understanding,

460
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 5: the Canada and the US are always going to be

461
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 5: in it when it comes to Olympic hockey at the end,

462
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Speaker 5: both on the men's and women's side. I did not

463
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Speaker 5: have an intimate knowledge of the Canadian team nor the

464
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Speaker 5: women's team for the US other than they've just been

465
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Speaker 5: a delight to watch and they've been slaughtering teams en

466
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Speaker 5: route to that gold medal round yesterday. But I think

467
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Speaker 5: that you know the build up where you have not

468
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Speaker 5: really been tested and then all of a sudden, Okay,

469
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 5: you're facing adversity.

470
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Speaker 2: How are you going to battle through?

471
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Speaker 1: That?

472
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Speaker 5: I think is when you get the best of these

473
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Speaker 5: Olympic athletes, or of any athlete right.

474
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Speaker 2: When you're when you're when you're the the.

475
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Speaker 5: Animal that's backed into the corner in this particular situation

476
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 5: where you whereas you're used to being the aggressor, you're

477
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 5: used to being the predator in this particular situation, Now

478
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, you feel a bit like pray,

479
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Speaker 5: Like all right now I'm not going down this way,

480
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 5: I'm going down swinging.

481
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what made that so much fun to watch.

482
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Speaker 5: The Olympics have been awesome all the way through and

483
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 5: I know that there's you know, I mean, Norway is

484
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Speaker 5: absolutely killing it as far as the metal count goes.

485
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Speaker 5: For people who are following along with that, Italy is

486
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Speaker 5: the host country is obviously in terms of the total

487
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 5: metal count at this point in time, and the US

488
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Speaker 5: is holding its own. But I have been I'm not

489
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 5: gonna live FITZI like, I have turned on and maybe

490
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 5: it's my default because my default is to turn on

491
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Speaker 5: ESPN when it comes to like daily sports coverage, whether

492
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's just on in the background while

493
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 5: I'm working, right, I'm like, I'm like every airport bar

494
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 5: in America, like it's just on in the background because

495
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 5: it's a habit. I know, I know that it's going

496
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Speaker 5: to be there, and I know that there's probably gonna

497
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Speaker 5: be something that I'm interested in, so I'll turn it on.

498
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Speaker 5: Olympics is different, right, because you have sports all day long.

499
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 5: You even have the recorded versions after the fact you're

500
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Speaker 5: not sure. I mean, obviously it tells you whether it's

501
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 5: live or whether that's aired previously. But you can find

502
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 5: Olympic sports coverage all day long throughout the course of

503
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Speaker 5: the of the Olympics as they're going on, which makes

504
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 5: it so much fun for sports fans because you can

505
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 5: literally find sports at any given time. But when I'm

506
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 5: looking for some level of dialogue around the around the

507
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 5: actual sports, been very disappointed, And maybe it's specific to ESPN.

508
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm just I'm going I'm going to the wrong

509
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 5: places seeking additional context and dialogue around the Olympics rather

510
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 5: than just watching it all the way through on NBC

511
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 5: where it's just sport after sport after sport after sport. Right,

512
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 5: they haven't really covered it on ESPN. I've been kind

513
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 5: of disappointed at that, Like I'm trying to learn more

514
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 5: about this when I'm coming up for air between all

515
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 5: of these Olympic events, to try and gain additional context,

516
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 5: some background, some of the underlying storylines leading into some

517
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 5: of the events that maybe I haven't I don't know

518
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 5: enough about, And more often than not, I'm greeted with

519
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 5: the thing that you and I opened with this morning,

520
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 5: which is like tanking coverage.

521
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Speaker 2: In the NBA. I don't give a damn about that.

522
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: Show me the curling highlights come on well.

523
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Speaker 3: And so this is interesting to me because you know,

524
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Speaker 3: Yahoo has a partnership with NBC Sports and we have

525
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 3: Olympic correspondents that are over in Italy. So Nathan Chen,

526
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Speaker 3: the former gold medalist figure skater, has been joining the

527
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Speaker 3: AH Sports Daily a couple of times a week. The

528
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 3: numbers on those segments when we break them out onto

529
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Speaker 3: YouTube have been through the roof. And part of the

530
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Speaker 3: reason the numbers are through the roof when Apolo Ono

531
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Speaker 3: talks about speed skating and Nathan Chen talks about figure

532
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Speaker 3: skating for us is because they're not getting that coverage.

533
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Speaker 3: If you're looking for it, you're not getting it anywhere else.

534
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Speaker 2: So do you know that now I know I should be.

535
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Speaker 5: This is a good opportunity for you to shame me

536
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 5: as a friend. Go watch y'all Who's Sports Daily? Obviously

537
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Speaker 5: it's a bad job out.

538
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Speaker 4: Of it and am You can also just go to

539
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 4: YouTube and find all the clips.

540
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Speaker 3: But here's the funny thing about that, when you mentioned it,

541
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've never hidden the fact that I have

542
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 3: many friends that work at ESPN. Still some of my

543
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 3: best friends still look at you work at ESPN. I

544
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 3: was part of ESPN for over six years. I will

545
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 3: never forget. At one point we were gonna have Ariel

546
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 3: Hilwane on our show when I was doing radio at ESPN.

547
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 3: We were gonna have Aerial on our show to talk

548
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: about some issue around UFC, and the bosses at the

549
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 3: time came back and said, Nah, nobody cares.

550
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Speaker 4: Just punt on that. The audience doesn't really care about that.

551
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 3: It was about a month later that ESPN signed their

552
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 3: deal with UFC, and suddenly the very same bosses came

553
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 3: in and said, Hey, we want you to start having

554
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 3: Ariel Hellwane on every Friday on your show to promote

555
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 3: the UFC events on ESPN. If ESPN doesn't have the

556
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 3: rights to it, they just don't cover it. And Olympic

557
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 3: rights are difficult because you can't show highlights without certain

558
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 3: delays and all these things.

559
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Speaker 4: So I get some of that. There is some minutia

560
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Speaker 4: to the why.

561
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Speaker 3: But the one thing about ESPN, and it's the reason

562
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 3: that there's consequence to not being on that network at

563
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: some level, because if you're not on that network, they

564
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 3: don't really have to cover you at all. I mean,

565
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 3: I understand Major League Baseball in ESPN couldn't come to

566
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 3: an agreement, you know, on the real package that they

567
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 3: have it had for many years. I do wonder what

568
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: that long term means for even baseball highlights, making it

569
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Speaker 3: into sports center baseball conversation that's already limited in.

570
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Speaker 4: ESPN at best. But the reality of it is they

571
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 4: track the numbers by the second there they just know

572
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Speaker 4: what works for them.

573
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Speaker 3: So first take is giving everybody what they want out

574
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Speaker 3: of first take. But to your point, they're not going

575
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Speaker 3: to dive into Olympics, in part because they don't they're

576
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 3: not really consuming it, but in part also because they

577
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 3: just don't have the broadcast rights to it, which forces

578
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,719
Speaker 3: everybody to go elsewhere to find that content.

579
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Speaker 5: Well, and that's you know, it just depends on to

580
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Speaker 5: your point, like are you are you willing to go

581
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Speaker 5: out of your way to find that stuff because it

582
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Speaker 5: is being covered excellently in a lot of different places.

583
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Speaker 5: And I've just you know, taken away from my observation

584
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 5: of day to day sports consumption based on my habits. Okay,

585
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 5: I'm not really hearing about the thing that I'm actually

586
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 5: interested in at this time of year, which, with all

587
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 5: due respect to the NBA, is not basketball. Even though

588
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 5: I did watch probably more of the All Star events

589
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 5: than I have in the last couple of years, and

590
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Speaker 5: it sounds like a lot of people did. Based on

591
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Speaker 5: the way that it was reflected in the ratings. I'm

592
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 5: not entirely sure why that would be. There was nothing

593
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 5: particularly that captivated me about the All Star Weekend other

594
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 5: than oh, okay, I'll watch it.

595
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Speaker 2: I didn't think it was all that well promoted.

596
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 5: This year in fact, and just happened to stumble into

597
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 5: it and was like, okay, I'll sit It's been a

598
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 5: while since I've actually sat through All Star festivities. Let's

599
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 5: see if it's as you know, it's as broken as

600
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 5: people like to complain about it, or if it's just

601
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 5: something that I can have on and enjoy. No to

602
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 5: your credit at Yahoo and people like Tony Kornheiser and

603
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 5: Michael Wilbon, who go out of their way to talk

604
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 5: about the Olympics, because those guys their background is Washington

605
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 5: Post columnists and covering sports across the spectrum, understand the

606
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Speaker 5: importance of it.

607
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Speaker 2: Even though you know their.

608
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Speaker 5: Slot is I mean, PTI still a very very well consumed,

609
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 5: highly consumed show. It's just you know, it's they work

610
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 5: in small windows there, and it's a different level of

611
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 5: coverage than you know, three hours in the morning or

612
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 5: however long.

613
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Speaker 2: The show's like get up are Uh.

614
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Speaker 4: Can I blow your mind with the technology suggestion?

615
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 2: You're mad? Right?

616
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 3: I tweeted this out and actually got some nice responses

617
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 3: from it a couple of days ago. I don't understand

618
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 3: in today's world why, especially for the Olympics, but really

619
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Speaker 3: for every single sport there isn't a small QR code

620
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 3: that's up in the corner of the screen the whole time.

621
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Speaker 4: And all I have to do is.

622
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Speaker 3: Click on that and take a picture of it, and

623
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Speaker 3: it takes me to a site, and that site gives

624
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: me here, here are the rules, here's the scory, here's

625
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: the background, here are the storylines, here are the stars.

626
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: And that content could all be pre produced leading up

627
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 3: to the Olympics by, in this case NBC and what

628
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 3: they're doing. I had a few people snarkily tell me

629
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 3: that you could simply google it. But it's a little

630
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: like Disney the minute you're in the or keep you

631
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 3: in the door, make sure you spend your money there.

632
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 3: If I'm NBC, instead of making everybody learn curling on

633
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: the fly, if I had a QR code, there was like,

634
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 3: all right, here's how it scored, here's how it's worked

635
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: all and it takes me to NBC's site.

636
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: It takes me to and now I'm getting click through.

637
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, my eyeballs are leading people to

638
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 3: my written content, my video content, everything that you need

639
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 3: to know about each of these sports. Frankly, even for

640
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 3: the NFL, there are so many people every Sunday that

641
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: might turn into a game of two teams they don't

642
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 3: watch if they just had a code that they could

643
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 3: click and it's like, all right, he's here are the

644
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 3: basics if you know nothing about football, But also here

645
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: are the storylines on these two teams so far this season,

646
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: all pre produced by the network that's actually putting these

647
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Speaker 3: games on.

648
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 4: I think that you get a ton of traction out

649
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Speaker 4: of that.

650
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I think Amazon has started doing more of that.

651
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 2: Right.

652
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 5: They're doing mostly most of it with products that they're

653
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 5: trying to sell you on Amazon through the Thursday night

654
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 5: football broadcast right where the commercials are the thing with

655
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Speaker 5: the QR code or you can click on the little

656
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 5: link that that that's on your screen, whether you're watching

657
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Speaker 5: it on a laptop or you're Smart TV or what

658
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Speaker 5: have you.

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Speaker 2: So Amazon is doing a little.

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Speaker 5: Bit of this through the NFL or using the NFL

661
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Speaker 5: as a vehicle to sell more things for Amazon.

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Speaker 2: But like FITZI, that's a that's a great idea. I'm shot.

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Speaker 5: I'm shocked nobody's contacted you about doing something doing something

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Speaker 5: like that for NBC, because I mean, even if it

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Speaker 5: was just like a link to like an NBC podcast

666
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Speaker 5: where they're talking exclusively about the Olympics, that I can

667
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Speaker 5: I can take a picture of or get the link

668
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Speaker 5: and have it send me directly to whether it's Spotify

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Speaker 5: or Apple podcast or however you consume podcasts, your YouTube

670
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Speaker 5: channels on where they're where they are continuing the coverage on,

671
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Speaker 5: you know, all the different umbrellas that you can or

672
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Speaker 5: all the different branches that you can spread out on

673
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Speaker 5: some of the some of the sports that are lesser

674
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Speaker 5: consumed and less popular, because like you know, I'm thrilled

675
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Speaker 5: by the by the downhill skiing, the speed skating and

676
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Speaker 5: all these different things. I have no idea how this

677
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 5: stuff is scored or what the what the kind of

678
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 5: tricks that they're talking about. Because they the broadcast on NBC,

679
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 5: they do this expertly, and they obviously have brought in

680
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Speaker 5: a level of expertise to make the broadcast sound comfortable

681
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 5: and flow and informative and educational. And I'm not saying

682
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Speaker 5: that the broadcasters aren't doing a good enough job there,

683
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Speaker 5: but it's almost like I'm I'm I hear what they're saying,

684
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Speaker 5: and I'm watching the stunts and the tricks and the

685
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Speaker 5: different things that they're doing, but I'm not necessarily I

686
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Speaker 5: just don't have that in my bag as a sports fan,

687
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Speaker 5: Like I don't have that level of knowledge that they

688
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 5: do where they're talking through it very comfortably, as if

689
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 5: it's common knowledge, and I'm just sitting there and being like, sure,

690
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Speaker 5: whatever you tell me, Bud, Like how many if that's

691
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Speaker 5: what a backflip or you know what. Obviously I'm being

692
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 5: very dismissive on the kind of on the kind of

693
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 5: stunts and tricks that they're doing. And these are they're

694
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Speaker 5: much more high level and detailed names for these things,

695
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 5: but like, what the hell they're talking about.

696
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Speaker 2: I'm just having fun watching.

697
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,239
Speaker 3: The number of times every four I joke about this.

698
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 3: Every four years, Suddenly all of America is an expert

699
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Speaker 3: on a triple LUTs and a triple soucou. I still

700
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 3: don't know what those are in figure skating, but I

701
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 3: know that like, and I'm not really sure I know

702
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 3: the difference between one or the other. Like I know

703
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 3: that you know, when you're trying to do a backflip

704
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 3: on skates that looks really hard. But then what I

705
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 3: don't understand is some of the nuances of scoring to

706
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Speaker 3: your point. You know, I saw a tweet. I wish

707
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 3: I could find it to credit whoever they said. But like,

708
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 3: as somebody that watches curling for three weeks every four years,

709
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 3: I'm disgusted by Canada's cheating, Like that's that's where we

710
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Speaker 3: are as a.

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Speaker 4: Society with the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: I think just it's sort of owning the fact that

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Speaker 3: the objective is always to get people more comfortable once

714
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Speaker 3: they're in the door. I think that's why great play

715
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Speaker 3: by play guys are capable. Great analysts on games are

716
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Speaker 3: capable of breaking things down in a way where you

717
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Speaker 3: never feel like you're being talked down to. You feel

718
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Speaker 3: like you're learning something, but you also feel like you're

719
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Speaker 3: talking to a buddy and you're getting a better sense

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Speaker 3: of what's going on, and by the end of the game,

721
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 3: you're the one that's saying, oh, man.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe that he failed for that double move again.

723
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Speaker 3: You know that that's what we need, I think, in

724
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Speaker 3: all of these sports because the entry point is the Olympics.

725
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Speaker 3: And part of the reason I'm not sure that there's

726
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Speaker 3: the carryover for four years that there could be is

727
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Speaker 3: because there's not really a follow up to that entry point.

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Speaker 3: There's not a way that takes people from good to

729
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Speaker 3: great in that process. I promised we would get there.

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Speaker 3: We will get there.

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Speaker 4: Next.

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Speaker 3: We are about to have one of the weirdest off

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Speaker 3: seasons you will ever see.

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Speaker 4: In the NFL.

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Speaker 3: But there is one name that's out there in the

736
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Speaker 3: trade rumors already that can make a difference. We'll tell

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Speaker 3: you about it next. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 3: It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific.

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Speaker 4: I will say this loud and proud. I cannot wait.

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Speaker 3: Presuming everything works out the way it's supposed to Sunday morning,

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Speaker 3: eight am the men's gold gold medal matchup. I wanted

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Speaker 3: to be USA versus Canada. I'm going to go sit

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Speaker 3: in a bar somewhere and I'm going to gorge on food. Well,

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Speaker 3: I watched this thing at eight in the morning on

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Speaker 3: the East Coast.

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Speaker 5: Cat But what does gorging on food look like for

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Speaker 5: you right now? Because like famously, well you know.

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Speaker 4: What I'm I'm still cutting. Okay, I mean I'm still

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Speaker 4: in the middle of.

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Speaker 5: My I thought that was done after the Super Bowl.

779
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Speaker 5: I'm starting to get worried.

780
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 4: Okay, don't get worried. I will say this.

781
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 3: We started to cut in early December and the results

782
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 3: started to really kick in right before the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: So then Jeff Black, my amazing trainer down in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: That is a shout out because he has changed my life.

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Speaker 3: Jeff Jeff came in and said, hey, man, I think

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00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 3: you still got room to go if you're willing to

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Speaker 3: keep trying. So I'm pudging. Hey, pudge you dude.

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Speaker 5: A like a dryer and like see what shakes and

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Speaker 5: circle the fat parts with a sharpie like sorority.

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Speaker 2: The people still think that was probably.

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Speaker 3: I do have to take some really awkward pictures for

792
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Speaker 3: him every week because you know, he's in Nashville and

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Speaker 3: I'm not, so he sees a lot of me in

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Speaker 3: my underwear. But you know what you said, Bud, You

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Speaker 3: like five nine five nine in a quarter man five

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Speaker 3: used to be five nine and a half. I'm shrinking

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Speaker 3: at my old age, four pounds one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: eight pounds of rock solid muscle.

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Speaker 4: I'm a I'm almost into single digit body fat.

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Speaker 6: Dude.

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be I'm small but mighty.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick you up on body slam you next

804
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Speaker 3: time I see you in Nashville, which.

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Speaker 4: In my age will hurt my hips in my back.

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Speaker 5: For about say, you were more likely that you've probably

807
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 5: got some kind of calcium deficiency at this point, like

808
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 5: your bones are gonna break you get you an old man?

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00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 4: You know that I am getting old? That is that

810
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 4: is fair.

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Speaker 3: I just signed up for High Rocks too, so I'm

812
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 3: gonna do my first High Rocks. I'm not doing the

813
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 3: whole thing. I'm just doing a relay on the team.

814
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 4: So I'm my.

815
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Speaker 5: First let my gym do that. I'm like, the hell

816
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 5: is wrong. This is forty five years old. You're out

817
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Speaker 5: there with a torn hamstring, you know, doing medicine ball

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Speaker 5: what do they call wallball and stuff like that, after

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Speaker 5: running sprints and carrying sandbags and all these different things,

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Speaker 5: like people are inside.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got the only thing that I said. I

822
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Speaker 3: absolutely want the fireman's carry. I'm in for that, Like

823
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 3: I am fireman's carry all day. Like I'm good for that.

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Speaker 3: Don't make me lunch. I like my tiny, tiny, tiny

825
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 3: bird legs can barely handle, like I love it. Every

826
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Speaker 3: time somebody's like, oh here, just put this weight on

827
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Speaker 3: your while you wear this weighted vest while you lunge,

828
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Speaker 3: I'm like, just lunges by themselves and yourselven off the

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Speaker 3: toilet for a week.

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Speaker 4: Like there's just no, there's no there's no grace for me.

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Speaker 4: Nobody wants to hear about this anymore. I'm sorry. He's

832
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Speaker 4: buck rising on Jason Fitz.

833
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 3: Now that we've completely gone off the rails, aj Brown

834
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 3: is in the trade rumors all over the place again.

835
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: And it's funny because now there's a video popping up

836
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: of him talking about Mike Frable and how he hated

837
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Speaker 3: Mike Rabel, but Mike Frable made him better. Like, none

838
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 3: of this is accidental, right Buck? Like, So something is

839
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 3: broken with the Eagles and all of a sudden, look,

840
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 3: I don't care how we look at this offseason. The

841
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 3: number of qualified offensive coordinators that wanted nothing to do

842
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 3: with that job.

843
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 4: Says something to me. So something is bad behind.

844
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Speaker 2: Me, shocking.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we really didn't get into that on the

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Speaker 5: Saturday Show. It feels like the Eagles attempts to find

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00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 5: an offensive coordinator they ultimately settled on sewn Manyon. If

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00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken, right, Yes, that is one of the

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Speaker 5: biggest storylines. I just got done with a Brian Dable

850
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Speaker 5: press conference on what was that Wednesday, and there was

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00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 5: reports out of Philadelphia that, like Dable never even got

852
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 5: offered the job. I don't know how many people they

853
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 5: actually offered the job to, but the optics of how

854
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 5: many people took positions in places other than Philadelphia, where

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00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 5: they are a year removed from winning a Super Bowl

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00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 5: champion championship with a lot of the same pieces and

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Speaker 5: parts it was.

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Speaker 2: That's a huge story.

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Speaker 3: When you start talking about offensive coordinator openings in Buffalo,

860
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 3: where they have Josh Allen and not much else.

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 4: Cook is also a great running back. I don't want

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00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 4: to say not much else, but not a lot of

863
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 4: past catching weapons. You talk about the offensive coordinator job

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Speaker 4: in Baltimore where they have Lamar right, like we keep

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Speaker 4: talking about. Man, if you've got a quarterback and a

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Speaker 4: couple of weapons, you are one of the most enticing

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Speaker 4: jobs on the market. I think it says something about

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Speaker 4: how the league views the stability of Nick Sirianni. I

869
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 4: think it says something about how.

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Speaker 3: The league views Jalen Hurts and how the league views

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Speaker 3: aj Brown in the wide receiver room. Overall, how the

872
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 3: league views that offensive line. I mean, they lose their

873
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 3: offensive line coach, who is a legend in the NFL

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Speaker 3: because he steps away. He'd rather just not be around

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Speaker 3: than be around that team. It's just so much of

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Speaker 3: this chaos speaks to something culturally behind the scenes. Must

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Speaker 3: be wrong in that building. When everybody keeps trying to

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Speaker 3: fire exit out of that thing, when you're looking for

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Speaker 3: the emergency exits on something where you have that much talent,

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Speaker 3: that just has to speak to what is perceived somewhere

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Speaker 3: to be a lack of stability or a lack of

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Speaker 3: ability to actually go in there and coach the.

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Speaker 5: Way you want to coach, which is interesting because like

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Speaker 5: it's it's feast or famine and Philly when it comes

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Speaker 5: to offensive coordinators, right, you either get a head coaching job,

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Speaker 5: you get fired.

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Speaker 2: It's been it's been one extreme of the other. AJ.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's probably worth flushing out. Like if there

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Speaker 5: is a team or teams plural, if there are multiple teams,

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Speaker 5: because there could just be one team and you mentioned

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Speaker 5: the head coach of that team already, Mike Rabel, that

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Speaker 5: makes sense for an AJ Brown trade, but we could

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Speaker 5: probably talk about some different landing spots for AJ because

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Speaker 5: there's a number of teams that could use that guy's services.

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Speaker 5: God knows, I'm sitting here in Nashville, Tennessee. They still

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Speaker 5: wish they had an AJ Brown and still curse the

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Speaker 5: name of John Robbinson, the general manager who traded them

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Speaker 5: away for what ended up being a bag of peanuts

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Speaker 5: after the fact, with all due respect to Trailing Burk's.

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Speaker 3: Nah, I mean there's not a lot of respect there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, bag of peanuts is probably he.

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Speaker 5: Made the catch of the year in the NFL, which,

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Speaker 5: by the way, after he got cut from the Titans.

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Speaker 5: Of the Commanders caught the touchdown reception of the year

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Speaker 5: from Titans legend Marcus Mariota baby full circle Titans fans in.

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Speaker 4: Hell, Mario Pa.

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Speaker 3: As we learned through the broadcast repeatedly, that was a delight,

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Speaker 3: all right. Some of the landing spots for A. J.

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Speaker 3: Brown And what's it mean for the rest of the

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Speaker 3: free agency class. We'll tell you next Bucking Fits on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.