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Speaker 1: Coming up, Maybe we'll do a color driven segment because

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about a what if story with

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Speaker 1: a certain NBA player who's a Hall of Famer, a

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Speaker 1: top seventy five player ever, but also is still a

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Speaker 1: what if story. We'll get to that, and I may

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Speaker 1: regret getting to this. His name is Hollering, James. Hollering, James,

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Speaker 1: You're in with Adam Oslin on Fox Sports Radio in

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Speaker 1: for Big Ben Mallor.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I made this show. You know why.

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Speaker 3: I was honest with you when you answered the phone?

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Speaker 3: Who wins in the phone? Chris Holler and James and

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Speaker 3: I got some pigs for you.

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Speaker 1: Uh, let's let's hear them.

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Speaker 4: I guess why not come on Minnesota Lakes at Home

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Speaker 4: with JJ mcconsey or Max Browser over the green bit

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Speaker 4: of packers.

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, you don't know which quarterback is going

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Speaker 1: to be on her center, and you're still taking the

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Speaker 1: Vikings regardless.

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Speaker 3: I'm taking the legacy them from Minnesota born and ray

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Speaker 3: Jon General Hospital.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you something. Coller and James. Where

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Speaker 1: were you and Blair Walsh missed that twenty six yard

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Speaker 1: field goal against the Seattle Seahawks in that wild card game?

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Speaker 5: Do you remember that at my mom's house.

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Speaker 3: In her apartment did?

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Speaker 6: We're not my own and I had a son half of.

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Speaker 3: David the time, but I broke plicea lots money.

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Speaker 1: So were you paying rent or not? What was the deal?

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Speaker 3: I was paying rent, but I lost my down payment,

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Speaker 3: you know, the dowayment, the papers, the battlet.

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Speaker 1: So if you really f up the place they take that,

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Speaker 1: I hope your mother consoled you after Blair Walsh missed

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Speaker 1: that kick, because that is an old timer that I

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Speaker 1: think about as a non Vikings fan. That is fan death.

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Speaker 1: That is the worst thing that could happen to you

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Speaker 1: as a sports fan.

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Speaker 3: And one time on time in my life, I lost

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Speaker 3: forty sixty I still remember this day from a brain injury.

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Speaker 1: Well, it couldn't have been that bad of an injury

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Speaker 1: because you remembered you lost all the money.

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Speaker 3: So I had to You know why I lost that money?

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Speaker 3: Because I was stupid.

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Speaker 1: Well, i'll do it. You probably bet on the Vikings again,

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Speaker 1: didn't you?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: I did. No, I gotta jump round and me and

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Speaker 3: a girl for being stupid.

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Speaker 1: I like you differentiated between the three thugs and the

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Speaker 1: Caucasian girl, but either way, you got your ass kicked.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry hollering where the white

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Speaker 1: women at?

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Speaker 3: I got big dumb. But I'm still not out because I.

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Speaker 1: Love all right, holler and James. I appreciate the phone

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Speaker 1: call down, but not out, like me deciding to take

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Speaker 1: another phone call. I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna try it. Poppy calling in from San Diego on

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Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard Show. I'm at a Mouslin filling in, Poppy,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 6: I love it. I'm coming big top pick for you

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Speaker 6: guys the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And that both are you taking Minnesota as well over

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Speaker 1: Green Bay regardless of the quarterback.

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Speaker 6: No, I'm staying away from that game. You know it's

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Speaker 6: I think that I'm interesting, but I'll tell you the

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Speaker 6: game that I'm interested with it. Poppy, you had your

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Speaker 6: top ten take, and then the cheese Pader and the

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Speaker 6: thank that one because it's a tank show. For who

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Speaker 6: who's going to be taking on this one? Rader Raiders,

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Speaker 6: They're I'll answer you right now for that, Adam. They're tanking,

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Speaker 6: So I'm ridding the city on the spread. Uh, we

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Speaker 6: were taking them. I'm literal right now. The current in

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Speaker 6: the market, Uh, it's my.

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Speaker 1: Now. Is this like a blood Bay guarantee? Is this

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Speaker 1: going to pay our mortgage this month? Is this a

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Speaker 1: stone cold lead pipe lock, like the same lead pipe

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Speaker 1: that our last caller apparently got beaten with back in

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Speaker 1: the day and lost four thousand dollars.

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Speaker 6: That's my number Yeah, that's my number one take, Adam,

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Speaker 6: and and it's going to help you pay your mortgage.

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Speaker 6: And the number two the number two games that I'm like,

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Speaker 6: it's The Stiller, the Showtime game against so crazy. It's

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Speaker 6: we got mister Aaron Rodgers, Lamar Jackson. Oh the whole

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Speaker 6: world gotta be taking Lamar W's Ben the Stiller. So

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Speaker 6: that's pretty I think Aaron Rodgers is going to come

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Speaker 6: from and he's gonna show everyone he still has it

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Speaker 1: Wait, that same Steelers team that just lost to the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. You still got it in him? Are you sure?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: It's all part of the planet, was Roger. It's a scriplike, trust.

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Speaker 6: Me, out of the Stellers will win plus three.

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Speaker 3: I mean, call me crazy.

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Speaker 6: I know you're not really liking that one.

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Speaker 5: And then we're gonna.

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Speaker 8: See the best for last, right, And I'm really liking

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Speaker 8: on this team like you said it earlier. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 8: And then cool, they're gonna be playing on their last

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Speaker 8: team against the Tectans, right, said a whole well like

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Speaker 8: detection Philip Prevers last team. Right, so i'd like.

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Speaker 6: Give me the Frockles plus.

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Speaker 8: Ten and a half ten and a half Philip Prevers

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Speaker 6: You know Texas are gonna win.

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Speaker 1: But all right, fair enough, Poppy, Now, I probably will

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Speaker 1: forget about most of these picks, so I won't hold

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Speaker 1: it against you if you're wrong here. But if you're right,

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Speaker 1: make sure to call back in with big big Ben

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Speaker 1: Mallers back in studio next week, and you let them know.

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Speaker 1: You let them know you were successful and you paid

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Speaker 1: your mortgage for somebody else's I appreciate you, big poppy,

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Speaker 1: thanks for calling it. Steve in Manhattan, Manhattan Beach? Like

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Speaker 1: what Manhattan, New York? What are we talking about? New

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Speaker 1: York all the way new York City? All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what's up? You see? You take a couple of calls

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Speaker 1: and it spreads like wildfire. And we've talked enough about

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Speaker 1: fire off the air. I'm a little bit scared here, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 5: Hey, what's up? I could be it could be in Manhattan,

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Speaker 5: Kansas too. The thing is, this is talk sports radio, man.

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Speaker 5: That's what we're here for to talk about everything.

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Speaker 1: Sports radio, not sports talk radio. It is talk sports

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Speaker 1: radio radio, talk sports. Steve, what do you want to say?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: I just want to comment, you know. I just think

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Speaker 5: the Giants should bench the whole team Sunday and.

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Speaker 6: Lose.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the Rainers did it the other day. Nobody

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Speaker 5: got mad with Crosby.

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Speaker 3: And who's the guy, Bob Hope And it looks.

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Speaker 5: Like the Bills are going to sit out? Uh, Josh

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Speaker 5: Allen and the guy needs a rest anyway, carries the

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Speaker 2: He carries the.

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Speaker 5: Team on his shoulders into the playoffs and listen the

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Speaker 5: Giants could if they too. I think the Raidings would

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Speaker 5: for the Giants to get the first pick, and the

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Speaker 5: Giants could have some fun with that pick. You know

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Speaker 5: they got there anyway.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, because you're in Manhattan. What what's

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Speaker 1: you get a top pick, you're really going to pass

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Speaker 1: on Fernando Mendoza after how good he looked again today?

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Speaker 5: The good they feel they got their quarterback. The Giant

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Speaker 5: fans feel they have their club. Mean, we haven't taken

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Speaker 5: any science to the Poles or anything on this, but basically,

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Speaker 5: the Giants fans steal they have their quarterback and Jackson

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Speaker 5: dart and you know eventually he'll learn to run out

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Speaker 5: of bounds and not collide with three hundred pounds. I'm

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Speaker 5: in head on is.

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Speaker 1: He gonna learn in time? Because I've seen this stuff

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Speaker 1: before and some guys never get it. And Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers, he ever went down and therefore

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Speaker 1: his career was pretty much over at thirty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but he Yeah, but his game was a lot

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Speaker 5: of running involved there too. Now you had just had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it might as well have been hollering.

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Speaker 5: James or screaming Juney whatever his name is there he

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Speaker 5: knows there once was a quarterback in Minnesota, but my

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Speaker 5: name of Joe Capp. He played the same way. He

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Speaker 5: played like he was a fullback runner with the football

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Speaker 5: and it took a lot of shots. But the thing is,

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Speaker 5: Jackson Dots to learn to run out of bounds and stuff.

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Speaker 5: I just won in the first two picks of the Giants.

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Speaker 5: I don't care if it's two first round picks and

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Speaker 5: second and the first. I want a monster offensive line

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Speaker 5: with the two on the monster, I'm got to eat

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Speaker 5: offensive line detecting Jackson Dot. This way, he won't get

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Speaker 1: You know, you're right, there's plenty of fatties in the draft.

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Speaker 1: They'll be able to call monsters and that will block

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Speaker 1: for him. I think it'll happen. Thanks for the phone call, Steve.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, and I'm waiting on that scientific poll.

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Speaker 1: Yes science, let's go to Trent in Wichita. Oh, somebody

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Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth. As me, I led the

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Speaker 1: show with this topic. I am a little bit biased, Trent.

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Speaker 1: Who are you rooting for in that Oregon Texas Tech Game?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I really wasn't rooting for anybody. I'm a big twelve guy.

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Speaker 2: I'm Oklahoma State guy.

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Speaker 1: But no talk organ did to Oklahoma State this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: It was Yeah. I was calling for Gundy's head for

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Speaker 2: like two years now.

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Speaker 1: But that's a lot of head haair. I mean that mullet.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. I still like him. I still like him

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Speaker 1: as not just because of the forty year old man speech.

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Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm forty. He did good things. He

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Speaker 1: elevated that program, did he not?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, he's a legend and still what it

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Speaker 2: was just just an il stuff. It didn't adjust and

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Speaker 2: it was just it's not his gig. Man. He did

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Speaker 2: Three Doors Down from my mom at the late and

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Speaker 2: so I'm I'm a fan. I like the guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of the band Three Doors Down.

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Speaker 2: But okay, go on, you're right, well, listen to this.

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Speaker 2: This is the shocking team to me, was everybody who's

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Speaker 2: acting surprised that the Oregon Texas Tech Game was was

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Speaker 2: such a low scoring battle, and I mean they've only

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Speaker 2: allowed like two hundred and fifty yards a game each

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Speaker 2: all year. Oh yeah, and so they were both defensive

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Speaker 2: teams all year. I mean Oregon had hurt wide receivers

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Speaker 2: all season and they didn't have the same kind of

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Speaker 2: they had that they really didn't blow people out. A

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Speaker 2: they dominated the game, but it was like you know,

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Speaker 1: They didn't have a stiff test, so to speak, like

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Speaker 2: I blessed you with with my voice tonight.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I actually needed that because my voice

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Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor

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Speaker 1: Now Regular Star Bach over there, Adam Ashlean, I love

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Speaker 1: this song. O my songs. Corey Feldman with this song?

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Speaker 1: my NFL matchup rankings list. It's not a list, it's

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Speaker 1: Could I get some of that good, Ben Maller, the

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Speaker 9: Pirate wind is a pirate blustering in from sea with

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Speaker 1: All right, it's all right. It is pretty good. It's

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Speaker 1: Arizona the Cardinals another loss season. They started off winning

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Speaker 1: one point four, Skip, I'll wake you up. Skip thinks

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Speaker 1: throws that are better than that three flies up pick

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Speaker 1: he tossed against Pittsburgh last week. Granted they still won.

435
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Speaker 1: He needs to throw three touchdowns against this Bengals defense,

436
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Speaker 1: which actually puts a lot of pressure on you, not

437
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Speaker 1: because they are good or get to the quarterback so

438
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: bad that if you don't shred them for at least

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns and three hundred yards, It's like, what happened

440
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: you had the Bengals? They give up thirty points per game?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Don't make us question Shador. Don't

442
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Speaker 1: make Skip look like a bigger dumb ass than Shannon

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Speaker 1: made him look.

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Speaker 3: I'm a dumb ass.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've cracked the top five. My fifth most

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Speaker 1: important game I'm looking to watch this weekend that'll be

447
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, as the Jaguars, believe it or not, actually

448
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Speaker 1: have a small chance to grab the number one overall

449
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Speaker 1: seed in the AFC.

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Speaker 7: Million.

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Speaker 1: It's not that bad. It's not gonna happen, but the

452
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Speaker 1: formula is there. First, of course, Jaguars gotta beat the Titans,

453
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Speaker 1: and then Denver needs to lose to the Chargers and

454
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Speaker 1: the Patriots need to lose to the Jets. Okay, it

455
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Speaker 1: is one in a million. It's not gonna happen, but

456
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Speaker 1: there's a chance. Some oddsmakers are saying it's an eight

457
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Speaker 1: percent chance of all these things lining up. Now they

458
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Speaker 1: should probably be more concerned with just winning the division

459
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars, which can occur in two ways. Their magic

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Speaker 1: number is one, which is a Jaguar win or a

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Speaker 1: loss by the Texans. Either one of those things occur,

462
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Speaker 1: and they have the AFC South wrapped up, and the

463
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Speaker 1: AFC South, by the way, looks surprisingly fierce this season,

464
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Speaker 1: Like shockingly, I make fun of that division all the time.

465
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Speaker 1: They're making it more difficult. Remember the Titans and what

466
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Speaker 1: they did in nineteen ninety nine, by the way, to

467
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars beating them three times in the same season.

468
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Speaker 1: They were the only team to beat them that year. Well,

469
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Speaker 1: they can play spoiler here too. Taken on the Jaguars

470
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six and cam Ward he made some

471
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Speaker 1: throws last week against the Saints. It's still lost, but

472
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Speaker 1: he made some throws. His progress. Their team's bad, but

473
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Speaker 1: they're not trying to lose. They're not trying to tank.

474
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Speaker 1: They have cam Ward. What's the point of that. The

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Speaker 1: fourth highest game in my Week eighteen matchup rankings is

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Speaker 1: coincidentally in Houston, where the Texans host the Colts, and

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Speaker 1: that old stallion Philip Rivers, who's looking to be a

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Speaker 1: put back out to pasture to breathe some more. He's

479
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Speaker 1: got ten kids. You include him, You got your eleven.

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00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: On offense, he's got a team. Honestly though, his comeback

481
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Speaker 1: story probably my favorite story in the NFL this season.

482
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Speaker 1: Maybe in sports, the older I get, the more I

483
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Speaker 1: root for the old guys, and Philip Rivers has more

484
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Speaker 1: than outperformed expectations. I think even though he came up

485
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Speaker 1: short and all three games he was competitive. They just

486
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Speaker 1: lost to three really good teams Seattle, San Francisco, and Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: There's no shame in his game or that performance. If

488
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Speaker 1: I'm the Colts, I'm saying, keep your ringer on in

489
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Speaker 1: case Daniel Jones, who's a free agent, doesn't come back

490
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: or is it ready off the Achilles injury? It was

491
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: the Achilles Now it wasn't either. Old man Rivers, you

492
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: might have to be a river to his people again

493
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, if maybe Riley Leonard isn't cutting it, he

494
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Speaker 1: knows the offense. He's a strong presence in the locker room.

495
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Speaker 1: Old gunslingers like him, like, uh, what Brett Farbe was?

496
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Speaker 1: I love you? Man, those guys are different. They're a

497
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Speaker 1: dying breed. The game is better with them. It's better

498
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Speaker 1: with Philip Rivers. I know he's saying, oh, it's probably

499
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Speaker 1: over and you'd have some more kids or raise the

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Speaker 1: family and coach the football team. But come on, he

501
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Speaker 1: played well. He made a lot of these quarterbacks look worse.

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Speaker 1: This guy comes out off the street five years after

503
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Speaker 1: the last game he played. It almost beat some really

504
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Speaker 1: good teams. I know almost. It wasn't his fault. He

505
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: doesn't play defense. But this Texans defense, they might remind

506
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Speaker 1: him why he retired in the first place, because that

507
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Speaker 1: defense is nasty. And they can still win the division

508
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Speaker 1: if they beat the Colts and the Jags somehow lose

509
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: it home to Tennessee. But even if that is very

510
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Speaker 1: unlikely million the Texans still have the inside track to

511
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Speaker 1: the five seed. They are tied with eleven to five

512
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Speaker 1: records with the Bills and with the Chargers, but the

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Speaker 1: Texans own the tiebreaker over both those teams because they

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Speaker 1: beat them in their head to head matchups, which is

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Speaker 1: why currently they're in the five spot. They win, they

516
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Speaker 1: are no worse than fifth in the AFC. I'll tease

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Speaker 1: out my top three in my NFL matchings rankings.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: We'll save it till the top of next hour. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next though, You know how much I love the NBA,

521
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Speaker 1: especially on nights like this where Kawhia is forty five

522
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: for my Clippers and Ben Mallar's Clippers. But something's going

523
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: on the commissioner. He's up to no good evening commission

524
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Speaker 1: The NBA is trying to fix a problem that doesn't

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Speaker 1: even exist. I'll tell you why next. I'm out of

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Speaker 1: oslin in for Ben Mallor. Here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

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Speaker 7: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 6: If it amazes then you don't know anything about basketball.

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Speaker 1: Adam Ashland, Welcome back in. I'm out a maslin in

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Speaker 1: for Ben Mallor. This is Fox Sports Radio. Eight seven

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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox. Is the phone number I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to hear, Snoop, Sorry, got distracted. Eight seven

534
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Speaker 1: and seven ninety nine on Fox. That performance on Christmas

535
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Speaker 1: Day on Netflix, I think it was on the game

536
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Speaker 1: my guy Noah Eagle had or his dad Ian. They

537
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: both were calling games. The production for a Snoop Dog

538
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: performance on a Christmas Day NFL game had like the

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Speaker 1: same amount of money put into it as your typical

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime show. Don't get cheap on me, doc something. No,

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Speaker 1: it was impressive. They didn't skimp at all. There was

542
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Speaker 1: money put into that, and they had all these side

543
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Speaker 1: show people that I didn't know to get all these

544
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Speaker 1: demographics in and like, oh, do you like country? We

545
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: have something to offer you here. It's not just Snoop Dog.

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Speaker 1: Do you like Fleetwood Mac? I think with Stevie Nicks

547
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Speaker 1: out there now, probably not, but they're a big deal

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Speaker 1: right now. Again, that's kind of weird to me too,

549
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Speaker 1: the older I get. I'm at a Mosland in for

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Speaker 1: Big Ben Mallor, and you might know I also work

551
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Speaker 1: for the Clippers. You might know I love the NBA

552
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: And on nights like this where Kawhi Leonard goes for

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00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: forty five and has twenty points in the fourth quarter,

554
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: and while he's thirty four years of age, he's had

555
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: three forty point games in the last ten days. He's

556
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: on a crazy heater like we've never seen before. I

557
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: got a talk some NBA with you guys, and I

558
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: even have a Draymond Green story for next hour we'll

559
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: get into because I'm getting sick of him. But I'm

560
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Speaker 1: sick of all the changes they continue to make to

561
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: try to fix problems, imaginary ones that don't actually exist.

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Speaker 1: Evening Commission, I'm looking at you, Adam Silver. The NBA

563
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Speaker 1: is once again trying to curb tanking. Too many teams

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Speaker 1: losing now to be fair, the Utah Jazz tonight, I

565
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Speaker 1: mean they were playing third stringers and G league guys

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Speaker 1: and who am I thinking of? Lloyd Markinen was out,

567
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: everybody was out, Ace Bailey was out, Keyante George was out.

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Speaker 1: If this was Charles Barkley being asked in that game

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Speaker 1: they play who you play for? They could do that

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Speaker 1: with me, and I can go pretty deep with NBA

571
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Speaker 1: rosters and even I don't know who some of those

572
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Speaker 1: guys were tonight for the Utah Jazz, and this whole

573
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Speaker 1: story of tanking kind of centers around them. The reasoning

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Speaker 1: by the NBA is, well, the Utah Jazz got fined

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Speaker 1: multiple times I think last season for tanking, and they

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Speaker 1: eventually got Ace Bailey out of it. They had guys

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Speaker 1: sitting out games that were not technically hurt or they couldn't,

578
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Speaker 1: I don't know, verify it with independent doctors. John Collins

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Speaker 1: miss half the season market it, missing a ton of games,

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Speaker 1: and they got fined. Danny Aingel's son is the GM there.

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Speaker 1: He's the president of basketball Operations. They were up to

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Speaker 1: some funny business. They wanted to lose. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: try to get a top pick in the draft. And

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Speaker 1: they're not the only team to do this. But the

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Speaker 1: problem is they already made changes to the draft lottery odds.

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Speaker 1: This probably goes back five years now where they flattened

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Speaker 1: out the odds of the top where there was a

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Speaker 1: time where if you were the worst team in the

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Speaker 1: NBA you had like a twenty five percent chance of

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Speaker 1: having the number one overall pick. The odds the odds

591
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Speaker 1: were pretty good. Now they've flatten them out a little

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Speaker 1: bit where if you finish top three, you each have

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Speaker 1: a seventeen percent chance. They're trying to take away the

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Speaker 1: incentive of tanking. They don't want teams at the end

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Speaker 1: of the season trying to lose, like it's that episode

596
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Speaker 1: of South Park with the Little League Baseball going on.

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. What's happened is some of the

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Speaker 1: worst teams aren't getting top draft picks. For instance, last season,

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Speaker 1: instead of it being the Washington Wizards or the Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: Nets or the Utah Jazz, instead of them owning the

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Speaker 1: top picks, they went to San Antonio, they went to Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and people were thinking there's some conspiracy theory the NBA

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Speaker 1: was helping out Nico Harrison, who's now fired because he

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Speaker 1: got Luka Doncis to a big market with the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: so they gave him the number one pick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case. You know how

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Speaker 1: I know that he got fired anyways. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he was in on anything with the commissioner with the

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Speaker 1: NBA where he put his reputation on the line like that,

611
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: because he'll forever be known as one of the biggest

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00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: dumbasses ever. I'm sorry, but it's true. Nico Harris saying, like,

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Speaker 1: you dumb ass, what he did with Luka Nancic, that

614
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: should have been a fine. Well, the NBA is finding

615
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: teams for tanking. That's one of those trades that you

616
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: can never live down. But because teams that were better

617
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: and weren't tanking ended up with top picks, and you

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00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: get Cooper Flagg going to a team in Dallas that actually,

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Speaker 1: if they could ever get healthy, they're decently set up.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving I think might be back in the next

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Speaker 1: month off the ACL. We'll see. It could depend on

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Speaker 1: how they play moving forward and if they're competitive enough.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Yeah, he's he's hurt a lot. Some probably

624
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Speaker 1: call him what's that names, But they're good when he's available.

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Speaker 1: Why are they getting the top pick? These other teams

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Speaker 1: that were much worse, that had better odds, didn't get

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Speaker 1: top picks. They didn't get that generational player. They didn't

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Speaker 1: get Dylan Harper like san Antonio did. San Antonio has

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Speaker 1: had top picks the last three years, Wemby, Stefan Castle,

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Speaker 1: Dylan Harper, and now look at him. They beat OKC

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Speaker 1: three times in twelve days. They look like their next

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00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,439
Speaker 1: or they're now. But all these other teams that were

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Speaker 1: losing intentionally into institutional tanking. Doesn't mean players out there

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Speaker 1: on the court aren't playing hard. You just don't put

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Speaker 1: the best players out there, and that's how you get

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Speaker 1: away with it. But what it does is the undesired

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00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: effect by the commissioner is it makes these teams go, well,

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00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: we didn't get a top pick. This time, we'll get

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Speaker 1: back in the draft lottery again and have another year

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Speaker 1: of trusting the process and tanking because we thought we

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Speaker 1: were gonna get a top pick. Oh, we didn't get it,

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00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: so I guess we'll take again. That's what happens. That's

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Speaker 1: what's happening with Brooklyn, even though they've been winning lately.

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00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: That's what's happening with the Washington Wizards. Those teams didn't

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Speaker 1: end up getting the picks they thought they were going

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Speaker 1: to get because the NBA already flattened the odds, so

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Speaker 1: they have worse odds of getting them, so it keeps

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Speaker 1: them in take mode and in the same cycle over

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Speaker 1: and over again. That's kind of an issue. But the

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Speaker 1: NBA also trying to fix this. It doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: There are some teams that just aren't good decision makers.

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Speaker 1: They aren't trying to tank. They just suck because they suck.

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Speaker 1: You can't confuse every team that sucks with tanking. That's

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Speaker 1: not how it works. Like the Charlotte Hornets, they don't

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Speaker 1: suck because they're trying to get a higher draft pick.

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Speaker 1: They suck because Michael Jordan was in charge for years.

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Speaker 1: They didn't draft well enough, and LaMelo ball is a

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Speaker 1: circus at times, doing Pete Merovich like stuff out there,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure, as people would say, he even

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Speaker 1: knows what the score is. Is he a winning basketball

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Speaker 1: player or not. They have young guys who are learning,

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Speaker 1: like Conkin Nipple, like Brandon Miller. They have to take

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Speaker 1: their lumps. They're not intentionally tanking. That's not what this is.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to solve sports basically, is what the NBA

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Speaker 1: is saying. We can't have any bad teams. No, that's sports.

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Speaker 1: That's how it works. Teams make bad decisions. They have

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Speaker 1: to live with it. If you try to fix this

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Speaker 1: imaginary problem and try to make every team competitive, you're

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Speaker 1: likely gonna have some effect that you didn't see coming

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Speaker 1: where you create something far worse. The whole idea of

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Speaker 1: tanking is an overblown issue, and teams are starting to learn,

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Speaker 1: like the Wizards and the Brooklyn Nets, who have been

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Speaker 1: playing their worst guys to get a higher draft pick,

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't always work out that way since they

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Speaker 1: flattened out the odds. So eventually they might say, well,

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Speaker 1: what's the point of tanking? Doesn't guarantee you the top pick. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: let this process play out. They just changed things five

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Speaker 1: years ago. Don't try to change anything again. We don't

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Speaker 1: need to take away teams' abilities to top ten protect

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Speaker 1: picks and all these things. Because here's the deal. The

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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz this season, a team that was already fined

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Speaker 1: for tanking last year. Well, they have a first round

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Speaker 1: pick that is top eight protected. It has to finish

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Speaker 1: top eight for them to hold hold on to that pick,

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Speaker 1: otherwise it goes to the Oklahoma City Thunder. That's a problem.

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Speaker 1: So they're incentivized to lose to hold on to that pick.

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Speaker 1: And maybe that's some of what we saw tonight with

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Speaker 1: why they played so few guys, legitimate NBA players against

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Speaker 1: the Clippers. The league doesn't like that, especially in early January.

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Speaker 1: They don't want teams tanking this early. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that's necessarily what Utah was doing, but they got

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Speaker 1: busted last season. The NBA wants to stop it from

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Speaker 1: happening again, but they could create something far worse if

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Speaker 1: they're not careful. I'm Adam Oslin in for Ben Mallor

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio