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Speaker 2: Yeah, once again live in the dream.

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Speaker 3: As we are here in the month of March, the

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Speaker 3: A doubt.

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Speaker 2: Coast to coast number A doubt.

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Speaker 3: That that was reminiscent of Mayucile Bruins. Way back in

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two NCAA Tournament games, second round against Missouri

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Speaker 3: Tyus Edney going length to the court at the buzzer

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Speaker 3: to pull out a big victory. There there was a

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Speaker 3: point second length bet. That was an amazing play. Just

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Speaker 3: advances to the Big Ten championship off of a.

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Speaker 4: Made free throw, which is steal Steele here this a

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Speaker 4: million times over the next.

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Speaker 2: About thirty days ago.

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Speaker 4: Stop the ball just right down the middle of the

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Speaker 4: court man basketball one on one.

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Speaker 2: That is an amazing finish.

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be Michigan and Wisconsin in the Big

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Speaker 3: Ten championship game.

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Speaker 2: We got obviously a lot of March madness.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to tomorrow's selection Sunday. So with the

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Speaker 3: conference tournament's going on right now, we're gonna break it

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Speaker 3: down for you exactly what these conference tournaments mean in

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Speaker 3: terms of seating for the NCAA Tournament.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have Aaron Torris, of course, our Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: radios own.

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Speaker 3: He will be joining us coming up in our second hour,

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Speaker 3: coming up here in about twenty minutes. We're gonna be

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Speaker 3: joined by the one and only Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider.

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Speaker 2: We got a ton of NFL news to get to Martin.

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Speaker 3: But when your school, and if you don't know martinumission,

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Speaker 3: I'm a UCLA guy, so we have a lot of

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Speaker 3: history in the nca basketball tournament. I don't know when

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Speaker 3: when your team is not relevant, like UCLA didn't make

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Speaker 3: the tournament last year, and it was really hard for

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Speaker 3: me to engage in the tournament on that rare occasion

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Speaker 3: when UCLA is not there. But does it amp up

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Speaker 3: a little bit for you when, especially with a big

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Speaker 4: Of course, it amps up when your school's in it,

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Speaker 4: of course it does. Like but I do know, I

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Speaker 4: don't think this Michigan team is nearly as good as

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Speaker 4: they could be. But you got to remember the time

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Speaker 4: that I got to Michigan. Rich Rodriguez's first year as

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Speaker 4: Michigan had football coach was my first year at Michigan.

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Speaker 2: So the five years that I was at the University

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Speaker 2: of Michigan. I looked it up.

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Speaker 4: It's the worst five years in Michigan football history by

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Speaker 4: just about every metric, right, points scored, points allowed.

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, you had Denard Robinson.

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Speaker 4: And I'm telling you it is the worst stretch in

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Speaker 2: Was the five years I attended to school. Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 4: What goosed to show you how good Michigan football has

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Speaker 4: been since basically inventing the game of football in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a time when Michigan thought maybe we

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Speaker 2: So I know the feeling.

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Speaker 3: When I was at UCLA, we lost to USC and

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Speaker 3: football four straight years, first time ever. It was only

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine Ucla? Notre Dame had a home and home.

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Speaker 3: They weren't even at our conference, they weren't independent. We'd

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna have a lot of basketball to get to.

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Speaker 3: Also, we got a lot of football here, Martin, and

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Speaker 3: As far as the quarterback carousel is concerned, I want

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Speaker 2: A fringe playoff team. I mean, that's where they are.

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Speaker 3: So they have the defense, they have other elements that

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Speaker 2: You've got Aaron Rodgers. Let's start with Aaron Rodgers. If

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Speaker 2: I had a choice, and you're Aaron Rodgers, here's your

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Speaker 2: play for the Steelers, or you could play for the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the answer, the number one answer is the Vikings.

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Speaker 4: They have the best chance to go on a run here,

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Speaker 2: And now you have the Lions.

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Speaker 4: We got to see what they do with their with

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Speaker 2: I'm not a Jordan Love believer.

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Speaker 4: It seems like everybody else was fine after you know,

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Sam Darnold after fourteen good games didn't get the same

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Speaker 2: I don't. I can't figure out why.

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Speaker 4: Being sarcastic, but I just don't believe in Jordan Love

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Speaker 4: But like if Aaron Jones had to run for two

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Speaker 2: Be about the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 4: I think that the Vikings, despite their lack of playoff

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Speaker 4: we'll see if Ben Johnson's good. I know the rest

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Speaker 4: don't know. Building a makeshift offensive line through free agency,

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Speaker 3: Iberflus was the favorite to win Coach of the Year

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Speaker 3: I'm with you as far as if Minnesota is in play,

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Speaker 4: See the if Minnesota's in play part to me is

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Speaker 4: don't under I understand it from Rogers perspective one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: I want to go to Minnesota too if I was.

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Speaker 4: Him, If I'm the Vikings, how would I want to

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Speaker 4: that I would just have the guy that's already been

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Speaker 4: him sign you could have easily beat whatever Seattle did.

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Speaker 4: Sign him, And if you're still not in love with JJ,

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Speaker 4: give him another year in the same quarterback room.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers sucks all the error of that room.

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Speaker 4: It makes no sense to me that the Vikings would

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Speaker 3: I agree with you, and this is why something is

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Speaker 2: Of why they were not going to give Sam Darnald.

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Speaker 3: They weren't going to franchise tag him, so they weren't

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Speaker 3: He was in the MVP conversation until those last two games.

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Speaker 3: Obviously the blowout loss against the Lions, you know, for

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Speaker 4: But Dan, why are you calling Aaron Rodgers Because maybe

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Speaker 2: Here's the dynamic game. Get your I get your point.

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Speaker 2: But then why did you not keep Sam Darnall?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so we all agree that Kevin O'Connell is now

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Speaker 2: So why wouldn't you believe in him? With the rookie

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Speaker 3: Now we're talking this, and again my first question for

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Speaker 3: And then Mason Rudolph Kate played pretty well the last

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Speaker 2: But what other options do you have?

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Speaker 3: Look, the Atlanta Falcons made a decision to keep Kirk

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Speaker 3: they do that? Well, maybe they're thinking if Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: make a trade to get Kirk Cousins, and we're gonna

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Speaker 3: gotten offers for Kirk Cousins, he'd be long gone.

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Speaker 2: You know. It was crickets out there, right, yeah.

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Speaker 4: But but somebody's gonna be in the game.

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Speaker 2: Oh, what's the game? Oh what is it?

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Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness, the kids game where you have a

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Speaker 4: thank you, goodness gracious.

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Speaker 4: Obviously it sounded out, but it's one of these three

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Speaker 3: start with this one, Adam, right off the top, do

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Speaker 2: We have serious interest in Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 6: They have interested in Aaron Rodgers. Guys.

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Speaker 7: It's very simple. He needs to make a decision. As

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Speaker 7: This situation, folks, is very unique. Where you've got the Giants,

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Speaker 7: really bizarre. Mean, think about it, Steve, you and I

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Speaker 4: And I want to ask you because so we were

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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

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Speaker 4: His point is basically that the Vikings only cared about

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Speaker 4: I imagine are one of the reasons that you're interest

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Speaker 6: Actually I don't agree with that at all.

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Speaker 8: Okay, so then why why would they do? What happened

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Speaker 8: Like Sam Darnold came out of nowhere. This guy had

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Speaker 7: Here's the problem. See, this is the problem, Steve with

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Speaker 7: But they haven't ruled it out. They've kept it open

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Speaker 4: And it's kind of the same thing that happened last year.

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Speaker 7: Well, we're in March, so that's something that they're going

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Speaker 7: if they do that. I know they need a lot

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Speaker 6: I really like. But you're cut. You're right here. It's

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Speaker 6: Just watch what happened.

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Speaker 3: how does nil change the demand dynamic in the transition

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Speaker 3: from college to the NFL. Well, the bottom line is,

443
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Speaker 3: if you're a premier quarterback at the Division one level,

444
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Speaker 3: you're already a millionaire. You've already got a million dollars

445
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Speaker 3: in your pocket. And we saw it last year with

446
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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams and now a lot of people have been

447
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 3: knocked cam Ward knocking Shduers Sanders, you know, basically trying

448
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Speaker 3: to dictate to the NFL how they want to run

449
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Speaker 3: their business against the NFL wishes. And then all of

450
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Speaker 3: a sudden we hear, oh, well, this guy's dropping. I

451
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Speaker 3: don't buy that for a second. We hear that every

452
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Speaker 3: year in the draft, that's guy's coming down. You know,

453
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of smoke screen and everything else. But

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Speaker 3: how has it changed. Is this a level of frustration

455
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Speaker 3: for the NFL gms and other decision makers because they've

456
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Speaker 3: been running it one way for all these years, that

457
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Speaker 3: these elite college players are already coming from a position

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Speaker 3: of power because the ara of money in their pockets.

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Speaker 7: Steve, You're definitely right. There's some percentage of guys who

460
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Speaker 7: clearly could come out that are staying in school and

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Speaker 7: they're going to stay another he and obviously the schools

462
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Speaker 7: love this because they stay an extra year. But yeah,

463
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Speaker 7: there's it's definitely hurt the draft. It's a great bother.

464
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Speaker 7: This is a great topic I'd love to talk about

465
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Speaker 7: as we get closer to the draft we actually do it.

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Speaker 7: I could give you the list players who clubs thought

467
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Speaker 7: might come out and they didn't. They didn't They stayed

468
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Speaker 7: because they're getting paid, which is there's nothing wrong with it.

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Speaker 7: That that's that's college sports now. And and by the way,

470
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Speaker 7: colleges now have general managers. It's it's some foreign personnel executives,

471
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Speaker 7: personnel directors are now college general managers. That there's they're

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Speaker 7: gonna be salary caps. It's crazy what's going in college

473
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Speaker 7: football and college sports in general. You're right, Steve, there's

474
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Speaker 7: no question it's hurt the draft now? Is it her quarterback?

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Speaker 2: Enough?

476
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Speaker 7: The early word I got And obviously this is super

477
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Speaker 7: early that the draft next year now again, depending on

478
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Speaker 7: who comes out, has a chance to be better than

479
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Speaker 7: this year's. There there are a bunch of quarterbacks guys

480
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Speaker 7: that I've talked to really like for next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how this all plays out. But it

482
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Speaker 2: just and something I would definitely want to get subject.

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Speaker 3: Man, it's a great subject, Martin and I will get

484
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Speaker 3: into a little bit controversial.

485
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Speaker 2: Very controversial.

486
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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 3: Uh, bottom line, do you expect Aaron Rodgers to be

488
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Speaker 3: signed by the time we talk next one?

489
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Speaker 7: I'd be very surprised if he's. If it's not done

490
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Speaker 7: by Wednesday, they're on there, They're on his timeline. There's

491
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Speaker 7: no pressure to do this. Obviously this is holding up,

492
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Speaker 7: but it's really Steve.

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Speaker 6: I got to leave you with this.

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Speaker 7: This is my twenty seventh year of cover the National

495
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Speaker 7: Football League. I've never really seen a pathetic situation. I'm

496
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Speaker 7: not blaming him. It's not his fault. He's doing what

497
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Speaker 7: he feels like he needs to do. It's the clubs

498
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Speaker 7: that put themselves.

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Speaker 6: In this position. It's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: It really is.

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Speaker 6: Gave quarterback play.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff, has always Adam. I'm sure a big week

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Speaker 3: ahead of us. We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Adam's good.

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Speaker 6: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 2: That's Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider. All right, let's find

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Speaker 2: out what is trending right now.

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Speaker 3: And Martin, I guess you're gonna have to You're gonnaill pitch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, take that. I'm going off to Tommy John he's

510
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Speaker 2: got to he's got a d he's got to do

511
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Speaker 2: it all well.

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Speaker 4: If I'm not up, if I'm not updating people on

513
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Speaker 4: the conference championships and what am I doing?

514
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Speaker 2: What do you got for US North Texas right now?

515
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Speaker 4: The thirteen to ten lead, just under ten mins left

516
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Speaker 4: in the first half of the AAC semi final.

517
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Speaker 2: Earlier today we saw the AAC.

518
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Speaker 4: Let's see, Memphis is going to advance to the conference

519
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Speaker 4: championship game.

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Speaker 2: There, so they'll place the winner of that game. Of

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Speaker 2: that North Texas UAB game.

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Speaker 4: They beat Memphis be two lane, seventy eight to seventy

523
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Speaker 4: seven in the semi final. Other game live right now

524
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Speaker 4: Arizona in Houston and the Big twelve championship finals.

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Speaker 2: So the winner of this it's an automatic bid. But

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Speaker 2: both of these teams.

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Speaker 4: Probably the tournament teams already. Definitely Houston's only lost four

528
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Speaker 4: games on the year. They're really just all waiting to

529
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Speaker 4: see what line they'll be on, whether it'll be a

530
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Speaker 4: one and spoiler.

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Speaker 2: Probably will be.

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Speaker 4: Tennessee beat Auburn in the semi final the the SEC

533
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Speaker 4: tournament seventy to sixty five. Florida beat Alabama on the

534
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Speaker 4: other side of that semi final, so that's one hundred

535
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Speaker 4: and four to eighty two the final score Florida versus Alabama.

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Speaker 4: So we had a Florida Tennessee final in the SEC tournament,

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Speaker 4: Wisconsin being Michigan State the Big ten semi final.

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Speaker 2: Michigan beat Maryland on the.

539
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Speaker 4: Last second shot right as we got on the air,

540
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Speaker 4: eighty one to eighty to score there seventy seven to

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Speaker 4: seventy four the Wisconsin Michigan State score. So we'll see

542
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Speaker 4: Wisconsin and Michigan in the Big Ten Championship tomorrow. Bryant

543
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Speaker 4: punched its ticket to the dance winning the America East

544
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Speaker 4: Conference championship, and we saw Norfolk State beat South Carolina

545
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Speaker 4: State sixty six to sixty five in the MIAC Tournament

546
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Speaker 4: to go ahead and get the automatic bid for their

547
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Speaker 4: conference as well. Nine time Pro Bowl fullback colleg Uschak

548
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Speaker 4: resigned with the forty Nineers and a two year eight

549
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Speaker 4: million dollar deal, former Eagle Makai Beckton signing with the

550
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Speaker 4: Chargers on a two year twenty million dollar deal, and

551
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Speaker 4: the Commander's resigned defensive end at Cleveland Ferrell to a

552
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Speaker 4: one year deal.

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Speaker 2: Back to us, Steve, I love when you say that, Martin.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 6: Martin.

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Speaker 3: I will talk to you right now. As a matter

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Speaker 3: of fact, once again, this is Fox Sports Saturday. Steve

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Speaker 3: Hartman and Martin Whites with you. We're coming live from

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Speaker 3: the Higherack dot Com studios. I do want to remind

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Speaker 3: everyone very quickly here, like basketball Tractor Supply knows what

561
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Speaker 3: a winning season takes, practice, teamwork, and can do can

562
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Speaker 3: do attitude. Now it's Bracket Challenge season, so be sure

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Speaker 3: to complete your bracket at foxsports Radio dot com beginning

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Speaker 3: and get rules. The winning bracket and the Fox Sports

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Speaker 3: Radio Bracket Challenge will win a twenty five hundred dollars.

567
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Speaker 2: Gift card to Tractor Supply. A perfect bracket will win

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Speaker 2: you one million dollars.

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Speaker 3: You can preregister now, then be sure to fill out

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Speaker 3: your bracket between Sunday night and Thursday morning before the

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Speaker 3: begins at Fox Sports Radio dot com. It's all sponsored

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Speaker 3: by Tractor Supply for Life out there. By the way,

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Speaker 3: here's the final stings. I want to give the final

574
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Speaker 3: standings from last year's challenge here in house of all

575
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Speaker 3: the on air people. So Chris Plank one, Aaron Torres

576
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Speaker 3: was second. Aaron will join us in the next hour.

577
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Speaker 3: Jared Smith was third, Steve Hartman was fourth last year. Yeah,

578
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Speaker 3: my big takeaway there, Yeah, that's a real tough break

579
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Speaker 3: for Torres. Yeah all that. Yeah, it was actually tough

580
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Speaker 3: because he actually tied Chris Plank at the top.

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Speaker 2: Sam is here, Iowa, Sam's in the house. What do

582
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Speaker 2: you got for us? Sam Steve.

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Speaker 9: I've been asking hosts lately about this all hostedt FSR.

584
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Speaker 9: How would you spend a twenty five hundred dollars gift

585
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Speaker 9: card to tractor Supply. I get a lot of people

586
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Speaker 9: who struggle to answer that. I could tell you what

587
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Speaker 9: I would buy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I don't have any immediate thought about a tractor.

589
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Speaker 9: You have a nice I've been to your house. You

590
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Speaker 9: have a night lovely front and backyard. You need landscaping done,

591
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 9: so we do. Although as you know, we have artificial grass.

592
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 9: Yes you do, but you have other real living botanical

593
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Speaker 9: features we do.

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Speaker 3: So well, why don't you explain to me how, having

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Speaker 3: been to my house, would I best use that money

596
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: from tractor Supply Man Mulch.

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Speaker 9: I would probably get one of those little like John

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Speaker 9: Deere wheelbarrows. I would get like a spade and a

599
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Speaker 9: hoe and a shovel. You know, you could buy like

600
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Speaker 9: a weed whacker. You know, you could buy a mower,

601
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Speaker 9: maybe some ego. You know some of those battery those

602
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 9: really powerful battery operated equipment if they have those. You

603
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,239
Speaker 9: got some grills grills, you know, dog food man all

604
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Speaker 9: kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Of course I would get all this stuff. I would

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Speaker 3: personally use it because I do zero around there.

607
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Speaker 9: You're not really a super outdoor guy. I'm a zero,

608
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Speaker 9: not just not a super, like a zero like indoors

609
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Speaker 9: and sports.

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Speaker 2: I pay people to do this. There you go as

611
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: long you can buy, then well that's a great deal

612
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: and so definitely all of us. Well, how did you

613
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: do last year in this?

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Speaker 4: I actually believe I didn't submit. What do you mean

615
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 4: there's not enough time anymore?

616
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Speaker 2: What do you mean that you have it till Thursday?

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Speaker 4: No, because here's the thing you do, but you don't,

618
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Speaker 4: because really you gotta do all these play in games,

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Speaker 4: and all it is is just.

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Speaker 2: Be sixty four four games. Do I want to get

621
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Speaker 2: a perfect bracket or not?

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Speaker 6: Steve?

623
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Speaker 2: You do want a million? Do I want a million dollars?

624
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 10: Not?

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Speaker 6: Steve?

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Speaker 2: I don't even know who's I mean? Come on, You're

627
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Speaker 2: you're stuck on like Dayton or like VC. How am

628
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 2: I supposed to? You know? Saint Mary's is gonna be

629
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: Colorado's state?

630
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Speaker 3: Howe Here, here's here's one of the reasons you're normally

631
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 3: I completely flame out in these. But the reason I

632
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: did better last year is that I didn't get stupid.

633
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Speaker 3: I pick Ukon to win it all. Yukon was such

634
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Speaker 3: a runaway favorite. I mean, think about this, They've won

635
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Speaker 3: back to back national championships. That's twelve to zero in

636
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Speaker 3: the tournament, and they've won all twelve games by double digits.

637
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Speaker 2: Do you think that'll continue this year? I do not. Well,

638
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: Yukon's going to be like an eight seed. So if

639
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Speaker 2: they pull it this year again, Aaron Taurus is you

640
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Speaker 2: can yu kan Yai to the role though no doubt

641
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Speaker 2: it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I didn't get cute last year. I decided

643
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Speaker 3: just just don't be stupid. Take u Kona win it

644
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: whether you like it or not, and they'll be in

645
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Speaker 3: the play. I wanted to follow up Martin with the.

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Speaker 4: Other record, I'm by the snowmobile from factors supply nice.

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Speaker 9: Well, you definitely at least a down payment or a

648
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Speaker 9: payment or two. I don't know, very nice.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to fall up on the last question I

650
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Speaker 3: asked of Adam kaplan with you talking about the fact

651
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Speaker 3: that and we saw it a little bit last year

652
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Speaker 3: with Caleb Williams sort of dictating the NFL how he

653
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 3: wanted things done. Of course, he still was the number

654
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Speaker 3: one overall pick in the draft. I don't think the

655
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Speaker 3: NFL honestly cares. I mean, there's a lot of noise

656
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Speaker 3: right now about cam Ward and Shodoor Sanders and a

657
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Speaker 3: certain attitude that they're bringing. And of course they've already

658
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Speaker 3: you know, you know, shud Or was driving around in

659
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Speaker 3: his rolls Royce and everything else. And my my only

660
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Speaker 3: question for a young quarterback coming into the league with

661
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Speaker 3: a lot of attitude is you better prove yourself quickly,

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Speaker 3: because when you go into that locker room with those

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Speaker 3: veteran players and your braggadocio, you better, I mean you

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Speaker 3: better back it up day one because a quarterback not

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Speaker 3: only has to perform on the field, he's got to

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Speaker 3: be a leader on that football team. That would be

667
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Speaker 3: my only concern about running your mouth before you even played.

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Speaker 2: A game in the league.

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Speaker 4: But that has been true of every quarterback since the

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Speaker 4: start of the televised draft, right which.

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Speaker 3: Means you don't run your mouth before the draft. But

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Speaker 3: who can I how about Josh Rosen? Remember him running

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Speaker 3: his mouth did work.

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Speaker 2: Out, but it also didn't like Josh Rosen.

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Speaker 4: The reason it didn't work out for Josh Rosen was

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Speaker 4: not because he had something to say or not say

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Speaker 4: on draft night.

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Speaker 2: The reason they didn't work out for Josh Rose couldn't play.

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Speaker 2: But that was my point.

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Speaker 3: In other words, Josh Rosen went to the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 3: you know, saying that everybody picked in front of him

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 3: was a mistake. He's the guy, and I knew players

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Speaker 3: that were on that Arizona team. They came in with

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00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 3: this attitude like you better be good, and when it

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00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 3: turned out he couldn't read basic defenses, they completely lost

686
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Speaker 3: small faith that he was ever going to be a quarterback.

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Speaker 4: There's a difference between the quote unquote chip on your

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Speaker 4: shoulder that I think that Josh Rosen had and even

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Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield to an extent had, and just being rich

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Speaker 4: like Shador Sanders to me just seems rich. He is

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Speaker 4: like no, but I'm saying, but like, I don't think

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Speaker 4: that there's any level of like like should do I've

693
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Speaker 4: he says I'm the best quarterback in this class. But

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Speaker 4: it's not some like you're making a mistake if you

695
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Speaker 4: take cam Ward Like I haven't heard that level of

696
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 4: like no, no, no, cam Ward sucks.

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Speaker 2: I'm the best guy out here.

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Speaker 1: This is no.

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Speaker 2: I'm just have a level of confidence and I'm.

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Speaker 4: Rich, and to me, I think the bigger thing that

701
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Speaker 4: people are overlooking here and it and partly is because

702
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Speaker 4: you can't separate the fact that Shador Sanders is Deon Sanders'

703
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Speaker 4: son from him as a prospect, and cam Ward is

704
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Speaker 4: not necessarily while he is a very good quarterback, understanding

705
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Speaker 4: he had the same star power that some of the

706
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Speaker 4: other like even a Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: Had at USC, Cam Washington stink you done have the

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Speaker 2: same juice. But I think what we're seeing is is

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Speaker 2: that's right.

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Speaker 4: We used to draft quarterbacks and are used to draft

711
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Speaker 4: players in general and be concerned, Oh, man, is the

712
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 4: money gonna change him? Well, Sir George Sanders, It's been

713
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Speaker 4: a millionaire since he was nineteen years old, and his

714
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Speaker 4: daddy had millions his entire life. Cam Ward's been a

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Speaker 4: millionaire since he was twenty.

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Speaker 2: One years old. The money ain't gonna change him already.

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Speaker 2: The money's already. If the money's changed him, it already has. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's my point.

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Speaker 3: Though hasn't changed That was my question again to Adam

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Speaker 3: is the fact that the attitude of these quarterbacks changes

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Speaker 3: because it's not about looking for that big first million

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Speaker 3: dollar paycheck. They've already got the money in the bank.

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Speaker 3: Now these guys are actually gonna take a pay cut.

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Speaker 4: Oh sure, But I think I think the two things

725
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Speaker 4: are at play here in Nil first of all, then

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Speaker 4: everybody and this is the other thing that I feel

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Speaker 4: like just gets overlooked. And I get it because it's

728
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Speaker 4: been five years ago, but this is the COVID class. Like,

729
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 4: this is the class that if you you either your

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Speaker 4: freshman year, you either like classified up, were classified down,

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Speaker 4: or you chose to play.

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Speaker 2: This year or whatever. So we had all these six

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Speaker 2: year guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Cam Rising has been in college. I've lived in

735
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Speaker 4: California for eight years. I feel like I've watched him

736
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Speaker 4: play for Utah. He's talking about it. He's talking about

737
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 4: an eighth year coming up exactly. So like so that's

738
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Speaker 4: just throwing all of this for whack in general. Right,

739
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Speaker 4: That's why I think the idea of shador is falling

740
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 4: is crazy, because like we had six quarterbacks last year,

741
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Speaker 4: we have none this year really, or just two or

742
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Speaker 4: three this year that are deemed to be can't miss guys.

743
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Speaker 2: And next year there'll be a ton It's more has

744
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: to do with the way that college football broke down

745
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Speaker 2: than nil does.

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Speaker 4: But to me, I'm about to hire. I'm about to

747
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Speaker 4: sign a guy and pay him life changing money. I'd

748
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 4: like to know that he's already gotten some of life

749
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 4: changing money before and that's who he is.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell me what to do, Sam, Oh my good stuff?

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 3: On the other side, I want to get to a

753
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 3: proposed NBA trade. They could once again set the NBA

754
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 3: on fire. We'll explain.

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Speaker 1: Please don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 3: in the next hour. We'll have much more on what

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Speaker 3: to expect on selections Sunday. But I wanted to get

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Speaker 3: to an NBA story that's taking a life of its own,

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00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 3: and it has to do Martin with a potential NBA

773
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 3: trade after this season. So Siakam left Toronto to go

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Speaker 3: to Indiana, and there is buzz that Polenka and the

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00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: Lakers could be interested in making a block buster deal

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00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 3: to get Pascal.

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00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 2: Siakam away from the Indiana Pacers.

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Speaker 3: It would cost them Austin Reeves, it would cost them

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Speaker 3: some of their lesser players like gab Vincent, Jared Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 3: and probably multiple number ones. But moving forward, you would

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00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: have Siakam, who's a three time All Star, two time

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Speaker 3: All NBA performer.

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00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 2: He'll turn thirty one in April.

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00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 3: He comes with a big price tag, but you would

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00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 3: put him in there with Lebron and Luka Doncic. So

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00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 3: if you were the Lakers, and by the way, Austin

787
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 3: Reeves this year is averaging nearly twenty points per game,

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00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 3: would you get rid of Austin Reeves, others and future

789
00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 3: number ones to get Siakam.

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Speaker 2: You think that would take the Lakers to the next level.

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Speaker 6: They'll know.

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00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: They all know did trade for the Lakers to go

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00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: to the next level. Already got made, you know, Steve.

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00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe the rest of the NBA forgot.

795
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: I know that the Dallas Mavericks teamingly did.

796
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 4: But I'm old enough to remember last Conference finals and

797
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 4: NBA where Luca Doncis walked through the Western Conference with

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00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 4: the with trade parts for all due respect who were

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Speaker 4: starting for the Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards. Like No,

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't mark mortgage any of my future for any

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00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 4: of the past. Gal Siakam, not a chance. I'm looking

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00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 4: for somebody seven feet toss spring, you can do catch

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00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 4: alley oops.

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00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 2: That's what I need right now. Yeah.

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00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: Siakam obviously a big body, but he's six eight, he's

806
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 3: two forty five, he's a forest.

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00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 4: I already got one of the Lebron He's better right

808
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 4: now with forty two years old than Pascal Siakam is

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00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 4: at twenty whatever.

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00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 2: He is.

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Speaker 3: The Lakers, in the midst of a four game losing

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00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 3: streak of Lebron out of the lineup yesterday, though it

813
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 3: was a very couraging game for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this.

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 3: Pretty much everybody was out. They sat out Luca, you know.

816
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 3: The only thing they had Reeves and Dalton Connect went

817
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 3: wild yesterday. That's the one thing we've seen Connect at

818
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 3: times this year really go off from three point land.

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Speaker 3: I would hope that after what he did yesterday Denver

820
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: did prevail, but only by five points in a game

821
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Speaker 3: which they were I believe fifteen point favorites last night.

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Speaker 2: That they would use him more.

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Speaker 3: Why aren't you, Why aren't you working more of your

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00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 3: offense around Dalton Connect, a big man that can fill

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Speaker 3: it up from the three point.

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Speaker 2: Line, Because I got two of the best.

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Speaker 4: One like one of the top three players in the

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Speaker 4: NBA right now when he's in good shape and top

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Speaker 4: seven when he's not, and Lebron Like, I'm not worried

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Speaker 4: Dalton Connected to go stand over there in the corner

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Speaker 4: and shoot threes, get out the way and just stay open,

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Speaker 4: you know, and then they'll figure it out from there.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: I do like moments like this for a team like

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Speaker 4: the Lakers, who have such veterans presents on their team,

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00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 4: and guys are gonna be huge impactful parts down the

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00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 4: stretch because you're gonna need a third guy to step

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Speaker 4: up consistently. Let get Austin Reeves get out and connect

839
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Speaker 4: those guys, those reps. Because on any championship level team,

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00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 4: you got to have your role players to play to

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00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 4: the level that they're at right where this playoff have

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00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 4: be a final. So on a lot of times we

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00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 4: see these guys, the role players fall off and the

844
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 4: stars just can't make enough of them, make make up

845
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Speaker 4: enough of the difference to carry the whole thing through.

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Speaker 4: So I appreciate, you know, moments like this for Dalton

847
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 4: connecting Austin Regis and so on, But I mean the

848
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 4: move that needed to be made for the Lakers to

849
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 4: really be lock stock and Barrel Championship contenders was I'm

850
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 4: trading for a guy who's seven feet who can rebound

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00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 4: the block shots that just didn't come through with the

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Speaker 4: Mark Williams do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: By the way, for the Lakers right now, after this

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00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: four game losey streak on the road, they have the

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00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 3: next six at home, but they better start winning again

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00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 3: because right behind them, the te Wolves have won seven

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00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: in a row. The Warriors have won six in a row,

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00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 3: and suddenly they're pulling up on the Lakers, who have

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Speaker 3: fallen into a five seed now in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 3: Remember what a week ago they were the two seed.

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Speaker 3: Oh not a week ago. But the Nuggets, Rockets, and

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Speaker 3: the Grizzlies. There's some interesting players in the West right now.

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Speaker 2: I like that timber Wolves team.

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Speaker 3: I do too, But Jean Morant's having her hot run

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Speaker 3: for the Grizzlies. Much work coming up here on Fox

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Speaker 2: So after.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you look right now, after Auburn's loss,

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Speaker 3: Arizona has a slight early lead in that game. I

882
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 3: don't know about you. And again we're gonna be joined

883
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 3: by Aaron Torres later on in this hour. I just

884
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 3: don't know how much seating is really gonna matter in

885
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 3: this tournament. It really always seems to just come down

886
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 3: to matchups. You know, yesterday my UCLA Bruins in the

887
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 3: Big Ten tournament and then they got ambushed by Wisconsin

888
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 3: who just made everything because just one of those games, everything.

889
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 2: They threw up boom boom, boom, boom boom.

890
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 3: Game over happens in the tournament all the time, where

891
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 3: we see teams that are, oh yeah, this a Final

892
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 3: four team and they go belly up even before the

893
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen when they run into a hot shooting team.

894
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 3: But this year, especially to me, just seems like a

895
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 3: mixed bag.

896
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 4: Again, a lot of the same reasons why this NFL

897
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 4: draft is a mixed bag is a lot of reasons

898
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 4: why college basketball all over the last two years has

899
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 4: been kind of nuts.

900
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 2: Even though Yukon has won.

901
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 4: Back to back along the way, you know, the ride's

902
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: been insane, right, I don't think anything matters less of

903
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 4: Sports than the number one overall seed in the March

904
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 4: Madters Tournament. I don't think any seeding spot matters less

905
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 4: you'll play. You play the same amount of games as

906
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 4: everybody else. You have just the same amount of shot

907
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 4: in week in week two, in round two of the tournament,

908
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 4: to lose to that eight or nine whoever's just hot

909
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 4: on a run, like you talked about earlier. Today, you're

910
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 4: talking about UCLA might be a sixth seed, could fall.

911
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 4: That's a team that could fall to an eight to

912
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 4: nine spot and knock off a one seed.

913
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

914
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 4: Like, I don't think being the highest rated overall best

915
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 4: team in college basket. I think it is the least

916
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 4: important of all possible regular season or regular season.

917
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: Awards that you could possibly get. It is incredible when

918
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 2: you think about this.

919
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 3: So the Associate a Press, which of course has had

920
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 3: their rankings forever in both football and basketball.

921
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: But here's the deal.

922
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: Since nineteen eighty two, now, the AP does not put

923
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: out a final poll in basketball. In other words, their

924
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 3: final poll is before the tournament. They obviously don't do

925
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 3: a poll after the tournament because that's meaningless. They actually

926
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 3: have a tournament on like well, football is beginning to

927
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 3: get in that direction. But how about this stat since

928
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty two, the team that is ranked number one

929
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: in the country. Since nineteen eighty two, ranked number one

930
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: in the country going into the NCAA Tournament has actually

931
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 3: won the tournament six times.

932
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: In forty three years.

933
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 3: See, like I said, the number one ranked team, So

934
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 3: it really doesn't matter.

935
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 2: I mean we And here's the bottom line.

936
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 3: And I for years when I was covering the Final four,

937
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 3: which coincides with the National Association Basketball Coaches the NABC,

938
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 3: so you had a chance to really sit down a

939
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 3: lot of these coaches, many of which obviously had had

940
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 3: great seasons, but they fell for short of the final four.

941
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: And they say, you know the insidious thing about the

942
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament.

943
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 3: If it wasn't for March madness, I don't know what

944
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 3: kind of national interests they would be in college basketball

945
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 3: because of the tournament. Though it's huge, I mean, it's

946
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 3: so unique, and that's why it's such a special time

947
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 3: of the year. Once the brackets already everyone's going to

948
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 3: be filling out a bracket before we get to next

949
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: week's show.

950
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

951
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 3: Ultimately, your season is decided in terms of how successful

952
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 3: your year was based on what you did in the tournament.

953
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 3: You can win your conference championship, you can win your

954
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 3: conference tournament. It won't matter if you don't make a

955
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 3: good run in the NCAA tournament.

956
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 2: On high level, at the highest level. I think that's true.

957
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 4: But I think it absolutely matters if you are coaching

958
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 4: Norfolk state that they won the top champions.

959
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 3: Okay, but that just to get you punch your ticket

960
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 3: into I get that part. But let's say Michigan. I mean,

961
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: Michigan doesn't have the same I look at it this

962
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 3: way with UCLA, like, if UCLA gets in the tournament,

963
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 3: they should be in the tournament. That's that's no accomplishment

964
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 3: at all. I don't even count it as a tournament

965
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 3: appearance unless they get to the second week. You get

966
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 3: to the sweet sixteenth. Fine, that's that's what, in my opinion,

967
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 3: UCLA should always do. And that's a legitimate run in

968
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: the nca tournament. Do you hold Michigan to the same standard,

969
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 3: not year by year, but this year I do.

970
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 4: But I get what you're saying, But it's because we

971
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 4: went to these big box schools, right, we went to

972
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 4: these big brand schools that have you know, billions of

973
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 4: dollars in their athletic departments, millions of dollars of endowment.

974
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 4: And if they don't is why don't? Like the answer

975
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 4: is why don't you have millions of dollars to spend

976
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 4: on athletics? Because you got to like, these are two

977
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 4: schools in UCLA and Michigan that are thought leaders of America.

978
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 2: That's public schools, by the way. But you know what

979
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like the research that comes out of these places.

980
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 4: You know, I know that's a hot topic these days,

981
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 4: but the research a couple of these places formulates a

982
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 4: lot of the way that people think and live their lives. Right,

983
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 4: So that's what we're talking about here, we're talking about

984
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Middle Tennessee State play Liberty right now

985
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 4: in it's conference championship game.

986
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: That matters.

987
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 4: But to me, that's why I love this time of year.

988
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 4: And I'm very rarely sentimental and very rarely nostalgic. I

989
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 4: think what's happening right now is good enough for me.

990
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 4: Remember when is the most boring part of conversation. But

991
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 4: this is the first thing or the mo I say,

992
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 4: the last thing I say that really feels like collegiate

993
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 4: about college sports to me. Like that kid Doug Edit

994
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 4: whatever his name was, from Saint Peter's a few years ago.

995
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 4: He's not playing Pro Bowl. Like when we line this

996
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 4: thing up later and there's sixty eight teams and much

997
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 4: to my extra grin with there should only be sixty four.

998
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 4: You know that of the sixty four teams, sixty of

999
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 4: those sixty teams will have no pros on them at all. Right,

1000
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 4: you just have nobody in there's going pro and you

1001
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 4: get this is like the last chance you really get

1002
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 4: to be on the HI level as an athlete.

1003
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: So I still still holds a special place in my heart. Absolutely.

1004
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 2: And here's the thing, like when we talk about I'll

1005
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: go back to this.

1006
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,720
Speaker 3: So you have the final MVP known as the MP

1007
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 3: most outstanding player since Anthony Davis in his one and

1008
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 3: done year Lake Kentucky the championship in twenty twelve.

1009
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 2: Among those that have been the MOP of the final four,

1010
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 2: such you got a Kyle Guy is one of them.

1011
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 3: Kyle Guy's one is Dante DiVincenzo, one of them Divicenzo.

1012
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 2: How about Joel Berry? How about Tobyatt North Carolina?

1013
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 10: Yeah?

1014
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 3: How about Tyas Jones at Duke Shabaz Napier of Yukon,

1015
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 3: Luke Hancock of Louisville, Jared Butler A Baylor. I don't

1016
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 3: want to talk about lukenk How about Tristan Newton last

1017
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 3: year of Yukon. I mean literally when you look at

1018
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 3: these guys, because you go back in time and you

1019
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 3: see names like Patrick Ewing and Alkeem olajo On and

1020
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 3: you see all these legendary names that you know went

1021
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 3: on the great James Worthy. I mean, here's a run

1022
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 3: of mops he had, Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, Jane's Worthy

1023
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: of Chema Loaje and Patrick Ewing.

1024
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: Those days are over. The stays are over. They are

1025
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 2: over for now.

1026
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 4: But we'll see, We'll see how I think, because the

1027
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 4: reality is this, those guys stayed in college basketball because sensibly.

1028
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 2: They had to write not necessary. I mean, the vibe

1029
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 2: was not the same for a guy coming out.

1030
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 3: Tim Duncan could have come out any year at Wake

1031
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 3: for US. He decided to play force full years there.

1032
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 3: How that affected his NBA career.

1033
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying, but my point is is

1034
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,959
Speaker 4: that the idea that Tim Duncan, like Tim Duncan five

1035
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 4: years ago would have never stayed the entirety. Right, there

1036
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,919
Speaker 4: was more likely than that guys were going to stay

1037
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 4: in college for a long while.

1038
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 2: I no, no, now we're talking nil. Now you're saying

1039
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 2: that what I was about to say.

1040
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 4: That's that's why I say we may like how much

1041
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 4: if you, if you are Duke, right, how much money

1042
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 4: is Cooper Flag worth to you?

1043
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 2: Okay? Well this is if you say North Carolina who struggle?

1044
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: How much money?

1045
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?

1046
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: All Right?

1047
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 3: You gotta believe Cooper Flag already is making millions, all right,

1048
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 3: already as an eighteen year old, he's already handed. What

1049
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 3: if this ankle injury is serious enough for he doesn't

1050
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 3: have any impact at all in this postseason not playing

1051
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 3: the a SEC Championship game again, We'll talk with Aaron

1052
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 3: Torres about his availability. A lot of people are speculating,

1053
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 3: assuming obviously Duke is the number one seed, that he

1054
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 3: may not play in the first, you know, a round

1055
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 3: of sixty four. He'll wait till the round of thirty two,

1056
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 3: maybe wait till the sweet sixteen.

1057
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 6: Depends on the.

1058
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 2: Mask regardless compromised in the tournament in some way, right.

1059
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 3: And Let's say Duke falls short, and maybe he says,

1060
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 3: I mean, he's already said publicly, I'm sorry.

1061
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 2: He turned eighteen in December. He's the second youngest player

1062
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 2: in the country. He says, what's the hurry?

1063
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 3: And of course your argument is this, all right, Let's

1064
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 3: say for argument's sake, all right, Cooper, you can make

1065
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 3: ten million next year in NIL money. That's still less

1066
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 3: than his rookie contract in the NBA rookie contracts Now

1067
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 3: for a guy that would be in the number one

1068
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 3: overall pick somewhere between fifteen and twenty million per year

1069
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 3: for the first four years, and then by the assuming

1070
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 3: he's the player we all think he's going to be.

1071
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 2: I mean, he's staring at what seventy million a year?

1072
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 6: Eighty million a year?

1073
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 4: Think about it like this, though, think about it all

1074
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 4: you want to put that off, well, think about it

1075
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 4: like this.

1076
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: Let's say, like cause you are when you're going into

1077
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 2: the draft.

1078
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 4: And this is another thing I think that the NFL

1079
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 4: teams should consider as we are moving into this new

1080
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 4: era of athlete where Caleb Williams was the first nil quarterback,

1081
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 4: right now, everybody else is going to be a nil whoever, right,

1082
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 4: they talk about, like we talk about some of the

1083
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 4: conversations behind Shador Sanders and some of the conversations you

1084
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 4: have with different teams.

1085
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 2: Right, Well, maybe he's like, look, I don't want to

1086
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 2: play for.

1087
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 4: Your team, right Like if Cooper Flax says, I don't

1088
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 4: want to be the you know, the next to Washington

1089
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 4: Wizard or the next Charlotte Hornet, I will stick around here,

1090
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 4: get better make ten million dollars a year, because you're

1091
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 4: right that seventy million is seven times more than ten million.

1092
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 4: But Josh Allen point earlier this week, if you got

1093
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 4: ten million dollars at nineteen years old, you don't got

1094
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 4: nothing in the world to care about at all. And

1095
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 4: you are a place where you are the man on campus.

1096
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 4: You're still in college. They're gonna they'll build a statue

1097
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 4: of you if you stay for a third year. By

1098
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Speaker 4: this point, and not only that, you get to make

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Speaker 4: your money up front so you could drive a cool car.

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Speaker 2: I went to Michigan football players.

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00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 4: Driving nights cars, you know, Like now now he could

1102
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 4: actually drive a Lamborghini run Chapel around Durham.

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Speaker 3: I once had a conversation with Matt Leinert after he

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00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 3: won the Heisman Trophy as a junior and decided to

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00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 3: stay his senior year.

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Speaker 2: And I asked him, what was it like to be

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00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 2: walking around campus?

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00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 3: You're he was a red shirt as well, so his

1109
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 3: fifth year at USC with a Heisman trophy?

1110
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 2: What was that like to walk around campus? And he goes,

1111
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 2: exactly what you would think it was. It's like, at

1112
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 2: least said about Prince, you saw the girls want to

1113
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 2: date and what the guys want to be in.

1114
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 3: Ask our buddy LeVar Arrington what it was like to

1115
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 3: be big men on campus at Penn State. He goes,

1116
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 3: you know what it was like to as a sophomore

1117
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 3: superstar already at Penn State to walk out of Beaver

1118
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 3: Stadium and basically just raise my hands and one hundred

1119
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 3: thousand people come to their feet.

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Speaker 2: Now as a nineteen twenty years old, now come on,

1121
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 2: leave that. Yeah, yeah, loose the phone.

1122
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 4: You leave that with the attitude that you're gonna go

1123
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 4: be a top five pick in the NFL Draft. You're

1124
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 4: gonna make the life changing money that he eventually did.

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00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 4: Michael Vick told me to my face that if he

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Speaker 4: was able to make fifteen thousand dollars at Virginia Tech,

1127
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 4: would have stayed. He would have stayed for another year

1128
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 4: because he was gonna be a top five pick anyway. Yeah,

1129
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 4: he just had to make sure his mama to pay

1130
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 4: the rent. Cooper Flags, mama ain't worried about no rent

1131
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 4: or mortgage for that better?

1132
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 2: Right, I mean again more vacation. By the way, what

1133
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 2: is the deal now?

1134
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 3: You can have an agent, right obviously if you're making money,

1135
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 3: So that would used to be the what would prevent

1136
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 3: seriously someone to say you get drafted and like, nah,

1137
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 3: I mean I guess you have to declare for the draft.

1138
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 2: But you have to declare for the draft. First of all,

1139
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 2: you have to be declared for the draft.

1140
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 4: But also what keeps you from doing that is the

1141
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 4: rest of the league won't like you have to have

1142
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 4: a job, right, Like there's only a half Like.

1143
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 2: You said that, that's seventy million for Cooper Flag. It's

1144
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 2: only available in the NBA.

1145
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 4: So if he says, no, I'm actually not gonna go

1146
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 4: get get my head kicked in sex sixty times a

1147
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 4: year in Charlotte, he can.

1148
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 3: Sit out a year with the money he's already made, right, sure,

1149
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,280
Speaker 3: but he's going to be a better situation.

1150
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 4: The following you're not going to be able to engineer

1151
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,959
Speaker 4: it in a way that's going to make sense because

1152
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 4: the rest of the league won't go for it.

1153
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 2: But it is a change dynamic.

1154
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 3: But again, when we talk about the NCAA tournaments, you're

1155
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 3: ready for brack. I don't think there's going to be

1156
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 3: a wrong answer. This tournament especially is going to be

1157
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: one of those absolutely wide open seasons.

1158
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 2: All right.

1159
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Speaker 3: Coming up on the other side, we got a lot

1160
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 3: more NFL news to get to. We really haven't talked

1161
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 3: about some of the deals that were made and which

1162
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 3: team right now seems to have done the best job

1163
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 3: in terms of helping them through free agency. We'll break

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Speaker 3: it down. This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harroon, Martin Wise.

1165
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,960
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1173
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1174
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. So Martin, it's been a very busy week

1175
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 3: for free agency around the NFL, and it's not too

1176
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 3: early to talk about which teams have actually improved themselves

1177
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 3: and those that are falling behind.

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00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you one right now that.

1179
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 3: I think potentially really hit a home run, and it's

1180
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 3: still waiting on the quarterback.

1181
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 2: If Aaron Rodgers is.

1182
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 3: The next quarterback of the Steelers with the deal they

1183
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 3: got DK Metcalf, that is a vastly improved Steelers offense.

1184
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Speaker 3: I don't think there's any question about that. And if

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Speaker 3: they get a legit quarterback, they can get the ball

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Speaker 3: from point A to point B. One thing you have

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Speaker 3: to remember about Aaron Rodgers this past season, as miserable

1188
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Speaker 3: as the year was, he started all seventeen games, every game, sure,

1189
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Speaker 3: and his numbers were not awful. I mean they were

1190
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Speaker 3: like twenty eight touchdowns eleven picks. I mean the team

1191
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 3: went sideways. The Steelers situation not perfect, but is a

1192
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Speaker 3: better situation than he left behind with the Jets. And

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Speaker 3: if he could stay healthy, again and start seventeen games

1194
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Speaker 3: with the addition of Metcalf.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt.

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Speaker 3: I mean with Pickens, they've got weapons in Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 3: they can hold that defense together. I think the Steelers

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Speaker 3: are a team because again they're a per a free

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Speaker 3: team every single year. In the conversation to make the postseason,

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Speaker 3: that could actually say they came out.

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Speaker 2: Big time on top of the free agent market.

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Speaker 4: I reserved the right to say yes or no until

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00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 4: that quarterback deals done, Steeve, So you know, we both

1204
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 4: have several other jobs outside of this building. We work

1205
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 4: in TV in different capacities. My job at TV is

1206
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 4: to look up a lot of times, look up numbers

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Speaker 4: to justify a point here, there, elsewhere.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 4: At no point in the last seventeen weeks of this

1210
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 4: NFL season that I look up a number in DK.

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00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 4: Metcalf was on top of it besides penalties earned. Like,

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Speaker 4: I think DK is fine, and I think he's an

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Speaker 4: improvement over Calvin Austen or whoever you know you would

1214
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 4: have opposite George Pickens. But he doesn't move my needle

1215
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Speaker 4: like I don't think he doesn't. I don't see where

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Speaker 4: like I get that he was like the class. To me,

1217
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Speaker 4: Devontae Adams was a receiver I would have gone after

1218
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Speaker 4: in this class, and Chris Godwin maybe after that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not signing anybody to a long year.

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Speaker 4: None of these receivers to me, are really moving me,

1221
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Speaker 4: especially when last year he had four rookies go for

1222
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 4: a thousand yards. Like, I'll probably take my chances there.

1223
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Speaker 4: But to your overall point, the Steelers have been a

1224
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Speaker 4: quarterback away for a while now from being real contenders.

1225
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Speaker 4: So DK makes them a better team. He doesn't move

1226
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Speaker 4: the needle to me until I know who's throwing him

1227
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Speaker 4: the ball.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll give you another team that I think

1229
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 3: is definitely upgraded. That's got to be the Commanders. I mean,

1230
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Speaker 3: you want out, you got Deebo Samuel. Deebo Samuel is

1231
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 3: a very interesting player because he had that one superhuman

1232
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 3: season right where he's an elite receiver, he's a running back,

1233
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,919
Speaker 3: he's this hybrid, he's doing all these things.

1234
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Speaker 2: The last three years have not been nearly to that level.

1235
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Speaker 3: But not only that, you add Tunsil as well, so

1236
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 3: you give yourself a premiere, five time Pro Bowl tackle

1237
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 3: to help protect your young quarterback. I gotta believe. Here's

1238
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 3: my only concern about the Commanders a lot. And we

1239
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 3: saw this with the Texans this last year, where you

1240
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 3: have this unexpectedly big year, especially with a rookie quarterback,

1241
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 3: and the next year you always seem to take a

1242
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 3: step back before you hopefully take more steps forward.

1243
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 2: That could happen.

1244
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 3: The Commanders aren't going to sneak up on anybody right now.

1245
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 3: They're obviously playing in a division where at least on paper,

1246
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 3: they're a better team than the Cowboys.

1247
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,919
Speaker 2: They're not as good a team as an Eagles team.

1248
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 3: But when he added Deebo Samuel and what he can bring,

1249
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 3: that's if you can really work him into the offense

1250
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 3: and the addition of a premier offensive tackle like Tunsil,

1251
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 3: that's a major upgrade for the Washing Commanders.

1252
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1253
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 4: Well, Deebo, I think it's a really low risk, high

1254
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 4: reward because you're going to eat a salary cap money

1255
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 4: right now. And I know that's not telegate free agent signing,

1256
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 4: but it was a trade. But to point I make,

1257
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 4: you only cost you a five for a fifth round pick,

1258
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 4: right so next year you can decide to either re

1259
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 4: sign him and say all right, debo, thank you or say,

1260
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 4: all right, Debo, thanks for the memories, and all it

1261
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 4: cost you is a fifth round pick. Now, this is

1262
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 4: a league in which fifth round picks are continuously starters

1263
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 4: year and year and year out. You can use Debo

1264
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 4: in the right way. You can get a lot out

1265
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 4: of that. Tunsl's more interesting to me. Get thirty one.

1266
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 4: You're going to sign into a new contract as well,

1267
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 4: and which makes it interesting. I think he's one of

1268
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 4: the best tackles in the league. And it doesn't matter

1269
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 4: what I think, you just look at any other number.

1270
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Speaker 10: He is.

1271
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Speaker 2: But what's fascinating to me is why he left.

1272
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 4: I know Houston, our white Houston was ready to move

1273
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 4: on from him at the offensive line that as c J.

1274
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 2: Strow getting knocked around, left, right, and center all year.

1275
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 4: They moved on from their guard Kenyon Green, they moved

1276
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 4: on from another offensive line, and I'm forgetting right now

1277
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 4: and Tunsil to completely rebuild that room.

1278
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 2: You think Tunsl is the type of guy you want

1279
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 2: to anchor a room around.

1280
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Speaker 4: And the reporting that I heard, I believe it was

1281
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 4: on Top mcshay's podcast on the Ring, or was that

1282
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Speaker 4: Demiko rans loves his defensive line because there are a

1283
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 4: bunch of they called them man eaters, I believe, just

1284
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 4: guys who are just real, tough, real you know, the

1285
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 4: type like LaVar Arrington did this once. I saw him

1286
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 4: take an entire sleeve of oreostween his first finger and

1287
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 4: his thumb and eat them all at once.

1288
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Speaker 2: Right, Like, that's what.

1289
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Speaker 4: That's the type of guys that are on the Texans

1290
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 4: defensive line, and it didn't necessarily have those on the

1291
01:00:58,200 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 4: Texans offensive line.

1292
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Speaker 2: That's interesting. Yeah.

1293
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Speaker 3: One other note, DeVante Adams, I'm with you one hundred percent.

1294
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Speaker 3: I mean, look what the Rams did you replace Cooper

1295
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 3: Cup with Devonte Adams. DeVante Adams after you know, the

1296
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 3: Raiders and Jets the last couple of years, teams going nowhere,

1297
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 3: going to a Rams team that right now is the

1298
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 3: favorite to win the NFC West, and you have a

1299
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 3: premier quarterback in Matthew Stafford who still obviously can get.

1300
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 6: It to you.

1301
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 3: You have the Puka Naku on the other side, so

1302
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 3: you're not going to be facing a lot of double

1303
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 3: coverage and everything else. Number One, Randy Moss had two

1304
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 3: invisible years of the Raiders after he left Minnesota, and

1305
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 3: then he showed up in New England, and Tom Brady

1306
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 3: had twenty two touchdowns that first year. I'm not saying

1307
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 3: Devontae Adams is going to have that kind of year.

1308
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 2: But I think he's going to have a huge year

1309
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Speaker 2: with the Rams. I mean and huge. Let's be like,

1310
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: I know that it didn't go well in New York

1311
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Speaker 2: or wasn't going well in Vegas prior that he was

1312
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 2: playing well down the stretch. Devanta Adams had a home

1313
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: in ninety eight yards receiving in a game this year.

1314
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 2: I know he did. Do you know what I mean?

1315
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 3: Day Adams is a Hall of Famer, future Hall of famer,

1316
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 3: and he still has plenty of game as long as

1317
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 3: he has a quarterback that can get him the ball.

1318
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 4: At six touchdowns and seven games down the stretch for

1319
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 4: the Jets, like he has juice Cooper Cup, that juice

1320
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 4: is squeezed in that No.

1321
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 3: No, I hate to say this about Cooper Cup. He

1322
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 3: wasn't exactly a one year wonder, but he really wasn't.

1323
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 10: He was.

1324
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 3: He had the greatest one year, one of the five

1325
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 3: greatest seasons any receivers ever had in the history of

1326
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 3: the NFL.

1327
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 2: But no year in his career was close to that year,

1328
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 2: not not even close.

1329
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 4: And so it's honestly to me, I don't think that

1330
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford is a Hall of Famer, But.

1331
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 2: That's the argument. Get Cooper Cup leading. Look at the

1332
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 2: best the single season yardist for the best receieved, Calvin Johnson, Ye,

1333
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. Who can have cool for rookies?

1334
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 3: There's one through line, Yeah, Matthew Stafford. All right, let's

1335
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 3: find out what's trending right now. Let's bring in Martin

1336
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 3: once again to tell switzspan going on today.

1337
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 2: Mountain West Championship Semifinal.

1338
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Speaker 4: Rather, I'm sorry, Colorado State with a forty three to

1339
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 4: thirty lead over Boise State, sixteen minutes left in the

1340
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 4: second half. There winner that goes onto the automatic qualifier

1341
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 4: for the Mountain West. Look, same deal for the Big

1342
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 4: Twelve as Arizona and Houston going at it. Arizona right

1343
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 4: now with a one point lead thirty eight thirty seven,

1344
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 4: seventeen minutes left in the game. At the half of

1345
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 4: the Big East Championship, Creighton has a twenty eight to

1346
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 4: twenty five lead over Saint John's and in the semi

1347
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 4: final for the American Athletic Conference Championship, they have UAB

1348
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 4: with a forty one to twenty five lead over North

1349
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 4: Texas fifteen minutes left in the game. They're the winner

1350
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 4: of that game will go on to face Memphis in

1351
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 4: the championship game of the AAC. Memphis knocked off two

1352
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 4: Lane earlier today seventy eight to seventy seven. Michigan knocked

1353
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 4: off Maryland, and Wisconsin beat Michigan State, so those two

1354
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 4: teams will match up in the Big Ten Championsallionship tomorrow.

1355
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 4: Tennessee knocked off Auburn in the semi final and Florida

1356
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 4: knockoff Alabama the semi final.

1357
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 2: Today.

1358
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 4: SEC championship game sat for tomorrow. That'll be Tennessee and

1359
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 4: Florida had some tickets punched to the Dance America East

1360
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 4: Bryant beats Maine seventy seven to fifty nine. Bryant is

1361
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 4: going they finished fourteen to two in Conference, Yale going

1362
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 4: out SORR semi final game. Yale will advance to the

1363
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 4: championship of the Ivy League Tournament. Norfolk State, though they

1364
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 4: won the MEAC to go on to the Big Dance

1365
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 4: sixty six to sixty five over South Carolina State. NFL

1366
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 4: news Kyle Yuschak resigning with the forty nine ers two years,

1367
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 4: eight million dollars. Former Philadelphia Eagle Mackai Becton signing with

1368
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 4: the Chargers on a two year, twenty million dollars deal.

1369
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 4: In the Washington Commanders resigning defensive end Cleveland Ferrell to

1370
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 4: a one year deal along with the other moves that

1371
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 4: Steve Hartman says he's really liked that they've made.

1372
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Speaker 3: That does all right, back to us Martin once again,

1373
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 3: this is Fox Sports Saturday.

1374
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Speaker 2: We're coming live from the tay Iraq dot Com studio.

1375
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 2: Johnny us right now.

1376
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 3: He has appeared on every single show today on Fox

1377
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 3: Sports Radio, and he has his own show tonight. So

1378
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 3: I mean, he is literally gonna be Waaldwall here in

1379
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio. That just a measure of his greatness.

1380
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 2: The one and only Aaron Torres is joining us right now. Aaron,

1381
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 2: I heard you coming in today.

1382
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 3: I'm hearing you're right now. I'm gonna listen to you tonight.

1383
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 3: How does it feel to be on twenty four to

1384
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 3: seven on Fox Sports Radio?

1385
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 10: Well, you know, I mean, unfortunately only get paid for

1386
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 10: being on for three, So it is what it is, though,

1387
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 10: you know it's listen. I'll say this man it's a

1388
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 10: fun time of year, and I'm always flattered. First of well,

1389
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 10: I'm flattered when an industry icon like Steve Hartman wants

1390
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 10: to have me on his show. But more than anything,

1391
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 10: I'm just flattered that you guys care about what I

1392
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 10: have to say about college basketball. It's a fun time

1393
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 10: of year. Was on till eleven last night. We'll do

1394
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 10: it again, and certainly a lot to talk about the fabrity.

1395
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 2: All right, Hold, I had a question for Torres. First, Eve,

1396
01:05:58,480 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to cut.

1397
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 10: You off right, history icon too, Martin Wiss, you're an

1398
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 10: industry icon. Two, I didn't mean to leave you.

1399
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that.

1400
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 4: But Steve earlier today ran down the list of the

1401
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 4: top five finishers and the Fox Sports Radio Track to

1402
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 4: supply Bracket Challenge last of last year, and my first

1403
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 4: reaction was tough beat for Taures, tied for first with Plank.

1404
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 2: How are you gonna finish this year? How are you expecting?

1405
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 2: It's up and down?

1406
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 5: Yere?

1407
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 2: I want to know your take first before we get

1408
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 2: to these teams.

1409
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 10: All right, So I'll be real with you. So this

1410
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 10: time last year, you know, I don't know if you

1411
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 10: guys have heard I am a Yukon of lum two

1412
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 10: time defending champion, But I'll tell you the true story

1413
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 10: is that, you know, all year long, whenever it's your team,

1414
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 10: you always watch a little closer and overanalyze. And you know,

1415
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 10: I'm going I'm talking to a buddy who's a Yukon

1416
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 10: fan and all, you know this team, what about that team?

1417
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 10: And he's like, bro, we're so much better than everybody else.

1418
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 10: We're winning the championship. Stop overthinking it. And I was like, yeah,

1419
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 10: you know what, He's right, don't overthink it. Don't be

1420
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 10: the guy that doesn't want to pick a Yukon because

1421
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 10: it's your alma mater, right, And then I'll be real.

1422
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 5: You know.

1423
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 10: I had been a guy that was very critical of

1424
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 10: Zach Ede in college, like I still think he got

1425
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:12,959
Speaker 10: kind of a bogus whistle. But when I saw their draw,

1426
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 10: I really felt like, hey, I don't think anybody can

1427
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 10: beat them in their draw. Until until I don't think

1428
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 10: anybody could beat them in their draw. Whatever region they

1429
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 10: were in the Midwest, I just said, so they were

1430
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 10: the two best teams all year, and basically I just said,

1431
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 10: I don't think anybody can beat Purdue until the final four.

1432
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 10: I don't think anybody's beating Yukon. I had Yukon over

1433
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 10: Purdue in the title game, and so like I'd like

1434
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 10: to say that there was some crazy analysis, but it

1435
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 10: was just you know, my alma mater. I had a

1436
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 10: buddy just like, dude, stop overthinking it. We're gonna be fine.

1437
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 10: We're gonna beat everybody. But I'll tell you this year,

1438
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 10: I don't I don't know that I feel that way

1439
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 10: about anybody, especially in light of the Cooper flag injury.

1440
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 10: You know, Juwan Roberts from Houston is hurt right now.

1441
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 10: So I don't know that I feel that way about

1442
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 10: anybody necessarily, did you.

1443
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 4: I just know I expect a first place finish out

1444
01:07:59,520 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 4: of you.

1445
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 3: And as you were Walll to Wall, well, I mean

1446
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 3: he is Waldwall, and think about it is last year

1447
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 3: I was trying to convince him that you kind of

1448
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 3: had no chance to win because they were ranked number

1449
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 3: one in the final ap Paul I had that stat

1450
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 3: at only five times since nineteen eighty two.

1451
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,440
Speaker 2: Is the number one ranked team going to win the championship?

1452
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 3: That being said, I finished fourth in the pool last

1453
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 3: year because I did pick Yukon, they were runaway. Before

1454
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 3: we get to this year's tournament. Yukon will make this

1455
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 3: tournament barely, maybe an eight seed.

1456
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 2: What happened this year?

1457
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 3: I mean Dan Hurley turned down the Lakers job for

1458
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 3: the opportunity to three peat. If you're in the tournament,

1459
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 3: you still have a chance to do it. But what

1460
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 3: went sideways this year for the Yukon team.

1461
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 10: First of all, Dan Hurley turned down the Lakers job,

1462
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,800
Speaker 10: and perceptionally JJ Reddick had that job. It was a

1463
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,639
Speaker 10: sham interview process. We all know that, but that's another

1464
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 10: conversation for another day. But all that really had, you know,

1465
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 10: first of all, they had four guys drafted off the

1466
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 10: last year's team. You know, I think even in the moment,

1467
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 10: he didn't realize how impactful Donovan Klingon was, who ended

1468
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,599
Speaker 10: up being a top ten pick. I mean, Steph Castle

1469
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 10: is playing like a future superstar right now, and he

1470
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 10: was kind of an ancillary piece on that team last year.

1471
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 10: And I just think, you know, to expect to replace

1472
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 10: four MBA guys in this era is just it's really tough.

1473
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:20,360
Speaker 10: And I'll tell you, you know, I do think I

1474
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,639
Speaker 10: do think there were some misevaluations. You know, it's kind

1475
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 10: of funny, this is kind of inside nerdy stuff, but

1476
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 10: you know, a lot of the guys that are sophomores

1477
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,679
Speaker 10: in this year's class, they were really the last group

1478
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 10: that was recruited before Yukon went on those back to

1479
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:35,439
Speaker 10: back title runs. And I don't mean to be a jerk,

1480
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 10: but I think, you know, in twenty twenty five, I

1481
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 10: think some of those guys probably wouldn't even be recruited

1482
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 10: by Yukon right now. And so, you know, it's been

1483
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 10: a program that has done a great job developing people

1484
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 10: within the program. Donovan Klingon was a Fringe Stop fifty

1485
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 10: recruit turned into a lottery pick. Jeordan Hawkins was a

1486
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 10: French Stop fifty recruit turned into a lottery pick. And

1487
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 10: I just think that the development hit a little bit

1488
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 10: of a wall. They missed on a couple guys in

1489
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 10: the portal, specifically Aiden Mahoney from Saint Mary's, And you know,

1490
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 10: sometimes it is as simple as the misivaluations. And they've

1491
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 10: done they've done evaluating about as well as anybody in

1492
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 10: the sport in the last four or five years. But

1493
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 10: nobody bats one hundred and it's unfortunate because they took

1494
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 10: all their strikeouts left off season, and I think it's

1495
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 10: led to, you know, a solid team, but a team

1496
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 10: that definitely has some major holes this year. And I

1497
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:28,799
Speaker 10: think to your point, Steve, just because the uniform says Yukon,

1498
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 10: there's no miracle run. Just because of what the uniform says,

1499
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 10: they're a very limited team this year.

1500
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 4: All right, Well, Tores, tell me who's going to be

1501
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 4: in about four weeks, like a future accountant, who are

1502
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 4: all losing our minds over as they knock off, you know,

1503
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 4: the blue blood along the way in.

1504
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 2: The sweet sixteen. What teams do you see making the

1505
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 2: tournament that have a shot to do that?

1506
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I always say this, guys, it's really

1507
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 10: hard for me to even like project that until I

1508
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,719
Speaker 10: see a bracket because it is such a matchup tournament,

1509
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 10: you know, I like, like, I always use this example,

1510
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 10: but last year McNee State with Will Wade won thirty games,

1511
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 10: and they where everybody's you know hot, you know, pick

1512
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 10: and then they drink in Zaga and the one thing

1513
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 10: McNees didn't have with size because Zaga had three or

1514
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 10: four seven footers and it was over about four minutes

1515
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 10: into the game. So it's tough to say, you know,

1516
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 10: I mean, listen from the super super super small schools.

1517
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 10: You know, I think one it's kind of worth noting.

1518
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,600
Speaker 10: You know, tonight in the Big West. You know, you

1519
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 10: see San Diego as I think twenty nine and four

1520
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 10: they're playing. You see Irvine, Irvine by the ways, like

1521
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 10: twenty eight twenty nine wins, but probably won't get in

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 10: without winning their tournament. Like those are the kind of

1523
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 10: teams that if you're looking really off the radar, you know,

1524
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 10: I think where a lot of cartage is going to

1525
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 10: come as kind of in that six seven eight range.

1526
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:51,800
Speaker 10: As far as you know, I think the teams in

1527
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 10: the six seven eight range are going to have the

1528
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,040
Speaker 10: ability to knock off these one and two seeds. You know,

1529
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 10: BYU up until last night against Houston was playing as

1530
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 10: well as Anybody'll probably be about a six seed. I

1531
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 10: think Arkansas, you know, everybody wants to criticized coach cal

1532
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 10: they've played about as well as anybody, I want to say,

1533
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 10: in the country. But they've played probably like a top

1534
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 10: fifteen team the last probably six weeks or so. Arizona,

1535
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 10: who's playing right now, is probably gonna be about a

1536
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 10: four seed. They could give people trouble. So what I

1537
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 10: will say, to go back to the original question is,

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01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 10: I don't think it's like last year where you can

1539
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 10: just pencil, you know, three four number one seeds into

1540
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 10: the Elite eight or three number one seeds into the

1541
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 10: Elite eight. I think it'll be a little bit crazier

1542
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 10: earlier in the tournament.

1543
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 3: All right, So every year we hear a lot of

1544
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 3: hype about a conference and then they go belly up

1545
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 3: in the tournament, you know. I mean we've seen it

1546
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 3: time and time again. This year, all the hype is

1547
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 3: with the SEC. Do your eyeballs tell you? And you've

1548
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 3: been nearer and dear to SEC basketball for a number

1549
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 3: of years, even though you have those Yukon roots. Is

1550
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 3: this an exceptional year for the SEC? Are they that

1551
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 3: much better than the acced the Big Ten and another

1552
01:12:58,400 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 3: conferences this year?

1553
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 10: Yeah? You know, Steve, I actually tweeted something to that

1554
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 10: effect earlier in the day. I mean, listen, you know,

1555
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 10: say what you want today.

1556
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 3: You know.

1557
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 10: One, I was just watching Auburn Tennessee at the same

1558
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 10: time I was watching Michigan State Wisconsin. And I'll be

1559
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 10: honest with just looked like two different sports to me

1560
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 10: in terms of the size, physicality, athleticism, all that. But

1561
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 10: I think all you really have to do is go

1562
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,799
Speaker 10: to the outa conference portions of slate. Now, I understand

1563
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 10: teams get better and all that, but you know, Auburn

1564
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 10: beat Houston, who's obviously going to be a number one seed.

1565
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 10: They beat I don't think they beat Michigan State, they

1566
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 10: beat you, Alburn beat everybody. Basically, they destroyed Purdue, they

1567
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 10: destroyed Houston, they destroyed Carolina, they destroyed Memphis whatever. You know,

1568
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 10: Kentucky at full strength beat Duke, and we know what

1569
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 10: Duke's done since then. Alabama also beat Houston. So just

1570
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 10: think about it like that. Steve Houston, as we're talking

1571
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:50,759
Speaker 10: right now, had one loss in Big Twelve play.

1572
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 5: They went zero to two.

1573
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 10: Against the SEC this year. So you know, I think

1574
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 10: that it's even like the team's on the bubble, right

1575
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 10: like Oklahoma they went six and twelve in SEC. You're like,

1576
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:01,879
Speaker 10: how can that team even.

1577
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 5: Be on the bubble.

1578
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:05,400
Speaker 10: Well, they beat Louisville, they beat Arizona, they beat Michigan.

1579
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 10: All three of those teams are playing for championships in

1580
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:08,719
Speaker 10: a power conference.

1581
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 5: So my eyeballs.

1582
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 10: Do tell me, you know that that that it is

1583
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 10: a little bit different, but two things wanted to match

1584
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 10: up based sport, and then the other thing is, you know,

1585
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 10: having the Sunday Championship quick turnaround, and you know, I

1586
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 10: just think beating up on each other, weird stuff can happen.

1587
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 10: So I still think that it is by far the

1588
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 10: best conference. I don't think Texas should be in on

1589
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 10: the bubble, so but you'd still be talking about thirteen

1590
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 10: teams and really just about all of those teams can

1591
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 10: do some form of damage, and obviously the top two

1592
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 10: or three are probably good enough to win it all.

1593
01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 2: Aaron, We're running out of time, so I'm gonna have

1594
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 2: to say goodbye.

1595
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 3: But again, Aaron, remind everyone where you can be heard

1596
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 3: again later today.

1597
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 10: Well, I think you should just follow Steve Hartman's leader

1598
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 10: and keep Fox Sports Radio on twenty four hours a day,

1599
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 10: and there's like a sixty five percent chance you're gonna

1600
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 10: hear me. No, I think I'm an eleven PM Eastern

1601
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 10: tonight with Jason Martin. We're excited to recap the day.

1602
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 10: I'll actually be on with Van Byer tomorrow on Sunday

1603
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 10: when the bracket comes out, so a lot of tores.

1604
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 10: But yeah, I think the best bet and you know,

1605
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 10: I hope our bosses is listening. Are listening? Is just hey,

1606
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 10: just lead Fox Sports Radio on twenty four hours a day,

1607
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 10: and like I said, there's a pretty good chance you'll

1608
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 10: here to us.

1609
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 2: You're the best, Aaron.

1610
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Man, We'll talk to again next week.

1611
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 3: I'm already reserving my spot for next week.

1612
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 2: Thanks.

1613
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 10: Wow, all right fellas well. I appreciate you. Thank you.

1614
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 10: We'll talk soon.

1615
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 2: Okay.

1616
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 4: That's Aaron terraris funny way because the boss is definitely listening.

1617
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 4: He's been texting me about the Vikings quarterbacks for the

1618
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 4: last forty five minutes.

1619
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 2: I know he has. He's like, what do you mean,

1620
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 2: Aaron Roger's going to be the Vikings quarterback?

1621
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 3: He could be Hey, like basketball tractors, supply knows that

1622
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1638
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1645
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1646
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 3: By the way, coming up Jason witz Fits and uh

1647
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 3: Buck Rising. By the way, Buck and I have never met,

1648
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 3: but I want to thank Buck, and that's all I'm

1649
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 3: going to say right now. Buck did me the biggest

1650
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 3: favor of all time, and he has never met me,

1651
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 3: and I've never met him, so I just wanted to

1652
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,040
Speaker 3: say that. I'll explain sometime in the future why I

1653
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 3: am so grateful to Buck Rising.

1654
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 10: Uh.

1655
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 2: Did have any do with a new car a little bit? Yeah,

1656
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 2: all right, there we go.

1657
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Uh And he doesn't No, I don't know, Uh, Sam, Iowa,

1658
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 3: Sam hanging out today, Sam, thanks for being here.

1659
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:40,280
Speaker 2: He's see you and furious two hours here.

1660
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 4: Uh.

1661
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 3: And of course our brilliant producer, Ian who puts it

1662
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 3: all together brilliantly week after week.

1663
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 10: Ian.

1664
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 2: Are you getting sort of comfortable in this slot here? Ian,

1665
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 2: I'd say so. Yeah. Yeah, it's a very quick show.

1666
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 2: I mean we're in, I barely get started and it's like,

1667
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 2: oh man, we got to get out of here, and

1668
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you next weeks. We live this show

1669
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 2: a quarter mile at a time. Yeah, we too. All right,

1670
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 2: so you know, we'll have still a lot of Do

1671
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:09,839
Speaker 2: you believe by this time next week that Aaron Rodgers

1672
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 2: and Russell Wilson will have their NFL home decided for

1673
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five?

1674
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 10: I do.

1675
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 4: I do believe that, and I also I do lean

1676
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 4: to what Kaplin said earlier in the show. Check Out

1677
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 4: the podcast for that, but this is on the teams. Yes,

1678
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:30,719
Speaker 4: this is on the teams at this point, Aaron Rodgers

1679
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 4: holding you hostage like like he is not the hottest

1680
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:33,679
Speaker 4: girl in school.

1681
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 2: Everybody's trying to get the Brown date. That's not where

1682
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 2: we're at. You could do better. Do you think there

1683
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 2: is any chance, assuming that Aaron Rodgers ends up with

1684
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 2: either the Vikings or the Steelers, that Russell Wilson ends

1685
01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 2: up with the Cleveland Browns?

1686
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I think the brown Look, the

1687
01:18:56,360 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 4: Brown's already paying their quarterback, their quarterback room right, one

1688
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 4: of the most in the NFL.

1689
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:03,759
Speaker 2: They're not getting they have to go cheap at quarterback.

1690
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, And people were saying about Deshaun Watson first physically

1691
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 3: he's not even ready to go.

1692
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 2: So I mean it's he still guaranteed. Well I know that,

1693
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 2: and there's no way they could restructure the deal.

1694
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 3: But he still owed the entirety of what was that

1695
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty million dollar contract that he signed

1696
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 3: fully guaranteed.

1697
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 2: He realized why every NFL team wanted to absolutely kill

1698
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 2: the Browns for.

1699
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 3: That deal, because once it was out there, a fully

1700
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 3: guaranteed contract in excess of two hundred million.

1701
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 2: Every other quarterback in the league's like, yeah.

1702
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 4: See, but that's the thing. His play never lived up

1703
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 4: to it. No luck, they're lucky he's not Josh Allen

1704
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:37,640
Speaker 4: or Mahomes or somebody like that.

1705
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 2: It took that deal.

1706
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 4: We were talking about this earlier, Ian was saying that

1707
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 4: the Miles Garrett contract would be the same deal.

1708
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

1709
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 4: I think Miles Garrett just set the market for Michael

1710
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 4: Parsons and everybody else.

1711
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 2: He's going to live up to that deal.

1712
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 3: Would it be something if Deshaun Watson at some I

1713
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 3: did come back and actually rattled off some impressive games

1714
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 3: for the Cleveland Browns.

1715
01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:59,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, I might see that streaming on a Netflix special

1716
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 4: light you know, say that that's all made for TV

1717
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 4: movie right there, And it.

1718
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 3: Would be unbelievable that they begin to actually do that.

1719
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 3: And as far as uh Selection Sunday, are you going

1720
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 3: to do a bracket? Are you not going to do

1721
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:12,560
Speaker 3: a bracket? Here at Fox Sports Radio.

1722
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 2: I just don't like the whole playing idea.

1723
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 3: I want to know the brat to ignore the play

1724
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:18,840
Speaker 3: and nobody cares about the play in

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01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 2: Playing in something it still does here in Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio