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Speaker 2: be back next week. That's when the Bernie Fradle Trivia

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Speaker 2: game will resume. But but the final two spots in

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Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs for to Saturday night, Miami, Minnesota. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the party, pal, join the fun. They won the

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Speaker 2: final two playing games. But come on, let's face it,

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Speaker 2: in reality, none of these playing teams I believe much

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Speaker 2: of a chance again, you know, against any of the

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Speaker 2: number one seeds in the first round, should they get

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Speaker 2: that far. So look, here are the series I think

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Speaker 2: there are. Actually this is a two I won't call

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Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs a two month gauntlet. I'll call the

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Speaker 2: NHL playoffs that. But the problem is is that particularly

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Speaker 2: the first rounds. They are so inaclimactic that it's tough

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Speaker 2: to really believe that until you get into the later

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Speaker 2: rounds there's gonna be that much drama. But we shall see. However,

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Speaker 2: this year, I think the there are four playoffs series

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Speaker 2: that I find the most interesting, and I want to

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Speaker 2: dive right into those because we've got so much get

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Speaker 2: to get to tonight. I think these are very much

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Speaker 2: worth paying attention to, and I know I will be,

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Speaker 2: and I want to start with the Grizzlies and the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Now at the bottom of the hour, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: dive into why I believe the Lakers are fools gold.

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Speaker 2: They've been bet heavily here in Las Vegas. There is

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Speaker 2: genuine liability that the books have regarding the Lakers. And listen,

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Speaker 2: if you want to bet the Lakers to win the championship,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the book will be happy to take your donation,

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Speaker 2: and I personally think you might be better off giving

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Speaker 2: to the American Cancer Society. But should you elect to

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Speaker 2: donate to the book and bet the Lakers, please feel free.

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Speaker 2: This is America, and I know I know see me

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Speaker 2: in June. If I'm wrong, I'll take my medicine ain't

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Speaker 2: gonna happen, all right. However, the number two Grizzlies versus

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Speaker 2: the number seven Lakers, if I could only watch one series,

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Speaker 2: that would be the one I'd watch because it's got

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Speaker 2: a lot of interesting narratives. You got the young Grizzlies,

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Speaker 2: they are up and coming, and John Mornt is back.

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Speaker 2: They've got plenty of scoring. Shannon Sharp says, no one

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Speaker 2: wants to see the Lakers in the playoffs. I guess

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Speaker 2: we'll see about that. You can't tell the story without

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Speaker 2: at least invoking that little on floor incident about six

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Speaker 2: eight weeks ago. But you've got this young, young buck

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Speaker 2: sort of Grizzlies team for lack of a better word,

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Speaker 2: and they'll be facing Lebron James, the self proclaimed greatest

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Speaker 2: player of all time. So you've got a match up

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Speaker 2: there that is worth talking about. Now. I sort of

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Speaker 2: consider this a Hodgepodge Laker team that was completely reimagined

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Speaker 2: that the trade deadline versus a Grizzlies team that's been

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Speaker 2: there and they've got a more consistent core. However, I

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Speaker 2: do respect the Lakers for what they did. They started

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Speaker 2: drunk crossing an icy street. They get it together, they

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Speaker 2: make a couple moves. They move Westbrook, bring in D'Angelo Russell.

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Speaker 2: They played defense sixty to seven down the stretch, earned

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Speaker 2: their way in through the playing tournament. Lebron said, whoever

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Speaker 2: came up with the playing tournament should be fired. I

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Speaker 2: think the guys should get a raise. And so here

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Speaker 2: you are. The Lakers have a puncher's chance, well not

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Speaker 2: aly actually that would be the Minnesota Timberwolves. But Lakers

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Speaker 2: have a puncher's chances, well, not much of one in

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Speaker 2: my opinion. But we'll see what happens in this first round.

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Speaker 2: And there's still that controversy, like I said, surrounding John

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Speaker 2: as being a couple of pests. So this has the

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Speaker 2: potential to be an entertaining series. And on top of

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Speaker 2: all that, the Grizzlies have their own encore concerns. They

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Speaker 2: other number two seed. You know, they wish they would

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Speaker 2: either way, you've got a story emerging depending on who prevails.

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Speaker 2: If I can only watch one other series, clearly Kings

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Speaker 2: but yet the Warriors, who won eleven road games this season,

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Speaker 2: they're the lower seed. Just their minus three hundred to

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Speaker 2: and the teams that don't, they're gonna have an issue,

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Speaker 2: which will bring me to my Lakers narrative at the

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Speaker 2: playoff game in twenty seven straight series. That's saying something. Meanwhile, Sacramento,

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Speaker 2: they finally end their playoff drought. They get to face

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Speaker 2: their local rival, which again makes this, you know, this

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Speaker 2: first round matchup that much more delicious because this is

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Speaker 2: a genuine local crosstown rival as it were. And again

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Speaker 2: I want to reiterate, the Warriors are gonna need all

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Speaker 2: they haven't been around, the Sacramento Kings haven't been in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs in twenty years. Look, they're not going to

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Speaker 2: be pushovers. I really love what demontis. The Bonus has done.

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Speaker 2: Deeron Fox is more than legit. They ranked first. Sacramento

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Speaker 2: ranks first in the NBA offensive efficiency. The only problems

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Speaker 2: you might make a name for yourself by upsetting the

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Speaker 2: the Warriors to the higher seed, all right. Another intriguing

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Speaker 2: you look at the Sun's core, they're big four Durant,

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Speaker 2: Chris Paul, Devin Bookery, DeAndre Eton. They've only played one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty two minutes together. Now when they're together,

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Speaker 2: there are really good minutes in those one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty two. They outscore their opponents by fifteen points per

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Speaker 2: a Hunter possessions. That's significant, but it's a group. They

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Speaker 2: still have to learn to play with one another. The

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Speaker 2: playoffs are a different intensity by one and a half times.

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Speaker 2: At least, they're gonna have to figure it out, and

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Speaker 2: they're gonna have to figure it out quick under the

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Speaker 2: white hot spotlight of win or go home. Now, the

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Speaker 2: series would have been a little tougher if the Suns.

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Speaker 2: If the Suns would have had to face Paul George.

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Speaker 2: If Paul George were healthy again, He's expected to miss

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Speaker 2: at least the start of the series. He's got a

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Speaker 2: knee injury. He's been out since March twenty. First. I

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Speaker 2: think if the Sons are healthy, they'll handle the Clippers handily.

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Speaker 2: I believe so. We'll see the Cavaliers give it up

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Speaker 2: to Lebron's old team, Kyrie's old team. Now I'm flipping

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Speaker 2: to the East. The number four Caves against the number

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Speaker 2: five Knicks. Knicks back in the playoffs for the second

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Speaker 2: time in ten years. You got to give it up.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this last year. It made such great

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Speaker 2: sense to get Jalen Brunson. The reason Brunson got such

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Speaker 2: because he erupted during last year's playoffs and he had

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Speaker 2: a tremendous coming out party. Remember he had that forty

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Speaker 2: and then he had a couple of big games after that.

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Speaker 2: I would say Bronson's probably gonna have to play the

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Speaker 2: It's up in the are. He's got this ankle injury,

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Speaker 2: but I understand Randall did practice earlier this week and

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Speaker 2: the Knick yer little MoMA on his status. I think

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Speaker 2: the Knicks are potentially very dangerous team when they play.

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Speaker 2: When they're at their best, they're very good. The key

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Speaker 2: think been one of the better stories in the NBA

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Speaker 2: this season, So that'll be fun to watch. You remember

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Speaker 2: they took a big swing when they traded for Donovan

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Speaker 2: Mitchell during the offseason, and the moves really paid off

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Speaker 2: in a major way because you pair Darius Garland with Minchell.

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Speaker 2: The Calves that went from twentieth on offense efficiency to eighth.

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Speaker 2: a sudden, you got the league's best defense. The Calves

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Speaker 2: are going to be a tough out this postseason. So

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Speaker 2: those four series, I think will i'll be very intriguing. Grizzlies, Lakers, Kings, Warriors, Sons, Clippers,

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Speaker 2: in the NBA that first round is very anti climactic.

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Speaker 2: Be that as it may, I do think this year's

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Speaker 2: no great great teams other than Milwaukee. Probably between Milwaukee

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Speaker 2: course we'll have Mark Medeena on Saturday Night. Have been

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Speaker 2: at to breakdown further. But I think the storylines alone

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Speaker 2: in the West, Lebron and Lakers, the f start Grizzlies,

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Speaker 2: let's not forget the reigning champion Golden State Warriors. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure they're gonna have a say in this. They're not

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Speaker 2: gonna go down so easy. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 2: the NHL and when you know what the NHL playoffs

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Speaker 2: are upon us. Say hello to Lou Finakara. Lou, how

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Speaker 7: I'm doing great, Bernie. I want to thank you for

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to have you, Lou. Because we don't

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Speaker 2: And can't think of a better guy to want to

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Speaker 2: People always love your UFC coverage as well. What do

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Speaker 2: Great stuff is always as we get closer toward the

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Speaker 7: I'd be happy to do that, Bernie. I'm always pleased

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Speaker 2: My pres and Lou. Remind the folks where they can

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Speaker 7: You bet web page at gamblue dot com, g A

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Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Lou, good luck, Bunny, and enjoy

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Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks so much, Bernie, good luck to everybody.

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Speaker 2: Scamblmo, loof and Acaro follow him on Twitter at gamb Lou.

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Speaker 2: He's an NHL expert. Coming up with all due respect

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Speaker 5: Right, Bernie, we'll speaking of NBA playoffs, the fulls field

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Speaker 5: They will face Denver in Game one of their first

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Speaker 2: Right, thanks, Kevin, appreciate it, buddy. All right, So Sunday

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Speaker 2: the Lakers will teed it up. Are in Memphis. Is

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Speaker 2: three and a half point underdogs. If you saw their

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Speaker 2: playing game against Minnesota. If that doesn't give costs for concern,

433
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 2: I don't know what does. But be that as it may.

434
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Speaker 2: They are in the playoffs. A word of the wise

435
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Speaker 2: Lebron in the playoffs. In his career game one on

436
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Speaker 2: the road, he's only three and four teams straight up

437
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 2: six to eleven against the number. In those games, his

438
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 2: teams have averaged just over ninety two points a game

439
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 2: and the point differential minus nine point nine. They get

440
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Speaker 2: off the slow starts. Lebron gets off the slow starts

441
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Speaker 2: on the road in the playoffs. That's a seventeen year

442
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Speaker 2: historical number. Now let's start at the top. I respect

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Speaker 2: what the Lakers did this year. They started out two

444
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,959
Speaker 2: and ten. They were an outright laughing stock. They end

445
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 2: up making some moves, They sort of reconstruct their roster.

446
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 2: They became much better defensively. They finished sixteen and seven

447
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: down the stretch, found themselves in the playing round. They

448
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Speaker 2: got it done. They got the one win they needed

449
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Speaker 2: to get to be the number seven seed. And you know,

450
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Speaker 2: at this point, they don't ask Kyle just how many,

451
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Speaker 2: but how you win these games, and your style in

452
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Speaker 2: these games, and your roster, composition, age, health, all the

453
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Speaker 2: things that matter are going to start had to show up.

454
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Speaker 2: And my issue with the Lakers. First of all, people

455
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: love to bet the Lakers, especially out here in Vegas

456
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: and we're so close to California. People come on in.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning, well as recent as ten days ago,

458
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 2: the Lakers were twenty five to one to win the

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Speaker 2: whole thing. They're now down to twelve to one. At

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Speaker 2: twenty five to one, you have about a two point

461
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 2: seven percent chance of winning the title. They're down down

462
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Speaker 2: to twelve to one. There's six to one to win

463
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 2: the West. And again, I'll repeat myself, if you really

464
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Speaker 2: want to make a donation of the sports book. Fine,

465
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Speaker 2: I think you're better off in giving that money to

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Speaker 2: the American Cancer Society or your some of your favorite charities,

467
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Speaker 2: perhaps like parents of children with bad teeth. That's always

468
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: a good charity. Here's the deal, though, with the Lakers,

469
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Speaker 2: and make no mistake, should the Lakers make a liar

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Speaker 2: out of me. The books are facing great exposure with

471
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Speaker 2: the Lakers, but you're going to start to see things

472
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 2: rear their head. Are you really confident that both Lebron

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Speaker 2: and he can stay healthy for the duration of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I'm not. And there are a couple of other issues

475
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Speaker 2: as well. Lebron looked very ghassed. They played their heart

476
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Speaker 2: out coming back against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and I guess

477
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 2: you can say, well, you know, judge you on the

478
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: fact they pulled it out at the end. But yeah,

479
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: and that's fine. But they were down by fifteen points

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Speaker 2: two against the team that was depleted down three starters,

481
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Speaker 2: that was also in the playoff game. Lebron mentioned they

482
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 2: had a little bit, very little time to prepare. But

483
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: he also mentioned, and this was last Monday, they didn't

484
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Speaker 2: have to travel. Now, remember when the Lakers won the

485
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Speaker 2: championship in the bubble. I've never said I believe they

486
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 2: deserve an asterisk for that because they had the same

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00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: situation as everybody else. You know my asterisk theory. Roger

488
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: Maris has an asterisk. He had sixty one home runs

489
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 2: when he beat Barb Ruth. Sixty because Ruth did it

490
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty four games and Merrit did one

491
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two doesn't diminish de Maris's accomplishment. It

492
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Speaker 2: just merely illustrates he played got to play more games.

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00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 2: The Lakers played the same games. He had the same

494
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: situation in the bubbles everybody else, so I don't give

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Speaker 2: them an asterisk. However, they had four months off to heal,

496
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Speaker 2: and they didn't have to travel, and not all time

497
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 2: off is created equally the way that roster composition was

498
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: with the Lakers back then, they benefited far more greatly

499
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: from the time off and not having to travel in

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Speaker 2: the bubble than the other teams. There are a couple

501
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: of other situations about that Laker team, so I think

502
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: that people try to draw comparisons to the championship Laker

503
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 2: team of twenty twenty are wrong. Here's why. Remember that

504
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: team had Javail McGee and Dwight Howard, two elite rim protectors.

505
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: The Lakers don't have that kind of rent protection with

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00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: this year's roster. And again, can they stay healthy. They're

507
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: going to have to travel. Anthony Davis must stay healthy,

508
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: Lebron must stay healthy. Without both of them on the floor,

509
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: the Lakers are going to have And if you don't

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Speaker 2: believe me, remember a couple of years ago the Lakers

511
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: had Phoenix, the Phoenix Suns down two games to one,

512
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: then Anthony Davis Scott Hurt. The rest is history. The

513
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 2: Lakers got knocked out. And oh yeah, by the way,

514
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: the Lakers didn't even make the playoffs last year. So look,

515
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: you've got to play the games. You've got to get

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Speaker 2: on the floor. Should the Lakers get past Memphis, which

517
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: I don't think will be easy, I would be surprised

518
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Speaker 2: if Memphis doesn't win that series, not that it might

519
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: not go six or seven, but the bottom line there

520
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 2: becomes should that happen, the cumulative effect on the wearing

521
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: down of the Lakers and the roster I think will

522
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: start to become more evident. So let's see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I think the playoffs are better when the Lakers are

524
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Speaker 2: in it, there's no question. And I think this season's

525
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs again, the four matchups I talked about with

526
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 2: you know, the Grizzlies and the Lakers and the Warriors

527
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 2: and Sacramento and then of course Cleveland and the Knicks,

528
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: Sons and Clippers some good interesting first round matchups. So

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Speaker 2: I guess it's my long wited way of saying I

530
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: don't really expect the Lakers to do much in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: We'll follow it, we'll report on it, we'll observe it,

532
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: we'll give you our thoughts. I feel like Memphis wins

533
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Speaker 2: that game, wins that series, probably six games, but we'll see,

534
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: and then the Lakers get past them, well, the narrative

535
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 2: will continue. Anything can happen, but usually does not happen

536
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Speaker 2: in the NBA playoffs. Speaking of anything that can happen,

537
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: the one thing about baseball, the minute you say you've

538
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: seen it all, you see something new. Now you may

539
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Speaker 2: not have heard of the Rocket City Trash Pandas, but

540
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Speaker 2: you're gonna hear about them in a minute. And what

541
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Speaker 2: happened last week, We'll give you a little chuckle. I'm

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddible County line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: tyrock dot Com studios keep it locked right here you

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Speaker 2: that two am Pacific, five a m Eastern. A lot

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Speaker 2: of stuff to get to again. Quick programming note, normally

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Speaker 2: at midnight Pacific, we would be segueing into the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Fraddle Trivia Show created by our guy Ethan Miller. We're

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Speaker 2: four or five weeks in. The standings have been posted,

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Speaker 2: that will resume next week for sure, and Ethan will

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Speaker 2: be with us the next seven eight weeks in a row.

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Speaker 2: We'll wrap up that contest sometime in mid mid June.

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Speaker 2: So off to a good start, lots of great response,

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Speaker 2: good competitors, answer the trivia question. Face off would be

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Speaker 2: on a bet and again, just so folks know, normally

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Speaker 2: at this time we'd be saying start dolling it up.

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Speaker 2: But Ethan is back east to be back next week.

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Speaker 2: Our guy Patrick sweeka filling in for him, doing a

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Speaker 2: fine job. But where this is Ethan's game, he created it.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to pursue the continuation of the game

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Speaker 2: until Ethan returned. He will be back next week and

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Speaker 2: we will resume later in the show. I am going

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Speaker 2: to get into the NFL Draft. Why, I'm not so

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Speaker 2: sure based on history, based on research, that I'd be

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Speaker 2: so excited to draft any quarterback in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Be that as it may, there are specific reasons. While

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young and the Betty markets have shown this March twelfth,

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young was plus two eighty to be drafted number

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Speaker 2: one overall. He is now minus three hundred. There's not

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Speaker 2: a dot in my mind. The Carolina Panthers will draft

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young number one overall. And I have always believed

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Speaker 2: he's the best quarterback in the draft. That's no disrespect

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Speaker 2: to CJ. Stroud, Anthony Richardson or any of the other people.

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Speaker 2: But Bryce Young has that hit factor. He can. You know,

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Speaker 2: the great Walsh, the late great Super Bowl winning quarterback

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Speaker 2: Bill Walsh once said, don't tell me what a quarterback

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Speaker 2: can do. Tell me what he can't do, what can't

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Speaker 2: Bryce Young do? And they've spoken. Nick Saba has spoken,

586
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Speaker 2: Andy people have spoken. He's a point guard. Isaiah Thomas

587
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: once told me that he believed point guard was the

588
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: most important position in all of sports because one man

589
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Speaker 2: could dictate the movements of nine other people. And I

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Speaker 2: don't want to hear about size. There are plenty of

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Speaker 2: big guys that have been drafted over the years that

592
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Speaker 2: can't play at all. Ima, Dan Maguire, Mark Wilware's brothers

593
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,959
Speaker 2: six foot seven, You want big guy, draft him. Size

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Speaker 2: is the least valuable aspect in all the sports. And

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Speaker 2: this is in the NFL fifteen twenty years ago, where

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Speaker 2: you could sack the quarterback and then go after his family.

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00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: Can't do that anymore. And even Andy Reid said it best.

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Speaker 2: He says, regardless of your height, as a quarterback, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to learn how to be able to throw

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Speaker 2: between tall buildings, not over them, because you got these

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Speaker 2: six foot five linemen and they got their hands up

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Speaker 2: in the year. And so you know. Bryce Young is

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Speaker 2: a guy who plays the position with his eyes. He

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00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: is incredible at understanding what needs to be done. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, as we get into the show later,

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Speaker 2: you know, the wonder let test used to be their age,

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Speaker 2: but there's a new sheriff in town. And thanks to

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Speaker 2: people like Brock Purry and now Bryce Young, this cognition

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Speaker 2: test is really becoming an incredible predictor as to your

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Speaker 2: ability to process and make decisions. I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: into that deeper in the show and explain how that

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Speaker 2: maybe has been the catalyst to perhaps vault Bryce Young

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Speaker 2: up to number one, which is where I believe he

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Speaker 2: deserves to be. And again you've heard me say it

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Speaker 2: one hundred times. Quarterback is a position you play with

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Speaker 2: your eyes. You receive the ball, you make mental snapshots,

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Speaker 2: and you execute. Not so easy to do, all right.

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Speaker 2: Talked about this a minute ago. Baseball. The minute you

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Speaker 2: say you've seen it all, you see something new. Now

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Speaker 2: this has to do with a team called the Acket

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Speaker 2: City trash pandas well. They're a minor league baseball team.

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Speaker 2: They're they're a Double A team. They're actually part of

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Speaker 2: the They're they're an Angels or in Anaheim, California Angels,

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Speaker 2: the Western Hemister Universe, whatever they hell their name is.

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Speaker 2: When I grew up they were the California Angels. It's

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Speaker 2: just call Matt. They're an affiliate of the Angels, a

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Speaker 2: double a affiliate. Last week they lost, uh seven to five? Okay,

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Speaker 2: they lost, while what's what's the hook? They threw a

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Speaker 2: no hitter and lost seven to five? Wait what? Okay?

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Speaker 2: So I set this up. The trash Panda is again.

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Speaker 2: They did not allow a single hit against the chat

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Speaker 2: Chat Nouble Lookouts in the first game of a double

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Speaker 2: header last Saturday. The Lookouts, of course, or since nanty

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Speaker 2: Red's affiliate, and even scored five runs. And you think,

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Speaker 2: if you score, if I would have told you before

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Speaker 2: the game, this team is going to score five runs

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Speaker 2: and throw a no hitter, I think that's a pretty

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00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 2: sure bet. They're probably gonna win. But no, thanks to

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Speaker 2: one wild inning, the trash pen has lose their own

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00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: no hitter seven to five. This actually happened. They came

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Speaker 2: apart in the seventh inning and it featured five walks,

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Speaker 2: four hitch back, four hit batsman, an air in a

643
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 2: wild pitch. Are you kidding me? This is what happened

644
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 2: as the hitters came to the plate, walk walk, pop out, walk,

645
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 2: strike out. There's two outs, walk, which walks in a

646
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 2: run air on the center fielder, which let in three runs,

647
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 2: a hit by pitch, another hit by pitch, another run scores,

648
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: so now you're up to five runs. Another walk that

649
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: scores the sixth run, a wild pitch scores the seventh run,

650
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 2: and then a strikeout. The bottom line, a baseball team,

651
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: a professional baseball team in double A, surrenders zero hits

652
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: and seven runs. Well, we ever see another game like it?

653
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't know if we're ever going

654
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: to see another game like it, because what did I

655
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: just say? And actually this is a Jason Starklin. Baseball

656
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: is that sport where you say you've seen it all,

657
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: but you really haven't seen it all. You see something new,

658
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: by the way, something that lou Finacara brought up. You know,

659
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 2: we look at the twenty two to twenty three Boston Brows.

660
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: We talk very little hockey on this on this station,

661
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: and for good reason. However, this is the one time

662
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: of year, especially when you have a team that has

663
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: the claim of the title of best regular season team

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Speaker 2: in NHL history. Right what Boston did in over eighty

665
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 2: two games is incredible. I think they won sixty four

666
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 2: the one hundred and thirty five points, whatever the case

667
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: may be, they're unheard of numbers. Here's the issue that

668
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: is not a predictor in a future success, not only

669
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: just in hockey, but in all the four the major sports. Actually,

670
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: it's become somewhat of a curse because when you look

671
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: at teams in history that won the most regular season,

672
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 2: the game, the most regular season wins, whatever their respective

673
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 2: season was, all of them lost in the playoffs. The

674
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 2: nineteen oh six Cubs and the two thousand and one Mariners,

675
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 2: they both actually had one hundred and sixteen wins in

676
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: the regular season. The Cubs got to the World Series,

677
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: but to Seattle Mariners. Is I'm sure you probably remember

678
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: they lost in the Ale Championship Series. I believe it

679
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 2: was to the New York Yankees. So you know it

680
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 2: didn't happen in baseball. Remember the two thousand and seven

681
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 2: Tom Brady undefeated Patriots. They were sixteen o and o

682
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 2: heading into the World heading into the Super Bowl against

683
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 2: the New York Giants. Well, you saw what happened with

684
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 2: David tyrese catch and the Giants beat them. So the

685
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 2: Patriots the winningest team in the regular season, sixteen regular

686
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: season wins in well Cleveland playoffs, they didn't win the

687
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Remember they twenty fifteen sixteen Warriors. They won

688
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 2: seventy three games in the regular season, but that was

689
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: the team that lost to Lebron and Cleveland and Kyleie

690
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 2: Irving in the NBA Finals, even though they won seventy

691
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 2: three games. Now, had Draymond Green not going around kicking

692
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 2: people in another region and being suspended a game, maybe

693
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 2: they would have won. And then, of course my nineteen

694
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: ninety six Red Wings they won sixty two games, and

695
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Lightning just did that three years ago. They

696
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 2: both lost in the playoffs. The Red Wings got to

697
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: the conference finals, off to Colorado, but Tampa Bay not

698
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 2: only lost, they got knocked out in the first round

699
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: by the eight seed Columbus Blue Jackets, and not only

700
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 2: got knocked out, they got swept. So there you have it.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, Zion Williamson. Is he about to be a

702
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 2: footnote in NBA history? I'll explain. Keep it locked. This

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Speaker 2: is Bernie Frattle Fox Sports Radio. Well you heard the

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Speaker 2: man Bernie Fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. My name

705
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Speaker 2: is Bernie Frattle or coming you live from the TYREQ

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Speaker 2: should be. You know, Tommy Lisorta once made a statement

711
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Speaker 2: a few years ago that because the medical care and

712
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 2: trainers and physicians, team, doctors, you name it, that were

713
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 2: a part of every major league franchise in the four

714
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: major sports were so prolific, he surmised that no one

715
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 2: should hardly ever miss a game, and thus, of course

716
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 2: you're truly injured, which also can happen. And Tommy once

717
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 2: went on to joke about how much better things were,

718
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: nice aid hell back when I played, you know, I mean,

719
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 2: I mean, now we've got you know, every team's got

720
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Speaker 2: three doctors, fourteen physicians, five trainers, six massuss you name it.

721
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 2: Back when I played, we had one trainer with one

722
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: bottle of rubbing alcohol, and you usually drank most of

723
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: it by the seventh d inning. But I digress. Zion

724
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: Williamson has missed one hundred and ninety four games in

725
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 2: his young career. Now, when I saw him at the

726
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: NBA Summer League. A few years ago, I thought I

727
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 2: might be seeing the next Charles Barkley. He's that good

728
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 2: when he's on the floor. Starting to wonder though, if

729
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 2: a sixty six, two hundred and eighty four pound guy

730
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: can play in the NBA. There are suspicions everywhere now

731
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 2: that going forward, this is going to continue to be

732
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: a major concern for the New Orleans Pelicans because before

733
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: the season took off, the Pelicans were expected to be

734
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: a real force in the Western Conference. They have a

735
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: deep roster. Last December they were near the top of

736
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 2: the conference standings. They were twenty three to twelve. But

737
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: just a few months after they were also, you know,

738
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: on the way to possibly being the first seed and

739
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 2: not make the playoffs. Thirty four years that hasn't happened.

740
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: So the Pelicans they're not even in the postseason. And

741
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is even Steve A. Smith said,

742
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 2: this guy's gotta find a way to get back on

743
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 2: the court. Period. Starting to look bad. It's raising suspicions everywhere.

744
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 2: You know, he went out the other day, he was

745
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 2: dunking before the game, and he says, but I know,

746
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 2: I'm okay, but I just don't feel like Zion. I

747
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: don't really know what that means. No, I don't really

748
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 2: question if an athlete scissor injured, then I'm not gonna

749
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: question it. I don't know the threshold of pain. I'm

750
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 2: not going to accuse anybody at JAKIN. But when you

751
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 2: when you've missed one hundred and ninety four games and

752
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 2: your career is basically five years old, if that not

753
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: even that four, I think you have to start to

754
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: ask yourself. Is Zion gonna gonna be a footnote? He

755
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 2: wouldn't be the first. I mean, could he be a

756
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: Greg Odin? Greg Golden was selected number one in the

757
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: NBA draft. He missed, you know, he missed a ton

758
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 2: of his games, and you know you remember Greg Odin, right.

759
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 2: The bottom line is, I think Zion's an even better

760
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 2: talent than Greg Golden was. And here's one of the

761
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: things that's bothersome. Zion elected not to play in the

762
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: pelicans last game, their most crucial game. They played their

763
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: most crucial game of the season on Wednesday against Oklahoma

764
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 2: City the do or die game, win or go home,

765
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: the playing tournament game. It's an elimination match, and I

766
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: get it. Williamson had been out of the lineup since

767
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: January due to a hamstring He was cleared to play,

768
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: but he decided not to because he didn't believe he'd

769
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: be the best version of himself out there. Well, how

770
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 2: the hell do you know until you actually get out there.

771
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: Maybe if you jump in there and you play five

772
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: minutes and you can't go, you can't go. And I

773
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: can't believe the people defending them and the lack of

774
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 2: accountability in terms of from Zion blaming the people around him.

775
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: His weight does not look like it's down, you know,

776
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: I saw him sitting in the stands. There are major

777
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 2: concerns and I will again if his injuries are valid,

778
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to second guess those. It's still

779
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 2: a cost for concern. For a superstar of his caliber

780
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: to want to sit out the most important game of

781
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 2: the season, that's a significant concern, not for now but

782
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: from here on out. Didn't he just sign a two

783
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar extension. He's incredibly talented, He's everything is

784
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: advertised when he's on the floor, but he's proven he's

785
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 2: not dependable. What's the old joke about the best ability

786
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 2: is availability. Here's what's interesting. And here's why I use

787
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 2: the terminology. Could Zion be a footnote throughout history? There

788
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 2: have been I mean, here's where I'm going with that.

789
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 2: If Zion gets on the floor next year, gets hurt again,

790
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 2: and misses a bunch of games, He's going to fall

791
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 2: into the category that a lot of great athletes fell under,

792
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 2: and that is your career is basically cut short due

793
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 2: to injury. Now, on Zion's case, it seems to be

794
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 2: far less egregious because these injuries they're you know, they're

795
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 2: they're they're the kind that are that are not debilitating,

796
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 2: like a broken leg or a pitcher who blows out

797
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 2: his armor. To take Bo Jackson, Okay, Bo Jackson is

798
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 2: very much in his category. One of the best pure

799
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: athletes in history. Jackson on the football field and in

800
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: baseball Pro Bowl All Star Game, he he he performed

801
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: incredible fleet feat. He excelled in both sports for multiple years,

802
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 2: but it was cut short. In the nineteen ninety one

803
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: playoffs Agains Cincinnati. He was running out of bounds, uh

804
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 2: he was tackled, his leg as hip got extended and

805
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: he had to get a hip replacement. He came back

806
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: and played Major League Baseball on a hip replacement. But

807
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: before Bowl and his and his career was cut short.

808
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: He gave fans plenty of highlights in his short career.

809
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: I mean, he still played eight Major League Baseball seasons,

810
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: hit one hundred and forty one home run, still rushed

811
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 2: for almost three thousand yards, averaged almost six yards of

812
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 2: carrying in his for NFL season, And you only have

813
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: to sit back and wonder what would have been with

814
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: the physical gifts he had had his career not been

815
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: cut short. Same situation with Zion Williamson. I think we're

816
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 2: heading down that path. He's gonna be a footnote. It's

817
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 2: gonna be characterized as a career in quotes cut short

818
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: in quotes because of injuries, and we're gonna ask what

819
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 2: might have been because he's tremendous when he's on the floor. Well.

820
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 2: Bobby Hurley, Bobby Hurley was the seventh overall pick of

821
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: the Sacramento Kings in nineteen ninety three. He had a

822
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 2: great career, Duke, you know he did. He was all

823
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 2: set to have a great NBA career, but a couple

824
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: of weeks before Christmas in nineteen ninety three is his

825
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 2: NBA career was less than two months old. He got

826
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 2: in a terrible car accident and he was actually coming

827
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: home from a game. He missed the rest of that season,

828
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: and even though he somehow managed to come back and

829
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 2: play sixty eight games in seventy two games the following

830
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 2: two seasons, he basically was relegated to a reserve role

831
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 2: because the car accident hurt him so badly. He lost

832
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: some of the quickness, He lost a lot of the

833
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 2: athleticism that made him such a desirable pick in the

834
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: first place. Hurley managed to last five years in the

835
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 2: NBA and he retired. He had currer averages like four

836
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: points and three assists. He was way better than that.

837
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: He would have been an NBA All Star had he

838
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 2: not been terribly hurt in that car accident. Bobby Hurley,

839
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: with respect to his NBA career, became a footnote cut

840
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 2: short by injury. Now here's another example, because you may

841
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 2: not think of Ken Griffy Junior as a guy whose

842
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: career was curtailed, But let me explain. Ken Griffy Junior

843
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: would have caught Hank Karonon before Barry Bombs did. He

844
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 2: was the odds on favorite to do it. He's in

845
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 2: make almost griff He's a Hall of Famer. Okay, it's

846
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 2: widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players in the

847
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 2: history of Major League Baseball, no argument there. He hit

848
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 2: six hundred and thirty home runs, had ten Gold Gloves,

849
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: he won an MVP thirteen All Star Games. But how

850
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 2: crazily absurd w Griffy's numbers would have been if he

851
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: would have been healthy the last four or five years

852
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 2: of his career. In the three year span heading into

853
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, he had pretty good numbers. But

854
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: Griffy missed two hundred and sixty games out of a

855
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 2: possible four eighty six and three years because his hamstrings

856
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 2: and calfs would not cooperate. It's not for mayor. What

857
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 2: if you give Ken Griffy back two hundred and sixty games,

858
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 2: how many more home runs would he have hit A

859
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: lot he was hitting fifty home runs a year, won

860
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 2: every three games, He would have been well over seven

861
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 2: hundred home runs. He might, and I believe he would have.

862
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: He might. He probably would have caught Hank Aaron before

863
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: Bobby or Barry Bonds did. So. There's another classic case

864
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 2: of situations where you got less than you would have

865
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: hoped for or believed what the potential could have been

866
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: because of injury. Andrew Luck also comes to mind. In

867
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 2: the middle of August twenty nineteen, with no prior warning,

868
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 2: Luck just retired his announcement, and he shocked fans, he

869
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: shocked analysts, he shocked coaching, he shocked the entire NFL.

870
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 2: He said the reasons for his decisions to retire were

871
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 2: chronic pain from all the injuries in, the mental stress,

872
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: and the physical drain because he was constantly having to

873
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 2: be you know, he was constantly rehabilitating. And Luck is

874
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 2: a guy who led the league in touchdown passes in

875
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, made the Pro Bowl four times, but then

876
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 2: he missed the entire twenty seven season, twenty seventeen season

877
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 2: due to injury, and then all of a sudden, there

878
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 2: were questions about how the Colts handle his recovery. But

879
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 2: even with all of those things, and you know, he

880
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 2: was constant injured. This is a guy that got hit

881
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: more than Rocky ball ball. He took a ton of hits.

882
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,959
Speaker 2: No one expected him to walk away from the game

883
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 2: before the age of thirty. Now I'll give you another name.

884
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 2: This guy was a stud coming out of Penn State

885
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four, Kajana Carter an incredibly dynamic running back.

886
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 2: Penn State was undefeated in nineteen ninety four. Kajana Carter

887
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 2: ran for about sixteen hundred yards twenty three touchdowns. He

888
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 2: only carried the ball like a hundred and ninety times.

889
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 2: He averaged about eight yards of carry saw him in

890
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 2: the rolls balll against the Oregaon was incredible, Bengals making

891
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 2: him their top pick of the nineteen ninety five draft.

892
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 2: He tears his acl right out of the gate in

893
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 2: his first preseason and that derailed him before his career

894
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 2: could ever get going. Then he suffers a torn rotator cuff,

895
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 2: breaks his left wrist, dislocates his right knee cap and

896
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 2: in seven seasons, Kajana Carter that he tried to play

897
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 2: and he was healthy enough to somehow limp his way

898
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 2: out of the field. He only ran for a leven

899
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 2: hundred yards cumulatively in seven seasons. What could Kajana Carter

900
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 2: have been had not those crazy injuries stacked up on

901
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 2: him again? Five, seven, eight, ten years from now, are

902
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 2: we going to be talking about Are we going to

903
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 2: be talking about Zion Williamson in the same way. I

904
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: think they're trending in that direction. Now most of you

905
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,919
Speaker 2: have heard of Sandy Kofax. Let's go a little deeper

906
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 2: into the cookie jar, because these are famous names. Really,

907
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 2: not that the other ones were. Sandy Kofax again, he's

908
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame, one of baseball's most devastating

909
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 2: left handed pitchers. But as you probably know, it's been

910
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 2: well chronicled. Kofax battled multiple arm injuries that dramatically shortened

911
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: his career. He was incredible, He had great command of

912
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: phenomenal curveball, won three Cy Young Awards, a national LYU

913
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: GAM VP, but he is forced to retire at age

914
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 2: thirty because the chronic injuries left him with massive arthreatis

915
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 2: and is left double twelve year career win one hundred

916
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,879
Speaker 2: and sixty five games. He was seventy eight games over

917
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: five hundred to two point seven eer in his career.

918
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue on a little bit later with

919
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 2: three of the biggest names, really big names of people

920
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: who could have been that much more incredible had injuries

921
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 2: not to raild their career. But first I want to

922
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 2: bring in the crew. I want to get their thoughts.

923
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 2: I want to get Patrick and I want to get

924
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 2: Kevin s thoughts on Zion Williamson. I don't want to

925
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 2: pick on the guy, but I'm bothered by what's taking

926
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 2: place here because the optics, to me, don't look good.

927
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 2: He gives a lot of speeches, he misses a lot

928
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 2: of time, and he's running around dunking with a big

929
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 2: smile on his face. Before the game he's cleared to play,

930
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 2: says he's okay, but he doesn't feel like Zion, but

931
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 2: he took the two hundred million. Stack it all up,

932
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 2: put in a blunder. Tell me what you come up with.

933
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 2: You know how I feel about it. I'm Bernie fradlew

934
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 2: or Company live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio

935
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 2: tyreck dot Com Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to

936
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

937
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming

938
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 2: to your life from the tyrect dot Com studios Here

939
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 2: in a Las Vegas take up to two am Pacific,

940
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 2: five am Eastern. For the first time in weeks, Zion

941
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 2: Williamson appeared in the Pelicans pregame warm up Wednesday. He

942
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 2: works up a little bit of a sweat does a

943
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 2: windmill dunk. However, he did not play in the game

944
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 2: Repelicans in their season They lose by five to the thunder. Now,

945
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 2: technically I get it. Williamson was on the injury report,

946
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 2: ruled out with a hamstring, but he explained in his

947
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: presser he wasn't a hamstring at issue so much as

948
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 2: his mental preparation. He says, if I was to go

949
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 2: out there, it would be in my head a lot.

950
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 2: I would hesitate on certain moves that could affect my game.

951
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 2: He says, Physically, I'm fine. Me repeat, physically, I'm fine.

952
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 2: Just a matter of when I feel like Zion Kevin

953
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: figures to start, whether you unpack that ticket anywhere you

954
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 2: want to go.

955
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I certainly understand it to a certain degree. But

956
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 5: if that is the case, I just wouldn't say it.

957
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 5: I just say I haven't been clear to play yet,

958
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 5: because it's just it. Plays minds are tricks on the

959
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 5: minds of the viewer to see you out there doing

960
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 5: all of these dunks and spinning dunks and warm ups.

961
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 5: But for you to say I'm not mentally yet prepared

962
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 5: to go out there and play on the floor. Look

963
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 5: you are playing essentially or your team was playing in

964
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 5: a playoff game. That's what That was the most important

965
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 5: game of the season. We know impactful of a player

966
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 5: you are when you're in the lineup. They had the,

967
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 5: if not the best record in the West, one of

968
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 5: the top three records in the Western Conference when he

969
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 5: was healthy and there with Brandon Ingram to start the season.

970
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 5: It would be incredibly frustrating to me as a fan,

971
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 5: say he or Zian Williamson say something like that, and

972
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 5: it almost sounds as if, Look, you never want to

973
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 5: question someone when they talk about mental health and things

974
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 5: that they're feeling and all that. But I I find

975
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 5: it hard to swallow someone sitting there saying that I'm

976
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 5: physically ready to play, but I'm not mentally ready to

977
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 5: go out there. And I know that David Griffin came

978
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 5: out and said that, well, he wasn't clear for five

979
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 5: on five, and we should have said that initially and

980
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 5: no one said it. And look, it's easy to say now,

981
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 5: and maybe that's true. The problem is David Griffin said

982
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 5: that two days after the fact. In the moment, Ian

983
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 5: Williamson told everybody that he felt physically fine and he

984
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 5: wasn't mentally ready to play. Those are the comments we

985
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 5: had to go off of. Those are the comments we

986
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 5: had leading into the game, and unfortunately we saw that

987
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 5: how that panned out. And I wonder how that game

988
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 5: would have gone even if Ziden Williamson was playing at

989
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 5: seventy percent, how much of a difference he could have made.

990
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 2: That's a pretty damn good synopsis. And think about what

991
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 2: you said at the top one. Zion elected to open

992
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 2: his mouth and make a statement. That's what really drew

993
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 2: attention to all this and what came out of his

994
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: mouth when you juxtaposed that with windmill dunking and the

995
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: fact that he's now missed one hundred and ninety four games.

996
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 2: He hasn't played since January. And this is a playing game.

997
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 2: It's got a tweet from a gentleman. This is a

998
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: kevin't have your respond to this. This is a kind

999
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 2: of honest, raw open response you get from fans who

1000
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 2: ultimately pay the freight. This gentleman's name is Jeff Soawrence

1001
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 2: and he says, Bernie, this is why I disliked the NBA.

1002
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 2: Somebody paid Zion to Williamson a ton of money and

1003
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 2: he's unreliable. If I worked like that, my dad would

1004
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 2: have kicked my ars, told me to earn my keyp.

1005
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 2: They gave him an extension. They were afraid some other

1006
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 2: team would pick him up. Now that's one fan's opinion.

1007
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 2: Respond to that, Kevin.

1008
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, he's right, and to a certain degree. Look,

1009
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 5: I mean, look, the Pelicans at this point don't owe

1010
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 5: him anything. That his extension kicks in next year thirty

1011
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 5: three to thirty four, then I think forty million dollars

1012
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 5: a year three or year four of the deal. They've

1013
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 5: invested obviously very heavily in him, and I believe I

1014
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 5: can't confirm this, but they did put certain things in

1015
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 5: his contract talking about weight clauses and all of that,

1016
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 5: and he certainly looked a little bit heavy out there

1017
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 5: working out now didn't, Yeah, very very very much.

1018
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 2: So.

1019
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 5: Now, granted, coming off of an injury leg injury at

1020
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 5: that I'd certainly understand a certain aspect of it. But

1021
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 5: his weight was a problem coming out of college, coming

1022
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 5: out of DOUP. So this is something he's been dealing

1023
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,399
Speaker 5: with his entire career. The problem is, I just don't

1024
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 5: know how much leverage a franchise like New Orleans has

1025
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 5: because with all due respect, you're the New Orleans Pelicans.

1026
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 5: You know, you're not the Boston Celtics, You're not the

1027
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Lakers. If you end up having yet another

1028
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 5: disgruntled star, you know, Anthony Davis two point zero, you

1029
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 5: know this can certainly have a longstanding ripple effects throughout

1030
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 5: your franchise. So I certainly understand the delicate situation that

1031
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 5: the Pelicans franchise is in and dealing with him.

1032
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: So last question for you, Kevin, my thought that this

1033
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: could morphin doo He's ultimately when they're at the history book,

1034
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 2: Zion's going to be potentially a footnote like some of

1035
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: the other athletes who's whose injuries left you asking what

1036
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 2: could have been? I really think we're heading down that

1037
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 2: road with Zion your thoughts.

1038
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 5: I certainly hope not, But that's that's kind of how

1039
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 5: its shaping up to be. You know, usually you start

1040
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 5: having these sorts of leg injuries, back injuries. Those things

1041
00:57:58,120 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 5: don't get better the older you get, and you're not

1042
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 5: necessarily gonna get thinner, especially considering he's not gonna get lighter.

1043
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 2: You he weighs two eighty four. I'll never forget when

1044
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 2: Bobby Knight cut Charles Barkley the nineteen eighty four Olympic team.

1045
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 2: I thought it was a mistake. Barkley's nickname coming out

1046
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 2: of Auburn the round mound of rebound. Look what he did. Yeah,

1047
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 2: why can't Zion do that? Gion when is two eighty four.

1048
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 2: I don't think you can play way too eighty four

1049
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 2: and play in the NBA.

1050
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1051
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 5: Well, and also I will say that Zion, I think

1052
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 5: it was a more explosive player than Charles Barkley. Not

1053
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 5: that Barkley wasn't a great athlete, but I mean Barkley

1054
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 5: wasn't doing the sorts of things that Zion does. And

1055
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 5: if you're gonna play that explosively at that weight, you're

1056
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 5: just putting more wear and tear on those joints. You're

1057
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 5: setting yourself up for a shorter career because that's just

1058
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 5: his style of game. If he was more of a

1059
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 5: skilled player, Charles Barkley didn't make a lot of threes,

1060
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 5: but he certainly took a lot, especially the last i'd

1061
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 5: say seven eight years of his career. Zion is a

1062
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 5: power player, a guy that attacks the rim, that dunks

1063
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 5: on people, that explows from the floor doesn't set up.

1064
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 5: Just in general, Bernie, the way that you that style

1065
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 5: of play doesn't hold up for guys to have a

1066
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 5: long term career.

1067
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 4: Look at a guy like a Derreck Rose who played

1068
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 4: that way.

1069
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 5: Now you stack that on top of someone being that tall,

1070
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 5: that tall and that heavy, it just doesn't. It doesn't

1071
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 5: bowl well for the future for Zion because of the

1072
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 5: way he plays.

1073
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 2: I will say this, having seen Barkley play court set

1074
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 2: many times. He did have that gear where he would

1075
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 2: block a shot at the rim and the next thing

1076
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 2: you know, he's ninety four feet away dunking or driving

1077
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 2: for a layup. He played both ends of the floor.

1078
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: He was fierce. He was a different type of offensive

1079
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,959
Speaker 2: player when he attacked the rim. He didn't have maybe

1080
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 2: that type of veracity or tenacity that Zion has when

1081
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 2: it comes to going to the hole. I mean, Zion

1082
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 2: was like Darryl Dawkins. Dawkins just say you get in

1083
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 2: the way, I'm breaking your f and wrists. Absolutely so.

1084
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 2: But but Barkley, make no mistake, did have that intensity.

1085
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 2: Patrick Sweeker, you got the last word on this. When

1086
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 2: you hear Zion, what comes to mind.

1087
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just honestly Bernie went it comes to the Zion.

1088
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 8: It was a bad move to kind of go out

1089
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 8: there and say, you know, like, oh, it's just.

1090
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I'm Zion.

1091
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 8: Just doesn't feel like Zion after you know, the windmill

1092
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 8: dunk in pregame. Honestly, like, he's an amazing athlete and

1093
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 8: I love watching him play, but I kind of just

1094
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 8: after realizing this and all the injuries and being overweight

1095
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 8: all these times, I wonder, if you know, his heart's

1096
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 8: really in this now at this point, like, is his

1097
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 8: heart really you know, in it anymore?

1098
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, a judge a man by his actions. I

1099
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 2: will keep an open mind, but that open mind is

1100
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 2: closing quickly. I want to see how many games he

1101
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 2: plays in the upcoming NBA season next year, how badly

1102
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 2: does he truly want to be on the floor. Look,

1103
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 2: playing with injuries sometimes is a part of the game,

1104
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 2: and at some point he's going to have to try

1105
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 2: to find that happy medium. And in the interim, I

1106
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 2: do think he does have to lose some more weight,

1107
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 2: and so yeah, he's injury injured right now. Maybe he

1108
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 2: can't compete in his you know, in a full blown

1109
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 2: workout regimen However, there's diet, there's yoga, There's a million

1110
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 2: things you can do right. So coming up, I'm going

1111
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 2: to David Griffin, who Kevin just mentioned. He's the Pelicans

1112
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 2: executive vice president of basketball operations. He talked he stuck

1113
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 2: off for Zion, and he talked about some of the

1114
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 2: physical benchmarks that Zion has yet to really get back

1115
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 2: to yet, which is why he couldn't play. So I'm

1116
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 2: gonna be fair and tell the full story, and I

1117
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: also want to give the final three names I teased

1118
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 2: a minute ago that truly are poster children for being players,

1119
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 2: and two of them are NBA players, one as an

1120
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 2: NFL player. For man what could have been had not

1121
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 2: for injuries, which I think is we we are heading

1122
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 2: the narrative of Zion Williamson. But first let's go back

1123
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 2: to our guy, Kevin Figures, who always molly wops it all.

1124
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 4: Right, thanks Barnie.

1125
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 5: In the NBA Friday Night Timberwolves, getting twenty eight points

1126
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 5: from Karl Anthony Towns and nineteen from Anthony Edwards, they

1127
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 5: would defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder one twenty to ninety

1128
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 5: five to clinch the eighth seat in the Western Conference

1129
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 5: and a first round matchup with the Denver Nuggets. Game

1130
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 5: one will be on Sunday night. The Heat got thirty

1131
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 5: one points from Jimmy Butler and Max Struce. They defeated

1132
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 5: Chicago in comeback fashion one O two to ninety one,

1133
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 5: clinching the final spot in the East. They'll take on

1134
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 5: Milwaukee in the first round. Speaking of Milwaukee, Giannisittacumpo one

1135
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 5: of three finalists for the NBA MVP Award, along with

1136
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 5: Joel Embiid of the seventy six Ers and two time

1137
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 5: reigning MVP Nicola Jokick of the Denver Nuggets. News out

1138
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 5: of the NFL, Arizona Cardinals safety Buddha Baker has reportedly

1139
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 5: requested a trade in Major League Baseball. Friday night, Francisco

1140
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 5: Lindor had a Grand Slam and drove in seven runs

1141
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 5: for the Mets. They mileywopped Oakland seventeen to six. Justin

1142
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 5: Steele struck out eight and seven innings of work, leading

1143
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 5: the Cubs over the Dodgers eight to three.

1144
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 4: Two home runs for Riddy Teles.

1145
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 5: From Milwaukee, they dominated the San Diego Padres eleven to two.

1146
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 5: You also had victories for the Twins, Braves, the Boston

1147
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 5: Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays picked up a

1148
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,959
Speaker 5: six to three victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Snap

1149
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 5: the race seasons beginning streak up thirteen and oh they

1150
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 5: are now thirteen and one on the year.

1151
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 4: All right, back to Bernie Fredlick.

1152
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 2: All right, thanks Kevin, and by the way, to be

1153
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 2: fair for now, the Pelicans organization from the top down,

1154
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,479
Speaker 2: including the players. Larry Nan spoke out the other day,

1155
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 2: they're defending Zion. So let's take you a little bit

1156
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 2: behind the four walls and take off our fanboy cap

1157
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 2: and look at some objective issues. Because when David Griffin,

1158
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,919
Speaker 2: he's the Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations, he

1159
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 2: laid out some specific benchmarks. About a week ago, he

1160
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 2: explained that Zion would miss the play in tournament because

1161
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 2: his return was going to hinge on what he called

1162
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 2: two things, objective metrics and how he feels. And you

1163
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 2: said yourself, okay, well, how about speaking English, what are

1164
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 2: those objective metrics? Well, David Griffin, to his credit, laid

1165
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 2: those out. He said, strength and flexibility in the weight room,

1166
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 2: his speed, his response to exercises, his recovery. The implication

1167
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 2: was Williamson was starting to grade out fine on all

1168
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 2: those measures, and when those things converge, then you get

1169
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 2: to the next step. He believed they hadn't converged for

1170
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 2: him to do that. He had not advanced to the

1171
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 2: next step, meaning how does he feel. Yes, mechanically, he

1172
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 2: can perform those functions. But the truth of the matter

1173
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 2: is he was backing Zion that even though his strength

1174
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 2: and speed and response to the exercises mechanically, we're passing

1175
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 2: the test mentally between his ears, he didn't feel like

1176
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 2: he could do it, so they didn't want to force

1177
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 2: the issue. So you're not gonna see Zion before October,

1178
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 2: and October will get here soon enough. That's the next step.

1179
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 2: This is the next opportunity for Zion to prove that

1180
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 2: he can do this on the big stage when it matters.

1181
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 2: New Orleans is a playoff team, missed opportunity this year.

1182
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 2: They're good Zionians missed one hundred and ninety four games

1183
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 2: in his career. Coincidentally, as Kevin just pointed out, he's

1184
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 2: about to start a five year, one hundred and ninety

1185
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 2: four million dollar extension next year and the Pelicans that's

1186
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 2: going to be in albatross if they're paying Zion that

1187
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 2: money and they're getting nothing of him on the floor

1188
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 2: as what they're getting right now, which is nothing. And

1189
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 2: after they lost Winsday, CJ McCollum, who basically he played

1190
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 2: the last few months with a thumb injury and then

1191
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 2: he even played with a torn labraam they asked him.

1192
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 2: They asked him, how did it feel? How did it

1193
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 2: feel for you not to have the opportunity to play

1194
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 2: alongside the other two co stars, obviously Zion and then

1195
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 2: of course Brandon Ingram and CJ McCollum was very canned.

1196
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 2: He said, if you'd told me we'd only played ten

1197
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 2: games this season together but still managed to win forty two,

1198
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 2: I would have said that's crazy. I'll quote him, he says,

1199
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 2: but quote For us to be successful in the future,

1200
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 2: a long term, we gotta be able to play together.

1201
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 2: We need our best players on the court. We need

1202
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: to be able to be you know, playing extensive minutes together,

1203
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 2: especially in meaningful games, especially in big games, for us

1204
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 2: to contend for a championship and make a real playoff run.

1205
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna take with CJ McCollum, Brandon Ingram,

1206
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 2: and Zion Whimson on the floor. The Pelicans are a

1207
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 2: legitimate playoff team. Somewhere along to the line, it seems

1208
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 2: like when Zion gets an elite competition, there's no question

1209
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: he has a physical ability to compete and dominate. I'm

1210
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 2: starting to wonder if the mental component is holding him back.

1211
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 2: You just don't know. It's a theory. Zion has a

1212
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 2: struggle to play basketball. It seems to be something he

1213
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 2: can't control. I don't know if it's willpower or grit

1214
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 2: or he doesn't have the lunch pail mentality. People have

1215
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 2: made assumptions about his personal responsibility, but at some point,

1216
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 2: the fact speaker themselves. You've only heard me say it

1217
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,520
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety four times now, he's missed one

1218
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety four games. How badly design want to

1219
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 2: be back on the floor. I guess some of these

1220
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 2: questions might be answered this offseason. I'm very interested to

1221
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 2: see because when you see a transcendent talent like that,

1222
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 2: you have to see him in person to really see

1223
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 2: how incredibly talented and dynamic Zion Williamson is. The things

1224
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 2: he can do. He has the potential to dominate in

1225
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 2: the NBA, and he's shown as much. The problem is

1226
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 2: it's never it never seems to last very long. Which

1227
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 2: brings me to the three players that stick out most

1228
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 2: in my mind as incredibly well, two of the three

1229
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 2: are incredibly transcended, but they were just simply cut short

1230
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 2: dramatically by Naggie Andrews. The first one Bill Walton. And

1231
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 2: you know all, you all know who Bill Walton is.

1232
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 2: You know what a crazy character he is. You would

1233
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 2: not have believed what an incredible player he was at

1234
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 2: UCLA and then with the Portland Trail Blazers where they

1235
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: won the NBA championship in seventy seven. Walton was the greatest,

1236
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 2: maybe well not the great maybe not the greatest, that

1237
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 2: probably goes to Jabbar Louell Sinder, but certainly one of

1238
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 2: the greatest college basketball players ever. But his career, his

1239
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 2: NBA career, never quite really lived up to what it

1240
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 2: did at UCLA because he had a credible series of

1241
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 2: debilitating foot injuries and that just hampered Walton, and that

1242
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 2: prevented him, you know, it limited his ability to stand

1243
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 2: in the court. It hampered him and even when he

1244
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 2: was healthy enough to play, it hamper him. Had Walton

1245
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 2: stayed healthy, his whole career. He would have gone down

1246
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 2: to one of the greatest centers in NBA history, even

1247
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 2: as it still as its stance. Walt is the only

1248
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:44,799
Speaker 2: player to win an NBA Finals MVP six Man Award

1249
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 2: regular season MVP won the championship in nineteen seventy seven

1250
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 2: when his Blazers beat uh let's see they beat I

1251
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 2: believe they beat the Philadelphia seventy six ers. It's a

1252
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 2: great series. In the finals, he was he was the MVP.

1253
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 2: He averaged like fourteen points eleven rebounds. That was for

1254
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 2: his career, so he averaged a double double. And he

1255
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 2: won two or three championships at UCLA. He was only

1256
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 2: two or three years we moved from college. He already

1257
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 2: won his first NBA championship. Incredible. I mean, I really

1258
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 2: can't compare him to anybody playing now, but picture a

1259
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 2: guy like Drew Timmy, who had a great drop step

1260
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 2: and bought, you know, all those offensive moves. But Walt

1261
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 2: was ten times better. And Timmy's good. I don't know

1262
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 2: if Timmy's gonna play in the NBA. Walton can play defense.

1263
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:33,719
Speaker 2: Walt was physical, he was smart, great passer, the complete package.

1264
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:35,560
Speaker 2: We brought it together for a big man. He was

1265
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,800
Speaker 2: so prolific offensively, you don't really think about Walton in

1266
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 2: those terms because of the nagging injuries. That's where I'm

1267
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 2: going with with Zion. How about Sam Bouie. Now, Sam

1268
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 2: Bouie is the ultimate footnote in the NBA and in

1269
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 2: this subject matter we're talking about. He's not only a

1270
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 2: footnote in the NBA and a footnote for athletes whose

1271
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 2: injuries cut their career shirt, but he's a footnote in

1272
01:09:56,280 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 2: the Michael Jordan's story. This is a cautionary tale. This

1273
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 2: is a situation where a team, because you have the

1274
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 2: retrospect of looking back in history, made a historically bad

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01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 2: pick when you consider that he was drafted ahead of

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan. Bowie, however, could have and would have been

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01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,759
Speaker 2: great in the NBA had he been able to stay healthy. Again,

1278
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,600
Speaker 2: bad luck by the Portland Trailblazers. He had tibia fractures

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01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 2: in both legs in the NBA. He later revealed his

1280
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 2: lower legs had bothered him even in high school. He

1281
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:33,600
Speaker 2: just got dealt a bad hand. He had a pretty productive,

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01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 2: somewhat healthy run with the Nets, but he retired after

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01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 2: the ninety five season. Had career averages like ten points

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01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 2: and seven rebounds. Bowie managed to hang around in the

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01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 2: NBA ten years. His career was in fits and starts,

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01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 2: but he only played a total of five hundred and

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01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,679
Speaker 2: eleven games in his entire ten year career. Sam Boie

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01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,480
Speaker 2: the ultimate poster child for player whose career was genuinely

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01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 2: cut short by debilitating lower body injuries. And he's a

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01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 2: seven foot guy. There's your weight bearing injuries again. Is

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01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 2: Zion headed down that road? I believe he might be. Finally,

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01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 2: this is going way into the cookie jar. But Chicago

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01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 2: Bears fans will know this, or even casual NFL fans

1294
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 2: should know this name. I'm talking about Gail Sears. Now,

1295
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 2: Gail Seiars is in the NFL Hall of Fame, but

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01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 2: only played seven years with the Bears. He had two

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01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 2: major knee surgeries and this is in the sixties. That's

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01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 2: what sent him into premature retirement. He was one of

1299
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 2: the most electrifying open field runners in the NFL. Ever, graceful, elusive.

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01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 2: He could do anything with the ball in his hands.

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01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 2: He was a true multi purpose threat, and he could

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01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 2: catch the ball the backfield and he played in an

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01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 2: error where he also returned kicks, and he had actually

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01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns for returns in his career. Sears led the

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01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 2: league in rushing twice all purpose shards three years, but

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01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 2: had to retire at twenty eight because of debilitating injuries

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01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 2: and two major knee surgeries. The youngest man inducted into

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Speaker 2: the Profile Hall Football Hall of Fame. He's only thirty

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01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 2: four when he got inducted. Imagine if you combined Saquon

1310
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 2: Barkley and Tony Pollard and name anybody with great moves

1311
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 2: that could catch the ball the back through return kicks.

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01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 2: That was Gail Sears, way ahead of his time. Zion.

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for you, but I'm concerned that the future

1314
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,679
Speaker 2: might not be that bright because of what I've seen

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01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 2: in the past. Coming up, you're gonna have a whole

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Speaker 2: new way to watch the NFL Sunday ticket this year,

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Speaker 2: YouTube jumps into the game. I'll give you the details.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddlewor Comedy Live for Long from the Las

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Speaker 2: locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

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Speaker 2: in Fox Sports Radio. Co'm back on the Bernie Fratle Show.

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Speaker 2: Comedy live from the Tarrek dot com studios, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: if you want to watch the NFL, which you know

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Speaker 2: you do, YouTube has unveiled in NFL Sunday ticket pricing detail.

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01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 2: There are no single game or team options, but what

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01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 2: they've rolled down here is a situation and by the way,

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01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 2: fans can start to sign up this past week for

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01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 2: all the auto market games package. There are two categories

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01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:48,719
Speaker 2: of pricing. One of those who subscribe to YouTube TV

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01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 2: that's cheaper, and those who will use YouTube primetime channels.

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01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 2: That's a hub. You know, they's got sports movies and

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01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 2: all the other stuff. But in this past final season

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01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 2: of rectv's twenty eight year run, the Sunday ticket costs

1339
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 2: about three hundred bucks, up to four hundred if you

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01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 2: bundle it with this. You know, they had their own

1341
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 2: version of red Zone, not the Red Zone. They have

1342
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 2: their own version of it. But now going forward, the

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01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 2: only red zone is going to be the NFL's the

1344
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 2: only red zone, which a lot of people will just

1345
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:22,760
Speaker 2: watch that, especially fantasy owners. So if you want to

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01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 2: join up, I think before June sixth, there are these

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01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 2: hundred dollars discounts, but those are going to expire. So

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01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,559
Speaker 2: apparently YouTube tv will charts three hundred and forty nine

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01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:36,520
Speaker 2: for the Sunday ticket three eighty nine with red zone,

1350
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,719
Speaker 2: and and that's the you know, if you take advantage

1351
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 2: of the pre sale discount, but that ends June sixth,

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01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 2: then it's going to jump to four forty nine and

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01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 2: four eighty nine. That's if you want, you know, the

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01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,679
Speaker 2: full package plus red zone. I don't you know, hopefully

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01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 2: get these right, I'm not sure, I think, but with

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01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars discount it be two forty nine and

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01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 2: three forty nine. Those are a bunch of numbers. The

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01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 2: bottom line is YouTube is going to be handling this.

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01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 2: I I'm not sure how that's gonna work. We'll have

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01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 2: to see. I know this past year it was a

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01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 2: real adjustment when you watch Thursday night football and Amazon

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,600
Speaker 2: because it wasn't so easy just to flip during the

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01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 2: commercials was it you know what I'm talking about. But

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Speaker 2: you know, let's see as the NFL continues to grow

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01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 2: exponentially and the way they deliver the product and the

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01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 2: multiple modalities which you can watch the product. You know,

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01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 2: they claim what they're trying to do is bring it

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01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:33,680
Speaker 2: to a much greater level of simplicity and meaning just

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01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 2: here's what you pay for, it's what you got. You

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01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 2: get it all on one price. And you know, some

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01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 2: people might have a little bit of sticker shock, but

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Speaker 2: when you when you propagate it out over eighteen weeks,

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01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:47,679
Speaker 2: it maybe is not that bad. So what is different? Okay,

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01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 2: here's what they're saying is different. Previously, the fans who

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01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 2: wanted Sunday Ticket you would need a satellite dish, and

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01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 2: in areas where that wasn't feasible, you'd have to get

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01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 2: an online version. Now there are no restrictions choosing the

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01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:08,280
Speaker 2: online product. What is not included is you can't buy

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01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 2: a single game or a single team, and by the way,

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01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 2: Direct TVs never offered that as well, but there is

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01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 2: talk that that option could be coming. So maybe you

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01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,639
Speaker 2: just want to watch your Let's say you live in Portland, Oregon,

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01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 2: you want to watch your beloved Detroit lines every week.

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 2: Maybe that's coming. I don't know. They're doing research on

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01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 2: that right now to figure out what types of packages

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01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 2: that would be interesting to users. So there's nothing to

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01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 2: announce yet along those lines, but I think that YouTube

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01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 2: will start the test outs to do packaging concepts later

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01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 2: in the season. In their first season. By the way,

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01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 2: YouTube is indicated they're adding several new features to Sunday Ticket,

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01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,240
Speaker 2: even though they're not really going to be consistent depending

1392
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 2: on your region. The features that'd be able to view

1393
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 2: four games at once, including your local game, unlimited DVR storage,

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01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 2: personalized recommendations, and the choice to view key plays. Plus

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01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 2: I guess they're gonna add categories for more fantasy data,

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01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 2: real time stats and things of that nature. And I

1397
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,600
Speaker 2: guess if you don't want to know the score of

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01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 2: another game because it spoils something, you can program it

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01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 2: to where you don't see that either. But they're also

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01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,799
Speaker 2: going to have key plays of four game view. Look fans,

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01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 2: it's gonna be called the Sunday Ticket, Primetime channel sign

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01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 2: up link and the YouTube And you know, I think,

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01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 2: along with your movies, along with your regular TV, the

1404
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 2: NFL channel. You just have to search and find it

1405
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 2: and watch the page and search, just like you do

1406
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:38,400
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a specific movie. I guess that's

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01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 2: the way it's gonna work now. YouTube they're also planning

1408
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 2: to integrate shopping in the football offering top into some

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01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 2: of their you know, creators that produce behind the scenes content,

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01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 2: that type of thing. Now. Direct TV had about two

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01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 2: million Sunday ticket subscribers, but it's my understanding that a

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 2: lot of those were given a way to induce satellite lineup.

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01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 2: So I don't know if YouTube is gonna do that.

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01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 2: I'm not suspecting that will. So here's the bottom line.

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01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:12,719
Speaker 2: Before June sixth, YouTube, which is going to be offering

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01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 2: a Sunday ticket pricing like DirecTV last year, We'll offer

1417
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars discount before June sixth, so you'll pay

1418
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 2: one price for the primetime channels and the other price

1419
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:25,200
Speaker 2: for the red zone if you want it added, and

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01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 2: that's gonna go up after June sixth onward and upward.

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01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 2: The NFL continues to be innovative, creative, more broad based

1422
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 2: when it comes to the multiple ways to watch games,

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Speaker 2: and this is just another one of them. Coming out

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Speaker 2: speaking of the NFL. I'm gonna talk about Bryce Young

1425
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 2: and why I move to number one. Keep it locked.

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Speaker 2: This is the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well you heard the man. The Bernie Frattles Show keeps

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Speaker 2: Manning talks about how great you are, You've got something

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Speaker 2: going and not many people know quarterbacking like the great

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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning. So I would say his insight as to

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Speaker 2: the type of quarterback that you would project Bryce Young

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01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 2: to be, who we believe now will be the overall

1439
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:32,759
Speaker 2: number one pick in the NFL draft, you stop and listen.

1440
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 2: He compared him to Do Breeze and Russell Wilson because

1441
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 2: of their size. But Manning said, you talk to real scouts.

1442
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is really the guy who comes to mind.

1443
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 2: Because those two were talking about Bryce Young and Joe Burrow.

1444
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 2: They have that sixth sense in the pocket, the decision making,

1445
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 2: the processing information quickly. That is saying something. And by

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01:19:57,160 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 2: the way, I agree with all of it. I'm very

1447
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 2: I pressed with Bryce Young. You know, the great Bill Walsh,

1448
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 2: legendary Super Bowl quarterback Bill Walsh once said, don't tell

1449
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:11,120
Speaker 2: me what a quarterback can do. Tell me what he

1450
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 2: can't do. Well, what can't Bryce Young do? He makes

1451
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 2: plays with his feet, he plays alive, he keeps his

1452
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 2: eyes downfield when a play breaks down. He's at his best.

1453
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 2: He can operate from the pocket, and he's figured it out. Okay,

1454
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 2: I don't want to really hear about size because the

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01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 2: NFL is such now where you can't kill the quarterback

1456
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:32,679
Speaker 2: like you used to. Used to be able to sack

1457
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 2: the quarterback, go after his family. That was it not

1458
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 2: so much anymore. And I can give you long lists

1459
01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 2: of people who were big and couldn't play the position.

1460
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 2: So size to me is not as big a factor

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01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 2: because you could do to play the position you can't.

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01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 2: And even Andy Reid said it best, regardless of your size,

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 2: as a quarterback, you're gonna have to learn how to

1464
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 2: throw it between tall buildings, not over tall buildings. Bryce

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01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,760
Speaker 2: Young is is a point guard. Nick Saban called he's

1466
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 2: a point guard on the football field in his ability

1467
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 2: to play the position with his eyes. Isaiah Thomas once

1468
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,599
Speaker 2: told me he thought that point guard was the most

1469
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 2: important position in all sports because one man could dictate

1470
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 2: the movements of nine other people. Bryce Young is that guy.

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01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 2: He's a distributor. On March thirteenth, he was plus two

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01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,799
Speaker 2: to eighty to go number one overall, behind CJ. Stroud.

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01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 2: He has since passed him up. He's non minus three hundred.

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01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,839
Speaker 2: He's a prohibited favorite to be number one. What changed.

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01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:32,759
Speaker 2: One of the things I think to change is now

1476
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 2: in the evaluation of prospects and the projectability. There's a

1477
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 2: new test called the S two cognition tests. Now I

1478
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 2: would just say this, move over, wonder Lick. There might

1479
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 2: be a new sheriff in town. And last year you

1480
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 2: had a glaring example, a guy with the name of

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01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 2: Brock Purdy at last year's NFL scouting gonebine. If you'd

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Speaker 2: have just watched him like a casual fan, you would

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01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 2: have said somebody would have said it, and you all

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01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 2: would have repeated it, and maybe it was true, rock

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01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 2: Purty was seen as a quarterback with below average height,

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01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 2: an adequate arm, just an adequate arm, and foot speed

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01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 2: that was well okay, maybe even good. Clearly did not

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Speaker 2: separate it from the pack. But the test and the

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Speaker 2: measurable that brock Purty aist, I mean aiste and obviously

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Speaker 2: he had a brilliant rookie season for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: Did this test predict that? And it was a test

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Speaker 2: made completely out of public view. Perty scored like ninety

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Speaker 2: five on something called You're Gonna Hear a lot more

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Speaker 2: of it, the S two Cognition test, and that score

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01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 2: puts him in Drew Brees's character a category which is elite. Now,

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Speaker 2: the S two test, he's not an intelligence test like

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Speaker 2: the Wonderlock exam, which is fifty questions, but this measures

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Speaker 2: how quickly what the S two test does. It measures

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Speaker 2: exactly how quickly and how accurately athletes process information. The

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Speaker 2: simple term is they're calling it it's like the forty

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Speaker 2: yard dash for the brain, one Scott said, and he

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01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:21,719
Speaker 2: was backed by a neuroscientist who said the NFL game

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Speaker 2: will never be too fast for brock Purty because he

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01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 2: can adjust to what he's seen. And the s S

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01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 2: two test was developed by two gentlemen I think based

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01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:37,440
Speaker 2: out of Nashville, and it's not exactly new. It's been

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Speaker 2: used for a long time. As a matter of fact,

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01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 2: there's a fair amount of sample size. They've tested over

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Speaker 2: forty thousand athletes from Major League Baseball players professional golfers.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, they currently have contracts with

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Speaker 2: fourteen NFL teams, and what they've been doing is testing

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01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 2: players at college All Star games, and this year they've

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01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 2: stepped it up quite a bit. They're testing players during

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01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 2: the current NFL draft cycle, and they did so quite

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01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 2: a bit at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. And by

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Speaker 2: the time the draft begins, which will be a week

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01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 2: from next Thursday, the S two will have compiled scores

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Speaker 2: for over eight hundred prospects. All of a sudden, now

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01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 2: general managers are really interested in this data. Now. The

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01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 2: test itself lasts about forty five minutes and the testee

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01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,640
Speaker 2: will be on this specifically designed laptop. It looks like

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01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 2: a gaming laptop and it's got this response pad and

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01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 2: what it does is it records your responses in two milliseconds.

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01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 2: To put that in perspective and I blink lasts about

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01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty milliseconds. That's how fast it records

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01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:58,600
Speaker 2: your responses if you're that fast. Here's an example. In

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01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:01,719
Speaker 2: one section of the exam, you'll look at the screen

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01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 2: and a series of diamonds will flash on the screen

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01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 2: for sixteen milliseconds. Teach. Every diamond is missing a point

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01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 2: and the test taker has to determine using his left,

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01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:15,280
Speaker 2: right or upper down keys which part is missing, and

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01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:18,759
Speaker 2: the quicker you do it determines how well you score.

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01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 2: And another part of the test they try to find

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01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 2: out how many objects an athlete can keep track of

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01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 2: at the same time. At one point, they're up to

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01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 2: twenty two figures on the screen, and whoever's taking the

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01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 2: test has to locate a specific one as quickly as possible. Now,

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Speaker 2: the object could be like a red triangle, or it

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01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:43,439
Speaker 2: could be another shape or another color, or it could

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01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 2: be something else red, but it's asking you to find

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01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:49,680
Speaker 2: the triangle, so it could be confusing, and it all

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01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 2: boils down to how fast can you recognize and how

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01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 2: fast can you respond? What this does It requires the

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01:25:57,439 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 2: person taking the test to perceive something on the screen

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01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,520
Speaker 2: within a thousand of a second, which is it's incredible,

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01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 2: and it's something human beings, the average human being really

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01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 2: can't do. Your eyes are seeing it, but how long

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01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:13,719
Speaker 2: does it take your brain to process it and respond?

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01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 2: And these guys, I guess that developed this. They developed

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01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 2: this test back at Vanderbilt about a decade ago because

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01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 2: they were studying Parkinson's disease and they were studying Alzheimer's

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01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 2: and see, Alzheimer's is associated with memory, and patients they

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01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 2: believe who lose their memory have trouble with visual processing.

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01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 2: And then what happens these poor folks. You go to

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01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 2: a parking lot and you get lost. But the thing is,

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01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 2: it's not about forgetting where your Congress parked. It was

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01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:44,720
Speaker 2: a situation where you had this malady associated with your

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01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:48,559
Speaker 2: inability to process. So they developed these tests, and all

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01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden, now the test morphed into this S

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Speaker 2: two test. And the truth of the matter is, with

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Speaker 2: all the testing they've done, the results are predictive. Again,

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01:26:59,920 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 2: I just mentioned brock Purdy. They didn't publish brock Perdy's

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01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,799
Speaker 2: exact score because they consider it to be privileged information,

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01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 2: but they said it was in the mid nineties by

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01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 2: the way, I think the best score you can get

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01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:12,719
Speaker 2: one hundred. I don't know if anybody's ever scored a hundred,

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01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 2: and that's about where Drew Brees. And let's remember Drew

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01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 2: Brees had lightning fast decision making. That's about where he scored.

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01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 2: By the way, guess which other quarterbacks also scored in

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01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 2: the mid nineties. You may have heard of these guys,

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01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Joe Burrow. Burrow took the

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Speaker 2: test while he was at LSU. Burrow scored on ninety seven.

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Speaker 2: It's my understanding. Here's the thing to give this some perspective.

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Speaker 2: According to the two gentlemen that developed the test, they

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Speaker 2: consider anything above eighty to be elite. And so let's

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Speaker 2: go back to the Wonderlook Test. For decades, we're talking decades,

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Speaker 2: the NFL used the Wonderlook Test to measure intelligence. The

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Speaker 2: questions is aret out easy. By the way, I've taken

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Speaker 2: the Wonderlock Test three times to score about thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: It's twelve quote, it's fifty questions in twelve minutes, and

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Speaker 2: there's kind of an art form to it. You you

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01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 2: don't have to answer the questions in order, but you

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01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 2: feel pressure. Part of it is to see how you

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01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 2: respond under pressure, and a high Wonderlook scorer might suggest

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01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:20,679
Speaker 2: a quarterback knows how to study a playbook and remember

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01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 2: the playbook. It doesn't mean he'll hold up against the

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01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 2: zero blitz when the real bullets start to fly and

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01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 2: then he gets hot and it's hard to breathe and

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01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 2: they're coming, actually ready to kill you. The Wonderlook test

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01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 2: doesn't appear to have any correlation between how you score

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01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 2: there and how you do when a real NFL game starts.

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01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 2: Drew Brees a good example. He got a twenty eight

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01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:46,960
Speaker 2: on the wonder Lick. That's good. That's certainly not superior.

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01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:51,679
Speaker 2: But Drew Brees's S two score was exceptional. See because

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01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 2: the Cognition test not only can it forecast whether a

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01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 2: quarterback will be successful in the NFL, it really comes

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01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:01,479
Speaker 2: close to actually per in their passer rating based on

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01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:05,320
Speaker 2: the score. So apparently the company dove deeper and they

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01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 2: looked at twenty seven starting quarterbacks, some of the older

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Speaker 2: veterans like Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers. Obviously they ended the

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01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 2: league well before S two began testing, and by the way,

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01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:17,720
Speaker 2: S two has been testing since twenty fifteen, but there's

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01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 2: no scores for those guys. Breeze took the test after

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01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 2: already being in the NFL for many years. But of

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01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:26,719
Speaker 2: that group, thirteen had a career passer rating above ninety

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01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 2: and the average S two score of the players who

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01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 2: scored above ninety were passer ratings in the top of

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01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 2: their career. So there is predictability with this new S

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01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:43,559
Speaker 2: two test. That is why I believe Bryce Young is

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01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 2: rocketed at the top. Top tier quarterbacks who have the

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01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 2: highest average scores obviously do the best. Now who are

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01:29:52,280 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 2: some of the other positions to do well? Safeties? A

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01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 2: lot of the safeties scored high, because this makes sense

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01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 2: considering the safeties have to be what are they known

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01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 2: as the quarterback of the defense. They've got to keep

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01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 2: an eye on multiple moving opponents. They got to be

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01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 2: able to read their keys. Also, top tier quarterbacks that

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01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 2: have the highest scores, they have the highest scores among

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01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 2: any average human being who also has higher scores just

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01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 2: in any other walk of life. Now here's the deal.

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01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 2: The average human being can keep track of about three

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01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 2: and a half objects at a time, according to these

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01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 2: scientists out of Vanderbilt who developed this test. But the

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01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:34,160
Speaker 2: average NFL safety, they can keep track to over six.

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01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 2: Think about that. By the way, the positions with the

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Speaker 2: third highest scores linebacker and cornerback. Again, that doesn't surprise

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01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 2: me because those are positions where you've got to read

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01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,200
Speaker 2: and react. You know, you've got to read your keys.

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01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 2: How is the offensive line blocking? Are they pass blocking

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01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 2: or are they run blocking? What's the quarterback doing? You

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01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 2: got to make decisions quickly and execute. The traditional thinking

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01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 2: about cornerback was it was all about physical skills, right,

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01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 2: just be fast, mimic the movements of the wide receiver.

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01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 2: As it turns out, though, the ability to make rapid

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01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 2: decisions and control your impulses they're more important. This test

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01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:15,599
Speaker 2: reveals that because the test looks at impulse control, low

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01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 2: scores equate to substandard play. Substandard play that equates to

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01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 2: holding penalties, pass interference penalties. You're impulsive, you fall prey

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01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:27,960
Speaker 2: to the double move right, you make a step in

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01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,559
Speaker 2: the wrong direction all of a sudden, you can't control

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01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 2: that impulse to grab the jersey when the receiver gets

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01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 2: by you. Who does that? Players who apparently score lower

1643
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 2: on the S two test, you saw it in the

1644
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. You could argue all day, whether it was

1645
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:45,000
Speaker 2: a penalty or not. But you saw the dB start

1646
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 2: to get burned and he couldn't control the impulse to

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01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:51,120
Speaker 2: grab the jersey. That's typical as someone who, according to

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01:31:51,120 --> 01:31:54,720
Speaker 2: the test, scores lower and impulse control. These things are

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01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:59,080
Speaker 2: real now. The highest score and last year, last year's

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01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:03,120
Speaker 2: draft cast was turned by a quarterback, Trent McDuffie, who,

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01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 2: not by a coincidence, started fifteen games for the Chiefs,

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01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:10,240
Speaker 2: including the Super Bowl. By the way, Perdy's score was

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01:32:10,280 --> 01:32:13,680
Speaker 2: about the same or maybe slightly behind Trent McDuffie, and

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01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:17,639
Speaker 2: he did pretty well himself. There's another thing. The test

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01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 2: measures distraction control. This is another area where Brock Purdy

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01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 2: scored very well. These are the guys Drew Brees comes

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01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 2: to mind again, who when they're in the pocket, the

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01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:32,439
Speaker 2: world could be collapsing around him, but somehow they keep

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01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 2: that icy cold steal focus on what they're supposed to

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01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 2: be doing. Purdy was very impressive when it came to

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01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:44,479
Speaker 2: depth perception speed as well Elite company high nineties. So

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01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 2: it's no wonder when Perdy stepped down the field, he

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01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 2: seemed to acclimate to the offense almost immediately knew where

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01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:54,680
Speaker 2: to put the ball, knew how to target, knew what

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01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 2: decisions to make and execute. He was playing to position

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01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 2: with his eyes coming up. I can continue on because

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Speaker 2: the S two test is fascinating. You've been hearing about

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01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:09,360
Speaker 2: of course, you've been hearing about the Wonderlook test for years,

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01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:11,680
Speaker 2: but the S two test is about to be the

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Speaker 2: new rage, and it looks like Bryce Young will be

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Speaker 2: benefiting from that. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to life

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Speaker 2: for the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirect dot com studios.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie

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01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. You're back on the

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01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:47,599
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show, coming to life from the tyrect dot

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01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 2: Com studios here in Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio. Take

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01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:54,680
Speaker 2: you up to two am Pacific five eMaster and a

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01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:57,040
Speaker 2: ton of stuff to get to. But I want to

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Speaker 2: continue on and wrap up my point on the importance

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01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 2: of the new S two testing as it is replacing

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01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 2: the Wonderlig test as it were in terms of importance,

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01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 2: and I cited Bryce Young as the beneficiary of that.

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01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 2: I believe he'll be the number one draft pick overall.

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01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 2: But no better glaring example than Brock Purty, who scored

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01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 2: incredibly high, and all the cognition tests and recognition tests

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01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 2: and distractions that the S two offers. And here's the

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Speaker 2: proof in the pudding Week thirteen, you should recall this.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine Ers fans, or even if you're not, Jimmy

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01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 2: Garoppolo got hurt in a game against Miami. Now, the

1690
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:43,519
Speaker 2: Niners had been on a roll, they'd won four games

1691
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 2: in a row, and the immediate thought was, here's a

1692
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 2: guy coming on the field, and there was concern or

1693
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:56,840
Speaker 2: fear and the unknown that the likelihood was at the

1694
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,559
Speaker 2: forty nine er offense would begin to sputter under Rock Purty.

1695
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 2: Not because they're throwing shade at Brock Purty, but Garoppolo

1696
01:35:04,280 --> 01:35:06,800
Speaker 2: had been to a Super Bowl, had playoff experience. He's

1697
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 2: a second round pick, nine year veteran Purdy twenty two,

1698
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 2: never seen action in the NFL, the last player chosen

1699
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,880
Speaker 2: in the draft. Yeah, they call him mister irrelevant, but

1700
01:35:15,880 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 2: he was far from mister irrelevant, but you get my drift.

1701
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 2: What's more, here's the bigger issue. The Dolphins had been

1702
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 2: calling all odd blitzes the entire game, more than the

1703
01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:29,120
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers, and that had expected and perhaps game

1704
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:31,519
Speaker 2: plan for and the Dolphins had done a great job

1705
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:34,680
Speaker 2: of taking away Garoppolo's hot reads, and that's exactly how

1706
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 2: he got hurt in the first quarter. The offense, however,

1707
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:42,320
Speaker 2: when Birdie came in, did not miss a beat. Instead,

1708
01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:45,519
Speaker 2: if you watch that game, the number one takeaway, and

1709
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 2: let's remember the Niners one thirty three to seventeen that day,

1710
01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 2: was how seamlessly Bertie managed to hand Purty excuse me,

1711
01:35:53,880 --> 01:35:58,200
Speaker 2: brock Purty managed to handle Miami zero blitzes, and how

1712
01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:01,080
Speaker 2: quickly and aggressively he made the decisions. When you observe

1713
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 2: what was taking place, it was incredible. He looked relaxed.

1714
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 2: Kyle Shannon had even said after the game, I really

1715
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 2: like it when there's a play that we give our player,

1716
01:36:13,520 --> 01:36:15,760
Speaker 2: they're not scared to make it. They don't hesitate, they

1717
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:17,639
Speaker 2: don't take a second look at it. They just let

1718
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 2: it rip and they worry about it later. There's a

1719
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 2: lot of guys who guess and think and do things

1720
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:25,280
Speaker 2: that did allow their mind to get in the way.

1721
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 2: So you got to find out whether being aggressive, if

1722
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:31,479
Speaker 2: they can do it, or they're deciding that they're not

1723
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 2: sure they can do it. But Brock Purdy proved he

1724
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:39,880
Speaker 2: was very very good in those situations. Not only did

1725
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:45,160
Speaker 2: Purdy recognize and react and respond to what Miami was doing,

1726
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:49,000
Speaker 2: he was able to explain it later what he was seeing.

1727
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,120
Speaker 2: The proof was in the putting. The Niners put up

1728
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 2: thirteen thirty three points that day. They went by two

1729
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 2: touchdowns and what did that do? That gave the entire

1730
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 2: forty nine er organization one hell of a lot of

1731
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 2: confidence in Brock Party. So now, with this new S

1732
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 2: two test, guess what every general manager is going to

1733
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 2: be asking between now and next Thursday, a week from Thursday,

1734
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:15,880
Speaker 2: who might be the next Rock Party? Who might be

1735
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:20,840
Speaker 2: the pastor that everybody overlooks because he's not super physically imposing,

1736
01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:27,639
Speaker 2: but his brain can supersede that. Now it's turning out

1737
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:29,880
Speaker 2: that a lot of the scores are higher in twenty

1738
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 2: twenty three than in past years with this S two test,

1739
01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:36,240
Speaker 2: And when all said and downe about eight hundred players

1740
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 2: I think will be tested. But if past his prologue,

1741
01:37:40,400 --> 01:37:44,240
Speaker 2: what we're finding is that there is a direct correlation

1742
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 2: between the S two cognitive tests, which again it's like

1743
01:37:48,040 --> 01:37:52,280
Speaker 2: a forty yard dash for the brain. It is accurately

1744
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 2: predicting how quickly athletes can process information and how quickly

1745
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 2: they can process information and how it translates out of

1746
01:38:01,560 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 2: the field. Now they've been doing the NFL Draft for

1747
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 2: about seven years, again the two founders from Vanderbilt, but

1748
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 2: from the S two perspective, last year was the worst

1749
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 2: score they ever had score wise, the worst year meaning

1750
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:20,040
Speaker 2: a lot of players just didn't score that well, but

1751
01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:25,800
Speaker 2: Brock Party did. However, what's interesting is perhaps players being

1752
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:29,800
Speaker 2: aware of this, are preparing for it, becoming more cognizant

1753
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,240
Speaker 2: of it. This year is by far and away, they say,

1754
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 2: the best they've ever had in terms of score wise

1755
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:38,519
Speaker 2: at the quarterback position. And they talked about they didn't

1756
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 2: want to give the name, but the name is leaked out.

1757
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 2: Here's what the guy said. I don't eve know if

1758
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 2: he's got their football fans, He said cold. I have

1759
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:47,719
Speaker 2: a feeling that this quarterback from Alabama that we've tested

1760
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:50,439
Speaker 2: every year since he was in the tenth grade may

1761
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 2: ended up sharing his result publicly because he actually owns

1762
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:56,639
Speaker 2: those results in the NFL does not. What we're hearing

1763
01:38:56,720 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 2: is Brock Bryce Young score in the neighborhood of like

1764
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 2: ninety five So here you have it. A guy who

1765
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 2: was a phenomenal quarterback when at Modern Day High School

1766
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 2: in southern California, phenomenal quarterback at Alabama, I believe will

1767
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 2: have real success in the National Football League. And what's

1768
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 2: the group think narrow you know, echo chamber, you know,

1769
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:25,200
Speaker 2: commentary about him, he's too small. I hate it when

1770
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 2: people say that you can either play that position or

1771
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:30,040
Speaker 2: you can't. It's a position you play with your eyes,

1772
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:32,920
Speaker 2: you make, you receive the ball, you make mental snapshots,

1773
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 2: and you execute. And he's He's plenty athletic enough to

1774
01:39:36,439 --> 01:39:38,120
Speaker 2: do that. The concern is what if he gets hit

1775
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:42,679
Speaker 2: and gets hurt. Well, he hasn't so far in college

1776
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:46,599
Speaker 2: has he? And I will say this that any quarterback,

1777
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:49,400
Speaker 2: regardless of size and strength, if you're gonna get hit,

1778
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 2: you're gonna get hurt. At shortened Cam Newton's career, shorten

1779
01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:55,519
Speaker 2: Andrew Lux's career. I think it's had it's caused issues

1780
01:39:55,520 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 2: with Lamar Jackson. Frankly, so the thing about Bryce Young

1781
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:02,880
Speaker 2: is that the rules have changed now and where it

1782
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:04,400
Speaker 2: used to be, you could, you know, like I said,

1783
01:40:04,520 --> 01:40:06,400
Speaker 2: I like this joke, you could go after the quarterback

1784
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 2: and go after his family. They can't do that anymore.

1785
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 2: And Young has proven to be a point guard on

1786
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:14,599
Speaker 2: the field, as noted by Nick Saban, is noted by

1787
01:40:15,960 --> 01:40:19,160
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning, and as Bill Walsh once said, don't tell

1788
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:21,240
Speaker 2: me what a quarterback prospect can do. Tell me what

1789
01:40:21,280 --> 01:40:23,200
Speaker 2: he can't do. Tell me what Bryce Young can't do.

1790
01:40:23,680 --> 01:40:26,519
Speaker 2: And he can throw between buildings, like Andy Reid said.

1791
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:29,720
Speaker 2: Coming up Chris Prefet's World of Soccer, We've got a

1792
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:32,520
Speaker 2: situation now where the Premier League is in the relegation

1793
01:40:33,200 --> 01:40:35,679
Speaker 2: and one of the stars on the women's national team,

1794
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,840
Speaker 2: remember Women's World Cup ninety days away, Mallory Swanson. She

1795
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:41,639
Speaker 2: had a torn patel a ten and in a friendly

1796
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 2: against Ireland recently. How will that affect the team's chances.

1797
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 2: We'll get to Chris Perffet's World of Soccer just a second,

1798
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 2: but first let's go back to our GUYE Kevin Figures

1799
01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:49,439
Speaker 2: with the latest.

1800
01:40:49,439 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 4: All right, Barnie.

1801
01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,599
Speaker 5: The Timberwolves headed back to the postseason after a one

1802
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:55,639
Speaker 5: twenty to ninety five victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder,

1803
01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:58,679
Speaker 5: and they're playing matchup on Friday night. Twenty eight points

1804
01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:02,160
Speaker 5: for Karl Anthony Towns to all scores shake Yodas. Alexander

1805
01:41:02,200 --> 01:41:04,840
Speaker 5: did score twenty two for Oklahoma City, but was just

1806
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:08,080
Speaker 5: five of nineteen shooting from the field. TEALSI face Denver

1807
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 5: in Game one of their first round series on Sunday

1808
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:12,679
Speaker 5: night in the Eastern Conference of Miami defeat of Chicago

1809
01:41:12,720 --> 01:41:15,759
Speaker 5: one two to ninety one behind Jimmy Butler's thirty one points.

1810
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 5: He will head to Milwaukee for Game one of their

1811
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:20,960
Speaker 5: series against the Bucks on Sunday as well. In Major

1812
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:24,160
Speaker 5: League Baseball, the Mets walked seventeen times. They scored seventeen

1813
01:41:24,240 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 5: runs as well a seventeen to six routes of the

1814
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 5: Oakland A's, who fell to three and eleven on the

1815
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:32,879
Speaker 5: early season. Francisco Lindori grand slam and seven total RBIs

1816
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,479
Speaker 5: there for New York. Jerry Kell nick homer for the

1817
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 5: fourth consecutive game, leading the Mariners to a five to

1818
01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:40,640
Speaker 5: three victory over the Rockies. Jon Gomes a couple of

1819
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 5: home runs for the Cubs, they blasted Dodgers in Los

1820
01:41:43,080 --> 01:41:45,919
Speaker 5: Angeles eight to three. He also had victories for Baltimore,

1821
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:49,760
Speaker 5: Atlanta and Toronto defeated Tampa Bay, snapping their thirteen game

1822
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 5: win streak to begin the season raised now thirteen and one.

1823
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:54,559
Speaker 4: Back to Bernie Fredo.

1824
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,040
Speaker 2: All right, thanks Kevin, all right, it's welcome in a

1825
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 2: gentleman Chrispopherfetz world of sock and as people are starting

1826
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 2: to realize, we've got another World Cup ahead of us.

1827
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 2: The Women's World Cup will start up third week in July,

1828
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 2: and Chris, before we get to the Premier League relegation,

1829
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 2: which is always a favorite of mine, talk a little

1830
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 2: bit about Mallory Swanson. She's a star player for the

1831
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,960
Speaker 2: women's team. She tore up a tel attendant recently in

1832
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:22,680
Speaker 2: a friendly. Is she gonna miss the World Cup? Is

1833
01:42:22,720 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 2: she going to be back? And if she's not, how

1834
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:25,320
Speaker 2: much has that hurt the team?

1835
01:42:26,760 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1836
01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 6: I think it's always kind of hard to tell with

1837
01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 6: an injury like this, but I don't think it's something

1838
01:42:31,680 --> 01:42:33,720
Speaker 6: that you really want to be rushing back from. Where

1839
01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:37,120
Speaker 6: within one hundred days now of the Women's World Top

1840
01:42:37,240 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 6: set to kick off here sometime in July. So Malory Swanson,

1841
01:42:41,520 --> 01:42:44,679
Speaker 6: who by the way, is her husband is Dansby Swanson

1842
01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:48,280
Speaker 6: for the Chicago Cubs, and I know he like he

1843
01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:50,920
Speaker 6: left the win over the Mariners early to go and

1844
01:42:53,320 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 6: follow Mallory to the hospital. It's not something that is

1845
01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:03,280
Speaker 6: going to be really easy to put her back on

1846
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 6: the field.

1847
01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 2: So I.

1848
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 6: Fingerstraws she can make it back in time, but I

1849
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:09,960
Speaker 6: just don't see her coming back in time for that.

1850
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 2: Well. I think you're right. I understand it's a twelve

1851
01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 2: week injury. My daughter played Division one soccer Uno VI

1852
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:19,280
Speaker 2: Torius El three times. It's one thing to heal, it's

1853
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:21,679
Speaker 2: one thing to get back in international competition. So even

1854
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 2: after twelve weeks, I think you're right, Chris. It'd be

1855
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 2: hard to imagine that twelve weeks puts us at late July,

1856
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 2: which is when the World Cup starts. To presume she'd

1857
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:33,800
Speaker 2: get back and be able to compete on that level

1858
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 2: after being on twelve weeks doesn't seem realistic to me.

1859
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:40,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, she had successful surgery on Tuesday, but I think

1860
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 6: at this point the women's team, the good news is

1861
01:43:44,400 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 6: they've got a little bit of depth to really work

1862
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 6: with here. It's really going to challenge it. By far,

1863
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:52,200
Speaker 6: they are not the most injury hobbled team looking at

1864
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:54,599
Speaker 6: towards the World Cups. I mean that might be going

1865
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:58,640
Speaker 6: to Australia, who I know. They beat England in a

1866
01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 6: friendly which was kind of shocked the world. But I

1867
01:44:01,479 --> 01:44:04,000
Speaker 6: know they're dealing with about like almost a dozen injuries.

1868
01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:08,200
Speaker 6: I mean, you got I think what this does, though,

1869
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:11,479
Speaker 6: is we've had this kind of generation change with the

1870
01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,479
Speaker 6: women's side, kind of the women's national team, just like

1871
01:44:14,479 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 6: we did with the men's team. But whereas the men's

1872
01:44:16,240 --> 01:44:18,960
Speaker 6: team that generational change came because they missed the World Cup,

1873
01:44:19,360 --> 01:44:23,160
Speaker 6: this is happening in real time for Team USA, and

1874
01:44:23,960 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 6: it's going to be I think some people know the

1875
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:30,559
Speaker 6: names already of Sophia Smith, who's been the other attacker

1876
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:33,439
Speaker 6: for the US men's side, age twenty two, and she's

1877
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:37,000
Speaker 6: been absolutely phenomenal. And you know the US was looking

1878
01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 6: at an attack that would be with Smith and with

1879
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 6: Swanson puts more pressure on Sophia Smith herself and maybe

1880
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:47,280
Speaker 6: gives light to another really young woman by the name

1881
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 6: of Trinity Rodman, who is yes, that is the daughter

1882
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:54,599
Speaker 6: of Dennis Rodman. She is twenty, she will be turning

1883
01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 6: twenty one before the World Cup comes up. And some

1884
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 6: of the advanced stats really like Trinity Rodman very high

1885
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:10,200
Speaker 6: amounts of progressive carries, a lot of other stats you'd

1886
01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:13,320
Speaker 6: like to see in just a striker forward attacking, which

1887
01:45:13,360 --> 01:45:16,320
Speaker 6: is what the US wants to play. I think again,

1888
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 6: the problem is that whereas you could have relied on

1889
01:45:19,200 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 6: Rodman to have been someone to kind of, you know,

1890
01:45:22,320 --> 01:45:24,960
Speaker 6: as a substitute, now you're looking at her more for

1891
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 6: a lot more playing time. So it'll be interesting to

1892
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 6: see what these starting elevens come look like as we

1893
01:45:30,200 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 6: as we get closer and closer to the Women's World Cup.

1894
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:35,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get into that as we get closer. I

1895
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:38,200
Speaker 2: think the Women's World Cup is even more popular than men's.

1896
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:40,559
Speaker 2: We had a lot of fun with that last fall.

1897
01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 2: Let's flip to the Premier League, Chris, Actually, I actually

1898
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 2: enjoy the relegation process. The bottom three teams relegated. Talk

1899
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 2: about there's still a few rounds left to play, talk

1900
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:55,120
Speaker 2: about who's in danger, and explain to the folks how

1901
01:45:55,160 --> 01:45:56,679
Speaker 2: the relegation process works.

1902
01:45:57,240 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're in what the Premier League likes to

1903
01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:01,639
Speaker 6: call the run in and right now with most teams

1904
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 6: have played thirty games, that have only played twenty nine.

1905
01:46:03,960 --> 01:46:06,519
Speaker 6: Most played thirty, which means there is about eight matches

1906
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 6: left for every team out there, and it means that

1907
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:13,240
Speaker 6: you know, as you say, the bottom three get relegated,

1908
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:16,360
Speaker 6: which is not fun. You have to go down and

1909
01:46:16,400 --> 01:46:21,519
Speaker 6: play in the English Football League's championships here and you

1910
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 6: have to try to make your way back. For a

1911
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 6: lot of teams in the Premier League, life the Premier

1912
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:29,439
Speaker 6: League is not permanent, and earlier this season the Premier

1913
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:32,960
Speaker 6: League zone was pretty high. We had seen almost eight

1914
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:36,880
Speaker 6: teams all within danger of being relegated. I think right

1915
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:39,439
Speaker 6: now though, as we're looking at it, Southampton squarely put

1916
01:46:39,439 --> 01:46:43,040
Speaker 6: themselves in relegation with only twenty three points. Then there's

1917
01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 6: a battle between Nottingham Forest, Everton, Leeds, Bournemouth and west

1918
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:51,679
Speaker 6: Ham maybe Wolverhampton in there as well. They're all within

1919
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 6: like four points of that relegation zone with seventeen and

1920
01:46:56,479 --> 01:46:59,439
Speaker 6: eighteen I mean with eighteen. You know, it's a familiar

1921
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:02,599
Speaker 6: place for Everton, Nottingham Forest, it was the first year up,

1922
01:47:02,760 --> 01:47:05,720
Speaker 6: so that's kind of surprising. West Ham is very surprising

1923
01:47:05,720 --> 01:47:08,080
Speaker 6: to see down here so low. And then the one

1924
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 6: team I haven't talked about squarely at nineteen right now

1925
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 6: with only twenty five points.

1926
01:47:12,080 --> 01:47:13,600
Speaker 2: Is Leicester City.

1927
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 6: Leicester City who just I mean last decade won the

1928
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:22,120
Speaker 6: Premier League itself. They have just i believe recently dismissed

1929
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 6: their manager, Brendan Rodgers, and the point the sport has

1930
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:30,840
Speaker 6: the club has appointed Dean Smith as the manager until

1931
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:33,879
Speaker 6: the end of the season, which is not really somewhere

1932
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:36,879
Speaker 6: you really want to be going with an interim manager

1933
01:47:37,560 --> 01:47:43,519
Speaker 6: there as you are in nineteenth place, It's it's really

1934
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 6: a hard, hard place to be. I don't like Lester's chances.

1935
01:47:47,120 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 2: Really, No, don't they have man City coming up next?

1936
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 6: I believe they. I believe they do. Yeah, it's you

1937
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:57,280
Speaker 6: know it, Yes, they do have man City coming up

1938
01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:01,600
Speaker 6: here actually on Saturday. It's that is definitely one. And

1939
01:48:01,720 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 6: man City themselves is going to be looking for the

1940
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:06,759
Speaker 6: full three points because at the top of the table,

1941
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:10,519
Speaker 6: Arsenal and man City are in a absolute plug fest.

1942
01:48:10,760 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 6: Those two teams are going to be meeting each other

1943
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,200
Speaker 6: here later this month in the middle of the week,

1944
01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:19,320
Speaker 6: and with only man City has a game in hand

1945
01:48:19,400 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 6: and is right now six points back. You know, if

1946
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:24,160
Speaker 6: they get up to thirty games and they're at seventy

1947
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:27,240
Speaker 6: points three within Arsenal, that is good for them. They

1948
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:28,880
Speaker 6: were going to come out guns firing. They're not going

1949
01:48:28,960 --> 01:48:32,879
Speaker 6: to show any mercy to Lester here by any which way.

1950
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:36,600
Speaker 2: Let's Stan Lestern for a second, because good reportage, they

1951
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 2: fired their coach, are desperate. They bring in a guy

1952
01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:41,679
Speaker 2: by the name of Dean Smith, not to be confused

1953
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:44,439
Speaker 2: with the old North Carolina coach, but did he save

1954
01:48:44,520 --> 01:48:47,080
Speaker 2: a team two or three years ago at the very

1955
01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:49,200
Speaker 2: end from relegation. So they're hoping he can work his

1956
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 2: magic again.

1957
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:54,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe so. I'm trying to remember off the

1958
01:48:54,520 --> 01:48:57,640
Speaker 6: top of my head. I know he had worked with

1959
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:02,080
Speaker 6: Norwich and he'd had some spells of aston Villa and Brentford,

1960
01:49:02,120 --> 01:49:05,400
Speaker 6: I think, I know. I know Brentford has been up

1961
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,880
Speaker 6: and down quite a bit so, but all the all

1962
01:49:07,880 --> 01:49:10,679
Speaker 6: those clubs I mentioned, except for maybe like aston Villa

1963
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 6: there who's kind of become on and off darlings, although

1964
01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:16,439
Speaker 6: I think they are actually you know, aston Villa's right

1965
01:49:16,439 --> 01:49:20,080
Speaker 6: now sticks but like Norwich which is no longer in

1966
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:23,360
Speaker 6: the Premier League, but they and and as well was

1967
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:25,000
Speaker 6: the other one I said, Brentford, who's in the middle

1968
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:27,519
Speaker 6: of the table. These are clubs that kind of live

1969
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:31,439
Speaker 6: going up and down between champions champions I mean, excuse

1970
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 6: a Premier League and Football League tiers. So's he's someone

1971
01:49:36,040 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 6: who kind of understands how to scrap and get the

1972
01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:39,960
Speaker 6: most out of it.

1973
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 7: It's just right now.

1974
01:49:40,760 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 6: The problem is is that this is a really crowded

1975
01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:46,600
Speaker 6: bottom of the relegation zone. Everton Nashley doesn't want to

1976
01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:49,200
Speaker 6: be here, West Ham United doesn't want to be here.

1977
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:52,320
Speaker 6: There's some good clubs that are in this relegation zone fight,

1978
01:49:52,360 --> 01:49:55,400
Speaker 6: which is still about seventeens deep eight. If we go

1979
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:58,720
Speaker 6: ahead and include Crystal Palace with thirty three points, but

1980
01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 6: they're ten, they're a ten points. It's clear Southampton. But

1981
01:50:02,160 --> 01:50:04,880
Speaker 6: either way there's some teams that have a lot more

1982
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:07,400
Speaker 6: talent right now than Lester who are going to just

1983
01:50:07,920 --> 01:50:10,160
Speaker 6: be doing everything they can to avoid that faith.

1984
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:13,600
Speaker 2: So before we sign on with Christopher Fretchs World of

1985
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:18,720
Speaker 2: Soccer Saturday, heading into Sunday morning two thirty am Pacific,

1986
01:50:19,320 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 2: Leicester will have played their game at Man City. Apparently

1987
01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:24,840
Speaker 2: they played later on today. What do you got for

1988
01:50:24,960 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 2: Saturday night, Chris, Saturday Night?

1989
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:29,920
Speaker 6: I want to talk a little about actually about kind

1990
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:33,400
Speaker 6: of the same thing in English, in the English pyramid,

1991
01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:36,439
Speaker 6: more about what's going on with a club that's been

1992
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:39,240
Speaker 6: up in the Premier League named Wigan Athletic, who has

1993
01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:42,559
Speaker 6: been accused of not paying their players as some real

1994
01:50:42,640 --> 01:50:46,280
Speaker 6: dysfunction has really kind of hit other areas of the

1995
01:50:46,400 --> 01:50:51,599
Speaker 6: English football pyramid, at the English football system. It's kind

1996
01:50:51,640 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 6: of what's caused this independent relegator to really come to action,

1997
01:50:56,240 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 6: to be put into play. And meanwhile, at the same time,

1998
01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:02,240
Speaker 6: we've got really interesting stuff that's happened to the Champions League.

1999
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:08,240
Speaker 6: I'm beyond fascinated with Internazional and what's been going on there.

2000
01:51:08,320 --> 01:51:11,760
Speaker 6: And Napoli. Poor Napoli did not look good at all.

2001
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:14,720
Speaker 6: It looked like they got completely figured out by Milans.

2002
01:51:14,760 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 6: So very very interesting stuff in the first leg of

2003
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:21,639
Speaker 6: the Champions League. But yes, I think for the Sunday

2004
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:25,640
Speaker 6: Report we will focus on some more financial sides and

2005
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:29,160
Speaker 6: some of the hardships that's happening on English soccer that's

2006
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 6: maybe papered over by the Premier League's glitz and glamour.

2007
01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:35,759
Speaker 2: All right, Chris Purfett's World of Soccer. We're seeing about

2008
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:37,479
Speaker 2: twenty four hours, Chris, thank.

2009
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:38,959
Speaker 6: You, thank you, Bernie.

2010
01:51:39,520 --> 01:51:42,920
Speaker 2: All right, Chris Perffett's World of Soccer. Coming up, we

2011
01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:46,880
Speaker 2: wrap up the show. Quick check in on the double

2012
01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:51,960
Speaker 2: quarterback stealermate that continues non Alack to report and the

2013
01:51:52,080 --> 01:51:57,120
Speaker 2: NBA Playoffs begin for real in just a few hours.

2014
01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:01,559
Speaker 2: And while the NBA playoffsarticularly the first round, have a

2015
01:52:01,640 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 2: tendency to be a little landing and climactic, there are

2016
01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 2: four series this year that have caught my eye that

2017
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 2: I think you'll find interesting. I'm Bernie fraddlew coming to

2018
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:13,080
Speaker 2: live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, tirect dot com studios.

2019
01:52:13,160 --> 01:52:15,559
Speaker 2: Keep it locked listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on

2020
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:53,040
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and back on the Bernie Frattle Show,

2021
01:52:53,040 --> 01:52:55,479
Speaker 2: wrapping it up Fox Sports Radio, Comedy life from the

2022
01:52:55,520 --> 01:52:58,200
Speaker 2: tireract dot Com studios here in a Las Vegas probably

2023
01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:00,639
Speaker 2: go any further. I want to thank my braodcast team

2024
01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 2: back in Los Angeles all the hard work tonight. They've

2025
01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 2: been with me since eleven pm Pacific Sat. Friday Night.

2026
01:53:07,800 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 2: Be Patrick Sweeka, Kevin Figures on the updates, and of

2027
01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:16,639
Speaker 2: course Mark Ramsey turning all the dials keeping us glued together.

2028
01:53:16,760 --> 01:53:20,320
Speaker 2: Quick programming notes Saturday night my Saturday Night show, which

2029
01:53:20,320 --> 01:53:23,559
Speaker 2: I sign on eleven pm Pacific. I'll have the great

2030
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:28,200
Speaker 2: Al Bernstein, the Hall of Fame boxing analysts from showtime.

2031
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,000
Speaker 2: Al would join me at about eleven to fifteen pm

2032
01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:35,320
Speaker 2: Pacific on Saturday night, as well as Mark Medina Mean

2033
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:40,240
Speaker 2: Medina Magic. The NBA Playoffs are upon us quickly. Before

2034
01:53:40,280 --> 01:53:43,719
Speaker 2: I get to that, just a couple of housekeeping issues.

2035
01:53:43,720 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 2: Not much to report, Green Bay Jets, we'll see. The

2036
01:53:46,280 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 2: theory is now, if we get to the forty second,

2037
01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,519
Speaker 2: forty third pick in the second round and no deals happen,

2038
01:53:52,200 --> 01:53:55,599
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting what transpires next. I will

2039
01:53:55,600 --> 01:53:58,880
Speaker 2: contend the Packers have all the leverage. Why because they

2040
01:53:58,920 --> 01:54:01,640
Speaker 2: have the asset that the Jets want, and if the

2041
01:54:01,720 --> 01:54:04,080
Speaker 2: Jets don't get that asset, they don't have a plan B.

2042
01:54:04,600 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 2: The Packers have a Plan B with Jordan Love even

2043
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:09,439
Speaker 2: though they haven't picked up a fifty year option yet,

2044
01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:13,240
Speaker 2: or they well, they would get stuck with Aaron Rodgers,

2045
01:54:13,240 --> 01:54:16,000
Speaker 2: but hey, they're big boys that get over it. He's

2046
01:54:16,040 --> 01:54:18,200
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, okay, But what are the Jets

2047
01:54:18,240 --> 01:54:21,400
Speaker 2: stuck with it? Zach Wilson. So we'll see what happens. Meanwhile,

2048
01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:25,439
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson is still a raven, and I think you

2049
01:54:25,600 --> 01:54:29,040
Speaker 2: will be a raven when the season starts. But the

2050
01:54:29,040 --> 01:54:32,840
Speaker 2: bottom line is is that we'll see what happens coming

2051
01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:35,560
Speaker 2: out of the draft and and where they where they

2052
01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:42,040
Speaker 2: go from from there. Look, the NBA playoffs a lot

2053
01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 2: of times, particularly in the first round, can be very

2054
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:49,920
Speaker 2: anti climactic. There aren't a lot of upsets like in hockey.

2055
01:54:49,960 --> 01:54:51,720
Speaker 2: I mean, three years ago you had Tampa Bay. They

2056
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:53,440
Speaker 2: were a number one seed. They got up, not only

2057
01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:56,800
Speaker 2: got upset by a number eight seed in Columbus, they

2058
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:59,960
Speaker 2: got swept. That doesn't happen in the NBA, but they're

2059
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 2: There are four series that I find pretty interesting. I'm

2060
01:55:05,840 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 2: gonna start with the Grizzlies and the Lakers because this

2061
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:12,840
Speaker 2: one has all sorts of interesting narratives. It's a great juxtaposition.

2062
01:55:12,920 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 2: You have styles that make fight fights, right. You've got

2063
01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:19,560
Speaker 2: this Laker team that they completely remanaged, reimagined at the

2064
01:55:19,600 --> 01:55:22,840
Speaker 2: trade deadline against the Grizzlies team they've had their pretty

2065
01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:25,480
Speaker 2: consistent core. You've got John Morat and Dyllard Brooks. They

2066
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:27,840
Speaker 2: both kind of have been out there a little bit

2067
01:55:27,920 --> 01:55:31,520
Speaker 2: and earning their reputation as these little energizer bunnies that

2068
01:55:31,720 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 2: are become pests. Well, let's see what they can do

2069
01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:38,240
Speaker 2: in the postseason now. And the Grizzlies they're not going

2070
01:55:38,320 --> 01:55:40,680
Speaker 2: to be with Steven Adams, they thought he'd be back

2071
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:45,080
Speaker 2: from his knee injury. They're don Brandon Clark, but nonetheless,

2072
01:55:45,120 --> 01:55:47,720
Speaker 2: they have plenty of firepower. And I think you should

2073
01:55:47,760 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 2: be concerned if you're a Lakers fan. They're going to

2074
01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:54,080
Speaker 2: have to travel during these playoffs. It's not like the

2075
01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:56,480
Speaker 2: bubble when they don't have to travel, and it's not

2076
01:55:56,560 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 2: like the bubble where you know you have They had

2077
01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:03,840
Speaker 2: four months off, so it's gonna very much remain to

2078
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:07,600
Speaker 2: be seen if in fact they can stay healthy. Because

2079
01:56:07,640 --> 01:56:11,640
Speaker 2: if they can't stay healthy, I think the Lakers will

2080
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:14,120
Speaker 2: have a fairly early exit. We'll see, and then of

2081
01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:18,760
Speaker 2: course you got Lebron James, all right. The Warriors and

2082
01:56:18,840 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 2: Kings is another matchup that's interesting. The Warriors are the

2083
01:56:22,880 --> 01:56:26,360
Speaker 2: lower seed and the only one eleven road games all season,

2084
01:56:26,840 --> 01:56:30,240
Speaker 2: yet they're three to one favorites to beat the Sacramento Kings.

2085
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:32,800
Speaker 2: The Kings have had a playoff drop for twenty years.

2086
01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:36,960
Speaker 2: Golden State went eleven thirty on the road. Only three

2087
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 2: teams in the NBA did worse than at the Pistons, Rockets,

2088
01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:42,280
Speaker 2: and Spurs. As far as the road, the Kings are

2089
01:56:42,280 --> 01:56:45,879
Speaker 2: playing the disrespect card, but I really like what Demonisa

2090
01:56:45,960 --> 01:56:49,040
Speaker 2: Bonos and Deer and Fox have done. They rank first

2091
01:56:49,080 --> 01:56:52,160
Speaker 2: in offensive efficiency. The problem is Sacramento ranks twenty fourth

2092
01:56:52,160 --> 01:56:55,680
Speaker 2: in defensive efficiency. That might bite him. Sons and the

2093
01:56:55,720 --> 01:57:00,680
Speaker 2: Clippers another good matchup. I think them as long as

2094
01:57:00,720 --> 01:57:03,960
Speaker 2: they stay healthy again. Durant before the trade deadline only

2095
01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:07,120
Speaker 2: played eight games in the Phoenix uniform. They got Durant

2096
01:57:07,120 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 2: before the trade deadline. But you pair them up with

2097
01:57:08,960 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 2: Chris Paul, Devin Book and DeAndre Eton and yeah, they

2098
01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:13,160
Speaker 2: only played a total of one hundred and forty two

2099
01:57:13,160 --> 01:57:16,080
Speaker 2: minutes the entire year together, but they're pretty damn good.

2100
01:57:16,360 --> 01:57:18,360
Speaker 2: The series is going to be tough for the Clippers.

2101
01:57:18,720 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 2: Paul George is not healthy. He's going to miss at

2102
01:57:21,280 --> 01:57:24,680
Speaker 2: least the start of the series. Not good development for

2103
01:57:24,680 --> 01:57:27,880
Speaker 2: the Clippers. Meanwhile, over in the East, the Calves in

2104
01:57:27,880 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 2: the Knicks, I think this is going to be an

2105
01:57:30,280 --> 01:57:33,560
Speaker 2: outstanding series. Next back in the playoffs second time in

2106
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:37,160
Speaker 2: ten years. Give it up to Jalen Bronson. He's the reason.

2107
01:57:37,480 --> 01:57:39,200
Speaker 2: That's the reason they gave him one hundred and four million.

2108
01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:42,680
Speaker 2: He's been such a phenomenal impact player. But the Calves

2109
01:57:43,120 --> 01:57:44,880
Speaker 2: have been one of the better stores in a National

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Speaker 2: Basketball Association. This year, they took a big swing and

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Speaker 2: trading for Donovan mcnichell in the offseason. They pair them

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Speaker 2: with Darius Garland. The Calves go from twentieth in offensive

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Speaker 2: efficiency to eighth. Add Jared Allen and Evan Mobley. The

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Speaker 2: Calves are very good defensively tough. They're gonna be a

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Speaker 2: tough out. I feel the Lakers are fools goal I

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Speaker 2: can't believe people are betting the Lakers. They went from

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Speaker 2: twenty five to one to fourteen to one to twelve

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Speaker 2: to one to win it all this year, so the

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Speaker 2: books actually have some liability on the Lakers. I am

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Speaker 2: not buying it now. If you want to make a

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Speaker 2: donation to the book, that's your business betting the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: you'd better off giving it to the American Cancer Society.

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Speaker 2: But remember the Santa Lakers and the bubble when they

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Speaker 2: had Javaial McGhee and Dwight Howard protecting the rim and

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Speaker 2: they didn't have to travel and they had four months rest.

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Speaker 2: I think as the playoffs go on, the Lakers are

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Speaker 2: going to be in trouble. Make layers out of me, Lakers,

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Speaker 2: and I'll take my medicine don't bet on it. It's

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Speaker 2: gonna do it for the Bernie Frales Show. See on

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Speaker 2: these airwaves Saturday night, eleven pm. In the meantime, keep

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Speaker 2: it locked up next, They're great. Anthony Gargano, Fox Sports Radio,