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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Before we get to the show, a little

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Speaker 1: let's get to the show. Be Around the NFL Podcast

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Speaker 1: would be my first overall pick in a fantasy dram.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan fans is coming

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Speaker 1: to you from a virtual room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rostal and our old buddy, the Great Steve. What's

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Speaker 1: up boys? Coming up? Fantasy spectacular? A little little pop there? Not.

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Speaker 1: Nothing's happened in the world or uh in sports or

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Speaker 1: the NFL since that Fantasy Spectacular? Not at all. You

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Speaker 1: haven't been busy at all on NFL network. Nah, No,

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Speaker 1: I mean nothing nothing in pro sports whatsoever, especially the NBA,

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Speaker 1: boy and quiet not at all. Yeah, that's actually if

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Speaker 1: well you can't see it listeners, but we're on a

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Speaker 1: video stream while we're doing this, and they've Steve is

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Speaker 1: in front of what I imagine to be his bed.

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Speaker 1: They just moved that to NFL Network and he just

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Speaker 1: sleeps in that. They put it in the green room

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Speaker 1: and then they wake Steve up and then have an

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Speaker 1: anchor another seven hours of either hard hitting news analysis

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Speaker 1: or major social events, and they just have Steve at

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Speaker 1: the front of it at all times. I'm sure it's

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Speaker 1: not at all a grind for you this summer in Springs. Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: there's a difference between a job and there's a difference

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Speaker 1: a job, and the NFL Network is definitely keeping me

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Speaker 1: in a specific lane. You've been there a long time.

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Speaker 1: You've been at the network since the beginning, right, No, No,

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Speaker 1: I came in in Uh when did I start? No? Five?

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Speaker 1: So I think I was three years after the phone

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Speaker 1: the found me. Yeah, well there hasn't. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: never been a you haven't had a you've never seen

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Speaker 1: a summer like this, or you've never seen programs like this.

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Speaker 1: I get that that hits me watching it yesterday. And

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Speaker 1: you did an awesome job. You know. Some of the

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Speaker 1: interviews like with with Derrick Kendricks, were you know, emotional,

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Speaker 1: They were a lot, they were impactful, and but watching it,

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Speaker 1: I just thought, Man, NFL network is different than it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, three or four years ago at this time,

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Speaker 1: and in if nothing else, that's some that's some change.

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Speaker 1: You know, if like if racial progress in this country

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Speaker 1: like some of just the programming that we've had, and

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are are proud of that.

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Speaker 1: Whatever would have imagined that been possible on NFL network

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Speaker 1: a few years back. No, look, let's go back just

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Speaker 1: four years to this past Wednesday through all August, right,

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Speaker 1: that's when Colin Kaepernick sat for the national anthem at

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Speaker 1: But you know again that that is an evolution that

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Speaker 1: along with MJ some of that, and there was just

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Speaker 1: Hmm uh, Steve, so obviously great to talk to you

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Speaker 1: at all. Again, working for the Washington Post, they're gonna

429
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Speaker 1: they are aggressive when they see improprieties, and they get

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Speaker 1: this is what we've done. I've done investigative story for

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post. This is the water the Washington Post.

432
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who you are, if you're if you're

433
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Speaker 1: up to something ballets, they're gonna report it and they're

434
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Speaker 1: not gonna deny. And they've done a lot of reporting

435
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Speaker 1: on Snyder over the years. Right. And in the secondary

436
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Speaker 1: part of that, my dear friend the columnists Sally Jenkins,

437
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Speaker 1: who if she decides to sharpening knives to come after

438
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Speaker 1: you your toast. The column that she wrote about that

439
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: first off, the lead was probably the most incredible lead

440
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: I've ever read that had something to do with the

441
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: NFL is basically getting its just due for not scraping

442
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Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder off the bottom of its shoe. And I

443
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: was like, all right, this is not going to go

444
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: well the rest of the way for Daniel Snyder. But

445
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: she's saying she she's putting so much blame on the

446
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: other owners in the NFL for not holding him to

447
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: a higher standard before, because of course they had to

448
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: know some of these things. We don't know how much

449
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: they knew, but this could have far reaching implications if

450
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: more and more of this continues to shine and how

451
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: that organization on the field this year has to function

452
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Speaker 1: with all this going on. If you're a player there,

453
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Speaker 1: you have to be like, what, like, what is going

454
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Speaker 1: on Ron Rivera? The job Ron Rivera has to do

455
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: while he's also battling an illness um is just going

456
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Speaker 1: to be absolutely I mean, this is you're you're climbing

457
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Speaker 1: to him alayas with toothpicks right here, right now, alright,

458
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Speaker 1: stay tuned to what comes next with the Washington football team.

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Speaker 1: I don't get the vibe that the Washington Post has

460
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: done yet. I don't think uh. In other news, let's

461
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,479
Speaker 1: move on to some football news. Will spin through an

462
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: update around our league. Bad news for the Eagles, who

463
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: continue to take hits on their offensive line. They placed

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00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: second year left tackle Andre Dillard on injured reserve with

465
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: torn biceps. Unbelievable setback to the team that had already

466
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: lost right guard Brandon Brooks to an achilles earlier this summer.

467
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,959
Speaker 1: Dillard the number two overall pick in last year's draft.

468
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: He was a little up and down mark, but he

469
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: was the guy they were counting on a lot to

470
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: protect Carson Wentz's blindside and now they're talking about maybe

471
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 1: moving Jason Peters back to left tackle, the guy that

472
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: they obviously weren't in a rush to bring back in

473
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Speaker 1: the first place, and they were gonna play him at guard.

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Speaker 1: This is not a good situation in Philly. Well, they're

475
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: very lucky they brought him back for the guard role

476
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: initially because they would be in serious hot water otherwise.

477
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Speaker 1: I mean, if I want to look in a weird

478
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: are like this a team so that I could start

479
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Speaker 1: to rule out I'm not talking about the Eagles at

480
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: this point, but it is banged up or totally insufficient

481
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: offensive lines, and they they went from solid too extremely

482
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: questionable in the course of a couple of months, and

483
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: like it just you know, I think teams would get

484
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: out to a slow start and then you see what

485
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: the chaos that could unfold this season. I don't like

486
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Speaker 1: the chances for in a run heavy early part of

487
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: the year, if you can't protect your quarterback and blow

488
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: holes open four runners, I just don't like it at all.

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Speaker 1: For the I mean, they they have the worst injury

490
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: lucky year after year. I mean, I was we were

491
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: just talking about it last week. It's like their season

492
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: doesn't get going until they lose a few keep starters.

493
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: So they they lose an all Pro in Brandon Brooks,

494
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Speaker 1: and now they lose their left tackle. First round pick.

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Speaker 1: I think he turns this year. That first round pick.

496
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: He's not you know, young either. I think they've gone

497
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: from excellent on paper, maybe the best most talented offensive

498
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: line in the league. Certainly one of them. Um too

499
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: solid at least that's what they're hoping that think if

500
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Speaker 1: Peters can stay healthy. It was okay last year, he

501
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: just was banged up and they wanted to move to

502
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Speaker 1: the young guy that they could be solid. But it's

503
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 1: got to be disappointing. The eagles injury luck is now

504
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: like four years running. The numbers backing up that the

505
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: starts that they've missed from good players, well they're missing

506
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: those Chip Kelly shakes, and you know that's that's that's

507
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: I've seen this happen in other sports. The Yankees did

508
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: it last year, fired their entire training staff because everybody

509
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: got hurt, and then the new staff is on retainer

510
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: now and everyone got hurt again. I imagine the Eagles

511
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: have tried everything they could to try to reverse this trend,

512
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: but maybe it is simply simply bad luck. Um who knows.

513
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: In other news, the New York Jets, it's been another

514
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: nice week for football fans in our Jets fans to

515
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: point and laugh at my team because it's been a

516
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: rough week. Greg, especially enjoying himself. And what did I say?

517
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. What did I say? I know?

518
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: I know you're enjoying the Jets first, enjoying Frank are

519
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: rising up that depth chart. You better believe that. Yeah, well,

520
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: it's Frank Gore season because it's August and people are

521
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: gonna say nice things about Frank Gore, who has looked

522
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: very good according to all Beat reporters. Levy On Bell

523
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: didn't play much in the wipeout scrimmage, where the Jets

524
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: beat team beat the Jets eight team soundly shut them out,

525
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: according to the Beat writers. After the practice, Adam Gaze

526
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: reported or told the reporters that, yeah, we kind of

527
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: took it easy with Bell, didn't use him too much

528
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: because he had some hamstring tightness. And then levy On

529
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Speaker 1: Bell heads over to Twitter says, there's nothing wrong with

530
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: my hamstrings. I can't stay loose if I'm not on

531
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Speaker 1: the field, and the circus car goes round and round

532
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: and round. Steve Wish Yeah. I mean when left l

533
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,239
Speaker 1: came out, was like, Hey, Adam Gaze, I'm good to go.

534
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: I want to play. Um. You know, this is a

535
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: weird one though, because coaches. He knows he's probably gonna

536
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: have to give left Bell the ball four seven thousand

537
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: times this year, so he's trying to preserve him. But

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00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: I mean, where where's the communication here? And once again

539
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: you you immediately say, here's Adam Gauge and a star player,

540
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: not t and I I we saw in Miami. We

541
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: saw it with the Jets. This is an easy conversation. Hey, Love,

542
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,239
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna work you that much

543
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: during practice. When I say I'm not working that much,

544
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: here's your specifics I'm going to give you. So just

545
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: roll with it instead of kind of going like this.

546
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: And maybe Loves is feeling the footsteps of a Frank Gore.

547
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: There's got to be a text thread out there with

548
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: like Kenyan Drake and Lev Bell and others that are

549
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, like that had gone through the gays experience.

550
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: And my my concern Dan like from the positive angle

551
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: that I see the Jetts, tell me you're concerned with

552
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: the Jets because well, no, I hear you, I hear you.

553
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: I don't root for US Stalwart dynasty either. But you know,

554
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas is the thing I think you have going

555
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: into the future, and is our Gays and Joe Douglas

556
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: on the same page with this or this? Does this

557
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: turn into great question? Another deal? Right? Like more distant?

558
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: Like and you don't he just traded for Adam Gays

559
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: is running back so that you blae. So that makes

560
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: you think like either Gays is making personnel moves or

561
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: at least that's my question. Joe Douglass ever been like,

562
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,239
Speaker 1: let's go trade for Calin. But I mean really like,

563
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: I think Joe Douglass is making different types of moves

564
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: in that in general. But well, I would hope that

565
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: any GM coach set up has some level of communication.

566
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: And if if Gays like spillage and is one point

567
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry last year, bring him into the building.

568
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: Why not surrender a draft pick if you must get

569
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: him in the building. I now that Mark brought up

570
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: the head coach thing. I gotta, you know, get into

571
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: the game. And I talked to some people after the

572
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas hiring and it was a little overblown in

573
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: the media. How close Joe Douglas and Adam Gays are.

574
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: They worked together for a brief period of time, I

575
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: believe in Chicago, and they are not married to each other,

576
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: and I would think, listen, I gotta be honest with you,

577
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: Like Levy on Bell, he's in great shape, they're saying,

578
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: and maybe he's gonna have a great year. But I

579
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: am just exhausted by this mini era that includes Adam

580
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: Gaze and Levan Bell, and I don't know if either

581
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: of these guys are the future of the franchise, to

582
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, beyond so to see them

583
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: squabbling again in the press, it's just all kinds of

584
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: exhausting for me, because there are other aspects of the

585
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: organization that I am excited about, uh, the quarterback UM,

586
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: the defensive line, uh, the idea of their defense, trying

587
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: to figure it out without C. J. Moseley and Jamal Adams.

588
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: But this is not what I'm excited about. And it's

589
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: just it's such a grind. It's such a grind. Just

590
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: talk to him, n talk to your players. I think

591
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: he was trying to do him a favor of like

592
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: embarrassing him that he's not getting all the steps. But

593
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: it's just like Gage doesn't get it. That's it's not

594
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: who he is. He doesn't he doesn't understand that an

595
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: important part of the job is communication and being on

596
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: the same page of the players. Before you go to

597
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: a press conference and tell reporters about the Hams drinking,

598
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: have that talk with Bell so he doesn't run to

599
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: Twitter and get upset. Because Bell will go to Twitter.

600
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: We know that as not It's not like left Bells,

601
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: you know, and you know somebody who could get obnoxious

602
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: of times on social media. I can't wait for his

603
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: Adam disk track on his next album coming, Yeah, coming.

604
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: Is there any way woozy banger that he gets moved? Yeah?

605
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: I think that money after this year, So it's like

606
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: it's very tradeable. If a team got into hot Water,

607
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: you know, in at the running back position, you're paying

608
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: him this year and then you can do what you

609
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: want after. If someone wants to give up a sixth

610
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: for love Bell, I bet they could just go get

611
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: it before a camp or I I'm with you, it

612
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if love Bell is on a different team.

613
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: So do you got a third rounder for Leonard Williams

614
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: last year. Oh please, all right, let's move on. Buddha

615
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: by Acre got paid. The Cardinals safety signed a four year,

616
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars fifty nine million dollar extension. Don't want

617
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: to short him that nine mill. The twenty four year

618
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: old is now the highest paid safety and league history.

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00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: Good job by Buddha Baker, who is a second round

620
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: pick in teen Let all safeties and tackles. Uh. Last season. Uh,

621
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: he could cover, he could tackle. He's a guy you

622
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: want in your building, Steve Weich. And now the Arizona

623
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: Cardinals have locked him up. Yeah, he's he's a really,

624
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: really good player. And for what they asked their safeties

625
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: to do, especially this year because remember they drafted Isaiah Simmons.

626
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna play that mo inside linebacker, kind of the

627
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: strong side inside linebacker that they could stack over tight

628
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: end if they need be. Buddha Baker is gonna be

629
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: responsible for an awful lot on the back end, whether

630
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: you're play him free, whether they bring him down. And

631
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: we know in this division, when you've got all kinds

632
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: of running backs, you can catch the ball out of

633
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: the backfield. That's an important position. But but this also

634
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: goes to show you. I mean the Arizona Cardinals. First off,

635
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: they're not really paying a ton of people doing have

636
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: to pay Kyler murrayette. Um, you know, DeAndre Hopkins contract

637
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: is coming. But to secure a young player on your

638
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: defensive nucleus, which they really haven't done since Patrick Peterson.

639
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: We know Chandler Jones is there as well. That's a

640
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: really good start because that secondary has the potential to

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Speaker 1: be pretty good this year. You know, Robert Alfred the

642
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Speaker 1: corner got hurt again, but they've got some pieces, you know,

643
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Speaker 1: and I talked Advanced Joseph from time to time. They're

644
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty here we go. But they you know,

645
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: they really feel pretty good about their defense. And the

646
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: problem last year when they were so terrible is that secondary.

647
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: It was never together at peace. You know, Peterson suspended

648
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: six games, Alfred got hurt again last year. They think

649
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: they've got a pretty good nucleus right there, and if

650
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Speaker 1: they can get the ball over to Kyler Murray from

651
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: time to time, they really think they could be a

652
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Speaker 1: pretty good team. I think he just represents the kind

653
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: of player that we're starting to see where the position

654
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: list player I guess on defense where Baker played you know, safety,

655
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Speaker 1: but he played outside linebacker, inside linebacker, ed defender, right cornerback,

656
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: left cornerback. And you go look at his next gen

657
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: stats breakdown. I mean he's did everything essentially, and that's

658
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: you know, we used to say Bill Belichick loves those players. Well,

659
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: by the way, Soda thirty one other coaches, so you

660
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: know they well, oh no, no, there's one. We were

661
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: just talking about it. Who doesn't Okay, he doesn't want

662
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Speaker 1: that he likes him. From Kellen Balage is it is

663
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Speaker 1: everybody in Baker got that money. Pat Pete didn't. Pat Pete, uh,

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Speaker 1: probably a future Hall of Famer is in a contract

665
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: yere to me, he could be kind of the the

666
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Speaker 1: X factor with that team. If you get old Pat

667
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Speaker 1: Pete in a in a contract sort of pushed as

668
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Speaker 1: an all Pro type player, then watch out. If you

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Speaker 1: get last year's Pat Pete after the after the injury,

670
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Speaker 1: where he's just kind of he was out there, he

671
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: was a guy. Um, then they're a different team. So

672
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: that's kind of something to watch. Are you gonna get

673
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna get old Pat Pete? You're gonna get

674
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Speaker 1: old right? Anyway? Issues for the Browns on defense, Mark,

675
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: they already lost the linebacker Mack Wilson uh to that

676
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Speaker 1: knee injury. It's gonna cost him a lot of time.

677
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Speaker 1: And now they've moved Grant Delpit, the safety to injured

678
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Speaker 1: reserve after he ruptured as achilles and Monday's practice. So

679
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: you're losing some pieces of that defense. Mr. Sessler, Well,

680
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Speaker 1: this pairs well with the previous News item because Joe

681
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: Woods when they lost del but they invested highly in

682
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: the draft, they had big plans for him. He basically said, look,

683
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 1: we it was honest comment. We don't have anyone else

684
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Speaker 1: on the roster that can do what we had him

685
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: to do. And the Browns linebacking corps in front of

686
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: the secondary is so questionable that they were talked about

687
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Speaker 1: as a team that was going to run a lot

688
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: of like four to five as their base, like five

689
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: in six defensive backs and using Delpit all over the field.

690
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Speaker 1: He's gone, Uh, they they've got Anderson Dajo, you got

691
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Speaker 1: Carl Joseph, a different type of player, Sheldrick RedWine who

692
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: they draft to. Basically, it's sort of saying I think

693
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: they keep trying to find someone who's not Shelter gred Wine.

694
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Speaker 1: So they have issues. They're one of the more banged

695
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: up teams in the league right now. Um, it's it's

696
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: been a long couple of weeks for them, and I

697
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Speaker 1: had I think that, you know, they've got the Ravens

698
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: in about sixteen days or whatever it is. I don't

699
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: like that matchup a whole lot. In other news, the league,

700
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Speaker 1: our league is considering fake crowd noise range in the

701
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Speaker 1: range of seventy to eighty five decibles. All right, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you here seven. I'll tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: This is seventy five decis La la la la la

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Speaker 1: la la la la la. Here's eighty five decibles. La

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Speaker 1: la la la la la la la la. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: they're ye, did you test that out beforehand? How do

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Speaker 1: you do this? That's that's science, greg. As the source

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Speaker 1: explained to p f T, the sound level likely would

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Speaker 1: be constant throughout the game, regardless of whether the home

710
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Speaker 1: team or the visiting team has the ball. Uh Florio

711
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: reached out to the league, and a spokesman replied, we

712
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Speaker 1: are finalizing plans. Why it's ready to come down on

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Speaker 1: La la la la la la la la I've actually

714
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Speaker 1: had experience with that, having gone to the Rams scrimmage

715
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Speaker 1: at the new Sofi Stadium last Saturday, and it's weird because,

716
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Speaker 1: as we know, the new stadium is near the airport.

717
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Speaker 1: So I kept on saying to my photographer at the game,

718
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Speaker 1: are there that many jets landing? Because it seemed it's

719
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like white noise. I think of Poultergeist

720
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Speaker 1: and for those nine young enough to know, go back

721
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Speaker 1: and google it. It's like the static sound that you're

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Speaker 1: constantly hearing. Right, you can speak to the person next

723
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Speaker 1: to you without yelling, but you just noticed there's someone there.

724
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: So Sean McVeigh after the game was like, that is

725
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: the worst thing possible, right because you do have to

726
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: scream a little bit. It's where the quarterback has to,

727
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, give give some noise about his play. Calls

728
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: um Cooper cut the wide receiver says he never really

729
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: thought about it, but then once he recognized it, it

730
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Speaker 1: was it was just something you thought about. I mean

731
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: that they'll have to get used to it, but it's

732
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Speaker 1: a very peculiar sound. Now, the Ram stadium had like

733
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Speaker 1: why are they doing it? Do it? How about I don't.

734
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think they're locked into it. I

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's

736
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Speaker 1: something to give cover to miked up, you know, because

737
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Speaker 1: some of the language. I don't know, it's gonna happen whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's just like I didn't necessarily mind it again, because

739
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Speaker 1: I could have a conversation three ft away or six

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Speaker 1: ft away, I should say from my photographer, Gosh, you're

741
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: probably more than that without screaming. But you you knew

742
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Speaker 1: it was there, And like I said, I'm thinking it's

743
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Speaker 1: planes landing overhead. But as you know, there's not that

744
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: much air traffic these days, so it was just a

745
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: really weird sound. Again, just go back and read some

746
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: of the transcription. Sean mcvette. He was like, this is

747
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: the worst everything, lucition. No one've ever done it before either.

748
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the fake noise that they're doing

749
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: for the broadcast for the NBA games, which is bad.

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Speaker 1: It's if you were better at it, maybe I would

751
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: be into it. But it's like, why is this weird,

752
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: bad fake crowd noise? It doesn't sound like a real crowd,

753
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: and it ends up distracting the viewer. Now the players

754
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: aren't hearing that in the actual NBA stames. But it

755
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: just goes to show like no one's ever done any

756
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: of this stuff before. Of course, that they're bad at it.

757
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: They don't know if they're doing. I wouldn't mind if

758
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: they added like a laugh track, if like something like

759
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: a bad play or you know, let's let's just maximize

760
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Speaker 1: Sared got like fumbles the balls ha ha. But here's

761
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Speaker 1: here's the other part. What what happens when you go

762
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Speaker 1: to those stadiums that have twenty people in it? I mean,

763
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Speaker 1: is it all? Is it? Is it? Are you still

764
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Speaker 1: using it? I mean, what's the deal? What about home

765
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: stadiums compared to open stadiums? I mean, how is that

766
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: gonna work? So I love your theory about they're super

767
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 1: quietly nervous about the parabolic mic situation because it's gonna

768
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: be wild. You know, the language is saucy, uh in

769
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: all the professional sports, but in a football game, especially

770
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines on a tackle, you know there's some

771
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: stuff being shared. Yeah, but Dan, those don't always work. Um,

772
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:20,479
Speaker 1: Brown Steelers, you know there's a female I just wanted

773
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: to say, parabolic that all other injury and I enjoyed it.

774
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: Craft Sheet reports that running back David Montgomery is expected

775
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: to miss two to four weeks with that groin injury.

776
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: People thought it could have been season ending when he

777
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: was taken off the practice field. So it's better news

778
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: than initially feared, but still not a great situation. Puts

779
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: them right up against Week one Bears Lions. Al Right,

780
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy, they gave you the coach of the Year award.

781
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: Let's let's see this offense be watchable and m or

782
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: else they might have to take that award away. You know,

783
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: it's like we might have been a little premature here.

784
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: If if this offense is as boring as I'm fearing

785
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be. Uh, I don't know. We were

786
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: a little too quick on Maggie. Well before, before the

787
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: pandemic shut us down the studio. Kyle Long, the now

788
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: retired Bears guard, it was very open about what the

789
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: Bears have to do in this offense. It doesn't function

790
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: well unless you run the ball. So last year the

791
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: offensive line wasn't good. Dave Montgomery did not have that explosiveness.

792
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's talking about his open field speed. He

793
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: didn't have to get off the ball type speed, and

794
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: then treet Cohen they were playing him more at wide receiver.

795
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: When I when I saw mcgomery go down, my big

796
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: question was, what is going on with Davonte Freeman? Is

797
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: to where nobody is giving him a call? I mean

798
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: he's still out there. This was some guys out there

799
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: and this is he would fit the scheme well, So

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. You know what, left belt,

801
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: left belt? There, you go there, let's do it. I'm fine,

802
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: that's fine. Just give me a first round pick. You

803
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: will pay maximum maximum amounts. He doesn't exactly win trades,

804
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: I don't think. I just want to say. I want

805
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: to say, because there was some there was some shots

806
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: here taking their greg at Matt Naggie. I would have

807
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: loved to see how people were talking about Naggi entering

808
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: if Patrick Mahomes was his quarterback instead of mrs and

809
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: I thought Naggie did an incredible job. That was always

810
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: my argument against Rabinsky Um during his better year in

811
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen, was this is all scheme. These

812
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: guys are wide open, and that is why Naggi won

813
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: won the award. Um So so to be fair, maybe

814
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: it'll look a little better if if Nick Foles is

815
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: behind quickly quickly. On that go back and watching Bears too,

816
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: you will see Allen Robinson running right right all the time.

817
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: They just didn't get him the ball, which sucks because

818
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: that guy is an elebut player real quick. The Giants defense,

819
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: which already looks on paper to be bad, lost, uh

820
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: two starters, Xavier McKinney and David Mayo. Both McKinney, the

821
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Speaker 1: rookie safety, fractured left foot. Mayo torn meniscus in his

822
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: left knee. He started thirteen games for the team last season.

823
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: Both believed to be non contact injuries. Greg, Uh, you've

824
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: been banging the drum a little bit on the pod

825
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: that the Giants have major deficiencies on the other side

826
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: of the ball, where Daniel Jones and let's say Kwon

827
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: Barkley are not playing. This is not getting better. Right

828
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: on paper, I think that's the worst defense in the

829
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,959
Speaker 1: league just in terms of talent. Uh, And they were

830
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: the worst. They were one of the worst defense in

831
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Speaker 1: the league last year. You know, in reality, they have

832
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: a new coordinator, Patrick Graham. Um. You know White White

833
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: is gonna be doing total access a little labor. I

834
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: mean you're not getting into David Mayo and McKinney on

835
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Speaker 1: Total Access, we bring you the real stuff. We we

836
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: talked about the Cowboys and Patriots. Um well, I mean,

837
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's fun when I look at the Giants

838
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: and it was real cool because you know, uh, NFL

839
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: Films did this film session where he's watching film with

840
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders. You know, they're eating the popcorn and then

841
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: the film breakdown studio. And that's what I think his

842
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: career is gonna be. Liking to one of the best

843
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: running backs, most talented players in the NFL right now,

844
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna be doing it on a team that's never

845
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: going to get anywhere. Um, and it's just look it happens.

846
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: It happened to Walter Payton until the end of his career.

847
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: He played on some god awful teams with the Bears,

848
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 1: and you just hope, like someone is remarkable s Kwon

849
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: Barkley gets something around him. But I look at the

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Speaker 1: Giants and I'm thinking they are the leaders of the pack.

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00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: And Mark, you and I have been joking about this

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Speaker 1: with the Lions because you're on there there, You're on

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Speaker 1: the train, and I definitely am not. I mean The

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00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: Giants to me, are already on the clock. They don't

855
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: need Trevor Lawrence. But they're gonna hold. They're gonna hold.

856
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: They get hold the piece, you know, for somebody to

857
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: come up to get him, because I look at their

858
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Speaker 1: talent and I'm just kind of like, man, I feel

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00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: horrible for for Sa Kwon, Barkley, Daniel Jones. Yeah, like

860
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: I we have to cover all these teams obviously, NonStop

861
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: all year long. And if you if you weren't doing that,

862
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: you jump, you jump out quick on a few and

863
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: I just I get annoyed with with the team, like

864
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: the Giants. It's like, hey, here's a great idea. Let's

865
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,280
Speaker 1: not have an identity on defense for nine straight years. Okay,

866
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: that's one way you can attack the NFL season. Come on, guys.

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Speaker 1: In other news, finally, in fact good news, the father

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Speaker 1: of Bengal's cornerback Mackenzie Alexander has been found alive in Florida.

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Speaker 1: According to officials, Gene Oddney Alexander was found Thursday morning

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Speaker 1: after he walked up to a ranger station and kissing

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Speaker 1: me Prairie Preserve State Park. Uh, this is a paragraph

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Speaker 1: I want to read you guys, because it's pretty wild story. Okay,

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00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna read this whole paragraph. Uh, this

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00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: is from an ESPN staff writer, Alexander, and he has

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00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: a different spelling than his son's name. So there's the

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00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: first thing that's like, Oh okay. Um was reported missing

877
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: on Monday. According to police records, Alexander was picking palmetto

878
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: berries with a friend he had known for more than

879
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: ten years when he disappeared in the woods around two

880
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: pm Monday. Authorities were not able to ping Alexander's exact

881
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: location because he did not have a cell phone. That's

882
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: interesting too, it's no cell phone. Alexander the player left

883
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: Bengals camp and Aid to search for his father. On Tuesday,

884
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: Alexander and another man were arrested on misdemeanor batter charge

885
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: after allegedly hitting the man who went berry picking with

886
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: his father. So Alexander the son dealing with legal issues,

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00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: the father safe and sound. That is a weird story.

888
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say to it. It

889
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: just it felt like it should be in the show.

890
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: It was just like I read that story, I was

891
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: following it all week, and so you know, you're happy

892
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: for him that he that he found his dad. He's

893
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: going to be a key part of that secondary Mackenzie

894
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: Alexander by the way. But there's nice to have a

895
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 1: happy ending. But it was just like, Wow, you don't

896
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: see a story like that too often. I don't know,

897
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty wild. I will tell you

898
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: one time that I this came to mind when I

899
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: read this because Daniel right, the story struck me. Nobody

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00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: has anything to say about it, but you wanted to

901
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: do that about it. I just put it. I just

902
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: very very very true. It was just like it was

903
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: just like, hey, our listeners, they might not be aware

904
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,439
Speaker 1: of this one. I just thought they should be. There

905
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: was this one time though, that I went hiking alone,

906
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: like off the pc H you know, up and it's

907
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,479
Speaker 1: like the Santa Monica Mountains or whatever, and parked the car,

908
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: brought a fully charged cell phone with me, got like

909
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: an hour into the hike, and it was one It's

910
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: like when you get to the end of a cell

911
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: phone and it's about to die. The thing died on me,

912
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: and I thought, no problem, I'll just had to get

913
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Speaker 1: back to the car. Then I realized, holy I am

914
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: totally lost. I took like five or six left and

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00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: right turns. Had no idea where I was. It was

916
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: now like six or seven o'clock and I told someone,

917
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be home at four, and so there's

918
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: there's that and like, you know, it's no follow up call.

919
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: I can't be reached that you can't ping that phone,

920
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Speaker 1: I guess, and I've I've managed. I've stumbled upon some

921
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Speaker 1: weird campsite. Uh. It was next to the pc H.

922
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Speaker 1: I got out to the p c H and realized

923
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Speaker 1: that I was about nine miles or so far up

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Speaker 1: the pc H. I had no idea was it was

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Speaker 1: dark out, the pc H was under heavy construction, and

926
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Speaker 1: I walked for like three more hours until I got

927
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Speaker 1: to this sort of fish and chips place along the

928
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: pc H and had to convince the manager at closing time.

929
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: I just sit in the parking lot for two hours.

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00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: I had no money on me, uh to go drive

931
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Speaker 1: me back to my car, which was up you know,

932
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: three miles away up a hill. And then I drove

933
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Speaker 1: home and got home at like like twelve forty five

934
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Speaker 1: in the morning, and some I was just like, what

935
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: is going on here? And so, you know, don't wouldn't

936
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Speaker 1: have gotten that. Don't do that and that, and that.

937
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: You know, whenever I can tax seven unnecessary minutes onto

938
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Speaker 1: the show, will do it. So yeah, somebody tells me

939
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: there was a little bit more to this story, then

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00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: you're then you're a great adventure, which actually sounds quite harrowing. Uh.

941
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Speaker 1: One note is that market used that excuse six times

942
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: previously to Simoni. I legit walked like fifteen miles that

943
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: I took the next Alright, well, I'm not gonna win

944
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: this money. I'm lost unsolved mysteries. All right, Oh, we're

945
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 1: glad you made it out. Mark. You took the next

946
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: day off. You're working at the NFL, right right. It

947
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: was like about a month in the job, and I

948
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: had like both my legs were like, you know, if

949
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: you haven't really exercised in like six months and suddenly

950
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: you walked fifteen miles the next day is unpleasant. We

951
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 1: know that. That is incredible. He's like, get me back

952
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: to t I want to put that. Oh my god,

953
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: I just can't wait till this wife uses that excuse

954
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: on him. All right, Steve, Steve, you've said it all.

955
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 1: You've done it again. You're one of our very favorite people.

956
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:12,959
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people say that about Steve

957
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: because Steve is one of those guys that everybody loves.

958
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: But we love Steve a little bit more. I'm just

959
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: gonna say yes. Well, and you know, I love you guys.

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00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: You guys are the absolute best man. I totally appreciate

961
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: you having me on. All right, great, check out Steve

962
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: everywhere on NFL network, UM, NFL dot com. He's the man.

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Speaker 1: All right. That's it. Everybody, remember the UH broadcast around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Broadcast's coming up UH Friday, the streaming version

965
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Speaker 1: on NFL dot com Saturday morning. It's on the network,

966
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Speaker 1: so make sure you check it out. Support the show.

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Speaker 1: We love you, everybody, have a nice weekend. They eat

968
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Speaker 1: your palmetto berries, but be careful. Bring a compass with

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Speaker 1: you or at least the cell phone. They had the

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Speaker 1: signing offer Steve watch The Quiet Storm, The Old Boss,

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Speaker 1: and Ricky Hollywood Wild until Monday.