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Speaker 3: Over the course of the last several days, there were

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Speaker 3: stunning results in the NFL that had us rethinking everything

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Speaker 3: that we thought we knew about stable franchises. But as

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Speaker 3: the dust settles, particularly Monday night, may have left everybody

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Speaker 3: the most shocked, because now what do we make of

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Speaker 3: a team in the Rams that certainly looks like they could,

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Speaker 3: should would be a Super Bowl contender, that just lost

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Speaker 3: like that to the Falcons and now appear to be reeling.

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Speaker 3: He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason fitz buckin fits taken over

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Speaker 3: to on the jaysusmission of Mike Harmer. We're gonna be

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Speaker 3: with you all the way up until two a m.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot to cover over the course of

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Speaker 3: the night. But Buck, I just sat there last night

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Speaker 3: watching Monday Night full, and I found myself laughing because

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Speaker 3: this is the modern NFL, right Like this year's NFL,

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Speaker 3: nothing is predictable.

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Speaker 4: I love it this year's NFL.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.

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Speaker 4: I'm in. I'm in for all of the chaos of

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Speaker 4: this year's NFL. But at what point do we.

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Speaker 3: Take a result and say, Okay, what does this actually mean?

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Speaker 3: Because by losing to the Falcons, the Rams now have

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Speaker 3: lost three of their last five. Their defense looks like

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Speaker 3: it can get got and all of a sudden, instead

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Speaker 3: of being in a battle for the number one overall seed,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna be the five or the sixth seed. But

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Speaker 3: more importantly than that, they're just not playing well going

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Speaker 3: into the playoffs. And I don't know what to make

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Speaker 3: of a team that on paper certainly should be a

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Speaker 3: month hasn't looked like it.

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Speaker 5: Now, I'm not worried about him. I'm not worried about

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Speaker 5: him at all. This felt like one of these games

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Speaker 5: as you looked at what the Falcons have to play for,

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Speaker 5: which is nothing but spoiler at this point in time,

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Speaker 5: and you look at the way that the Falcons are

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Speaker 5: constructed and the fact that they came out last night

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Speaker 5: with the intention of doing exactly what they did, which

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Speaker 5: is too rough a good team up and show that

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Speaker 5: they weren't just a doormat. And they were constructed to

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Speaker 5: do exactly that. In the offseason, right this was the

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Speaker 5: Draft Capitol Bowl. The Rams and the Falcons did a

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Speaker 5: trade in the first round this year for the James

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Speaker 5: traded their first round pick in twenty twenty six to

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles. Rams had every reason to go out there

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Speaker 5: and beat their ass and improve their draft pick, because

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Speaker 5: dropping the Falcons down further would give them a better

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Speaker 5: a better percentage chance of improving that pick, obviously, and

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Speaker 5: Atlanta said, no, we're not gonna We're not gonna put

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Speaker 5: up with that. We're gonna play you tough. We're gonna

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Speaker 5: come out there and rough you up. We're gonna get

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Speaker 5: pressure on Matt Stafford all night. I thought Jeff Ulbrich,

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Speaker 5: think Xavier Wats is an absolute star. All of the

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Speaker 5: things that they put their put their I mean they

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Speaker 5: basically put their mortgage on. If you're Terry Fontina, the

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Speaker 5: Falcons were well built team or not, because I guess

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Speaker 5: just the proposition of their quarterback situation gives me so

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Speaker 5: much uncertainty because I'm not really sure what Michael Pennix

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Speaker 5: a world in which Kirk Cousins is still on their

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Speaker 5: is no certain thing. The rest of it, though, feels really,

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Speaker 5: really so solid. B John Robinson was awesome last night.

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Speaker 5: the same way that you and I have had many

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Speaker 5: conversations about college football teams playing down to competition prior

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Speaker 5: that's the definition of the NFL season if you just

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Speaker 5: as you've just described it. The Rams are still one

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Speaker 4: I want to agree with you because what you're saying

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Speaker 3: No, where's the fun and that where's the drama? If

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Speaker 3: we go straight to that, I win. Think about this.

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Speaker 3: I like to in order to try to avoid being

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Speaker 3: I like to look in threes. Like you ask, is

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Speaker 3: Michael Pennix Junior the guy? Well, here's my honest answer

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Speaker 3: to that. That doesn't make for great sports radio content.

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Speaker 3: Takes three years to know, like I think, it takes

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Speaker 3: It takes three seasons to know if a coach is

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Speaker 4: It takes I like threes because.

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Speaker 3: Year one, my thought for everything is year one, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm not just looking at this week. My problem with

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Speaker 4: I know they were beat up last night.

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Speaker 3: I know they got injuries in the secondary last night,

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Speaker 3: But they gave up twenty seven points to the Falcons.

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Speaker 4: They give up thirty eight.

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Speaker 3: Points the week before and a loss to the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: They gave up thirty four points the week before that

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Speaker 3: gave up seventeen of the Cardinals. The Cardinals suck go back.

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Speaker 3: Before that they play the Panthers, who may or may

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Speaker 4: They gave up twenty eight points. If you look at

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Speaker 3: Of the last five six weeks, this defense is getting gashed.

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Speaker 4: So I hear you that. You know, frankly, it should

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Speaker 3: They certainly have so much talent, and I trust their

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Speaker 3: seen it before. There's a lot to trust about the Rams,

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Speaker 3: But I can't get past the fact that their defense

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Speaker 4: When you get a kick return a.

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Speaker 4: That's concerning to me, and.

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Speaker 5: That's reason for It's something to keep in the back

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Speaker 5: of your mind as we get ready for the NFL postseason,

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Speaker 5: right because obviously now the Rams will be playing on

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be fascinating to see how Week eighteen plays

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Speaker 5: In the AFC side of things, things are a little

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Speaker 5: I mean, for God's sakes, the NFC South is still

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Speaker 5: not about the Falcons running rough shot on the Rams defense.

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Speaker 5: It's the fact that the Falcons had such a stellar

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Speaker 5: at this point in time. Three times was Matt Stafford intercepted,

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Speaker 5: I thought the defense played. I think Joe Buck called

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Speaker 4: Well, look, Vegas reacted wildly to that action last night.

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Speaker 3: By the way, he's Buck rising. I'm Jason fitzeran on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports. If you look at just the way the

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Speaker 3: odds shifted, you mentioned the MVP odds the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: It's changed all because of the last night's game, which

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Speaker 3: to me is just asinine.

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Speaker 4: Like if last night was.

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Speaker 3: The thing that changed your mind, completely about the Rams,

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Speaker 3: look at the NFC as a whole, to just say

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Speaker 3: there's a yeah, but about every one of these teams, right,

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Speaker 3: is falling for the Rams. I'm telling you that I don't.

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Speaker 3: I feel less confident today about the Rams and the

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Speaker 3: super Bowl. But let's be honest. The forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: have absolutely no pass rush. I have no idea how

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Speaker 3: Like they just saying the word sacks seems like it's

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Speaker 3: sacrilegious for them this year. They can't do anything date

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Speaker 3: after a quarterback the Panthers, Look, whoever.

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Speaker 4: Wins the South. As a joke to me, the Eagles offense.

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Speaker 3: Three times this year, three times has had less than

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Speaker 4: They're all is broken. There's a yeah.

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Speaker 3: But the Seahawks still have Sam Darnold as their quarterback,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sorry that's gonna be a yeah, but until

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Speaker 3: today in the NFL if your last name was Diggs

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Speaker 3: for two very different reasons. Let's start with the less

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Speaker 3: He signed a five year ninety seven million dollar contract

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Speaker 5: It was gonna happen anyway. They just decided we don't

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Speaker 3: To your point, I just looked up in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: win once you pay your quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It's a fallacy that we've all accepted as.

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Speaker 3: The truth, when in fact, if you look at the

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Speaker 3: number of quarterbacks that were on rookie deals versus not

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Speaker 3: on rookie deals that have had playoff runs resulting in

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Speaker 3: getting to the conference championship payment of the super Bowl, it's

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Speaker 3: about a fifty to fifty split all the way across

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Speaker 3: the board.

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Speaker 4: But one thing I did find that was interesting in.

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Speaker 3: That over the last whatever fifteen years, and this dated

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Speaker 3: out a couple of years ago, but over that last

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Speaker 3: fifteen years, no team had won a Super Bowl that

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Speaker 3: had the highest paid player at any position. And nobody

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Speaker 3: ever wants to hear that. But like the fact is,

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Speaker 3: if you believe you can't pay a quarterback, the real

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Speaker 3: reality is any year that you have the highest paid

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Speaker 3: position at player at their position for the value that year,

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Speaker 3: you don't win the Super Bowl. So I don't know

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Speaker 3: that that's causation and correlation.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I'm not smart enough to figure out that.

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Speaker 3: But to your point in investing in corners, it seems

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Speaker 3: like a great idea. I would ask everybody, like, certainly

458
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Speaker 3: nobody had a hard time with the Colts going all

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Speaker 3: in on sauce Gardner when they went all in on sauce.

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Speaker 4: Gardner this year.

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Speaker 3: How does that look now when you're gonna be without

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Speaker 3: first round draft picks, you've fallen apart, and you're not

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Speaker 3: going to make the playoffs. So I don't I mean,

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Speaker 3: this just comes back to my constant. It's fifty three.

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Speaker 4: It's never won.

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Speaker 3: No one player will save a team, No one player

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Speaker 3: will will destroy a team.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we've seen that year in and year out right,

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Speaker 5: It's just and to your point about the highest paid

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Speaker 5: player or having a a player on a roster that

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Speaker 5: is a champion, that is the highest paid at any

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Speaker 5: individual position, I mean, think about Brady. How when was

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Speaker 5: Tom Brady, if ever, the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: It famously never happened. For the way that they were

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Speaker 5: able to maneuver his contract situation and he got he

476
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Speaker 5: was compensated fairly and he was still married to Guzel

477
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Speaker 5: at the time, who made more money than you know,

478
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Speaker 5: any higher power out there, right just held the primary breadwinners.

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Speaker 5: Or you could do whatever you want, Tom, that's cute,

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Speaker 5: you little fourteen million dollars. Go out and get go

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Speaker 5: ahead and get you some new teammates, some new toys

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Speaker 5: to play with. Well, don't worry, Mama's got it at home.

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Speaker 5: We'll take care of you. So it's one of those

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Speaker 5: things where you really struggle with the idea of well

485
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Speaker 5: thought out and well executed roster construction versus man. Sometimes

486
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Speaker 5: you're just gonna have to overpay for some of these positions, right,

487
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Speaker 5: like cole Pits Monday Night football, Coppits and Cowpits didn't

488
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Speaker 5: have a stellar game on Monday Night or anything like that.

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Speaker 5: But he's had a decent run the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 5: and he's had one really big game in the last

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Speaker 5: month of football that's made you think, Okay, Cole Pits

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Speaker 5: is going to be free agent. He's probably gonna get

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Speaker 5: a decent amount of money, let's say somewhere ballpark. And

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Speaker 5: I'm just guessing based off spa track market valuations, which

495
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Speaker 5: are always kind of you know, it's like a Zillow listing, right,

496
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Speaker 5: it's not really the actual price, but it's ballpark Cowpits

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Speaker 5: somewhere between twelve and a half and fourteen million dollars

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Speaker 5: a year. What the hell is Cole Pits going to

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Speaker 5: do for you at fourteen million dollars a year that

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Speaker 5: you can't find? You know, basically from right now. With

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Speaker 5: all due respect to him, because he's clearly a high

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Speaker 5: level athlete, high level traits that's never just really just

503
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Speaker 5: never realized his potential outside of his rookie season. How

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Speaker 5: big of a difference is paying Cole Pits fourteen million

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Speaker 5: dollars on a bad football team going to make you

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Speaker 5: for some other team that's not the Falcons, because I

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Speaker 5: assume they're not going to resign him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and again this year.

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Speaker 3: The highest cap number for the tight ends this year

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Speaker 3: Travis Kelsey at one, not in the playoffs, Mark Andrews

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Speaker 3: at two we'll see on the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: TJ.

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Speaker 3: Hockenson it three, not in the playoffs, Dawson Knox fine,

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Speaker 3: and Taysom Hill with the Saints not in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So those are your top five tight end sallaries. I

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Speaker 3: will correct myself there was one player.

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Speaker 4: I forgot this.

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Speaker 3: There was one player during that entire fifteen year period

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Speaker 3: that we looked at that had won a Super Bowl

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Speaker 3: or been to a Super Bowl as.

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Speaker 4: The highest paid of his position. I digress one player.

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Speaker 4: I look back at the note. That was Gronk.

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Speaker 3: The only time that had ever happened. So Gronk is

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Speaker 3: the one exception to my rule. Steve Desager, get us

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Speaker 3: caught up on the scoreboard, then we'll get everybody caught

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Speaker 3: up on what's happening with the other more controversial takes.

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Speaker 7: College football games, three of them and bowl game in

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Speaker 7: San Antonio.

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Speaker 5: At halftime right now.

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Speaker 7: At the Alamo Bowl, TCU lead sixteenth ranc USC fourteen thirteen.

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Speaker 7: Jade Mayaba, the sc quarterback, nearly one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 7: yards passing but no touchdowns, one interception. Music City Bowl

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Speaker 7: in Nashville went to Illinois thirty to twenty eight over

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Speaker 7: Tennessee on a short field goal on the final play.

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Speaker 7: Tennessee had taken the lead with about five minutes left

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Speaker 7: on a kickoff return for a score. At the Independence

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Speaker 7: Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana Tech defeated Coastal Carolina twenty three

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Speaker 7: to fourteen combined seventeen punts in that game and seven

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Speaker 7: turnovers and twenty five pen Miami will play number two

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Speaker 7: Ohio State on New Year's Eve at the Cotton Bowl Quarterfinal.

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Speaker 7: Northwestern's new offensive coordinator is Chip Kelly. The new defensive

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Speaker 7: coordinator at Boston collegeist Ted Rufe. The Dallas Cowboys cut

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Speaker 7: veteran defensive back Trayvon Diggs. The Steelers are optimistic the

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Speaker 7: pass rusher TJ. Watt can play in the finale Sunday night.

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Speaker 7: Pittsburgh tight end Darnell Washington had surgery on his broken arm.

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Speaker 7: Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield was limited at practice today

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Speaker 7: with shoulder and knee injuries. Drew Brees and Eli Manning

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Speaker 7: are among the fifteen Hall of Fame finalists. Also on

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Speaker 7: the list Frank Gore, Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Vinettieri and others.

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Speaker 7: There are only four NBA games.

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Speaker 4: Tonight.

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Speaker 7: In the final minute, Philadelphia tied at Memphis at one,

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Speaker 7: twenty eight for Philly, thirty two points for Tyrese Maxi

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Speaker 7: and thirty for Joel Embiid. Boston with a win would

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Speaker 7: go to twenty and twelve this season. Celtics are tied

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Speaker 7: at Utah late third quarter eighty eight eighty eight. The

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Speaker 7: two late games Lakers about to starting Detroit, and in

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Speaker 7: a half an hour the Clippers host a Sacramento team

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Speaker 7: that is eight and twenty four. Denver Nuggets star Nikola

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Speaker 7: Jokic will miss at least a month with a hyper

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Speaker 7: extended knee. He has a bone bruise in the left

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Speaker 7: knee as well. In men's basketball, number twelve, North Carolina

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Speaker 7: when its conference opener against Florida State seventy nine sixty

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Speaker 7: six thirteenth rank, Nebraska is pulling away, leading New Hampshire

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Speaker 7: now fifty eight to forty three, and it's Louisville ranked

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Speaker 7: sixteenth now leading sixty four to forty one at Cal

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Speaker 7: early in the second half. Among the five NHL games,

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Speaker 7: Montreal and overtime winner at Florida three to two, Pittsburgh

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Speaker 7: five to one over Carolina to baseball reliever Joe Kelly retired,

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Speaker 7: the Angels are signing veteran reliever Kirby Yates. The Angels

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Speaker 7: in third basement, Anthony Rendon reportedly restructured his contract. He

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Speaker 7: was due to end a seven year deal next year.

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Speaker 7: Now the last thirty eight million of the two hundred

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Speaker 7: and forty five million dollar contract will be spread out

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Speaker 7: over a few years.

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Speaker 4: Back to you, is.

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Speaker 3: It Jason Smiths show, He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 3: We're hanging in buck and fits taken over some controversy

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Speaker 3: in New England today. New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon

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Speaker 3: Diggs facing a felony charge of strangulation and a misdemeanor

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Speaker 3: charge of assault from an incident on December twelfth. They've

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Speaker 3: had a hearing, emotion hearing and the arraignment is scheduled

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Speaker 3: for January twenty thirt As we sit right now, that

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Speaker 3: could or could not happen on that day, that's the

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Speaker 3: Friday before the AFC Championship Game. According to a police report,

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Speaker 3: a woman went to police December sixteenth, shared that she

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Speaker 3: was working as a private chef on the date of

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Speaker 3: the incident in question when Diggs entered her unlocked bedroom

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Speaker 3: and allegedly smacked her across the face after they had

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Speaker 3: discussions about money that was owed to her. According to

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Speaker 3: the police, she said she attempted to push Digs away

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Speaker 3: when he allegedly tried to choke her with his elbow

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Speaker 3: around her neck and later threw her onto the bed

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Speaker 3: and said lies when she said she hadn't been paid.

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Speaker 3: After the assault, she left her position. She left the

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Speaker 3: residence that she was staying in Dig's residence where she

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Speaker 3: was staying to stay with a friend she retrieved, came

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Speaker 3: back on December night to retrieve her property. At that

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Speaker 3: point was referred to his assistant, who told the woman

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Speaker 3: she had to sign an NDA before she would be paid.

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Speaker 4: She did not sign the NDA.

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Speaker 3: So this is a dispute over money between a private

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Speaker 3: chef and in Stefan Diggs that has now resulted in

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Speaker 3: charges of felony, charges of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge

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Speaker 3: of assault.

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Speaker 4: This is buck.

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Speaker 3: I want to be clear here, I would be stunned

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Speaker 3: if the NFL does absolutely anything quickly on this. The

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Speaker 3: NFL has taken of late the same very consistent path,

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Speaker 3: no matter the person, no matter the accusation, no matter

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Speaker 3: whether it's domestic assault or whether it's not. The NFL

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Speaker 3: likes to take the approach of we're going to see

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Speaker 3: what the legal process looks like, and then we're going

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Speaker 3: to do our own investigation. That investigation rarely goes quickly,

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Speaker 3: and that investigation is rarely transparent, and then they will.

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Speaker 4: Rule whenever they will.

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Speaker 3: I would be stunned if anything actually happens of consequence

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Speaker 3: to this any time before the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Well, and the Patriots immediately, I mean very very quickly

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Speaker 5: made a statement about this situation that make it seem

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Speaker 5: to me, based on the reporting of the local Boston

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Speaker 5: TV station, that this did this. I believe it's News

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Speaker 5: twenty five in Boston. I want to make sure I'm

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Speaker 5: giving proper credit, but the statement that the Patriots put

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Speaker 5: out The New England Patriots are aware of the accusations

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Speaker 5: that have been made regarding Stefan Diggs. Steffan has informed

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Speaker 5: the organization that he categorically denies the allegations. We support Steffan.

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Speaker 5: We will continue to gather information and will cooperate fully

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Speaker 5: with the appropriate authorities and the NFL as necessary. Out

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Speaker 5: of respect for all parties involved, and given that this

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Speaker 5: is an ongoing legal matter, we will have no further

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Speaker 5: comment at this time. But the thing that stands out

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Speaker 5: to me there is twofold Steffan has informed the organization

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Speaker 5: that he categorically denies the allegations. Okay one, and followed

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Speaker 5: very right thereafter by we support Steffan, so New England,

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Speaker 5: you know, again not going to jump the gun on

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Speaker 5: this situation, not just because they need Steffan Diggs, but

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Speaker 5: you want to let the legal process play out. Doesn't

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Speaker 5: mean that what's being alleged didn't happen and that there

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Speaker 5: won't be a situation where Steffan Diggs, if this is

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Speaker 5: in fact something that did happen, where he is held

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Speaker 5: to account. But they need to let the legal situation

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Speaker 5: play out as a result, there was also a note

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Speaker 5: in there from the local TV station that did the

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Speaker 5: reporting on the Steffan Diggs and breaking the Steffan Diggs

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Speaker 5: news is that he was already in the process of

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Speaker 5: reaching a legal agreement with the alleged or the party

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Speaker 5: that was making the allegations, this chef that was making

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Speaker 5: the allegations, even though the initial report from the Boston

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Speaker 5: TV station did not list that it was his chef

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Speaker 5: or a person who had been giving him services as

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Speaker 5: a chef for a period of time. So I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the arraignment right now is scheduled for the

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Speaker 5: day after the AFC Championship Game. I would imagine that

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Speaker 5: you would see that date be moved provided that there

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Speaker 5: isn't any additional information that's come out, and I know

657
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of speculation fits. I don't know if

658
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Speaker 5: you've seen this. I don't know how much you're doom

659
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Speaker 5: scrolling on the internet right now. But when cases like

660
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Speaker 5: this come out, unfortunately in a very different scenario, but

661
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Speaker 5: like in the case of Charon more right, where people

662
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Speaker 5: are just constantly updating, trying to update their news feeds

663
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Speaker 5: because it felt like we were getting some new salacious

664
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Speaker 5: detail about Hiron Moore and his involvement in all manner

665
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Speaker 5: of different things that was not verified or credibly reported

666
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Speaker 5: until I don't know, maybe two days later. Is all

667
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Speaker 5: the time that it took for us to get the

668
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Speaker 5: actual information, but the Internet ran wild with it. They're

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Speaker 5: there are also a good deal There is also a

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Speaker 5: good deal of that being pushed on social media right now.

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Speaker 5: So I would just people before they jump to conclusions

672
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Speaker 5: one way or the other, to make sure that the

673
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Speaker 5: information that you're seeing is vetted, is real, is not

674
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Speaker 5: ai on the internet, because there's so much of that

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Speaker 5: going around these days.

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Speaker 3: This is where I mean, and I believe me, I'll

677
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Speaker 3: throw myself under the bus and say I've had to

678
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Speaker 3: learn this lesson. In my almost ten years doing this

679
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Speaker 3: full time professionally, I've had to learn the lesson of

680
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Speaker 3: it's better to be right than to be first, and

681
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Speaker 3: I think we've lost so much of that in the

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Speaker 3: way we.

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Speaker 2: Cover all of this.

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Speaker 3: I've become very consistent in these things, like right now,

685
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Speaker 3: when it comes to digs, everybody's gonna have takes, and

686
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Speaker 3: I just don't think it's time to have a take.

687
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Speaker 4: You know, what we need.

688
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: We need information, and that information is going to take

689
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Speaker 3: time to come out. And the only right way for

690
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Speaker 3: any of this to happen is for you know, the

691
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Speaker 3: the alleged victim in this situation to make their you know,

692
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Speaker 3: their side known, and then Stefan Diggs makes his i'd known.

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Speaker 3: We get as much information as humanly possible, and then

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Speaker 3: when we have all that information, we can collect that

695
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Speaker 3: information and actually have educated conversations.

696
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Speaker 4: About what's happening.

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Speaker 3: But to your point, what happens, especially because there are

698
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Speaker 3: so many people worried about being first, and that's tougher

699
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Speaker 3: and tougher in today's world, the way Twitter acts is built,

700
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Speaker 3: it's tougher and tougher to know what's legit and then

701
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Speaker 3: in an AI world it's tougher and tougher to know

702
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Speaker 3: what's legit, and you can have one person that doesn't

703
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Speaker 3: even have a credential or any sort of a journalism

704
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Speaker 3: with the capitol J background. Like I always tell people,

705
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Speaker 3: I'm not a journalist. I don't pretend to be a journalist.

706
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Speaker 3: I didn't go to journalism school, right, But unfortunately, you've

707
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Speaker 3: got a lot of people that have a mic, or

708
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Speaker 3: have a platform, or have a social media following that

709
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Speaker 3: use these moments to say something. I think that the

710
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Speaker 3: right time to say something is when we have a

711
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Speaker 3: bunch of information. So right now, all we can do

712
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Speaker 3: is give people information about what this is. And I

713
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Speaker 3: think the important thing to know today is that whatever

714
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Speaker 3: this situation is, it's going to play out, and to

715
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Speaker 3: be very logical and very fact driven. For a second,

716
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Speaker 3: the courts are going to do their process. Whatever you

717
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Speaker 3: think of that doesn't really matter. Then the NFL is

718
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Speaker 3: going to have their own process, and whatever everybody thinks

719
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Speaker 3: of that doesn't really matter. Roger Gell's gonna do whatever

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Speaker 3: the hell he wants. And then when we have all

721
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Speaker 3: of that information, then we'll be able to make some

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Speaker 3: sort of sweeping statement. But I don't think this there's

723
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Speaker 3: any way that this impacts anything that we're going to

724
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Speaker 3: see this season from Stefan Diggs or this season from

725
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Speaker 3: the Patriots. I don't think it's going to impact the

726
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Speaker 3: Patriots on the field, And as for everything that's going

727
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 3: to happen off the field, I think we are months

728
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 3: away from getting any sort of a cognitive answer to

729
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Speaker 3: what this looks like.

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Speaker 5: I don't think I have anything more more well thought

731
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Speaker 5: out to add than that. I think you said it

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Speaker 5: very well.

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Speaker 4: Look at that. Hey, who I mean? Look, you know

734
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Speaker 4: we won't get in trouble.

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Speaker 5: For one.

736
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Speaker 3: We'll get in trouble on the show. It just won't

737
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Speaker 3: be for what we have to say about that.

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Speaker 5: Okay, We've not got a good trouble for what we

739
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Speaker 5: have to say about that. I'm okay with that. We get.

740
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Speaker 3: Now that we've been fair and reasonable and balanced and smart.

741
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Speaker 3: I need to lose my damn mind about one thing

742
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 3: that happened on Sunday that I just can't figure out,

743
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: and it has rocked me from the entire core about

744
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Speaker 3: what we.

745
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Speaker 4: Think of the NFL. We'll tell you about it next

746
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 4: fucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

747
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

748
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

749
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: So Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. But it's a

751
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Speaker 3: Bucking Fitz takeover. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

752
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Speaker 4: Will be here with you all.

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Speaker 3: Night, hanging over, hanging out, hanging over, hang two am.

754
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Speaker 5: That's tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: That's wow.

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Speaker 5: This is random.

757
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Speaker 4: Rob Parker pop I had a gluzzy in my mouth.

758
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Speaker 5: Yeah he did.

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Speaker 4: I mean that is wow.

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Speaker 3: Things have escalated quickly at eleven o'clock on the East

761
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Speaker 3: Coast on this night. That's how you know it's a

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Speaker 5: Three seconds left Alatto in the middle of the field

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Speaker 5: The air, but pies, we do It's gone victory.

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Speaker 4: Buck.

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Speaker 3: I had to play that just to make sure that

776
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Speaker 3: I twisted the knife. A little bit of what happened

777
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Speaker 3: at the Music City Bowl is the Valls fell in

778
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Speaker 3: your city, only minutes away from where you sit right now, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Blew it how I feeling, Buddy.

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Speaker 5: I was supposed to go to this game and I

781
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Speaker 5: I I somebody who was very kind to give me

782
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Speaker 5: all inclusive sweet tickets, and I I didn't. I didn't

783
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Speaker 5: end up.

784
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Speaker 3: It was cold outside like you'd have been indoors, like

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Speaker 3: you'd have been living.

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Speaker 5: The free free food, for free booze, and I I'm kind.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Pitcy, I'm just kind of spoiled anymore

788
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Speaker 5: about going to sporting events. I don't want to. I don't.

789
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Speaker 5: I didn't have parking, and that was the deal breaker

790
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Speaker 5: for me. I'm like, no, I really want to slept

791
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Speaker 5: down there anyway, which it's literally.

792
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Speaker 3: You had you had free suite tickets, you had unlimited

793
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Speaker 3: food and drink. Yes, you could have ubered there, which

794
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 3: would have been very safe. Right would drop you off

795
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Speaker 3: right at the stadium right like, we're just gonna drop

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Speaker 3: you off right there.

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Speaker 4: So the safe way to do it.

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Speaker 3: Then you could have taken partook in whatever you want.

799
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Speaker 3: You could have had a nice, nice afternoon in the

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Speaker 3: Music City and had time to come home sober up afterwards,

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Speaker 3: and you elected not to because you didn't feel like

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Speaker 3: paying for transportation.

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Speaker 5: Oh you thought I was gonna you know, booze and

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Speaker 5: then dry out before we did four hours of national

805
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Speaker 5: radio in the middle of that. I what a terrible

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Speaker 5: idea that would have been.

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Speaker 4: I'm just here offering good suggestions.

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Speaker 5: Now listen. It's not a twisting of the night for

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Speaker 5: me personally. It's better for me when Tennessee football does

810
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 5: well because I live in Nashville. I do local sports

811
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Speaker 5: talk radio in Nashville, and anytime the balls or I

812
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 5: mean Vandy, Vandy having a year as well was an

813
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Speaker 5: unexpected and pleasant surprise because that's almost never the case.

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Speaker 5: Tennessee losing thirty to twenty eight to Illinois, though, it

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Speaker 5: brings up a whole different conversation that I don't know

816
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Speaker 5: if it's the if it's the conversation to be had here,

817
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 5: but Josh Hipel, who is the head coach of Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: His seat needs to be at least moderately warm in

819
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Speaker 5: these chili chili temperatures as we enter the month of January.

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Speaker 5: That was a pretty bad way to lose that football game.

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Speaker 5: It only looked as close as it was because Tennessee

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Speaker 5: got I believe it was a ninety four yard kickoff

823
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Speaker 5: return to give them a lead twenty eight to twenty

824
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Speaker 5: seven with like four point fifty eight left in the

825
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Speaker 5: fourth quarter. It was not an impressive showing for a

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Speaker 5: team that maybe you thought they were going to be

827
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Speaker 5: eight and five after they went to the college football

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Speaker 5: playoff last year, given the Niko Ya Mali I'm a

829
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Speaker 5: drama that you and I talked about all summer long

830
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Speaker 5: and all these different things. But yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 5: was not an impressive day for Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: So that aside, it has just not been a riveting

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Speaker 3: bull season for me. Like, and this is weird because

834
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Speaker 3: you you know, and anyone that's listened to us at all.

835
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Speaker 4: We're usually on.

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Speaker 3: Saturdays, by the way, from six to eight pm on

837
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 3: the weekends you can hang out with us. Will also

838
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 3: be on Friday morning for two pros and a cup

839
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 3: of Joe and Thursday after, we're on all over the place.

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Speaker 4: This week we'll be every we really are.

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Speaker 3: But part of the reason we were excited to work together, yeah,

842
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: a little bit we were excited to work together on

843
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: New Year's Day is because it's during college football. You

844
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 3: and I both love, appreciate, and get to work around

845
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 3: a lot of college football. I freaking love the sport,

846
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,240
Speaker 3: and this year I just haven't felt drawn to flipping

847
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 3: on a bowl game. Like even today, I turned on

848
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 3: the Music City Bowl and I saw, you know, my

849
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: friends on the broadcast.

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Speaker 4: I saw friends.

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Speaker 3: I realized it was on because I feel like everybody

852
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 3: I know was there. Some my Instagram's just like blowing

853
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: up with pictures of everybody hanging out at the stadium.

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00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Music City Bowl.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, and maybe this is

857
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Speaker 4: that hole.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is what we told you was gonna happen

859
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 3: because of the college football playoff. But I kind of

860
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Speaker 3: don't want to hear that, because, let's face it, you

861
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Speaker 3: were either into the Pop Tart Bowl or you weren't

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Speaker 3: into the Pop Tart Bowl before the playoff expanded, Like,

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Speaker 3: there's nothing about the Pop Tart Bowl that's really to

864
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Speaker 3: me directly affected by the college football playoff. I just

865
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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of bad college football teams

866
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Speaker 3: right now, and.

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Speaker 4: Maybe that just makes it worse to watch.

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Speaker 5: No, that's fine, get over it. It's college football, it's

869
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Speaker 5: bowl season. It doesn't have to be you know, the

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Speaker 5: highest level of entertainmentutes TCU and USC right now on

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Speaker 5: a late night, Tuesday night broadcast. There's nothing wrong with it.

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Speaker 5: It's just more football. You should be grateful.

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Speaker 4: I know I'm grateful for it. I would just rather

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Speaker 4: watch Steve Harvey right now. I don't know. Maybe I'm

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Speaker 4: the only one.

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Speaker 3: We'll keep breaking it down. He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz.

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Speaker 3: We're hanging out with the on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: I'm a woman, all right,