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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites presented by DraftKings.

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Speaker 2: The Crown is yours. We are an Action Network podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Brandon Kravitz, your host on this fine Tuesday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: back at it with my Favorites crew, the first Lady

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Speaker 2: of the Pod, Kendrim Middleton, and the Prime Minister of

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Speaker 2: DJEN Nation, Stucky Stuck.

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Speaker 1: We had ourselves Bill self as a dog on a

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Speaker 1: Monday night and he reigned supreme Again. Which side were

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Speaker 1: you on in this big time Big twelve battle?

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Speaker 3: I'm Kansas. I mean, that's incredible how good they are

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Speaker 3: on Monday nights. But that Monday night home court advantage

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Speaker 3: is like for a big conference game, no joke is

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Speaker 3: like five points. It's as juice up as you can get.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, this Houston team they have, there's some issues there.

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Speaker 3: They're just they're not as elite defensively as they have been.

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Speaker 3: They really missed some of their bigs that they've had,

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Speaker 3: and I mean you just look at the turnover rates

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Speaker 3: that they've forced. You know, i mean Kansas ended up

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Speaker 3: they had Cansas ended up with an eighteen percent turn

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Speaker 3: of a rate, but you know, they finished with twelve turnovers,

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Speaker 3: but they had like seven in the first ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: But the previous two games for Houston they played and

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Speaker 3: they now I've lost three in a row. The first time.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty seventeen. They played Iowa State in Arizona to

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Speaker 3: top ten teams. They had single digit turnover rates the

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Speaker 3: previous three years combined that only happened one time for

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Speaker 3: a Houston opponent. So this defense just isn't as elite

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Speaker 3: as it's been, and the offense, like it's it has

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Speaker 3: a higher ceiling because of Flemings, the future NBA guard

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Speaker 3: who's very electrical, though she's struggling a bit of late.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he hit a bit of a one. But the

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Speaker 3: offense still they take so many bad shots, like they

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Speaker 3: take too many bad twos and bad three like it's

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Speaker 3: just the shot diet is pretty disgusting. They could get

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Speaker 3: over that.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: They never got over over the ultimate hump and won

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Speaker 3: a national title, but they've been pretty close. They got

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Speaker 3: over that because their defense was so good. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you look last year twenty twenty five, number one, we're

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Speaker 3: just going KEMPOM Adjusted defense efficiency number one, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 3: number two, twenty twenty three, number five. So like the

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Speaker 3: last three years they were top five defense. This year

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Speaker 3: they're still really good, but they're seventh. And I'm just

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Speaker 3: not sure that given some of their offensive flaws and

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Speaker 3: the droughts that they go on. You saw that against Arizona,

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Speaker 3: the drought and then the drought in the second half

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Speaker 3: against Kansas, their defense isn't as elite to over compensate

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Speaker 3: for some of those issues on the offensive end. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I have some questions about this Houston team that's dropped

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Speaker 3: three straight. I mean, granted, the schedule has been very,

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Speaker 3: very tough. I mean, at I was stay at home

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Speaker 3: against Arizona and at Kansas, but that just that the

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Speaker 3: way that that losing to Arizona was pretty telling because

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Speaker 3: that was a great spot. Arizona was not one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent healthy, Houston was at home coming off the loss,

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Speaker 3: and they just went through too big of a drought.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I was on Kansas. The streak lives on.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty stunning that they've what Bill Soff has done

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Speaker 3: on Big Mondays in arguably the best home court advantage

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Speaker 1: It feels like that's become so publicized that last night

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Speaker 1: would have been that that perfect bubble bursting opportunity, but

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Speaker 1: Kansas continued on in winning on Monday nights as dogs

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Speaker 1: at home. Kendraw, what's the last thing that you bet on?

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Speaker 4: USA?

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Speaker 5: That was my parly, both of the men's and the

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Speaker 5: women's team.

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Speaker 2: You had an all patriotic parlay.

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Speaker 5: I did plus one ninety. I talked about it on

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Speaker 5: our Olympic shell, So that hit for me. I think

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Speaker 5: that that was the last thing that I bet on.

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Speaker 4: I put some.

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Speaker 5: Tournament futures in on Saturday, I think, and then that

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Speaker 3: Both both of my gold medal under my theory, they

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Speaker 3: came through easily.

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Speaker 2: Five and a half was juiced to the gills.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was like, yeah, granted that was my

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Speaker 3: thesis and get so many dollars I wagered on both

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Speaker 3: zero but hopefully someone out there listened. But yeah, that

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Speaker 3: was a a thrilling finish. I mean that they, to

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Speaker 3: be fair, the US was getting I was like, we're

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Speaker 1: I mean Josh Engels from covers that we had on

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Speaker 1: to preview what we weren't even at the point yet

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Speaker 1: where both teams had qualified for the final, but they

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Speaker 1: he had both of them in the final USA and Canada,

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Speaker 1: and he said he was gonna have Canada on the

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Speaker 2: And it's one of those situations.

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Speaker 1: Where betting was the read was right, Canada was the

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Speaker 1: right side, but Team USA was the winning side.

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Speaker 4: It happens the goaltending I called it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hallibuck was amazing. And then and.

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Speaker 4: Then you just have a really Bennington sucks.

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Speaker 3: Three on three is just relt so like then you're

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Speaker 3: just basically flipping a coin once you get to that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty exciting, but I also can see

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Speaker 3: how some of the purest are upset that that's how

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Speaker 5: But I hate the three on three in a metal match,

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Speaker 5: but I'll take it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I hate even more though, Kendra is

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Speaker 1: John Cooper, the coach of Canada, complaining about it after

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Speaker 2: Dude, shut up.

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Speaker 4: Nathan McKinnon too.

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Speaker 3: But they wanted three on three overtime.

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Speaker 4: They did. They did that.

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Speaker 5: They're they're getting prior, but like, yeah, like that's the

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Speaker 5: thing is like him and Nathan McKinnon said in a

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Speaker 5: quote that the better team didn't.

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Speaker 4: Win that day.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's sports, Okay, would you guys, I don't

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Speaker 5: know if you saw this. I personally have been super

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Speaker 5: obsessed with Tina the mascot, the like white like squirrel thing.

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Speaker 5: And I don't know if you guys saw, but after

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Speaker 5: every like event, they were handing like a plushy of

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Speaker 5: the mascot to the medalists.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I was wondering what that was.

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Speaker 5: And so they gave them to the women the day prior,

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Speaker 5: and the girls are like crying and like getting their

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Speaker 5: medals and their silver medals and like their plushies. And

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Speaker 5: then the boys, like every time someone hands them a plushy,

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Speaker 5: they're just like ready to like rip its head off

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Speaker 5: to shreds. Would you guys want a plushy after like

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Speaker 5: the most devastating loss of your life, because I totally

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Speaker 2: Losing, No, I wouldn't want no part of it.

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Speaker 1: But if I won, I think the plushy would would

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Speaker 1: mean just as much to me as the medal. My

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Speaker 4: Crest justice for my girl Tina.

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Speaker 2: I had no I.

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Speaker 1: Had no idea that that's what they were. I was

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Speaker 1: wondering why they were handing out plush dolls to these people.

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Speaker 1: You By the way, guys, I've seen this fast food

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Speaker 1: graphic going viral. I saw Stucky comment on this as well.

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Speaker 1: We've got to talk about one of his responses, which

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Speaker 1: four would you want in your city if you could

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Speaker 1: only choose four? And there are roughly fifty fast food chains,

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Speaker 1: some of which I don't.

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Speaker 2: Even think are in existence anymore.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of old logos that are on this

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Speaker 1: graphic that's been shared, and a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: chiming in on what four you would want. Hopefully we

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Speaker 2: So well, at the very least, we'll we'll put it.

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Speaker 1: Up on the Favorites Twitter page so that you can

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Speaker 1: play along with what we're talking about here. But one

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Speaker 1: of the options is Boston Market, And Stucky, do I

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Speaker 1: have this right that you you have if you could

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Speaker 1: only have four, that Boston Market would be one of

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Speaker 2: Is that accurate?

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Speaker 3: I did choose Boston Market. I'm not a fast food

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Speaker 3: I've I don't think i've ever had Taco bell. I

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Speaker 3: mean I probably did when I was like really young

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Speaker 3: I've had it in and out in Vegas once, but

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Speaker 3: like most of these like Burger King, Wendy, Like, I

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Speaker 3: don't need any of this stuff. What what I It's

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Speaker 3: like my one healthy habit is I don't need fast food,

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Speaker 3: but I have one. But the only fast food that

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Speaker 3: I do eat, like I don't know, maybe once a

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Speaker 3: month is Chick fil A. So my thinking is, so

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna use two of my spots, two of the

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Speaker 3: to Chipla, there's always a huge line. So I want

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Speaker 3: fil A. So we got two Chick fil As. Now

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Speaker 3: I would do four Chick fil A's if they were

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Speaker 3: Not fast food. Conoisseur, this is not my area of expertise.

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Speaker 3: Went with five guys. Now I've had five guys maybe

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Speaker 3: three times in my life. But I like their fries.

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Speaker 2: When I have solid choice, So.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I people were telling me that, like

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Speaker 3: it's overpriced. Maybe I don't know. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 3: it's not like I go there every day. And then

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Speaker 3: Boston Market. I didn't really didn't know what else to choose.

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Speaker 3: I don't like maybe I would have chosen in and

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Speaker 3: O and out fries are terrible, though everyone knows that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I get their burger. I've had it, look

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Speaker 3: the only reason is that, and I haven't had it

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Speaker 3: in over twenty years. But when I was in high school,

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Speaker 3: Boston Market like down the street from our school and

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Speaker 3: we would like during lunch, you would have practiced in

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Speaker 3: sometimes to the Boston Market and get some of the chicken,

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Speaker 3: corn bread, mac and cheese, and it was good. Now,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they it's like a lot of these places sometimes.

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Speaker 3: I think I've heard this about Waburger, like they get

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Speaker 3: this sounds with a lot of things, but like private

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Speaker 3: So maybe Boston Market has become terrible. I don't even

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know it existed anymore.

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Speaker 1: But you hit the nail on the head, stucky, that's

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Speaker 1: the problem. Boston Market twenty years ago absolutely a top

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Speaker 2: It's changed a lot.

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Speaker 3: and then I used two on Chick fil A to

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Speaker 5: You I'm an almond mom, and I only eat at Chipotle, Starbucks,

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Speaker 5: Chick fil A in and out out of these options

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Speaker 4: And out for churches if that was an option.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of chicken options on here.

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Speaker 1: I don't see churches as one of them. In and

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Speaker 5: Can get stuff like protein style where it's just like

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Speaker 5: also do puppy patties.

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Speaker 3: Starbucks is healthy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they have like I mean, like it's not the

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Speaker 1: I definitely have Starbucks on there. Starbucks was a lock

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Speaker 5: Little snack boxes with like the fruits and like boiled eggs.

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Speaker 4: I eat those a lot.

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Speaker 1: And you don't have to put anything in your coffee too,

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Speaker 1: So that's a personal decision.

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Speaker 2: You could just get a regular coffee and.

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Speaker 5: Then I carry vanilla stevia on my person and hot sauce.

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Speaker 1: I think Chipotle gives the illusion that it's not fast food,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my view on fast food is so tained. And

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I try not to eat it, but yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I haven't McDonald since then since like literally since

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Speaker 3: I mean the easiest one that cross out here is uh,

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Speaker 3: I mean Chuck E Cheese. I guess you no, Like,

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Speaker 3: how are you gonna eat that? Like literally, this is

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Speaker 3: it's just like a one giant. Before we got on here,

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Speaker 4: Before you got on the call, I was hyping up.

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Speaker 5: How much I love Charles Edward Cheese's pizza.

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Speaker 3: Cheese pizza.

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Speaker 5: I literally I don't tried to order takeout, but they

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Speaker 2: A list now because she tried to get Chuck E

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Speaker 4: I literally love Chuck E Cheese pizza. I don't care

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's my guilty pleasure and it's like I am

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Speaker 4: Got to send it. I haven't had Chuck E Cheese

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Speaker 3: There's a you can get Chuck E Cheese delivered here

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Speaker 3: because I was on door dash and I saw this

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Speaker 3: this isn't a place and it was one of those

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Speaker 4: Yes, they do the ghost kitchens, but they're not the.

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Speaker 3: Name it was Chuck E Cheese. I think those things

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Speaker 4: Chuck E Cheese pizza is so good. Fuck, I can't

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Speaker 4: believe you just said that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the easiest cross out for me, Chuck E Cheese.

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Speaker 2: Could you imagine if they did let adults in there

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Speaker 4: I mean, I get it they shouldn't. However, I should

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Speaker 1: Just just bring it out and do like like like

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how many of these places like used to

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Speaker 2: So many Canara?

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Speaker 3: I feel it used to be decent way back in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but anyway, anyway.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what's on our minds, Kendra, what's on yours?

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Speaker 5: But okay, I had two questions for you guys, so

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Speaker 5: maybe we can quickly do both of these.

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Speaker 4: Earlier this week.

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Speaker 5: My algorithm is just as weird as I am, and

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Speaker 4: And so I was wondering.

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Speaker 5: When did you guys, and how did you guys learn

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Speaker 3: By the way, you're sitting as common mom who wants

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Speaker 4: I already addressed this.

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Speaker 3: So I I still put metal in the microwave. But

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Speaker 3: what yeah, I mean, just like if it's quick and

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Speaker 4: What the fuck?

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Speaker 3: But we used to put things in our I uh

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Speaker 3: I can see how, like, yeah, it was doing dumb

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Speaker 5: I had cake plates with glitter on them from my

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Speaker 3: There was like something I didn't take off like a

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Speaker 4: And I was just.

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Speaker 4: Rabbits, How do you learn about your microwave?

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Speaker 2: I honest, I've been thinking about it the whole time.

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Speaker 1: And other than the fact that I was fascinated by

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Speaker 1: just trial by fire, and I'm assuming something like that happened,

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Speaker 1: but I have no recollection of it, so I cannot help.

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Speaker 2: I cannot help in this discussion.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well that's what I had.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's come through a couple of this This

449
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Speaker 1: franchise tag news that's out there. The Falcons say you

450
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Speaker 1: can have Kyle Pitts if you pry him from our

451
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Speaker 1: dead cold hands. Atlanta is reportedly planning on franchise tagging

452
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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, who was finally consistently productive fantasy manager, has

453
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Speaker 1: been waiting for that since he was drafted decent rookie season,

454
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Speaker 1: but other than that has been a bust. This would

455
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Speaker 1: make him a fifteen million dollar tight end. Kendro is

456
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Speaker 1: this the right move or the wrong move for the

457
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Speaker 1: Falcons to give it a go once again at a

458
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Speaker 1: very high price for Kyle Pitts. I'm assuming that they're

459
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Speaker 1: going to try and work out something long term that

460
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Speaker 1: doesn't hit the cap as hard, but still he's going

461
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Speaker 1: to be a high paid tight end.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the right move.

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Speaker 5: Every position is getting more expensive these days, and what

464
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 5: we used to consider I think a dollar like the

465
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 5: ideal dollar amount for someone just is no longer realistic.

466
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Speaker 5: I've been feeling the same way about the running back

467
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Speaker 5: market right now. But I think it's the right move

468
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 5: for them, trying to keep the guys together, showing, you know,

469
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Speaker 5: these younger guys that are going to have contract extension

470
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Speaker 5: conversations in the next couple of years that if you

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Speaker 5: take care of us, we'll take care of you. And

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Speaker 5: I think that it's important for them to have big positions,

473
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Speaker 5: to have some continuity, and that means continuity on this

474
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Speaker 5: roster right now when there's so much else up in

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Speaker 5: the air.

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Speaker 4: So I think it's the right move.

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Speaker 1: This would put him in a category around like TJ. Hockinson,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey, Trey McBride. Does this sound about right for

479
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Speaker 1: where Pitts is or is this more of a gamble stucky?

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't mind it. I think for the from

481
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Speaker 3: what he showed last year, and then for the Fanski offense,

482
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Speaker 3: is the fancy offense tight end very important and he's

483
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Speaker 3: kind of like a mix between, you know, a wide

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Speaker 3: receiver and a tight end. But I think he's going

485
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 3: to be super important to the offense, So yeah, I

486
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Speaker 3: don't I don't mind this move at all.

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Speaker 1: Second receptions eighty eight second receiving yards nine hundred and

488
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Speaker 1: twenty eight second in first downs for the Atlanta Falcons

489
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Speaker 1: was Kyle Pitts. So he's an important part of their offense,

490
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Speaker 1: like stuck, he said, perhaps even more important with Kevin

491
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Speaker 1: Stefanski now on board.

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Speaker 3: It looks I'd much rather have him than Travis to

493
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Speaker 3: ghost of Travis Kelce right now, I.

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Speaker 1: Think on that list, I think that's exactly why I

495
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Speaker 1: think there's so many question marks still with Kyle Pitts,

496
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Speaker 1: But it's all relative where is he in the pecking

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Speaker 1: order of tight ends even if he's a disappointment. There's

498
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Speaker 1: so many disappointing tight ends in the league. You kind

499
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Speaker 1: of just take your shot on a guy that hasn't

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Speaker 1: even hit his ceiling yet. And I think that has

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Speaker 1: a lot more to do with it.

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Speaker 5: I also think it's a position that's changed so much,

503
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: right Like if you look back at the tight end

504
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 5: position in the early two thousands, like it was a

505
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Speaker 5: primarily like blocking position or like a go up, get

506
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 5: over somebody and get the ball type of position. And

507
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 5: now you're blocking. You are you know, you're a number

508
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 5: one receiver in a lot of these offenses now because

509
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 5: these young quarterbacks love to rely on a consistent tight end.

510
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 5: The positions just changed so much that you almost have

511
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Speaker 5: to pay them like a receiver because a lot of

512
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 5: these guys are receivers who can block now, and.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to see this position reset in terms

514
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: of value until brock Bauers is up for a contract,

515
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: still a couple of years away from that. It looks

516
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Speaker 1: like Kenneth Walker is going to hit the open market

517
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Speaker 1: despite being a Super Bowl MVP. Seattle said that they're

518
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Speaker 1: not or the reports are that they're likely not going

519
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Speaker 1: to tag Kenneth Walker. This makes a lot more sense,

520
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: and this comes down to the same conversation, but in

521
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: the opposite end of it, if it's all relative for

522
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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, that maybe he's a disappointing tight end, but

523
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Speaker 1: in the hierarchy of tight ends in the NFL, he's

524
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Speaker 1: kind of towards the upper chelone of the list. Kenneth

525
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Speaker 1: Walker plays a position that you can easily replace, So

526
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Speaker 1: as good as he was, why would you want to

527
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Speaker 1: pay him average top five at the position when he's

528
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: not really that stucky. John Schneider deserve any flack for

529
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: letting their Super Bowl MVP walk.

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Speaker 2: It looks like that's going to happen here.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. It's the right move. Never pay for

532
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 3: running backs and like it's not like the Seahawks were

533
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 3: an overly efficient rushing attack for most of the year. Yeah,

534
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Speaker 3: I had a good Super Bowl. Credit to him, Probably

535
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 3: get overpaid somewhere, But never pay for running backs. They're

536
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 3: so replaceable and you already have, you know, some depth

537
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 3: in your backfield, and you can get someone else cheap,

538
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 3: you can draft somebody. There's one of the biggest mistakes

539
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 3: that you can make is just taking one game and saying, oh,

540
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 3: super Bowl MVP and then paying someone I would know

541
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Speaker 3: as a Ravens fan, the we paid Flacco a ton

542
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Speaker 3: of money after he got Super Bowl MVP. It's hard

543
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Speaker 3: not to do that with a quarterback. Right like after

544
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: a quarterback as an epic run wins the Super Bowl,

545
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 3: wins Super Bowl MVP, it's hard to like not pay him.

546
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Speaker 3: Although the Ravens cut Dilfer after he won the Super Bowl,

547
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 3: but it's not like he had much to do with

548
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. But after Flacco's run, they paid him

549
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 3: and the Ravens heard him on elsewhere building out the roster,

550
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Speaker 3: So yeah, this is the right move. There's no need

551
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Speaker 3: to pay for Walker.

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Speaker 1: And he's probably he might even be the second best

553
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Speaker 1: running back on the team.

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Speaker 2: Kendra, I do worry though.

555
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: The idea for the Seattle Seahawks is, well, we have

556
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Speaker 1: Zach Sharboney Charbonay towards ACL late in the season and

557
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: I don't know when you're gonna get him back, so

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Speaker 1: that becomes part of the issue.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think that it's a position that pretty

560
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 5: much the entire league has except for a few teams,

561
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Speaker 5: have figured out how to draft, and there's a the

562
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Speaker 5: where on a running back just is not worth that

563
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: price even heading into the season. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: you remember or you're like big into fantasy, but heading

565
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 5: into the season where you should draft both of them,

566
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Speaker 5: or where they were considered to be prior to the season,

567
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Speaker 5: it was pretty much equal, like fifty to fifty. I

568
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 5: think people expected them to share the snaps, but obviously

569
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Speaker 5: with that injury it changes things for next season, but.

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Speaker 4: They can draft at that position. It's I don't I

571
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 4: don't think it's a big deal.

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00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 5: I'm so pro never paying a running back, which is

573
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Speaker 5: why I'm okay if the Jaguars also let Etn walk Like.

574
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Speaker 5: He was a huge part of the Jaguars offense this year.

575
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Speaker 5: But I don't want to pay a running back that much.

576
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Speaker 3: I mean, Walkers only. I think he's gonna be what

577
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Speaker 3: twenty six this year, but he's all He's had an

578
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 3: injury history too.

579
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Speaker 1: So yeah, and he's had consistency issues too. It was

580
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 1: great in the playoffs for the most part, but I

581
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,959
Speaker 1: think I'm okay with I don't like the black and

582
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: white argument that a lot of people have, and Kendrick

583
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Speaker 1: you just alluded to this as well. You can't pay

584
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Speaker 1: running backs, you can. They just have to be the

585
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: they have to be the best at their position.

586
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Speaker 4: Well, they have to be the finishing piece. Look at

587
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Speaker 4: the Eagles.

588
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 5: They could pay Saquon Barkley, but the rest of their

589
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 5: team was perfect before they did it, and they added

590
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Speaker 5: him as a finishing piece. That is the only time

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Speaker 5: that I'm pro paying a running back.

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Speaker 2: And even if that was the case for Seattle, I

593
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Speaker 2: don't think Kenneth.

594
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Speaker 5: Walker or mccaffreya McCaffrey, whatever the fuck you yeh, Derrick.

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Speaker 1: Henry changes your offense. Those kind of guys, they're in

596
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: a different category. Another bit of franchise tag news. George Pickens.

597
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: It looks like the Cowboys are leaning towards using the

598
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Speaker 1: franchise tag on him. Third most receiving yards amongst wide

599
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Speaker 1: receivers last year, talk about fantasy. This guy was perhaps

600
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Speaker 1: the steal of the draft. What I find odd though,

601
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Speaker 1: is that they have so much invested in this position already.

602
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Speaker 2: The Cowboys just I hate the way they allocate their funds.

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Speaker 1: It leads to this weird roster construction where they have

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00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: all these gaping holes, mostly on defense. Pickens is great,

605
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Speaker 1: but can you trust him to be great moving forward?

606
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: And are you now dumping too much money into the

607
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Speaker 1: wide receiver position, Kendrew or do you land on that

608
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: as far as them? And you know this is going

609
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Speaker 1: to drag into the off season, by the way, because

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Speaker 1: it's the Dallas Cowboys, this is going to be a

611
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Speaker 1: never ending saga.

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Speaker 4: I think it depends.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it drags that far along, if

614
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 5: the conversation about Max Crosby and the Cowboys continues to happen,

615
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 5: because that's the attention that Jerry would prefer, so he

616
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 5: might get that out of the way. If that starts

617
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Speaker 5: to swirl more just so that that can be like

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Speaker 5: the main focus. I'm okay with paying receivers, especially because

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Speaker 5: when Dak is on, he's on, so I don't have

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Speaker 5: an issue with it. I hope it doesn't drag on

621
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Speaker 5: all season because the Cowboys really need to start prioritizing

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Speaker 5: taking care of their people because Jerry has had a

623
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Speaker 5: lot of not nice words said about him from prior players.

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Speaker 5: So I think that they probably won't let it drag

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Speaker 5: all off season because of the drama that they had

626
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 5: last time and the fact that some of these guys

627
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Speaker 5: they're going to want to stick around and they need

628
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 5: to stop pissing people off because Jerry's not going to

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Speaker 5: be around forever.

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Speaker 1: The only other team that has two wide receivers that

631
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Speaker 1: are paid like top ten guys are the Bengals. We

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Speaker 1: see what that did to the rest of their team.

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Speaker 1: They are I mean, they're built like an NBA jam squad.

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00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: Like if Burrow, Chase and Higgins and we kind of

635
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: hate everything else about the Cincinnati Bengals stuck, you would

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Speaker 1: you be in or out on the Cowboys giving the

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Speaker 1: bag to George Pickens when they've already invested in Ceedee Lamb.

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Speaker 3: I don't hate it. I mean, like they made so

639
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 3: many other blunders like that that's over the years with

640
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones, that's really what has cost them. So now,

641
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: like with in the position that you're in, and you

642
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 3: mentioned the Bengals, like they're the NFC version of the Bengals,

643
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: Like the way that they are they're going to have

644
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 3: to try to win this year is by outscoring everyone,

645
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: stay healthy on offense. I mean, their offense was electric

646
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 3: last year when healthy, and I don't think they're gonna

647
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 3: be able to fix their defense overnight. So yeah, I

648
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: mean they're just gonna have to go out there and

649
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 3: try to outscore everyone and have an electric offense. So

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Speaker 3: I don't hate it. There's there's so many other issues

651
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: on the Cowboys that have led to this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to address those if you dump too

653
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Speaker 1: much money in one area.

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Speaker 2: But it does feel like.

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Speaker 1: Dallas has finally stumbled into excuse me, into a good

656
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: bargain and to let that go would uh potentially.

657
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Speaker 3: One of the best moves that they've made.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, but now they have to pay for it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was it was good when it was cheap. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not so I don't know if you all know

661
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Speaker 1: this about us by now. I'm a Dolphins fan, Kendra

662
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: is a Jags backer, and Stucky is is a Raven

663
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Speaker 1: And so as we dip into the off season, we're

664
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Speaker 1: starting to think about what we want to see from

665
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: our favorite teams. We're going to deliver that right now,

666
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: our off season wish list for our favorite squads. I

667
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: will spend very little time on my Dolphins because I

668
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: don't think anybody wants to hear it. But kend just

669
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: go ahead and get us started with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

670
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Speaker 1: What do you want to see this offseason?

671
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Speaker 5: I already said that I'm fine letting etn walk just

672
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 5: because they have so many guys that they're going to

673
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 5: have to pay over the next couple of years that

674
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Speaker 5: I just can't justify the money on a running back

675
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 5: and they can draft at the position. So that is

676
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 5: one big thing that I'm looking at that I would

677
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 5: like to see happen. Just from a financial perspective, I'd

678
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 5: like to see Devin Lloyd cut the Jags a little

679
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 5: bit of a discount. But if you won't, good for him,

680
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 5: happy to let him go. Love you longtime? Mean it

681
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 5: you were.

682
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Speaker 4: Electric and my spider will forever be named after you.

683
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Speaker 5: But I don't think that they can overpay for him

684
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 5: beca Trayvon's going to be so expensive.

685
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 4: And I would like to see.

686
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Speaker 5: Them draft probably mostly secondary, maybe a backup running back

687
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Speaker 5: if this whole thing goes with the ETN And in

688
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 5: free agency, I would like to see probably a backup

689
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 5: quarterback of some sort.

690
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 4: Maybe you know what, maybe Malik Willis backup to Jacksonville.

691
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 5: He's going to get a starting job somewhere, which I

692
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 5: think is idiotic and insane and stupid and so dumb

693
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 5: and stupid, but NJA, Yeah, and then maybe maybe beef

694
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 5: up the offensive line a little bit. Thought shit was

695
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 5: getting scary for them for a while down the stretch.

696
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Speaker 4: So I think that those are my Yeah.

697
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Speaker 1: I think if I were the jag if I were

698
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Speaker 1: advising the Jags, I would just say, just don't fuck

699
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Speaker 1: this up.

700
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Speaker 2: You have a good thing going lean into.

701
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: They've already sort of soft rolled this idea of you're

702
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: getting Travis Hunter back. That's like adding a player in

703
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: free agency. He wasn't part of this great run that

704
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: took them to the playoff. I think isolating him on

705
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: defense with wide receiver packages is the way to play

706
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, and it seems like they are starting to

707
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: lean in that direction.

708
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 4: They just didn't want to let people know what I

709
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 4: don't think.

710
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 3: I mean, they're said at wide receiver now though exactly

711
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 3: with Myers Kobe Washington emerged. They added Myers, you have PTJ,

712
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 3: so like you can just have them a couple guys.

713
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 4: But the BTJ rumors are spicy, So.

714
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: What are the rumors with him?

715
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of conversations that, at least up here,

716
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 5: that he might be someone who teams are calling about

717
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 5: pretty consistently, just because clearly there was something off last year.

718
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 5: Team's probably think that they can get him on a bargain,

719
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 5: give him like a new you know, change of scenery.

720
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Speaker 4: That's just been the chatter. I that's kind of just

721
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 4: what I've heard.

722
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Speaker 5: I don't think he's going to go anywhere, but that

723
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 5: people appear seem to think that teams are calling about it.

724
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they trade him, I think that speaks volts

725
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: of how they believe about his ability to actually progress.

726
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they must think he's broken exactly.

727
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Liam Cohen, I don't think you have to

728
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: worry about the offense. The defense is one of the

729
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 3: reasons that the Jags improved last year. But defense on

730
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 3: a year to year basis in the NFL is very

731
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Speaker 3: thick on a lot of variants. We see this all

732
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Speaker 3: the time, Like you go into a year and be

733
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Speaker 3: like this defense canna be good, and they fall off

734
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 3: a cliff. This defense is gonna be elite and they're

735
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 3: nowhere close to it. And the Jags obviously had a

736
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: huge rebound in turnovers, you know, from basically not getting

737
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Speaker 3: any one year to you know, having they were leading

738
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: the league through half the season. That could regress, you know,

739
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 3: you could lose Lloyd. I think the focus has to

740
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Speaker 3: be on the defensive side of the ball and just

741
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 3: reinforcing their defense to make sure that that fall off

742
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 3: isn't too steep.

743
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 5: But I feel like if Devin Lloyd leaves the Jags,

744
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to sacrifice like a big juicy worm

745
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 5: to my spider as like a this shit sucks.

746
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Hunter could provide that, like if he's able

747
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 3: to slide in a corner and you know, that's that

748
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 3: could be like you know, the first round pick that

749
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 3: they he basically didn't didn't get much of him last

750
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: year because of injury, and they don't have a first

751
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 3: round pick this year, so that could be like the

752
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 3: first round picking.

753
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Speaker 5: Not a bad year to not have one, though one

754
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 5: year shit so far back there and too I kind

755
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 5: of hate this draft class.

756
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: The draft classes is a little bit. It's definitely not

757
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: star studded verry Man.

758
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 5: Next year is going to be nuts though. Next year

759
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 5: is the year to have a good pick.

760
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: All right, I'll get the state of Florida over and

761
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: done with and then we'll kick it over to Stucky

762
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: for some Ravens chatterer. I think the Dolphins, this is

763
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: not going to be a fun offseason. You have to

764
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: strip this thing down to the studs. Tua has to go.

765
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: It creates too much of a distraction if you leave

766
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: him in the locker room just because you're gonna pay

767
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: him anyway. I just think they have to rip the

768
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: band aid off. New coach, new GM. They need a

769
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: new feel, and if he's on the roster, that becomes

770
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Speaker 1: the storyline all season long. I would say Malik willis

771
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: as dumb as Kendra thinks it is to Adam as

772
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback for a team that's in rebuild mode.

773
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: But given the quarterback market, I actually think he's going

774
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: to be pretty expensive, Kendra, So I don't think the

775
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: Dolphins are in the market to outbid anybody at that

776
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 1: position when they're gonna pay someone one hundred million dollars

777
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: to walk out the door. It does fit the mold

778
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: of this whole Packers South thing. So you can definitely

779
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: connect the dots on Malik Willis to the Dolphins, but

780
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get outbid for him. The wish

781
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: list for them needs to be dull. They've tried the

782
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: flashy thing. It didn't work. They need to beef up

783
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: on the front line on both sides of the ball.

784
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: I want to see a bruising running back behind.

785
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 4: What they don't need.

786
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, what don't lose games this year? That's what they need.

787
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: They don't need a run, they don't need a star

788
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: running back. There you go, Yes, I want to see them.

789
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

790
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: I want them to sign a bunch of offensive and

791
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: defensive linemen that I've never heard of and dump to

792
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: a there you go and sign of starter worthy quarterback.

793
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hate the idea of Kirk Cousins being in Miami.

794
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: They just need to make the operation more serious. Stuck you.

795
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Speaker 1: What do you think?

796
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ravens, I mean, it's going to be an interesting offseason.

797
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 3: It's the first time Harrball is not running the show

798
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 3: in close to twenty years. And I mean, I like

799
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 3: what they've done with the staff, but there are there's

800
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 3: a lot of free agents that they have to figure

801
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: out who they want to bring back, who they're signing,

802
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 3: what they want to do with. But the biggest needs

803
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 3: by far on this team or in the trenches both

804
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 3: sides of the ball. You saw that this year. It's

805
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 3: the INTI your offensive line, and now what's going to

806
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: happen with linderbaund Like I think they came out today

807
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 3: and said they made him. They're not going to franchise

808
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 3: tag him, but they made them market setting offer. I

809
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 3: think is the terms that Tacosta use. But your guard

810
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 3: position is in flux maybe center, you're all pro center.

811
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 3: And then on the defensive side of the ball, that

812
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 3: is what killed them all year. It's they need to

813
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 3: fortify the trenches. I know they had injuries, but the

814
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 3: pass rush just isn't there. They edge rush, edge rush,

815
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 3: edge rush. It's like those are the two things that

816
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 3: I'm focused on as a Ravens fan and hope the

817
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 3: organization is focused on is into your offensive line, get

818
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 3: that short up and then find an edge rush because

819
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 3: you didn't have one. And if you can't get pressure

820
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 3: on opposing quarterbacks in today's NFL, you're not going anywhere.

821
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 3: So the ability to generate pressure without having to blitz

822
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 3: is it gives you such an upper hand in everything

823
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: that you can do. And you know, we saw that

824
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 3: with the Seahawks who won the Super Bowl. The Ravens

825
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 3: had zero ability to do that last year and their

826
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 3: edge rush is severely lacking. So yeah, I want to

827
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 3: see them four to five the middle of the offensive

828
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 3: line and improve their defensive line, specifically find edge rushers

829
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 3: and I don't care where they come from, draft, pre

830
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 3: agency trades. They need they need to make a splash there.

831
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Speaker 3: Those are the two areas that and then special teams

832
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 3: are a question. They haven't been a question for a

833
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 3: long long time, but there's some questions that need to

834
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 3: be answered there. But to two areas I'm focused on

835
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 3: INTOI your offensive line and edge rush.

836
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Speaker 1: All right, Hey, we're both trying to beef up the

837
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: D line. They add jesse Mentor as the new head coach.

838
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: So clearly there's going to be an extra some extra

839
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: attention given to the defensive side of the ball for

840
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: the Ravens.

841
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 2: The offensive side.

842
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for years for Lamar Jackson to just

843
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: have a legit wr one and still they haven't found

844
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: one for him.

845
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:54,919
Speaker 2: Is that something that you want to see?

846
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: And they're likely going to lose Isaiah likely, so it's

847
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: another receiving option that's out the door.

848
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but when healthy, I mean their offense

849
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 3: hasn't been an issue. I mean they for two years

850
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 3: they had like the they were the best offense in

851
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: the league when everyone was healthy. But the offensive line

852
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 3: was the issue this year. But to your point, you know,

853
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 3: one of their strengths is that they they would they

854
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 3: used a lot of two tight end packages and you

855
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 3: know they used the full back in a card and

856
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 3: he's a free agent, so like, what is their tight

857
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 3: end room going to look like? And Andrew Andrews is

858
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 3: not getting any younger, so like, this offense is going

859
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 3: to look completely different and the personnel is going to

860
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: look different. So in that case, you could make a

861
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 3: case that you should upgrade the wide receiver position. But

862
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 3: I do think there are more pressing needs, which is

863
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 3: the interier offensive line and the ad drush.

864
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: On defense, Kendrew, where would you spend your money if

865
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: you were the Ravens, you would you help Lamar or

866
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: would you help the other side?

867
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Speaker 4: I would probably go defense first.

868
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 5: You have the guy who's gonna sell the tickets, you

869
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 5: have the quarterback.

870
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 4: But if you want to win anything, you got to

871
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 4: beef up.

872
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: The d.

873
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the title of the episode dr Hey, before we

874
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: get out of here, Evan, what's your off season wish

875
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: list for your New York Giants?

876
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess another wide receiver for Dart. Also,

877
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 6: let's get Dart through some like drills where he doesn't

878
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 6: get murdered in the first few games of the regular season,

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Speaker 6: because that's just going to toss everything out the window.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Evan, your wish list should be one of those big.

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Speaker 6: Quarter wish list is really just my wish list is

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Speaker 6: really just let's put bumpers on the field. That's what

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Speaker 6: I'm looking for. Let's let's bowl with bumpers. Honestly, I

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Speaker 6: would look to Stuck as Harbaugh. He knows Harbaugh more

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Speaker 6: than I do, so I mean I assume he's gonna

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Speaker 6: try to build this team similar to how he did Baltimore,

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Speaker 6: because it's kind of what he knows. Dart has some

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Speaker 6: similarities to Lamar. I just think, you know, one, we

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Speaker 6: need some wide receiver help would be probably the first

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Speaker 6: thing I would look to. And then I mean, the

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Speaker 6: defense has always looked good, so I think maybe beefing

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Speaker 6: a little bit longer would be an avenue I would

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Speaker 6: look towards. But you assume Washington's going to be better

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Speaker 6: this year, Dallas is going to improve, and Philly's going

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Speaker 6: to be Philly, so that Division A can be easy.

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Speaker 1: I cannot find any Google images of a quarterback wearing

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Speaker 1: that Jackson Dart should be the first one. I mean

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