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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. How about a little Nick Wright in ten minutes. So.

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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot over the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: about people complaining about coaches who lack integrity, and I

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Speaker 1: rolled my eyes at this stuff. Obviously I've talked Ad

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Speaker 1: you haven't thought of. When Nick Saban, the greatest college

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Speaker 1: football coach in the history of the sport that created

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Speaker 1: the greatest dynasty in the history of the sport, was

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Dolphins. He famously said during the season,

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Speaker 1: I Am not going to be the Alabama coach. Two

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Speaker 1: weeks later he left for Alabama. Integrity. He had three

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Speaker 1: years left in his contract at four point five mill

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Speaker 1: a year with the Dolphins. Kim bocamper former Dolphin turned

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Speaker 1: sports talk personality, said, Wayne high Zinga, that's the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: owner was in the garbage business for years. Nick Saban

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Speaker 1: maybe the biggest piece of trash he's ever collected. Integrity.

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick the greatest coach ever. Before he went to

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Speaker 1: Jets for a day, then he bailed. He scrawled his

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Speaker 1: resignation letter on a napkin that said, I resign as

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Speaker 1: know the difference between integrity and somebody who has the

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Speaker 1: smarts to chase a better opportunity when he sees it.

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Speaker 1: Let's use a new word naive for those of you

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Speaker 1: who don't get the business. Speaking of all these new

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Speaker 1: college football coaches. As I talked about I think the

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Speaker 1: other day in the podcast, there is no perfect coach right.

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Speaker 1: Everybody outside of Saban has a whole Lincoln Riley doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a huge presence, soft spoken Brett Venables in an

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Speaker 1: offensive era where Nick Saban admits you can't stop anybody.

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Speaker 1: He's all defense, little dorky, little quirky. Brian Kelly is

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Speaker 1: a complete stranger to the South, a weird fit, and

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Speaker 1: basically only got one coach from the Notre Dame staff.

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Speaker 1: He's got to totally rebuild the LSU staff. Marcus Freeman

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Speaker 1: and Mario Crista Ball's never developed a quarterback. I would

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Speaker 1: say Lincoln Riley and Mario Crista Ball have the greatest

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Speaker 1: chance to succeed. They both play in weaker conferences in

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Speaker 1: by year two will be building noticeably better programs. I

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Speaker 1: think Marcus Freeman and Brian Kelly could be a little

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Speaker 1: He can rub people the wrong way, and Marcus Freeman's

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Speaker 1: going to take a while to figure out the head

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Speaker 1: big call. I don't think there's a bust in the group,

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Speaker 1: although I think Brenton Venables is in a weird space.

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Speaker 1: So as he moves to the toughest conference, the SEC,

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Speaker 1: that's a big disadvantage. They bail on an offensive system

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Speaker 1: that's as good as any in college football, the Lincoln

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Speaker 1: So Venables has no history of being offensively clever. As

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Speaker 1: I've said before, whatever side of the ball you're on,

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Speaker 1: that could have a very, very rocky beginning. All right,

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Speaker 1: My buddy Nick Wright co host First Things First, So

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Speaker 1: I want to throw We like theories. We have sort

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Speaker 1: of our belief system. So men and women cheat in

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Speaker 1: in relationships. And New England's system is very interesting. So

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Speaker 1: Brady took a pay cut most of his career, and

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Speaker 1: I can take a pay cut because I appreciate the support. Right,

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Speaker 1: and New England does not ask their quarterback to wear

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Speaker 1: my original theory, if you feel boxes are checked in

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Speaker 1: And I think it's the secret sauce behind the culture

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Speaker 1: feel we have a better coach, a better defense, better

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo playoff run where you threw a nice round eight.

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Speaker 1: The idea like, let's let's be fair now, driving mac

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Speaker 1: Jones will be top eight. No, because you'd be insane

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Speaker 1: ceiling top money, Like, come on, Colin, I love you, man,

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Speaker 1: but let's be honest about what we saw last night.

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't even talk to Peyton Manning the week of

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Speaker 1: week of. It's like he had time for that, but

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Speaker 1: Colin and Buffalo in New England are just known for

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Speaker 1: you what I thought last night was about. I thought

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Speaker 1: What can I do to win in the moment? Oh,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens playoff game. There's a rule I can exploit that.

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Speaker 1: Don't care and need to play this card. Will play it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I've got to have Edelman start throwing passes. Been holding

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Speaker 1: the drafting at certain positions has been awful. At certain

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Speaker 1: spots it's been good. You can't gloss over the fact that,

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Speaker 1: you know, Gronk and Hernandez those were great picks, like

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Speaker 1: despite what happened when Herd is but it's also true

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00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: that they haven't signed a lot of it. It's a

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Speaker 1: mixed bag. But where Belichick's been great at is understanding

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Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of the league and when the

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Speaker 1: and understanding what in the NBA would just be called

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Speaker 1: because everyone thinks they're so smart a market inefficiency. Belichick,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he views in those terms. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, when the passing revolution is

435
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Speaker 1: really starting to take hold, what if I have two

436
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: tight ends and I can still engage in the passing,

437
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: But because they're big, strong tight ends. If everyone's gonna,

438
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: you know, play me like their wide receivers, I'll just

439
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: run the ball. And now this year it's like, Okay,

440
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: the whole league is just worried about passing that nobody

441
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: plays a bass defense, nobody has a big nose tackle,

442
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: nobody has big linebackers anymore. Well, I'm gonna have a

443
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback who's going to be somewhat limited. What if

444
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: I just try to have a big, strong, physical football

445
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: team that in the long term I don't think works

446
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: year over year, But right now, when no one has

447
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: the personnel for it, nobody there is a and you

448
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: can prob because nobody's looking for these big, thumping linebackers,

449
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: you probably can get better versions of those than if

450
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Speaker 1: you're the eleventh team trying to find a nickel corner

451
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: in free agency. Well, somebody's getting the eleventh best nickel corner.

452
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Speaker 1: You're the If you're the only guy who's like, I

453
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: want the best fullback out there, you're gonna get the

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Speaker 1: best fullback. I think Belichick's really smart at seeing the

455
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Speaker 1: direction the league's going and going the other way at

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Speaker 1: times when all of a sudden it allows him to

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Speaker 1: have a competitive edge. Let me give you a Belichick

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00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: Saban theory. So smart people can spot other smart people

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Speaker 1: because smart people see body language the verbally, they can

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00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: spot people. I mean, if if you converse with people,

461
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: you can spot pretty quickly. Nick, you're a bright guy,

462
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: you can you can spot who's who gets bright people.

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00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: So Saban and Belichick are both brilliant at spotting young

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Speaker 1: coaching talent Maninie, Josh McDaniel, Matt Patricia, Brian Flores. Saban's

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Speaker 1: replaced seven offensive coordinators. He's yet to miss on any

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Speaker 1: of them, and he's a defensive coach. So they're great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, go back to Belichick's staff that included Kirk Ferns,

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00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: pat Hill, Manginie, Nick Saban. They're both great hires because

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Speaker 1: they're highly educated guys. But one of the things you

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Speaker 1: can't share is intelligence unless you have a DNA a

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00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: genetic connection. So both lose assistance and the hit rate

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Speaker 1: on success is thirty percent because of the many things

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00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: both can spot smart but they can't. You can't elevate

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Speaker 1: people beyond a certain level, even if they have the

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Speaker 1: proximity around you for years, and so I think it's fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Both have rarely missed. I couldn't tell you the last

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00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: miss for Saban or Belichick on a hire. I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: He's turned his son into a good coach, but yet

479
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: both hit about thirty percent on the coach leaving and succeeding.

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Speaker 1: And my theory is you can't pass on intelligence. At

481
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Speaker 1: some point we all met a college or pro coach

482
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: is making twenty decisions a day. A smart guy gets eighteen, right,

483
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: a less smart guy gets twelve, and over the course

484
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Speaker 1: of a month or a year, it just unravels quickly. Well,

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Speaker 1: I also, I can't speak to what's happened with Savings guys,

486
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Speaker 1: just because I'm not as you know, in the weeds

487
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: on college football as you are. But what has clearly

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Speaker 1: happened in Belichick's guys a lot of them is And

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Speaker 1: I'll use the the This is analogy I've used elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: It's a little awkward to use to you because it's

491
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Speaker 1: about you, but you maybe have heard me saities before.

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Speaker 1: But it's a similar thing that happened in sports radio

493
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Speaker 1: in the mid two thousand outs to the early twenty tens,

494
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Speaker 1: which is Colin, you couldn't you couldn't drive cross country

495
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Speaker 1: and listen to local talk radio and not here some

496
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: twenty six year old who's you know, getting his starter,

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Speaker 1: you know, on a show on a mid market be like,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why last night's Bill's Patriots game

499
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: was like a bad divorce. And it's like, oh, I

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00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: know what bit you're trying to do. You're trying to

501
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: do what you think cowhard would be doing, but you're

502
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: not coward and you've never been divorced, so it's probably

503
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Speaker 1: not gonna work. Buddy, You've never even been married. So

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00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people tried in our industry to do

505
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Speaker 1: what you did because you had such success, it was

506
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: so unique. They're like, well I can do that, but

507
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: you can't. The same thing happened with Belichick's assistance. They're like, well,

508
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Speaker 1: Bill does it this way. He is the best success

509
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Speaker 1: in the world. Why don't I do the Why don't

510
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: I follow the exact blueprint? And I think the miss

511
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Speaker 1: on that is Bill did it what Bill's In addition

512
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Speaker 1: to all the natural brilliance, Bill was always being authentic

513
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Speaker 1: to himself and that's who he is. Who he is

514
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: is this kind of gruff, oddly funny introspective if you

515
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: ask him the right question. You know, a very droll guy.

516
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: But other folks and you know, coach Me and Genie's

517
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Speaker 1: one of my I adore him. I think he would

518
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Speaker 1: tell you one of his mistakes was with the Jets

519
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: when it came to the media. He just tried to

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00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: do what build it would do. But that's not who

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00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: coach Me and Genie is, and it's you know what

522
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, It got him off to the wrong food

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Speaker 1: with the media. All these things. Me and Genie's a

524
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: funny nighting. He's far nicer guy than Belichick, all these things.

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00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: But you were trying to follow someone else's path instead

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Speaker 1: of your own, instead of just taking, you know, to

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Speaker 1: torture the analogy a bit further. The things that people

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Speaker 1: you know, in our business, what you can take from

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Speaker 1: Colin or trying to do radio is that you know,

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Speaker 1: your show starts at nine, you're you're still in the

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Speaker 1: office at six. You do it like fake show before

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00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: the show, in the meeting, like the prep, the still

533
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: loving sports. Those things you can take and then you

534
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: put your own character on it. When I see, like

535
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: what's happening with the Giants, it's like Joe judge, Buddy,

536
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: You've seen six Belichick disciples try to do exactly this,

537
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: and it's worked for Here's one who who is being

538
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: true to himself Flores. Flores does not try to be Belichim.

539
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: Flores clearly took some things from him, But I've never

540
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: seen a Brian Flores press confertorating brought Brian Flores. I'm like, oh,

541
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: same thing. Bill O'Brien did the same thing. Charlie White

542
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: did the same thing. All these guys do where they

543
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: try to be Bill, he's not, and I think he's

544
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: successful because of it. Yeah, I do want to ask

545
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: you one NBA question, sure, because I would be regretful

546
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: if I didn't. Because we got about five minutes left.

547
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: I try to make these about thirty five minutes because

548
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: that's the average commute in America. And so I was

549
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: saying this the other day about the Lakers. They have

550
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: three little dilemmas. So generationally, young players do not want

551
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: to give their brand or their money to Lebron. That's

552
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: why he can get on the phone with mellow Dwight

553
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: Howard and Westbrook and generationally they will make less, shoot less,

554
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: score less. Because generationally Lebron was their north star. But

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00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: young players are like John Randt, Trey Young like they

556
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: respect him, but young players don't necessarily want to give

557
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: their brand Lebron. I'm not gonna make Lebron rich. I

558
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: want to make me rich. And and so the first

559
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: problem is Lebron's old, expensive and doesn't have the quality

560
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: he had in Miami and Cleveland where he just gets

561
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,239
Speaker 1: on the phone and says, bro, bring your game. You're

562
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: not going to score as much, Kevin up, We're gonna

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00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: win titles young guys. Now he's generationally, there's a there's

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00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: a you know, there's a line in the same Lebron's

565
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: crossed it. He doesn't have that poll anymore. I think

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Speaker 1: the youngest, like he got Anthony Davis to go with him,

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00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: I think anyone younger than Anthony Davis is not gonna

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00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: do it. I think that you know what I mean,

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00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: AD's what twenty eight years old? Like he got a D. Yeah,

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00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: and that's and now all the guys younger than a D.

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00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I want I want to beat you.

572
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: I want to be the guy that dethrown you. I

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00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: want to be the guy with the next signature shoe.

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Speaker 1: So I'm with you on that secondly, and this happens occasionally,

575
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: and it happens a lot to Biggs. They age quickly,

576
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: their feet, their back. A D is no longer an

577
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Speaker 1: ascending player, Jannis is. He is uniquely built and you know,

578
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: virtually never hurt. Yokich. Similar is that a D was

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Speaker 1: viewed as the baton. Lebron would pass him the baton

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00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: and he would become the one. His personality is a

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00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: two and his body's becoming a two. And so now

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00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: you're locked into Lebron and eighties contract. You have a

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00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: player that generationally doesn't attract young players. The West, Phoenix

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00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: is young, Golden State is young, Denver is pretty young.

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00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 1: Clippers aren't. So you have the Lebron issue, the ad issue,

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00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: and the other issue is frankly as they've gotten old,

587
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: and the Lakers at some point are going to have

588
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: to reboot some of this. The West is uniquely young,

589
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: like Phoenix is almost constructed perfectly. Golden State is old

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00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: in spots, but is very empty because a couple of

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00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: years they have these draft picks, right, yes, yeah, And

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00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: so I look at the Lakers and I'm like, I

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00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: said this about the Seahawks, and I got a lot

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00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: of pushback when they were winning ten eleven, twelve. I said,

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00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: it's a house of cards. Nothing works in that franchise,

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00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: not connected to Russell. So the minute Russell gets hurt,

597
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: they're bad, comes back early, they're terrible. Now this week

598
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: he was at like ninety percent, They're back to being

599
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Russell leads. I mean basically through ninety percent completion percentage.

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00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: Even his pick was already a bubble cash Lakers. Similarly,

601
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: Lebron out or comes back unhealthy, they do nothing well,

602
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: like the Staws not connected to Lebron. Right, I think

603
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: they're in rebuild mode. I think Seattle is, and neither

604
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: wants to admit it. Well, so I don't think they're

605
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: in rebuild mode. But I do think that the idea

606
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: that what I think is what they are. They're entire

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00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: I don't think they have a real plan. The plan

608
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: is can does Lebron have one more two months surge

609
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: in him? Like he showed it? Forget the bubble playoffs

610
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Calves last year with the Cavs. That was

611
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 1: when Kyrie was gone. When he hit the multiple game

612
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: winners in the playoffs, either multiple game seven's, the fifty

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00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: one points against Golden State in the finals. Does he

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00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: have a two one more transcendent playoff run in him

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00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: that Ad can play wingman four? And then if and

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00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: when Lebron leaves or retires, will Ad out of necessity

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00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: ascend or will the fact that the Lakers are still

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00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: the Lakers and then Los Angeles will someone if and

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00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: when Lebron leaves be like, Oh, I'd love to be

620
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: the best guy in the Lakers and eight. But I

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00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: don't think it's a real plan. I think it's a hope.

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00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: I think the Lakers, it's a hope of can Lebron

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Speaker 1: for two months be a top three player in the league? Still?

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00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: You know, I'm me so I think he's probably got

625
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: one more amazing run in him. I thought it could

626
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: have been last year if he didn't get his ankle hurt,

627
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: so he might still have it. But he also played

628
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: the third most minutes of anyone in the league history,

629
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Speaker 1: and by any you know, the only context for this

630
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: is Kaream and Karl Malone, and for both of them,

631
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: by the time they were at this level of minutes,

632
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: they were a shell of what they were. I know,

633
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: I gotta can I ask you an NBA question real quick, sure,

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Speaker 1: because I still associate you with the Pacific Northwest. This

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Speaker 1: story that Dame would like to play with Ben Simmons,

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Speaker 1: I don't I know. I haven't done any research on this,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know if it's true or not. It

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00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: is odd to me though, because Dame obviously knows that

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Speaker 1: to get Ben Simmons they have to give up CJ.

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Speaker 1: So that's fine, Like, you can still be friends with

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Speaker 1: the guy, but you know, think it's time to break up.

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Speaker 1: But does anyone in the world think Dame plus Ben

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Speaker 1: Simmons gets the Blazers four percent closer than what they

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Speaker 1: currently are. That's the thing I don't understand. I get

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Speaker 1: Dame wanting to be loyal, but I don't understand Dame

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Speaker 1: thinking okay, this would be the move there there like

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make that doesn't make the Blazers a conference finalist,

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Speaker 1: let alone a champion, right like they if they added

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons to the roster as a free agent, I

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Speaker 1: lost no one. They still can't win the West, much

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Speaker 1: less trade for him. I don't understand the Portland Dame

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00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: situation at all. I don't get it. Well, Dame's a small,

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Speaker 1: poor defender, I think the feeling is always been and

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Speaker 1: this is why Golden State. The room was split fifty

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Speaker 1: fifty on Ben Simmons at Golden State. And the reason

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00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: it was split is because people said Clay's a great defender,

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Speaker 1: Draymond still can defend, and Wiseman as an athletic guy

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00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: who can defend his length, and Wiggins by the way,

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Speaker 1: as a willing defender, so there's no reason to go there.

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Speaker 1: That was the pushback in the room. CJ. McCollum and

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00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: Dame are both poor defenders, Dames small. So I think

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Speaker 1: the feeling is Ben can be kind of a point forward.

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Speaker 1: We don't need his scoring. But it's a team that

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Speaker 1: doesn't have I mean Covington, it doesn't have like an

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Speaker 1: athletic wing defender to compensate for how bad Dame is

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Speaker 1: as a difference. I get I get it, I understand

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Speaker 1: the basketball fit. My point is that doesn't move the needle.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't There's that does not. If I'm if I

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Speaker 1: were Dame like, I would just put it in a

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Speaker 1: different way. If they're gonna have a new GM present there.

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Speaker 1: If that guy came to me was like, hey, Dame,

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00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of rumors about you might

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00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: want to leave whatever it is. Guess what, I've orchestrated

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Speaker 1: a trade. Darryl Morius signed off on it, CJ for

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Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. If that was brought to me and I'm Dame,

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00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: I'd still be like, okay, who are we beating in

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00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: round two? Like okay that I'm happy you did that.

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00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: But maybe it makes I just I personally think there

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00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: was a mini controversy with the coach hiring. There's the

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Speaker 1: you know all shays out. I know Dame keep saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm staying, I'm staying. I'm saying I think that Dame

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Speaker 1: could be on the move. I just don't think that

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00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: I know someone else will give him the contract he wants.

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00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: I know he wants a massive contract. He deserves it.

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Speaker 1: The idea that Dame is going to languish in Portland,

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Speaker 1: a top seventy five all time guy, is going to

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00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: just continue with first round playoff exits, I don't think so.

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00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: I think Dame could be on the move. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: Dame should have a fairly long runway because he's a shooter.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Steph could play forever, Dame could play for

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00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: a long time. So that's the advantage to being a shooter. Yeah,

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00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: it's you know, I'm I'm a everybody's got a whole.

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00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: Like I didn't grow up with religion, so it's my whole.

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00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up with I'm very mobile, transient, so

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Speaker 1: I don't really get people that are loyal and screw

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00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: their career. It's really I don't really understand Bradley Beale

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00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: or Dame. I don't get it because it's nothing against loyalty.

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00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: But as as a kid, I had some chaos in

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00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: my childhood. You know, there's probably these deep psychological scars

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00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: that my dad, the doctor, wasn't helping me enough with college.

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00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: So I always I was always very self reliant. And

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00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: when you become overly self reliant, you have one foot

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00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: out the door and even good jobs. Right, So I'm

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00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm very transactional. I'm very willing to move, transient, move

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00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: very quickly, so it's hard for me to speak of it.

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00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: To me, I look at Dame and I think, Dame,

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00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: there's so many places where you could be playing in June,

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00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: of course, where you could with by the way, where

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00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: you could age better, where you would be like as

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00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: it's constructed now, if Dame struggles, they lose, and they

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00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: literally love I think sometimes we're all in our own bubble.

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00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: Dame is a guy that I think could be at

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00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: least a somewhat crossover star in that the casual sports

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00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: fan is intimately familiar with Chris Paul because of the

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00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: State Farm commercials. Right so right, he gets those because

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00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: he played not only in LA and big markets, but

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00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: also played in big games, played in big games with

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Speaker 1: the Rockets, played in semi big games with the Clippers, obviously,

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Speaker 1: played in huge games with Phoenix. Dame, like I think

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00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: NBA fans don't realize how anonymous Dame is to the

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Speaker 1: sports fan who watches big events, watches football on Sunday

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00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: and turns on the NBA. You know, in early May.

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00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Dame's been around one time in their lives, in that

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Speaker 1: and last NBA point. Because I think you should mention

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00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: it on your highly rated, very successful television show, because

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00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention it on my not as highly rated,

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00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: not quite a successful television show. But I want you

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00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: to mention it. I just want to remind America the

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00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: Colin Coward's picked to win the NBA championship last year

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00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: and Nick Wrights picked to win the NBA Championship last year,

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks this year, Colin when Jannis Middleton and

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday play eleven and oh, so I know everyone's

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00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: all a flutter about Phoenix in Golden May and all

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00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: the defending champs with the guy that turned twenty seven

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00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: yesterday and is still the best player in the league.

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Speaker 1: They have not lost this year when those Big Three play.

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00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: They won four straight finals games when they played, and

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Speaker 1: now they're eleven to oh this year, win the Big

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00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: Three play? Well you as you well know, once you

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00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: win the title, the regular season becomes less urgent. And

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00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: so Phoenix is still crushing people in the regular season

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00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: and they're really good. Is really good, by the way, Yes,

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00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,479
Speaker 1: but Milwaukee is very good under the radar because they've

744
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: had guys missed team game and all this. But Phillies

745
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: got the upheaval, Brooklyn's got the upheaval. The Knicks were

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00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: never real. Miami's good, but they can't beat Milwaukee. Milwaukee's

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00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: just like, okay, guys, we're the champs, we got the

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00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: best player in the league. We haven't lost with our

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00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: whole core, you know, in months, So we'll see you

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00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: all right, NICKI so we give you what we give you,

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00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: probably a month off. We only we don't like. I

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00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: always tell my staff Nick every five weeks. He's very busy.

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00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: We don't like. Really, you know, the holidays are coming up.

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00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: But I think you and I I think you should

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00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: tell your staff we should. We should shoot for semimonthly

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00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: a couple times a month, you and me getting together.

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00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: I'd like so, but because the holidays are coming up,

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00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: maybe after the new year, once the chiefs have secured

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00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: the one seed. The next time. I'll talk to you

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00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: when the chiefs have secured the one seed. Colin Cowherd.

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00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: Good seeing you, buddy. That was great. Talk to you later,

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00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: my friend. All right Nick right at the Volume sports

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