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Speaker 2: Good morning, buddy, Good morning, Couz. Good to be back

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Speaker 2: on the saturd with your brother. How are things? I

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Speaker 2: love it? I love it. Things are rauh. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: and I'm dying to hear what you have to say.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into all the NFL free agency and oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: Cooper Cup. You know we're gonna be doing a lot

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Speaker 2: of that this morning. But I'm just lead off with

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Speaker 2: some loops because the Carolina Duke, Carolina with the big

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Speaker 2: comeback last night only to have that game time free

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Speaker 2: throw that lane violation. The kids got a funky release, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it was just step in the lane. It was like,

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Speaker 2: oh no, and all of a sudden, the minute they

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Speaker 2: stepped in the lane violation a.

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Speaker 3: Little bit so weaker.

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Speaker 4: And it's tough for North Carolina because they were clearly

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Speaker 4: one of those teams that was on the cut line

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Speaker 4: and still is. But the issue with them is, and

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Speaker 4: if you want to get into and deep into the

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Speaker 4: nitty gritty of net rankings and quad one wins and

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Speaker 4: quad two wins, I would just say this for North Carolina,

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Speaker 4: they don't have a lot of quality wins this year,

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Speaker 4: so a victory over Duke last night would have been

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Speaker 4: humongous for them in their case to make it into

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Speaker 4: the tournament, despite the fact that they're a blue blood

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Speaker 4: and have twenty plus wins.

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Speaker 5: That was a heartbreaker.

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Speaker 4: To be down big, to fight back against Duke and

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Speaker 4: to have it in the way that it ended was.

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Speaker 5: Really, really tough. And I really really feel for that kid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I do too. I gotta tell you, they got it.

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Speaker 2: They deserve to be it. I know the ACC is

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Speaker 2: down and I get it, but they deserve to be

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Speaker 2: in a tournament.

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Speaker 3: I you know, I mean I think they have to.

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Speaker 2: The way you play that team, that dub team, And

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Speaker 2: I get that Cooper didn't play right, Yeah, but that

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Speaker 2: Tube team is still nasty man. And they were up dude,

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Speaker 2: how about it. I mean they're rolling in that game.

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Speaker 2: They were up as hot as much as what sixteen

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Speaker 2: seventeen they were.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I got up to nineteen at one point.

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Speaker 4: The problem with it is we start breaking down resumes

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Speaker 4: and I mentioned quad one wins, they're one and twelve.

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Speaker 3: They have no quality wins this year, like zero I

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Speaker 3: saw it.

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Speaker 4: And as down as the ACC is overall, you gotta

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Speaker 4: be able to get you can't give them get him

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Speaker 4: in on a quality loss.

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Speaker 5: We get, we can't go that way. That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all once like college football, right with the

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Speaker 2: quality loss.

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Speaker 4: Well, especially when you look at other teams that are

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Speaker 4: on the cut line, like Indiana, who's picked up big

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Speaker 4: wins over teams like Michigan State over the last week

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Speaker 4: and a half, our Boise State who's been on a

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Speaker 4: heater recently. It's just really really difficult if you're lining

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Speaker 4: them up. If you look if you were just take

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Speaker 4: North Carolina off of the front of the jersey, take

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Speaker 4: all the colors off of just your resume test, there's

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Speaker 4: no way they measure up to these other teams.

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Speaker 2: I agree. I agree with that's great argument. And I

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Speaker 2: got I'm a especially with college basketball. I got that.

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Speaker 2: You know it's Carolina. Yeah, you know, it's like Carolina.

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Speaker 2: How does Carolina not Yeah? How do you not give

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Speaker 2: them the benefit of the doubt?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: There's Roy Williams in there. Yeah, I mean in the stands.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's Carolina. They're gonna be out.

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Speaker 4: You're right, Yeah, And you know, and because if all

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Speaker 4: things were equal, they'd absolutely be in. If all things

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Speaker 4: were equal and you had the brand recognition of North

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Speaker 4: Carolina and it was easy to decision, it'll be an

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Speaker 4: easy decision at that point, they'd make it. I just

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Speaker 4: don't know how you can justify putting them in over

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Speaker 4: based on what they've done, regardless if they're a blue

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Speaker 2: You're right, you know what's funny, how is it North

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Speaker 2: Carolina has retained its blue blood status, but Indian it

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean North Carolina's had their share of runs.

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Speaker 4: Over the last you know, ten twelve years, Roar Williams

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Speaker 4: has won a couple of national championships, you know, so

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Speaker 4: they've they kind of fell out of it a little bit,

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Speaker 4: you know, during the nineties.

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Speaker 3: They had a couple of runs there, but.

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Speaker 5: Never really did a lot, and they had a real

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Speaker 5: long dry spell.

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Speaker 4: And then when Roy returned after going to Kansas, he

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Speaker 4: got them a couple of national championships and revitalized the program.

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Speaker 3: If Indiana won one national.

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Speaker 4: Championship over the next three years or so, they would

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Speaker 4: kind of reinsert themselves into the of the conversation for

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Speaker 4: a little bit and earned themselves some more VA value

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Speaker 4: and equity. But Indiana was the last time Indiana actually

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Speaker 4: made a deep run of the tournament and it was

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Speaker 4: really really relevant on an level.

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Speaker 3: It's been a long time. Uh yeah.

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Speaker 4: So you get you get reverence because of the history

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Speaker 4: and Bob Knight and all of that, but I mean

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Speaker 4: we're a long long way removed from that. I mean kids, kids,

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Speaker 4: you know, adults, grown adults. Myself, I wasn't even old enough,

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Speaker 4: if not even born, to remember Bob Knight in the

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Speaker 4: great runs he had in Indiana. You're way, way far

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Speaker 4: removed from Indiana to your point, being considered a quote

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Speaker 4: a quote unquote blue blood uh with a great resume

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Speaker 4: and being a championship program, So why they still maintain that?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, UCLA is kind of the same way.

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Speaker 5: Grand They've made it to a couple of final fours.

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Speaker 4: So really, I think it just comes down to because

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Speaker 4: it's making yourself relevant on a year in, year out

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Speaker 4: basis and making a couple of deep runs in the tournament.

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Speaker 5: And Indiana has not been able to do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they got to be curious. I gotta look up

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Speaker 3: Indiana and because I mean, did you just have it?

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Speaker 2: Felt like that's the only thing about Caroline is that

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Speaker 2: they've had that moment, right, you know.

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Speaker 5: Even if you don't win it. You know, look at Kentuck.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky won the one national championship with coach cal but

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Speaker 4: they made it to the tournament every year, made it

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Speaker 4: to the second weekend, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, and they're squarely they're squarely blue blood for me, like.

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Speaker 2: They have not lost at all their blue blood status. Man,

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Speaker 2: look at these seasons, dude, It's just nuts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm looking at Indiana over the past,

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Speaker 4: you know, go back to the Tom creen years. I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of lean years where they didn't make

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Speaker 4: the tournament. I'm talking about five straight years from twenty

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Speaker 4: sixteen all the way in twenty twenty doesn't count because

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Speaker 4: that was the COVID year, but i mean losing in

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Speaker 4: the second round, losing in the first round, regional, semi

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Speaker 4: second round, like they really just weren't making much of

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Speaker 3: You got to go back to one oh two.

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Speaker 5: Wow, the old Mike Davis.

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Speaker 2: They went to they went to the finals that year,

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Speaker 2: one two. That's it.

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Speaker 5: So like I mentioned, kids who are playing now weren't.

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Speaker 3: Even about thirty.

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Speaker 2: You're right, did Tom Crean year they just got to

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Speaker 2: the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 4: It's like, even if you were Indiana and you're knocked

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Speaker 4: on the door on the lead eight. Yeah, a couple

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Speaker 4: of Sweet sixteens and Elite eight every other year, every

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Speaker 4: couple of years. I won't say you'll take it because

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Speaker 4: the standard has been so high for Indiana. But to

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Speaker 4: our point, if we're looking at their record over the

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Speaker 4: last you know, decade and a half, I mean, is.

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Speaker 5: That really what their expectations should be?

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Speaker 3: I know, you know, I know. So look at look

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Speaker 3: at this is nuts.

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Speaker 2: You go back tonight, Oh my god, like this is stuff.

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Speaker 3: This is like lower stuff. You know.

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Speaker 2: His run until his first year seventy one, seventy two, right, yep.

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Speaker 2: The next year he's in the final four. The year

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Speaker 2: after he wins the Nit, Denny wins the Dancy Double

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Speaker 2: A seventy four to seventy five. Denny repeats, it's seventy five,

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Speaker 2: seventy six. Then back to the n I t wins

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Speaker 2: the n It again seventy eight, seventy nine, then back

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Speaker 2: to the Sweet sixteen. In seventy nine, eighty eighty one,

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Speaker 2: he wins it again.

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Speaker 3: I think that was Keith Smart correct yep. Eighty two,

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Speaker 3: eighty three, Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 2: And in eighty six eighty seven they go thirty and

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Speaker 2: four and win it again, and then he's done that

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Speaker 2: fateful year to ninety nine, two thousand.

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Speaker 3: I ever tell you story with Bobby Knight. Oh I'm

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Speaker 3: sure you have one, you have nine? Please please indulse me.

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Speaker 5: I can only watch you.

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Speaker 2: So this is when all the stuff starts to unravel

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Speaker 2: on the program.

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Speaker 3: And you know the kid he threw the chair at

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Speaker 3: the kid. You remember, Oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the what they by the way, they like

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Speaker 4: immortalized or I actually had like a night this year

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Speaker 4: dedicating to that night, which I found to be interesting,

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Speaker 4: is like this is kind of a black mark on

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Speaker 4: him and the program, and you guys like, here's the

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Speaker 4: chair that Bob Knight threw across the court, and we're

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Speaker 4: gonna dedicate it tonight.

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Speaker 3: I found that really weird.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 5: That's very odd for them to honor something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, it was listen sensibilities and it's a great story.

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Speaker 2: Now I look at back at it. She's a mault, right.

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Speaker 2: So the uh this is like late nineties. I'm like

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Speaker 2: fresh out of college. So I'm working for the New

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Speaker 2: York Posts and they go, you got to go to

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Speaker 2: Indiana and you gotta do this pob Night story. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: all right, you know, So I go to Indiana and

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Speaker 2: they got you're playing like Purdue or somebody. I'm there, right,

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Speaker 2: and he's he's just, he's just, and he's intimidating, and

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Speaker 2: he's got that death stare right, and you know, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if they want or lost whatever it was,

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Speaker 2: but it didn't even matter because everybody was there just

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Speaker 2: to hear about, like, just to kind of talk about

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Speaker 2: the situation. So I show up and you reporters back

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Speaker 2: that you had your badge. So my dad says, you know,

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Speaker 2: Anthony gargantto New York Post, and Bob looks at it

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Speaker 2: and he's and he sees me and like, I didn't

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Speaker 2: even ask a question yet, right, He looks at me,

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Speaker 2: looks me up and there and looks at staring at

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Speaker 2: my bag. He went, New York Post, what do you

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Speaker 2: come all the way here from New York for? And

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Speaker 2: I'm like, like, what this guy talking like? So I said, well, coach,

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Speaker 2: you know where the allegations and blah blah. Right, give

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Speaker 3: I mean had that army thing going.

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Speaker 2: It was tough dudes, like you forget about how it was,

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Speaker 2: I was like, look at this guy, My god, but

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Speaker 3: Media loud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I see him point, and I'm like, there's no

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Speaker 2: I mean it's the studid body pep rally, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'll give coach K credit for one.

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Speaker 4: Thing, the fact that he was able to adapt and

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Speaker 5: Know, kind of pushing them out.

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Speaker 4: You know, credit to him to sort of, at least

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Speaker 4: hell he would have lasted at all, dude, cost of all,

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Speaker 2: Dudes, right, and and you know there will they're little

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Speaker 2: And then Bobby Knight to with today's climate of kids

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Speaker 2: let's face it, they're like we've become softer in society, right, yes,

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Speaker 2: And and I remember going, oh my god, like and

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Speaker 4: You can't grab a kid by the throat, and that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a level of respect for authority

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Speaker 4: You know, it's just a different mentality nowadays.

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Speaker 3: Do you're right?

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Speaker 2: Because I was gen X right, so I'm correcting right

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Speaker 3: I've been loving it.

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Speaker 4: we talked about this when it comes to college football,

439
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 4: how like the conference title games kind of have lost

440
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 4: meeting now that the playoff has expanded.

441
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 5: But we have the field as wide as it.

442
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 4: Is for sixty eight teams, and unfortunately, I think probably

443
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 4: going to expand to more in the coming years. The

444
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 4: conference tournaments still have a lot of meaning for a

445
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 4: lot of these teams that are still playing, whether for

446
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 4: seedings or whether just to make it in in general,

447
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 4: and there's been some really I think really it there's

448
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 4: just been really incredible finishes over these last couple of

449
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 4: days that's really made it exciting. It'll still be better

450
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 4: if and when we get get to a point in

451
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 4: time where kids actually go to college and stay for

452
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 4: longer than five minutes. You know, that's still something that

453
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 4: needs to be worked through. But yeah, this particular season

454
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 4: so far in postseason here in the conference tournament's schedule

455
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 4: has been really really great.

456
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 2: Well, and you're right, like my hope is in NIL

457
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 2: meets you'll stay.

458
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, like between you know, between NIL and I think

459
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 4: the NBA eventually is going to go back to allowing

460
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 4: high school kids to declare should they want to.

461
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 5: I think that would really open things up.

462
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 4: You get NIL deals for kids who actually want to

463
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 4: go to college, who can make money in college, and

464
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 4: they'll stay and they won't be They're not going to

465
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 4: go to the to the NCAA for one year and

466
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 4: then jump jump ship to the NBA because they can

467
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 4: do that coming out of high school at a certain point.

468
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 4: I think that's only that's what's going to make the

469
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 4: college basketball product even healthier, because you can't even learn

470
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 4: to love or hate anybody because one guys aren't staying

471
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 4: at schools long enough when it comes to just staying

472
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 4: for a year, two years, three years, or they're just

473
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 4: transferring out every other year too. So that's what makes

474
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 4: it even more difficult. Not only can you not learn

475
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 4: to love a player at a certain university, now you

476
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 4: have to actually follow that player from two, three, four

477
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 4: schools before he ends up hanging it up if he

478
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 4: does stay for longer than a couple of years.

479
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 3: You know, you know, it's not you know, and you're right.

480
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: It's funny because they look at it and I'm thinking,

481
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 2: if you Cooper Flag would stay.

482
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 3: And now I know it's you know, Pipe Traine.

483
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: You know, I get it, But jeez, if the kid

484
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 2: would stay, what I mean, the hype around it like

485
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: it would just grow and grow, Like do you imagine

486
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 2: if he spent three years in college, Yeah, like three

487
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 2: years of duke, what he would be like in two

488
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 2: years as a college player. If you just did the

489
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 2: junior year again, like, you got to stay to your

490
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 2: junior year, won't you.

491
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 3: I just think it would be so much better.

492
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: Oh my god, still get compensated, You're still you know insured,

493
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 2: right right?

494
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 3: You know?

495
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 4: Well, one thing that I think you would have working

496
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 4: in your favor in college basketball more so than any

497
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 4: other sport, you can kind of dictate where you go,

498
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 4: like whoever gets the first pick in the NBA draft.

499
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 4: If it's a terrible franchise or somewhere that you don't

500
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 4: want to go, you can say, well, I'm at a

501
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 4: blue blood program.

502
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 5: Who knows how far Duke's gonna go.

503
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 4: A lot of that's going to depend on how healthy

504
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag is with that ankle. But say they make

505
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 4: a deep run into the tournament and a team that

506
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 4: he doesn't want to go to as the first overall

507
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 4: pick in the drafts he says, well, you know what,

508
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make nil money, probably even more so going

509
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 4: into my sophomore season.

510
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 3: Maybe I will stay for another year having to chase

511
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 3: the money.

512
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 4: And this is the point I think you were kind

513
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 4: of alluding to a second ago. You don't need to

514
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 4: chase the money to go to the NBA anymore. Especially

515
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 4: when you're somebody of that status.

516
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: Right, like if you're Cooper Flag, anybody cow Loog's right, Nike,

517
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 2: whoever it's gonna should sign you to, you know, fifty.

518
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: Million dollar deal.

519
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 2: Right And then, by the way, to minute, one of

520
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 2: these big brands comes in with all the money in

521
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 2: the world. Why do you got to go to the NBA.

522
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: You're bigger and better than everybody in college. Just double

523
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: down the NBA. If that money's irrelevant, you're already set

524
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 2: up for generational wealth.

525
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

526
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 4: I imagine if you could have gotten the what was

527
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 4: what was Lebron James? Was it ninety million dollars shoe

528
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 4: deal that he signed before he even got drafted by

529
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 4: the Cavaliers.

530
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 3: Kiraki, Yeah, I.

531
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 4: Mean imagine that's life changing money right there, as a

532
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 4: sixteen seventeen year old before you have a lace up

533
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 4: a sneaker in the NBA or.

534
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 3: In college you put you in't that sort of money?

535
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 3: Why not?

536
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you take advantage of the college experience at

537
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 4: that point in time?

538
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 2: And by and by the way, you know, I love

539
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 2: college I love college sports, and there's an energy you

540
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: know that that youth full energy is legit what stay there.

541
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 2: It beat a big man, beat bm oct Yeah, enjoy

542
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: it because that's an enjoyable boy.

543
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 3: The miny.

544
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: You get to the league, it's it's and even though

545
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: it's paid for play right, it is what it is.

546
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: But you get to the league and it's just different.

547
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 2: It's a different vibe. I mean, it's ting these years

548
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: like be dominant.

549
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, there's the social element

550
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: of it of being around your peers and your your

551
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 4: friends and you know, other college kids. Is different than

552
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 4: when you're you know, eighteen years old, first pick in

553
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 4: the draft, and now you're around a bunch of twenty

554
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 4: nine thirty one year olds, who, by the way, resent

555
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 4: you for getting all this hype, and a lot of

556
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 4: these guys are just scrapping and clawing, just kind of

557
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: stay in the NBA, you know, and you look, you

558
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 4: covered the league, so you know the dynamics of how

559
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 4: this works. A lot of times the guys who are

560
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 4: that young or isolated, or because the vets don't want

561
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 4: anything to do with them because they think they're there

562
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 4: to usurp their jobs and they're they're immature, they don't

563
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 4: know how to handle themselves, you know. In a professional environment.

564
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 4: This is why a lot of guys, young guys who

565
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 4: are top picks flame out early. Then once they become veterans,

566
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 4: they end up turning a corner and become productive players.

567
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 4: You see it all the time. Look at a guy

568
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: like Andrew Wiggins, who had all the hype in the

569
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 4: world coming out of Kansas. I mean, he was thought

570
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 4: of as a bust early on turns around now he's

571
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 4: one of the better role players in the NBA. But

572
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 4: the NBA is literate with the guys like that. Lest

573
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 4: we mentioned guys who just flame out completely and just

574
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 4: couldn't handle.

575
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: Any of it.

576
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 4: You know, it's a really hard ask for someone to

577
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 4: come in with that much hype, to have all the

578
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 4: money in the world thrown at their lap for the

579
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 4: first time in their lives that young in a professional

580
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 4: environment around a bunch of adults to be able to

581
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 4: adapt well. Now, if you're in a college environment, you

582
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 4: can get some legit money in your pocket and to

583
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 4: your point, you can be the big man on campus.

584
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: You can be around you know, eighteen nineteen twenty year olds,

585
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 4: your peers. I just think this guy's the limit. I

586
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 4: really think that's that's the way that this thing should go.

587
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 4: I think more and more guys with the nil should

588
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 4: really consider staying in college if they can.

589
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, my man southside Chuck brings up Juju Watkins, who

590
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: signed a big deal with Fanatics right now.

591
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 4: That's a unique situation with the women because they don't

592
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 4: make any money in the WNBA, right, so.

593
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: But it should still filter to the men like I

594
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: should still be that way. Right And by the way,

595
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 2: speaking of my main, Chuck, best of luck to those

596
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 2: people in Kentucky and all down south Missouri, Mississippi and Georgia.

597
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: Big storms going, heavy winds, tornado type winds. In fact,

598
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 2: my main Chuck, he just lost power. Yeah, so be careful, Danzer.

599
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: It feels early for those storms. Jeez, that's crazy.

600
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 4: We had a mini tornado, uh, not too not too

601
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 4: far from us out here in.

602
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 3: L A a few days.

603
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 5: Serious, I'm dead serious.

604
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 4: After being told for years and years, can't happen, the weather,

605
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 4: it doesn't allow itself to happen out here.

606
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: Well, where did it hit?

607
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 5: I'm trying to remember.

608
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 4: I think it was Pico Rivera, which is an area

609
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 4: out here in Los Angeles, and it wasn't anything large,

610
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 4: but weather experts definitely says that this qualifies as a

611
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: as a.

612
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: As a tornado.

613
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 2: Geez, not only gonna deal with the threat of earthquakes,

614
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: now you got tornadoes right, mudslides, God, you got it all.

615
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing that we were in my area.

616
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: I live in South Jersey, right outside Philadelphia, and I

617
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 2: thought we were immune to tornadoes, right because I've lived

618
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: in the Midwest and I'll never forget a tornado coming

619
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: downtown Chicago. The Loop blew out windows in the Sears

620
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 2: Tower and Anton building. It was crazy. But we got

621
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: one a few years ago, one right in my town. Oh,

622
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: scary as all get out, and uh it caused major damage,

623
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 2: maje the houses FEMA to come here, destroyed probably about

624
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 2: you know, two dozen houses.

625
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 4: Well, it's especially you know, scary when you know you're

626
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 4: dealing with something that you never thought that you would

627
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 4: ever have to deal with.

628
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: One that's not something that you prepare for. We were

629
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: in a basement, yeah, getting and you know you're in

630
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: a base kids were they I mean it's a few

631
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: years ago, so the kids were a little smaller.

632
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 3: They were nervous.

633
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like basements, like fallout shelters, those are not even

634
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: a thing out here, because it's not something that you

635
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 4: consider when talking about your tornadoes or whatever. You don't

636
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: think about that when you're living in you know, Wittier

637
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 4: or somewhere.

638
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 5: In Los Angeles. It's not something that that crosses your mind.

639
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: No, no, not at all.

640
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: Anyway, Our thoughts and prayers with you guys down south

641
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: as sure as always. All right, let's say quick too

642
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:35,719
Speaker 2: will come back, and let's juxtapose the basketball, right, the basketball.

643
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: There's something entertaining about Collins basketball right like that lends

644
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: itself to these dramatic runs that has these the energy

645
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: like I'm watching Duke Carolina last night and you see

646
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 2: the look that stands and everybody's living and dying on

647
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: a bucket like that is.

648
00:31:59,560 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: Powerful.

649
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: And you don't get that in the NBA right now.

650
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: I mean the playoffs. You'll get it to some degree

651
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: at least in the in the final four, the conference finals,

652
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: in the championship game, but you don't get that, Oh

653
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: my god, the faces and biting your fingernails like that

654
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: just doesn't happen in the NBA.

655
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 8: No.

656
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 4: Well, there's a level of urgency, especially when you get

657
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 4: to this sort of this time of year for college

658
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 4: basketball because it's obviously every game is a game seven.

659
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 3: It's a one and done.

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Speaker 4: So you know, now the NBA would never do this,

661
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Speaker 4: but I imagine if if you had a one and

662
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Speaker 4: done situation tournament like situation in the NBA, I think

663
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Speaker 4: the vibe would be just a little bit different.

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Speaker 3: But it's also there's a point of pride.

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Speaker 4: It's different than you know, being a fan of a

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Speaker 4: professional sports franchise buying ticket, supporting the team, and then

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Speaker 4: actually being a student or an alumni.

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Speaker 5: Of a school that you went to. Just the feeling

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Speaker 5: is just different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well we'll talk about it because you know,

671
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Speaker 2: I don't understand that piece of it.

672
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Speaker 3: When I don't.

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Speaker 2: Get the rosters and what these guys are doing, it's

674
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Speaker 2: it's just killing the product. Fella is hanging out right here.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, fellas Kevin figures in for

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Speaker 3: Pree loves you Figgy.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's my girl, absolutely yeah, yeah, hey, yeah, she

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Speaker 2: loves everybody's love fits of course the whole thing, but

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Speaker 2: she loves some Figgy man. It's it's great, she said.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking over a break. Yeah, and uh

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Speaker 2: and Muddy Marco's man. Brie so happy this morning to

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Speaker 2: show from the ceiling.

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Speaker 4: Levitating Humbrey a little bit, a little bit, just a

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Speaker 4: little bit where come down?

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Speaker 1: Please come down?

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Speaker 3: You got a type come down place.

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Speaker 8: Well, because you know, I worked on fn A like

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Speaker 8: that's the you know, Kevin's podcast for like seven years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she was.

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Speaker 4: She was a helped intern on the show that I

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Speaker 4: worked on at our local affiliate in five seventy LA

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Speaker 4: Sports some years ago.

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Speaker 3: How long ago was that, Brie? It was years ago,

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Speaker 3: nine years ago.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, so Bre, he's been a supporter of mine

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Speaker 4: for a long period of time. So uh love all

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Speaker 4: the love and respect for for brief for sure.

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Speaker 9: So I'm also your son's agent as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's on a mission to try to get my

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Speaker 4: son to be like the next Gerber baby.

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Speaker 5: Or something there, and that's her, that's her project at

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Speaker 5: the moment.

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Speaker 2: Dude, that's great, that's fantastic. That's awesome.

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Speaker 5: Any any new leads there, Breeze, by the way, on

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Speaker 5: that front.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm talking to Northstrom. Okay, I did that

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Speaker 8: right now, And I'm also talking to there's a fans

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Speaker 8: like baby that I'm also looking at. So I feel

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Speaker 8: like he looked really cute. It's like some Raiders gear

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Speaker 8: and Dodgers gear idea. Yeah, so those are my two

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Speaker 8: things that I'm really aiming for at this time.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I like it.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You got to hope, dear buddy, absolutely hope. Yeah. How's

725
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Speaker 3: the baby? He's great, he's great.

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Speaker 4: He uh just started crawling a couple of weeks ago,

727
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Speaker 4: pulling himself up.

728
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Speaker 5: Probably gonna be taking some steps here with them the

729
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Speaker 5: next month.

730
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Speaker 3: So and you know how that goes.

731
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Speaker 4: You know, it's all great when they're sitting up and

732
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Speaker 4: but now once they actually start moving and start grabbing

733
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Speaker 4: things and playing with everything that's not a toy, you know,

734
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Speaker 4: that's when the interesting part starts. But it's all fun. Man,

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Speaker 4: it's been it's been incredible. It's been a great experience. Dude,

736
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Speaker 4: it only gets better from here. Yeah, you know, pretty

737
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Speaker 4: soon I'll be uh, I'll be coaching them in a

738
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Speaker 4: little league sports and winning championships and going to All

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Speaker 4: Star games.

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Speaker 3: You don't know anything about that, do you win? Yeah?

741
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Speaker 3: I had the greatest time.

742
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Speaker 2: So I you you followed my uh during my uh

743
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: little run, my March run exactly with the kids. We

744
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: played in the championship team Christ the King. They were

745
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 2: they blew us up by twenty during the regular season.

746
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Speaker 2: They were undefeated going into the championship game and we

747
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Speaker 2: beat them and uh the kids went not So it

748
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: was awesome, like and so this week I said, listen

749
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Speaker 2: during during our run, I never forgot what the oh yeah,

750
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Speaker 2: practice Like I called practice the day before the championship

751
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,479
Speaker 2: game the night before and I'm like, well, yo, guys,

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Speaker 2: you win, I'm gonna put you on TV. We were

753
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Speaker 2: all of you were going to come on my show

754
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Speaker 2: and then we're gonna go get pizza after. So we

755
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: we wound up there. So we won, and uh we

756
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Speaker 2: went up this Thursday, all the all the parents came

757
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Speaker 2: to my studio.

758
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: We did this.

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00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: They came on the show one by one. So in

760
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: our setup, in our studio. It's like TMZ side, so

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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 2: it's like a bright newsroom. And I had them all

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Speaker 2: on the councils in front of me. It's like a

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Speaker 2: Pat mcaveee setup. So I had them in front of

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Speaker 2: me and then I introduced him. My coach gave him

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Speaker 2: each a question and then uh it was. They had

766
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Speaker 2: a blast and then uh and then we went to

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Speaker 2: uh Celebreeze in South Philly and I had had pizza

768
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Speaker 2: and they went they and they got all from school.

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Speaker 2: I contacted the principal and told the principal I was

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Speaker 2: doing it, and sister Michelle and uh and it was

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Speaker 2: a blast like it was. It was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: The one three one man, if you got to one

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Speaker 2: three one work and remember this figure mm hmm when

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Speaker 2: you're coaching sixth great hoops JV hoops six Uh, the

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Speaker 2: one three one defense creates havoc.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I put my the greatest.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even know this because I because a couple

778
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Speaker 2: of parents are telling me yesterday or Thursday about some

779
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Speaker 2: of the chatter and his stands. So I have my

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Speaker 2: little guy, my point guard AJ. I have him in

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Speaker 2: the back of the one three one. Okay, interesting because

782
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Speaker 2: I can. I get he's so fast. I get him

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Speaker 2: going baseline the baseline to take away the shots. And

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Speaker 2: then I had my son Masimo, who's really long, he's

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Speaker 2: probably the longest. I had him up top because he's

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Speaker 2: like the really athletic. So I had him up top

787
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Speaker 2: bothering the shooters and you know we drop, you know

788
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Speaker 2: when the balls on the other side of the floor,

789
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Speaker 2: we rebound. I said, listen, we got all how bad

790
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Speaker 2: we got, we got a board. We're gonna win this

791
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Speaker 2: game defensive rebounding, and I said, we want smart.

792
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Speaker 5: Look at that, the one three one throwing the kids

793
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Speaker 5: out there in the zone.

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Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah, Jim behines got nothing on you.

795
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Speaker 3: We couldn't. We couldn't stay with them.

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Speaker 2: I tried a I try to man, yeah, and we

797
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 2: just couldn't stay with them. There was they have two

798
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 2: kids and one kid really good. Yeah, and we couldn't

799
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: stay with them. I try to match up, and they

800
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 2: just moved the ball too well. So the one three one.

801
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 3: Was the ticket making the endgame adjustments. I love that.

802
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 4: Bought on the film study all that for the sixth

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Speaker 4: grade kids coming back after losing by twenty I love it.

804
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Speaker 3: An some NBA coaches can learn something from you.

805
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now you're gonna this is what you get.

806
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 2: You get now it's baseball. Yeah, right now we got baseball.

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00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: Wet I got a game today. We have All Star

808
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 2: game in the morning and then baseball in the afternoon.

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00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: Where the fell is, Big hour coming up.

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Speaker 1: The Fox Sports Radio Rado.

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Speaker 3: Well, good morning, good morning, the morning wing.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get into the NFL coming up shortly,

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Speaker 2: but do you want to continue to basketball for a

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Speaker 2: little bit up set.

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Speaker 3: Up today's action.

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Speaker 2: This is always a fun time, right you have the

823
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 2: winding down on the conference championships and then the selection

824
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Speaker 2: someday is tomorrow.

825
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: Brackets upon us.

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Speaker 2: This week always a blast man, always so much fun.

827
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Speaker 2: This tournament, it really is a lot of special It's

828
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Speaker 2: it's so much fun. So we'll get into the NFL

829
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Speaker 2: coming up in the kind of all the free agency.

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Speaker 2: But let me ask you, because a lot of it's

831
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Speaker 2: making the rounds, everybody's talking about it.

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00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 3: It's the purpose of the conference championship.

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00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: Now you earlier, we're talking about your millennial generation, which

834
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Speaker 2: is you ask why all the time?

835
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Speaker 3: Right?

836
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And the question of why is a pot us

837
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: when it comes to the conference tournaments. Why if you're

838
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: a team like a duke, or why if you're a

839
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: team like that has age, that has locked in for

840
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: the tournament? Do you even player starters or tax your starters?

841
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, there's a load management question

842
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: in college basketball for the conference tournament, right, And I,

843
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: you know, mostly get it. I get why you would

844
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Speaker 2: ask the question why. I do think being a one

845
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 2: seed is a big deal. I think you get advantages

846
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: if you're a one seed. Uh But you know, I

847
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 2: get it if you're if you're a two, three four,

848
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 2: especially a three four five, you know you kind of

849
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 2: locked in as it is. You know you're gonna you're

850
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 2: gonna play. So I kind of get that. But boy man,

851
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 2: I don't want the conference championships a week to go away.

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00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 4: Well, selfishly, I just love being able to, especially on

853
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 4: the West Coast, be up at like you know, nine

854
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,439
Speaker 4: forty five, ten in the morning and there's basketball going

855
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 4: on left and right.

856
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 3: So it's the best, you know. That's so I love

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00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: day ball. It's a pre court cursor to what we're

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00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 3: gonna experience.

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00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, what we're gonna experience, uh this coming week with

860
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 4: the start of the SCAA Tournament on Thursday and Friday,

861
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 4: where there's games literally from morning all the way until

862
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Speaker 4: the night.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I think I agree. I think one even with two seeds,

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Speaker 4: if you're a one or a two seed, I think

866
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Speaker 4: it gives you a ginormous leg up over everybody else

867
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Speaker 4: in the tournament, and there's a select few usually. I

868
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Speaker 4: feel like by this time we kind of know who

869
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Speaker 4: the top one seeds are are. And as of now,

870
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 4: I mean, Auburn and really Duke, regardless of what happens

871
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 4: to them, are probably fine. Florida probably is too. I

872
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 4: think you're probably figuring out the last one seed. Ye

873
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 4: how that's gonna work itself out, depending what Alabama does,

874
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 4: what Houston does today in the Big twelve championship game,

875
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 4: might figure that self. That's itself out so I don't

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00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 4: necessarily disagree with the notion that if you're a team

877
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Speaker 4: that's on the one or two seed situation, does it

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00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 4: really matter if you play your starters or not. Probably not.

879
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 4: But the conference tournament as a whole mean a lot

880
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 4: for a lot of schools. Again, it really factors into

881
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 4: determining who actually makes it to the NCAA tournament. You

882
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 4: look at teams, you know, like a Texas, you know

883
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 4: who is on the cut lineer you know Indiana who

884
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 4: needed to win a couple of games, and now a

885
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 4: lot of people think that they're probably squarely in, you know.

886
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 4: So I think getting a couple of wins in the

887
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 4: conference tournament for a team that's on the bubble means everything.

888
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 4: If you're a team at the very top, if you're Duke,

889
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 4: you know you can afford to not have Cooper flag

890
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 4: even if you lose last night. There's even something to

891
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 4: be said for Anthony, even if you almost would prefer

892
00:43:59,160 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 4: to lose.

893
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 3: So I don't have to.

894
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 4: Worry about putting more wear and tear on my guy's bodies.

895
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 4: I'm not saying you go out there and not try

896
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 4: to win.

897
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 5: The players would never do that.

898
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 2: Well, it's the point right tired legs? Like right, you know,

899
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 2: you play four in a row, you're gonna get t

900
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 2: tired legs.

901
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, And if you are duke, you know, to your point,

902
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 4: what do you have to prove? Like, who gives a rip?

903
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 4: You know, if you win the the ACC championship game,

904
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 4: you've already won the regular season.

905
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 5: You're already going to be a one seed. You really

906
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 5: have nothing left to gain.

907
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 4: Other than you know, selfish people like us who just

908
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 4: want to see, you know, a good matchup between them

909
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 4: and Louisville.

910
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: But other than that, it does nothing for them personally.

911
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 4: So quite honestly, if I were them, if I were shyer,

912
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 4: I'd probably try to sit some of my guys too,

913
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 4: or at least manage their minutes and not try to go,

914
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 4: you know, balls to the wall to try to win

915
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 4: the game because it doesn't do anything for me.

916
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, I hate that mentality. I just hate it. Yeah,

917
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it, and it's which ruined

918
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 2: the NBA. It's ruined it. I'm sorry. This idea that

919
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: aimes don't matter it is the worst thing for sports.

920
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 2: If you devalue your product that much, then people will

921
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 2: take a queue and they won't value it at all.

922
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 4: I agree, I will say, And there's a situation in

923
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 4: the NBA. This happened with Oklahoma City last week, I believe,

924
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 4: where they pretty much sat everybody. They still won by

925
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 4: the way they want to appoint them and beat them,

926
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 4: and they that good. Their top seven rotation guys they

927
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 4: didn't even play, and I think the NBA is investigating

928
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 4: them for it. And at a certain point in time, when

929
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 4: you're down to the last three weeks, four weeks, whatever

930
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 4: it is of the regular season, and you've given yourself

931
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 4: such a ginormous cushion, I don't necessarily mind on a

932
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 4: if you're playing, you know, four games and five nights,

933
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 4: which I guess is really not a thing anymore in

934
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 4: the NBA now that they've spread out the schedule a

935
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 4: little bit.

936
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 5: There's a little bit of attrition.

937
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 4: Guys are a little banged up, and it's a second

938
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 4: night of a back to back, and you have an

939
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 4: eight game lead over the second place team in the conference.

940
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily mind maybe giving guys a night of rest.

941
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 4: It makes sense to me to do that, but just

942
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 4: to do it on the reg as part of routine, well,

943
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 4: it's the second out of a back to back, so

944
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 4: we're just gonna sit guys to rest their legs. I

945
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 4: have an issue with that, But I get to a

946
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 4: point with a team like Ohkohama City where I say,

947
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 4: you know what, I think you've earned the right to

948
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 4: play a trash team on a random Wednesday night and

949
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 4: guys are a little nicked up, give them the second

950
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 4: nind of a back to back off. If you do

951
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 4: that in a situation like that, I don't mind it

952
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 4: as much if you pick your spots as opposed to.

953
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 5: Just making get a routine a habit.

954
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I get it, because how is it any different?

955
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 4: I would say the last game of the regular season

956
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 4: when Kansas City played Denver, Yeah, and Kansas City had

957
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 4: nothing to play for and they sat everybody.

958
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah you know, Yeah, No, I get it. The problem

959
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 2: is they do it on the rag, right, and that's

960
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: that kills your product. It just does. It's awful. It

961
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 2: just kills your product, man.

962
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, even if it's perception.

963
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 4: Because I think this year there's been a lot less

964
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 4: guys sitting for quote unquote load management purposes. There're be

965
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 4: guys who've missed time due to injury, but for just

966
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 4: giving guys a night off for the sake of giving

967
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 4: them a night off, I think has not happened as

968
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 4: much this year.

969
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 5: And I think that the NBA rule changes have effected that.

970
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 4: The fact that you have a minimum number of games

971
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 4: you have to play to be an All Star, to

972
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 4: be selected All NBA, and all those things get tied

973
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 4: into your contract incentives whether you make an All NBA

974
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 4: roster or all that. So I do think that's helped

975
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 4: a little bit when it comes to resting guys strictly

976
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 4: for load management purposes. The problem with the NBA is

977
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 4: just part of the stigma. It was such a it

978
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 4: was so prevalent for about a five or six year stretch.

979
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 4: If you are a casual you just automatically assume, well,

980
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 4: I don't know who's going to play on a night

981
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 4: in a night out basis because this is what the

982
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 4: culture of the NBA is. That's a stigma that's going

983
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 4: to be hard for the NBA to turn around. It's

984
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 4: going to take more than one season of that happening

985
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 4: for that to happen.

986
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, but let me answer you a question, because maybe

987
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 2: it's just me, because I'm like uber sensitive to the rosters.

988
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 3: Every night.

989
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, the lineups, but it feels like like it's never

990
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 2: been this bad in a February from February for the

991
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 2: teams that are tanking, Like so.

992
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 3: Can I can I give you? Uh? I hate my team.

993
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 3: I I was gonna say, like, I hate my team.

994
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 3: I hate them all right, I.

995
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 2: Was like literally they they it's it's based out of love, yeah,

996
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 2: but I hate them all right, Nick Nurse and I

997
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: get like, this is what it is, right and you're

998
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 2: you have a top six protect and it's the right

999
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: thing to do. But just the way they go about

1000
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: it's disgusting to me. They and I agree with it,

1001
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 2: but I just can't stomach them. They just they're sitting

1002
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 2: out load management for Quentin Grimes, Kelly Oubray, Are you

1003
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 2: kidding me? Last night they started, Yeah, I selly. Now

1004
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: tell me if you know an these players? All right,

1005
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 2: A den Bona.

1006
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 5: Only because he played at U c l A.

1007
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 2: I know who A den Bona is, right, Jared Butler,

1008
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 2: Uh No, Jeff Downton Junior?

1009
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 3: Who Ricky Council.

1010
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 4: The fourth is see Greg Counsel's son Alex Reese.

1011
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 3: No. Oh, Shay Brissett can't say that.

1012
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:34,959
Speaker 2: I do and how about that, what's his first name is, dude,

1013
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 2: I've never even heard of him.

1014
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 4: I know, yeah, Jalen Yes, who was a bust of

1015
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 4: a draft pick for the Lakers, was a first round

1016
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 4: pick who couldn't even make it on the major roster,

1017
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 4: was in the G League and didn't play that great

1018
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 4: down there either, and I think they gave him away

1019
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 4: in a trade.

1020
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 3: That's where the trade last night.

1021
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 5: It's pretty embarrassing, like that was.

1022
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 3: The that was their game, and they charge money. That

1023
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 3: was a home game, and they charge.

1024
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 4: Money even the process. Seventy six ers had better rosters

1025
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 4: than this.

1026
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: They eat much better, like like, I mean, that's that's

1027
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: outrageous to me that you can just treat your consumers

1028
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 2: that way.

1029
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 4: Now, what if they did this and they didn't, they

1030
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't, but they should. They say, you know what,

1031
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 4: all of our tickets are gonna be heavily discounted for

1032
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 4: the remainder of the year, and we're gonna give.

1033
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 3: Away the upper rafter the Chiefs.

1034
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 4: We're gonna give them to the boys and girls clubs

1035
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 4: for the last you know, eight home games or something,

1036
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 4: and just treat it that way. I think if you're

1037
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 4: gonna tank and purposefully not try to win games. Then

1038
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 4: the way to pay it forward to the fan is

1039
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 4: like we're putting a bunch of crap out there on

1040
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 4: the floor, but at least the crap is gonna be

1041
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 4: free or highly discounted.

1042
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 3: You know.

1043
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 4: It's just so it's something to do on a Tuesday

1044
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 4: night because you know you're not gonna expect.

1045
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 3: A victory, right, I mean it's awful. That'd be a

1046
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 3: way to get yourself a lot of good will for

1047
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: your family the other night.

1048
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: Now you want to talk about weird, like, I get

1049
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 2: your playing Golden State and you go with a smaller

1050
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: line and you don't want to go with a big

1051
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 2: lineup at times.

1052
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, but give me a break.

1053
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 2: Valanchotis played thirty seconds in the second half. Yeah, I

1054
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: mean yeah, I mean it's that's ridiculous. And it's all

1055
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: these teas other than Boston. Do okay, see what you're referenced, right,

1056
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 2: the Lakers, the Nuggets, the Knicks, Cleveland, Cleveland. Yeah, I

1057
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 2: was good about to come East. Yeah, I don't even

1058
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: know if that's if that's it, there's anybody else in

1059
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 2: the East, No, not really, I mean basically that's your

1060
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 2: everybody else it's a joke. Yeah, like all they do

1061
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: and the players that play like what like with the Jazz,

1062
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 2: are you kidding me? Well, I mean we know about

1063
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 2: to find like with marketing, like what well that Tesler plays?

1064
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 2: Does he play what once a week?

1065
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 5: Seems like it?

1066
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 3: But that for rebounds he's and then he's out.

1067
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 4: Right when you're incentivized to lose, so you can get

1068
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 4: a high draft pick, which is you know, and Anthony

1069
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 4: always talked about your plan for college football. I've had

1070
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 4: the last couple of years as planned for for the

1071
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 4: NBA to try to find a way to disincentivize teams

1072
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 4: that know they aren't making the playoffs from tanking.

1073
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 3: And I think of like what if.

1074
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 4: You have we talk about relegation, what if you had

1075
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 4: something in the NBA where the teams who didn't make

1076
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 4: the postseason actually had to compete for the first pick

1077
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 4: in the draft as opposed to just being given the.

1078
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 3: So the teams that don't.

1079
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 4: Make the playoffs have their own playoff and whoever wins,

1080
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 4: and for the players who are currently on the roster

1081
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 4: to get incentivized, they get money. I guess you can

1082
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 4: try to try to set it up like you do

1083
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 4: the nd season tournament where you set up in the

1084
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 4: championship game. The players get compensated with however much money

1085
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 4: you want to get, but the franchise that actually wins

1086
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 4: actually gets the first pick in the draft.

1087
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's great. I love that idea.

1088
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 5: Just so teams have staken the game.

1089
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 4: So it's not just let's be as bad as we

1090
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 4: possibly can for the last third of the season with

1091
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 4: literally nothing to play for and try to see if

1092
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 4: we can chase a draft pick, because that does nothing

1093
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 4: for anybody.

1094
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 5: And there's also no guarantee you're gonna get the first

1095
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 5: pick in the draft.

1096
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: It can be all for not flag and you know

1097
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 3: you're right. I love that idea.

1098
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe what it is, and this probably would

1099
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 4: be I don't know if the teams would ever sign

1100
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 4: up for it. If you're the team with the absolute

1101
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 4: worst record. How about this, If you're the team with

1102
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 4: the absolute worst record in the league, you don't even

1103
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 4: have a chance to get.

1104
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 3: The first pick in the draft. You're automatically eliminated from

1105
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 3: the tournament.

1106
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 4: If you're a team that has if you just missed

1107
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 4: the postseason, then you get a first round playoff series

1108
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 4: it's a best of three, whatever you want to do it.

1109
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1110
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of spitballing here.

1111
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 4: And you get a home court advantage for a chance

1112
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 4: to compete for the first for the first overall pick.

1113
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 4: So even though you're eliminated from the playoffs, she still

1114
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 4: incentivizes you to try to win as many regular season

1115
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 4: games as you can to give yourself the best opportunity

1116
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 4: to compete for the first pick, or to get the

1117
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 4: most ping pong balls, however you want to describe it.

1118
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 4: But I think that at the very least, gives bad

1119
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 4: teams something to play for, and it look it gives

1120
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 4: fans something to look.

1121
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 3: Forward to too.

1122
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 4: So if you're a team of San Antonio or Portland

1123
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 4: or Charlotte or whoever, the games will still matter for

1124
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 4: you because you're playing for positions. You try to get

1125
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 4: yourself in a better spot to get a top pick,

1126
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 4: so everybody wins in a situation like that. That's something

1127
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 4: that I hope the NBA tries to adopt, not trying

1128
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 4: to shorten quarters by two minutes and doing all this

1129
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 4: other stuff.

1130
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 2: Adam Silver is the worst, just a horrible commissioner. Horrible commissioner,

1131
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 2: I mean to talk about the full of the empire. Yeah,

1132
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 2: oh my god, crumbling into the ocean.

1133
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 4: Well, it's the problem is I think he kind of

1134
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 4: swayed way too far. Like I mean, David Stern was

1135
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 4: so pro ownership, and I don't want to say if

1136
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 4: he was anti player, but he certainly kind of had.

1137
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 3: He He ruled with.

1138
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 4: An iron fist and had very low tolerance when it

1139
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 4: came to players, and Adam Silver was the has been

1140
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 4: the exact opposite, very player empowerment, which has been good

1141
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 4: in some senses. But I think he maybe was a

1142
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 4: little bit too extreme on the other side and being

1143
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 4: a little too lenient and allowing the NBA culture to

1144
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 4: turn into what it has turned into.

1145
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, because this is interesting

1146
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 2: to me. What's good about player empowerment for the fan now?

1147
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 4: For the fan, yeah, probably not a lot.

1148
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 5: Because the problem is fan loyalty.

1149
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 4: I think that the culture is shifted a little bit too,

1150
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 4: I think, and this is probably the generation beneath me.

1151
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 4: Loyalty really goes to players, individual players, more than it

1152
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 4: does to teams en franchises. With the younger generation now,

1153
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 4: like I grew up as a fan of the Los

1154
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 4: Angeles Lakers. What didn't matter to me who the players were.

1155
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 4: What I prefer that, you know, Maggie Johnson stayed for

1156
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 4: his OH career, sure, or Kobe State for his OH career,

1157
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 4: or Shaq would have stayed for his career. Absolutely, But ultimately,

1158
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 4: once they move on, my loyalty is to the Purple

1159
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 4: and goal, not to the individual player. And at some

1160
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 4: point in time, whether it's Lebron, whether it's the guy

1161
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 4: who the guys who are leaving teams and all of

1162
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 4: that and moving around, player empowerment has changed that dynamic

1163
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 4: for the fans. For the younger generation, maybe that's what

1164
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 4: it is.

1165
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 2: But are they like listen, Lebron has his fans, and

1166
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: he should have his fans. But I figure you can

1167
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: hold two of those thoughts, those contradictory thoughts, which is

1168
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 2: I love this player and they also love my team,

1169
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 2: right like I think true? I see that with you know,

1170
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 2: I guess the kids now there's that all the generation

1171
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 2: right between these current children and your generation. And I

1172
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 2: don't know if that's I don't know how they do it.

1173
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't know what good player im

1174
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 2: powmer does period. Like I mean other than unless you're

1175
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 2: a player, right like, then you could go then you

1176
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 2: could be Jimmy Butler and hold your breath until they

1177
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 2: trade you where you want to go.

1178
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 4: Right, I mean there's an element of and you can

1179
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 4: argue whether it's the responsibility of the player or not

1180
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 4: to sort of hold franchises accountable for I'll use Miles

1181
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 4: Garrett as as an example, and he probably not isn't

1182
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 4: a good one because he said, I don't want to

1183
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 4: be here because you guys aren't winning, And as soon

1184
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 4: as they made in the highest paid player in the

1185
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 4: NFL is like, you know what, I want to stay.

1186
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, doesn't make sense.

1187
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 4: But if you're a great player and you're in a

1188
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 4: situation and you say, look, you guys aren't winning, it

1189
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like you're committed to winning. I don't want

1190
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 4: to be here anymore. I want to be in a

1191
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 4: go somewhere where have opportunity to win championships. You know,

1192
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 4: It's I think that's more of the mentality of a

1193
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 4: lot of people of the current generation.

1194
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 6: Now.

1195
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 5: It's like it's maybe it comes off as self for Anthony,

1196
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 5: I don't know. You tell me, I want to do

1197
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 5: what's best for me in my career.

1198
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 4: Yes, I want to win, but if I don't see

1199
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 4: the situation improving where I am, I'm just going to

1200
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 4: stick it out because I just happen to be here

1201
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 4: and I'm happy to be here, and you guys are

1202
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 4: signing my paychecks. Like, that's not my goal, that's not

1203
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 4: the reason why I decided to have to become a

1204
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 4: professional in play. So, yes, I have a contract that

1205
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 4: I'd like to honor, but at the same time, I

1206
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 4: feel like I hold it to have a personal responsibility

1207
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 4: to try to put myself in the best situation to win,

1208
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 4: So I'd rather take my talents elsewhere.

1209
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.

1210
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 2: I think that's why you have free agency, and like,

1211
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: look at how Lebron is manipulated free agency and contracts

1212
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 2: and yeah, you know, I mean, you know, he did it.

1213
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 3: You said what you want, but he did it the

1214
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 3: right way. You didn't hold his breath. It was smart.

1215
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 3: I traded. Yeah, it was smart.

1216
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 4: But there's also an element that doesn't sit well with

1217
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 4: me that you're just kind of roarding over a franchise

1218
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 4: and signing one plus one with opt out deals and

1219
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 4: kind of holding their fing.

1220
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 3: Like I feel you and I believe me, I'm sensitive

1221
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 3: to that.

1222
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 2: I think it's up to the league to hold teams accountable,

1223
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 2: Like the league should be heavy handed with the teams

1224
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 2: to be a cauntable listen, not in the Cleveland State

1225
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 2: and the Browns. It's not the Browns didn't do anything

1226
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 2: wrong other than they made a colossal mistake by signing

1227
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson. They invested in the wrong person. I mean,

1228
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 2: and like, I mean, that's just the sin of you know,

1229
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 2: I just picked the wrong guy. I mean, I can't

1230
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 2: like they didn't do anything nefarious, right.

1231
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, they didn't do anything wrong, if anything, Yet they

1232
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 4: just they hitch their wagon to the wrong person. That's

1233
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 4: literally their only mistake and they're not the first franchise

1234
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 4: to ever do that. I wouldn't question over these last

1235
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 4: five six years that the Browns have an issue with

1236
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 4: commitment of winning. Their decision making obviously is backfired. So

1237
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 4: that's the part of it with the Miles garrettin that

1238
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 4: didn't That didn't make a lot of sense to me.

1239
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 4: It's like you're saying you don't want to be here

1240
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 4: because they don't have a commitment to winning.

1241
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 5: It's like, well, they're committed.

1242
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 4: Is just not working. They just didn't make the right decisions. Now,

1243
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 4: if you want to say you guys don't know what

1244
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 4: you're doing, I don't want to be here. I guess

1245
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 4: that's an argument that you could try to make. Yah,

1246
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 4: but it wasn't for lack of trying. There are plenty

1247
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 4: of franchises and prefer professional sports who just don't even try, right,

1248
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 4: And if you have an issue with that, then I'm

1249
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 4: all for it.

1250
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 3: I get it.

1251
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and then and then and then mind you,

1252
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 2: I think your words are more powerful by you know,

1253
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 2: trashing a franchise like you're the star. You go like

1254
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 2: I I'm here with this, with this right or whatever

1255
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,479
Speaker 2: you want to do, but you stay ship. That's why.

1256
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 2: But teams should still be should still have a hammer.

1257
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't think it does the league any

1258
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 2: good health wise. This whole idea that the players run

1259
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 2: the league, all right, Well, look out, it's worked out.

1260
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I have you do you meet

1261
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 2: anybody that goes I love the NBA?

1262
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 7: Oh?

1263
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 3: Few.

1264
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 4: I have friends who still love the NBA and had

1265
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 4: the NBA still their favorite sport.

1266
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 2: But I'm not saying the sport like we love basketball

1267
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 2: and we still watch basketball. But do they compare the

1268
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 2: NBA net right now to the NBA I don't know

1269
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 2: seven years ago.

1270
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 4: Yeah no, because the player loyalty isn't isn't there the

1271
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 4: fan loyalty. It's hard to be loyal to a franchise

1272
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 4: to you don't know exactly what's going to happen on

1273
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 4: a year in, year out basis who's going to be there.

1274
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 4: We talk more about the NBA about who's getting traded

1275
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 4: in the offseason than we do about who's playing right now.

1276
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 2: Right and and that's my only point, Like I listen,

1277
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 2: I love it. I still I'm an NBA I'll always

1278
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 2: watch it. I'm groused about it, but I'll always watch it.

1279
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,320
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Speaker 2: presented by BETMGM every Saturday and Sunday morning right here

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio on the iHeartRadio app. Thing, let's

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Speaker 2: take a look at some prime. Get you set some

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Speaker 2: good primer in today for the conference tournaments.

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Speaker 3: Here's what we got coming up in the SEC.

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Speaker 2: The one semi final Auburn Tennessee, which is a great game.

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Speaker 3: Alburn is a four and a half point favorite.

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Speaker 2: Tennessee coming off of yesterday which was impressive win over

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Speaker 2: Texas and Auburn obviously playing some great ball.

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Speaker 3: They eke one out over Ole Miss yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Alburn's had some close calls recently, which is good. Actually,

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Speaker 4: you know, they've.

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Speaker 3: Really all season rolling. Yeah, even as great as they are, what.

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Speaker 4: Are they twenty eight, twenty nine and four of after

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Speaker 4: double jour Yes so, But I mean of those twenty eight,

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Speaker 4: I mean there's a handful of those games that were

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Speaker 4: kind of nipping tuck down the stretch, which is rare

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Speaker 4: to see for a team that's seen like it was

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Speaker 4: kind of dominant and running away with things early in

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Speaker 4: the season. But I feel like that's actually a good

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Speaker 4: thing for them because they're battle tested. Even Tennessee they

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Speaker 4: beat them earlier this year, but that was a two

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Speaker 4: point game, I believe, a low scoring game, which kind

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Speaker 4: of plays into Tennessee's hands. So Auburn doesn't even necessarily

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Speaker 4: need to win this one. Look jan I Broom and

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Speaker 4: especially now with the with the injury to Cooper Flag,

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Speaker 4: and I know they're kind of one in one a

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Speaker 4: when it comes to player of the year, I honestly

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Speaker 4: believe it's probably gonna end up being Cooper Flag just

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Speaker 4: because he's going to be Freshman of the year.

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Speaker 5: That's easy plays for the bigger brand.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people know him more than

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Speaker 4: didn't even know Broom, despite the fact that Broom's been

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Speaker 4: around for a few years.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, this is gonna be a really good one

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Speaker 5: I'm looking for. That's probably one of the game I'm

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Speaker 5: looking forward.

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Speaker 4: To the most because Tennessee doesn't necessarily need the victory,

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Speaker 4: but they certainly can improve their seeding if they can

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Speaker 4: get a win against allm Bird and the semi and

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Speaker 4: potentially win the final on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And it's weird, you're right, you all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you're all burn You go, well, we have the once

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Speaker 2: he locked up, right, you know, so who are we

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Speaker 2: playing for? That's why there needs to be like some

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Speaker 2: sort of incentive like in Stone, like, nah, you know,

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Speaker 2: you guys still got a way to get there, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: something like that. I just don't know how you go

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Speaker 2: about doing it. You know that's hard. But see the

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Speaker 2: other thirty wins. You know, it's like, well, you lost

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Speaker 2: the game of your conference. I'm sorry, you're now a

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Speaker 2: two S Like, I don't think I know you're right? Uh?

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Speaker 2: In the other SEC, great one too, man, the final

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Speaker 2: forty SEC is awesome. Yeah, Alabama and Florida. Florida is

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Speaker 2: three and a half. I love this Florida team.

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Speaker 4: Same when I was on with you a couple of

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Speaker 4: weeks ago, I said, I don't know understand. I think

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Speaker 4: at the time Florida was ranked second in the country.

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Speaker 4: I was just like there, for whatever reason, people are

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Speaker 4: just not talking about the Gators.

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Speaker 3: And they've beaten everybody.

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Speaker 4: They already beat Alabama, you know, they beat They beat

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Speaker 4: Auburn fairly convincingly about a month or so ago. Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what else Florida needs to do is

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Speaker 4: to sort of garner that sort of respect. Uh, And

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Speaker 4: they have really good players at the top of the roster.

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Speaker 4: Walker Clayton is a beast, so they have as just

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Speaker 4: as good a shot as anybody of one of the

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Speaker 4: national championship and match up well with anybody anybody else's

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Speaker 4: roster in the tournament. So in Alabama has at their

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Speaker 4: shortcomings defensively, they had a good showing last night and

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Speaker 4: I do like them too, and they can score a

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Speaker 4: lot of points. I just don't know if they have

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Speaker 4: enough defense when it matters to make a deep run

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Speaker 4: in the NCAA tournament. But they're certainly exciting enough to watch,

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Speaker 4: so this would be a good one too, but it

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Speaker 4: would not surprise me. My expectation, honestly, is that Florida

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Speaker 4: wins this one again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too.

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Speaker 2: I think I like Florida game like yesterday at Missouri,

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Speaker 2: and Missouri played the tough yeah, and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden you look up and wow, they're up, not

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Speaker 2: twelve fifteen, they went by sixteen.

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Speaker 5: Like you know, they just come at you in waves.

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Speaker 5: They're kind of like Duke like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the blink, the blink of an eye and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden they're up by twenty. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the truth. But I agree with you, and

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Speaker 2: you know, and you're right. I thought Alabat played well

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Speaker 2: last like that. Kentucky team's a little.

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Speaker 3: Flawed for me. Yeah, they're banged up.

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Speaker 4: The fact that they're even where they are, just countries

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Speaker 4: they've had this year is incredible.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Then Big Ten, you got Michigan State and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's

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Speaker 2: played some good ball, you know, I mean yesterday roll

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Speaker 2: Ucla and then uh in Michigan State of course beats

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Speaker 2: Oregon easily. Is a good game. Uh, Michigan State to

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Speaker 2: three and a half point favorite.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Michigan State sort of an under the radar team.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people just kind of underestimated

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Speaker 4: the Big Ten in general because a lot of teams

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Speaker 4: are really just kind of bunched up together. The cream

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Speaker 4: of the cropper Michigan State and probably Maryland, who is

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Speaker 4: another team. But I think a lot of people don't

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Speaker 4: talk about a lot. But Michigan State as good as

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Speaker 4: Wisconsin has been, and you know, they they as you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: they beat UCLA, who's been scuttling themselves recently. I think

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Speaker 4: Michigan State probably ends up taking this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. I like Michigan State in this game.

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Speaker 2: And then the other you mentioned Maryland Terps versus Michigan

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Speaker 2: and Michigan routes Purdue last night. Michigan played really well

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Speaker 2: man they shot the ball well.

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Speaker 3: Uh. Purdue just couldn't get anything going. And Maryland takes

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Speaker 3: care of Illinois. They rolled the Illinois. That's a good game.

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Speaker 3: I think. I like Maryland. I think Maryland is a

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Speaker 3: bad matchup for Michigan.

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Speaker 4: I agree, and Michigan is just too a consistent for me.

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Speaker 4: Like as big as Michigan's win over Purdue was, Purdue

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Speaker 4: hasn't played well down the stretch of the season either,

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Speaker 4: so they kind of scuddered a little bit towards the

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Speaker 4: end of the regular season before they ended up being

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Speaker 4: UCLA towards the end. I just don't know what I'm

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Speaker 4: going to get from Michigan on a night in a

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Speaker 4: night out basis, so I thoroughly trust me. I think

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Speaker 4: Maryland is actually it seemed that could make a deep

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Speaker 4: run in the tournament. It would not surprise me at

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Speaker 4: all if they made it to the second weekend, made

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Speaker 4: it to the Elite eight.

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Speaker 3: There I go. I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you in the in the AAC the American

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Speaker 2: Memphis against Tulane Memphis nine and a half over. Tulane

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Speaker 2: to Tulane is a good story. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: they took care of f AU, they beat UA B.

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Speaker 2: They've had a nice little run coming in. I just

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Speaker 2: don't think they could beat Memphis.

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Speaker 3: No. No, Memphis is too talented, too good.

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Speaker 4: Hagridy and Hunter are pretty unstoppable at the top of

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Speaker 4: their line up, So I don't I don't see that

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Speaker 4: see that happening.

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Speaker 2: Memphis is a team that that's scary, even a watch

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Speaker 2: out for in the tournament.

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Speaker 3: Definitely scary. I think they had a better season than

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Speaker 3: some people thought that they would.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, you know, the people thought five dude,

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Speaker 2: I got impressive.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people thought the shine was off of Penny because

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Speaker 4: the last couple of years, you know, they had big

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Speaker 4: recruiting classes and they never really worked themselves out. And

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you look up and Memphis is

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Speaker 4: is steamrolling everybody in the American You.

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Speaker 2: Got the Big Twelve. This is a great game. Big

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Speaker 2: Twelve Final Houston and Arizona. I'm looking forward to that game. Yeah, Arizona,

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I like Texas Tech last night,

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Speaker 2: and Arizona controlled that game really.

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Speaker 4: From tip yeah, Texas Tech flaw is similar to Saint John's.

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Speaker 4: If their defense just slips a little bit and they're

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Speaker 4: having an off game, they're kind of screwed. They just

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Speaker 4: can't they can't score. They don't have enough scoring. Now granted,

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Speaker 4: you know, eight times out of ten their defense is

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Speaker 4: gonna be on lock. But all it takes is one game.

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Speaker 4: We talk about this being single elimination, So you just

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Speaker 4: need one off night and then you juxaposed that with

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Speaker 4: a team like Arizona. To talk about off nights, Caleb

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Speaker 4: Love was on fire, yeah, and he'll have that, but

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Speaker 4: he'll also have a night where he goes two for twenty.

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Speaker 4: So that's been the story of Caleb Love throughout his

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Speaker 4: entire career. So if Caleb is on and he has

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Speaker 4: one of those hot stretches like he has recently, by

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Speaker 4: the way, Arizona's been on a heater.

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Speaker 3: They've played well the last couple of months.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if from in a long run situation,

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Speaker 4: if I trust Arizona because they kind of have to

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Speaker 4: just ride the wave of Caleb Love and his shooting

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Speaker 4: and whether he's hot or not.

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Speaker 3: But for you know, on a on a one one.

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Speaker 4: Night situation against a team like Houston who's really good,

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Speaker 4: I could certainly see Arizona holding their own and potentially

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Speaker 4: getting the win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. I do. I think right.

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Speaker 3: Although I like the way I mean, EUSt is playing

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Speaker 3: really well. Yeah, yeah, Houston is dominant.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're playing some good ball. I mean they

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Speaker 2: b Yu I like b Yu too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they steamrolled them. B Yu haven't been as

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Speaker 4: hot as anybody recently.

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Speaker 3: Ran them off the floor. They did, they did. But

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Speaker 3: you know what, I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: I think Houston wins, but I think it's a close game,

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Speaker 2: and it's seven and a half a lot of points.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a lot that I would not take that seven.

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Speaker 4: I would take that seven and a half all day.

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Speaker 4: As far as on the Arizona side, the plus seven

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Speaker 4: and a half.

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Speaker 3: For sure, Well it's the brain later on for sure.

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Speaker 2: All Right, let's take quick t L will continue going

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Speaker 2: around championship weekend. Before we start the towenty Kevin figures

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Speaker 2: kve Big figi'cauz game for the Guard Gant right here,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Fellas.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back from the ti rag dot com studios. Next hour,

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Speaker 2: we go through the complicated quarterback situation in the league. Man,

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Speaker 2: never has there been a musical chairs like this year, Figgie.

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Speaker 5: It's insane, right, I'm kind of loving it though.

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Speaker 3: Me too. It's fascinating stuff, fascinating.

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Speaker 5: Sto very NBA esque.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the movie parts, yes, yes, all right, Uh, let's

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Speaker 2: continue going through today's college Slate got a couple more

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Speaker 2: games to cover. We covered Arizona and Houston in the

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Speaker 2: Big twelve leads us two more finals tonight, Big East

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Speaker 2: Saint John's. This is a great game, Johnny's and Creyton.

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Speaker 3: All right. Patino looking at to clinch which is his

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Speaker 3: ultimate season.

1521
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 2: Yes, heading into the tournament, his comeback story which is

1522
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 2: a great one, chronicled on a docu series.

1523
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 3: Have you seen any of the series? I have not

1524
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 3: seen it.

1525
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 5: I know about it, but I have not watched any

1526
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 5: of it.

1527
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:20,560
Speaker 2: It's very good. A friend of mine is friend of

1528
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:25,639
Speaker 2: mine's production company. The workshop is to win it, putting

1529
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,640
Speaker 2: it out there. Oh, so we just got another episode

1530
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,799
Speaker 2: because of with the tournament, so he's got access.

1531
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:34,639
Speaker 3: It's fun.

1532
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's good, it's interesting, and you know, Patino's great,

1533
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 2: like you know, he plays the role.

1534
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 4: Oh of course, he does, yeah, the role of the villain.

1535
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 4: But it's incredible to kind of turn around he's had

1536
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 4: in such short order. And I do think there's a

1537
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 4: couple of things converging the Big East. This is not

1538
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 4: necessarily the strongest Big East that's been that you know,

1539
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 4: over the last decade. But nevertheless, to come into Saint John's,

1540
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 4: which has been fledgling you talk about, I don't know

1541
01:14:57,880 --> 01:14:59,600
Speaker 4: if they were ever quote unquote a blue blood, but

1542
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 4: they certainly they were a really good programming for a

1543
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 4: long stretch of time and had just fallen on hard

1544
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 4: times for the last what two decades really for to

1545
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 4: be honest, for him to have this a second yeah,

1546
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 4: with another car.

1547
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 3: Second cardco Yeah, right, it's really.

1548
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 4: Remarkable the kind of turnaround that they've had. So it's

1549
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 4: a great comeback story. Granted, the wounds for Coach cal

1550
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 4: or excuse me, not coach I mean Coach Kyle too

1551
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:24,640
Speaker 4: and his own issues in the past, but for Rick

1552
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 4: Patino or self inflicted with the Louisville and all the

1553
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 4: stuff and how that stuff played out, But to come

1554
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 4: back and to do this this quickly is really remarkable

1555
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 4: and really just stamps home even more so how great of.

1556
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 5: A college basketball coach that he is.

1557
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 3: He really is.

1558
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 5: That rays everywhere.

1559
01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a great coach.

1560
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:45,679
Speaker 2: Look, you know some of these coaches that you look

1561
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 2: because there's such big personalities, you don't realize how great

1562
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:51,599
Speaker 2: of a coach they are.

1563
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's him. I'm I'm with you.

1564
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 2: He's a he's a great coach. He really is.

1565
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 3: Interesting game creating emotional.

1566
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:09,879
Speaker 2: Win last night against u khon yukon frantic comeback. Creighton's

1567
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 2: up at half and you know, all pretty big and

1568
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 2: UKN just kept coming and coming and coming and then

1569
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 2: finally succumb and it gets ugly at the end, Yeah,

1570
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 2: because of Jamia and Neil has this like monster dunk,

1571
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 2: like the game's over, but instead of just holding on

1572
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 2: to the ball, he goes in for a dunk and

1573
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 2: a showman type of dunk, and you know, UKND didn't

1574
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 2: appreciate it, just pushing and shoving. Coaches start barking at

1575
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 2: each other, and you know, I was a big mistake.

1576
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 5: You don't, Yeah, that's it's unnecessary.

1577
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 3: So I certainly understand.

1578
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 4: I don't know if I necessarily can done, you know,

1579
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 4: yu Kon getting into him with it, but I certainly

1580
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 4: understand it.

1581
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 3: The game is over.

1582
01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:58,880
Speaker 4: Just have a little bit of a respect for the

1583
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 4: opponent at that point in time. Pull the ball back out,

1584
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 4: dribble out the clock.

1585
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 5: It's not necessary to.

1586
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 4: See mc To see Hurley McDermot go face to face

1587
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 4: was pretty entertaining. I'll say that, you know, Yeah, yeah,

1588
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 4: that was funny. The great head coach Dan Hurley. And

1589
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 4: if you don't believe them, just ask them. He'll tell you.

1590
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 4: But a down year for them, by the way, for

1591
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 4: their standards considering the last couple of seasons. But uh, great,

1592
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 4: like I said, a valley and effort by them, but

1593
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 4: a great season by Creighton for sure.

1594
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 5: What's kind of flown under the radar to a certain

1595
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 5: degree as well.

1596
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:33,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, twenty four and nine, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,

1597
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 2: and listen when they their typical crate when they shoot

1598
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 2: the ball right, they shoot you out of gym. This

1599
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 2: is a tough game. I'm not sure who I like.

1600
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 2: Saint John's six and a half.

1601
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we talked about seeing John's a little bit

1602
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 4: last segment where they're just you know, if they're if

1603
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 4: they're on defensively, you.

1604
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 3: Know they can lock down the best of them.

1605
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:57,800
Speaker 4: But if they are, differ their defenses off just a

1606
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 4: little bit, it's gonna be tough sledding for them. So ultimately,

1607
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 4: I think they're a team that can make a really

1608
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 4: deep run because if they're in a close game, which

1609
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 4: most of them are. I do think that Kadari Richmond

1610
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 4: and r J. Lewis are guys that can actually make shots,

1611
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 4: and specifically specifically r J. Lewis, he's a guy that

1612
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 4: you can kind of give him the ball and he

1613
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:19,040
Speaker 4: can really play some hero ball and make a shot

1614
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 4: when he needs to. So I like Saint John's here,

1615
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 4: and I actually think a Chine Johnson is a team

1616
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 4: that can make a deep run into the tournament. I

1617
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 4: let's talk to Brad about that later too.

1618
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right. They play defense, they got

1619
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 2: some offensive that they're older. I'm with you.

1620
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 3: They just can't shoot a lit because their problem right right?

1621
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 2: And then you got the ACC final Duke against Louisville,

1622
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 2: and Duke is a.

1623
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 3: Five and a hand point favorite.

1624
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 2: It's one thing to go at North Carolina and you

1625
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 2: know they lose a blow big lead without Cooper flag.

1626
01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 3: Now play Louisville. Should now you step up in competition?

1627
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, Louisville is a really good who needed a miracle

1628
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 4: to beat Stanford of all teams earlier this week. So

1629
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 4: I think Louisville actually wins this game. I don't know

1630
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 4: how much Duke is really gonna be gung hole. They're

1631
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 4: going to be probably a little skittish about losing another player,

1632
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 4: So it would not surprise me if some of their

1633
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 4: best players had a minute restriction here.

1634
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 5: I wouldn't risk it if I were.

1635
01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 3: Them, not this close to it. I feel you.

1636
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 2: Even without you know, flag, I still think Louisville would.

1637
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I could win it, all right, Fellas NFL.

1638
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:30,600
Speaker 3: Next, you're listening to.

1639
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio.

1640
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,280
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1641
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 2: Welcome Championship Saturday, Selection Sunday tomorrow, the whole fun of

1642
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 2: the conference tournaments continue, and then uh free agency a

1643
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1649
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1650
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 2: the NFL with free agency. Let's talk quarterbacks, right, because

1651
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 2: there's a couple left yep and.

1652
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 3: Boy man, Aaron Rodgers.

1653
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 2: It's amazing how the swag that like this sway that

1654
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 2: he still has after just being you know, awful, right,

1655
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 2: Like you know, he looked frail with the Jets, the

1656
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 2: whole thing. Yet there's still that allure for Aaron Rodgers.

1657
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:56,720
Speaker 2: I don't know how in the world that he's a

1658
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 2: fit with the Giants other than the fact that they

1659
01:20:58,720 --> 01:20:59,760
Speaker 2: don't have a quarterback.

1660
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,799
Speaker 5: Well, they're so bad.

1661
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 4: I mean, like if you look at if you just

1662
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:06,599
Speaker 4: look at it, and obviously it goes beyond the stats

1663
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 4: because if you look at Aaron Rodgers stats, what thirty

1664
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 4: eight hundred yards, twenty eight touch downs, eleven picts, You're like,

1665
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 4: all right, that's serviceable. You know a lot of quarterbacks

1666
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 4: would take that most years. But if you just look

1667
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 4: at the product on the field, and maybe it's just

1668
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 4: a product of being around just a bad team in

1669
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:25,640
Speaker 4: a bad situation, I do think Aaron Rodgers is still talented.

1670
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 4: The problem is with the injury issues and the other issues,

1671
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 4: the off the field stuff, the interviews and the reality

1672
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 4: of the Netflix show and all that is his talent

1673
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 4: worth all of the other stuff at this point in

1674
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 4: his career, I really think is the big question that

1675
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 4: you have to ask, Now, if you're desperate, which I

1676
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 4: think the Giants are probably Yes, to be honest with you,

1677
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:48,320
Speaker 4: was probably well worth it for a team.

1678
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 3: Like them, except it just does you fit.

1679
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 2: Like, here's the problem the Giants is that you've got

1680
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 2: a coach in GM who were given a stay of execution,

1681
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 2: and so there's an otus on them to win instead

1682
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 2: of being built built correctly, Like honestly, Aaron Rodgers doesn't

1683
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,440
Speaker 2: mean they're they're not going to make the playoffs.

1684
01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not gonna win that division, compete to win

1685
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 3: that division.

1686
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 2: You're only that best or third, right, and that's if

1687
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:25,160
Speaker 2: you know things work out at the quarterback spot. They're

1688
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 2: a bad team. I mean not like some of their

1689
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 2: defensive moves. You know, they their old line still needs work.

1690
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.

1691
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I love neighbors, but yeah, they're not a

1692
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 4: quarterback away from even being a decent team. I think

1693
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 4: is the issue, Like we can look at a team

1694
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 4: like the Raiders and say they get Geno Smith and

1695
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:46,640
Speaker 4: they need to up grade at quarterback, and you have

1696
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 4: some pieces on defense, you know, bulk up the running

1697
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 4: game a little bit. Maybe you can try to compete

1698
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 4: in the AFC West and for a wildcard spot.

1699
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 3: Maybe, But the.

1700
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 4: Giants are so far miles away with so many holes

1701
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 4: on their roster. Bringing in a veteran quarter back who's

1702
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 4: on the back nine of his career doesn't really do

1703
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 4: a whole lot for you. And if you're Aaron, you know,

1704
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 4: what are you other than the fact that you just

1705
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 4: want to play football and maybe get another contract. What

1706
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 4: would be your motivation to want to play for a

1707
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 4: team like the Giants? Why would you go there.

1708
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 3: If it's not to win? Because we know that's not

1709
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 3: going to happen.

1710
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 4: So after the issue for me, honestly, and is more

1711
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 4: from Aaron Rodgers side, why would you go to New

1712
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 4: York versus the Giants saying like, well, we want to

1713
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 4: get a veteran presence in the locker room. You know

1714
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 4: the same old spiel that teams like this like to

1715
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 4: throw out there. He'll help change our culture, which I

1716
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 4: don't know if Aaron Rodgers is really a culture center,

1717
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, based on his antics, that

1718
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 4: will be the selling point from the Giants to the

1719
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 4: fan base. I don't understand the sell from Aaron Rodgers

1720
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 4: going to New York what that does for him.

1721
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 2: Now other than it's Deer's house and the Giants facilities

1722
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 2: closer than the Jets.

1723
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 3: Okay, well, right, right now, you got Pittsburgh right now?

1724
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 2: It's interesting, sure, right, you know, I think you're I

1725
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 2: still thinking, you know, I like their O line. I

1726
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 2: like it better than the Giants for sure. Right you

1727
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 2: have two receivers. You have the makings of something, you know.

1728
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think they're a super Bowl team,

1729
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:27,520
Speaker 2: but I think they could be credible Rogers.

1730
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 4: You right, if they're you know, if they can stay

1731
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:33,919
Speaker 4: healthy defensively, they still have some really good players on defense.

1732
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 4: I mean, they won ten games last year despite you know,

1733
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 4: having some issues, especially offensively at times with at the

1734
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,800
Speaker 4: quarterback position, with Russell Wilson and Fields. I do think

1735
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 4: that Aaron Rodgers coming in you mintioned with the receivers

1736
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:48,679
Speaker 4: they're bringing Metcalf. I don't know what's gonna happen with Pickens.

1737
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 4: That sounds like there's talk of them potentially trying to

1738
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 4: get rid of him, so they might not have both

1739
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 4: of them. We'll see how that ends up playing himself out.

1740
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 4: But if they have Pickens, if we just hypothetically say

1741
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 4: they keep Pickens, they keep Metcalf, and you're bringing Aaron Rodge,

1742
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 4: you know they can put up some points offensively. I

1743
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 4: don't know what the running back position is going to

1744
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 4: end up looking like with Harris gone, but you know,

1745
01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:10,320
Speaker 4: maybe you can draft a guy and get something going there.

1746
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 4: I don't think Pittsburgh is that far away if they

1747
01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 4: bring in someone like Aaron Rodgers. Pittsburgh makes a hell

1748
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 4: of a lot of sense for Aaron Rodgers, way more

1749
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 4: so than the Giants do.

1750
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 2: I agree, And this is a good draft for running back,

1751
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 2: so right, you know, you could definitely get some help there.

1752
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 2: And then there's the third team that could be in

1753
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 2: the market for Aaron Rodgers and following the path of

1754
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 2: Brett Favre of the former Great quarterbacks going to the

1755
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 2: hated rival Minnesota Vikings.

1756
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 3: There's some talk in Minnesota that maybe.

1757
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 2: Instead of just handing the job the JJ McCarthy, that

1758
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,640
Speaker 2: they make they go one more all in year with

1759
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. As the quarterback.

1760
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 4: I mean it makes sense to me. You know, you

1761
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 4: don't even know what McCarthy's gonna be. The guy didn't

1762
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 4: have an off season last year. He spent the entire

1763
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 4: year rehabbing. So this isn't like Mahomes behind Alex Smith,

1764
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 4: where you had an entire camp you can see what

1765
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,240
Speaker 4: you can work with, work through some kinks. So this

1766
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,640
Speaker 4: is set an effect is going to be jj McCarthy's

1767
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 4: rookie season. I can't trust to throw him out there

1768
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 4: as a starter basically on day one. So if he

1769
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 4: signed Aaron Rodgers, he's probably gonna incoul beut for like

1770
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:27,600
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like three years, but it's gonna be

1771
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 4: one year guaranteed, you know, one of those sort of things. Yeah,

1772
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 4: I think this makes a lot of sense too. They

1773
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:35,759
Speaker 4: brought back Aaron Jones, someone who he's played with before.

1774
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 4: Jefferson and Addison are obviously excellent receiver duo along with

1775
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:43,519
Speaker 4: Hockinson if he stays healthy. They have brought in guys

1776
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 4: on their offensive line in the offseason to improve themselves

1777
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 4: up front because that was a big issue for them

1778
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 4: last year, especially in the postseason. So I think it

1779
01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 4: makes even more so than Pittsburgh. I think Minnesota makes

1780
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,479
Speaker 4: more sense. No, the Giants, Mcnunn whatsoever. Pittsburgh, I can

1781
01:26:58,520 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 4: see the Vikings will be a home run if you

1782
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 4: ask me.

1783
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 2: See, I agree with you. I think you're I think

1784
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 2: it's I think it could be scary. Yeah, because here's

1785
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 2: here's the thing. If you protect them, he can still throw,

1786
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 2: he slings it.

1787
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 4: Absolutely, protect him. Run it a little bit, just a

1788
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 4: little bit. Give him a running game so he doesn't

1789
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 4: have to do everything on his own.

1790
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 3: He's eiven Dome. Yeah, I mean.

1791
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 2: It's you're throwing. You said it to Jefferson, you and

1792
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:34,719
Speaker 2: don't even sleep on Nailer.

1793
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1794
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:40,040
Speaker 2: Besides Addison, I like Naylor and and then you got

1795
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 2: you know Hawkinson. I mean that's that the offenses and

1796
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 2: a very good coach. You know, they're a coucie that

1797
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 2: I love. I love their defense. I mean that Minnesota

1798
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 2: team that NFC North is going to be awesome because

1799
01:27:57,280 --> 01:27:58,719
Speaker 2: I think the Bears is going to be better.

1800
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 4: They've improved themselves greatly, especially upfront on the offensive line.

1801
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 2: No doubt Detroit is still going to be really good. Yeah,

1802
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 2: and you know Green Bay Rebay. You know, I still

1803
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 2: like the Packers, I think they need a number one receiver.

1804
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there they help themselves on defense. You know

1805
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 4: Nate Hobbs from the Raiders one of the better slot

1806
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:21,799
Speaker 4: corners in the NFL.

1807
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:23,640
Speaker 5: That helps them defensively, you know.

1808
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:26,720
Speaker 4: So I think really for them on offense, they need

1809
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:29,080
Speaker 4: to get their guys and keep their guys healthy too.

1810
01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 5: Can get can you get Reid.

1811
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 4: And Christian Watson and these guys to stay on the

1812
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 4: field for longer than you know, a couple of games

1813
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 4: at a time, to even build rapport with Jordan Love.

1814
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 4: So I think a young offensive unit like them, I

1815
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 4: think they just need more reps.

1816
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 3: And more time. Yes, another receiver would help, but I

1817
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:46,600
Speaker 3: think the talent on offense.

1818
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:49,680
Speaker 2: They got a bunch of twos and threes. Yeah, they

1819
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,920
Speaker 2: don't have a one. They need one.

1820
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:59,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, I there's an element of me, Yeah, I feel

1821
01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 4: like they're honestly, there's an element of me that feels

1822
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 4: like if they can get a full season, a healthy

1823
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 4: season out of Watson.

1824
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 5: That he can actually turn into something.

1825
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1826
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 4: I don't thin if he's gonna be a star stud receiver,

1827
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 4: but I think with the complimentary running game of Josh Jacobs.

1828
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 4: I think they kind of have enough weapons to get by.

1829
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 4: They just need to keep the guys on the field

1830
01:29:18,439 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 4: is the big thing for me.

1831
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 3: I get it, I get it.

1832
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 2: I just I look at it and I think one

1833
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 2: just there was something about them receiver wise. I mean,

1834
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 2: you're right about the health, but you know, I remember

1835
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 2: watching him down the streets. Now, they got banged up

1836
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:36,719
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, so it was tough for the Eagles,

1837
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:41,599
Speaker 2: but they just lacked that one of that special playmaker. Yeah,

1838
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm with you and I

1839
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 2: Stole'm a love fan. So but that NNC North is

1840
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 2: going to be awesome. And Rogers too, Man, Rogers to Minnesota,

1841
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 2: I I think it is.

1842
01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:58,120
Speaker 3: If I was Aaron Rodgers, that's where I would go.

1843
01:29:58,600 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 3: Right now.

1844
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 4: Here's the interest thing too, Like, I mean, because there's

1845
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 4: a lot of baggage that comes with Aaron Rodgers and

1846
01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:06,880
Speaker 4: you had a great year last year in Minnesota and

1847
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:08,880
Speaker 4: we know, you know O'Connell's running.

1848
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 3: The ship there.

1849
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 4: You kind of have to have like a sit down

1850
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 4: with Aaron and say, look, man, we're not dealing with

1851
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:16,519
Speaker 4: any of the outside you know bs for lack of

1852
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 4: a better term, you're gonna come in, You're coming to

1853
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 4: mini camp, you're coming to training camp.

1854
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 5: We're figuring this thing out from day one, or it's.

1855
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 3: Not gonna work.

1856
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 4: Because what's the thing that works in the Vikings favor

1857
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 4: is that Aaron doesn't have a whole lot of leverage. Again,

1858
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,479
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh is the only other, like legitimate contender that he

1859
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 4: can go to where you can say, maybe, if things

1860
01:30:35,120 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 4: work out, he can win. But if you're hanging the

1861
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 4: Giants over me as leverage, like bye, have fun, you.

1862
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,479
Speaker 3: Know, I would call his bluff on that.

1863
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:45,960
Speaker 4: But I'm not gonna allow Aaron Rodgers at this point

1864
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 4: in his career to come in and mess up the

1865
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 4: chemistry of my locker room because he wants to be

1866
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:52,320
Speaker 4: aloof and do all the other stuff he've been doing

1867
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 4: without his career. He's not the same player. He doesn't

1868
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 4: have that. He doesn't have that anymore. That's sort of juice.

1869
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:00,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think you're you're right. And look,

1870
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:03,680
Speaker 2: if you're on Rogers and you go to like this.

1871
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:04,640
Speaker 3: Is it, right?

1872
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 2: I don't want to go out like that like he

1873
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:09,200
Speaker 2: did with the Jets that that was horrible, right, this

1874
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 2: is it? Like you know, and you got a chance,

1875
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 2: a real chance to win in Minnesota, I would think

1876
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:19,320
Speaker 2: you would want to soak it all in, be at

1877
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:24,080
Speaker 2: every mini kids you know, Ota, Yeah, so you know,

1878
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 2: like I mean, listen, you're at the end.

1879
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 3: I want to enjoy every moment.

1880
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:34,280
Speaker 4: Yep, right onto the sunset and give myself a championship,

1881
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 4: you know, feed your ego even more if you can

1882
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,799
Speaker 4: actually win the Minnesota Vikings their first championship in franchise

1883
01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 4: history exactly.

1884
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:48,679
Speaker 2: So, now what if for the Steelers, if they don't

1885
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:55,559
Speaker 2: get Rogers, they sign Mason Rudolph, you need somebody.

1886
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:59,679
Speaker 4: Right, well, does the market whatever market Russell Wilson has

1887
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 4: and I'm always may had a couple of meetings and

1888
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 4: all that, do they basically have to like crawl back

1889
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 4: to each other at a certain point because it turned

1890
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:10,519
Speaker 4: into that very well might in the next month or so.

1891
01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 4: It might have to, yeah, because otherwise where are you going? Like,

1892
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 4: they don't have anybody else in the.

1893
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:18,799
Speaker 3: Know could go to the Giants.

1894
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then you're also in the same situation if

1895
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 4: you're Russ Like, what what is going to the Giants

1896
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:28,040
Speaker 4: do for you in your career other than just give

1897
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 4: you another year of playing NFL football. It doesn't get

1898
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:35,720
Speaker 4: you any closer to winning a championship. Does it do

1899
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:38,040
Speaker 4: anything for your legacy? It just allows you to play

1900
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:38,679
Speaker 4: an extra year.

1901
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean does I mean now, I

1902
01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:43,639
Speaker 3: mean you saw him last year.

1903
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 5: Oh, you're right, yeah, yeah. What kind of level of

1904
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 5: player is he? Or quarterback is he?

1905
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 3: Anyway? Yeah? I mean, if I'm him, I'm just happy

1906
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 3: to get a giant.

1907
01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I know I was always a Russ

1908
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:55,800
Speaker 2: fan back in the day.

1909
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:59,040
Speaker 3: But I mean, I mean that offense just got exposed.

1910
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:00,760
Speaker 5: It did, and he did.

1911
01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 4: He did and in big moments, you know against Baltimore

1912
01:33:04,160 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 4: the red zone interception. He just had some really bad

1913
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:09,840
Speaker 4: moments and some really big spots for them.

1914
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:11,680
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that you worry about for the

1915
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:15,720
Speaker 2: Steelers because you know, and I know people talk about

1916
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 2: Tomlin and oh he hasn't one. He's a terrific coach.

1917
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:25,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think there's been some mismanagement

1918
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 2: some offense, you know, some issues on offense.

1919
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, coordinator hires have been questionable here and there. But

1920
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 3: I mean I still think he's still he's still he

1921
01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 3: coach my team.

1922
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:39,519
Speaker 4: Any data week, well, it's really hard to be five

1923
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 4: hundred or above for what thirteen fourteen, however many straight

1924
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 4: years it's been. You know, that's how difficult that is

1925
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:47,640
Speaker 4: in the league that's built for every team to go

1926
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:51,080
Speaker 4: eight and eight in injuries and attrition, to not even

1927
01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:53,360
Speaker 4: have one random year where you go five and twelve

1928
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 4: or whatever it is.

1929
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's remarkable, remarkable, so hard to do.

1930
01:33:58,200 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 2: Ye.

1931
01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 4: Even Bill Belichick felt off towards the end and it

1932
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 4: didn't happen to Mike Tomlin.

1933
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:06,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you're spot on, man, you're spot on. So

1934
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 3: we've talked about this on the show UI and Fitz.

1935
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:12,320
Speaker 4: If Mike Tomlin gets gets fired, he will have a

1936
01:34:12,439 --> 01:34:14,759
Speaker 4: job in a heartbeat.

1937
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:15,679
Speaker 3: Yep.

1938
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:20,760
Speaker 2: So this leads us to what where do you go

1939
01:34:20,920 --> 01:34:24,800
Speaker 2: for quarterbacks anymore? I mean, it's unbelievable. That takes us

1940
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 2: to the draft class. Baldy and I Brian Baldinger and

1941
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:31,320
Speaker 2: I am Saturday NFL films this week and did all

1942
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:33,679
Speaker 2: of our draft study look at a bunch of tape

1943
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 2: and I'll continue to do so, but look at all

1944
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks, and you know, again, the prevailing notion is

1945
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:44,639
Speaker 2: what it is right that when you put the tape

1946
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 2: on Can't War you go all right, Like I could

1947
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:51,280
Speaker 2: see it. I'm not in love, but I could see it.

1948
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:53,879
Speaker 2: But I love him way more than Shador.

1949
01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and even Camp as good as Cam is, he's

1950
01:34:57,160 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 4: the best of the class. But it's not like he's

1951
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:04,559
Speaker 4: some standout can't miss prospect either, right, He's someone as

1952
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:07,479
Speaker 4: being artificially pumped up because of the position that he plays.

1953
01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:11,559
Speaker 4: Like if all things were equal, Cam word might be

1954
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:16,479
Speaker 4: taken thirteenth or something fourteenth, but because.

1955
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 5: He's a quarterback, he's gonna be taken in the top three.

1956
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:23,800
Speaker 3: Dude, I gotta tell you, I don't say it at all.

1957
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 4: What you do, no nothing, And you and Baldi both

1958
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:29,840
Speaker 4: man because there's a thought that he doesn't have the

1959
01:35:29,840 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 4: greatest arm talent as far as throwing deep down field,

1960
01:35:32,320 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 4: but he's a rhythm and timing guy. He takes a

1961
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:37,519
Speaker 4: lot of sacks because he holds onto the ball a lot,

1962
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:41,080
Speaker 4: which is hard to unlearn. I think Caleb Williams kind

1963
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 4: of learned that last year. You know, we saw it

1964
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 4: at USC for years. And as talented as he is,

1965
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:48,439
Speaker 4: you know a lot of times the sacks don't always

1966
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 4: fall on the offensive line.

1967
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 5: It falls on the quarterback for holding the ball too long.

1968
01:35:52,320 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 3: Well, his release is really slow. He doesn't have a

1969
01:35:56,960 --> 01:35:57,799
Speaker 3: lot of pop.

1970
01:35:58,680 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't have a strong arm at all.

1971
01:36:00,479 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 2: Now, and you know it's hard because he's stuck behind

1972
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 2: a bad old line.

1973
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 3: Didn't help. Yeah, you're right, right, So, but it's not

1974
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:14,839
Speaker 3: like he's some great you know phantom like lamar Yeah.

1975
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 3: Well he doesn't move as well as LAMARV either. For sure.

1976
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:17,840
Speaker 3: He's not a runner.

1977
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 5: He is run, but he's not he's not someone who's

1978
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:21,200
Speaker 5: gonna kill you with his legs.

1979
01:36:21,240 --> 01:36:24,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that's that's that's my point. So what is

1980
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:25,439
Speaker 2: it that he does well?

1981
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:28,280
Speaker 3: Right? Right?

1982
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 4: That the cop I've heard is Tua? Now, Tua was

1983
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:34,600
Speaker 4: a high pick and and a really good player, but

1984
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:38,559
Speaker 4: there's nothing that Tua does that blows you away, you know.

1985
01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 4: So you feel like Tua is a kind of player

1986
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 4: that you can kind of find. He happened to be

1987
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 4: taken in the top ten, but you can probably find

1988
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:48,960
Speaker 4: someone like to put in the right system with the

1989
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 4: right players around him, and find a guy like that

1990
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 4: in the third round, fourth round, right a given.

1991
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 3: Year, if he's if two is this ceiling right?

1992
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,720
Speaker 2: I mean I got no I to be honest with you,

1993
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:07,559
Speaker 2: I have no interest, zero interest, okay zero. And I

1994
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:10,559
Speaker 2: know people talk about, you know how he was to

1995
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 2: combine and you know he kind of turns the people

1996
01:37:14,360 --> 01:37:19,479
Speaker 2: off a personally. Yeah, but whatever, like you know it is,

1997
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 2: I get it. You know, I just as a as

1998
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:26,120
Speaker 2: a quarterback, I just go, mah, he's not I would

1999
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:27,200
Speaker 2: I wouldn't take him.

2000
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:30,000
Speaker 4: So he is a consensus number two quarterback in the

2001
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 4: class for a lot of people. So with you and

2002
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:33,600
Speaker 4: I don't know how many quarterbacks you and Bald, he

2003
01:37:33,640 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 4: got a chance to actually watch and evaluate of the

2004
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 4: guys who are left, and nobody else has a first

2005
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:39,120
Speaker 4: round grade.

2006
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 3: Other than those two guys. Who else? Did you like that?

2007
01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:43,639
Speaker 3: You guys saw well Dart's legit?

2008
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:47,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we you know, we looked at Dart

2009
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:52,680
Speaker 2: and you know, I mean, he's got he makes all

2010
01:37:52,720 --> 01:37:57,200
Speaker 2: the throws. He's a he's a place big time right

2011
01:37:57,280 --> 01:37:59,639
Speaker 2: like you know, you're playing in link Kiffin's offense.

2012
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 3: Now, he had a great old line and he had

2013
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:05,280
Speaker 3: a bunch of a bunch of.

2014
01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:10,400
Speaker 2: You know, some stuff receivers, you know, but he but

2015
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 2: there was a lot to like on the tape.

2016
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:15,360
Speaker 4: He also has a bit of an edge to him

2017
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 4: too that I like, Yeah, there's a lots that plays

2018
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 4: with Yeah.

2019
01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:25,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean in my eyes, darts too, Okay,

2020
01:38:26,479 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 2: I mean I I don't have interest in yours. Neither

2021
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 2: do I. I just don't have I don't. I don't

2022
01:38:32,439 --> 01:38:32,800
Speaker 2: say it.

2023
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,040
Speaker 4: What do you guys think of I know what you

2024
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 4: think about Jayleen Milroll. We talked about him and when

2025
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 4: I did the show with you a couple of weeks ago.

2026
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:42,120
Speaker 4: And he's a project guy. I think I don't think

2027
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 4: Jayleen Merrill could be good. But he needs time.

2028
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:45,479
Speaker 3: Dude.

2029
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 2: If why I I just don't understand why he didn't

2030
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:52,640
Speaker 2: go into the portal. Yeah, I'm bad, Like I'd be

2031
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:58,040
Speaker 2: begging him going to the portal. Dude, one more year.

2032
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:02,560
Speaker 2: Oh he's just too Oh he's so raw made. You

2033
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 2: don't want to put that first week we watched that,

2034
01:39:05,640 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 2: that first half of Michigan in the Bowl game.

2035
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:10,760
Speaker 3: Oh god, that was brutal. Yeah, there was a rain

2036
01:39:10,800 --> 01:39:13,240
Speaker 3: storm right and he just oh my god.

2037
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 4: Similar to the USF game a couple of years ago

2038
01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:18,080
Speaker 4: when he got benched when there was implement weather and

2039
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:19,200
Speaker 4: he just couldn't do anything.

2040
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's shame and I like the kid, but sharp.

2041
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 4: He was at the whatever the award is for the

2042
01:39:27,240 --> 01:39:30,120
Speaker 4: academic you know, star of the country, whatever you want

2043
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 4: to call it.

2044
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:33,599
Speaker 3: He won that award. Super sharp, super hard to learn,

2045
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 3: all that.

2046
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 2: But what's the work right, Like, he's a work lift.

2047
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:40,640
Speaker 2: I mean he's a great ridiculous shape. Yeah yeah, so,

2048
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 2: but yeah he's a piece a big time practical.

2049
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:45,320
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2050
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:50,400
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2051
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2073
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Speaker 2: a little madness next hour. But to continue football, we're

2074
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:23,520
Speaker 2: talking about the the quarterback situation, the dearth of quarterbacks

2075
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:27,320
Speaker 2: in the league, and we're talking about the draft.

2076
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 3: So everybody, we all agree.

2077
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 2: You like cam Ward, you go all right, like I

2078
01:41:32,960 --> 01:41:37,400
Speaker 2: could see it, I could see a path. I do

2079
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:42,080
Speaker 2: not like Shador. I just you know, And again it's

2080
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:43,360
Speaker 2: nothing to do with personality.

2081
01:41:43,400 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2082
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 2: I mean, I love to see you know, I love

2083
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 2: to see him Duell Dion's kid, the whole story. I

2084
01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 2: just don't say it. I like Jackson Dart. I'm not

2085
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:58,120
Speaker 2: a Ers guy. I don't know about you like I

2086
01:41:58,439 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 2: know you just said it, but I never had been.

2087
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:00,800
Speaker 8: No.

2088
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 2: We talked about him in Texas and I thought Sark

2089
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 2: lost the game. I'd not go with Arch with certain

2090
01:42:09,080 --> 01:42:10,919
Speaker 2: key moments, at least around the goal line.

2091
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:12,879
Speaker 5: Right exactly exactly.

2092
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:15,800
Speaker 4: I give him credit for the mental toughness to deal

2093
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 4: with the arch stuff that happened all last year, So

2094
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 4: there's something to be said for that. But just skill wise,

2095
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:23,840
Speaker 4: as a quarterback at the NFL level, I don't see

2096
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:25,760
Speaker 4: anything more than a backup, to be honest with you.

2097
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:32,599
Speaker 2: Agreed, Agreed, And then I love this kid. Now, you know,

2098
01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 2: admittedly he's a little I'm a little biased. He's from

2099
01:42:36,439 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 2: my neck of the woods, and I know the high school

2100
01:42:40,439 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 2: and you know, I know the father.

2101
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:51,080
Speaker 3: Uh, but I love Klein McCord. Yeah. I mean, here's

2102
01:42:51,120 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 3: the thing.

2103
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:53,639
Speaker 2: I watched one of the tape and I watch it

2104
01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:57,600
Speaker 2: and when I'm evaluating, I'm trying to do it really objectively.

2105
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 2: I had him on yesterday on my show, you know,

2106
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 2: talked about him, talked with him. There's not a lot

2107
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:04,519
Speaker 2: he can't do.

2108
01:43:05,560 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 4: So why do we believe that he is not rated

2109
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:10,320
Speaker 4: as highly or why has he not thought of as

2110
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 4: a first round pick? Around the cam Wards, the Chadors,

2111
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 4: the Jackson darts.

2112
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:14,719
Speaker 3: I guess what's.

2113
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:16,800
Speaker 4: Missing because he played at a high level. I know

2114
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 4: he escapedgoted to a certain degree at Ohio State there, and.

2115
01:43:20,880 --> 01:43:24,120
Speaker 2: I think that's why. Yeah, I think they look at

2116
01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 2: him and that there's the the Buckeye steak of losing

2117
01:43:28,680 --> 01:43:34,200
Speaker 2: the Michigan Ye Hey, people went eh and he got

2118
01:43:34,320 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 2: immediately got written off when he got scapegoated, and he

2119
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:44,559
Speaker 2: did get scapegoated. Yeah, Ryan Day blamed him for for Michigan.

2120
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:47,240
Speaker 3: It was it was overt about it. Yeah.

2121
01:43:47,360 --> 01:43:49,400
Speaker 4: I mean you, I mean to be quite honest with you,

2122
01:43:49,439 --> 01:43:52,200
Speaker 4: And I like Will Howard. I never loved him. I

2123
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:56,000
Speaker 4: think he's a downgrade from Colm Accord. Well look, well

2124
01:43:56,040 --> 01:43:56,759
Speaker 4: Howard lost.

2125
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 5: To Michigan too.

2126
01:43:57,439 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 4: Now he happened to just come back and and you

2127
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:01,280
Speaker 4: all play better later and when it mattered most. But

2128
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:04,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I col McCord is a better quarterback than

2129
01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 4: Will Howard. I said the time that they got rid

2130
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 4: of it and he transferred out, I was like, this

2131
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 4: is a downgrade. Because Ohio State as a roster is

2132
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 4: so talented, it might not end up mattering.

2133
01:44:12,600 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 5: And it didn't. But I found that dynamic to be interesting.

2134
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:20,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta tell you, he goes to Syracuse

2135
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 2: and his best receiver is a tight end Gadson. Yeah,

2136
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:29,040
Speaker 2: I put the tape on it Man tape, don't lie.

2137
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:34,040
Speaker 2: He had one horrible game against Pittsburgh. He threw five

2138
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 2: picks and there was a there was some legiti mistakes. Yeah,

2139
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:42,760
Speaker 2: but other than that, I mean, go watch the Miami

2140
01:44:42,880 --> 01:44:46,479
Speaker 2: game and tell me who's the better quarterback him or Ward.

2141
01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:49,719
Speaker 3: Usually I will say this James Field. Yeah.

2142
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:52,080
Speaker 4: Usually though, And like that stuff when you when you

2143
01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:54,679
Speaker 4: get into this part of the process, when you're watching

2144
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 4: tape and evaluating individual players, the perceptions of your escape

2145
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 4: go to it by Ryan Day and you lost a

2146
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,479
Speaker 4: big game, and YadA, YadA, YadA. That stuff usually doesn't

2147
01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:07,519
Speaker 4: factor in when you're ranking players like this. So I

2148
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:10,639
Speaker 4: find it interesting that for you know, a couple of rankings,

2149
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:14,519
Speaker 4: I'm looking at him underneath Ward, Sanders, Dart and yours.

2150
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,800
Speaker 4: The fact that people have yours over him, so he's

2151
01:45:17,840 --> 01:45:20,639
Speaker 4: the fourth or fifth best quarterback prospect by a couple

2152
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:24,800
Speaker 4: of these different prognosticators. That's the interesting thing to me

2153
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:29,960
Speaker 4: because usually they take out all of the other outside factors, perceptions, politics,

2154
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:31,639
Speaker 4: all that other stuff and just look at the player

2155
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:35,280
Speaker 4: himself themselves. So what is it in looking at Kyle mccorth,

2156
01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 4: the player that people are ranking behind yours Dart Sanders.

2157
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 2: And well he does have the athletics, the mobility and

2158
01:45:42,160 --> 01:45:46,639
Speaker 2: athleticism that like yours a good athlete.

2159
01:45:47,479 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely is. Yeah, and so our Dart and Saw award.

2160
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:56,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, your yours can move. I think that is a

2161
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:58,960
Speaker 3: half a negative. Yeah.

2162
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:01,880
Speaker 4: The fact that new wage quarterback nowadays as someone who

2163
01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 4: can actually make things happen, you know, with his legs

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01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 4: a little bit when the play breaks down, they can

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01:46:07,120 --> 01:46:09,439
Speaker 4: do other things second reaction plays quote unquote is.

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01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:11,240
Speaker 3: What they call him. Yeah, he's not.

2167
01:46:11,920 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 5: He's more of a classic pocket guy.

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01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:16,760
Speaker 3: I mean he's got it. He could spin it. I

2169
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:17,040
Speaker 3: don't know.

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01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:20,559
Speaker 2: People talk about it his spin rate and I don't

2171
01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:23,720
Speaker 2: know he could spin it. I listen, he throws a

2172
01:46:23,840 --> 01:46:30,040
Speaker 2: nice ball and the dude is The dude is really

2173
01:46:30,720 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 2: I mean sharp, his all get out, like you can

2174
01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:39,960
Speaker 2: put him on his kid's been been uh watching tape

2175
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:43,759
Speaker 2: and dissecting x'es and o's since he was in high school.

2176
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:45,960
Speaker 2: Like he went to a program that I know of

2177
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 2: real well, Saint Joe's Prep. And he's a freshman and

2178
01:46:50,160 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 2: he's breaking down film like that's part of his thing.

2179
01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 2: He knows where to go. So when they're when they're

2180
01:46:56,479 --> 01:47:00,320
Speaker 2: interviewing him, it's funny. We are having a conversation about

2181
01:47:00,320 --> 01:47:03,559
Speaker 2: to combine, and I know the Saints really like him.

2182
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:07,000
Speaker 2: I could see him going in the second at least

2183
01:47:07,040 --> 01:47:08,640
Speaker 2: the third round, but I could see him going in

2184
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 2: the second round. But he was asked it was funny

2185
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:15,519
Speaker 2: because some teams they really try to trip you up.

2186
01:47:15,600 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 3: Right.

2187
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:20,080
Speaker 2: They go, they put on a tape and the first

2188
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 2: thing they show is an interception, and they go, what

2189
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:29,559
Speaker 2: happened to here? And they want to see how you

2190
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:32,360
Speaker 2: respond to it? Wow, what about this play right here?

2191
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,000
Speaker 2: And it was a misread? He goes the first play

2192
01:47:35,040 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 2: actually wasn't an interception, it was a misread. And so

2193
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:43,840
Speaker 2: I had to say, you know, I missed I was

2194
01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 2: I missed the read? Yeah, I missed it. And it

2195
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:50,639
Speaker 2: was an incompletion. That was the first one they showed.

2196
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:55,400
Speaker 2: Then it was an interception, and then they showed all

2197
01:47:55,479 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 2: his bad plays and then and then another team said, hey,

2198
01:48:00,439 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 2: on this pick, the receiver really messed up here, and

2199
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:09,760
Speaker 2: he had to say, no, that was on me.

2200
01:48:10,400 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, looking to see if he throws his receiver under

2201
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:14,040
Speaker 4: the bus and not the responsibility.

2202
01:48:14,120 --> 01:48:14,839
Speaker 2: Yeah huh.

2203
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,360
Speaker 3: And he was like no, no, no, that was on me.

2204
01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and there they were like, nah, well look here,

2205
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:25,600
Speaker 2: you know, the receiver should have took the should have

2206
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 2: broken the ball here, and he kept saying no, no, no,

2207
01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 2: that was that was definitely my fault.

2208
01:48:32,040 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 3: And then uh so then they they they asked you to.

2209
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:41,360
Speaker 2: Draw up a plate at the end in their system, right,

2210
01:48:42,880 --> 01:48:45,320
Speaker 2: and so it was it was interesting that the line

2211
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:48,360
Speaker 2: of question would happened Ohio State, you know, blah blah

2212
01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:51,599
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. You know, they they they went through

2213
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:53,919
Speaker 2: the whole, the whole gamut with him.

2214
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:57,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, it sounds like he's handled it. Well.

2215
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 2: He's a great kid. But you meet the kid, you

2216
01:49:00,240 --> 01:49:04,160
Speaker 2: you'll love the kid. He's smart. That's my I'm trying

2217
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:06,080
Speaker 2: to divorce myself from knowing him.

2218
01:49:06,320 --> 01:49:08,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's also hard to do.

2219
01:49:08,360 --> 01:49:11,560
Speaker 2: So it is, it really is. But you put the

2220
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 2: tape on it again. I think he's got a plus arm.

2221
01:49:15,439 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 2: I think the athleticism is it where those other quarterbacks are.

2222
01:49:22,080 --> 01:49:26,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean mac Jones isn't necessarily the greatest athlete,

2223
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 4: and he was taken high in the draft, so right,

2224
01:49:28,920 --> 01:49:31,839
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, as much as teams now value

2225
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:34,599
Speaker 4: that that trait, the extra traits to being a great

2226
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:37,760
Speaker 4: athlete moving around. They'll still tell you that that's not

2227
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 4: necessarily everything. Most people will take a quarterback if I

2228
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:42,600
Speaker 4: can step sit back in the pocket and pick you

2229
01:49:42,640 --> 01:49:45,639
Speaker 4: apart and make all the throws. But I'm a statue.

2230
01:49:46,400 --> 01:49:48,799
Speaker 4: People will take that over someone who's got really erratic

2231
01:49:48,800 --> 01:49:50,160
Speaker 4: but he can, you know, run a four to two

2232
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:50,719
Speaker 4: and the forty.

2233
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:52,120
Speaker 3: They should.

2234
01:49:52,320 --> 01:49:57,519
Speaker 2: I would too, I would too. Now the other thing

2235
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 2: I guess the other down is he's like six two

2236
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 2: and a half.

2237
01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:05,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's listed at six three, but he's not. Is

2238
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:07,799
Speaker 5: that platform shoes?

2239
01:50:08,160 --> 01:50:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, he's not six four six five?

2240
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 3: Yeah? Right, But none of these guys are.

2241
01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:15,640
Speaker 4: I think that the biggest guy of like you know,

2242
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:18,600
Speaker 4: day two, day one through Day three prospects is like

2243
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 4: Shug from Louisville.

2244
01:50:20,520 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 3: He's like six five sixty six.

2245
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:24,280
Speaker 4: But most of these guys are six are straddling the

2246
01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:25,479
Speaker 4: six two six three line.

2247
01:50:26,080 --> 01:50:28,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I again, I don't know.

2248
01:50:28,720 --> 01:50:33,240
Speaker 2: I look at it, you go, what what of all

2249
01:50:33,640 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 2: you're looking for a quarterback prospect?

2250
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:38,880
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I think he's there, and

2251
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:40,400
Speaker 3: I don't like Will Howard.

2252
01:50:40,439 --> 01:50:43,360
Speaker 2: Just before I like, I like Will Howard a lot

2253
01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:46,920
Speaker 2: like I love, I love the kids' attitude. I think

2254
01:50:46,960 --> 01:50:50,280
Speaker 2: the kids a winner. I just don't think he throws

2255
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:52,880
Speaker 2: the ball well. Same thing with Riley Leonard. I just

2256
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:54,160
Speaker 2: don't think he throws the ballwell.

2257
01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:56,280
Speaker 4: Winard is just more of an athlete to me than

2258
01:50:56,320 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 4: an actual Winnard is like a perfect backup, come in

2259
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:02,240
Speaker 4: for a game or two if you need, make some

2260
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:03,719
Speaker 4: plays with the legs here and there.

2261
01:51:04,200 --> 01:51:06,200
Speaker 3: Really scrappy, really tough.

2262
01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 4: Right, But he's not a guy that's gonna, you know,

2263
01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:11,960
Speaker 4: can be a starting quarterback in the NFL consistently really

2264
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:15,840
Speaker 4: for no other reason health wise a lot.

2265
01:51:16,240 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 2: You're right, you're a hard percent, right, you know what

2266
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:23,240
Speaker 2: the shame is Dylan Gabriel. If he's just bigger, a.

2267
01:51:23,200 --> 01:51:25,640
Speaker 4: Little taller, he's I think he's far and away the

2268
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:26,759
Speaker 4: top with the top quarterback.

2269
01:51:26,800 --> 01:51:27,680
Speaker 5: If he's just a little bit.

2270
01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:30,120
Speaker 2: Taller, to be honest with you, yeah, I mean he

2271
01:51:30,160 --> 01:51:35,200
Speaker 2: has all the credentials. Yeah, he's a He throws a

2272
01:51:35,280 --> 01:51:38,599
Speaker 2: nice ball, man, he does. He throws a nice He's

2273
01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 2: got a lot of zip. I mean, I've always loved

2274
01:51:41,120 --> 01:51:45,840
Speaker 2: his his release, like he to shame man, if he

2275
01:51:46,120 --> 01:51:49,120
Speaker 2: just had a comple more inches. Yeah, I mean, but

2276
01:51:49,360 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 2: he's thrown a football.

2277
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:51,479
Speaker 5: I'm looking.

2278
01:51:51,520 --> 01:51:54,479
Speaker 4: He's listed at five eleven, which means he's probably closer

2279
01:51:54,479 --> 01:51:55,720
Speaker 4: to five nine, five to ten.

2280
01:51:56,120 --> 01:51:58,320
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's really like five nine. We know how

2281
01:51:58,320 --> 01:51:58,680
Speaker 3: these things.

2282
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:02,280
Speaker 4: That's really and for a guy who again is not

2283
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:04,920
Speaker 4: where they're gonna kill you with his legs either, that's

2284
01:52:04,960 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 4: really difficult.

2285
01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:08,600
Speaker 3: You're a pocket quarterback who's that short.

2286
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:12,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're gonna come back and we'll look

2287
01:52:12,800 --> 01:52:16,679
Speaker 2: at free agency as a whole. Your thoughts, all right

2288
01:52:16,760 --> 01:52:18,439
Speaker 2: on some of the big signings in some of the

2289
01:52:18,479 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 2: movement where the fella is right here, Kevin Figures, Anthony Gargano,

2290
01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 2: Fitzi's off today as we hang on this championship Saturday

2291
01:52:26,520 --> 01:52:33,479
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio, Fellas k fig Kevin Figures and

2292
01:52:33,720 --> 01:52:36,719
Speaker 2: for Fitsie, I'm Anthony Gargano.

2293
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:38,080
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2294
01:52:38,479 --> 01:52:41,800
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2297
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2299
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2301
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2303
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:15,720
Speaker 2: top of your screen. All right, fig some of the

2304
01:53:16,600 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 2: did you think some of the winners and losers of

2305
01:53:18,760 --> 01:53:19,600
Speaker 2: the free agency?

2306
01:53:21,800 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 3: And then what are the Cowboys doing? Can I ask

2307
01:53:24,439 --> 01:53:24,840
Speaker 3: you that?

2308
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:29,439
Speaker 2: As DeMarcus Lawrence says, I mean, I'm a Micah fan,

2309
01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 2: and but Mike could going clown show, Yeah, right, and

2310
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:36,719
Speaker 2: DeMarcus Lawrence going, yeah, but I just told the truth.

2311
01:53:37,200 --> 01:53:38,000
Speaker 3: He ain't winning.

2312
01:53:40,040 --> 01:53:42,759
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, based on the last twenty plus years,

2313
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 4: demarc isitn't wrong. So I thought that whole back and

2314
01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:50,639
Speaker 4: forth between those two was very interesting. But the winners

2315
01:53:50,640 --> 01:53:52,759
Speaker 4: and losers, I think the Bears is a big winner

2316
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:53,080
Speaker 4: for me.

2317
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:56,200
Speaker 3: Knowing one of the official line was the old line.

2318
01:53:56,439 --> 01:53:58,720
Speaker 4: And to get Jonah Jackson, who a couple of years

2319
01:53:58,760 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 4: ago was a pro bowler, Joe Tooney, who has a

2320
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 4: guard is excellent. Not the greatest tackle, but he did

2321
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:06,559
Speaker 4: that out of necessity. But as a guard he's really good.

2322
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:09,920
Speaker 4: And then they signed Drew Dolman too, like to show

2323
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:12,360
Speaker 4: up their offensive line, which is their biggest issue now. Granted,

2324
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:14,960
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams, like we talked about last segment, had his

2325
01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:17,680
Speaker 4: issues holding onto the ball a lot. They go back

2326
01:54:17,680 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 4: to his time at USC, which is why he was

2327
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 4: sacked so much. But he certainly did not get a

2328
01:54:21,160 --> 01:54:24,360
Speaker 4: lot of favors from the Bears up front. We know

2329
01:54:24,439 --> 01:54:26,320
Speaker 4: he has all the offensive weapons around him. He just

2330
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:28,360
Speaker 4: needs more time and he needs a solid running game.

2331
01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 4: So for them to remake three fits of their offensive

2332
01:54:31,160 --> 01:54:33,280
Speaker 4: line I think was huge. So they're probably the biggest

2333
01:54:33,280 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 4: winners for me so far.

2334
01:54:36,160 --> 01:54:37,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you.

2335
01:54:37,720 --> 01:54:46,040
Speaker 2: And then you look at Dallas and you go, why,

2336
01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:47,680
Speaker 2: I can't believe it.

2337
01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:49,400
Speaker 5: Miles Sanders didn't do it for you?

2338
01:54:49,480 --> 01:54:50,480
Speaker 3: Huh.

2339
01:54:50,720 --> 01:54:56,879
Speaker 2: Javant Williams and Miles Sanders. Yeah, are your running backs?

2340
01:54:58,040 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 3: What? Yeah?

2341
01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:02,920
Speaker 4: And we talked going into last season the issue at

2342
01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 4: running back and how they didn't really address it, and

2343
01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:09,000
Speaker 4: and I remember Fitz and I both said at the time, Well,

2344
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:10,160
Speaker 4: they'll end up being fine.

2345
01:55:10,200 --> 01:55:12,320
Speaker 3: It's not that big of a deal. They'll make it work.

2346
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:14,000
Speaker 3: They didn't make it work.

2347
01:55:14,880 --> 01:55:17,480
Speaker 4: Was a disaster at the running back position for them

2348
01:55:17,560 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 4: last season, and so far now it's a pretty decent

2349
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:23,400
Speaker 4: running back class in the draft, So maybe that's where

2350
01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:24,880
Speaker 4: they're going to hitch their wagon to U see if

2351
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:26,240
Speaker 4: they can find somebody to make an impact.

2352
01:55:26,280 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 3: There's yes, very good.

2353
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:29,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, but so far through free agency has been a

2354
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:32,960
Speaker 4: giant dud for the Cowboys. Bringing back Avonte Turpin was great.

2355
01:55:32,960 --> 01:55:35,000
Speaker 4: I think he's a good kick returner, but outside of that,

2356
01:55:35,960 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 4: it really hadn't moved the needle much for me.

2357
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 2: Well, and he also goes back to you remember the

2358
01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:44,440
Speaker 2: deadline they traded for Mingo.

2359
01:55:44,200 --> 01:55:48,920
Speaker 3: Yes, which was puzzling to say the least, Like, what

2360
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:54,000
Speaker 3: are you doing? That's unbelievable. Well, it's also it's you know,

2361
01:55:54,120 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 3: it's Trey Lance.

2362
01:55:55,880 --> 01:55:58,560
Speaker 4: Like guys who used to had a lot of hype

2363
01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:00,640
Speaker 4: coming out of college. They get into the league for

2364
01:56:00,640 --> 01:56:02,280
Speaker 4: a couple of years and nothing happens, and all of

2365
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:04,120
Speaker 4: a sudden you think, like, oh, we could turn them around.

2366
01:56:04,720 --> 01:56:06,960
Speaker 4: You're basing it off of what their draft stock was

2367
01:56:07,240 --> 01:56:09,520
Speaker 4: before they came into the league as opposed to what

2368
01:56:09,560 --> 01:56:11,480
Speaker 4: they've actually done so far.

2369
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:11,880
Speaker 3: In the league.

2370
01:56:12,520 --> 01:56:17,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Paul Kuiper's top draft picks that didn't

2371
01:56:17,320 --> 01:56:23,280
Speaker 2: pay it out. Yeah, that's basically all it is. It's bizarre. Uh,

2372
01:56:23,360 --> 01:56:24,879
Speaker 2: Eagles lost a lot.

2373
01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I want to talk to you about.

2374
01:56:27,680 --> 01:56:31,920
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're just reshot reshuffling their finances

2375
01:56:32,040 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 4: or trying to get certain things in order, but losing

2376
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:38,360
Speaker 4: guys on the defensive line, Gardner Johnson when I thought

2377
01:56:38,440 --> 01:56:40,240
Speaker 4: was interesting to trade him away.

2378
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Speaker 3: So what's so?

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Speaker 5: What's going on out there in Philly?

2380
01:56:42,240 --> 01:56:42,760
Speaker 3: What's going on?

2381
01:56:43,160 --> 01:56:46,600
Speaker 2: So a couple couple guys you expected to lose right now,

2382
01:56:46,720 --> 01:56:49,680
Speaker 2: so you expect to lose Milt Williams, who got way overpaid.

2383
01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 2: You got, you lost Josh Wett who got paid. Oh

2384
01:56:53,320 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 2: who got paid. The CJGJ thing was a surprise, but

2385
01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:02,120
Speaker 2: appear only he wanted to get paid, like he wanted

2386
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:06,600
Speaker 2: a new contract. And their their issue is you got

2387
01:57:06,680 --> 01:57:10,600
Speaker 2: Hurts with a big deal. You're paying Saquan, You're paying A. J. Brown,

2388
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:15,800
Speaker 2: You're playing DeVante Smith. You're gonna have to pay Cam

2389
01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:18,000
Speaker 2: Jergens on the old line. And you're gonna have to

2390
01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:23,120
Speaker 2: pay a ton for Jalen Carter for sure. Yeah all right,

2391
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:26,880
Speaker 2: and then down the line Nolan Smith and then a

2392
01:57:26,880 --> 01:57:29,480
Speaker 2: little couple none of another year down the line, Cooper

2393
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:31,680
Speaker 2: de Genie, Quina Mitchell.

2394
01:57:31,840 --> 01:57:34,520
Speaker 3: So you know you got to pay all those people.

2395
01:57:35,280 --> 01:57:41,000
Speaker 2: You you you just can't keep everybody. Now, they lost Sligh.

2396
01:57:41,040 --> 01:57:44,000
Speaker 2: You kind of thought they would, they would because Slay

2397
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:48,080
Speaker 2: got a deal. But then they lost Isaiah Rodgers, another

2398
01:57:48,160 --> 01:57:53,040
Speaker 2: corner who I like and help with their depth. They

2399
01:57:53,080 --> 01:57:56,000
Speaker 2: got a kid, Kayleie Ringo, who I think, this guy

2400
01:57:56,040 --> 01:57:59,440
Speaker 2: who was promising but they're pretty uh. And then last

2401
01:57:59,520 --> 01:58:02,560
Speaker 2: year's draft pick, Jaylyx Hunt. Now here's the interesting thing.

2402
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:09,360
Speaker 2: Over the next two years, the Eagles have twenty draft picks,

2403
01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:12,120
Speaker 2: fifteen in the first four rounds.

2404
01:58:12,800 --> 01:58:15,200
Speaker 3: That's what all the competitory picks and everything right.

2405
01:58:15,520 --> 01:58:18,800
Speaker 4: But you know, that's how a smart organization operates. Though

2406
01:58:18,800 --> 01:58:20,480
Speaker 4: you're not gonna be able to sign everyone, but you

2407
01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:23,720
Speaker 4: keep getting those draft picks, you keep rolling guys in

2408
01:58:23,760 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 4: and out, and you just you kind of work like

2409
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:27,400
Speaker 4: a well oiled machine.

2410
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:30,120
Speaker 5: That's that's the model. That's how you set it up.

2411
01:58:30,160 --> 01:58:32,400
Speaker 4: You can't just overpay guys left right, because you're gonna

2412
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:34,360
Speaker 4: end up having to pay the piper eventually.

2413
01:58:34,880 --> 01:58:36,520
Speaker 3: Now that's really the smart way to operate.

2414
01:58:36,840 --> 01:58:39,640
Speaker 2: They lost Makai Beckton too right to the Chargers. You know,

2415
01:58:39,760 --> 01:58:42,000
Speaker 2: he went to which a good signing for the charge.

2416
01:58:41,800 --> 01:58:42,520
Speaker 3: Great signing for them.

2417
01:58:42,600 --> 01:58:47,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I wouldn't rule this one out too.

2418
01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:49,080
Speaker 3: They could trade Dallas, got it?

2419
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:54,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, interesting could Yeah, that could be a big deal.

2420
01:58:54,160 --> 01:58:57,160
Speaker 2: All right, big al We're coming up, Max Fellas right here.

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2424
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Speaker 2: And it's a championship Saturday, Conference tourneys. All the finals

2425
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2440
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2441
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Speaker 3: Uh fig college basketball.

2442
02:00:13,200 --> 02:00:15,920
Speaker 2: It feels alive and well, man, it feels like a

2443
02:00:15,960 --> 02:00:21,520
Speaker 2: good week as we had her championship Saturday for Big East,

2444
02:00:22,360 --> 02:00:26,480
Speaker 2: right the Big twelve, and then tomorrow we'll have some

2445
02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:29,320
Speaker 2: We'll got some, you know, the Big Ten, the whole.

2446
02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:32,600
Speaker 3: Thing, and in selection Sunday. You get your juices flowing

2447
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:33,840
Speaker 3: for this time of year.

2448
02:00:33,840 --> 02:00:35,400
Speaker 4: And I have a couple of people who are like,

2449
02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:37,680
Speaker 4: just tell me when the regular when the regular season's over,

2450
02:00:37,680 --> 02:00:40,600
Speaker 4: when the conference tournament's over, I'll just jump in during

2451
02:00:40,640 --> 02:00:43,320
Speaker 4: March madness. But you know, if you had not someone

2452
02:00:43,320 --> 02:00:46,960
Speaker 4: who watches regular season college basketball, I mean, I'll tell

2453
02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:49,120
Speaker 4: you conference tournament time is a really good time to

2454
02:00:49,160 --> 02:00:50,840
Speaker 4: try to jump in and get warmed up and know

2455
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:53,560
Speaker 4: who these teams are and how they play in high

2456
02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:56,680
Speaker 4: stake situations. Like a lot of teams, look your top seeds,

2457
02:00:56,760 --> 02:00:59,520
Speaker 4: the games maybe don't matter as much, but if you're

2458
02:00:59,520 --> 02:01:01,640
Speaker 4: a team like say even a Louisville in the ACC

2459
02:01:01,760 --> 02:01:03,920
Speaker 4: Tournament against the Duke, I mean.

2460
02:01:03,920 --> 02:01:05,240
Speaker 5: They can still improve their seed.

2461
02:01:05,480 --> 02:01:07,040
Speaker 4: They're a team that kind of came out of nowhere

2462
02:01:07,080 --> 02:01:09,600
Speaker 4: this year and had a better season than people expected.

2463
02:01:09,720 --> 02:01:11,120
Speaker 3: The game still has meeting to them.

2464
02:01:11,480 --> 02:01:13,400
Speaker 4: The games have so much more meeting for a lot

2465
02:01:13,440 --> 02:01:15,400
Speaker 4: of these teams who are on the cut line, who

2466
02:01:15,440 --> 02:01:17,000
Speaker 4: don't know if they're going to make it into the tournament,

2467
02:01:17,000 --> 02:01:17,640
Speaker 4: who are trying to.

2468
02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:18,480
Speaker 3: Improve their seeding.

2469
02:01:19,200 --> 02:01:23,240
Speaker 4: All we want as fans are meetingful games, and really

2470
02:01:23,240 --> 02:01:25,920
Speaker 4: the conference tournament allows that to happen more so than

2471
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:29,960
Speaker 4: the college championship games in college football because the way

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02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:31,960
Speaker 4: that it's set up, with the expansion of twelve teams

2473
02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 4: and soon to be fourteen, it just doesn't necessarily matter

2474
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:37,880
Speaker 4: as much. But when it comes to college basketball, all

2475
02:01:37,920 --> 02:01:41,080
Speaker 4: these games are really really important for about seventy percent

2476
02:01:41,120 --> 02:01:43,480
Speaker 4: of the teams that are still competing. And I think

2477
02:01:43,520 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 4: it's just really it's a nice preview. It's a nice

2478
02:01:45,640 --> 02:01:48,240
Speaker 4: appetizer to get you ready for the NCAA Tournament next

2479
02:01:48,280 --> 02:01:49,720
Speaker 4: Thursday's the way I look at it.

2480
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Speaker 3: It is. I great.

2481
02:01:51,840 --> 02:01:56,160
Speaker 2: I'm with you, hey, quick aside, do you think that

2482
02:01:56,360 --> 02:02:01,440
Speaker 2: they should that the conference tour he should matter more

2483
02:02:01,600 --> 02:02:05,360
Speaker 2: for home field.

2484
02:02:06,280 --> 02:02:07,720
Speaker 4: As far as like oh as far as like the

2485
02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:12,320
Speaker 4: region that you play in or off you know, I

2486
02:02:12,360 --> 02:02:15,320
Speaker 4: guess it would give you incentive more incentive to play,

2487
02:02:15,400 --> 02:02:17,880
Speaker 4: although we haven't really we talked to we've kind of

2488
02:02:17,920 --> 02:02:19,320
Speaker 4: kicked this around on the show today.

2489
02:02:19,600 --> 02:02:21,160
Speaker 3: If you're a duke and say you.

2490
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:23,960
Speaker 4: Have Cooper Flag who's down, who's probably not gonna play today,

2491
02:02:25,800 --> 02:02:27,520
Speaker 4: is it does a behoove you to put him in

2492
02:02:27,520 --> 02:02:29,680
Speaker 4: and play him in a game which is otherwise meaningless

2493
02:02:29,720 --> 02:02:33,240
Speaker 4: for you, but would have if you take that meaningless

2494
02:02:33,360 --> 02:02:35,880
Speaker 4: meaninglessness out of it and say, Okay, we want to

2495
02:02:35,920 --> 02:02:39,520
Speaker 4: make sure that if you actually win your conference tournament,

2496
02:02:39,520 --> 02:02:41,520
Speaker 4: it's going to guarantee you the highest seed that you

2497
02:02:41,520 --> 02:02:43,320
Speaker 4: can possibly be in in the region that you want

2498
02:02:43,360 --> 02:02:45,520
Speaker 4: to be in, So it gives you reason to play.

2499
02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:47,480
Speaker 5: I guess I understand it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's something that I would necessarily

2501
02:02:50,480 --> 02:02:52,480
Speaker 4: do because I don't think it's really necessary.

2502
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:53,880
Speaker 3: Is my thing now.

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02:02:54,400 --> 02:02:56,640
Speaker 2: I was talking for football for home field, like if

2504
02:02:56,680 --> 02:02:59,880
Speaker 2: you would you know, do you do?

2505
02:02:59,880 --> 02:03:00,760
Speaker 3: You home?

2506
02:03:01,080 --> 02:03:05,320
Speaker 2: The problem is the balls, right, Like I'm trying to

2507
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 2: wait it so you can so home field, Matt like, yeah,

2508
02:03:08,680 --> 02:03:12,720
Speaker 2: the first round home fields, right, but you'll never get

2509
02:03:12,760 --> 02:03:17,280
Speaker 2: past the ball system, right because they need it to

2510
02:03:17,360 --> 02:03:22,360
Speaker 2: be a you know, fiesta Ballyards ball. That's the problem

2511
02:03:22,400 --> 02:03:25,120
Speaker 2: because you keep thinking about you know, can you I

2512
02:03:25,200 --> 02:03:26,840
Speaker 2: love the home field the first round.

2513
02:03:27,040 --> 02:03:28,960
Speaker 3: I mean, have it. That Notre Dame game Notre A,

2514
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:31,840
Speaker 3: Indiana was awesome. It was amazing. Yeah, it was great.

2515
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:33,040
Speaker 3: We need more of that.

2516
02:03:33,920 --> 02:03:36,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I realized they're trying to pay respects to the

2517
02:03:36,040 --> 02:03:39,960
Speaker 4: ball system. But ultimately, I do think the biggest and

2518
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:41,400
Speaker 4: and I don't know if this is gonna if it's

2519
02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 4: going to stand up, and maybe we'll get to a

2520
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:46,360
Speaker 4: point in time where the most of the balls are

2521
02:03:46,440 --> 02:03:48,360
Speaker 4: what they are and then we just have the final

2522
02:03:48,400 --> 02:03:50,680
Speaker 4: four of the fourteen team playoff, whatever it is, go

2523
02:03:50,760 --> 02:03:51,520
Speaker 4: to the ball system.

2524
02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 3: But I hope at some.

2525
02:03:52,320 --> 02:03:55,560
Speaker 4: Point we get to the point where we have meetingful

2526
02:03:55,720 --> 02:03:59,400
Speaker 4: you know, quarter final, semi final type games on campuses.

2527
02:03:59,680 --> 02:04:02,160
Speaker 4: Because your point, it does give teams incentive to want

2528
02:04:02,160 --> 02:04:03,880
Speaker 4: to play all their guys and play hard and try

2529
02:04:03,880 --> 02:04:06,240
Speaker 4: to get as high of a ranking in the final

2530
02:04:06,280 --> 02:04:08,880
Speaker 4: CFP as they possibly can. You want to try to

2531
02:04:08,880 --> 02:04:11,680
Speaker 4: get as many home games as you as possible. So

2532
02:04:12,280 --> 02:04:15,040
Speaker 4: I think that's a phenomenal idea. I agree there are

2533
02:04:15,120 --> 02:04:18,360
Speaker 4: politics involved with the bowl system, but as these TV

2534
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:22,320
Speaker 4: contracts and conference alignment contracts come up and get reworked

2535
02:04:22,320 --> 02:04:24,600
Speaker 4: over the next six, seven, eight years.

2536
02:04:26,000 --> 02:04:27,920
Speaker 5: I do think there might be a movement to try.

2537
02:04:27,720 --> 02:04:30,680
Speaker 4: To get these semi final games or these quarterfinal semifinal

2538
02:04:30,760 --> 02:04:33,800
Speaker 4: games on campuses and not involved in bulls and just

2539
02:04:33,880 --> 02:04:35,320
Speaker 4: leaving the balls to the final four.

2540
02:04:36,480 --> 02:04:37,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was trying to think about that.

2541
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:42,840
Speaker 2: For the tournaments in basketball, there's some that are it's

2542
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:46,960
Speaker 2: a shame that these venues they just don't there's not

2543
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:47,879
Speaker 2: a lot of fans.

2544
02:04:48,120 --> 02:04:49,120
Speaker 5: There's eight people there.

2545
02:04:49,360 --> 02:04:53,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that if you have it same thing

2546
02:04:54,080 --> 02:05:00,320
Speaker 2: on campus, is it better. I mean, you need everybody,

2547
02:05:00,480 --> 02:05:01,280
Speaker 2: that's the problem.

2548
02:05:01,400 --> 02:05:03,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's better if it's on campus.

2549
02:05:03,480 --> 02:05:06,240
Speaker 4: But you know, you can't play every single solid solitary

2550
02:05:06,320 --> 02:05:07,160
Speaker 4: day is the issue.

2551
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:08,720
Speaker 5: So you need a neutral site.

2552
02:05:08,960 --> 02:05:11,960
Speaker 3: Yep. So you're right, so that it.

2553
02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:15,040
Speaker 4: Is disappointing to see, you know, the opening round or

2554
02:05:15,040 --> 02:05:17,560
Speaker 4: the second round of a conference tournament in a you know,

2555
02:05:17,960 --> 02:05:20,760
Speaker 4: eighteen thousand set venue and there's four thousand people there.

2556
02:05:21,680 --> 02:05:22,919
Speaker 5: It's just not good optics.

2557
02:05:25,880 --> 02:05:27,320
Speaker 4: It's probably hard to get up to play in a

2558
02:05:27,360 --> 02:05:30,480
Speaker 4: situation like that too, if you're a player. Players feed

2559
02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:32,480
Speaker 4: off of crowd so often and you're playing in an

2560
02:05:32,480 --> 02:05:34,840
Speaker 4: empty gym. It's really hard to get up in a

2561
02:05:34,880 --> 02:05:35,760
Speaker 4: situation like that.

2562
02:05:37,200 --> 02:05:39,200
Speaker 3: It is. It's weird, you know.

2563
02:05:39,640 --> 02:05:42,240
Speaker 2: And it's a shape because even in the final four,

2564
02:05:42,760 --> 02:05:46,720
Speaker 2: when these games you're at the Dome. Yeah, I never

2565
02:05:46,840 --> 02:05:50,480
Speaker 2: liked those though. They're so too big, you know. Yeah,

2566
02:05:51,080 --> 02:05:55,440
Speaker 2: and they have an issue with you know, the depth perception.

2567
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:58,120
Speaker 4: Of it, right, Yeah, that's why shooting numbers and I

2568
02:05:58,160 --> 02:05:59,960
Speaker 4: don't know, I haven't seen recent numbers on this, but

2569
02:06:00,280 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 4: prior to the last couple of years, over like a

2570
02:06:02,160 --> 02:06:04,960
Speaker 4: six seven year span of them playing the final fours

2571
02:06:05,000 --> 02:06:09,000
Speaker 4: in these larger football stadiums, yeah, shooting percentages have not

2572
02:06:09,040 --> 02:06:09,480
Speaker 4: been good.

2573
02:06:10,280 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 5: Have been low scoring games.

2574
02:06:11,320 --> 02:06:13,400
Speaker 4: Shooting numbers have been down because yeah, to your point,

2575
02:06:13,440 --> 02:06:15,960
Speaker 4: death perception is bad. And just as a viewer, as

2576
02:06:15,960 --> 02:06:18,800
Speaker 4: a fan sitting all the way up in the rafters

2577
02:06:18,800 --> 02:06:20,880
Speaker 4: at I don't know Jerry's world, to watch a college

2578
02:06:20,880 --> 02:06:25,520
Speaker 4: basketball game like, guys look like ants.

2579
02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:29,000
Speaker 3: Yea basketball is not meant for that. No, I can't,

2580
02:06:29,120 --> 02:06:29,520
Speaker 3: I can't.

2581
02:06:29,560 --> 02:06:30,320
Speaker 5: I can't be up there.

2582
02:06:30,440 --> 02:06:32,600
Speaker 4: I can't tell if it's Zach Edie or Muggsy Bogues,

2583
02:06:32,840 --> 02:06:34,160
Speaker 4: you know, because I'm so far up.

2584
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:34,920
Speaker 5: They all look the same.

2585
02:06:35,880 --> 02:06:38,320
Speaker 3: That's terrible, Like why would I why would I pay

2586
02:06:38,760 --> 02:06:39,240
Speaker 3: to see that.

2587
02:06:41,360 --> 02:06:46,160
Speaker 2: I'm with you, all right, let's go over today in

2588
02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:49,280
Speaker 2: what we can expect, and then kind of how we

2589
02:06:49,360 --> 02:06:55,480
Speaker 2: feel about teams making a run beginning Thursday. So in

2590
02:06:55,520 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 2: the first semi final, today's Tennessee in Auburn, and I

2591
02:06:59,520 --> 02:07:01,640
Speaker 2: think we all I mean, I think you and I

2592
02:07:01,680 --> 02:07:06,120
Speaker 2: agree that Auburn's probably the second best team in the country.

2593
02:07:07,680 --> 02:07:10,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, depending on the day of the week,

2594
02:07:10,280 --> 02:07:12,640
Speaker 4: I can go Auburn, I can go Duke. I think

2595
02:07:12,680 --> 02:07:14,840
Speaker 4: Auburn has a lot of guys who can really score

2596
02:07:14,880 --> 02:07:17,040
Speaker 4: you and kill you on a given night, as evidenced

2597
02:07:17,040 --> 02:07:19,040
Speaker 4: by the fact that Jani Broom was out for about

2598
02:07:19,040 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 4: a week at one point earlier this year and they

2599
02:07:20,720 --> 02:07:24,400
Speaker 4: didn't lose a game, and Bacon Mazara and Petterford and

2600
02:07:24,400 --> 02:07:28,440
Speaker 4: those guys just kept on rolling. So I don't know,

2601
02:07:28,760 --> 02:07:31,600
Speaker 4: I can see I might actually gotta go with Auburn

2602
02:07:31,640 --> 02:07:34,120
Speaker 4: over Duke, just by a slight hair at this point

2603
02:07:34,160 --> 02:07:36,280
Speaker 4: in time. But again, if you talk to me tomorrow,

2604
02:07:36,320 --> 02:07:39,520
Speaker 4: it can absolutely change. Yeah, but I'll say this, Anthony,

2605
02:07:39,600 --> 02:07:43,040
Speaker 4: they're clearly one in one a about everybody else I'll

2606
02:07:43,040 --> 02:07:44,560
Speaker 4: say that now.

2607
02:07:44,600 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 2: I know that again they had nothing to play for,

2608
02:07:47,040 --> 02:07:49,920
Speaker 2: but I still think they just I still think they

2609
02:07:50,040 --> 02:07:50,960
Speaker 2: beat Tennessee today.

2610
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:51,919
Speaker 3: I agree.

2611
02:07:52,120 --> 02:07:54,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so too, Tennessee.

2612
02:07:55,000 --> 02:07:58,280
Speaker 2: I'm mad. There's something I like him, but I'm not

2613
02:07:58,360 --> 02:08:01,120
Speaker 2: in love with him. Like I could see them not

2614
02:08:01,200 --> 02:08:02,320
Speaker 2: getting to the final four.

2615
02:08:02,480 --> 02:08:03,320
Speaker 5: Oh, I could Tennessee.

2616
02:08:03,360 --> 02:08:06,000
Speaker 3: I can see getting eliminated in the first weekend. Yeah,

2617
02:08:06,960 --> 02:08:08,720
Speaker 3: I feel the same way. I feel the same way.

2618
02:08:08,880 --> 02:08:11,560
Speaker 3: And that's a twenty six and sixteen. It's the top

2619
02:08:11,600 --> 02:08:12,160
Speaker 3: ten team.

2620
02:08:12,440 --> 02:08:15,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they're a team that's really good defensively but

2621
02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:19,200
Speaker 4: basically of Yeah, but if Lanier and Ziggler can't do

2622
02:08:19,240 --> 02:08:23,720
Speaker 4: anything offensively, which happens, they have nothing. I mean, no

2623
02:08:23,800 --> 02:08:25,600
Speaker 4: disrespect to the rest of the roster, but I mean

2624
02:08:25,680 --> 02:08:29,360
Speaker 4: Lanier is really the only legitimate scorer who you're scared of.

2625
02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:30,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.

2626
02:08:31,960 --> 02:08:32,680
Speaker 9: Uh.

2627
02:08:32,760 --> 02:08:35,480
Speaker 2: And then in the other on the other side, it's

2628
02:08:35,560 --> 02:08:40,400
Speaker 2: Florida and Alabama and again that we talked about a

2629
02:08:40,480 --> 02:08:41,240
Speaker 2: little earlier.

2630
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:43,440
Speaker 3: But Florida is a team to me that's made for the.

2631
02:08:43,440 --> 02:08:47,400
Speaker 4: Tournament easily, Yeah, because they really don't have a major weakness.

2632
02:08:48,320 --> 02:08:51,520
Speaker 4: They you know, they you know, have a great player

2633
02:08:51,520 --> 02:08:53,640
Speaker 4: in Walker Clayton, who can dominate a game without even

2634
02:08:53,640 --> 02:08:54,680
Speaker 4: scoring a lot of points.

2635
02:08:54,720 --> 02:08:55,640
Speaker 5: He's really efficient.

2636
02:08:56,120 --> 02:08:58,600
Speaker 4: I think they have four or five guys averaging double figures.

2637
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:02,640
Speaker 4: They go really deep into the bench, they have decent size,

2638
02:09:03,600 --> 02:09:05,320
Speaker 4: they're really not lacking for much, and they have really

2639
02:09:05,360 --> 02:09:08,120
Speaker 4: good athleticism, and so it's why they can, you know,

2640
02:09:08,320 --> 02:09:10,400
Speaker 4: beat a team like Alabama, which I expect them to

2641
02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:14,440
Speaker 4: do again today. By the way, So if Florida again

2642
02:09:14,560 --> 02:09:16,160
Speaker 4: is a team that doesn't get talked about a whole

2643
02:09:16,160 --> 02:09:19,480
Speaker 4: lot despite their high ranking, easily easily should be one

2644
02:09:19,480 --> 02:09:20,920
Speaker 4: of the favorites to win the entire thing.

2645
02:09:21,600 --> 02:09:26,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love them and albadas cut Like, here's

2646
02:09:26,280 --> 02:09:27,040
Speaker 2: the only thing that's.

2647
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:30,600
Speaker 3: The amazing thing about that SEC. It's pretty amazing.

2648
02:09:31,280 --> 02:09:35,360
Speaker 4: Fourteen teams then probably, yeah, would be a record and

2649
02:09:35,400 --> 02:09:37,480
Speaker 4: they all deserve it, all deserve it.

2650
02:09:38,360 --> 02:09:41,160
Speaker 3: But again, like today, the same thing I like. I

2651
02:09:41,280 --> 02:09:44,240
Speaker 3: like Florida today. Yeah, yeah, as do I.

2652
02:09:44,280 --> 02:09:46,880
Speaker 5: The problem with Alabama is they just have too many lolls.

2653
02:09:46,920 --> 02:09:50,280
Speaker 4: Defensively, they can score with anybody, but if they go cold,

2654
02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:53,360
Speaker 4: if their defense takes a half step back, they just

2655
02:09:53,440 --> 02:09:54,520
Speaker 4: they can't stick with people.

2656
02:09:56,200 --> 02:09:57,800
Speaker 5: They need Mark Siers to have a big game.

2657
02:09:58,320 --> 02:10:01,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I don't same thing with you know,

2658
02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:04,360
Speaker 2: it would have closed it a tournament. I just don't

2659
02:10:04,400 --> 02:10:06,720
Speaker 2: know that they have enough to make it. Like I

2660
02:10:06,720 --> 02:10:09,880
Speaker 2: could see them getting into the sweet sixteen, but I

2661
02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:11,440
Speaker 2: think that's kind of where they're capped.

2662
02:10:11,680 --> 02:10:12,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree.

2663
02:10:16,160 --> 02:10:20,240
Speaker 2: You got Wisconsin Michigan State in the Big Ten semi

2664
02:10:21,200 --> 02:10:25,360
Speaker 2: and you know, at freaking Izzo his.

2665
02:10:25,520 --> 02:10:29,080
Speaker 3: Teams, it's amazing. His teams are the same. He always

2666
02:10:29,120 --> 02:10:29,560
Speaker 3: finds a way.

2667
02:10:29,640 --> 02:10:33,160
Speaker 2: Does they always right? They just always do. They played it.

2668
02:10:33,240 --> 02:10:37,480
Speaker 2: You're gritty, they play the game tough. It's it's uncandy

2669
02:10:38,680 --> 02:10:39,840
Speaker 2: and it's it's not a team.

2670
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 4: Like even speaking right now, I don't expect Michigan State

2671
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:44,840
Speaker 4: to make it out of the Sweet sixteen at the

2672
02:10:44,960 --> 02:10:47,320
Speaker 4: at the deepest, watch them be in the final four.

2673
02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:51,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how they do it all the time. Yeah. Yeah,

2674
02:10:51,520 --> 02:10:51,840
Speaker 3: They're a.

2675
02:10:51,840 --> 02:10:54,400
Speaker 4: Team that few people really have much belief in. They

2676
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:56,640
Speaker 4: don't have a lot of great players at all. Jace

2677
02:10:56,720 --> 02:10:58,880
Speaker 4: Richardson I think is really talented, but he's not you know,

2678
02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:00,840
Speaker 4: he's not even a father right now.

2679
02:11:01,160 --> 02:11:01,480
Speaker 3: Is good.

2680
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:05,440
Speaker 4: But Lo and Behold is a team that you can

2681
02:11:05,480 --> 02:11:07,600
Speaker 4: blink and you find they find themselves in the final four.

2682
02:11:07,960 --> 02:11:08,960
Speaker 5: This is what is Oo does.

2683
02:11:09,120 --> 02:11:13,720
Speaker 2: To your point, I like him today against Wisconsin, I agree, yep.

2684
02:11:14,920 --> 02:11:19,400
Speaker 2: And then in the other Sammy Maryland and Michigan. I'm

2685
02:11:19,400 --> 02:11:22,160
Speaker 2: not a big Michigan fan. I don't think they're that good.

2686
02:11:22,440 --> 02:11:24,440
Speaker 2: I do like Maryland. I think you and I both

2687
02:11:24,480 --> 02:11:27,840
Speaker 2: agree that Maryland's the type of team that can make

2688
02:11:27,880 --> 02:11:29,560
Speaker 2: a little bit of a run, make some noise.

2689
02:11:29,920 --> 02:11:32,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. Michigan is too inconsistent for me. That's

2690
02:11:32,720 --> 02:11:35,000
Speaker 4: that's the problem with them. You know what you're gonna

2691
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:36,440
Speaker 4: get on a night in a night out basis, if

2692
02:11:36,480 --> 02:11:38,680
Speaker 4: they bring it, and if they're on their game, they

2693
02:11:38,680 --> 02:11:42,400
Speaker 4: can play with almost anybody. But you just don't know

2694
02:11:42,440 --> 02:11:44,480
Speaker 4: what you're gonna get on a night in, night out basis.

2695
02:11:44,560 --> 02:11:46,520
Speaker 4: And Maryland is a team that has a lot of

2696
02:11:46,560 --> 02:11:48,920
Speaker 4: depth that can really score, can get you inside and out.

2697
02:11:49,480 --> 02:11:52,240
Speaker 4: So yeah, Maryland's Maryland's I don't know if I say

2698
02:11:52,240 --> 02:11:55,240
Speaker 4: they win easily, but I'll be hard pressed to find

2699
02:11:55,240 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 4: Michigan I'll win in this game.

2700
02:11:56,320 --> 02:11:57,080
Speaker 3: I'll put it that way.

2701
02:11:57,560 --> 02:12:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I like I like mal in the Big

2702
02:12:02,320 --> 02:12:08,040
Speaker 2: East semi final final. Excuse me, Yeah, Saint John's and Creighton,

2703
02:12:08,120 --> 02:12:11,880
Speaker 2: Creighton takes Out, takes Off, takes out Connecticut. That was

2704
02:12:11,920 --> 02:12:15,800
Speaker 2: a great game last night. Uh, marred by the dunk

2705
02:12:15,840 --> 02:12:21,120
Speaker 2: at the end. Yeah, dude, we're with class, all right,

2706
02:12:21,280 --> 02:12:23,760
Speaker 2: come on, bro, can't.

2707
02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:24,200
Speaker 3: Do that, man.

2708
02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:27,160
Speaker 4: But I mcderm gude into him a little bit after

2709
02:12:27,160 --> 02:12:29,840
Speaker 4: the game, after he and Hurley got into it, he

2710
02:12:29,920 --> 02:12:31,600
Speaker 4: walked over into the player and kind of gave him

2711
02:12:31,600 --> 02:12:33,040
Speaker 4: in the ca gave him an ear full, saying, you

2712
02:12:33,080 --> 02:12:34,760
Speaker 4: don't do that because you put all of us in

2713
02:12:34,800 --> 02:12:37,360
Speaker 4: a bad spot. Now we have a just shoving match,

2714
02:12:37,400 --> 02:12:39,400
Speaker 4: and I'm shouting at the coach and all that.

2715
02:12:39,480 --> 02:12:41,000
Speaker 3: Now I got to shout at you.

2716
02:12:41,120 --> 02:12:45,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right about Davey, about Danny Many.

2717
02:12:48,480 --> 02:12:52,040
Speaker 3: But you know what you we we you know respected.

2718
02:12:52,160 --> 02:12:55,240
Speaker 2: We started the show talking about some of those those

2719
02:12:55,320 --> 02:13:00,120
Speaker 2: legendary coaches, right, talking about Bobby Knight and coach He

2720
02:13:00,440 --> 02:13:04,120
Speaker 2: and Dean Smith and Roy Williams and John Chaney.

2721
02:13:04,440 --> 02:13:05,880
Speaker 3: You know who I still love.

2722
02:13:06,120 --> 02:13:07,200
Speaker 5: John Chaney was the best.

2723
02:13:07,520 --> 02:13:10,880
Speaker 3: He was my main man. Uh.

2724
02:13:10,920 --> 02:13:14,320
Speaker 2: Those guys are bigger than life, guys Patino and Cali

2725
02:13:14,440 --> 02:13:19,360
Speaker 2: Perry and you know, all those guys, and they need

2726
02:13:19,400 --> 02:13:21,400
Speaker 2: to sustain, right, And that's curly.

2727
02:13:22,960 --> 02:13:24,800
Speaker 4: Oh, for sure, the best thing he could have done

2728
02:13:24,960 --> 02:13:27,440
Speaker 4: was not take the Laker job and stay at Yukon.

2729
02:13:27,800 --> 02:13:31,000
Speaker 5: That he's built for that. I think he even admitted that.

2730
02:13:30,960 --> 02:13:34,000
Speaker 4: In an interview that he had earlier this week. Some

2731
02:13:34,040 --> 02:13:37,080
Speaker 4: guys I think are just better built for the college game. Yeah,

2732
02:13:37,160 --> 02:13:39,080
Speaker 4: and I think Harley kind of fits that profile.

2733
02:13:39,760 --> 02:13:44,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. He's a college guy all the way. Yeah,

2734
02:13:44,360 --> 02:13:48,480
Speaker 2: he's not an NBA guy now. But uh, Creighton, how

2735
02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:49,840
Speaker 2: do you see today?

2736
02:13:50,480 --> 02:13:50,600
Speaker 3: Well?

2737
02:13:50,640 --> 02:13:52,720
Speaker 4: I see Saint John's locking up on defense like they

2738
02:13:52,760 --> 02:13:55,200
Speaker 4: typically do, you know, like as well as good as

2739
02:13:55,240 --> 02:13:57,400
Speaker 4: Creighton is there, they could be hot and cold from

2740
02:13:57,440 --> 02:13:59,960
Speaker 4: three and that kind of plays right into the hand

2741
02:14:00,200 --> 02:14:03,120
Speaker 4: of Saint John's, who is dominant defensively inside or out,

2742
02:14:03,160 --> 02:14:05,839
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. I know Saint John's has issues scoring

2743
02:14:06,440 --> 02:14:09,800
Speaker 4: at times, but if they can get enough, which more

2744
02:14:09,840 --> 02:14:10,879
Speaker 4: often than not they.

2745
02:14:10,720 --> 02:14:12,560
Speaker 3: Do from from R J.

2746
02:14:12,680 --> 02:14:14,640
Speaker 4: Lewis, I think they can. I think they can make

2747
02:14:14,640 --> 02:14:16,280
Speaker 4: a deep run in the tournament. So I actually see

2748
02:14:16,280 --> 02:14:17,000
Speaker 4: them winning this thing.

2749
02:14:17,920 --> 02:14:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. I like them. That would complete

2750
02:14:21,440 --> 02:14:22,240
Speaker 3: a great story.

2751
02:14:22,280 --> 02:14:24,840
Speaker 2: And by the way, I think they can make you

2752
02:14:25,040 --> 02:14:26,959
Speaker 2: run in in the tournament.

2753
02:14:27,200 --> 02:14:30,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. They can go now, they can make

2754
02:14:30,480 --> 02:14:32,600
Speaker 3: a run. The scoring scares me, but when you can

2755
02:14:32,640 --> 02:14:34,400
Speaker 3: play defense the way that they can play.

2756
02:14:34,400 --> 02:14:39,280
Speaker 2: They get after a boy and and they're they're really

2757
02:14:40,160 --> 02:14:43,400
Speaker 2: you know, they're they're They're a veteran type of team.

2758
02:14:43,280 --> 02:14:48,520
Speaker 4: You know, absolutely absolutely not quite battle tested, not that

2759
02:14:48,560 --> 02:14:50,400
Speaker 4: they had they've they made a deep run at all

2760
02:14:50,480 --> 02:14:52,240
Speaker 4: to begin with. But you know, they have some guys

2761
02:14:52,280 --> 02:14:54,080
Speaker 4: who come in from the transfer portal. They have something

2762
02:14:54,160 --> 02:14:57,480
Speaker 4: a little bit of experience. But I mean the ultimate

2763
02:14:57,480 --> 02:14:59,280
Speaker 4: trump card is the guy that's sitting in the big

2764
02:14:59,320 --> 02:15:02,200
Speaker 4: seat and Rick Patino, who has been there, who knows

2765
02:15:02,240 --> 02:15:03,840
Speaker 4: the ins and outs, And I think that makes a

2766
02:15:03,840 --> 02:15:04,520
Speaker 4: big difference to.

2767
02:15:06,360 --> 02:15:07,360
Speaker 3: Uh.

2768
02:15:07,680 --> 02:15:12,040
Speaker 2: And then you got Duke Louisville in the ACC final,

2769
02:15:12,840 --> 02:15:17,520
Speaker 2: and I gotta tell you, man, oh man, I think Louisville.

2770
02:15:17,960 --> 02:15:19,840
Speaker 3: I think it's a tough game for Duke tonight.

2771
02:15:20,800 --> 02:15:26,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, without without Brown, without Cooper, I think it's and

2772
02:15:27,280 --> 02:15:29,880
Speaker 2: knowing that you already get the one he locked up,

2773
02:15:30,840 --> 02:15:31,839
Speaker 2: I think it's Louisville.

2774
02:15:32,120 --> 02:15:34,240
Speaker 3: Louisville plays forty minutes. Man, they do.

2775
02:15:34,440 --> 02:15:36,920
Speaker 4: They play hard, They play really really hard, and you

2776
02:15:36,960 --> 02:15:38,600
Speaker 4: know they want it. Do you think they don't want

2777
02:15:38,600 --> 02:15:41,960
Speaker 4: to get a giant victory against the top team in

2778
02:15:42,000 --> 02:15:44,480
Speaker 4: the country in the conference tournament to win the ACC.

2779
02:15:45,200 --> 02:15:47,800
Speaker 4: So they're gonna be playing their asses off to try

2780
02:15:47,800 --> 02:15:49,680
Speaker 4: to win this thing today. So even if I don't

2781
02:15:49,680 --> 02:15:51,240
Speaker 4: think Duke is gonna take their foot off the gas,

2782
02:15:51,280 --> 02:15:53,400
Speaker 4: I don't think they're wired that way. Even with flag out,

2783
02:15:53,880 --> 02:15:55,440
Speaker 4: They're gonna try to go out and try to win it.

2784
02:15:55,520 --> 02:15:58,920
Speaker 4: But I think Louisville is gonna come in guns blazing.

2785
02:15:59,000 --> 02:16:00,520
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be motivated to try to win

2786
02:16:00,560 --> 02:16:02,040
Speaker 4: this thing and try to put themselves on the map

2787
02:16:02,080 --> 02:16:03,360
Speaker 4: as a legit threat in the tournament.

2788
02:16:03,800 --> 02:16:04,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2789
02:16:04,560 --> 02:16:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then in the Big twelve Arizona Houston.

2790
02:16:10,200 --> 02:16:12,160
Speaker 3: What's you're reid on Houston for the tournament?

2791
02:16:12,680 --> 02:16:13,440
Speaker 5: I like Houston.

2792
02:16:14,080 --> 02:16:17,640
Speaker 4: I think Houston spectacular. Houston plays. I would say, maybe

2793
02:16:17,680 --> 02:16:20,080
Speaker 4: not just as good a defense, but they're pretty comparable

2794
02:16:20,480 --> 02:16:23,600
Speaker 4: to a team like a Saint John's, but they got.

2795
02:16:23,600 --> 02:16:25,640
Speaker 3: Dudes who can score through deep. Two.

2796
02:16:25,960 --> 02:16:28,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think Crier didn't even have that

2797
02:16:28,480 --> 02:16:30,600
Speaker 4: great of a night the other night, and it didn't

2798
02:16:30,600 --> 02:16:33,160
Speaker 4: even matter because they have a bunch of guys that

2799
02:16:33,160 --> 02:16:36,920
Speaker 4: can shoot and a lot of depth to your point,

2800
02:16:37,080 --> 02:16:39,720
Speaker 4: So Houston's another team that doesn't get talked about it

2801
02:16:39,720 --> 02:16:41,120
Speaker 4: a lot, despite the fact that they play in a

2802
02:16:41,160 --> 02:16:45,560
Speaker 4: major conference and they're highly ranked. But when you hear

2803
02:16:45,680 --> 02:16:49,360
Speaker 4: National Championship talk, I don't necessarily hear Houston mentioned a lot,

2804
02:16:49,640 --> 02:16:50,720
Speaker 4: and I think that's a mistake.

2805
02:16:52,600 --> 02:16:53,640
Speaker 3: Hang out one beef.

2806
02:16:54,240 --> 02:16:58,920
Speaker 2: Okay, the Big twelveth final is at six and the

2807
02:16:58,959 --> 02:17:02,400
Speaker 2: Big East Finals at six third, and then the ACC

2808
02:17:02,640 --> 02:17:05,959
Speaker 2: final is at a thirty.

2809
02:17:06,240 --> 02:17:07,720
Speaker 3: Can't they stagger them better?

2810
02:17:09,959 --> 02:17:12,760
Speaker 4: You would think, right, Well, you have different networks and

2811
02:17:12,840 --> 02:17:15,680
Speaker 4: different windows, and the problem is you have different conferences

2812
02:17:15,720 --> 02:17:18,879
Speaker 4: operating independently, unlike the NFL.

2813
02:17:18,640 --> 02:17:20,480
Speaker 5: Or the NBA where they can kind of control that.

2814
02:17:21,160 --> 02:17:24,560
Speaker 4: So the from a fan perspective of the sport, you're

2815
02:17:24,600 --> 02:17:29,160
Speaker 4: absolutely right. But you know, I think ESPN has the

2816
02:17:29,200 --> 02:17:32,959
Speaker 4: Big Twelve and the ACC and those are decently spread

2817
02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:35,920
Speaker 4: out by about two hours two and a half hours,

2818
02:17:35,920 --> 02:17:37,840
Speaker 4: I believe. But then you slot in creating in Saint

2819
02:17:37,920 --> 02:17:41,320
Speaker 4: John's which Fox has at three thirty Pacific. It just

2820
02:17:41,400 --> 02:17:43,920
Speaker 4: kind of messes everything up. But in a perfect world,

2821
02:17:43,959 --> 02:17:45,920
Speaker 4: they would split it up so we can watch. You

2822
02:17:45,959 --> 02:17:47,560
Speaker 4: can't kind of have all these games like in a

2823
02:17:47,560 --> 02:17:51,120
Speaker 4: standalone situation when possible because even the big ten semi

2824
02:17:51,160 --> 02:17:54,280
Speaker 4: in the in the sec semi between Bama Flord and

2825
02:17:54,320 --> 02:17:56,320
Speaker 4: Michigan Maryland are going to be going on cre currently.

2826
02:17:56,760 --> 02:17:57,000
Speaker 3: Well.

2827
02:17:57,160 --> 02:18:00,320
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing, like if you're when you

2828
02:18:00,360 --> 02:18:04,600
Speaker 2: look at ESPN and Fox, you gotta work. You're better

2829
02:18:04,640 --> 02:18:08,800
Speaker 2: off working and together with it because it's a final,

2830
02:18:08,920 --> 02:18:11,600
Speaker 2: right correct, Yeah, And because it's the final, you don't

2831
02:18:11,640 --> 02:18:15,560
Speaker 2: want canibalism right right, like you're gonna you're gonna eat

2832
02:18:15,600 --> 02:18:19,200
Speaker 2: off each other. Yeah, that's a good point, father, you know.

2833
02:18:19,320 --> 02:18:23,480
Speaker 2: I mean, you're better off staggering it with the finals. Like,

2834
02:18:23,520 --> 02:18:24,760
Speaker 2: I get it, you got a lot of games. You

2835
02:18:24,760 --> 02:18:27,440
Speaker 2: gotta get a lot of games in, but it's a final,

2836
02:18:27,879 --> 02:18:29,880
Speaker 2: so at least stagger the finals.

2837
02:18:29,959 --> 02:18:31,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, you should find a way to get a final

2838
02:18:31,760 --> 02:18:34,360
Speaker 4: to be by itself for as long as possible. Maybe

2839
02:18:34,360 --> 02:18:36,080
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of crossover from the end of

2840
02:18:36,120 --> 02:18:38,840
Speaker 4: one in the beginning of the other, but to start

2841
02:18:38,920 --> 02:18:41,320
Speaker 4: within an hour and ten minutes of each other or whatever,

2842
02:18:41,360 --> 02:18:43,400
Speaker 4: it is just probably not the best idea.

2843
02:18:43,640 --> 02:18:45,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I don't know why you can't start at

2844
02:18:45,879 --> 02:18:50,800
Speaker 2: nine thirty to Louisville Duke. Yeah, nine thirty Eastern, six

2845
02:18:50,879 --> 02:18:51,400
Speaker 2: thirty percent.

2846
02:18:51,680 --> 02:18:53,680
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I think you're fine.

2847
02:18:53,879 --> 02:18:55,160
Speaker 5: It's a pretty late tip, but.

2848
02:18:56,840 --> 02:19:02,040
Speaker 2: I guess they do it all week Garden Goods. You

2849
02:19:02,120 --> 02:19:08,199
Speaker 2: know the championship game, isn't that usually eight fifty five Eastern? Uh?

2850
02:19:08,320 --> 02:19:13,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Actually, you're right thousan percent. All right, Well,

2851
02:19:13,480 --> 02:19:15,560
Speaker 3: let's uh to quick too. We'll come back.

2852
02:19:15,600 --> 02:19:19,000
Speaker 2: We'll take a look at everything from a betting standpoint

2853
02:19:19,000 --> 02:19:21,959
Speaker 2: with our man the Brains. Coming up next, where the

2854
02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:25,360
Speaker 2: fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.

2855
02:19:27,600 --> 02:19:30,480
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2856
02:19:30,520 --> 02:19:33,880
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2857
02:19:34,040 --> 02:19:38,120
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2858
02:19:38,240 --> 02:19:39,199
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2859
02:19:40,320 --> 02:19:46,400
Speaker 2: Alright Fellas from the Tyraq dot com studios. Kfig Kevin

2860
02:19:46,440 --> 02:19:53,200
Speaker 2: figures in four fit secuz my man college chill listening.

2861
02:19:53,560 --> 02:19:57,600
Speaker 2: He said, Saint John's hand ride today. He loves the

2862
02:19:57,720 --> 02:20:03,120
Speaker 2: Johnnies and now joining us FI from a betting standpoint,

2863
02:20:03,480 --> 02:20:06,640
Speaker 2: the Brain. Yes, Brad Feinberg, Good morning.

2864
02:20:06,400 --> 02:20:08,920
Speaker 6: Brain, How are you, buddy? Could you hear your voice?

2865
02:20:09,320 --> 02:20:11,240
Speaker 3: You too? Always always happy?

2866
02:20:11,280 --> 02:20:17,760
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's day, Big weekend, Same same to you, big weekend. Uh,

2867
02:20:17,959 --> 02:20:22,960
Speaker 2: I brain, we got cut big great day of basketball today.

2868
02:20:23,280 --> 02:20:26,920
Speaker 2: It was a fun day yesterday, and uh this is

2869
02:20:26,959 --> 02:20:29,960
Speaker 2: a perfect appetizer for the tournament.

2870
02:20:30,640 --> 02:20:31,840
Speaker 3: Let's get it started.

2871
02:20:31,959 --> 02:20:35,040
Speaker 2: Let's start with the Big Ten, and I'll start with

2872
02:20:35,080 --> 02:20:38,879
Speaker 2: your squad, Michigan, because you're a Michigan man.

2873
02:20:40,120 --> 02:20:45,080
Speaker 6: Probably my favorite bets of the day. I did that

2874
02:20:45,240 --> 02:20:47,480
Speaker 6: Maryland thing three and a half yesterday. You get totally

2875
02:20:47,520 --> 02:20:50,560
Speaker 6: four today. The Michigan had a great performance last night.

2876
02:20:50,680 --> 02:20:55,040
Speaker 6: They'd been struggling and they played I'll play a good

2877
02:20:55,080 --> 02:20:58,520
Speaker 6: game against the Purdue team that has also been struggling.

2878
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:02,680
Speaker 6: Uh me, Maryland, I bet them to win the Big

2879
02:21:02,720 --> 02:21:06,959
Speaker 6: Ten before the tournament started. I think they're the most

2880
02:21:07,120 --> 02:21:10,000
Speaker 6: under the radar team that's played much better than people

2881
02:21:10,040 --> 02:21:13,280
Speaker 6: realize this year. If you think about it, what this

2882
02:21:13,360 --> 02:21:17,120
Speaker 6: team has done, Anthony, They've only lost I believe six

2883
02:21:17,160 --> 02:21:20,360
Speaker 6: games this year, and every one is I believe been

2884
02:21:20,400 --> 02:21:23,960
Speaker 6: by six points are less, and I believe five to

2885
02:21:24,080 --> 02:21:26,520
Speaker 6: six have been by three points or less. I mean

2886
02:21:26,520 --> 02:21:29,160
Speaker 6: this is a team that is I mean every time

2887
02:21:29,200 --> 02:21:31,000
Speaker 6: you have beaten them, it's basically come down to the

2888
02:21:31,040 --> 02:21:34,480
Speaker 6: last shot. I'm not saying they should have been thirty

2889
02:21:34,480 --> 02:21:35,960
Speaker 6: and oh I'm not going to say something like that.

2890
02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:38,120
Speaker 6: It's ingenuous, but it is a team to me that

2891
02:21:38,160 --> 02:21:39,960
Speaker 6: could have been a lot better than their twenty four

2892
02:21:40,000 --> 02:21:43,840
Speaker 6: and sixth record. I just think they're better than Michigan,

2893
02:21:44,000 --> 02:21:47,120
Speaker 6: I really do. I thought this line should have been

2894
02:21:47,120 --> 02:21:49,200
Speaker 6: closer to six and a half. I laid three and

2895
02:21:49,240 --> 02:21:51,320
Speaker 6: a half. You could still lay four. Still woul lay four.

2896
02:21:52,360 --> 02:21:54,800
Speaker 6: It's my favorite bet. I think Maryland is a different

2897
02:21:54,800 --> 02:21:56,560
Speaker 6: class of Michigan, and I think they win this game

2898
02:21:56,600 --> 02:21:57,560
Speaker 6: by double digits.

2899
02:21:57,840 --> 02:22:00,320
Speaker 4: How do you feel about the other Big Ten with

2900
02:22:00,400 --> 02:22:02,039
Speaker 4: Michigan State taking the Poscorns?

2901
02:22:02,280 --> 02:22:04,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Michigan State.

2902
02:22:04,800 --> 02:22:05,000
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2903
02:22:05,000 --> 02:22:06,840
Speaker 4: A lot of people coming into the season didn't have

2904
02:22:06,840 --> 02:22:08,720
Speaker 4: the highest of expectations and you look up they have

2905
02:22:08,760 --> 02:22:11,920
Speaker 4: twenty seven wins and all of a sudden izzoh. You know,

2906
02:22:12,160 --> 02:22:14,200
Speaker 4: people think they can potentially make a deep run into

2907
02:22:14,240 --> 02:22:15,720
Speaker 4: the tournament. What are you thinking here?

2908
02:22:15,959 --> 02:22:18,120
Speaker 6: Well, they well they can't. I didn't look they I

2909
02:22:18,120 --> 02:22:20,120
Speaker 6: don't think they're the most talented team. But again, you

2910
02:22:20,120 --> 02:22:23,240
Speaker 6: obviously it's a good coach and is though I lean

2911
02:22:23,600 --> 02:22:25,840
Speaker 6: to lean Lean, I didn't bet it. I lean Wisconsin.

2912
02:22:25,920 --> 02:22:28,600
Speaker 6: That being said, Wisconsin hurt my feelings a little bit

2913
02:22:28,640 --> 02:22:30,560
Speaker 6: down the stretch. I thought they were going to be

2914
02:22:30,600 --> 02:22:32,800
Speaker 6: a little bit stronger than they've been, although they seems

2915
02:22:32,800 --> 02:22:37,480
Speaker 6: like they may have righted their ship recently. It's not

2916
02:22:37,520 --> 02:22:39,240
Speaker 6: I think it's a bad number. I thought Michigan State

2917
02:22:39,280 --> 02:22:42,320
Speaker 6: would be favored by about two and a half to three.

2918
02:22:42,760 --> 02:22:45,000
Speaker 6: You could take looking at my boarder, you could take

2919
02:22:45,000 --> 02:22:49,080
Speaker 6: three and a half lean Wisconsin. I think it's more

2920
02:22:49,080 --> 02:22:51,600
Speaker 6: of a fifty to fifty kind of game, but didn't.

2921
02:22:51,879 --> 02:22:54,160
Speaker 6: I wanted at least four to consider taking Wisconsin. I

2922
02:22:54,240 --> 02:22:55,920
Speaker 6: was not able to find a four, so I passed

2923
02:22:55,959 --> 02:22:56,520
Speaker 6: on it so far.

2924
02:22:57,560 --> 02:23:01,920
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the se see the one

2925
02:23:02,040 --> 02:23:05,560
Speaker 2: semi final, the first one of the day, Auburn, Tennessee.

2926
02:23:05,840 --> 02:23:09,759
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a good one. Yeah, it's a good one.

2927
02:23:10,480 --> 02:23:14,680
Speaker 6: You know, it's interesting. Auburn is in my opinion, And

2928
02:23:14,720 --> 02:23:16,400
Speaker 6: that's the team that, by the way, I thought was

2929
02:23:16,440 --> 02:23:20,080
Speaker 6: the best team in college basketball all season. Uh and

2930
02:23:20,120 --> 02:23:22,440
Speaker 6: they you know, that's in the future that I've been

2931
02:23:22,440 --> 02:23:24,920
Speaker 6: following the most because they that's the team I have

2932
02:23:25,120 --> 02:23:27,280
Speaker 6: my biggest position on. So I've been rooting for this

2933
02:23:27,320 --> 02:23:31,800
Speaker 6: team very very hard, and unfortunately, to me, down the stretch,

2934
02:23:32,600 --> 02:23:38,200
Speaker 6: I haven't seen the same I don't know. Yeah, just

2935
02:23:38,240 --> 02:23:41,160
Speaker 6: the last the last couple of games, lose to A

2936
02:23:41,200 --> 02:23:45,440
Speaker 6: and M badly. They lose at home to all to Alabama,

2937
02:23:46,200 --> 02:23:48,840
Speaker 6: and then the last gaving it's Mississippi. They just had.

2938
02:23:48,879 --> 02:23:50,160
Speaker 6: It was a good team, I get it, but it

2939
02:23:50,360 --> 02:23:54,120
Speaker 6: was very close. It's a thirteen point favorite. It was

2940
02:23:54,160 --> 02:23:55,960
Speaker 6: pretty tight. So I don't know if they're playing their

2941
02:23:56,000 --> 02:23:59,240
Speaker 6: best basketball right now. Tennessee is another team. I don't

2942
02:23:59,240 --> 02:24:04,160
Speaker 6: love Tennessee. I just don't that. Being said four and

2943
02:24:04,160 --> 02:24:07,560
Speaker 6: a half points, only way to lean, didn't bet it.

2944
02:24:07,680 --> 02:24:12,160
Speaker 6: Only way can lean here is Tennessee. My numbers made

2945
02:24:12,160 --> 02:24:16,000
Speaker 6: this four four and a half lean, Tennessee not betting it.

2946
02:24:16,200 --> 02:24:18,800
Speaker 4: What about the other game with Alabama and Florida would

2947
02:24:18,840 --> 02:24:20,480
Speaker 4: be the second time these two times i've met in

2948
02:24:20,520 --> 02:24:21,199
Speaker 4: the last.

2949
02:24:20,920 --> 02:24:23,320
Speaker 3: Few weeks, and Florida was able to get the victory

2950
02:24:23,360 --> 02:24:25,039
Speaker 3: last time. How do you feel about this one?

2951
02:24:25,760 --> 02:24:28,000
Speaker 6: You know, it's interesting. Yeah, they did in Florida as

2952
02:24:28,040 --> 02:24:29,920
Speaker 6: the team I think is really really good. I think

2953
02:24:29,959 --> 02:24:30,880
Speaker 6: Alabama is good too.

2954
02:24:30,959 --> 02:24:31,119
Speaker 2: Now.

2955
02:24:31,120 --> 02:24:34,920
Speaker 6: Alabama when they stepped up in classes, fay out a

2956
02:24:34,959 --> 02:24:37,080
Speaker 6: few times they have, but then you know, I watched

2957
02:24:37,080 --> 02:24:39,240
Speaker 6: them yesterday and maybe I'm putting a little bit too

2958
02:24:39,360 --> 02:24:43,440
Speaker 6: much recency bias on that certainly possible. I did bet

2959
02:24:43,480 --> 02:24:45,640
Speaker 6: them plus four and a half. You could still get four,

2960
02:24:47,440 --> 02:24:49,560
Speaker 6: just because I think it's a game that either of

2961
02:24:49,600 --> 02:24:52,800
Speaker 6: these teams can win. Now, a team like Alabama because

2962
02:24:52,800 --> 02:24:54,800
Speaker 6: they scored so many points, maybe like the money line

2963
02:24:54,800 --> 02:24:58,960
Speaker 6: better because points are less scarce for the team like Alabama.

2964
02:24:59,040 --> 02:25:01,120
Speaker 6: But I do like album I am getting four. I

2965
02:25:01,120 --> 02:25:03,200
Speaker 6: think they can keep this one and more of a

2966
02:25:03,200 --> 02:25:05,760
Speaker 6: fifty to fifty kind of game, maybe get a little

2967
02:25:05,760 --> 02:25:07,560
Speaker 6: bit of a wrench from losing. They lost ninety six

2968
02:25:07,560 --> 02:25:10,680
Speaker 6: to ninety one a few days ago. I like Alabama's

2969
02:25:10,680 --> 02:25:12,000
Speaker 6: actually one of the games I did that today.

2970
02:25:12,600 --> 02:25:14,840
Speaker 3: Wow, look at that? All right?

2971
02:25:15,040 --> 02:25:20,600
Speaker 2: All right, that's funny because I don't know. I love

2972
02:25:20,680 --> 02:25:22,600
Speaker 2: this Florida team. Maybe I overlove it.

2973
02:25:22,760 --> 02:25:25,320
Speaker 6: Maybe no, I have Florida is one of my big three,

2974
02:25:25,440 --> 02:25:28,800
Speaker 6: So I do. I do like Florida quite a bit,

2975
02:25:28,840 --> 02:25:33,040
Speaker 6: but I I do think Alabama can again. I don't know,

2976
02:25:33,080 --> 02:25:34,600
Speaker 6: we'll say again. I thought number on the.

2977
02:25:34,560 --> 02:25:39,960
Speaker 2: Line the line is is speaking your language because it's

2978
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:41,960
Speaker 2: only three and a half, which to me is an

2979
02:25:42,000 --> 02:25:43,080
Speaker 2: Alabama line.

2980
02:25:44,360 --> 02:25:46,600
Speaker 6: Well, I mean here's the thing. I mean, I don't

2981
02:25:46,600 --> 02:25:49,840
Speaker 6: Obama Anthony that they have been a good team this year.

2982
02:25:49,920 --> 02:25:52,640
Speaker 6: I mean like they had again, they had a little

2983
02:25:52,640 --> 02:25:55,800
Speaker 6: bit of a I mean the twenty six and seven

2984
02:25:55,920 --> 02:25:57,080
Speaker 6: playing in the SEC.

2985
02:25:58,280 --> 02:26:02,520
Speaker 3: Phenomenal. I get it before, No.

2986
02:26:02,440 --> 02:26:06,160
Speaker 6: I understand that, but they they had they had. Also,

2987
02:26:06,280 --> 02:26:08,400
Speaker 6: they should have beaten Tennessee on the road. That was

2988
02:26:08,440 --> 02:26:11,280
Speaker 6: a tough loss. They did everything except win the game.

2989
02:26:11,560 --> 02:26:14,680
Speaker 6: And then they won at Auburn, so uh, and then

2990
02:26:14,680 --> 02:26:17,200
Speaker 6: they lost that home for Florida by five. But this

2991
02:26:17,280 --> 02:26:19,600
Speaker 6: is the team to me in this three games, four

2992
02:26:19,640 --> 02:26:21,800
Speaker 6: game stretch where they're playing a bunch of drag. You know,

2993
02:26:21,840 --> 02:26:26,040
Speaker 6: they put tremendous dragons like huge teams. They should have

2994
02:26:26,080 --> 02:26:29,959
Speaker 6: beaten Tennessee. They lost a horrible ending, They choked it

2995
02:26:30,040 --> 02:26:32,440
Speaker 6: up five in the last thirty seconds and they end

2996
02:26:32,520 --> 02:26:35,440
Speaker 6: up somehow losing in regulation. Okay, they did lose to

2997
02:26:36,200 --> 02:26:38,120
Speaker 6: Florida at home in a close one. Then they won

2998
02:26:38,240 --> 02:26:41,040
Speaker 6: at Auburn, then destroyed Kentucky. I kind of just like

2999
02:26:41,120 --> 02:26:43,720
Speaker 6: the way they're playing. We'll see again. Having all the

3000
02:26:43,720 --> 02:26:45,400
Speaker 6: respects on the world for Florida, by the way, not

3001
02:26:45,480 --> 02:26:47,680
Speaker 6: an anti Florida player. I think Florida, Anthony, I agree

3002
02:26:47,680 --> 02:26:51,760
Speaker 6: with you, is tremendous, but just more an intuition played

3003
02:26:51,800 --> 02:26:54,640
Speaker 6: more than anything else. I think the Alabama win this one.

3004
02:26:54,800 --> 02:26:58,120
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the finals. Let's begin in

3005
02:26:58,200 --> 02:27:01,679
Speaker 2: the Big twelve. Houston Arizona.

3006
02:27:02,560 --> 02:27:09,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know it's funny Houston have not Houston the

3007
02:27:09,000 --> 02:27:12,200
Speaker 6: team I've been fading, and yesterday I played by U

3008
02:27:12,400 --> 02:27:14,760
Speaker 6: and they, I mean talk about not even getting close.

3009
02:27:15,760 --> 02:27:20,960
Speaker 6: They just they just killed them. Arizona. I thought they

3010
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:24,480
Speaker 6: would win their first game against Kansas. They then had

3011
02:27:24,480 --> 02:27:29,520
Speaker 6: a flight upset yesterday against Texas Tech. Look, the line

3012
02:27:29,560 --> 02:27:34,480
Speaker 6: here to me is maybe at cat Hi it's you

3013
02:27:34,480 --> 02:27:36,760
Speaker 6: can get there's places out there at seven and a half,

3014
02:27:37,280 --> 02:27:42,240
Speaker 6: Lean Arizona, do Lean Arizona. I just can't get myself

3015
02:27:42,240 --> 02:27:44,800
Speaker 6: with this Houston team, still to trust them laying points

3016
02:27:44,840 --> 02:27:47,680
Speaker 6: like this, But I also don't trust Arizona either, But

3017
02:27:47,760 --> 02:27:51,560
Speaker 6: my definitely would be in easy Lean on Arizona. I

3018
02:27:51,760 --> 02:27:53,920
Speaker 6: still don't love Houston lane big points.

3019
02:27:54,480 --> 02:27:56,840
Speaker 4: How are feeling about the Big East Final with Saint

3020
02:27:56,920 --> 02:27:58,160
Speaker 4: John's taking on Creighton?

3021
02:27:59,520 --> 02:28:01,600
Speaker 6: You know well again, yeah, I mean at first Saint

3022
02:28:01,680 --> 02:28:05,280
Speaker 6: John's I mean what an incredible I mean, I mean

3023
02:28:05,920 --> 02:28:09,200
Speaker 6: just incredible job. Rick Betino's Dawn, I mean, I just

3024
02:28:10,160 --> 02:28:12,880
Speaker 6: and I root for Saint John's. And I'll tell you what, Anthony,

3025
02:28:12,879 --> 02:28:14,480
Speaker 6: do you know what? Why do I root for Saint John's?

3026
02:28:15,480 --> 02:28:19,160
Speaker 6: You know why? No, I'm gonna tell you why, because

3027
02:28:19,600 --> 02:28:22,119
Speaker 6: everyone listening or you should know. My least favorite thing.

3028
02:28:22,120 --> 02:28:24,400
Speaker 6: I can't stay everyone else loves it. It's like pizza,

3029
02:28:24,400 --> 02:28:27,160
Speaker 6: except in this case would be like me hating pizza.

3030
02:28:27,440 --> 02:28:31,000
Speaker 6: I can't stand the three point shot. I loathe it,

3031
02:28:31,840 --> 02:28:34,920
Speaker 6: and it is it is. If they got rid of it,

3032
02:28:34,959 --> 02:28:36,760
Speaker 6: I'd watch, I would make it. I'd sign like a

3033
02:28:36,879 --> 02:28:39,920
Speaker 6: thing to watch. Yeah, twenty thousand basketball games and I'll

3034
02:28:39,959 --> 02:28:41,520
Speaker 6: just watch them all something uself in a room and

3035
02:28:41,560 --> 02:28:44,160
Speaker 6: I'll never leave my house. Okay, if you get rid

3036
02:28:44,160 --> 02:28:45,800
Speaker 6: of the three, I would like it so much more.

3037
02:28:46,040 --> 02:28:49,959
Speaker 6: Saint John's wins without shooting the three, and to me

3038
02:28:50,480 --> 02:28:53,120
Speaker 6: being able to do that and when you're zagging when

3039
02:28:53,120 --> 02:28:57,360
Speaker 6: everyone else, literally literally everyone else is digging. I give

3040
02:28:57,400 --> 02:29:01,040
Speaker 6: them a lot of credit. They win with great anacious defense.

3041
02:29:01,800 --> 02:29:01,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

3042
02:29:02,360 --> 02:29:04,440
Speaker 6: I mean, the best defensive team in my opinion in

3043
02:29:04,480 --> 02:29:08,800
Speaker 6: college basketball, and they and I love how they win.

3044
02:29:09,040 --> 02:29:11,000
Speaker 6: Do I think it's sustainable for six games and say

3045
02:29:11,080 --> 02:29:15,119
Speaker 6: a tournament? No, I personally don't, but I'm actually again,

3046
02:29:15,160 --> 02:29:16,959
Speaker 6: I'm I'm rooting for them and I love what they've

3047
02:29:16,959 --> 02:29:19,160
Speaker 6: been able all commage. Look, they're playing a Creyton team

3048
02:29:19,160 --> 02:29:22,240
Speaker 6: that is you know, to me, Clayton is a is

3049
02:29:22,360 --> 02:29:26,080
Speaker 6: a good not great team. They had a good win

3050
02:29:26,200 --> 02:29:29,360
Speaker 6: last night. They had a crazy comeback against the Pall

3051
02:29:29,400 --> 02:29:32,480
Speaker 6: when they were down by like eleven with less than

3052
02:29:32,480 --> 02:29:37,199
Speaker 6: two minutes to go. I'm not I'm just I cannot

3053
02:29:37,240 --> 02:29:41,520
Speaker 6: get myself to to fade Saint John's here while the

3054
02:29:41,640 --> 02:29:44,840
Speaker 6: numbers high, didn't bet it numbers high. I thought the

3055
02:29:44,920 --> 02:29:46,320
Speaker 6: number coming at six and a half. It came in

3056
02:29:46,360 --> 02:29:47,800
Speaker 6: six and a half. That being said, if I was

3057
02:29:47,840 --> 02:29:51,160
Speaker 6: forced to bet it lean here Saint John's. But I

3058
02:29:51,160 --> 02:29:52,959
Speaker 6: think there's other games in the car better to bet

3059
02:29:53,040 --> 02:29:55,039
Speaker 6: than that because Saint John's still not a team I

3060
02:29:54,760 --> 02:29:56,440
Speaker 6: love to play points with.

3061
02:29:57,280 --> 02:30:02,600
Speaker 2: And then the acc Yeah Coop and no Brown Brown hurts.

3062
02:30:02,360 --> 02:30:06,480
Speaker 6: Too, huge thing huge Yeah yeah. Well last night it's

3063
02:30:06,480 --> 02:30:08,240
Speaker 6: funny two of my favorite teams to bet the share

3064
02:30:08,280 --> 02:30:12,800
Speaker 6: in Louisville and Clemson had Clemson yesterday which I had

3065
02:30:12,800 --> 02:30:15,760
Speaker 6: a good day yesterday, BC Man, Clemson was a that

3066
02:30:15,800 --> 02:30:17,840
Speaker 6: one hurt me and they almost kick back. If you

3067
02:30:17,920 --> 02:30:20,920
Speaker 6: watch that game. They were down by thirteen with like

3068
02:30:21,000 --> 02:30:23,440
Speaker 6: two minutes to go, and then they got it. They

3069
02:30:23,480 --> 02:30:26,840
Speaker 6: had that ball back down too with twenty seconds left.

3070
02:30:26,959 --> 02:30:29,960
Speaker 6: Crazy come up, didn't quite get there. Uh, Louisville has

3071
02:30:30,000 --> 02:30:32,680
Speaker 6: been incredible all year. I mean, this is a team

3072
02:30:32,720 --> 02:30:37,120
Speaker 6: that has been incredibly consistent without those two players. To me,

3073
02:30:38,480 --> 02:30:41,480
Speaker 6: I mean, I know, you know it's Duke still Duke whatnot.

3074
02:30:41,640 --> 02:30:44,600
Speaker 6: I didn't quite have the guts to bet it, But

3075
02:30:44,680 --> 02:30:48,320
Speaker 6: for me, I leaned Louisville all day. You can get

3076
02:30:48,400 --> 02:30:51,120
Speaker 6: six and a half out there, even see. To me,

3077
02:30:51,240 --> 02:30:54,880
Speaker 6: that would be my lean one trillion percent based off

3078
02:30:54,920 --> 02:30:56,600
Speaker 6: the injuries. But again, that's why you're seeing this number,

3079
02:30:56,640 --> 02:30:59,720
Speaker 6: and that's why it's not like five points higher. Okay,

3080
02:31:00,080 --> 02:31:02,360
Speaker 6: But I guess I'm saying I would rather take Louisville

3081
02:31:02,360 --> 02:31:04,920
Speaker 6: getting six and a half versus getting eleven with those

3082
02:31:04,920 --> 02:31:06,000
Speaker 6: two guys playing.

3083
02:31:07,320 --> 02:31:07,480
Speaker 3: Right.

3084
02:31:07,520 --> 02:31:09,480
Speaker 4: What do you think about North Carolina A cousin I

3085
02:31:09,520 --> 02:31:11,600
Speaker 4: talked about this earlier in this year, whether or not

3086
02:31:11,680 --> 02:31:13,400
Speaker 4: they should make the cut. Now that they lost to

3087
02:31:13,480 --> 02:31:16,240
Speaker 4: Duke in a tough fashion last night, where do you

3088
02:31:16,280 --> 02:31:18,240
Speaker 4: see North Carolina as far as whether they should be

3089
02:31:18,240 --> 02:31:18,720
Speaker 4: in or out?

3090
02:31:19,640 --> 02:31:21,800
Speaker 6: I again. North Carolina to me, has been one of

3091
02:31:21,800 --> 02:31:25,200
Speaker 6: the most disappointing teams in college basketball this year. From

3092
02:31:25,200 --> 02:31:26,480
Speaker 6: what I thought they were going to be to what

3093
02:31:26,520 --> 02:31:31,680
Speaker 6: they were. Fourteen losses is quite a bit. I didn't

3094
02:31:31,680 --> 02:31:34,840
Speaker 6: love the ACC as a conference overall. To be honest,

3095
02:31:34,920 --> 02:31:38,200
Speaker 6: I really didn't like the top three teams. That was

3096
02:31:38,240 --> 02:31:40,959
Speaker 6: about it. That being said, I do think this team

3097
02:31:41,000 --> 02:31:43,720
Speaker 6: played better. Again, It's not saying much, but I do

3098
02:31:43,760 --> 02:31:47,440
Speaker 6: think they played better down the stretch after they got

3099
02:31:47,440 --> 02:31:51,040
Speaker 6: blown out by Duke. I think down the stretch they

3100
02:31:51,080 --> 02:31:53,480
Speaker 6: only really had I think one loss last ten or so.

3101
02:31:53,520 --> 02:31:56,160
Speaker 6: I thought they played much better. I leaned yes for them.

3102
02:31:56,400 --> 02:31:59,320
Speaker 6: I have them in my field personally, but it's going

3103
02:31:59,360 --> 02:32:02,120
Speaker 6: to be tight. It's going to be tight. But I

3104
02:32:02,240 --> 02:32:05,320
Speaker 6: actually do think they I used it would deserve loosely,

3105
02:32:05,360 --> 02:32:06,560
Speaker 6: but I do think they deserve.

3106
02:32:06,320 --> 02:32:08,360
Speaker 3: A bit I got.

3107
02:32:08,959 --> 02:32:12,359
Speaker 2: We got about thirty seconds, forty five seconds.

3108
02:32:12,720 --> 02:32:14,440
Speaker 3: Who else? Anything else you got today?

3109
02:32:14,879 --> 02:32:17,960
Speaker 6: NBA? NBA. Look, we saw that four point play right

3110
02:32:18,040 --> 02:32:22,120
Speaker 6: with Tyree Howiburton against the Bucks the other day. Now

3111
02:32:22,240 --> 02:32:25,280
Speaker 6: back to that game for more Indiana Flying as the

3112
02:32:25,320 --> 02:32:27,720
Speaker 6: Sixers game. They was lost crazily with the Sixers playing

3113
02:32:27,760 --> 02:32:31,000
Speaker 6: no one. I did bet the Bucks minus five. I

3114
02:32:31,000 --> 02:32:32,680
Speaker 6: have no problem with them with the money line minus

3115
02:32:32,680 --> 02:32:34,680
Speaker 6: two hundred. I think they get their revenge over the

3116
02:32:34,720 --> 02:32:39,960
Speaker 6: Pacers today. And a couple of props. Michael Beasley Lake

3117
02:32:40,000 --> 02:32:44,120
Speaker 6: Beasley forty nine and nineteen over thirteen and a half points.

3118
02:32:44,120 --> 02:32:46,400
Speaker 6: So no reason not to keep playing. A guy hasn't

3119
02:32:46,440 --> 02:32:47,960
Speaker 6: playing incredibly well all year.

3120
02:32:49,240 --> 02:32:53,720
Speaker 2: I like it all brain enjoyed the round ball, Buddy good.

3121
02:32:53,920 --> 02:32:56,720
Speaker 6: I appreciate you, buddy. All right, I'll speak you guys

3122
02:32:56,720 --> 02:32:58,120
Speaker 6: next week. Be good and good luck everyone.

3123
02:32:58,440 --> 02:33:01,800
Speaker 2: Thank there he is the brain, all right, fig great

3124
02:33:01,840 --> 02:33:05,600
Speaker 2: stuff man, I love it. I'm off to go coach

3125
02:33:05,680 --> 02:33:08,640
Speaker 2: the the All Stars beautiful.

3126
02:33:09,720 --> 02:33:11,000
Speaker 5: That's the luck to you and the kids.

3127
02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:11,720
Speaker 3: Man. Should be fun.

3128
02:33:11,760 --> 02:33:14,560
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks buddy. All Star game today, so looking forward

3129
02:33:14,600 --> 02:33:17,520
Speaker 2: to it. Uh, my brother always love hanging with you.

3130
02:33:17,760 --> 02:33:19,400
Speaker 2: Great stuff. Man, really enjoyed it.

3131
02:33:19,720 --> 02:33:21,959
Speaker 5: Likewise, appreciate her brother. There goes a cuz.

3132
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:24,480
Speaker 4: Anthony Gargano Here on Fox Sports Saturday, The Fellas with

3133
02:33:24,520 --> 02:33:27,760
Speaker 4: Anthony Gargano Kevin Figure sitting in for Jason Fitz, will

3134
02:33:27,800 --> 02:33:29,840
Speaker 4: come back and wrap things up. Coming up next here

3135
02:33:29,879 --> 02:33:34,959
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3136
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3137
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3138
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3139
02:33:44,160 --> 02:33:46,080
Speaker 4: his son's All Star game after they just won the

3140
02:33:46,160 --> 02:33:47,480
Speaker 4: championship earlier this week.

3141
02:33:47,560 --> 02:33:50,080
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3156
02:34:29,480 --> 02:34:33,119
Speaker 4: talking to Debrie during the commercial break and she said, Hey,

3157
02:34:33,120 --> 02:34:34,119
Speaker 4: what are you doing this weekend?

3158
02:34:34,280 --> 02:34:36,400
Speaker 5: She asked me what's going on with my family?

3159
02:34:36,440 --> 02:34:37,640
Speaker 4: And I was like, ah, I might take my son

3160
02:34:37,720 --> 02:34:39,760
Speaker 4: to the aquarium, you know, if the weather's nice.

3161
02:34:40,120 --> 02:34:40,640
Speaker 3: What have you?

3162
02:34:40,720 --> 02:34:42,480
Speaker 5: And I ask her, bree what are you up to?

3163
02:34:43,360 --> 02:34:45,840
Speaker 5: And she says she has her her mom.

3164
02:34:45,600 --> 02:34:48,480
Speaker 4: And her mom's boyfriend and his son are in town

3165
02:34:48,920 --> 02:34:51,119
Speaker 4: and they're coming over to breeze house. And Brie said,

3166
02:34:51,920 --> 02:34:54,640
Speaker 4: they're getting ready to celebrate what exactly.

3167
02:34:54,280 --> 02:34:58,200
Speaker 9: Bri this holiday called Christmas? Christmas?

3168
02:34:58,280 --> 02:34:58,840
Speaker 3: Christmas?

3169
02:34:58,920 --> 02:35:02,200
Speaker 9: Yes on March, Fie, Yes, that is correct.

3170
02:35:02,240 --> 02:35:03,200
Speaker 5: Please explain to me.

3171
02:35:03,640 --> 02:35:07,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, how are you celebrating Christmas in March?

3172
02:35:07,360 --> 02:35:11,640
Speaker 8: Okay, So it's funny story. So he's actually a firefighter,

3173
02:35:11,760 --> 02:35:14,680
Speaker 8: my mom's boyfriend's son. He's a firefighter, and he actually

3174
02:35:14,680 --> 02:35:17,920
Speaker 8: lives in like like Bakersfield, I think, yeah, Bakersfield, and

3175
02:35:18,000 --> 02:35:22,440
Speaker 8: I obviously live out here, and and it just schedules

3176
02:35:22,480 --> 02:35:25,720
Speaker 8: like we just couldn't go find a weekend or time

3177
02:35:25,879 --> 02:35:27,480
Speaker 8: and he was actually going to come down and I

3178
02:35:27,520 --> 02:35:29,800
Speaker 8: was actually off for like, you know a few hours.

3179
02:35:30,360 --> 02:35:33,160
Speaker 8: So from like four to six pm today, we are

3180
02:35:33,200 --> 02:35:36,600
Speaker 8: going to have Christmas and exchange gifts and have pizza

3181
02:35:36,760 --> 02:35:38,640
Speaker 8: and that I mean, we're not gonna have like Tamali's Like,

3182
02:35:38,680 --> 02:35:40,920
Speaker 8: it's not going to be like really, Christmas are all like.

3183
02:35:40,879 --> 02:35:43,080
Speaker 5: Singing carols like white Christmas.

3184
02:35:42,680 --> 02:35:46,039
Speaker 9: And no, we're just gonna exchange Christmas gifts.

3185
02:35:46,160 --> 02:35:48,680
Speaker 8: I mean, okay, you can't say that there's been a

3186
02:35:48,680 --> 02:35:51,640
Speaker 8: period of time you haven't seen some family to be like, oh,

3187
02:35:51,800 --> 02:35:54,520
Speaker 8: like it's this is your birthday, Like oh you're Chris

3188
02:35:54,560 --> 02:35:56,160
Speaker 8: or you know Christmas.

3189
02:35:56,440 --> 02:35:58,879
Speaker 5: I mean birthday is one thing. A belated birthday or.

3190
02:35:58,959 --> 02:36:03,480
Speaker 10: Early transfer Christmas? Thank you Mark, you can for Christmas. No,

3191
02:36:04,840 --> 02:36:08,480
Speaker 10: Christmas is only in December. Correct, there's a Christmas could

3192
02:36:08,480 --> 02:36:09,040
Speaker 10: be moved.

3193
02:36:09,640 --> 02:36:12,520
Speaker 4: There's a Christmas season for a reason, bree. You know,

3194
02:36:12,560 --> 02:36:15,039
Speaker 4: everybody's bright and cheery, and depending on the part of

3195
02:36:15,040 --> 02:36:17,279
Speaker 4: the country or world that you live in, there's snow

3196
02:36:17,480 --> 02:36:19,080
Speaker 4: and there's carols and there's all that.

3197
02:36:19,760 --> 02:36:20,920
Speaker 10: Going to throw everybody off.

3198
02:36:21,040 --> 02:36:22,640
Speaker 9: Is going to be crazy in the neighborhood.

3199
02:36:22,920 --> 02:36:25,640
Speaker 8: Where is actually snow happening in the mountains? Like from

3200
02:36:25,680 --> 02:36:28,000
Speaker 8: I have it from my view, did you leave.

3201
02:36:27,840 --> 02:36:30,440
Speaker 3: Your Christmas decorations up in anticipation of this event?

3202
02:36:30,520 --> 02:36:32,880
Speaker 9: That's ridiculous. I am, oh, that's ridiculous.

3203
02:36:32,879 --> 02:36:34,760
Speaker 5: Oh yes, six stangy Christmas gifts.

3204
02:36:34,800 --> 02:36:37,600
Speaker 9: No Mars no, absolutely not no.

3205
02:36:38,040 --> 02:36:42,520
Speaker 8: But it's no yeah, no, but at least it's that

3206
02:36:42,760 --> 02:36:44,800
Speaker 8: you know, the family get Should I just say it

3207
02:36:44,840 --> 02:36:47,360
Speaker 8: get together? Should I just be like just to be

3208
02:36:47,400 --> 02:36:52,320
Speaker 8: more formally politically correct.

3209
02:36:50,879 --> 02:36:52,959
Speaker 5: Being politically correct. It's just, first of all, I think

3210
02:36:52,959 --> 02:36:53,640
Speaker 5: ethnic arganda.

3211
02:36:53,640 --> 02:36:57,320
Speaker 4: We'll call this a violation for sure, violation.

3212
02:36:58,600 --> 02:37:01,960
Speaker 5: No one's in the Christmas spirit and March okay, okay.

3213
02:37:02,520 --> 02:37:03,720
Speaker 5: I was looking forward to the spring.

3214
02:37:04,200 --> 02:37:06,720
Speaker 9: The spring. Okay, so it's like a spring Christmas.

3215
02:37:07,360 --> 02:37:08,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know so.

3216
02:37:08,280 --> 02:37:11,640
Speaker 4: Dave Week's great marketing manager at our local affiliate AM

3217
02:37:11,680 --> 02:37:14,600
Speaker 4: five seventy LA Sports and at Fox Sports Radio, had

3218
02:37:14,600 --> 02:37:17,800
Speaker 4: this great idea some years ago. He called it Christmas

3219
02:37:17,800 --> 02:37:20,680
Speaker 4: in July, and we were doing a bunch of giveaways,

3220
02:37:20,760 --> 02:37:23,480
Speaker 4: a bunch of different prizes for the radio station. But

3221
02:37:23,560 --> 02:37:26,320
Speaker 4: as part of the promotion, they had us play Christmas music.

3222
02:37:27,120 --> 02:37:29,720
Speaker 4: We had to play white Christmas when it was one

3223
02:37:29,800 --> 02:37:33,000
Speaker 4: hundred and two degrees outside. People were not feeling it.

3224
02:37:33,320 --> 02:37:36,240
Speaker 4: Needless to say, we scrapped that idea within about two minutes,

3225
02:37:36,800 --> 02:37:39,720
Speaker 4: because it's sacrilege. You do not celebrate Christmas in July.

3226
02:37:40,320 --> 02:37:42,600
Speaker 4: Bre you do not give away Christmas gifts into a

3227
02:37:42,680 --> 02:37:44,680
Speaker 4: Christmas and gift exchange in March.

3228
02:37:44,800 --> 02:37:48,720
Speaker 10: The songs gonna make you feel cold, Okay, yeah, exactly.

3229
02:37:48,360 --> 02:37:49,520
Speaker 9: What about Christmas music?

3230
02:37:49,600 --> 02:37:53,760
Speaker 8: Because I had issues after December twenty sixth I thought

3231
02:37:53,800 --> 02:37:55,640
Speaker 8: there should be zero Christmas music.

3232
02:37:56,320 --> 02:37:58,959
Speaker 9: That was my thing, and my aunt was pissed at me.

3233
02:37:59,560 --> 02:38:02,320
Speaker 4: Wait, so Anthony agreed that you should disagree and that

3234
02:38:02,360 --> 02:38:04,680
Speaker 4: Christmas music should continue after December twenty.

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02:38:05,080 --> 02:38:07,320
Speaker 9: Yep, No, I got Chris.

3236
02:38:07,360 --> 02:38:09,680
Speaker 10: Look, I got this look, and I tried to tell

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02:38:09,720 --> 02:38:11,720
Speaker 10: people about it, and I still got a look from

3238
02:38:11,720 --> 02:38:13,920
Speaker 10: somebody in the studio that's talking to you right now.

3239
02:38:14,160 --> 02:38:17,880
Speaker 4: Really, no, you can't play Chris once Christmas is over.

3240
02:38:18,160 --> 02:38:19,000
Speaker 4: Christmas is over.

3241
02:38:19,120 --> 02:38:19,480
Speaker 3: That's it.

3242
02:38:19,520 --> 02:38:21,680
Speaker 4: If you want to love Christmas Day, if you want

3243
02:38:21,680 --> 02:38:24,080
Speaker 4: to leave the decorations up until New Year's Day, then

3244
02:38:24,120 --> 02:38:28,080
Speaker 4: perfectly fine, do what you need to do. But Christmas

3245
02:38:28,120 --> 02:38:30,960
Speaker 4: is over on December twenty fifth at midnight or December

3246
02:38:31,000 --> 02:38:32,000
Speaker 4: twenty six at midnight.

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02:38:32,040 --> 02:38:33,240
Speaker 3: It's over at that point in time.

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02:38:33,959 --> 02:38:35,440
Speaker 5: Yeah. I sound like a Grench though? Is that what

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02:38:35,440 --> 02:38:35,720
Speaker 5: it is?

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02:38:35,800 --> 02:38:36,080
Speaker 3: Tiny?

3251
02:38:36,120 --> 02:38:36,320
Speaker 2: Bet?

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02:38:36,440 --> 02:38:38,000
Speaker 9: Tiny bet do I a little bit?

3253
02:38:38,400 --> 02:38:42,280
Speaker 10: Just sounds just fine. I got this look when I

3254
02:38:42,360 --> 02:38:44,680
Speaker 10: tried to play, you know, play certain songs, and they

3255
02:38:44,760 --> 02:38:45,120
Speaker 10: got it.

3256
02:38:45,160 --> 02:38:46,040
Speaker 9: Was it was horrible.

3257
02:38:46,600 --> 02:38:49,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I certainly understand you want to be in

3258
02:38:49,879 --> 02:38:52,360
Speaker 4: a cheery spirit. You're around family and friends you haven't

3259
02:38:52,360 --> 02:38:54,520
Speaker 4: seen in a while. I understand it's great, but you

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02:38:54,560 --> 02:38:58,520
Speaker 4: can't celebrate Christmas in March. That's a giant violation. Thank you, guys,

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio. Talk to you next time.