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Speaker 1: very excited. March badness coming up. I know everybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: put the college basketball full court press on over the

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Speaker 1: next week to jump on ken palm, start to understand

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Speaker 1: I would say two weeks um big sports weekend and

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Speaker 1: just behind us. I don't even know if it would

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Speaker 1: qualify as big. I think Gavin probably had the biggest

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Speaker 1: sports news of the of the last week, right Gavin?

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean come on, he Gavin jumps on

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Speaker 1: social media post that he got engaged. Big round of

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Speaker 1: applause for Gavin. Well done, thank you. I joined the club. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: stepping into the big leagues and that what you know what?

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Speaker 1: The next question is, right, so when are you guys

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Speaker 1: having kids that that's gonna happen. The next question is

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Speaker 1: coming up, but that's exciting. I still remember what it

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Speaker 1: was like. Did you ask I know the audience wants

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Speaker 1: to know, did you ask your fiance's dad for permission?

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Speaker 1: I asked her family, the whole family, well, her mother,

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Speaker 1: I did ask the family. Okay, Wow, that's uh, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool man. I I still remember going to a

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're your fiance's family knew the deal when

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Speaker 1: you called him up right? Okay, can I stop buy?

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Speaker 1: I wanna say something, you know, and it's it's exciting

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Speaker 1: and nerve racking, but congratulations Gavin. He is uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's really no stress over sports this week.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't a ton of happening. NBA jumps into the

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Speaker 1: the All Star break. College basketball's kind of like they're

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Speaker 1: news were really you know, the Russell Wilson stuff still

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Speaker 1: out there. We'll dive into it with a couple of

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Speaker 1: guests later today. UM, no movement with Dak Prescott and

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Speaker 1: UM and the Cowboys, you know, the whole Baker mc coolin, Cowherd,

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Speaker 1: My guy milked, Baker Mayfield and Aliens. I will say this, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: we do not have that as a topic today, Baker

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Speaker 1: have UM kind of some big news that happened here

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Speaker 1: over the last twenty four hours. A former star, and

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Speaker 1: bought out. He decided I'm willing to sacrifice thirty I

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Speaker 1: think it was thirteen point six million dollars to say,

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Speaker 1: play for a real team. Blake leaving the Detroit Pistons.

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Speaker 1: And I think I've mentioned this phrase to you guys before.

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Speaker 1: It's hard choices, easy life, easy choices, hard life. And

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Speaker 1: you know, listen, I don't personally know Blake Griffin, never

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Speaker 1: from me into the Alan Iverson Russell Westbrook camp of

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Speaker 1: what a freak athlete that guy is. Look at how

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Speaker 1: play until I'm deep into my thirties because I've got

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Speaker 1: such a deep reservoir of talent and I can do

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Speaker 1: so many things. And these guys have choices to make.

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Speaker 1: It is the easy choice to you know what, I'm

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Speaker 1: you really become a fully complete superstar, by rounding out

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Speaker 1: But Blake Griffin took the easy way out of just

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Speaker 1: Blake Griffin becomes a free agent. Everybody's clamoring for him,

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Speaker 1: the Jerry West meeting. They bring him into Staples and

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Speaker 1: over the loudspeaker. They're handing hanging a Blake Griffin banner

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Speaker 1: in the rafters right next to Taylor Swift. I had

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Speaker 1: to get that jab in. Sorry, and Blake Griffin is

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Speaker 1: Clippers hundreds every one billion dollars. Less than six months later,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers trade Blake Griffin to Detroit, like an ultimate

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Speaker 1: slap in the face, brutal. Blake Griffin still did have

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Speaker 1: one really good year there twenty nineteen. He was third

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Speaker 1: what happens when you don't totally round out your game. Guys,

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Speaker 1: what is Blake Griffin right now? Like Gavin and I

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Speaker 1: two on Blake Griffin. Is he that coveted in the market.

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Speaker 1: super depressing. You know, Blake didn't play a ton of games.

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Speaker 1: I think thirteen games this season. He's the only player

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Speaker 1: And if Blake Griffin can't dunk or do anything inside

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Speaker 1: rim protector? Can he be a small ball five? Like?

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Speaker 1: What is Blake Griffin at this stage in his career?

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Speaker 1: And again it's sad he's thirty two in a week

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Speaker 1: like this is almost depressing. This is a guy who

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Speaker 1: Lobs City, Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan's they were fun. They

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Speaker 1: were supposed to be next. We talked about it all

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Speaker 1: the time on this show. Steph Curry was like a

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. Uh, he broke his hand one postseason.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, well that never happened. Curry and

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Speaker 1: I've taken Russell Westbrook to task many times on this

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Speaker 1: show for never becoming a three point shooter. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook his career is not at the Blake Griffin level,

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Speaker 1: but his creator in quickly. You know, he's shooting fifty

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Speaker 1: eight percent from the line this year, below his career average.

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Speaker 1: crossed thirty years old and left Philly. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: same deal, Alan Iverson, same deal. And I will close

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Speaker 1: very springy, all the bunny emojis for John Moran. He

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Speaker 1: John Moran, You've got to make the hard choice and

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Speaker 1: go in the gym all summer and work on your three.

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Speaker 1: That's the hard choice in the off season. Can John

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Speaker 1: not want to do it. Now who has done it? Ah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know it's coming, my guy, Zach Levine, Baby Chris,

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Speaker 1: talk about? Um? I don't know if that if we

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Speaker 1: Levine is a guy who has made the hard choice

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Speaker 1: of in the off season. You're a twenty point of

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Speaker 1: game guy. You don't need to be in the gym.

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Speaker 1: at me like I'm a lunatic. Yeah, I remember that

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Speaker 1: dunk contest. I was ridiculous. Who is Who's sayings? Is

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Speaker 1: this not the Ying Yang Twins City DJs? Yes, Zach Levine,

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Speaker 1: Levine on threes this year. An All Star. He could

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Speaker 1: be third team All NBA, can score all three levels.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who has worked tirelessly to get

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Speaker 1: where he is. I mean, look at his three point numbers.

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Speaker 1: Thirty eight, thirty four, thirty seven. All right, Chris, that's good,

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Speaker 1: but first, here is Isaac loewen Kron with what's trending

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Speaker 1: in sports, Good morning, Jason. NFL media reporting this morning

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Speaker 1: that the New Orleans Saints have restructured the contracts of

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Speaker 1: defensive end Cameron Jordan's and linebacker to mario' davis to

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Speaker 1: create over thirteen million dollars of cap room. NFL media

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Speaker 1: also reporting the Saints have resigned running back Time Montgomery

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Speaker 1: to a one year deal. In college football, Kansas placed

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Speaker 1: head football coach Les Miles on administrative leave Friday after

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Speaker 1: the release of a LSU investigation that concluded he behaved

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Speaker 1: inappropriately with female student employees while he was the head

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Speaker 1: coach there. The report also revealed that l s US

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Speaker 1: athletic director recommended firing Miles at the time. Mark Labor

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Speaker 1: reports the n C Double A has charged the Arizona

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Speaker 1: men's basketball program with five Level one violations that includes

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Speaker 1: two allegations of academic misconduct. Head coach Sean Miller A

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Speaker 1: also charged with not promoting an atmosphere of compliance amongst

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Speaker 1: his staff on the court. I'm at Liberty to tell

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Speaker 1: you that the first team to clinch a birth in

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Speaker 1: the n C Double A Tournament is Liberty. On Friday,

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Speaker 1: they beat Stetson in the Atlantic Sun Tournament semifinals. Their

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Speaker 1: championship game opponent, North Alabama not eligible for the n

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Speaker 1: C Double A Tournament yet because they're still in the

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Speaker 1: process of making the transition to Division one. So therefore

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Speaker 1: Liberty gets the a son's automatic birth Jason, all yours, Isaac?

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Speaker 1: Before you go? Uh, can I get some more info

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Speaker 1: on this Less Miles thing, because I see I just

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Speaker 1: opened up social media and I see all these people

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Can you give me the two long

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Speaker 1: didn't read version. Well, unfortunately, uh, it's very there is

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Speaker 1: no version of that now. It's it's just disturbing, it's creepy,

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Speaker 1: it's Facebook, it's text messages, it's female students in a

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Speaker 1: car with him, the allegations that he uh suggested they

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Speaker 1: go to a hotel or yes, but two at the

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Speaker 1: time or whatever. Yeah, sixty seven. Now, so that this

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Speaker 1: the crux of it is what what adds the dimension

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Speaker 1: to this besides all these really creepy allegations. Is this

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Speaker 1: all was from twenty thirteen and it's just coming to

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Speaker 1: light now because USA today sued l s U. They

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Speaker 1: actually took them to court to get this investigative report release.

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Speaker 1: So this investigative report was done in ten by l

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Speaker 1: s U. The recommendations were that Miles, at the time

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Speaker 1: ls USE head coach, acted inappropriately. The athletic director at

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Speaker 1: the time recommended that he be fired. But despite that,

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Speaker 1: that report was not made public by l s U

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Speaker 1: at all. In you think that would have been of

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Speaker 1: interest to the university or the student body. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this university report literally ordered him not to be alone

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Speaker 1: with female students. In the report, he's and then and

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Speaker 1: then and then Kansas hires him now, so it's multifaceted.

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Speaker 1: Both LSU essentially covering this up, if you will, and

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Speaker 1: also Kansas hiring him and employing him as the head coach.

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Speaker 1: So yes, that's that's what stands out. Wow, thank you, Isaac.

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Speaker 1: So less Miles, man, he sounds like he's in some trouble.

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Speaker 1: This is creepy. And so less Miles was creeping on

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Speaker 1: l s U students on Facebook and in person. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And also, according to the report, he like ordered that

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Speaker 1: all female student employees be uh fit, blonde and attractive.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna say anything in regard to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what that's what the report alleged, alleged that he maintained. Wow. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that seems like an explosive story. Thank you, Isaac. It's

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Speaker 1: me Jason McEntire live from the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Kansas is gonna be in the market for a new

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Speaker 1: head coach and less Miles Wow. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: guess the real news is here. L s U at

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Speaker 1: this time was what they were a perennial contender for

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Speaker 1: the national title. And I think it's pretty clear that

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Speaker 1: l s U prioritize football and winning over the safety

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Speaker 1: of their students. And um, there's probably gonna be some

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Speaker 1: lawsuits coming out of this. I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: statute of limitations is in Louisiana. But if the football

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Speaker 1: program buried this stuff so less moles could continue bringing

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Speaker 1: in five star recruits and and trying to win national championships, Um,

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Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be bad. That that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Um where were we? Oh? The other thing Isaac also

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Speaker 1: mentioned during the I mean, Isaac is just full of

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Speaker 1: great news today. Um, the New Orleans Saints restructured to

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Speaker 1: defensive players to Mario Davis Cam Jordan's if memory serves Gavin,

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Speaker 1: they did some of this capri structuring about a month ago.

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Speaker 1: They've done some this week as well. What are we

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Speaker 1: supposed to read into this? Jay Glazer was the one

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Speaker 1: who initially reported the Drew Brees toast and he's retiring.

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Speaker 1: It was his last game in the playoffs. Remember when

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Speaker 1: he gagged and threw three picks and cost me money

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Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay and dare making I mean, is all

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Speaker 1: our all these moves. H we do believe that Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees is coming back. There there's you know, Cam Jordan

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Speaker 1: this week actually accidentally slipped up and said that Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees is going to retire. So maybe this is opening

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Speaker 1: the door for Russell Wilson. You know, I don't They

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Speaker 1: still have a lot to move there there and Capel

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Speaker 1: right now, we keep hearing about so we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to Andrew Brandt later. Maybe this is something that can

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Speaker 1: happen though interesting. I mean, listen, do they suddenly become

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Speaker 1: in the mix for Deshaun Watson? I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: this is what smart teams do. They get ready in advance.

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Speaker 1: Um I think last weekend, well, okay, let's go. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to the Cam Jordan's sound. Cam Jordan talking about

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees as the Saints trying to move heaven and

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Speaker 1: Earth to keep their franchise quarterback or bringing a new one.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of years, you've looked at our defense.

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Speaker 1: We've turned the page and our defense that have made

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Speaker 1: us more complimentary towards our team as a whole. And

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Speaker 1: the one thing we had been lacking, you know, prior

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Speaker 1: to the last couple of years was our defense. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you give us a guy like Russell Wilson, because

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Speaker 1: Drew has retired, because he has deemed it so fit,

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Speaker 1: I would Sayson and the heartbeat. That's super. Besides, I

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Speaker 1: think I think we've always been so absolutely But that's

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Speaker 1: that's my that's my vision year. And you wait, in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, you've looked at our deep

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Speaker 1: is we've turned the page and our defense that have

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Speaker 1: made us more complimentary towards our team as a whole. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you give us a guy like Russell Wilson, because

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Speaker 1: Drew has retired, because he has deemed it so bit,

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Speaker 1: I would take and the heartbeat. Oh huh. Cam Jordan's

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Speaker 1: on Get Up ESPN earlier this week talking about what

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Speaker 1: the Saints have cooking. Listen, Sean Payton is not willing

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Speaker 1: to just press the restart button with Taylor what's his face?

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill? That ain't the plan. But quarterbacks are the

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Speaker 1: story this year in the off season, and that's great

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Speaker 1: because quarterbacks are essentially the most important position in sports. Um,

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Speaker 1: what did he used to be the starting pitcher? I

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Speaker 1: think short stopped for a while, was important point guard

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. Center it's quarterback for sure right now. Um,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Drew Brees, so much movement, so much action,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady going to Tampa really thrust everything out into

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Speaker 1: the forefront. Now everybody wants to call the shots. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers trying to call the shots to Shaun Watson. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's getting fascinating. Um. I. Actually, you know, big Ben,

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Speaker 1: something happened with him this week. He decided to also restructure.

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Speaker 1: Big Ben such a great guy. Hey man, I'll sacrifice

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Speaker 1: what was the number of Gavin was at five million year? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know, for on my podcast Straight Fire, I

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Speaker 1: looked at Big Ben's historical salaries and again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to get in his pocket. I'm just saying, in

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Speaker 1: his career as a football player, Ben has made a

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Speaker 1: quarter of a billion dollars almost He's made a ton

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Speaker 1: of money. So this five million dollars sacrifice is kind

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Speaker 1: of comical. Okay, that doesn't even take it to account

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Speaker 1: his off field uh, marketing opportunities, commercials all that. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he's made dozens of millions doing that as well.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know if that was the right decision

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Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh. But then the counter to that is, what

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Speaker 1: were the other options? And if you go through who's

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Speaker 1: in the mix for Watson. I don't know how they

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Speaker 1: get in the mix for Russell Wilson. There is no

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Speaker 1: quarterback where they're drafting. Maybe they there's an argument that

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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks in the draft, but really the only

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Speaker 1: guys that pop out to me or Jameis Winston in

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Speaker 1: free agency. But then you gotta just move on from

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Speaker 1: Ben and then the alternative to that. I think Sam

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Speaker 1: Darald was a live option for them. It certainly ain't

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Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph. We know that, and you just you look around,

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Speaker 1: You're like, what are options? We could roll with Ben

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Speaker 1: for one more year, then pivot? You know, maybe they

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Speaker 1: take that five million and try to find a back

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Speaker 1: up with upside we do I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you've got to look at the options, and it's easy

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Speaker 1: to say, yeah, you gotta move on from Ben. He

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Speaker 1: had the lowest yards per attempt in his career. He

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Speaker 1: what are the other options? You're gonna kick this guy

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Speaker 1: to the curb who won two Super Bowls for us?

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Speaker 1: The fan base is gonna be like, we're dumping him

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Speaker 1: I come back on like, I'm okay with what the

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Speaker 1: for what do we have next after Eli Manning? Remember

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Speaker 1: the Giants? What do we have next after Joe Flacco? Now,

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Speaker 1: the city, and Big Ben is that in Pittsburgh. I

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Speaker 1: So yeah. I enjoyed watching him play, but he's not

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Speaker 1: going to go for much though. I would think Marvin

635
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: Jones might be the bigger receiver out there right. Juju

636
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: was like awesome as a number two behind Antonio Brown,

637
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: and then he tried to be a number one when

638
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: Brown left, and I was like, oh, he's definitely not

639
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: a number Um. I don't even Deontae Johnson Chase Claypool.

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00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 1: They both look better than him. I thought last season

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00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: Juju is not gonna go for much right now, He's

642
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: just he He's stock really isn't high after his latest stint,

643
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: I would agree, um coming to America too. I was

644
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: very excited for it. First of all, Gavin or Chris,

645
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: did you watch it? I have not seen it yet.

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00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have It's on HBO Max, right,

647
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: it's on Amazon, Okay, I just haven't watched it, and

648
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away spoilers. First of all,

649
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: I can't because I haven't seen the full movie. I

650
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: watched about half of it, and I was like, I

651
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: got stuff to do. I would say the first thirty

652
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 1: minutes were a little disappointing. After that it got better,

653
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: but it didn't strike me as, oh my gosh, drop

654
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: everything you can do and watch it. I still haven't

655
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: seen Tenant that supposedly is out. Now. Let me ask,

656
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: movie theaters are open again. Does that mean we're not

657
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: going to get all the movie releases on HBO. Max Kevin,

658
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: do you know this or no, I don't know that.

659
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: You threw a lot at me. I want to fire

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00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: back on some of that. I don't think there's ever

661
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: been a comedy remake that has been good. They made

662
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: an ed Helm's version of Vacation. Nobody saw it like

663
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: it's this intellectual property thing where they go, oh, people

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Speaker 1: know the name, so they're gonna come see it. Go ahead, Chris,

665
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask because I know my dad

666
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: and kind of got me into the old Peter Seller's

667
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: Pink Panther movies. The new one wasn't great, right, that

668
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: was like Martin Steve Martin one didn't see it wasn't terrible.

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Speaker 1: That's a good example of like that was one of

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00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: the better ones I've seen. But you know what, I

671
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: grew up and I grew up on Dumb and Dumber.

672
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: They made Dumb and Dumber too, and it's unwatchable. So

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00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: leave leave these in the past. Don't do another Caddyshack

674
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: Blazing Saddles. Leave those back there. We don't want the

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00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 1: woke version of Blazing Saddles. Okay, the next version, what

676
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: was the next thing you had talked about you when

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Speaker 1: HBO max 'SBO Max. Yeah, I think that's where a

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00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: bunch of the movies from Universal Pictures. I believe they're

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Speaker 1: going to be there for thirty days or something after

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00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: they're released in theaters, and I don't think that's changing

681
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: for the next year. So they're making good money on

682
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: HBO max to like release that stuff on there. They're

683
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Speaker 1: they're getting people to sign up, but they're not getting

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Speaker 1: people to I mean, the movie from a theater is

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Speaker 1: way more than it would be for HBO max, is

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Speaker 1: it not? HBO max is like what a month fourteen?

687
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Speaker 1: But I think the thing is like they've got theaters

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00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: over a barrel right now, Like they can charge the

689
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: theaters what they want because the that's the theater's whole business,

690
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: and of the the theaters have no real leverage to

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Speaker 1: say you can't put this also on HBO max, because

692
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,240
Speaker 1: they're just gonna say why not and they'll just they

693
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: they've got theaters. Like the leverage is on the side

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Speaker 1: of the of the studios who want to release it

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Speaker 1: in theaters and also on hbos It's it's I guess

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00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: it's like I'm just not keen on going back to

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Speaker 1: the movie theater anytime when when when people are vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: you will be I would think, I mean, I think

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00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: I like theater experience. Yeah, I mean, unless you're not

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00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: a big movie head like you, you just want to

701
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: watch it on your TV at home, that's fine, But

702
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: when you go see a new Star Wars movie or something,

703
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: you want it on the bas I get way too

704
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: distracted at home. I have to go see movies in theaters,

705
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: So I guess that's the good point. If you need

706
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom, you get a phone call

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00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: that you gotta take, like you could just pause the movie.

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Speaker 1: Jason if in my thirty two years on this earth,

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00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: I have never had a call I've had to take

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Speaker 1: in a movie theater. I think that's why I like

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00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: going to movie theaters, because I stopped thinking about those

712
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: things that turned off my phone not and like I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm left alone for three hours to watch a movie. Yeah,

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00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: all right, anyways, coming to America too. I will be

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Speaker 1: finishing it today. That's folk show. I heard there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of cameos. There are really good cameos. Yeah, no

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00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: doubt about that. I I that's the best part of it,

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Speaker 1: I would say, alright, so coming up, what do we doing?

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Speaker 1: Hour number two? I don't even know. I mean, geez,

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00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: that first hour flew by which talked so much about

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Speaker 1: Twitch and uh oh yeah yeah yeah, Joel embiid the

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Speaker 1: m v P. I know this show is huge in Philly.

723
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Speaker 1: They love me in Philly, Philthladelphia a k A. Kiladelphia,

724
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: Just kidding. Um, I did live in Philly before I

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00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: moved here. Uh. And we will head to Arizona as well.

726
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: Lot going on in the desert. Lebron took a shot

727
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: at the Utah Jet. Was it a shot? Was it

728
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: the truth? Sometimes? I think Lizzo said it best best

729
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: the truth hurts. It's me Jason McIntyre coming to you

730
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: live from the Farmer's Insurance. Fox Sports Radio Studios called

731
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: one at eight farmers to switch and you could save

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00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: an average of four hundred seventy dollars on auto insurance.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money for a quick phone call,

734
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: don't you think average nationwide Annual Savings Survey data July

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Speaker 1: to December. We are one hour in the books. Our

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Speaker 1: number two iwa Sam steps into the building. Looks like

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Speaker 1: Luca Garza's younger brother. No, I'm just kidding. We will.

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Speaker 1: We will get an Iowa update. There's some people who

739
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: just live for the Iowa minute, Big ten, Big twelve,

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00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: Iowa soy beans, all that fun stuff. Um, I noticed

741
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: a movie's popping up here. We got four TVs in

742
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: the studio and Legally Blonde comes on the screen. No

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00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: college basketball starting yet, college hoops starts, I believe at

744
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: the new high noon on the East Coast. Legally Blonde

745
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: pretty underrated by the way. You know, we talked at

746
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: the outside of the show about pivoting, and Reese Witherspoon

747
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: deserves a lot of credit because she was a big

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00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: time actress in her younger years, did a ton of

749
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: good movies and then like, you guys know how Hollywood is, like,

750
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: once you hit a certain age, you can't play like

751
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: the young kid anymore or the college kid. And Reese

752
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: Witherspoon realized, like, I'm not getting many roles, ye starring

753
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: roles as like a leading lady in as a mom.

754
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: So Reese Witherspoon, what did she do? She started to

755
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: pivot over to the books section of of media and

756
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: as like basically now reading books, taking them, turning them

757
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: into movies and she's becoming like a total juggernaut. The

758
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: New York Times did a lengthy breakdown on it, and

759
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,240
Speaker 1: it's like all these guys trying to make movies in Hollywood.

760
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: You know, they've been working on it for years. Incomes

761
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon from actress to oh now she's gonna be

762
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: a writer, producer and get all those titles. And it's

763
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: is it kind of unfair? Maybe? Um, but in life

764
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: you gotta pivot. And you know I I talked about

765
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: I talked about Blake Griffin pivoting or not pivoting, and

766
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson didn't pivot. And you know who who did?

767
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid came into the league as you know, a

768
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: big traditional throwback inside seven ft. What shouel and be

769
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: doing now? Rounding out his game by stepping behind the

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00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: three point arc? Dangerous out There is a game tying

771
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: three against the Jazz this week, he was like at

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00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: the elbow, notice like there's six seconds left, Just dribbles

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00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: out to the three point line, splashes the three, And

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00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, I know everybody wants to make a decision

775
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: on the m v P based on every game Lebron

776
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: plays or Joel Embiid plays or Nicole Yoki plays, and

777
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: it's like wow, and Beat has really become a great

778
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: all around player. He listen, assists are his weakness. He

779
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: has nine eight assists in ninety six turnovers. You know,

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00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: Lebron is the maestro of that Lakers offense, and Beat

781
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: is still a bit of a throwback, but here he is.

782
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: Here's the audio of him tying the game against the

783
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: Jazz bombing from three and the Sixers winning overtime. Tobias

784
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: Harris too embeat and Beat is pushed by Bogdanovitch nine

785
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: seconds ago, couples beyond the arc, fakes to three, shoot

786
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: the three. It's up head good five point nine ago

787
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: and Beats tied it. Now if you look at the

788
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: counting stats, and Beat is doing some other worldly things.

789
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:46,959
Speaker 1: He's scoring thirty and grabbing eleven. The last a guy

790
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: to score thirty or more an average eleven or more rebounds.

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00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this, Karl Malone in a lot

792
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: of these big guys Shock and Company were like twenty

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00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: five and eleven, twenty five and twelve twight hours, like

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00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: twenty three and fourteen. Joel embiads at thirty and eleven.

795
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: That's pretty ridiculous. So you know, I guess depending on

796
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: who you talk to, he is your leader for the

797
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: m v P. I personally don't see it, but we

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00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: haven't seen a big like this in a while. You

799
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: just as we haven't seen a guy like Lebron at

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00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: thirty six years old be a point guard and also

801
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: attacked the basket and step out in bang threes. We

802
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: haven't seen Joel Embiid. We haven't seen a seven footer

803
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: or like Joel Embiid roll out of bed and he's

804
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: gonna you know, he's dropping twenty seven and ten on

805
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,760
Speaker 1: an okay day, Okay, when he's locked in, he's liable

806
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: to go for forty and twenty. Now, I don't know

807
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: where are you gathered on the m v P race, Like,

808
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: does Joel Embiid make his teammates better the way most

809
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: of the m v P winners have over the last

810
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: fifteen years. The last pure big man to win an

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00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: MVP was Shock about eighteen years ago. Yeah, and I

812
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: think Joel Embiid should rightly be the next Who's number two?

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00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: I thought Lebron was okay, So Lebron who the team

814
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: cannot win without Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is the most

815
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: valuable player that team. That's been proven over the past

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00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. There's no doubt about that. I don't

817
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: have the record, but Ben Simmons has missed a handful

818
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: of games. Uh, and Beat has missed a handful of games.

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Speaker 1: I need to look up what the Sixers are without

820
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: a bead, what the Sixers are without Simmons. But if

821
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: you watch the games, and you watch the Sixers without embiid,

822
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: they're they're hopeless. When you watch the Lakers without Anthony Davis,

823
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: they look hopeless. They don't look great with Lebron. I mean,

824
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: Lebron can pat his stats at the end of the

825
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: game and you can go, oh, he had thirty eight

826
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: point cool, but you lost the game and those were

827
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: garbage points you scored. You shot three threes in the

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Speaker 1: final minute. You know my counter would be and again, again,

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Speaker 1: very small sample size. I think it was last year

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Speaker 1: sixers no Sixers nets. No, it's two years ago. Sixers

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Speaker 1: nets in the playoffs and Beat has to miss game

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00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 1: two or whatever it is, or game three. Maybe Ben

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00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: Simmons just moves to center. Ben Simmons gets like a

834
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Speaker 1: triple double and the Sixers roll the nets without a beat,

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00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: And I was just like, huh and that I've been

836
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 1: on the Ben Simmons over and Beat trained forever. And

837
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: you know, without a big, lumbering center, the offense is

838
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: able to move much quicker. Ben Simmons can guard to

839
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: anybody on the court because he's the defensive player of

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00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: the year. He's coach even said defensive player of the

841
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: Year comes down to Ben Simmons or Gobert. I'm like, okay,

842
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: so and Beat puts up big counting stats, but he

843
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: slows down the offense because he's a big obviously dominated

844
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: the Rudy the defensive player of the year. Yeah, I mean,

845
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: Zion dominated Rudy too earlier than Man, you're you're doing.

846
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: I just you gotta make an argument for someone else

847
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: over and Beat. You don't just get to say he's

848
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: not that impressive. What he just did a big stepping

849
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: looking at the clock, going there's ten seconds left, we're

850
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: down by three, stepping back and bugged and uh, you

851
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: know there was great defense on him, right and he

852
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: sinks that three. I mean, that was impressive. That was

853
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: maybe the most impressive game of his career. I've seen okay,

854
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: So my question is if he's been so impressive and

855
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: he's listen, he's great, He's Joel Embiad has put up

856
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: ridiculous summers. I think he's second in player efficiency rating

857
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: to Yoki. Uh. Why is all the Sixers chatter Gavin

858
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: about we need to add add Kyle Lowry. Look, we

859
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: don't have a guard. You need guards to win the postseason.

860
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: They want to add Kyle Lowry because he's a veteran.

861
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: He can run the offense, like do you trust Seth

862
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: Curry and Danny Green. He'll take a charge for us.

863
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: I think that's what it comes down to, though, the

864
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: playoff experience, and Bead has never done it in the postseason.

865
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: This is the same thing with Janice. I mean these

866
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: are m v P guys and Harden and Westbroo. I

867
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: mean how many m v ps. I mean that's the

868
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: thing is can you do it in the postseason? I

869
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: hope he can. I want to see it. We all

870
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: want to see it. I don't. I'm not positive. And

871
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: you know, again, this is a lot of regular season stuff. Yeah. Uh,

872
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad, I'm looking at the stats here, average thirty

873
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: and ten in February not a bad month, um Joel

874
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: embiid he's playing ridiculously well and the Sixers fans are geeked.

875
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: I just I mean, Kevin. When you look at the East,

876
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: do you think the seventi Sixers are the best team

877
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: or even the second best team? Are they even the

878
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: third best team? And if in Beat faults, sorry, and

879
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: if in Bead falls as we expect, uh, he's gonna

880
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: miss some games and Sixers are gonna go fall down

881
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: in the standings and Nets are gonna be one. The

882
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: Bucks with Drew Holiday coming back are gonna be fine.

883
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: Do you think him Beat wins the MVP if the

884
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: Sixers finished third in the East and Lebron and the

885
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 1: Lakers finished second in the West, It's it's tough because

886
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: it always comes down to narratives too, and the way

887
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: these guys vote, you know they could just you know,

888
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: maybe Lebron makes a late surge and you know a

889
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: d takes longer to come back. We don't know, but

890
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: I will say that if you're looking at the East

891
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: and the height of a team, I think the Nets

892
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: have the biggest ceiling of anything now. And Beat is

893
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: the gambling favorite. He it was Lebron now and beat

894
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 1: his surge ahead of him. And again, I think what

895
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,439
Speaker 1: Gavin said about the narratives matters a lot. It really

896
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: comes down to these fickle voters. Do they think, hey, Labron,

897
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: he's thirty six, let's give hi an award an m VP.

898
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: Hasn't been an m VP in like eight years or whatever,

899
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: or do they say, you know, actually, we haven't had

900
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: a center's MVP in forever, and Beat is putting up

901
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: absurd stats. Maybe he's the guy. I it does come.

902
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: The last m v P that wasn't I think top

903
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: three in the in the conference was Russell Westbrook when

904
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: he averaged a trouble double and beat an average in

905
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: a trouble double. And Westbrook also had the KD narrative.

906
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: That was the year for him. Yes, absolutely, yeah, that

907
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: really does play into it, and it shouldn't. It should

908
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: be the most valuable player. So okay, I just found it.

909
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: The sixers are one in five when him bead sits out,

910
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: and um, I don't have the Ben Simmons number. But

911
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 1: it's a tough one, guys. There's still half a season left.

912
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: Is this almost like when everybody said Russell Wilson was

913
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: the m v P in Week seven, and Russ had

914
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: never had an MVP vote. I think in his career

915
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: he's never had never had one vote for mv which

916
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: I've always pushed back against because who cares about one

917
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: m v P, Like it's about voting for the best player. Now, look,

918
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Russell was the best player the first half of this

919
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: season and then he wasn't, So why do we need

920
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: to give him one vote for that? Let me ask

921
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: you this, do you think Lebron is hurting the Lakers

922
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: long term future this season with his run for m

923
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: v ps? He playing too many minutes as he now

924
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: he sat one game this week. It's nice to see

925
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: that little load management favorite term. Do you think Lebron

926
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: is hurting his own team? You know, I don't want

927
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: to be like a Lebron apologist, And when you say

928
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: you don't want to be, I guess you are beating one.

929
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: But on some level, I'm okay with letting these guys

930
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: get some run um talent. Horton, Tucker, Taylor talent. However

931
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: you say it, We need th Ht to start cooking,

932
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: We need Kuzma to get his act together. I joked

933
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: last week on Undisputed that Kyle Kuzma was as unreliable

934
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: as the WiFi in my basement, and all these Lakers

935
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: fans were like, what are you talking about? And then

936
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: like look at the numbers. Kuzma was like, not playing

937
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: that one. So if Lebron sits out, let Shrewder win

938
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: the offense for a game. You know, let's see um

939
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 1: Kuzma be the number two scorer. You know he's usually

940
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: number four. But let these guys get some confidence, get

941
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: some more run. I'm okay with Lebron missing some games.

942
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: If it's cool for Kauai to sit out and beat

943
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: to sit out, why not Lebron. No one, No one

944
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: would uh, no one should give Lebron any mess at

945
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: thirty six for sitting out some of these games. Yeah,

946
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: there's not even fans in the stands for him to appease, right,

947
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: That has been narrative for a long time. Oh, you

948
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 1: gotta make the fans, You gotta make the fans happy

949
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: we're watching at home. I guess the final point is,

950
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: you know we opened the show talking about Blake Griffin.

951
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: Just a reminder, he's thirty one and it looks like

952
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: he's watched Lebron is thirty six, and we're talking about

953
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: him in m v P contention because he's averaging eight.

954
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Blake Griffin, guys is turning thirty two in

955
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: like a week, and it's like, oh, maybe this is

956
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: last tour of duty. And again, I don't know how

957
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: much that goes into Like Lebron is thirty six, how

958
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: much that factors into the equation. But I guess just

959
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: consider the fact that Lebron at thirty six is not

960
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 1: just spotting up for threes the way Blake Griffin would

961
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: at thirty two, the way Andre Igudala does at what

962
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: is the third four? Like he's running the offense. He's

963
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: he's the If you look at the minutes played, I

964
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: think he's top. I think he's twenty one in minutes

965
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: per game. The top twenty five guys Gavin are all

966
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: thirty one or younger. He's thirty six. Now how much

967
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: does that factor into the m v P. I don't know.

968
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: My m v P is number one third is your

969
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: team winning, Like how much do you impact winning? The

970
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: other is stats. Obviously, stats are massive player efficiency rating,

971
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: wind shares, all that stuff. And then one third is

972
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: the eye test, which may be a little high because

973
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: I might be looking through purple and gold glasses sometimes.

974
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: UM as a fan of Lebron, But I don't know

975
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: how people cannot be a fan. But we're not going

976
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: to go there, so em beat yeah and bea lebron yokich.

977
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,479
Speaker 1: I would just say the guy that watches James Harden,

978
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988
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. The machine picks are starting

989
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: to trickle in. The only one I've got so far today,

990
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: Indiana State plus eleven. I think they're playing Loyola. That's

991
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: not a lot of people are gonna want to take

992
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: that one. Indiana State over one twenty two. UM again,

993
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,280
Speaker 1: that's from the machine. I know that's not sexy. Indiana State.

994
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's their mascot, sickam oh Iowa

995
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:00,919
Speaker 1: Sam Nice, Indiana State sycamore, Larry Bird. Right, Larry Bird

996
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: played for Indiana State. Um, you know, Chicago Bears are

997
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: not a team we've talked a lot about on the show.

998
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean since they made the playoffs. What two years

999
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: ago they got Khalil Mac made the playoffs and we

1000
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: haven't really heard from them since. Now the coach and

1001
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: the GM are on the chopping block. Mitchell Robrisky had

1002
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: like a nice little run. I don't know how they stumbled,

1003
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: but backwards into the playoffs this past year. I mean

1004
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: that that playoff game against the Saints was like unwatchable.

1005
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: They were so bad on offense. Here's the GM of

1006
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: the Bears, Ryan Pace, talking about, I don't know, Chicago.

1007
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: Everything is on the table in regard to the quarterback situation,

1008
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,479
Speaker 1: and and honestly, that includes players on our current roster.

1009
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: That includes free agency, trade, the draft, in a combination

1010
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: of all those. So we have a plan in place,

1011
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: and now it's about executing that plan. Everything is on

1012
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: the table. So he's talking a big game and they're

1013
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: shooting for the fences. Who they end up with Ryan Fitzpatrick,

1014
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater? Like what I mean, come on, like I did,

1015
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: I just don't see a scenario were there able to

1016
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: lure Watson or Russell Wilson. Now Russell Wilson in Chica.

1017
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: I can't believe he put them on his list. He

1018
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: put them on his list. And then there was a

1019
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: report from Jeremy Fowler saying that he is interested in

1020
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: the market, likes the Chicago market. He likes their offensive line,

1021
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: and he likes their offensive minded head coach Matt Naggi,

1022
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: who to me is one of the most overrated coaches.

1023
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: Yeah he's uh, he's from that Andy Reid Tree, right yeah, yeah,

1024
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: and so people like him, but what has he done.

1025
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: He won a lot in his first year, but since

1026
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: then nothing. So the Andy Reid Tree had Doug Peterson,

1027
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: who won early with someone else's players, and then Matt

1028
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: Nigge who won early with someone else's players, and a

1029
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: couple of years down the road, the Bears don't look

1030
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: so good now. I know they made the playoffs, but

1031
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: m h, I mean it's tough because I know Bears

1032
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: are gonna hang their at and we're closed. We we

1033
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,959
Speaker 1: got to the postseason. Like the division was a joke.

1034
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: I know the NFC was was difficult, and it is

1035
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: impressive that they made it, but you know, if they

1036
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: get Russell Wilson, keep Alan Robinson. Defense was good. The

1037
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: defense is not great though they were. They struggled badly

1038
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: to stop the run up the middle of anytime the

1039
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: big kid was out and the you know, the running

1040
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: game was hot and cold. Like they're just not a

1041
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: They're not a team that's very appealing to me at

1042
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: the moment. The Bears, I think. I just think the

1043
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the team that needs to go get Russell Wilson, Like, yeah,

1044
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: you're buying into Russell Wilson, his celebrity wife. A lot

1045
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: of people who and I hate to say a lot

1046
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: of people, but the Jabroni on social media seemed to

1047
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: be Russ lumping Russ in with J. J. Watt, you know,

1048
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: in terms of like, ah, it's all for the cameras.

1049
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: He's like phony fake? Is that a fact? Would you

1050
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: say that's a fair assessment. I think that's been a

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00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: long time criticism of Russ is how he speaks in

1052
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: the media, like he's he's very fake, like they don't

1053
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 1: they don't know is this the real Russ? But then

1054
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: he finally he goes on Dan Patrick and he's the

1055
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: real Russ. And then they're slamming him for that, like

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00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is ornery and that, like that's the real

1057
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. You know, he's he's always seems a little

1058
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: upset about something, prickly if you will. But that that

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00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: that should tell you that when Russell does speak out

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00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: and say really, he really means it. I had Carissa

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00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: Thompson on Straight Fire this week and she, you know,

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00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: is from the Northwest, knows Russell pretty well, and the

1063
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: way she said it gave the impression that, man, he's

1064
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: really ticked at that organization. And you have to be.

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00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 1: If you're listing for of teams, Hey, I'm I'm fine staying,

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: but if you're gonna trade me, I have no trade

1067
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: and here are the four teams I would go to.

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01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: That's basically, ah, get me out of here. I don't

1069
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: know how Russ goes back to Seattle for O. T

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01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: A S And looks everybody in the eye when everybody

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01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: knows he didn't really want to be there because the

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01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: offensive line stunk. But if the offensive line did stink

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01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: and they weren't very good, isn't that okay to say?

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01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you rather him be honest than lie and make

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01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: it seem like it's no big deal. I mean, I

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01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,479
Speaker 1: don't really have a problem with what Russ said. He's

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01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: carried that franchise for close to a decade since he

1078
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: got in the league, Like what's the where's the beef?

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01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: And and and we have audio of what Charisa told

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01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: me on Straight Fire. Russell Wilson knows exactly what he's doing.

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01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: He's never not in control, he's never not moving the

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01:00:55,480 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: chest pieces because he he is an intelligent individual that

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01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: knows what he says and how he says it. He's

1084
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: wanted help for a long time. Okay, we've all known

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Speaker 1: that he's made up for deficiencies on that offensive line,

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01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: even when they won the Super Bowl and almost won

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01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: the second one. That hasn't been a great offensive line.

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01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 1: He just needed certain weapons and hasn't gotten it. So

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Speaker 1: I think that it's disheartening. The only problem I have

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01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: is this, and I think Rissilo actually like tweeted this out,

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01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: which resonated with me. You can't say like, oh, I

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01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: don't want to be traded, but if I did, here's

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01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: the four places I'd want to go. That's saying that's

1094
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: like saying I love my wife, but if I left her,

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01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: here's the four women I'd want to be with. That's

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01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: the only part where I'm like, come on, if you,

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01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: if you, if you say it, say it with your

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01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: chest and like say that you you're open to being traded,

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01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: or don't say anything at all. So I think that

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01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: that in a very long winded way, I'm a little

1101
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: disappointed that he won't just say what he wants. So

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Speaker 1: I could joke to my wife like, oh yeah, if

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01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: I could get a Hall pass, you know. Obviously Jessica

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01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 1: Albas near the top of the list. I'm a big

1105
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: Jessibel thing. Interviewed her once. Um, I just think God us,

1106
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: you know, But the reality is, I I can't. There's

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01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: there's zero way I'm gonna see Jessica Alba. Right, Um,

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01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson could easily get traded, Like, it's not that

1109
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: difficult to put together a package if you really wanted

1110
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: to go. But I will say, be careful what you

1111
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: wish for us. Uh, you really think the grass is greener.

1112
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is in Chicago and Dallas.

1113
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: I think it would be, but I don't know about

1114
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Speaker 1: Chicago coming up next year. On Fox Sports Radio, Jodiohler

1115
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: in Phoenix lots going on with the Sons, obviously the

1116
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,919
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and j. J. Watt will talk to him next.

1117
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: But first, here's Isaac Loewen fon with what's trending Jason.

1118
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: NFL Media reported this morning that the New Orleans Saints

1119
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: restructuring the contracts of defense eve end Cameron Jordan's as

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Speaker 1: well as linebacker to mario' davis, and that creates over

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01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: thirteen million dollars worth of cap space. NFL Media also

1122
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: reported the Saints of resigned running back Time Montgomery to

1123
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: a one year deal. In college football, Kansas on Friday

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01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: placed head coach Less Miles on administrative leave after the

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01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: release of a twenty thirteen LSU investigation that concluded that

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01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: Miles behaved inappropriately with female student employees while he was

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: the head coach there. The report also revealed l s

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Speaker 1: US athletic director recommended firing Miles at the time. Mark

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01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 1: Slaba reports the n c double A has charged the

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Speaker 1: Arizona men's basketball program with five Level one violations. This

1131
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: includes two allegations of academic misconduct. Its head coach Sean

1132
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: Miller also charged with not promoting an atmosphere of compliance

1133
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: amongst his staff on the court. Liberty became the first

1134
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Speaker 1: team to clinch your Birth in the n C Double

1135
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: A Tournament Friday because they beat steps In in the

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01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament semi finals. The reason their opponent

1137
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: in the championship game, North Alabama not yet eligible for

1138
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: the n C Double A Tournament because they're still officially

1139
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: making the transition to Division one, so therefore Liberty gets

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Speaker 1: the A son's automatic birth. Jason, all yours, thank you, Isaac.

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01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: Back here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Jason McIntyre

1142
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 1: live from the Farmer's Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios. Call

1143
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: one at eight Farmers and you could save a whole

1144
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: lot of something on auto insurance. Just for the college

1145
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: basketball gamblers out there. I added Missouri they're playing l

1146
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: S you today. I know you guys love March Madness.

1147
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 1: I obviously love it. And the gambling aspect is just

1148
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:45,439
Speaker 1: so fun. Um. You know, even if you don't know

1149
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:49,439
Speaker 1: all the players, you know the game. It's March, and

1150
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: it's fun. I'm big on the NFL. I haven't done

1151
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: a ton of NBA gambling, though, I will say in

1152
01:04:56,640 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: the last week I've had a better feel for how

1153
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: some of these teams are doing. Now we're a half

1154
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: the season in UM, they're starting to figure out the

1155
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: COVID situation in the NBA, and hopefully second half I'll

1156
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: have a lot of opportunities. All right. Joining us now,

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Speaker 1: the host of The Drive on Fox Sports nine ten

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Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Jody Ailer. Jody, how are you doing? I'm

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01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: good man. How are you? I'm excellent. Uh, I will say,

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Speaker 1: Phoenix right now, ground zero. A lot happening in the NBA,

1161
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: a lot happening in the NFL. I'd like to start

1162
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 1: with J. J. Watt. I want to start here. How

1163
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: shocked were you that J. J. Watt ended up in Arizona?

1164
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: And were you surprised at the money because there's a

1165
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: lot of people out there upset that J. J. Watkott paid. Yeah,

1166
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: I was stunned. You know, Um, I have spent two

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01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: weeks dismissing Cardinals fans, suggesting that the Cardinals were a

1168
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: spot for J. J. Watt. You know, you get into

1169
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: this business and you kind of stake your claim us.

1170
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, the Cardinals missing the playoffs, losing as consequences,

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01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: They're not a team. J J. Watt want to join

1172
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: a team that's getting to the super Bowl, not help

1173
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: the team get to the playoffs. And then Low and Bold,

1174
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, he out of nowhere drops that that social

1175
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: media picture with him in a Cardinal's shirt, and it

1176
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: was it was stunning. Is the money goes? Listen? It

1177
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 1: is a lot of money, and I think there's fair

1178
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: questions about what he's got left in the tank and

1179
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: what his durability is. But this is not a team

1180
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: that can sit back and pinch pennies when it comes

1181
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 1: to adding an impact player that that has revitalized this

1182
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 1: franchise from a end of season that seemingly halted all

1183
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 1: of their momentum. This has sort of regenerated that momentum.

1184
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: So that's that's invaluable. It's not my money. I don't care.

1185
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: You know, Steve com knows he's he's fighting for his job.

1186
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: He's got three Dumby years on the end and lots

1187
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: of dead money in future years. But they're trying to

1188
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: win this year to save his job, to save Cliff

1189
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's job, And on that front, I think it's got

1190
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: to be dute at least for now. Is the success.

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01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know it's funny you say time fighting

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01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 1: for his job. Someone tried to tell me that Cliff

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01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's got to win this year. His job could be

1194
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: in trouble. I'm like, what has he been there? Two years?

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01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: Is this year three? Are we really doing this to

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01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury even if it's year four, Like, don't you

1197
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: have to give him a little bit longer? Because you know, Jody,

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01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: it's seriously at some point you want to become the

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01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,919
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Yeah, you fire your coach every three years

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01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: and you move on or the Jets or my New

1201
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 1: York Jets. Because do you think Kingsbury's in trouble? I do?

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01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: I do I cliften, I think he is maybe the

1203
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: least qualified head coach ever hired in NFL history. Maybe

1204
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is the only one losing coach in college,

1205
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: zero track record of success. And then this year, second year,

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01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, while their record looked good, the way they

1207
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: were ill prepared in weeks sixteen and seventeen could the

1208
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: only thing but an indictment on the head coach. I mean,

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01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: this is a coach that runs, you know, snack breaks

1210
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,080
Speaker 1: during training camp phone breaks. He's I call him a

1211
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,919
Speaker 1: cosplaying head coach. A lot of a lot of people,

1212
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: a lot of people missed this. Jason. He did a

1213
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: press conference yesterday two days ago. Somebody asked him if

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01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 1: the year three he was comfortable sort of sticking his

1215
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: nose into the defense and special teams, and Cliff Kingsbury

1216
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: rightfully so said, Hey, my first priority, number one is

1217
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Murray's development, but maybe I might in year three

1218
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: have evolved to a point where I might check in

1219
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: on the defense or special teams, like you're the head coach.

1220
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 1: He was basically hired as a quarterback coach. Vans Joseph

1221
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: is the default defensive head coach. J. J. Watt mentioned

1222
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph significantly more. He never mentioned Cliff Kingsbury out

1223
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: of phenomenal mentioning in his introductory comments, he he is

1224
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: on the ice because he never should have been there

1225
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: in the first place. And I think most people recognize that,

1226
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 1: and that means his evaluation is different than it would

1227
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Speaker 1: be if you if you hired a coordinator from another doubt.

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Speaker 1: And I'll say this lastly quickly. You mentioned some good

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Speaker 1: teams that are worth you know you don't want to

1230
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Speaker 1: avoid being. I would also wouldn't mind being The San

1231
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,759
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine are cycling through a couple of trash

1232
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:59,120
Speaker 1: coaches before finally finding the right one. That's a fair point.

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Speaker 1: Uh Now, they were very bad and we're able to

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01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: hit a bunch of draft picks and Garoppolo, but he

1235
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:07,679
Speaker 1: can't stay healthy. I'm just curious where do you rank

1236
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Speaker 1: currently the NFC West and Arizona heading into the season, Remember, Jody,

1237
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Speaker 1: if they didn't have the backup quarterback, start that a

1238
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: kid who had never played before in the NFL. If

1239
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: he didn't have to go in Week seventeen, the first

1240
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: three quarters, I mean, they might beat the Rams and

1241
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 1: their backup quarterback and then they're in the playoffs and

1242
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: the whole discussions changed. But let me hear your NFC

1243
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: West breakdown their fourth I mean their fourth. I love

1244
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, um, I think all things are possible through

1245
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. But he sat out three quarters of a

1246
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:42,679
Speaker 1: Week seventeen game with a springed ankle, and I think

1247
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:45,680
Speaker 1: that has left some lingering questions about just, hey, what

1248
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: is he willing to do to win? Now, maybe that's unfair.

1249
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: We're not, you know, in the locker room knowing the

1250
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: severity of the injury. But he came back in the

1251
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and looked pretty good. And anybody that's played

1252
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: any and I know you have played any sort of basketball,

1253
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: the rolled to ankle easiest the first two hours after

1254
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: you spraying the ankle, as opposed to the hours after.

1255
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 1: So I think the Cardinals have done a remarkably good

1256
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: job closing the gap from two years ago when they

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Speaker 1: were by far the worst team in the division without

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Speaker 1: much of a future. They haven't shrunk that gap. It's

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Speaker 1: barely noticeable between them, and I would even argue the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks and and the forty niners. But I do think

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Speaker 1: until they climb that peak, and until Cliff Kingsbury shows

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Speaker 1: he can match with with Sean mcveig, who's undefeated against him,

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01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 1: against Kyle Shanahan and Pete Carroll, I think rightfully, so

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Speaker 1: they're therefore going into the season think frankly, I think

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Speaker 1: that's where they need to be to have a chance

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Speaker 1: to succeed. Because the last thing this team needs is

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Speaker 1: an inflated sense of its own, its own expectation. Let

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Speaker 1: me try to sell you that their second in the

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Speaker 1: division behind I would agree with you McVeigh in the Rams.

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Speaker 1: So Seattle is basically a powder keg at this moment.

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Speaker 1: There are seventy year old coach feuding with their franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They're great, the greatest quarterback in franchise history, and wants out.

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Speaker 1: He's named four teams he's willing to go to. He's

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Speaker 1: thrown his offensive line under the bus. The defense stinks.

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is so overrated he couldn't cover me in space.

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Speaker 1: So I think Seattle is in big, big trouble. And

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Speaker 1: then you look at the Niners and I know that

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Speaker 1: they have a large group of good players, but the

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Speaker 1: hugest question mark is at quarterback with Garoppolo, and we

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Speaker 1: don't we know Kyle Shanahan is like calling up every

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Speaker 1: other quarterback to see who he can bring in, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that inspires confidence. Garoppolo can't stay

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Speaker 1: healthy and now they want to replace him. Like I would,

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Speaker 1: I would argue the forty nine have a lot of questions.

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Speaker 1: So to Seattle, I know what I'm getting with Arizona

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Speaker 1: and if they can find another receiver opposite Hopkins assuming

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Speaker 1: Fits retires. I like this team a lot. Did I

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Speaker 1: tell you on that at all or no? Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Listen, I'm I'm so glad because so many

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Speaker 1: people have missed it. I'm so glad you brought up

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Speaker 1: the point about Russell Wilson throwing his entire offensive line

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Speaker 1: under the bus. I mean, we're used to quarterbacks hearing

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Speaker 1: stories at the end of season where they're buying like

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01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: elect personalized electric scooters and role x Is for their

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Speaker 1: offensive line, and and Russell Wilson is just roasting that

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Speaker 1: in public, like that's the last thing you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be doing as the leader of that team. So I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you brought that up, and I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think there's I think there are questions about all

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Speaker 1: the teams in the division. I'm I am someone that

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Speaker 1: used the Cardinals skeptically. As as after that NFC champions

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01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: appearance in fifteen, there was sort of an onset of

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01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: organizational arrogance from the top down. They really thought that

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Speaker 1: playing in one NFC Championship game was gonna sort of

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Speaker 1: announce them as the Patriots of the West Coast, and

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Speaker 1: they have they have been humbled. I agree, they're hungry.

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Speaker 1: I think Kyler Murray is going to be a real

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Speaker 1: difference maker, but I gotta I gotta see it with

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Speaker 1: my own eyes before I believe it. And you've got

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Speaker 1: to recognize this. The offense took big steps backwards last

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Speaker 1: year in year two of Cliff Kingsbury. And that's concerning

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Speaker 1: considering that Kyler Murray was healthy for you know, fifteen

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Speaker 1: and games in a quarter. Um, I'm a little worried

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Speaker 1: that Kingsbury's not the innovative offensive mind required a two

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Speaker 1: steps ahead of NFL defense. All right, let's pivot to

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Speaker 1: the NBA. Jody, And oh boy, I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of heat this week when I said, you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been banging on the Clippers, calling him colossal frauds. They're

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Speaker 1: dead last in clutch defensive rating final five minutes of

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Speaker 1: a game. They can't close a window, Jody, this is

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01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: an overrated Clippers team. Kawai Leonard could be on the

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Speaker 1: move out of l A And after the season he

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Speaker 1: might just not want to play with Paul George. He

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,719
Speaker 1: knows he can't take down Lebron what if he kicked

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Speaker 1: the tires on the Phoenix Suns alongside Devin Booker who

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01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: can get buckets and Chris Paul who's that leader that

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01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard has never been. He's not a vocal guy.

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Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the Rising Suns and you know the

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Speaker 1: pipe dream of Kawhi Leonard may be wanting to say, Hey,

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01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: can I play with you guys? I love it, I listen.

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Speaker 1: I believe the Phoenix Suns right now are a Western

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Speaker 1: Conference contender. I think they're a better bet right now

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Speaker 1: to win the West one seed than do you jaw Jazz.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to just tell Salt Lake fans take a seat,

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Speaker 1: Salt Lake, you won twenty seven games and your star

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01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,599
Speaker 1: players asking the commissioner to intervene because a few fouls

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01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:11,479
Speaker 1: were called because you think you're a bunch of nice guys.

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01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: No one's like the Jazz. No one will ever like

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01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: the Jazz. I'm so glad that Lebron did slander them

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01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: and the All Star Break media members are afraid to

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01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 1: go after the Jazz because their fans are vicious. But

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Speaker 1: they're an overrated team that's got two years of first

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01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: round flameouts. And without a major change on that team,

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01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: I'm not buying them. Twenty eight wins and twenty one

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01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,240
Speaker 1: games was amazing. They're a solid team, They're a good team.

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Speaker 1: The Sons I believe will be the best regular season

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Speaker 1: team in the West. And I love your point about

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Speaker 1: them becoming sort of a destination. We know, you know,

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01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: everyone knows Phoenix is a place that stars want to be.

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01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: We it's not just J. J. Watt. We've been ported

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Speaker 1: a lot of stars over the years because people want

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01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: to live here, athletes want to live here, but we've

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 1: rarely given them a chance or a reason to come

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01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 1: compete for a championship. The Suns have been the most

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Speaker 1: dysfunctional MBA franchise arguably over the last decade, ten years

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01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 1: without a playoff birth in the league that more than

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Speaker 1: half the team see the playoffs. And I think now

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Speaker 1: that that that that use has been lit. I think

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Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right. I don't know specifically about Kauai.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously, as you mentioned, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: things that have to follow, But any big name free

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01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: agent that wants to join an up and coming team

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01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:21,400
Speaker 1: that's got some real chops, that's not you know, a

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Speaker 1: ten seed in a playing tournament. I think the Suns

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Speaker 1: are positioning themselves. Is that in the NBA? Yeah, you know,

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01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:31,639
Speaker 1: it's almost like Jane Jones has overcome missing on Luca

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Speaker 1: to take DeAndre Ayton. By the way, I'm curious, where

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Speaker 1: are you on Etan? Is he's the third best player

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01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: or fourth? Probably their fourth. I mean he's he's Listen,

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Speaker 1: he's if you viewed DeAndre Ayton through the lens of

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Speaker 1: he's a complementary role player. He's outstanding. He sets screens,

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Speaker 1: he rebounds, he tries hard. If you view them through

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Speaker 1: the lens of a foundational NBA player, it's he's not

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Speaker 1: that he's just not and and I don't see it happening.

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Speaker 1: And I think he can be a very valuable player

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 1: without him. Great point, like we're not talking Luka, dont

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01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: gent Phoenix, because the Suns are better than the MAVs

1378
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: and the futures. And there's a good reason for that,

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Speaker 1: all right. Jody Tyler hosted The Drive on Fox Sports

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01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: nine ten Phoenix. Jody Great Stuff. Follow him at Radio Jody,

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01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: Have and have a great weekend. Jody back here on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Live from the Farmer's insurance. Fox Sports

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01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:30,640
Speaker 1: Radio studios call Farmers Today for a quote. So you know,

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01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 1: we were gonna talk about the NFL officials. But I mean,

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01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 1: Joe Jody Taylor comes on here dropping bombs on Cliff Kingsbury, Like,

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01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 1: I get it. Cliff Kingsbury did not have the credentials

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Speaker 1: to get an NFL job, but outside the box works sometimes,

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01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,560
Speaker 1: and I just thought it was a little harsh for

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Speaker 1: him to his Kingsbury's on the hot seat. Here's what

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Speaker 1: he said about Cliff Kingsbury. I do I do I Cliff,

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Speaker 1: I think he is maybe the least qualified head chever

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,720
Speaker 1: hired in NFL history. Maybe Lane Kiffin is the only

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01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:06,759
Speaker 1: one losing coach in college, zero track record of success.

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01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: And then this year, second year, you know, while their

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01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 1: record looked good, the way they were ill prepared in

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01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 1: weeks sixteen and seventeen could the only thing but an

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01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: indictment on the head coach. I mean, this is a

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01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: coach that runs, you know, snack breaks during training camp,

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01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: phone breaks. He's I call him a cosplaying head coach.

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01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of people, A lot of

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01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:29,160
Speaker 1: people missed this. Jason, You're the head coach. He was

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01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: basically hired as a quarterback coach. Vans Joseph is the

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01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: default defensive head coach. J. J. Watt mentioned Vance Joseph

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01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: significantly more. He never mentioned Cliff Kingsbury out of mhenomenal

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01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: mentioning in his introductory comments, he he is on the

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01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: n ice because he never should have been there in

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Speaker 1: the first place. And I think most people recognize that. Wow,

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01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's off the top rope. Now he is

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01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, he is seeing Kingsbury on a day to day.

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01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really have a major issue with

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01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 1: snack breaks and phone breaks. But you've got to play

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01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: to the millennials, you know, I don't. I don't parent

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01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: my kids the exact same way that my parents parented me.

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01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you can. It's a different generation. There's

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01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:18,080
Speaker 1: so many different options and different things to consider at

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Speaker 1: this stage. Uh you know what. So his first year

1417
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: was was Josh Rosen, right, and that was a train wreck.

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01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: And then his second year was Kyler Murray right? Or

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01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: was he there for Rosen for Kingsbury? He was only

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Speaker 1: there for me? Yeah, So yeah, I'm sorry. So basically

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Speaker 1: he got hired and was like saying, Josh Rosen's our guy,

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01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,520
Speaker 1: Josh Roses our guy, and then they draft Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: You're drafting a quarterback who started I think maybe under

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01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: like twenty games in college, there's a learning curve, like

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01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:57,040
Speaker 1: can we be patient? I read something that it takes

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Speaker 1: ten years to start a business, and and someone extrapolated

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01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: that like it takes ten years to do anything to

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01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 1: raise a kid to be a good professional athlete. I

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01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: think this applies to the ten hours from Gladwell right, like,

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01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: come on, are we killing Kingsbury? And then Jody he

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01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: wasn't done yet. Listen to what he said here. I

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Speaker 1: believe the Phoenix Suns right now are a Western Conference contender.

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01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 1: I think they're a better bet right now to win

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01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 1: the West one seed than the Utah Jazz. I'd like

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01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: to just tell Salt Lake fans take a seat, salt Lake,

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01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: you won twenty seven games and your star players asking

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01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,559
Speaker 1: the commissioner to intervene because a few fouls were called

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01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 1: because you think you're a bunch of nice guys. No

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Speaker 1: one's like the Jazz. No one will ever like the Jazz.

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01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Lebron did slanander them in the

1441
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: All Star breaks. Media members are afraid to go after

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01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: the Jazz because their fans are vicious. But they're an

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01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 1: overrated team that's got two years of first round flameouts

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01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,720
Speaker 1: and without a major change on that team, I'm not

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01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: buying them. Twenty wins and twenty one games was amazing.

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Speaker 1: They're a solid team. They're a good team, But Sons

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Speaker 1: I believe will be the best regular season team in

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01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 1: the West. Wow. Like listen, I you guys know what

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01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: we like and guests, we want them coming in hot

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01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:13,639
Speaker 1: Jody I Heeart guy Fox Sports Radio nine ten in Phoenix.

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01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: I mean that was blazing hot, just blasting Utah. Who

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Speaker 1: who does the thinkkey is Dennis Rodman? Um, Dennis Rodman

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Speaker 1: of course going after Utah and the Mormons back in

1454
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,719
Speaker 1: the nineties, way out of bounds from Dennis Rodman. Jody

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Speaker 1: obviously a little uh fact based stuff in there. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Phoenix Suns will pass them for best record.

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01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: Utah will probably get the one seed, but it won't

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Speaker 1: ultimately matter. They'll they'll have a tough shot in the

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Speaker 1: first round because you know, the playing stuff. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the NBA playing idea is awesome, extends the like they

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Speaker 1: could face Zion in the first round. You know, they

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Speaker 1: could face Steph Koree in the first round, and Utah

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01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: will have some trouble. Phoenix is a team on the rise.

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01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm calling right now, Gavin Western Conference Finals,

1465
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 1: Lakers and Sons. That's my prediction. Clippers will not sniff

1466
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: it all right. Coming up final hour on the show,

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Speaker 1: we got a couple of guests coming up, a Lakers

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01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:06,480
Speaker 1: guest coming up next. You're gonna love it. Keep it locked.

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Speaker 1: Our number three here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me

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Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre coming to you live from the Farmer's Insurance

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Speaker 1: start saving today. We are farmers. You guys know, we

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01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,440
Speaker 1: got a good guest coming up here shortly. But um

1477
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: remember I was playing hoops a couple of weeks back,

1478
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: months back with a dad and he ruptured as achilles.

1479
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 1: I think I told you, guys, uh so sad to

1480
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: see and he's doing fine. Recovery is a lengthy one.

1481
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: But I just got a text from the wife that

1482
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: are another friend of mine, and you guys know how,

1483
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:57,639
Speaker 1: I don't go skiing. I refused to go on the slopes.

1484
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: I'll take the kids skiing. You guys go, the wife

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01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 1: you go. I'll just stay warm. I'll be boozing it

1486
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 1: up and working. A friend of ours tour his a

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01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 1: c L skiing with their toddler. Oh oh, that's painful.

1488
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you I'm not I'm not going to

1489
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: those clubs. I think it's safer for me to play basketball,

1490
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: pick up basketball. I will get in a soccer tournament, obviously,

1491
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 1: you gotta train for that with the dad's But I'm

1492
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: not doing skiing, guys, I'm sorry, I'm just not doing that.

1493
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, now, we've got a great guess.

1494
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: He covers the Lakers for the Athletic We've never made

1495
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: him on. He's making his debut. Johan Johan bo Yovan

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01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: Boa Yovan Sorry I butchered your name there, man. How

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01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: are you? How are you? I'm excellent? Uh, you know,

1498
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 1: gold to finally bring you on. Obviously you cover the Lakers,

1499
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: you do a great job. Um. Can we start with

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01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: the state of play of the Lakers right now heading

1501
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 1: into the All Star break, give us the latest on

1502
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Yeah, so Anthony Davis, his original prognosis was

1503
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: he would be reevaluated in four weeks. That was about

1504
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Um, so it to be honest, it

1505
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: remains unclear when he's going to return because I think

1506
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: people saw the four weeks and they're like, oh, he'll

1507
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: he'll be back, you know, right after the All Star break.

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01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: But that was a reevaluation period, not a uh time,

1509
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a firm timetable. So um, it's

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01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:25,679
Speaker 1: still TBD. You know. My read on the situation is, um,

1511
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 1: I think he'll be out, you know, another week or

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01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: two after the All Star break. That that would be

1513
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:32,599
Speaker 1: my best guess. Um. I think the Lakers are gonna

1514
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 1: be really cautious with the situation just because it's an achilles, right,

1515
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: and we've seen how bad an achilles injury can be

1516
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 1: for pretty much everyone except for I guess recently, Kevin

1517
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: Durant is kind of defied that the injury, but other

1518
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 1: than him, you know, everyone else has basically been career ending,

1519
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: so you don't want to mess around with that. So

1520
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be cautious with him. I wouldn't

1521
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: be surprised if he's back towards the end of March. Yeah, now,

1522
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 1: k D. I think he ruptured at what June nineteen

1523
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 1: and then returned in I guess December, so you know

1524
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: that lengthy return. Now, Anthony Davis, who you gotta be cautious.

1525
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: But I'm curious you have on where where are you

1526
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 1: on how the Lakers have played without him? Because I

1527
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody gets good marks Becassoul obviously has struggled,

1528
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 1: uh Montras Harrold, I don't know. It almost looks like

1529
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 1: the Lakers aren't very contend worthy without Anthony Davis. I

1530
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: mean that they've gone three well the three and seven

1531
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 1: in the last ten games, but three and six and

1532
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: there in the last nine with which have all come

1533
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 1: without a D. So I do think that, uh, you know,

1534
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: if he misses another few weeks, that that could affect

1535
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: their seating. You know, right now they narrowly avoided being

1536
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: the four seed heading into the All Star break. Um,

1537
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,559
Speaker 1: so I think you know, they could be looking at

1538
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,519
Speaker 1: a four or five seed potentially if Anthony Davis misses

1539
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: a few more weeks. But you know, you know, I

1540
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: think most teams, right, like not everyone's Brooklyn with three

1541
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 1: all stars that I think most teams. Um, you know,

1542
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: if you are missing one of your two best players,

1543
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: especially when when you have a guy at that level,

1544
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:13,600
Speaker 1: it's really hard to replace. And I do think that

1545
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 1: the Lakers have a deep team, right, Like it's been

1546
01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: a female season. They have an eleven man rotation. Frank

1547
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: Bobo's kind of struggle with the minutes, um. But you know,

1548
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: there's no replacement for Anthony Davis, right And and I

1549
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 1: think this team in particular has a role players who

1550
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: are are meant to complement Lebron and a d not

1551
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 1: necessarily replace them the way like you know what looking

1552
01:25:34,439 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: at like even a Clipper situation where you have a

1553
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: guy like Lou Williams where choir PG go down, Luke

1554
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: can get you twenty at night pretty consistently. So Lakers

1555
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: don't really have that kind of third guy to step in. Um.

1556
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: So I think that's really been an issue for them

1557
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: during the stretch. But they've also gotten better, right like

1558
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 1: that they had a four game moving streak that they

1559
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:53,639
Speaker 1: kind of want a couple of games to go into

1560
01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: the break. So I do wonder kind of maybe if

1561
01:25:56,360 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: they figure some things out. Um, and and we'll probably

1562
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: see over the next couple of weeks. Where are you

1563
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,600
Speaker 1: on whether it or not it matters whether whether the

1564
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 1: Lakers are three or four or five, hell even six? Uh,

1565
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:09,559
Speaker 1: you know, we we've seen the Jazz run out. I

1566
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: think they hold onto the number one seed. Phoenix looks legit.

1567
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,600
Speaker 1: I don't buy the Clippers at all. But do you

1568
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 1: think it really matters where the Lakers are seated given

1569
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: the lack of home court advantage with with fans, or

1570
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 1: do you think that there is a chance that stadiums

1571
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: are half full come the playoffs. I think it matters

1572
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 1: to the extent that you know, if you just look

1573
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 1: at NBA history, right, Um, it's very rare for a

1574
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 1: team to win the NBA Championship without being a top

1575
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: three seed. Like I want to say that the last

1576
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:43,640
Speaker 1: team to do that. Um, it might have been the

1577
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 1: Rockets in that back to back stretch, but there might

1578
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: be there might have been one four seed during that time.

1579
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:50,719
Speaker 1: But for the most part, to even make the finals,

1580
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 1: you usually have to be a top three seed. Now,

1581
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:57,479
Speaker 1: I think this year, with the unprecedented circumstances, Um, you know,

1582
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:59,920
Speaker 1: without the knowledge of are there going to be fan

1583
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: into the stands? You know, is it just going to

1584
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 1: be certain arenas? Uh? Like you know how it currently is? Like,

1585
01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to say. Um. I do think though,

1586
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 1: when it gets down to it, most of the time

1587
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:14,240
Speaker 1: in the playoff series, the team with the better player

1588
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:16,479
Speaker 1: ends up winning. The Lakers are going to have the

1589
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: advantage of having the two best players in most playoffs

1590
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: series that they play. So I personally think, as long

1591
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,719
Speaker 1: as they're healthy and you know, one of the eight seeds,

1592
01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be fine. And let me ask,

1593
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:31,640
Speaker 1: who do you think is the biggest uh team that

1594
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 1: could give the Lakers struggles in a seven game series

1595
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: in the postseason, assuming everybody's healthy. Chris Paul is healthy,

1596
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,720
Speaker 1: he never is. Paul George is healthy, he never is.

1597
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:43,519
Speaker 1: Who in the West could give the Lakers the most

1598
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 1: problems in the West? I think it's the Clippers, um

1599
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: And I heard you you just say you don't believe

1600
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: in them, And I think that's that's fair. I think

1601
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:55,880
Speaker 1: there is an element of um and that was the

1602
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: team I previously covered, you know, the last couple of years.

1603
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 1: So I had a front rows seat to uh them

1604
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 1: collapsing against the Nuggets last year. But I I just

1605
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: think that if you look at the regular season matchups,

1606
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, the five that we've seen over the past

1607
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: two years. You know, the Clippers are up three too.

1608
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: In the season series. They you know, I think could

1609
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: have won a couple, you know, one or two of

1610
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: those losses and although they could have probably lost a

1611
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 1: couple of them. So, UM, I just think the matchup

1612
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 1: of Kawai and PG is tough for the Lakers. UM.

1613
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:32,680
Speaker 1: And I think the way that Tyler has had them playing, UM,

1614
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: you know, they they space the four out really well,

1615
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: a lot of three point shooting. UM. So I also

1616
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 1: just think that that's more so a a kind of

1617
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: a knock against the rest of the West where I

1618
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,920
Speaker 1: just don't see, Like Utah, I'm kind of at like,

1619
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, I want to see them

1620
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: the postseason. You know, Phoenix. While I I love Chris Paul, UM,

1621
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: I just look at that squad and I'm like, you know,

1622
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: most of that rotation hasn't been in the playoffs before,

1623
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:58,800
Speaker 1: and it's just hard for me to see that team

1624
01:28:58,840 --> 01:29:01,680
Speaker 1: making a jump to like the Prince Finals. UM. You know,

1625
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: without any playoff experience. So I just think overall, when

1626
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 1: when looking at you know, again, I kind of default

1627
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: to who has the best players, and to me, the

1628
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,440
Speaker 1: other team in the West that has the best players

1629
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 1: are the Clippers with quin PG. Yeah, well what about

1630
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 1: you covered the Clippers. This team has zero rim protection

1631
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 1: whatsoever and a BAKA is a nice edition, but whatever,

1632
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 1: And the clutch stats are what just kill me. In

1633
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: the final five minutes of close games, They're dead last

1634
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: in defensive rating. They can't protect the rim at all.

1635
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 1: They got humiliated by the Bucks there last Sunday, and

1636
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: we've seen this trend against the Nuggets in the playoffs.

1637
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 1: They can't close games. I don't know how you fix

1638
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: that and is there time to fix it? Because defensively,

1639
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 1: you know, Reggie Jackson is a minus. I don't know

1640
01:29:46,760 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: if they have anybody big that can stop Anthony Davis. Like,

1641
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:54,439
Speaker 1: why would the Clippers be ahead of the Sun's Again,

1642
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I would just say that I think when when comparing

1643
01:29:57,439 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 1: UM Kauai and PG, you know, I think that that's

1644
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:04,839
Speaker 1: a better combo than than UM CP three and Devin Booker.

1645
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:09,040
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think I'm with you, like

1646
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:12,320
Speaker 1: I think that there are definitely flaws with this team

1647
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 1: that um you know, you mentioned Reggie Jackson, but you

1648
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:17,800
Speaker 1: could you could add a few more names into that list,

1649
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:23,120
Speaker 1: Lou Williams, uh Luke, Kannard, Like, they have multiple defensive liabilities,

1650
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 1: and I do think that that's going to be the

1651
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 1: juggling act for Tylu in the playoffs. Um. I like,

1652
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:32,799
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Tylu. I think that he's probably

1653
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: a better fit for this roster than Doc Rivers. I mean,

1654
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,639
Speaker 1: they did have a really good start for the season, um,

1655
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:40,720
Speaker 1: and have tailed off, you know over the past couple

1656
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 1: of weeks, So I'm intrigued by it. I do think

1657
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:46,479
Speaker 1: they need to mix things up. But but I'm with you.

1658
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:48,640
Speaker 1: I think there are some defensive concerns that that's the

1659
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: side of the floor. I've been pretty disappointed with them.

1660
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 1: I thought that there was a chance, like you said,

1661
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 1: adding a Baka, I was like, okay, you know, on paper,

1662
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,679
Speaker 1: he's a better defender than Montrez Harold, Like that should

1663
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 1: improve the defense. But the defense isn't the worst this year,

1664
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:05,080
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it is something that I don't know, Like,

1665
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a situation where maybe in a regular

1666
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: season they would have had more time to kind of

1667
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:13,240
Speaker 1: gel and figure things out. But with the shortened season, um,

1668
01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 1: they're kind of on the clock. So I don't really know.

1669
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 1: I am again no, I think the Lakers competition is

1670
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 1: probably coming from the East. Like, if you're asking the

1671
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 1: league wide, who's the biggest threat, I think it's the Nets.

1672
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: I think the Nets look like the biggest threat to them.

1673
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 1: But if you're asking me in the West particularly, I

1674
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 1: just don't see Utah or Phoenix or or even Denver

1675
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:36,000
Speaker 1: or whoever else you want to pick, really putting up

1676
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,599
Speaker 1: a fight in the seven game series. I think if

1677
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 1: there's one team that could push them to six or seven,

1678
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 1: it's probably the Clippers. All right, Jovan, I'll get you

1679
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: out of here with this. You you do know the Clippers? Well,

1680
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 1: I am curious where you are on the on the

1681
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:50,639
Speaker 1: situation of back to backs. Uh, We've seen Kauai set

1682
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 1: out some back to backs, even Lebron has for the Lakers.

1683
01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 1: Do you see Lebron really going hard for that m

1684
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: v P you know against Embid this year that I

1685
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: think him eight backs to backs in the second half

1686
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: or seven or eight. And you know, we've seen Kauai

1687
01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 1: do it and nobody cares, and he won a title

1688
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:09,120
Speaker 1: with the Raptors. Do you see Lebron doing some sitting out,

1689
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 1: load managing or going for that m v P in

1690
01:32:11,320 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 1: the second half. I think he's gonna go for the

1691
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 1: m v P. Everything he said, So he did rest

1692
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 1: the final game, going to the All Star Break is

1693
01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: the first game he missed this season. And I think

1694
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 1: it made sense where they were depleted. They were already out,

1695
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 1: you know, without a multiple multiple guys, They're heading the

1696
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: Sacramento and it was just like, hey, Lebron heading to

1697
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: Atlanta for the All Star Break, Like let's let's just

1698
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: give you the night off. But that is often a

1699
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 1: regular thing for him, and that he's been very adamant

1700
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: about saying he's the anti rest and that, you know,

1701
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: the media kind of comes up with all these narratives

1702
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: with him of his minutes and his workload, and he's like,

1703
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not concerned with that stuff, Like I

1704
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 1: know my body, I know how to manage it um

1705
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:53,519
Speaker 1: and you know, like you guys are the ones kind

1706
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:55,840
Speaker 1: of talking about all that stuff and worrying about it.

1707
01:32:55,920 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 1: So based on everything he said and based on you know,

1708
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: the first thirty seven games if he's played and you know,

1709
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 1: every back to back except for one. So um, I

1710
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,240
Speaker 1: do think that there might be pockets of the schedule

1711
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: where um they you know, they have a seven game

1712
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 1: road trip over twelve days. That's going to be pretty brutal.

1713
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:15,679
Speaker 1: As you mentioned that they have eight back to backs,

1714
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: including four back to backs in the final month of

1715
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:22,120
Speaker 1: the season, so it's it's a backloaded back to back,

1716
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 1: so you know, already tired legs, trying to prepare for

1717
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then you have all these back to

1718
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:29,600
Speaker 1: back So um, I think there might be a you know,

1719
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: a game or two he ends up resting. But I

1720
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: do not see him taking the Kawhi Leonard approach for

1721
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: from the past couple of years of every back to

1722
01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:39,479
Speaker 1: back he's missing one, you know, the front end or

1723
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: the back end. I think Lebron wants the m v

1724
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: P UM. I do think for a second it took

1725
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 1: his case, took a hit without four game losing streak

1726
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:49,400
Speaker 1: without a D It was kind of like, well, you know,

1727
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: the Clippers won some games without PG. We've seen you know,

1728
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:56,800
Speaker 1: the Sixers win some games without him without Simmons, So

1729
01:33:57,040 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 1: I think is the mvp K took a little bit

1730
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:01,559
Speaker 1: of a hit, but I think it's bounced back with

1731
01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: the way they closed going in, So I think he's

1732
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 1: right in the mix with within bid. Okay, however, you're

1733
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,720
Speaker 1: gonna put him with good stuff jovon Boo Hoog. You

1734
01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:11,200
Speaker 1: can follow him on Twitter. He covers the Lakers for

1735
01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 1: the Athletic Thank you, thank you very much, yo Von Sorry,

1736
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 1: I can you know, the lettering messes me up, man,

1737
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 1: but thanks for your time, man, keep up the good work.

1738
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me on. All right, Uh, listen,

1739
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:27,839
Speaker 1: he's he's probably right. The Lakers probably will say, Lebron,

1740
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:29,599
Speaker 1: we get it. You want the m v p um,

1741
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 1: you want to play, but the Lakers have to step

1742
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 1: up and shut him down. Seven games in twelve days

1743
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 1: for a thirty six year old again, Black Griffin's thirty one.

1744
01:34:38,880 --> 01:34:43,960
Speaker 1: He's shot nobody. How many. I think there's only three

1745
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:48,640
Speaker 1: guys in the league thirty five or older. It might

1746
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:51,639
Speaker 1: be fewer than that. I think it's like p J. Tucker,

1747
01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:55,439
Speaker 1: Lebron and Andrea Gudala. There can't be many more like

1748
01:34:55,880 --> 01:34:57,960
Speaker 1: Slow it Down Lebron coming up next to year on

1749
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. I'm gonna keep seen this angle. Um,

1750
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:03,320
Speaker 1: people are angry at me on social media. I got

1751
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 1: so many tweets about this all week. You guys think logically,

1752
01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard to the Suns makes all the sense in

1753
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1762
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Speaker 1: from Jove on yo Van the Silent Jay. That should

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Speaker 1: be your new podcast. It's a lot tamer takes, not

1764
01:35:55,400 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: a lot straight fire. Yeah. College basketball pped off around

1765
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:06,519
Speaker 1: the country. Rutgers Minnesota a thriller. No, not really in

1766
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:10,439
Speaker 1: the first half. I always say, a is there any

1767
01:36:10,439 --> 01:36:13,639
Speaker 1: good Big Ten games on today? Sure? Just not right now.

1768
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:18,680
Speaker 1: Later in the day, yes, lots of good basketball got

1769
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,840
Speaker 1: tournament starting conference tournaments. So is it dunk contest tonight?

1770
01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 1: Nobody even knows. The three point Contest has Zach Levine

1771
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:30,760
Speaker 1: and Steph Curry, and people are trying to make the

1772
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:32,479
Speaker 1: case to me to bet on Levine. I guess he

1773
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 1: was plus five d and now he's down to plus

1774
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:38,559
Speaker 1: four forty because some of the numbers because the Curry

1775
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,840
Speaker 1: does a lot of off the dribble in the NBA,

1776
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 1: um Zach Levine is more of a catch and shoot apparently,

1777
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:47,800
Speaker 1: and and catch and shoot Levine is like one of

1778
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:51,120
Speaker 1: the best in the NBA. Now is catch and shoot

1779
01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:53,040
Speaker 1: the same as take the ball off the rack and shoot.

1780
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: I guess it would be closer than off the bounce.

1781
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:58,759
Speaker 1: They're doing everything on Sunday. I forgot about that because

1782
01:36:58,800 --> 01:37:01,599
Speaker 1: the COVID is going to be differ and TV event, right,

1783
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:04,679
Speaker 1: so everything is going to be the three point dunk

1784
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: the actual game. Wow, So Curry's got to do The

1785
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:12,680
Speaker 1: three point contest followed by three point will be at

1786
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:16,120
Speaker 1: three thirty Pacific, six thirty Eastern, and then the game

1787
01:37:16,640 --> 01:37:18,320
Speaker 1: is going to be at eight eastern, so just an

1788
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:21,160
Speaker 1: hour and a half later. Were we hit the beach

1789
01:37:21,240 --> 01:37:25,040
Speaker 1: last weekend and it was great weather, and then this

1790
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:28,880
Speaker 1: week it's like raining and crap weather. Its Uh, what

1791
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:30,960
Speaker 1: do you guys have any big plans this weekend? Gavin?

1792
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 1: Besides you know, um showing off the engagement ring. You know,

1793
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 1: my parents who have been vaccinated. We are gonna My

1794
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: dad's birthday is today actually, so we're gonna be going

1795
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:43,519
Speaker 1: down there tomorrow celebrate a little bit. I'm gonna get

1796
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: him a nice bottle of Irish whiskey. As long as

1797
01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:52,320
Speaker 1: it's not Jamison, that's always this thing. It's overrated, Jamison overrated. Yeah,

1798
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 1: the vaccinations key. My parents both get their second shot

1799
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:58,800
Speaker 1: this week. So as soon as they get that second shot,

1800
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: they're like, we're booking flights out West said fine by me.

1801
01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: You know, they want to come out and visit. And

1802
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 1: they haven't seen the grandkids in over a year and

1803
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:10,040
Speaker 1: this vaccination. I was just texting with a doctor buddy

1804
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: of mine and I've been telling him, like, you know,

1805
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 1: what the move is out here is go to a

1806
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:19,519
Speaker 1: testing site, volunteer for a couple of hours, and then

1807
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:21,439
Speaker 1: at the end when they have extra doses to hand

1808
01:38:21,479 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: them out. So what's been happening is usually that works

1809
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 1: for the first day or two, and then by day

1810
01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:30,040
Speaker 1: three and four, words gotten out and there's like way

1811
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:32,519
Speaker 1: too many volunteers and not enough shots at the end

1812
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:34,639
Speaker 1: and you get shafted. So you gotta get in early.

1813
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 1: I just everybody, Sam, have you gotten it by any chance? No?

1814
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: I have not yet. I mean everybody I know is

1815
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:42,360
Speaker 1: just wants to get it, get it over with, and

1816
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 1: like there's a new eligibility on March fift that's what

1817
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:50,479
Speaker 1: we're looking at signing up for UM in California. So

1818
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we're focused right now. I was

1819
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,919
Speaker 1: not even aware of that. Yeah, if you look into that, UM,

1820
01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: a lot of more people become eligible. We're focused on

1821
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:04,439
Speaker 1: getting my fiancee's mom on that date, but if we

1822
01:39:04,479 --> 01:39:07,959
Speaker 1: can get it as well, that'd be terrific. Oh heck, yeah.

1823
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: I just I'm very excited this summer. I'm sure you

1824
01:39:10,439 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 1: guys have read the articles about how after the Spanish flew,

1825
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:17,720
Speaker 1: you know, wiped out so many people in nineteen and

1826
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:22,680
Speaker 1: the Roaring twenties were like party central, Like Kevin, you're

1827
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 1: gonna be planning a wedding soon. You guys are just

1828
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:29,840
Speaker 1: gonna wait, like there's no rush. By next summer, I

1829
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 1: would assume we'll be without wearing masks and stuff. Oh yeah,

1830
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:38,120
Speaker 1: I think by next winter, Like if we're looking at well,

1831
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: I think like February next year. Okay, that's kind of

1832
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 1: what we're tentatively looking at. About a year out super

1833
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: Bowl I would assume, yeah, yeah, of course super Bowl

1834
01:39:47,840 --> 01:39:50,280
Speaker 1: before March. Bad. What if I said it for Super

1835
01:39:50,320 --> 01:39:53,480
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday and ask people to come out on disrespectful?

1836
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody gets married on Super Bowl Sunday. I

1837
01:39:56,640 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: can't imagine. I will say we went through a period

1838
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:02,920
Speaker 1: where we didn't of Sunday weddings, like because you gotta

1839
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:06,559
Speaker 1: go to work Monday. Now Saturday wedding, they jack up

1840
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:09,680
Speaker 1: the prices. But at least you can make it like

1841
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:12,920
Speaker 1: a hardcore party time that you that's memorable. You know,

1842
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:16,160
Speaker 1: people are willing to stay out late, Like nobody's staying

1843
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 1: out late on a Sunday night. You gotta work Monday morning.

1844
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 1: I think as long as it's not a dry wedding,

1845
01:40:20,479 --> 01:40:24,000
Speaker 1: you know, my my uncle had a dry wedding new alcohol.

1846
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:26,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if I think I might have been

1847
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,400
Speaker 1: a one dry wedding. It's barely a wedding. It's like

1848
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:34,080
Speaker 1: a gathering. How could it be like a celebration gathering

1849
01:40:34,080 --> 01:40:37,880
Speaker 1: a frustrated people put up your sprite and uh thanks,

1850
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm good. Yeah, seriously sparkling cider. Was Sam, are you married?

1851
01:40:42,160 --> 01:40:49,600
Speaker 1: It engaged? Jeez? I was Sam clinging to single them.

1852
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:53,519
Speaker 1: I'm not single, but well you're I mean, unless you're engaged,

1853
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 1: you're single. He's non committal. No, I have you know,

1854
01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,519
Speaker 1: I don't know. You guys live together? Right? Pretty much? Yeah?

1855
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: Pretty much lived together and it's like three years now, right,

1856
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:09,360
Speaker 1: society has its expector. Here we go. I thought we

1857
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: weren't living in the fifties anymore. So do you are you?

1858
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:14,759
Speaker 1: Are you guys on board with like just not getting married.

1859
01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:19,600
Speaker 1: I always say I'm looking at me. He loves deflecting.

1860
01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:22,439
Speaker 1: He doesn't like coming on the air. I don't think

1861
01:41:22,479 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 1: your girls listening. Um, unless he's a big sports fan.

1862
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I want to, you know,

1863
01:41:26,840 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: take to the seat the shrink Seaton. You know here's

1864
01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:32,960
Speaker 1: married to Isaac Loewen Crown with the latest in supports,

1865
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:35,840
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, and speaking of salary cap Doug the New

1866
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:40,759
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints creating over thirteen million in cap space. NFL

1867
01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 1: media reporting they've restructured the contracts of defense Eve and

1868
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: Cameron Jordan's as well as linebacker to mario' davis. NFL

1869
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: media also reporting the Saints re signed running back Time

1870
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:56,559
Speaker 1: Montgomery to a one year deal. In college football, Kansas

1871
01:41:56,560 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: on Friday placed head coach Less Miles on administrative lee

1872
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:05,040
Speaker 1: after the release of a twenty thirteen LSU investigation that

1873
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:10,559
Speaker 1: concluded that Miles behaved inappropriately with female student employees while

1874
01:42:10,560 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 1: he was the head coach there. The report also revealed

1875
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 1: that l s US athletic director recommended firing Miles at

1876
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:22,439
Speaker 1: the time. On the college basketball scoreboard, right now, Notre

1877
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:25,559
Speaker 1: Dame has just gone up thirty one to eighteen over

1878
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:29,120
Speaker 1: eleventh ranks Florida State seven twenty four and counting left

1879
01:42:29,160 --> 01:42:32,599
Speaker 1: in the first half. In the SEC Kentucky of twenty

1880
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:35,720
Speaker 1: five to twenty four over South Carolina, seven and a

1881
01:42:35,800 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 1: half minutes remaining in the first half. There in the

1882
01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: Big East, Yukon on top of Georgetown twenty nine to

1883
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 1: sixteen in the first half. On the Big Ten, it's

1884
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 1: Minnesota ahead of Rutgers fourteen to twelve. Three minutes into

1885
01:42:51,520 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: the ball game. Jason back to you, all right, thank you,

1886
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:58,759
Speaker 1: Isaac back here on Fox Sports Radio, It's me Jason

1887
01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:02,519
Speaker 1: McIntire live from the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios

1888
01:43:02,520 --> 01:43:04,160
Speaker 1: called one at eight Farmers that you could say a

1889
01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 1: whole lot of something on auto insurance. All right, joining

1890
01:43:07,240 --> 01:43:10,360
Speaker 1: the show now, Salary cap expert. That is a pretty

1891
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:12,439
Speaker 1: cool title to have. There's not many of those out there.

1892
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:16,639
Speaker 1: Expertise is a thing you want in life. Andrew Brandt

1893
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:21,679
Speaker 1: has it. Former Packers GM. How are you, man, I'm good, Jason,

1894
01:43:21,760 --> 01:43:24,600
Speaker 1: Good to be with you. It's always um. You know,

1895
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 1: I was an agent for many years. I was a

1896
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:28,800
Speaker 1: team execut with the Packers, as you mentioned, for many

1897
01:43:28,920 --> 01:43:32,960
Speaker 1: years now analyzing the business of sports, and it's always

1898
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,639
Speaker 1: interesting to me that me, I'm like pretty much everyone

1899
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 1: else in football, is much I'm much busier when the

1900
01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:43,679
Speaker 1: games stopped, you know, much busier when there are no games,

1901
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:46,479
Speaker 1: when there's no season. And that's always been the case

1902
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,240
Speaker 1: with all the positions I've had. Yeah, and you know

1903
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 1: I read your peace on s I dot Com The

1904
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:54,680
Speaker 1: Business of Football Understanding the salary cap. And Andrew, you

1905
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 1: know how this works. Okay, You go on these shows

1906
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 1: and you I could say, hey, I would try trade

1907
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:02,320
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson and a heartbeat, you know, of course

1908
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:04,599
Speaker 1: Dallas should back up the brinks and give up three

1909
01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:07,240
Speaker 1: first rounds and Zeke and blah blah blah, get Russell Wilson.

1910
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 1: And of course, you know Pittsburgh should just dump Ben

1911
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:14,800
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and sign X Y Z. And it's funny to

1912
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:19,600
Speaker 1: say that, but from a reality perspective, like when you

1913
01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: look at the salary caps, a lot of this stuff

1914
01:44:21,400 --> 01:44:25,559
Speaker 1: can't even happen, right, Yeah, I mean it is. I

1915
01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:28,479
Speaker 1: don't mean to be pejorative with this, but it is.

1916
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 1: These these trades that people conjure up are all fantasy football.

1917
01:44:33,040 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: And speaking of fantasy football, you know people, a lot

1918
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:38,560
Speaker 1: of people listening are in those cap drafts where you

1919
01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:42,720
Speaker 1: start with two hundred dollars, right, So imagine if you're

1920
01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles or the Steelers, or if the if the

1921
01:44:46,280 --> 01:44:50,599
Speaker 1: IF Seahawks trade Russell Wilson or the Rams. So if

1922
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:52,720
Speaker 1: you're one of those teams, you're not starting with two

1923
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 1: hundred dollars anymore. You're starting with a hundred and seventy

1924
01:44:56,200 --> 01:45:00,160
Speaker 1: or a hundred and forty thirty. And think how I'm

1925
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: stringing that is that's what happens in the NFL. And

1926
01:45:03,920 --> 01:45:05,880
Speaker 1: I'll explain dead cap a little more in a minute.

1927
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:09,200
Speaker 1: But this is unique, Jason, to the NFL because in

1928
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:13,559
Speaker 1: basketball and baseball, if you get rid of a guy, yeah,

1929
01:45:13,640 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: maybe you still got to pay them or you work

1930
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:17,800
Speaker 1: at a deal with the new team. But there's no

1931
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:21,720
Speaker 1: long tail of NFL economics. The cap is something that

1932
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: leaves accounting behind if you structured contracts in a certain way.

1933
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 1: And that's the problem for NFL teams. Yeah, when you

1934
01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 1: mentioned something like dead cap money, a lot of people

1935
01:45:33,600 --> 01:45:36,720
Speaker 1: don't think they're not factoring that into their trade scenarios.

1936
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: Now I think the Rams correct me if I'm wrong,

1937
01:45:40,080 --> 01:45:44,200
Speaker 1: but they are paying Girly and Golf something like thirty

1938
01:45:44,280 --> 01:45:48,240
Speaker 1: million dollars not to play for them. Yeah, and let's

1939
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:51,000
Speaker 1: just let's clarify that because I know a lot of

1940
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 1: people get this wrong and it's maybe a technicality, but

1941
01:45:54,160 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 1: no one's paying anything. Okay, dead dead cap is not cash.

1942
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 1: So you know, I've even read a really prominent guy

1943
01:46:03,560 --> 01:46:06,360
Speaker 1: saying the Eagles still, oh, Carson went to thirty four million.

1944
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:10,679
Speaker 1: They don't They've paid Carson WILLI went all his money?

1945
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 1: What they owe him, what they sorry owe him. They

1946
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:20,839
Speaker 1: have him on their books because cap is accounting cash

1947
01:46:20,920 --> 01:46:25,640
Speaker 1: is cash, cap is accounting. So yeah, the Rams have

1948
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:29,240
Speaker 1: Girly and golf on their books for thirty something million.

1949
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:33,200
Speaker 1: The Eagles have went on their books for thirty four million.

1950
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:37,559
Speaker 1: If the Steelers would have let Roethlisberger go, he would

1951
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:43,080
Speaker 1: still count two million. If Breese retires, he will count

1952
01:46:43,160 --> 01:46:46,639
Speaker 1: twenty two million. If Russell is traded, he will count

1953
01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: something ridiculous like thirty nine million dollars. So this is

1954
01:46:50,520 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 1: the long tail of NFL economics. A lot of people

1955
01:46:52,800 --> 01:46:55,439
Speaker 1: don't really understand. Okay, so I'll get to breeze in

1956
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:58,800
Speaker 1: a second. But you mentioned Russell Wilson, right, So a

1957
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:02,880
Speaker 1: huge dead cap hit if he is traded to Dallas.

1958
01:47:02,960 --> 01:47:07,559
Speaker 1: Now I did read. I think Mike Floria wrote, well, uh,

1959
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:10,800
Speaker 1: Dallas can get creative with the money, and then russ

1960
01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: could then write a check to Seattle to cover the

1961
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: dead money or something thereabouts. Is that total pie in

1962
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:21,280
Speaker 1: the sky stuff? Would that ever happened? Has it happened? Um?

1963
01:47:21,400 --> 01:47:24,800
Speaker 1: I only I mean I read I saw people talking

1964
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:27,320
Speaker 1: about this with Wentz that he's going to give back

1965
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:29,519
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty million and then the Colts are going

1966
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 1: to give him twenty million. No, I mean, first of all.

1967
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:35,800
Speaker 1: First of all, they don't. I mean maybe Russell Wilson does.

1968
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 1: But people don't have this kind of money. You know,

1969
01:47:38,920 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 1: it's invested, it's spent. You know, that doesn't happen. The

1970
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: only thing that happens sometimes is when you know you

1971
01:47:47,800 --> 01:47:49,320
Speaker 1: work out a deal, you can't do it like the

1972
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:52,439
Speaker 1: NBA where you trade cash. So you want to trade

1973
01:47:52,479 --> 01:47:54,800
Speaker 1: a guy making ten million, the only the other team

1974
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:57,040
Speaker 1: wants to pay him only five so you give him

1975
01:47:57,040 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 1: a five million dollar bonus and then you trade him.

1976
01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:04,080
Speaker 1: But this is something different, you know, it's trading Russell

1977
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:08,320
Speaker 1: Wilson is not a problem for the Cowboys, right. The

1978
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:12,719
Speaker 1: problem is for the Seahawks because now they will start

1979
01:48:13,600 --> 01:48:16,240
Speaker 1: forty million in the hole if they do that, in

1980
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: addition to having to get a new quarterback. So that's

1981
01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:22,080
Speaker 1: a whole different story. It's never the problem in NFL

1982
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: cap for the for the acquiring team, it's a problem

1983
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:30,320
Speaker 1: for the trading team. And where where are you on

1984
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:35,000
Speaker 1: the Drew Brees stuff. A lot of movement happening cap maschinations,

1985
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 1: I believe they call them, with guys restructuring and kicking

1986
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 1: money around. In your expert opinion, what do you think

1987
01:48:43,040 --> 01:48:45,760
Speaker 1: this is about. Do you think they're trying to keep

1988
01:48:45,840 --> 01:48:48,960
Speaker 1: Drew Brees for another year or are they making way

1989
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:53,439
Speaker 1: so they can afford Deshaun Watson or Russell Wilson or

1990
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 1: some big name in quarterback. You know, I think a

1991
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:57,719
Speaker 1: lot of what the Saints are doing is just getting

1992
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:01,680
Speaker 1: to ground zero, because know they've had they've been one

1993
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: of those teams that everyone talks about. He started pushed

1994
01:49:04,160 --> 01:49:06,200
Speaker 1: the can down the road, a lot of it with Breeze,

1995
01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 1: where they go to Breeze every year and say, hey,

1996
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:11,360
Speaker 1: you're twenty million, we're gonna turn it into bonus. We're

1997
01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:13,439
Speaker 1: gonna bring the cap down to five million, We're gonna

1998
01:49:13,479 --> 01:49:16,599
Speaker 1: push out fifteen million. And they just stack and stack

1999
01:49:16,680 --> 01:49:18,799
Speaker 1: and stack probation. They're gonna have to pay the piper.

2000
01:49:18,840 --> 01:49:22,040
Speaker 1: As we know. It seems to me, the Saints and

2001
01:49:22,120 --> 01:49:24,360
Speaker 1: a couple of other teams Eagles, they're just gonna have

2002
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:26,800
Speaker 1: to get to ground zero. Whether they bring Drew back,

2003
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: you know, because he hasn't retired, you're wondering what's going on,

2004
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:32,559
Speaker 1: or go after someone else, you know, they then they'll

2005
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:36,639
Speaker 1: have to restructure or cut or slash or hack even more.

2006
01:49:37,560 --> 01:49:39,560
Speaker 1: But they got a long way to go. Yeah, in

2007
01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: your experiences, Andrew, when teams do this, uh, is it

2008
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,439
Speaker 1: basically the Saints, we're just trying to hang onto the

2009
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:48,639
Speaker 1: glory years. They were trying to kick the can down

2010
01:49:48,720 --> 01:49:51,599
Speaker 1: the road. Hey man, we're ten win team, we could

2011
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:53,360
Speaker 1: get a Super Bowl. Let's get it one more chance.

2012
01:49:53,760 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 1: And then they fail in the playoffs and then they're

2013
01:49:55,520 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 1: upset in the playoffs and then the call against. So

2014
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:00,439
Speaker 1: that's what they were doing. And eventually, like you said,

2015
01:50:00,439 --> 01:50:04,599
Speaker 1: you gotta pay the piper. Maybe that's this year. Yeah,

2016
01:50:04,600 --> 01:50:06,519
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I talked about this in my Sports

2017
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:09,960
Speaker 1: Illustrated article. H these people that say cap gurus do

2018
01:50:10,080 --> 01:50:12,880
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, you could do that everyone listening

2019
01:50:12,920 --> 01:50:15,680
Speaker 1: could do that. You know, all you do is take

2020
01:50:15,760 --> 01:50:18,519
Speaker 1: a big salary, turn it into bonus pro rad push

2021
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 1: out the real cap wizards and the optimal way for

2022
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 1: in my opinion, to manage a salary caps pay as

2023
01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:28,479
Speaker 1: you go. In other words, match cap and cash as

2024
01:50:28,600 --> 01:50:31,439
Speaker 1: much as you can instead of having a high cash

2025
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:34,800
Speaker 1: and low cap. Try to make it work. You know,

2026
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:38,200
Speaker 1: the forty niners first year cap on Garoppolo was like

2027
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: forty million dollars. So if they move on and this

2028
01:50:43,360 --> 01:50:46,519
Speaker 1: gives them ability to do so it'll only count like

2029
01:50:46,600 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: two and a half million on their cap as dead

2030
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:52,680
Speaker 1: money compared to these charges of other teams, So that

2031
01:50:53,320 --> 01:50:55,680
Speaker 1: gives teams flexibility. Was something I tried to do in

2032
01:50:55,760 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Resist the temptation to go to Brad or

2033
01:50:58,120 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 1: Aaron's contract all the time. And uh, to me, that's

2034
01:51:01,960 --> 01:51:03,200
Speaker 1: the best way to do it. But if you get

2035
01:51:03,240 --> 01:51:05,679
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball like the Steelers, like the Saints,

2036
01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:08,880
Speaker 1: just seemed to be clawing your way back all the time. Yeah,

2037
01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:12,559
Speaker 1: I don't want you to call anyone out, but Andrew,

2038
01:51:12,560 --> 01:51:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm curious, who do you think when you look around

2039
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:17,840
Speaker 1: the league at cap situations, who's doing a great job

2040
01:51:17,920 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: of threading that needle with managing the cap and competing

2041
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 1: for a Super Bowl? Well managing cap I just mentioned

2042
01:51:26,880 --> 01:51:28,960
Speaker 1: is do a really nice job. And they were competing

2043
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:32,880
Speaker 1: obviously last year before the injuries. Um, you know, teams

2044
01:51:32,920 --> 01:51:35,719
Speaker 1: that aren't doing well on the field, like Jacksonville always

2045
01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:39,120
Speaker 1: seems to be doing well with cap room Cleveland. But

2046
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:41,439
Speaker 1: a team I'll point out, which is the obvious one,

2047
01:51:42,760 --> 01:51:46,479
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they do a nice job. You know,

2048
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has zero peroration on that contract, so there's

2049
01:51:51,439 --> 01:51:55,040
Speaker 1: no signing bonus. He makes million a year, and if

2050
01:51:55,280 --> 01:51:58,920
Speaker 1: for God forbid, he had retired after this year, they

2051
01:51:58,960 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 1: would have zero debt money, you know, while he's counting

2052
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:05,640
Speaker 1: fifteen millions for the Patriots right now. So you know

2053
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:09,000
Speaker 1: they're a team that's been able to maximize both. Um,

2054
01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:12,000
Speaker 1: I guess i'll wrap up with this. You know, well,

2055
01:52:12,080 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to go to Pat

2056
01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:16,320
Speaker 1: Mahomes or not, but let's let's go to Dak Prescott. Okay.

2057
01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:19,800
Speaker 1: So Dak Prescott is asking for the world. He allegedly

2058
01:52:19,880 --> 01:52:22,960
Speaker 1: said he wants money just below Patrick Mahomes, which is

2059
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:25,519
Speaker 1: all you know, that's what the market says to me.

2060
01:52:25,680 --> 01:52:28,760
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Um, the Cowboys say we'll give you

2061
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:31,920
Speaker 1: four he or know, the Cowboys want five years, and

2062
01:52:32,080 --> 01:52:33,720
Speaker 1: he says four because I want to come back and

2063
01:52:33,800 --> 01:52:36,360
Speaker 1: get more money in four years. I don't know when

2064
01:52:36,439 --> 01:52:39,080
Speaker 1: you look at the cap situation and the Cowboys, not

2065
01:52:39,200 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 1: only are they have they not managed to cap well,

2066
01:52:41,360 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: but they're not competing for a Super Bowl. Um, I

2067
01:52:44,439 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 1: don't know where are you on Dallas doc and cap

2068
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:51,040
Speaker 1: situation there? Well, first of all, you brought up quickly Mahomes.

2069
01:52:51,240 --> 01:52:55,679
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys would give Prescott the Mahomes contract

2070
01:52:55,760 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: and a heartbeat, And the reason for that is it's

2071
01:52:58,920 --> 01:53:02,280
Speaker 1: whatever Hannah let in years, and Dak doesn't even want

2072
01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: five because, as you said, Dak wants to get to

2073
01:53:05,280 --> 01:53:08,760
Speaker 1: free agency again, which Patrick Mahomes will never do in

2074
01:53:08,840 --> 01:53:11,479
Speaker 1: the prime of his career. And Mahomes is kind of

2075
01:53:11,520 --> 01:53:13,920
Speaker 1: a two tier contract. He's making about thirty a year

2076
01:53:14,240 --> 01:53:16,439
Speaker 1: and for the first five years, then it jumps to

2077
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 1: like forty five a year. So I think Dack's in

2078
01:53:20,400 --> 01:53:22,920
Speaker 1: a great position because he's got three options. He can

2079
01:53:22,960 --> 01:53:25,920
Speaker 1: get tagged again for thirty eight million, he can do

2080
01:53:26,040 --> 01:53:29,000
Speaker 1: a deal that he agrees to, or they can let

2081
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:31,439
Speaker 1: him go to free agency, which is the most unlikely

2082
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:34,000
Speaker 1: option where he'd make more than anything we're talking about.

2083
01:53:34,760 --> 01:53:40,599
Speaker 1: So by franchising him, he has he has attained all

2084
01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:43,840
Speaker 1: the cards, even with the injury. So you, Andrew, you

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Speaker 1: really think if if the Cowboys said, sorry, Dad, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna let you walk, someone would pay him thirty eight

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Speaker 1: million a year. I think he'd get the deal he wants.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is for four years for

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Speaker 1: thirty something million a year, and then he hits it

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Speaker 1: for fifty million a year and forty years something. I

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Speaker 1: just I'm stunned that people are willing to give I

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Speaker 1: don't know, not even a top ten quarterback. Maybe he's

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Speaker 1: sniffing the top ten thirty eight million a year for

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Speaker 1: four years. That to me him? When is the last

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Speaker 1: time ever? Ever? I'm not talking about Brady R. Manning,

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Speaker 1: a ascending mid twenties quarterback has hit free agency. I

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Speaker 1: don't think or was he? Yeah, I mean that's that's

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Speaker 1: a lesser version. But yes, you know, we don't have

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Speaker 1: a record of this, so I think when that first

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Speaker 1: person is and maybe it's Prescott, he'll break you back,

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Speaker 1: all right, Andrew Brand, you can find his stuff everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Keep it locked up on Game is next here on

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Um Plexico Buris, t J. Hush Menzata,

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Speaker 1: who's just strolling in like he worked out with Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence this week or something. Uh, hush Menzata second best

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Speaker 1: Domino's player at Fox Sports Radio after me of course.

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Speaker 1: Also LaVar Arrington will be host, so you know they're up.

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Speaker 1: They're up next. How to go by the way. Last

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Speaker 1: week with your guy loew Wayne, it was awesome. He

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Speaker 1: broke some news on here. Uh, new albums coming out

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Speaker 1: this year. He was terrific. Had some hot takes on

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Speaker 1: his favorite quarterback, Brett are really good stuff. Brett Farve

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Speaker 1: is his favorite quarterback. Don't you know you asked most

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Speaker 1: Packer fans. He's who got them into their team, you know. Huh,

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Speaker 1: Loew Wayne. Yeah, he's a big Packer fan from New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: but big Packer fan, big Laker fan, so you guys

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Speaker 1: would get along, huh. And Boston Red Sox Man what

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Speaker 1: a band way? Um are you watching this Florida State

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Speaker 1: getting thumped? I almost want to jump on and do

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Speaker 1: an in game bed on FSU. They're down twenty at

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. I guess it's senior Day or something and

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame's playing out of its mind. But there's no

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Speaker 1: way they're gonna kill f S. You like this. And

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Speaker 1: then Rutgers Minnesota. I made a small in game wager

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Speaker 1: on Rutgers, which is a plucky team right now and

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Speaker 1: nobody cares about Oh wait, I would say fire away.

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Speaker 1: They've been staking in a bad way. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: if I would say I was going to talk anymore.

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Speaker 1: After I asked about his engagement and like and um,

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Speaker 1: he's all like down in the dumps and like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I always Sam, come on, you listen, you

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Speaker 1: do it all. We are a full service Saturday morning radio. Shoop.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the heartland. We're gonna talk about soybeans,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the Big ten, the Big twelve,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about ships. Sounded like Tim Tebow.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about relationships. Um, there you go, Tim Tebow. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's in his future, but probably something right.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll have a big future like t J Zada

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Speaker 1: and and work out with future pros about listen, Tim

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Speaker 1: Tebow will be a professional speaker somewhere. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if radio. He probably doesn't want to do, but I

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Speaker 1: mean I think he does. Does he do SEC network

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Speaker 1: or something? I think so. I think college game day,

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Speaker 1: okay game day as well. He just he's like one

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Speaker 1: of these uplifting guys. What Tony Robbins is he the

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Speaker 1: guy who does motivational speak of Tebow could easily get

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Speaker 1: that game. Um, Kevin, what's the show you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: on Netflix? You want to recommend Netflix? It's called loop

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Speaker 1: in U p I and I had a couple of

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Speaker 1: people mentioned it to me. I haven't checked it out yet.

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Speaker 1: My my schedule today is busy. I got boys basketball,

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Speaker 1: girls basketball. Um, I gotta finished watching Coming to America.

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Speaker 1: I've got to continue to gamble on college basketball Coming

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Speaker 1: to America to the first thirty minutes are hot garbage.

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Speaker 1: Then it gets really really uh improved. But we know this.

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Speaker 1: You guys are in Hollywood out here, like no sequels

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Speaker 1: are really that good? Do you remember the What's the

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Speaker 1: Vegas movie Hangover. Gosh, how bad was Hangover too? I

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Speaker 1: actually didn't think the second one was as bad. The

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Speaker 1: third was awful. Yeah, did you make a Hangover four? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I know what you mean generally that the sequels

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Speaker 1: are not not as good. Well, it's funny because Wedding Crashers,

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Speaker 1: I still believe is one of the best comedies, one

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Speaker 1: of the seminal comedies of the century. I'm extremely bullish

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Speaker 1: on it. And Vince Vaughan kind of lives near me,

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Speaker 1: so I know some You know, he's got kids in

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Speaker 1: youth sports, so I know the dads who know him.

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Speaker 1: So I've met him a couple of times. Super nice guy.

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Speaker 1: But I want to tell him, like, Vince, please don't

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Speaker 1: do Wedding Crashers too, because think about it. Anchorman two

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Speaker 1: that came out that I didn't even see it, and

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Speaker 1: part of it was because it came out like ten

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Speaker 1: years later. In fact, probably more like they also did

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Speaker 1: zooland or two. No, I haven't seen that yet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Wedding Crashers was incredible. I don't know, you know how

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Speaker 1: you level up from that. I was also a big

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Speaker 1: Rachel McAdams fan, like, for whatever reason, she was on

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Speaker 1: my whole pack. That was a great run by her.

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Speaker 1: She was in the notebook, Rachel McAdams, that's you said,

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Speaker 1: Oh I've seen not book? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah nice.

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Speaker 1: What else was she? And she she she wasn't like

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Speaker 1: a smoke show, like a Jessica Alba. Um. I've mentioned

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Speaker 1: Jessica Alba now twice. This is embarrassing. Um. But Rachel

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Speaker 1: McAdams just something about her. She seemed attainable. Oh, she

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Speaker 1: wasn't mean girls me and girls. Yes, excellent movie. Alright,

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Speaker 1: so we're wrapping up the show here. Thank you, Gavin.

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Speaker 1: Congrats on the engagement. Iowa, Sam, Chris Isaac. I hope

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Speaker 1: you guys devour some college basketball up on Game Is next.

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Speaker 1: You know Who'shavenzada is probably gonna talk some smack about

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Speaker 1: me because I whooped his butt in Dominoes. I'm out.