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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome in hour or two of the program Jason

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Speaker 3: Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon. No Jason for the

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Speaker 3: of Major League Baseball Opening night Yankees cruise to the

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Speaker 3: seven nil soccer is part of my bonds now. Seven

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Speaker 3: seven nothing shutout win over the Yeah by a touchdown

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Speaker 3: with the pat against the Giants. Giants didn't give them

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Speaker 3: much to cheer about, except for the fact that people

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Speaker 3: came in Yankee uniforms and spent a lot of money

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Speaker 3: in the stands there for the opener. What was it about?

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Speaker 3: A minus one twenty proposition for the Yankees for this

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Speaker 3: one and an easy score Max Freed getting it done.

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Speaker 3: But concerning the strikeout streak for Aaron Judge continues, remember

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Speaker 3: the hat trick in the World Baseball class again A

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Speaker 3: full four tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just doesn't concern me too much. Early, I

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Speaker 4: then I'll be concerned.

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Speaker 5: But I just this season is so long.

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Speaker 3: Oh I just like fun and chaos. Then the sky

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Speaker 3: is falling, Shared Smith.

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Speaker 5: That's the fans where I'll be the voice of reason.

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Speaker 3: He was the captain and he's creating chaos. And they

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Speaker 3: won seven nothing. Anyway, they won a baseball game seven nothing.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna play one hundred and sixty one more games.

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Speaker 3: I so the only gripe that I had tonight.

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Speaker 4: I did not love the way that Netflix presented this

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Speaker 4: game like they made it like it game seven in

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Speaker 4: the World Series, and they basically made it an entire

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 4: They made like an MVP jacket for for freed And

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Speaker 4: and Trent Grisham, and they had to eat like hot

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Speaker 4: dogs on the field after the game. I was like,

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Speaker 4: you realize, these guys are gonna play one hundred and

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Speaker 4: sixty one more games this year. But I understand they

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Speaker 4: want to get their money's worth out of this promotion

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Speaker 3: They got Barry Bond's doing analysis for crying out loud.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's what he looks felt. Barry's lost some

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Speaker 3: way and mean, well, I mean it's been a minute.

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Speaker 3: It's been a minute, Barry what's the hat size, Doug

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Speaker 3: don't even get me. No, no, I look, I've met

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Speaker 4: Good honestly, he he he actually seems like a really

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Speaker 4: So I just think you have to give these guys

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Speaker 5: But right now, I don't even I don't care.

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Speaker 3: All I wanted to do was a quick New York

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Speaker 3: all of this is great, But what's wrong with Aaron?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with Aaron? He's lost it? Hey, professional wrestling fans,

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Speaker 3: walk with Elijah and Ariana Grace is an up and

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Speaker 3: you go to TNA Wrestling dot Com. Now back to

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Speaker 3: the NBA. We'll put a pin in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 3: for a bit, because plenty Tomorrow with the Dodgers ring

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Speaker 3: for the year, and including some of the biggest stars.

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Speaker 3: But for the NBA, some more news and notes. Yesterday

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Speaker 3: want Giannis to play. Okay, got that? And then we

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Speaker 3: two of those running concurrently were pretty fun stories right here. Hey,

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Speaker 3: they they're tanking and this is the way it is

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Speaker 3: no kidding, Adam Silver, go back to a frozen envelope

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Speaker 3: night tonight we're entertained as hell sitting here in the studio.

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Speaker 3: just I don't see there being an easy fix in this,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, how do we start with this?

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Speaker 4: So the average NBA team makes about five hundred million

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Speaker 4: that's point one percent. It's like it's like a half.

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Speaker 4: phrase dropping the bucket is very apropos here. I'll give

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Speaker 4: you the Bucks starting lineup tonight. They're down twenty three,

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Speaker 4: They're a five hundred team the Blazers this year, Pete

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Speaker 4: Jericho sims aj Green, Ryan Rawlins. That's the Milwaukee Bucks

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Speaker 5: you look at.

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Speaker 4: It, do a little analysis, and then you're ready to roll.

433
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Speaker 4: So it's like a three and a half step process.

434
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Speaker 4: Once I get to late May early June, that's around

435
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Speaker 4: the time that I will start to take account of

436
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Speaker 4: I like this team over. I like this team under

437
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 4: because I'll have all of this information in my back

438
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 4: pocket and I will be able to go through each team. Basically,

439
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 4: I write an article on each team, you know, an

440
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Speaker 4: article to myself. It's almost like writing a letter to

441
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Speaker 4: my future self. This is how I think they handled

442
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Speaker 4: the off season. I mean it's a very effective way.

443
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 4: I think we've lost the art. Like obviously we're radio

444
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 4: hosts and we want to talk and the and the

445
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 4: spoken word is very important to us. But I do

446
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 4: think the best way to piece together your thoughts on

447
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 4: a team is to actually put pen to paper and

448
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 4: you don't have to write it physically.

449
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 5: You can, you know, type it.

450
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Speaker 4: But the way that my brain works, once I have

451
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Speaker 4: all of that information in a timeline right February postseason autopsy,

452
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Speaker 4: March free agency, April, Draft, May schedule, then I get

453
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Speaker 4: the June and I write one article or I you know,

454
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Speaker 4: piece together multiple articles throughout the course of the year,

455
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Speaker 4: and then once I get the June, I combine it

456
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Speaker 4: all together. Then at the end of that article, I'll

457
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Speaker 4: write a little you know, basically my feelings about the

458
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Speaker 4: team going into the year.

459
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Speaker 5: I like what they did, I don't like what they did.

460
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Speaker 4: I like this schedule, I like this stretch, this is

461
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 4: a tough part of the schedule for them. And then

462
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Speaker 4: based off of that, I will say over or under

463
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Speaker 4: on their win total. So I'm only about thirty percent

464
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Speaker 4: of the way through my process right now, and I'm

465
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Speaker 4: not quite ready to fire a wager, but I'm definitely

466
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Speaker 4: ready to opine on Kansas City, and I think there's

467
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Speaker 4: I definitely think there's some room for the upside. I

468
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Speaker 4: think if they get a Jordan Tyson in the draft

469
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Speaker 4: or a top ten you know, use that top ten

470
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Speaker 4: pick on a receiver and they spark that offense again,

471
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Speaker 4: and Mahomes comes in healthy and Travis Kelcey gets you know,

472
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Speaker 4: you squeeze every last drop out of Kelsey, and Spags

473
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Speaker 4: gets that defense ready to rock.

474
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Speaker 3: But the defense lost a couple of key pieces. So

475
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Speaker 3: we'll see what that defense looks like. Right, they lost

476
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Speaker 3: two of their best corners. One of them is gonna

477
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Speaker 3: be I think actually they both lined with the Rams.

478
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Speaker 3: One of them is traded right and the other one

479
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Speaker 3: I think left right. So you lose two corners. I

480
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Speaker 3: think I trust Spags though, to get whoever whatever young

481
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Speaker 3: players they have. I trust Bags to kind of get

482
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Speaker 3: him back in tow.

483
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Speaker 4: But if they can figure out that defense and get

484
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Speaker 4: those guys playing as one unit, and Mahomes is healthy

485
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Speaker 4: and they get a receiver in the draft at the top,

486
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Speaker 4: I would say the upside's pretty high. If Mahomes is

487
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Speaker 4: ready to rock.

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Speaker 3: We start looking at these schedule ahead for them for

489
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Speaker 3: the year. You've got Buffalo and obviously the division games,

490
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Speaker 3: so we we have we count all of that. You've

491
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Speaker 3: got the AFC East starting with you know, Miami and

492
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Speaker 3: the Jets. Yeah, I mean, so that's in theory two win.

493
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Speaker 3: Like you start piecing it together. It's like there's two

494
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Speaker 3: and there's that. Uh yeah, the foul.

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Speaker 4: Vegas is I'll be honest, Vegas intrigues me this year

496
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Speaker 4: now because now Vegas has a little bit more starch,

497
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Speaker 4: well at least in theory, they get Mendoza, right if

498
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 4: they catch lightning in a bottle with Mendoza, like the

499
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Speaker 4: like the Commanders did with Jayden and Daniels in twenty four.

500
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Speaker 4: And you've got Kubiak coming over, who is an offensive wizard,

501
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Speaker 4: you know, they could be dangerous. We know Denver's really good. Obviously,

502
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Speaker 4: we love.

503
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Speaker 5: The Chargers, so I could see the Chiefs struggling in

504
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Speaker 5: the division this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the fun part. And we can transition that

506
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 3: to a little bit on the Raiders because uh, you've

507
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Speaker 3: got some bare bones that that make you feel like

508
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Speaker 3: you're at least had it in the right direction, that

509
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Speaker 3: you've got some decision make. Yeah, that can get you there. Mendoza.

510
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Speaker 3: Obviously it's look trial by fire. You know you're facing

511
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Speaker 3: a couple of monster defenses there. Although you know with

512
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Speaker 3: the Chargers and and Justin will probably throw something out

513
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: the window at me now mentor leaves. So the question

514
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Speaker 3: if if there's any bit of a drop off. Uh

515
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Speaker 3: and Oway left in free agency after being a beast

516
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Speaker 3: for them last year. They unlocked everything Baltimore couldn't for

517
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Speaker 3: those years. But Crosby is back, should be healthy. I'm

518
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Speaker 3: assuming he stays there. That's a subplot. We'll talk about

519
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Speaker 3: one year, you know, one year, but we'll talk about

520
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about whether there's still a potential that that

521
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 3: he gets spun off because there was another story that

522
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Speaker 3: that re upped itself a little bit earlier. But let's

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Speaker 3: just say he's there for the sake of this part

524
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Speaker 3: of the conversation. So you got him here, we got Bowers,

525
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Speaker 3: you get you got Genty, who had a really nice

526
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Speaker 3: year even though fantasy owners hated him uh and and

527
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 3: didn't have monster numbers on a week to week basis.

528
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Speaker 3: It pieced together pretty nicely. Offensive line. You've got two

529
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 3: good pieces. Now it's a matter of filling it out.

530
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Speaker 3: And that's one of the things Justin and Alex and

531
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Speaker 3: Jason laugh at me about all the time, is how

532
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Speaker 3: much I spend talking about offensive line and how much

533
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 3: I hate teams offensive line combinations and the week to

534
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 3: week tracking of what is this? This is like the

535
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 3: eighteenth line, they've used a tweak nine, just kind of

536
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Speaker 3: trying to cobble things to.

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Speaker 5: Get right on that. It's very important line, but that's

538
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 5: just right.

539
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 3: It may not be exciting defensive line, both lines, right,

540
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 3: it may not be exciting, but it's the reality, right.

541
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Speaker 3: It's one in the trenches, and especially if you've got

542
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 3: a rookie quarterback, that's going to go a long way

543
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 3: to determine your successes. But in the division, a lot

544
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 3: of cannibalism. And that's why that ten and a half

545
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: total for Kansas City or the nine and a half

546
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 3: early line with Denver little regression that you know, you're

547
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Speaker 3: raising eyebrows because if the Raiders are just marginally better,

548
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 3: they steal an extra or two, right, they gave away

549
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Speaker 3: a game to the Bears.

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Speaker 4: I think the Raiders. I think the Raiders are gonna

551
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Speaker 4: be I'm a bet over on the Raiders. I mean,

552
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Speaker 4: and I'm not again, I'm not there yet. Let's see

553
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 4: what they do in the draft. Let's make sure that

554
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 4: they take Mendoza and they'll do anything crazy, like I mean,

555
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 4: he does never know what this stuff.

556
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Speaker 5: I think.

557
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Speaker 4: I'm like ninety nine nine percent sure they're gonna take Mendoza,

558
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 4: but maybe we get some kind of trade, right we

559
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: had the Bryce Young trade few years ago.

560
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 5: You never know. I think Mendoza is a guy.

561
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Speaker 4: If there's one guy in the draft at the quarterback

562
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Speaker 4: position who can come in right away and make your

563
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 4: team better from day one, I think Mendoza is the

564
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Speaker 4: on and maybe Carson Beck's the other one because they

565
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 4: just have a ton of experience. And if I've learned

566
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Speaker 4: anything about evaluating quarterbacks over the years, I don't care

567
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 4: if you have the best physical tools that the position

568
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 4: has ever seen, like JaMarcus Russell, if you do not

569
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Speaker 4: have the intangibles and the leadership qualities and the experience

570
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 4: and the intuition, I do not trust you to come

571
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Speaker 4: into my day one and to be a starter. There

572
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 4: is a the learning curve with the quarterback position is

573
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Speaker 4: unlike any other position in the NFL, and that's where

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Speaker 4: I think Mendoza is ahead of anyone else. So if

575
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Speaker 4: the Raiders do end up taking him, and they signed

576
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Speaker 4: like I mean, they signed like a like a King's red.

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Speaker 3: No a lot of guys, that's the beauty of it.

578
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 3: He had a giant chest of like you just were

579
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,959
Speaker 3: in the Pirates of the Caribbean and you got all

580
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: the goal.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, and they're gonna get Max Crosby back. So I

582
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 4: think there is an element to the Raiders that is

583
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 4: very intriguing because if Mendoza does play to the ceiling,

584
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Speaker 4: and if Crosby comes back healthy, and if Koubiak can

585
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: catch lightning in a bottle, and let's be honest, I really,

586
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of people that think he's

587
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 4: the reason that Donald looks so great last year. There

588
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 4: is some potential there. Because their win total, they're being

589
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 4: priced like one of the worst teams in the NFL,

590
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 4: now the worst teams in the NFL, Dolphins, Cardinals. The

591
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 4: reasons and why they're being priced so negatively is because

592
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 4: they have the quarterback situations of like a junior varsity

593
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Speaker 4: high school team, and we we just I mean, it's

594
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Speaker 4: gonna be a disaster. I give Mili I you know,

595
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Speaker 4: not Milik willis too much. I would say maybe he's

596
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 4: on the varsity team, but the Cardinal situation is an

597
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 4: absolute train wreck. And the Dolphins are obviously in tank

598
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 4: mode selling all their players. So I think that's why

599
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 4: they're being priced like Chuck Steak whereas the Raiders have

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Speaker 4: a little bit of intrigue to them.

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Speaker 5: They're the they're the special on the menu that when

602
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Speaker 5: the rate.

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Speaker 4: Then when the waiter comes to the table and tells

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Speaker 4: you it, you're like, huh, maybe I'll try that tonight

605
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Speaker 4: instead of the usual that you get when you go

606
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Speaker 4: to this restaurant a million times. So I'm intrigued by

607
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Speaker 4: the Raiders, I really am.

608
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they opened it five and a half. Obviously, bring

609
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Speaker 3: in Linderbaum and you get Crosby back again. That's uh,

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Speaker 3: we'll hang an asterisk on that because it begets another conversation.

611
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Speaker 3: Colton Miller has been fantastic sign Naylor and go on

612
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Speaker 3: down the line. A lot of acquisitions, addity of proven

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Speaker 3: full back. Anytime you get a full back involved, you

614
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Speaker 3: know you're gonna get me on board a little bit.

615
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Speaker 3: By bringing in Hayward as well, he's Jared Smith and

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Speaker 3: back to the news desk get an update on the

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Speaker 3: latest across the National Basketball Association and the rest of

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Speaker 3: the news of the day with Breemura. What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Break?

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Speaker 7: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Guys? Okay?

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Speaker 7: So there are four NBA games going on right now.

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Speaker 7: The Nuggets are on top of the Mavericks ninety to

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Speaker 7: eighty three. Jamal Murray went off in the first half

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Speaker 7: with thirty three points and six three pointers made. He

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Speaker 7: now has thirty six points four minutes left to go.

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Speaker 7: In the third quarter, the Rockets are losing the Timberwolves

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Speaker 7: seventy eight to seventy three, nine minutes left to go.

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Speaker 7: In the fourth, Rudy Gobert twelve points, twelve reps and

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Speaker 7: four blocks. The Nets are on top of the Warriors,

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Speaker 7: sixty one to fifty four, nine minutes left to go

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Speaker 7: and the third and the Trailblazers are blowing out the

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Speaker 7: Milwaukee Bucks seven minutes left to go and the third

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Speaker 7: quarter eighty five to fifty nine. It's halftime between the

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Speaker 7: Clippers and Raptors. LA's on top fifty nine to forty

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Speaker 7: five and earlier. Today, the Lakers beat the Pacers one

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Speaker 7: thirty seven to one thirty. Luka Doncic finished with forty

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Speaker 7: three points, six rebounds, and seven assists. He's recorded eleven

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Speaker 7: straight games with thirty points or more, and he is

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Speaker 7: the first player to average forty points over a six

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Speaker 7: game span, all on the road since MJ back in

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Speaker 7: nineteen eighty six. The Celtics snapped the Thunders twelve game

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Speaker 7: win streak with the one nineteen one oh nine win.

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Speaker 7: Jalen Brown finished with thirty one points, eight boards, and

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Speaker 7: eight assist and the Spurs have extended their win streak

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Speaker 7: to seven after they defeated the Grizzlies one twenty three

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Speaker 7: to ninety eight. Victor Wembanyama a loaded stat line nineteen points,

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Speaker 7: fifteen rebounds, three assists, three and seven blocks. San Antonio

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Speaker 7: is twenty three and two in their last twenty five games.

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Speaker 7: In an MLB opening night, the Yankees shut out the

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Speaker 7: Giant seven to zero. Aaron Judge struck out four times.

658
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Speaker 7: He did not do that once last year, and now

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Speaker 7: he's done that one time so far in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 7: Back to you guys.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if they produce a tops Now card for

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Speaker 3: that tomorrow. Commembor eight. Can you imagine there you go?

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Speaker 4: That's a crazy stat though, how many games he's played

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Speaker 4: and how prone he is just striking out that he

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Speaker 4: didn't do that.

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Speaker 7: Once, and he hadn't done it since twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 7: so it's been like he just went a whole year

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Speaker 7: without doing it and then it's.

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Speaker 3: Back maybe every World Series. I blame you.

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Speaker 5: Regular, I also blame all your ball.

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Speaker 7: I blame you all your fall always my fault.

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Speaker 5: Doing the updates.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you what. Strikes out four times and carrying

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Speaker 3: the weight of that World Baseball Classic loss. Yea, in

675
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Speaker 3: his head, it's all in his head, that's what. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's only got one hundred and sixty one games. Well

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Speaker 3: it made Look it makes for a good narror on

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Speaker 3: an opening night. Thanks Brey. We'll check with you in

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Speaker 3: a bit. And as we continue, a couple of news

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Speaker 3: and note kind of operations for the Raiders. Why do

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Speaker 3: we continue with the Max Crosby talk and potential opportunities

682
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Speaker 3: for him to still be spun off one team seems

683
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Speaker 3: like they might make another run before we get to

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Speaker 3: the draft. We'll do that coming up next He's Jared

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Speaker 3: in for Jason on Mike and This is Fox Sports Radio.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Jason Smith Show with Me by Carbon No Jason Tonight

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Speaker 3: out for the duration of the week. Tonight we get

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Speaker 3: Jared Smith at Jared Smith betts Is where you find him.

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Speaker 3: Betty Anna game film analysts. I mean, just keep adding

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Speaker 3: and putting more feathers in your proverbial cap. Hear them

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Speaker 3: as part of countdown on Saturdays. That's it, buddy, It's it's.

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Speaker 5: All about all around good. Just stand up, gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: What are you looking for a quote, a blurb for

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Speaker 3: a book, or what are you looking for? Hey, this guy,

703
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Speaker 3: this guy vouches for me. Going back to the hour

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Speaker 3: one dating site comments about guys.

705
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Speaker 4: What do we try to talk about here in Vegas?

706
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Speaker 4: It's the single life is not easy in Vegas. Thank

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Speaker 4: God for my dog.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's one of those things where you

709
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Speaker 3: wear a helmet cam and you you record it and

710
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Speaker 3: you create your own reality TV show from somebody.

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Speaker 5: That's actually not the worst I do know. Well, we're

712
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Speaker 5: all about content.

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Speaker 3: No, but that's just it. If nothing else, If you're

714
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 3: gonna have the experience, good, bad, indifferent, document it and

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Speaker 3: monetize it wherever you can. I love time to date.

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Speaker 5: I'm watching too much film right.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's it, right in between, you know, the extra

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Speaker 3: go routes and whether a guy can connect on a

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Speaker 3: pass intended beyond seven yards of the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: I mean that, that's all stuff that needs to be done.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do with Ty Simpson film study this week,

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Speaker 4: just for you, just for.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get back to that the beginning of next week.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. I love it at Jared Smith

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Speaker 3: bets for analysis and these betting acumen and leans. Over

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Speaker 3: the course of the days, he gave you the Yankees

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Speaker 3: all right, that game was already in progress before we

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Speaker 3: got on air, but he was right at minus one.

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Speaker 5: If you were in my discord, you had it, you

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Speaker 5: know you had it?

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Speaker 3: Or see now we started adding the discords and all.

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Speaker 4: The other That's where all the gambling fun starts and

734
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Speaker 4: ends is the discord. It's all the back channels these days.

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Speaker 4: That's where you gotta be there.

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Speaker 3: You go at Jared Smith Bets and with the right password,

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Speaker 3: he'll let you into the back door.

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Speaker 5: No, the discord's free. You can just join a link

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Speaker 5: in my profile.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, it's all in the profile. Exactly. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 5: It's not ten o'clock yet.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, way to go, Quagmar. But talking about Max Crosby

743
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 3: and the trade that wasn't still a lot of finger pointing,

744
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 3: bad blood. Folks that have dealt with Eric DaCosta and

745
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: the Ravens have been very critical. You know, they know

746
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 3: where some of the bodies are buried in terms of

747
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 3: organizational mishaps and chaos and everything else. Some folks with

748
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 3: you know, have a bad taste in their mouth, off

749
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Speaker 3: all the Justin Tucker stuff and just go on down

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00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 3: the line. So this latest trade that they decided to

751
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 3: not go through it, I mean, it's happened before, just

752
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 3: nothing of this level and profile. When you talk about

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Speaker 3: two first round picks and all the hoopla that went

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Speaker 3: with it, and then Max Crosby, Look, he had to

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00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: be bleeped out too much, So I'm just gonna do

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00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 3: the cliff notes version of what he said on a

757
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: podcast is that it was weird from the get go

758
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 3: when he had to land two hours away and be

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00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: driven over and then eventually saw the GM and coach

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00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: at the end of a very long day. That's enough

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Speaker 3: to tell you that at no point did he feel

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Speaker 3: it was on the up and up. And so the

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00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 3: trade gets blown up. He goes back to the Raiders force. Fortunately,

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Speaker 3: they had so much cap space that him coming back,

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Speaker 3: while not a death blow to their offseason plan, I

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Speaker 3: think from a league perspective, a lot of dominoes fell

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Speaker 3: because of that move in the subsequent twenty four to

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Speaker 3: forty eight hours. So I think I'd be trying to

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Speaker 3: see if there were any hints and possibilities to have

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Speaker 3: the Ravens on the hook for something out of this,

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Speaker 3: because it did change a lot of teams strategies and

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00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 3: certainly change what the Raiders were able to do. Right,

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00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, we got draft picks, were going in,

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Speaker 3: and we'll get our offensive lineman cool that thirty five

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00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 3: million comes off the books and whatever. As much as

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00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 3: we may have liked Max Crosby, this was done, doesn't

777
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: mean he can't come back and be the guy he was.

778
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 3: But there's reports Jeremy Fowler had it up the Cowboys

779
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 3: had had an offer of a first rounder and a

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Speaker 3: second rounder before the trade went down, that they may still,

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Speaker 3: as much as they doth protest as well as some

782
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 3: other teams might be kicking the tires to see if

783
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 3: there's a distressed property kind of situation where Okay, we

784
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 3: don't have to give up two number ones, but we

785
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 3: can still get into the marketplace and maybe go add

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Speaker 3: a big piece like Crosby. If the breakup with the

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Speaker 3: Raiders is inevitable, that he's not putting them over necessarily

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Speaker 3: this year right to even playoff contention necessarily coming out

789
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Speaker 3: of that division, So why not start that process sooner

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Speaker 3: and get the draft picks for this April and move forward.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's obviously a little bit of a

792
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 4: red flag with why he failed the physical, but I

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Speaker 4: do think there's also the element of the Ravens saw

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00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 4: an opportunity to keep their two first round picks and

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Speaker 4: get a player that is among the same production level

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Speaker 4: as Max Crawsby and Trey Henderson. So you want to

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00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 4: call that shady business practices, you want to call that

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Speaker 4: a little bit unethical, that's fair. There's nothing illegal about

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Speaker 4: what they did. I think the legal tampering period is

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Speaker 4: really the problem here, and we're announcing these deals well

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Speaker 4: before their official I'm bully listen.

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Speaker 5: If if Crosby's healthy, I think it's a. It's a.

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Speaker 4: It's a good thing for the Raiders in the short

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Speaker 4: term because I do think they can move him right

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Speaker 4: if you can. If he plays next year and he

806
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Speaker 4: plays well, he's still worth a similar amount next year.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you don't get two first, maybe you get a

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00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 4: first in a second. But I think it's all about

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00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 4: where he's at physically and how the Raiders kind of

810
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 4: move forward. Because the Raven situation, there's some karma there.

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Speaker 4: I would say the Ravens are gonna miss the playoffs

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Speaker 4: next year based off of.

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Speaker 3: Hout just off that. See now he's calling the car

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Speaker 3: don't bless this mess? How about that? At Jared Smith

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Speaker 3: Betts is where you find him in the Twitter verse.

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Speaker 3: Find me over at Swollen Dome as we continue. When

817
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 3: we talked about Adam Silver on one side saying hey,

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Speaker 3: we're going to change up the draft stuff. How about

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Speaker 3: expansion aggressive,