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Speaker 2: Ah, good morning, good morning, Good morning Abby, Abby, Happy

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Speaker 3: Where the fellas Kevin Figures.

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Speaker 2: Anthony garganam as we come live from the Tyraq dot

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Speaker 2: com studios. Well, it was a garden party figure last night.

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Speaker 2: It was a very anti climactic night at the garden,

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Speaker 2: but a joyous one in New York as the Knicks

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Speaker 2: finish off the Celtics without Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Hey, look, you.

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Speaker 2: Kind of knew this was coming after Game five where

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Speaker 2: Boston shot the lights out and you know it was

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Speaker 2: their first game without Tatum, but they shot the ball

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Speaker 2: really well. You're gonna give tid it's a night to

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Speaker 2: kind of he's got the Tate. The look what the

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Speaker 2: offense is gonna look like without Tatum, and the odds

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Speaker 2: where they were going to shoot like that any we're

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Speaker 2: close to that again.

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Speaker 3: And the result it was kind of predictable.

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Speaker 2: I kind of thought the Knicks would win, and I

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Speaker 2: thought they would win big, and the Knicks slay the Celtics,

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Speaker 2: and truthfully, I mean it's it's a huge it's a

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Speaker 2: great win and it's a great upset. But you know,

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Speaker 2: without when you lose Tatum, I just don't know, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I you know, I don't want to take

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Speaker 2: it away from the Knicks, but I don't know that

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Speaker 2: the magnitude of the upset, like who would have thought

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Speaker 2: it without Tatum and changes everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean no more so than Minnesota defeating Golden

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Speaker 4: State without Steph Curry, which is you know, first of all,

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Speaker 4: you hate to see great players, star players go down

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Speaker 4: to the postseason. And this is something you and I

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Speaker 4: talked about on the eve of the playoffs beginning, is

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Speaker 4: that we're going into the postseason for the first time

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Speaker 4: in a long time where all the stars were relatively healthy.

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Speaker 4: So it's unfortunate for the Celtics that they lost Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 4: But to that point, and we talked about this last

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Speaker 4: week when the Knicks, I believe at that time we're

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Speaker 4: up to one in this series. Even with Tatum, Boston

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Speaker 4: didn't necessarily look great in this series, So once he

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Speaker 4: went down, you knew it was basically a fada complete

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Speaker 4: that the Knicks were gonna end up winning it.

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Speaker 1: It was just a matter of win.

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Speaker 4: I would have said, had Boston found a way to

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Speaker 4: muster the sort of effort that they had the other

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Speaker 4: night and won this game last night. Game seven on

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Speaker 4: the road in Boston definitely would have been interesting, but

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Speaker 4: they were just overmatched. And the way that the Knicks

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Speaker 4: played defense this entire series, with or without Tatum, it

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Speaker 4: was going to be tough sledding for the for the

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Speaker 4: Celtics to win, even if Tatum were healthy, and once

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Speaker 4: he went down, you knew it was all over. Game

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Speaker 4: five I thought was fairly easy to see coming. You know,

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Speaker 4: you lose your star player, you're running on adrenaline, your

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Speaker 4: back home, you know, you get big performances from guys

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Speaker 4: like Pritchard and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: I kind of saw that effort coming.

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Speaker 4: But to your point, going back home for the Knicks

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Speaker 4: in the garden again, the Celtics heading into the conference

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Speaker 4: finals in twenty plus years, you knew they were gonna

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Speaker 4: come out with a major effort to come out with

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Speaker 4: the victory. So I was not the least bit surprised

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Speaker 4: that the Knicks one and the fact that they won big.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's face it too, right, like yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: with you, Like you could you could see it. The

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Speaker 2: teams come together and then all of a sudden they

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Speaker 2: have this great night. There's film like, all right, this

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Speaker 2: is the offense this is gonna look like. And Tims

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Speaker 2: is a great defensive coach.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I tell you something.

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Speaker 2: I love that Knicks team and that they just get

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Speaker 2: after you defensively.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: They play hard, the Brunston leads, the way they don't

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Speaker 2: cheat you out of any possession. They're like that in

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Speaker 2: a regular season. They're one of the few NBA teams

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Speaker 2: that never cheat you with effort. They never do. They're

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Speaker 2: always they're always given max effort to always play defense.

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Speaker 2: They rebound. I still don't know how good they are.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know they're a good team. I think

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Speaker 2: I still might like Indiana in that series, but they

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Speaker 2: got tons of grit there are really lovable that Villanova thing.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of those kids, they're terrific. I

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Speaker 2: just you know, they're a great story. But fig indianam

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Speaker 2: is gonna be dangerous.

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Speaker 1: They will.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll say about the Knicks, I mean they're the

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Speaker 4: quintessential TIBs team. I mean they look like the Chicago

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Speaker 4: Noah and like they play tough the issues with Tips teams,

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Speaker 4: and this always happens. The deeper they get into the postseason,

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Speaker 4: the more and more that the attrition catches up with them.

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Speaker 4: Even last night with the blowout victory and the Celtics

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Speaker 4: benching pretty much all their starters in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 4: you look up and down an Anobi thirty seven minutes,

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Speaker 4: historically runs his guys into the ground and doesn't really

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Speaker 4: have the deepest rotation, and bruns has been playing through

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Speaker 1: Towns has been banged up.

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Speaker 4: So that's the issue going against in a series against

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Speaker 4: the Indiana Pasiers, who are arrested, who are a bit younger,

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Speaker 4: who are most definitely deeper, and really anythink that would

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Speaker 4: be the reason why, above all else I would like

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Speaker 4: Indiana in this series over the Knicks is that the

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Speaker 4: Knicks are going to play their starters upwards of thirty

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Speaker 4: eight thirty five, you know, forty minutes a night.

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Speaker 1: Ye, Indiana's deep.

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Speaker 4: They can they can run guys at you left and right,

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Speaker 4: and have so many guys they can throw at Brunson.

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Speaker 1: For that reason alone, I like Indiana.

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Speaker 2: More.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to discount the grip that the Knicks have.

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Speaker 4: It's tough and it's fun. It's kind of a bit

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Speaker 4: of a throwback to old school in nineties basketball to

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Speaker 4: a certain degree. But ultimately I think their lack of

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Speaker 4: depth is probably what's going to end up costing them

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Speaker 6: Well that's funny because figure not surprised.

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Speaker 2: You will like kind of see it very similar. We

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Speaker 2: often look at the matchups that I think like, uh.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of interesting in that. Dude.

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Speaker 6: The last time like these two teams were there was

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Speaker 6: that nineties in the Night I was covering them.

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Speaker 1: Saying you were covering that next team? I believe I was.

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Speaker 3: I was covering that series.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: It just brings back like amazing memories of you know,

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Speaker 2: Reggie Miller and you know, going off in the garden

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Speaker 2: and I mean it was it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was Spree well and Allan Houston.

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Speaker 6: I believe those next teams you know Spray Yeah, oh

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Speaker 6: my god, Spree with Van Gundy.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it was uh, it was great start, It

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Speaker 2: was great theater. Man.

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Speaker 4: An interesting team to follow, by the way, with the

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Speaker 4: personalities around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were like the Oakley Man.

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Speaker 1: Something else. I'm sure Chuck was.

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Speaker 2: Oakley was one of my favorite people ever covered. He

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Speaker 2: was he was a character. He was a he was

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Speaker 2: a real character. But they were were they were man,

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Speaker 2: they were tough. They were a tough team. And it's

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Speaker 2: interesting because they're like that now right, like they're a

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Speaker 2: tough team. I got to I love Josh Hart. He

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Speaker 2: might be my one of my favorite players in the league.

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Speaker 2: Josh Hart just does everything. That triple double last night,

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Speaker 2: he does it all. And Brunson we talked, We touched

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Speaker 2: this last week. But great forts foresight by the Knicks,

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Speaker 2: right because I'll never forget they make that offer to Brunson.

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Speaker 3: Bronson's on Dallas.

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Speaker 2: He had like a bit of a coming out party,

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Speaker 2: and I had known Brunson from here, right from Villanova

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Speaker 2: like this, you know, it's you know, it's a pretty

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Speaker 2: So I was like, I love the kid. He's tough,

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Speaker 2: he's a really good ball player. But I didn't think

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Speaker 2: the big money. And boy, were the right man. That kid,

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Speaker 2: he just he just he's got all the grit in

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Speaker 2: the world, all the toughness. You know, back in the day,

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Speaker 2: And and that's Brunson, man, he's he used to quit

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Speaker 4: You know, It's funny certain teams win with certain identities.

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Speaker 4: They kind of you mimic the city. Like if you

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Speaker 4: go back to the Showtime Lakers, it was flash and

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Speaker 4: it was up and down and it was Hollywood. Those

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Speaker 1: They they like to win games ugly.

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Speaker 4: The Detroit Pistons, anytime they've ever won, has always been

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Speaker 1: Is just grit, grind, toughness.

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Speaker 4: but he just really embodies what to your point, the

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Speaker 4: old school New York point guard, old school New York

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Speaker 4: like me to see, Like, like I said, I believe

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Speaker 4: I said this last week. Usually when you come of

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Speaker 4: a lot of fans on the periphery that kind of

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Speaker 4: a workmanlike, tough basketball team. There's not a lot of flash. Hey,

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Speaker 4: you could identify with them, you really can. You know,

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Speaker 4: there's no arrogance. It's a kind of an alfra wand

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Speaker 4: one for all mentality really really hard or easy I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's been I was a little suspect

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Speaker 2: of Kat and how he fit. And you know, because

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Speaker 2: I thought they lost a lot right, Like one of

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Speaker 2: the things that they had last year was was depth, right,

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Speaker 2: that they had a lot more depth, especially in the

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Speaker 3: I agree with you. I I like that team. It's funny.

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Speaker 2: It's they're immensely unpopular in my neck of the woods,

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Speaker 2: and rightfully so, you know, Philly they hate them, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, and I got a soft spot. I go,

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Speaker 2: you know, having uh worked up there for a long

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Speaker 2: time and loving that. I mean, yeah, there's stuff like

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Speaker 3: I mean, the garden pops, you know.

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Speaker 1: But I understand.

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Speaker 2: But we always have to go after the star or

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Celtics are gonna find that out pretty soon

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I think, I think it's good

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Speaker 1: Like Bosh was a good player.

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Speaker 1: Really, but that one, that one is a tough one

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, playoffs heating up. There is a great hockey

440
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Speaker 2: game last night, and I'm burying the lead because a

441
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Speaker 2: bulk of the show will be spent on what took

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Speaker 2: place Wednesday night.

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Speaker 3: Fig I know, I know you're not shocked at that.

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Speaker 1: Not in the NFL schedule.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Fellas Kevin figures Anthony Gargatto, just getting started on

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Speaker 2: Fellas Kevin Figures, Anthony Garganta. We are the Fellas every

452
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Speaker 2: week right here on Fox Sports Radio. FITZI off today,

453
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Speaker 2: Figures in for Fitzy again tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: A little programming.

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Speaker 2: Note, FITZI and I will be back together at eight

456
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Speaker 2: o'clock eastern, five Pacific, so we'll have a little another

457
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Speaker 2: Fellas tomorrow evening because we'll get in on Game seven.

458
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Speaker 2: Game seven takes place tomorrow at three point thirty eastern,

459
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Speaker 2: twelve thirty Pacific. Denver, OKC and that Denver team, Man,

460
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 2: they're something now they're going to deal with Gordon and

461
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Speaker 2: the Gordon injury. But man, I give that that team

462
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Speaker 2: a ton of credit.

463
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Speaker 4: Considering all they've gone through, the up and down season

464
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Speaker 4: that they had this year, firing the head coach and

465
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Speaker 4: the general manager at the end of the year, and

466
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 4: people thought that was a death nil. Like they were

467
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Speaker 4: not favored to beat the Clippers on by many accounts.

468
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Speaker 4: People thought the Clipers would have them in the first round,

469
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Speaker 4: and they've kept rolling and Aaron Gordon, to your point,

470
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Speaker 4: that's going to be a huge loss even if he

471
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Speaker 4: is able to go, He's clearly not going to be

472
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent in Game seven, and he has hit

473
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Speaker 4: so many big shots for them. Is one of the

474
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Speaker 4: few true two way players that they actually have on

475
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Speaker 4: the roster, he and Christian Brown probably, so they had

476
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Speaker 4: a very narrow chance of winning a Game seven in

477
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma City anyway, Although I will say, and you know this,

478
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Speaker 4: covering this league young teams that haven't really been tested

479
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Speaker 4: home war road in a Game seven is not necessarily

480
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Speaker 4: easy for a team like Oklahoma City facing a battle

481
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Speaker 4: tested team with a lot of grit and who have

482
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Speaker 4: won a championship the last couple of years, but without

483
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Speaker 4: one of their best players, potentially Aaron Gordon, and even

484
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Speaker 4: if he is in there, not at one hundred percent,

485
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Speaker 4: it's going to be tough sledding for them to be

486
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Speaker 4: able to get a victory.

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Speaker 1: And OKC on the road.

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Speaker 2: I have any big shots and big rebounds that Gordon

489
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Speaker 2: come up with.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean he's directly had what two game winning

491
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 4: shots that not quite buzzer beaters, were pretty darn.

492
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Speaker 1: Close to it. Yeah, the put back, the put.

493
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Speaker 4: Back against the Clippers, the game winner earlier in the

494
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Speaker 4: series here. I mean, so that's gonna be a humongous

495
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Speaker 4: loss for them.

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Speaker 2: Now.

497
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Speaker 4: Granted, Nikola Jokic could play like a superstar and get

498
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 4: you know thirty twenty and twenty, but he can't do

499
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Speaker 4: it by himself. Like the issue with the Nuggets this

500
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 4: entire series has really been, whether they've won or lost,

501
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 4: is really have to have the role players you know, scored.

502
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Speaker 4: Are they making their open shots? Because as good as

503
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma City is defensively, Denver is one of the best

504
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Speaker 4: offensive teams in the entire league, and when they're on,

505
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 4: they're hard to stop. The problem is when guys like

506
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Speaker 4: Brown and Murray are not making their open shots, which

507
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Speaker 4: has happened a few times in the series. That's when

508
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma City has been able to pull away and win.

509
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Speaker 4: So now one of your key role players is not

510
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Speaker 4: even going to be available or not going to be

511
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent. That's going to be even more of

512
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Speaker 4: a detriment to Denvers, especially offensively.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's funny, man.

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Speaker 6: Each time I thought that Okay, she would win or

515
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Speaker 6: win big and pull away.

516
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Speaker 1: Deaver just kept coming back and just making it a game.

517
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

518
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Speaker 2: I'm really impressed by him, really impressed by him.

519
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Speaker 4: I am too, And I think it's a great example

520
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Speaker 4: because remember when they fired Michael Malone, people are like,

521
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 4: why would you fire somebody at the end of the season,

522
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 4: the playoffs are getting ready to start. Let them play

523
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Speaker 4: it out, let's see what happens. Well, look, they knew

524
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Speaker 4: that it was a toxic situation, so staying the status

525
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Speaker 4: quo was gonna be bad for the franchise, bad for

526
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Speaker 4: the locker room. Move on, now, see if we can

527
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Speaker 4: salvage something. See what David Adaman has and at this

528
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Speaker 4: point in time, win or lose. Coming up tonight, David

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Speaker 4: adam is going to be the head coach of the

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Speaker 4: team they're gonna move forward. They've already evolved the way

531
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Speaker 4: that they played down the stretch of the regular season

532
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Speaker 4: into the playoffs. So it just goes to show you,

533
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Speaker 4: you know, the franchise is no.

534
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Speaker 1: More than we do.

535
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Speaker 4: So it might not make sense on the surface from

536
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Speaker 4: the outside looking in, but on the inside, they knew

537
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Speaker 4: exactly how toxic that situation was and knew that making

538
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Speaker 4: a change ahead coach could propel them, and it certainly has.

539
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, we both think obviously it'll be

540
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Speaker 2: that Okay he'll win. But you know, I think Denver

541
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: obviously taking okay See to seven and it still series

542
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 2: isn't over. You know, they're like Minnesota, I don't think

543
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 2: can do it. And I just don't think Minnesota has

544
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 2: got enough to play with okay See and to test

545
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Speaker 2: them the way Denver has.

546
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Minnesota is long and ragy defensively, so

547
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Speaker 4: I think they could present some challenges to Oklahoma City

548
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: as far as the Minnesota defensively versus Oklahoma City offensively.

549
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Speaker 4: He's core though, Like that's the issue. That's what I

550
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 4: was getting ready to say. Outside of ant they don't

551
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 4: have anybody else that can really kill you consistently. Julius

552
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Speaker 4: Randall has had a phenomenal postseason. Yeah, and he's kind

553
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 4: of shaking the monkey off his back that's been kind

554
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 4: of saddling him throughout his career that he's not a

555
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Speaker 4: playoff performer. But look, going up against Chet who's been

556
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: up and down himself, and he's a young player, but

557
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 4: against that defense is going to be really, really a

558
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Speaker 4: difficult test for him in the front. So unless Anthony

559
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Speaker 4: Edwards has like a Dwayne Wade in the NBA Finals

560
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Speaker 4: against the Mavericks kind of run, which he's certainly capable

561
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Speaker 4: of doing, I agree. If Oklahoma City does end up

562
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Speaker 4: winning Game seven, I pretty much see them winning that

563
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Speaker 4: next series, probably in five games. I think it's that

564
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Speaker 4: much of an advantage to Oklahoma City over Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: It's funny, I have at five too. I could see

566
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Speaker 2: to say, with the matchup. It's funny how this sport.

567
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Speaker 2: You could see the matchup. You go, yeah, this is

568
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Speaker 2: kind of how I like it. It's kind of you know,

569
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Speaker 2: we'll say now again, it doesn't mean that that Denver

570
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: can't shock the world and go in there and win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if if Denver was fully healthy, if they had

573
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Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon at one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I'd probably take.

575
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Speaker 4: Denver on the road against Oklahoma City in Game seven

576
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 4: because they have the experience. You covered the NBA long

577
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 4: enough to know as good as the team is, as

578
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 4: talent as they may be, things get tight. Game sevens

579
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 4: are usually played pretty ugly because teams are tight, you're

580
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 4: not making a lot of open shots. Who makes the

581
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 4: fewest amount of mistakes. I would trust Denver in that

582
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Speaker 4: situation more than I would trust Oklahoma City. And even

583
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Speaker 4: without Aaron Gordon, Denver still has a chance to win.

584
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Speaker 4: I just don't think that they will. I think they

585
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: don't have a lot of depth as it is, and

586
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 4: so when you lose one of your better players, that's

587
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 4: gonna be tough sledding for them. But if Aaron Gordon

588
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 4: were healthy, I think I would actually pick Denver to

589
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 4: win this game.

590
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Speaker 1: I totally see it, totally say it.

591
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean a game seven that know how

592
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 2: to navigate it, Yeah, without a doubt. What did you

593
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 2: make of the lottery? Because the lottery happened and everybody

594
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: had the conspiracy theory, you know you were in the

595
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: belly of it. What was your take, because obviously Luca

596
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 2: goes to the Lakers and somehow miraculously the Mavericks.

597
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: Are rewarded with Cooper flag.

598
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Speaker 4: The idea that this is some giant conspiracy theory for

599
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Speaker 4: the NBA to give the Mavericks the first overall pick,

600
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Speaker 4: I think is one of the most ridiculous things I've

601
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Speaker 4: ever heard, especially with the protections in place for the

602
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 4: lottery not to be rigged. There's well, I think it

603
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 4: was twelve media members were actually live in the room

604
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 4: when they drew all the lottery balls. You know, so

605
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 4: there's a lot of eyeballs on exactly what's happening in

606
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Speaker 4: this lottery process, and so not David Stern with the

607
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 4: frozen envelope, the right.

608
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Speaker 2: And mind you, for the Mavericks to actually miss the playoffs,

609
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: right for Anthony Davis to get hurt for right, so

610
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Speaker 2: that happened, Yeah, you know, I mean, and we would, Joe.

611
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Speaker 2: I think, listen, I think there's a small percentage of

612
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Speaker 2: people that will jump to it and actually believe it

613
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: and argue with you. I think for most of us,

614
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: it's just a kind of ironic story, and you play

615
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Speaker 2: into that narrative that's always followed the NBA.

616
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Speaker 1: Right, right, that's what it is.

617
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's certain people you're just never going to

618
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 4: convince that we didn't land on the moon, or that

619
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Speaker 4: the Earth is flat or.

620
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Speaker 1: Whatever theories that they have.

621
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Speaker 4: But if you just look at the it's really hard

622
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Speaker 4: to cover something like this up.

623
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Speaker 1: For so many people to be in on the.

624
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Speaker 4: Fact that this was a conspiracy for the Mavericks to

625
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Speaker 4: get the first overall pick. You realized how many people

626
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 4: have to be tight lipped about that, right thing in

627
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 4: today's environment, especially that would never happen.

628
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Speaker 2: First of all, the gigantic conspiracy theory that in sports,

629
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Speaker 2: and you know we used to hear about the NFL. Ah,

630
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Speaker 2: it's rigged all that stuff, right, It's the most ridiculous

631
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Speaker 2: thing in the world because to your point, people are

632
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: inherently rats. Yes, somebody's going to drop and dive, right, like,

633
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 2: that's just how it happens.

634
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

635
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 4: So, look, it's cute and it's convenient, and I understand,

636
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 4: but I think it's just a it's a coincidence. And

637
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 4: by the way, like this is not some anomaly. Ever

638
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 4: since the NBA changed the lottery system to where the

639
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 4: team with the worst record doesn't have I think it

640
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 4: was like a twenty two percent chance to win the lottery.

641
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: Now it's down to fourteen.

642
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 4: Note the team with the worst record in the NBA

643
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 4: has not won the draft lottery since they change that rule.

644
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 4: So the system from that standpoint is working distance and

645
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 4: advising tanking making every team that misses the playoffs, giving

646
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 4: them a greater chance of making. You know, Grant at

647
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 4: one point eight percent is astronomically low for a team

648
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 4: to be able to win, but the odds were tilted

649
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 4: away from the favor of the team with the worst

650
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 4: record to win the lottery. So this is not an

651
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Speaker 4: anomaly because the team's with less than I think four

652
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 4: or five percent chance, I think three of the last

653
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 4: five years has gotten the first overall pick. So this

654
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 4: is not in the grand scheme all that surprising. It's

655
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Speaker 4: just ironic that it happens to be the Dallas Mavericks.

656
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Speaker 2: Now do you do you think it's a good thing

657
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: now here but the decentivizing uh tanking, But like you

658
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Speaker 2: got teams like Charlotte and the Wizards, and do you

659
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: just stay bad?

660
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: Yeah?

661
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I mean, well, there's only so much

662
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 4: you can do about that.

663
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Speaker 1: Too.

664
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you, because the problem is you don't

665
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 4: want to have in teams intentionally losing games at the

666
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 4: end of the season because they were start talking about

667
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 4: what we've been complaining about for the last decade.

668
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: As it is.

669
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Speaker 4: So the problem with teams like Charlotte free agents, with

670
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 4: all due respect to our friends in North Carolina, is

671
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 4: not necessarily a destination for players. So the only way

672
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Speaker 4: a team like that is going to get good is

673
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 4: either via trade or to win a lottery and get

674
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 4: a generational player. LaMelo Ball is a good player, but

675
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 4: he's not, you know, a generational franchise changer. So I

676
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 4: really don't know how you fix that part of it

677
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 4: for the NBA, But I certainly understand people's issues with

678
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 4: I guess the system from not being able to give

679
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 4: the team with the worst record the greatest chance to week. Look,

680
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 4: you still have a great chance to win the first

681
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 4: overall pick. It's just not almost a guarantee.

682
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Speaker 1: Like it used to be.

683
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know what you do about franchises

684
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 4: like Charlotte or who are not necessarily destination franchises.

685
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: I really do. Oklahoma City's figured it out. Yeah, they've

686
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: they've been brilliant. I mean the way they've done it brilliant.

687
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 4: So there's always a way, But there's a way.

688
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I't to say quick to you. O

689
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Speaker 1: come right back and.

690
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: We'll give you a little bit more of the lottery

691
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Speaker 2: and then I can't wait, Figgy, I can't wait to.

692
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Speaker 3: Dive into the schedule. My favorite day was this week.

693
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Speaker 2: Man, we'll talk all about it, Fellas Haggin Radio, Fox

694
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,200
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698
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Speaker 7: listen live.

699
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Fellas, Kevin Figures Figgy. I'm Anthony Garganto Cuz.

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00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: By the way, be sure to check out the Fox

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Speaker 1: Radio videos on YouTube.

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00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: That's right, Uh, coming up, We're going to go through

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Speaker 2: the schedule next hour.

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00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: I did yes, w's and.

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00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: L's for every team I did. It was supposed to

711
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 2: be an hour show right Saturday Wednesday night, like to

712
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: kick off the Eagle schedule. And because of the beauty

713
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 2: of this new world where you know.

714
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: Length is really up to whatever you want to create.

715
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: Correct, I went two and a half hours.

716
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: They were like, yeah, we done yet or what like?

717
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 4: And this was all strictly about the Philadelphia Eagle schedule.

718
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: Nobody else.

719
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 3: Well, I mixed in the rest some of the league too, but.

720
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: I was about to say, that's that's extensive.

721
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 4: Your coverage of their schedule is almost as long as

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00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 4: an actual game.

723
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 2: That's improving. I have a loser. It doesn't matter. I

724
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I freaking love the schedule.

725
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: You you and I have done this. We have done

726
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 2: this a long time together for years. Yeah, and I

727
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: don't know, I mean, you know, you know how I

728
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 2: am this schedule.

729
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: Well, and there's people who like they who hate on

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00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: the schedule.

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00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 4: At least I don't understand sitting around for four hours

732
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 4: hearing people break down who's playing in week fourteen and

733
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 4: all that, and it's like, well, first of all, the

734
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 4: NFL is king. We know that they're going to monetize

735
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 4: whatever they can, as they should and the big thing

736
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 4: for most fan base is as the NFL has become

737
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 4: more of a nationwide sport and you have fans of

738
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 4: different teams and different franchises all across the country, it

739
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 4: is really big for a lot of people to find

740
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 4: out logistically, what game can I go to?

741
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: Can I flights?

742
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: It tells all that stuff to know in advanced So

743
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 4: there's people sitting on pins and eagles waiting for that

744
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 4: schedule to drop so they know exactly where their team's

745
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 4: going to be and win so they can travel to

746
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 4: see their s what.

747
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: I totally understand the hype around it. I do.

748
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's it's just a lot of fun.

749
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean it's fun and.

750
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, who's playing who? And you know, obviously

751
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 4: your your win totals are affected or projected wind totals

752
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 4: are affected by who you're playing and when granted, we

753
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 4: have no idea who's what's who's gonna look like what

754
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 4: on December eighth, obviously, but we can speculate and have

755
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 4: a pretty decent idea based on trends and.

756
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: Else with people.

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00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 6: Ah, it's so stupid to do w's and ls in May.

758
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're right, it is. It's to waste the time.

759
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: But it's fun, right, it's fun.

760
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, But exactly if you love the sport, then can

761
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 2: we just talk about If you're not that, you know,

762
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: don't worry about it.

763
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, do something else.

764
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: Nobody's telling you got listen to it. Like we want

765
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: to talk about the spot, we want to talk about

766
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 2: the games. Yes, And it's a great excuse to talk

767
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 2: about the games. Like that's how I've always been Like, hey, listen,

768
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: there's a clip of Colin talking about the w NBA, right,

769
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: Like there's just so much time that we all have, right, right, Hey,

770
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 2: everybody has their own interests, right, so hey listen, if

771
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: that's your thing, God bless right, enjoy yourself. I'm not

772
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 2: going to I'm not going to rain on it. Like,

773
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: if you like it, that's great. Like you know, for

774
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: certain things that you just don't have enough time for,

775
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: that you put in the pecking order. But like, talking

776
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 2: about football is fun, right, Like I get it. I

777
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 2: get enjoyment out of that. You're not the only one.

778
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: The great majority of people do. I don't know what

779
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: the ratings were for at the NFL schedule release. It

780
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 2: was probably higher than for any NBA playoff game. And

781
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 2: we love the NBA, by the way, but that tells

782
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: you right there, or if not higher, at least comparable,

783
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: that tells you all you need to know the NBA

784
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 2: or the NFL aft the ratings for that. Hey, real quick,

785
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: did you catch at eve the hockey game last night?

786
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: Very little? To be honest with you, it was uh.

787
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 2: I mean, my god, here's here's Toronto, right, you're you

788
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 2: take the first, you gave.

789
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: You the series on the road, right right, Yeah?

790
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: And then Florida comes back winsday next three since we

791
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: all lots of that, and then you come back and

792
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 2: then you steal game six on the road. It was

793
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: nothing nothing, I mean, it was unbelievable. It was an

794
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 2: incredible game. And then Matthews comes through. You know, it

795
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 2: was why he had been shut out the whole series.

796
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 2: This is Austin Matthews.

797
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, one of the greats you know in the game today.

798
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 4: And it comes up big when it matters the most.

799
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 4: That's what you love about the postseason.

800
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: I know you never know, but man, like you're watching

801
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 2: that and you see like Thursday out the word uh

802
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,479
Speaker 2: square in Toronto and they're freaking out. It was awesome story,

803
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 2: a great theater. All right, big al We're coming up

804
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 2: next football football football football football. Well, good morning, good morning,

805
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

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00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: Happy hebby Fox Saturday.

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00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: Preaking is Saturday, by the way, It's a great sports Saturday,

808
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 2: May the seventeenth, Kevin Figures, Anthony Gargana fellas every week

809
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: right here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, I want to

810
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 2: give a shout out which I brought up the Preakness

811
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: fig Uh, my man Southside Chuck a great sportsman himself.

812
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 3: He's in Kentucky.

813
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 2: He's a great loves the ponies, and uh listen, our

814
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 2: heart goes out to every he's been without powers last night.

815
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean everybody did some nasty storms rolling

816
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 2: through uh that entire region, big swath of the country

817
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 2: and between tornadoes and just all the awful weather. Yeah,

818
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 2: so just u our hard oys out to you guys.

819
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 2: Hopefully everybody's safe.

820
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really tough.

821
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 4: And Saint Louis, I know there's at least last recording

822
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 4: about five or six fatalities because of the tornado. Really

823
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 4: really devastating. So thoughts and prayers with you guys, for sure.

824
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: Be out if you're out there, if you're in the

825
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 4: midst of it, please be safe.

826
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, uh, all right before we get to the highlights,

827
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 2: because I want to basically go week by week with you, okay,

828
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: okay and give highlights of each week. We'll do prime

829
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: ten games, international games, you know, stuff like that.

830
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 6: All right, Sure, we'll go weep, why we I promise

831
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 6: I will do every game you sure.

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00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 4: I really jones in to talk about that Arizona New

834
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 4: Orleans game in week one, so.

835
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Speaker 1: I know, just like Link.

836
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 4: Gee, okay, shout out to guy Link by the way.

837
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: I love him. Uh.

838
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I could just hear his voice, you know. Yeah, okay,

839
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: all right, you show yourself with the uh the Chargers

840
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: did on the Minecraft Genius right freaking awesome bad That

841
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 2: was great stuff.

842
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 4: You know, find a way to build on top of

843
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 4: something that's huge in pop culture with the film that's

844
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 4: out now one of the most popular video games of

845
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 4: all time. The creativity of that digital team, uh to

846
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 4: put that together. It was really really impressive. And did

847
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 4: you see a Buffalo did too?

848
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: Ai?

849
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: You know?

850
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 3: Ah, it's fabulous.

851
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 4: That The Chargers was great, but that might have been

852
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 4: my favorite one. We got to use AI. It's like,

853
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 4: all right, dude.

854
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: It was. It was awesome.

855
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 4: It was awesome if you guys listening weren't aware of

856
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 4: what the bills did, you know. Basically, it starts a

857
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 4: video that starts with Josh Allen just kind of shooting

858
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 4: hoops and he's talking to Brandon Bean, and Brandon Bean

859
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 4: calls and asks him, you know, hey, you know we're

860
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 4: putting together the schedule these video do you have any ideas?

861
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 4: And Josh Allen says, you know, everybody's using AI nowadays,

862
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 4: use AI. So Brandon Bean is like all right. So

863
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 4: they go through this whole montages like I want to

864
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 4: use AI? How I use AI? And then all of

865
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 4: a sudden, he calls up Alan Iverson to sit down

866
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 4: in like a video conference, and basically he says, yeah,

867
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Speaker 4: they wanted us to use AI, so I'm calling you up.

868
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Speaker 1: You're the only AI that I know. It was really

869
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Speaker 1: really frea. It was very far.

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Speaker 2: It was great AI, greater than Grock, Yeah right, exactly. Yeah,

871
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: it was awesome. Yeah, it was that was great stuff.

872
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: That was very creative. The U the charges the Minecraft

873
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: won so uh they did you know, every opponent, right,

874
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 2: So it was it was great, like.

875
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 3: Just how they how they did it, you know.

876
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: The whole night.

877
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: And then they're playing the Eagles and they did a

878
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: big dom as as what's that creature or whatever.

879
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 4: I've never played Minecraft, so like the actual specific references

880
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: I necessarily get, so I can't.

881
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: But the Big dom is the Big is the greatest.

882
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: I was cracking up. He had on a screen. I

883
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: saw him the other night and He's like, dude, look

884
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 2: at did you see this. I'm like, yeah, yeah, he's

885
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 2: He's like, this is hysterical. It was funny.

886
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, you ready to indulge me? All right?

887
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 6: I know where you're starting, all right, we're star arding

888
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 6: Week one Eagles and Dallas to kick off the season.

889
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,479
Speaker 3: Yes you do, and.

890
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 2: Listen, I know nobody wants to hear about your teams

891
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 2: and all that stuff, so you know, I'm trying to

892
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 2: I'm trying to just say bear with me to everybody,

893
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 2: but I freaking love starting the season with the Eagles.

894
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys.

895
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 2: Don't like now this are the rivalry may be one sided,

896
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 2: although now I'm not so sure because I think there's

897
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 2: a good bit of hatred for the Cowboys just against

898
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: the Eagles, right, Yeah, this is like my dream.

899
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 4: I think Eagles will have ring ceremony ring night when

900
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 4: the Cowboys are in down.

901
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Yes, how do you beat that? Yes?

902
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 3: Like this is our dream.

903
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 2: Like so I grew up in child of the eighties, right,

904
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 2: and so the Cowboys they were already America's team, right

905
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 2: with Stallbach and Door set the whole thing. And then

906
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: the nineties happens, right, and then it's Hervin and Akman

907
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: and Emmen.

908
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: Right, the whole nine.

909
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: And like in my town, and Eagles hadn't won a

910
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. They were a half of a joke of

911
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 2: a team. And there were so many Cowboys fans, like

912
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 2: in my area, and they used to kill the Eagles. Like,

913
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 2: you know, I'm growing up and imagine like your neighbors

914
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: are these.

915
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 4: Rats, Yeah, in your own neighborhood.

916
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: That ridiculous, Yes.

917
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: And they walk around And it's funny because I never

918
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 2: even before I got the business, and I was a kid. Yeah,

919
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 2: when I was in college, I used to work for

920
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: an airline and we used to fly for free. So

921
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 2: one year we did the Eagles. We went to Eagles

922
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 2: Dallas in Dallas and you know, again that was old

923
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 2: Texas Stadium.

924
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: The whole thing.

925
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 2: And you know, I've never had anything against Cowboy fans.

926
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: It was like, you're from Texas, you should be a

927
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 2: Cowboys fan, Like I get it, like you know, I mean,

928
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 2: I would be proud of my team too, and they

929
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 2: were never It was it was the people that had

930
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: never set foot in Texas who were Cowboy fans that

931
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 2: I hated. Yeah, they were obnoxious. Stick the chest area.

932
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you're living in Philadelphia and you're a Cowboys fan.

933
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 2: He walk around with it with the white mock turtle underneath,

934
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 2: the white jerseyy, the Irvin jersey.

935
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: Oh, the hat of the star. Oh my god. They

936
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: hated it. Disgusting. It was.

937
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, my older cousin is a Celtics

938
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 4: fan who born and raised in Los Angeles.

939
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: I was like, I love you, but you disgusted me. Yes,

940
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: to this day, you disgusted me exactly.

941
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: But how in the world could you be a Celtics

942
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 2: fan in LA or Philadelphia.

943
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 4: He caught himself as being a rebel or wanting to

944
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 4: be different and didn't want to jump on the back.

945
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 4: It's not a bandwagon. That's your hometown. What are you

946
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 4: talking about? What do you do?

947
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,280
Speaker 2: It's your it's your We've talked about this many times

948
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 2: on the show, and I'll always have this fight. It's

949
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,399
Speaker 2: your civic duty to root for your home team. Yeah,

950
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 2: it's a free country. Well yeah it is. But here's

951
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 2: the point. You are from an area. If your area

952
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 2: has a team and you grow up in that era,

953
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about you lived there for a couple

954
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: of years or you're in and out, or I'm talking

955
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 2: about to those people that grew up in a city

956
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 2: or a town, whatever, and you stayed there and that's

957
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 2: your town.

958
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: You have to root for your that team.

959
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 2: It's part of your civic pride, it's part of your

960
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: it's your civic duty to root for your home team.

961
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 3: It represents your town, your city.

962
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 4: The pushback there, yeah, and I would say, look, if

963
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 4: you don't like the direction your team is going in,

964
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 4: you could be openly critical of them. Like I use

965
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 4: myself as an example. People who know and have listened

966
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 4: to me over the years know that I'm an Angel fan.

967
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 4: No one talks more trash about the Angels and their

968
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 4: owner Artio Mourno than I do. But it's because I

969
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 4: care and I want you for Logize to win and succeed.

970
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna jump off and say I'm not a

971
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 4: fan anymore. I'm not a fan of ownership. And I'll

972
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 4: say this, Anthony, I'm not going to a game because

973
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 4: I don't want to put money in that owner's pockets.

974
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 4: But I watch the team, I support the players. But

975
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna jump off and say that my fandom

976
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 4: is totally gone.

977
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 2: No, dude, that's exactly right. That's exactly how you should be.

978
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: You love them. You're making a statement, right, but no,

979
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: you love them and that's your team. And as much

980
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 2: as you know, you're not gonna suddenly turn into I

981
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: don't know, a Mariners fan, right, Like, absolutely, you're not

982
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 2: doing that or anybody that's any good. Oh, I'm a

983
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 2: Red Sox fan, you know, like when when the Red

984
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 2: Sox started to win titles, all of a sudden, everybody

985
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 2: was a Red.

986
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 1: Sox fan, right exactly.

987
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 4: The only time I'll give license to someone for switching

988
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 4: allegiances is if your franchise leaves.

989
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 7: Ye.

990
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 4: If you are a if you happen to be a

991
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 4: Raider fan in Oakland and they left Vegas and you

992
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 4: think they turned their back on the city or whatever,

993
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 4: and you want to join another team. I'm all, I'm

994
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 4: all on board because in that sense, they turn their

995
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 4: backs on you, so you can turn your back on them.

996
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that.

997
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 3: Yep, spot on, it's spot on correct.

998
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 4: Or Yeah, Or to your point, if you grew up

999
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles for twenty plus years and there was

1000
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 4: no NFL team, you had license to jump on to

1001
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 4: become a fan of another franchise because you didn't have

1002
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 4: a team here.

1003
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 3: Right exactly.

1004
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 2: But if you're from the town or a town that's reasonable,

1005
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 2: reasonably close to a franchise, right like, you gotta be

1006
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 2: that you got the root for that team.

1007
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's it.

1008
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 2: You know, it's because because what you're rooting for is

1009
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 2: not just the laundry. It's rooting for yourself and your town,

1010
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:12,720
Speaker 2: your people.

1011
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1012
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 4: The sports franchises oftentimes represent the city.

1013
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly, That's exactly what it's about.

1014
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 2: So as an Eagles fan, a lifelong Eagles fan, and

1015
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 2: having it to deal with cowboy fans rubbing it in

1016
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:27,760
Speaker 2: my face.

1017
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: Ah.

1018
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 2: So I used to hear from there will be all

1019
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 2: these cowboy like cowboy dave. I used to have four

1020
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: cowboy daves called far different. I would have this, Okay,

1021
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: I would call them cowboys cowboy Dave one Roman numeral

1022
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: two row manumeraal three, right, and then I would have

1023
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,919
Speaker 2: captain Cowboy right like all these guys and they would

1024
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 2: be at Eagle steak, never gonna win. We got rings?

1025
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 2: You got no rings on the pigeons like they would

1026
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 2: just crush brother, like you got nothing to say.

1027
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: Right.

1028
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: And now, as my buddy Brian Boldanger points out to

1029
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 2: me and he sent me a text, and he's like, dude,

1030
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 2: how great is this? Since two thousand, the last time

1031
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 2: the Eagles and Cowboys opened the NFL season, they played

1032
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 2: on an opening week, the Cowboys have been to the

1033
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 2: playoffs ten times. They have been to the NFC Championship

1034
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 2: Game zero times.

1035
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: Big wus eg yep.

1036
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: The Eagles have been to the playoffs seventeen times.

1037
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: They have been to it was it eight championship games.

1038
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 4: So many championship games they got to four in a

1039
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 4: row or something like that with the McNab years, you.

1040
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 2: Know, yea, and they falls and they've been to four

1041
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 2: Super Bowls and have won two. So I believe over

1042
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 2: this twenty five year stretch, the Eagles are right there

1043
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys historically, and I have surpassed them as

1044
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: the model franchise.

1045
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 4: Well not only, I mean the Eagles have passed them.

1046
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 4: Kansas City's passed them, right, the Cowboys of being America's team.

1047
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: I know they get eyeballs.

1048
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 4: I even heard a Fox executive talk about this earlier

1049
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 4: this week, talking about the schedule release and how they

1050
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 4: intentionally did not want the Cowboys to be in as

1051
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 4: many four to twenty five Fox TV slots as they

1052
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 4: have been in recent past. One because they haven't been

1053
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,720
Speaker 4: as good, and two because there's just not a clamoring

1054
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 4: for them like there used to be, Like their fans

1055
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 4: are as saying I'm tired tired of the Cowboys playing

1056
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 4: at four twenty five every week.

1057
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 3: Well, but then how come they're won all these national

1058
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 3: TV games.

1059
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: That's a good question.

1060
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 4: Now, Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, by the way, they

1061
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 4: have the second most national telvised games behind Kansas City games.

1062
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 2: It's one of my beefs. I'm going, all right, yeah,

1063
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 2: I don't know where you stand. We argued last year.

1064
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 2: Now I don't know where you stand this year. But

1065
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 2: I got a buddy of mine who covers the Eagles

1066
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 2: for my network and he he finks the Cowboys will

1067
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 2: be the second best team in the division, that the

1068
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: Cowboys will overtake Washington, which I would disagree with.

1069
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 4: But what was his basis for saying that, By the way,

1070
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 4: I'm curious or did he have times.

1071
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 3: Washington takes a step back.

1072
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 2: He thinks the and he loves the Cowboys, not as

1073
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 2: a fan, he loves the way they're put together.

1074
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 3: I don't say it.

1075
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: Well.

1076
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 2: He gave me me a argument that you and Fitzy

1077
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 2: gaming last year, which was, you know, with Dak healthy,

1078
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 2: they win twelve straight games. That's what they do. They

1079
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 2: win games.

1080
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 4: Look well, Look, certainly adding George Pickens along with Ceedee

1081
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 4: Lamb doesn't hurt their calls. Offensively, still don't have a

1082
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 4: running game. You're turning over I think three fifths of

1083
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 4: your offensive line. So I don't think the Cowboys are

1084
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 4: going to be terrible, But to say that they're going

1085
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 4: to surpass Washington, I don't necessarily see that. I think

1086
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 4: the Cowboys would be competitive, and if you want to,

1087
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 4: I can be convinced that they can knock on the

1088
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 4: door of a wild card potentially, But I would agree,

1089
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 4: but I don't think there were anything special.

1090
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 3: I would agree not with that, Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders.

1091
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that backfield is not doing much for me.

1092
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 4: And it's not like you have just a giant, you know,

1093
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 4: road graders up front offense on the offensive line, like

1094
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter who the running back is.

1095
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: So that's the issue with me. I'm with you.

1096
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 4: I'm with you, and honestly, and I mentioned this last

1097
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 4: week and I'm going to keep hammering it home until

1098
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 4: hopefully he proves me wrong. I guess if you're a

1099
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 4: Cowboy fan, you're downgraded a head coach. Say what you

1100
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 4: want about Mike McCarthy, he's one of the better regular

1101
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 4: season coaches in the NFL. And Brian Schottenhamer couldn't get

1102
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 4: a sniff at a head coaching position fifteen years he's

1103
00:55:58,960 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 4: been an assistant.

1104
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: I get it. It's Jerry. It's a Jerry power move

1105
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: once again. Guess you're right. That's exactly what it is.

1106
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: Is someone that Jerry can control.

1107
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, I love it all. You gotta watch us

1108
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 2: raise it batter all right, Yeah, you gotta watch us,

1109
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a party like for us, it's

1110
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 2: gonna be a huge party in Philadelphia to kick off

1111
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 2: the NFL season that Thursday night Eagles and Cowboys, and

1112
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: then Friday we go back to Brazil. Do you like

1113
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 2: the Brazil the Friday night Brazil game?

1114
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I mean I love the last year.

1115
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 4: Obviously it was a good success with the Packers and

1116
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 4: the Eagles doing it last season on that Friday night.

1117
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 4: I still don't necessarily like the fact that home games

1118
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 4: are being taken away from certain franchises, but I know

1119
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 4: the NFL is trying to grow the sport globally, so

1120
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 4: I understand it.

1121
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: I find it interesting.

1122
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 4: And apparently the Chargers chose not to protect this Kansas

1123
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 4: City matchup, and that's what allowed a divisional game.

1124
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: Because we talked about this last week.

1125
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 4: How can a divisional game be one of these international

1126
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 4: games because the divisional games are so important. The Chargers

1127
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 4: have the option to protect this game against Kansas City.

1128
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 4: They chose not to, so they're giving up a home

1129
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 4: game at so Far to play against Kansas City in Salapolo.

1130
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 4: So I find that to be interesting. But anyway to

1131
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 4: find a way to grow the game, get more eyeballs

1132
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 4: on the game, it makes sense to me. So I

1133
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 4: don't have a huge objection to it other than the

1134
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 4: local markets losing out on a home game.

1135
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I would agree it should be a great game.

1136
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 2: I love hardball. And then you got so Chiefs Chargers

1137
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 2: from Brazil. I like the Friday like I love. I mean,

1138
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: the NFL just does things correctly, right, Like you get

1139
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 2: to start the season on a Thursday at Ady Club,

1140
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 2: right back on a Friday, right then and Sunday Monday.

1141
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 2: Like that's just a way. That's the way that you know,

1142
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 2: it's a power boot, right And I.

1143
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 4: Trust issues they play on Saturday too, say, hey, take

1144
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 4: it on the chin. College football, we don't care, right right.

1145
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 4: They don't play on Saturdays because they basically can't. That's

1146
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 4: the only reason why they don't do it right.

1147
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 2: And I respect, I like I actually it's the one

1148
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 2: day I like to keep sacred.

1149
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: Oh, I agree, I'm with you.

1150
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 4: There's there's a small part of me that kind of

1151
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 4: wishes they would have left Christmas alone. I would have

1152
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 4: done it too, by the way, if I were them

1153
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 4: from a standpoint, thousand percent agreed. But man, the NBA

1154
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 4: has nothing, They literally nothing to themselves. That was their

1155
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 4: day to shine and pull them you know why.

1156
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 3: The way you say, is so right?

1157
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: Like true? Like the I b a a guy.

1158
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: You had had Christmas right, it was like, oh Christmas

1159
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 2: and you can you see the little NBA thing with

1160
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 2: the Santa hat on it and the logo right like

1161
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 2: you're like all right, you know and and you know

1162
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 2: I to watch obviously, right, like I would always have

1163
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 2: it on, yeah, if.

1164
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 4: It was on in the background there you know, those

1165
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 4: games literally all day from morning to night.

1166
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 2: I love whatever exactly, and I truthfully I love sports

1167
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 2: and holidays.

1168
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 3: I just I don't know.

1169
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 2: The family watches like we're sports people, so we love it, right,

1170
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 2: so we watch it. It's you know, yeah, we watch

1171
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 2: our Christmas movies and everything else. But it was funny.

1172
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 2: It was arguing with a buddy of mine. He's like,

1173
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 2: I go, what do you watch? Because I have the

1174
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: log on? You know the log?

1175
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 4: Oh you a log and then the log on a

1176
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 4: five hour loop or whatever it is.

1177
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:39,479
Speaker 2: Right, I go, you got the log? You guys watch

1178
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 2: a log. He was on a fireplace. So we have

1179
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 2: the log on and we have music, and I got

1180
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 2: I guess that's nice.

1181
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know what the music, I'm fine.

1182
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 4: Games you gets are music on and have the game

1183
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 4: on mute and still have a game on.

1184
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 6: Right, you don't have to watch a log exactly. I

1185
00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,919
Speaker 6: don't want to have watched a log.

1186
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 2: Well, man, he's watching the lock. My man violates Greg.

1187
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, that's that's Uh. I'm not feeling that one.

1188
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 2: No, I can't watch a lock that the game's on anyway,

1189
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 2: Like we're watching like you're right, we were watching NBA

1190
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 2: and any NFL just comes over and goes you know,

1191
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 2: I think we want to own Christmas, right, Like they

1192
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 2: just come in and they just slapping on the table.

1193
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: And then the NBA.

1194
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 2: And the greatest is it doesn't even truly matter what

1195
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 2: game they put on.

1196
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 3: It will destroy the NBA.

1197
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 4: Does not matter whatsoever. It could be Jacksonville and New Orleans. Yeah,

1198
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 4: and it will get better ratings than anything the NBA

1199
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 4: will put on.

1200
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: I know. I know.

1201
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 2: Well we'll get to those games because quite frankly, I'm

1202
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 2: not a fan of the Christmas Day slate.

1203
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 4: Really yeah, I'm intrigue. I actually am.

1204
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 2: Okay, good, we'll talk about it because I'm actually pissed

1205
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 2: off about it, to be honest with you. Okay, we're

1206
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 2: the fellas Kevin figures Anthony guarg I don't hanging out

1207
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 2: right here talking Christmas in May on Fox Sports Radio.

1208
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Figure, I need you for a

1209
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 2: second here from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Fellas, So

1210
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 2: Patrick sent for Brianna. All right, now, Patrick and Money

1211
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 2: Mark of course doing his great job as always. So Patrick,

1212
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 2: we were talking about this. He grew up in La

1213
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 2: all right.

1214
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know where this is going, you already huh?

1215
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 2: So all right, so he gets a pass that he's

1216
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 2: a he's a fan free agent, correct?

1217
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: All right?

1218
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 3: How old were you when the Rams moved back?

1219
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: Patrick?

1220
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 6: Uh?

1221
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 8: That was what twenty fourteen, so we're looking I was nineteen.

1222
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: All right.

1223
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 6: I mean your formative years were spent without a squad.

1224
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're an adult at that point. Yeah, so you're

1225
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 4: you're a free agent. I give you free agent status.

1226
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: Now.

1227
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 2: The only thing that's weird about you, and let me

1228
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 2: run this by fake, is that his dad is from Minnesota. Right,

1229
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 2: So he's a Vikings man. So of course his father,

1230
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 2: like any good football man, wants his son to root

1231
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 2: for his team. Correct, like your dad, you get it.

1232
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 2: So then he plays flag football and he plays for

1233
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 2: the Seahawks, right, And then he becomes a Seahawks fan.

1234
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we've had this discussion.

1235
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 5: So.

1236
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: You know there's an issue here.

1237
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 2: And then he says to me, well Sheeahawks or my

1238
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 2: number one.

1239
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: By a hair.

1240
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, you can't root for two teams. You don't

1241
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 2: get two teams, you don't get two wives, you don't

1242
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 2: get two teams.

1243
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 4: Well, it depends on what state you live in, but

1244
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 4: I will say you get two teams. They have two

1245
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 4: teams at the very least. I'm not a fan of

1246
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 4: the two teams. They gotta be in copper conferences, right, Like,

1247
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 4: I mean, there have been playoff games. There was an

1248
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 4: epic playoff game where you know, the the Seahawks play

1249
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 4: at the Vikings and like, how do you where's your

1250
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 4: allegiance at that point?

1251
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: Pat?

1252
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 8: So like I've had this whole debate before, Like like

1253
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 8: I've had this with Mike Harmone, Jason Smith. Like they're like, Patrick,

1254
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 8: tell me Seahawks Vikings in the NFC championship winner goes

1255
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 8: to the Super Bowl, who do you pick? And I

1256
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 8: literally wipe my hands of it and say I'm happy

1257
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 8: with whoever wins, because.

1258
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: That's a cop out. That's real.

1259
01:03:55,040 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 2: No, it's not stupid, stupid, it's type fair, anti American,

1260
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 2: it's horrible.

1261
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm happy.

1262
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 3: For Gayzy. That's a for gazy.

1263
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 4: Come on, bro, now, let me throw something at you.

1264
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 4: And going back to our example of growing up and

1265
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 4: if you grow born in the city that has a

1266
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 4: team and you have to be a fan.

1267
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: So to use pats.

1268
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 4: Example as father, Minnesota guy bestowed that down onto his

1269
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,439
Speaker 4: son to be a Vikings fan. You know that I'm

1270
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 4: a Raider fan going back to their LA Raider days.

1271
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 4: So my son now, who just turned one, I would

1272
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 4: love for him to grow up to be a Raider fan.

1273
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 4: But in his formative years, he's gonna have two options

1274
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 4: in the LA market to choose from. Is it a

1275
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 4: violation if I raise him as a Raider fan knowing

1276
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 4: that there are two franchises in the city of Los Angeles?

1277
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: No, okay, So I get the bloodline rule.

1278
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, it's a save fit.

1279
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 2: Like it's true, like right, so, uh, you want your

1280
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 2: roots in your in your family tree, go to a

1281
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 2: point where there was no team, so it's like you

1282
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 2: follow that bloodline. So I'm getting my dual citizenship right

1283
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 2: with Italy so I can have a you know, the

1284
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 2: Italian passport and you know whatever.

1285
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 3: So all of my families from Italy.

1286
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 2: So but you follow the bloodline to get your to

1287
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 2: get your citizenship, like you know, so you've have I

1288
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 2: have four sets of grandparents, they're all from different regions.

1289
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 2: So it goes back just like that, it goes back

1290
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 2: to the bloodline. So I have no issue whatsoever of

1291
01:05:54,840 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 2: you raising your son, your boy to be a Now

1292
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 2: you must accept the only thing that if he chooses

1293
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 2: right Rams or Chargers, I gotta allow it.

1294
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will.

1295
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be I mean, it's not the best that

1296
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 4: the Chargers will be a Raider rival and he picked them.

1297
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 4: But I will certainly understand it because at that point

1298
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 4: in time, you know, by the time he's old enough

1299
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 4: to determine what team he wants to be a fan of,

1300
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 4: both of those teams will be back here well established

1301
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 4: for probably you know, well for well over a decade,

1302
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 4: fifteen years.

1303
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: Whatever it is.

1304
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 4: So I'll have no qualms about him choosing one of

1305
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 4: the local teams for sure. So I wouldn't hold that

1306
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 4: against them.

1307
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 2: Now it's like, now there's a violation on my mathsam

1308
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 2: of my son.

1309
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 1: Oh really, I didn't know about this.

1310
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not going to say he's not an Eagles fan,

1311
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 2: m but he's a bit of a sympathizer.

1312
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: With whom the chiefs. Really Yeah, why is that?

1313
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 2: Well, well, you know we're close with Spags. Yeah, and

1314
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 2: so he you know, I mean he calls him uncles bags, right.

1315
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: So that's hard when you have a personal relationship. Well

1316
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: but he and he.

1317
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 2: Loves my homes, which is another violation. Well yeah, because

1318
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,760
Speaker 2: here's what he is now, Like I do believe now

1319
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 2: he was rooting Eagles because we were all together, right,

1320
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 2: so I have no it wasn't like he was rooting cheese.

1321
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 2: But he's like a sympathizer. Well, he kind of gave

1322
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 2: the Patrick. Now he's twelve, but he kind of gave

1323
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 2: a Patrick kind of answer. Well, you know, I mean

1324
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. Like I'm like, what, I was about

1325
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 2: to ban him from watching the super Bowl with us,

1326
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 2: all right, we all went over my buddy's Teucha's house, right,

1327
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 2: the whole family's right, my cousin, his family and my wife, me, everybody,

1328
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 2: and I was going to have Mosmo have to go

1329
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 2: up to watch the gate. Yes, because he was like, well,

1330
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 2: you know, whatever happens happens, like like no, no, like

1331
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 2: what are you nuts? Like and you know Bart's too,

1332
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 2: He's spoiled. You know, the Eagles have wanted True to

1333
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 2: win now twice. I'm like, I spent my whole life.

1334
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,719
Speaker 2: I haven't seen him win, right, and all of a sudden,

1335
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 2: you're lucky bastard.

1336
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 1: Right.

1337
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 2: And then and then to give to well, you know,

1338
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 2: because he plays quarterback and he lost my homes. I'm like,

1339
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 2: that's fine, but you got It's not like you've got

1340
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 2: a quarterback or steaks. You got Jalen Hurts, right, and

1341
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:47,840
Speaker 2: he'll rip Jalen for what like like he like my

1342
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 2: home is way better and all this other stuff. Well, like, dude,

1343
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 2: you're the height of being twelve years old. This is

1344
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 2: where you're fandom. You gotta be an Eagle fan to death.

1345
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 2: I don't like it. It's a Patrick move.

1346
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it's quite a Patrick move,

1347
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,600
Speaker 4: because I mean we are in the era two with

1348
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 4: kids now, where you have a you're a fan of

1349
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 4: a team, but they also follow individual players.

1350
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: They like players too.

1351
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 2: I like players too, saying I loved like magic growing up, right,

1352
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 2: Like I know what magic and bird and Elijah One.

1353
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I love watching those guys play, and I loved,

1354
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 2: you know, seeing them.

1355
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 3: But I was a Sixer fan.

1356
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 4: Right and you were not certainly never torn if your

1357
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:34,680
Speaker 4: team played against them, you.

1358
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: Knew where your elitians lied at.

1359
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 2: I love watching them play, like I was a fan

1360
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 2: of this. I love Jordan right like I love Jordan.

1361
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 2: But it wasn't like I was like, oh, you know,

1362
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 2: I would root for Jordan in the file and the

1363
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 2: Sixers weren't playing, you know, But I mean, come on,

1364
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 2: I won't see it if I didn't call myself a

1365
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 2: Bulls fan.

1366
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:56,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also rough.

1367
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a Moss and you're playing the

1368
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 4: quarter of the quarterback position, you're gonna try idolize and

1369
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 4: look up to the person that plays it at the

1370
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 4: highest level.

1371
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: So it would make sense. And we love, we love Jalen.

1372
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 4: Jalen's a good player and all that, but he's not

1373
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 4: Pat Patrick Mahomes obviously, So if you want to be

1374
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 4: able to reach that level, then I understand that you

1375
01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 4: would follow and to a certain degree idolize someone who has,

1376
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 4: to lack of a better it's ourn master at the position,

1377
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 4: which to a certain degree of Patrick Mahomes has done

1378
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 4: in his short career. So I certainly understand his admiration

1379
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 4: for Patrick Mahomes, but not to where it's to the

1380
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 4: detriment Rob's fandom of the Eagles.

1381
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: That's the part that I can't get with.

1382
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 4: But I'm all for him idolizing Mahomes and wanting to

1383
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 4: be like him, play like him, whatever it is, because

1384
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 4: why wouldn't he.

1385
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 3: I mean, don't go easier on my uncle fake.

1386
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 1: Hey.

1387
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm complimenting a chief. You know how

1388
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 4: hard that is for me. I know, there's no franchise

1389
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 4: I hate more than the Kansas City Chiefs. I know,

1390
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,440
Speaker 4: but I gotta recognize, recognize greatness.

1391
01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 6: When you see it, I know, real quick. Getting back

1392
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 6: to the Christmas Day and then we'll go through all

1393
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 6: the schedule.

1394
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 2: But my man Nikki from one of our finalisteners says

1395
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 2: that we over sell the holiday like we kill the holiday.

1396
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: Is towards football on Christmas.

1397
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 2: He said, I'm not going to go the log route

1398
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 2: like I was saying, yeah, but that the Christmas games

1399
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 2: force you to pay attention like football itself forces you

1400
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:43,759
Speaker 2: away from the people in the holiday and more towards

1401
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 2: paid attention to the gate.

1402
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: He's not wrong.

1403
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:50,799
Speaker 4: I mean, especially if you look at this coming Christmas,

1404
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 4: where basically every single window that you have during the

1405
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 4: regular season doing a standard Sunday is going to be filled.

1406
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: On that Thursday.

1407
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 4: You got Dallas Washington in at one o'clock eastern, you

1408
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 4: got Detroit, Minnesota, what's that four thirty eastern, and then

1409
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 4: you have a night game Kansas City and Denver. So

1410
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 4: it's literally football all day long, especially if you're on

1411
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 4: the West coast, you know, ten o'clock in the morning.

1412
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 4: If you're East coast and it's one pm, you know,

1413
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 4: kids can open their presence.

1414
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 1: You can do it.

1415
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 3: You're right, we have Christmas morning.

1416
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 4: Right if you're on the West coast and the game

1417
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 4: kicks off at ten o'clock in the morning, he's like,

1418
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 4: all right, son, open your gifts now, because in about

1419
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 4: an hour or so it's done for you know.

1420
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: So I certainly understand there's that you want.

1421
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 4: A little bit of sports to a degree, but you

1422
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 4: also want to allow it to breathe Like Christmas Eve,

1423
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 4: generally speaking, is an extremely light day on the sports calendar.

1424
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 4: Over the tame there's almost after I think that there

1425
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 4: might be a couple of games. Maybe there's a Bowl game,

1426
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 4: but nothing starts after like five o'clock Eastern.

1427
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: Everything starts.

1428
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 6: And I love that, Yeah, especially since I do Christmas Eve.

1429
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, right, yeah, I know, and many people do.

1430
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: That's right, So there's a there's there's something to be.

1431
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 4: Said for allowing the holiday to breathe a little bit

1432
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 4: and to have distraction free family time.

1433
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: Or whatever you want to call it. I can certainly

1434
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: understand that notion.

1435
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 2: Well, I want to dive just a little bit further

1436
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 2: in it because my uncle unwittingly ripped me and it's

1437
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 2: over sports.

1438
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 6: So okay, I'm interested in this. I'll excuseually you're the

1439
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 6: one doing the ripping, so that I'll expand. I got trashed.

1440
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 6: He trashed me to my face without even realizing it.

1441
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:37,599
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1442
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:40,520
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1443
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1448
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1450
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1451
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: So we were talking about sports.

1452
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:20,639
Speaker 2: On holidays and the Christmas thing and watching the log

1453
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:28,080
Speaker 2: as opposed to the game whatever. So I hoast Christmas, right,

1454
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:33,799
Speaker 2: I hoast Christmas Eve, and then we do Thanksgiving. Okay,

1455
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 2: now we do later on Thanksgiving because we play football.

1456
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 1: We do a whole big situation.

1457
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, right, so my sister does, she'll do

1458
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 2: Christmas Day and she'll do Easter and whatever. So my

1459
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 2: uncle says to me, like they just had Eastern He's like,

1460
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 2: you know, it was such a great day he had

1461
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 2: it Easter. Everybody was talking and everybody was hanging around

1462
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 2: and the whole thing because it was so it was

1463
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 2: actually at my mother in law's right, because my sister couldn't.

1464
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:18,719
Speaker 1: My sister was there, but she she we couldn't use.

1465
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 2: Her house, right, so we were going to use my house,

1466
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 2: but I got sick, so I wasn't there.

1467
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: Or the Easter.

1468
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 2: At my uncle saying it was the greatest Easter ever.

1469
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 2: We were all together and talking. Nobody was in the

1470
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 2: other room watching TV. Now, my uncle is not a

1471
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 2: sports guy, all right, you don't like it. Every holiday.

1472
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,400
Speaker 2: I got the game on, right, and I sit in

1473
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 2: like when we're at my sister's house. You know, there's

1474
01:15:56,320 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 2: the kitchen table, the dining room table or the honing

1475
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 2: room table, whatever, and it's adjacent to the kitchen. And

1476
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 2: then I'm in the living room and I'm watching I

1477
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 2: got the game on, so then you know, my father

1478
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 2: comes in usually will watch the game, you know, my

1479
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 2: nephew like I'll grab the kids, you know, and I

1480
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 2: guess it's you know whatever.

1481
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: But my uncle was like, oh, it was so good.

1482
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:25,559
Speaker 1: It was great. Nobody was watching TV.

1483
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 2: We were all together talking, the kids were involving the

1484
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 2: conversation now all things. And I was like, oh, that's nice.

1485
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 2: And then he's not even thinking about it. He's not

1486
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 2: taking a shot, but he's taking a shot right, like

1487
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 2: he's not doing it on purpose, and I'm thinking about

1488
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 2: my Eastern Sunday.

1489
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 1: I was sick and it wasn't bad.

1490
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I missed everybody, but I had playoffs on

1491
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 2: all day, right, right, So I just spent hester Sunday

1492
01:16:55,880 --> 01:17:00,839
Speaker 2: watching playoffs.

1493
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 4: It's tough because we talk about how sports is like

1494
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 4: a sanctuary. It's almost like church and brings people together.

1495
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 4: It's your community and all that, and that works with

1496
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 4: families too, It brings families together. But there's also something

1497
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 4: to be said for there is a holiday, there's a gathering.

1498
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,440
Speaker 4: You have a lot of family together, right, the intermingling,

1499
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 4: being able to talk and tell stories. A lot of

1500
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 4: that can be lost if you're spending a lot of

1501
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 4: that time sitting there watching a game. So I understand

1502
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 4: both sides of it, yes, Yes, and football.

1503
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 2: And that was the beauty with the NBA because the

1504
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 2: NBA you don't have to just be glued, right, Like

1505
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,559
Speaker 2: you can just watch it and you know, there's games

1506
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 2: all day and you know, like if you zone out

1507
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes, you're watching a game, right, Like that's but

1508
01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 2: you could be involved in the conversation, right and the

1509
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 2: play games like yeah, we always fit family. You play

1510
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 2: some kind of games with football, you really not do it.

1511
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 4: You can, like I've had family gatherings, thanksgivings over the

1512
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 4: past and all that where you know, the Cowboy game

1513
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 4: was always the marquee game. And it was on, but

1514
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 4: we weren't necessarily glued to it. It turned to the

1515
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 4: right and look and I was like, oh, look, Jason

1516
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 4: Wooden caught a touchdown.

1517
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,679
Speaker 1: Cool. So like as I was light like, that can't

1518
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: happen too So it works. I think it works all

1519
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: the way around anything. I think.

1520
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 4: I think sports are just good to have on in

1521
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 4: the background, even if you're not sitting.

1522
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: There glued to it.

1523
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 3: Agreed.

1524
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: I would much rather have that on in the background

1525
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: than a log I'll say.

1526
01:18:31,160 --> 01:18:35,680
Speaker 2: That, agreed. And here's the thing, like I get it.

1527
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 2: You know, the movies are a great part of it,

1528
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 2: Like forever. Growing up, our Christmas movie was The Godfather, right,

1529
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 2: Like we would watch it as a family every Christmas Day.

1530
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: That's excellent.

1531
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 2: And then you know sports started to come on. They

1532
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,720
Speaker 2: start playing games and the whole thing. And I don't know,

1533
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, but you're right, it's good to

1534
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:03,200
Speaker 2: play the games. And you know, I'm the only one

1535
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:04,559
Speaker 2: that really kind of like locks in.

1536
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: Well, there's balance, you know, there's balance with everything.

1537
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 4: You know, give me thirty five minutes here to play

1538
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 4: the game and then let me go over here and

1539
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 4: watch the game on the TV for a little bit

1540
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 4: and maybe you pop in and out. There's a way

1541
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 4: to have balance, so every box gets checked to a

1542
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 4: certain degree.

1543
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, yes, yes, yes.

1544
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 4: It's all important. Family time is important, but football is

1545
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 4: also important.

1546
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 6: Right, just say football. Family goes together, man, correct, it

1547
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:32,799
Speaker 6: just goes together.

1548
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 3: It is that it is the best. Now, I don't

1549
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 3: like this slate.

1550
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious as to why you're you're down.

1551
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 2: And we're going to go through each each week too. Uh,

1552
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:50,479
Speaker 2: it's just we're getting these spider conversations. But it's the

1553
01:19:50,520 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 2: same exact teams. We'll expand fellas on Fox. Ah, good morning,

1554
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, good morning, co morning, good morning,

1555
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 2: Fellas figure cause Kevin figures Anthony Gargano hanging out with

1556
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 2: you guys every week figuring in for FITZI Jason Fitz

1557
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 2: be on later today and if Jason Fitz and I

1558
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:25,879
Speaker 2: will be back tomorrow night eight am Eastern five Pacific,

1559
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 2: hang and do a whole rap of the weekend sports.

1560
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 2: A little bit later on next hour, the Brain will

1561
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 2: join us to go through some of the games from

1562
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:42,759
Speaker 2: a betting standpoint. We talked a lot about the NBA

1563
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 2: and the Knicks over Boston last night, we're out city

1564
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:48,600
Speaker 2: kind of like we expected.

1565
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 3: But the Knicks uh, a fascinating team.

1566
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 2: Will look ahead to the Knicks Indiana and of course

1567
01:20:54,439 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 2: game seven, okasee Denver tomorrow and Toronto and Flora, which

1568
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 2: is another really good game. So we'll we'll hockey and

1569
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup playoffs. We'll get to that. But we've

1570
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 2: been going over the NFL schedule and like we always do,

1571
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 2: fig we get these winding, meandering conversations.

1572
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: So we got through two games.

1573
01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 9: Exactly, Yeah, two whole games, right, two games, So let's

1574
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 9: spend this out really diving deep, all right, So we diligent,

1575
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 9: We're excited.

1576
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:39,360
Speaker 2: Eagles, Cowboys start the season, Chiefs Chargers from Brazil, and

1577
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 2: then the first Sunday full slate, the prime time game

1578
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 2: is a great one.

1579
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 3: Baltimore and Buffalo.

1580
01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: Are to be I mean, that's the one that you want.

1581
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 4: The only other one on the slate that you possibly

1582
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 4: could put in that slot is Detroit and Green Bay.

1583
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:01,720
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the four to twenty five CBS game

1584
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 2: protected by CBS.

1585
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean obviously dueling MVPs and Lamar Jackson

1586
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 4: and Josh Allen makes all the sense in the world.

1587
01:22:09,520 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 4: That would be the primetime game, so I'm obviously looking

1588
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 4: forward to that one.

1589
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 2: The Monday night game is an interesting one because the

1590
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 2: Monday night game and uh, Joe and Troy Minnesota Chicago,

1591
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 2: So Chicago with Ben Johnson, Caleb at Minnesota with JJ

1592
01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 2: McCarthy at the Helm.

1593
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Interesting choice?

1594
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 4: And maybe Fox protected Detroit and Green bayy for or

1595
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 4: excuse me, CBS did for that game on Sunday afternoon,

1596
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 4: and maybe that's the reason why that's not on Monday night.

1597
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:47,920
Speaker 4: But I think people are intrigued to see Caleb with

1598
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 4: a new offensive coordinator or a new head coach, offensive minded

1599
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 4: hit coach, and see if Minnesota can follow up on

1600
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 4: what they did last season now with their rookie quarterback.

1601
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 4: I mean, he's essentially a rookie at the home. So

1602
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 4: it's an in trigaguing matchup. Probably not my favorite for

1603
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 4: it Monday night, but you know, we'll certainly watch and

1604
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 4: have eyeballs on it.

1605
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: Now. Couldn't have been you could have did.

1606
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 2: Now assuming that Rogers really does do the Steelers and

1607
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:18,719
Speaker 2: that's the story, right, it would have been Pittsburgh Jets

1608
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:19,760
Speaker 2: right Monday night.

1609
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the problem is.

1610
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 4: I don't think you can just you can project to

1611
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 4: that and now without actually knowing for a fact.

1612
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: If you knew for a fact, then you would have

1613
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: done it. Yep.

1614
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:31,840
Speaker 4: But outside because it's not like either team is going

1615
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 4: to necessarily you know, you plan on them light in

1616
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 4: the world on fire, especially if Pittsburgh doesn't have Aaron Rodgers.

1617
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 4: So that'd be a giant dud to have on a

1618
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,639
Speaker 4: on a nationally televised game on.

1619
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: A Monday night without that star power. Yep.

1620
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 2: Week two, Washington and green Bay, great game to treat, right,

1621
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 2: that's a great game Thursday night.

1622
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's a phenomenal slate right there.

1623
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:08,400
Speaker 2: Sunday four, twenty five, Eagles and Kids Is City, the

1624
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:11,879
Speaker 2: rematch of the Super Bowl right here on Fox.

1625
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 4: Would you not have preferred that have been? I mean,

1626
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 4: I'm sure you do. As an Eagle fan. We talked

1627
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 4: about it, how you you bask in the glow of

1628
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 4: getting your rings in front of the cowboys and how

1629
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 4: much they have to sit and watch it. But if

1630
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 4: you're just a generic fan or a fan of the

1631
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 4: sport and not notes you know, dog in the race,

1632
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 4: I kind of would have wouldn't have minded having a

1633
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 4: Super Bowl rematch in Week one and have that be

1634
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 4: the big kickoff game.

1635
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, as opposed to Week two. I could see that.

1636
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 3: I could totally see that.

1637
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, still looking forward to it obviously.

1638
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 2: The thing is, though, Sunday Night, like, I guess Fox

1639
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 2: protected the Eagles the Eagles Chiefs.

1640
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: It's possible.

1641
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, min God like the Sunday Nighters Atlanta, Minnesota.

1642
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:56,919
Speaker 3: That steaks.

1643
01:24:57,400 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 4: Not only that, just on a macro view, just looking

1644
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 4: at team and primetime games, you realize the Falcons have

1645
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 4: five prime time games this year.

1646
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love Panics and I don't, but they're not good. No.

1647
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 4: I like Panis too, but not that much. Right, the

1648
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 4: fact that they're on five times, but the first overall

1649
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 4: pick with Tennessee.

1650
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 1: Is not on once. Have you told me you.

1651
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 4: Gonna switch out Atlanta one or two more times and

1652
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 4: put you know, cam Ward in one of.

1653
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 1: Those slots somewhere? I know, I agree.

1654
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 4: I'm really intrigued as to what the schedule makers were

1655
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 4: thinking getting Atlanta in all these primetime slots.

1656
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll be honest, you I rat to watch

1657
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 3: Bears Lions.

1658
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: Agree on thousand percent. I don't. I don't understand that.

1659
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 2: I don't blame the Fox CBS to have the four

1660
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 2: to five blockage, right, but like Sunday Night, like, you

1661
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 2: can't have that done of a Sunday night.

1662
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 4: Sunday Night is the new is the new Monday Night.

1663
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 4: That's a sacred You have to have a marquee matchup there,

1664
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 4: especially that early in the season.

1665
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I don't I don't like that. Mother Light's

1666
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 2: a good matchup. I mean generating football Tampa and Houston.

1667
01:26:08,439 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 2: It's a double header, double header, yeah, which I loved

1668
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 2: the seven and the ten that staggered double header, right,

1669
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 2: Raiders Chargers at ten, Eastern.

1670
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:24,759
Speaker 3: Tampa Houston at seven.

1671
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:27,679
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah. And at least there's a little

1672
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: bit more separation.

1673
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 4: You're talking about a three hour separation between kickoffs as

1674
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 4: opposed to the you know, ninety minutes or whatever it's

1675
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 4: been in the past. I'm just not a fan of

1676
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 4: having to bounce between, you know, between different games.

1677
01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:40,720
Speaker 1: It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And

1678
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 1: just the West Coast time, it's great.

1679
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 4: That's a seven o'clock kickoff for the late for the

1680
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 4: for Vegas and Los Angeles. I can understand kicking off

1681
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:51,679
Speaker 4: a game at ten o'clock at night. It's it's insane

1682
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:53,840
Speaker 4: to me. I know you guys are used to it

1683
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 4: back there, but it's it's an anomoly to me.

1684
01:26:56,760 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: It really is. Yeah.

1685
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 2: So here's the thing, right, you know, it's funny because Ego,

1686
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 2: I'm with you. There are four Monday night doubleheaders this year.

1687
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:15,799
Speaker 2: Two were staggered and two are the one hour seven fifteen,

1688
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:16,719
Speaker 2: eight fifteen.

1689
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:18,600
Speaker 1: I just don't understand.

1690
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 3: I don't understand it either.

1691
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 4: Why you're cutting off your nose to spite your face

1692
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:23,719
Speaker 4: to a certain degree.

1693
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you've got to captivate an audience, you know.

1694
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if you have to sacrifice, maybe you

1695
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 4: sacrifice some of the West Coast viewership and start the

1696
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 4: game a little earlier, but at least you know, you

1697
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:35,639
Speaker 4: have a chance on the late window to know that

1698
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 4: everybody's going to be home and be able to watch

1699
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,280
Speaker 4: the start of that game the second game. But the

1700
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 4: idea that people have to go back and forth between

1701
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 4: one game or another, the staggered start, I'm just not don't.

1702
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:48,880
Speaker 1: I don't understand the rationale behind that. I never have.

1703
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 2: No, I completely agree, completely agree, But I do like

1704
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 2: the I do like the fact that, like they're two

1705
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,759
Speaker 2: good games. You know, you get to see your Raiders

1706
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 2: Raiders charges great Division game. Yeah, and then and then

1707
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 2: Tampa and Houston. I'm down with that.

1708
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tampa Houston is fun.

1709
01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 4: You got Harball versus Pete Carroll again, the the What's

1710
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 4: your Deal matchup from Stanford and USC back in the day.

1711
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: So I mean that those are two good matchups. Wow,

1712
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: that's right, that's great.

1713
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 2: The week three Thursday game Miami Buffalo.

1714
01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,000
Speaker 1: It should be a good one. Interest me.

1715
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know what Miami is even gonna look like. Still,

1716
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 4: I mean it's Jalen Rams are gonna be there?

1717
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:35,800
Speaker 1: Probably not?

1718
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 4: Are they gonna take this? Seems like Miami's probably gonna

1719
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 4: take half a step back this year. Yeah, it's kind

1720
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 4: of the vibe I have. Tyreek's not getting any younger. Obviously,

1721
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 4: Wattle's great, but I don't know, I feel like their

1722
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 4: their window is closing.

1723
01:28:53,320 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 6: For You have Dallas, Chicago, Arizona, San Francisco this Sunday nighter, Dude.

1724
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: Dud Giants City the Giants.

1725
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:08,600
Speaker 2: First of all, I get the kids city thing, but

1726
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 2: it's excessive.

1727
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: Seven times you're old National TV. Well you gotta play

1728
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:16,960
Speaker 1: the Hits. I get it.

1729
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 4: You know, that's the that's the Giants, that's the Travis

1730
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:25,599
Speaker 4: Kelcey slash Taylor Swift effect. So I do the same thing.

1731
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 4: You want Kansas City as much as possible to get

1732
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:31,479
Speaker 4: as many eyeballs there. It's I have no problem with

1733
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 4: Kansas City. I have a problem with him playing New York.

1734
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:35,479
Speaker 5: And I get it.

1735
01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 4: New York, big TV market, there's a lot of viewership.

1736
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:40,960
Speaker 4: Similar to the Cowboys to a certain degree. They're just

1737
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,400
Speaker 4: so bad. The Giants steak, Yeah, I mean that's gonna

1738
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 4: be you know, forty one nothing at halftime. I'm sure

1739
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:48,840
Speaker 4: it won't be and watch the Giants upset. But you

1740
01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like.

1741
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:52,679
Speaker 2: It's Sunday, the first two of the first three Sunday

1742
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:57,840
Speaker 2: Night steak terrible, and then you got Monday Night great.

1743
01:29:57,960 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 1: Monday's good.

1744
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, lie is rave it?

1745
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:05,200
Speaker 1: That's a great game. Yeah, absolutely, that's a that's a

1746
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:10,920
Speaker 1: football game. Preview it may be maybe, although I think

1747
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,839
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a repeat, but just say you're biased.

1748
01:30:14,280 --> 01:30:20,559
Speaker 2: Of course, a week four, we get it started Thursday night.

1749
01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:22,800
Speaker 2: I like the I like when they go all right,

1750
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 2: let let's go to the look ahead. Thursday night. It's

1751
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:31,480
Speaker 2: a started man, all the networks at all. Right, Seattle Arizona,

1752
01:30:32,920 --> 01:30:33,679
Speaker 2: What do you think of that?

1753
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 4: I think Arizona might be better than people think. They've

1754
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:39,520
Speaker 4: kind of been steadily improving these last couple of years Undergannon.

1755
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,879
Speaker 4: Now there's still nothing super you know, spectacular or overly exciting,

1756
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,960
Speaker 4: and Seattle is a team that's in kind of a

1757
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:49,839
Speaker 4: quasi rebuild at this point. So it's not the sexiest matchup,

1758
01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:53,519
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, but I do like Arizona

1759
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 4: this year.

1760
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: I think Arizona my surprise.

1761
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,600
Speaker 2: And folks, they have a good defense and you know,

1762
01:30:57,720 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 2: they figured it out offensively.

1763
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 4: I still not the biggest Kyler. Kyler is very inconsistent,

1764
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 4: but agreed, you know, we'll be all right. I like

1765
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 4: I like how they're turning things around over there. I

1766
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 4: think they'll be solid this year.

1767
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:12,760
Speaker 2: And it marks It's Sunday, September twenty eighth, so it

1768
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 2: marks the first international game Pittsburgh and Minnesota from Dublin.

1769
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 3: I like the international games. I know you hate them.

1770
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: Hate is strong.

1771
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 4: I'll put it this way, is that that game kicks

1772
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 4: off at six thirty in the morning West Coast time.

1773
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,080
Speaker 1: Now because I'm an early riser.

1774
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,519
Speaker 4: I'll be up and I'll watch it, obviously, but it

1775
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:38,559
Speaker 4: would not be appointment of viewing. I'm not setting my

1776
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 4: alarm to get up and watch Pittsburgh Minnesota. I'll put

1777
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 4: it that way. If this is Kevin Figures from twelve

1778
01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 4: years ago, and I'm waking up from a you know,

1779
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 4: Saturday night of who knows what, right, I ain't doing

1780
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 4: that right, that doesn't doesn't intrigue me enough. I got you,

1781
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:55,519
Speaker 4: so you gotta give me something better than that.

1782
01:31:56,479 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 6: Well, the four to twenty five game you're locked in, Oh,

1783
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 6: trust me, keep Baltimore, KC.

1784
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, outrageous, that's incredible.

1785
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:13,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you got Green Bay Dallas on this

1786
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 2: Sunday nighter.

1787
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:17,960
Speaker 6: More Dallas, Yes, more Dallas.

1788
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 4: Six national televised games or primetime games for the Cowboys

1789
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:21,479
Speaker 4: this year.

1790
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,599
Speaker 2: I thought that you were saying the Fox. The Fox

1791
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 2: executives saying no, Yeah.

1792
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:30,040
Speaker 4: Fox says for their one twenty five West Coast for

1793
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:34,080
Speaker 4: twenty five Eastern, they're not having as many Cowboy games

1794
01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:36,559
Speaker 4: as they've had in the past because they've had complaints

1795
01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 4: from fan saying like, why is it that every single

1796
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 4: Sunday at four to twenty five. The Cowboys are on

1797
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:43,320
Speaker 4: regardless if they're good or bad. I'm tired of seeing

1798
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,160
Speaker 4: the Cowboys and they're like, you know what, we want

1799
01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:47,679
Speaker 4: to switch things up. There's more compelling matchups. We want

1800
01:32:47,680 --> 01:32:51,760
Speaker 4: more Jaydon Daniels. We want more AFC quality teams. We

1801
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,400
Speaker 4: want more Detroit, which you should you.

1802
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: Know if you're Detroit's a fun team.

1803
01:32:57,240 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, like obviously someone's Washington Troy dat fun watch like.

1804
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:04,440
Speaker 3: Right, they're a good team to watch. Baltimore.

1805
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:08,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like the idea, especially in those windows, being

1806
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:10,680
Speaker 4: able to mix it up and show them, show the

1807
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 4: nation a variety of the really good teams that we have.

1808
01:33:14,439 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 1: That's what that's lot. I think that's what that s

1809
01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: lots should be for.

1810
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 3: Agreed. How about the doubleheader.

1811
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,840
Speaker 2: And this is the seven fifteen eight to fifteen, which

1812
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:30,799
Speaker 2: we hate the crossover.

1813
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 6: Ye's Miami and in Cincinnati Denver. Cincinnati Denver could has

1814
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 6: potential to be a fun one. That could be a

1815
01:33:39,439 --> 01:33:42,080
Speaker 6: fun Agree, that could be a could be a high

1816
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 6: scoring one. No, now we have reached October, My brother, Wow,

1817
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 6: that fast.

1818
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: Look at that.

1819
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:55,519
Speaker 2: We're in October. Now, Rams Niners to Thursday Night? What

1820
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 2: are you think of the Niners. I think they're having

1821
01:33:58,280 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 2: a bad year.

1822
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:01,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they probably they their schedule is not

1823
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,720
Speaker 4: as super difficult, but they've lost a lot. They're kind

1824
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:07,400
Speaker 4: of a team that's aging out. You feel like their

1825
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:09,720
Speaker 4: windows kind of closed on them a little bit. You

1826
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:13,400
Speaker 4: resign party. It's actually a pretty decent contract overall, to

1827
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 4: be honest with you, It's not that terrible, right, But

1828
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:19,320
Speaker 4: how much do you have around them? Is McCaffrey gonna

1829
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 4: stay healthy? You don't have Devo anymore? What is Iyuk

1830
01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 4: coming off injury?

1831
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 5: Like?

1832
01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of question marks for them. So

1833
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 4: I think San Francisco probably takes us a half step

1834
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:29,200
Speaker 4: back this year.

1835
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,880
Speaker 2: And then once you get to the Sunday, the Sunday slate,

1836
01:34:35,720 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 2: the second international game is a London game and it's Minnesota.

1837
01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:42,840
Speaker 3: So what do you think about Minnesota?

1838
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, backa, we.

1839
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 2: Play Cleveland going back to back, staying doing Dublin and

1840
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:55,759
Speaker 2: then London, and they will spend two weeks across the pond.

1841
01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Uh.

1842
01:34:57,920 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 4: I guess it's smart on their parts because they can

1843
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 4: stay over there. They don't have to readjust their bodies,

1844
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:05,120
Speaker 4: so they'll have an advantage over Cleveland in that matchup.

1845
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 4: I think it's as interesting that you would choose to

1846
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 4: actually do that.

1847
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:12,599
Speaker 3: And they by week and they do right after that.

1848
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's also it also helps with international branding

1849
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,679
Speaker 4: to a certain degree, getting yourself out there to different countries,

1850
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:22,879
Speaker 4: getting more exposure. So from that standpoint, it's not necessarily

1851
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:24,200
Speaker 4: a bad move from Minnesota.

1852
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 2: I think it's also a precursor to when they add

1853
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:34,400
Speaker 2: the weekly international game, right where they'll start keeping teams

1854
01:35:34,439 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 2: over there for a couple of weeks at a time.

1855
01:35:37,240 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that'll be difficult, right because I guess in

1856
01:35:39,520 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 4: theory every single team is going to have at least

1857
01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:45,679
Speaker 4: going to have one international game per season, right, Does

1858
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:47,560
Speaker 4: that mean by default somebody is going to have to

1859
01:35:47,560 --> 01:35:50,559
Speaker 4: play multiple I'm not exactly sure how that how that

1860
01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 4: all works.

1861
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 2: Out Jacksonville, right, because you know, Jacksonville is a team

1862
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:59,559
Speaker 2: that's going to be you know, kind of shared time bill.

1863
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:03,479
Speaker 2: It might be like the how the Packers would do

1864
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 2: it with Milwaukee.

1865
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:08,720
Speaker 1: Right back in the day. That's right, right, Like you.

1866
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 2: Can almost see that, Yeah, you could see that, and

1867
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:15,480
Speaker 2: then the rest of the slate.

1868
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: The prime time slate that that is not the greatest.

1869
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:21,360
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me throw this at you. Now, the

1870
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 2: four to twenty five game on Fox is great. Cincinnati Detroit.

1871
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 2: I'm in on that absolutely right, that's a good one.

1872
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1873
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:31,599
Speaker 4: Even Washington, Washington and the Chargers is.

1874
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 2: I was going to bring that up. Now, why would

1875
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:39,599
Speaker 2: you opt if you're NBC? I think NBC stakes right.

1876
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 4: So far, they're they're striking out last first month and month.

1877
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 2: Whoever drafted for NBC should be fired. It's like they

1878
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:53,559
Speaker 2: preside over the Sixers draft, right, like they're terrible. So

1879
01:36:53,600 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 2: they chose New England Buffalo over either could man, there's

1880
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 2: Chargers or Lions Bengals.

1881
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:05,920
Speaker 4: Why yeah, why I would even take Houston Baltimore and

1882
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:09,920
Speaker 4: put them there. Yes, Eagles, Eagles, Denver put them there.

1883
01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 1: Yes, but New New England Buffalo. The Buffalos could destroy them, right.

1884
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:21,400
Speaker 4: I I I guess wanted to get a look at

1885
01:37:21,479 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 4: Drake May on the national stage.

1886
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:25,760
Speaker 1: Sure whatever, Drake May.

1887
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 4: I'm stretching here, man, you are, I really I really

1888
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,599
Speaker 4: don't see what it is. I really don't see that one.

1889
01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 4: And then Monday night it's bad too.

1890
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 6: Chiefs and Jackson Jars again Kansas City, right, Yeah, like, like,

1891
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 6: now go through it.

1892
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:52,639
Speaker 2: We're five weeks in and Kansas City's played on prime

1893
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 2: time for the five.

1894
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:58,160
Speaker 1: Weeks four times, I believe. Yeah, I mean that's excessive.

1895
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:01,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you're going to be in primetime

1896
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 4: that often, Siff, it is gonna be seven times for

1897
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:05,519
Speaker 4: the season out of eighteen weeks.

1898
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: You gotta spread it out a little bit more. You

1899
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 1: gotta give at variety in Hereeah.

1900
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 2: And now look the following Thursday, will we begin week

1901
01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:16,320
Speaker 2: six Eagles Giants?

1902
01:38:16,560 --> 01:38:19,880
Speaker 1: That steaks? Yeah, that's terrible.

1903
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 3: The Eagles have a weird thing to their schedule. They

1904
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 3: play the Giants week six and week eight oh wow.

1905
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:30,919
Speaker 3: And they play Washington week sixteen and week eighteen.

1906
01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:33,880
Speaker 1: Wow. How often does that happen? That's weird.

1907
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 2: You don't get to see, Like, I don't understand that

1908
01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:41,200
Speaker 2: they were it's the rematch of the AFC Championship game

1909
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,040
Speaker 2: and they don't play until week sixteen, and then you

1910
01:38:44,120 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 2: cram them in twice.

1911
01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:47,719
Speaker 4: That's a weird quirk on the schedule. And I realize

1912
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 4: there's logistics and travel and there's reasons why the schedule

1913
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 4: lands the way that it lands. Because I'm pretty sure

1914
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:54,920
Speaker 4: the NFL, if they had their Drothers will not have

1915
01:38:55,360 --> 01:38:58,639
Speaker 4: division opponents play each other twice in three weeks if

1916
01:38:58,640 --> 01:39:00,040
Speaker 4: they could avoid it.

1917
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: So, yeah, there has to be something going on as

1918
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:04,880
Speaker 1: to why they had to do that. No, I don't.

1919
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:05,559
Speaker 1: I don't get it.

1920
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:13,200
Speaker 2: Uh, dever jets uh the international game that week and

1921
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 2: then you go with now, I mean the Lion's Chiefs. Dude,

1922
01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 2: Canda Sunday night like Chiefs. Okay, that's five to six.

1923
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:26,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

1924
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:30,640
Speaker 4: People want pat people want Tata Man, people want that

1925
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:31,799
Speaker 4: Taylor's They.

1926
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:34,160
Speaker 3: I think there's Chiefs fatigue.

1927
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 4: I would like to think that there's Chiefs fatigue. I

1928
01:39:39,400 --> 01:39:41,800
Speaker 4: don't believe that there is. I really don't.

1929
01:39:42,080 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: You don't think so? No, I think they they pull

1930
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 1: a number.

1931
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 4: They've brought in fans who are not even football fans

1932
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 4: because of the Kelsey Swift angle of it. And look,

1933
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 4: we football people can be sick and tired of it

1934
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 4: as much as we are, but that's a real thing.

1935
01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:00,160
Speaker 4: There are people that watch Kansas City that five years

1936
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:02,960
Speaker 4: ago could give a rip about the Chiefs that are

1937
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 4: watching them now. NFL knows that recognizes that the network's

1938
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:09,719
Speaker 4: no one recognized that, and that's as big a reason

1939
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:11,840
Speaker 4: as any the fact that they win a lot and

1940
01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:14,479
Speaker 4: that they have the best quarterback in the league helps

1941
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:17,640
Speaker 4: greatly obviously. But I do believe if it wasn't for

1942
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 4: the Kelsey Swift effect, it wouldn't be to this magnitude.

1943
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1944
01:40:21,479 --> 01:40:23,200
Speaker 4: I would ride that gravy train too if I were,

1945
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:25,799
Speaker 4: if I were, or ESPN or whoever.

1946
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 3: I get it. I get it.

1947
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, listen, I don't know how like

1948
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 2: a terrible beef with Lions cheese, right, yeah, but don't

1949
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,320
Speaker 2: put don't make it Jaguars Chiefs.

1950
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:38,840
Speaker 1: Correct. So that's the thing that gets me.

1951
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:41,479
Speaker 4: Don't just put Kansas City on by, you know, just

1952
01:40:41,560 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 4: because by any means necessary, they're playing a terrible opponent.

1953
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 1: We don't eat that.

1954
01:40:47,560 --> 01:40:49,719
Speaker 4: Put them in the ten am slash one pm window

1955
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:51,799
Speaker 4: for that, and when they happen.

1956
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 2: Then the month that double heaters good Bill's Falcons, Bears, Commanders.

1957
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 6: Bears, Commanders. I like the Falcon, the Falcons. I got

1958
01:41:02,120 --> 01:41:02,920
Speaker 6: no beef with I.

1959
01:41:03,400 --> 01:41:04,880
Speaker 1: Just don't Why is Atlanta there?

1960
01:41:05,120 --> 01:41:06,559
Speaker 3: I know, I know, dude.

1961
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:11,200
Speaker 4: I don't nothing about Atlanta that screams national TV to me.

1962
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:12,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you.

1963
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 4: Titans, Browns and Saints have no nationally televised games if

1964
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 4: they if the Falcons were in that mix, I'd have

1965
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 4: no complaints whatsoever.

1966
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put it in.

1967
01:41:20,560 --> 01:41:21,000
Speaker 3: I feel you.

1968
01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take quick tell you, oh, we'll

1969
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 2: come back. Uh, run through a little more to the schedule,

1970
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 2: get back to basketball in the playoffs. Next hour where

1971
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 2: the Fellas k fig cause Hagen right here Fox Sports

1972
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:44,320
Speaker 2: Radio Fellas. Hey, By the way, you could stream this

1973
01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:46,840
Speaker 2: show and all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live

1974
01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:49,760
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven and the new and improved iHeartRadio

1975
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 2: app to search Fox Sports Radio in the app to

1976
01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:54,799
Speaker 2: stream us live.

1977
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:57,200
Speaker 1: And one of the newest.

1978
01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:59,040
Speaker 2: Features in the app is pretty cool, right, like you

1979
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:01,800
Speaker 2: could select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets.

1980
01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 2: So just like the preset, you know, just like the

1981
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:08,440
Speaker 2: presets and the radio dial, you'd be sure to preset

1982
01:42:08,560 --> 01:42:11,679
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio with the iut Radio app and the bag,

1983
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:14,879
Speaker 2: It'll always pop up at the top of your screen.

1984
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:21,519
Speaker 2: All right, let's kind of do this, uh, because I

1985
01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 2: could spend a whole day, and I don't know if

1986
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:24,800
Speaker 2: people just get tired of it.

1987
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 3: I don't know if you are. I'd be honest with you.

1988
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm actually asking the question, like I could go through

1989
01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:35,240
Speaker 2: this the whole thing, and now you tell me, I

1990
01:42:35,320 --> 01:42:39,479
Speaker 2: want to like literally go here, Fig, tell me, like,

1991
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:43,000
Speaker 2: sometimes you need to tell your friends that this is

1992
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 2: probably not a good idea. Yep, all right, Now tell

1993
01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 2: me that we just did six weeks. Do you want

1994
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 2: to keep going or just skip around?

1995
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:57,720
Speaker 4: I think it's best if we skip around, Yeah, the

1996
01:42:57,720 --> 01:42:59,639
Speaker 4: week by week. I think it'd be a little bit much.

1997
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1998
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 2: So my instincts say the same thing, but my heart

1999
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:10,479
Speaker 2: is stubborn, right all right, So that's why I had

2000
01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 2: to say to you, Figure, like listen, stop me, man,

2001
01:43:14,920 --> 01:43:15,839
Speaker 2: take the keys.

2002
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:23,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I appreciate you for having the self awareness

2003
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:26,520
Speaker 4: to put yourself in that position, so so thank you.

2004
01:43:26,680 --> 01:43:28,920
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean listen, I don't want to kill

2005
01:43:28,920 --> 01:43:29,559
Speaker 1: the audience.

2006
01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:34,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly as much as the audience loves, like the schedule,

2007
01:43:34,160 --> 01:43:35,160
Speaker 4: release and all of that.

2008
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:37,200
Speaker 1: You know, every single.

2009
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:38,479
Speaker 4: Week, I think looking at it and more of a

2010
01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:42,160
Speaker 4: macro view or spotlighting a few things, your thanksgivings, your

2011
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 4: Christmas is right right right, your late season, Saturdays, late

2012
01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:48,280
Speaker 4: stuff like that might sit on.

2013
01:43:48,240 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 3: The side fans forward from October.

2014
01:43:54,360 --> 01:43:54,559
Speaker 1: Now.

2015
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:58,760
Speaker 2: Now the beauty is I could do this as I

2016
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:02,599
Speaker 2: mock myself. Make it funny, right, which is what I'm

2017
01:44:02,600 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 2: trying to do, even though like I really kind of want.

2018
01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:05,679
Speaker 1: To do it seriously.

2019
01:44:06,520 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 2: So which tells you that my degree of loserdom right,

2020
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:14,600
Speaker 2: like of Kingdom, it's completely ridiculous.

2021
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 4: That was a geekdom fandom. I wouldn't call it loserdom,

2022
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, it was close to love, a passion

2023
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 4: for it.

2024
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:24,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate, you know. All right, so let's go.

2025
01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:29,439
Speaker 2: We'll skip to Thanksgiving, like fig said, which is a

2026
01:44:29,479 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 2: smart thing to do. Thursday, November twenty seventh, Green Bay, Detroit,

2027
01:44:38,479 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 2: one o'clock, Kansas City, Dallas four point thirty, Cincinnati, Baltimore,

2028
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 2: eight twenty.

2029
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:52,240
Speaker 1: Who's complaining? That's awesome? Who's complaining about that slate? Great?

2030
01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:55,519
Speaker 1: Great slates? The Cowboys are terrible, you know, and then

2031
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: that would, you know, put a damper on which I'm

2032
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:02,559
Speaker 1: happening st you know, even if they're bad. I don't

2033
01:45:02,560 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: mind that.

2034
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:07,639
Speaker 2: I like, I remember there was a movement a few

2035
01:45:07,720 --> 01:45:11,720
Speaker 2: years back before the lines got good to get the

2036
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 2: lines off of Christmas, off of Thanksgiving Day.

2037
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,640
Speaker 1: Very big movement on that. Yes, there really was.

2038
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:18,639
Speaker 3: I was against it.

2039
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:21,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was too, because part of me was, like

2040
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 4: I said, eventually they were gonna end up turning it around. Now,

2041
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:26,120
Speaker 4: I didn't know if it was going to be you know,

2042
01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:29,080
Speaker 4: now or thirty years from now. And even if they're not,

2043
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:32,000
Speaker 4: it's just tradition, you know, give them their day in

2044
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 4: the spotlight, whether they're good or not. This is kind

2045
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 4: of their day every single year to kind of showcase

2046
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:41,000
Speaker 4: the city of Detroit, you know, And it's been such

2047
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:44,760
Speaker 4: a tradition for so long. I'm not really a fan

2048
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 4: of messing with that if I don't really really have to.

2049
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love.

2050
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 2: The tradition of football, and I think it's important to

2051
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:00,320
Speaker 2: keep that tradition. Yeah, so I like Detroit, DA.

2052
01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: And I don't want to jump ahead too much.

2053
01:46:03,120 --> 01:46:05,439
Speaker 4: But I mean, well, I guess it's in the same vein,

2054
01:46:05,479 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 4: so it's not totally off base. So the Kansas City

2055
01:46:08,160 --> 01:46:10,840
Speaker 4: Chiefs put in a request to the NFL this offseason.

2056
01:46:11,400 --> 01:46:14,840
Speaker 4: We want Christmas. We want to own Christmas Day. We

2057
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:16,960
Speaker 4: want to be the Detroit and Dallas like they are

2058
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:17,640
Speaker 4: on Thanksgiving.

2059
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: We want to do that on Christmas. And the league

2060
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:20,880
Speaker 1: said no.

2061
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 4: And I was interested, intrigued as to why the league

2062
01:46:25,479 --> 01:46:28,840
Speaker 4: would tell them no. Now, granted their Kansas City is

2063
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:31,920
Speaker 4: kind of at the apex of their dynasty at this

2064
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 4: point in time, is going to die down eventually at

2065
01:46:34,240 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 4: some point, no one knows when. And they do have

2066
01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:38,479
Speaker 4: a Christmas game this year, but they're not going to

2067
01:46:38,560 --> 01:46:42,040
Speaker 4: be on Christmas Day in perpetuity. What are your thoughts

2068
01:46:42,040 --> 01:46:44,120
Speaker 4: on if the NBA or excuse me, the NFL, and

2069
01:46:44,160 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 4: we know they will are going to remain on Christmas Day,

2070
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:52,280
Speaker 4: do you think that they should have a consistent team

2071
01:46:52,320 --> 01:46:54,559
Speaker 4: that performs every single year on Christmas.

2072
01:46:55,479 --> 01:46:59,479
Speaker 2: It's hard, right, because there's some weeks some years you

2073
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:03,240
Speaker 2: can only have two games, ye like on the Wednesday,

2074
01:47:04,120 --> 01:47:07,040
Speaker 2: like every other day. You could do the three, and

2075
01:47:07,080 --> 01:47:09,479
Speaker 2: I don't mind Kansas City for one of them, but

2076
01:47:09,800 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 2: because I like, I think it's a great football town,

2077
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:16,400
Speaker 2: it's a great stadium, So I get it. But if

2078
01:47:16,439 --> 01:47:20,240
Speaker 2: you're in the NFL, you're gonna want to spread the

2079
01:47:20,280 --> 01:47:21,280
Speaker 2: wealth a little bit.

2080
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,760
Speaker 4: Right, And you're basically sticking with Detroit and Dallas because

2081
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 4: those are grandfathered in, but in today's.

2082
01:47:29,200 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 3: Would never get it.

2083
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:32,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.

2084
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:37,120
Speaker 3: Respect the ASK. I think it's a smart ask.

2085
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 4: It's very small on their part. I mean, that's that's

2086
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 4: part of your branding. If you can do that, that's

2087
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:42,360
Speaker 4: a huge Whether you're good.

2088
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:46,200
Speaker 1: That's a big advantage. It's a huge advantage.

2089
01:47:46,760 --> 01:47:50,400
Speaker 2: Like all of a sudden, synonymous like Dave becomes ant,

2090
01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:53,800
Speaker 2: like right now, they're they're definitely I.

2091
01:47:53,800 --> 01:48:00,360
Speaker 1: Mean Andy, Andy Saint Nick right exactly. I mean, is

2092
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 1: the white Beard that's it? Yeah?

2093
01:48:01,960 --> 01:48:04,880
Speaker 3: I mean it's perfect, right, I mean it really is.

2094
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:06,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2095
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 4: And you know, I talk about hope with fam field

2096
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:12,160
Speaker 4: advantages at least Detroit and Dallas or you know, Dome stadiums.

2097
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 4: I would hate to have to be the team looking

2098
01:48:14,840 --> 01:48:16,800
Speaker 4: up knowing that Kansas City is on your schedule before

2099
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 4: the schedule release and you're like, please not us, Please

2100
01:48:19,080 --> 01:48:21,280
Speaker 4: not us, Please not us. If you're like the Chargers

2101
01:48:21,320 --> 01:48:22,600
Speaker 4: or the Raiders, and it's like we got to go

2102
01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:25,720
Speaker 4: at Kansas City on Christmas Day December.

2103
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like please, God No.

2104
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:29,960
Speaker 1: It's the ultimate home field advantage.

2105
01:48:31,240 --> 01:48:36,800
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this because I love the

2106
01:48:36,880 --> 01:48:38,160
Speaker 2: Black Friday game.

2107
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:40,160
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right.

2108
01:48:40,240 --> 01:48:45,800
Speaker 2: I love the idea of it. Three o'clock Black Friday, Eastern.

2109
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:50,280
Speaker 2: Not be sure it's Eagles Bears. I got one beef

2110
01:48:50,360 --> 01:48:55,280
Speaker 2: with it. How common is the double header? Why isn't

2111
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:56,559
Speaker 2: there a Friday light gate?

2112
01:48:57,600 --> 01:49:00,400
Speaker 4: I don't know, and we know for years that college

2113
01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 4: football kind of owned Black Friday. I don't know if

2114
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:06,640
Speaker 4: they're trying to give space for that. It's like, hey,

2115
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:08,800
Speaker 4: we'll give you a little NFL all knowing that's also

2116
01:49:08,840 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 4: a big weekend. That's usually the last day of the

2117
01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:13,360
Speaker 4: last game of the regular season for a lot of

2118
01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:14,280
Speaker 4: college programs.

2119
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:16,960
Speaker 1: So maybe that's the NFL given a little bit of a.

2120
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 4: Tip saying like, hey, yeah, you'll squeeze in here a

2121
01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 4: little bit, but we're not going to totally take it over.

2122
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:25,800
Speaker 2: I thought of that, Except the only problem is the

2123
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:29,679
Speaker 2: games that they play Friday night aren't that good.

2124
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:32,600
Speaker 4: Shouldn't really speaking, Yeah, if there are good games in

2125
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:34,320
Speaker 4: the past, there were always day games.

2126
01:49:35,560 --> 01:49:37,360
Speaker 3: And they're not and if there's not a ton of

2127
01:49:37,400 --> 01:49:38,160
Speaker 3: them at night.

2128
01:49:38,439 --> 01:49:42,320
Speaker 4: No, So and that's interesting because the NFL that matchup

2129
01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 4: is what that's a that's a noon or three o'clock

2130
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 4: Eastern kickoff NFL game, the NFL game one Black Friday. Yeah, yeah,

2131
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:53,479
Speaker 4: so that's interesting. So the fact that there's only a

2132
01:49:53,520 --> 01:49:55,000
Speaker 4: game and the fact that the game is in the

2133
01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:58,479
Speaker 4: window that it's in is interesting. So I'm looking at they,

2134
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:00,960
Speaker 4: by the way, the college football slate for Black Friday.

2135
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:04,599
Speaker 4: I was about to do that, so and every time.

2136
01:50:04,760 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 4: By the way, every time is TBD. There's not a

2137
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:09,600
Speaker 4: single game that actually has a start time yet, but

2138
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:12,559
Speaker 4: Georgia Georgia Tech could potentially.

2139
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: Be a big rivalry game. Who knows where George is

2140
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna be.

2141
01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:18,439
Speaker 4: I don't have the highest expectations for Nebraska.

2142
01:50:18,320 --> 01:50:21,639
Speaker 3: Said that Georgia Georgia Tech game is a wild during

2143
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 3: the day, right.

2144
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:24,760
Speaker 4: I think it was a night game this past year,

2145
01:50:24,760 --> 01:50:27,320
Speaker 4: and it was close. It was very close, if you remember,

2146
01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:28,760
Speaker 4: I mean that that was nip and tuck towards the

2147
01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:32,040
Speaker 4: very Georgia Tech bluw elite to Georgia at the very end. Uh,

2148
01:50:32,360 --> 01:50:34,240
Speaker 4: Nebraska could take a giant leap this year. They have

2149
01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:37,040
Speaker 4: a game against Iowa Arizona, a state could be big

2150
01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:39,960
Speaker 4: in the Big twelve. Outside of that, there's not a

2151
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 4: whole lot of bad. Yeah, Nebraska should be good with

2152
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:46,679
Speaker 4: Royola in the second season with the ob our.

2153
01:50:46,560 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: Guy Matt rule.

2154
01:50:48,560 --> 01:50:51,920
Speaker 4: But it's not the biggest slate, not the most impactful

2155
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,560
Speaker 4: college football slate outside of a hand a couple of

2156
01:50:54,560 --> 01:50:57,280
Speaker 4: about two or two or three games. So when those

2157
01:50:57,320 --> 01:51:00,680
Speaker 4: games start, juxtapposed to win the nb NFL game starts.

2158
01:51:00,439 --> 01:51:03,479
Speaker 1: Is going to be interesting. Yeah, man, I don't know, dude.

2159
01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:07,680
Speaker 3: I think it should be honestly, like, I think they

2160
01:51:07,680 --> 01:51:08,360
Speaker 3: should play two.

2161
01:51:09,240 --> 01:51:14,120
Speaker 4: Yeah. I as someone who loves college football as much,

2162
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:16,040
Speaker 4: if not a little bit more than I love the NFL,

2163
01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:18,559
Speaker 4: and I love them both. I kind of like the

2164
01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:21,240
Speaker 4: idea of each one giving the other one room to

2165
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:22,040
Speaker 4: breathe a little bit.

2166
01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:27,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the next listen, if there was I just

2167
01:51:27,080 --> 01:51:29,960
Speaker 6: remember last year going, well, it's only like there's like

2168
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:33,840
Speaker 6: two games on right Friday night.

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Speaker 1: The last year, I was like, and none neither of

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Speaker 1: them did much for they never were already good. Like

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Speaker 1: the Georgia dreg Tech game.

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Speaker 2: I remember thinking it was only close because George didn't

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01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 2: play well, right and they were half down.

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Speaker 1: Sure, but nevertheless, you know what I mean, rivalry game,

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Speaker 1: you never know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my problem with Christmas. Okay, it's the

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01:51:58,880 --> 01:51:59,799
Speaker 2: same teams.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's not a lot of new blood from a

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Speaker 4: national TV standpoint, especially if you just take this particular

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01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:08,840
Speaker 4: season as a whole. For all the lead up that

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01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:11,600
Speaker 4: we've been talking about as far as Kansas City is on,

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01:52:11,680 --> 01:52:13,120
Speaker 4: and this team is on, and this team is on,

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01:52:13,160 --> 01:52:16,120
Speaker 4: and that you look at December twenty fifth, it's Kansas

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Speaker 4: City again.

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01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:19,920
Speaker 3: It's Dallasoys again, Dalla's first game.

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01:52:20,040 --> 01:52:22,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Detroit again, you know Detroit.

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01:52:22,080 --> 01:52:25,160
Speaker 2: The second game at Kansas City, the third game. What

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01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:30,640
Speaker 2: the freak? It's the same teams. Yeah, why would you

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01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:31,040
Speaker 2: do that?

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Speaker 4: Well, the number one reason, as you know, TV drives everything.

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01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 4: People are gonna watch the Cowboys, good or bad. We've

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01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:41,879
Speaker 4: talked about Kansas City and why they're on. And Detroit's

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01:52:41,920 --> 01:52:44,000
Speaker 4: one of the best teams in the NFC and expected

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Speaker 4: to be good again this year too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's redundant to put them from Thanksgiving, I

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01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:55,240
Speaker 2: think Christmas. It's just redundant. Where's Buffalo? Where's Baltimore? The

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Speaker 2: Eagles like whatever? Eagles?

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Speaker 5: Do?

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Speaker 1: You know what? The Eagles have many Sunday light games?

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01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: To have how many? One that's surprising to me.

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Speaker 4: One they're the defending Super Bowl champion and two it's

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Speaker 4: not like they play in timbuktoo. I mean, Philadelphia is

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01:53:09,120 --> 01:53:12,519
Speaker 4: a major market with the national following two, so that's

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01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:13,000
Speaker 4: odd to me.

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Speaker 2: I know, they play in a weird they play like

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01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:20,680
Speaker 2: a Saturday game. They have the Black Friday Game, but

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01:53:20,840 --> 01:53:23,360
Speaker 2: like they only played it one Sunday night there, which

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01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:27,240
Speaker 2: is odd to me. Now, remember starting in week six

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Speaker 2: they can flex, right, so and there are different rules

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01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:36,280
Speaker 2: like from week six to week ten and you know

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01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:39,640
Speaker 2: you can you could flex. Here's somebody told me that

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01:53:40,320 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 2: they front loaded the Giants early because of the New

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01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:51,480
Speaker 2: York market and they expect them to be bad late.

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Speaker 4: Which makes sense. I mean, it will make sense from

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01:53:54,880 --> 01:53:58,120
Speaker 4: a rationale standpoint. You will put bad teams in the

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01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:01,000
Speaker 4: national TV slots early in the seas and to kind

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01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:02,880
Speaker 4: of get them out of the way, so then once

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01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:04,280
Speaker 4: you get to the back half of the year, then

2219
01:54:04,320 --> 01:54:06,160
Speaker 4: you can pick and choose your better matchups and all

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01:54:06,160 --> 01:54:08,880
Speaker 4: that while acknowledging that New York is a giant TV

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01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:11,759
Speaker 4: market that's going to bring eyeballs. But you'd rather schedule

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Speaker 4: them early than schedule them late and then flex out

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Speaker 4: of them.

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Speaker 1: So that makes sense to me.

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Speaker 2: But here's the problem. You would to say New York's

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01:54:18,560 --> 01:54:22,240
Speaker 2: gonna bring eyeballs. New York's to one city that what

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01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 2: happens in October playoff Baseball? Yeah, and that's the city

2228
01:54:29,200 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 2: in the country, New York and Boston where baseball is

2229
01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:33,480
Speaker 2: bigger than football.

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01:54:33,320 --> 01:54:36,840
Speaker 4: Yep, thousand, regardless of how good the football teams are.

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01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:38,760
Speaker 4: If the baseball teams are good, baseball is going to.

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Speaker 1: Be number one. Yep.

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01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:45,560
Speaker 2: Yankees and Mets are bigger than the Giants and Jets. Yes, absolutely,

2234
01:54:47,120 --> 01:54:49,960
Speaker 2: all right, let's take a quick to we'll come back.

2235
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:53,080
Speaker 2: I would to throw the college thing at you since

2236
01:54:53,080 --> 01:54:54,480
Speaker 2: we're talking schedules this hour.

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Speaker 3: All right, where the fell is hagging right here?

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Speaker 2: of the day Miles McBride right before halftime last night,

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Speaker 2: screen from.

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Speaker 10: Anono'll be picking your baseline drive bunts it into paint,

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Speaker 1: Three at the horn four corner.

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Speaker 10: He thrilled it and the Knicks will take us sixty

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01:55:53,720 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 10: four to thirty seven lead to the locker room in

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Speaker 10: Game six against.

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Speaker 2: Posted and that was it, Kurt to see the Knicks

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Speaker 2: radio network McBride buries the triple, the big lead, and

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Speaker 2: you saw it really from the beginning. Boston couldn't score

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01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:13,040
Speaker 2: that first half. We'll get to it to start the

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01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:17,240
Speaker 2: next hour, Figuie, we'll get back to basketball. But you

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01:56:17,440 --> 01:56:19,960
Speaker 2: saw early on last night that that's the way the

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01:56:19,960 --> 01:56:20,720
Speaker 2: game was gonna go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was gonna be tough sledding anyway in

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01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:26,680
Speaker 4: that environment for Boston. Those Knicks fans were, i mean

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01:56:26,880 --> 01:56:29,120
Speaker 4: fowming at the mouth, and after the game ended, you

2264
01:56:29,120 --> 01:56:31,080
Speaker 4: thought they'd won Game seven of the NBA Finals while

2265
01:56:31,080 --> 01:56:33,480
Speaker 4: they were celebrated and it was insane. And some people

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01:56:33,520 --> 01:56:35,400
Speaker 4: are criticizing them, saying they were doing a little bit

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01:56:35,440 --> 01:56:37,600
Speaker 4: too much, but I mean, it's it's all about a

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01:56:37,640 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 4: city that starred for a winner, especially that franchise in particular,

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01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:45,200
Speaker 4: that building in particular. It means a lot to the

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Speaker 4: city for the Knicks to be able to make that

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Speaker 4: deep of a run again.

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Speaker 1: They haven't made it to the conference finals in twenty

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Speaker 1: five years.

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Speaker 4: There are full blown adults with kids who have never

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01:56:52,160 --> 01:56:54,400
Speaker 4: seen the Knicks make of this deep into the postseason,

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01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:56,480
Speaker 4: so I think it was a great sight to see.

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Speaker 4: They shouldn't be criticized for that. They should celebrate.

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01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:02,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I don't know. I never have any

2279
01:57:02,080 --> 01:57:04,720
Speaker 2: issues with that stuff. Yeah, you know, I mean, look,

2280
01:57:04,720 --> 01:57:05,960
Speaker 2: that's a big moment.

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01:57:05,720 --> 01:57:07,919
Speaker 1: Man, it is places go wild.

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01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd never understand, like the muted stuff like

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Speaker 2: you they.

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01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: Act like you've been there before. Thing right, like they

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01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: have closed.

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Speaker 2: You put a lot of you put a lot of stress,

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01:57:21,200 --> 01:57:24,600
Speaker 2: and you stress about it and you practice and it's

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01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:26,960
Speaker 2: a lot of work and it's gonna come out.

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01:57:27,320 --> 01:57:28,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a long season.

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01:57:28,800 --> 01:57:31,040
Speaker 4: I've had this argument about, you know, when baseball teams

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01:57:31,080 --> 01:57:33,520
Speaker 4: clinch division titles or they make it to the next round,

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01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:35,760
Speaker 4: should they do with the champagne shower?

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01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:36,400
Speaker 1: And is it over?

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01:57:36,840 --> 01:57:38,600
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, you know what, for those guys who've

2295
01:57:38,600 --> 01:57:40,400
Speaker 4: been busting their ass for one hundred and sixty two

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01:57:40,400 --> 01:57:43,400
Speaker 4: plus spring training, Yeah, you know what, they should celebrate.

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Speaker 1: That's a hell of an accomplishment. You should do it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I think that we are that

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01:57:50,480 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 2: we need to rail against is this notion that you

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01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:59,440
Speaker 2: can't sell it like, I get you don't want to celebrate,

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01:57:59,520 --> 01:58:02,000
Speaker 2: you know, complete trophies and that stuff. I agree with that,

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01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 2: Like you know, but like U and beings need a

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01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:10,360
Speaker 2: little bit of celebratory for moments, for accomplishments. I think

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01:58:10,360 --> 01:58:12,600
Speaker 2: it's good for your psyche. I think it helps you

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01:58:13,080 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 2: achieve more. Right, you know, it doesn't mean you're resting

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01:58:17,520 --> 01:58:19,840
Speaker 2: on your laurels. It means you're taking a moment and

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01:58:19,880 --> 01:58:22,600
Speaker 2: celebrating something. People need to do that more.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like that to have the emotional release, especially like

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01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:29,280
Speaker 4: in sports, guys are so tightly wound. You have your routines,

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01:58:29,360 --> 01:58:32,920
Speaker 4: you work your ass off all season long, battling through

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01:58:32,920 --> 01:58:33,680
Speaker 4: injuries and all that.

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01:58:34,200 --> 01:58:35,480
Speaker 1: It's a sense of accomplishment.

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Speaker 4: You should be able to stop and smell the roses

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01:58:37,400 --> 01:58:39,200
Speaker 4: for even for half a second.

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Speaker 1: Or one night. That's what you should do. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: Like I go back.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a Nick Saban after Alabama won the

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01:58:44,800 --> 01:58:48,320
Speaker 4: nation one of their fifteen national championships, and he's doing

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01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:50,880
Speaker 4: his postseason press conference. In one of the reporters Asthien

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01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:52,160
Speaker 4: is like, you don't look happy, and he says, I'm

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01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:55,320
Speaker 4: happy as hell in a very dead pan, like pardon me,

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01:58:55,360 --> 01:58:57,120
Speaker 4: wonder if Nick Saban like looks back and says like

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Speaker 4: I never really actually soaked in and enjoyed any of that.

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01:59:00,160 --> 01:59:02,480
Speaker 4: It was just onto the next one, onto recruiting, onto

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Speaker 4: the give yourself at least a day to celebrate and

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01:59:05,280 --> 01:59:08,640
Speaker 4: take a bath, like, you know, come on, because at

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01:59:08,640 --> 01:59:10,400
Speaker 4: that point, what are you doing if you're not right?

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Speaker 1: What's the point of doing this? Right? You know? Right?

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Speaker 3: All right, real quick? The college football schedule.

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01:59:18,480 --> 01:59:24,280
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, the Labor Day game, the two Sunday

2332
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:27,320
Speaker 2: games are good. They need to do a full Sunday

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01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:31,400
Speaker 2: game over more over Labor Day weekend. Look, you got

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Speaker 2: South Carolina, Virginia, chech Notre Dame Miami, right, I mean

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01:59:35,840 --> 01:59:37,440
Speaker 2: love not Day in Miami is gonna be a good game.

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01:59:37,800 --> 01:59:42,480
Speaker 2: It will be great game, right, but what we're up

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01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:44,440
Speaker 2: against it, man, we'll touch on it real quick. On

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Speaker 2: the other side, fellas well, Good morning, good morning, good morning,

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01:59:49,400 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 2: good morning, happy happy happy Fox Sports Saturday to all.

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01:59:58,160 --> 02:00:02,880
Speaker 2: What a beautiful weekend weekend before Memorial Day kicking off

2341
02:00:02,920 --> 02:00:06,320
Speaker 2: summer twenty twenty five. The funny thing about it is

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Speaker 2: we're all the schedule stuff that came out this week,

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02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:10,480
Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk about this morning.

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Speaker 6: People are just killing me, going, dude, stop trying to

2345
02:00:14,680 --> 02:00:16,080
Speaker 6: fanst forward through the summer.

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Speaker 2: Like we're in May and we're looking at all September

2347
02:00:19,600 --> 02:00:24,680
Speaker 2: and October, November and all, like you're like, dude, summertime, man,

2348
02:00:24,840 --> 02:00:25,920
Speaker 2: what happened in summer?

2349
02:00:26,240 --> 02:00:28,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, just give me football.

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02:00:28,720 --> 02:00:30,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got plenty of time for that, you know,

2351
02:00:30,840 --> 02:00:31,880
Speaker 4: speculation season.

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Speaker 1: This is the best time.

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Speaker 2: Come on, that's it, buddy, that's it. Uh, we're not

2354
02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:45,120
Speaker 2: through the playoffs. We got the spring playoffs. Last night

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Speaker 2: a tremendous, tremendous night for the Knicks.

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Speaker 3: It was a garden party figure last night.

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02:00:53,160 --> 02:00:56,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all the celebs are out, everybody was

2358
02:00:56,680 --> 02:00:59,840
Speaker 2: waiting for it, and you kind of figured that last

2359
02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:03,720
Speaker 2: it would happen, right like, you know, Tatum goes down,

2360
02:01:03,800 --> 02:01:08,040
Speaker 2: the awful injury for Jason Tatum, and you know, the

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Speaker 2: Celtics respond, they're home, they shoot the lights out, they

2362
02:01:12,800 --> 02:01:15,720
Speaker 2: get hot. But now all of a sudden, Tims knows

2363
02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:18,200
Speaker 2: how the offense is going to flow. They're not going

2364
02:01:18,280 --> 02:01:22,560
Speaker 2: to shoot anywhere near that, and they clamp down. Man,

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Speaker 2: they just.

2366
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Speaker 1: Clamped down and the game was over early.

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Speaker 2: You saw it, like the Knicks the Celtics were struggling

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02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:33,680
Speaker 2: to score without Tatum and without being able to shoot

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02:01:33,720 --> 02:01:34,480
Speaker 2: the ball like.

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Speaker 3: They just did.

2371
02:01:35,280 --> 02:01:38,680
Speaker 2: Like you knew they would have trouble scoring the basketball.

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Speaker 4: And it showed, Yeah, and the guys that they relied on,

2373
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Speaker 4: whether Tatum was going to be there or not, like

2374
02:01:44,680 --> 02:01:46,839
Speaker 4: Drew Holliday had a terrible series.

2375
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Speaker 1: Yeah, outside, he's a terrific player too.

2376
02:01:50,160 --> 02:01:51,960
Speaker 4: He really is, but he just had a down. I mean,

2377
02:01:52,160 --> 02:01:54,440
Speaker 4: it happens, and I know he's getting up there on

2378
02:01:54,480 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 4: the other side of thirty, but I mean, he's a

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Speaker 4: guy you're relying on. So especially especially in a game

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Speaker 4: where you have Jason Tatum in the all hands on

2381
02:02:01,640 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 4: deck situation, you gotta have guys like Derek White and

2382
02:02:04,560 --> 02:02:07,720
Speaker 4: Drew Holliday play like all stars and Porzingis, you know,

2383
02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:10,000
Speaker 4: play like an All Star. And it was just too

2384
02:02:10,040 --> 02:02:12,480
Speaker 4: much to overcome, and to your point, giving TIBs an

2385
02:02:12,480 --> 02:02:15,360
Speaker 4: additional day to see exactly how the offense is gonna

2386
02:02:15,360 --> 02:02:18,080
Speaker 4: play without Tatum in the lineup, knowing how New York

2387
02:02:18,080 --> 02:02:21,080
Speaker 4: can just lock in defensively, and again New York was

2388
02:02:21,120 --> 02:02:25,240
Speaker 4: having success defensively before Tatum got hurt, so granted the

2389
02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:26,560
Speaker 4: game that he went down. He was playing out of

2390
02:02:26,600 --> 02:02:28,240
Speaker 4: his mind. He had forty two points I believe when

2391
02:02:28,240 --> 02:02:31,520
Speaker 4: he got hurt. But the Knicks were playing well defensively

2392
02:02:31,520 --> 02:02:34,000
Speaker 4: in this series before that happened. So once he went down,

2393
02:02:34,400 --> 02:02:36,240
Speaker 4: you knew it was gonna it was just gonna wear

2394
02:02:36,280 --> 02:02:39,080
Speaker 4: down on the Celtics. Eventually, too much on Jalen brown shoulders.

2395
02:02:39,320 --> 02:02:40,560
Speaker 4: They just weren't gonna have enough.

2396
02:02:41,880 --> 02:02:45,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with him, and he kind of understood it.

2397
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:51,080
Speaker 2: Now this brings us to this next series, because this

2398
02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:55,880
Speaker 2: series is gonna be fascinating and it may not be

2399
02:02:56,040 --> 02:02:58,960
Speaker 2: sexyen the way you know there, you know people think

2400
02:02:58,960 --> 02:03:03,880
Speaker 2: about it. But Knixt Pacers, I think it's good, bad

2401
02:03:04,040 --> 02:03:04,800
Speaker 2: good series.

2402
02:03:04,880 --> 02:03:05,080
Speaker 1: Now.

2403
02:03:05,160 --> 02:03:10,520
Speaker 2: I like Indiana and the series that'll begin on Wednesday.

2404
02:03:11,440 --> 02:03:15,280
Speaker 2: So this coming Wednesday will be Game one between the

2405
02:03:15,320 --> 02:03:18,640
Speaker 2: Pacers and the Knicks, and to throw back, Knicks will

2406
02:03:18,680 --> 02:03:23,040
Speaker 2: have the home court advantage. It's a throwback to Knicks

2407
02:03:23,080 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 2: Pacers twenty years ago, the last time both these teams

2408
02:03:26,800 --> 02:03:27,240
Speaker 2: were good.

2409
02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:30,879
Speaker 3: I like Indiana and the series.

2410
02:03:31,920 --> 02:03:33,880
Speaker 2: I want to see the Knicks win, but I think

2411
02:03:33,920 --> 02:03:37,440
Speaker 2: Indiana matches up and I just think they're too deep.

2412
02:03:38,320 --> 02:03:42,240
Speaker 4: They're too deep, and Indiana can actually play. They can

2413
02:03:42,280 --> 02:03:44,280
Speaker 4: play up and down, which they had done early in

2414
02:03:44,280 --> 02:03:46,280
Speaker 4: the season when they were kind of struggling, and they

2415
02:03:46,280 --> 02:03:48,520
Speaker 4: don't actually slowed down. It became more of a methodical

2416
02:03:48,560 --> 02:03:50,960
Speaker 4: half court team. That's kind of when they actually started

2417
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 4: to blossom and play better and turn themselves into an

2418
02:03:53,600 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference contender. We know how the Knicks want to play,

2419
02:03:56,680 --> 02:03:59,080
Speaker 4: but Indiana can speed it up on them if they

2420
02:03:59,120 --> 02:04:02,000
Speaker 4: want to. And they also have guys. They have multiple

2421
02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:05,280
Speaker 4: guys that they can throw defensively at Jalen Brunson. You

2422
02:04:05,320 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 4: can put Haliburton on him. You got nim Hard, you

2423
02:04:07,480 --> 02:04:09,680
Speaker 4: got Nie Smith, you got McConnell that there's a lot

2424
02:04:09,680 --> 02:04:10,320
Speaker 4: of different.

2425
02:04:10,080 --> 02:04:10,720
Speaker 1: Looks they can give.

2426
02:04:11,120 --> 02:04:13,600
Speaker 4: Pascal Siakam will make cat work up front, and sol

2427
02:04:13,680 --> 02:04:17,800
Speaker 4: Miles Turner. So matchup wise, I think it favors Indiana

2428
02:04:17,880 --> 02:04:19,800
Speaker 4: just in general. And then the fact that you mentioned

2429
02:04:19,840 --> 02:04:22,880
Speaker 4: just depth. Indiana can go ten deep, which is a

2430
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:25,120
Speaker 4: rarity in the NBA postseason. That you have a team

2431
02:04:25,120 --> 02:04:27,400
Speaker 4: that actually has that much depth, but they have like

2432
02:04:27,440 --> 02:04:29,840
Speaker 4: six seven guys or averaging double figures in the postseason.

2433
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:31,839
Speaker 1: That's incredible. That's almost unheard.

2434
02:04:31,640 --> 02:04:36,080
Speaker 3: Of, right, it really is. And you know, between.

2435
02:04:36,760 --> 02:04:39,320
Speaker 2: I mean, they're just built really well, right because you

2436
02:04:39,320 --> 02:04:44,760
Speaker 2: have Halliburton terrific players. Siakam a terrific player, and then

2437
02:04:44,800 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 2: like you said, all the role players and them hard

2438
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 2: and a Smith, like, they just got really good role

2439
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:54,720
Speaker 2: players up and down the roster, and you know they

2440
02:04:55,520 --> 02:04:58,160
Speaker 2: you're you broke up a good point about how they

2441
02:04:58,320 --> 02:05:02,440
Speaker 2: morphed and they got out of that running gun and

2442
02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:05,840
Speaker 2: they became more of a half courteen. They played defense,

2443
02:05:06,400 --> 02:05:09,160
Speaker 2: they just got better at it. And I think that's

2444
02:05:09,240 --> 02:05:12,480
Speaker 2: probably the difference. I think everybody will see what the

2445
02:05:12,520 --> 02:05:16,120
Speaker 2: brain likes, but I think everybody's gonna be obviously on

2446
02:05:16,240 --> 02:05:19,760
Speaker 2: the Knicks to win. And I just think Indiana match

2447
02:05:19,920 --> 02:05:21,040
Speaker 2: I think it's a matchup thing.

2448
02:05:21,280 --> 02:05:23,400
Speaker 4: I agree one thousand percent is just not a good

2449
02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 4: matchup for New York. New York is gonna get run

2450
02:05:25,680 --> 02:05:28,040
Speaker 4: into the ground. The depth in Indiana has running all

2451
02:05:28,040 --> 02:05:30,320
Speaker 4: those guys that you and knowing that the Knicks their

2452
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:33,160
Speaker 4: top six guys and really just their starter, their starters

2453
02:05:33,200 --> 02:05:35,760
Speaker 4: are all gonna play thirty eight plus minutes every single night,

2454
02:05:36,160 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 4: that's just a lot of wear and tear. I will say,

2455
02:05:39,280 --> 02:05:41,960
Speaker 4: if and when games are closed down the stretch there's

2456
02:05:42,000 --> 02:05:44,720
Speaker 4: nobody in this series I trust more than Jalen Brunson,

2457
02:05:45,360 --> 02:05:46,960
Speaker 4: so the clutch factor.

2458
02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:47,560
Speaker 1: Goes to him.

2459
02:05:47,720 --> 02:05:49,480
Speaker 4: You know, if this is gonna be a rough and tumble,

2460
02:05:49,600 --> 02:05:52,080
Speaker 4: tough defensive series and it's gonna come down to a

2461
02:05:52,080 --> 02:05:55,200
Speaker 4: possession or two, then the Knicks obviously haves have a

2462
02:05:55,200 --> 02:05:57,960
Speaker 4: phenomenal shot because they have one of the best closers

2463
02:05:57,960 --> 02:06:00,800
Speaker 4: in the entire league. So something like that can be discounted.

2464
02:06:01,200 --> 02:06:03,840
Speaker 4: The problem is will they be in that position often

2465
02:06:04,400 --> 02:06:05,680
Speaker 4: for the game to be on the line when it

2466
02:06:05,720 --> 02:06:07,240
Speaker 4: matters most in crunch time?

2467
02:06:07,680 --> 02:06:11,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Well, before we get to the

2468
02:06:11,560 --> 02:06:15,640
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals, we gotta we have to uh take

2469
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:19,240
Speaker 2: care of this series, this last series in the Western

2470
02:06:19,280 --> 02:06:26,840
Speaker 2: Conference semifinals. Nuggets and Thunder tomorrow Game seven, OKC eight

2471
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:32,640
Speaker 2: and a half point favorites, and that Gordon questionable. He's

2472
02:06:32,640 --> 02:06:36,360
Speaker 2: gonna be being that he's gonna be dinged up at

2473
02:06:36,400 --> 02:06:37,840
Speaker 2: the work at worst.

2474
02:06:38,160 --> 02:06:40,200
Speaker 4: All right, yeah, at best he'll be dinged up and

2475
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:43,720
Speaker 4: playing that It seems unlikely at this point that he's

2476
02:06:43,720 --> 02:06:45,880
Speaker 4: even gonna play at all, which is a huge blow

2477
02:06:46,400 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 4: to Jennifer who does not does not have a lot

2478
02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:51,720
Speaker 4: of quality depth and he's one of the most important

2479
02:06:51,720 --> 02:06:53,960
Speaker 4: players that they have on their roster, and this is,

2480
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 4: you know, all hands on deck is something that you

2481
02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:59,320
Speaker 4: need going into a Game seven on the road. And

2482
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:02,360
Speaker 4: it's unfortunate because I thought Denver going into Game seven,

2483
02:07:02,400 --> 02:07:05,080
Speaker 4: if they were fully healthy, had a phenomenal shot to

2484
02:07:05,120 --> 02:07:08,120
Speaker 4: be able to beat an inexperienced Oklahoma City team whose

2485
02:07:08,160 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 4: inexperience has shown at times in the postseason specific games,

2486
02:07:13,280 --> 02:07:18,480
Speaker 4: right right, So I think it's unfortunate if you're a

2487
02:07:18,560 --> 02:07:20,560
Speaker 4: Nugget Nuggets fan that Aaron Gordon's not going to be

2488
02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:22,600
Speaker 4: one hundred percent because I think that's going to be

2489
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:24,440
Speaker 4: the biggest factor in determining whether or not they end

2490
02:07:24,520 --> 02:07:28,240
Speaker 4: up winning on Sunday, and honestly, they probably won't because

2491
02:07:28,320 --> 02:07:31,440
Speaker 4: they just they can't afford to be shorthanded there. Their

2492
02:07:31,520 --> 02:07:33,560
Speaker 4: margin for error is not as wide as it was too.

2493
02:07:34,440 --> 02:07:37,160
Speaker 6: That's the problem for them and losing Gordon too, because

2494
02:07:37,200 --> 02:07:41,480
Speaker 6: Gordon is athletics. You need athlete to get Okay. See,

2495
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:42,720
Speaker 6: he's a great athlete.

2496
02:07:43,240 --> 02:07:46,520
Speaker 4: He's a He's very solid defensively and makes a high

2497
02:07:46,520 --> 02:07:49,160
Speaker 4: percentage of his spot up threes, which is something that

2498
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:52,720
Speaker 4: Denver has excelled that when they've won, when they haven't

2499
02:07:52,720 --> 02:07:54,640
Speaker 4: won games, they haven't been able to knock down its

2500
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:57,240
Speaker 4: outside shots. So even if you just want to, you know,

2501
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:00,400
Speaker 4: base it on this and just eliminate everything else. To say,

2502
02:08:00,440 --> 02:08:02,400
Speaker 4: the Aaron Gordon is one of their best three point shooters,

2503
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:05,000
Speaker 4: now you're taking that out of the equation. Now, who

2504
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:06,320
Speaker 4: are you going to Peyton Watson?

2505
02:08:06,920 --> 02:08:07,280
Speaker 1: He can't.

2506
02:08:07,320 --> 02:08:10,120
Speaker 4: He's a good defensive player, but he can't shoot. You're

2507
02:08:10,120 --> 02:08:12,440
Speaker 4: gonna rely on Julian Strawther to have another, you know,

2508
02:08:12,600 --> 02:08:14,600
Speaker 4: out of this world game. A highly doubt that's gonna

2509
02:08:14,600 --> 02:08:17,520
Speaker 4: happen in game seven on the road, so that that's

2510
02:08:17,520 --> 02:08:19,280
Speaker 4: an uphill battle for Denver.

2511
02:08:20,920 --> 02:08:24,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I don't see how. And then

2512
02:08:24,640 --> 02:08:29,760
Speaker 2: here's the other issue is that Denver if okay see

2513
02:08:29,760 --> 02:08:37,040
Speaker 2: finishes off Denver. I think Denver was their toughest competition. Like,

2514
02:08:37,240 --> 02:08:41,480
Speaker 2: I just don't see Minnesota beating that team. We like

2515
02:08:41,560 --> 02:08:44,680
Speaker 2: the Wolves a lot. I love ant Man, I just

2516
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:47,040
Speaker 2: don't think they have enough firepower to beat that team.

2517
02:08:47,200 --> 02:08:50,080
Speaker 4: The only caveat I will say, if Julius Randall continues

2518
02:08:50,120 --> 02:08:52,560
Speaker 4: to play the way that he's been playing, they have

2519
02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:56,960
Speaker 4: a shot. Because that's your legitimate Robin to ants Batman

2520
02:08:58,120 --> 02:08:59,560
Speaker 4: as a legitimate score.

2521
02:08:59,400 --> 02:09:01,320
Speaker 1: You can go, we can get yourself bucket.

2522
02:09:01,920 --> 02:09:02,120
Speaker 7: Now.

2523
02:09:02,200 --> 02:09:04,080
Speaker 1: Whether or not he can keep it up, we'll see.

2524
02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:08,080
Speaker 4: But generally speaking, look, I was I didn't like Minnesota's

2525
02:09:08,080 --> 02:09:10,320
Speaker 4: half court offense or like thereof was why I thought

2526
02:09:10,320 --> 02:09:11,960
Speaker 4: they would lose to the Lakers in the first round.

2527
02:09:12,920 --> 02:09:14,680
Speaker 4: And who knows what would have happened if Steph Curry

2528
02:09:14,720 --> 02:09:15,960
Speaker 4: had stayed healthy for Golden State.

2529
02:09:16,160 --> 02:09:18,400
Speaker 1: Once he went down. I mean that that whole thing

2530
02:09:18,520 --> 02:09:19,360
Speaker 1: just you know, went to hell.

2531
02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:21,160
Speaker 4: So I don't even know how much you can take

2532
02:09:21,160 --> 02:09:23,400
Speaker 4: away from that Golden State series considering Steph wasn't there

2533
02:09:23,440 --> 02:09:27,520
Speaker 4: before a game. But if Julius Rednaald continues to play

2534
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:29,280
Speaker 4: at the level that he's playing at, then Minnesota I

2535
02:09:29,320 --> 02:09:30,480
Speaker 4: think has a legitimate shot.

2536
02:09:31,040 --> 02:09:32,440
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't know if he can keep

2537
02:09:32,480 --> 02:09:32,800
Speaker 1: that up.

2538
02:09:34,520 --> 02:09:40,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, I hear you, I hear you. I think

2539
02:09:40,120 --> 02:09:44,440
Speaker 6: the same thing, And unfortunately I like to see that

2540
02:09:44,480 --> 02:09:45,480
Speaker 6: series get pushed.

2541
02:09:45,800 --> 02:09:47,640
Speaker 4: I would too, because even though I think I think,

2542
02:09:47,680 --> 02:09:49,640
Speaker 4: okay see, we both agree that, okay see, he's gonna

2543
02:09:49,640 --> 02:09:51,160
Speaker 4: win in five, but I'd rather not.

2544
02:09:51,320 --> 02:09:55,760
Speaker 1: I'd love word to go seven, you know, is it the.

2545
02:09:55,920 --> 02:10:00,400
Speaker 3: Biggest nightmare for the NBA to have it? Okay, AAC

2546
02:10:00,920 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 3: Indiana Final.

2547
02:10:05,280 --> 02:10:07,920
Speaker 4: The NBA is probably behind the eight ball regardless of

2548
02:10:07,920 --> 02:10:11,760
Speaker 4: who makes it. Outside of the Knicks, fourths, three fourths

2549
02:10:11,760 --> 02:10:13,680
Speaker 4: of the team that arena have the potential of making

2550
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:14,560
Speaker 4: it to the finals.

2551
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:15,760
Speaker 1: Are probably not doing a lot for you.

2552
02:10:16,320 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 4: So as much as Anthony Edwards is on the ascension

2553
02:10:19,320 --> 02:10:21,200
Speaker 4: to being the face of the league, I don't know

2554
02:10:21,200 --> 02:10:22,240
Speaker 4: if he's quite there yet.

2555
02:10:23,040 --> 02:10:23,400
Speaker 1: He's not.

2556
02:10:23,640 --> 02:10:25,880
Speaker 4: He hasn't transcended to a point where people who are

2557
02:10:26,640 --> 02:10:30,040
Speaker 4: not sports fans know who he is. You know, so

2558
02:10:30,320 --> 02:10:32,200
Speaker 4: you need the Knick. You kind of need the Knicks

2559
02:10:32,240 --> 02:10:34,840
Speaker 4: brand to be in the NBA finals because outside of that,

2560
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:38,000
Speaker 4: the casual observer is not. There's nothing in nothing to

2561
02:10:38,000 --> 02:10:41,320
Speaker 4: really draw them in. I know, unfortunate because she is

2562
02:10:41,360 --> 02:10:42,160
Speaker 4: a phenomenal player.

2563
02:10:42,680 --> 02:10:45,880
Speaker 3: He's actually say that, Like, you know, I think it's

2564
02:10:45,920 --> 02:10:47,000
Speaker 3: always that Nick Sherin.

2565
02:10:47,640 --> 02:10:51,400
Speaker 2: I think Indiana is is the nightmare scenario for them.

2566
02:10:51,520 --> 02:10:53,880
Speaker 4: I agree, which is unfortunate because style of play wise,

2567
02:10:53,920 --> 02:10:56,160
Speaker 4: I think they're fun to watch, especially when Halliburton gets

2568
02:10:56,160 --> 02:10:56,440
Speaker 4: it going.

2569
02:10:56,640 --> 02:10:58,440
Speaker 1: Oh and I think it's decent basketball.

2570
02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:03,240
Speaker 2: But if you were you mentioned the cas well like, listen,

2571
02:11:03,280 --> 02:11:06,840
Speaker 2: a man has to go through this to get over

2572
02:11:06,880 --> 02:11:10,080
Speaker 2: the hull to tip for the tipping point right right,

2573
02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:14,880
Speaker 2: and okay, see, okay, she's not going anywhere. Like they're

2574
02:11:14,880 --> 02:11:19,640
Speaker 2: gonna be around for a long time. They're good, so

2575
02:11:19,800 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see kind of what happens.

2576
02:11:22,320 --> 02:11:24,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe you know, okay, see makes it in

2577
02:11:24,440 --> 02:11:26,480
Speaker 4: this kind of win or lose. Puts them on on

2578
02:11:26,520 --> 02:11:29,120
Speaker 4: the map, excuse me, put some on the map for

2579
02:11:29,160 --> 02:11:31,040
Speaker 4: the first time, and the casuals get to see Shay

2580
02:11:31,080 --> 02:11:33,160
Speaker 4: and how spectacular of a player that he is, and

2581
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:34,480
Speaker 4: maybe something grows out of that.

2582
02:11:34,680 --> 02:11:36,760
Speaker 1: But just generally.

2583
02:11:36,320 --> 02:11:38,120
Speaker 4: Speaking, when you look at the marquee and you see

2584
02:11:38,120 --> 02:11:42,200
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City versus Indiana, you're like what you're like.

2585
02:11:42,320 --> 02:11:46,640
Speaker 2: That because you know it'll be good basketball. I think

2586
02:11:46,640 --> 02:11:47,720
Speaker 2: it'll be good basketball.

2587
02:11:47,800 --> 02:11:52,880
Speaker 4: I'll be a very entertaining series, honestly, do you all right?

2588
02:11:52,920 --> 02:11:54,240
Speaker 3: So let's let's let's look at this.

2589
02:11:55,720 --> 02:11:59,560
Speaker 2: If Yannis we expect Giannis to leave the East, correct,

2590
02:12:00,240 --> 02:12:04,240
Speaker 2: so Yanice goes to the Spurs like that, that trade

2591
02:12:04,280 --> 02:12:08,480
Speaker 2: has to happen. Now it makes too much sense, I

2592
02:12:08,520 --> 02:12:15,200
Speaker 2: mean it just it just does. So Yannis leaves the East.

2593
02:12:15,640 --> 02:12:19,120
Speaker 2: Look at the Eastern Conference right now. Yeah, Davim is

2594
02:12:19,160 --> 02:12:21,640
Speaker 2: gonna be coming off of the achilles.

2595
02:12:21,760 --> 02:12:24,040
Speaker 4: I mean he's gonna miss the entire season most likely.

2596
02:12:24,280 --> 02:12:26,080
Speaker 4: I mean, if he comes back, it'll be lot.

2597
02:12:26,280 --> 02:12:28,160
Speaker 3: Think it comes back toward the end of the year,

2598
02:12:28,240 --> 02:12:28,880
Speaker 3: but whatever.

2599
02:12:29,000 --> 02:12:31,680
Speaker 4: Right, Chiles is tough, so I know, and if he

2600
02:12:31,720 --> 02:12:33,280
Speaker 4: comes back, even if he does come back, he's gonna

2601
02:12:33,280 --> 02:12:35,000
Speaker 4: be a shell of himself at least his first couple

2602
02:12:35,040 --> 02:12:37,920
Speaker 4: of games or his first twenty right games, working through that.

2603
02:12:38,600 --> 02:12:43,880
Speaker 1: Right, the Knicks again, are I I like them?

2604
02:12:44,320 --> 02:12:46,520
Speaker 6: I think I like their great and everything else, but

2605
02:12:46,560 --> 02:12:47,560
Speaker 6: they're not a great team.

2606
02:12:48,000 --> 02:12:51,160
Speaker 4: No, no, and no.

2607
02:12:51,440 --> 02:12:53,160
Speaker 1: Look look how bad the conference is.

2608
02:12:53,600 --> 02:12:58,640
Speaker 2: Yannis leaves and you're gonna have Indie Abbit the Knicks.

2609
02:12:59,040 --> 02:13:01,640
Speaker 3: Cleveland told you they're for Gayzy.

2610
02:13:01,880 --> 02:13:04,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean they also had health issues pop

2611
02:13:04,920 --> 02:13:05,200
Speaker 4: up at the.

2612
02:13:05,200 --> 02:13:06,480
Speaker 1: Wrong time, so that didn't help.

2613
02:13:06,560 --> 02:13:06,760
Speaker 2: True.

2614
02:13:07,160 --> 02:13:10,480
Speaker 4: True, I still think that they're a really good team

2615
02:13:10,480 --> 02:13:12,520
Speaker 4: and if healthy that they they'll still be the class

2616
02:13:12,520 --> 02:13:13,400
Speaker 4: of the Eastern Conference.

2617
02:13:13,800 --> 02:13:14,400
Speaker 3: Cleveland.

2618
02:13:14,640 --> 02:13:18,800
Speaker 4: Yes, I think Boston is gonna have to consider breaking

2619
02:13:18,840 --> 02:13:19,440
Speaker 4: some stuff up.

2620
02:13:19,680 --> 02:13:21,280
Speaker 1: They're over the second luxury tax.

2621
02:13:21,320 --> 02:13:24,400
Speaker 4: Apron Tatum is gonna be out most likely to be

2622
02:13:24,440 --> 02:13:27,360
Speaker 4: honest all of next season. So if you're a Boston

2623
02:13:27,400 --> 02:13:31,480
Speaker 4: just looking at next season, what are you are? You're

2624
02:13:31,480 --> 02:13:33,480
Speaker 4: good enough to make the postseason, sure without you know

2625
02:13:33,520 --> 02:13:35,880
Speaker 4: you have enough talent to do that. But over the

2626
02:13:35,920 --> 02:13:37,920
Speaker 4: second apron are you gonna have to move some guys,

2627
02:13:37,920 --> 02:13:41,360
Speaker 4: whether that's Drew Holliday or Prezingis. You can't do a

2628
02:13:41,400 --> 02:13:44,600
Speaker 4: full on rebuild, but you're definitely gonna have to retool.

2629
02:13:45,080 --> 02:13:46,480
Speaker 4: You can't come back and look them the same way

2630
02:13:46,480 --> 02:13:49,280
Speaker 4: that you look this year. It's not even financially feasible

2631
02:13:49,360 --> 02:13:49,680
Speaker 4: right now.

2632
02:13:50,360 --> 02:13:53,720
Speaker 2: It's funny, like, you know, there's talk about the sixers

2633
02:13:53,720 --> 02:13:56,360
Speaker 2: that they go because you're like, well, we're gonna try

2634
02:13:56,400 --> 02:13:59,040
Speaker 2: to try to compete and maybe they'll use the third

2635
02:13:59,160 --> 02:14:05,360
Speaker 2: pick as some sort of trade. And I'm like, no,

2636
02:14:05,880 --> 02:14:09,000
Speaker 2: I know it's wide open, but as long as you

2637
02:14:09,040 --> 02:14:12,880
Speaker 2: can't if you can't count on embiid right then I

2638
02:14:13,320 --> 02:14:15,320
Speaker 2: just think it's fool's goal. That's a mirage.

2639
02:14:15,680 --> 02:14:18,400
Speaker 4: Well, also, you'd have to attach the third pick to something,

2640
02:14:19,200 --> 02:14:20,840
Speaker 4: and what are you attaching it to. You don't even

2641
02:14:20,880 --> 02:14:24,520
Speaker 4: have any tradable assets than anybody will want. Your only

2642
02:14:24,560 --> 02:14:27,840
Speaker 4: tradable asset is Maxican. You're not trading him, so what

2643
02:14:27,880 --> 02:14:28,400
Speaker 4: are you getting?

2644
02:14:28,400 --> 02:14:29,000
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

2645
02:14:29,320 --> 02:14:31,480
Speaker 2: No, and you're not going to trade George now he's

2646
02:14:31,520 --> 02:14:35,840
Speaker 2: at the all time lowe Jordan Embiid both all time

2647
02:14:35,880 --> 02:14:40,600
Speaker 2: low from a standpoint, and you're and for people to

2648
02:14:40,640 --> 02:14:44,000
Speaker 2: take the contract like I was trying to get you

2649
02:14:44,040 --> 02:14:45,360
Speaker 2: to take the emb contract.

2650
02:14:45,440 --> 02:14:47,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, I ain't doing it.

2651
02:14:48,280 --> 02:14:50,480
Speaker 2: I just don't think though. I just don't think you

2652
02:14:50,520 --> 02:14:54,480
Speaker 2: have any success unless he unless they show you that

2653
02:14:54,720 --> 02:14:57,480
Speaker 2: they could come back, in which case then you could

2654
02:14:57,520 --> 02:15:00,920
Speaker 2: be a contender. But I think it's sl tits. It

2655
02:15:00,920 --> 02:15:01,760
Speaker 2: at a slim.

2656
02:15:01,600 --> 02:15:04,600
Speaker 4: It's highly unlikely at this point, which is unfortunate.

2657
02:15:05,040 --> 02:15:11,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, all right, the hockey's interesting. So you got

2658
02:15:11,600 --> 02:15:16,680
Speaker 2: Game six tonight Dallas and Rampman.

2659
02:15:16,920 --> 02:15:20,360
Speaker 3: I like, you got Man and Man, right.

2660
02:15:20,360 --> 02:15:24,360
Speaker 2: You got ranting in and the Winnipeg game six tonight

2661
02:15:25,120 --> 02:15:28,280
Speaker 2: and in Game seven tomorrow between Florida Toronto.

2662
02:15:29,640 --> 02:15:30,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll be exciting.

2663
02:15:30,760 --> 02:15:33,280
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, having a Game seven obviously is

2664
02:15:33,360 --> 02:15:35,080
Speaker 4: uh was what you look forward to the most.

2665
02:15:35,120 --> 02:15:36,160
Speaker 1: And I love the.

2666
02:15:36,200 --> 02:15:39,360
Speaker 4: NHL more than any other postseason because of the unpredictability

2667
02:15:39,360 --> 02:15:42,200
Speaker 4: of it. You know, if we talk about goalies, or

2668
02:15:42,280 --> 02:15:44,080
Speaker 4: like relief pitchers, you never know what one's gonna get

2669
02:15:44,120 --> 02:15:44,480
Speaker 4: hot or what.

2670
02:15:45,040 --> 02:15:45,160
Speaker 2: Uh.

2671
02:15:45,440 --> 02:15:48,000
Speaker 4: It really just adds an extra layer of excitement like

2672
02:15:48,040 --> 02:15:50,480
Speaker 4: postseason hockey for anybody that's never been to a just

2673
02:15:50,480 --> 02:15:53,120
Speaker 4: a hockey game in general in person is spectacular, and

2674
02:15:53,120 --> 02:15:56,000
Speaker 4: then the playoffs is just next level. So this, I

2675
02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:57,720
Speaker 4: don't know about you with this. The Stanley Cup playoffs

2676
02:15:57,720 --> 02:15:58,800
Speaker 4: have been really exciting to watch.

2677
02:15:59,320 --> 02:16:01,960
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah, oh my god, it's been great,

2678
02:16:03,160 --> 02:16:07,800
Speaker 2: been fantastic. All right, real quick, I gotta do this

2679
02:16:07,800 --> 02:16:12,200
Speaker 2: because we needn't get back to the college football schedule. Yeah,

2680
02:16:12,640 --> 02:16:16,240
Speaker 2: because we spent a lot of good part on the NFL. Well,

2681
02:16:16,920 --> 02:16:19,520
Speaker 2: take a look at the college for a second. You

2682
02:16:19,640 --> 02:16:24,640
Speaker 2: get started week zero, and this is what I want

2683
02:16:24,640 --> 02:16:26,920
Speaker 2: to see. I want to see them blow out week zero.

2684
02:16:27,960 --> 02:16:33,720
Speaker 2: It's August twenty third. Now you've got four games Stanford, Hawaii,

2685
02:16:34,240 --> 02:16:39,920
Speaker 2: Fresno State and Kansas, Sam Houston, Western Kentucky and a

2686
02:16:40,200 --> 02:16:42,000
Speaker 2: k State in Iowa State.

2687
02:16:43,680 --> 02:16:47,400
Speaker 1: How exciting? Well, Ky State, Iowa State's a good game.

2688
02:16:47,440 --> 02:16:50,080
Speaker 4: IM it's sure conference game, but it's fine. It's fine,

2689
02:16:50,720 --> 02:16:52,880
Speaker 4: but it's not necessarily getting my juices flowing, you know

2690
02:16:52,879 --> 02:16:53,280
Speaker 4: what I mean?

2691
02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:57,800
Speaker 6: I hear you, But it isn't it time now to

2692
02:16:57,920 --> 02:16:59,040
Speaker 6: blow out Week zero?

2693
02:17:00,480 --> 02:17:03,280
Speaker 4: Yes, I've been saying this for four years now, right,

2694
02:17:03,560 --> 02:17:06,480
Speaker 4: what's the play you gotta do it? Just to have

2695
02:17:06,520 --> 02:17:11,000
Speaker 4: a giant rollout on on the Labor Day weekend and

2696
02:17:11,080 --> 02:17:13,600
Speaker 4: start it there. If you want to start on Thursday

2697
02:17:13,600 --> 02:17:15,840
Speaker 4: with the Thursday Night slate, which is also not that impressive,

2698
02:17:15,879 --> 02:17:19,200
Speaker 4: but fine, but that Saturday before with the week zero,

2699
02:17:20,040 --> 02:17:23,480
Speaker 4: there's never there's never a game of substance in Week zero, never.

2700
02:17:24,720 --> 02:17:26,600
Speaker 1: Of major substance or major consequence.

2701
02:17:27,400 --> 02:17:29,600
Speaker 3: What I would do, this is what I would do

2702
02:17:29,720 --> 02:17:30,640
Speaker 3: for college football.

2703
02:17:31,720 --> 02:17:35,320
Speaker 2: I would start that Saturday, and I would have a

2704
02:17:35,360 --> 02:17:43,480
Speaker 2: bunch of games. I would play that Sunday, that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, right,

2705
02:17:43,560 --> 02:17:46,320
Speaker 2: and I have a week the week of football for

2706
02:17:46,480 --> 02:17:52,720
Speaker 2: college you're gonna tell me that people wouldn't watch that, Oh.

2707
02:17:52,640 --> 02:17:54,400
Speaker 4: They eat it up. I mean I would even start

2708
02:17:54,400 --> 02:17:56,400
Speaker 4: the Friday before. I wouldn't even start on Saturday, like

2709
02:17:56,400 --> 02:17:58,640
Speaker 4: say August thirtieth. That's start Friday the twenty ninth and

2710
02:17:59,000 --> 02:17:59,680
Speaker 4: roll it out there.

2711
02:18:00,040 --> 02:18:03,840
Speaker 2: Well, no, Week zero is the twenty third, correct, So

2712
02:18:04,000 --> 02:18:05,200
Speaker 2: you want to start the twenty second.

2713
02:18:05,240 --> 02:18:07,240
Speaker 4: So you say well, I guess I would start at

2714
02:18:07,480 --> 02:18:09,200
Speaker 4: I guess I will start a week later than that,

2715
02:18:09,600 --> 02:18:12,800
Speaker 4: a week later than that, unless you so you want

2716
02:18:12,840 --> 02:18:14,440
Speaker 4: the twenty third, So you want the twenty third to

2717
02:18:14,440 --> 02:18:16,640
Speaker 4: be week one, basically you want full slate.

2718
02:18:16,680 --> 02:18:19,600
Speaker 2: There I want, and here's what I want, Like, I

2719
02:18:19,640 --> 02:18:22,520
Speaker 2: wouldn't play all, I wouldn't have it all the games

2720
02:18:22,520 --> 02:18:26,320
Speaker 2: that day I pick like, you know, three decent ones.

2721
02:18:27,080 --> 02:18:31,320
Speaker 2: But I also play on Sunday and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

2722
02:18:31,320 --> 02:18:33,199
Speaker 2: Friday into the following week.

2723
02:18:33,520 --> 02:18:34,320
Speaker 1: Every single night.

2724
02:18:34,920 --> 02:18:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, the week of cod it's the way to open

2725
02:18:39,360 --> 02:18:41,160
Speaker 2: you want to talk about open it up in a

2726
02:18:41,280 --> 02:18:47,160
Speaker 2: grand fashion. You play every night from August twenty third

2727
02:18:47,480 --> 02:18:49,840
Speaker 2: on to to Labor Day weekend.

2728
02:18:51,000 --> 02:18:53,320
Speaker 4: I think there might be a little bit of fatigue

2729
02:18:53,520 --> 02:18:55,840
Speaker 4: depending on what those matchups are on an every single

2730
02:18:55,959 --> 02:18:57,080
Speaker 4: night basis what.

2731
02:18:57,160 --> 02:19:01,440
Speaker 6: Fatigue it's gone. You miss it, you'll you'll eat up

2732
02:19:01,480 --> 02:19:02,160
Speaker 6: every game.

2733
02:19:03,160 --> 02:19:05,560
Speaker 4: Well, assuming every game is you have to have a

2734
02:19:05,560 --> 02:19:07,200
Speaker 4: compelling matchup every single night.

2735
02:19:07,440 --> 02:19:07,880
Speaker 1: That's the one.

2736
02:19:07,920 --> 02:19:10,920
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, listen, if it's Tuesday, you

2737
02:19:10,920 --> 02:19:12,439
Speaker 2: could throw a maction game.

2738
02:19:13,320 --> 02:19:15,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is not going to have the same bite

2739
02:19:15,920 --> 02:19:18,720
Speaker 4: as you know, Georgia and LSU.

2740
02:19:18,600 --> 02:19:19,560
Speaker 1: Or something, you know what I mean.

2741
02:19:20,879 --> 02:19:25,640
Speaker 2: I'm telling you to open up the season with the

2742
02:19:25,760 --> 02:19:28,240
Speaker 2: the the eight day, where it would be like the

2743
02:19:28,400 --> 02:19:29,680
Speaker 2: nine days of football.

2744
02:19:32,320 --> 02:19:33,520
Speaker 1: I think that might have.

2745
02:19:35,360 --> 02:19:38,119
Speaker 2: Actually I would go and I would play up until

2746
02:19:38,160 --> 02:19:40,760
Speaker 2: the Thursday, and I had month, I had Tuesday Wednesday

2747
02:19:40,800 --> 02:19:41,480
Speaker 2: in the equation.

2748
02:19:42,120 --> 02:19:44,560
Speaker 4: Well, in the perfect world, you would have football all day,

2749
02:19:44,560 --> 02:19:45,560
Speaker 4: every day, all year long.

2750
02:19:45,760 --> 02:19:48,240
Speaker 2: Well, but just to start it, right, Like you're right,

2751
02:19:48,400 --> 02:19:51,520
Speaker 2: but like, just to start it? How great would that be?

2752
02:19:51,640 --> 02:19:53,320
Speaker 1: College football? Oh my god?

2753
02:19:53,560 --> 02:19:56,560
Speaker 4: Like I love college football. It's it's phenomenal, obviously, but

2754
02:19:56,640 --> 02:19:57,959
Speaker 4: doing it on it every night. But I think this

2755
02:19:58,000 --> 02:20:00,640
Speaker 4: is what ends up ended up hurting May League baseball

2756
02:20:00,680 --> 02:20:03,640
Speaker 4: in the NBA. There's too much of it. You gotta

2757
02:20:03,680 --> 02:20:04,760
Speaker 4: be able to spread it out a little bit.

2758
02:20:04,840 --> 02:20:07,760
Speaker 3: Okay, but it's right. Disagree because.

2759
02:20:09,400 --> 02:20:15,680
Speaker 2: Football only runs from the end of August to January.

2760
02:20:15,800 --> 02:20:18,440
Speaker 1: You're right, it's a scarce product. I get that, so

2761
02:20:18,640 --> 02:20:23,480
Speaker 1: whereas baseball is nine months. Right, So that's right.

2762
02:20:23,480 --> 02:20:25,480
Speaker 2: I disagree, And I think you can get away with

2763
02:20:25,520 --> 02:20:28,480
Speaker 2: a week just as it's special to kick it off.

2764
02:20:28,879 --> 02:20:30,160
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm.

2765
02:20:29,959 --> 02:20:32,680
Speaker 4: Willing to concede to an experiment, but Ultimately, I think that.

2766
02:20:34,520 --> 02:20:37,200
Speaker 2: Ball game you see the beginning, like move some of

2767
02:20:37,240 --> 02:20:39,640
Speaker 2: the bad ball games to the beginning.

2768
02:20:41,400 --> 02:20:43,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can do that, and especially if it's if

2769
02:20:43,280 --> 02:20:45,360
Speaker 4: there's nothing else going on, which typically there is, and

2770
02:20:45,480 --> 02:20:47,920
Speaker 4: especially in the preseason NFL people don't even pay attention

2771
02:20:47,959 --> 02:20:50,520
Speaker 4: to that anymore because starters don't play, I know, So

2772
02:20:50,640 --> 02:20:52,680
Speaker 4: take advantage of it to a certain degree. Yes, but

2773
02:20:52,800 --> 02:20:56,560
Speaker 4: every single salitary night for ten days. Yes, overkill, come

2774
02:20:56,840 --> 02:20:59,320
Speaker 4: fig total overkill. All right, let me we'll run it

2775
02:20:59,360 --> 02:21:01,120
Speaker 4: by the brain. Come up, you know, I want to.

2776
02:21:01,080 --> 02:21:02,120
Speaker 1: See where Brad thinks about this.

2777
02:21:02,320 --> 02:21:04,640
Speaker 2: All right, all right, we're the fellas hanging right here

2778
02:21:04,959 --> 02:21:11,680
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas, Cake fig

2779
02:21:11,959 --> 02:21:17,000
Speaker 2: Cuz hanging with you now joining us to take a

2780
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:19,720
Speaker 2: look at the world of sports from a Betty standpoint.

2781
02:21:19,879 --> 02:21:23,879
Speaker 1: Oh man, the brain, Brad Fiber, Good morning.

2782
02:21:23,560 --> 02:21:26,800
Speaker 5: Brain, Good morning, how are you today.

2783
02:21:27,000 --> 02:21:27,680
Speaker 1: Good buddy?

2784
02:21:28,560 --> 02:21:29,119
Speaker 3: All right, So.

2785
02:21:31,080 --> 02:21:31,920
Speaker 1: Settle this for us.

2786
02:21:33,120 --> 02:21:38,520
Speaker 2: So I have another idea, this one college football. Are

2787
02:21:38,520 --> 02:21:41,600
Speaker 2: you ready? I want to go because you know you

2788
02:21:41,640 --> 02:21:45,400
Speaker 2: have week zero. So this year week zero falls August

2789
02:21:45,440 --> 02:21:50,600
Speaker 2: twenty third, So I want to run games from August

2790
02:21:50,680 --> 02:21:59,160
Speaker 2: twenty third through the labor day Monday actually through Wednesday

2791
02:21:59,200 --> 02:22:02,720
Speaker 2: after labor, leading it to the NFL opener, and I'm

2792
02:22:02,720 --> 02:22:05,280
Speaker 2: going to call it there whatever, ten days of football

2793
02:22:05,360 --> 02:22:09,039
Speaker 2: every day. I'll figure something out. But basically, it's the

2794
02:22:09,240 --> 02:22:11,000
Speaker 2: kickoff of the season.

2795
02:22:13,640 --> 02:22:14,400
Speaker 3: What do you think of that?

2796
02:22:15,360 --> 02:22:17,960
Speaker 5: It would be? It'd be great? Look it would it

2797
02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:20,640
Speaker 5: would be? It would be, it would shine, it would shine?

2798
02:22:20,720 --> 02:22:22,280
Speaker 5: I mean, how would how would it not be good?

2799
02:22:22,480 --> 02:22:24,760
Speaker 5: I would have instiader saying, well, I think of it.

2800
02:22:24,800 --> 02:22:28,000
Speaker 5: I'd say, how would that not work? I think I

2801
02:22:28,080 --> 02:22:30,800
Speaker 5: think it's like, I don't know how that wouldn't be good?

2802
02:22:31,400 --> 02:22:33,560
Speaker 1: I guess, Brad. My only pushback was that it will be.

2803
02:22:33,640 --> 02:22:36,080
Speaker 4: That's a lot of football for mini consecutive nights, and

2804
02:22:36,080 --> 02:22:38,879
Speaker 4: to get all the eyeballs that you're looking for, it's

2805
02:22:38,920 --> 02:22:41,360
Speaker 4: going to be spread fairly fan, especially the deeper you

2806
02:22:41,360 --> 02:22:43,320
Speaker 4: get into the week and spreading all the matchups out.

2807
02:22:43,400 --> 02:22:45,440
Speaker 1: So I thought it might a little bit too much.

2808
02:22:46,240 --> 02:22:47,920
Speaker 5: I you know, it's funny though, but I mean, you know,

2809
02:22:48,040 --> 02:22:50,680
Speaker 5: this seem like to me like football is such king

2810
02:22:51,080 --> 02:22:55,280
Speaker 5: that I feel like the almost again. I think it's like,

2811
02:22:55,440 --> 02:22:56,879
Speaker 5: you know, all you can eat the thing and everyone

2812
02:22:56,959 --> 02:22:59,760
Speaker 5: going there weighs three hundred pounds. You know, it's like

2813
02:23:00,440 --> 02:23:02,680
Speaker 5: it's just it's you know, I think it's going to

2814
02:23:02,760 --> 02:23:06,600
Speaker 5: be a success. And that's just my opinion. And you know,

2815
02:23:06,600 --> 02:23:10,320
Speaker 5: I don't think I just don't think football can never

2816
02:23:10,360 --> 02:23:14,119
Speaker 5: really be oversaturated. I just feel it's that it's one

2817
02:23:14,160 --> 02:23:17,280
Speaker 5: thing I see, it's almost just it just it's never

2818
02:23:17,320 --> 02:23:20,680
Speaker 5: gotten that point. So I see what you're saying, but

2819
02:23:20,720 --> 02:23:22,520
Speaker 5: I really don't think that would be an issue.

2820
02:23:22,720 --> 02:23:26,000
Speaker 2: Well, the other argument, figure, is this so fake? Think

2821
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:30,160
Speaker 2: about this, when you kick off the college basketball season.

2822
02:23:30,240 --> 02:23:33,119
Speaker 2: You have college basketball games every night all the time.

2823
02:23:33,440 --> 02:23:37,640
Speaker 1: True, now that's popular of a sport, but yeah, well.

2824
02:23:37,520 --> 02:23:40,520
Speaker 3: Right, and I would just package it together.

2825
02:23:40,640 --> 02:23:43,840
Speaker 2: And even again, you run the twenty third through Labor Day,

2826
02:23:43,959 --> 02:23:48,520
Speaker 2: the ten Days of college Football brought to you by

2827
02:23:48,760 --> 02:23:49,560
Speaker 2: Capitol Walks.

2828
02:23:49,560 --> 02:23:50,920
Speaker 1: See. I was just getting rid of saying you put

2829
02:23:50,920 --> 02:23:52,240
Speaker 1: a sponsor behind it. Yeah.

2830
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:54,680
Speaker 4: Absolutely, if there's a way to make money and monetize it,

2831
02:23:54,680 --> 02:23:57,440
Speaker 4: would I would knock them for trying it. Part of

2832
02:23:57,520 --> 02:23:59,280
Speaker 4: me just wonders if there's a certain sect of the

2833
02:23:59,280 --> 02:24:01,080
Speaker 4: audience who are just like you know, I can't you

2834
02:24:01,120 --> 02:24:03,400
Speaker 4: can't watch every single game, and I want to watch

2835
02:24:03,400 --> 02:24:03,920
Speaker 4: this many.

2836
02:24:03,720 --> 02:24:07,200
Speaker 6: Games but you but think about this, like you miss it, right,

2837
02:24:07,240 --> 02:24:08,080
Speaker 6: don't you miss it?

2838
02:24:08,520 --> 02:24:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right?

2839
02:24:09,120 --> 02:24:11,120
Speaker 2: So, like I don't know how you are, but like

2840
02:24:11,160 --> 02:24:14,240
Speaker 2: when the season happens, like the first week of baseball,

2841
02:24:14,320 --> 02:24:17,880
Speaker 2: I watched like a million baseball games, I'm like, oh,

2842
02:24:17,920 --> 02:24:18,920
Speaker 2: this is great, it's back.

2843
02:24:18,959 --> 02:24:19,400
Speaker 1: It's back.

2844
02:24:19,760 --> 02:24:23,800
Speaker 2: Then you settle it to your routine. So I think

2845
02:24:23,920 --> 02:24:27,400
Speaker 2: you would have people looking a wall. Yeah, it's you know,

2846
02:24:27,480 --> 02:24:32,120
Speaker 2: it's the summer, it's the August twenty six a game on. Yeah,

2847
02:24:32,280 --> 02:24:34,600
Speaker 2: it's what's my appetite for the NFL?

2848
02:24:34,959 --> 02:24:37,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand the rationale behind it. And well, there's

2849
02:24:37,120 --> 02:24:38,960
Speaker 4: nothing pulling you away. You're in the dog days of

2850
02:24:39,000 --> 02:24:42,240
Speaker 4: the baseball season and the NFL hasn't started yet.

2851
02:24:42,320 --> 02:24:43,800
Speaker 1: I mean it's preseason. No one cares.

2852
02:24:44,040 --> 02:24:47,440
Speaker 4: So I understand. I totally get it. I understand your

2853
02:24:47,480 --> 02:24:48,160
Speaker 4: side of the argument.

2854
02:24:49,720 --> 02:24:51,600
Speaker 1: All right, I'm glad. I'm glaid.

2855
02:24:51,959 --> 02:24:54,160
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're not totally against it.

2856
02:24:54,240 --> 02:24:56,760
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. Yeah, I just know.

2857
02:24:56,920 --> 02:24:58,920
Speaker 4: I just know it can be a lot and there's like, oh,

2858
02:24:58,959 --> 02:25:01,800
Speaker 4: you know, put some people in the position of picking

2859
02:25:01,840 --> 02:25:05,000
Speaker 4: and choosing, you know, especially people with family responsibilities, Like

2860
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:06,480
Speaker 4: all right, what night am I watching or what night

2861
02:25:06,520 --> 02:25:10,720
Speaker 4: am I not versus I got this whole Saturday between

2862
02:25:10,800 --> 02:25:12,039
Speaker 4: you know, this time and this time.

2863
02:25:12,200 --> 02:25:13,720
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me. I got a bunch of football.

2864
02:25:13,720 --> 02:25:16,879
Speaker 1: I gotta watch right right right, right, right, right right right.

2865
02:25:17,760 --> 02:25:22,040
Speaker 6: I let's get into it break. Last night. You and

2866
02:25:22,080 --> 02:25:26,039
Speaker 6: I talked about it earlier yesterday. We both liked the

2867
02:25:26,080 --> 02:25:29,039
Speaker 6: Knicks last night and that that seemed to be an

2868
02:25:29,080 --> 02:25:29,640
Speaker 6: easy one.

2869
02:25:29,879 --> 02:25:32,520
Speaker 5: We'll think about this, Anthony, think about this, and I said,

2870
02:25:32,680 --> 02:25:36,320
Speaker 5: I said to people, I go the Knicks, I think

2871
02:25:36,400 --> 02:25:38,840
Speaker 5: won whatever, fifty one to sixty two games, whatever it was, bossion.

2872
02:25:38,920 --> 02:25:43,959
Speaker 5: When they're sixty, you're taking off from their team, undoubtedly

2873
02:25:44,280 --> 02:25:46,800
Speaker 5: a top six player in the NBA, their best player,

2874
02:25:47,240 --> 02:25:49,760
Speaker 5: and you're taking off. You can argue to me whether

2875
02:25:49,800 --> 02:25:51,800
Speaker 5: you want to skip John Brown or secondst player leads

2876
02:25:51,879 --> 02:25:55,320
Speaker 5: or third best persingis or Derek White perzingis. I guess

2877
02:25:55,320 --> 02:25:58,320
Speaker 5: technically played, but he was I can't even say limited

2878
02:25:58,360 --> 02:26:01,039
Speaker 5: to me. He was like a I mean, you know,

2879
02:26:01,680 --> 02:26:04,400
Speaker 5: he wasn't in essence really not playing. So you're taking

2880
02:26:04,400 --> 02:26:06,640
Speaker 5: away probably the first and third best players, and you're

2881
02:26:06,680 --> 02:26:09,400
Speaker 5: saying that the Knicks are still the better are the

2882
02:26:09,400 --> 02:26:12,879
Speaker 5: worst team still? Because Boston was favored by five in

2883
02:26:12,920 --> 02:26:15,920
Speaker 5: that game five and the Knicks were only between two

2884
02:26:16,000 --> 02:26:18,920
Speaker 5: and a half and three yesterday, And I'm like, I just,

2885
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:21,520
Speaker 5: I just that's just not right. You cannot tell me

2886
02:26:21,959 --> 02:26:24,440
Speaker 5: that the Knicks are not as good when you take

2887
02:26:24,480 --> 02:26:26,920
Speaker 5: away the first and third best player from from Boston.

2888
02:26:27,240 --> 02:26:31,480
Speaker 5: That's just false. And you know we saw yesterday and

2889
02:26:31,520 --> 02:26:36,920
Speaker 5: in Boston was obviously severely compromised, and yeah, it was

2890
02:26:37,000 --> 02:26:39,720
Speaker 5: just it was like it was a dream game from

2891
02:26:39,720 --> 02:26:42,640
Speaker 5: a Knicks fan, right and from Selvin Vaders. You couldn't

2892
02:26:42,680 --> 02:26:44,440
Speaker 5: have had more of a dream game than that. I

2893
02:26:44,520 --> 02:26:48,280
Speaker 5: call those those avalanche games where it just it just

2894
02:26:48,480 --> 02:26:51,800
Speaker 5: goes if like a snowball going downhill and there was

2895
02:26:51,840 --> 02:26:53,000
Speaker 5: nothing they could do to stop it.

2896
02:26:54,240 --> 02:26:56,120
Speaker 4: So I know we still have the game seven coming

2897
02:26:56,200 --> 02:26:58,400
Speaker 4: up on sign of between Devor and Okay, see, yeah,

2898
02:26:58,680 --> 02:27:00,840
Speaker 4: for the future project a little just sticking with the

2899
02:27:00,879 --> 02:27:03,240
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference. You know, At and I were talking a

2900
02:27:03,280 --> 02:27:05,240
Speaker 4: little bit earlier about Indiana and New York and how

2901
02:27:05,320 --> 02:27:08,280
Speaker 4: we like Indiana because they have so much depth. How

2902
02:27:08,280 --> 02:27:11,879
Speaker 4: do you handicap this series as it gets started on Wednesday?

2903
02:27:12,160 --> 02:27:15,039
Speaker 5: You know, it's fifty I agree with that and here's

2904
02:27:15,040 --> 02:27:16,959
Speaker 5: the thing. I was a little disappointed in the number

2905
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:21,320
Speaker 5: that came out. I was hoping hoping, especially after they

2906
02:27:21,400 --> 02:27:23,960
Speaker 5: won by a zillion yesterday, that maybe i'd be able

2907
02:27:23,959 --> 02:27:26,080
Speaker 5: to take plus a dollar sixty, Maybeoul coming up one

2908
02:27:26,120 --> 02:27:29,200
Speaker 5: to eighty one fifty, maybe one seventy one fifty. I

2909
02:27:29,240 --> 02:27:33,080
Speaker 5: really was hoping that. But no, nixt a small favorite

2910
02:27:34,120 --> 02:27:36,800
Speaker 5: between I think the dollar thirty dollars forty favorite so

2911
02:27:37,760 --> 02:27:41,640
Speaker 5: Indiana getting their respect, which I think is merited. I

2912
02:27:41,640 --> 02:27:43,560
Speaker 5: think Indiana is actually going to win. But I was

2913
02:27:43,640 --> 02:27:47,920
Speaker 5: really hoping to play Indiana getting a nice price plus

2914
02:27:47,920 --> 02:27:50,840
Speaker 5: a dollar twenty, not at not the price I was

2915
02:27:50,879 --> 02:27:52,240
Speaker 5: necessarily a little brought to. I was gonna get a

2916
02:27:52,240 --> 02:27:54,200
Speaker 5: better price than that. But I do think it's gonna

2917
02:27:54,200 --> 02:27:55,800
Speaker 5: be a good series. I think it's gonna be close.

2918
02:27:57,080 --> 02:28:00,240
Speaker 5: I lean Indiana to win it. But again, I was

2919
02:28:00,280 --> 02:28:03,680
Speaker 5: really hoping that the Knicks would get a little more

2920
02:28:04,520 --> 02:28:07,280
Speaker 5: respect based off the fact they'd beat Boston so easily.

2921
02:28:07,520 --> 02:28:09,000
Speaker 5: I was just hoping it would be a little bit higher.

2922
02:28:09,000 --> 02:28:10,720
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think it's made a good series, but

2923
02:28:10,760 --> 02:28:14,160
Speaker 5: I do lean Indiana to win it.

2924
02:28:14,760 --> 02:28:17,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I think the same thing I

2925
02:28:17,240 --> 02:28:20,280
Speaker 2: thought I'm shocked, became. I thought that Knicks were going

2926
02:28:20,320 --> 02:28:23,840
Speaker 2: to get all kinds of big love in that series.

2927
02:28:24,240 --> 02:28:27,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I do too, So I thought so too.

2928
02:28:27,680 --> 02:28:32,360
Speaker 5: But again, listen to me, what was more impressive watching

2929
02:28:32,360 --> 02:28:35,680
Speaker 5: the Knicks beat Boston or watching Indiana beat Cleveland? To me,

2930
02:28:35,760 --> 02:28:39,199
Speaker 5: it wasn't close. To me, it was watching Indiana beat Cleveland.

2931
02:28:39,840 --> 02:28:44,119
Speaker 5: I just feel Boston, especially after Tatum went down it again.

2932
02:28:44,200 --> 02:28:48,840
Speaker 5: I I mean again, I picked myself. I did very

2933
02:28:48,840 --> 02:28:51,400
Speaker 5: well live betting that game, but I kicked myself for

2934
02:28:51,560 --> 02:28:53,959
Speaker 5: not really even going more aggressive on New York because

2935
02:28:53,959 --> 02:28:56,160
Speaker 5: I you know, sometimes you see a line and you

2936
02:28:57,760 --> 02:29:00,840
Speaker 5: almost overanalyze, like what am I missing? What am I missing?

2937
02:29:01,200 --> 02:29:03,000
Speaker 5: And that was one of those lines that what am

2938
02:29:03,000 --> 02:29:07,560
Speaker 5: I missing here? Why? I mean, they're saying Nicks are

2939
02:29:07,600 --> 02:29:09,600
Speaker 5: not better than the team and you take away two

2940
02:29:09,640 --> 02:29:12,640
Speaker 5: of the three best player that it's just not possible,

2941
02:29:13,120 --> 02:29:16,000
Speaker 5: and especially an important game when you're getting max effort.

2942
02:29:16,879 --> 02:29:19,600
Speaker 5: And you know we saw that again yesterday. So I

2943
02:29:19,720 --> 02:29:22,520
Speaker 5: again looking forward the series. And then you mentioned, guys

2944
02:29:22,600 --> 02:29:26,640
Speaker 5: the game seven of the Oklahoma City like Denver. Yeah, well,

2945
02:29:26,640 --> 02:29:29,279
Speaker 5: it's funny to me. It comes down guys Aaron Gordon

2946
02:29:29,600 --> 02:29:32,240
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, if you've been watching this postseason for Denver

2947
02:29:32,440 --> 02:29:35,600
Speaker 5: has been they've gone true big three right. Obviously Jokic

2948
02:29:36,080 --> 02:29:37,959
Speaker 5: and Murray we all know about, but Aaron Gordon has

2949
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:43,480
Speaker 5: played phenomenal. Okay, and to me he's questionable with the

2950
02:29:43,520 --> 02:29:47,040
Speaker 5: hamstring injury if he's healthy. Look, this line sitting around

2951
02:29:47,080 --> 02:29:51,280
Speaker 5: eight eight and a half easy lean for Denver for me, easy,

2952
02:29:51,400 --> 02:29:53,960
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, at some point you just have to

2953
02:29:54,040 --> 02:29:56,320
Speaker 5: like say, all right, this is what it is. And

2954
02:29:56,920 --> 02:30:00,400
Speaker 5: Denver has fault his team, clawed his team and right

2955
02:30:00,400 --> 02:30:03,800
Speaker 5: there with this team the entire way, and they're don't

2956
02:30:03,800 --> 02:30:05,800
Speaker 5: They're not going to go away if the Aaron Goarton

2957
02:30:05,959 --> 02:30:10,520
Speaker 5: plays easy side for Denver. For me, if Aaron Gorton

2958
02:30:10,600 --> 02:30:14,440
Speaker 5: is out, which we still don't know yet, much suffer

2959
02:30:14,440 --> 02:30:16,640
Speaker 5: things for me because I don't love Denver's depth, and

2960
02:30:16,720 --> 02:30:20,240
Speaker 5: I do think if he is not there probably gonna

2961
02:30:20,640 --> 02:30:23,160
Speaker 5: you know, to me would be Oklahoma city of your past.

2962
02:30:23,160 --> 02:30:28,240
Speaker 5: But if he's finding easy side Denver for me, all.

2963
02:30:28,200 --> 02:30:34,680
Speaker 2: Right, what about anything with the hockey anything there?

2964
02:30:36,600 --> 02:30:38,360
Speaker 1: Well, you liked Toronto last night.

2965
02:30:38,640 --> 02:30:41,680
Speaker 5: We came through for me yesterday. That was a really

2966
02:30:41,680 --> 02:30:44,120
Speaker 5: good one for me. Yeah, Look, they're going to play

2967
02:30:44,120 --> 02:30:49,480
Speaker 5: Game seven at home against uh the Panthers. Here's the

2968
02:30:49,480 --> 02:30:52,240
Speaker 5: thing like for me again, in those games, I'd much

2969
02:30:52,360 --> 02:30:55,200
Speaker 5: rather play as I'm closed. Yesterday, I took plus two

2970
02:30:55,200 --> 02:30:58,560
Speaker 5: oh five with Toronto. I'd rather take the plus two

2971
02:30:58,560 --> 02:31:01,640
Speaker 5: o five than plus a dour ten at home. Okay,

2972
02:31:02,320 --> 02:31:06,200
Speaker 5: paying one hundred cents for the whole Mikes advantage, because

2973
02:31:06,280 --> 02:31:10,760
Speaker 5: to me, it's just non existent the other game. Listen, hello, book,

2974
02:31:10,959 --> 02:31:15,720
Speaker 5: it's stay he least had two shutout snails every time.

2975
02:31:15,720 --> 02:31:17,560
Speaker 5: You want to trust them, know, and I feel like

2976
02:31:17,600 --> 02:31:22,560
Speaker 5: it's hard to do that. I do think Dallas is

2977
02:31:22,560 --> 02:31:27,760
Speaker 5: going to beat Winnipeg, that is my opinion. But again

2978
02:31:27,800 --> 02:31:30,720
Speaker 5: it's you know, it gets de lay about about our

2979
02:31:30,760 --> 02:31:33,040
Speaker 5: forty five ish. But I do think Dallas will find

2980
02:31:33,040 --> 02:31:34,440
Speaker 5: the way. I think they're better than wear a peg.

2981
02:31:34,640 --> 02:31:36,680
Speaker 5: I hate laying that big bet number of brigs think

2982
02:31:36,680 --> 02:31:39,840
Speaker 5: they'll do it. Game seventy thres series brood. I think

2983
02:31:39,840 --> 02:31:42,600
Speaker 5: it's basically the right number. I think Florida probably wins

2984
02:31:42,600 --> 02:31:44,760
Speaker 5: it a little over half the time. I'm not going

2985
02:31:44,800 --> 02:31:45,720
Speaker 5: to touch in that one.

2986
02:31:46,000 --> 02:31:47,959
Speaker 1: Oh oh, sorry about that brat.

2987
02:31:48,000 --> 02:31:50,039
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask a question about the NFL with

2988
02:31:50,040 --> 02:31:52,360
Speaker 4: the schedule release this y, this week, and just more

2989
02:31:52,360 --> 02:31:54,800
Speaker 4: of a macro overview as someone who does this for

2990
02:31:54,840 --> 02:31:56,920
Speaker 4: a living and follows us on a day to day basis,

2991
02:31:57,200 --> 02:31:59,760
Speaker 4: how did the schedule release or how does the schedule

2992
02:31:59,760 --> 02:32:02,600
Speaker 4: release and knowing win teams are going to play each

2993
02:32:02,600 --> 02:32:06,240
Speaker 4: other affect the preseason win totals and did we see

2994
02:32:06,240 --> 02:32:09,400
Speaker 4: any sort of swing in that market after this schedule

2995
02:32:09,440 --> 02:32:09,920
Speaker 4: was released?

2996
02:32:10,720 --> 02:32:13,480
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny, it's a great question. Really doesn't

2997
02:32:13,520 --> 02:32:16,960
Speaker 5: affect so much the win totals, but what it can

2998
02:32:17,040 --> 02:32:19,000
Speaker 5: do is as you guys know, like they have the

2999
02:32:19,160 --> 02:32:23,760
Speaker 5: individual games priced right, and you can if a team's

3000
02:32:24,040 --> 02:32:28,320
Speaker 5: off short rest, you can maybe bet a certain team

3001
02:32:28,600 --> 02:32:32,760
Speaker 5: a certain game, like knowing that, okay, this team's on

3002
02:32:32,959 --> 02:32:36,160
Speaker 5: six days rest versusity maybe on eight days rest. Or

3003
02:32:36,200 --> 02:32:40,480
Speaker 5: this team is, you know, coming off a quote unquote

3004
02:32:40,600 --> 02:32:43,400
Speaker 5: untime game and a big spot and now this could

3005
02:32:43,400 --> 02:32:46,120
Speaker 5: be like a spot that's it's tough for them. And

3006
02:32:46,200 --> 02:32:48,720
Speaker 5: another thing you talk about season wins though, But the

3007
02:32:48,760 --> 02:32:51,800
Speaker 5: one thing I do like to look at for me is,

3008
02:32:51,879 --> 02:32:55,000
Speaker 5: let's suppose I'll call it a tiebreaker of sorts. Let's

3009
02:32:55,000 --> 02:32:57,640
Speaker 5: suppose you're leading towards betting a team. I'll just give

3010
02:32:57,640 --> 02:32:59,640
Speaker 5: you an example. And you're betting, you like a team,

3011
02:32:59,680 --> 02:33:02,480
Speaker 5: Let's say a under or over. So you like the

3012
02:33:02,520 --> 02:33:04,879
Speaker 5: team over eight and a half wins and their last

3013
02:33:04,920 --> 02:33:10,520
Speaker 5: game of the year they play, let's say the Buffalo Bills. Okay, well,

3014
02:33:10,560 --> 02:33:12,440
Speaker 5: why does that matter? It's last game in your world

3015
02:33:12,560 --> 02:33:14,879
Speaker 5: is a good chance the Buffalo is my favorite win

3016
02:33:14,879 --> 02:33:18,119
Speaker 5: the division. But let's call it three games that week seventeen.

3017
02:33:18,160 --> 02:33:20,600
Speaker 5: They may be resting, Josh Allen. So if you look

3018
02:33:20,640 --> 02:33:22,760
Speaker 5: a team over eight and a half wins and cle

3019
02:33:22,879 --> 02:33:27,640
Speaker 5: in your face of Philadelphia or Buffalo, I look for

3020
02:33:27,720 --> 02:33:30,560
Speaker 5: stuffling that because at the game you meet count as.

3021
02:33:30,480 --> 02:33:34,160
Speaker 2: An automatic real quick as we're up against it, Yes, sir,

3022
02:33:34,360 --> 02:33:37,039
Speaker 2: and that makes perfect sense. Run through the what you

3023
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Speaker 2: got today baseball, and if you have real.

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Speaker 5: Quick bese Isaiah Hartenstein over two and a half assist guy,

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Speaker 5: I'm just stone cluded three and a half fourteen and

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Speaker 5: six is last twenty like Hardenstein over two and a

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02:33:48,959 --> 02:33:53,240
Speaker 5: half assists. Clark Schmidt Yankees under five mass strikeouts Net's

3028
02:33:53,240 --> 02:33:55,800
Speaker 5: fourth hardest team in the league to strikeout. Schmid doesn't

3029
02:33:55,840 --> 02:33:57,720
Speaker 5: usually go on the tont of innings like him under

3030
02:33:57,760 --> 02:34:03,160
Speaker 5: five may strikeouts, Tobias my Milwaukee Brewers lackeboe is nineteen

3031
02:34:03,160 --> 02:34:05,240
Speaker 5: to five last year, four and oh this year, so

3032
02:34:05,360 --> 02:34:07,160
Speaker 5: twenty three and five total under two and a half

3033
02:34:07,240 --> 02:34:10,560
Speaker 5: runs against the Twins team No Byron bucks sits no

3034
02:34:10,720 --> 02:34:13,080
Speaker 5: Carlos Korea like that got a lot mast but not

3035
02:34:13,200 --> 02:34:15,840
Speaker 5: least Griffin Canning New York match to give up over

3036
02:34:15,879 --> 02:34:18,840
Speaker 5: four and a half. It's yeah, Yankee second most ships

3037
02:34:18,879 --> 02:34:22,200
Speaker 5: in baseball this year. Canning start over that about sixty

3038
02:34:22,280 --> 02:34:24,400
Speaker 5: some percent of the time. I'll take my chances and

3039
02:34:24,440 --> 02:34:28,000
Speaker 5: he gives up over four and half. That's Andyga, like

3040
02:34:28,760 --> 02:34:30,840
Speaker 5: you know, well, let's you know, listen to at. I

3041
02:34:30,840 --> 02:34:32,840
Speaker 5: don't like Jonathan Vegas. I don't think he's going to

3042
02:34:32,879 --> 02:34:36,080
Speaker 5: get it unnecessarily. Shuffler's the big favored only three shots back.

3043
02:34:36,520 --> 02:34:39,720
Speaker 5: How to pick someone made? Maybe taking a shot I

3044
02:34:39,760 --> 02:34:43,000
Speaker 5: saw sixteen to one area would maybe be Kim the

3045
02:34:43,080 --> 02:34:48,040
Speaker 5: Mayby have that incredible, incredible all in one on you

3046
02:34:48,080 --> 02:34:50,720
Speaker 5: ever not part three. I always think he's always gut

3047
02:34:50,800 --> 02:34:53,360
Speaker 5: that maybe has a chance to break through. But again

3048
02:34:53,520 --> 02:34:56,320
Speaker 5: it's going to be very very hard. There's so much competition,

3049
02:34:56,760 --> 02:34:59,119
Speaker 5: so many people can win it. So I'm just looking

3050
02:34:59,120 --> 02:34:59,880
Speaker 5: forward to watching it.

3051
02:35:00,560 --> 02:35:03,959
Speaker 2: Great stuff. Brain as always Man, good stuff. We'll come back,

3052
02:35:04,360 --> 02:35:09,160
Speaker 2: Fellas and wrap it up right here Fox Sports Radio.

3053
02:35:10,440 --> 02:35:19,119
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3054
02:35:19,200 --> 02:35:24,080
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3055
02:35:24,120 --> 02:35:27,680
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02:35:27,920 --> 02:35:30,879
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3057
02:35:30,959 --> 02:35:34,160
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3058
02:35:34,200 --> 02:35:37,400
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3059
02:35:37,440 --> 02:35:41,360
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3060
02:35:41,480 --> 02:35:44,320
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3061
02:35:44,840 --> 02:35:47,720
Speaker 2: One of the fact our man mighty Mark always another

3062
02:35:47,800 --> 02:35:55,360
Speaker 2: great day. And Patrick, don't do a Patrick Patrick doing

3063
02:35:55,400 --> 02:35:56,080
Speaker 2: a great job.

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02:35:56,160 --> 02:36:01,480
Speaker 1: Fell it is Patrick. Move Patrick, cho a side. I

3065
02:36:01,520 --> 02:36:02,640
Speaker 1: want all the sides.

3066
02:36:04,000 --> 02:36:07,240
Speaker 2: You can't root for two teams in the same conference.

3067
02:36:07,280 --> 02:36:11,000
Speaker 2: You can't root for two teams, but especially the same conference.

3068
02:36:14,200 --> 02:36:21,280
Speaker 4: Cool bro on all the sides, Man, violation of all violations.

3069
02:36:20,879 --> 02:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Yes it is. You can't do it. You just can't

3070
02:36:23,840 --> 02:36:24,240
Speaker 1: do it.

3071
02:36:24,720 --> 02:36:27,279
Speaker 3: Figgie, what's on tap for you this week at Buddy

3072
02:36:28,120 --> 02:36:28,520
Speaker 3: really just.

3073
02:36:28,440 --> 02:36:29,680
Speaker 1: Spending time with the fam.

3074
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Speaker 4: I think we might you might hit up the Freeway series.

3075
02:36:32,640 --> 02:36:34,040
Speaker 1: Dodgers are playing the Angels this weekend.

3076
02:36:34,120 --> 02:36:37,039
Speaker 4: Kershaw has first start this weekend of the season, so

3077
02:36:37,080 --> 02:36:38,199
Speaker 4: we might hit that up tonight.

3078
02:36:38,280 --> 02:36:42,959
Speaker 1: We'll see, Uh, Toddy's ridiculous. By the way, how many

3079
02:36:43,040 --> 02:36:46,480
Speaker 1: we had this week? We what two? The other mine

3080
02:36:46,520 --> 02:36:47,360
Speaker 1: way the other night.

3081
02:36:47,360 --> 02:36:49,960
Speaker 4: One last night, you know, And every apparently every time

3082
02:36:49,959 --> 02:36:52,440
Speaker 4: the Dodgers do a Bible biblehead giveaway for him, he

3083
02:36:52,520 --> 02:36:55,200
Speaker 4: hits a home run. So Dave Roberts said, we should

3084
02:36:55,200 --> 02:36:56,840
Speaker 4: give away to show you a biblehead every single night.

3085
02:36:57,440 --> 02:36:58,200
Speaker 4: It's incredible.

3086
02:36:58,640 --> 02:37:03,000
Speaker 2: He's all I mean, honestly, I mean, it's not even close.

3087
02:37:03,080 --> 02:37:04,920
Speaker 3: He's the best baseball player I've ever seen my life.

3088
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:09,200
Speaker 2: I thought Bonds right in my lifetime, right, I mean,

3089
02:37:09,240 --> 02:37:12,400
Speaker 2: but my god, he teases these ridiculous and.

3090
02:37:12,360 --> 02:37:13,800
Speaker 1: He's not even back on the mound yet.

3091
02:37:13,959 --> 02:37:16,920
Speaker 4: By the way, now, no guy has cy Young caliber

3092
02:37:16,959 --> 02:37:18,959
Speaker 4: stuff when he pitches, and he's not even there yet.

3093
02:37:19,280 --> 02:37:20,400
Speaker 1: That's how incredibly is.

3094
02:37:20,760 --> 02:37:24,920
Speaker 2: I will say this, speaking of baseball, that one of

3095
02:37:24,959 --> 02:37:28,800
Speaker 2: the great stories of this season, and they're good and

3096
02:37:28,840 --> 02:37:31,199
Speaker 2: they're going to be good, is the Tigers.

3097
02:37:31,120 --> 02:37:31,560
Speaker 1: Isn't it.

3098
02:37:32,480 --> 02:37:35,000
Speaker 4: I mean they they caught fire towards the end of lastyear.

3099
02:37:35,000 --> 02:37:37,560
Speaker 4: Remember they sold they traded flared into the Dodgers. They

3100
02:37:37,560 --> 02:37:39,160
Speaker 4: thought they were there, they sold off and they except

3101
02:37:39,200 --> 02:37:41,160
Speaker 4: they kept winning, and all of a sudden they have

3102
02:37:41,160 --> 02:37:42,600
Speaker 4: the second best record all of baseball?

3103
02:37:42,760 --> 02:37:44,720
Speaker 1: Like where did this come from?

3104
02:37:46,120 --> 02:37:50,080
Speaker 2: And they hit like Corper there? Yeah, I mean Greed's terrific.

3105
02:37:51,040 --> 02:37:52,240
Speaker 2: By how about Hobby By?

3106
02:37:52,240 --> 02:37:55,400
Speaker 4: It as what a resurgence from him at.

3107
02:37:55,280 --> 02:37:58,040
Speaker 3: One last night? Another one.

3108
02:37:59,160 --> 02:38:01,560
Speaker 4: Don't sleep on Mark white Sox by the way, you

3109
02:38:01,600 --> 02:38:04,840
Speaker 4: know now they have divine intervention behind him. Now they

3110
02:38:04,879 --> 02:38:07,800
Speaker 4: got they got ever since the pope was put in

3111
02:38:07,920 --> 02:38:11,879
Speaker 4: place on fire hope leo.

3112
02:38:12,080 --> 02:38:16,160
Speaker 6: Baby, that's right man, that's true.

3113
02:38:16,600 --> 02:38:20,320
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Favorite stories right there.

3114
02:38:20,840 --> 02:38:22,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a great that is a great story.

3115
02:38:23,440 --> 02:38:26,960
Speaker 2: Do you like this weekend a baseball the rivalry weekend?

3116
02:38:27,520 --> 02:38:27,760
Speaker 1: Yeah?

3117
02:38:27,879 --> 02:38:29,400
Speaker 4: I like the whether they stack it up, I think

3118
02:38:29,400 --> 02:38:32,160
Speaker 4: it's fun. Sodo getting booed out of the stadium last

3119
02:38:32,240 --> 02:38:33,720
Speaker 4: night against the Yankees was pretty cool.

3120
02:38:33,920 --> 02:38:35,360
Speaker 1: So I like the if they line this up, I

3121
02:38:35,360 --> 02:38:38,200
Speaker 1: think it's really sweet. Yeah, yeah, I do too, I

3122
02:38:38,280 --> 02:38:39,680
Speaker 1: do too. Uh.

3123
02:38:39,720 --> 02:38:43,039
Speaker 2: And then we got a little baseball at my household.

3124
02:38:43,120 --> 02:38:45,920
Speaker 2: We got tournaments at ye, dude.

3125
02:38:45,800 --> 02:38:47,040
Speaker 1: No regard to this weekend.

3126
02:38:47,600 --> 02:38:52,760
Speaker 2: Yes, actually the big one had his. He had a

3127
02:38:52,840 --> 02:38:56,359
Speaker 2: race yesterday, but we got hit or all these storms.

3128
02:38:57,080 --> 02:38:58,640
Speaker 3: So they were supposed to leave this morning.

3129
02:38:58,640 --> 02:39:01,640
Speaker 2: They were gonna they made they made the Cup for Nationals,

3130
02:39:02,240 --> 02:39:05,840
Speaker 2: but the rising waters canceled the race.

3131
02:39:06,040 --> 02:39:07,279
Speaker 1: Oh that was unfortunate.

3132
02:39:07,720 --> 02:39:10,200
Speaker 4: I know, I know, mostly because you just can't partake

3133
02:39:10,200 --> 02:39:12,320
Speaker 4: in the phenomenal spread that they have.

3134
02:39:12,320 --> 02:39:14,920
Speaker 2: During the Well I can't. I'm a baseball dude. So

3135
02:39:15,040 --> 02:39:17,480
Speaker 2: my wife gets to do that, you know, hopeless. She

3136
02:39:17,480 --> 02:39:21,560
Speaker 2: can get you a plate to go. Yeah. Well listen,

3137
02:39:21,640 --> 02:39:25,120
Speaker 2: always a blast. FIG love you, buddy. We want to

3138
02:39:25,160 --> 02:39:27,360
Speaker 2: thank everybody listening. We'll see you next week.