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<v Speaker 2>All right, welcome in What Right with Nick Wright? Episode

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<v Speaker 2>two fifty one, little late start today. That's my fault.

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<v Speaker 2>Apologies for that, so let's get right to it. Here's

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<v Speaker 2>what missed the cut? Just an objectively bad haircut from

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Burrow, a bat like the buzz cuts. One thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't really love that photoshop of me. I gotta

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<v Speaker 2>be honest, but the M and M platinum blonde is

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<v Speaker 2>way worse. Diduh you know what? But it does allow

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<v Speaker 2>Coco Golf is gonna be a flag bear alongside Lebron

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<v Speaker 2>and the NBA picks. Amazon over TNT. I'm gonna tell

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<v Speaker 2>you something de Monsey you don't know real quick, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>and then we'll get into the show. I forgot about

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<v Speaker 2>this and then just remembered when I saw that picture

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<v Speaker 2>of me. I think my junior or senior year of

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<v Speaker 2>high school. We you know what, in my senior year,

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<v Speaker 2>we were all shaving our heads, everyone on the basketball team.

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<v Speaker 2>When I say shaving our heads, I mean bicking like

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<v Speaker 2>stone bald all the all the senior basketball players were

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<v Speaker 2>doing it. So right before the season got going was Halloween,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I went as Eminem for Halloween, and I

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<v Speaker 2>dyed my hair like Joe Burrows is, and of I

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<v Speaker 2>have a vivid memory, vivid memory of I Also, god,

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<v Speaker 2>I was such an idiot. But nineties kids will get this.

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<v Speaker 2>In the nineties, it didn't matter how nice your car was.

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<v Speaker 2>What mattered was did you have subwoffers in the back?

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<v Speaker 2>Did your trunk like rattle from the base of the

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<v Speaker 2>music you were listening to, like you the that is

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<v Speaker 2>what that is what defined it. Did you have a

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<v Speaker 2>good amp, did you have a couple of twelves? Whatever

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<v Speaker 2>it is? And I had big subwoofers in the back,

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<v Speaker 2>and then also a light. God, I would have hated

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<v Speaker 2>me as a teenager, A red, white and blue like

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<v Speaker 2>little light in my back window that according to the

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<v Speaker 2>beat of the song with light up via vibration. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>so I give it a bet it was really hitting

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<v Speaker 2>it with it would flash whatever. So we are driving

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<v Speaker 2>to a Halloween party high school. I am wearing an

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<v Speaker 2>all the Lord jumpsuit, which I still would wear to

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<v Speaker 2>this day, bleach blonde hair, and probably some fake jewelry

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<v Speaker 2>as part of the costume. I'm driving and my light

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<v Speaker 2>is like for a couple blocks, malfunctioning and flashing, flashing email.

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<v Speaker 2>The music's not playing crazy, like, what is going on?

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<v Speaker 2>I then realize my light is not malfunctioning. I have

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<v Speaker 2>had a cop trying to pull me over for blocks,

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<v Speaker 2>but I've been driving thinking it's my own light, the red,

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<v Speaker 2>white and blue whatever it is. I then pull over

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<v Speaker 2>and I just remember this police officer coming to my window.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just an idiot teenager dressed like eminem with freshly

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<v Speaker 2>dyed hair, and as best he can tell, I have

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<v Speaker 2>been evading him for blocks. It's like what He's like,

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<v Speaker 2>did you not see me trying to pull you over?

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like do I explain to him that I

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<v Speaker 2>have almost assuredly an illegal light in the back of

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<v Speaker 2>my car, or do I just fall on the story here? Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>that's really apropos of nothing, except I try to every

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<v Speaker 2>time that you've aged out of this, but now your

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<v Speaker 2>sister is aged into it. Every time one of my

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<v Speaker 2>kids does some a dumb teenage thing that just infuriates me,

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<v Speaker 2>I try to remind myself of those types of moments,

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<v Speaker 2>like how did my mom. I don't remember how my

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<v Speaker 2>mom reacted when I came home at midnight that night

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<v Speaker 2>she saw I had dyed my hair and I told her,

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<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, By the way, I got a ticket for something,

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<v Speaker 2>and included on the ticket was like failure to yield

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<v Speaker 2>or pull over whatever, the violation of not evading pulling vaide.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it was evading. I don't think they

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<v Speaker 2>wrote me up for like, you know, fleeing. But it

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<v Speaker 2>was something, all right. So that that's the best thing

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<v Speaker 2>to come out of Joe Burrow's ridiculous hairstyle. Is I

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<v Speaker 2>got was reminded of and told that story? All right,

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<v Speaker 2>pal let's get to some football here.

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<v Speaker 3>So let's check on our NFC title contenders. Shall we. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>so we got Dallas had that awful offseason. CD is

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<v Speaker 3>holding out and they still need to extend Dak Prescott.

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<v Speaker 3>The forty nine ers had you demanded trade a while ago,

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<v Speaker 3>they didn't do that. Now Trent Williams is holding out

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<v Speaker 3>and reports are saying that hurts and Sirianni's relationship is

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<v Speaker 3>a work in progress. Whose problems of those do you

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<v Speaker 3>think are the worst?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think they're all bad, man. So the Niners

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<v Speaker 2>are in the best shape, but the Niners have two

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<v Speaker 2>of their best players not there. And I listen, I

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<v Speaker 2>talked about this on the show yesterday, so we're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>spend a lot of time on this opening topic. So

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<v Speaker 2>I want to start with the Niners. So I just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of did a cursory list in my head and

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<v Speaker 2>then on the show yesterday of skill positioned studs on

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<v Speaker 2>your team, of you know, the best quarterbacks are teams

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<v Speaker 2>that made the playoffs, So the running back, wide receiver,

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<v Speaker 2>tight end last season? How many A you know, a

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<v Speaker 2>A A plus type of guys does did your team

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<v Speaker 2>have last year? So like, here's a guy that gets

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of credit, demonse, your guy Jordan Love had

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<v Speaker 2>zero zero guys that were definitive stars last year at

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<v Speaker 2>wide receiver, tight end or running back, and they still

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<v Speaker 2>made the postseason. A bunch of quarterbacks had just one.

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<v Speaker 2>Mahomes had, Kelsey, Dak had cd CJ. You could say

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<v Speaker 2>had zero. Nico I think edged into that group, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's close, and I'm you know, Lamar only had Mark

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<v Speaker 2>Andrews really and then he got hurt, right, Yeah, A

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<v Speaker 2>few guys have two. Joe Burrow, I know he was

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<v Speaker 2>hurt last year, but as Higgins and Chase Uh, you

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<v Speaker 2>could say the Jalen Hurts has A J and Davante

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<v Speaker 2>this year maybe three if you include Saquon in that group. Purty,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, last year, had four in Cimac, Kittle, Deebo

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<v Speaker 2>and Ayuk, Which is what makes the Niners not trading

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<v Speaker 2>Ayuk so curious to me, because even if they had now,

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<v Speaker 2>I understand why they didn't. Won't don't want to trade

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<v Speaker 2>him now because anything they get from him now won't

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<v Speaker 2>help you this season, but it would help you in

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<v Speaker 2>If you had done it before the draft, you would

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<v Speaker 2>still have a bit of an embarrassment of riches. You'd

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<v Speaker 2>still have an excellent wide receiver, a top three tight

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<v Speaker 2>end in the best running back in football. But I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not trying to have a long party conversation right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they understand what that quarterback needs. Another guy

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<v Speaker 2>who made the playoffs and had two absolute studs but

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<v Speaker 2>still just two is tua in Tyreek and Waddle and

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<v Speaker 2>then good players other places. But they're not gonna trade Ayuk,

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<v Speaker 2>and Ayuk's canna end up coming back, whether he gets

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<v Speaker 2>paid more or not. Trent Williams is a trickier one.

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<v Speaker 2>Trent Williams might be the single most important player on

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<v Speaker 2>the team because the rest of the offensive line isn't great.

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<v Speaker 2>He is the best tackle in the whole sport. And

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<v Speaker 2>Trient's I think, thirty six years old and still amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>And he yeah, he is thirty six years old? Is

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<v Speaker 2>that right? No? Man? Yes, he turned thirty turn yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>turned thirty six last week actually, and understands he's probably

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<v Speaker 2>not going to get another contract because he has three

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<v Speaker 2>years left on this deal, so he wants more money now.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they have to flinch when it comes to

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<v Speaker 2>Trent Williams. So I think the Niners will be okay

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<v Speaker 2>for this season, but they're in an interesting spot moving forward.

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<v Speaker 2>Dallas objectively horrifying offseason lost multiple offensive linemen, did not

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<v Speaker 2>address the running back position, have not gotten deals done

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<v Speaker 2>with any of their three best players, their star defensive player,

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<v Speaker 2>their star wide receiver, and their franchise quarterback. And Jerry

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<v Speaker 2>said he wanted to wait for more leaves to fall.

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<v Speaker 2>The only really leaves left are his own guys. And

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<v Speaker 2>you are now staring at Micah expecting thirty five million

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<v Speaker 2>a year because Nicki Bosa makes thirty four CD expecting

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<v Speaker 2>thirty five million a year because that's what Justin Jefferson makes,

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<v Speaker 2>and Dak's gonna and Dak is going to not sign

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<v Speaker 2>for a dollar less than sixty million a year, which

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<v Speaker 2>to me means they're not going to be able to

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<v Speaker 2>keep all three. And so for this year they'll have

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<v Speaker 2>all three again. A lot of the for the Niners

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<v Speaker 2>and Cowboys, the issues aren't about this season. They're about

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<v Speaker 2>what it means down the road. Because the Niners are

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<v Speaker 2>gonna have I think, this whole team together for this season.

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<v Speaker 2>The Cowboys are gonna have this whole team together for

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<v Speaker 2>this season. They're their issues for this season. The Cowboys

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<v Speaker 2>are not addressing running back. How you know do they

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<v Speaker 2>have is the center position. Take care of those things.

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<v Speaker 2>The Eagles. The stuff is concerning the Diana Russini report

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<v Speaker 2>demase that said Sirianni and Jalen Hurt's relationship is a

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<v Speaker 2>work in progress. This is Sirianni's fourth years the head coach.

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<v Speaker 2>Jalen's been the starting quarterback the whole time, like the

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<v Speaker 2>the let me tell you this right now, any relationship

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<v Speaker 2>that four years in your leg is a work in progress.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just what it's gonna be. It's not all of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Like listen, those first four years we didn't really like

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<v Speaker 2>each other. But let me, I mean, that's not that.

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<v Speaker 2>And so it's a weird spot. And they have very

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<v Speaker 2>different personalities, and in my opinion, the different personalities can

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<v Speaker 2>work if the roles were flipped, if the braggadocious, over

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<v Speaker 2>the top guy is the player and the reserved, cool,

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<v Speaker 2>calm collections. I'm not saying Sirianni's the problem necessarily. What

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying is you don't have to have the same

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<v Speaker 2>personality to get along. But what is very tough is

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<v Speaker 2>if the one who's the more flamboyant the wrong word

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<v Speaker 2>but kind of in your face live wire, that needs

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<v Speaker 2>to be the player role, not the coach role. And

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, so I under say it's not coach quarterback,

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<v Speaker 2>but Travis Kelcey Andy Reid have a similar dynamic of

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<v Speaker 2>Sirianni and Hurts, but the roles are reversed. Yeah, Andy

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<v Speaker 2>Reid's the stoic, you know what I means, his mind right,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's but it can work in that situation. And

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<v Speaker 2>so I think that folks need to remember the Philadelphia

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<v Speaker 2>Eagles from Week one to the end of the year

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<v Speaker 2>last year were a bottom five defense. You then add

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<v Speaker 2>to it that the offense seemed to somewhat fall apart

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<v Speaker 2>over the final month and half of the year. They

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<v Speaker 2>lost six of their final seven games, and in that

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<v Speaker 2>playoff game it looked like they quit flatly quit. So

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<v Speaker 2>all of this is really a preamble to why demonse

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<v Speaker 2>I think I'm picking the Bears to win the NFC

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<v Speaker 2>because there isn't There is not a clear cut end

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<v Speaker 2>boss they have to get through. There are big issues

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<v Speaker 2>with every known quantity team. The other team that comes

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<v Speaker 2>to mind is the Rams, But the Rams might have

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<v Speaker 2>suffered the single biggest loss of any team in the

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<v Speaker 2>league this offseason with Aaron Donald retiring like that can't

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<v Speaker 2>be it. It's it's not looked at the same as

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<v Speaker 2>if Aaron I feel like if Aaron Donald had left

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<v Speaker 2>the Rams to go play for the Texans, that when

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<v Speaker 2>we talk about the Rams, there would be more discussion about, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>and they lost Aaron Donald. But because he retired and

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<v Speaker 2>he's out of the league, I just don't think it's

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<v Speaker 2>at the front of people's mind. And I get he

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<v Speaker 2>was not still peak Aaron Donald, but what he was

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<v Speaker 2>was at worst, at worst the third best player in

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<v Speaker 2>the league at his position, and some would argue he

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<v Speaker 2>was still the best. Some people think he was still

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<v Speaker 2>better than Chris Jones. Uh, and so he's probably the

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<v Speaker 2>second best he tackle in the league. That guy leaves

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<v Speaker 2>and so I So I like the Rams a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>but there's a yeah, but there there's no one in

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<v Speaker 2>the NFC South that I is a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't buy Atlanta like that. That then does leave

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<v Speaker 2>the two other NFC North teams, the Lions and the Packers.

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<v Speaker 2>The Packers were a nine win team last year, so

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<v Speaker 2>the gap between them and Chicago wasn't as great as

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<v Speaker 2>it is in our mind's eye, and that Obviously, Chicago

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<v Speaker 2>made massive upgrades this offseason. Now the Packers upgrade was

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<v Speaker 2>they're so young, everyone got better, and then there is

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<v Speaker 2>Detroit and maybe it'll be Detroit. But the teams that

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<v Speaker 2>are kind of the NFC standard bearers the last few

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<v Speaker 2>years all have real yeah butts about them, which is

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<v Speaker 2>why it could be which is why it could be

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<v Speaker 2>a weird season.

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<v Speaker 3>Did you predict the Bears to go eleven and six

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<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty two?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean possibly, so I'm not sure. I can't tell

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<v Speaker 2>you the exact record prediction. I do the Daniels saying

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<v Speaker 2>yes in twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three. Are

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<v Speaker 2>we talking about two years ago or last year? Guys

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<v Speaker 2>cut the okay? So two years ago?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I think I was that was, Oh that

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<v Speaker 2>makes sense, Yeah, because I thought justin Fields, if let

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<v Speaker 2>me see if I have this right, Bears, the that

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<v Speaker 2>was I think the Bears were coming off. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>look this up exactly. Uh not that it's a super relevant. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Bears had what they had gone to the

0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:40.360
<v Speaker 2>playoffs in twenty twenty. The next year was was that

0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.080
<v Speaker 2>Field's rookie year? Yeah? I think so? Where they kind

0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.920
<v Speaker 2>of ripped everything down. And then that year I thought

0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.480
<v Speaker 2>Fields was gonna take a jump. Instead they won three games,

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I mean that was and they ended up

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<v Speaker 2>I think, well, they had the number one pick of

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<v Speaker 2>the draft. Yeah. So I've been high on the Bears

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<v Speaker 2>incorrectly in the past, but this this is a little

0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:08.679
<v Speaker 2>different situation where they added Roma Dunes, they brought in

0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Caleb Williams. They're coming off seven wins.

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<v Speaker 3>So those of the n the NFC contenders that we

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<v Speaker 3>talked about initially, like Dallas, San Francisco, and uh, who's

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<v Speaker 3>the team in Philly? Does any of those those mishaps

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<v Speaker 3>bring you more joy than one of the others.

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<v Speaker 2>No, none of it brings me joy. I'm a positive guy.

0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.640
<v Speaker 2>I don't root for team's downfall. I there there are

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<v Speaker 2>certain teams that I think need their come up ince

0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:42.919
<v Speaker 2>and I thought that. I thought Philly whining about the

0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:49.280
<v Speaker 2>turf in the Super Bowl consistently and then Sirianni yelling

0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.080
<v Speaker 2>at Chiefs fans after that regular season win. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was, you know, they they deserved their come up

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<v Speaker 2>and as I said, and they got it by executing

0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.320
<v Speaker 2>one of the greatest collapses in NFL history, the cowb

0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.960
<v Speaker 2>I feel badly for Cowboys fans at this point. They

0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.440
<v Speaker 2>win twelve games every year. I bought into him last

0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.440
<v Speaker 2>year and then they they just expect the playoff collapse

0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.760
<v Speaker 2>and I got listen. I think the Niners. I think

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle Shannan's a brilliant coach. I think they're an incredibly

0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.399
<v Speaker 2>well run team. Niner fans don't like me because I

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<v Speaker 2>won't fall for the okie oak on brock Perty the

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<v Speaker 2>way I wouldn't fall for the okie oak on Jimmy Garoppolo,

0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.520
<v Speaker 2>and people get mad about that. Now, Purty's better than Garoppolo,

0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:37.440
<v Speaker 2>but it's it's as if we haven't seen these exact

0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.879
<v Speaker 2>beats before, and so we'll see if I end up

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<v Speaker 2>being wrong with it. I don't really root against any

0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.760
<v Speaker 2>of these teams. I'm getting close to rooting against the

0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.919
<v Speaker 2>Bengals because of Jamar Chase, but I like Joe Burrows

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<v Speaker 2>so much that's gonna be hard.

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<v Speaker 3>To wait, what but the because of what he said

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<v Speaker 3>on the top one hundred things like what are you

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<v Speaker 3>talking about here?

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<v Speaker 2>It's yeah, I mean, it's just a lot. It was

0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.000
<v Speaker 2>Jamar the whole Bengals. It started with burrowhead and then

0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:16.199
<v Speaker 2>it's the Joe Burrow says is handles it properly. I

0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:21.000
<v Speaker 2>Jamar is and I as as recently as a year ago,

0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.320
<v Speaker 2>I would argue Jamar I used to argue Jamar Chase

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<v Speaker 2>might be the best receiver in the whole league. I

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<v Speaker 2>think he's a brilliant player. They irritate me a little bit,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm not rooting against them.

0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:32.960
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.719
<v Speaker 2>And Bill's fans again, I have nothing against Bill's fans.

0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.960
<v Speaker 2>A lot of the Bill's stuff is just it's really

0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.720
<v Speaker 2>media criticism more than anything else. It's it's about an

0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:52.959
<v Speaker 2>premature or anointing, and it's about the the double standards

0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.840
<v Speaker 2>of things. But I don't you know, I mean, well,

0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.720
<v Speaker 2>you know what. I take it back. I do root

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<v Speaker 2>against the Broncos. Is that team ruined my child old

0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:05.200
<v Speaker 2>and uh and I am not a John John Elways

0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.560
<v Speaker 2>want to, as far as sports goes, one of my

0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.760
<v Speaker 2>most disliked athletes and executives of my lifetime. So them

0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.120
<v Speaker 2>going through these struggles does bring me joy. But that's

0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.399
<v Speaker 2>just a Chiefs Broncos rivalry, nothing else really so much.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go to Rogers.

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<v Speaker 3>All right? So, uh, Aaron Rodgers. Let's let's take a

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<v Speaker 3>listen to what he had to say about his unexcused absence.

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<v Speaker 3>Quick side.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, I'm an adult. I knew what I was

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<v Speaker 5>getting into, I knew the find that was coming, and

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<v Speaker 5>also knew how much I wanted to be to be

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<v Speaker 5>in Egypt. I wish there hadn't been a conflict scheduling wise,

0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.639
<v Speaker 5>but you know, it was what it was.

0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:52.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Pyramids and Egypt aren't going anywhere obviously.

0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.800
<v Speaker 3>Aaron Rodgers what he should have been a practice. How

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<v Speaker 3>soon do you think the Jets were regret getting into

0:20:58.760 --> 0:20:59.840
<v Speaker 3>the Aaron Rodgers business?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean midway through this year when they realized that

0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.040
<v Speaker 2>they they put everything about their franchise in this guy's

0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:14.880
<v Speaker 2>hands and football is just one of his interests. And

0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.880
<v Speaker 2>in general that can work and that can be okay,

0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.840
<v Speaker 2>but it can't work for quarterback savior when it's just

0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.760
<v Speaker 2>And I thought he handled that press conference fine. I

0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:34.240
<v Speaker 2>thought he was uncharacteristically honest and a given credit for that,

0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.600
<v Speaker 2>but it was telling when he was like, listen, I

0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.040
<v Speaker 2>had a choice to make, and I chose the other thing.

0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:49.440
<v Speaker 2>But my actual if I were a Jet fan, thank god,

0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:54.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. Here is the thing that I would be

0:21:54.720 --> 0:22:00.680
<v Speaker 2>most unnerved by the T shirt he wore going into

0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:06.159
<v Speaker 2>training camp. Did you see it? Demanse? So he wore, Okay,

0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.720
<v Speaker 2>we've got it right there. It's an Egyptian cat. It's

0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.760
<v Speaker 2>a little it's it's it's it's just if you do

0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.399
<v Speaker 2>get the image Egyptian cat, that's what comes up. So

0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:22.840
<v Speaker 2>here's why, right, it's uh, it's it's just a little

0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:29.520
<v Speaker 2>reminder needle of who's in charge. And so it's just

0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:35.800
<v Speaker 2>it is an odd choice in my opinion. And I

0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:38.639
<v Speaker 2>know folks think I'm too hard on Aaron and I

0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.040
<v Speaker 2>don't even know if we spent time on this show

0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.800
<v Speaker 2>when he did the thing on pardon my take when

0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.760
<v Speaker 2>he was like, well there's you know, words or funny

0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.320
<v Speaker 2>things they mean different things, trying to change the definition

0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:55.040
<v Speaker 2>of mandatory, which was such an odd choice to make

0:22:55.080 --> 0:23:00.000
<v Speaker 2>when like mandatory just like words do mean certain things,

0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:07.680
<v Speaker 2>and mandatory means mandatory like obligatory. You've got And so

0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:14.680
<v Speaker 2>that part I didn't love. But it he is operating

0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:22.160
<v Speaker 2>as if he is still a superstar, and I don't

0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:28.159
<v Speaker 2>think he is. We'll see, but I think right now,

0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:32.240
<v Speaker 2>because people the big question I have or A big

0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.679
<v Speaker 2>question people ask me is what you know, what do

0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.240
<v Speaker 2>I dislike about the Jets? How do I not like

0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:42.560
<v Speaker 2>their roster? And I think they have an outstanding defensive roster,

0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.960
<v Speaker 2>and I think they have a decent offensive roster. And

0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:52.320
<v Speaker 2>if it were Madden and we turned all injuries off,

0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.760
<v Speaker 2>I would say their offensive roster is good, because it's not.

0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.920
<v Speaker 2>And you have to bake in injury history with guy.

0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:04.119
<v Speaker 2>That's why I call it a decent offensive roster because

0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:08.840
<v Speaker 2>when a few of your biggest acquisitions are historically consistently

0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.800
<v Speaker 2>injured players, take rogers out of it. I'm not gonna

0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:15.119
<v Speaker 2>give you seventeen games for those guys like Tyron Smith

0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:20.760
<v Speaker 2>and Mike Williams. But my biggest concerns with Number one

0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.520
<v Speaker 2>concern with the Jets is I think they have a

0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.800
<v Speaker 2>bottom five in the NFL coaching staff. I think that

0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.840
<v Speaker 2>is a fair reading of the situation. I think they

0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:34.480
<v Speaker 2>have a front office that we have no reason to

0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:37.600
<v Speaker 2>believe knows what it's doing, as evidence by the fact

0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.719
<v Speaker 2>that they traded for Hassan Reddick because and the reason

0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.520
<v Speaker 2>so bres Hall, Bryce Hall. I get these two players

0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:50.320
<v Speaker 2>once or well there's two, here's The problem. Breece is

0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:54.200
<v Speaker 2>the running back. Bryce is the pass rusher. The problem

0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:57.160
<v Speaker 2>is they both were on the Jets.

0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:58.199
<v Speaker 3>Like bree I think the.

0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.359
<v Speaker 2>Hold on and I'm gonna get this all wrong. Breece

0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:06.400
<v Speaker 2>is the running back, that's right. But the guy who

0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.080
<v Speaker 2>signed with the Eagles in the offseason for a bunch

0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:13.600
<v Speaker 2>of money, Bryce Hoff. That's it. So this is what's

0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:18.679
<v Speaker 2>so confusing. Sorry, Breece Hall. Breece Hall is the running

0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:24.719
<v Speaker 2>back for the Jets. Am I getting this right? Breece

0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:28.520
<v Speaker 2>Hall is the running back for the Jets. Bryce Hall

0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:34.600
<v Speaker 2>is a corner I think for the Bucks. Bryce Hoff

0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:40.320
<v Speaker 2>was a pass rusher for the Jets. It's confusing. I apologize,

0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:42.280
<v Speaker 2>But now that I have this name right, this story

0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:46.520
<v Speaker 2>will make more sense. I think both. Actually I think

0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:48.879
<v Speaker 2>there's actually a Bryce Hall in the NFL and a

0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:53.480
<v Speaker 2>media personality, neither of whom are relevant to this conversation. Oddly,

0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:57.800
<v Speaker 2>neither was Breece Hall. I was trying to say Bryce Hoff.

0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.959
<v Speaker 2>So the Jets had Bryce Hoff their pass rusher. The

0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:08.080
<v Speaker 2>Eagles signed him in free agency because Hassan Reddick, who

0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:12.919
<v Speaker 2>was there designate pass rusher, wanted a contract extension and

0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:15.880
<v Speaker 2>they didn't want to give it to him. The Jets

0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:21.200
<v Speaker 2>then traded for Hassan Reddick, and Hassan Reddick is now

0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:23.879
<v Speaker 2>holding out of Jets camp the way he was going

0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:27.520
<v Speaker 2>to hold out of Eagles camp because he doesn't have

0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:32.159
<v Speaker 2>a contract extension and the Jets are leaking to you know,

0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:37.840
<v Speaker 2>favorable local media. It was a misunderstanding. That's a poorly

0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:42.240
<v Speaker 2>run team. If you trade for a player and think

0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:47.440
<v Speaker 2>he's going to report without you giving him a contract extension,

0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:50.600
<v Speaker 2>and then he you don't give him a contract extension

0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:53.920
<v Speaker 2>and he doesn't report, that's a bad front office. I'm sorry,

0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:56.200
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't say that's a bad for an office. That's

0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:59.160
<v Speaker 2>a bad That is the type of mistake a bad

0:26:59.160 --> 0:26:59.960
<v Speaker 2>front office would.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh.

0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:05.560
<v Speaker 2>That's one of those things if you don't wanna when

0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:08.639
<v Speaker 2>I started a quick sidebar and then I'll get back

0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:12.959
<v Speaker 2>to the Jets. When I first started on the radio. Uh,

0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:15.960
<v Speaker 2>I remember one of my bosses telling me this, Gosh,

0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:22.520
<v Speaker 2>at this point fifteen years ago, don't criticize people, criticize actions.

0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:26.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, what do you mean. It's like, well, don't

0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:31.679
<v Speaker 2>don't say someone's dumb. Say doing X was dumb, That

0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.000
<v Speaker 2>was dumb, you know, what I and don't say, uh,

0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:44.119
<v Speaker 2>you know, try not to say this person is a liar,

0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.280
<v Speaker 2>say this was a lie. Like those are the kind

0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:52.320
<v Speaker 2>of distinguishing things. And the way that I because I

0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:56.919
<v Speaker 2>didn't really like I I that I've never liked being

0:27:56.960 --> 0:28:00.119
<v Speaker 2>told what to say, even and if you even and

0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:02.320
<v Speaker 2>if I wasn't going to say what you're telling me

0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:05.960
<v Speaker 2>not to say, it really bothers me that you either

0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:08.840
<v Speaker 2>think I don't know not to say that or you

0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.959
<v Speaker 2>think you can, you know, like basically not censor but

0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:17.159
<v Speaker 2>guide what I'm gonna say. And so the way that

0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:22.639
<v Speaker 2>I took that little coaching moment was if I thought,

0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:26.719
<v Speaker 2>what I would go with was this turn of phrase,

0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:30.960
<v Speaker 2>which was I'm not saying this person's dumb, but they

0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:34.440
<v Speaker 2>do a lot of things dumb people do. And so

0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:38.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying the Jets front office is poorly run,

0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.760
<v Speaker 2>but there are a lot of decisions they make that

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:47.560
<v Speaker 2>mirror exactly what a poorly run front office would would make.

0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:51.560
<v Speaker 2>So I think they have bad coaching staff. I'm questioned

0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:53.880
<v Speaker 2>about the front office. And then here's the other thing.

0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:58.800
<v Speaker 2>I do not think the Jets have above average quarterback play,

0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:02.520
<v Speaker 2>and that is what it's gonna come down to. And

0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:06.080
<v Speaker 2>that's not about Aaron being injured. It's about the fact

0:29:06.480 --> 0:29:12.920
<v Speaker 2>that two years ago, Aaron was dead average in the NFL.

0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:18.040
<v Speaker 2>Not by Aaron Rodgers standards, by NFL standards. His last

0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:21.400
<v Speaker 2>year with the Packers, he was a league average quarterback.

0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:25.520
<v Speaker 2>Now he's two years older, off in Achilles with a

0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:28.200
<v Speaker 2>worst coaching staff. So I think they're going to have

0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:32.360
<v Speaker 2>a round the sixteenth seventeenth best quarterback play in the

0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:35.640
<v Speaker 2>league this year, plus a bad coaching staff, and all

0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:38.000
<v Speaker 2>of a sudden, that's how a team that thinks they

0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:41.040
<v Speaker 2>can win the Super Bowl wins eight or nine games.

0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:45.040
<v Speaker 3>You think that he was ranked above Prince, the Prince

0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:47.080
<v Speaker 3>that was promised on the top NFL one hundred.

0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:50.160
<v Speaker 2>I mean they were so close. It was ninety four

0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:55.360
<v Speaker 2>to ninety two. To me, that's essentially equivalent ranking. I

0:29:55.440 --> 0:30:00.320
<v Speaker 2>think that, Listen, the Prince has a lot to proved

0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.080
<v Speaker 2>this year. I think the Prince will have a better

0:30:02.160 --> 0:30:02.800
<v Speaker 2>year than Aaron.

0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:07.960
<v Speaker 3>I would say, yeah, he's a big year.

0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:11.160
<v Speaker 2>Is a big year for Trevor, There's no doubt about it. Listen,

0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:16.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm not gonna I in my opinion, Trevor Lawrence's

0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:20.760
<v Speaker 2>story is quite easy to understand. By year two in

0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:24.960
<v Speaker 2>the NFL, he was excellent, executed one of the greatest

0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:28.959
<v Speaker 2>playoff comebacks ever, took that momentum and then lost to

0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.520
<v Speaker 2>Patrick Mahomes, who everyone loses to in the playoffs. Then

0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:36.000
<v Speaker 2>took that momentum into the next season, was eight and three,

0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:40.400
<v Speaker 2>had his team on Monday Night Football, the Jacksonville Jaguars,

0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:44.280
<v Speaker 2>playing for the one seed midway through his third year

0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:48.040
<v Speaker 2>in the league, and then suffered three consecutive awful injuries

0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:50.840
<v Speaker 2>in the season. Philipart, that makes a ton of sense

0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:53.480
<v Speaker 2>to me. I know a lot of folks think, no, actually,

0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:56.200
<v Speaker 2>the guy just stinks. Just he just was. It was

0:30:56.320 --> 0:30:59.000
<v Speaker 2>make believe for three years at Clemson. I don't know

0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:01.360
<v Speaker 2>how people could that second year in the league and

0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:04.720
<v Speaker 2>the playoff comeback whatever. But yes, you're right, demansay he

0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:07.680
<v Speaker 2>has a lot to prove this year. All right, let's

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:08.000
<v Speaker 2>move on.

0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:12.000
<v Speaker 3>So, yeah, after the show on Tuesday, you auditioned to

0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:15.640
<v Speaker 3>be a US Open ball boy. Uh didn't go your way.

0:31:15.720 --> 0:31:19.080
<v Speaker 3>It seems like you might have hobbled away even are

0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:21.320
<v Speaker 3>you gonna make any excuses for your performance? How do

0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:22.120
<v Speaker 3>you feel about it?

0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:27.040
<v Speaker 2>No, I thought I did great. I don't think I

0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:30.920
<v Speaker 2>got the job, and I didn't go into it one

0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:34.000
<v Speaker 2>hundred percent, but I did everything that was asked of me.

0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:43.520
<v Speaker 2>I clearly showed the intellectual capability of understanding because it's

0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.560
<v Speaker 2>different jobs. There's back, there's net. You have to understand.

0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:48.960
<v Speaker 2>You really have to know tennis because you have to

0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:50.880
<v Speaker 2>know waight. Was that a fault? Was that a point?

0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.760
<v Speaker 2>Where does the ball go? You gotta be on your feet,

0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:58.880
<v Speaker 2>and man, it's ninety minute shifts, the ninety minutes off

0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:02.200
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, I mean listen, first things first is going

0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:05.960
<v Speaker 2>to publish the video, and you're gonna see me gallantly

0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:12.080
<v Speaker 2>fighting through multiple injuries. I don't know why you're laughing

0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:18.800
<v Speaker 2>despite the injuries. I you know I did. I played

0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:21.600
<v Speaker 2>tennis for like an hour before that was probably a mistake.

0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:26.360
<v Speaker 2>I then went through a full hour training session, and

0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:28.800
<v Speaker 2>then after that there was the actual tryout. So by

0:32:28.840 --> 0:32:31.720
<v Speaker 2>the time we got to the tryout, my jet ski

0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:36.760
<v Speaker 2>back injury was really bad and I could tell I

0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:41.600
<v Speaker 2>was this close to monse to a torn left hamstring.

0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:45.480
<v Speaker 2>I could feel it, I could feel it going, but

0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:49.240
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to quit. I particularly did not want

0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:52.880
<v Speaker 2>to quit when this happened. So there were thirty four

0:32:53.040 --> 0:33:00.760
<v Speaker 2>people auditioning this outworks fourteen hundred, tryout hundred, make it

0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:06.520
<v Speaker 2>one hundred, make it of the fourteen hundred and summer.

0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:09.080
<v Speaker 2>And so they have different tryouts throughout the day and

0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:12.760
<v Speaker 2>throughout the week, and it's once you're actually trying out

0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:16.320
<v Speaker 2>they pair. They don't pair. They do groups of six

0:33:16.360 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 2>because that's how many ball people there are, two you know,

0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:23.200
<v Speaker 2>behind each player and two at the net. Uh and,

0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:27.720
<v Speaker 2>so that gives you six. So in our group demanse

0:33:29.240 --> 0:33:35.240
<v Speaker 2>were a couple young ladies who it was their first time,

0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:39.880
<v Speaker 2>and then four guys in their twenties who, for all

0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:42.440
<v Speaker 2>of them it was their fifth consecutive year.

0:33:42.680 --> 0:33:43.000
<v Speaker 3>Uh oh.

0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:48.520
<v Speaker 2>And there were more than uh oh, demanse. Then there

0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:51.840
<v Speaker 2>were And obviously, I mean you've been to the US Open.

0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:54.240
<v Speaker 2>There's a bunch of matches going on early in the week,

0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:57.560
<v Speaker 2>there's like thirty courts, and then eventually by the end

0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:01.040
<v Speaker 2>of it, you're down to the semifinals, the actual finals, whatever.

0:34:01.680 --> 0:34:04.880
<v Speaker 2>So the best of the best get you know, the

0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:10.880
<v Speaker 2>semi final, the final whatever. These two twin guys super

0:34:11.000 --> 0:34:16.360
<v Speaker 2>nice watched the show. College baseball players, local kids from

0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:23.640
<v Speaker 2>Queen's awesome guys. I think they were identical twins. I

0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:26.399
<v Speaker 2>know they were twins. I think identical twins. So I'm

0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:29.319
<v Speaker 2>talking to them. They're like, yeah, this is our fifth year.

0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:31.719
<v Speaker 2>We do whatevery year. I'm like, okay, I'm like, what's

0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:35.799
<v Speaker 2>the biggest match you've done? And one brother kind of

0:34:35.840 --> 0:34:42.000
<v Speaker 2>like sheepishly, is like, oh, I did a Novak last year,

0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:46.400
<v Speaker 2>like you did Novak Djokovic. He's like yeah. I'm like,

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:48.680
<v Speaker 2>what position were you in? He's like, I was net

0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:53.160
<v Speaker 2>and that's the hardest, it's the most lined on the

0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:57.640
<v Speaker 2>side of the net exactly. I'm like, you did you

0:34:57.680 --> 0:35:01.120
<v Speaker 2>were net for a Djokovic match? And he's like yeah.

0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:05.520
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like which one? And he said the final,

0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:11.640
<v Speaker 2>Like wait, you were the you were net ballperson for

0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:15.920
<v Speaker 2>the men's final last year. And he's like, trying to

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:18.799
<v Speaker 2>be you know, humble but honest, he's like yeah. I'm

0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:22.840
<v Speaker 2>like that's unbelievable. So then I ask his brother, his

0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:26.600
<v Speaker 2>twin brother. I'm like, what about you. He's like, I

0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.759
<v Speaker 2>was net for the men's final the year before. I'm like,

0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:33.640
<v Speaker 2>wait a minute, so you're the two best in the world.

0:35:33.920 --> 0:35:36.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you guys. They got to me competing against

0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:42.200
<v Speaker 2>literally the two best ball people in the world.

0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.840
<v Speaker 3>You have to try out though, in order to yeah, well.

0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:50.200
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, of course, right exactly, you have to keep trying,

0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.560
<v Speaker 2>you have to earn your spot. Every year they had

0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:55.960
<v Speaker 2>to be there. But my point is it's I mean,

0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:58.560
<v Speaker 2>they exactly throw me into the kids into the pool.

0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:02.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm out there against a city. I'm out there against

0:36:02.520 --> 0:36:08.000
<v Speaker 2>the Djokovic Alcoraz of ball's people, the two best in

0:36:08.040 --> 0:36:10.799
<v Speaker 2>the certain I shouldn't say the world, but here's the thing.

0:36:11.280 --> 0:36:16.759
<v Speaker 2>The Australian, the French and Wimbledon don't pay. They're volunteer positions.

0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:19.920
<v Speaker 2>The US Open pays. So it is not an exaggeration

0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:25.280
<v Speaker 2>to say these two brothers, who have done the men's

0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:29.480
<v Speaker 2>final in back to back years, are the two best

0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:34.160
<v Speaker 2>balls people in the world. And I gotta tell you,

0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:36.760
<v Speaker 2>I thought I held my own with them, I gotta

0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:42.400
<v Speaker 2>tell you, and I was despite the injury. And so

0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:47.719
<v Speaker 2>because of the injuries, I don't think I'm going to

0:36:47.800 --> 0:36:54.480
<v Speaker 2>be selected this year. However, now that I know the requirements,

0:36:55.320 --> 0:36:59.560
<v Speaker 2>now that I know uh the muscles, I need to

0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.520
<v Speaker 2>make sure I stretch out, and now that I know

0:37:02.560 --> 0:37:06.960
<v Speaker 2>when The tryouts are all make sure that I'm in good,

0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:13.200
<v Speaker 2>better physical condition for next year in my age forty season.

0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:18.879
<v Speaker 2>Much like Lebron, I will compete once again and I'll

0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:22.600
<v Speaker 2>make it next year. I'm telling you right now, I'll

0:37:22.680 --> 0:37:25.560
<v Speaker 2>be selected to be a US Open balls person next year.

0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:30.520
<v Speaker 2>I know the rules. My role is elite. I under

0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:32.640
<v Speaker 2>like how you roll the ball because you got to

0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:34.719
<v Speaker 2>like do a relay throw from one. But it's got

0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:41.840
<v Speaker 2>to be a role. I still have ninetieth percentile quickness

0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:48.280
<v Speaker 2>stop start ability. Uh, I just I mean, you're saying

0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:54.640
<v Speaker 2>I just don't know, don't You're eighth percentile athlete, and

0:37:54.719 --> 0:38:00.239
<v Speaker 2>so you you don't. I'm okay. Well again, the I mean,

0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:04.600
<v Speaker 2>I'll let the video speak for itself because I despite

0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:08.280
<v Speaker 2>the fact that I clearly have a couple slip discs

0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:11.480
<v Speaker 2>in my back, I'm I'm kind of crushing some of

0:38:11.520 --> 0:38:15.120
<v Speaker 2>these drills, and so I don't know why you're laughing

0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:18.160
<v Speaker 2>so hard. But but I'll be back. It was a

0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:20.919
<v Speaker 2>great experience and I'll be back, much like this show,

0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:23.040
<v Speaker 2>play a little more to gain, more to lose next

0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:31.560
<v Speaker 2>what's right, Welcome back in We'll driving the great and

0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:33.120
<v Speaker 2>oh my gosh, I should have led the show with

0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 2>this before we get to more to gain, more to lose?

0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:41.600
<v Speaker 2>Major announcement major. I almost Should I make it? Or

0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:44.480
<v Speaker 2>should I allow Demanse to make it? Hold on? I

0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:48.759
<v Speaker 2>want to if I let all right, Demonse, I am

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:53.360
<v Speaker 2>texting you something right now. It's a video. Tell me

0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:56.520
<v Speaker 2>when you get it, and then just narrate the video

0:38:56.640 --> 0:39:00.960
<v Speaker 2>to the audience. It should be you should have it momentarily. Uh,

0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:06.120
<v Speaker 2>it's a short video. Uh, it says, it says it

0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:09.080
<v Speaker 2>was delivered, you got it. Narrate what you're seeing to

0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:10.320
<v Speaker 2>the audience and what it says.

0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:19.320
<v Speaker 3>Made national champions I'm assuming this is. Uh, let's see

0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:20.800
<v Speaker 3>what does it?

0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:24.480
<v Speaker 2>Hold on? I feel like you. I mean, that's all

0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:25.120
<v Speaker 2>you said.

0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:28.719
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, you got ACC Defensive Player the other week.

0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:30.799
<v Speaker 2>Oh, don't worry about all the awards I won. I'll

0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:38.640
<v Speaker 2>explain that national champions National championship, the national championship. I

0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:39.360
<v Speaker 2>won the champion.

0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:42.720
<v Speaker 3>Oh, you were winning the league championships before.

0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:47.319
<v Speaker 2>I won some ACC titles and I got to the

0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:50.759
<v Speaker 2>the and I got to the college football playoff, but

0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:53.640
<v Speaker 2>I had never actually finished the deal. If you remember,

0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:59.879
<v Speaker 2>on our last episode of What's Right, I explained how

0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:03.920
<v Speaker 2>in the new College Football video game, I had made

0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:13.239
<v Speaker 2>a very risky decision, which is my junior quarterback who

0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:17.880
<v Speaker 2>had really helped build Syracuse into a perennial top twenty

0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:23.440
<v Speaker 2>five team, and I had convinced to stay at the school,

0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:26.880
<v Speaker 2>and we were winning nine games, winning the ACC title

0:40:27.040 --> 0:40:30.520
<v Speaker 2>even what made a college football playoff. Under his stewardship,

0:40:31.840 --> 0:40:37.440
<v Speaker 2>I benched him for a true freshman, and it didn't

0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:40.839
<v Speaker 2>go great that first year, but I believed in this

0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:49.000
<v Speaker 2>young man, Greg Marciano. And two years later, his junior season,

0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:53.879
<v Speaker 2>we lost our first game of the year in overtime

0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:57.839
<v Speaker 2>to Arkansas, twenty seven to twenty one. And all he

0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:05.400
<v Speaker 2>did was rip off sixteen consecutive victories, finished second in

0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:08.680
<v Speaker 2>the Heisman. And you might say finished second in the Heisman.

0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Who won it his teammate, our great wide receiver Brian Tompkins,

0:41:16.000 --> 0:41:19.160
<v Speaker 2>who had twenty four touchdowns, finished one two in the Heisman,

0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:26.120
<v Speaker 2>sixteen straight victories, won, UH won every award there was. Again,

0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:32.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm not playing. I'm simulating, so I mean it's on Heisman,

0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.880
<v Speaker 2>but I'm not I'm just building the team, letting the

0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:39.080
<v Speaker 2>chips fall where they may. And now UH I got

0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:41.280
<v Speaker 2>to tell you now that the job has been done

0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:46.799
<v Speaker 2>for Syracuse University. Uh, We're open to other offers. The

0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:51.279
<v Speaker 2>you know, southern California seems awful, nice, and you know,

0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:54.520
<v Speaker 2>maybe a traditional power. I'd said that I would bring

0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:57.239
<v Speaker 2>a national championship to my alma mater. I've done it.

0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:02.080
<v Speaker 2>The cupboard is more than stacked for whomever takes over

0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:06.480
<v Speaker 2>after me, and I'm very excited about what's next to come.

0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:11.120
<v Speaker 2>But and I'm still yet to actually play the game.

0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:16.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm yet to actually play a game. I but I

0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:19.680
<v Speaker 2>need you know now that I have won the national

0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:23.880
<v Speaker 2>championship and finished first second in the Heisman, won every

0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:28.040
<v Speaker 2>award there was. Essentially, I feel like at some point

0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:31.040
<v Speaker 2>I probably should play the game, but I'm not ready

0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:33.520
<v Speaker 2>to do that quite yet. But I just that's a

0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:37.040
<v Speaker 2>quick little college football n CAA twenty five yards.

0:42:37.080 --> 0:42:39.640
<v Speaker 3>I'm scared to figure out how good or bad you

0:42:39.680 --> 0:42:42.920
<v Speaker 3>are at the actual playing, because like you could be

0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:46.000
<v Speaker 3>playing games on the side of you doing like you're

0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:47.920
<v Speaker 3>your whole syracuseteynas well.

0:42:47.960 --> 0:42:52.160
<v Speaker 2>Here's the thing. I don't have the stats on it,

0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:57.480
<v Speaker 2>but I'm gonna say I'm averaging. I don't know a

0:42:57.560 --> 0:43:01.480
<v Speaker 2>good few hours a day on this thing right now.

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.640
<v Speaker 2>It takes it's tough so to all of a sudden

0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:14.480
<v Speaker 2>exhibition in exhibition games. It just seems it seems like

0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:17.239
<v Speaker 2>it would not be, you know, the best for my

0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:21.520
<v Speaker 2>personal or professional life. I think your sisters would respect

0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:27.360
<v Speaker 2>it more rather than seeing me just sitting there dming

0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:30.960
<v Speaker 2>fake high school students to try to come to my school.

0:43:31.680 --> 0:43:35.040
<v Speaker 2>Uh as part of the recruitment process. But you know,

0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:37.680
<v Speaker 2>such is life. This game's been out of my life

0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:40.239
<v Speaker 2>for eleven years, and I'm just so glad to have

0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.879
<v Speaker 2>it back. All right to Mom's let's play more to gain,

0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:43.799
<v Speaker 2>more to lose.

0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:48.319
<v Speaker 3>More to gain, more to lose? A Team USA basketball audition, Men's, Uh,

0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:51.200
<v Speaker 3>you called Lebron the best player on Team USA, which

0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:54.080
<v Speaker 3>means both the team's success and or a failure will

0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:56.920
<v Speaker 3>be accredited to him. Does Lebron have more to gain

0:43:56.960 --> 0:43:58.239
<v Speaker 3>and more to lose in the Olympics.

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:03.600
<v Speaker 2>Oh, definitively more to lose. Like, here's the thing, if

0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:09.680
<v Speaker 2>they eat everyone who was making I shouldn't say everyone,

0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:12.880
<v Speaker 2>A lot of the people who were making the argument

0:44:12.960 --> 0:44:18.440
<v Speaker 2>before the Olympics that Lebron should not even be starting,

0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:22.439
<v Speaker 2>that he's not one of the five best guys. If

0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:27.200
<v Speaker 2>they don't win, will instantly blame him. That is a

0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:33.440
<v Speaker 2>guarantee that he gets demons. He gets blamed for the

0:44:34.160 --> 0:44:39.200
<v Speaker 2>four meltdown, despite the fact that when those Olympics took place,

0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:44.200
<v Speaker 2>he was nineteen years old, he had just finished his

0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:50.120
<v Speaker 2>rookie season. He was not even one of the significant

0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:53.680
<v Speaker 2>minute skinners anything. And people are still like, oh my god,

0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:57.920
<v Speaker 2>that O four team. He was nineteen on the Olympic

0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:01.640
<v Speaker 2>team and people hang that around his next So yeah,

0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:06.239
<v Speaker 2>but so definitely more to lose. Definitely more to lose.

0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:08.160
<v Speaker 3>But not more to gain with the fact that he's

0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:10.680
<v Speaker 3>thirty nine and can carry this team to the end.

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<v Speaker 2>Like the vision, I mean, I think that the folks

0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:21.920
<v Speaker 2>will again, this will There's a lot of stuff that

0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:26.719
<v Speaker 2>does not follow a logical tree. It just follows a

0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:32.360
<v Speaker 2>lebron derangement syndrome tree. Just see the bubble when people

0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:37.759
<v Speaker 2>thought that the Lakers weren't gonna win that title and

0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:42.000
<v Speaker 2>the Clippers were gonna win it, and that then nobody

0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:45.920
<v Speaker 2>was being like, well, this is not gonna be a

0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:49.319
<v Speaker 2>real title. At that time, people were talking about how

0:45:49.320 --> 0:45:52.320
<v Speaker 2>it would be one of the hardest titles. Ever about

0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:55.279
<v Speaker 2>how even if you earned home court, you don't get

0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:58.040
<v Speaker 2>home games. You're away from your family, that you have

0:45:58.120 --> 0:46:00.360
<v Speaker 2>to live in Disney World. You're in the middle of

0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:03.520
<v Speaker 2>a pandemic. But then the Lakers crushed everyone and people

0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:06.680
<v Speaker 2>now put out Mickey Mouse emojis. There's just a lot

0:46:06.760 --> 0:46:10.200
<v Speaker 2>of stuff that it's just Calvin ball with lebron Heads.

0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:11.960
<v Speaker 2>You lose tails, I win all right.

0:46:12.040 --> 0:46:15.560
<v Speaker 3>Next o, Embiid has yets proved he can win anything

0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:18.680
<v Speaker 3>and things are looking great for him so far during

0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:21.560
<v Speaker 3>the Exhibition Games? Does Embiid have more to gain and

0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:22.880
<v Speaker 3>more to lose at the Olympics?

0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:28.279
<v Speaker 2>More to lose? I mean, I'd like Embiid just consistent,

0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:31.719
<v Speaker 2>like and you don't like Embid. I do like Embiid,

0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:35.720
<v Speaker 2>but he he is not. There was a like even

0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:40.360
<v Speaker 2>little silly things, which is there's a fun little social

0:46:40.440 --> 0:46:45.080
<v Speaker 2>media video going out right now of guys. Have you

0:46:45.120 --> 0:46:45.400
<v Speaker 2>seen it?

0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:47.560
<v Speaker 3>Demon's eight Yes, it's like four of them, four or

0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:48.360
<v Speaker 3>five of them.

0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:50.839
<v Speaker 2>Well, there's a bunch of them. But this is about

0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.520
<v Speaker 2>who has the best nickname? Have you seen this one?

0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:54.839
<v Speaker 3>No? I haven't seen that one.

0:46:55.040 --> 0:47:00.640
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So it's funny because you have like Derek White

0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:05.200
<v Speaker 2>really taking it seriously and where he's talking about He's like, well,

0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.480
<v Speaker 2>book doesn't count because that's just a shortening of it.

0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:11.440
<v Speaker 2>And then they were like, is BAM a nickname? And

0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:15.319
<v Speaker 2>Drew Holliday's like, yeah, somebody asked me last year what

0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:19.319
<v Speaker 2>BAM's actual name was, and I said Beaumonte, even though

0:47:19.360 --> 0:47:21.279
<v Speaker 2>that's not his name, So now we call him that,

0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:26.520
<v Speaker 2>and then and and some people say King, and then

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:30.840
<v Speaker 2>so's I forget who, but King James and Chef Curry

0:47:31.200 --> 0:47:34.680
<v Speaker 2>get the most votes from like other people. Somebody says

0:47:35.200 --> 0:47:38.520
<v Speaker 2>a slim reaper. Durant asked about it, and he's like,

0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:40.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, I didn't used to like that nickname because

0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:42.439
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think I'd earned it, but now I love

0:47:42.520 --> 0:47:47.400
<v Speaker 2>that nickname. But everyone is throwing out possibilities for other people,

0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:49.480
<v Speaker 2>and then Embiid's in it. In the middle of it.

0:47:49.520 --> 0:47:52.040
<v Speaker 2>They're like, so, what's the best nickname? And Embiid votes

0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:56.440
<v Speaker 2>for himself. He's like the process, and I just like,

0:47:56.560 --> 0:48:00.200
<v Speaker 2>what are we doing? Like there's and so I and

0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:05.680
<v Speaker 2>again I like Joelle, but he hasn't played well. The

0:48:05.760 --> 0:48:09.760
<v Speaker 2>quotes we talked about last week I thought were not great.

0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:14.080
<v Speaker 3>Is sneaky a teammate. You think he's like I think

0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:15.720
<v Speaker 3>he might sneaky, be a bad teammate.

0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:19.720
<v Speaker 2>So some people think that. Man, I have not wanted

0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:25.600
<v Speaker 2>to think that, but he has some rough quotes, I'll

0:48:25.640 --> 0:48:29.200
<v Speaker 2>tell you that, and even recently where he was the

0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:31.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't know about.

0:48:30.760 --> 0:48:33.600
<v Speaker 3>It, I know him saying that his team would get

0:48:33.600 --> 0:48:36.279
<v Speaker 3>blown out if he rested for I just think that's

0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:38.759
<v Speaker 3>what you're throwing out your teammates. Like even if even

0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:40.760
<v Speaker 3>if that is the case, dude, like you're still playing

0:48:40.760 --> 0:48:42.280
<v Speaker 3>with some of these guys. What are you talking about?

0:48:42.800 --> 0:48:45.479
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it's it's a rough quote that that is true.

0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:46.560
<v Speaker 2>All right, Let's move on.

0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:49.680
<v Speaker 3>To Gianni's Janis has failed to stay healthy in the

0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:52.400
<v Speaker 3>playoffs since winning the title. Now he has the opportunity

0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:54.320
<v Speaker 3>to remind everyone he's the best player in the world

0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:56.960
<v Speaker 3>on the big stage. Does Giannis have more to gain

0:48:57.040 --> 0:48:59.040
<v Speaker 3>or more to lose at the Olympics?

0:48:59.080 --> 0:49:01.640
<v Speaker 2>Way more to game? This is easy. He's on a

0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:07.160
<v Speaker 2>total free roll. Nobody expects anything, agrees and if you know,

0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.600
<v Speaker 2>it's all I mean again, I'm not even take injury

0:49:11.640 --> 0:49:15.760
<v Speaker 2>out of it, Like that's the no, remove that factor.

0:49:16.160 --> 0:49:19.040
<v Speaker 2>He has nothing to lose and only stuff to gain.

0:49:19.200 --> 0:49:22.280
<v Speaker 2>If every game they win, it will be because he's awesome.

0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:25.680
<v Speaker 2>And if he can get him just into the knockout round,

0:49:26.280 --> 0:49:28.520
<v Speaker 2>that would be a hell of an accomplishment, all right.

0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:32.320
<v Speaker 3>Next, Jokic is coming off an embarrassing twenty point blown

0:49:32.400 --> 0:49:35.239
<v Speaker 3>lead in Game seven at home. The title of the

0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.960
<v Speaker 3>best title of the best player in the world is

0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:41.120
<v Speaker 3>detainably up for grabs. It's no better way to put

0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:43.640
<v Speaker 3>the debate to rest by pulling off the David versical

0:49:44.080 --> 0:49:47.040
<v Speaker 3>upset on the world stage. Does Jokic have more to

0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:48.759
<v Speaker 3>gain or more to lose at the Olympics?

0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:52.239
<v Speaker 2>The same with Jannis more to gain because nobody is

0:49:52.320 --> 0:49:54.920
<v Speaker 2>expecting Serbia to do anything, and it would just be

0:49:54.960 --> 0:49:59.440
<v Speaker 2>because Jokic carries him weird. I don't know, Daniel. I'm

0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:04.480
<v Speaker 2>sure you some weird KCP quotes about the Nuggets being

0:50:04.480 --> 0:50:07.960
<v Speaker 2>out of gas, about how they thought the Lakers should

0:50:08.000 --> 0:50:11.440
<v Speaker 2>have beaten them. Now KCP is obviously not on the

0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:14.640
<v Speaker 2>Nuggets anymore, so maybe you can speak more freely, but

0:50:15.400 --> 0:50:21.120
<v Speaker 2>I do the Yo Kic Yo Kic sneaky back up

0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:25.200
<v Speaker 2>against the wall out of nowhere. You lose, Bruce Brown,

0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:30.799
<v Speaker 2>you lose KCP. Yeah, you're up three to two in

0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:35.239
<v Speaker 2>round two after being down oh two, and you lose

0:50:35.320 --> 0:50:37.560
<v Speaker 2>that series. You blow a twenty point lead at home.

0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:41.840
<v Speaker 2>You're not the favorite anymore. And so anything Jokics does

0:50:42.040 --> 0:50:45.719
<v Speaker 2>in the Olympics is a bonus. Uh, but yeah, he

0:50:45.800 --> 0:50:47.320
<v Speaker 2>has way more to gain, all right.

0:50:47.280 --> 0:50:51.359
<v Speaker 3>Last, Draymond also said the Nuggets should have I mean,

0:50:51.400 --> 0:50:54.600
<v Speaker 3>the Lakers should have beaten the Nuggets during an interview.

0:50:55.719 --> 0:51:02.080
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah he did. Yeah, but go ahead, Draymond. Draymond,

0:51:02.480 --> 0:51:07.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, is very very heavily on team Lebron, and

0:51:07.520 --> 0:51:10.200
<v Speaker 2>so I think he's gonna bend in that favor.

0:51:10.239 --> 0:51:13.439
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead, your guy. Dylan Brooks may have another chance

0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:16.399
<v Speaker 3>to poke the bear if Canada faces the US. Does

0:51:16.440 --> 0:51:19.600
<v Speaker 3>Dylan Brooks have Does Dylan the villain have more to

0:51:19.640 --> 0:51:22.560
<v Speaker 3>gain and more to lose at the Olympics.

0:51:22.080 --> 0:51:25.200
<v Speaker 2>More to lose? And I'm gonna go ahead and call

0:51:25.239 --> 0:51:31.440
<v Speaker 2>my shot here. I think that when Canada loses in

0:51:33.640 --> 0:51:37.719
<v Speaker 2>the I think Canada is. I think Canada will make

0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:41.840
<v Speaker 2>it at least to the semifinals, maybe the finals, but

0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:47.080
<v Speaker 2>probably the semifinals. I mean, but they're gonna lose whenever

0:51:47.120 --> 0:51:52.120
<v Speaker 2>they play the US maybe before, but certainly and when

0:51:52.200 --> 0:51:59.800
<v Speaker 2>they lose the one of the critical buckets in that game.

0:52:00.000 --> 0:52:03.520
<v Speaker 2>Because can is good enough to play, anybody close will

0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:10.359
<v Speaker 2>be scored on Dylan Brooks and they play. If they

0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:19.960
<v Speaker 2>play the US, Lebron will torture him, and so it

0:52:20.120 --> 0:52:25.920
<v Speaker 2>is he has a switch. No, no, Dylan will be

0:52:25.960 --> 0:52:28.760
<v Speaker 2>trying to guard him. I mean that'll be his job

0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:33.880
<v Speaker 2>and Lebron will torch him. What do you mean you

0:52:33.880 --> 0:52:35.160
<v Speaker 2>seem confused by something?

0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:37.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I mean if Dylan Brooks is the guy on

0:52:37.719 --> 0:52:40.839
<v Speaker 3>Canada that they want guarding Lebron, what.

0:52:40.760 --> 0:52:42.799
<v Speaker 2>Do you mean that's that's that's what he's there for.

0:52:43.760 --> 0:52:46.839
<v Speaker 2>I mean, the the is I mean, I think that's

0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:51.000
<v Speaker 2>what he's there for. The I mean, I guess lou Dort.

0:52:51.239 --> 0:52:53.839
<v Speaker 2>Lou Dort could be the other guy. But I mean

0:52:53.960 --> 0:52:56.240
<v Speaker 2>Dylan Brooks thought he could guard Lebron in the playoffs

0:52:56.280 --> 0:52:58.360
<v Speaker 2>a couple of years ago, ended up punching him in

0:52:58.400 --> 0:53:00.680
<v Speaker 2>the groin and being kicked out of the game. Uh.

0:53:01.360 --> 0:53:07.000
<v Speaker 2>Folks want predictions for group winners? Yeah, no problem, I

0:53:07.160 --> 0:53:10.800
<v Speaker 2>think that And how how how does it work? I

0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:16.520
<v Speaker 2>there's three groups? Right? Do eight teams advance? So I

0:53:16.560 --> 0:53:22.800
<v Speaker 2>apologize for not knowing this, but my eight teams advance,

0:53:23.160 --> 0:53:25.879
<v Speaker 2>so the three group winners and then the five other

0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:28.759
<v Speaker 2>and then the three second place teams and then two

0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:32.600
<v Speaker 2>wild cards. Essentially, I gets are there only three groups

0:53:32.719 --> 0:53:34.960
<v Speaker 2>or are there four groups? Guys? I should know this.

0:53:35.080 --> 0:53:42.520
<v Speaker 2>I apologize. Okay, So the US, Germany, and and Canada

0:53:43.480 --> 0:53:49.280
<v Speaker 2>will win their groups. So let's start here. US, Germany,

0:53:49.400 --> 0:54:03.359
<v Speaker 2>Canada will win their groups. Australia, France, Serbia will come

0:54:03.400 --> 0:54:08.759
<v Speaker 2>in second. And then who are gonna be the other

0:54:08.800 --> 0:54:20.040
<v Speaker 2>two teams? I'm gonna say Greece and Puerto Rico are

0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:23.200
<v Speaker 2>gonna be the seventh and eighth. So that's how I

0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:27.040
<v Speaker 2>think it's gonna go. Uh, that's my that's my not

0:54:27.440 --> 0:54:31.880
<v Speaker 2>that educated but slightly educated. Guests, we missed a huge

0:54:32.080 --> 0:54:34.840
<v Speaker 2>f one minute on Tuesday. We bring it to you next,

0:54:34.960 --> 0:54:39.800
<v Speaker 2>and I reply to listener questions and some really scurless

0:54:39.840 --> 0:54:49.080
<v Speaker 2>accusations by the producers. It's all next, What's right? Welcome

0:54:49.120 --> 0:54:52.120
<v Speaker 2>back in What's Right? With Nick Right? So uh, I

0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:54.759
<v Speaker 2>was supposed to play this on Tuesday, and I forgot

0:54:55.760 --> 0:54:58.880
<v Speaker 2>in getting all kind of wrapped up in the excitement

0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:00.680
<v Speaker 2>of the two hundred and fiftieth show, but there was

0:55:00.719 --> 0:55:06.239
<v Speaker 2>evidently a very intriguing and controversial weekend on the F

0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:10.959
<v Speaker 2>one circuit. So we'll go right to our F one

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<v Speaker 2>senior reporter, Sierra Fiddel with this week's F one minute.

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<v Speaker 4>Some hot news. Oscar Priasci has won the Hungarian Grand Prix,

0:55:21.760 --> 0:55:24.480
<v Speaker 4>which means we have seven new race winners out of

0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:27.680
<v Speaker 4>thirteen Grand Prix so far this season. It just keeps

0:55:27.680 --> 0:55:30.120
<v Speaker 4>getting better. But there was also a collision between Maxis

0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:33.719
<v Speaker 4>Tappa and Louis Hamilton, and this victory may not be

0:55:33.800 --> 0:55:37.280
<v Speaker 4>as good as it seems, may not be as joyous

0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:40.799
<v Speaker 4>as it should be. Let's get into it. Like I've

0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:44.080
<v Speaker 4>just mentioned, Oscar Piastre has won the Hungarian Grand Prix.

0:55:44.120 --> 0:55:47.000
<v Speaker 4>It was his first Formula One win and it should

0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:49.719
<v Speaker 4>have been a joyous moment for him to celebrate with

0:55:49.760 --> 0:55:52.440
<v Speaker 4>his team, with his family, but instead it has this

0:55:52.520 --> 0:55:56.560
<v Speaker 4>kind of dark backstory lore to it that's really awkward, honestly,

0:55:56.640 --> 0:55:59.920
<v Speaker 4>and puts both drivers in a real situation. So let's explain.

0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:02.560
<v Speaker 4>So it was a front row lookout for McClaren this weekend.

0:56:02.840 --> 0:56:05.880
<v Speaker 4>Lando Norris tried from pole position and Oscar was right

0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:09.960
<v Speaker 4>behind him in second place, but per usual, Landa was

0:56:09.960 --> 0:56:13.200
<v Speaker 4>not able to keep this position literally after the first lap,

0:56:13.560 --> 0:56:16.279
<v Speaker 4>so his teammate eventually emerged ahead of him and then

0:56:16.480 --> 0:56:18.720
<v Speaker 4>was in front for a good chunk of the race

0:56:19.360 --> 0:56:24.520
<v Speaker 4>until McClaren pulled off this weird pit stop strategy which

0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:27.520
<v Speaker 4>allowed Lando Norris to pit first and then Oscar Piastre.

0:56:28.040 --> 0:56:30.839
<v Speaker 4>So now first and second are swapped. Lando comes out

0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:34.040
<v Speaker 4>of the pits first and first, and then Oscar behind him,

0:56:34.040 --> 0:56:36.880
<v Speaker 4>and this was McLaren's own doing. But we're gonna fast

0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:41.080
<v Speaker 4>forward a lot of laps all the way towards the end,

0:56:41.560 --> 0:56:47.200
<v Speaker 4>and they're in Lando's ear, his team talking about swapping,

0:56:47.760 --> 0:56:50.400
<v Speaker 4>and it didn't go very well.

0:56:50.560 --> 0:56:51.319
<v Speaker 2>For a little bit.

0:56:51.480 --> 0:56:53.319
<v Speaker 4>It seemed like Landa was not gonna give it up.

0:56:53.480 --> 0:56:54.040
<v Speaker 5>Let me tell you.

0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:57.160
<v Speaker 4>He was driving and he was widening their gap even

0:56:57.200 --> 0:57:01.759
<v Speaker 4>more while the team was in his ear saying, hey, hey,

0:57:01.960 --> 0:57:05.440
<v Speaker 4>let Oscar through, Like another seconds go by, Hey think

0:57:05.480 --> 0:57:09.719
<v Speaker 4>about the team like kind of blackmailing. But you didn't

0:57:09.760 --> 0:57:12.840
<v Speaker 4>hear that from me, But I mind you, this is

0:57:12.880 --> 0:57:16.160
<v Speaker 4>a guy who's fighting for the driver's championship right now.

0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:20.640
<v Speaker 4>He's behind by a lot, but every point counts for

0:57:20.760 --> 0:57:22.960
<v Speaker 4>this man, and it's very it's not a game. But

0:57:23.000 --> 0:57:28.440
<v Speaker 4>eventually he did. And this this meant that Oscar won

0:57:28.480 --> 0:57:31.560
<v Speaker 4>the race. And I think Oscar Priacture himself was not

0:57:31.600 --> 0:57:33.800
<v Speaker 4>too happy about how he won this race, because you

0:57:33.800 --> 0:57:37.560
<v Speaker 4>can hear on his team radio he's like, yep, thanks team,

0:57:38.280 --> 0:57:41.240
<v Speaker 4>good work, thanks, thanks, thanks for the good work team.

0:57:41.640 --> 0:57:43.640
<v Speaker 4>And I think he acknowledges that this was a team

0:57:43.680 --> 0:57:46.080
<v Speaker 4>effort to really push him forward. This was not like

0:57:46.480 --> 0:57:50.280
<v Speaker 4>some epic victory where he had a crazy overtake and

0:57:50.800 --> 0:57:53.400
<v Speaker 4>won the race. He won because Landa led him through.

0:57:53.600 --> 0:57:57.800
<v Speaker 4>But enough about McLaren. It was Lewis Hamilton's two hundredth

0:57:57.840 --> 0:58:01.080
<v Speaker 4>podium this weekend. He got third place. However, he had

0:58:01.080 --> 0:58:04.760
<v Speaker 4>to fight to get there because Max found himself behind

0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:08.240
<v Speaker 4>Louis for a good chunk of the race and he

0:58:08.440 --> 0:58:11.440
<v Speaker 4>was really struggling to get past him. In a heated moment,

0:58:11.560 --> 0:58:15.080
<v Speaker 4>he folded under the pressure, under the impatience. He folded,

0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:17.840
<v Speaker 4>and he tried to launch his car basically to the

0:58:17.840 --> 0:58:21.520
<v Speaker 4>moon and tried to pull off this move that did

0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:25.240
<v Speaker 4>not work. It didn't work, and it resulted in a collision.

0:58:25.240 --> 0:58:27.240
<v Speaker 4>Nobody was heard, of course, So that's all I have

0:58:27.320 --> 0:58:30.440
<v Speaker 4>time for. I can't explain the different sides and stories

0:58:30.480 --> 0:58:33.600
<v Speaker 4>for this whole debate about McLaren, but either way, it

0:58:33.640 --> 0:58:35.720
<v Speaker 4>was a really good weekend for them. They pulled in

0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:38.880
<v Speaker 4>fourty three points for the Constructors Championship, so I know

0:58:38.960 --> 0:58:41.520
<v Speaker 4>I mentioned on Thursday they were really close to Ferrari

0:58:41.640 --> 0:58:45.160
<v Speaker 4>and they've actually beat them. Now that's which may look minute,

0:58:45.400 --> 0:58:48.120
<v Speaker 4>but we're talking millions, so I know they're celebrating that

0:58:48.160 --> 0:58:50.400
<v Speaker 4>they have something to celebrate at least, not so much

0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:53.600
<v Speaker 4>Macres happened. So it is a race week. So I'll

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<v Speaker 4>see you on Thursday to talk about the Belgium Garan Prix.

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<v Speaker 4>But until then that's been your f one minute and

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<v Speaker 4>I'll see later.

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<v Speaker 2>And we'll get a recap of that Belgium Graham pri On. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess we'll actually get it on Thursday. One programming note,

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<v Speaker 2>we don't have a show Tuesday. We'll get a recap

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<v Speaker 2>of the Belgium Graham Prix from Sierra on Thursday. Tuesday

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<v Speaker 2>is the funeral for the friend of ours that passed

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<v Speaker 2>that we talked about last week. What I was gonna

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<v Speaker 2>say there was the thank you, Yes it is. I

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<v Speaker 2>think we picked a good year to start caring about

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<v Speaker 2>f one because the last few years has just been

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<v Speaker 2>max Verstapping taking any Injurgue away from the whole circuit.

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<v Speaker 2>And it doesn't seem like it's that this year, and

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<v Speaker 2>Sierra's doing a great job keeping us apprized of it.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Demanse, let's go to some listener questions.

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<v Speaker 3>Producers say, you said you were very close to a

0:59:56.800 --> 0:59:59.760
<v Speaker 3>hamstring tear before your tryout, but you also said that

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<v Speaker 3>you faked AMSTRM injury when you knew you were going

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<v Speaker 3>to lose a track relay. This raises credibility concerns. Just

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<v Speaker 3>saying listeny.

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<v Speaker 2>That that has haunted me for twenty two years. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's true. I had to confess to my teammates about

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<v Speaker 2>it years later. One of them, you know, one of

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<v Speaker 2>them was the officiant at my wedding. One of them

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<v Speaker 2>was stood up at my wedding. I don't feel great

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<v Speaker 2>about what I did in that state final, But what recredit?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you not know this story? You don't know this.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I don't know this.

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<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't retell it.

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, hey, man, if you want to, if

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<v Speaker 3>you feel it's too crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>I was on the four by eight hundred relay team

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<v Speaker 2>in high school, running third, I think the third leg.

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<v Speaker 3>And oh no, I know how you go go ahead, sir?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no. And I thought I thought I was losing

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<v Speaker 2>the race for US because I kept getting passed and

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<v Speaker 2>I thought I was running a great time. But I

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<v Speaker 2>got passed by three people, so I thought I was

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<v Speaker 2>running a bad time. And so for the last like

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<v Speaker 2>quarter lap, I ran while holding my hamstring, so I

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<v Speaker 2>had a preemptive excuse for my bad time. But then

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<v Speaker 2>it turns out I ran a good time and I

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<v Speaker 2>just was getting passed by faster people. But I but

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<v Speaker 2>in my history onics I you know, I cost us

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<v Speaker 2>some spots on the podium, and I still feel badly

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<v Speaker 2>about it. That is not the circumstance of the US

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<v Speaker 2>Open tryout for the record well, And so the producers

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<v Speaker 2>love bringing that up at every chance they get. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't you know, I'd love to find out what their

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<v Speaker 2>biggest moment of shame in their life is so I

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<v Speaker 2>can constantly remind them of it. But you know, I guess,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I guess I don't. I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 2>do that. Uh, all right, what's the what's the next question? Demonse?

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<v Speaker 3>The producers also Uh uh yeah, producers also found you

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<v Speaker 3>and qs winning the title. We're gonna show a little.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh we have a we have a picture of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, Oh there's my guy. That's right, you're damn straight.

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<v Speaker 2>That is uh. Coach Nick Wright made the right choice

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<v Speaker 2>on Marchiano. That's right, it is. I mean, that is

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<v Speaker 2>exactly what happened. Go ahead and send me that picture.

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<v Speaker 2>That is a great that's the best photoshop we've ever done. Uh, demonse,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's go to Curtis Matthews.

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<v Speaker 3>Curtis Matthews asked, with new kickoff return rules in the

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<v Speaker 3>NFL this year, which team do you think will be

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<v Speaker 3>the most dangerous on the kick returns?

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<v Speaker 2>So I listen, there's that it is going to be

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<v Speaker 2>less about personnel and more about special teams coaching. That

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<v Speaker 2>is going and there are going to be some teams

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<v Speaker 2>I am mad that just wave the white flag on

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<v Speaker 2>covering these kicks and just give the other team the

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<v Speaker 2>ball in the thirty just boot it out of the

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<v Speaker 2>end zone because they don't want to spend time on

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<v Speaker 2>it and they don't want to figure it out the well,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean again, five yards does matter. Uh, and more so,

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<v Speaker 2>it's that if you cover it, well, maybe it's not

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<v Speaker 2>five yards, maybe it's ten, Maybe you get them at

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<v Speaker 2>the twenty. But that's gonna be one of the most

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<v Speaker 2>exciting and fun things to watch, particularly about preseason, because

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<v Speaker 2>there are going to be people that are NFL fans

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<v Speaker 2>but aren't watching shows like this, aren't locked into everything that.

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<v Speaker 2>I have no idea this rule was changed, and they

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<v Speaker 2>are gonna be totally confused, all right. Noah Rodriguez says

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<v Speaker 2>he missed Tuesday show. Can't believe nobody said their favorite

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<v Speaker 2>mom whenever was Nick's Joey Chestnut rant. That was a classic.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't find it anywhere online. I think it's on Twitter.

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<v Speaker 2>I think if you just like Google or you know Twitter,

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<v Speaker 2>get Nick right show. Uh yeah, something like that, you'll

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<v Speaker 2>find it. All right? What ad team Mark Apulo say?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh? He said, Nick? What would it mean for Jokic's

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<v Speaker 3>legacy if he were to upset Team USA and win

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<v Speaker 3>the gold.

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<v Speaker 2>That'd be unbelievable. I don't really I don't have a

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<v Speaker 2>precedent for what it would mean for legacy stuff because

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<v Speaker 2>there's we've never had that. We've never had a great

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<v Speaker 2>like all time legendary international player, then go to the

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<v Speaker 2>Olympics and win the gold and so I don't it's

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<v Speaker 2>not like, well, this is what it meant for Dirk

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<v Speaker 2>when he did it, like they so I don't have Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it'd be it'd be on correct, so it

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<v Speaker 2>would certainly help, that's for sure. All right, let's go

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<v Speaker 2>to Mark.

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<v Speaker 3>Mark's Mark Pascal. A question for Nick. How excited are

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<v Speaker 3>you to see nadall on Alcaz Teamyo for the Olympics.

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<v Speaker 3>Love the show from Barcelona?

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<v Speaker 2>All right, well, I'll be in Barcelona briefly, very briefly

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<v Speaker 2>in August. Excited for that. I've been there once before.

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<v Speaker 2>One of my three favorite cities in the world. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>super excited to see see that. I don't really lock

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<v Speaker 2>in so much except for basketball. The Olympic sports I'm

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<v Speaker 2>most interested in are the sports you only see in

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<v Speaker 2>the Olympics, so like soccer and tennis and golf. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not that interested in come the Olympics because you can

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<v Speaker 2>see him elsewhere. But Alcarez and Nadal teaming up is

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<v Speaker 2>amazing And oh yeah, well, first of all, yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 2>winter Olympics, not summer obviously, but yeah, that would be

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<v Speaker 2>one that I right, exactly the game. The sports that

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<v Speaker 2>are like hockey, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf, you can watch

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<v Speaker 2>all you know, anytime during the year, so I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>typically as interested in them in the Olympics as the

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<v Speaker 2>ones that you can only watch are in the Olympics.

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<v Speaker 2>Basketball is the one exception where I really do care

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<v Speaker 2>about Team USA. Justin Jones says, demons looking sharp in

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<v Speaker 2>that shirt, and Mike c h compliments my style, which

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<v Speaker 2>is just a testament to my wife. All right, great show,

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<v Speaker 2>no show Tuesday. We will see you guys on Thursday.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, I'm headed to FS one right now. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>this extra thirty minutes on the show, I haven't really

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<v Speaker 2>gotten used to it yet. Every day around four to

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five, I'm like, all right, we're about done and

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<v Speaker 2>hope we got another thirty five minutes to go. But

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<v Speaker 2>we'll hit our stride and bru. We'll be back on Monday.

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