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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hey, welcome to Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitale. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for spending your Saturday afternoon with karme and me

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Speaker 1: and you guys. What an epic sports Saturday, right? We

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Speaker 1: got everything today. We got Major League Baseball opening weekend.

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Speaker 1: Fox Saturday Baseball is back today. Braves against Phillies, Yankees, Astros, Giants, Padres.

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Speaker 2: I mean these are star studded lineups.

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Speaker 1: We had the UFL Spring Football you guys kicked off

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Speaker 1: this morning. Our NFL three sixty Women in Football special

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Speaker 1: that I did an event for this week, aired on

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Speaker 1: Fox right before that kickoff. It is just you guys.

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Speaker 2: March Madness is giving us all the madness as well.

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Speaker 1: We got Caitlin Clark and Iowa take it on Colorado

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: They're up thirteen to seven as we speak.

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Speaker 1: We got Juju Walkins in usc taking on Baylor later,

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Speaker 1: Duke and Yukon tonight.

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Speaker 2: The men's madness.

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Speaker 1: Yukon, who has been like the clear favorite throughout this

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Speaker 1: entire tournament.

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Speaker 3: I kind of checked out because my bracket is just

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Speaker 3: although I haven't I have a unique champion.

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Speaker 4: I picked a homer pick. I have Illinois winning. Oh

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Speaker 4: and they're still in it.

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Speaker 2: They're playing Yukon tonight.

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Speaker 1: I know. So I'm like, Okay, it's not looking good

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Speaker 1: for Illinois.

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Speaker 2: Yukon is just like slamming through everybody.

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Speaker 4: I know, well, it is there.

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Speaker 1: It is their tournament to lose. But yeah, there is

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Speaker 1: just so much going on. I'm so excited you guys.

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Speaker 3: And just like in basketball, as we were just talking about,

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Speaker 3: makes my little Midwest heart happy getting to do that.

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Speaker 1: Read it is so tractors like tractors.

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Speaker 3: I've ever like driven through the Midwest, you know, like

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Speaker 3: the cornfields and like the tractors on the side of

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you get you know, stock behind a tractor.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really realize it until I went. I did

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Speaker 1: like a little part of tour. My husband's a musician

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Speaker 1: and they played Lollapalooza.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like show so metropolitan and wonderful.

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Speaker 1: But like that we drove out to a show like

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Speaker 1: outside of the city. I was like, we are in cornfields.

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Speaker 1: This is all you see for my Like, you go.

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Speaker 4: An hour west of Chicago and it's just cornfields.

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Speaker 1: It's madness, it is. But it's beautiful, it's sunning.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful in its own way. It's quite, it's not

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Speaker 3: not quite the seascape and cliffs here.

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Speaker 1: In La Hunting Beast Bay.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're spoiled.

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Speaker 1: We are spoiled you guys, and we've got a great

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Speaker 1: show for you today.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of guests.

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Speaker 1: In this first hour, we have MLB reporter al the

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Speaker 1: Gonzalez who's joining us live from Dodger Stadium. And about

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes we have Adam Hoague, host of Hogan John's

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Speaker 1: and chg O Bears joining us. In thirty minutes, we

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Speaker 1: have producer Patrick with us today. Our technical producer Chris

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Speaker 1: Propfette and Martin Weiss at the news desk. But guys,

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Speaker 1: baseball is back.

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Speaker 2: It is Baseball is back.

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Speaker 1: And I went to Opening Day as a fan two

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Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium for the first time since I used to

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Speaker 1: go with my dad as a kid growing up. And

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Speaker 1: what a trip it was to be in the stands

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Speaker 1: for Opening Day because I worked Angels opening days for

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Speaker 1: ten years. Shout out to my buddy who who brought

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Speaker 1: us because he had amazing seats. We had the best time.

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Speaker 1: I will say I made a huge rookie. I guess

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Speaker 1: fan move, oh am I and I should I should

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Speaker 1: have left four hours before the game started. I left

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Speaker 1: two hours before first pitch, thinking like, oh, Waite says.

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Speaker 4: It okay, So I just it should be fine.

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Speaker 2: Wasteid it will take an hour? No no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: No, I am no better than to trust in the

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Speaker 1: No, okay. I just I'm not used to being showing

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Speaker 1: But it was just like I'm so happy, like happy

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Speaker 1: Opening weekend everybody who celebrates because it is just it

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Speaker 1: feels like family time is back. Picnic in the park

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Speaker 1: and we've already had some like pretty big opening day moments.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to share a couple of my favorites just

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Speaker 1: in case you guys missed them or they're not on

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Speaker 1: your favorite team. But Wan Soto was one of the

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Speaker 1: thrive in New York. And his Yankees debut, he threw

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Speaker 1: an al MVP favorite now that he has protection hitting

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Speaker 1: in front of Aaron Judge. I have the Yankees and

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers meeting in the World Series spoiler alert, because

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Speaker 1: that would just be amazing for.

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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. Would absolutely love those.

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Speaker 1: Mine lose their mind. We have the Orioles who won

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Speaker 1: Corbin Birds who struck out eleven batters on opening day.

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Speaker 1: Same with the d Backs who were in the World

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Speaker 1: Series last season. They put up sixteen runs on opening

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Speaker 1: Day and picked up World Series champ two days before

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Speaker 1: Opening Day. Jordan Montgomery, So, I mean, the young guys

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Speaker 3: Well, this is again so I know I'm usually NFL

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Speaker 3: but I worked in baseball before I got into the NFL,

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Speaker 3: and I worked for the Dodgers, and I worked for

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Speaker 3: the White Sox as a little intern, and I have

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Speaker 3: all of these wonderful memories of especially White Sox opening Day.

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Speaker 3: It's still cold in Chicago at this point usually during

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Speaker 3: which Alex, I promise you is like more than you

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Speaker 1: Give me a beanie, give me a scar, It's.

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Speaker 4: More than you can ask for.

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Speaker 3: We were all wonderful, and then literally the next day

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Speaker 1: This year, Detroit's on the up and up. There's still

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Speaker 3: What the Socks just lost in such spectacular fashion, like

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Speaker 3: it was a one zero game. It was absolutely miserable.

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Speaker 3: But this is my little warped Socks fan brain is

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Speaker 4: Only up from here. Ah, it's only up from here.

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Speaker 3: We can talk to Adam Hoague about it later on too,

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Speaker 3: because he's a Socks fan.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's just gonna be sideways in downhill

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Speaker 1: But you guys, another thing we saw an opening day.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers are really good.

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Speaker 4: Well they should be for all the money they're paying.

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Speaker 1: Dude right pitching top notch, getting glass now, Bobby Miller

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Speaker 1: had a career night last night. Yamamoto should be making

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Speaker 2: But that offense is going to be scary all season.

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Speaker 1: They have three MVPs Mookie Bets Show, Heyo Tani, Freddie

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Speaker 1: Freeman like, and you know what, let's address the elephant

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Speaker 1: going to be just fine.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: TONI finally spoke on Monday, and he read a statement

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Speaker 1: through his new interpreter Epe, who's his former interpreter, has

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Speaker 2: That was the first big one, second big one.

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Speaker 1: I never bet on baseball or any other sports, or

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Speaker 1: Up until a couple of days ago, I didn't know

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Speaker 1: that this was happening. On a personal note, I'm very

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Speaker 1: sad and shocked that someone who I had trusted has

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be naive, but I do like

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Speaker 1: to give people the benefit of the doubt. You are

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Speaker 1: And the craziest part is, with all of this going on,

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Speaker 1: he's looking great at play and he's just dhing right now,

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Speaker 1: which means a lot of downtime are sitting in the dug.

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Speaker 3: Out, he only has to worry about half of what

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Speaker 3: But yeah, he's sitting pretty because he's like, all I

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Speaker 1: So, which is crazy just to have two huge things

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Speaker 3: That's the game inside of all of it the craziest

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Speaker 3: if it's indeed, we have that true. Again, we don't

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Speaker 3: want to be naive obviously, like everybody involved in this

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Speaker 3: between show Hay and Major League Baseball has every incentive

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Speaker 3: to make sure that sho Hay is absolved or blame

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Speaker 3: because he is one of the face of the game.

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Speaker 1: Face of baseball is a face which is the face

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Speaker 1: of Japan.

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Speaker 4: Which, again, like baseball itself.

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Speaker 2: Vegas contract in North American history.

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Speaker 3: And baseball itself is struggling. From a fan perspective, I

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Speaker 3: it sucks because I grew up loving baseball.

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Speaker 4: We had two teams in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: I was not one of the ones that hated the

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Speaker 3: clubs because I was a white Sox fan. Whoever can

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Speaker 3: by me. But it took him cups a while, just

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Speaker 3: Fair to the players to I mean, you're you're going

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Speaker 4: Right, you can't in California.

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Speaker 2: That's fair.

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Speaker 4: That's give me a pair of monarchs. I'm putting them

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Speaker 1: the American League. I'm gonna go with Julio rod Region.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So this feels like Julio's year to go off.

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Speaker 1: He's in his third season, He's on the path to greatness.

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Speaker 1: He a seven to twenty one ops in the first half,

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Speaker 2: I'm rooting for Julio.

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Speaker 3: I said Julio too, because I just I want this

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Speaker 4: I don't want to get a to myself. This could

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports has him as plus one thousand odds to

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Speaker 1: If they stay healthy because they've had some injury stints.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I feel like you can go off. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling real good.

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Speaker 1: About this one. He's already off to a great start

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Speaker 4: I cheated on this because I just said a Dodgers player.

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Speaker 1: Is why I have the Dodgers getting to the World Series,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here

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Speaker 10: There, Alex, how we do?

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Speaker 2: Oh we're doing? I love it.

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Speaker 1: Now. You've spent Opening weekend at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Take us inside that locker room.

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Speaker 1: What has a vibe been like since the gambling news

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Speaker 1: broke about show?

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Speaker 5: Can tell you this one thing, Alex. The main takeaway

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Speaker 5: It was unlike anything they've ever seen like World Series,

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Speaker 1: So I mean, you've covered Otani's entire Major League Baseball

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Speaker 5: to see because Alex right like he could. Juhara was

445
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Speaker 5: not a translator for show Tani. He was everything, and

446
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Speaker 5: he was family, and they were even before he got

447
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Speaker 5: to the United States, when they were with the Nikon

448
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Speaker 5: hand fighters together in Japan. They were inseparable there before

449
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Speaker 5: coming over. If if show Haltani's version of events is true, okay,

450
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Speaker 5: I can't imagine how hard that is to be betrayed

451
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Speaker 5: like that by somebody you trusted, when you're somebody like

452
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Speaker 5: show who doesn't trust many people to begin with, and

453
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Speaker 5: to go through this job with a new team where

454
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Speaker 5: you don't know anybody and now your support, your support

455
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Speaker 5: system is basically gone. I can't imagine how difficult it is.

456
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Speaker 5: But if you watch him from the outside, you would

457
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Speaker 5: think that nothing happened.

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Speaker 3: Well, And that's kind of where I wanted to ask

459
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Speaker 3: you about his transition then into the Dodgers. I mean,

460
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Speaker 3: obviously he's in the same city, but this is a

461
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Speaker 3: new team and now he doesn't have that support system

462
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Speaker 3: that he's been used to having since before he even

463
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Speaker 3: got to this country. So how have you seen him

464
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Speaker 3: assimilate into the Dodgers clubhouse, And how have you seen

465
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Speaker 3: his teammates? If you've seen them, you know, try and

466
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Speaker 3: support him at all, Like, how is that meshing happening

467
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Speaker 3: right now amidst all of this? I mean that's I

468
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Speaker 3: feel like what we're not talking about enough is that

469
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Speaker 3: like he is trying to assimilate to a new team

470
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Speaker 3: with all of this surrounding him, which means more media,

471
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Speaker 3: which means all of that kind of stuff. So what

472
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Speaker 3: have you seen between how the players are meshing or

473
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Speaker 3: gelling or the off the field chemistry is happening.

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Speaker 5: This was a really stroubled moment, but it caught me

475
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Speaker 5: a little bit. And this is on opening day showy

476
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Speaker 5: a toney headed that bad I think it was in

477
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Speaker 5: the sixty seventh beenning and he struck out against a

478
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Speaker 5: new believer that had come into the game. He walked

479
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Speaker 5: back into the dug out and he was sitting down

480
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Speaker 5: on the bench and Max Muncy, who was in the

481
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Speaker 5: whole way to go on deck, turned to him and

482
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Speaker 5: was asking him about the picture. Joey Otni stood up

483
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Speaker 5: and started talking to Max Bunty without an interpreter, without

484
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Speaker 5: will irons, just talking in English about just what kind

485
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Speaker 5: of things he could expect in that at bad. All

486
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Speaker 5: of a sudden, taskar Hernandez got involved. I think Gavin

487
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Speaker 5: looks too, and Jotani, for just a brief moment, was

488
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Speaker 5: kind of holding course, talking about like what it looked

489
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Speaker 5: like out of his hand, well, how its pitches broke,

490
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Speaker 5: what could you expect, especially from as a left handed hitter.

491
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Speaker 5: And it's a really subtle moment. But I think the

492
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Speaker 5: best way that his teammates can support him is by

493
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Speaker 5: just doing the thing that Shoeo Tani is most comfortable doing,

494
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Speaker 5: which is just playing baseball and talking baseball. I mean, look,

495
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Speaker 5: Alex knows as well. They call themselves the Los Angeles Angels,

496
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Speaker 5: but it is when you're starting playing for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: And it's been eye opening to me because I saw

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Speaker 5: how much followed Shoho Tani when he was with the Angels,

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Speaker 5: and it is nothing compared to what it's been like

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Speaker 5: with the Dodgers. Even before all of this stuff happened,

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Speaker 5: I mean, the microscope around him, the fact that there was,

502
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Speaker 5: you know, every day of spring training before the sun

503
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Speaker 5: fully rose, there was Japanese media lined up waiting to

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Speaker 5: get the same pictures, the same video of him strolling

505
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Speaker 5: into the parking lot. So I don't know that anybody

506
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Speaker 5: else really realizes what's that, what that's like. But I

507
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Speaker 5: think Dave Robester, manager made a really interesting point the

508
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Speaker 5: other day. I asked them about his concerned that Epay

509
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Speaker 5: is not going to be around and where they might

510
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Speaker 5: be able to plug holes because as he said, he

511
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Speaker 5: pay did everything, especially during games, and they beeve a

512
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Speaker 5: really interesting answer. He said that he thinks it's going

513
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Speaker 5: to be a benefit because there's not going to be

514
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Speaker 5: that buffer anymore, like in some ways show Hey overly

515
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Speaker 5: relied on Epay is the thought from days and not

516
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Speaker 5: having that person, he's gonna have no choice but to

517
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Speaker 5: like engage with his team at a level that he

518
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Speaker 5: had before. We'll see how that plays out, but I

519
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Speaker 5: think we're already starting to see that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like and if you said, he

521
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Speaker 1: was already holding court and he was the one talking

522
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Speaker 1: to all the players. So yeah, maybe it's a little

523
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Speaker 1: bit of like a tough situation. The bright side of it,

524
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Speaker 1: it's going to bring him closer to his teammates without

525
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Speaker 1: this safety net. But Alton, thank you so much for

526
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Speaker 1: all of this incredible like inside information. I appreciate you

527
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Speaker 1: coming on the show so much. I hope you have

528
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Speaker 1: the most incredible time tonight at the game. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you than.

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Speaker 2: Of course. That's cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love getting that insider information. That's That's what I

533
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Speaker 1: used to get all the time when I was sidelined

534
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Speaker 1: in the games. You just see a different perspective and

535
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Speaker 1: I was like, we just need I need a vibe check.

536
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Speaker 1: Someone needs to give me a vibe check what's going on.

537
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Speaker 1: We can see everything on the outside and the news

538
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Speaker 1: and all that, but until you have somebody who's like

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Speaker 1: on the ground in the clubhouse, like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I see it, man, Yeah, that's crazy. Okay, Now let's

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Speaker 2: take it with Martin Wis and see what's trending.

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Speaker 9: Women's college basketball is what's trending?

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Speaker 4: Lah?

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Speaker 1: I guess we have two fans here, of course we do.

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Speaker 9: She is first.

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Speaker 11: The game that just wrapped up LSU and UCLA Tigers

547
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Speaker 11: won on a fourteen to two run down the stretch.

548
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Speaker 11: Flas A Johnson an Angel Reese combined for forty points

549
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Speaker 11: and twenty three rebounds. LSU won seventy eight to sixty nine,

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Speaker 11: much to the chagrine of Steve Hartman, who's sitting behind me, said.

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Speaker 3: My Brewin is just blew it then blew it down

552
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Speaker 3: the stretch.

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Speaker 11: All right out Iowa and Colorado. About four thirty left

554
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Speaker 11: in the second quarter. There, Iowa with thirty six, Colorado

555
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Speaker 11: twenty six. Caitlin Clark is on double double watch already

556
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Speaker 11: with thirteen points, seven assists, only one for five from

557
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Speaker 11: three though Colorado's played ten players already so far this game,

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Speaker 11: so we'll see if the depth ends up cofting Iowa.

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Speaker 11: But right now Iowa with a ten point lead. On

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Speaker 11: the men's side, Illinois and Yukon. The first game up

561
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Speaker 11: Clemson in Alabama is the nightcap in baseball. The Brewers

562
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Speaker 11: beat the Mets seven to six. At the end of

563
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Speaker 11: the seventh inning. The Tigers and the White Sox all

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Speaker 11: tied up. It takes a piece bottom of the Yeah, today,

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Speaker 11: three run lead, middle of the first inning. All the

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Speaker 11: Tiger's face, so we're all in size.

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Speaker 2: This is going to say you're out number two to

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Speaker 2: one here Tigers at the socks.

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Speaker 4: We're about to get out of Hogue on the line.

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Speaker 5: So I.

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Speaker 11: Bottom of the second enning, Orioles with a two o

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Speaker 11: lead over the Angels. Bottom of the second Nationals and

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Speaker 11: the Reds tied Blue Jays and the Jays tied zero

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Speaker 11: piece for both of those twins, you know, a zero

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Speaker 11: piece for all of these twins in the Royals and

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Speaker 11: the Marlins and the Pirates, all those in the bottom

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Speaker 11: of the second inning, middle of the second for the

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Speaker 11: Guardians and the Athletics Cleveland with a two to lead,

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Speaker 11: and the top of the first Phillies and the Braves.

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Speaker 11: Braves just literally as I was reading that, got two

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Speaker 11: runs on the board. So there you go. Aaron Nola

582
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Speaker 11: pitching for the Phillies. There and the first game of

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Speaker 11: the UFL season in the books, Arlington Renegades against the

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Speaker 11: Birmingham Stallions. Stallions win thirty twenty five. So I'm sorry,

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Speaker 11: twenty five to fourteen. And there's one on right now

586
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Speaker 11: between the Saint Louis BattleHawks.

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Speaker 9: And it just went off the screen. I don't know

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Speaker 9: who they're playing.

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Speaker 11: I hate it when this happens. Anyways, there you go, there,

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Speaker 11: right there, you know what. I appreciate it, right there, assists.

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Speaker 11: Appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you, Martin.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 1: Carmen Vitally. We are broadcasting live from the Tarrek dot

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Speaker 1: Com studios in Los Angeles, and it is time to

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Speaker 1: bring in our next guest.

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Speaker 2: We're just rocking around here.

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Speaker 1: We're going he's the host of Hogan John All the

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Speaker 1: Athletic and Hgo Bears.

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Speaker 2: Please welcome Adam, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Alex say carmiv. How are we doing today?

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Speaker 1: Doing great?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: Depending if you are you watching this this Tiger socks

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Speaker 3: can't right now?

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Speaker 2: I we don't.

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Speaker 6: I've been trying to get some done today and Saturday

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Speaker 6: now that you know, you get a little bit of

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Speaker 6: a break here between the owners meetings in the NFL draft.

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Speaker 6: So it's been I've been vaguely paying attention to it. Look,

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Speaker 6: all we care about for the Frock this year is

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Speaker 6: basically two things. Can Garrett Crochet pitch and can Louise

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Speaker 6: Robert hit the ball? And so far even if they

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Speaker 6: go to O and two today it's.

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Speaker 3: Been good Chicago find the positives.

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Speaker 1: Now, Adam, Bears are almost on the clock with the

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick. We are assuming it is going

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Speaker 1: to be Caleb Williams. So what's been the conversation around

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Speaker 1: Caleb in the Bears building.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think it's been uh, very positive.

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Speaker 6: You know, the Bears had to go through this sort

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Speaker 6: of feeling out process that I almost feel like the

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Speaker 6: rest of the country is going through at the same

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Speaker 6: time too. Yeah. But you know, I wrote a story

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Speaker 6: back Super Bowl week and had been working on it

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Speaker 6: for a while on just you know who Caleb Williams

627
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Speaker 6: really is?

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Speaker 9: What?

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Speaker 6: What the smoke that's been out there? These things about

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Speaker 6: him painting his fingernails, his you know, crying in his

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Speaker 6: in his mom's arms, all this stuff that had been

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Speaker 6: out there, right, Like, how much of it was actually

633
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Speaker 6: a concern? And am I reporting for that story? You know,

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Speaker 6: I talked to a lot of his former coaches, both

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Speaker 6: at the high school college level, and you know, it

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Speaker 6: was big. It was a big shrug. It was like

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Speaker 6: a big nothing like no one seemed to really care

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Speaker 6: about it at all.

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Speaker 10: And but that was still before I.

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Speaker 6: Think the Bears really got into this digging process too,

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Speaker 6: because at that point they were trying to figure out,

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Speaker 6: you know, they decided to keep Maddy before, but then

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Speaker 6: they had to hire their new staff, what direction were

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Speaker 6: they taking with the coaching staff. But once they got

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Speaker 6: into this whole thing of their own digging, and they

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Speaker 6: finally got to talk to them at the Combine. Then

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Speaker 6: they went out and spend all that time with them

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Speaker 6: with the pro Day, which ended up being almost forty

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Speaker 6: eight hours of exclusive access to just Kayleb Williams. The

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Speaker 6: all the returns have been very, very positive, and I

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Speaker 6: don't think that the Bears have any concerns about him whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: At at Owners Meetings, you and Adam Johns talked to

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Speaker 3: Mattieberfluce one on one for your annual sit down with him.

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Speaker 3: What was the conversation like, even off of what made

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Speaker 3: it into the podcast about Caleb and and how what

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Speaker 3: has Matt Eberflus done to kind of dig in and

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Speaker 3: what were the types of things that he's asking Caleb

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Speaker 3: when he is spending so much time with him both

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Speaker 3: you know, at the Pro Day at the Combine and

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Speaker 3: then we have to think he's coming out for a

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Speaker 3: Top thirty visit first week in April. So what what

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Speaker 3: did Matt have to say? What did Eberflues have to

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Speaker 3: say just about Caleb specifically?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's a there's a couple of interesting

665
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Speaker 6: things that I mean, one is this time they spent

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Speaker 6: in Los Angeles with Caleb around the pro DA. Matt

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Speaker 6: Eberflus took an hour and twenty minutes just by himself

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Speaker 6: alone with Caleb Williams. So part of this long day

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Speaker 6: they had the Tuesday before, so the day before the

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Speaker 6: pro day that the Bears had like this exclusive access,

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Speaker 6: they penciled out an hour and twenty minutes where it

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Speaker 6: was just going to be Matt Eberflu's head coach and

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Speaker 6: Caleb Williams. Nobody else in the front office, scouts, GM,

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Speaker 6: nothing and Matt spent that time to basically learn about

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Speaker 6: Caleb's journey. Now, this is something he does with a

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Speaker 6: lot of players they bring in, probably most players even

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Speaker 6: in free agency. He said, he usually spends about forty

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Speaker 6: five minutes. He really does care about trying to get

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Speaker 6: to know these guys. But you know, this being the

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Speaker 6: number one pick and how important it is an hour

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Speaker 6: and twenty minutes and I think what's also one of

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Speaker 6: the things we asked him in that interview that we

683
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Speaker 6: had with him on our podcast was about this nil

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Speaker 6: stuff because for a while now I've looked at this

685
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Speaker 6: as a positive, but wasn't really sure because you know,

686
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Speaker 6: all the years I've spent with these draft prospects, you know,

687
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Speaker 6: and trying to learn you know, it's yes, it's a

688
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Speaker 6: big toss up. Sometimes you don't know how they're going

689
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Speaker 6: to react until they actually get that first paycheck. You

690
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 6: could have the cleanest spots prospect in the world, and

691
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Speaker 6: until they actually get that first paycheck, that signing bonus, whatever,

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Speaker 6: you never necessarily know how they're going to react. In

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Speaker 6: this NIL era, And we're talking about Caleb Williams now

694
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Speaker 6: being the most high high profile NIL prospect to ever

695
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Speaker 6: come out of college into the draft. This is a

696
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Speaker 6: guy we already know how he's going to react. He

697
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Speaker 6: already has a nice car, he already has you know,

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Speaker 6: I think he made ten million dollars last year. He's

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Speaker 6: already in commercials and stuff like that. So that almost

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Speaker 6: helps the vetting process here, and I think makes the

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Speaker 6: Bears even more comfortable with him than they, you know,

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Speaker 6: otherwise would for somebody with such a high profile that

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Speaker 6: hadn't necessarily been paid money yet.

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Speaker 3: That's funny because that's a sentiment that I got from

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Speaker 3: a director of college scouting in the NFC. Was the

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Speaker 3: same thing that said, you know, now we know it

707
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Speaker 3: was almost like a practical wonder lick of like how

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Speaker 3: these guys are going to handle this amount of success

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Speaker 3: and fame and the money just like me.

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Speaker 4: These are twenty two year old kids. They're be handing

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Speaker 4: millions dollars.

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Speaker 3: But the other aspect to this is, I feel like

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Speaker 3: there's been a lot of discourse online and I saw

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Speaker 3: you kind of chime in on it on Twitter.

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Speaker 4: As I'm going to later.

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Speaker 3: On in the show, is this notion that Chicago is

717
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Speaker 3: like won't accept Caleb Williams for who he is and

718
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Speaker 3: his personality And no, that's not the painting of the

719
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Speaker 3: nails and all that stuff isn't going to fly in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if you take as much of

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Speaker 3: an exception as I do to that hogue, but like

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Speaker 3: give Chicago a little bit more carded here.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's so ridiculous. I mean, are there Look,

724
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Speaker 6: we live in this world now where you know, whether

725
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 6: you're Taylor Swift or you're Caitlin Clark right now, or

726
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 6: you're Caleb Williams, Like there's haters out there and they're

727
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 6: they're jealous of your success and they're going to try

728
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 6: to tear you down and you know, I think unfortunately,

729
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Speaker 6: you know, specifically with Caitlin Clark and Kayla Williams right now,

730
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Speaker 6: it just seems like there's just so much buzz about

731
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Speaker 6: them and they're sort of more susceptible to it right now.

732
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Speaker 6: And you know, whatever it's, it's there's always going to

733
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 6: be those haters there. There's probably always going to be

734
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 6: some ridiculous justin Fields fans out there that just aren't

735
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Speaker 6: ever going to give over get over it and would

736
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Speaker 6: rather see them like they feel like it was versus

737
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 6: justin so there, they would honestly rather see the Bears

738
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Speaker 6: draft like Drake May right now, just because you know

739
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Speaker 6: it's not Caleb, even though that would be, you know,

740
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Speaker 6: a ridiculous thing to do. So I just I don't,

741
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Speaker 6: honest they'ven't really thought about it too much the last

742
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Speaker 6: couple of days because I just find it so ridiculous.

743
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Speaker 6: We all know how starved Bears fans are for a

744
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Speaker 6: real quarterback, and if he comes out in Week one

745
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 6: and throw three touchdowns, no one's gonna care what color's

746
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 6: fingernails are or or what color's phone is. I mean,

747
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 6: it's just not gonna matter at all. And he's gonna

748
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 6: very quickly become you know, if he lives up to

749
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Speaker 6: like even half of the hype, he's going to become.

750
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Speaker 6: Like imagine what Justin Fields became and how attacked this

751
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 6: fan base was to him to the end.

752
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 10: And he like was started like twenty two hundred yards

753
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Speaker 10: a season. Like imagine if just if cayleb comes anywhere

754
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Speaker 10: near thirty five hundred or god forbid, becomes the first

755
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Speaker 10: four thousand yard passer.

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Speaker 6: In Bear's history. Like, no one's gonna care about any

757
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Speaker 6: of this at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm totally with you, and I think we're all

759
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: on the same page. We also don't need to place

760
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 3: like these astronomical expectations on Caleb Williams. Like if he

761
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 3: goes out there and throws her three thousand yards, that's

762
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Speaker 3: going to be more than Justin Fields had ever done.

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Speaker 3: And we saw how it touched Chicago came to Justin.

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Speaker 2: So thanks Hog, Yeah, we really appreciate you coming on.

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Speaker 6: Thanks Adam, Yeah, no problem, guys, have a great day,

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Speaker 6: you too.

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Speaker 1: Had to let that one go. Happy Cowboy Carter release weekend.

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Speaker 4: No one wants to hear me.

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I could just like have this as

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Speaker 3: So literally, what's playing in the back of my mind

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Speaker 3: at all times? I have a soundtrack in the back

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Speaker 1: I know this sound right now.

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Speaker 2: It haunts my dreams, but in a good way. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can let this one.

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Speaker 1: I think it's what we're listening on the car ride home. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Carmen and I carpool so we're going to be listening to.

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Speaker 2: Boguard on the way home. Okay, guys, it is time.

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Speaker 1: For the dues and the don'ts this week in sports Highlight.

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Speaker 1: I love that and putting a spotlight on the don't

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Speaker 1: the subject brings me no joy. Are you on crack?

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00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 7: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to start with a do that made

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00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: me cry this morning? Oh when I was happy cry?

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00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: So do make someone smile at MD Motivator is a

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Speaker 1: great follow on Instagram. He teamed up with Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball and he surprised the young Phillies fan who was

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Speaker 1: selling lemonade so we could buy tickets to Opening Day. Now,

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00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: this little kid is also a brain cancer survivor, so

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Speaker 1: they bought all of his lemonade, gave him one thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars cash, and then gave him a letter that told

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Speaker 1: him he was going to Opening Day and was going

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00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: to be on the field to meet the players and

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Speaker 1: hug the players. Do these things and I mean nothing

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Speaker 1: like a good cry to get your morning start. And

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Speaker 1: he was wearing a Phillies fanatic hat on the field.

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00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 2: He has a giant scar.

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Speaker 5: On the pack.

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Speaker 4: Did he get a picture with the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: And he got everything. He hugged and smiled with all

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Speaker 1: of them. So do you make someone smile anyway you can?

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Speaker 3: Well, along those lines, I'm gonna do follow your dreams, yes,

816
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 3: Because Lewis Reese Zammitt is a Welsh rugby player, Yeah,

817
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 3: has now signed with the Kansas City Chiefs because it's

818
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 3: been his dream to be in American football. And this

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Speaker 3: isn't just like a guy a dude, like a rugby player.

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Speaker 3: He's a really good rugby player. I had a friend of,

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00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 3: or not a friend. My cousin who lives in England

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Speaker 3: texts me and is like, hey, hope you're having a

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00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 3: good Easter weekend.

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Speaker 4: Just want to let you know. Literally all of the

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Speaker 4: Welsh are just really.

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Speaker 3: Upset that Lewis has left because they're so sad.

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Speaker 4: They really liked him as a player. This is a guy.

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Speaker 3: He's clocked twenty four point two miles per hour on

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Speaker 3: the rugby pitch. To put that into context, the top

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Speaker 3: speed that Tyreek Hill reached last season was twenty two miles.

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Speaker 1: To give you a receiver, Well, we don't know what he's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna do, but he's going to be under Andy Reid

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Speaker 3: and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: So to figure out something.

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Speaker 3: Fun to do with him and where he's gonna be

836
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Speaker 3: like this hybrid running back wide receiver.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be Andy Reid.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to see what that turns into, if

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Speaker 3: that turns into anything for the Kansas City Chiefs. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're they're the Welsh. Aren't happy? Oh that's so cool though, Like,

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Speaker 3: so that's a batter.

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Speaker 1: Good for him? Okay, I have two. I'm like, Okay'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go with this one. Do correct people on social media?

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Speaker 2: Wrong?

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Speaker 1: Yale account was getting tagged in all of the March

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Speaker 1: Madness content. You guys, they were tagging at Yale MBB.

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Speaker 1: So they put out a tweet saying, our notifications are

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Speaker 1: blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale

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Speaker 1: is it.

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Speaker 3: Biophysics and Biochemistry account?

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Speaker 1: You might want to tag at Yale m B M

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Speaker 1: basketball instead.

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Speaker 3: That's the most Yale thing ever, is to have Yale MBB,

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Speaker 3: which most most colleges use as their ment basketball team basketball,

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Speaker 3: actually have that mean molecular and what is it?

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Speaker 1: My uh biophysics and biochemistry? That was awesome.

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Speaker 4: I can't even say those words. Why I got you

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Speaker 4: out me?

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Speaker 2: All right? When we come back?

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Speaker 2: Stay yeah, no, my Brackett busted it.

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Speaker 1: Please do this week. I think purduees the last I

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Speaker 1: have in my final four that's still in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: So now, yeah, we're rooting for Purdue. I had also

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Speaker 1: them going to like the championship, so we'll see.

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00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 3: Like I said, I I have a unique champion and

879
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 3: they're still in it at least as of right now,

880
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: I have Illinois winning the whole thing. It was a

881
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 3: total homer pick. I don't know what happened. I told

882
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 3: our station M Scott. I was like, I blacked out, happen. Yeah,

883
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 3: but they're playing, so we're gonna we're gonna find out you.

884
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,479
Speaker 2: Should win that game. It is Yukon's tournament to lose.

885
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: They have looked like the clear favorite throughout this entire

886
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,959
Speaker 1: March Madness tournament. It's been fun. We have Caitlin Clark

887
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,959
Speaker 1: playing right now, which is super. We have everything today,

888
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: you guys.

889
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: We have spring football.

890
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: The UFL box this morning, it's opening weekend for baseball.

891
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: We have one, two, three, four, five, six games going

892
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: on in here right now. Like this is great. This

893
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: is like a happy time of year when everything's happening

894
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: at once. We're getting close to.

895
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on off season.

896
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, NBA, NHL, We're gonna keep you updated on all

897
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: the March Madness scores throughout the show. But okay, real quick.

898
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: This year, one of my goals, like one of my

899
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: New Year's resolution goals, was to go to more games

900
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: as a fan, and I like had a really solid

901
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: week because Tuesday I went to Argentina versus Costa Rica

902
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: soccer game at the Coliseum.

903
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 4: Cool.

904
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: And then obviously I talked about this off the top

905
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: of the show. But I went to my first opening

906
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: day as a fan to Dodger STADIU.

907
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: I think since I was a kid.

908
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: So that was just like such a cool trip and experience.

909
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: And the reason is I was a sideline reporter for

910
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: ten years, so like the office was the field and

911
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: the game. So like when you have an off day,

912
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, I'm okay, sitting at home watching

913
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: it on my couch, like I don't I don't need

914
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: to go into the office all my day off.

915
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 3: The last NFL game I went to as a fan

916
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 3: was twenty thirteen.

917
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's been It's such a it's such

918
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 2: a trip.

919
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: It's such a mind trip. I'm like, it is.

920
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: I'm here, but I'm normally there on.

921
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 3: The right like all the things that you think you

922
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 3: have to think about during thing. You're like, wait, I

923
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 3: don't need to do this. I have a here, I

924
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 3: can have a Dodger dog, go get a hote.

925
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 4: I'm going to need to go to a Dodger game.

926
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: And then I got too.

927
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: I doubled down because.

928
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 4: I worked for that.

929
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 3: The last do last Oture game, I was out like

930
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: I worked for them. So I was always working Dodger games.

931
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: I haven't really been to any as a fan, so

932
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 3: I want to do that.

933
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it. Okay, it's a part of my

934
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: is yeah resolution, So why not? And it's more fun

935
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: to do it with friends. Okay, we are inching closer,

936
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 1: you guys to the NFL Draft. We are just under

937
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: four weeks away, and a lot of the top prospects

938
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: had their pro days these last couple of weeks. Now,

939
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: we talked about Caleb Williams last week, had a great

940
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: pro day. People were raving about just his character, who

941
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: he is. We're going to talk more Caleb a little later.

942
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: But a couple other big names that stood out were

943
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix junior. So quarterbacks typically just throw at these

944
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: pro days, right, but no, no, no, not Penex.

945
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: He showed off massive speed, you guys. He ran a

946
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 2: sub four point six forty yard dash.

947
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: Now, remember he had two ACL surgeries already in his career,

948
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: so I can understand why he did this to show. Hey, guys,

949
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: these injuries they ain't hold me back anymore. So you

950
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: did a full mock draft on the Multiple podcast. Okay,

951
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: much does all that? Okay, So how much. Could this

952
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: help his draft stop? Where do you see him going?

953
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: And does showing that speed and doing kind of the

954
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: extra work at Pro Day can it help you move up?

955
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 7: Yeah?

956
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 3: I mean theoretically, of course it can. But this is

957
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 3: usually this doesn't this time of year doesn't sway people's

958
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 3: opinions of you. Yeah, but I do think that Michael

959
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 3: Pennix Junior is one of those outlier cases where this

960
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 3: is not something that Washington asked him to do. Last

961
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 3: year in their offense, he had Michael Penix Junior. This

962
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: is my first reaction too, when I saw his forty time,

963
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 3: I was.

964
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 4: Like, Washington had him. He had eight rushing yards last year.

965
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 4: What feels like a.

966
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 3: Little bit of a misopportunity if he's got this kind

967
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 3: of speed to scramble with. Because Michael Pennix Junior is

968
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: one of those pure passers, He's excellent from the pocket.

969
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 4: It's very accurate.

970
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 3: He's probably the best downfield thrower in this draft class.

971
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 3: The Washington offense did not dictate that he needed to

972
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 3: scramble because they had all of these answers for him

973
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 3: from within the pocket.

974
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does not mean that apparently he can't.

975
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 3: Scramble so now, yeah, coming out of the pro day,

976
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 3: you see the speed in the athleticism that he has.

977
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 4: On top of what he has put on tape.

978
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 3: So now you know, Okay, well, this guy can bail

979
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 3: himself out within the pocket maneuver of the pocket really well.

980
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 3: But if we need him to, which so very much

981
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 3: happens in the NFL these days with how sophisticated defenses are,

982
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: we can trust him to take off and that's just

983
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 3: another thing then that defenses have to account for. So

984
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 3: that adds another element to his game that perhaps wasn't

985
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 3: shown on tape as much last year because of what

986
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: the Washington scheme was.

987
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is.

988
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 3: One of those rare instances where yeah, it does maybe

989
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 3: help a little bit, and that's why Michael Pennock Junior

990
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 3: was so intent on doing it.

991
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's interesting because we've heard guys like Caleb Williams,

992
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: who is the number one prospect to go in this draft.

993
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: We've seen him rush and run the bus.

994
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: But we also heard him say at his pro day,

995
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: I prefer not to do that, and we've also heard

996
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes prefer not to do that, but they will

997
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: because they're that talented.

998
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 2: And they can do that.

999
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: So it's very interesting to now see and hear Michael

1000
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: Pennix Junior. Okay, I didn't get that opportunity, but I

1001
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: just want everybody to know I can do it.

1002
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: I am fully capable.

1003
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams had exactly opposite tourri day experiences, where Caleb

1004
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 3: Williams is like, no, you need to know that I

1005
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 3: can throw with instructure.

1006
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 4: I can throw it within the pocket.

1007
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you're out of Pro Day and it's

1008
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 3: not even seven on seven at that point, like, it's

1009
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 3: not necessarily that you're going to see anything there that

1010
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 3: you didn't see on tape, especially from his twenty twenty

1011
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 3: two season when he didn't have to scramble as much.

1012
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 3: But just the willingness and the want to quell kind

1013
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 3: of those concerns told me a lot about Kayleb Williams

1014
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 3: in the same way me a lot about Michael Pennix Junior,

1015
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 3: who again has had the injury issues too. So this

1016
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 3: was another thing where he's.

1017
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 4: Like, no, I can still run. I can still run. Yeah,

1018
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 4: I've had the ACL surgeries.

1019
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 2: But held me back right.

1020
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 3: So you're never going to have a quarterback take off

1021
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 3: and need some for six speed, but the fact that

1022
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 3: he wanted to do it again tells me a lot.

1023
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1024
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple other big names that have been

1025
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 1: in the news for pro days, Myleague Neighbors and Marvin

1026
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior, but for two different reasons. Okay, because these

1027
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: are the top two wide receivers in the upcoming draft.

1028
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: Moliku Neighbors LSU wide receiver, had a great pro Day,

1029
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: but he's thought to be kind of that number two

1030
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Here you talk to in the draft. Behind him,

1031
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior, now Harrison junior wide receiver from Ohio State.

1032
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: His dad is Hall of Fame wide receiver Marvin Harrison.

1033
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: He did not do anything at the Combine or his

1034
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: pro day, basically told teams watched it. Check the tape.

1035
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: Check the tape, check the tape. So both of these

1036
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: wide receivers great seasons, took two completely different approaches with

1037
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: the pro day. How much does a pro day matter

1038
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: for these guys, because maybe Marvin Harrison Junior could have

1039
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: solidified that number one spot if he showed up at

1040
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: his pro day. If you're such a big competitor, why

1041
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't you want to do everything in your power to

1042
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: make yourself look great. Yes, these pro days are like

1043
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: a planned practice, but you got to play along. It's

1044
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: more of a vibe check than anything else.

1045
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 3: Right, So I uh, obviously the media has made a

1046
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 3: lot about this, right and how like, ooh is Malik

1047
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 3: Neighbors now like inching into that wide receiver one spot

1048
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: is like our team's gonna see like, oh, he wanted

1049
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 3: to be competitive, so they're going to take him before

1050
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison Junior.

1051
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 4: So I texted a scout friend of mine.

1052
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 3: He's a scout in the nf Ariy scout in the NFC,

1053
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 3: and I was I asked him, I was like, does

1054
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: this make anybody think twice about him?

1055
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 4: And he just haed the message and goes, that's cute.

1056
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 3: But no, He's like, whatever you think about them didn't change.

1057
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 3: And there are teams I'm sure for people that thought

1058
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors might be you know, they would want maybe

1059
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 3: for their scheme, whatever is the guy that they would

1060
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 3: take over Marvin Harrison Junior. But Marvin Harrison Junior doesn't

1061
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 3: have anything left to prove. And this does not change

1062
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 3: people's minds either.

1063
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 2: Way, even just showing up. I mean, like no, because

1064
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: what you want really matter.

1065
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 3: They So again we go back to the Michael Pennix

1066
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 3: Junior example, where Okay, if there is something you want

1067
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: to prove, or there is something that you want to

1068
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 3: just ease concerns about, you can do that. You can

1069
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 3: absolutely do that. But for a guy like Marvin Harrison Junior,

1070
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 3: who has zero to prove. Yeah, again we talk about

1071
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: we talked about this last week. The nil era is

1072
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 3: changing things for these guys. These guys are pros before,

1073
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 3: and not that they weren't before millions, but they're making

1074
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 3: millions of dollars. They are approaching things like businessmen now

1075
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 3: because they are business men.

1076
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,479
Speaker 2: Accidentally hurt yourself in exactly like there.

1077
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 3: Is nothing to be gained for a guy like Marvin

1078
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 3: Harrison Junior doing his pro day, he can absolutely say

1079
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 3: check the tape. Also for a guy like Marvin Harrison

1080
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 3: Junior who has the pedigree of a Hall of Fame father, yes,

1081
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 3: what like he grew up in this, he knows how

1082
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 3: to handle himself.

1083
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1084
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 4: And also pro days don't mean that you can't still

1085
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 4: get information and even if you know him not doing

1086
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 4: it anything, okay, you can still ask his counselors and

1087
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 4: his professors and his teammates and stuff of like who

1088
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 4: is getting then, But you're actually going to have a

1089
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 4: shot at Marvin Harrison Junior in the draft as the

1090
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 4: team you can you bring him in for a top

1091
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 4: thirty visit and then you get to know him that

1092
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 4: way too.

1093
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: Okay, where do you see both these guys landing in

1094
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: your mock drafts?

1095
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Speaker 4: So we've done it a couple of different ways.

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Speaker 3: The last one we had trades, and I am I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of moving off of this thought that maybe Arizona

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Speaker 3: stays at number four. They absolutely need a wide receiver

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Speaker 3: and oh my god, Marvin Harrison Junior could do some

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00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 3: wonderful things for Kyler Murray in Arizona, but the Cardinals

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00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 3: have so many needs. You look at that depth chart

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00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 3: and it is just riddled with holes. So you have

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Speaker 3: teams that are going to want to come up and

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Speaker 3: take a quarterback and they're likely going to have to

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Speaker 3: get into the top five to do that.

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Speaker 2: Arizona down and get like a Hall.

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00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: Get a haul they could see, and then that pushes

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Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison down a little bit further. Maybe not not much,

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Speaker 3: but it just depends on how many quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: So if he if it.

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Speaker 3: If quarterbacks go one, two, three, four, I think they will.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a possibility depending on what New England does.

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00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: There's a hole they also like New England needs a hall.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they get a quarterback and then not

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00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: have I.

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00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 3: Don't think they're set up for a young one. No,

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00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 3: I don't think they are at all. So again, they

1118
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 3: could trade out, but I mean the Chargers are absolutely in.

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00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 3: That's their number one need. They traded away Keenan Allen,

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00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 3: Mike Williams is gone. They need a receiver. So it's like,

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Speaker 3: do you as they're.

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Speaker 1: A Zonamber they're five?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, So if Arizona doesn't take him at four

1124
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 3: and they trade back, they are absolutely forfeiting Marvin Harrison

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00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 3: Junior because then the Chargers would probably take that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 3: Or do the Chargers do the Arizona Cardinals take Marvin

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00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 3: Harrison Junior and then the Chargers end up moving down

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00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 3: and like a team like the Vikings comes up into that.

1130
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 3: Or do the Patriots end up trading out to get

1131
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 3: a home. It's absolutely wild, Like this is going to

1132
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 3: be a very interesting top five because nothing would surprise

1133
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 3: me between quarterbacks going one through four, or it's it's

1134
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Speaker 3: gonna be really interesting.

1135
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: What about Malikue Neighbors. Do you see him that close?

1136
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: So there's a big gap, you think.

1137
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a big gap. I don't think

1138
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 3: there's a big gap between the two. And I do

1139
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 3: think that Molikue Neighbors, I think all three the top

1140
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 3: three receivers, because then you add in Romadoonza from Washington.

1141
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 3: I do think all three of those guys could be

1142
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 3: gone by the time we get out of the top ten. Okay,

1143
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 3: but I mean we not see a defensive player drafted

1144
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 3: in the top ten.

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00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 4: That's how it is all going to be.

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00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 3: But between offensive tackles, wide receivers, quarterbacks that could absolutely

1147
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Speaker 3: take up the top ten.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, Well, these guys are gonna be

1149
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: coming into the league with some new.

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Speaker 2: Rules, car Man.

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00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: We got some massive rule changes in the NFL this week.

1152
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: They're changing the kickoff yep, major major, and then no

1153
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: more hip drop tackle weightless.

1154
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 3: Or like wait wait, full weight landing on a player.

1155
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 3: It's it's a version of the hip drop tackle. So

1156
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 3: hip drop tackles what swivel drop So it's a swivel

1157
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 3: hip drop tackle where the player, wraps up the guy,

1158
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 3: leaves his feet, pulls his entire weight into bringing the

1159
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 3: guy down, but then also lands on the player that

1160
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 3: he's trying to bring down. So the example people keep

1161
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 3: using is Mark Andrews last year getting hurt for a

1162
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Speaker 3: majority of the rest of the season. Uh and and

1163
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 3: and messing up his ankle. Caught myself because of a

1164
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Speaker 3: tackle like this.

1165
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Speaker 4: So that's what.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to get out of the game. And yes,

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Speaker 3: I am not at all in favor of keeping this

1168
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 3: kind of play in the game, and I want to

1169
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Speaker 3: make the game safer for players and all that other stuff.

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Speaker 3: My concern, which is shared by many defensive coaches defensive

1171
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Speaker 3: players who I've talked to around the league, is how

1172
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Speaker 3: it is going to be enforced, how do you or

1173
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 3: something like that, because there is confusion in between the

1174
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Speaker 3: examples that the NFL is showing. There was also two

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Speaker 3: different I think Rich McKay said the amount of times

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Speaker 3: this happens throughout the season said two different things. At

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Speaker 3: one point he said it happens once a game, and

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Speaker 3: then the other time he said it happens once a week,

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Speaker 3: which is two very different things because you're talking about

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Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy whatever games.

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Speaker 4: So if it happens once a game.

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Speaker 3: That's two hundred and seventy of these fifteen yard penalties

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00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 3: which can sway games. Yeah, or once a week, which

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Speaker 3: is seventeen their eighteen games.

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00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, like not a big deal.

1186
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Speaker 4: So eighteen penalties.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, I don't like the confusion that has

1188
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 3: already started around this does not bode well.

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Speaker 1: No, we've had We've been hearing a lot of mixed

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Speaker 1: emotion too from former players, former defensive end JJ Watt.

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00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 2: Just fast forward to the belts with flags.

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, JJ is very outspoken.

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00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: Very and then you have former Chicago Bear offensive lineman

1194
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,399
Speaker 1: Kyle Long saying, I'm happy the hip drop tackles out

1195
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Speaker 1: of the game. I'm all for the league trying to

1196
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Speaker 1: minimize the potential for serious injury.

1197
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 2: The league has a one.

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Speaker 1: Rate of injury, but the hip drop tends to be

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Speaker 1: the cause of injuries that.

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Speaker 3: Are harder to be It has almost a twenty five

1201
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Speaker 3: percent injury, right, which.

1202
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Speaker 1: Is that's a lot.

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00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 4: It's a lot.

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00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 2: That's a lot.

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00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 3: It's a lot, And like, I get it again, in

1206
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 3: an ideal world, absolutely the should be brought out of

1207
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Speaker 3: the game. But I just don't want and this isn't

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00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 3: going to be that big of an issue. I don't

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00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 3: think until we get a nationally televised game where it

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Speaker 3: gets called and it sways the game like it's that's

1211
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 3: when this is good, there's gonna be another uproar. Yes,

1212
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 3: but until then, I think it's going to kind of

1213
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 3: fad in the background. Whereas the new kickoff rules so interesting,

1214
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Speaker 3: you guys, I'm like, I'm not even going to try

1215
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 3: to audibly explain it.

1216
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 4: Look at it, go look at gold water Field.

1217
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: Was the XFL, they had it in the XFL or USFL.

1218
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: It was one of the spring leaves. The XFL they

1219
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: used it, the XFL.

1220
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Speaker 3: The XFL used it. And there is a they're bringing

1221
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 3: back the kickoff return. They want to encourage kickoff returns,

1222
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 3: but just encourage it in a safer way, which I do.

1223
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Speaker 1: Like you want to actually, I mean, the return rate

1224
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: fell to a league record low of twenty one point

1225
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: seven percent in twenty twenty three. That's okay for football.

1226
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Speaker 3: One action well, because there was no penalties for just

1227
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 3: kicking the ball out of the Z, which was a

1228
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 3: lot easier for us. This's going to require, uh, specialists

1229
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 3: to be very intentional with where they're placing the ball. Yeah,

1230
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 3: and I like it, especially because, like I come from Chicago.

1231
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 3: The reason Devin Hester is in the Hall of Fame

1232
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 3: now is because of kickoff returns. These are so fun fact,

1233
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 3: but like when he was doing it, it was very

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00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,479
Speaker 3: very dangerous. Like you think about a guy running full

1235
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 3: speed at you, these gunners that just are trying to

1236
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 3: wreck you and there it's so dangerous. Or there was

1237
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 3: a disproportionate amount of injuries happening on kickoffs. Yeah, now

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Speaker 3: we've made it safer while still encouraging.

1239
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like lined up completely differently, completely, I would

1240
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: if you haven'teen this visually, find things like video thirty five.

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Speaker 3: The teams are kicking from the their thirty five yard line,

1242
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 3: but the other team is like lined up on their yeah,

1243
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 3: thirty yard line, so there's only like twenty or twenty

1244
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 3: five yards between or not even like in between.

1245
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: The total interesting look at a visual.

1246
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 2: Go watch it.

1247
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 3: It's gonna be completely change how specialties coordinators can.

1248
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: But it's great. This isn't going to be the break

1249
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: to like go get a beer, go to the bathroom,

1250
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: go go game. You're gonna want to be glued to

1251
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: your TV and watch it.

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Speaker 3: Really, it's like justice for these special teamers, man, And

1253
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting how that trickles down into roster

1254
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 3: building and team building because you think of special teamers

1255
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 3: as guys that are like, okay, well, their their main

1256
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,439
Speaker 3: job is they're a wide receiver, but they can also

1257
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 3: be used on special teams. Now, I think you're gonna

1258
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 3: see an uptake of guys that are true special teams,

1259
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 3: special lists that are on the kickoff teams because you're

1260
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 3: gonna need guys that you're gonna have to strategize in

1261
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 3: this phase of the ball And I think that that's

1262
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 3: really interesting and that's going to be a new challenge

1263
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 3: for these special teams coordinators. And we can't overlook the

1264
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 3: third phase of the game anymore.

1265
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Speaker 2: Nope, no we can't.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we're gonna take a quick break here,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, people are getting triggered by

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, and you know what they need to get

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Speaker 1: over it. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Saturday of Alex Curry alongside Carmen Vitale.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and you guys, I am shook right now.

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Speaker 1: I just watched I must have missed it live, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen it yet. Bryce Harper

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Speaker 1: did a full cartwheel over the first base railing into

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Speaker 1: the dugout like this is one of the scarier over

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Speaker 1: the rail like jumped down from.

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Speaker 7: Game.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, he's okay, but you guys, guy, it's coming

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Speaker 1: off of Tommy John start right. You need like, don't

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Speaker 1: do this, don't do it. You didn't get to play

1282
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Speaker 1: well last season due to injury.

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Speaker 1: We get it right. I also posted at Alex Underscore

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Speaker 1: Curry at Karmi Va.

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Speaker 4: We do it.

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Speaker 1: They'll all be up Okay, guys, Yeah, we're actually going

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Speaker 1: to switch things up for a moment here, because, surprise, surprise,

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green was ejected yet again. This was less than

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Speaker 1: four minutes into Golden States win over the Magic on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: after receiving two technical fouls. He was discussing a call

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Speaker 1: with the refs during the game. Now, dream give you

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Speaker 1: a little requesting. Let me give you a little perspective here.

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Speaker 1: On some Draymond Green ejection stats, he is now top

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Speaker 1: of the list for fastest player ejections. This is his

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Speaker 1: fourth ejection this season, the most in his career, his

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Speaker 1: nineteenth career regular season ejection. I think we all remember

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Speaker 1: the last one where he was gone for a long

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Speaker 1: time and had to go to anger management classes. All

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Speaker 1: I got to say, at least this one wasn't physically

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Speaker 1: hurting anyone. But you, guys, what are like, What are

1310
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: you doing? You are a grown man getting paid millions

1311
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: of dollars who has gone to I think I would

1312
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: guess he's still going to anger management classes. You have

1313
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: to get your anger under control. You have to get

1314
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: under control.

1315
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 3: If it wasn't a pattern getting ejected, having two technicals

1316
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 3: within the first four minutes game would would almost be impressive.

1317
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 3: But what was crazy to me is that Steve Kerr

1318
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,439
Speaker 3: came out after the game said Draymond deserved the suspension, yeah,

1319
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 3: but that it did not impact the trust he's built

1320
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 3: up with the team. I'm like, what are we talking about,

1321
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 3: because then you have Steph Curry saying we need him

1322
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 3: out there. That's all I'm gonna say this. He's been

1323
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 3: not only has he been ejected that many times, he's

1324
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 3: been suspended six times. Oh, he has missed twenty five

1325
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 3: total games throughout these suspensions, and like, grow up, dude,

1326
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 3: you need your team needs you to do your job.

1327
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 3: You're not a twenty two year old hot head kid

1328
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 3: playing LA fitness pickup basketball. You are a thirty four

1329
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 3: year old professional whose team is in like trying to

1330
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 3: get claw their way into the playoffs, and they need

1331
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 3: you from a basketball perspective. Oh, this has been This

1332
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 3: has plagued Draymond his entire career, and I'm like, how

1333
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 3: many chances are we going to keep giving him when

1334
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 3: he's now becoming not available for his team?

1335
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: No, I mean that, I think that's the most important part.

1336
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: And we Steph Curry was noticeably upset and after the

1337
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: game he say all I'll say is we need him,

1338
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: and he knows that. But what kind of rubbed me

1339
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: the wrong way was Steve Kerr's comments.

1340
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 2: This wasn't after the game.

1341
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: I think it was on a radio show and he said,

1342
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: I think I'm actually kicking myself a little bit because

1343
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: I thought, for the most part, from the last six

1344
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: weeks ago, since Draymond came back from the suspension, for

1345
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: the most part, he's been really good with the refs.

1346
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: I think he found a really good balance of being

1347
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: competitive and feisty and playing with an edge but not

1348
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: going overboard. And I thought in the Miami game he

1349
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: was on the refs too much and I should have intervened.

1350
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: I should have talked to him after the game and

1351
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: just reminded him that this all starts from him finding

1352
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: the right spot. I don't think it's the coach's responsibility

1353
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: or the star player Steph Kirk, because he also mentioned

1354
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: Steph was standing there and he felt bad that he

1355
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: should have pulled Draymond back while he's in this argument

1356
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: with the refs, It is not their responsibility.

1357
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 2: You are a grown gram getting paid.

1358
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: Millions of dollars to play a game. It was in

1359
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: anger management classes that like, there is a target on

1360
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 1: your back, there is a spotlight on you because of

1361
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: this pattern behavior.

1362
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 3: It's insane to me too, because also he had another

1363
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 3: altercation with Patty Mills the day before this where he

1364
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 3: wrapped his arm around Patty Mills's neck, Like, clearly nothing

1365
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 3: is taking and you need to get him out of

1366
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 3: the game until he can control his motions. Because you're right,

1367
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 3: it is not up to the step Curry. It is

1368
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 3: not up to Steve Kurk. It is up to Draymond

1369
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,959
Speaker 3: Green to control his emotions because he is again, he's

1370
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 3: in his mid thirties. You are not like he hormone

1371
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 3: filled teenager that needs to like that can't express his

1372
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 3: anger or his emotions or whatever.

1373
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 4: Get that in line. You are a professional, dude.

1374
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: It just it feels like he is more harm than

1375
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: help at this point. And the Warriors are hanging on

1376
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: by a thread to make the postseason. Like they're currently

1377
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: in tenth they were on a three game winning streak,

1378
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: but they're that last spot in the playing tournament and

1379
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: the Rocketers right on their tail there one game behind them.

1380
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: They are the hottest team in the NBA right now

1381
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: on an eleven game winning streak.

1382
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 3: And I don't like what this is projecting from the

1383
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 3: NBA of like, you can be a really a dirty player,

1384
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 3: you can be doing all of these things, but we're

1385
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 3: still going to put you on the court because you're

1386
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 3: good a basketball.

1387
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 4: No that the NBA needs to up its standards.

1388
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 3: The NBA needs to obviously not learn send the message

1389
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 3: that this isn't gonna fly.

1390
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: At this point. It's got to be probably the Warriors.

1391
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: The NBA has done as much as he's been caddled.

1392
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: We heard that through Steve Kurr's comments talking about it.

1393
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: He should have known better, and he should have reminded him,

1394
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: and Steph should have pulled him back.

1395
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 3: There is a fine line between supporting your teammates, thrown man,

1396
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 3: You're supporting your teammate and enabling your teammate. And the

1397
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 3: Warriors right now have been enabling this behavior from Jaymond

1398
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 3: Green for a long time now.

1399
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 2: Uh huh.

1400
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 3: And I wonder if this is kind of the writing

1401
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 3: on the wall, because it is. It's a pattern of

1402
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 3: behavior that is not changing despite the fact that he

1403
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 3: has been His last suspension was for sixteen games. The

1404
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 3: suspension before that five games.

1405
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:04,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, like.

1406
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: What are you management classes?

1407
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 5: Right?

1408
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 3: What are you even getting out Draymond Green? Now, if

1409
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 3: he's not going to be on this one for you,

1410
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 3: you're just getting a destruction.

1411
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: He might be more harm than help at this point.

1412
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: But now let's check in with Martin Wison. See what's trending.

1413
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 11: I will right now with a seventy one to fifty

1414
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 11: lead over Colorado and the Sweet sixteen that the women's

1415
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 11: basketball tournament March Madness, Kaitlyn Clark with twenty five points,

1416
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 11: thirteen assists, and six rebounds. Yeah, this one not as

1417
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 11: close as the game we saw before this one with

1418
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 11: LSU and UCLA. That was a battle until about three

1419
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 11: minutes to go. Tigers went on a fourteen to two

1420
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 11: run down the stretch to make the final score there

1421
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 11: seventy eight to sixty nine in favor of LSU.

1422
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 9: Elad eight on the men's side.

1423
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 11: Getting ready to get started here Illinois and yukon the

1424
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 11: first game up Clemson in Alabama, the nightcap in Major

1425
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 11: League Baseball, the Brewers beat the Mets seven to six.

1426
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:56,920
Speaker 9: Tigers beat the White Sox.

1427
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 11: HA deal with that, that's seven.

1428
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 3: So I was totally I'm holistic about all of this.

1429
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 3: I told you, like, it's gonna be a long season,

1430
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 3: y'all don't have to result.

1431
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 4: Well, okay, even said that you guys are probably gonna

1432
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 4: be good this year.

1433
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 9: But the reality of it is they might not be.

1434
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 11: And it's like you said at the beginning of a

1435
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 11: long season, this might be the first and last.

1436
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 4: Opportunity to take trouble you can.

1437
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 9: Detroit Tigers.

1438
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 11: Uh speaking of baseball, the bottom of the six for

1439
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 11: the Orioles and the Angels, Baltimore with the three to

1440
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 11: one lead midway through the sixth and another Al Central

1441
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 11: matchup that we just talking about, the Tigers and White Sox,

1442
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 11: Twins and the Royals. They are tied at zero zero

1443
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 11: midway through the sixth inning, Nationals and the Reds bottom

1444
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 11: of the fifth, Washington with a two to one lead,

1445
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 11: Blue Jays and the Rays, Tampa leading by two to nothing.

1446
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 9: Bottom of the fifth inning.

1447
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 11: There Pirates and the Marlins just five to two, Pittsburgh

1448
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 11: bottom of the fifth, Guardians in the Athletics Cleveland five

1449
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 11: to Cleveland with they five to three lead bottom of

1450
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 11: the fourth and in the top of the third the

1451
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 11: Braves have six so far. Phillies have three again. Top

1452
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 11: of the third There. USFL season has started. In the

1453
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 11: Arleanston Renegade met the Birmingham Stallions twenty seven to fourteen

1454
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:09,919
Speaker 11: and it is a three to nothing lead right now.

1455
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 11: Saint Louis Battlehawk's and the Michigan Panthers. Saint Louis with

1456
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,600
Speaker 11: the lead three I'm sorry, third quarter, twelve.

1457
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:19,799
Speaker 9: Nineteen left in that period.

1458
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: Back to you guys, Thank you Martin. You're listening Fox

1459
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: Sports Saturday. I am Alex curR here with Carmen Vitali.

1460
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,759
Speaker 1: We are broadcasting live from the Tarak dot Com studios

1461
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Now I tease this before the last segment,

1462
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: but we decided to push it a little. People are

1463
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: way too triggered by Caleb Williams and you know what,

1464
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: you need to get over it. The internet was losing

1465
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: their mind when they saw Caleb with pink nails, a

1466
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: pink foam case.

1467
01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 3: At a women's basketball game when he was at USC's

1468
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 3: women's March Madness game.

1469
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: I will say, if you haven't seen it yet, Caleb

1470
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: did fire back in a video on Thursday, showing his case,

1471
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: his nails, his lips and ended the video saying, your

1472
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: girl loves him. So I love when someone is one

1473
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: hundred percent authentically themselves. So the fact that people are

1474
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: freaking out that Caleb Williams has pink nails, has a

1475
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:18,759
Speaker 1: peak phone is ridiculous. Get over yourself and stop judging others.

1476
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,560
Speaker 1: Why does this bother you? Why are you so insecure

1477
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,799
Speaker 1: that a top athlete decides he likes a certain color

1478
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: that you think isn't the color a male should be

1479
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: rocking having on his phone, having on his nails, like,

1480
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: because let's be honest here, we were talking about it

1481
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: with Adam Hoag last hour. Bear fans are not gonna

1482
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 1: care the moment he starts winning. No one is going

1483
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: to care the moment he starts winning. No one should

1484
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: care right now. I was gonna say, no one should

1485
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 1: care right now.

1486
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 4: Let him go hand qualify it.

1487
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 5: No like.

1488
01:09:55,280 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: Chicago fans, What about Dennis Rodman, the crazy You didn't

1489
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 1: bring it up.

1490
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 4: I was going to the craziest.

1491
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 3: Athlete of the moment, man who wore a wedding dress.

1492
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 1: Face, tattoos, flip piercing dyed hair, everything, nails, everything.

1493
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 4: Lest we forget Dennis Rodman's nails and his.

1494
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 2: Hair that was different every other game loved it.

1495
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,879
Speaker 3: I one of the most beloved sports figures in Chicago

1496
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 3: sports history.

1497
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1498
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 1: I just think like fans that are getting upset at

1499
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams's phone case color, nail polish color, lip color,

1500
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: I think you need to take a hard look in

1501
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 1: the mirror. This has nothing to do with him. You

1502
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: are projecting some mad insecurities.

1503
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 3: And insecurities that clearly Caleb Williams doesn't have. What are

1504
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 3: what are the characteristics you want in a leader, Alex Because.

1505
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 2: I want confidence.

1506
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 3: I want the ability to be different and be how

1507
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 3: I want to be and have the ability to galvanize

1508
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 3: a team behind me while still being authentically myself and

1509
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 3: encouraging others to you like that, not to This is

1510
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 3: the other thing that is going completely disregarded. And I

1511
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,439
Speaker 3: get that Caleb Williams is a huge prospect. He's probably

1512
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 3: gonna go number one overall in the draft. Yes, but

1513
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 3: this is not his first brush with the spotlight. He

1514
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 3: has been in the second largest media market in the

1515
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 3: country in Los Angeles.

1516
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 4: For the last three years.

1517
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 2: He paid millions getting paid millions of dollars money.

1518
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 3: We're gonna nitpick everything, but have you ever seen a

1519
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 3: picture of Caleb Williams, like intoxicated of going out to

1520
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 3: Hollywood clubs. Have you ever seen him have be in

1521
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 3: the news for any reason that is a little bit

1522
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 3: unsavory or whatever? Like, no of the things that Caleb

1523
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 3: Williams could have got himself into being a young kid

1524
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 3: with millions of dollars in the middle of Los Angeles, Hollywood. Yeah,

1525
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:49,600
Speaker 3: you have not seen him do any of that, so

1526
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 3: he don't. Like the worst thing that you have seen

1527
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 3: about Caleb Williams is that he likes to paint his nails.

1528
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: Oh, and that he's extremely emotional and cares about what

1529
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: he does because he jumped into is mom's arms.

1530
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 3: Like, oh hi, a healthy relationship with your mother, a

1531
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 3: healthy relationship with your emotions, your ability to go think

1532
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 3: outside the box when it comes to fashion choices.

1533
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 4: Why are these being billed as bad things? And then

1534
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 4: on top of.

1535
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 3: That, I feel like a lot of people are like, oh, well,

1536
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 3: that's not gonna fly in Chicago. What as a Chicago girl, Yeah,

1537
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 3: that is offensive because I'm like, give my city more credit.

1538
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 3: Chicago is one of the most diverse cultural metropolitan metropolis

1539
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 3: is in the country. I get that everybody thinks bears

1540
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 3: fans are still the nineteen eighty five superfans skit from SNL,

1541
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 3: But I assure you they are not. This is a beautiful,

1542
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 3: culturally rich city that absolutely has the capacity to embrace someone.

1543
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 4: And I want Chicago to get more credit than that.

1544
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 3: And I want Bears fans, if you have a problem

1545
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 3: with this, I want you to be better. I want

1546
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 3: better for you. Caleb Williams painting his nails having different

1547
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 3: color phone cases because by the way he switches it up. Yeah,

1548
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 3: it's not like whatever, who cares?

1549
01:12:59,200 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: Who cares?

1550
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 4: He is a football player and he's a damn good one.

1551
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 2: He's a great one.

1552
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,600
Speaker 1: Also, like Chicago fans, I said it before, I'm going

1553
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: to say it again.

1554
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:08,599
Speaker 2: You welcome Dennis Rodman with open arms.

1555
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 4: You know.

1556
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: I know he did a lot of things that if

1557
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 1: social media was around in the time, probably wouldn't be.

1558
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 3: Say tell me you've never spent any time on TikTok

1559
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 3: without telling me like this is just gen Z. Gen

1560
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 3: Z much more open and fluid with like their fashion

1561
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 3: choices and like what they decide they want to do,

1562
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 3: and how open they are with people like this is

1563
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 3: a completely new generation and it happens every single Generation.

1564
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, every cycle.

1565
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 4: Gen Z's a little weird. What do you want? I

1566
01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 4: love that's how they are.

1567
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 2: I love it.

1568
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 1: They are changing the social norms and making us have

1569
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 1: these conversations that we should have been having years ago.

1570
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 1: Who cares? Who cares what anyone does with their appearance,

1571
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: their personal A lot hurt is. He's showing up to

1572
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: the field and playing a great game and being a

1573
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: good person.

1574
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 3: Being a good teammate, being a good leader. Like, none

1575
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 3: of this affects how he can be as a leader

1576
01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 3: of men, no matter what anybody says.

1577
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: No, And recently he had dinner with Bear's head coach,

1578
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,560
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus, and he was raving about Caleb even his

1579
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 1: pro day. Everyone that was there raving great personality, great character.

1580
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: Can see he's easily connectable with people. This was all

1581
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: just during dinner.

1582
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 3: Ryan Poles said it at owners meetings, saying that he's

1583
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 3: having a trouble finding anybody that doesn't like him, if

1584
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 3: not love Caleb Woods.

1585
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 4: Yes, this is and this is absolutely.

1586
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 3: The guy that you want to bring into a franchise

1587
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 3: that is now set up to help develop a young quarterback.

1588
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 3: He's got a one two veteran wide receiver punch in

1589
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 3: DJ Moore and Keenan Allen. Now he's got pieces around,

1590
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,839
Speaker 3: experienced pieces around him that can help him grow and develop.

1591
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 3: And yeah, you want him to come into the locker

1592
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:43,720
Speaker 3: room and humble himself because everybody has to do that

1593
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:45,519
Speaker 3: in an NFL locker room. It's a team sport, that's

1594
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 3: how it works. But from everything we've heard, he is

1595
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 3: able to do that while also galvanizing his teammates to

1596
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:55,560
Speaker 3: follow him and to be the leader that a quarterback

1597
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:59,640
Speaker 3: should be and that Chicago is so desperately starved for.

1598
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have never.

1599
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 3: Witnessed a fan base that is so divided and divisive

1600
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 3: about having the number one overall pick in a quarterback

1601
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 3: class that is revered as one of the best in years.

1602
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 1: This is exciting.

1603
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:14,640
Speaker 2: Guy's so exciting.

1604
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 3: There is a roster set up to actually helped him

1605
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 3: and develop him. You have a wonderful new offensive orner.

1606
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:24,799
Speaker 3: This is a good thing. Guys, stop trying to nitpick

1607
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:26,879
Speaker 3: and tear down every little thing about Kayleb Williams.

1608
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:29,839
Speaker 1: I love it. Also, he's coming in like not how

1609
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: I guess a lot of rookie quarterbacks did in the past.

1610
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,280
Speaker 1: Because he is the first full nil right quarterback in

1611
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: a major market, in a major city, making ten million

1612
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 1: plus dollars, and he is able to balance that fame,

1613
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: life and football.

1614
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 3: And the worst thing you can find about him is

1615
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:53,639
Speaker 3: his nail color and his phone case and the fact

1616
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:54,759
Speaker 3: that he likes to wear lip class.

1617
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 4: Lip class is.

1618
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 2: Great, It's awesome.

1619
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: Get into it, all right, We're gonna take one more

1620
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 1: break here when we come back, Carmen, feel good Story

1621
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 1: of the week. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome

1622
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 1: back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

1623
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: Carmen Vitally. We are broadcasting live from Tick dot com

1624
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: Studios in Los Angeles, and you guys, Spring football is

1625
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: officially back. The UFL kicked off today with a doubleheader

1626
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 1: on Fox.

1627
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 2: The Stallions and the Renegade started this morning.

1628
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: We got the Saint Louis BattleHawks versus Michigan Panthers right now.

1629
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 1: But Carmen, it's crazy to think that the NFL is

1630
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: the biggest sport in America and it doesn't have a

1631
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:41,679
Speaker 1: proper minor league. So, I mean, you spent last season

1632
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:46,400
Speaker 1: covering the USFL. Obviously, they combined with the XFL, which

1633
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 1: I think was.

1634
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,480
Speaker 2: The smartest thing. Why would you have two spring football.

1635
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: Other time.

1636
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 2: Everyone's kind of together on this.

1637
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: Every network is having them all like it's on every

1638
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: single major network coming together to try to make this work.

1639
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean, does this have Is this like kind of

1640
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: coming together to be a proper minor league system for

1641
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: the NFL.

1642
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 4: I think that's the hope.

1643
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 3: But it's interesting because now we've fully embraced NIL and

1644
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 3: the not only NIL, but the transfer portal in NCAA football,

1645
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:25,599
Speaker 3: which makes college football more like the pros than ever.

1646
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 3: We talked about extensively how these guys coming out now

1647
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 3: are used to making millions of dollars already, and some

1648
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 3: not even I mean NIL spans the Gamut. It's not

1649
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 3: every guy is making millions of dollars like Kayla Williams,

1650
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,599
Speaker 3: but they are getting a sense of the business aspect

1651
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 3: of the industry on top of the fact transfer portal whatever.

1652
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 3: So now I feel like the two leagues have merged,

1653
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,799
Speaker 3: between the USFL and the XFL to become the UFL,

1654
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 3: but now they're competing with the with college football to

1655
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,599
Speaker 3: actually be kind of a feeder league because college football

1656
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 3: is more professional than ever before.

1657
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: I will say we are starting to see a little

1658
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 1: crossover from these two spring leagues. You have Cavante Turpin

1659
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Cowboys.

1660
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 7: He was a.

1661
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: USFL MVP in twenty twenty two. Then the Cowboys picked

1662
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: him up, and.

1663
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 4: Then you're really special teams for it, right.

1664
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 1: And then the Cowboys also picked up Brandon Aubrey, who

1665
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: was the Birmingham Stallions for two years. He's now the

1666
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: kicker for the Cowboys and he actually set a few

1667
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: records last season, most consecutive field goals made to start

1668
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 1: a career, highest field goal percentage by a rookie in

1669
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: a single season, and he was a huge pickup for

1670
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. You also have PJ. Walker quarterback on the Browns.

1671
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: He was in the XFL in twenty twenty. He's kind

1672
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 1: of bounced around a bit. And then we've seen the

1673
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 1: opposite Marquette King, former NFL punter, he's now current renegade punter,

1674
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: the former XFL champions, good friend of mine. He's yeah, I.

1675
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 3: Mean, I just I feel like that's kind of at

1676
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 3: least right now, that's the more common is where guys

1677
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 3: that get cut in training camps or anything, or you know,

1678
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 3: bounce around practice squads in the NFL then have an

1679
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 3: opportunity to play spring ball with the UFL and kind

1680
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 3: of be stars in their own right in the UFL

1681
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 3: and get paid to do so. Which again, this is

1682
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 3: just kind of about opening up the professional world of

1683
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 3: football to get paid for more guys to.

1684
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 4: Make a living off of all of this.

1685
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 3: And you see, oh, Michigan Panthers just scored at seven

1686
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 3: to three now with the Saint Louis BattleHawks. You even

1687
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 3: see this with coaches as well, because you have Anthony

1688
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 3: beck Is, the Saint Louis BattleHawks head coach. Yeah, he's

1689
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 3: a good friend of mine. He was in around the

1690
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 3: Buccaneers organization when I was there with him. He was

1691
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 3: a longtime New York Jet as well. He has bounced

1692
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:43,240
Speaker 3: around in the USFL as a coach. Yeah, and it

1693
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 3: just it gives guys more opportunities. It opens up opportunities.

1694
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to become the feeder league,

1695
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 3: but I think that that is absolutely the intent. And

1696
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 3: you would love to see it because, like you said,

1697
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 3: it's one of the major sports that don't have a

1698
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 3: minor league.

1699
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: I mean, we're seeing you talked about it in our

1700
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: DOS and donts. We just saw the rugby play layer

1701
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: come over and sign an NFL contract, Like there isn't

1702
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: like a direct I mean there is the direct path.

1703
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: It's like you do college football and hopefully you get

1704
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: drafted or picked up. Yeah, and then you're either playing

1705
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: or you're on the practice squad and there's not like

1706
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: a real place to get that game time experience.

1707
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 2: And I think they're hopeful.

1708
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the Rock crushed it this morning and it's

1709
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:27,000
Speaker 1: tank top the pregame. I don't know this.

1710
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,560
Speaker 2: I love Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

1711
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: So big fan, and they I think this is if

1712
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 1: it's going to succeed, this is how, this is the

1713
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: way to do it. Bring everybody together. We're hopeful. Thank

1714
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: you guys so much for spending your afternoon with us.

1715
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week, same time, same place. Have

1716
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 1: a great weekend.

1717
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 4: Bye guys,